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Author Topic: My ten-year-old's foray into the Cthulhu mythos (the game itself!)  (Read 7715 times)

Offline Hobgoblin

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My ten-year-old son recently read the graphic-novel version of At the Mountains of Madness, which a friend passed onto me some time back. He loved it (and enjoys Lovecraft readings on HP Podcraft and the like). When we were in Rome last week, he seized on the idea of running a one-shot RPG for his friends based on the story. And so he wandered through the forum and around the Colosseum musing about elder things, shoggoths and blind albino penguins.

We got back yesterday, and he immediately began making the props for the game. These are his elder things in progress. They're made from tin foil and Fimo. He's already made card-and-glue wings for one of them, but those are drying overnight. He's also made a small shoggoth out of hot glue and cocktail sticks.

I'm going to help him paint up the adventurers (pulp figures from North Star/Bob Murch) when those arrive. I've also suggested that he replace the penguins with one giant penguin; I'm going to adapt a papier-mache Hobbycraft bird to that end. But the elder things are entirely his own work.
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Re: My ten-year-old's foray into the Cthulhu mythos (elder things in progress)
« Reply #1 on: February 17, 2019, 10:49:18 PM »
Superb!  Imagination and ability.
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Re: My ten-year-old's foray into the Cthulhu mythos (elder things in progress)
« Reply #2 on: February 18, 2019, 01:06:54 AM »
Magnificent! Both his reading of HPL as well as his Elder Things!

Offline Hobgoblin

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Re: My ten-year-old's foray into the Cthulhu mythos (elder things in progress)
« Reply #3 on: February 18, 2019, 09:42:04 AM »
Cheers! He was delighted by the positive feedback.

Before school this morning, he did some more work on the wings. He's left a hole for a flying stand in the torso.

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Re: My ten-year-old's foray into the Cthulhu mythos (elder things in progress)
« Reply #4 on: February 18, 2019, 10:31:18 AM »
Cool!

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Re: My ten-year-old's foray into the Cthulhu mythos (elder things in progress)
« Reply #5 on: February 18, 2019, 08:21:59 PM »
Thanks!

The first beast is now airborne:


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Re: My ten-year-old's foray into the Cthulhu mythos (elder things in progress)
« Reply #6 on: February 18, 2019, 10:08:25 PM »
That is fantastic work
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Offline Hobgoblin

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Re: My ten-year-old's foray into the Cthulhu mythos (elder things in progress)
« Reply #7 on: February 19, 2019, 08:07:09 AM »
Many thanks - all feedback is being gleefully received by the young creator!

I rose this morning to find that he'd been up early adding tentacles ...

Offline Arundel

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Re: My ten-year-old's foray into the Cthulhu mythos (elder things in progress)
« Reply #8 on: February 19, 2019, 02:26:49 PM »
I am so impressed with this. What a great boy, and it sounds as though he's lucky in dads as well.   ;)

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Re: My ten-year-old's foray into the Cthulhu mythos (elder things in progress)
« Reply #9 on: February 19, 2019, 04:39:58 PM »
Thanks! Well, it depends on your perspective. A corrupting influence, some might say ... ;)

He undercoated the beast before school and has just begun painting:

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Re: My ten-year-old's foray into the Cthulhu mythos (elder things in progress)
« Reply #10 on: February 19, 2019, 09:27:02 PM »
Excellent work!
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Re: My ten-year-old's foray into the Cthulhu mythos (elder things in progress)
« Reply #11 on: February 21, 2019, 06:07:22 PM »
Super fun. 
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Re: My ten-year-old's foray into the Cthulhu mythos (elder things in progress)
« Reply #12 on: February 24, 2019, 09:35:30 PM »
Thanks!

He's now painted one and has another approaching completion.

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Re: My ten-year-old's foray into the Cthulhu mythos (elder things in progress)
« Reply #13 on: February 24, 2019, 10:13:04 PM »
WOW!!! Excellent work and painting.   :-* :-* :-*

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Re: My ten-year-old's foray into the Cthulhu mythos (elder things in progress)
« Reply #14 on: February 25, 2019, 11:07:41 AM »
Blimey! Those are maddening well done.