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Originally Posted by SteelCaress
"Any time the name "Hastur" is spoken, there is a 25 percent chance that Hastur will hear and send 1-4 Byakhee to slay the speaker. If the Byakhee are defeated, there is a 25 percent chance that Hastur himself will appear to destroy the blasphemer." -- Deities & Demigods
I have one thing to say to that: HasturHasturHasturHasturHasturHasturHasturHasturHasturHastur HasturHasturHastur
Hastur
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Ahh, that never grows old does it?
Mind you, it does have some benefit. Y'know, like when you're entrapped in the throne room of an enemy king for example. Sure you'll go down, but hey, the collateral damage...
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It's Yog-Sothoth in the pic, btw. "When he takes shape on the Prime Material Plane he is partly material and partly astral and appears as a gigantic mass of feelers, legs, and stalked organs. In this shape he will mate with human beings, producing the Spawn of Yog-Sothoth."
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Erol Otus is a very very bad man.
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Originally Posted by Old Scratch
For me personally, this book wasn't supposed to be about the gods and their stat blocks. It was supposed to be about the players and their world. Clerics in D&D were so generic and bland that I thought this book was there to give provide a background of religion and context and a personal relationship with the divine.
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*nods* Exactly. Even if they were wrong on much of their godly material but still got that right it would have been a great book.
This book didn't do that. Instead of giving context and meaning to the character's lives, it gave them a god to kill.
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In that respect, this book is a piece of shit. It sucks. It offered me little in actual play. It's an abomination that never should have been.
However, despite that I still treasure my own worn down copy of it and in the event of a fire, it would be one of the first books I would snatch from the flames.
I can't explain it, the book is wrong... wrong... wrong... but it has a bit of charm about it that still wins me over despite it being everything I didn't want it to be.
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See? 5/5 for
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