Some of these are mildly useful a drink that makes you 1d10 years younger , others are more useful a drug that lets you ask a question about the past or future, a gate that teleports to a specific other location, etc. Up next is one of my favorite parts of this product - the Books of the Cthulhu Mythos. I love eldritch grimoires, so having a section with them was a special treat. Actually reading these tomes requires research, and you get a bonus over time if you keep studying it.
See more Of course, it's a Mythos tome, so it's not that safe - each research check also has a chance of causing Dread a rare case where it's commonly inflicted , but overcoming this may also award XP.
That last one is, perhaps unsurprisingly, the most complex and potentially dangerous book. That said, mythos tomes are designed specifically to attract the unwary. Researching them isn't actually that hard - they do give you a bonus to it, after all. There's just, y'know, the possibility of going insane, dying, or calling up things far beyond your ability to control. Fun for the whole cult! From there, this book goes into unique magical items.
Some are fairly specific in nature like the Chain of the Deep, a neck slot item that gives a bonus to Constitution but only works for certain types of creatures , others are useful for adventuring the Silver Key, which helps when visiting the Dreamlands , and a few are quite powerful indeed the Lamp of Alhazred, which can project windows to other times and places The items section finishes up with a couple of Artifacts. The R'lyeh Disk fragments provide benefits to mythos entities or can summon Cthulhu if they're put together - and no, of course he's not under you control , while the R'lyeh Tablet essentially has people Astral Project to R'lyeh and may even let them bring things back.
Lots of plot opportunities, there. Meanwhile, the Shining Trapezohedron acts as a highly accurate Divination spell that you can use at-will , but also has a chance of terrifying the watcher or, worse, summoning an avatar of Nyarlathotep. Chapter Seven walks us through mythos cults. Each cult is described in detail and comes with a variety of gifts benefits and options available only to members of the cult. These are interesting for tweaking enemies, and equally flavorful if your players are playing cultists.
The cults are focused on the most popular mythos entities - Cthulhu, Hastur, Azathoth, Yog-Sothoth, etc. We also get some pages on Tcho-Tcho a human subculture , Deep Ones, general religious views of mythos entities, and how less-eldritch creatures tend to see the cults.
Unlike the official bestiary entries, Great Old Ones - which aren't full deities - aren't really meant to be fought with this book. Fighting may help banish them, but they're difficult or impossible to actually hurt.
Instead, entities get an Elder Influence stat block. When it manifests, it spawns Filth which are similar to proto-shoggoths , and damaging the influence creates more filth.
If too many are present, Abhoth absorbs them and heals. Each filth can have a special power or effect, and damaging the area or the filth triggers a wide-range mind control effect.
Yes, it's nasty. Yes, it's really nasty. Yes, it's intentional. Elder Influences aren't the sort of thing you can just have a Paladin smite and full attack to get rid of. There's some 26 entities with influences presented, and yes, some of them are worse than Abhoth. Azathoth, for example, requires accurately dealing over HP in one round - while Great Cthulhu has multiple stages of influence and defeating him only sets him back one stage All in all, the section is about 90 pages all by itself.
Chapter Nine gives us the Mythos Bestiary, another hundred or so pages of creatures for parties to face. Note that simple combat encounters aren't always the best way to use these creatures.
Many of them honestly don't care that much about mortals, and may not even want to fight unless they really have to. Chapter Ten is an expanded bestiary, generally reprinting content from other sources. Republished content is inherently less valuable, but this is a mythos-themed book, and there's some genuine utility in having most such creatures in one tome instead of having to search through all of your other books.
Overall, this is a solid product, with few problems and errors. I did notice a couple - for example, there's a sidebar titled "Gamemaster's Note" that deals with the Dreamlands. That's not a problem by itself, but there's an index of sidebars on the front, and the title is vague enough to provide no helpful information when looking at that index. It's a minor quibble, as such things go, but it is a quibble all the same.
That said, this book is pretty much everything I hoped it would be when I chose to help fund it. I definitely got my money's worth, and if you enjoy some Lovecraftian lore in your games - as I do - then this is the mythos product to get.
It gets 5 Stars, a Stamp of Approval, and my Recommendation. I do agree that some of the art could've been better - painted mini's aren't my thing - but the book has SOME good, original art, and it's not bad enough for me to knock a star or two off. It will be available soon on our website, and I anticipate we'll offer it here as well. There will be one - it is still in development, with an ETA to go to the printers this July.
Monica G. Sandy Petersen's Cthulhu Mythos for Pathfinder is an amazing sourcebook for the Pathfinder role-playing game. It's written by Sandy Petersen, the legendary game designer behind the classic horror role-playing game Call of Cthulhu. The book adapts H. Elliot S. In the previous version of this review, I bemoaned the artwork, which mostly consisted of photos of minis.
This has now been rectified, and replaced with glorious artwork, far more in keeping with the theme and tone. As far as content [ James E. Disclaimer: I backed the Kickstarter that created this product and paid the full price there for both the [ See All Ratings and Reviews.
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