I think that Peterson Games did a great sculpt of all the Old Ones, Elder Ones, etc. But I really don't dig the design of the cthulhu figure. I find his design on the more basic Cthulhu look. You know giant Octopus Head with a humanoid body along with giant dragon wings. Pretty basic. But I do admit that the wings are pretty cool. I love how it doesn't look like you typical boring wings and over all just looks reallt dope. I find that Petersons second Cthulhu Mythos board game, Cthulhu: Death May Die, have a much better Cthulhu model. It was great to me because of how realistic it look. Cthulhu Wars made Cthulhu this big muscular monster, but Death May Die made him look a bit fat which is what I am expecting from elder one whi slept at the bottom of the ocean for like 10,000 years. And I am pretty such doinf jogs and sit ups are in his daily routine. Great video guys. Keep the good work.
I wonder the situation when authors stuff becomes popular after their death, would lovecraft approve of the look of these monsters, do they actually represent what he had in his head when he described them.
I'm pretty sure he wouldn't approve of his views of cosmic dread and his own attempts to process the fact that mankind might, in fact, be cosmically insignificant and totally blind to a larger reality being turned into a board game or any number of other harmless entertainment. I'm not saying any of this is bad, I like Cthulhu Wars (and a lot of other Cthulhu-derived stuff), it's just that something like this is so far removed from Lovecraft's intentions and reasons for writing what he wrote. It's just completely antithetical to the original intention, but at the same time his works are evocative and inspire people who might not have the exact same views as him, so it's only natural people use his materials in ways that suit them. Still, the questions and issues that made him feverishly write were serious and driving, to him. It being reduced to what's basically a "scary monsters attack! Cool minis!" would likely not have, shall we say, jived well with him. Kinda like with Conan (which is a good example of this), which was RE Howard's way of conveying and processing his disappointments and disillusionment with modern civilization. He was very frustrated with it and saw it as a filthy, decadent thing, a mistake and a perversion of man's natural state as a free, unfettered creature. Civilization, to him, was abhorrent and twisted good men into dishonesty. And so he wrote of how things should have been, of barbarians and strong men refusing to be weighted down by those unnatural fetters, acting with honesty and strength. He genuinely believed in the pureness of what he wrote, and that it was the proper thing. Imagine all that dissatisfaction and angriness, that frustration and yearning for something more genuine. And now imagine that in the years to come, most people would look at it and their takeaway would be "Big muscly man beats up stuff, cool!" and produce works that completely disregarded his original intentions, neutered the character and basically made his work into a cheap spectacle. Nothing of that would be *wrong* to do, from a general standpoint, but doing something like it is so far from the author's original intention, and so far from his mindset, as well as the mindset of the time of the original works, that it'd be totally incompatible with them. (Sorry, this was a bit of a rant. Point being, Lovecraft probably wouldn't approve turning his delvings into unknown and unknowable dread into plastic sculptures intended for play and enjoyment.)
Goblin Rat And they wrote each other a lot of times... I'm now forgivin the third writer they wrote at their times... ah yep he was Sherlock Holmes writer.(sorry I'm not interested in yellow books....) ...next game will be probably Cimmerians vs. Chtuloids vs Robert Downey J. ....
Best Cthulhu Wars unboxing video so far! Thanks for sharing!
Thank you! We aim to please!
I love Nyarlathotep and all, but jeez the Cthulhu figure looks beautiful.
I think that Peterson Games did a great sculpt of all the Old Ones, Elder Ones, etc. But I really don't dig the design of the cthulhu figure. I find his design on the more basic Cthulhu look. You know giant Octopus Head with a humanoid body along with giant dragon wings. Pretty basic. But I do admit that the wings are pretty cool. I love how it doesn't look like you typical boring wings and over all just looks reallt dope. I find that Petersons second Cthulhu Mythos board game, Cthulhu: Death May Die, have a much better Cthulhu model. It was great to me because of how realistic it look. Cthulhu Wars made Cthulhu this big muscular monster, but Death May Die made him look a bit fat which is what I am expecting from elder one whi slept at the bottom of the ocean for like 10,000 years. And I am pretty such doinf jogs and sit ups are in his daily routine.
Great video guys. Keep the good work.
MY FAVORITE IS CTHULHU!!!!!
I like turtles. I mean tentacles.
I wonder the situation when authors stuff becomes popular after their death, would lovecraft approve of the look of these monsters, do they actually represent what he had in his head when he described them.
I'm pretty sure he wouldn't approve of his views of cosmic dread and his own attempts to process the fact that mankind might, in fact, be cosmically insignificant and totally blind to a larger reality being turned into a board game or any number of other harmless entertainment.
I'm not saying any of this is bad, I like Cthulhu Wars (and a lot of other Cthulhu-derived stuff), it's just that something like this is so far removed from Lovecraft's intentions and reasons for writing what he wrote. It's just completely antithetical to the original intention, but at the same time his works are evocative and inspire people who might not have the exact same views as him, so it's only natural people use his materials in ways that suit them. Still, the questions and issues that made him feverishly write were serious and driving, to him. It being reduced to what's basically a "scary monsters attack! Cool minis!" would likely not have, shall we say, jived well with him.
Kinda like with Conan (which is a good example of this), which was RE Howard's way of conveying and processing his disappointments and disillusionment with modern civilization. He was very frustrated with it and saw it as a filthy, decadent thing, a mistake and a perversion of man's natural state as a free, unfettered creature. Civilization, to him, was abhorrent and twisted good men into dishonesty. And so he wrote of how things should have been, of barbarians and strong men refusing to be weighted down by those unnatural fetters, acting with honesty and strength. He genuinely believed in the pureness of what he wrote, and that it was the proper thing.
Imagine all that dissatisfaction and angriness, that frustration and yearning for something more genuine. And now imagine that in the years to come, most people would look at it and their takeaway would be "Big muscly man beats up stuff, cool!" and produce works that completely disregarded his original intentions, neutered the character and basically made his work into a cheap spectacle.
Nothing of that would be *wrong* to do, from a general standpoint, but doing something like it is so far from the author's original intention, and so far from his mindset, as well as the mindset of the time of the original works, that it'd be totally incompatible with them.
(Sorry, this was a bit of a rant. Point being, Lovecraft probably wouldn't approve turning his delvings into unknown and unknowable dread into plastic sculptures intended for play and enjoyment.)
Goblin Rat And they wrote each other a lot of times... I'm now forgivin the third writer they wrote at their times... ah yep he was Sherlock Holmes writer.(sorry I'm not interested in yellow books....) ...next game will be probably Cimmerians vs. Chtuloids vs Robert Downey J. ....
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I would want this just to paint the minis. The game play is too convoluted for me.
DadsGaming I don't like Cthulhu's pose.
DadsGaming It's not worth 200 bucks.
Metallica..
this times 10
What did you think The Thing That Should Not Be was about?