Has anyone ever used William Hope Hodgeson's night land as a setting? Despite its obscurity it seems ripe for horror/sci fi games. Not to mention what art there is, has lots of Sovl. Personally im looking for a break from normal coc. For those who have read the book, whilst the Lovecraft comparisons are apt, the two could not be further apart in how they write. Im looking forward from switching from > "what you see looming beyond is indescribable" (promptly describes it)to > "You see a great slug" or "The watcher beholds you"
Some more art
It's unreadable.
>>98139331It's, honestly, a great inspiration for tabletop, one of the best. Especially since it and its style have been criminally underused. The Earth Current is mysterious enough to be flexible as a source of magic-like effects and the setting of course is basically just limited by your gothic imagination and desire to stay true to the tone.
>>98139331>constantly having to save against the house of silence or diePass
>>98139331You could do a sort of post-apocalyptic cthuluesque scenario were people are transported to future / parallel dimension earth which is the night lands.The problem is that you will have to basically do all the material from 0.No idea also what kind of adventures could be told on the nightlands...But for a scenario were coc investigators are transported to the nightlands and they need to find a way back it could be very interesting.
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Isn't that the book that one of the OSR-adjacent trolls is obsessed about?
>>98141824>t. Picked a class with a shitty Silence saveGitgud, everyone knows those classes are trap options
>>98142047Yeah, the so-called Nightlandfag/Fishfag, but he actually got his ass blown out so hard over being found out as the same guy that he seems to have stopped trolling Night Land threads just to try to conceal the truth, in a futile attempt to save face. So we might actually be able to discuss this book in peace now.
>>98139347Aieeeeee- is that a glowing orb?? I cannot move any farther... for eons... zzz...Are the Watchers just autistic?
There's a few different campaign types you can run, but the Night Lands serve best as inspiration. -Explore the Night Lands: Highly lethal, can contact degenerate/subhuman tribes adapting to the remnants of the world, try to contact or save the Lesser Redoubt. -You can never go home: The people inside the Greater Redoubt live in perfect luxury, can't they see what is happening outside? Do they even want to? Best for hugh contrast, generation and conceptually heavy ideas -Tourist Bus: Short campaign, high romance across generations, hit the highlights and move on
Oh no another night lands thread surely this won’t devolve into a shitposting troll fest at the expense of a resident schizoid individual I will, however, add this book to my reading list and give it a shot, despite the warnings that I will be utterly wasting my time
>>98139401Some people tried to fix the broken English
>>98142369It is implied that God is keeping them at bay.
>night land schizo is back
>>98139331God I really have to finish this. I got 2/3rds of the way through but didn't want to go any further because of how absurdly repetitive the prose was. Absolutely awesome setting though that I've stolen things from for my own games.
I would highly recommend the James Stoddard rewrite of The Night Land for those that can't stomach the repetitive prose of the original.It's only about two thirds as long despite having a few more scenes. I read both back-to-back recently.While the originals fake Middle-English vocab was sort of charming, the sequence on the return journey where they pass back through the volcanic jungle and get into relationship drama made me want to kill myself. I swear that the author must have had some sort of minor stroke while writing it seeing how much he begins to talk in circles for upwards of an hour.The rewrite added character names and actual spoken dialogue, which made the sequence flow way smoother in my opinion. The foot fetish shit is like 5-10% of what the original had and I don't think Stoddard used the word "naughty" even once. Mirdath/Naani is also a way more likeable character and less of a shit-testing bitch.
>>98145199He had a "try hard" problem in general, in the hog, it felt like the narrator was screaming at the readers at time.
>>98139401Skill issue
>>98145199>reading the night land rewriteunironically kill yourself
>>98145199>I swear that the author must have had some sort of minor stroke while writing it seeing how much he begins to talk in circles for upwards of an hour.>tfw that was the exact part I dropped the book atdoes it get better afterwards?
>>98145732Not that anon, but it picks up once they get out of the forest and return to the upper night lands.
>>98145732Jungle sequence is followed by a fairly boring Island one, but the return to the night land, the last 50 pages or so are the best of the book. Makes alot of the slog worth it and the action is incredible. Ending is very bittersweet. With that said I actually like the difficult prose, the book needed trimming down but the style is quite immersive. Well it works very well when it actually does. Its a shame he died in the great war before the book could actually be edited.
What is this just lovecraftian Conan universe stuff?
>>98145199>I swear that the author must have had some sort of minor stroke while writing it seeing how much he begins to talk in circles for upwards of an hour.I felt the same way about house on the borderland. First half was a really awesome and tense horror story. Second half was a bunch of fucking pointless nonsense.
>>98145199Never really looked into this series, what the fuck is exactly wrong with its writing to the point that it had to be legitimately rewritten? And why then anyone cared enough to do it in the first place?First time I've heard of anything like that happening
>>98145785>Well it works very well when it actually does. Its a shame he died in the great war before the book could actually be edited.He did a second trimmed down edition, tales of X.To guarantee the copyright
I notice that OP reposts this thread every 2-3 months. Not often, but often enough to be noticeable.
>>98147838The author tried to go for a more archaic English, like the worm ouroboros, but it ended up a mess that even Lovecraft called it as incomprehensible obtuse.
>>98147699>filtered from cosmic horror by inability to understand abstract concepts like entropy weird flex but ok
Someone post the part where a creature is laughing and saying its existence is pure mockery of human life.
>>98147972>N-no, you don't understand, it was *good* that it was boring and disconnected for the last 100 pages! That's cosmic!
>>98147699I really liked House on the Borderland, but I could see having that reaction. You really have to just go with the flow of the weirdness. It's kinda like Dream Quest of Unknown-Kadath or the first Dark Tower book in that way.If you want more straight-up work by Hodgson, I'd recommend the Carnacki stories.
>>981479852nd this
