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This reminds me a bit of how Unisystem's 'Witchcraft' does magic... that the mana or whatever first needs to be accumulated... IIRC there's a skill rating for how quickly that can be done. Then the spell can be cast. It also had some fun notions for the intoxicating effects of being chock full of magic power, and what happens if the magic user goes too long without using or releasing it. Not tooo much more mechanical heft for the added atmosphere.

We played through it again last weekend and it all went much better for the PCs... maybe we got lucky.

We played this last weekend. We went in thinking we had a plan but that sort of fell apart... and boy that giant hits hard! We did manage to win out in the end... but some of our PCs are going to need medical treatment and maybe a prosthetic leg.

When I first read Classic Fantasy it reminded me, a bit, of Earthdawn. In that game, Disciplines (classes) are societies of folks who all study/practice the same set of abilities. When you go up in Circle (levels) the other folks of the Discipline are who you go to for training, to learn new abilities. Classic Fantasy doesn't push the cult/brotherhood aspect so much but if I were to run it I would try to emphasize that... have other warriors as contacts and resources, along with some degree of responsibility toward the school and fellow students/teachers.

I never liked the idea that the Mythos was inherently evil... but I'm not really a fan of the notion here that they're inherently good either. Poor misunderstood monsters... I wish Sigil & Sign had made it... sounded closer to what I'd want to play, as a setting, if not a system.

I've been interested in this... having run 'PCs as cultist' games in the past... but I haven't read the books this is based on and from a cursory look... I dunno if it's my sorta thing. Its big conceit is that the Mythos entities are actually the good guys... one comment I saw on the fiction source mentioned Nyarlathotep being some sort of 'Captain Planet' character out to stop folks from polluting the earth. I'll might still get it, it's Mythras + Lovecraft(ish)... but I'm not all that interested in a 'politically correct' Mythos.

I would, for one.

Agreed! I want nothing to do with 7e, but I would be a customer for 'official' PDFs and POD copies of the earlier stuff... which is why I went all-in on the Kickstarter despite already owning all of it. It's similar to how I don't own D&D 5e, but I appreciate that WOTC has put up a lot of the older materials that I and others might have an interest in.

Monster Island, for Mythras, has a foot in that territory... depending on how you choose to use it. But yeah, I'd like to see more weird fantasy stuff for Legend/Mythras/BRP. My own thought has been to use Renaissance Deluxe to run a blend of Warhammer and Lamentations of the Flame Princess... so quasi-historical with a thick layer of strange just under the surface... less Conan, more Solomon Kane.

Yeah, you'd think so wouldn't you... but these sorts of things have a knack for spilling out into other areas. I've seen more than one forum eat itself up over politics.

His comments were NOT about gaming or Chaosium though... and he is not here, he's not taking part in this discussion. So it's a discussion about him and some non-gaming comments he made... is this really the place where anything like that is going to be solved/fixed?

I don't see the point of this thread on this gaming forum. The person in question is not present. So is the motive just to shout at them in absentia? To announce where we stand on the topic? To bully each other into some sort of consensus (or silence)? Almost everyone has been civil... but it doesn't seem to me that it has much to do with the actualities of games/gaming.

Maybe? But does Chaosium have any plans for Cthulhu in space? Maybe it could include CoC 7e stats as well... hearkening back to the good old days when Chaosium put out products with stats for other systems. Not that Mythras doesn't have some nice scifi in its stable already, but I'm thinking 3pp for all this.

Why? There are loads of Cthulhu games out there now... but not so many in space.

I'm aware of that one, but it shouldn't prevent them from putting out a Mythras edition if they wanted to. A couple others that came to mind: 'Ashes To Ashes' - apocalyptic low-fantasy 'Agents Of The Crown' - victorian era proto-supers, ala 'The League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen'