Thread 96389557

Nyarlathotep Edition

Tell us about your horror settings, games, etc. Share inspirational art, prompts, etc.

>List of games:
Call of Cthulhu, Chill, Cold and Dark, Degenesis, Delta Green, Don't Rest Your Head, Dread, Esoterrorists/Fear Itself+Book of Unremitting Horror, Fall of Delta Green, GORE, Into The Shadows, KULT, Little Fears, Mothership RPG, Nemesis (free on Arc Dream's website), Nights Black Agents, Silent Legions (Mostly for the tables), Stalker: The SciFi RPG, Symbaroum, Ten Candles, Trail of Cthulhu, Unisystem (All Flesh Must Be Eaten, Witchcraft, Conspiracy X, etc.), Unknown Armies, The Whispering Vault, Vaesen

>Inspirational stuff:
Caitlin R Kiernan, Castlevania, Carnacki the Ghost-Finder, Doom Watch, Fear & Hunger, George Romero, Ghostwatch, House of Leaves, I Am In Eskew, John Carpenter, Kolchak the Nightstalker, Laird Barron, John Langan, M.R. James, Nick Cutter, Old Gods of Appalachia, Quatermass, Ramsey Campbell, Remedy Series (Alan Wake, Control), SCP Foundation, Scarfolk Council, Shaun Hutson, Silent Hill, Stand Still Stay Silent, The Evil Dead, The Magnus Archives, The Secret World, The Stone Tapes, Anatomy, Thomas Ligotti, Twin Peaks, Vault of Evil forums, toomuchhorrorfiction

Other News:
"The Sutra of Pale Leaves: Carcosa Manifest" coming later this year
https://www.chaosium.com/blogcoming-in-2025-for-call-of-cthulhu-the-sutra-of-pale-leaves-carcosa-manifest/

Current Book Club Topic:
"The Salem Horror" by Henry Kuttner
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/76108

Questions for the thread:
>What is your favorite god in cosmic horror?
>What do you think is the best way to portray them?

Previous thread:
>>96133537

Please try to keep arguing to a minimum. Don't respond to bait/drama/politics posts.

And as usual, try and keep it alive. Make a new thread if its not in the catalog.

>>96389557 (OP)
I like Dagon and the Deep Ones. Anything to do with the ocean is unsettling for me.

There needs to be more creepy designs for dragons.
>This terror of the caves lives in the dark, hunts in the quiet corners of the cracks it calls home. Hunting humans, dragging its victims in the tightest of cracks to them brutally consume them alive.

>>96389557 (OP)
Question (and hope this okay to ask) are their any good horror themed wargames or something like ten parsecs for horror?
I’ve been looking at a lot of models on Etsy that would make for a fun wargame, but idk if such a thing exists

>>96391676
Trench Crusade might interest you.

>>96391676
Achtung Cthulhu was a thing for a while were Nazis used weird science to get Shoggoths and shit to fight for them.

I know it was an RPG and a skirmish game using the 2d20 system (I think) but it definitely leaned more into the pulpy horror side of stuff.

is a plane crash in the middle of the outback a good setup for a scenario?
>crashed somewhere along the northwest territories
>no radio to call for help and no civilization in sight
>only an abandoned homestead for shelter
>players realize that they arent alone there
>survive a 24 hour siege against some unknown bush horror with limited weapons
>end scenario when a rescue party does finally find them
what could live in the outback that would stalk and kill the party?

>>96391676
silver bayonet
>>96392326
wendigo/skinwalker

>>96392326
You can use the Yara-ma-yha-who for that scenario. The Yowie, Australia's version of Bigfoot, is also a good pick.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yara-ma-yha-who
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yowie

>>96392326
Have a big kangaroo attack the players. Kangaroos can be very dangerous.

