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# ![@SandyofCthulhu Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:26/cr:twitter::900868190.png) @SandyofCthulhu Sandy Petersen 🪔

Sandy Petersen, a renowned game designer, recently expressed pride in having contributed to bringing H.P. Lovecraft's works out of near-obscurity and into fame, with many fans crediting his games, particularly Call of Cthulhu, for introducing them to Lovecraft's works. He also made light of his involvement in the gaming industry, joking about his role in creating content for Dungeons & Dragons and other games. Petersen's tweets showcase his interests in gaming, history, and pop culture.

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[countries](/list/countries)  XXXX% [finance](/list/finance)  #1381 [gaming](/list/gaming)  XXX% [stocks](/list/stocks)  XXXX% [automotive brands](/list/automotive-brands)  #3686 [celebrities](/list/celebrities)  XXXX% [musicians](/list/musicians)  XXXX% [travel destinations](/list/travel-destinations)  XXXX% [technology brands](/list/technology-brands)  XXXX%

**Social topic influence**
[all the](/topic/all-the) #3651, [age of](/topic/age-of) #154, [age of empires](/topic/age-of-empires) #6, [sandy](/topic/sandy) #4, [has been](/topic/has-been) 0.35%, [game of](/topic/game-of) #106, [instead of](/topic/instead-of) #326, [monsters](/topic/monsters) #1083, [rick](/topic/rick) #1413, [villain](/topic/villain) #168

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**Top assets mentioned**
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### Top Social Posts [#](/creator/twitter::900868190/posts)
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Top posts by engagements in the last XX hours

"To whom it may concern: the James Webb telescope has a reflector over 6m wide and is the largest space telescope. Right now in Chile they are building the ELT which will have a reflector 39m wide and will be the most powerful telescope of all time. You could put the James Webb telescope inside the ELT and you STILL wouldnt be able to detect my interest in your question"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/1976376252924911784) [@SandyofCthulhu](/creator/x/SandyofCthulhu) 2025-10-09T19:56Z 46K followers, 30.7K engagements


"Anyone else remember the episode of Surf Dracula where he plays Dracs evil tax auditor"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/1978627055026921971) [@SandyofCthulhu](/creator/x/SandyofCthulhu) 2025-10-16T01:00Z 46K followers, 13.5K engagements


"My pal Steve Perrin a founder of the Society for Creative Anachronism who fought hand-to-hand many times told me unequivocably that sword and shield is BY FAR the best combination. He also said that ultimately it is the man not the weapon. I.e. the better fighter wins despite an inferior weapon"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/1978655490608664588) [@SandyofCthulhu](/creator/x/SandyofCthulhu) 2025-10-16T02:53Z 46K followers, 27.1K engagements


"The word "orange" was only used to refer to the House of Orange in the Netherlands until the fruit made it to American and we adopted the word for the fruit's color. Before then things that we would now call "orange" were called either "red" or "dark yellow" depending on the shade. This is why the obviously orange British Robin is named "redbreast". No word for the color. American robins are a darker shade of orange but still not necessarily red. British ones are cuter. Ours are pretty good though"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/1978914245254484255) [@SandyofCthulhu](/creator/x/SandyofCthulhu) 2025-10-16T20:01Z 46K followers, 10.1K engagements


"It's an issue for one of the core Call of Cthulhu game skills - Library Use. On the other hand it's true that something like 85-90% of all material published since 1970 is NOT on the internet and I'm sure it's much worse for earlier publications so who knows. Plus I suppose we can substitute Computer Use"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/1979263413256884448) [@SandyofCthulhu](/creator/x/SandyofCthulhu) 2025-10-17T19:09Z 46K followers, 6362 engagements


"So in Call of Cthulhu instead I focused on solving a mystery. A lot of Lovecraft's tales are written as mysteries including The Call of Cthulhu itself. So the players have to puzzle out what's going on and in the meantime the villains are gaining momentum giving the players a feeling of urgency. I figured that mysteries are popular and the research and exploration and investigation could take the place of combat as the "fun" part of the game. And it seems to have worked. And it makes Call of Cthulhu rather contrarian. You see if you want the compelling fight - level up - fight cycle you can"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/1979287034603934026) [@SandyofCthulhu](/creator/x/SandyofCthulhu) 2025-10-17T20:42Z 46K followers, 3096 engagements


"Best movie from communist Russia"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/1979294879089070460) [@SandyofCthulhu](/creator/x/SandyofCthulhu) 2025-10-17T21:14Z 46K followers, 9749 engagements


"We had a Long John Silvers replace the Arbys in my home town. All my friends & kids were thrilled. It only lasted a year or two which broke their hearts. Now its a trendy taco shop selling stuff like bulgogi tacos and roasted cauliflower tacos. Ecch"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/1979583768450277718) [@SandyofCthulhu](/creator/x/SandyofCthulhu) 2025-10-18T16:22Z 46K followers, 4321 engagements


"For those who love Starship Troopers I recommend Bill the Galactic Hero which is a parody of Troopers. Its by Harry Harrison a great sci-fi writer in his own right"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/1979644576525959198) [@SandyofCthulhu](/creator/x/SandyofCthulhu) 2025-10-18T20:23Z 46K followers, 5046 engagements


"Its possible to have a charismatic smart villain whom you follow throughout the show yet be thrilled when he gets his comeuppance. A good example is Ian McKellen in the film version of Richard III. He nails it. Another is Blacula. There are of course many more"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/1979683099509416023) [@SandyofCthulhu](/creator/x/SandyofCthulhu) 2025-10-18T22:56Z 46K followers, 3612 engagements


"I find it depressing that the most popular Real Time Strategy game (according to the ever-reliable Reddit) is still Age of Empires X which we released in 1999. There's been updates yeah. But NO huge improvements in RTS for XX years"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/1933557673817223479) [@SandyofCthulhu](/creator/x/SandyofCthulhu) 2025-06-13T16:10Z 45.8K followers, 78.4K engagements


"I crusade against XP so often. Here is why I don't like XP: 1) it pops players out of the fantasy realm and into the game's statistics and rules. 2) it deforms play by making players value aspects of the game that in reality they might not. Example: a D&D player won't heroically refuse a reward because then he'll lose XP unless he can convince the DM it's worth the same. 3) it leads to additional arguments and discussions between the players and players & DMs"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/1974854163050959322) [@SandyofCthulhu](/creator/x/SandyofCthulhu) 2025-10-05T15:08Z 45.6K followers, 20.5K engagements


"The nation of Tuvalu a sea-level island group had a net increase in total land area of XX hectares (2.9%) between 1971 and 2014. This was a study done in 2018. I'm not saying climate change isn't real but advocates need to learn to present better evidence than making lists of Bad Things that have happened since time began"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/1974862666952061306) [@SandyofCthulhu](/creator/x/SandyofCthulhu) 2025-10-05T15:42Z 45.7K followers, 19.3K engagements


"Yay I saved $2450 a month"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/1975013430005510567) [@SandyofCthulhu](/creator/x/SandyofCthulhu) 2025-10-06T01:41Z 45.7K followers, 7637 engagements


"Rule #1 If they tell you they are an alpha male then they are not an alpha male"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/1975038249530995047) [@SandyofCthulhu](/creator/x/SandyofCthulhu) 2025-10-06T03:19Z 45.8K followers, 3964 engagements


"This image of an NPC in Keep on the Borderlands is terrible and here is why. It drops you right out of the fantasy-medieval milieu. The first owner-propelled wheelchairs werent till the late 1800s. They are as anachronistic as Gatling guns steamships & locomotives. None of which I would allow in a medieval game. If you must have a disabled person (despite the Regeneration spell) at least have them be disabled in a medieval-friendly way - bedridden set on a platform or in a big comfy chair. Not a wheelchair"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/1975377379938959478) [@SandyofCthulhu](/creator/x/SandyofCthulhu) 2025-10-07T01:47Z 45.8K followers, 72.8K engagements


"A mace is by far the best anti-zombie weapon. Doesnt get stuck easy to wield and lethal breaking limb bones & skulls. A bat or club are functionally similar but sticking to the mace. Its main drawback is its not useful for much besides combat whereas a machete or axe is"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/1975564737594466570) [@SandyofCthulhu](/creator/x/SandyofCthulhu) 2025-10-07T14:11Z 45.4K followers, 5839 engagements


"Also don't take a katana. The main advantage is it's sharp and easy to get (America's lousy with them). But they have a short reach for their length. A typical XXX lb katana has an overall length of about XX inches compared to a XXX lb European longsword overall XX inches. So you can either get a lighter European sword for the same length or a longer one. The sharpness is indeed useful as you can lop off limbs & heads comparatively easily but the less-sharp European sword will still crack skulls and break spines & bones. More to the point the complex construction of katanas makes them highly"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/1975593477481341301) [@SandyofCthulhu](/creator/x/SandyofCthulhu) 2025-10-07T16:06Z 45.7K followers, 23.6K engagements


"If you believe this then as a rational unbeliever wouldnt you WANT people driven by this belief to keep on believing"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/1975965837505986710) [@SandyofCthulhu](/creator/x/SandyofCthulhu) 2025-10-08T16:45Z 45.6K followers, 26.4K engagements


"The first widely recognized self-propelled wheelchair was invented by Stephan Farfler in 1655. However earlier forms of wheeled chairs existed such as a chair commissioned by King Philip II of Spain in 1595 that required a servant to push it. There is no record of Pope Honorius (either Honorius I or Honorius III or the later Honorius IV) using a wheeled chair; however the use of the sedia gestatoria a ceremonial throne carried by footmen was common for popes. Not the same thing. I DID my research Margaret. I don't mean this to sound argumentative and it's certainly possible that either my (or"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/1975988416304251103) [@SandyofCthulhu](/creator/x/SandyofCthulhu) 2025-10-08T18:15Z 45.8K followers, 9631 engagements


