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Tophat665 · 11-06-2004, 07:07 PM

No no, a lot of H. P. Lovecraft's work was lifted into the very first edition of A D&D: Deities and Demigods, and subsequently removed. Shoggoths are in the novella At the Mountains of Madness, a pretty decent read, Lovecraft's homage to Poe through The Tale of Arthur Gordon Pym. Shoggoths actually make the same sounds as the birds in AGP.

Here's the picture from D&D:
<img src="http://enworld.cyberstreet.com/hosted/adilbrand/inzeladun/images/shoggoth.jpg">
Kind of a big ameoba, sort of.

This one's better:
<img src="http://ewancient.lysator.liu.se/pic/art/m/a/maija/shoggoth.jpg">
Sort of formless, yet not so much ameobic as a amalgam of interchangeable, but squidgy parts. Also, that pic gives you an idea of the scale of the thing.

11-06-2004, 07:07 PM	#9 (permalink)
Tophat665 Minion of the scaléd ones Location: Northeast Jesusland	No no, a lot of H. P. Lovecraft's work was lifted into the very first edition of <i>A D&D: Deities and Demigods</i>, and subsequently removed. Shoggoths are in the novella <i>At the Mountains of Madness</i>, a pretty decent read, Lovecraft's homage to Poe through <i>The Tale of Arthur Gordon Pym</i>. Shoggoths actually make the same sounds as the birds in AGP. Here's the picture from D&D: <img src="http://enworld.cyberstreet.com/hosted/adilbrand/inzeladun/images/shoggoth.jpg"> Kind of a big ameoba, sort of. This one's better: <img src="http://ewancient.lysator.liu.se/pic/art/m/a/maija/shoggoth.jpg"> Sort of formless, yet not so much ameobic as a amalgam of interchangeable, but squidgy parts. Also, that pic gives you an idea of the scale of the thing. __________________ Light a man a fire, and he will be warm while it burns. Set a man on fire, and he will be warm for the rest of his life.