ED-E, My Love

Normally, when Valara Atran makes an appearance here it's for her mythos or Elder Scrolls props.  This time it's for her awesome recreation of the experimental Duraframe Eyebot ED-E from my favorite video game, Fallout: New Vegas.  She brought her little friend along to Goodsprings, Nevada this past weekend for the annual Fallout fan weekend.  Along with the thousands of other attendees she bumped into Craig Boone, late of the New California Republic's First Recon division.  Click through to see her extensive gallery.

 

 

Cthulhu Fhtagn! Kissoon Edition.

I've been doing this for close to twenty years now.  In that time I've posted about hundreds of Cthulhu idols, featuring everything from viking themed statuettes to primitive idols carved from wood.  Today I'm immensely pleased to bring you something I've never seen before.

This Cthulhu idol from Kissoon is not only a wonderfully stylized sculpt, but the first bifacial statuette I've seen.  The rear of the statue is a mirror image of the front.  It looks hella cool in rotation, which you can see by clicking through on the link. 

 

Classic Era Camping

If you've ever wondered what kind of gear a classic era expedition or campsite would have, this video is for you.  Mr. Dyer of Honorable Outfitters brings us this look at a recreation of a 1920s hunting camp.  It features multiple re-enactors using everything from very basic backpacking kits to full blown tent setups with all the bells and whistles.  I'm always surprised at just how sophisticated some vintage equipment was.

 

Cthulhu in Gold

Maarten Verhoeven has been producing some incredibly Mythos pieces over the last few years.  What makes his work unusual is that all of his work is digitally sculpted and then 3D printed.  His latest physical offering is this excellent Cthulhu idol in faux gold.  As much as I like the sculpt I'd love to see it with inset gems for eyes.

 

 

Tome of Strahd

It's been interesting to watch the "Curse of Strahd" campaign for Dungeons and Dragons become the equivalent of Chaosium's "Masks of Nyarlathotep".  Both are lengthy, multi-part adventures driven in large part by a plethora of documents and handouts, and gamemasters have embraced expanding the sheer number of props for players to interact with.

This recreation of the "Tome of Strahd" from AdSuccessful1184 is a good example.  They used an off-the-shelf leather journal from Amazon as the base, then customized it with both printed and pasted in pages.  The results are pretty impressive.  Click through on the link above to see an entire gallery of the tome with a lot more of the interior pages. 

 

 

Idol of Ra

The latest pagan idol from Slagovir is this carved wooden depiction of Ra, the ancient Egyptian god of the sun.  I really like how he incorporates the traditional ship of the sun into the design. 

 

Give My Regards to Broadway

Pomchop returns to our pages with another collection of excellent handouts.  This time it's for "Great Old Ones on the Great White Way" from Chaosium: 

I’ve just run ‘Great Old Ones on the Great White Way’ as a one-shot for some theatrical/roleplaying friends. Here are the handouts I made for the game. Unfortunately the investigators didn’t find them all, but they go to the bottom of the mystery with one indefinite insanity and no deaths.

For those of you who don’t know the scenario, it was originally printed in the Chaosium halloween monograph ‘Dead Leaves Fall’ and features a missing actress and a fishy broadway show. I feel to get the most out of the scenario the players should have a knowledge of musical theatre which, thankfully, my group did. It went down well and took 4 1/2 hours to run (with breaks).

He's very kindly made all of them available for free.  You'll find a PDF with most of them over here, while the playbill for the show is over here.