"Why I run Call of Cthulhu in the 2020s. In short I feel it's easier to make a scary story when the players can reasonably imagine themselves in the milieu. It's easier to imagine themselves nowadays than in the 1920s. It also makes the game flow faster. You don't have to look up whether pizza was available in Atlanta in 1928 or if there was a shop selling Thompson submachineguns or whether there was regular air service to Berlin. It's far simpler to determine everything. You don't need some kind of background book for details - it's at the tip of your fingers. Even an unfamiliar town you can"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/1976043881033760778) [@SandyofCthulhu](/creator/x/SandyofCthulhu) 2025-10-08T21:55Z 45.8K followers, 2789 engagements


"Maggie De Block was Minister of Health in Belgium till 2020. I approve 100%"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/1976047031635542249) [@SandyofCthulhu](/creator/x/SandyofCthulhu) 2025-10-08T22:08Z 45.5K followers, 4546 engagements


"Sandys Spooky assignment for today: Read X Samuel XX. It is actually pretty creepy. Particularly if you dont pay attention to all the cope from preachers who hate what the story plainly says"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/1976260440633319563) [@SandyofCthulhu](/creator/x/SandyofCthulhu) 2025-10-09T12:16Z 45.7K followers, 6908 engagements


"This is Dunwich England. Obviously haunted & dreary. Legend says the encroaching sea has engulfed seventeen churches or abbeys. Supposedly you can hear the undersea bells in the sunken chapels ring on moonless nights at the seashore. No wonder Lovecraft named a New England town after it"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/1976393606668927243) [@SandyofCthulhu](/creator/x/SandyofCthulhu) 2025-10-09T21:05Z 45.8K followers, 2833 engagements


"I saw some people posting baby animals so here is an adorable baby lobster"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/1976764647765381608) [@SandyofCthulhu](/creator/x/SandyofCthulhu) 2025-10-10T21:39Z 45.9K followers, 4662 engagements


"Three things I believe about orcs: ONE: Orc females look like the males. As flat-chested as chimps as aggressive & cruel as the males. When pregnant they sequester themselves give birth and abandon the kid in a warren with other young orcs and a few guardians. They grow fast squabbling over food & such. 1/"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/1976864026257674734) [@SandyofCthulhu](/creator/x/SandyofCthulhu) 2025-10-11T04:14Z 45.9K followers, 14.9K engagements


"A flatearther told me that it looks curved because gravity pulls the light waves down. Its Einstein. He said"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/1977417840509751676) [@SandyofCthulhu](/creator/x/SandyofCthulhu) 2025-10-12T16:55Z 45.5K followers, 10.2K engagements


"The what if Superman was evil comics do not ring true. Superman has been shown to be able to move the moon. All he has to do is hurl the moon into the Earth - or if he wants to rule instead just threaten to do so. Thats why Superman is the most boring superhero. He can do anything"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/1977807545889935438) [@SandyofCthulhu](/creator/x/SandyofCthulhu) 2025-10-13T18:43Z 45.8K followers, 13K engagements


"Here is a design for an improved 4-sided die. IYKYK"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/1977845044628566101) [@SandyofCthulhu](/creator/x/SandyofCthulhu) 2025-10-13T21:12Z 45.7K followers, 18.7K engagements


"If youve read The Shadow Over Innsmouth you know whats going on here"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/1978097823863144862) [@SandyofCthulhu](/creator/x/SandyofCthulhu) 2025-10-14T13:57Z 45.7K followers, 31.2K engagements


"Everybody gangsta till I pull out Ral Partha's "three headed troll". Because the players KNOW they can't take these dudes down. Nyuk nyuk nyuk"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/1978134411330675160) [@SandyofCthulhu](/creator/x/SandyofCthulhu) 2025-10-14T16:22Z 45.7K followers, 9269 engagements


"Doom II Map XX was named "Nirvana" and I made it the year Kurt Cobain killed himself with a shotgun. There is a shotgun in the opening room AND a cluster of imps around a corpse. Thanks to the imp's idle animation it looks like they are eating the corpse. I swear it is a grim coincidence. I never ever listened to Nirvana (I don't think anyone at id did.). I picked the map name out of the blue"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/1978137447285522792) [@SandyofCthulhu](/creator/x/SandyofCthulhu) 2025-10-14T16:34Z 45.8K followers, 19.2K engagements


"For those mocking the absolutely-perfect Surf Dracula example you got to know your vampire rules. First its running water that stops him. Not the ocean. Thats why in Season X episode X The Bite Stuff Drac cant follow the perfume thieves over the river bridge but he can surf around the rivers mouth. Second he usually surfs at night. The glowing track is healthy phosphorescent plankton not nuclear waste. The fact that Roscoe B. thinks otherwise is a running joke. Third when he surfs in the day he is using his Sunblocker 5000 cream. You can briefly see a tube of it in his bathroom cabinet in"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/1978224691358937541) [@SandyofCthulhu](/creator/x/SandyofCthulhu) 2025-10-14T22:21Z 45.8K followers, 44.2K engagements


"The Japanese had a brilliant plan to ensure victory in world war X. Basically it was that they would be able to outrange their enemies so they could strike at the USA and not be hit back. They created gigantic battleships with guns that could fire further than anyone else's. They had the Long Lance torpedo which had triple the range of American torpedoes. And their aircraft ranges far exceeded ours. The Zero had twice the range of the Wildcat the Betty could reach 4800 km (the B-24 less than half) and the Emily flying boat reached 4500 km (the PBY 4000 but the Emily was also significantly"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/1978251982445162604) [@SandyofCthulhu](/creator/x/SandyofCthulhu) 2025-10-15T00:10Z 45.6K followers, 12.6K engagements


"The Imperial Japanese made a pretty amateurish mistake when it came to making their airplanes the best. They had incredible designers but they hung their hats on the idea of having the most maneuverable lightest and longest-range aircraft. They did this by leaving out every scrap of armor or self-sealing fuel tanks. This meant that a single bullet in the fuel meant you were going down eventually as it leaked out. So you know a self-sealing fuel tank works by a layer of foam rubber along the inside of the tank so a bullet penetrates but the foam seals up (if the bullet's not TOO big) and keeps"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/1978256157258182946) [@SandyofCthulhu](/creator/x/SandyofCthulhu) 2025-10-15T00:26Z 45.8K followers, 21.1K engagements


"About five years before his death Greg Stafford called me laughing and happy and told me that he had stopped smoking weed. He said that his mind was clear now. He could imagine things better. He said he could start writing again. The fog was gone. He actually said the words "I'm high on life." Cringe I know. I told him "Greg if I had told you these things back in the 80s you would have laughed me to scorn." A little abashed he agreed. But then he laughed and was cheery again. So that is one data point about weed from a long-time user. Of course I have others but all point in the same"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/1978258377978613890) [@SandyofCthulhu](/creator/x/SandyofCthulhu) 2025-10-15T00:35Z 45.8K followers, 16.6K engagements


"They were all immediately kicked out of the organization Jessica. I'm not defending them at all and neither is any Republican"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/1978470044662411661) [@SandyofCthulhu](/creator/x/SandyofCthulhu) 2025-10-15T14:36Z 45.4K followers, 9586 engagements


"I hear if you have X guinea pigs in Switzerland and one of them dies the police show up within the hour to take you away to a Swiss outdoor prison. Which means you have to learn how to play the alpenhorn"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/1978478203279905151) [@SandyofCthulhu](/creator/x/SandyofCthulhu) 2025-10-15T15:08Z 45.8K followers, 4470 engagements


"America is revoking Visas from people who praise Charlie Kirk's death. Britain is jailing people who are "anti-islamic". But these are not the same. Americans are not putting people in jail for obscene posts - we're revoking visas. We don't want them here so they have to go home. American citizens are perfectly able to cheer Kirk's death should they wish suffering only the consequences of public obluquy. Non-citizens have no such right here. But the British are jailing their actual citizens on behalf of non-citizens which is of course the opposite"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/1978478943603994745) [@SandyofCthulhu](/creator/x/SandyofCthulhu) 2025-10-15T15:11Z 45.8K followers, 13.4K engagements


"An example of how I creeped out my players in Call of Cthulhu. The players were investigating a possibly-haunted house. When one investigator was checking out the upstairs hallway I mentioned a velvet painting of a seascape on the wall. Later on one of the other players said "Wait. I want to go look at that seascape." and I told her the painting was actually a Chesley Bonestell-style moonscape. The first player asked "Wait . did it change" I said "You only glanced at it. Maybe you saw it wrong" So that had them nervous. Then when they checked their phone messages one of the messages was the"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/1978480689948533163) [@SandyofCthulhu](/creator/x/SandyofCthulhu) 2025-10-15T15:18Z 45.7K followers, 8690 engagements


"@moseley_bo Read up on the 25mm gun too its astonishingly bad"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/1978500039388393961) [@SandyofCthulhu](/creator/x/SandyofCthulhu) 2025-10-15T16:35Z 45.7K followers, XX engagements


"I actually LIKE the design of the Obama presidential library. On the other hand Im the guy raised on tales of Rlyeh and haunted towers"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/1978513036030677170) [@SandyofCthulhu](/creator/x/SandyofCthulhu) 2025-10-15T17:27Z 45.8K followers, 4458 engagements


