Adventures Into Darkness!

[dvandom]

Ken Hite's Adventures Into Darkness is a Mutants & Masterminds 2nd Ed. book predicated on the conceit that Lovecraft lent his hand to comics in the 1940s (although most of the stories published under his name were written by others). Interestingly, Hite adapts several real world comic characters into the setting, including Fighting Yank, Black Terror and Blue Beetle (called the Scarab here)...characters also revived in Tom Strong a few years back and being re-revived in Alex Ross's Project Superpowers right now. A few of the characters violate PL caps, though.

(Aside: this is the first PDF I've loaded onto my EEE.)

Comments

[finback.livejournal.com]

Have you seen the Dynamite comic, "Project Superpowers"? Has a lot of very old GA era heroes, including Blue BeetleScarab who looks just like Kingdom Come Blue Beetlecompletely new and original in every way..

But, I don't think Lovecraft had much to do directly with comics in the 40s (what with dying in the 30s).. unless, of course, you mean the style of writing he used.

[dvandom.livejournal.com]

Yes, as mentioned where I say, "and being re-revived in Alex Ross's Project Superpowers right now" in the main entry. :)

And the whole Lovecraft-writing-comics thing is a counterfactual conceit. Having his name attached to comics let him earn a steady paycheck which meant he was able to better maintain his health and lived an extra decade or so, getting into movies in the 1950s. :) Hite's all about the counterfactual.

[wtimmins.livejournal.com]

How well would this sourcebook support straight Cthulhu gaming?

[dvandom.livejournal.com]

Not sure, I've only gotten halfway through. It seems more of a mythos-flavored 40s heroes thing, though, not a heroes-flavored mythos book.