Design Corner

Quick Note on the Pledge Manager We had some hiccups in preparing the various credit giveaways for this project (related to backers who also backed the CATaclysm KS so they don't pay extra on shipping, as well as other ones). Due to this, we will be...

The Cthulhu Wars factions are, obviously, extremely asymmetrical. But they have some features in common. All of them have some way of earning extra Elder Signs, and all of them have some kind of interesting Power bonus. Let’s talk about the latter. Let’s...

As Daemon Sultan, you need to react to what's going on. Because of this nature of your faction, you can't just make a plan from the start and stick with it. You have to be able to respond to the situation. This is really obvious right from the...

Nodens and the Elder Gods I was pondering what to add to you all for a big reward for your loyalty. I didn't want to make another "Dire" sculpt, largely because I am really happy with the other Great Old Ones. And I wanted something new, anyway. Felt you deserved it....

Asenath Waite and Brown Jenkins Brown I loved Brown Jenkin from the first moment I read Dreams in the Witch-House. He was an amazingly creepy character, seemingly anchored in old-school satanic imagery, but yet instead he turns out to be a gateway into Lovecraft’s...

Neutral Monsters vs. Independent Great Old Ones This article is inspired by (and based on) a great discussion from BoardGameGeek. Thanks to all the Cthulhu Wars fans who brought up these ideas, to which I’ve added a few of my own. To get a neutral monster, you have to...

Beating the Ancients The Ancients have some excellent tricks they can use to shut down an enemy. First and most obviously, they have a great cost/combat ratio for their creatures. Second, they don’t have to cough up 6-10 Power for a Great Old One all at once, which...

The Ancients Strategy So, how does one PLAY this unusual new faction? Most obviously, you need to worry about your Cathedrals. Because you don’t have a Great Old One, you get major power savings, but this is ultimately negated by your need to spend 4-10 Power on...

Tcho Tcho Balance Change and Why and How For some weeks we have been listening to you, and analyzing the experience people have with the Tcho-Tchos. The conclusions we have reached are threefold. IT'S A NEW FACTION First, as a new faction, many people are unprepared...

A Tcho Tcho Strategy Some players have trouble getting their head around the Tcho-Tchos. Others have trouble seeing how the Tcho-Tchos can be stopped. This strategy guide should help everyone understand this weirdo faction better. THE FIRST TURN CHALLENGE In your...

What are the Reanimated? The Ancients are able to use their science revivify dead tissue, letting it move and perform tasks. They use these living corpses as workers or warriors, and can even reanimate a portion of a corpse. They generally use the corpses of criminals...

Who are the Un-Men? Lovecraft reports the Ancients have the ability to transform a person into plasma-like, almost gaseous state. In this form, the victim becomes able to twist and distort his body in exaggerated ways. I have chosen to call these entities, former...

The Yothans Deep below the blue-lit cavern of K'n-Yan is the red-lit cavern of Yoth, inhabited by a race of intelligent reptiles. Long thought extinct, the few remaining Yothans now work with the Ancients. Every faction has acolytes. Every faction has monsters....

Ancients’ Acolytes Functionally, they are no different that the acolytes of other factions. To celebrate their tech-savvy nature, the Ancients Acolyte is dressed futuristically, rather than in hooded robes, and brandishes an ominous-looking eye-like device. She is...

The Haunter of the Dark One of the “missing pieces” of Cthulhu Wars has always been Nyarlathotep’s multiplicity of shapes. Of course, we give a shout-out to it in the Crawling Chaos spellbook of “Thousand Forms” which is supposed to work by Nyarlathotep using his...

Neutral Spellbooks The Azathoth "Faction" expansion has a truly unique feature – neutral spellbooks, that can replace any normal faction spellbook. But this obviously involves giving up a faction spellbook! When is this worthwhile? Well, this is overall too...

Dire Azathoth?! Everyone loved Dire Cthulhu. SO... I started brooding on Dire Azathoth. Why? Well, even as I was concerned that our former Cthulhu was so svelte, I was never fully happy with our Azathoth. For me (I realize this is subjective) Azathoth was one of our...

Creating the Shaggai Map The Shaggai map was birthed from my desire to create a map which is destroyed over time. I already dabbled with this idea in the Primeval Map, but of course Shaggai feels and plays VERY differently from Primeval. Every...

