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rs to be enchantingly realistic detailed with the minute and vast evidence of an orderly plant as humanity becomes obsessed with tlön it overtakes our own reality metaphorically in borges more literally in grant morrison s take on the subject how does this fit into carcosa well in such a violent and degraded world the creation of a work of refined imagination is all the more challenging disciplines such as linguistics sociology and geometry are just as arcane as the rituals of the sorcerors the writers of the encyclopedia of tlön rule over a city state whose every activity is bent towards achieving the creation or re creation of their masterpiece much like a cult they inspire devotion in their followers who believe they will be able to escape carcosa and enter the more refined imaginary world of tlön at may 02 2020 1 comment email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels carcosa tuesday 28 april 2020 review carcosa by geoffrey mckinney carcosa is my favourite rpg book that i actually don t like at all i am obsessed with it but really i am obsessed with the idea of it i love the premise the overall aesthetic of the thing i love the uneasy mixture of genuine horror and pulp nonsense of grotesque violence and gonzo comedy i love that it s basically a kingdom hearts super robot wars style crossover of every lovecraft adjacent author ever i love the sense of intense potentiality in the setting the feeling that over the course of a few sessions your players could very easily seize godlike power or trigger an eldritch apocalypse or just die of sepsis in a ditch what i don t love is anything that s actually in the book once you start reading the details all you find is one limitation after the other mckinney created a wonderful playground for the imagination but it seems like he didn t actually want to play there consider this quote from the section on artifacts of the great race humans however find it almost impossible to use these outré objects only humans with an intelligence of at least 17 can even possibly do so after each month of continuous study such a human has a 5 non cumulative chance of understanding the item well enough to make some use of it in other words here s a bunch of cool stuff but it s statistically improbable that any of your characters will ever be able to use it or the section on sorcerous rituals most of which require expensive treasures human sacrifices or quests to extremely dangerous locations even if all the requirements are met the cosmic entity still gets a saving throw and the referee must make the being s saving throw in secret if a ritual does not work the sorcerer does not know why the ritual might be defective and thus will never work the sorcerer might have performed the ritual incorrectly the entity might have made its saving throw how is this conducive to any kind of entertainment at the gaming table if the pcs are trying to complete a ritual it s just an exercise in frustration if the pcs are trying to prevent an evil sorceror s ritual it opens the door to a sad anticlimax you failed to stop him in time but luckily cthulhu made its saving throw so nothing happens once you get past the long and pointless list of rituals most of which don t do anything useful even if you go to the trouble of completing them you reach what should be the real meat of the book the hex descriptions but here too mckinney seems to have little interest in the possibilities of his own material so many hex entries are literally just a monster name and a number as if rolled right off a wandering monster table but the really baffling ones are things like this tens of thousands of ancient stone burial vault s dot these barren plains every one of them has been broken open and emptied or a shadowy figure lurks at the edge of the forest watching intently though it may be a black man or a purple man it is impossible to tell for sure and he disappears deeper into the trees if pursued no amount of searching or pursuit will result in finding him in other words something here appears to be interesting but on further investigation it isn t at all i know some people praise this kind of brief hex description because it can serve as a starting point for the dm s imagination but most of carcosa s hexes are so brief that they give you nothing at all to work with or worse actively stifle imagination by negating possibilities the monster descriptions are similarly low effort most of them boil down to generic blobs or crazed mutants that attack on sight many lovecraft deities are listed and although there s a certain goofy charm in learning that azathoth the monstrous nuclear chaos beyond angled space has 19 armour class and 60 hit dice ultimately the descriptions of them are so brief as to make each one indistinguishable mckinney s attitude seems to be you ve read the original stories so i don t need to put in any effort here yet even that is too kind because mckinney has managed to make a lot of the lovecraft monsters less interesting than in their source material for example carcosa claims that creatures as diverse as shoggoths mi go and deep ones are all numbered among the six main spawn of shub niggurath this attempt to systematise the unruly hodgepodge of the lovecraft cosmos is reminiscent of the misguided efforts of august derleth who notoriously tried to fit lovecraft s pantheon into neat boxes based on the classical elements of earth air fire and water but cosmic horror really only works when the uncanny defies logical classification the fact that lovecraft s meta universe is crowded with beasties and barely held together is part of its allure a review of carcosa especially a critical one can t be complete without talking about the rape content because it created such controversy at the time of release i m always surprised to find how little there actually is in the book i think it s just two or three rituals and one monster description i absolutely think it should not be included in the book any reasonable dm won t use it anyway and it makes it much harder to talk about the setting when you have to preface any discussion with but i m not into the rape stuff that said i don t believe that the depictions of cruelty and torture in the ritual section are entirely gratuitous it does add something new to the cthulhu mythos the traditional theme of cosmic horror has been the universe is full of powerful beings that don t care if something horrible happens to you carcosa s rituals twist this a little here the powerful beings do care about horrible things happening to you but they care for alien reasons beyond comprehension but i really question whether this theme can be ably explored in a roleplaying game much less in a game of gonzo hack and slash d d conclusion look i would be an asshole if i didn t give credit where it s due to a book that i ve written a bunch of blog posts about mckinney has definitely created a world that is fundamentally compelling