Game News Arkham Horror: Mother's Embrace is an upcoming Lovecraftian investigation RPG with turn-based combat

[Fuck_The_Banks]

I'm a big fan of Arkham Horror the card game, I know this won't win any rpg awards but I hope it's at least decent.
Sadly, it seems games developed by Asmodee Digital are pretty mediocre.

You haven't played Gloomhaven, have you? That is shaping up very nicely.

 

[Arthandas]

You haven't played Gloomhaven, have you? That is shaping up very nicely.

Gloomhaven is not being developed by Asmodee Digital.

 

[TheImplodingVoice]

The trailer lacks that specific menacing vibe.

All these games claim to be Lovecraftian, but none of them evoke dread. Instead you have this stupid meta of soft comic book look which makes everything seem more light hearted than it is. I havent played a game with a Lovecraftian vibe since Clive Barkers Undying and Dark Corners of the Earth.

"Lovecraftian" is just a buzzword indie devs love to use because people like this:

lap that shit up.

And those

and the devs most likely never read a Lovecraft story in their lives. It's just "cool" to be into Lovecraft.

 

[Arthandas]

And those

and the devs most likely never read a Lovecraft story in their lives. It's just "cool" to be into Lovecraft.

Not as "cool" as thinking you're the only special snowflake who reads and understands him.

They're reimagining the board/card games first and making "a Lovecraft" game second. Do your homework.
Whether the game'll be any good is a completely different matter though.

 

[Infinitron]

Yeah, if you want to get mad, get mad at the people who made a Lovecraft board game in the 1980s: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arkham_Horror

Show me a board game that "evokes dread". Lovecraft kitsch has been with us for a long time.

 

[Reader]

Show me a board game that "evokes dread"

I guess you just weren't lucky with one of these
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Imagination

 

[Roguey]

Yeah, if you want to get mad, get mad at the people who made a Lovecraft board game in the 1980s: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arkham_Horror

Show me a board game that "evokes dread". Lovecraft kitsch has been with us for a long time.

I'm mad at the decline in aesthetics.
1987:

2005, still fine:

Then 2018, the decline into cartoony nonsense:

 

[Communist]

And those

and the devs most likely never read a Lovecraft story in their lives. It's just "cool" to be into Lovecraft.

Lovecraft is much more significant than the so-called "Lovecraftian horror". He spawned or popularized many phenomena that resonate with modern people. The point is not so much that Lovecraft's grandfather was a Freemason and knew about some terrifying secrets, but that Lovecraft in his life and work followed the covenant of the Puritans. He lived and worked in such a way that his life and work would inspire other people. He managed to create a huge circle of associates. We know that Lovecraft was a socialist, but in fact he was a real American communist (i.e. Puritan) and his creative life was communist because he created a real intellectual collective farm.
Do not forget that it was the experience of the Puritans that influenced the formation of the communist ideology of Karl Marx.
What is the most fashionable literary phenomenon today comes from Lovecraft? These are creepypastas, and fanfiction of famous creepypastas. The call of cthulhu gives hints of real events and places, but it does it coquettishly so that the interested reader would discover them himself, so that the reader would become a researcher of this whole mysterious story, in fact, the reader acts as an active protagonist of this work. This is not just the progenitor of creepypasta, it is one of the smartest and most perfect creepypastas in history, it is much cooler than Edgar Poe.
Of course, I could limit myself to the answer that Lovecraft encouraged his correspondents and fans to use themes from his works as they pleased. However, it was important for me to show that he affirmed this in his story, and since in The Call of Cthulhu the reader is an active character, I can refute the statement of Joshi, who quoted Lovecraft's letter to Farnsworth Wright that, they say, “other writers can use my deities ONLY to create the atmosphere, but not to put them into context. "
Lovecraft's plots and themes are absolutely open source and writer friendly. So we got a bunch of writers who use Lovecraft to vilify him and his ideas. This is not a paradox, Lovecraft himself gave them permission for complete freedom of action, you just need to observe decency and respect Lovecraft's real ideology (in which there was no real racism, or rather, hatred of Negroes).

If anyone wants to create a comedy, it will be Lovecraftian. If someone wants to create a metaphysical horror movie, they will be Lovecraftian. If Lovecraft's work was limited to any one topic, then he would not have received such an influence.
The same goes for the creative principle of Edgar Poe, the French decadents, the Marquis de Sade, etc.

 

[Ontopoly]

Tentacles Tentacles Tentacles Cthulu Cthulu Cthulu. There is more to lovecraft than just Cthulu and tentacles. I wish they would branch out a bit. It seems like every lovecratian-esque product feels they need to throw those in there. And the ones that don't, don't seem to be as popular.

 

[HeatEXTEND]

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[Morality Games]

Arkham Horror: Mother's Embrace is an upcoming Lovecraftian investigation RPG with turn-based combat
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All I wanted.

 

[Trans-Financial-Man]

Y'know what, this pitch kinda reminds me of a game idea I had. Basically an RPG version of Cluedo (Clue for the yanks) You'd pick from a bunch of characters and have to figure out a randomly generated murder in a mansion. It'd be a short game but highly replayable. It'd play like Disco Elysium but less up it's own arse. You'd use your RPG skills to gather clues and interrogate witnesses. Finding secrets along the way. It'd be like 3 hours at most but as I said, highly replayable.