"Greatest cosmic horror video game"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/1978525616124149806) [@SandyofCthulhu](/creator/x/SandyofCthulhu) 2025-10-15T18:17Z 45.7K followers, 7663 engagements


"Cutest dog breed. Disclaimer: Ive only ever owned mutts"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/1978580386981535879) [@SandyofCthulhu](/creator/x/SandyofCthulhu) 2025-10-15T21:54Z 45.7K followers, 4044 engagements


"We didn't love Charlie Kirk because he was "beautiful""  
[X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/1978609973207900388) [@SandyofCthulhu](/creator/x/SandyofCthulhu) 2025-10-15T23:52Z 45.8K followers, 16.1K engagements


"@FortIronhold Im pretty sure blue dragon politics dont map to human"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/1978619117340078427) [@SandyofCthulhu](/creator/x/SandyofCthulhu) 2025-10-16T00:28Z 45.8K followers, 20.1K engagements


"I Shub-Niggurath The Goat with a Thousand Young I commissioned this image and told Tom Sullivan what I wanted and his skill & imagination made something that went far beyond my hopes"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/1978970686476685703) [@SandyofCthulhu](/creator/x/SandyofCthulhu) 2025-10-16T23:45Z 45.9K followers, 5572 engagements


"@Psalm_23_4 He is the Opener of the Way. Yog-Sothoth is the Key and the Gate. All are one in Yog-Sothoth"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/1979050302373339471) [@SandyofCthulhu](/creator/x/SandyofCthulhu) 2025-10-17T05:02Z 45.8K followers, XXX engagements


"@DecryptedTech Ah. All publicity is good publicity. Did it work for Bud lite Cracker Barrel and the Edsel"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/1978620072441868523) [@SandyofCthulhu](/creator/x/SandyofCthulhu) 2025-10-16T00:32Z 46K followers, 11.5K engagements


"what's your favorite movie based on the Colour Out of Space by Lovecraft Also did I miss any"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/1978872804113289328) [@SandyofCthulhu](/creator/x/SandyofCthulhu) 2025-10-16T17:16Z 46K followers, 6802 engagements


"When someone says Why do you care so much about trivial thing Whether it is whining about a minor political hiccup or WotCs art; what they are really saying is I care about trivial thing but dont have any arguments against your points so I want you to stop"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/1978886208374624452) [@SandyofCthulhu](/creator/x/SandyofCthulhu) 2025-10-16T18:10Z 46K followers, 15K engagements


"I started in 1974. So for me there are only three classes core or otherwise"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/1978970180249358783) [@SandyofCthulhu](/creator/x/SandyofCthulhu) 2025-10-16T23:43Z 46K followers, 11.9K engagements


"The man who gave us Jar Jar Binks and Midichlorions AND decided that all Jedis wear ratty desert robes because Obi-Wan wore them when he lived on Tatooine is not the man to "save the franchise""  
[X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/1979275702093713853) [@SandyofCthulhu](/creator/x/SandyofCthulhu) 2025-10-17T19:57Z 46K followers, 29.7K engagements


"If you're a physical media collector what is your current Holy Grail media item I have two such: my coffin-shaped box of all the Blind Dead movies and my collection of all the Planet of the Ape films plus the TV show in a plastic ape head. (It was made too early to have all the movies since 2000 though.)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/1979289857177588136) [@SandyofCthulhu](/creator/x/SandyofCthulhu) 2025-10-17T20:54Z 46K followers, 5758 engagements


"In my opinion creating a character in a TTRPG should be fun. So much so that players always have one or two pregenerated in their folder. Just in case. The best example of this is Champions where working out a hero was more fun than playing them in many cases"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/1979771612712059025) [@SandyofCthulhu](/creator/x/SandyofCthulhu) 2025-10-19T04:48Z 46K followers, 6258 engagements


"Anyway pretty much all of the colonial officials were also pro-smuggling - after all the prices affected them too. So the Gaspee found mighty little cooperation. As a result the captain decided to be more and more bellicose in its actions stopping ships beating merchant captains and confiscating goods on any suspicion of smuggling. The Gaspee eventually docked in Naragansett Harbor where it cast a pall over all the activities. No one dared to unload or load goods for fear of the Gaspee's interference even in what the British might consider legitimate trade. It came to a head when a band of"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/1979929460905480563) [@SandyofCthulhu](/creator/x/SandyofCthulhu) 2025-10-19T15:15Z 46K followers, 1769 engagements


"I felt Game of Thrones was morally gray-and-black. Basically a reduced spectrum which inherently restricted it. I admit I got bored fast and quit it so maybe it improved later"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/1979985700721397912) [@SandyofCthulhu](/creator/x/SandyofCthulhu) 2025-10-19T18:59Z 46K followers, 2171 engagements


"You know I've SEEN She-Wolf of the SS"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/1980060025961009266) [@SandyofCthulhu](/creator/x/SandyofCthulhu) 2025-10-19T23:54Z 46K followers, 4529 engagements


"I actually saw a ghost at age XX so all arguments against or dismissals of ghosts are ludicrous to me. Now you could argue that the pale translucent figure I saw floating in the air wasn't a spirit of the dead. But what I saw would be called a "ghost" by any reasonable person"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/1973530436791050422) [@SandyofCthulhu](/creator/x/SandyofCthulhu) 2025-10-01T23:28Z 45.9K followers, 5595 engagements


"Saw a Tom Bombadil post. Got triggered. Here's my take: Tom is one of the most sinister characters in LoTR. Here's why: 1) In Middle Earth when a magical ruler is evil so is the land he rules. The Old Forest is relentlessly hostile Every tree is malign. 2) Tom is a known liar. He says to the hobbits that Farmer Maggot warned him of their coming. But Farmer Maggot didn't even know that Frodo was leaving the Shire. 3) Gandalf emphatically says Tom should NOT get the ring. He gives conflicting excuses why not. 4) Tom is not ancient. Elrond had never heard of him Had no elf in millennia"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/1974892403007090928) [@SandyofCthulhu](/creator/x/SandyofCthulhu) 2025-10-05T17:40Z 46K followers, 102.6K engagements


"I don't think people realize how easy it is for an edged or pointed weapon to get stuck inside a zombie. This happened A LOT in ancient and medieval times. It's literally the reason warriors carried swords or daggers for a back-up. Any thrusting weapon is likely to get stuck and then you're disarmed. Two-handed axes or halberds are slightly less because of the huge wounds they create but also take some strength and even skill. The advantage of maces is you don't care about the directly the weapon is facing - it's awesome every way. If I had to use a non-mace/non-club in the zombie apocalypse"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/1975590667440300132) [@SandyofCthulhu](/creator/x/SandyofCthulhu) 2025-10-07T15:54Z 45.9K followers, 15.3K engagements


"If they dont read my worlds history and background I dont have to read their X page origin story"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/1977043669187207569) [@SandyofCthulhu](/creator/x/SandyofCthulhu) 2025-10-11T16:08Z 46K followers, 10.1K engagements


"This needs to be more widely recognized so reposting. I saw this ALL THE TIME working at MicroProse Software and Ensemble Studios. (Not so much id Software because we just let our publishers do all the work.)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/1977803249676861479) [@SandyofCthulhu](/creator/x/SandyofCthulhu) 2025-10-13T18:26Z 46K followers, 9805 engagements


"I just got an idea for a really creepy movie or Call of Cthulhu scenario"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/1977958724452168115) [@SandyofCthulhu](/creator/x/SandyofCthulhu) 2025-10-14T04:44Z 46K followers, 4598 engagements


"Hes not a vampire Fight fight back against the Tom Cruises and Selma Hayeks Good man"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/1978094600305738079) [@SandyofCthulhu](/creator/x/SandyofCthulhu) 2025-10-14T13:44Z 46K followers, 2667 engagements


"@LawDogStrikes I bought one at GenCon"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/1978324102369972692) [@SandyofCthulhu](/creator/x/SandyofCthulhu) 2025-10-15T04:56Z 46K followers, XXX engagements


"Utah based horror movies that I liked: 1) Carnival of Souls 2) Deadstream 3) The Boogens 4) Troll X 5) Silent Night Deadly Night 6) Warlock 7) Hereditary Please note they are not in any order. Obviously Hereditary and Carnival of Souls are the best"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/1978477202670039542) [@SandyofCthulhu](/creator/x/SandyofCthulhu) 2025-10-15T15:04Z 46K followers, 1321 engagements


"@SaintStrega I don't know about the other D&D ish games but Call of Cthulhu is completely and utterly different from D&D"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/1979277220809183255) [@SandyofCthulhu](/creator/x/SandyofCthulhu) 2025-10-17T20:03Z 45.9K followers, XXX engagements


"@IM2BIM Nope. You miss the underlying reality of Call of Cthulhu which is that combat and improving your hero's skills & level is not the core of the game unlike literally every other RPG"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/1979277360542421042) [@SandyofCthulhu](/creator/x/SandyofCthulhu) 2025-10-17T20:04Z 45.9K followers, XXX engagements


"One day I would like to see a logo redesign that made it look better instead of soulless and terrible. Can anyone give a counterexample"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/1958262177229606982) [@SandyofCthulhu](/creator/x/SandyofCthulhu) 2025-08-20T20:17Z 46K followers, 29.5M engagements


"As a man almost XX I support this wholeheartedly. Frankly Id support destroying ALL property taxes and replacing them with a simple land sale tax. When you sell your house XX% (or whatever) goes to the government and they stay the HELL out of your property the rest of the time"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/1965806911351324940) [@SandyofCthulhu](/creator/x/SandyofCthulhu) 2025-09-10T15:57Z 46K followers, 13.8K engagements


