Welcome to the signup thread of a new original WW-game designed and modded by Gabethebabe.

• The game starts March 29th, days are 08:00-21:00 2+2 server time.
• There is room for 40 players exactly
• There will be no ITA's
• Every player will play a solo expedition every day, that will take just a few minutes and runs at the time of your choosing.
• In expeditions and other events you push your luck and mod will roll the dice. What will be the result? Will you gain clues for your team? Will Doom go down or up? Will you lose health or sanity? Will you gain an item? Will you improve your stats?
• The game mechanics will be original and not too complicated. Do some math and roll the dice - lots of dice. If this game ends up being well-balanced, it will be a miracle.

Sign up below!

Now I would like to tell you that Howard Phillips Lovecraft was a great writer and a great man, but unfortunately neither of these two statements are very much true. Lovecraft wasn't successful in life and he died poor and prematurely of cancer at the age of 46.
Despite hardly being able to sustain himself with writing, some of his ideas, sagas and mythos have stood the test of time and have been referred to or used as foundation in new stories by other fantasy/horror/science-fiction writers. Because he had no family upon his death, his works have become the property of nobody in particular and can be freely read at e.g. hplovecraft.com.

There are plenty of board games with a Lovecraftian theme, partly because it can be done royalty free: The Call of Cthulhu, Arkham Horror the board and the card game, Eldritch Horror and the Mansion of Madness, to name a few. In "A tale of Lovecraftian Horror" you will find plenty of mechanics that are based on the Eldritch Horror board game, one of my absolute favorite cooperative/solo games.

If you are interested in reading a bit of Lovecraft’s work, I have read a bunch of his most acknowledged stories to generate ideas and characters for this game. I will provide you with some hints of which stories are worth your time, in my opinion. I will warn you that Lovecraft was a racist and bigot. A story character that isn’t white or isn’t male is either irrelevant or evil and some of his stories contain passages that are painfully racist. If that offends you, then reading his work might not be for you.

The really short stories

• From Beyond
• Dagon
• The Outsider

My favorites

• The shadow over Innsmouth
• The colour out of space
• The whisperer in darkness
• The Dunwich Horror

Neither really short, nor in my list of favorites:

• The rats in the walls
• The shadow out of time
• The call of Cthulhu
• At the mountains of madness

Enjoy!

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I may come out of retirement for this. I love Lovecraft. I contend he was a great writer; nobody has ever evoked atmosphere like he did. One of the first audio books I got was H.P. Lovecraft: the Complete Omnibus Collection written and performed by Finn J.D. John. So good.

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Check out some of Laird Barron's short stories and earlier novels (e.g. Occultation, The Beautiful Thing That Awaits Us All, The Croning) -- he does atmosphere very very well; you might enjoy it

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Now that's one theme I can get behind it.

Looking at my schedule, I see that I will be camping that week (spring break in Edmonton), so I will have to pass. I will try to follow from the sidelines. Sorry, H.P.

likely starting a new job that week

accobra_kid
Creature
Doctor Zeus
Gadarene
iamnotawerewolf

That's 12.5%

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Normally I'm not a fan of horror, but I've played those Lovecraftian board games with friends before, so there's nostalgia with this particular setting.

Birdman, you should probably spoiler that next time.

I'm in, tentatively, but will likely have the same level of participation (i.e. low) as last game for similar and NAI reasons.

Is that an "in" from birdman?

lol

birdman obv trolling, he recently created and modded a game where players had to assume the roles of fascists, racists, mass-murderers, white supremacists , etc etc

something I brought up before I ran the game—as I am doing here. And had an open discussion about it.

Also I kept the flavor in spoiler tags and gave a content warning. Also I didn’t create a mod account called “Hitler” to run the game.

But also, I hope we don’t use the what I do as a relevant data point to how we feel about racism as a community. Because that seems like a weird way to orient the discussion

fwiw I enjoy the lovecraftian “universe” and fully support a game to be run as such. But I think when the “father” of that universe is so clearly awful it’s probably a good idea not to have the mod account that runs the game posing as that person and speaking with their voice.

And also it probably would make sense to clarify to anyone playing that we are dealing with the lovecraftian universe that is much larger than one specific author and that all racist imagery and other views of lovecraft himself will be strictly off limits

I just misread you I guess!

Just to save gabe a PM when he starts recruiting I'll say now that I'm aware of the game and just waiting to see what my schedule looks like for that week.

Back to face to face teaching from Monday so all free time during the day might completely disappear.

I’m sure you didn’t

I was responding to the clear subtext of your post

what subtext

was searching your initial post and cannot find it either

wtf is going on itt

gabe petitioned the mods to remove my original post

i guess to keep it a secret that Lovecraft was an avowed white supremacist

and, of course, this shows everything you would need to know about POG and the people that moderate it