Anyway, this game looks good.

 

[Arthandas]

Interesting fact:
https://twitter.com/BeholderPie/status/1359316752069517313

 

[polo]

Lovecraft obviously was a depraved man, the kind who watches hentai. I mean, tentacles everywhere, its obvious.

 

[Parsimonious cook]

Tentacles merely symbolise the threat of race mixing, just like the Deep Ones. HPL was one of the most based white supremacists to ever live, no wonder the Japs love him.

 

[Communist]

Lovecraft obviously was a depraved man, the kind who watches hentai. I mean, tentacles everywhere, its obvious.

The tentacles were an ironic, semi-sexual element. Damn it, Lovecraft was in a magazine that featured half-naked women on the cover. This entire industry worked for horny teenagers and used sexual fetishes. What is Cthulhu? This is either a frenzied vagina, or a giant multi-dick that either wants to rape your cock, or wants to rape your ass.

Tentacles merely symbolise the threat of race mixing, just like the Deep Ones. HPL was one of the most based white supremacists to ever live, no wonder the Japs love him.

I still don't understand what the Deep Ones are. It seems that they were just guarding their secrets from outsiders and were not going to kill the main character, but wanted to make him their king. The same kingdom of decline in Innsmouth was created by white Americans, the kingdom of the Deep Ones presented as a source of unknown treasures and wonders.
As I understand it, in many of Lovecraft's stories, horror is a subjective perception of the protagonist. Those ghouls turn out to be very friendly characters. And in the stories of Lovecraft's correspondents, we see humanized versions of his monsters, Yog-Sothoth and the Deep Ones turn out to be people of another, unknown oriental culture.
Of course, one could say that Lovecraft could respect other people, but not blacks. But heck, Lovecraft really only respected cultured people. He was on good terms with a Negro intellectual who was married to a white woman. This is too much, even it makes me sick, but Lovecraft did not care. Lovecraft, in his correspondence, insisted on an impersonal trial of those black guys who allegedly raped some young white hoes.
Lovecraft was too liberal. I do not like it. I don't like it when a woman with white skin is fucked by a black man (by these women I mean two races with white skin - Caucasians (from Europeans to Hindus) and Asian. Dear blacks, do not fuck these women. Otherwise I will give you a rope.
To prevent blacks from thinking that I am a cultural chauvinist, I will also say that I like it when white men fuck black women. It is just as frustrating for black men because skin color matters. All these Anglo-Saxon and Arab slave owners were abhorrent rapists who raped the bodies of their concubines, and modern black meat lovers try to rape the pride of black men. These white bastards, I also want to give a rope.
In general, we underestimate the role of women. No one stands behind men. The men are behind the women. Respect for a man occurs through respect for his woman.
Oh, okay. Did you say something about Lovecraft?

 

[KeighnMcDeath]

Show me a board game that "evokes dread".

Spoiler

Tentacles Tentacles Tentacles Cthulu Cthulu Cthulu. There is more to lovecraft than just Cthulu and tentacles. I wish they would branch out a bit. It seems like every lovecratian-esque product feels they need to throw those in there. And the ones that don't, don't seem to be as popular.

Spoiler

Lovecraft obviously was a depraved man, the kind who watches hentai. I mean, tentacles everywhere, its obvious.

Indeed!

Spoiler

Yep... pervy Tentacles..

I'll wait on this. Wasn't there a "Lovecraftian" Blobber or two I'm forgetting?

 

[Bigg Boss]

Throw the word LOVECRAFTIAN at something, add tentacles and a sanity mechanic, and don't forget the top hats.

 

[Communist]

Litany of Father Dagon and Mother Hydra:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WlgzamrHD18

 

[KeighnMcDeath]

I so need a top hat... and a old suit....and a monocle... and a pocket watch w/chain.. hmmmm and a necronomicon for that matter.

 

[KeighnMcDeath]

Why does this NOT surprise me?

 

[Bigg Boss]

I mean the PnP rule set is objectively better than DnD.

Don't squint at me. I liked it better.

 

[Gay-Lussac]

Gotta love the outrage of "AEERAHFBDAHJ IS THIS WHAT LOVECRAFT LOOKS LIKE IN CURRENT YEAR!:!?!?!" when the board game has been out for over two decades. I will say that the color pallete on this game is way too saturated and the graphics overall are just too cartoony for the setting. The board games actually have some great art.

 

[Latro]

Nu-lovecraft: comic book, mobsters, inexplicable amounts of black Ivy League professors in the 20s


Book lovecraft: pathologic, silent hill, call of Cthulhu dark corners; heavy, dreadful atmosphere full of untrustworthy characters

 

[Latro]

What most don’t get about lovecraft is that his stories are more about the atmosphere and the horrors of cults and alien cultures (literally, at times); not to mention, the essentially nihilistic dread of the cosmos. To normies Lovecraft is 1920s mobsters shooting tentacles with a tommy-gun.