Hello Cthulhu

[ffutures]

angusabranson made a post which reminded me of the awesome SAN-draining properties of Hello Cthulhu. If you too wish to feel your brains dribble out of your ears follow that link...

On a related thought - wouldn't Doctor Who make a lot more sense if the Doctor was a Mythos entity? Not one of the "suck your brains" variety, at least directly, but wherever he goes chaos and death soon follow. Probably not Nyarlathotep, but maybe one of the other gods that can assume human form. Anyone got any suggestions as to which one?

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[gonzo21.livejournal.com]

I started writing a Doctor Who story that started to turn into a novella, that set the Doctor into the Mythos universe. Not as an actual mythos entity himself, but folding in elements of the Great Old Ones.

But with regards your point, would be interesting if, on Gallifray, there stood an ancient temple to Nodens somewhere, dusty and long forgotten by all but a few.

[ffutures.livejournal.com]

I ran several Dr. Who sessions using CoC rules, but that's not exactly a crossover. Come to think of it, I always ran Paranoia using CoC rules. And Space 1889 until I wrote Forgotten Futures...

[gonzo21.livejournal.com]

I ran paranoia with CoC rules too. And a fantasy campaign, and Cyberpunk too. It remains my favourite rule system, the CoC rules.

God the cyberpunk rule system was virtually unworkable.

[ffutures.livejournal.com]

Virtually?

[gonzo21.livejournal.com]

Nope, tabletop. Well, no actual table. Across the expanse of the living room.

Me and my group of friends started roleplaying back when the Fighting Fantasy books first came out, (With a homemade system based on the FF system at first) and it because our preferred leisure activity all through high school, and even university, when we all lived close enough to be getting back together for holidays and such.

I did the GM-ing most of the time. I ran mostly CoC based things (we must have done pretty much every CoC campaign there was. Although we never quite finished Mountains Of Madness.) and my friend Scott sometimes ran AD&D campaigns, which were always very funny. A nice counterpoint to the horror of Cthulhu.

[ffutures.livejournal.com]

Actually, I just meant "virtually" as opposed to "totally", which is the impression I had of the game.