"For those unaware a church leader of ours from Louisiana praised Tony's Creole seasoning in a sermon joking that it repaired the inadequacies of your cooking. So there's XX million members of my church heard a free advert. I get to be a hipster and say that I already knew about it and have used it. I admit I don't have it in my kitchen right now because I'm in the food wasteland of Utah"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/1975209320699883595) [@SandyofCthulhu](/creator/x/SandyofCthulhu) 2025-10-06T14:39Z 46K followers, 14.4K engagements


"In case I dont get much of a chance to post tomorrow here is Sandys Spooky Assignment for October 10th. Research the legend of the Tennessee Bell Witch. The only poltergeist known to have killed. It performed other amazing feats. Theres lots of sources so pick a favorite"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/1976489023997956330) [@SandyofCthulhu](/creator/x/SandyofCthulhu) 2025-10-10T03:24Z 46K followers, 2446 engagements


"This is the single best description of modern media I've seen. Surf Dracula"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/1978135716912652665) [@SandyofCthulhu](/creator/x/SandyofCthulhu) 2025-10-14T16:28Z 46K followers, 66.6K engagements


""Kobolds are Lawful Evil. They are organized and cooperative but thoroughly nasty to anything outside of their clan and even to each other much of the time." Actual quote from rules"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/1978616834254573621) [@SandyofCthulhu](/creator/x/SandyofCthulhu) 2025-10-16T00:19Z 46K followers, 569.5K engagements


"dLsd_25 made this and its the worst thing ever. Pls stahp"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/1978954086130016699) [@SandyofCthulhu](/creator/x/SandyofCthulhu) 2025-10-16T22:39Z 46K followers, 37.3K engagements


"A bit disappointed in the latest D&D stuff While making up your mind about it why not try Call of Cthulhu. It's utterly different from D&D so won't poison your decision. Also of every game system under the sun it's the absolute best for one-shots. Call of Cthulhu - the game that plays YOU"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/1979201167747092768) [@SandyofCthulhu](/creator/x/SandyofCthulhu) 2025-10-17T15:01Z 46K followers, 9352 engagements


"Yeah too bad Robert Kuntz has never played D&D or read a D&D book or written SEVEN of them. In other news Texas would be a lot easier to live in if the temperature ever got above XX degrees F"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/1979256329240969471) [@SandyofCthulhu](/creator/x/SandyofCthulhu) 2025-10-17T18:40Z 46K followers, 18.5K engagements


"Capitalism: Through most of history life expectancy was 30-40 years. Today it is XX worldwide. X centuries ago 90-94% of humans were at the poverty level. Middle class was 5-9% and the remaining X% were professionals and nobility. In most nations a literal X% owned almost all the land (not counting church land). Today most people are either what we call middle class or working class but even our "poor" are fabulously wealthier than old-time poor. The last great power war was Korea China vs. USA. Pre-capitalist states worked over XX hours a week often much more. In the former USSRs work week"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/1979272294968221736) [@SandyofCthulhu](/creator/x/SandyofCthulhu) 2025-10-17T19:44Z 46K followers, 13.4K engagements


"A guy complained that it was easy to do a TPK in Call of Cthulhu implying that this was the game's fault. Friend it's trivial for ANY gamemaster to pull off a TPK. He can throw a flight of X blue dragons at them. He can have a the Lord of tarasques command a squad of the things to rise from the earth. Call of Cthulhu is no different. If the investigators are down a blind hall with a shoggoth chasing them yes they will all die. Just as it's unfair for a D&D DM to have a demilich juggling spheres of annihilation at the party a shoggoth w/o any escape is unfair too. You might have to be a little"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/1979292889579688430) [@SandyofCthulhu](/creator/x/SandyofCthulhu) 2025-10-17T21:06Z 46K followers, 9387 engagements


"It has been confirmed that apparently I am a shameless tourist who has probably never actually played a TTRPG so keep that in mind when interacting with me"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/1979335070214427114) [@SandyofCthulhu](/creator/x/SandyofCthulhu) 2025-10-17T23:53Z 46K followers, 52.5K engagements


"Please Lord no"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/1979618568007495917) [@SandyofCthulhu](/creator/x/SandyofCthulhu) 2025-10-18T18:40Z 46K followers, 21.5K engagements


"Who the heck can read Tolkien and think its black-and-white Is Denethor all bad Is Boromir Is Frodo all good One of the central most important characters in the whole book is Gollum and hes ambiguous as hell. Anyway Game of Thrones isnt morally gray. Its gray-and-black without any white - just as dull and predictable as what they falsely think LotR is"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/1979677479431528588) [@SandyofCthulhu](/creator/x/SandyofCthulhu) 2025-10-18T22:34Z 46K followers, 141.5K engagements


"The obvious answer is dragons but I have heard a strong case for beholders which unlike dragons are found in no other game and are quite distinctive"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/1979778616033702033) [@SandyofCthulhu](/creator/x/SandyofCthulhu) 2025-10-19T05:16Z 46K followers, 19.9K engagements


"One of my early D&D cronies in College Mark got into rugby. Mark also eventually dropped out of college and got a job at NASA . as a janitor. Not sure if the rugby or the D&D was related. Anyway Mark regaled me with many tales of rugby. Apparently rugby players cheat constantly. His team won more often than it should because it had a set of identical triplets and when they'd foul someone the referees were never sure which one had done the dirty deed so they kept getting away with it. Well one day they were all excited because a rugby team from the United Kingdom had flown over to play against"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/1979931729151574318) [@SandyofCthulhu](/creator/x/SandyofCthulhu) 2025-10-19T15:24Z 46K followers, 2505 engagements


"The very best Star Trek movie is Galaxy Quest and it's not even close. My most devoted Trekkie fans all agree"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/1979936046545846662) [@SandyofCthulhu](/creator/x/SandyofCthulhu) 2025-10-19T15:41Z 46K followers, 18.6K engagements


"One reason I believed RuneQuest was more realistic than D&D and switched was because of armor. It didn't make sense to me that armor made you "harder to hit". It seemed that armor if anything would make you easier to hit because you'd be slower. Of course the damage would be mitigated. This is how it works in RuneQuest (and Call of Cthulhu). Armor directly lowers incoming damage. So if you have ringmail (Armor 4) and are hit with a sword rolling X damage only X penetrates since X minus X is X. Yes this does mean some targets (like dragons) are so heavily armored only a special or critical hit"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/1979938159418097690) [@SandyofCthulhu](/creator/x/SandyofCthulhu) 2025-10-19T15:50Z 46K followers, 19.3K engagements


"@johnesparza82 I think he's also under the influence of "Gondor is gonna be destroyed""  
[X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/1979946162527645949) [@SandyofCthulhu](/creator/x/SandyofCthulhu) 2025-10-19T16:22Z 46K followers, XXX engagements


"He impaled a lot of Christian Hungarians too. Also he actually swore fealty to the Sultan several times and used Turkish support to conquer Wallachia. It's almost as if he was a morally shady 15th century ruler like Richard III or Louis XI. Who would have guessed"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/1979993372715852079) [@SandyofCthulhu](/creator/x/SandyofCthulhu) 2025-10-19T19:29Z 46K followers, 9908 engagements


""You may live to see man-made horrors beyond your comprehension" Nicolai Tesla"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/1980055916033782104) [@SandyofCthulhu](/creator/x/SandyofCthulhu) 2025-10-19T23:38Z 46K followers, 3212 engagements


""Why ARE so many men ARE afraid to date trans women." Makes no sense. in English language"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/1980057413672960395) [@SandyofCthulhu](/creator/x/SandyofCthulhu) 2025-10-19T23:44Z 46K followers, 1306 engagements


"Ash nazg durbatulk ash nazg gimbatul ash nazg thrakatulk agh burzum-ishi krimpatul"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/1980080837959008522) [@SandyofCthulhu](/creator/x/SandyofCthulhu) 2025-10-20T01:17Z 46K followers, 5921 engagements


"I have had exactly this dream. Probably because at some point Id seen this painting. Shows what power Frazettas art has"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/1980126504983093540) [@SandyofCthulhu](/creator/x/SandyofCthulhu) 2025-10-20T04:18Z 46K followers, 1831 engagements


"For those doubting Thai commercials are the best in the world. Possibly the entire solar system"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/1969408326623773059) [@SandyofCthulhu](/creator/x/SandyofCthulhu) 2025-09-20T14:28Z 46K followers, 2M engagements


"I took computer programming in high school circa 1972. We used older punch cards than this to program the school's IBM XXX. Our teacher told us that computers were the wave of the future AND that we should all consider getting jobs as punch-card typists & operators because that was going to be a great expanding field going forward and would set us up for life"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/1973876675395137938) [@SandyofCthulhu](/creator/x/SandyofCthulhu) 2025-10-02T22:24Z 46K followers, 21.3K engagements


"Comic artists will never draw a cooler image than Watterson's T-Rex in an F-15 Strike Eagle"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/1975204450148274360) [@SandyofCthulhu](/creator/x/SandyofCthulhu) 2025-10-06T14:20Z 46K followers, 1.4M engagements


"Britain's worst sandwich is the chip butty. I know that their nutrition "scientists" pushed the toast sandwich but it has to be a prank right The only purpose for the chip butty I can see is "because drunk". Full disclosure: In generally I dislike all starch-on-starch foods. I like starch but one type per meal"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/1975242193905607043) [@SandyofCthulhu](/creator/x/SandyofCthulhu) 2025-10-06T16:50Z 46K followers, 7844 engagements


