OSR Commentary On SURVIVE THIS!! What Shadows Hide - Cthulhu Sourcebook By Eric Bloat & Josh Palmer For The SURVIVE THIS!! What Shadows Hide - Core Rules' Rpg

 

It is a mistake to fancy that horror is associated inextricably with darkness, silence, and solitude.

H. P. Lovecraft

SURVIVE THIS!! What Shadows Hide - Cthulhu Sourcebook is the Lovecraftian supplemental book for the  SURVIVE THIS!! What Shadows Hide rpg. We went over the Survive This What Shadows Hide Rpg here on the blog  The  SURVIVE THIS!! What Shadows Hide - Cthulhu Sourcebook adds & fills in the cracks of the world of What Shadows Hide. Created by Eric Bloat & Josh Palmer, SURVIVE THIS!! What Shadows Hide is a standalone roleplaying game and does not require any additional gaming material to play.  However, as part of the SURVIVE THIS!! game line, What Shadows Hide is 100% fully compatible with SURVIVE THIS!! ZOMBIES!, DARK PLACES & DEMOGORGONS, VIGILANTE CITY, and SURVIVE THIS!! FANTASY, We Die Young, and can be used to mix and match to create your own custom play experiences.
What  SURVIVE THIS!! What Shadows Hide - Cthulhu Sourcebook does is add in a completely Lovecraftian aspect starting with the Cosmos Cats PC race. These are dimensional visitors from another reality who are actually companions to mankind even if we are not aware of it. We then get a pethora of new PC classes including the following: 

    Archeologist  8

          Priest of the Darkness 10

          Priest of the Light 12

          Priest of the Mother 14

          Priest of the Old Ones 16

          Priest of the Protean Path 18

          Priest of the Void 20

          Psion 24

          Warlock 28

          Witch 32

 All of which fit the Lovecraftian bill for a full on 'What Shadows Hide' campaign.The Psychic Abilities  fit into the Lovecraftian bill with little issue aligning with the Mythos angles within the  Mythos Cults & the Old Gods section.All of the chapters within   SURVIVE THIS!! What Shadows Hide - Cthulhu Sourcebook By Eric Bloat & Josh Palmer fit the Lovecraft circle of writers canon ideals. The book is informative, perfect for an extended Lovecraft or Mythos campaign. And everything within the SURVIVE THIS!! What Shadows Hide - Cthulhu Sourcebook fits snugly into the  SURVIVE THIS!! We Die Young RPG Core Rules a sort of 90's homage horror rpg. 

The SURVIVE THIS!! What Shadows Hide - Cthulhu Sourcebook  is the adversary and Lovecraftian horror, cult, and enemy book all rolled into one for the Survive This line of Rpg's. Cults are some of the most dangerous rpg enemies a party of PC's can face. And the book does an excellent job of bringing this home. 
Cults and other occult oganizations are enemies that can be defeated the forces of the Lovecraftian mythos are another story entirely. 
SURVIVE THIS!! What Shadows Hide - Cthulhu Sourcebook By Eric Bloat & Josh Palmer Is Available Here 

OSR Commentary & Reviews - 'SURVIVE THIS!! What Shadows Hide - Core Rules' By Josh Palmer & Eric Bloat For The 'SURVIVE THIS!! Rpg System

"STWSH is a modern horror and investigation game in the same vein as the X-files, Supernatural and Hellboy. In the game you will go head to head with evil secret organizations, the occult, supernatural and cosmic horrors."

"Created by Eric Bloat & Josh Palmer, SURVIVE THIS!! What Shadows Hide is a standalone roleplaying game and does not require any additional gaming material to play. However, as part of the SURVIVE THIS!! game line, What Shadows Hide is 100% fully compatible with SURVIVE THIS!! ZOMBIES!, DARK PLACES & DEMOGORGONS, VIGILANTE CITY, and SURVIVE THIS!! FANTASY, We Die Young, and can be used to mix and match to create your own custom play experience"
'SURVIVE THIS!! What Shadows Hide - Core Rules' By Josh Palmer & Eric Bloat is an OSR dark horse of a horror rpg. And if I hadn't been on the ball looking around then I would never have even known about it. That's a real shame because of the fact that Josh Palmer does a really decent supernatural & occult Lovecraftian OSR game. The SURVIVE THIS!! What Shadows Hide - Cthulhu Sourcebook came at me with the 'Survive This!! What Shadows Hide' rpg  book as a part of a one two punch offer last month.
What  'Survive This!! What Shadows Hide' rpg is offers a 'Survive This rpg' system horror  & occult  alternative to many other horror OSR rpg systems on the market. And it works quite well with other OSR systems. What Shadows Hide actually does is allow the DM to bring the pain of Eighties & Nineties classic horror into an OSR campaign centered around the classic horror races:

