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Mounted combat is an ambiguity, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma. Pointing out weird inconsistencies with it is almost too easy.

I really hate how this keeps coming back to my item.

This really isn't about why or why I didn't get rejected.

The reason it keeps coming back to you—and it's you much more than your item—is that you came onto our boards, trashed our judges and employees, and called us a bunch of glorified copy-and-pasters, with posts dripping in sarcasm and attitude, painting yourself as the victim all the while.

I'd especially point out these parts:

...looking over the stuff [Clark's] company has published and the comments he's made before, and listening to his stuff here, I just don't see how his opinion is worth anything.

And in your very next post, you state:

Now nothing I said so far has been inflammatory...

Either you don't understand how you come across, or you don't understand the meaning of the word "inflammatory."

And then you write this:

I think you should realize that you are representing yourself and your company to your audience, the people that buy your stuff.

You know, you also need to realize that people are judging you by the things you say, and though you called Clark a "a giant, over-glorified troll," well, I'll just note that the trolling being done here is all by you.

I'll tell you this: if Paizo *had* ever given you an assignment, after seeing the way you conduct yourself on our forums, I'd ensure that we never gave you another one.

I don't look forward to the next contest knowing he is a judge.

I hope you follow through with the indications you've given that you won't be entering. You'd be wasting everyone's time, because you're disrespectful, and in comportment, you're as far from an RPG Superstar as you can be. I'm glad you think highly of Neil, because you could learn quite a lot from him—and I'm talking about in life, not just in game design.

I like to maintain a list of resources for running Mythos-heavy games here, for both my own use that for anyone else who finds it handy. This is the latest version, as of 15 December 2011. I hope some of you out there find it useful. Expect an updated thread whenever I feel like there's been sufficient additions to warrant updating it, or whenever I get bored and feel like doing so.

It's vitally important to read Lovecraft himself, I recommend H.P. Lovecraft: The Complete Fiction. It doesn't include his juvenile works or his 'revisions' but it's a very good collection for a great price. While entirely incompatible with the Pathfinder system, Chaosium's Call of Cthulhu RPG [PDF] is also a great resource, along with it's Malleus Monstrorum [PDF] and Dreamlands [PDF] supplements. These are not only great resources for a Mythos Pathfinder game, they form an amazing game themselves!

Official Pathfinder Products

First, and most important, is the AP volume, Wake of the Watcher. In addition to the bestiary (covered below) it contains the article "Cults of the Dark Tapestry", which gives the most in-depth look so far at the deities of the Mythos. You'll also want to use the GameMastery Guide, specifically the section entitled "Sanity and Madness". These are a vital component of a Mythos-based game. And finally, the cults of the Outer Gods and Great Old Ones are given some more attention in Faiths of Corruption. Now on to everyone's favorite part...

Monsters!

• Bestiary - Ghoul, Shoggoth, Skum (Deep One)
  
• Bestiary 2 - Denizen of Leng, Gug, Hound of Tindalos, Leng Spider, Serpentfolk, Shantak
  
• Bestiary 3 - Moon-Beast, Voonith, Yithian, Zoog
  
• Carrion Hill - Spawn of Yog-Sothoth
  
• Wake of the Watcher - Colour Out of Space, Dark Young of Shub-Niggurath, Dimensional Shambler, Elder Thing, Gnoph-Keh, Mi-Go, Moit of Shub-Niggurath, Star-Spawn of Cthulhu
  
• The Brinewall Legacy: Ratling (Rat-Thing)

A few of these have expanded information available in their monster entries for AP volumes.

• Denizen of Leng: Spires of Xin-Shalast
  
• Gug: Skeletons of Scarwall
  
• Hound of Tindalos: Fortress of the Stone Giants

Also, a nice big article on ghouls is found in Classic Horrors Revisited.

Adventures

• Carrion Hill - "The Dunwich Horror", only on Golarion.
  
• Crucible of Chaos - What's left behind when a flying citadel flown by Azathoth cultists crashes? Do you really want to find out?
  
• From Shore to Sea - It's essentially a fantasy version of "Shadow Over Innsmouth".
  
• Wake of the Watcher - This one also evokes "Shadow Over Innsmouth", but as part of the larger Carrion Crown AP.

What I'd like to see in the future:

I'd like to see at least three more Mythos "deities" added: Ghatanothoa, Rhan-Tegoth, and Tsathoggua. Also, I'd love it if the list of monsters was expanded to include the following: Byakhee, Dhole, Flying Polyp, Hunting Horror, Shan (Insect from Shaggai), and Nightgaunt.

I've resisted the temptation to add 3PP stuff to the list, because attempting to make ot comprehensive while adding in 3PP stuff would be impossible. But lots of good Mythos stuff is out there in the wilds of 3PP offerings. Anyhow, I hope some of you find this useful. Feel free to add your own suggestions. Maybe I'll even incorporate them into the next update of this thread.

One more year done. A big thank-you to all the GMs who helped out.
Rob Silk was running two tables with the latest scenarios and I could have seated twice as many players at his table.
Thanks for Dave and the Beginner Bash. He did attract a few new players and cared greatly for my daughter who enjoyed playing with him a lot. I think having a GM offering the bash throughout the day is great. But we should move the table from the corner to the entrance and maybe have a morning bash and afternoon bash GM as well as more advertisement.
Thanks to Marcel, Andrew and Paul - my morning GMs. All players at your tables seemed to enjoy themthelves. And thanks to Fall of Camelot and Terry to step in last days and last minute to ensure we didn't turn away a single player.

The organisers Neil and Angus also did a great job to provide many tables and a great hall for us. It helps to have space.

This leaves the players. Dragonmeet always is chaotic as you never know who will show up in advance. We did have a lot of new players. I haven't done yet the reporting - but all in all we had 9 tables PFS and 2 tables Bash with a rough ratio of 2:1 new players outnumbering the veterans.

And talking to one or two of them we might even attract some new GMs which would be the best we could hope for.

Ahead of Dragonmeet I do ask myself the question - why do I endure this Chaos again. Having experienced yesterday and seeing players and GMs having fun I know why.

Should I forget, just remind me of this post in 11 month time.

Thod