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This program did everything it set out to do, and I was (for the most part) please with it. I would SERIOUSLY recommend a couple of changes, tho: 1) Support for screen resolutions higher that 1024 x 768. I run higher than that (1280 x 720) and it gets irritating having to adjust my resolution settings every time I run the program, *just* so that I can see all of the program buttons. 2) More than one song. The. Same. Song. Plays. Over. And. Over. Again. And. Again. And. Again. Several small atmospheric midi or wav files could break this up a bit and make it so that it's not so monotonous. The program worked well enough, and I liked the simulated e-mail server quite a bit. The Government ID Badge Creator was a tad lackluster in appearance, but it suffices. The props were good enough to use at a Halloween party I threw, so that was good. 3 out of 5. It would have been 5 out of 5, but the above problems really detracted from the program.
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I've always had a fascination for the work of H.G. Wells, so I was interested in seeing how Skirmisher Publishing portrayed the Morlocks in paper miniature format from his 1895 novel, The Time Machine.
These paper miniatures are provided without explanation. If you're unfamiliar with Morlocks, they are the cannibalistic underground race that the Time Traveler encounters in the future. They feast on the Eloi, the more advanced race who lives above ground.
The miniatures consist of a set of 15 Morlocks. All the Morlocks have sickly pale skin, gray hair, and large, luminescent red eyes. Their description rings true: ape-like, with gray fur and large eyes. Some license has been taken with their clothing and weapons, but for the most part the figures are true to the source from where they were inspired.
The majority of the adult male Morlocks have sideburns and beards, with additional hair on their forearms and calves. The females have similar hair arrangements, including a beard. Although the Morlocks are portrayed in various states of undress, with the females topless, the lower groin of all the figures is appropriately obscured.
The first male Morlock wields a polearm with a flail dangling from it, clothed only in a loincloth. The second male has a wrench in one hand and a hammer in the other, befitting the Time Traveler's theory about the Morlock's working class roots. The third male is naked except for a shoulder guard and wields a weighted net and a looped pole – the better to catch Eloi with.
The fourth figure is obviously female, wearing only a loincloth and wielding a huge sickle. Another male is completely naked except for a wicked knife in one hand. The sixth figure is a female in pigtails (?) with another wicked polearm. The seventh figure, a female, carries a pair of manacles – the better for catching Eloi. If it wasn't clear that Morlocks are cannibals, the eighth male figure has an Eloi haunch dangling from a hook in one hand and a meat cleaver in the other.
The last of the medium-sized figures is problematic. The Morlock wields an arc-welding torch and visor. Thing is, Morlocks are afraid of fire. It's easy enough to exclude the Morlock from the set – you cut them out and assemble them, after all, but the fire-wielding Morlock is a curious inclusion in an otherwise faithful adaptation.
Four smaller Morlocks are also included, presumably younger versions. One wields a huge wrench, another chews on a hunk of meat, a third wields two hatchets, and the fourth has a pair of nasty-looking pliers. The second page has a variety of weapons, nets, and an Eloi leg bone. It also has two large figures, one wielding another leg bone and the other a polearm.
The subsequent pages include black-and-white versions of all the figures and instructions on how to put them together. The instructions are a little awkward; at times it alternates between "we" and "me" and concludes with "we go ahead and glue the join while we're putting the figures together."
Overall this is a great set of cannibalistic mutants for any post-apocalyptic game. With the exception of the one blowtorch wielding Morlock, they could even double as orcs or goblinoids for a fantasy game.
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A great freebie, you can tell the artists that participated really put in a lot of effort. There's some great variety here too. I'd say its well worth while when all it costs you is a minute of your time to download them.
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Excellent gaming product!I look forward to using it.
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I quite liked the art on this set so I decided to order. (You can see it for yourself in the preview). The price is fair and comparable to industry standard. Even if you don't use them as Morlocks per se, they would also make a passable substitute for some sort of orc or goblinoid tribe. I'm quite tickled by the look of these guys, it sort of reminds of a Saturday morning cartoon. I will look forward to incorporating them into my game.
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Seriously, a figure flat set with pics of mostly-naked women, both cultists (wearing Cthulhoid bondage masks and such) and victims tied to posts and spead-eagle on pentacles. The artwork is standard for COMPANY — the cartoonish side of realistic, makes the set almost parody rather than sexy or offensive. Cute, even, allowing for variable definitions of cute.
