Cthulhu Talk

[Josh]

It is no secret I love Cthulhu.  So this is a thread to talk about all that Cthonic stuff.

So what games feature Cthulhu and Pals?

Obviously "Call of Cthulhu" An game that certainly shows its age, but this game raised a huge number of gamers.
http://www.chaosium.com/


The "new" CoC is "Trail of Cthulhu"
http://www.dyingearth.com/gumshoe/trail.html


In other CoC news, there is a new CoC publisher for True20
http://www.flamesrising.com/rdp-true20-cthulhu/


Then we have an independent RPG Cthulhutech (see our review)
http://www.cthulhutech.com/


And we flip things around and you play the cultists in "Acts of Evil"
http://www.halfmeme.com/evil.html
The game is discussed here
http://www.ashcanfront.net/forums/

[ChildOfYig]

I am also a huge Cthulhu fan, thanks for the links Josh.

Matt

[logan9a]

We should get Josh on HC gamer talk sometime about Cthulhu.

[Josh]

We should get Josh on HC gamer talk sometime about Cthulhu.

Always willing to dish on Cthulhu

[bhu]

Here's all the non-gaming lovecraft related links I have (I think).  hopefully there all still good

Arkham House http://www.arkhamhouse.com/
Beyond Books http://www.beyond-books.com/
BloopWatch http://www.bloopwatch.org/
Brian Lumley http://www.brianlumley.com/
Cthulhu http://www.cthulhu.org/index.html
Cthulhu Lives http://www.cthulhulives.org/TOC.html
Cthulhu Mythos Original Short Fiction http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Corridor/6140/
Cthulhu Rings beware popups http://members.tripod.com/NetherReal2/rings/
Cthulhu Rising In Portuguese http://geocities.yahoo.com.br/ktulurising/index.html
Cthulhu WIki http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cthulhu
Cthuugle http://www.cthuugle.com/
Dagonbytes Lovecraft Library http://www.dagonbytes.com/thelibrary/lovecraft/
Dark Wisdom http://www.darkwisdom.com/darkwisdom.htm
HP Lovecraft FR In French http://www.hplovecraft-fr.com/
Lovecraft Country http://www.lovecraftcountry.com/comic/
Lovecraft's Necronomicon http://www.mystae.com/restricted/streams/scripts/necronomicon.html
Miskatonic University http://www.miskatonic.net/
Mythos Online BEWARE POPUP http://www.fortunecity.com/victorian/lion/157/#
NecroBones Mythos Creation http://necrobones.com/mythos/
Necroscopy http://members.aol.com/necroscopy01/index.html
S-P-O-N-G-E http://s-p-o-n-g-e.com/
Servants of Tulzcha http://members.shaw.ca/csstrowbridge/Tulzscha/MainPage.htm
Stare http://www.incunabula.org/blog/
Surnateum http://www.surnateum.org/index.html
Tentacules.net In French http://www.tentacules.net/
The H.P. Lovecraft Archive http://www.hplovecraft.com/
The H.P. Lovecraft Film Festival http://hplfilmfestival.com/
The Little Sisters of Tentavled Mortification http://www.livejournal.com/community/cthulhu_nunnery/
The Temple of Dagon http://www.templeofdagon.com/
Unfilmable http://www.unfilmable.com/

[bhu]

