http://gamepoems.gizmet.com/2010/03/game-poem-7-the-sign-of-the-great-old-elder-god-from-beyond/ Short, evocative role playing games. For afficionados of the unusual. Wed, 05 Jan 2011 03:31:55 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.1.1 http://gamepoems.gizmet.com/2010/03/game-poem-7-the-sign-of-the-great-old-elder-god-from-beyond/comment-page-1/#comment-73 Tue, 16 Nov 2010 18:05:21 +0000 http://gamepoems.gizmet.com/?p=21#comment-73 @Paul: I reckon you could do that, depending on how horrible the Great Old Elder God From Beyond is, and how confident you are that you won’t mess up or need more tokens to make additional guesses. It’s not necessarily an intentional part of the design, but it seems fine, if you want to risk it…

]]> http://gamepoems.gizmet.com/2010/03/game-poem-7-the-sign-of-the-great-old-elder-god-from-beyond/comment-page-1/#comment-72 Tue, 16 Nov 2010 04:08:30 +0000 http://gamepoems.gizmet.com/?p=21#comment-72 So if the avatar is running low on tokens, isn’t it to the summoner’s advantage to ask illegal questions in order to give tokens back to them and thus delay the game? Is this intentional?

]]> http://gamepoems.gizmet.com/2010/03/game-poem-7-the-sign-of-the-great-old-elder-god-from-beyond/comment-page-1/#comment-69 Tue, 09 Nov 2010 07:20:24 +0000 http://gamepoems.gizmet.com/?p=21#comment-69 […] 1. Playing 20 Questions with Cthulhu, attempting to discover how you may summon him and re-establish the dominion of the Great Old Ones over earth — that is, do some physical action, such as crossing your eyes, that the Cthulhu player chose at start of play — with the extra rule that each time you learn something about the ritual, a word, chosen by Cthulhu, is erased from your mind and may not be used by you again (or can be replaced by gibberish). [The Sign of the Great Old Elder God From Beyond] […]

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