"This is a XXX% accurate depiction. One of my favorite ever World of Warcraft quests (back when it was still good) was an orc quest in which it was a plot point that the orc hero had no idea that a male elf was "male""  
[X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/1976030015365279755) [@SandyofCthulhu](/creator/x/SandyofCthulhu) 2025-10-08T21:00Z 46K followers, 17.8K engagements


"The Viet Cong literally burned people alive. Theres a reason that North Vietnam sent them all into Tet to kill them off. I am ashamed that anyone of my generation thinks they were good guys"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/1976324975507509693) [@SandyofCthulhu](/creator/x/SandyofCthulhu) 2025-10-09T16:32Z 46K followers, 188.2K engagements


"Romania has an Arc de Triumph to celebrate its glorious victory in WW1. iykyk"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/1976334911280906392) [@SandyofCthulhu](/creator/x/SandyofCthulhu) 2025-10-09T17:12Z 46K followers, 1867 engagements


"I dont know who needs to hear this but women who you personally find attractive exist in the real world and they can exist in video games as well. If you cant play a video game without every woman in it looking like a repulsive hag you are brain rotted and need help"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/1977408355015827873) [@SandyofCthulhu](/creator/x/SandyofCthulhu) 2025-10-12T16:17Z 46K followers, 19.9K engagements


"It's really simple. If a first-generation immigrant is a Real American which I am totally willing to admit (if they arrived properly); then European settlers of the New World are also Real Americans and land acknowledgements and faux crying over it are invalid. I love Native Americans - heck my church teaches they are the Chosen People. But their land isn't stolen. Heck it's not even conquered if you accept the "immigrants are real citizens" argument"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/1977852745995719082) [@SandyofCthulhu](/creator/x/SandyofCthulhu) 2025-10-13T21:43Z 46K followers, 4369 engagements


"Spookies (1986) might be the most fun "monsters in a haunted house" movie ever. Has a hook-handed cat-man a spider lady electric lizard things mud men and on and on. Ends in a great zombie chase. Also has the balls to kill a XX year old kid at the start"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/1978482479913898446) [@SandyofCthulhu](/creator/x/SandyofCthulhu) 2025-10-15T15:25Z 46K followers, 1630 engagements


"I don't understand. D&D grew out of fantasy fiction. Name ANY fantasy story based solely on everyone living in a happy pastel town with enough monsters to keep it diverse. I mean my ideas of great fantasy are stuff like Lord Foul's Bane Shadow of the Torturer Phantastes A Voyage to Arcturus and so forth zero of which have everyone being friends. Even the Oz books which invariably DO end in a highly diverse party have toil and sorrow and danger before the end"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/1978609163124269118) [@SandyofCthulhu](/creator/x/SandyofCthulhu) 2025-10-15T23:49Z 46K followers, 35.7K engagements


"Am I being gaslit or something Because every single piece of recent art from WotC is moronic and seemingly designed to drive players away. Do they actually have GOOD art too and I'm just seeing the terrible idiotic stuff"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/1978615154171592704) [@SandyofCthulhu](/creator/x/SandyofCthulhu) 2025-10-16T00:13Z 46K followers, 118.6K engagements


""Xenophobic and vicious creatures beholders were quick to attack enemies including anyone they deemed not 'like themselves'. Beholders are violent and greedy hungering for both wealth and power over others." Direct quote from rules"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/1978615937839558794) [@SandyofCthulhu](/creator/x/SandyofCthulhu) 2025-10-16T00:16Z 46K followers, 469.3K engagements


""Owlbears are fierce savage predators vicious ravenous beasts that combine a bear's power with an owl's perception and a nasty disposition." Actual rules"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/1978617069093392463) [@SandyofCthulhu](/creator/x/SandyofCthulhu) 2025-10-16T00:20Z 46K followers, 32.9K engagements


"I feel kind of bad for WotC. They keep trying to make cool art to entice people into their game but since they apparently have no idea why people play in the first place the images produce derision and mockery. I think the problem is problem is that WotC's images do not "Call to Adventure". Look below. The top three images of Pathfinder DD original player's handbook and original Call of Cthulhu stuff is no better in terms of art & technique to the new WotC stuff. I would argue that much of it is technically inferior to WotC's. BUT it's adventurous and exciting and puts YOU in the stead of the"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/1978851160980324836) [@SandyofCthulhu](/creator/x/SandyofCthulhu) 2025-10-16T15:50Z 46K followers, 42K engagements


"So . the word cockroach entered America from Spanish c. 1700s (cucuracha). But . what did the British call them before Does Britain not have roaches I admit I dont remember seeing them in my dozen or so trips there. I did have someone (not an American) try to claim that cockroaches are "tropical" to which my friends in Chicago and New York can give a big horse laugh and they're not alone. Also there are roaches in temperate forests in every one of the XX lower states"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/1978913064675348520) [@SandyofCthulhu](/creator/x/SandyofCthulhu) 2025-10-16T19:56Z 46K followers, 11.5K engagements


"Parents be ware because Hastur has been putting Yellow Signs in some candy. So take a peek before you Eek"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/1978922778448531545) [@SandyofCthulhu](/creator/x/SandyofCthulhu) 2025-10-16T20:35Z 46K followers, 4212 engagements


"The final thing that was important was that we had villagers have their own little AI - basically after they finish building some kind of drop site they'll automatically go and start mining the stone or whatever. Other villager changes are you don't lose any resources a villager is carrying when he is given a new task. Before if a villager had (say) X wood and is told to go build a mining camp the wood would vanish. Now you get the wood before he starts mining. Villagers space themselves around a bunch of farms when sent to a single farm so you don't need to task each villager on a separate"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/1978928295149473854) [@SandyofCthulhu](/creator/x/SandyofCthulhu) 2025-10-16T20:57Z 46K followers, 4591 engagements


"Seth is really committed to his principles. After I'd known Seth for a couple years and we'd dined together watched movies and played boardgames I asked if I could get into his current campaign. He vetted me just like any other player. Me The "great" Sandy Petersen. He let his other players judge me and listened to their feedback when I wasn't around. (Note: I did get to play in Seth's campaign for a couple months before my Dad summoned me to Valinor and I left the state. Alas.)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/1978928830632071641) [@SandyofCthulhu](/creator/x/SandyofCthulhu) 2025-10-16T20:59Z 46K followers, 6887 engagements


"Breaking news from NASA"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/1979063331538506034) [@SandyofCthulhu](/creator/x/SandyofCthulhu) 2025-10-17T05:54Z 46K followers, 7791 engagements


"Fascism is not capitalism. Fascists preached against capitalism using the exact same language as Marxists capitalists are fat-cats capitalists oppress the poor the government should rein them back. Fascists were as anti-capitalist as Marxists. Its fashionable today among some conservatives to say that fascists are left-wing but I think it's really more like this: A triangle showing the three systems with the old-type mercantilism in the middle. The Nazis saw themselves as a "middle road" between the evils of communism and the evils of capitalism. Capitalists see ourselves as a "middle road""  
[X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/1979272881063498142) [@SandyofCthulhu](/creator/x/SandyofCthulhu) 2025-10-17T19:46Z 46K followers, 7964 engagements


"There was a great Dr Who sequence in which two warring alien empires couldnt win because both relied on supercomputers as their generals so both militaries always made the exact same moves at the same time"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/1979306458979406079) [@SandyofCthulhu](/creator/x/SandyofCthulhu) 2025-10-17T22:00Z 46K followers, 10.9K engagements


"I just want to say that my assumption is that WargamingDad was joking when he called me a tourist. I at least thought it was funny. If he cares and sees this hes welcome to confirm or deny"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/1979567769520906576) [@SandyofCthulhu](/creator/x/SandyofCthulhu) 2025-10-18T15:18Z 46K followers, 14.2K engagements


"So research into Big Trouble In Little China X gives me this: 1) its another story set in the same universe not a sequel. No Jack Burton. This is GOOD. 2) Dwayne Johnson. This is a OH HELL NO"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/1979643409142059440) [@SandyofCthulhu](/creator/x/SandyofCthulhu) 2025-10-18T20:19Z 46K followers, 9146 engagements


"I cant decide if hes using the Dutch French British Norwegian Czech or Icelandic colors. Im sure its one of those"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/1979647989401763881) [@SandyofCthulhu](/creator/x/SandyofCthulhu) 2025-10-18T20:37Z 46K followers, 7373 engagements


"You know what would be awesome. Lets let a studio have enough money to do a really awesome sequel to The Fifth Element Prince of Darkness or Willow and then NOT DO IT. Spend the money on a completely original project. I can get behind that 100%. (I posted a nonexistent film image below as an example of how things could go wrong.)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/1979681402519183401) [@SandyofCthulhu](/creator/x/SandyofCthulhu) 2025-10-18T22:50Z 46K followers, 5525 engagements


"Hopefully they spent a ton of money on this helping local business and emptying their own pocketbooks"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/1979682261957288058) [@SandyofCthulhu](/creator/x/SandyofCthulhu) 2025-10-18T22:53Z 46K followers, 3655 engagements


"There are no Safeways in the entire state of Utah anymore"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/1979696404416319561) [@SandyofCthulhu](/creator/x/SandyofCthulhu) 2025-10-18T23:49Z 46K followers, 2938 engagements


