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From: Matt Bruce <matt@*****.NET.AU>
Subject: Re: Poe (was Re: SR Logo)
Date: Tue, 17 Dec 1996 00:32:17 +0800
Tim Cooper <tpcooper@***.CSUPOMONA.EDU> wrote:

>> You've got the music. You've got the clothes. You've got the
>> attitude.
>> Now you gotta have the authors: Edgar Allen Poe and H.P.
>> Lovecraft. *grin*
>
>Lovecraft rules!!

I'd just have to agree there. :)

>I've also always wanted to run a game of somesort that followed the
>plot of "The shadow over Innsmouth", or maybe something along the
>lines of "Pickmans model" or "The Dunwich horror". Great excuses
>to try to put the fear of the unknown into the PC's..not to mention
>the fear of the darker side of awakened (meta)humanity that doesn't
>include insect spirits.

Yeah! I wonder if anyone's tried to convert "GURPS CthulhuPunk" to SR?
CthulhuPunk certainly has the beasties in it.

>Hell, ever wonder what totems those little cabals that lurk in dark,
>underground places follow?

Hmm... giving the Great Old Ones attributes and properties would have to be
a fearsome result for SR.

Ya think yer dragons are nasty? Bah! hehehe

Cya,


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