The Masks of Nyarlathotep One of Nyarlathotep’s best-known attributes is his multiplicity of shapes . There is a shout-out to it in the core game (his Thousand Forms spellbook), but he doesn’t actually utilize this ability. Players have remarked on this, and it always...

The Vooniths Vooniths are an “amphibious horror” referenced by Lovecraft in his tale, The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath. Pretty much nothing else is known of them. I have based my design of the Voonith upon sirens and amphisboenas – these are existing amphibians &...

Meet the Ancients! Once more let’s talk about the Ancients. First, the basics. They have six acolytes, like everyone else. They also have two types of monsters – the Un-Men and the Reanimated, and get three of each. They also get three Yothans. Uniquely among all...

Cthulhu Wars Faction Development There are a lot of considerations that go into developing a Cthulhu Wars faction. So much so that I’ve only done it 9 times in 5 years! (By comparison, I developed 17 factions in just over 18 months for Age of Empires II.) Some of...

Whence the Ancients? The Ancients are the new faction for Onslaught 3. They are a human-oriented faction, and are particularly unusual, because they don’t have their own Great Old One. The Tcho-Tchos are, of course, also a human-oriented faction, but play quite...

Let’s talk about Dire Cthulhu Why is there even a Dire Cthulhu? Well, our original Cthulhu sculpt is creepy, and terrific. But something about it always bothered me – Lovecraft describes Cthulhu as … corpulent. And our classic sculpt is pretty svelte. I guess he works...

Introducing the Tcho Tchos The Tcho-Tcho faction faces numerous decisions throughout the game, and requires planning. Should you accumulate High Priests or expend them to gain immediate Power? Which enemy Start Areas should you target? It is almost impossible to gain...

Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? A player can take the "Activate Custodian" action on their turn. This costs 0 Power, but they have to discard their Silence Token.  The player can then move the Custodian to any Area, after which he (the Custodian) attacks by rolling the...

Ubbo Sathla Concept and Why Things to note in the image:  It is a fungus-protozoan-jellyfish thing. I rather like this, because Ubbo-Sathla is the source of life, not just animal life. It is not a blob monster - while irregular, it has a definite body form, with...

One of the stretch goals for this campaign was High Priests with personalities (this goal was reached long ago). This is how they work. I have created 8 unique character High Priests:Asenath Waite, Crawford Tillinghast, Ermengarde Stubbs, Herbert West, Lady de la...

I generated yet another random number, and today it came up Tulszcha! At last, one of the new ones! (My secret plan was to continue doing this till I got a new one.) So, how does Tulszcha change the game for everyone. Well, conveniently for the point I've been trying...

Librarian & Custodian Some people may notice that the Librarian is built rather like a nematocyte. The resemblance is intentional. She has two smallish grappling arms to sort and reshelve books. She has three large talons that can be used either to pacify unruly...

Opening Moves It is fair to stay that in the core game of Cthulhu Wars, certain semi-fixed Openings exist, much as in chess. (Though probably not as many as Chess!) If Cthulhu builds a Gate in the North Pacific, this conceivably generates different responses from...

Shub-Niggurath’s Fertility Cult Ability This is probably the least-respected faction ability (it never gets stolen by Sleeper!), and it is admittedly weak, but it can be extremely useful on occasion in the mid-game or late game. First I want to say I see no need to...

Nerfing & Buffing & Windwalker In many parts of the video-game industry, the words “nerf” and “buff” are used by designers when adjusting game balance. “Nerfing” means you’ve weakened a unit or faction or ability. “Buffing” means you’ve strengthened it. This...

What is a Proto-Shoggoth? To me, Sandy, a proto-Shoggoth is a creature formed from shoggoth-like material, but with more delicate protoplasm. It is weaker proportionally, and lacks the mutational power of a true Shoggoth. However, because of its greater "liquidity",...

Yellow Sign has generally weak monsters, no combat abiilities (except Hastur's Vengeance, which is generally a last resort), generally has the least Power and Doom in the early game, AND is the most difficult faction to master for a beginner. Nonetheless, he...

Exactly how were the monster and great old one figure expansions designed? So here is another peek into Sandy's brain. I hope it doesn't creep out the younger and more impressionable backers too much. Early on, I wanted to have as many creatures from Lovecraft's...

