Round Table 5: Cthulhu Through the Ages
Kevin sits down with Kenneth Hite, Monte Cook, and Graham Walmsley to discuss the implementation of the Cthulhu Mythos in the RPG world throughout the years.
Relevant Links
- Kenneth Hite
- Weird Tales
- Tour De Lovecraft
- Trail of Cthulhu
- Cthulhu 101
- Where the Deep Ones Are
- The Antarctic Express
- Monte Cook
- D20 Call of Cthulhu
- Graham Walmsley
- Cthulhu Dark
- Pelgrane Press
- Stealing Cthulhu
- Deities and Demigods
- Call of Cthulhu
- Erol Otus
- Groff Conklin
- Astounding Magazine
- Galaxy Magazine
- John W. Campbell
- The Colour Out of Space
- The Dunwich Horror
- C.S. Lewis
- Space Trilogy
- Out of the Silent Planet
- Arthur Machen
- Robert Chambers
- Algernon Blackwood
- Steve Jackson
- GURPS
- Illuminati
- Dagon
- Ramsey Campbell
- Paranoia
- Pendragon
- Hero Quest
- Realms of Cthulhu
- Sandy Petersen
- Robert E. Howard
- Brian Lumley
- Dark Corners of the Earth
- The Horror at Red Hook
- Fu Manchu
- Shadow over Innsmouth
- The Haunter of the Dark
- The Turner Diaries
- Steal Away Jordan
- Dark Heresy
- Warhammer RPG
- Deadwood
- The Great Exhibition
- At the Mountains of Madness
- The Case of Charles Dexter Ward
- Delta Green
- Pickman’s Model
- The Music of Erich Zann
- Nyarlathotep
- The Shunned House
Crunchy Bits!
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This was really cool. D&D 2nd edition is what I started gaming with, but CoC is what fermented my love of all things gaming. Trail is one of those game that I own, but never get to play as much as I want.
Great show! Good discussion.
One MINOR detail that was driving me crazy is that the host pronounced Cthulhu as (THOOL-hoo). I’m guessing basing that off the Cthonian, where the C is silent. However Cthulhu is not pronounced the same way. Lovecraft is a little dodgy and gives a couple of ways to say it.
He says in a 1934 letter “…the word is supposed to represent a fumbling human attempt to catch the phonetics of an absolutely non-human word. . . . The syllables were determined by a physiological equipment wholly unlike ours, hence could never be uttered perfectly by human throats. . . .The actual sound — as nearly as human organs could imitate it or human letters record it — may be taken as something like Khlul’hloo, with the first syllable pronounced gutterally and very thickly. The u is about like that in full; and the first syllable is not unlike klul in sound, since the h represents the gutteral thickness. The second syllable is not very well rendered — the l being unrepresented. (Selected Letters V, pp. 10-11.)
The actual sound — as nearly as human organs could imitate it or human letters record it — may be taken as something like Khlul’hloo, with the first syllable pronounced gutterally and very thickly. The u is about like that in full; and the first syllable is not unlike klul in sound, since the h represents the gutteral thickness. The second syllable is not very well rendered — the l being unrepresented. (Selected Letters V, pp. 10-11.)
Read R Price’s take on it… http://crypt-of-cthulhu.com/cthulwho.htm
There are variants and such in the mound and Charles Dexter Ward. And you pronunce it anyway you like. It’s all made up anyway!