F**k you, I'm hungry!"

More like "Not your father's Dagon" amirite?

I gave away a lot of my D&D stuff, but that I kept

They actually added Cthulhu and ilk to the latest Pathfinder Bestiary. I'm...not sure how I feel about that.

The Paizo guys pretty obviously have had a thing for Lovecraftian stuff for the longest time so it's not surprising. But yeah... dropping a star-spawn into a picture is one thing, dropping one into an ongoing fantasy campaign probably would need more finesse.

It's a Mythic monster, so it's supposed to go into a campaign designed around it, as I understand it. Still, It's one thing to fight monsters that are "Cthulhu-esque" and another to fight actual Cthulhu...it's like weird fan fiction or something.

Yeah, that is kinda off... the whole point of HPL's stuff is that really, humanity would be boned if the Great Old Ones particularly cared enough, which luckily they don't.

I'd be all up for a fantasy game where you fought star spawn and deep ones and maybe an animated eidolon or an avatar of one of the big guys, possibly focused around a non-combat method of blocking a Great Old One from entering the world. Enough to have a victory and Lovecraftian pessimism. Going up to Orcus at 20th (30th if you're using 4e) level and saving the world by handing him his abyssal rear end is classic D&D but going up to Cthulhu at 20th/30th level and saving the world by fighting is not the same thing.

Yeah exactly. Much of the Lovecraftian canon had stats originally in Pathfinder (Leng Dwellers, Elder Things, Mooncalves, etc.) but none of the real named horrors. But now you could have an adventure where you kill Cthulhu and Hastur in a single campaign. The rules say that they regenerate over time, so I suppose you could say that all you are really fighting are projections, but still.

I am a Deep-One, and I approve this picture.

"Hey, you got Horse in my Tentacles..."

That lance struck true, but such rotten luck, aye.

Ah, lucky. I have the slightly later printing that lacks that section. Still got the Dragon magazine articles addressing the mythos creatures stats. Found it more fun to convert CoC's stats though, or make it up. Haha!

Really? Man, my dad has an old copy of Deities and Demigods, but it doesn't have any Lovecraft mythos. It has Newhonian mythos though. hmm... *does some googling* oh, looks like you must own one of the original 1980 prints, with Cthulhu mythos and Melnibonéan mythos (apparently from the Elric series by Micheal Moorcock). Apparently there was a copyright issue and they reprinted it in 1981 without those two mythos.

Yeah. I lucked into it, and I am not getting rid of this thing any time soon.

Oh, the legal issue was with Chaosium, not Moorcock or Arkham House. Something about licensing fees and whatnot. Supposedly the second-edition prints had a thank you to Chaosium, but they dropped the Mythoses in the third-edition of the book. Not even Dungeon Masters Guild has a pdf of the second-print, only the third.

This was a hand-me-down. Like a lot of people I sold my old AD&D stuff years ago while moving around and because "I would never use it again," so a little more recently, when a housemate offered their collection (their ex had left them his books!) I said yes! And by sheer chance, it was an old enough Deities and Demigods. I'd never even seen those sections before!

Heh wonder how much Wizards of the Coast would pay to scan that that book so they could sell the PDFs to people.