{"id":64280,"date":"2024-06-01T10:22:08","date_gmt":"2024-06-01T10:22:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/?p=64280"},"modified":"2024-06-01T18:28:01","modified_gmt":"2024-06-01T18:28:01","slug":"cohors-cthulhu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2024\/06\/01\/cohors-cthulhu\/","title":{"rendered":"Cohors Cthulhu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A table-top RPG that &#8216;Lovecraft the Roman&#8217; might have enjoyed, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/modiphius\/cohors-cthulhu-tabletop-roleplaying-game\"><em>Cohors Cthulhu<\/em>: Tabletop Roleplaying Game<\/a>. &#8220;A 2d20 RPG adventure of mighty Roman warriors and their barbarian rivals fighting the forces of the Mythos&#8221;. Funded with a cool \u00a3221,000 and shipped in late 2023, and now with a new <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/modiphius\/cohors-cthulhu-tabletop-roleplaying-game\/posts\/4111898\">follow-on expansion-set Kickstarter<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Although be warned that it seems to be as much about pagan forests as Roman army life&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Far from the Eternal City, deep in the forests of a hostile frontier, unravel the mystery of a village overcome by nightmares its people are forced to re-enact on the waking world. Without the support of a Roman column, cast into a strange land, will you survive with your sanity intact? <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Far from nicely tiled Roman hot-baths and libraries, I&#8217;d suspect. Though that is also what Lovecraft himself hazily envisaged, and I&#8217;m fairly sure he would have tried his hand &mdash; had he lived &mdash; at an &#8216;Ancient Romans on the African frontier&#8217; tale. Though in this game it appears that the pagan northern forests are the setting. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/2024-06-01_111752.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/2024-06-01_111752.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"492\" height=\"633\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-64281\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A table-top RPG that &#8216;Lovecraft the Roman&#8217; might have enjoyed, Cohors Cthulhu: Tabletop Roleplaying Game. &#8220;A 2d20 RPG adventure of &hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2024\/06\/01\/cohors-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-64280","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\/64280","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=64280"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64280\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64287,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64280\/revisions\/64287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}