RPGaDAY2025 - Day 10 - Origin - Ubbo-Sathla, the Unbegotten Source

My favorite Lovecraftian horror.

https://polyhedralnonsense.com/2025/08/11/rpgaday2025-day-10-origin-ubbo-sathla-the-unbegotten-source/
#CallOfCthulhu, #RPGaDAY2025, #ttrpg

So, I've been running this #CallofCthulhu game and my players are having fun and saying that I should try and publish it.

That isn't going to happen because I think it only works because I have a sense of how it's supposed to work and feel but I have no idea how to encode that in a way that would be legible and reproducible to people who aren't me.

It occurred to me that you seldom get the sense with modern adventures that there's a larger, more personal 'shadow' adventure crammed into a box.

D&D: A-Team but more murdery and low-tech. Eventually they kill gods.

Traveller: Middle-aged veterans with PTSD and a mortgage on their Winnebago do odd jobs for gas money. Murdery but 1970s tech. Eventually they learn nothing and take one too many low passages.

Call of Cthulhu: Real life, you slowly realize the horrors of the world, go insane, and die. Except 1920s had better health care than 2020s.

Do You think that all Satanists are just edgy atheists who like metal music? Do You think that Scientologists are the worst real life cult? Do You think that nobody is crazy enough to seriously worship eldritch abominations? I invite You to watch our video about the Order of the Nine Angles. You can use them as bad guys in Your RPG scenario/story/horror video game, whatever.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4x90at2frlA

https://www.tiktok.com/@darkboberrecords/video/7532953513207270678

or if You prefer text: https://adeptus7.itch.io/lovecraftian-inspirations-from-real-life-and-beliefs

Sometimes, you come across a folk tale that is just a few uses of the word "sqamous" away from an H.P. Lovecraft tale.

#CthulhuMythos #CallOfCthulhu #ttrpg
https://wiki.sunkencastles.com/wiki/The_Fluting_Thing_in_the_Owls%27_Gable

Props! Props! #callofcthulhu

Episode 3 af podcasten De rejsende spiller Call of Cthulhu er ude nu.

Du finder den lige her eller i din podcastapp:
https://open.spotify.com/episode/7Ajvd51rQ0R70Lw7zp4l1I

Podcasten De rejsende er tilbage. En ny sæson er ude lige nu. Vi har sat os for at spille Call of Cthulhu, og de to første episoder ligger klar i feedet.

https://open.spotify.com/episode/4rW1ALrBfuPTF25rg8DGIp

I swear that @Printdevil is such a weird influence on me... I am now writing letters of introduction from minor public schools... #callofcthulhu

Just three months away from the release of Making Enemies, my deep dive into creating #TTRPG monsters from the ground up, with system-specific advice for #DnD 5E, #Pathfinder 2E, #Shadowdark, the #CypherSystem and #CallOfCthulhu 7E! On sale Oct. 7—preorder today at https://spyandowl.com/making-enemies.

Still writing props... #callofcthulhu

Wrote a review of the Call of Cthulhu scenario Forget Me Not, written by Brian M. Sammons, for Stygian Fox’s modern day scenario anthology, The Things We Leave Behind, published in 2016.

Read/listen:
https://mjrrpg.com/forget-me-not-review-call-of-cthulhu-the-things-we-leave-behind/

In-Short: A scenario with an incredibly strong opening half and an unfortunately underdeveloped tailing half, but overall held up by its nasty and memorable premise.

Rewatching Garth Marenghi's Darkplace after almost 20 years and it's just exactly how my friends play #callofcthulhu

A #nerdlings birthday haul looks like... (Neuromancer is missing as it's already on my night stand)

Si te has preinscrito en nuestras jornadas, elige ahora tu partida favorita. Rellena el formulario para apuntarte a la partida a la que acudirás durante las jornadas, ¡y nos vemos allí!

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As any #CallOfCthulhu veteran knows, old books you've inherited bring nothing but trouble. You should keep them under lock and key - or perhaps even burn them, just to be safe.

#Germany #folktale #folklore #Devil @germany @folklore
https://www.patreon.com/posts/devil-summoning-72763428

Holy moly everyone, I just read a free Call of Cthulhu scenario that was a bit rough around the edges, but was a solid investigation with an open-ended resolution - not a single railroad to horrorsville in sight!

https://www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/524823/desperate-measures

These are Man of Stars and Little Star, mysterious masked/veiled Polish giftgivers. Who they are, why Poles are obsessed with mixing Christmas with starry motifs and how it all connects to eldritch mythos, You can read in my brochure full of Lovecraftian inspirations: https://adeptus7.itch.io/lovecraftian-inspirations-from-real-life-and-beliefs #Lovecraftian #cosmichorror #Hastur #TheKinginYellow #callofcthulhu #deltagreen #Poland #foklore

Jornadas Conjuntas RIP-Vórtice

Partida: Cultos Universitarios

Os esperamos el 21 y 22 de Junio (Sabado por la mañana y Domingo por la tarde), ¡venid a descubrirnos!

Link preinscripción: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSc37qPTpuAFGmJh4a2LoFSuh2Xkv8R2MO09CbUlb92U1KM4hQ/viewform?usp=sharing&ouid=115653318586173851903

#rol #valladolid #rolindependientepucelano #cultosinnombrables #callofcthulhu #Buscorol
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