|
Hmmm
Aug 29, 2006 13:36:23 GMT -5
Post by Galadare on Aug 29, 2006 13:36:23 GMT -5
Sorry about the delays, but I doubt it'll gett better anytime soon. Now, let's see if I can remember where I was going with this...
|
|
|
Hmmm
Sept 20, 2006 8:12:32 GMT -5
Post by Beamer on Sept 20, 2006 8:12:32 GMT -5
Yeah I saw this one too, two days or so after it was posted but I did not think it appropriate to post untili now ;D
|
|
Nightwolf
Veteran
Black Rabbit
Where is my gun? Not that one, the bigger one.
Posts: 191
|
Hmmm
Sept 20, 2006 18:02:44 GMT -5
Post by Nightwolf on Sept 20, 2006 18:02:44 GMT -5
I can just now start to appricate the quote at the bottom now since my brother attempted one chapter of a Call of Cthuilu. That was fun until my brother killed us all off but my sister who he couldn't kill of since she was recovering in the hospital. 2pts of damage from falling out a second story window takes to a possessed bed was like my best damage roll. the worst being 8 damage recived from a knife held by a linch. My makeshift armor, a cookie sheet tied to my body, didn't seem to help much.
I was the psycologist of the group and was the least sane of the three. We were doomed from the start.
|
|
|
Hmmm
Sept 20, 2006 19:28:19 GMT -5
Post by Galadare on Sept 20, 2006 19:28:19 GMT -5
Oooh,
Call of Cthulhu's some pretty dark stuff. I normally don't go for dark, but the Lovecraft's stories intrigue me for some reason...
Yup, Cthulhu and Vampires. You can keep the rest of that horror stuff.
|
|
Nightwolf
Veteran
Black Rabbit
Where is my gun? Not that one, the bigger one.
Posts: 191
|
Hmmm
Sept 21, 2006 0:31:49 GMT -5
Post by Nightwolf on Sept 21, 2006 0:31:49 GMT -5
Well, I ususaly don't like horror. No, actually usually I hate horror. The chapter that my brother and I played with my other brother and my sister wasn't that dark. Of course, it was a predone chapter from the book, just a sample. It really game could be much worse than that little chaper.
My brother, Jared, was the one who coaxed us into playing it. He did say that the chars tend to die alot.... If it's like White Wolf's Vampires the Masqurade or other Vampire RPGs or darker than DnD, then I likely won't play it ever again.
In all honestly I don't know how dark it is. We only played the one chapter and my char died most of the way through it. I didn't know anything about it until my brother introduced me and plead to me that I play it once with him so he could GM it. He really wanted to GM a game with me and my siblings so I caved.
He's decided he doesn't like it and is moving on to another system, GURPs. Ususually, I like to play fantasy or Sci- Fi or superhero type. I liked Palladium's system alot.
If Cthulhu's as dark as it sounds from your last post I'll have to revaluate it, which means I'll likely never play it again. I've been considering doing that any way if that game really does have as hight of a mortality rate as my brother was hinting at. That just doesn't bode well, you know. I'm sure there are plenty of other systems out there I haven't ever played too.
Okay, no DnD and no Cthulhu.
|
|
|
Hmmm
Sept 21, 2006 8:54:54 GMT -5
Post by Galadare on Sept 21, 2006 8:54:54 GMT -5
H.P. Lovecraft, the creator of Cthulhu was a pulp horror writer in the 1920's. He invented a lot of the things in what was later termed the "Cthulhu Mythos" by one of his pen pals. What lends the Cthulhu mythos its diversity (and popularity) was that Lovecraft had a lot of correspontants in the business who he encuraged to borrow his ideas. In turn he borrowed thiers. While many of his friends were fellow authors of horror, some of them were into high fantasy like Conan's creator Ron E. Howard. Have you ever heard of Yog Sotha? Yog Sotha was an invention of Lovecraft's, but it caused more trouble for Conan the Barbarian than anyone else.
While the Cthulhu mythos may seem one sided, I get the impression that the light side is there, it just never figured into any of the stories so we don't know about it.
Of course, that doesn't change the fact that Cthulhu and his buddies are well and truly dark.
|
|
Nightwolf
Veteran
Black Rabbit
Where is my gun? Not that one, the bigger one.
Posts: 191
|
Hmmm
Sept 22, 2006 12:42:29 GMT -5
Post by Nightwolf on Sept 22, 2006 12:42:29 GMT -5
Yog Sotha, nope I haven't heard of him actually. I don't read horror novels so I just started learning about H.P. Lovecraft with the introduction of Cthulu thanks to my brother.
|
|
|
Hmmm
Sept 23, 2006 20:42:56 GMT -5
Post by Galadare on Sept 23, 2006 20:42:56 GMT -5
Yog Sotha and his snakey monster followers. Kinda neat. Fun to smash.
|
|
Nightwolf
Veteran
Black Rabbit
Where is my gun? Not that one, the bigger one.
Posts: 191
|
Hmmm
Sept 24, 2006 0:45:01 GMT -5
Post by Nightwolf on Sept 24, 2006 0:45:01 GMT -5
Sounds like something that Connan would do. I've never read the books, but I've seen a couple of the movies. They useually featured the current Gov. Of California, good old Arnold.
|
|