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The Lovecraft Variant

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The Lovecraft Variant

A piece of role playing history!

The ORIGINAL Lovecraftian RPG.

A 60+ page booklet with everything you need to turn Monsters! Monsters! (or any other compatible rules set) into a full Lovecraftian system – featuring new classes, skills, character traits, weapons, monsters and much more!

In 1980 the Rahman brothers released a set of rules to convert the second oldest role playing game in the world to a Lovecraftian setting – not just a set of loosely inspired monsters, but a full system for investigating strange occurrences and uncovering ancient secrets, all while struggling to maintain the characters' sanity in the face of unimaginable terrors.

This book consists of:

The Lovecraft Variant – first published in Sorcerer’s Apprentice No 7 – Summer 1980.

A bevy of rules to recreate HP Lovecraft’s mythos in RPG games.

Know Your Foe: The Monsters of the Cthulhu Mythos – first published in Sorcerer’s Apprentice No 7 – Summer 1981. A system agnostic essay on including Lovecraftian monsters and gods in your games.

You will need a copy of the Monsters! Monsters! Core rules (or a compatible system) to use this book.

These rules are published under licence by Bolt Thrower Press.

Bolt Thrower PressFor use with Monsters! Monsters! RPG

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Edward H July 10, 2023 4:05 pm UTC
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Hi Tom, thanks for the offer of an easier-to-read version! I didn't reply to the discussion earlier because I hadn't seen the notification.

I see you've updated the product to include the easy-to-read version now, thanks so much!
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tom P July 10, 2023 8:51 pm UTC
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My pleasure!
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Robert P March 05, 2023 6:43 pm UTC
What size is the printed book? Thankyou.
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tom P March 07, 2023 9:54 am UTC
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It is A5.
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Edward H February 13, 2023 4:49 am UTC
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This is amazing but I really wish the fonts were more normal, this font is super hard to read. Would you consider doing an edition with a more readable font?
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tom P February 13, 2023 3:17 pm UTC
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Sorry to hear you're having trouble with the font. I actually went through at least a dozen different fonts to find what I considered the most legible, whilst still being inkeeping with the period this is from. I actually find this font very easy to read, but obviously these things vary massively from person to person. Unfortunately at the moment I can't really justify redoing the book with a different font, as this would be a big outlay in time in terms of the layout.
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tom P February 13, 2023 5:51 pm UTC
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Actually, if you send me an email at thomas.h.pugh@outlook.com I can send you the original document which you can then alter, if you wish
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David E July 05, 2023 10:14 am UTC
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I have to agree with Edward H here: I like your layouts & I can understand why you chose the font for the period this is from. But that font is causing me an extreme amount of eyestrain when I try to read it. It is painfully aggravating & I am unable to read much of it without it triggering a migraine for me. It's that bad for me.

That is not to say that this book's font will be illegible for everybody. But it will probably cause severe eyestrain & headaches for anybody who has any vision issues or visually sensitive conditions such as migraines, etc. That still means a lot of people will have difficulty with it.

I think it would be great if you could produce even just a simple art-free version of this book with a plain font, & include it as a second version that purchasers can download.

That way, we could either admire your layouts & fonts the way that they are meant to be seen, or read the book more easily. It would be inclusive for all of us.
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David E July 05, 2023 8:04 pm UTC
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P.S. The problematic font that has been used here also makes me wonder if people were just generally more used to reading such unclear fonts, crowded line-spacing, & etc back in the day. Layout styles, fonts, & printing methods have just changed so much over the years.

Anyway, those days were a long time ago. But I still fondly remember when this material first appeared in a couple of issues Sorcerer's Apprentice magazine.

Those Lovecraft articles were my most favourite articles of all to ever appear in that magazine.

So even if the font is problematic for some of us here now, I still appreciate all of the care that you took to rescue that material from time & to preserve it here. It is good to see it again.
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Lisa W February 10, 2023 9:24 pm UTC
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I already purchased the PDF. Would it be possible to also get the book and pay the difference?
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tom P February 11, 2023 7:15 am UTC
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I'll check to see of there is a way.
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tom P February 11, 2023 7:20 am UTC
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If you send me an email at thomas.h.pugh@outlook.com, I can set it up for you.
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Timothy C January 25, 2023 7:21 pm UTC
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Could these rules be used to run a Lovecraftian game of Mercenaries, Spies & Private Eyes?
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tom P January 25, 2023 10:51 pm UTC
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They would be perfect for this!
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Timothy C January 26, 2023 12:42 am UTC
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Thanks…I’ll give it a try!
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James B January 20, 2023 7:51 pm UTC
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This is stupendous! A mythical piece of one of the greatest games, and an easy purchase. Congrats to Tom, Steve, and Ken!
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Ken S January 20, 2023 3:18 pm UTC
Tom Hugh is our first M!M! Network partner to release a book, and we are proud to help promote this. Officially sanctioned by me, and Steve Crompton (my cohort) wrote the forward and gave Tom a couple of pieces of art... Get your copy today and help support the Monsters! Monsters! Network!
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Steve M January 19, 2023 6:32 pm UTC
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Please tell me there will be a POD version!
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Frank T January 19, 2023 6:54 pm UTC
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Tell me too! ;)
Is Monsters Monsters that variant for T&T? I think I got it from their KS (along with MS&PE reprint/update).
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Robert R January 19, 2023 9:09 pm UTC
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Yes.
If you look at the "full-size preview", it talks a little about that, and more :)
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tom P January 20, 2023 10:38 am UTC
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There will!

Should be up in a couple of weeks.
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tom P January 20, 2023 10:50 am UTC
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Yes, M!M! is a T&T variant, but the two sets are now published by different people (in fact M!M! is published by a couple of the old T&T team, including the author, Ken St Andre.)

These rules will work with M!M!, T&T or MSPE.
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tom P January 21, 2023 8:08 am UTC
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There will be a POD version!

(Probably live in a couple of weeks)
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Author(s)
Glen Rahman, Philip Rahman
Artist(s)
Simon Lee Tranter, Alex Mayo, Everett Raymond Kinstler, Lee Elias, Joe Doolin, George Tuska, Suso, Bill Everett, Gene Day, Bernard Bailey, Jose Cardona, Myron Fass, Pablo Marcos, Serge Moran, Ricardo Villanova, Shane ‘Goth’ Murphy, Ross Andru
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