Lionhead vs Cthulhu

I was forwarded the following by Mike, from a conversation on an internal Lionhead mailing list. It pretty much perfectly captures the spirit of Cthulhu roleplaying:

You are in a 1920’s drawing room at Lashly Hall talking to Randolph ‘Bunty’ Mcphee and his mysterious swarthy servant Li Chen – one of the ‘sly Chinee’ your uncle warned you about during the Boxer Rebellion.

As you use your ‘fast talk’ skill to discuss dada-ist art and the more obscure chapters of ‘the golden bough’ you glance by mischance down at the chinaman’s feet and see socks THAT ARE OF NO HUMAN SHAPE!!!

Do you:
a) Go insane
b) Go insane
c) Go insane
d) Go insane but not before phoning your old war buddy Thomas Drummond to come and save you? Roll up Thomas and forget about handgun skills… Its fucking useless against Cthulhu.

Age cannot wither

Over here there's a discussion wherein I say I was surprised to note how adult we all look. And both Kirsty and Marianne conflate that with "old", whereas what I meant was "We're now looking about the same as my parents looked when I was a kid. Or the majority of my teachers. i.e. we're in our mid 30s."

To me, old means "over 60". Adult means "over 24" and middle-aged means "40-55". But I've bumped into a load of different definitions and usage


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