Lovecraft Stuff

[Captain Emu]

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I do know that and haven't had read much of any of the actual literature. I seem to have a hard time finding good printings of it.

[Cold Steel]

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Arkham House Publishing is still around.

[Captain Emu]

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Here is the link to Ithaqua

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ithaqua

 

Looks like a name change is in order. Too close. Considering it was written off the cuff at work, I think the name is a minor issue. I'll just have to change it.

 

The Tree of Uhuaxti

 

In ancient times before the coming of Christianity and the lightening of the dark places things were given power. Places, objects, even natural phenomenon were all granted divinity. In some places, this was more prevalent than others. At Delphi it was a cavern. In Ancient Britain, it was the groves of the Druids. Even farther back it was the caves of Lascaux. These places were granted divinity by men, who believed correctly or otherwise, in the power of such places. Other places, however, had a divinity granted by no other than their own.

 

Such a place was Uhuaxti and the tree that grew there. Huge and dark, damp with the drippings of its primordial sap. Feasting on soil rich with the carnage of ages of sacrifice its stench was at once repelling and luxuriant in its richness – sickly sweet like honeysuckle growing over and open grave. All along its height, creepers, alive with their own movements seem to slither about with purpose, festooned with blossoms pale as ghost shrouds.

 

In the center of the trunk of this monstrous growth was a gaping hollow, like the maw of some nightmare beast, pitch dark and seeming to absorb all light. Looking into this void was to look into time itself, the sense of ages of wisdom, coalescing in its innards. Those that have looked upon this chasm of time are never the same, gibbering in strange words, faces twisted in an expression of ultimate fear and all knowing.

 

This sylvan scion, this pinnacle of life’s eternal struggle to thrive against all odds, was now, by merit of its own success and majesty over all other things in the forest. It was a god in its own rite and it demanded every bit of attention and sacrifice as any other god. The natives called it simply, “The Tree of Uhuaxti” and claimed that through it, they were granted power over the other tribes who they have enslaved to their will.

 

It was these people, the Uhaga who dominated the hidden valley of Uhuaxti and created the now empty temples that now loom in ruin of that tangled and fetid place. Thee blood of innocents poured into the maw of The Tree and from The Tree they were granted what was supposed to be an eternity. But as is the ways of things ancient and evil, eternity often takes a different meaning to them than to those mortals who fall to their sway.

 

[Captain Emu]

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Arkham House Publishing is still around.

 

You'll forgive me. Though I have spent many years intrigued by the mythos, I have not spent much time hunting it down and only recently have I been interested in running it as a game, and only then at the request of my players.

 

I'll have to go hunting again. Maybe I can pick some up cheap at the local discount book store.

[Lord Liaden]

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If you can find a copy of Champions 3D there's a horror world scenario that's straight out of Lovecraft. It has mechanics that models the Chaosium insanity rules as well.

 

Ah, the classic "Anopheles" adventure. Brilliantly disturbing stuff. Even though the adventure was written for Champions, the main threat isn't defeatable through sheer force, so the power level of the PCs doesn't make a lot of difference. And there were a bunch of cool horror creatures statted up, too (in 4E HERO).

 

Actually, author Allen Varney has the full text from that adventure on his personal website, free for the viewing (with Hero Games's permission). You can see it here: http://www.allenvarney.com/anopheles.html

[Curufea]

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The full text stories of H.P. Lovecraft :-

http://www.dagonbytes.com/thelibrary/lovecraft/index.html

http://www.yankeeclassic.com/miskatonic/dliterature/authors/lovecraft/hplmain1.htm#hplnovellas

 

I recommend starting with The Shadow over Innsmouth.

 

Also good - The Dunwich Horror, The Haunter Of The Dark, The Horror at Red Hook, Herbert West: Reanimator, The Call of Cthulhu, The Case of Charles Dexter Ward, At the Mountains of Madness

 

Other writers I like in this mythos include August Derleth, Frank Belknap Long and Ramsey Campbell.

 

Further reading - http://lovecraft.cjb.net/

[Cancer]

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I am not making this up. Editing, yes, but not making it up.

[Alric]

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Chaosium is selling lots of their old books as PDFs at Drive thru RPG.

 

http://www.drivethrurpg.com