#detective lovecraft

[itsacorememory]

If they ever remake the movie "Cast a Deadly Spell (1991)", I hope they cast Jon Bernthal as Detective Lovecraft.

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Eureka: Investigative Urban Fantasy by A.N.I.M.

Allow us to introduce ourselves, we are The Agency of Narrative Intrigue and Mystery, or “A.N.I.M.”, a very small TTRPG studio based out of the southern U.S. but ultimately made up of people from many different walks of life.

Eureka: Investigative Urban Fantasy, our debut TTRPG, is a neo-noir investigation-focused RPG with (as you can probably guess from the title) a supernatural twist, that is currently in production after an extremely successful crowdfunding campaign on Kickstarter.

How far would you go to learn the truth?

Play amateur detectives caught up in things they barely understand, and explore how the lives of your characters unravel as they push themselves to dig deeper into the unknown!

Eureka innovates on and revolutionizes investigative gameplay, TTRPG combat, and what it means to play as a monster as a character in a TTRPG, filling several voids we have noticed in the TTRPG space. Eureka supports investigation to a degree never before seen, ensuring that searching for clues is a granular and player-driven process, but also ensuring that the whole story doesn’t grind to a halt after one single failed investigation check.

Character-driven gameplay!

Stats and abilities are based on who your character is as a person. Freeform character creation allows you to build a totally unique little guy, and have a totally unique gameplay experience with him! This is supported by the backbone of the Composure mechanic. Stress, fear, fatigue, and hunger will wear your investigators down as they trudge deeper into the unknown. Food, sleep, and connections with their fellow investigators are the only way to keep them going!

Secrets inside and out! 

Any investigator could be a monster, helping their friends while trying not to reveal their true natures. The party will learn to trust and rely on each other, or explode into a tangled net of drama!

Though most PCs will be mundane humans—or perhaps because most PCs will be mundane humans—Eureka also supports playing monstrous PCs, such as a vampire, in a way never seen before. This isn’t just a watered-down stat bonus, it’s like playing an almost entirely different game, with all the monster’s strengths and weaknesses to account for while solving the mystery, plus the added incentive to keep it a secret from the other PCs as well as their players.

(You can also play as something like The Thing from John Carpenter's The Thing!)

If you like or are interested in Call of Cthulhu, Monster of the Week, Dresden Files, X-Files, Kolchak: The Night Stalker, Apocalypse Keys, World of Darkness, or Gumshoe, you’ll probably find something in Eureka to really enjoy.

Intense, tactical combat! 

Hits are devastating, and misses are unpredictable–firing a gun will always change the situation somehow, for better or for worse!

Now in Technicolor!

Evocative artwork from talented femme-fatales @chaospyromancy and @qsycomplainsalot and the mysterious @theblackwarden paint a gorgeously-realized portrait of a world with shadows lurking in every corner.

Elegantly designed and thoroughly playtested, Eureka represents the culmination of three years of near-daily work from our team, as well as a lot of our own money. If you’re just now reading this and learning about Eureka for the first time, you missed the crowdfunding window unfortunately, but you can still check out the public beta on itch.io to learn more about what Eureka: Investigative Urban Fantasy actually is, as that is where we have all the fancy art assets, the animated trailer, links to video reviews by podcasts and youtubers, etc.!

You can also follow updates on our Kickstarter page where we post regular updates on the status of our progress finishing the game and getting it ready for final release.

Beta Copies through the Patreon

If you want more, you can download regularly updated playable beta versions of Eureka: Investigative Urban Fantasy earlier, plus extra content such as adventure modules by subscribing to our Patreon at the $5 tier or higher. Subscribing to our patreon also grants you access to our patreon discord server where you can talk to us directly and offer valuable feedback on our progress and projects.

The A.N.I.M. TTRPG Book Club

If you would like to meet the A.N.I.M. team and even have a chance to play Eureka with us, you can join the A.N.I.M. TTRPG Book Club discord server. It’s also just a great place to talk and discuss TTRPGs, so there is no schedule obligation, but the main purpose of it is to nominate, vote on, then read, discuss, and play different indie TTRPGs. We put playgroups together based on scheduling compatibility, so it’s all extremely flexible. This is a free discord server, separate from our patreon exclusive one. https://discord.gg/7jdP8FBPes

Other Stuff

We also have a ko-fi and merchandise if you just wanna give us more money for any reason.