Spotlight on Crawling Chaos Well really Crawling Chaos doesn't need a lot of help. He's pretty straightforward. So instead, I will take a different tack. Crawling Chaos is a really flexible faction so it takes some ingenuity to come up with genuinely terrible...

Tcho Tchos – faction in flux Balancing the Tcho-Tchos From 1997 through 2009, I worked at Ensemble Studios, which produced large real-time strategy (RTS) games. They did the Age of Empire series, Age of Mythology, and Halo Wars. I had several tasks there (for one...

Spotlight on Great Cthulhu Great Cthulhu is pretty much the game's poster child. Yet some people struggle with him. Many Cthulhu players follow a course similar to this: take a slight early lead, because you are initially unopposed - our monsters are scary, and...

Spotlight on Black Goat Black Goat can easily be misplayed or misunderstood. One result is that when I am in a core game with 3 people who haven’t played with me before, they often leave Black Goat (which they consider the feeblest) to me. I love Black Goat, and I...

Everyone starts as a novice. It’s nothing to be ashamed of. Heck, in MY first game of Cthulhu Wars I was technically a novice (though an informed one). In an effort to help you take the first step up the ladder of skill (or help your friends), I’m going to list some beginner actions I see all the time, which set you back.

Spotlight on Sleeper Cthulhu Wars is widely praised for its wide-open, Ameritrash play style. It is freewheeling, with sudden changes of fortune, overclocked powerhouses, and fast action. But the fact remains that it also stands up to carefully analysis. We're going...

Independent Great Old Ones, part Three Tulszcha I generated yet another random number, and today it came up Tulszcha! At last, one of the new ones! (My secret plan was to continue doing this till I got a new one.) So, how does Tulszcha change the game for everyone....

Independent Great Old Ones, Part Two Mother Dagon <generates random number> this time I got Mother Dagon, so let's see how SHE affects the entire game. Well, Mother Dagon's spellbook is the Zygote - the way this works is, when you recruit a Cultist, you pay 1...

The Independent Great Old Ones, part One At this time, we have announced 18 independent Great Old Ones for Cthulhu Wars. They are: Abhoth, Atlach-Nacha, Azathoth, Bokrug, Byatis, Chaugnar Faugn, Cthugha, Daoloth, Eihort, Father Dagon, Ghatanothoa, Gla'aki, Gobogeg,...

Why is Pitpipo one of the unique High Priests? A few people have wondered openly why I used Pitpipo as one of the special high priests. What has Pit done to deserve a role alongside Asenath Waite or Crawford Tillinghast? How does he fit into the Lovecraft Canon? Well,...

Palettes - The Bright Inviting Colors We get different opinions about the jolly color scheme of Cthulhu Wars. The figures are nice primary colors (like plastic dinosaurs!) and the maps are far from gloomy. (At least the faction sheets and rulebooks are a little more...

Power Management The Cthulhu Wars factions are, obviously, extremely asymmetrical. But they have some features in common. All of them have some way of earning extra Elder Signs, and all of them have some kind of interesting Power bonus. Let’s talk about the latter....

The High Priests The High Priests are one of my favorite expansions. My son Arthur thinks that you should ALWAYS play with High Priests. But what do they add, exactly? When you play with High Priests, every faction has one extra unit in their pool - the Priest. He is...

The Silence Tokens The Library of Celaeno instigates a new mechanism in Cthulhu Wars – the Silence tokens. Here is how they work. During the Determine First Player phase, each player receives one Silence token. Then, the First Player must give his Silence token to...

The Orphans When I am designing new monsters or a Great Old One, often I run through several ideas for what, exactly, its special ability or spellbook ought to be. Sometimes after a test I reject an ability because it slows down the game, or because it is too powerful...

Opener of the Way Spellbook Requirements As promised, I am now going to focus in a some design decisions, so you can all see how my brain works. The Opener of the Way, like every Cthulhu Wars faction, has six spellbook requirements. Let’s look at them in order: Eight...

Independent Great Old Ones In developing the independent Great Old Ones, three factors were constantly warring within my brain. First, I wanted the entity to feel like the story or stories in which it featured – to have the personality of that Great Old One. Second, I...

Satyrs What the hell is a “Satyr” in the Lovecraft world-view? Let me bloviate. In Lovecraftian tales, the human genotype is subject to degeneration or mutation under the influence of the Outside. Sometimes this is done purposefully, as with ghouls (who originate from...

