Which Lovecraft gods would you like to fight against (boss battle) ?
>>729859740Where’s Dagon?
>>729859727One shoggoth.
What was the thing beyond the mountains of madness anyway? What would he have seen beyond the ruins?
Anthing Lovecraftian will stop being so when put in a game because it automatically becomes a digitized, measurable and comprehensible entity.
>>729859740>fanfiction created after Lovecraft by a retard who completely missed the point of the Mythos and that the moment you neatly categorize, it is the moment you kill it
>>729859956What if you fighting unknown or distorted type enemy? Like Earthbound's Giygas
>>729860025At best people will datamine/out of bounds it and learn the trick of how the boss is created, killing the mystery.
Lovecraft Gods fight each other? Lore wise
>>729859956Have you ever watched the thing anon? (Das ding)
>>729859956It's usually not that simple, since Lovecraft definitely did describe things, but one thing is very simple. One of the most important aspects of cosmic horror is the indifference of the universe, and you can't have a boss fight against something that is so beyond your experience that it doesn't even have the capacity of considering your puny mind sentient. You would be harmless microbes to them at best.
>>729859727An insignificant microscopic spec of dust from a tiny blue marble would do little damage to an incomprehensibly large and powerful cosmic entity residing within the outer dimensions of reality
>>729860152>. One of the most important aspects of cosmic horror is the indifference of the universeWhat about Nyarlathotep? Does he screw with humanity?
>>729859956That's why you stick to dangerous, bizarre, but ultimately low level and quantifiable opponents and only HINT at the big unknowable fucked up shit. Also make limited but effective use of "This thing you're seeing? It's not really the thing that you're seeing. And the more you think about it, the more scary it actually gets" pic related
>>729859923You mean the monolith, right? It's been a while since I read it but wasn't it implied to be Yog-Sothoth? I remember something about strange colors and bubbles being mentioned.
>>729860353These look like some very happy [CAMPERS]. I'd invite them over to [PARTY].
>>729860357I need to reread it sometime too but I vaguely recall mention of some entity beyond the forgotten city, out beyond the ridge or something, that he never actually saw
>>729860001Nigger that letter is written by Lovecraft
>>729859727 the niggerman
LOVECRAFT MADE HIS OWN MONSTERS BECAUSE HE THOUGHT REGULAR WEREWOLVES AND VAMPIRES WERE OVERUSED AND THUS BORINGYOU CHUDS RESUSING THEM ENDLESSLY FOR YOUR OWN WORK IS KILLING THE ENTIRE REASON HE MADE HIS OWN MONSTERS
Lovecraft stuff works infinitely better in ttrpgs than it does in vidya desu. Call of Cthulhu and Delta Green are both S tier rpgs.
>>729861638Well then he shouldn't have made his monsters so fucking cool. i mean, yithians, mi-go, elder things, shoggoths, deep ones, nightgaunts, dark young, all of these things are fucking awesome.
>>729859740Shub-what?
>>729859956comprehend this https://e621.net/posts/1270440
>>729861748He got the name from the most reprehensible thing he could think of
>>729861748>>729861864
>>729859727King in yellow isn't a Lovecraft god
>>729861638They were also made because "Le science" started becoming a thing in his era so the supernatural shtick wasn't working anymore and that's why a lot of the stories are about intellectuals or researchers getting fucked by things they outside of their knowledge.
>>729859727Ghast, unwholesome scabrous beast
>>729861638>>729862070I mean, he also wrote the Curious Case of Charles Dexter Ward, which was literally about a fucking necromancer.
>>729860173Cthulhu got hit by a fucking boat
>>729862469Cthulhu isn't a god
>>729860217He seems to be the one exception. For some reason he seems to care what happens to humans. Maybe he's the only eldritch entity curious enough to have discovered that these insignificant biological replicators have partially become aware of things beyond their realm. His motivations might be entirely unknowable. It could be a simple as a timeless entity being fascinated by the existence of cause & effect and questions about determinism in a reality where things appear to have illusions of choice and the ability to tbe influenced by things from beyond.
>>729860357At the very end of the story the two characters leave by helicopter (or plane, I forgot), one of them looks at the city below and sees something that turns him insane on the spot.
Imagine a RPG that takes inspiration from the King in Yellow (not strictly Lovecraft but whatever), you're a normal dude and one day you're yeeted in Carcosa, a city that operates on societal and physical rules completely aliens to you, and the gameplay is entirely based on understanding how to navigate this strange universe until you can go home.
>>729859727https://youtu.be/GsJcf0Mjuuk>game serie ends when the major forces are clearly identified and ready to clash>you'll never fight the elder god and team up with the hylden to do so ( or whatever the banished race opposing vampires were called ) because everyone finds out he's the bigger evil in nosgothgay nigger universe
>>729860152>>729859956play look outside
>>729859727I already killed the Shoggoth
>>729862678he saw one cat doing sick skater tricks on a flaming board
