£3.50
Cover Artists: Melissa Gay
Pages: 13
Hideous Creatures: Serpent Folk
Hideous Creatures: Serpent Folk
“The features mingled and merged in a seemingly impossible manner. Then, like a fading mask of fog, the face suddenly vanished and in its stead gaped and leered a monstrous serpent’s head!” They built Valusia before the dinosaurs, and lurk behind half mankind’s darkest cults. Are they extra-dimensional, extra-terrestrial, or just extra venomous? You won’t fool the Children of Yig, in any skin they wear.
The squamous serpent folk resemble upright, bipedal snakes, with wedge-shaped heads and taloned arms. They can sense motion, have a keen sense of smell thanks to their forked tongues, and can detect heat like a pit viper. They range in color from green and brown to pale yellow or gray, often spotted or streaked with darker markings.
Hideous Creatures: Serpent Folk includes,
- Two unique scenario seeds, Ten Little Sapiens, and The Hills Have Nictitating Membranes
- Keeper clues for every Trail of Cthulhu Investigative ability
- Seven mythic echoes from across the world
- Thirty-two Serpent Folk variations
- Statistics for degenerate Serpent Folk: Children of the Night and Worms of the Earth
- And new powers, like Torpor and Toxicompositor, with GUMSHOE statistics.
Praise for Hideous Creatures,
“a brief injection of Hite-ian awesome … they’re just about the right length to digest in a single sitting, and full of amazing ideas that will make anyone’s game into a flavourful occult gumbo.” – High Trust, High Drama Blog
“I consider this series a wake-up call to the lacklustre, to remind them tales of the Mythos, using whatever system, should instill uneasiness, upset and fear. Grasp the potential of the unearthly and inhuman…” – Paul Baldowski
Hideous Creatures: Serpent Folk is the fourth installment of the second Ken Writes About Stuff subscription.