Tag: Carcosa

[Review] The Islands of Purple-haunted Putrescence (OSR); Pop-culture cluster-warhead

November 21, 2018

[Hexcrawl] The Islands of Purple-Haunted Putrescence (2014) Venger Satanis (Kort’Thalis Publishing) Levels ??? (est. 4 – 7) Summary: Carcosa + Star Trek TOS + Barbarella + Rifts + 60s Doctor Who + Heavy Metal “We are not the master of our fractured selves, but the servant.” – Temard the Guru, page 57, hex 29. This … More [Review] The Islands of Purple-haunted Putrescence (OSR); Pop-culture cluster-warhead

[Actual Play] Lost on Carcosa Pt. XIX: The Vengeance of Sorcerers

December 11, 2016

Better to fall to a rusted blade, Ande Suffer a Leper’s Caress, To be graced by the Serpent’s Kiss, T’is then to provoke the Sorcerer’s Ire. -Carcosan saying Our heroes, still drunk on victory, entered the Citadel the next day, to reap from it great rewards while the purple men celebrated victory over forces unfathomable … More [Actual Play] Lost on Carcosa Pt. XIX: The Vengeance of Sorcerers

[Actual Play] Lost on Carcosa Pt. XVIII: THIS. IS. CARCOSA.

September 20, 2016

Along the shore where night-black spires break The Thundering clouds and reflect distorted upon a depthless lake What once was buried stirs and hungers, In Carcosa Where alien gods dwelling beyonde earth and skies, speak through mouths of sacrifice, To withered lords and willing slaves in, Lost Carcosa Where streets are wreathed in opium mist … More [Actual Play] Lost on Carcosa Pt. XVIII: THIS. IS. CARCOSA.

[Actual Play] Lost on Carcosa Pt. XVII: The Ice takes its due

August 31, 2016

A win-try storm does e-ver blow u-pon the heights, of frost-ed-stone and an-cient cairns and dark-est nights, That is the do-main of hi-de-ous I-tha-qua, ab-om-i-na-ble, an-cient, hun-gry I-tha-qua, And while an-cient tombs hold ri-ches for he-roes new,  T’is a fool that for-gets that the Ice takes its due. – The Alexandrine of Winter’s due (Author … More [Actual Play] Lost on Carcosa Pt. XVII: The Ice takes its due

[Actual Play] Lost on Carcosa Pt. XV; The Nine Banes of Uyu-Jadhmogh

June 21, 2016

(I instituted a new houserule. Upon death you keep half your xp. Pretty gay but jesus the deaths were getting out of hand). As our heroes grappled with the urn there came on the Guardian, a wailing thing of molten obsidean, devouring all that came in its wake. Seeking to slay it by destroying the … More [Actual Play] Lost on Carcosa Pt. XV; The Nine Banes of Uyu-Jadhmogh

[Actual Play] Lost on Carcosa XIII+XIV; Scylla and Charybdis

May 18, 2016

Status update:  Translating Creature del Terrore. Italian is tricky but I have google translate and managed to find an italian SRD to use as a sort of rosetta stone for the stat blocks, feats etc. etc.. Possible Nephandum in the future if I can get a handle on the precise aesthetic and find players ( … More [Actual Play] Lost on Carcosa XIII+XIV; Scylla and Charybdis

[Actual Play] Lost on Carcosa Pt. XII: Of Rivers, Gambits, Armies, Pillars.

April 27, 2016

(Kingsday so hungover. Small glass fragment from filthy bar-floor turned impromptu mosh pit embedded in left hand. Overall a satisfactory experience. Prince loves you all.) In the maze-like canyons of the Great River they waited, our heroes and their white wards. Nursing wounds old and new and grudges even older. It was with smiles that … More [Actual Play] Lost on Carcosa Pt. XII: Of Rivers, Gambits, Armies, Pillars.

[Actual Play] Lost on Carcosa Pt. XI: Dreams of Empire & Voices Beyond

April 11, 2016

(Still have 1.5 sessions to report after this fuck me I am getting lazy) I dream, Of roads lined with pikes, The rotting heads of chieftains upon them, Girdling all Carcosa I dream, of great fires set alight, in the polychromatic flesh, of subjugated men. I dream, of castles razed and the dust of cities, clinging … More [Actual Play] Lost on Carcosa Pt. XI: Dreams of Empire & Voices Beyond