Lovecraft influenced?

darrick · Unread post by **darrick** » Fri Dec 31, 2004 4:13 pm

how many people use Lovecraft and the Cthulhu Mythos in their Beyond the Supernatural campagins?

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pblackcrow · Unread post by **pblackcrow** » Fri Dec 31, 2004 8:01 pm

Laire of the White Worm. That's basically it though.

Killer Cyborg · Fri Dec 31, 2004 9:37 pm

pblackcrow wrote:Laire of the White Worm. That's basically it though.

Good movie, but not Lovecraftian.

Sanctu · Unread post by **Sanctu** » Sat Jan 01, 2005 10:05 pm

In a sort of con where I was running a game, I had Beyond the Supernatural investigators dealing with Lovecraftian sorts of cults and creatures. It was a one day event, with 3 GMs (the fourth didn't make it) each running a different game at the same time. Many of the plot elements were the same: disappearing people, cultists abducting people to some far off location, summoning evil beings, the characters finding a certain item that would help them, etc. One was running a fantasy game, another Gamma World, and I was running Beyond the Supernatural. Basically, for the first half (pre-dinner break), the characters were supposed to get the object they needed and use it to activate the widget that teleports them to the next bit. (Mine was a gate, I'm not sure what the others looked like.) When we came back, several of the characters were switched. (ie. some of my people went to Gamma World or the fantasy world, and I got people from the other games.) Hilarity insues.

Woefully, no one read the journals.

pblackcrow · Unread post by **pblackcrow** » Tue Jan 04, 2005 11:10 pm

Good movie, but not Lovecraftian

It is in a way, but it isn't. It was inspired by Lovecraft, but your right.

count zero · Unread post by **count zero** » Wed Jan 05, 2005 12:42 am

pblackcrow wrote:
Good movie, but not Lovecraftian

It is in a way, but it isn't. It was inspired by Lovecraft, but your right.

Not to pick nits or anything, but "Lair of the White Worm" was based on a story by Bram Stoker, who was around a few years before Lovecraft made it onto the scene. . .

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pblackcrow · Unread post by **pblackcrow** » Wed Jan 05, 2005 2:41 pm

Oh...I didn't know that it was one of Stoker's. Thank you. *Writes note to friend, who told me it was inspired by Lovecraft.*

Mike Taylor · Unread post by **Mike Taylor** » Wed Jan 05, 2005 3:52 pm

I wouldn't say that I have designs on bringing Cthulhu and Nyarlathotep into BTS2 (already have Call of Cthulhu), but Lovecraft's general concepts and ideas would certainly play a part in any BTS2 game that I might run.