"When I say that LotR has ambiguous (gray) moral characters this obviously doesnt mean theres no clear-cut good vs. evil. There is. Plenty of it. But that just makes the moral struggles more poignant. Such as Boromirs heroic death which is triggered by a mixture of despair patriotism and treachery. Doesnt make his death less heroic and redeeming"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/1979778171383001276) [@SandyofCthulhu](/creator/x/SandyofCthulhu) 2025-10-19T05:14Z 46K followers, 9419 engagements


"In 1772 the British ship Gaspee was sailing up and down the coasts of New England on an anti-smuggling mission. Of course at the time every American was pretty much pro-smuggling. You see Britain had unilaterally instigated laws that demanded the Americans ONLY trade with Britain itself or her colonies. It was pretty much the most restrictive possible trade policy imaginable. We couldn't import goods from France Spain Holland or their colonies directly. And we couldn't ship to them. Everything was supposed to go through middlemen. Who of course lived in Britain and forced through the laws via"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/1979929457617248441) [@SandyofCthulhu](/creator/x/SandyofCthulhu) 2025-10-19T15:15Z 46K followers, 6249 engagements


"Things that bug me about many depictions of Cthulhu. 1) he shouldn't have a realistic octopus head. He's not an octopus. He doesn't need a siphon. 2) He doesn't need a beak. He can engulf food amoeba-style from anywhere. 3) he doesn't have a human-like muscle structure. Like he doesn't have "abs" or "pecs" though he could simulate them I suppose. His whole body is a potential muscle"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/1979937212285489529) [@SandyofCthulhu](/creator/x/SandyofCthulhu) 2025-10-19T15:46Z 46K followers, 7194 engagements


""Marriage costs way too much." I agree. I got married in the LDS temple in Provo. Cost: free. I rented the chapel for my reception. Cost: $XX (1979) The catering photographer and wedding luncheon cost probably 9in the low thousands of dollars. XX years later my kid got married and it cost me $25000 and I had to put my foot down and be the bad guy for not wanting to spend more. I didn't get a single bite of the catering because I was trying to orchestrate the festivities. The results My own wedding has lasted XX years so far. My kid's lasted less than XX. So I feel I got value for money in my"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/1979941270643740833) [@SandyofCthulhu](/creator/x/SandyofCthulhu) 2025-10-19T16:02Z 46K followers, 5345 engagements


"This is generally true for game companies because our cash flow is utterly different from what stockholders want. They desire a steady predictable flow and game companies do NOT deliver that. We have booms and busts and pulsations in the market. MicroProse was literally destroyed by going public. I was there"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/1979942914055872820) [@SandyofCthulhu](/creator/x/SandyofCthulhu) 2025-10-19T16:09Z 46K followers, 137K engagements


"Just learned that Tolkien was at the Somme. So was my Grandpa Jack. Tolkien got through it safely whereas Grandpa Jack got shot by the Germans lay in a mud puddle for X days and got taken prisoner by the German Red Cross who saved his life. Spent the rest of the war in a prison camp. I'm going to blame that for the reason he didn't write Lord of the Rings instead of Tolkien"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/1979947005813432757) [@SandyofCthulhu](/creator/x/SandyofCthulhu) 2025-10-19T16:25Z 46K followers, 20.4K engagements


"It takes MORE energy to split water into hydrogen & oxygen than you get from burning hydrogen. You can use hydrogen as fuel but not IN THE SAME ENGINE. You have to split the water in another device then transfer it or all you get is an energy loss. It's pretty basic physics. And of course the device that splits the water needs an outside source of energy that is NOT HYDROGEN. This claim is completely and trivially debunked"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/1979948237919526970) [@SandyofCthulhu](/creator/x/SandyofCthulhu) 2025-10-19T16:30Z 46K followers, 10.1K engagements


"Imagine is the very worst song because it wasted the time of a brilliant musician who could have been doing something else and because it somehow became popular so I hear it all the f**king time. Man I hate that song so much it almost makes me dislike John Lennon's other works. Almost. My intellectual way out is to blame Yoko Ono. If you don't hate Yoko enough please listen to her song "Don't Worry Kyoko". We were listening to the Sirius XM Beatles station and this song came on and my wife was amazed. She had never heard it and WOW she couldn't believe it was real"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/1979949434940338353) [@SandyofCthulhu](/creator/x/SandyofCthulhu) 2025-10-19T16:35Z 46K followers, 4279 engagements


"Not only am I a TTRPG tourist but I am also disgusting. At least Im not being accused of being a Satanist quite as often nowadays"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/1979975604847116389) [@SandyofCthulhu](/creator/x/SandyofCthulhu) 2025-10-19T18:19Z 46K followers, 8577 engagements


"The Call of Ktulu by Metallica. I know every word"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/1980003681589416171) [@SandyofCthulhu](/creator/x/SandyofCthulhu) 2025-10-19T20:10Z 46K followers, 7766 engagements


"I'd say No Man's Sky though they get mad creds for fixing the problems over time with constant free updates"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/1980059092141150378) [@SandyofCthulhu](/creator/x/SandyofCthulhu) 2025-10-19T23:50Z 46K followers, 5283 engagements


"Next time were at the same convention we should Afrika Korps or Battle of the Bulge or something"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/1980119843073642679) [@SandyofCthulhu](/creator/x/SandyofCthulhu) 2025-10-20T03:52Z 46K followers, 1604 engagements


"She calls me Bapa. The grandkids all love Lovecraft stuff. Ergo Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Bapa R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/1980135836915220867) [@SandyofCthulhu](/creator/x/SandyofCthulhu) 2025-10-20T04:55Z 46K followers, 1276 engagements


"Terrible genre movie plans. In Gamera vs Gyaos the scientists learn that Gyaos cant stand sunlight. So they come up with two potential plans. Plan A: fill a gigantic bowl with thousands of gallons of blood & put it on a turntable. Gyaos will come to drink the blood and when the turntable is activated Gyaos will get too dizzy to fly away before sunrise. Plan B: use large sunlamps. Guess which plan they go with"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/1976661838298325323) [@SandyofCthulhu](/creator/x/SandyofCthulhu) 2025-10-10T14:51Z 46K followers, 4210 engagements


"We are giving away free our Halloween pack for 8-bit Attack if you get the 8-Bit Attack game or any expansion. Just use the code HappyH at checkout"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/1979049646031839585) [@SandyofCthulhu](/creator/x/SandyofCthulhu) 2025-10-17T04:59Z 46K followers, 1968 engagements


"I literally married the woman on the right. As in an AI drawn version of her looks like that. She hasn't been pregnant in XX years though (she's entitled at age 69)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/1979289230217220126) [@SandyofCthulhu](/creator/x/SandyofCthulhu) 2025-10-17T20:51Z 46K followers, 7198 engagements


"Yes the evil tyrant Lincoln who guaranteed to the South that he was not going to eliminate slavery - only restrict it from entering new states. Look - the fact is that before Lincoln's election the Southern Democrats always controlled the Supreme court and the presidency (even northern-born presidents toed the line). They always had carefully-balanced equality in the Senate (which meant they won Senate votes because the North had Democrats too). The only arm of the government the South didn't fully control was the House of Representatives which frankly was the puniest of these. When Lincoln"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/1977799413415489767) [@SandyofCthulhu](/creator/x/SandyofCthulhu) 2025-10-13T18:11Z 46K followers, 44.6K engagements


"One of the best "fighting" movies ever made is Hard Times with Charles Bronson. It's about a boxer during the Depression. The reason it's so great is twofold. 1) Each time he is in a fight he uses a different strategy. Vs. the young guy with lots of vitality he tries to overwhelm with a million attacks before he's out-performed. For the older skilled guy he uses rope-a-dope etc. Every fight you can see how he responds to his opponent's talents. You never get the feeling that Bronson wins because he is stronger faster and superior. His opponents are ALWAYS better than him in some way. But not"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/1977802533818319236) [@SandyofCthulhu](/creator/x/SandyofCthulhu) 2025-10-13T18:24Z 46K followers, 39.7K engagements


"Creepy idea. During WW2 there were several flights of Japanese kamikazes which never returned (yes I know none were supposed to return) but which also the Americans never saw. It's assumed that these just crashed out at sea due to poor navigation or unwillingness to return having failed to find the US fleet. But what if they are still out there . somewhere Kept aflight by force of unnatural will and evil mental focus. Flying their ghost planes with skeletal pilots wearing hachimakis still seeking a target. Disappearances of ships since then could be caused by the appearance of one of these"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/1978257263593943380) [@SandyofCthulhu](/creator/x/SandyofCthulhu) 2025-10-15T00:31Z 46K followers, 55.5K engagements


"Holy crap are snarky morons like this still around My dad (97) still loves watching and talking about college sports. Trying to pretend that whatever YOU like is grown-up so you can demean someone else is the most childish attitude possible"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/1978458345846530250) [@SandyofCthulhu](/creator/x/SandyofCthulhu) 2025-10-15T13:50Z 46K followers, 26.7K engagements


"It's not just technology that wins in war. You hear a lot about how American radar was so awesome and of course it was. BUT Japan had radar too. It wasn't quite as good as American but ours was also pretty much in its infant stage so theirs was actually close in terms of technology. But where we beat theirs all hollow was in our culture vis-a-vis technology. You see Americans LOVE gadgets and we loved them back in WW2. One of the reasons our vehicles seemed to break down less was because every platoon had a few guys who know how to fix cars. And when radar came out of course every single"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/1978607079171719608) [@SandyofCthulhu](/creator/x/SandyofCthulhu) 2025-10-15T23:41Z 46K followers, 5608 engagements


