Reply To: Tiny Cthulhu – A Tiny D6 RPG

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Four days left in the Tiny Cthulhu, a TinyD6 engine RPG, Kickstarter.

We’re currently just over $700 away from The Illumination of Alderbaran stretch goal.  This is…well Alan speaks better of his work than I can:

The Illumination Nears!

As this campaign winds down, the final-ish stretch goal is The Illumination of Alderbaran. I’d like to talk about that a bit!

The Illumination is inspired by my love of Chamber’s The King in Yellow. Lovecraft is a primary influence on this game, but on a personal level, my sessions, experiences and games tend to be drawn from the surreal, dream-like horror that Chamber’s work provided. I prefer the subtly unsettling nature of his work!

The Illumination is the home campaign I ran during playtesting, converted to a publishable campaign format for Tiny Cthulhu. It’s less of a series of connected encounters (like a dungeon or similar) and more a series of encounters, events and props that can be remixed and reseeded anyway the enterprising GM would prefer.

We’ll present them in the fashion I run it in, but aside from a few key capstone scenes and elements, the campaign is designed to be a bit…wibbly-wobbly.

It’s primarily investigative, low on combat, and features elements of time-travel, art, dreams, and surreal and esoteric landscapes that all combine into a wonderful cacophony of deranged…well…

I might have said too much…

 

Sounds like a fun/maddening adventure.  Especially so since I still have my beautiful, deluxe, annotated copy of The King in Yellow that I need to dig into for added inspiration.

For those stuck at home in these uncertain times, possibly with the whole family, and maybe tight on funds, I wanted to remind you that the makers of Tiny Cthulhu, Gallant Knight Games, has put another of their TinyD6 engine games, Tiny Supers, as a Pay-What-You-Want item on DriveThru RPG for a limited time.  (see prior post for DriveThru link)

Related to both amazing generosity and to TinyD6, Elizabeth Chaipraditkul of Angry Hamster Publishing has similarly put one of her games, Familiars of Terra, on DriveThru as Pay-What-You-Want to help folks with a little stress relief for those on tight budgets right now.  https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/251031/Familiars-of-Terra

Elizabeth is just one of the many talented game designers and authors lending their voices to Tiny Cthulhu in the form of micro-setting stretch goals.  I love her work and can’t wait to see what she brings to Tiny Cthulhu.

So if you haven’t yet, come check out the Tiny Cthulhu campaign.