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Post by cartomancer on Apr 21, 2010 3:31:38 GMT -5
That's quite a common Christmas trick of the homeless in the UK. Due to the nature of a winter here many actually run the risk of freezing to death so the more vulnerable will usually commit a small crime, such as putting through a shop window in the hopes of earning themselves a cell for the night with a hot meal and drink. I also find something quite poetic about your first tale too that a person ran as far as they could from justice but it still found them hiding under their rock. Personally, i'd run with both of your tales but, then again, i like a nice bit of gore in my horror.  |
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Post by castiglione on Apr 21, 2010 10:14:46 GMT -5
I'm glad I read the story about the politician being eaten AFTER I had breakfast. Somewhat messed up.
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Post by mahrundl on Apr 21, 2010 15:34:30 GMT -5
Good stories, T-K-D. I'd say use them (with names and serial numbers filed off, of course).
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Post by Toad-Killer-Dog on Apr 25, 2010 11:40:11 GMT -5
Apropos of nothing, but what to y'all think of this picture.  I think it is wonderfully creepy and I've managed to find out the name of the photographer who took it. I was thinking of asking them if they would consent to letting me use it for Tunnels & Terrors. However before I ask them I wanted to get the boards opinion on maybe using it for the cover. Do you think it is too abstract, too dark, that kind of thing. Your view on the subject are greatly appreciated. ;D |
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Post by andrew on Apr 25, 2010 11:48:41 GMT -5
Do you think it is too abstract, too dark, that kind of thing. Your view on the subject are greatly appreciated. ;D I don't think it's too dark, but then again, I'm a fan of all sorts of dark, shadowy things. Too abstract? Perhaps. I see this as more of a magazine or module cover than the cover for a rpg book. |
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Post by Toad-Killer-Dog on Apr 25, 2010 12:15:24 GMT -5
I know what you mean, but I thought offering the cover might be a better inducement to allow me to use the image than an interior spot and PDF's don't really have back covers.  |
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Post by stevemitchell on Apr 27, 2010 14:28:20 GMT -5
Newly arrived here; this sort of thing really hits home! I can't wait to see this collected as a pdf or print booklet.
As for eldritch horrors in the Lone Star State: there are all kinds of degenerate cannibalistic dwellers beneath the parched hills of central and west Texas, and the bayou country along the Louisiana border is infested by humanoid beings with the heads of giant gars. Of course, even more loathsome terrors await the unwary traveler who ventures north across the Red River into ill-omened Oklahoma.
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Post by cartomancer on Apr 28, 2010 3:45:35 GMT -5
Looking at the picture TKD. I like it. I like it a lot. :0).
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Post by Toad-Killer-Dog on Apr 28, 2010 4:13:53 GMT -5
I'm hoping to include some more traditional monsters and some crypto-zoological creatures in a future supplement.
I'd kind of like to do one that was just "North American Monsters", or maybe a collection of little known traditional monsters from around the world separated out by country or region.
I think it'd be fun to do some of the really strange monsters that never get written up.
I mean there are tons of monsters from Eastern Europe, South East Asia, Australia, the American Southwest and others that never get any love.
Yeah Cartomancer, the first time I saw it it made me think of walking into some dust covered antique shop and seeing in some forgotten corner a paper crane in an ancient cage.
I could not help but wonder "Why cage a paper bird?", it just seems inexplicable and creepy to me.
Of course I may have an overactive imagination. ;D
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Post by cartomancer on Apr 28, 2010 5:41:30 GMT -5
For me i see the bird as representing a man made conciousness. We now seek out knowledge to free ourselves, to create our own world and, each of us holding our own independent reality. A bird if you will that allows us to take flight and free ourselves. This is opposed to our ancestors reality and conciousness which was more a shared understanding based on the little information available to them. But as much as we made the bird, we built the cage. The cage is the restrictions that each new discovery places upon us and, also representative of how each of our realities seperates us from the shared reality of our ancestors were a part of, where the birds flew free... Or, at least in larger cages. Still, that could just be me overthinking the symbolism in the picture... But it makes for one hell of a tag line!  |
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Post by crub90706 on Jan 8, 2011 2:23:53 GMT -5
I just discovered this and was wondering if there is any recent updates? I'm a big Lovecraft and Howard fan and would love to see this material in a PDF form. Great Work TKD! |
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order99
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Post by order99 on May 13, 2012 20:29:48 GMT -5
Yes, please let us know how the project is faring.... Oh, and if you wnt some truly awesome atmoapheric Southern Horror, I have three words for you- Manley Wade Wellman (you're welcome) |
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Post by Toad-Killer-Dog on May 27, 2012 16:32:42 GMT -5
Hi Order, well everything was going swimmingly then all the stuff with the perfidious hobbit we are no longer allowed to mention transpired.
Hogscape never got around to editing it, my life got even more complicated reallllly fast and I hate to say it all the stuff with the theft, bitterness and fighting in the T&T community got me down.
I mean I used to bang out papers, supplements and articles, but I feel like all the ugliness kind of took the shine off my enthusiasm.
I'd like to get Tunnels & Terrors out there, I mean I think I did some good work on it and if I could get started again it could be a fun little addition to T&T.
Y'know I meant to write up and run a little introductory playtest adventure on the board. Maybe if things calm down a little bit I could give that a try.
As far as Wellman goes, I've never really had the pleasure of his writing.
Where would you suggest I start on his fiction, I love a good southern horror. ;D
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Post by bigjackbrass on May 28, 2012 4:52:21 GMT -5
Where would you suggest I start on his fiction, I love a good southern horror. ;D For ease of availability as well as being some of his best and most famous stories, try Paizo's collection Who Fears the Devil?, which gathers together the "Silver John" stories about a wandering guitarist and his adventures in the Appalachian mountains. Some lovely writing, unique and memorable stuff. The novels about John are less successful - he fits the short story format more easily, I think - so this collection is a much better introduction. Much of Wellman's stuff is very hard to find, although happily starting to reappear in recent years. There's even a Tunnels & Trolls link, as Can These Bones Live? appeared in Sorcerer's Apprentice. |
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Post by order99 on May 28, 2012 11:15:27 GMT -5
I'm also a huge fan of Wellman's Worse Things Waiting collection from Carcosa Press..sadly just about everything of Wellman's is Out of Print, i'm waiting for my local library to wear out its copy and let me buy it off them, but i'll have to get in line as my local librarian is a HUGE Pulp fan herself...
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