• Dimensional Forsaken
• Doppelgangers
• Fairies
• Ghosts
• Ghouls
• Greys
• Half Mer-men
• Humans
• Jari-Ka
• Negator
• Reptilians
• Vampires
•   Were-beasts

These are perfect for constructing both PC's & NPC creatures within your own horror or supernatural campaigns.  What SURVIVE THIS!! What Shadows Hide'. 'What Shadows Hide' has a decent array of PC classes as well; Academic,Arcane Thief, C.A.R.E. Field Agent, Exorcist, Medium, Monster Hunter, Mystic,Necromancer,Occultist, Paranormal Investigator, & Void Master. And this is all in the main book which also features a very simple & easy to understand alignment system.  A really solid dice mechanic, layout, and much more. Best of all  'SURVIVE THIS!! What Shadows Hide - Core Rules' are fully compatible with the other  'SURVIVE THIS!!  Core Rules' systems. Allowing one to run both  'SURVIVE THIS!! What Shadows Hide' & 'Vigilante CIty Core Rules - SURVIVE THIS!!' together. 
So a dark OSR  supernatural superhero campaign is easily done. And that's one of my goals with this..  'SURVIVE THIS!! What Shadows Hide - Core Rules' By Josh Palmer & Eric Bloat is a solid addition to an OSR DM's tool box. 

'SURVIVE THIS!! What Shadows Hide - Core Rules' By Josh Palmer & Eric Bloat Is Available Here 

OSR Review of Scorched - An Apocalyptic Science Fiction Roleplaying Game by Eric Bloat, & Josh Palmer From Bloat Games

 "Bloat Games is excited to announce SCORCHED.

This game is based on the simple concept, "What if Luke never left Tatooine?"

'It's definitely heavily Star Wars inspired with a side of Mad Max thrown in for good measure. And did we mention, it has Power Armors?

Scorched is a full stand-alone TTRPG, clocking in at 223 pages, but is also fully compatible with The Blackest Space and can be used as a supplement to that game, also.

Scorched is a game that utilizes the BoD game system created by Eric Bloat for The Blackest of Deaths RPG."

"The BoD game system is based on the d20 OGL with updates and alternate rules, most-notably the Core Mechanic:  Roll 1d20 & 1d6 Simultaneously

When you attack, make a save, make a skill, etc. roll a d20 and a d6 and add any applicable modifiers to the d20 roll.

If you meet, or beat, the target Difficulty Check or Evade score you succeed.

On the d6, do not add modifiers unless specifically instructed and ignore a roll of 2, 3, 4 or 5. For a roll of 1 add a Hindrance and for a roll of 6 add a Benefit. 

Hindrance

Hindrance adds an additional challenge or difficulty that was not present before the attempt."

Scorched came across my desk through my purchasing it on Drivethrurpg & the rpg comes across  as a mix of  power armor & 'Space Hunter Adventures in the Forbidden Zone'. This rpg has a myriad of micro settings all tied into the planetary setting of Lazarus-3. You've got  warriors, survivors, spacers,magick, you've got power armor, you've got wastelands, and much more.
All of this comes under the heading of Scorched rpg's two hundred & twenty six pages. And within there are the alien races of Lazarus-3 are varied & there's enough choice that can give the players solid races. We've got Feysprouted, a sort of alien psychic Fey, human obviously. Mirewhips alien whip like aliens, robos free willed alien cybernetic lifeforms, Sandkrait alien repitlians, and then its off the classes!  
Here we've got bounty hunters. emmisary representatives from alien cultures, fortune hunter, mercenaries, pilot, raiders, rogues, warmages, and zealots. So generate your stats, pick your race, and pick your class. 
And then we get deep into the weapons & equipment! There's a ton of good gear ready to go for the PC's. 
One thing about Lazarus -3 it centers itself around cybernetic life forms & mecha! And its an alien desert wasteland ready to drop the players into! 
No seriously its that quick! You are ready to go in what looks like about fifteen minutes! And there's even random encounter charts & what not ready to go! 
And this follows the Bloat Games formula down line, quick ruled OSR games ready to play that follow the guidelines laid down by Eric Bloat & company! 

Scorched is no different because it follows the design path laid down in Survive This!! Blackest of Space rpg.  Because the two games are 100% cross compatible and this is another benefit to Bloat games material. 

Do you need the Scorched rpg for 'Blackest of Space' setting ?! Nope, everything you need for a Scorched  rpg campaign is in Scorched rule book. Its very nice to have the option of using 'Blackest of Space' with Scorched. Lazarus-3 is a solid & very interesting world all on its one within Scorched! 
Scorched is a rare bird in the OSR , a complete game unto itself  with everything you need to play straight outta of the box! Scorched is a good solid OSR Science Fiction or Science Fantasy rpg that works well with other OSR games! So its a solid investiment for the OSR DM. 

 Scorched - An Apocalyptic Science Fiction Roleplaying Game by  Eric Bloat, & Josh Palmer From Bloat Games Available Here