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Ghouls of The Miskatonic
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10-03-2011, 12:46 AM
(This post was last modified: 10-03-2011 12:47 AM by Old Dwarf.)
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Ghouls of The Miskatonic
by Graham Mc Neil vol 1 of the Dark Water Triology.
This is the FFG published series based on Arkham Horror, well not the Game but the Game World. Being a Mythos slut I preordered when FFG announced it LAST October.I figured a Lovecraft based Trilogy Most Mythos stuff is short stories or one off books (being devoured or going insane has that effect), so 3 connected books was cool.Little did I realize I would wait nearly a year for them to publish it Anyway it came & I just finished it & can safely tell you Tolstoy can rest easy.It's OK but I'm not holding my breath for volume 2(I will buy it of course . Mc Neil uses some of the Arkham Horror Inv.in his book which sort of weakens the story,as you know nothing is really going to happen to them. The body count is just over the top even for Arkham, the story involves a Cult,Ghouls & Mi-Go which was a little loosed ended as to their relationship but I guess that will be tied up in the next books. Not bad but unless your a real AH fan it's rather meh... Oh I will send my $1.99(S&H) to FFG & get the Oliver Grayson Ally Card(hopeless Mythos slut). OD Sighing like the night wind and sobbing like the rain,— Wailing for the lost one that comes not again: |
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10-03-2011, 07:03 AM
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RE: Ghouls of The Miskatonic
I gotta agree with you OD. I read this book and was kind of underwhelmed. With such a rich mythos to draw on, I kind of expected more. And with McNeil's use of Arkham Horror's investigators, there was really never any question of whether any of the main characters would get killed or not. Given how great and terrible the old gods are supposed to be, you would have expected a blood bath rather than a deus ex machina occurrence at the end.
Overall, its an ok read, but don't expect anything great here. |
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