Resources for dealing with the Lovecraft Mythos in Pathfinder games


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Hey, as some of you know, I'm a colossal Lovecraft fan. So I decided to compile a list of good Paizo releases that can be helpful if any of you want to run a Mythos-focused campaign (or even just have a mythos-focuses adventure or two).

First, and most important, is the newly released AP, 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.

Now on to the monster, the most fun section! All the Mythos beasties can be found in four releases, as follows:

  • Bestiary - Ghoul, Shoggoth, Skum (Deep One)
  • Bestiary 2 - Denizen of Leng, Gug, Hound of Tindalos, Leng Spider, Serpentfolk, Shantak
  • 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
A few of these have expanded information available in their monster entries for AP volumes.
Also, a nice big article on ghouls is found in Classic Horrors Revisited.

Finally, there are some important resources outside of the Paizo's stuff. 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 supplements. These are not only great resources for a Mythos Pathfinder game, they form an amazing game themselves!


d20 Hellraiser and Resident Evil critters

d20 Silent Hill critters

CoC Dark Ages scenario and Roman based for plucking

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For older material, I'd suggest Lords of Madness. Some of the aberrations are inspired by Lovecraft material. Easy conversion. There also D20 CoC but I think that's 3.0, but it does give you the framework for some monsters.

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Here's to hoping that all the creatures from Wake of the Watcher and Carrion Hill are reprinted in the Bestiary 3.


Evil Genius Prime wrote:
Here's to hoping that all the creatures from Wake of the Watcher and Carrion Hill are reprinted in the Bestiary 3.

heh. I think my player group would disagree with that sentiment. they HATED their one and only encounter with a Hound of Tindalos.

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Mr. Quick wrote:
Evil Genius Prime wrote:
Here's to hoping that all the creatures from Wake of the Watcher and Carrion Hill are reprinted in the Bestiary 3.
heh. I think my player group would disagree with that sentiment. they HATED their one and only encounter with a Hound of Tindalos.

Ha ha ha ha ha!!!!


Kind of on topic kind of off, anyone read 'the Courtyard' and 'Neonomicon' by Alan Moore? Great imagery.

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Okay, I know this is some serious thread ressurection but I just needed to vent a little.

I just read Neonomicon and it was not wonderfully bizzare and weird like Lovecraft, it was instead horribly real. All the stuff about it being disturbing: I thought that would all be weird symmetry, odd cults, fishmen: Lovecrat disturbing... not straight up rape scenes of characters you've developed an affection for over the previous half an hour of reading. That's a different kind of horror which I don't enjoy.

Don't ever read it before bed, I'm going to stay up now and read something light for half an hour to clear my headspace before I get my head down.

Damn.


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That reminds me of "Oh, hey! Requiem for a Dream! I've heard that won a lot of awards!"

Then sitting quietly on the couch afterwards as the credits roll. "Yep. Well. Guess I'm just going to ... dunno. I'm leaving."

Then watching the second half of the Truman Show so I could sleep.

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Troubleshooter wrote:

That reminds me of "Oh, hey! Requiem for a Dream! I've heard that won a lot of awards!"

Then sitting quietly on the couch afterwards as the credits roll. "Yep. Well. Guess I'm just going to ... dunno. I'm leaving."

Then watching the second half of the Truman Show so I could sleep.

You Sir, have just won the quote of the day ...

Yup there are to me 2 'mainstream' films which I can inequvantly say contain great actors and acting, superb sound track and cinematography, emotive story and tension, which I never EVER wish to watch again:

Requiem for a Dream and Se7en.

Scarab Sages

Dotted.

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