>>96392660
>The Yowie, Australia's version of Bigfoot, is also a good pick.
yowie looks good, but apparently they live in the temperate south of australia
maybe the party can follow tire tracks thinking it will lead them to a servo, only to see that its a lone abandoned truck with the back door punched out by great force
and then they see whats left of the drivers inside an abanonded house, and if they take SAN loss to rummage through their corpses they can find their only working gun

maybe the house has a broken phone and they have to leave its relative safety to fix a wire outside to call for help?

>>96392326
yes if you set it up right. end scenario makes sense, rescue parties are sent along the flight path if the plane goes missing.

>>96392326
Criminals. Just bandits with something massively illegal and valuable that they're trying to hide to protect until sale.
Surprisingly organized and intelligent animals.
Earthbound spirits of miners/natives (similar to zombies).
Subhumans.
In a survival scenario, strange weather can add a lot of menace.

>>96392326

Ignore this guy>>96392660 and this guy >>96392474

Bunyip, mother fucker.

>>96392115
>>96392474
Good suggestions thank you anons I’ll check them out
>>96391873
Not really what I’m looking for, don’t get me wrong I already am into trench crusade, I’m just more looking for an asymmetrical style of wargame, I know may be looked down upon here but, I kinda was looking for a game kinda like dead by daylight, a game with a few survivors and one or two overpowered killers hunting them while they try to do something
Which speaking of which, has anyone tried the board game of dead by daylight, is it any good?

>>96393113
guess depending on how well or how poorly the players are doing, it could either be a full on search party that forces the beast to hide (until the sequel) and the party is rescued
or they just see a search plane and they have to hold on X more hours for help to actually arrive, since the plane still has to return home and round up a posse, so now the players could potentially be killed just seconds from rescue

>>96392326
This anon >>96392715 jests but there is actually a giant kangaroo monster in Australian folklore called the hooroo.
https://web.archive.org/web/20231124174259/http://studyofmonsters.blogspot.com/2012/04/hooroo-australias-nastiest-kangaroo.html

>>96392474
>wendigo/skinwalker
Do they even have something like that in aboriginal folklore?

>>96394856
>Do they even have something like that in aboriginal folklore?
The Martu have the Ngayurnangalku. It translates as "[they] will eat me". They are spirits that emerge from under the salt-lake called Lake Disappointment to eat people. They're described as bald, fanged, clawed, and fearsome looking. They used to be a tribe of cannibal people that left their tribe who had decided to give up cannibalism and got protection from undescribed guards, how the exiles ended up as spirits I don't know. They will eat you if you come near their lake, even flying over it in a plane will apparently cause them to come after you.

Why is Cosmic Horror and the Mythos so dominant in the horror ttrpg space?
Don't get me wrong, I'm a huge Lovecraftfag so this isn't an issue for me, but I am curious as to why.

>>96394936
>They will eat you if you come near their lake, even flying over it in a plane will apparently cause them to come after you.
damn, thats terrifying
almost afraid to google that, because google images is gonna jump me

>>96394999
>why is the horror about the uncaring, unknown universe and the so prevalent in horror settings set out there in the universe?

>>96395015
>almost afraid to google that, because google images is gonna jump me
Don't worry because, like 99% of Australian Aboriginal mythology, there's next no information/records about it, especially online.

>>96394999
Lack of originality. People want to rip off lovecraft because it's popular.

>>96392326
>>96392746
You can also use aliens and UFOs.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UFO_sightings_in_Australia

>>96393542
>I kinda was looking for a game kinda like dead by daylight, a game with a few survivors and one or two overpowered killers hunting them while they try to do something
Check out Don't Look Back by Black Site Studios. It's basically Dead by Daylight: The Boardgame.

Remember there was a trailer for a Mountains of Madness (CoC Module)?
It never came out, must have fell apart or something.

But there's a new CoC anime airing right now.
It's about streamers.

