Vorax Transtellaris

Oh my god, such pretentious crap! That almost justifies the reintroduction of book burning.

I was also wondering how you would handle a contest of attributes between more than two people, using the Resistance table.

Some archaeological book on the subject would give you the same information with clarifying illustrations .

I much prefer sci-fi and horror over fantasy so I hardly read any fantasy. One serious case of a waste of my time was reading/skimming through The Clan of the Cave Bear, part one of Jean Auel's Earth's Children series. Suffice it to say I didn't even bother about the rest of the series. Do not waste your time on this load of pseudo-scientific New Age b.s. that's really nothing more than an overrated penny-dreadful that happens to feature mammoths.

sounds good sounds good :thumb: It may be that the only thing I may have to adapt is the appearance of the different races/species. I want them to be green or have a plant or tree-like appearance, so they really are part of the ecosystem they live in. One (or perhaps even more) race/species of intelligent apes also fits in very well. (This might even be converted to Eden Studios' Terra Primate for an action-packed one-shot! Including Unisystem stats in an appendix. ) Still very much interested! P.S. Have you considered adding a sentient fungus? :cool:

Theoretically you can convert anything into anything. The usefulness of the supplement of course depends on how much converting it would take for it to fit my rather specific needs . However, even if it doesn't fit those needs, I might still order it if it turns out to be interesting and different enough as an independent sci-fi/fantasy setting. As I said before, the whole concept sounds very promising! :thumb: Then I misinterpreted your post . I would personally like to use The Green as an undiscovered, unexplored "lost world", either on earth or on another planet. Travelling there could be by the usual means, by an experimental spaceship or by an interstellar/interdimensional gate. Puck, The Green also reminds me of an episode in the comic series Storm titled The Green Hell. Here's a link to the Wikpedia page: Storm (Don Lawrence) - Wikipedia. In this link you can take a look at a preview of the book: Storm 4 preview.

I am not familiar with any of those places except of course Skull Island as depicted in the 1933 version of King Kong. A place like that would be great to use in CoC. The setting/scenario doesn't have to be particularly Lovecraftian but I would like it to sort of fit in with that pulpy, mysterious adventure and exploration atmosphere of the weird tales and fantastic cinema of the 1920s and '30s. IMHO elves, dwarves and trolls do not fit in with that. The "malignant or chaotic force/sorcery/religion in the Green called the Une" does sound good! :thumb: They're a kind of Dreamlands creature. I am guessing Conrad misread my post, assuming I do want it to fit in with the Dreamlands, but I do not. So Zoogs should not be in The Green.

I'll certainly keep following its development and make up my mind about it after I have read a couple of reviews. I do like the idea of this massive forest with different sentient races and cultures living and interacting in it. I don't mind magic per se. I am just not too fond of fantasy races that are too similar to the overly well-known dwarves, elves, trolls, etc. I was sort of expecting kind of "foresty" races, if that makes any sense. Beings and cultures adapted to life in The Green since that is where they evolved. Beings and cultures that seem weird and exotic to outsiders. The thing is I would want to use The Green as a place my 1920s CoC investigators could travel to and it should not resemble anything that may be found in the dreamlands. I guess that's rather specific. Nevertheless, even if it turns out not to be what I'm looking for I am sure lots of people will love it, because the idea is really cool and exciting.

I loved "The Integral Trees". The description of The Green also reminds me of Brian W. Aldiss's "The Long Afternoon of Earth". I hope the final result will bear more resemblance to "The Integral Trees" than to just primordial forest fantasy.

