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Shoggoth.net Cthulhuthon Schedule for 2008!
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Contributed by phobia on Thursday April 17, 08, @ 07:34AM
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This year, we are hosting the schedule in a new format, and it is off site.
Proceed to http://www.a42.net/origins/ to see the schedule.
Thanks to Shoggoth.net Group GM John for putting this together!
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Shoggoth.net mourns Gary Gygax
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Contributed by trollboy on Tuesday March 04, 08, @ 12:23PM
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Shoggoth.net is mourning the death of Gary Gygax, the father of Role-Playing Games. From Cnn.com:
MILWAUKEE, Wisconsin (AP) -- Gary Gygax, who co-created the fantasy game Dungeons & Dragons and helped start the role-playing phenomenon, died Tuesday morning at his home in Lake Geneva. He was 69.
He had been suffering from health problems for several years, including an abdominal aneurysm, said his wife, Gail Gygax.
Gygax and Dave Arneson developed Dungeons & Dragons in 1974 using medieval characters and mythical creatures. The game known for its oddly shaped dice became a hit, particularly among teenage boys, and eventually was turned into video games, books and movies.
Gygax always enjoyed hearing from the game's legion of devoted fans, many of whom would stop by the family's home in Lake Geneva, about 55 miles southwest of Milwaukee, his wife said. Despite his declining health, he hosted weekly games of Dungeons & Dragons as recently as January, she said.
"It really meant a lot to him to hear from people from over the years about how he helped them become a doctor, a lawyer, a policeman, what he gave them," Gygax said. "He really enjoyed that."
Dungeons & Dragons players create fictional characters and carry out their adventures with the help of complicated rules. The quintessential geek pastime, it spawned a wealth of copycat games and later inspired a whole genre of computer games that's still growing in popularity.
Funeral arrangements are pending. Besides his wife, Gygax is survived by six children.
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Shoggoth.net Group at Origins 2008
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Contributed by phobia on Wednesday November 07, 07, @ 10:21AM
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Yup,
It's that time again folks.
If you intend to visit Columbus OH in 2008 (specifically the Origins Game Fair) to run Call of Cthulhu (or other horror related events) and would like to do so as a part of the Shoggoth.net Group please send me an email.
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Convention in France
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Contributed by Philippe on Monday October 15, 07, @ 01:12PM
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Chimeriades 2007, a RPG convention set in France (Aix), with a lot of Call of Cthulhu events...
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Frontier Cthulhu
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Contributed by phobia on Monday October 15, 07, @ 01:10PM
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Growing up among the ruins of the western expansion I’ve long held a special place in my cold little heart for stories of the old west and specifically the rare and (unfortunately) usually campy stories of the supernatural side of the Wild West.
Let’s all sacrifice a virgin to the Great Old Ones, and hope they twist one or more great and fearsome orifices into smiles when they look down/up/sideways at this new anthology.
Frontier Cthulhu
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High Seas Cthulhu Contest Winners announced!
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Contributed by phobia on Sunday September 09, 07, @ 03:30PM
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The books are now in hand!
And the three winners are:
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Summer of '77 - A Horror Story
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Contributed by Johnnie Blalack on Friday September 07, 07, @ 12:02AM
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NOTE from the author: Though this is posted in the Cthulhu Mythos/H.P. Lovecraft stories arena, this is a story based on factual events and are without the mystic and weird oddities that are normally placed throughout this forum. Thanks and I hope you enjoy the story! JB
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A Message From Nickolaus Pacione
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Contributed by Nickolaus Pacione on Thursday August 09, 07, @ 10:54AM
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Oh crap – been a few years since I did an editorial for Shoggoth.net but I will say thanx for those who stuck around and believed in my work over the years. I will have to say now that all the hard work is starting to make itself known. I became a small press publisher, a semi-professional author, and now I can add non-fiction author to that resume. Writing the Mythos for me got me started and got my name out there as a horror writer. I do web searches and found myself listed for stories I didn’t even know had a Mythos element in them but seems like when I look around it is there. Nickolaus Pacione is a mythos author, true but I think I am now becoming more than that. I’ve written Science Fiction and got published for it, non-fiction stories that disturbed people much more than my fiction works have.
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