""Blue dragons are crafty deceptive illusionists and tricksters. One of the more powerful dragons they use their mastery over illusion to mislead travelers in the deserts to their lairs. Bold and confident they consider themselves lords of all they survey. They are Lawful Evil." actual rules"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/1978617543867978009) [@SandyofCthulhu](/creator/x/SandyofCthulhu) 2025-10-16T00:22Z 46K followers, 148.7K engagements


"Greatest voice in film"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/1978625918789689476) [@SandyofCthulhu](/creator/x/SandyofCthulhu) 2025-10-16T00:55Z 46K followers, 3479 engagements


"In Call of Cthulhu while your story is yours to tell Great Cthulhu and the Outer Gods also have a say"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/1978847547436179721) [@SandyofCthulhu](/creator/x/SandyofCthulhu) 2025-10-16T15:36Z 46K followers, 8899 engagements


"When I was set to design Age of Empires II: The Conquerors the main task was of course to add new civilizations. A secondary task was to add a little something to every existing civ so they'd feel special. And the third task was to add new features to improve the game. This third task was based mostly on feedback we'd gotten in the last few weeks of tests where we found problems we would like to fix but more important tasks got in the way. So now that we were able to take a short breather as it were we could put these new features in. The first and most glorious feature that everyone loved"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/1978928289839485328) [@SandyofCthulhu](/creator/x/SandyofCthulhu) 2025-10-16T20:57Z 46K followers, 19.1K engagements


"I went to a high end German restaurant and this is what they thought was a crouton in their lentil & crouton stew. Why yes it WAS made of puff pastry"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/1978934502643708142) [@SandyofCthulhu](/creator/x/SandyofCthulhu) 2025-10-16T21:22Z 46K followers, 2954 engagements


"Hed be fine"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/1978936890498670870) [@SandyofCthulhu](/creator/x/SandyofCthulhu) 2025-10-16T21:31Z 46K followers, 37.7K engagements


"Jared Leto is a vampire too. Just not a cool one"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/1978938527871111273) [@SandyofCthulhu](/creator/x/SandyofCthulhu) 2025-10-16T21:38Z 46K followers, 2470 engagements


"My takeaway lesson from this was that Medusa shaves her armpits. This makes sense because who wants snakes sprouting from your armpits. It also answers the X-rated question of why Medusa never got married if you think about it too much"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/1978943002644222035) [@SandyofCthulhu](/creator/x/SandyofCthulhu) 2025-10-16T21:55Z 46K followers, 4980 engagements


"Pirates in the AD&D monster manual says theyre just like buccaneers except theyre always evil alignment. Speaking as a man who worked for almost a year on a Pirate game in which all the players are pirates this checks out"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/1979037551777251345) [@SandyofCthulhu](/creator/x/SandyofCthulhu) 2025-10-17T04:11Z 46K followers, 11.6K engagements


"An amazing fact is that up until the 80s or later we thought the only venomous lizards were the sister species Gila Monster & Beaded Lizard. Then a scientist noticed that people bit by komodo dragons got sick then weakened and died regardless of antibiotics. It was thought for years that this was just infections. They dissected one found venom glands. Just not hollow fangs. Then they did some more research and found that other monitor lizards alligator lizards a few iguanas and even horny toads have venom. There are at least XXX venomous lizards and we dont really know them all. Of course"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/1979045231585591713) [@SandyofCthulhu](/creator/x/SandyofCthulhu) 2025-10-17T04:42Z 46K followers, 16K engagements


"Socialists regularly deny the fact that socialism is when government controls the economy. They may say "no it's when workers control the means of production". This requires a government which is OVER those workers to control the means of production and that's forced by its nature. So socialism is always turning over more power to the government. Socialists also are usually in denial that the government is made of up people who are fallible possibly corrupt and in a one-party state not subject to any oversight. It wasn't Joseph Stalin or Pol Pot or Mao Tse-Tung who personally killed millions"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/1979205265900867873) [@SandyofCthulhu](/creator/x/SandyofCthulhu) 2025-10-17T15:18Z 46K followers, 9630 engagements


"When me and my tiny team were creating Age of Empires: The Conquerors one of the fixes we did was letting you stack up farms. Basically you'd pay your wood costs ahead of time and then as farms timed out the farmer could grab one from the stack and keep going. I have been told that in age of Empires Definitive Edition the farmers now can just grab wood from your supply instead of you needing to queue them up. We actually considered this while working on the Conquerors but we decided that having the farmers basically "steal" wood from your pile would sometimes result in some real frustration"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/1979220685735309461) [@SandyofCthulhu](/creator/x/SandyofCthulhu) 2025-10-17T16:19Z 46K followers, 28.9K engagements


"I once ran a LARP called Space Station Zanzibar in which the players acted as characters from all different science fiction & fantasy universes. A high point was when Rick Deckard ran down the halls screaming "Soylent Green is TRIBBLES". Good times. He was right by the way"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/1979222263783395587) [@SandyofCthulhu](/creator/x/SandyofCthulhu) 2025-10-17T16:25Z 46K followers, 4099 engagements


"Martin Landau killed it as Bela Lugosi in "Ed Wood". Also I read an interview with Johnny Depp about that same time (1994) in which Depp said he'd lost interest in making movies and had decided that Ed Wood would be his last. It just wasn't fun any more. Then he watched Martin Landau (age 64) just LOVING the camera and lapping up the attention and working like a demon to get the part Just So and aiming at perfection and Depp said Landau's obvious love and devotion for acting & movies rekindled his heart and made him change his mind and plunge back into acting excited and cheerful. So it was"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/1979223585681277381) [@SandyofCthulhu](/creator/x/SandyofCthulhu) 2025-10-17T16:30Z 46K followers, 9348 engagements


"Your job as gamemaster of a roleplaying game isn't to play fair. You're not a player in the same sense as your players. Your job is to craft an awesome tale with their participation and cooperation to entertain them. Their job is to entertain you in return. HENCEFORTH it is perfectly okay for you as gamemaster to fudge a die roll here and there if it would ruin some aspect of the game and hurt the players' fun. And I'm not saying this means you have to keep the players from losing or treat them as snowflakes. Risk of death (or worse in Call of Cthulhu) is absolutely part of the fun. Sometimes"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/1979225071286878302) [@SandyofCthulhu](/creator/x/SandyofCthulhu) 2025-10-17T16:36Z 46K followers, 8515 engagements


"Only if both parents are citizens"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/1979245991024038000) [@SandyofCthulhu](/creator/x/SandyofCthulhu) 2025-10-17T17:59Z 46K followers, 7430 engagements


"What makes Call of Cthulhu unique Every roleplaying game has the basic cycle of: (1) players fight bad guys; (2) players level up; (3) players fight tougher bad guys. This is a compelling cycle which is why it's so popular. It's used in JRPGs MMO RPGs etc. etc. It's why combat is so important in roleplaying games. Don't get me wrong I love this cycle too and use it when I play fantasy or science fiction RPGs. And please - when I say combat is important this doesn't mean that other aspects of RPGs aren't also important. Look at the length of the combat chapter in your game. It's long and"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/1979287031705670125) [@SandyofCthulhu](/creator/x/SandyofCthulhu) 2025-10-17T20:42Z 46K followers, 10.2K engagements


"Salted Herring flavored candy from Germany. Yum. Also its ❤egan whatever that means. I love Germany"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/1979581105755046358) [@SandyofCthulhu](/creator/x/SandyofCthulhu) 2025-10-18T16:11Z 46K followers, 3404 engagements


"There's a pretty good Call of Cthulhu scenario in there somewhere. Not to mention 2000+ angry vengeful ghosts"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/1979695442154885558) [@SandyofCthulhu](/creator/x/SandyofCthulhu) 2025-10-18T23:45Z 46K followers, 6907 engagements


"The one facet of my career that I am most proud of is not Doom or Age of Empires or even Cthulhu Wars. Its that I popularized Lovecraft. Before Call of Cthulhu Lovecraft was vanishingly obscure. Only hardcore guys like me & Gary Gygax knew of him. Starting with Call of Cthulhu and accelerating with Stuart Gordons films Lovecraft awareness spread. At the spook alley last night there was an Innsmouth section complete with Deep Ones & Cthulhu. I told my granddaughters that the main reason that section existed originated with me. I was proud. So many have told me they were inspired to read HPL"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/1979734812056604744) [@SandyofCthulhu](/creator/x/SandyofCthulhu) 2025-10-19T02:22Z 46K followers, 21.6K engagements


"Dynamite is super useful in Call of Cthulhu. Therere plenty of monsters it still wont kill but you can wreck cult centers destroy archeological sites and close cave exits"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/1979770708063564263) [@SandyofCthulhu](/creator/x/SandyofCthulhu) 2025-10-19T04:44Z 46K followers, 3581 engagements


"You must realize that this was a big DECREASE in the work week. Ford eased the workers burden folks"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/1979782900624363718) [@SandyofCthulhu](/creator/x/SandyofCthulhu) 2025-10-19T05:33Z 46K followers, 42K engagements


"One feature of Tolkien's orcs that tends to gradually be erased over time is their size. In the fight in Moria it's notworthy that one of the orcs is "nearly as tall as a man" clearly indicating that these creatures are NOT tall. Many are taller than dwarfs but also their size can range down to as small as a hobbit because Frodo & Sam pass as orcs in Mordor. Even the Uruk-Hai were only about man-sized at best. But starting with Games Workshop's Warhammer and extending into Blizzard's Warcraft orcs have been portrayed as larger than human. I am so proud of Peter Jackson's LotR which showed"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/1979935234104889380) [@SandyofCthulhu](/creator/x/SandyofCthulhu) 2025-10-19T15:38Z 46K followers, 36.1K engagements


