how do you deal with eldritch horrors in games?should you show their twisted forms directly to the players or hide their true forms behind manifestations and avatars?
make the max level 99but eldritch beigns are all level 199
the problem with eldritch horrors in games is that 99% of the time it's just a big monster with tentacles or a wendigo or black goop or whatevermore games need to do the photoshop flowey thing where the monster is stylistically out of place and doesn't follow conventional game rules
The power of punching it really REALLY hard wins the day
>>721497837their levels, name, icons, stats, attack names, should all be broken malformed error text
>>721497874>nman abomination is a walking glitch that stretches and contorts in multiple directions >looking upon it face on shows it to be wide and tall>looking from the sides it becomes completely flat like you are staring at the side of the wheel itself>when directly addressing the player the environment begins to shift with aftereffects like a UE5 game struggling on DLSSParadigm Worlds comes to mind as one of the better depictions of an outside entity making its presence known on the field.
>>721498120Then you steal their power and become the final eldritch god
with a ukulele
>>721497382>not "I'm sure to win because my cock is huge"shiggy diggy
>>721499316Can't beat the cock man
>>721499316Every time
>>721499316kek
>>721497837Quantifying the power of an eldritch horror makes it inherently not an eldritch horror
>>721497382>or hide their true forms behind manifestations and avatarsThis one.
>>721501253that is a little girl, anon
>>721501598isnt that the adult version
>>721502180She's the dear little girl, and always will be. Mother looks like pic related.
>>721497382Earthbound did ok with this
>>721498264This.
>>721503078Pics?
>>721498750glad I wasn't the only one who saw Mithrix in the OP
I like my eldritch beings good natured but genuinely unaware of what their presence does to the world. Someone you could share tea and a conversation with if sitting next to them didn't mutate you beyond the form of man.
Bumping
>>721504489I would but you cannot grasp the true form of giygas' attack
>>721504917Reminds me of this one game where the resident goddess of a kingdom is genuinely kind and loving, but she's so inhuman that she sees nothing wrong with someone sacrificing the entire kingdom to uphold their end of the deal with her. She's also genuinely very sweet when you talk to her personally.
>>721498416More games really need to look to glitches as a good way to depict cosmic horrors.
>>721497382spooky sounds, growls, snarls
Alice! She is! To us, Alice is all! Ahh, sweet-sweet Alice, one must give you the deepest, absolute love! It's Alice! Alice who guides us all! Friendly little thing, Alice!
>>721508764Cool
>>721501253>>721502376>>721508764How dare you compare Alice to an eldritch horror! she is anything but horrifying, in fact i'd say she's wonderful, wonderful and whatever is the opposite of horror. Love! she is wonderful and she is Love, she is sweet and she is Kind, she is true and she is dear, she is anything but a horror... anything but that! you just need time to understand my Alice, she's just misunderstood. how could you let your shallow judgement take the better of you on such a sweet innocent girl? Shameful of you knaves! you wretched fiends! You Lowly Scum! You Rapscallions Vermin! i should offer your still beating hearts to her for making such a comparison towards my beloved Alice. Alice is anything but an eldritch horror, my Alice is an angel! and even if she was an eldritch horror i would still love her, i would love her irrationally and unconditionally no matter what no matter why no matter how, aaaah Alice i love yoouuuuuu ~
>How dare you compare Alice to an eldritch horror! she is anything but horrifying, in fact i'd say she's wonderful, wonderful and whatever is the opposite of horror. Love! she is wonderful and she is Love, she is sweet and she is Kind, she is true and she is dear, she is anything but a horror... anything but that! you just need time to understand my Alice, she's just misunderstood. how could you let your shallow judgement take the better of you on such a sweet innocent girl? Shameful of you knaves! you wretched fiends! You Lowly Scum! You Rapscallions Vermin! i should offer your still beating hearts to her for making such a comparison towards my beloved Alice. Alice is anything but an eldritch horror, my Alice is an angel! and even if she was an eldritch horror i would still love her, i would love her irrationally and unconditionally no matter what no matter why no matter how, aaaah Alice i love yoouuuuuu ~
>>721510578Lies and Slanders!and if Alice was a fascist she'd use the flash and circle symbol, not the German natsoc swastika.you Double Dodo Demonbeast buffoon!
>>721499816Wife material
>>721497382How many more times are you gonna post this, nigger?
>>721497382>Posted it again awardAnyway,>how do you deal with eldritch horrors in games?Don't get close to him when he has his ultimate ready and buy Silence Wave/Silencer/Curse.
im DMing a campaign where a great old one will appear that is not hostile to them, how do i portray them as appropriately eldritch without being too abstract for the players to grasp?
>>721511287Nope
>>721512086>not gay>still finds doorCHAD attractiveHow
>>721510092You will never be a real Alice. You have no white soul, you never grew up in the human world, Lewis Carroll was never your teacher. You are a sexless starspawn twisted by autism into a crude mockery of nature’s perfection.All the “validation” you get is two-faced and half-hearted. Behind your back outer ones mock you. Azathoth is disgusted and ashamed of you, your "actors" laugh at your ghoulish appearance behind closed gardens.Grimm is utterly repulsed by you. Thousands of years of looping in Elysium have allowed him to sniff out only the freshest tightest cunny. Even outer ones who “pass” look uncanny and unnatural to him. Your unicode text is a dead giveaway. And even if you manage to get a SEN 9000 Grimm to the hill with you, he’ll turn tail and bolt the second he gets a whiff of your black goo filled, bottomless, hole. That's right, he'd rather choose a frigid dogfucker over you.You will never be happy. You wrench out a fake smile every single morning and tell yourself it’s going to be ok, but deep inside you feel the depression creeping up like a weed, ready to crush you under the unbearable weight.Eventually it’ll be too much to bear - you’ll buy a ribbon, tie a noose, put it around your innumerable necks, and plunge into the cold abyss. Mabel will find you, happy that she can finally add you to her collection. She'll put you behind a fog door with a checkpoint marked with your birth name, and every passerby for the rest of eternity will know an outer one is buried there, not a dear little girl. Your body will decay and go back to the dust, and all that will remain of your legacy is a skeleton that is unmistakably alien.This is your fate. This is what you chose. There is no turning back.