on some level but if you re reading this review to decide whether to buy it i d say maybe don t bother even aside from the fact that it s published by a guy who stands up for alleged rapists the book doesn t give you anything you can t get yourself instead i recommend you read the source material chambers smith lovecraft lindsay and uh burroughs but maybe just watch the movie instead look at the artwork associated with carcosa and read what other d d bloggers have written about it then just imagine what s inside the book itself and you will probably come up with something better than the disappointing reality at april 28 2020 1 comment email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels carcosa reviews monday 27 april 2020 seasons of carcosa bruce pennington carcosa s solar year lasts for nine months each of fifteen days duration the seasons are as follows hot dry or dustfall 2 months the driest and hottest portion of the year crops wither and creatures seek shelter humans go about in full body cloaks to avoid exposure to solar radiation some flora and fauna hibernate during this period dust storms brushfires and solar flares are common black rain 1 month as the temperature decreases noxious clouds rise from lake hali and fall on the landscape as black rain creatures and plants mutate to survive the rain s toxins humans hoard clean water sporing 3 months coldest and wettest season freshwater storms wash away the black rain and life blossoms the fungal forests sporulate during this time humans wear filter masks to avoid fungal infections floods and thunderstorms common but overall a time of bounty hot wet 3 months storms give way to humidity fungal forests grow humans retreat into caves which offer respite from the relentless heat overland journeys are difficult because exhaustion sets in quickly there are two major moons yuggoth and pnakotoi the former rises at night and the latter during the day yuggoth has a fifteen day cycle and is associated with the nine months when it is full it projects eldritch energy that increases the power of spells and stimulates uncanny beings werethings transform under a full yuggoth pnakotoi has a sixty day cycle it normally achieves fullness at the same time as yuggoth creating a double full moon once every four months full pnakotoi augments the effects of full yuggoth bruce pennington the nine months of yuggoth dust moon for the heavy dust clouds that rise at the beginning of the dry season the full moon stimulates the spawning of giant dust worms ulfire moon the ulfire tint reflects the heat on the planet s surface creatures of invisible flame walk the land on the full moon black rain moon a moon often obscured by thick black clouds when its pale light strikes the ground horrors spawn from the mud thunder moon a welcome moon that heralds the end of the black rain season and the coming of fresh water sorcerors perform rituals of renewal under this moon spore moon spore clouds rise in this month and turn the sky greenish white when the full moon shines spells spontaneously cast themselves from the minds of spellcasters hunt moon a bright moon beloved by predators who use it to hunt the young prey spawned during the sporing season old beasts stir under its light and warriors make sacrifices of blood yellow moon a sickly moon presiding over humidity and infection madness flares up in this month and at full moon hastur walks the earth far beyond his demesne in lake hali fruiting moon in this month the fruiting bodies of fungi grow wildly sometimes so fast as to coat a sleeping victim overnight fungal forests become nigh impassable spellcasters sprout mushrooms from their facial cavities at the full moon the fungi walk and perform strange rituals while humans and beasts are rooted to the ground moth moon named for the dolm moths that swarm in this month men and beasts store food jealously as the last supplies are depleted before the coming of the dry season on the full moon the moth swarms reach their peak and humans feel restless a desire to travel bruce pennington at april 27 2020 3 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels carcosa older posts home subscribe to posts atom i have a new blog about weird old sff novels well as you can see i haven t updated this blog in quite some time i still play d d but i don t get creative ideas for it in review cockamania cockamania is a 30 page mini setting based in filipino culture and folklore cockfighting is the main theme of the text but it also i spells for carcosa or the fungi from yuggoth the last of us spells are alien lifeforms native to the jale moon yuggoth they exist alternately as memetic information and fungal i have a new blog about weird old sff novels well as you can see i haven t updated this blog in quite some time i still play d d but i don t get creative ideas for it in search this blog home about me will b i write stories and play 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2027 and ongoing through the following five fiscal years to accommodate the need f monsters and manuals the interdimensional space time continuum bait and switch ground rules one of the most perillous moments in any d d campaign is the interdimensional space time continuum bait and switch if you do not know what that is let false machine the common store of monsters i am slowly grinding my way through the re writes for veins of the earth as part of the re write i have re organised the pariahs of the earth monsters d4 caltrops d100 how do those wizards know each other recently when re watching the last unicorn for the umpteenth time i noticed something interesting in a scene i know i had seen so many times before diy dragons my 2025 in review continuing my annual tradition here are some of my favorite things from the last year i think this is the first year where i ve had to decide not to shou ten foot polemic undead programming and you the only thing an undead will do of its own volition is defend itself from an aggressor the spirit binding the corpse prefers to do nothing the only hig goblin punch divine patronage a separate system for party advancement in the past i ve written about why parties should have their own character sheet the party sheet can track reputation how noisy they are in the dungeon hack slash on a happy new year we are about to experience the most social upheaval since industrialization what will that look like in sixty years sinless is starting it s third yea monster manual sewn from pants malustrious brood art book available i ve been meaning to have a print on demand book available of original drawings of mine and now this deed is done malustrious brood in this 102 p against the wicked city notes on a semi successful skill system when i finished my team tsathogga campaign back in 2019 one of the things that i noted afterwards was the extent to which fighters had struggled to keep necropraxis the worm ouroboros the worm ouroboros is a 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