{"id":44686,"date":"2021-01-31T05:19:41","date_gmt":"2021-01-31T02:19:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tentaclii.wordpress.com\/?p=44686"},"modified":"2021-01-31T05:19:41","modified_gmt":"2021-01-31T02:19:41","slug":"stealing-cthulhu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2021\/01\/31\/stealing-cthulhu\/","title":{"rendered":"Stealing Cthulhu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This week <a href=\"https:\/\/mdcls.blogspot.com\/2021\/01\/review-stealing-cthulhu.html\">Miskatonic Debating Club<\/a> published a new review of <em>Stealing Cthulhu<\/em>, from a tabletop gaming perspective&#8230; <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>If you\u2019re interested in HPL\u2019s writing technique, there\u2019s a lot here to inform about his process. If you\u2019re trying to write a computer game featuring the Mythos, then this is a solidly number-crunchy architectural overview for that project. And if you\u2019re running or writing a roleplaying scenario, it\u2019s a good foundation to work from, although \u2013 in terms of writing one &#8211; it\u2019s incredibly simplified and you\u2019ll need to finesse your stories in order to make them convincing. That being said, there\u2019s a lot of good material here about improvisational technique, narrative engineering, refereeing tips, and the addition of colour which can be applied to any campaign, new or ongoing.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Back in 2011 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2011\/09\/25\/stealing-cthulhu-review\/\">I reviewed it here<\/a>, but from a &#8216;tool for story-writing&#8217; perspective.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a link to the original for the book&#8217;s cover, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.deviantart.com\/korintic\/art\/Silent-night-275737392\">&#8220;Silent night&#8221; by Korintic<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/cover-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/cover-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"335\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-44688\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Not to be confused with <em>Dissecting Cthulhu<\/em> by S.T. Joshi, which has the subtitle &#8216;Essays on the Cthulhu Mythos&#8217;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week Miskatonic Debating Club published a new review of Stealing Cthulhu, from a tabletop gaming perspective&#8230; If you\u2019re interested &hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2021\/01\/31\/stealing-cthulhu\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lovecraftian-arts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44686","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44686"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44686\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}