Now that you mention it, I also remember reading a blurb somewhere in the Big Golden Book about how you could use the mutation powers to make a bunch of new monsters from existing animals. I actually just did that today or yesterday making a monster. I took most of the stats for a giant squid and modified it into a flying squid monster. I'll also say that when it comes to stats for creatures and a animals the SIZ table is your friend, since it will give you the right ballpark to work in, and can help to stat things up in a consistent and relative manner.
But, it much easier not to have to rein vent the wheel. And it is very easy to turn an animal into a monster by upping some attributes, increasing the armor, and/or adding some sort of special power or ability such as flight or fire breathing. Recently, animal s tats have been reduced a little, but not all that much and the values are usually close enough to work and compatible with whatever BRP system you are using. For the most part a Lion is still a lion. Now, however, I am finding that such freedom comes at the cost of hand crafting most of monsters for my story.Ī lot of animals and creatures are the same or similar across multiple BRP games. I liked the idea of having a simple set of rules that could be applied to any story I could imagine. doping a yacht onto of a meeting of Cthulhu worshipers. I much prefer how William Hope Hodgson portrayed the cosmic horrors in his book The Night Land, they were quite fearsome, but theoretically killable, and were actively fought against by the powers of good.Īs for RPGs, I sprung for the Big Golden Book a few years ago, but I am only just getting around to trying to put something significant together. Also, good job spotting my handle, 😉 I found that story absolutely hilarious, especially the irony of Henderson and co. Cthulhu is not for me, I was just curious if anyone else had thought of the same idea. In any case, it sounds as though CoC’s Lovecraftian cosmic horror may not be quite to your taste, especially considering your forum handle Have you checked out The Esoterrorists or Monster of the Week? One could brew up a BRP horror campaign around those stories instead of those by HPL, CAS, Bloch, Campbell, et al. Generally, his bold and brawny heroes can dispatch them with honest steel (no worrying about failed sanity with them).
For instance, superstition and incomprehension/misunderstanding rather than cosmic pessimism feature in his “Tale Black Stone” and “The Tower of the Elephant”. Howard’s tales, the Mythos entities encountered are considerably less powerful than those in stories by others in Lovecraft’s circle.
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