“The Cthulu Mythos combines the three things Lovecraft feared the most. It wasn’t something that WHITE DWARF would talk about in the 80s but his rage against the twentieth century was quite sincere and his racism (though strangely variable with people he actually knew) was sincere and vile.Ĭan’t remember who said it (one of my fellow pontificators on rpg.net) but it’s true: (Nowadays I’d be more inclined to make it a stat or an advantage than a skill but it was a step forward.)Īnd despite what may feel, I’d certainly call Lovecraft a nihilist. It was the first step away from having to count every nickel (or copper piece if you were playing DnD) in your characters’ pockets to decide if they could afford the dynamite to blow up the cultists with. A word of praise should go to the Credit Rating Skill though more for the idea than the execution. No love for the Cthulu Mythos skill from Judge Blythy? The fact that the more you knew about the true tentacular horror of the cosmos the less stable you were (the skill limited how high your SAN could be) was a neat touch even if, given the brief lifespan of CoC characters, it rarely had much effect.
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