Quick Note on the Pledge Manager We had some hiccups in preparing the various credit giveaways for this project (related to backers who also backed the CATaclysm KS so they don't pay extra on shipping, as well as other ones). Due to this, we will be...

The Cthulhu Wars factions are, obviously, extremely asymmetrical. But they have some features in common. All of them have some way of earning extra Elder Signs, and all of them have some kind of interesting Power bonus. Let’s talk about the latter. Let’s...

As Daemon Sultan, you need to react to what's going on. Because of this nature of your faction, you can't just make a plan from the start and stick with it. You have to be able to respond to the situation. This is really obvious right from the...

Nodens and the Elder Gods I was pondering what to add to you all for a big reward for your loyalty. I didn't want to make another "Dire" sculpt, largely because I am really happy with the other Great Old Ones. And I wanted something new, anyway. Felt you deserved it....

Asenath Waite and Brown Jenkins Brown I loved Brown Jenkin from the first moment I read Dreams in the Witch-House. He was an amazingly creepy character, seemingly anchored in old-school satanic imagery, but yet instead he turns out to be a gateway into Lovecraft’s...

Neutral Monsters vs. Independent Great Old Ones This article is inspired by (and based on) a great discussion from BoardGameGeek. Thanks to all the Cthulhu Wars fans who brought up these ideas, to which I’ve added a few of my own. To get a neutral monster, you have to...

Beating the Ancients The Ancients have some excellent tricks they can use to shut down an enemy. First and most obviously, they have a great cost/combat ratio for their creatures. Second, they don’t have to cough up 6-10 Power for a Great Old One all at once, which...

The Ancients Strategy So, how does one PLAY this unusual new faction? Most obviously, you need to worry about your Cathedrals. Because you don’t have a Great Old One, you get major power savings, but this is ultimately negated by your need to spend 4-10 Power on...

Tcho Tcho Balance Change and Why and How For some weeks we have been listening to you, and analyzing the experience people have with the Tcho-Tchos. The conclusions we have reached are threefold. IT'S A NEW FACTION First, as a new faction, many people are unprepared...

A Tcho Tcho Strategy Some players have trouble getting their head around the Tcho-Tchos. Others have trouble seeing how the Tcho-Tchos can be stopped. This strategy guide should help everyone understand this weirdo faction better. THE FIRST TURN CHALLENGE In your...

What are the Reanimated? The Ancients are able to use their science revivify dead tissue, letting it move and perform tasks. They use these living corpses as workers or warriors, and can even reanimate a portion of a corpse. They generally use the corpses of criminals...

Who are the Un-Men? Lovecraft reports the Ancients have the ability to transform a person into plasma-like, almost gaseous state. In this form, the victim becomes able to twist and distort his body in exaggerated ways. I have chosen to call these entities, former...

The Yothans Deep below the blue-lit cavern of K'n-Yan is the red-lit cavern of Yoth, inhabited by a race of intelligent reptiles. Long thought extinct, the few remaining Yothans now work with the Ancients. Every faction has acolytes. Every faction has monsters....

Ancients’ Acolytes Functionally, they are no different that the acolytes of other factions. To celebrate their tech-savvy nature, the Ancients Acolyte is dressed futuristically, rather than in hooded robes, and brandishes an ominous-looking eye-like device. She is...

The Haunter of the Dark One of the “missing pieces” of Cthulhu Wars has always been Nyarlathotep’s multiplicity of shapes. Of course, we give a shout-out to it in the Crawling Chaos spellbook of “Thousand Forms” which is supposed to work by Nyarlathotep using his...

Neutral Spellbooks The Azathoth "Faction" expansion has a truly unique feature – neutral spellbooks, that can replace any normal faction spellbook. But this obviously involves giving up a faction spellbook! When is this worthwhile? Well, this is overall too...

Dire Azathoth?! Everyone loved Dire Cthulhu. SO... I started brooding on Dire Azathoth. Why? Well, even as I was concerned that our former Cthulhu was so svelte, I was never fully happy with our Azathoth. For me (I realize this is subjective) Azathoth was one of our...

Creating the Shaggai Map The Shaggai map was birthed from my desire to create a map which is destroyed over time. I already dabbled with this idea in the Primeval Map, but of course Shaggai feels and plays VERY differently from Primeval. Every...

