We’ll start today by wishing H.P. Lovecraft a very happy birthday in whatever great beyond he happens to inhabit these days… Howard would have been 125 years old if he had survived, but his works have gone on to influence so very many people over the years. It’s amazing to think how mundane some horror might…
You may have noticed a particular slant this week with Lovecraftian Randomness… Well, in honor of H.P. Lovecraft’s birthday – some of our products are on sale for a short time! Yay! Check out the Big Book of Little Spaces: Haunts at d20pfsrd (the Open Gaming Store) and DriveThruRPG/RPGNow or Insta-NPCs #9: Cults and Cultists over…
As long as I’ve known about H.P. Lovecraft’s work, one thing has held true. Characters in his world usually go insane due to standing too close to the weirdness. And I’ve played my share of Call of Cthulhu where that exact thing has happened. You can only lose so many insanity points before, well, you go…
As the second post in this series, I wanted to come up with a way of creating some of the myths and legends behind a place, people, or other thing that offers some sort of Lovecraftian ideal. He wrote about the otherworldliness of the creatures in his stories and how they either didn’t care about…
If you have ever played in a horror game and asked questions like: Where did that tentacle come from? Are human eyes supposed to have vertical slits? Why does that guy have flippers for hands? That might be an indication that you’re playing somewhere near the weird world of H.P. Lovecraft. Like getting near the…