We hope to see you there, and that you will help our dreams come true and launch our careers as indie TTRPG developers with a bang by getting us to our base goal and blowing those stretch goals out of the water, and fight back against WotC's monopoly on the entire hobby. Wish us luck.

[frankensteinmutual]

The Court of the Dragon from The King in Yellow by Robert W. Chambers, 1895

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The Fandom Phoenix Project

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sharing my gallery full of BSD live actions images (part 20)

[could-they-be-a-pro-wrestler]

How successful would Mr. Pages…

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[crimson0lake]

The similarities between Lovecraft and Chuuya

(spoilers of stormbringer below)

For the context, I'm not talking about their abilities, looks or their personalities, but how their abilities work and their ability phases.

As we all know Chuuya has two ability phrases, one he can control and one he can't. The part he can control being a smaller part of his full ability, which he can't seem to control himself.

And for the Lovecraft, oddly it's the same, the part of the ability he can control however he wants is a smaller part of his full ability, which is same as Chuuya, he can't control himself.

We know that experiments and cloning is a thing in bsd. And the fact that the facility in stormbringer isn't really explained much than some small details that they made clones and experiments on children and the children they cloned. (As far as I know as I didn't fully finish the stormbringer)

So Lovecraft and Chuuya can be from the same facility, as both have use sleeping in a way of gaining energy, Lovecraft is usually tired and Chuuya usually faints after using corruption, we can also guess this is some sort of a mechanism to keep their energy in control and don't use much to eventually execute themselves.

[flamdoodles]

*smacks Malevolent podcast* these hardboiled detectives and cosmic horrors can fit SO many feelings

For John's design I took quite a few inspirations, but mostly I reworked @samglyph's excellent design because I loved the idea of him being essentially a cloud with Emotions(tm)

[acecluckart]

Abe Sapien

[vangold]

Day 10 brings us another recurring character from the Lovecraft Universe - Detective Thomas Malone And with him, it's just a normal Graveyard Shift in Arkham :) Good Thommy has a tough case on his desk again no doubt. It calls for the thinking tool - who cares about the tentacle monster outside the window anyway? :P ……I just realised the irony in the fact that I used the Peaky Blinders theme as music for the story flyby on Insta earlier XD

If you know my love for eastereggs and details from my comics, you can already guess that I had something in mind with the folders and the board behind Thomas. Unfortunately my scanner has eaten a bit of the board details.

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[pegging-satan]

Above all just imagine being a citizen of Yokohama. What a wild ride it must be. There’s just random guys with long long coats looking like they just came back from fashion week. This guy has tentacles coming out of his coat and they tear straight through this other guy. This tiny ginger with a hat is just crushing shit. A priest?!???? Ok not that unusual. Some guy’s tearing out pages from his notebook and they’re turning into tools??? A TIGER??????? Why does that little girl have an eldritch being following her. Why are these women wearing Victorian era gowns. Maybe they’re just reenactors. Is that a fucking whale coming out of the sky. CTHULHU?!?

I mean after a certain point you’d just get used to it. “Oh yeah that’s just one of those flamboyant guys from the whatever. Yeah it’s the norm here. Yes every other day. We’ve grown pretty used to it.” [casually ducks as a tiger crashes through the door, window, and concrete and promptly disappears. A “RASHOMON!” is heard from the distance, sounds of crashing] “so anyways, where were we”

The citizens of Yokohama, basically:

[anim-ttrpgs]

"Lovecraft Protagonist," investigator Trait from Eureka: Investigative Urban Fantasy. Every investigator has 3 to 6 Traits!

[punchitmrsulu]

WE'RE GOING SUPERNATURAL BITCHEEEEESSSSSS

THAT INITAL SCENE ALONE MY GOOOOOOOOD

So many Lovecraft and Stephen King vibes I LOOOOOOVE IT!!!!!!

CARCOSA!!!! YELLOW KING!!!! CROOKED SPIRAL!!!! LET'S GOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!

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UPDATED VERSION OF "The Fandom Phoenix Project"

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[hellsite-detective]

i'm looking for a post that was describing Lovecraftian horrors by comparing it to a circuit board, thanks so much detective

a shockingly easy one here. i thought this was gonna be an ancient artifact lost among the sea of posts about Lovecraftian horrors. however, it was anything but. i went over to the Search Bar and asked my pal, Google, for "tumblr lovecraftian horror circuit board" and got the exact post instantly, allowin' me to file it away.

here you go! this post is really well done and one of my favorites. have a great day!

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