OHT
Reviewer
- Joined
- Apr 25, 2017
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I backed the Kickstarter for Sandy Petersen's Cthulhu Mythos 5e and to say it was a disappointment is an understatement. The crunch feels like it was designed by a 3x/Pathfinder player with only a vague grasp of 5e's design principles. Between the weird fiddly rules, baffling design decisions, and needless complication I found precious little content that was fit for my table. I was particularly disappointed by the spell section.
In addition to the terrible crunch, everything from the choice of fonts (an awful unreadable font was chosen for all the HPL quotes) to typos made it feel like there was a lack of proofreading and professional design. It felt slapped together.
The target audience appears to be uncritical DMs who want to mash the Mythos into their Tolkien-derivative kitchen sink fantasy world.
It was originally released as a Pathfinder sourcebook, so maybe not surprising that it retains some flavour from that.