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Gnolls are one of my favorite fantasy bad guys, and this PDF traces their origins from a parody of a 19th century Welsh rugby team to OD&D gnome/troll hybrids to fungoid ghouls to cannibalistic hyena-men. That's right, gnolls aren't based on any known mythology, and have evolved from a 19th century satirical short story into a roleplaying game standard. An interesting look at how these creature came to be. Includes the original story, "How Nuth Would Have Practiced His Art Upon the Gnoles", and a lot of wonderful illustrations of hyena-men.
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I was creeped out just reading this scenario. The idea of simulating blindness, and the advice used for both safety and effects is great and I am glad to see it included. The techniques for the blood and guts of the game is just good information to have for anything, but in this context where sight is taken away from your players, they add a truly shattering experience to a game.
I love the pictures, the settings fit, the costuming is great, and the artwork really adds to the text.
I am trying to find the right place for this game and what makes it even more desirable to run is the small amount of players and the idea of a smaller, tighter game.
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I love modern day games that have the same feel as a traditional CoC game. Take away the tech and you still have villagers with pitchforks coming against a farmer with something in his barn. This has a good timeline, an excellent write up describing what led up to the game time as well as for multiple characters backgrounds to give the players an idea of what they are looking for or believe is happening which gets turned around depending on what actually occurs in player choice and player numbers. That was what was so cool about the game. I ran this with a small number of players which left a few cool storylines unfulfilled and can only imagine if I had ran it with full cast of characters. I also fell to a hazard of allowing a couple to bring their kids into the mix, the youngest being close to five years old. This is not a game for kids, and had to edit a bit of content to accommodate them, but the reactions to the horrible creatures of the Mythos was priceless when things spawned.
The one exception to my overall excitement while reading this are the photos. While it is amazing to see the game and the players(“it’s been played before, yay”), I almost wished for staged pictures, somewhere on the mesa with a big red barn, with some kind of treatment to the pics, or even just some killer art, like the awesome cover, and I don’t need pictures on my character sheets. Otherwise the treatment for the pages was pretty cool, liked the look of the book and the info it contained to run this or to use the monsters stats for something else as well as the construction notes. Thanks for the Teratology at the end, was a nice note to also give info to my more science minded PCs so they actually have information on the cryptological Chupacabra.
Overall, just a good read. As a game it runs very smoothly because of a top notch scenario with multiple threads that can all be changed in a matter of moments or motivations.
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Setting the moderately obnoxious name aside (but it made you look, didn't it), there's nothing overly prurient about these cardstock monsters. Yeah, they're female. Yeah, there are bare breasts. That's, um, about it. The art is a little on the cartoonish side, but that's expected when you need a picture that will render to a miniature figure. It takes me back to the days of the 1st Edition Monster Manual, when female monsters with bare breasts was acceptable and kind of expected.
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When it comes to cardstock minis, my only two criteria are: 1) Will I need/want to use these in my game? (HECK YEAH!)
2) Do they look cool? (DEFINITELY!)
This artist, Alejandro, did really great job rendering a nice variety of savage looking snake men. A welcome addition to my tabletop adventures.
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I'm one of those people that really likes random encounter tables. They keep me from using the same monsters over and over. If you like them too than you will like this book. I have found it very usefull in my Mutant Future games.
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I like these because they are not like any of the other minis on the market. I found the art work very unique and fills a role in a campaign I am running.
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For the second time, I bought a CotW product. And for a second time, I like it enough to review it.
On my first review, I made a complaint about the lack of a few tables that hindered the book, since you needed to carry the core book as well. Not only did they patch that with an update, but they remembered the feedback when writing Mutational Evolution. That's worth a note.
Each book had a hidden gem. Last time, it was the nanite-infused rocks, a nice concept even if I still have no clue how to use it. This time, it is the four family trees. Not just because they help put everything in sequence, but because you can print them out, stick them on the wall and flip between the mini-essays in the front and the creature descriptions, tracking how things grew, changed and died.
This makes the book more useful than not only pretty much every other Make A Monster product (most of which help generate one-off oddballs instead of genera and families) but also beats my biology school books hollow.
How many game products can you say that about?
For the tl:dr crowd, this not only gives you four groups of monsters to use, you get the tools to make many more. And you might even learn something to boot.
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An interesting read, and for all the animals that they put into the book, it seems to have a good grasp. Classes seem balanced and well thought through as do skills.
I just wish they spent more time with the animals in the "race" area, but when all you can fault is you want more, it's always a good sign it was a good product.
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