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Friday 24 May 2019

Basic Expert: The Ancient Races of Cthulhu Mythos

The Ancient Races
Unlike the Servitors of the Old Gods these races pursue their own destiny having become interstellar capable.

The Great Race
AC            5
HD           6* (30hp)
MV           36' (12')
AT            2 Claws
DA           1d8/1d8
SA            Fighter L6
NA           1 (2-12)
ML           11
TT            Special
AL            Lawful or Neutral

These creatures populated the earth a billion or more years ago and their cities still exist buried in the great Australian desert. They are ten foot high cones, ten feet wide at the base with four ten foot tentacles at the top. Two tentacles end in lobster-like claws, one in trumpet-like ears and one in a yellow globe two feet in diameter with three eyes along its circumference and a set of manipulating tentacles dependent from it. The creatures move rapidly by expanding and contracting the muscular base of the cone.
These creatures are highly intelligent, telepathic, and scientifically advanced. They have many technological devices such as air ships and energy beams (1d6-20d6 depending on size and power). They can project their minds backward and forward in time and across interstellar space. They then seize control of the mind of any intelligent creature, displacing the other mind into the body of the member of the Great Race. Such captive minds are well treated, encouraged to teach the Great Race about their own time and eventually sent back to their original bodies with memory of the experience erased.


The Mi-Go, the Fungi from Yuggoth, the Abominable Snow Men
AC         3
HD         8***** (35hp)
MV         45' (15')
     Fly    90' (30')
AT          2 Claws or weapon
DA          1d4/1d4/ as weapon
SA          Fighter L8
NA         1 (2-8)
ML         10
TT          Special
AL          Chaotic

Eight foot high, many legged, red, crab like creatures with two great bat-like wings, the Mi-Go are found in mountain wilderness, the Himalayas and Vermont. Their main base of operations in this solar system is on Yuggoth (the planet Pluto). Immune to cold and vacuum, and have infravision (90').  They can fly in interstellar space and teleport across interstellar distances. They can not speak but they possess certain machines that produce a buzzing imitation of human speech. They mine minerals or other items from the earth and will try to make alliances with human races. They sometimes kidnap humans and carry off their living brains in metal cylinders for study. Small hand-like claws allow manipulation of tools and technological weapons of the Mi-Go.


The Old Ones
AC        5
HD       8 (50hp)
MV       36' (12')
     Fly   Special
AT        1-4 Tentacles
DA        1d6/1d6/1d6/1d6
NA        0 (2-12)
SA         Fighter L8
ML        10
TT         Special
AL         Lawful

These bizarre looking creatures are an interstellar race who once settled at the South Pole, where their deserted cities still lie beneath the polar ice. They are barrel-shaped, six to eight feet long with wings and tentacled arms growing from the circumference of the barrel and five star-fish like tentacles growing from each end of the barrel.
The upper set of tentacles end in eyes and mouths, the lower set are muscular legs with triangular feet or fins. The Old Ones are intelligent and scientifically advanced and once had a highly technological civilization. They were exterminated by a form of artificial life which they had created themselves: the Shaggoths. The Old Ones are basically hostile to other intelligent races.

Shaggoth
AC         4
HD        8* (70hp)
MV       54' (18')
AT        1-10 Tentacles, bite, or weapon
DA       2d6 per tentacle/3d6/as weapon
NA       1 (1)
SA        Fighter L8
ML       11
TT        Special
AL        Neutral
      
Huge, 15 feet across, transparent, intelligent amoeba, the Shaggoths are a form of artificial life created to serve the Old Ones. Originally telepathic, they lost this ability, rebelled and killed their masters (They may be in possession of Technology of their former masters). The inside of the amoeba appears like a series of bubbles or other included matter. Similar to the Doppleganger race they have the ability to on their surface grow organs as needed, eyes, mouths, legs, sword-like weapons though it is possible these are capable of being seperate. They guard the buried and drowned cities of the Old Ones near the South Pole.

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