| Inquisitor Thaken | 16 Nov 2009 8:08 p.m. PST |
Mine? Yig, Father of Serpents. Three reasons: 1. Snakes are scary. 2. A snake god is very easy to represent on the table top link 3. Minions are equally easy. All you need are smaller snakes. I once did a Cthulhutech battle using the Ogre rules. Standard human troops and tanks vs. various sized Cthulhu horrors that pretty much functioned the same way. Father Yig was a Mark V Ogre with spell casting powers (converted using the GURPS Ogre rules and GURPS Magic). |
Dr Mathias  | 16 Nov 2009 8:15 p.m. PST |
Shub Niggurath. I like the way the Dark Young are described. |
| darthfozzywig | 16 Nov 2009 8:31 p.m. PST |
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| Only Warlock | 16 Nov 2009 8:32 p.m. PST |
Nyarlathotep the Faceless, of course! |
| Coelacanth1938 | 16 Nov 2009 8:38 p.m. PST |
Cthulhu himself, plain and simple and slimy. |
| Space Monkey | 16 Nov 2009 8:49 p.m. PST |
I'm torn between Hastur, mostly cause of its tie in to all the King In Yellow stuff, and Shub Niggurath, cause it's naughty and reminds me a bit of Slaanesh (or vica versa). Though I had a new appreciation of Yig after watching Renegade (Blueberry) recently…
imdb.com/title/tt0276830 It's not necessarily about Yig, but whatever the snake god thing at the end is it certainly seems Yig-ish. |
| The Beast Rampant | 16 Nov 2009 9:21 p.m. PST |
Where's the love for Yog-Sothoth? |
| Captain Apathy | 16 Nov 2009 10:09 p.m. PST |
Hastur the Unspeaka… oops. |
| Andrew Walters | 16 Nov 2009 10:14 p.m. PST |
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| Pictors Studio | 16 Nov 2009 10:26 p.m. PST |
I like the c-word man himself. He just looks cool, all of that evil and those cute little tentacles to boot! |
| Hrothgar Berserk | 16 Nov 2009 10:31 p.m. PST |
The big C. does rule. I also like the fish/frog/humanoid Dagon. |
| Mathion | 17 Nov 2009 12:18 a.m. PST |
-I now felt gnawing at my vitals that dark terror which will never leave me till I, too, am at rest; "accidentally" or otherwise. "The Call of Cthulhu" Cthulhu it is. |
| GarrisonMiniatures | 17 Nov 2009 12:56 a.m. PST |
HM will do for me. Personally I always liked the idea of giant blind albino penguins running around in a panic, so anything protoplasmic to feed on them would do. |
| Martin Rapier | 17 Nov 2009 3:29 a.m. PST |
Shub Niggurath, the Goat with a Thousand Young. Just because he/it has such a fantastic name. |
| NoLongerAMember | 17 Nov 2009 3:39 a.m. PST |
Nyarlyhotep, just because you never know what that wacky ole dude will try next to consume the universe… |
| streetline | 17 Nov 2009 4:07 a.m. PST |
The big C, followed by Nyarly, or "The Royal Pant" as he was in one CoC sourcebook… |
| GarnhamGhast | 17 Nov 2009 4:46 a.m. PST |
Shub Niggurath for me, all hail the earth mother! And the Dark young are fantastic looking.
I always had a fondness for Tsathogua though.
Yog Sothoth is just a big revolving door :) |
 20thmaine  | 17 Nov 2009 5:01 a.m. PST |
Azathoth – "that amorphous blight of nethermost confusion which blasphemes and bubbles at the center of all infinity—the boundless daemon sultan Azathoth, whose name no lips dare speak aloud, and who gnaws hungrily in inconceivable, unlighted chambers beyond time and space amidst the muffled, maddening beating of vile drums and the thin monotonous whine of accursed flutes" You've got to feel sorry for him – I had neighbours like that once, it sucked big time, and if I recall correctly also caused me to mouth foul blaspemies. Azathoth – I feel your pain. |
| Doctor Bedlam | 17 Nov 2009 6:36 a.m. PST |
Cthulhu's there for me, man. Especially the chibi version. |
| Goldwyrm | 17 Nov 2009 6:57 a.m. PST |
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| Beowulf | 17 Nov 2009 7:39 a.m. PST |
The Wendigo deserves some love, too. Ia! Ia! Ithaqua! |
| TERMINATOR | 17 Nov 2009 9:04 a.m. PST |
It's been awhile since I have read the Mythos stories. Not to hijack this but, who were the Elder Gods? Didn't the stories in general have the theme that the Old Ones were imprisoned by the Elder Gods? I remember the Elder sign being a protection from the minions of the Old Ones as well. |
| 20thmaine | 17 Nov 2009 9:32 a.m. PST |
That's less in lovecraft and more in Derleth et al |
| krieghund | 17 Nov 2009 9:36 a.m. PST |
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| Moonbeast | 17 Nov 2009 9:56 a.m. PST |
Chaugnar Faughn…there's just something cool about a vital fluid draining elephant man of doom. Nyogtha for a close second. |
| jpattern2 | 17 Nov 2009 10:39 a.m. PST |
Cthulhu, followed by the Shoggoths (not deities, I know, but "At the Mountains of Madness" is one of my favorite Mythos stories). |
| SECURITY MINISTER CRITTER | 17 Nov 2009 10:41 a.m. PST |
Hannah Montana Isn't that the unspeakable one in disguise? |
| SECURITY MINISTER CRITTER | 17 Nov 2009 10:42 a.m. PST |
Oh wait! That's her daddy.
My bad. |
| SECURITY MINISTER CRITTER | 17 Nov 2009 10:42 a.m. PST |
I'm really fond of the big guy though. |
| smcwatt | 17 Nov 2009 10:44 a.m. PST |
Nyarlathotep gets my vote, all mysterious and such. SMc. |
| super vike | 17 Nov 2009 12:06 p.m. PST |
Wasn't there some sort of crazy blind god? Azazoth? |
| HansTrier | 17 Nov 2009 12:41 p.m. PST |
Nyarlathotep keeps popping up in my CoC campaign in some form or other, so he gets my vote. Ithaqua comes in second, Shub Niggurath third. |
| Plynkes | 17 Nov 2009 12:44 p.m. PST |
Does Hastur actually count as "Lovecraftian" I wonder? Those OED slackers neglected to define it in my copy of their dictionary, so I am unsure as to the precise meaning of the word. |
| Tim063 | 17 Nov 2009 1:16 p.m. PST |
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| Hexxenhammer | 17 Nov 2009 2:14 p.m. PST |
Ia! Ia! Shub Niggurath-the black goat! The goat with a Thousand Young! Mostly because that's who the Mi-Go talk about most in "The Whisperer in Darkness," the scariest story ever written. |