The Masks of Nyarlathotep One of Nyarlathotep’s best-known attributes is his multiplicity of shapes . There is a shout-out to it in the core game (his Thousand Forms spellbook), but he doesn’t actually utilize this ability. Players have remarked on this, and it always...

The Vooniths Vooniths are an “amphibious horror” referenced by Lovecraft in his tale, The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath. Pretty much nothing else is known of them. I have based my design of the Voonith upon sirens and amphisboenas – these are existing amphibians &...

Meet the Ancients! Once more let’s talk about the Ancients. First, the basics. They have six acolytes, like everyone else. They also have two types of monsters – the Un-Men and the Reanimated, and get three of each. They also get three Yothans. Uniquely among all...

Cthulhu Wars Faction Development There are a lot of considerations that go into developing a Cthulhu Wars faction. So much so that I’ve only done it 9 times in 5 years! (By comparison, I developed 17 factions in just over 18 months for Age of Empires II.) Some of...

Whence the Ancients? The Ancients are the new faction for Onslaught 3. They are a human-oriented faction, and are particularly unusual, because they don’t have their own Great Old One. The Tcho-Tchos are, of course, also a human-oriented faction, but play quite...

Let’s talk about Dire Cthulhu Why is there even a Dire Cthulhu? Well, our original Cthulhu sculpt is creepy, and terrific. But something about it always bothered me – Lovecraft describes Cthulhu as … corpulent. And our classic sculpt is pretty svelte. I guess he works...

Introducing the Tcho Tchos The Tcho-Tcho faction faces numerous decisions throughout the game, and requires planning. Should you accumulate High Priests or expend them to gain immediate Power? Which enemy Start Areas should you target? It is almost impossible to gain...

Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? A player can take the "Activate Custodian" action on their turn. This costs 0 Power, but they have to discard their Silence Token.  The player can then move the Custodian to any Area, after which he (the Custodian) attacks by rolling the...

Ubbo Sathla Concept and Why Things to note in the image:  It is a fungus-protozoan-jellyfish thing. I rather like this, because Ubbo-Sathla is the source of life, not just animal life. It is not a blob monster - while irregular, it has a definite body form, with...

One of the stretch goals for this campaign was High Priests with personalities (this goal was reached long ago). This is how they work. I have created 8 unique character High Priests:Asenath Waite, Crawford Tillinghast, Ermengarde Stubbs, Herbert West, Lady de la...

I generated yet another random number, and today it came up Tulszcha! At last, one of the new ones! (My secret plan was to continue doing this till I got a new one.) So, how does Tulszcha change the game for everyone. Well, conveniently for the point I've been trying...

Librarian & Custodian Some people may notice that the Librarian is built rather like a nematocyte. The resemblance is intentional. She has two smallish grappling arms to sort and reshelve books. She has three large talons that can be used either to pacify unruly...

Opening Moves It is fair to stay that in the core game of Cthulhu Wars, certain semi-fixed Openings exist, much as in chess. (Though probably not as many as Chess!) If Cthulhu builds a Gate in the North Pacific, this conceivably generates different responses from...

Shub-Niggurath’s Fertility Cult Ability This is probably the least-respected faction ability (it never gets stolen by Sleeper!), and it is admittedly weak, but it can be extremely useful on occasion in the mid-game or late game. First I want to say I see no need to...

Nerfing & Buffing & Windwalker In many parts of the video-game industry, the words “nerf” and “buff” are used by designers when adjusting game balance. “Nerfing” means you’ve weakened a unit or faction or ability. “Buffing” means you’ve strengthened it. This...

What is a Proto-Shoggoth? To me, Sandy, a proto-Shoggoth is a creature formed from shoggoth-like material, but with more delicate protoplasm. It is weaker proportionally, and lacks the mutational power of a true Shoggoth. However, because of its greater "liquidity",...

Yellow Sign has generally weak monsters, no combat abiilities (except Hastur's Vengeance, which is generally a last resort), generally has the least Power and Doom in the early game, AND is the most difficult faction to master for a beginner. Nonetheless, he...

Exactly how were the monster and great old one figure expansions designed? So here is another peek into Sandy's brain. I hope it doesn't creep out the younger and more impressionable backers too much. Early on, I wanted to have as many creatures from Lovecraft's...

