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[Phantamos Mang]

Me and a buddy of mine have been trying to come up with a way to incorporate the cthulhu dice in dragon dice. Last time we played, we went for you have to cast 20 magic twice in a row. Then when rolling cthulhu it acts like a dragon.

cthulhu face = 40 points of damage
tentacle = 25 points of damage
eldar sign = armies at battlefield get to revive 1 dead unit
yellow sign = cthulhu only takes 20 points to kill

Anyone got some suggestions?

[Drachenwurfel]

what are cthulu dice?
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[Phantamos Mang]

It's just one dice. I picked it up a while back at a comic book store. Here is a link


http://www.sjgames.com/dice/cthulhudice/

the dice looks like it fits into dragon dice

[DEEPBLUEB2]

I've see these...and they are only $5
they have glow in the dark....ink or plastic...
some look like the undead.

[Drachenwurfel]

some years ago, i paintet a undead common with green glow in the dark collor, looked verry funny
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[digitalsith]

OMG I’ve got this in my closet! Our FLGS sold these out once and never ordered them again. Its just a fun simple game. All you need it the die and some glass beads and you’ve got a pretty fun time.


I am going to try that out just for fun.
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[dproman]

Don't forget that after an army performs it's combination roll in a Cthulu/Dragon attack, all surviving units go insane. Game over.
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[Phantamos Mang]

yeah we were trying to come up with some rule for loose sanity action, like the armies turn on themselves, or they all become part of cthulhu's army of cultists.

[DialFforFunky]

I've got a cthulhu die myself, and if I had a group to play with I'd try it some day. I'd make the cthulhu a bit more subtle. Instead of having it deal massive amounts of damage, have it gain control of some amount of health each time it attacks (say, 2 or 3 health per tentacle result or 1 die if none below 3 or 4 health remain, for example). These dice then join the cthulhu, are rolled at each attack (in which saves produce more 'autosaves', melee/ranged deals damage, and all SAI's convert more dice). 12 magic, 10 health, 10 autosaves...


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[digitalsith]

We here have been rolling around the idea that something in game (not sure what yet) draws Cthulhu to a terrain. On each players turn they roll the Cthulhu die.

Yellow = 1 Health worth of units roll a sanity check!
Tentacle = 3 Health worth of units roll a sanity check!
Elder = Promote 5 health worth of units.
Eye = Choose one of the other results!
Cthulhu = All units in both players army roll a sanity check!
(Sanity check = Unit roll a save or dies! Dead unit to the DUA...)

Anyway were having fun with your idea, thanks.
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[Zero_Dynasty]

Like to put this is Quest a whole party of adventurers could fight one together
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[DEEPBLUEB2]

http://www.sjgames.com/dice/zombiedice/

look under All Components :

You'll see that the maneuvers look like LE maneuvers.

Some Chaos looking stuff as well...

perhaps these dice could integrate with the "Cthulhu" DD variation.

[cliffwiggs]

a footprint is a footprint.

even if it was out right theft, its almost David vs Goliath.


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[Denimwizard]

I think this is an interesting idea. They're both steve Jackson games too, I tend to enjoy Munchkin and such. I am sure its a fun game.

Yeah perhaps have an army trying to summon or raise cthulu. Hell make a campaign ! Set scenarios for both players to bring armies in. One army trying to stop the other army from summoning Cth.

[Skawilly]

The madness would be easy. After the combination roll, like the wing on a drake, the army runs to reserves.
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[James Dart]

[digitalsith]

It's weird this thread should surface a year later, and I just played Cthulhu dice last night for the first time in a long time....
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[James Dart]

It's the Cthulhuian way, you know this. Did you keep your sanity?
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[BigSoph]

[mindspike]

I'm hard pressed to think of a story in which Cthulhu takes the battlefield, but I do love the idea of summoning up a monster like that. I don't really like the idea of actually fighting Cthulhu, it doesn't seem to fit with the mythos.

Some strong mythos themes are madness and transformation. I like the idea posted above of causing an army to turn on itself, as well as causing units to flee and resurrect. Perhaps this:

Chthulhu face: army attacks itself
Tentacle: causes 5 damage to army
Yellow Sign: causes 5 health worth of units to flee to reserves
Elder Sign: recruit 5 health worth of units - from another player's DUA
Eye: promote 5 health worth of units - from another player's DUA

Of course, to truly keep in theme one would recruit and promote from a pool of Feral, Undead, or Treefolk to represent transformation into chthonic entities.

Cthulhu could be summoned like a dragon, but never actually fought. It would take 10 points of magic to banish him.

I think I've got one of these lurking in my forgotten dice.... fhtagn!