>>96393534
Fuck yeah seconding bunyip here. They make their homes in the desirable oasis so it would make sense why a homestead would wind up abandoned. Find some notes or signs from the last owner and really get them worried

>>96392326
I wish I could remember the name of some clan of outback bandits. They were holed up in the caves and according to some stories there were generations of inbred freaks there
Could really Hills Have Eyes it up

>>96400704
>I wish I could remember the name of some clan of outback bandits.
Are you thinking of the Colt clan? They lived on a farm, not a cave, in a rural valley but were heavily inbred.

>>96398307
Duuude yes thank you, this is the best thread on /tg/
Now one last question is you guys don’t mind, I know it’s considered cringe but any chance someone know where a Jeff the killer model can be found?
The most I’ve found was an stl file that looks like playdough, and I’d be ever so happy to find something

>>96400866
Okay turns out I got some major wires crossed. Who I was thinking about was Sawney Bean here and his own clan of inbred cannibals. A family tree like a pencil atleast three generations deep.
Never heard of the Colts though. Will have to look into that.

>>96400598
It has Sanity™

Anyone have some combat music for Eldrich combat?
Eihort is going to show up soon and I don't have an appropriate track.

>>96402604
stuart chatwood - the blasted heath
fear and hunger ost - breath of the moon
ben prunty - slug(battle)
carpenter brut - obituary

pick whichever one fits your setting

>>96403055
None of the above but the Motel Fight theme from the Silent Hill nobody liked will do.

>>96390552
That's an itneresting idea and cool designs. Dragons love treasure so maybe it targets people who were a lot of jewelry

>>96403263
I’ll look at that one, been looking to add to the list.

>>96403312
I have my old screenshot of my SLA playlists. Not meant to be easy to read but the Bottom of the 2nd column onwards is the demon combat playlist.

>>96389583

I kinda hate them in the usual stereotypal COC version. Boring and non horror.
And actually they are pretty versatile if you don't simply rerun Shadow over Innsmouth.

>>96394999

Debatable, you had the world of darkness which is at least tangentially related to the genre. You can argue that 40k is a truer horror setting, actually.

That being said like many rpg genre if the first game is financially successful it tends to eat the later competition in the cradle. DND, COC, CP...

>>96392326
If they try to find some water, have a bunyip attack them.

>>96390552
I've got some Wish-Dragon ayys in a sf horror thing that're neat. They're a mix of Yaldabaoth, polyp stack and monkey puzzle tree.

The thing's a parliament of flesh perpetually at cold war with itself, each flower-segment is its own agent organised into organ-blocs dictating the actions of the Wyrm overall. The mouth is youngest followed by mane, trunk and finally twisted bitter tail.

That's a healthy one mind, their insanities are an ugly thing (hydralism is a sort of knot theory auto-cannibal multiple personality disorder) and as with all other precursors they've had to twist themselves into something less than sapient simply to endure.
>>96403299
The cracks bring Amigara Fault to mind, perhaps it's not a conventional predator so much as metaphorical scourge which drags the most morally upright or twisted into the cracks where they're warped into something not unlike the Skin Back itself.

>>96394856
iirc there were folktales about cannibal children which were derived from real tribes who used their young as bait to draw in would-be rescuers.
>>96397984
Nope's Jean Jacket would be a good reason for the crash happening in the first place.

>>96404881
Truly Publishing itself is the most maddening of horrors...

>>96390552
As much as I dislike the game I can still appreciate some of the setting. The Ahamkara are a pretty great take on dragons. They have no real form but generally sort of align with a draconic outline. They feed by acquiring a partner and using their desires to impose their will upon the universe and granting those wishes by channeling quantum fuckery to make it happen, the resulting chaotic unbalancing of the universe releasing energy that nourishes them. They encourage solipsism, cruelty, and greed and almost universally cause their partners to spiral and eventually be destroyed by their own wishes or by others.
They are not invincible and have been hunted down to extinction, but even when dead each of their parts still maintain a fraction of will and continue to influence those in their vicinity. You don't even have to be aware of them, you can be selected and any idle thoughts you ever had can be thrown into reality. All the good and the bad ones