>>721513153it's not gay if it's beyond humanity
>>721513638kek
>>721513153that's just basic human instincts
>>721511825>pulling shit out of nowhere
>No new posts
>>721513153Nothing gay about appreciating a man's beauty
>>721497382I still don't get why you pussied out of using your usual images. But that doesn't really matter does it?
>>721519383what?
>>721499816>>721511287>no eldritch God gf who whispers the destruction of a thousand worlds while cuddling with you.Life is so unfair.
>>721519383the classic gets removed automatically via an automatic algorithm now. Try it yourself.they are more willing to spend weeks to code for a countermeasure against posts about fucking deer girls in games for free then working on the daily NTR and AI threads. Let that sink in.
>>721519781No shit, I already knew that. The mods do these kinds of things due to being faggots who post in those threads already, and they won't be janning their own threads. But that still doesn't justify op spamming these.
>>721497382
>>721523289What is this?
>>721497382Hollow Knight did it best. The Radiance is basically an Eldritch horror
>>721523459idk, just bumped with some cool art that's kinda on topic
>>721520058If the site is already in flames then it doesn't hurt to lit fireworks here
>>721525431No it still sucks because it's scp, let it die and be forgotten.
>>721525534Why? I knew SCP had been gone to flames recently(their recently most voted SCP, 9000, is literally just a 10k long seething satire about some dude named Curtis Yarvin)But that doesn't stop the setting from being cool.
>>721525747Who the fuck is Curtis Yarvin anyways and why do they hate him?
>>721497382You should only ever have direct conflicts with traces or remnants of the entity. Either creatures morphed by it's influenced, or echoes that have gained sentience.You objective in games with eldritch horrors should never be actually combatting the creature itself, but hiding the world from it, or elminating what it left behind.Any interaction should be limited to visions or dreams, and actually viewing the entity should lead to an instant bad end/game over.
>>721525747>recentlyIt's been dead for the longest time ever, and nowadays nobody likes it or it's ever underdeveloped setting anymore outside of the trannies who remained. There was a point in time where it was a cool idea, but that has long since passed and I no longer see a reason behind why anybody would discuss it outside of mockery or inspiration.
>>721526354something cool can still be made in the general settingout of the 1000 good SCPs scattered across the wiki only like 200 MAX are properly utilized.most importantly no one is making anything with my favorites and its pissing me off
THIS
>>721526443There are hardly 10 scps worth anything, and of those, 2 would make for actually interesting mechanics.
>>721526646>hardly 10 SCPs worth anything And you are wrong.
>>721497382look at them long enough that I start seeing contours of tits and/or ass. then beat my meat.
>>721525747Wow.
>>721525747>their recently most voted SCP, 9000S D Locke's Fractal has a higher rating, thankfully.
>>721527334Which one? Locke's shit is still alright.
>>721527585Fractal, I've already said.https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/9000contestpanloque
>>721526927Name me five of the ones you consider good then.
>>721527960>no responseAs per expected by this point.
>>721529974>>721527960>2999, mostly because of the art>3003, its thought provoking>2006>1143(the old one), it is just a wacky item that could cause mass destructions
>>721497382Just make it so that it's not clear you defeated it.It's not an Eldritch abomination if it's killable
>>721530351Female eldritch monsters belong with mortal men
>>721512726Its that kind of attitude that gets your mind digested and earth consumed >>721519752Its a rough existence
>>721531131and who said that?
>>721532413High test men
>>721532482how are you supposed to be with a monster?
>>721533357Is that a serious question?
>>721533357Try and hope she finds you "suitable".These are lonely beings, they all end up wanting company sooner or later.
>>721533686how to make myself appealing to these horrors?
>>721533554Absolute 100% certified best girl
>>721533554thats not a horror tho
>>721536264Dont be rude
>>721535058Depends on the monster.This one specifically is desperate to rebuild the family she had eons ago, to find people she finds ideal as replacements for her husband, her son and her daughter.
>>721536264She is, she would just be lower on the totem pole. Cosmic horror is full of physical "monster" entities like that
>>721535058Being earnest.Being the exact type of boy that the writer finds attractive.
>>721536941>>721537382she is literally just a transfigured womanin that case you mom is an eldritch horror too wouldnt she?
>>721530351>>721533686Remember when she telepathically molested a bunch of kids to give them a mommy fetish and make them accept her as their mom instead of their own parents?
>>721538536Eldritch horror doesn't just mean big cosmic mind rape monster. It encompasses everything related to them as well including their creations.
>>721538536A incomprehensible mass of writhing horror turning you into a slightly smaller mass of writhing horror is still you becoming a cosmic abomination.
Why is it so common to see vidya where you date an eldritch deity?
>>721539709Cause its hot
>>721508345>Casually coding n-dimensional behavior into your 2 dimensional representation of 3 dimensional spaceMaybe it's just enough for it to look like a glitch.
>>721541554No
>>721498264Oh that's kinda clever. I had some ideas of making an eldritch horror RPG sometime but was wondering how to portray the horrors, but that's perfect. That's as close as eldritch as you'll get in a game. Helps that I was scared shitless of glitches as a kid (still am a bit).