Spotlight on Crawling Chaos Well really Crawling Chaos doesn't need a lot of help. He's pretty straightforward. So instead, I will take a different tack. Crawling Chaos is a really flexible faction so it takes some ingenuity to come up with genuinely terrible...

Tcho Tchos – faction in flux Balancing the Tcho-Tchos From 1997 through 2009, I worked at Ensemble Studios, which produced large real-time strategy (RTS) games. They did the Age of Empire series, Age of Mythology, and Halo Wars. I had several tasks there (for one...

Spotlight on Great Cthulhu Great Cthulhu is pretty much the game's poster child. Yet some people struggle with him. Many Cthulhu players follow a course similar to this: take a slight early lead, because you are initially unopposed - our monsters are scary, and...

Spotlight on Black Goat Black Goat can easily be misplayed or misunderstood. One result is that when I am in a core game with 3 people who haven’t played with me before, they often leave Black Goat (which they consider the feeblest) to me. I love Black Goat, and I...

Everyone starts as a novice. It’s nothing to be ashamed of. Heck, in MY first game of Cthulhu Wars I was technically a novice (though an informed one). In an effort to help you take the first step up the ladder of skill (or help your friends), I’m going to list some beginner actions I see all the time, which set you back.

Spotlight on Sleeper Cthulhu Wars is widely praised for its wide-open, Ameritrash play style. It is freewheeling, with sudden changes of fortune, overclocked powerhouses, and fast action. But the fact remains that it also stands up to carefully analysis. We're going...

Independent Great Old Ones, part Three Tulszcha I generated yet another random number, and today it came up Tulszcha! At last, one of the new ones! (My secret plan was to continue doing this till I got a new one.) So, how does Tulszcha change the game for everyone....

Independent Great Old Ones, Part Two Mother Dagon <generates random number> this time I got Mother Dagon, so let's see how SHE affects the entire game. Well, Mother Dagon's spellbook is the Zygote - the way this works is, when you recruit a Cultist, you pay 1...

The Independent Great Old Ones, part One At this time, we have announced 18 independent Great Old Ones for Cthulhu Wars. They are: Abhoth, Atlach-Nacha, Azathoth, Bokrug, Byatis, Chaugnar Faugn, Cthugha, Daoloth, Eihort, Father Dagon, Ghatanothoa, Gla'aki, Gobogeg,...

Why is Pitpipo one of the unique High Priests? A few people have wondered openly why I used Pitpipo as one of the special high priests. What has Pit done to deserve a role alongside Asenath Waite or Crawford Tillinghast? How does he fit into the Lovecraft Canon? Well,...

Palettes - The Bright Inviting Colors We get different opinions about the jolly color scheme of Cthulhu Wars. The figures are nice primary colors (like plastic dinosaurs!) and the maps are far from gloomy. (At least the faction sheets and rulebooks are a little more...

Power Management The Cthulhu Wars factions are, obviously, extremely asymmetrical. But they have some features in common. All of them have some way of earning extra Elder Signs, and all of them have some kind of interesting Power bonus. Let’s talk about the latter....

The High Priests The High Priests are one of my favorite expansions. My son Arthur thinks that you should ALWAYS play with High Priests. But what do they add, exactly? When you play with High Priests, every faction has one extra unit in their pool - the Priest. He is...

The Silence Tokens The Library of Celaeno instigates a new mechanism in Cthulhu Wars – the Silence tokens. Here is how they work. During the Determine First Player phase, each player receives one Silence token. Then, the First Player must give his Silence token to...

The Orphans When I am designing new monsters or a Great Old One, often I run through several ideas for what, exactly, its special ability or spellbook ought to be. Sometimes after a test I reject an ability because it slows down the game, or because it is too powerful...

Opener of the Way Spellbook Requirements As promised, I am now going to focus in a some design decisions, so you can all see how my brain works. The Opener of the Way, like every Cthulhu Wars faction, has six spellbook requirements. Let’s look at them in order: Eight...

Independent Great Old Ones In developing the independent Great Old Ones, three factors were constantly warring within my brain. First, I wanted the entity to feel like the story or stories in which it featured – to have the personality of that Great Old One. Second, I...

Satyrs What the hell is a “Satyr” in the Lovecraft world-view? Let me bloviate. In Lovecraftian tales, the human genotype is subject to degeneration or mutation under the influence of the Outside. Sometimes this is done purposefully, as with ghouls (who originate from...