Old Photographs as Character Pictures

[Butters]

And Miss Anna May Wong the first Chinese American movie star.

[Lost Sojourner]

As I wasn't able to convert my players from 4ed dnd to brp yet, I had to run the d20 version of CoC. The version is actually a decent adaptation, but still requires minis now and then. I was able to get away without using a battlegrid and had players just generally set up their guys about where they were in the room while hunting for clues.

Now since I wasn't going to shell out bank for Arkham Horror minis, I decided to build my own using photoshop, posterboard, scissors, and glue. I found the pictures online along with a few cultists and even a giant shoggoth that ended up chasing after their car.

[PoC]

And Miss Anna May Wong the first Chinese American movie star.

I saw the documentary on Anna May Wong the other year (along with an in person interview with the Director). Fascinating person. Intelligent, driven, multilingual (also spoke German among other languages).

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0938923/

Apparently a second documentary is in plan about her personal (rather than professional) life, which sounds like it could be equally interesting.

[Butters]

I saw the documentary on Anna May Wong the other year (along with an in person interview with the Director). Fascinating person. Intelligent, driven, multilingual (also spoke German among other languages).

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0938923/

Apparently a second documentary is in plan about her personal (rather than professional) life, which sounds like it could be equally interesting.

Cheers PoC she does seem to have lead an interesting if somewhat tragic life I will keep an eye out for the second documentary.

[Butters]

Damn I may have to steal this idea as they do look pretty cool.

[Butters]

Fed up with Investigators fleeing in terror before he can get a word in Nyarlathotep decides try on a more glamorous Avatar for the new millennium.

Claudette Colbert as Cleopatra.

[Belteshazzar]

Practice makes perfect, and when you spot a Deep One wading through the shallows, or a Dark Young through the thickets you only get one chance.



I keep wanting to somehow lay hands on one of these beauties... in-game or in-life. The R80 'Colt Monitor' variant BAR for the FBI (they used it to stop armored up Rum Runner trucks.) Sadly not too many were made, but I just love it's almost retro-futuristic look.

[Butters]

Practice makes perfect,

I'm guessing the thing at the barrels end is not a suppressor was it some kind of flash hider? And I've got to agree the whole rifle does look pretty cool.



And of course the other famous 1920s proponent of the Browning Automatic.

[Butters]

At last Classic and Invictus finally meet.

[Butters]

Its a bit of fun but it is amazing what ideas a photograph can stir up. And the pictures of buildings and streets of the 1920s goes along way in helping fix the setting for me.
If you have found any interesting photos stick them up its always interesting to see what other people have found.

[YunusWesley]

Fed up with Investigators fleeing in terror before he can get a word in Nyarlathotep decides try on a more glamorous Avatar for the new millennium....
Claudette Colbert as Cleopatra.

Or Princess Anephis from "The Sanatorium"! A Boston vagrant and multiple personality no longer, the priestess of Bast is on the case and ready to do business with the highest bidding state. Maybe Italy will bite to move forward a few stadia on its new scientific Roman Empire; or Britain, tightening up her grip on an empire in a changing world; or a great coalition of Indian, Chinese, non-Muslim Africans willing to stand behind a sorcerous pagan felinarch leader.

Or, y'know, she could lead the cats of the world. Possibly hard to make that into a good horror backdrop.... unless....!

Fed by their connection to Dreamlands and Bast's rejuvenated power, cats, domestic, wild, small and big, are growing in size. Fireside moggies and back alley toms are grown man-sized and larger; the jaguars of the Americas and the leopards of Africa swell larger than motor cars, and the big cats, the pumas, lions, and tigers, grow paranormally large, bigger than houses, walking above the horizon at a level destroying SAN by more than sheer animal terror. Giant cats jump to the moon; whole provinces and landscapes are crushed beneath soft leaping paws.


Hmmmmm maybe still not very scary.

Okay, say the cats are pulling more and more humans into the Dreamlands. They have the best of intentions from cat perspective, they want psychically hypersensitive ailourophiles to feed and pamper them and play with them, and only occasionally to bite on! However whole towns getting sucked into a mad romping hallucinatory cat-dominated playland, well, there's gonna be madness in that world too.



I give up.

[YunusWesley]

More in the spirit of the thread, cats for the cat-dominated or tweaked expanding dreamlands, from nice old images at least:


In Mythic Eurasia, rats serve you like tasty slaves! And the amanita muscaria are even better than 'nip, or strong thag-weed! (NB: do not feed amanitas to your house cats, even to the wandering local tom monsters you'd ajudge capable of handling themselves on a powerful and toxic shamanic journey; keep them on the covers of fairy tale collections is my advice.*


Miaow miaow we only want thy young one for to play, for playings under dark skies, for always, for always, miaow miaow


These cats-in-baby clothes photos, allegedly humorous, were pretty popular among our great-great-grands. What idiots :}



I for one welcome our frisky feline overlords.

[Butters]

Damn you YunusWesley I can never look at a cat the same way again.



With thanks to the Goodies.


And a milk drink of some sort.

Plus I'm scared to go outside now.

[YunusWesley]

Cats are only adorable and cuddly when they're small enough not to be a serious threat... alone... to an adult in a universe not tailored to cats having paranormal powers. (They'll suck the breath from a baby so they will! Mad cackle, exit chased by a rabbit-sized bear.) Savannah cats and oversized domesticateds with Maine coon cat, Siberian, or bobcat genes can be borderline disturbing. Tibert Alphons Baudrons IV, a 25k lap kitty who really wants you as a beast of burden, trap springer, expert sardine tin opener etc. on an expedition to the moons of Saturn, he's dangerous in all kinds of ways.

[Butters]

Cats are only adorable and cuddly when they're small enough not to be a serious threat... alone... to an adult in a universe not tailored to cats having paranormal powers.

A cat with paranormal powers you say.

Okay no more cats......honest.