and gaming links

Byakhee http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Haven/4173/byakhee.html
Calling Cthulhu http://www.callingcthulhu.com/
Chaosium http://www.chaosium.com/catalog/default.php
Cthulhu Dark Ages http://home.planet.nl/~dark.ages/
Cthulhu Live http://www.hyperwerx.net/cthulhu/
Cthulhu Rising http://www.ragingtrifle.com/cthulhu_rising/
Cthulhu d20 Character Generator http://www.pathguy.com/cthulhu.htm
CthulhuMud http://www.cthulhumud.com/
Delta Green http://www.delta-green.com/
Delta Green: Spectrum http://www.geocities.com/nash_sw2001/?200610
Dr. Banthan's Journal http://www.poesque.com/
Starry Wisdom http://www.starrywisdom.co.uk/
The Black Seal http://www.theblackseal.org/
The Fairfield Project http://fairfieldproject.org/index.php?title=Main_Page
The Mana Bros. Call of Cthulhu Pages beware popup http://www.fortunecity.com/tattooine/zenith/134/cthulhu.htm
The Official Chaosium Digest Archive http://pages.prodigy.net/chaos-digest/chaos-digest/
The Unbound Books http://www.unboundbook.org/
Triad Entertainments http://www.triadentertainments.com/
Tynes Cowan Corporation http://www.tccorp.com/home.html
Yog Sothoth http://www.yog-sothoth.com/index.php

[bhu]

I think I have some more somewhere but their prolly hentai sites or bizarre humor...

[heffroncm]

Don't encourage him folks.  Josh is just using this as an excuse to talk about CoC's.   

I do love Lovecraft's tales.  The closest I've ever been to Cthulhu gaming is Arkham Horror, the Fantasy Flight Games production.  It was a lot of fun, though one of my friends describes it (rather accurately) as being lined up for a 300lb linebacker to kick you in the nuts repeatedly.

[bhu]

Munchkin from Steve JAckson also has a Cthulhu version of the game.  The 3rd e xpansion features the Unspeakable Vault (of doom) webcomic.

[Radijs]

Nice a lotta links. Let me add my own humble link. Well its not MY webpage but I can sing along with most of the songs on it.

Terence Chua's Filk page: http://www.khaosworks.org/filk/

[logan9a]

For those who habitually don't look at sigs, another Cthulhu link can be found in mine.

Just FYI.

[bhu]

http://www.netfunny.com/rhf/jokes/97/Jan/cthulhu.html

[BowenSilverclaw]

I must confess I never read any Lovecraft, but I certainly intend to do so once I get some more free time, pro'ly around the holiday season.
Any suggestions on great books I should definitely read or what's the best Lovecraft novel to start with (wether it involves Cthulhu or any of the other Elder Gods or their cultists)?

~Bowen

[Stratovarius]

I am quite fond of the Dream Quest of Unknown Kadath, but it's not actually a Cthulhu story.

For non-H.P. Cthulhu, Brian Lumley's The Burrowers Beneath is a good read.

[BowenSilverclaw]

Thanks for the tips, Stratovarius, I'll keep them in mind
Any other tips from the rest of you guys are welcome as well, ofcourse

[PhaedrusXY]

Nestled in that first pile of links bhu provided is at least one to an online collection of his works. So if you don't mind reading from a screen instead of paper, you could check them out there.

[bhu]

As an addendum I am always interested in expanding said links when possible

[Josh]

My favorite specific stories are:

"Pickman's Model" - Don't give this one away here.

And

"Shadow Over Innsmouth" - again don't give it away

Now I need to start a spoiler thread about Cthulhu.

 

[Shadowhunter]

I haven't read any of the books, but I've played the RPG once and the card game a few times.

It was in fact my first RPG ever.

Ah, the poor blind, deaf, sense-deprived donkey that pulled our wagon. (how else could you have something that _didn't_ freak out the minute anything tentacle-ish appeared?).
And the copkiller and the P.I in the same team.
The 10 kilograms of dynamite that the latter thought was a good idea to pack onto the afformentioned wagon.
And the explosion that the former caused when he discovered it.
Gotta love the fact that the murderer was the only one not freaked out by the deep one, since he rolled like a god and his in-char. explanation was that he was so un-educated he thought things like that obviously existed.



Ah, fun times.

[Midnight_v]

My favorite specific stories are:

"Pickman's Model" - Don't give this one away here.

And

"Shadow Over Innsmouth" - again don't give it away

Now I need to start a spoiler thread about Cthulhu.

 

Great Reads!
Between lovecraft and robert howard they pretty much helped define fantasy for me. Imagine my surprise when I realized J.R.R. did it for everyone else.
....
My favorite is Randolf Carter