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The Most Merciful Thing in the World is the Inability of the Human Mind to Correlate all its Contents.”
H.P. Lovecraft coined the term “Yog-Sothothery” to refer to the fictional myth cycle he invented for his tales — what subsequently became known as the “Cthulhu Mythos” (after other writers had added their own original horrors to sit beside Lovecraft’s).
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This book is a resource that seeks to pare away the later inventions and present the purely Lovecraft inventions, compiled with game statistics that make it easy to drop them into roleplaying scenarios, campaigns, and game settings. HPL’s many Unnatural Entities, Weird Rituals, Cults, Artifacts, Tomes, and Places in this book can be considered a kind of “grab bag” of elements you can use to infuse any game world with a Lovecraftian flavor.
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H.P. Lovecraft’s Book of Yog-Sothothery can be considered a comprehensive toolkit for turning any existing setting — whether it is a historical era of our planet, or a fictional world separate from the real world — into a setting suited to the kinds of tales woven by Lovecraft.
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Want to run a 1950s spy thriller with a cosmic horror vibe? Simply take a Cold War RPG (for example the Cthulhu Eternal Cold War SRD) and add your preferred selection of entities, cults, rituals, artifacts, tomes and places from this book to support the story you’d like to tell. Want to morph your favorite fantasy RPG into a Lovecraftian fantasy RPG? Pick a bunch of curious monstrosities and gods and add them to the world, adapting cults and artifacts to become the tools of in-world religions conducting unspeakable rites in their name.
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The game statistics found in this book are designed to work seamlessly with either the APOCTHULHU RPG or any game in the ever-expanding Cthulhu Eternal family. They can, however, be easily used with other evolved D100 games without any significant re-work, and can augment other percentile-based RPGs (and others) with a little bit of conversion effort.
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H.P. Lovecraft’s Book of Yog-Sothothery includes game descriptions of 40 Lovecraftian Entities (Gods & Monsters), 21 Unnatural Rituals described by Lovecraft, 8 Bizarre Artifacts, 14 Tomes holding terrible Mythos secrets, 8 sinister Cults with Mythos associations, and 8 Weird Places.
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H.P. Lovecraft’s Book of Yog-Sothothery is available at DriveThruRPG
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