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General Category => Role Playing Public Radio Podcast => : PirateLawyer October 21, 2013, 04:13:29 PM
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At the end of the actual play there's a brief discussion - which is cut off, sadly - that touches the deathless masters, which are active Cthulhu cultists in the mountains of China. I do remember some mention of those in Lovecraft's story, The Call of Cthulhu. I would speculate that the unnamed villain not seen in the actual play is one of them, or one of their minions.
So I went to check my HPL and I went to my trusty Cthulhu Mythos Encyclopedia. And I really didn't glean any more data on this Cthulhu cult.
Can anyone point to more information about these shadowy figures?
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I'm betting that Scott is going to save a lot of those details until the book comes out. Good odds that "Iron Devil" is going to be in Mysteries of Manchuria.
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You could ask the question on the main AP site and I could bug him about it on FB to answer it.
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Suggestion taken!
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On a side note- listening to more of ASG's historical horror games has gotten me very interested in WWI & WWII. I would love to find some books that have great info on the wars, and the stuff surrounding them(like the real-life events heard in "The Iron Devil").
Would love to get some of the books that Glancy has been reading -or some book suggestions from anybody else- for excellent books on the World Wars.
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With WWII books in particular, you have the problem with the general vs the specific. There are plenty of good general histories of the war--John Keegan's is more than adequate--but by their very nature don't have the sort of visceral, specific details that make for good gaming inspiration.
Two that come immediately to mind are A Bridge Too Far, the classic book on Operation Market-Garden; and Iron Coffins, a memoir of one the very, VERY few German submarine captains to survive the war. Enemy at the Gates: The Battle for Stalingrad is very readable, though it may suffer a bit in the fact-checking department. (If I recall correctly, it recounts the historically-unconfirmed sniper duel between Zaitsev and Konig--the basis for the movie--as fact. There may be other "grandpa's war stories" inaccuracies as well.)
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Thanks for the suggestions, Henry. In this case, General and Specific are both fine, because I will probably be buying several books.
After listening to Iron Devil, I was surprised at just how little I knew about WWI. I wouldn't mind learning some more.
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Eyes Deep in Hell is a good primer on trench warfare and the like in WW1