Alien (1979) Alien: Resurrection (1997) Aliens (1986) Angel Heart (1987) The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms (1953) The Beyond (E tu vivrai nel terrore - L'aldilà) (1981) The Birds (1963) The Black Cat (1934) The Black Scorpion (1957) Bride of Frankenstein (1935) Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari. (1920) The Changeling (1980) City of the Living Dead (Paura nella città dei morti viventi) (1980) Creature from the Black Lagoon (1954) Dagon (2001) Dawn of the Dead (1978) Dawn of the Dead (2004) Day of the Dead (1985) Dead Space: Downfall (2008) The Deadly Mantis (1957) The Devil's Backbone (El Espinazo del diablo) (2001) Dracula (1931) Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1931) The Evil Dead (1981) Evil Dead II (1987) Frankenstein (1910) Frankenstein (1931) The Ghoul (1933) Der Golem, wie er in die Welt kam (1920) The Haunted Palace (1963) The Haunting (1963) The House by the Cemetery (Quella villa accanto al cimitero) (1981) House of Usher (1960) House of Wax (1953) The Incredible Shrinking Man (1957) Island of Terror (1966) Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956) The Invisible Man (1933) The Invisible Man Returns (1940) It Came from Outer Space (1953) King Kong (1933) The Last Man on Earth (1964) The Lost World (1925) Millennium: The Complete Series (2008) The Mist (2007) The Monolith Monsters (1957) Monster on the Campus (1958) The Mummy (1932) Murders in the Rue Morgue (1932) Mystery of the Wax Museum (1933) Night of the Living Dead (1968) Night of the Living Dead (1990) Nosferatu, eine Symphonie des Grauens (1922) Nosferatu: Phantom der Nacht (1979) The Old Dark House (1932) The Orphanage (El orfanato) (2007) Pan's Labyrinth (El laberinto del fauno) (2006) The Phantom of the Opera (1925) Psycho (1960) Planet of the Apes (1968) Quatermass 2: Enemy from Space (1957) Quatermass and the Pit (1967) The Quatermass Xperiment (1955) The Raven (1935) Repo Man (1984) The Shining (1980) Star Wars Trilogy (1977-1983) Tarantula (1955) The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974) Them! (1954) They Live (1988) The Thing (1982) The Thing from Another World (1951) Tombs of the Blind Dead (La noche del terror ciego) (1971) The Trollenberg Terror (1958) Twin Peaks - Definitive Gold Box Edition (2007) Village of the Damned (1960) Le voyage dans la lune (1902) Werewolf of London (1935) White Zombie (1932) The Wolf Man (1941) The X Files - Complete Collection (2006)

Have you ever checked reviews of the most recent edition of the CoC Keeper's Screen?

I am currently 37 years old, I live in the Netherlands and started my first CoC scenario about halfway last year. I have been playing and running RPGs since 1992 - GURPS (in varying settings: fantasy, cyberpunk, starwars, pirates), Warhammer Fantasy, Over the Edge, Vampire: The Masquerade, Werewolf: The Apocalypse, Trinity, Vampire: The Dark Ages, Noir and KULT - but only got drawn into all stuff Lovecraftian in 2004, when I met my Mexican girlfriend who recommended Lovecraft's horror stories to me. While I was checking bookstores for a collection of stories to my liking I remembered a copy of CoC (I think it was 5th edition) sitting practically unused on the bookshelf of a friend of mine. He had mentioned it occasionally to me but never got into running it with our RPG group. I borrowed the book, read it, and immediately ordered a copy of the 6th edition for myself. Since then I have been hooked. I have too many interests to mention them all but generally each of them is more or less related to one of the following themes: old sci-fi and horror films, anthropology and archaeology esp. of Mesoamerica, drums, animals and natural history, photography, reading, RPGs. I prefer horror and sci-fi over pure fantasy films, books and games. I was introduced to BRP through CoC and am now waiting for the basic rulebook to arrive in the mail. The main reason for finally ordering it is that some of the upcoming supplements and settings for BRP seem very interesting for using with CoC. Something I haven't seen yet but would definitely be interested in is a BRP supplement enabling you to add space travel to the classic 1920s setting of Call of Cthulhu and set scenarios on other planets of our solar system, as they were imagined in period sci-fi literature (For example making Venus a world of jungles and swamps in habited by intelligent amphibian/reptilian humanoids.)

My problem with the Resistance Table is not that it's overly complex but that it assumes an active and a passive attribute. Who gets to make the roll on the resistance table when two player characters are opposing eachother? Player one, player two or the Keeper/GM?