"Jack Vance articulated this argument but it resonates strongly with me. My property exists because I have sacrificed part of my life to earn it. Hence someone who steals or destroys my property is literally destroying part of my life. This is not "capitalist" as private property exists in every society even communist (look it up). Therefore severe penalties and use of deadly force vs. theft or vandalism is justified. The perpetrators killed part of your finite lifespan"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/1979945054790946906) [@SandyofCthulhu](/creator/x/SandyofCthulhu) 2025-10-19T16:17Z 46K followers, 16.8K engagements


"keep it going"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/1979992560216178971) [@SandyofCthulhu](/creator/x/SandyofCthulhu) 2025-10-19T19:26Z 46K followers, 2562 engagements


"I am glad to have a final definitive answer. Thank you sir"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/1979999684581368232) [@SandyofCthulhu](/creator/x/SandyofCthulhu) 2025-10-19T19:54Z 46K followers, 13.4K engagements


"She was great in Spirited Away"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/1980127388131619213) [@SandyofCthulhu](/creator/x/SandyofCthulhu) 2025-10-20T04:22Z 46K followers, 1766 engagements


"The thing that really excited me about Age of Empires is that it let us reproduce the panoply & spectacle of an old-school historical miniatures tabletop game"  
[X Link](https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/1980136252117782720) [@SandyofCthulhu](/creator/x/SandyofCthulhu) 2025-10-20T04:57Z 46K followers, 2260 engagements

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@SandyofCthulhu Avatar @SandyofCthulhu Sandy Petersen 🪔

Sandy Petersen, a renowned game designer, recently expressed pride in having contributed to bringing H.P. Lovecraft's works out of near-obscurity and into fame, with many fans crediting his games, particularly Call of Cthulhu, for introducing them to Lovecraft's works. He also made light of his involvement in the gaming industry, joking about his role in creating content for Dungeons & Dragons and other games. Petersen's tweets showcase his interests in gaming, history, and pop culture.

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Top posts by engagements in the last XX hours

"To whom it may concern: the James Webb telescope has a reflector over 6m wide and is the largest space telescope. Right now in Chile they are building the ELT which will have a reflector 39m wide and will be the most powerful telescope of all time. You could put the James Webb telescope inside the ELT and you STILL wouldnt be able to detect my interest in your question"
X Link @SandyofCthulhu 2025-10-09T19:56Z 46K followers, 30.7K engagements

"Anyone else remember the episode of Surf Dracula where he plays Dracs evil tax auditor"
X Link @SandyofCthulhu 2025-10-16T01:00Z 46K followers, 13.5K engagements

"My pal Steve Perrin a founder of the Society for Creative Anachronism who fought hand-to-hand many times told me unequivocably that sword and shield is BY FAR the best combination. He also said that ultimately it is the man not the weapon. I.e. the better fighter wins despite an inferior weapon"
X Link @SandyofCthulhu 2025-10-16T02:53Z 46K followers, 27.1K engagements

"The word "orange" was only used to refer to the House of Orange in the Netherlands until the fruit made it to American and we adopted the word for the fruit's color. Before then things that we would now call "orange" were called either "red" or "dark yellow" depending on the shade. This is why the obviously orange British Robin is named "redbreast". No word for the color. American robins are a darker shade of orange but still not necessarily red. British ones are cuter. Ours are pretty good though"
X Link @SandyofCthulhu 2025-10-16T20:01Z 46K followers, 10.1K engagements

"It's an issue for one of the core Call of Cthulhu game skills - Library Use. On the other hand it's true that something like 85-90% of all material published since 1970 is NOT on the internet and I'm sure it's much worse for earlier publications so who knows. Plus I suppose we can substitute Computer Use"
X Link @SandyofCthulhu 2025-10-17T19:09Z 46K followers, 6362 engagements

"So in Call of Cthulhu instead I focused on solving a mystery. A lot of Lovecraft's tales are written as mysteries including The Call of Cthulhu itself. So the players have to puzzle out what's going on and in the meantime the villains are gaining momentum giving the players a feeling of urgency. I figured that mysteries are popular and the research and exploration and investigation could take the place of combat as the "fun" part of the game. And it seems to have worked. And it makes Call of Cthulhu rather contrarian. You see if you want the compelling fight - level up - fight cycle you can"
X Link @SandyofCthulhu 2025-10-17T20:42Z 46K followers, 3096 engagements

"Best movie from communist Russia"
X Link @SandyofCthulhu 2025-10-17T21:14Z 46K followers, 9749 engagements

"We had a Long John Silvers replace the Arbys in my home town. All my friends & kids were thrilled. It only lasted a year or two which broke their hearts. Now its a trendy taco shop selling stuff like bulgogi tacos and roasted cauliflower tacos. Ecch"
X Link @SandyofCthulhu 2025-10-18T16:22Z 46K followers, 4321 engagements

"For those who love Starship Troopers I recommend Bill the Galactic Hero which is a parody of Troopers. Its by Harry Harrison a great sci-fi writer in his own right"
X Link @SandyofCthulhu 2025-10-18T20:23Z 46K followers, 5046 engagements

"Its possible to have a charismatic smart villain whom you follow throughout the show yet be thrilled when he gets his comeuppance. A good example is Ian McKellen in the film version of Richard III. He nails it. Another is Blacula. There are of course many more"
X Link @SandyofCthulhu 2025-10-18T22:56Z 46K followers, 3612 engagements

"I find it depressing that the most popular Real Time Strategy game (according to the ever-reliable Reddit) is still Age of Empires X which we released in 1999. There's been updates yeah. But NO huge improvements in RTS for XX years"
X Link @SandyofCthulhu 2025-06-13T16:10Z 45.8K followers, 78.4K engagements

"I crusade against XP so often. Here is why I don't like XP: 1) it pops players out of the fantasy realm and into the game's statistics and rules. 2) it deforms play by making players value aspects of the game that in reality they might not. Example: a D&D player won't heroically refuse a reward because then he'll lose XP unless he can convince the DM it's worth the same. 3) it leads to additional arguments and discussions between the players and players & DMs"
X Link @SandyofCthulhu 2025-10-05T15:08Z 45.6K followers, 20.5K engagements

"The nation of Tuvalu a sea-level island group had a net increase in total land area of XX hectares (2.9%) between 1971 and 2014. This was a study done in 2018. I'm not saying climate change isn't real but advocates need to learn to present better evidence than making lists of Bad Things that have happened since time began"
X Link @SandyofCthulhu 2025-10-05T15:42Z 45.7K followers, 19.3K engagements

"Yay I saved $2450 a month"
X Link @SandyofCthulhu 2025-10-06T01:41Z 45.7K followers, 7637 engagements

"Rule #1 If they tell you they are an alpha male then they are not an alpha male"
X Link @SandyofCthulhu 2025-10-06T03:19Z 45.8K followers, 3964 engagements

"This image of an NPC in Keep on the Borderlands is terrible and here is why. It drops you right out of the fantasy-medieval milieu. The first owner-propelled wheelchairs werent till the late 1800s. They are as anachronistic as Gatling guns steamships & locomotives. None of which I would allow in a medieval game. If you must have a disabled person (despite the Regeneration spell) at least have them be disabled in a medieval-friendly way - bedridden set on a platform or in a big comfy chair. Not a wheelchair"
X Link @SandyofCthulhu 2025-10-07T01:47Z 45.8K followers, 72.8K engagements

"A mace is by far the best anti-zombie weapon. Doesnt get stuck easy to wield and lethal breaking limb bones & skulls. A bat or club are functionally similar but sticking to the mace. Its main drawback is its not useful for much besides combat whereas a machete or axe is"
X Link @SandyofCthulhu 2025-10-07T14:11Z 45.4K followers, 5839 engagements

"Also don't take a katana. The main advantage is it's sharp and easy to get (America's lousy with them). But they have a short reach for their length. A typical XXX lb katana has an overall length of about XX inches compared to a XXX lb European longsword overall XX inches. So you can either get a lighter European sword for the same length or a longer one. The sharpness is indeed useful as you can lop off limbs & heads comparatively easily but the less-sharp European sword will still crack skulls and break spines & bones. More to the point the complex construction of katanas makes them highly"
X Link @SandyofCthulhu 2025-10-07T16:06Z 45.7K followers, 23.6K engagements

"If you believe this then as a rational unbeliever wouldnt you WANT people driven by this belief to keep on believing"
X Link @SandyofCthulhu 2025-10-08T16:45Z 45.6K followers, 26.4K engagements

"The first widely recognized self-propelled wheelchair was invented by Stephan Farfler in 1655. However earlier forms of wheeled chairs existed such as a chair commissioned by King Philip II of Spain in 1595 that required a servant to push it. There is no record of Pope Honorius (either Honorius I or Honorius III or the later Honorius IV) using a wheeled chair; however the use of the sedia gestatoria a ceremonial throne carried by footmen was common for popes. Not the same thing. I DID my research Margaret. I don't mean this to sound argumentative and it's certainly possible that either my (or"
X Link @SandyofCthulhu 2025-10-08T18:15Z 45.8K followers, 9631 engagements

"Why I run Call of Cthulhu in the 2020s. In short I feel it's easier to make a scary story when the players can reasonably imagine themselves in the milieu. It's easier to imagine themselves nowadays than in the 1920s. It also makes the game flow faster. You don't have to look up whether pizza was available in Atlanta in 1928 or if there was a shop selling Thompson submachineguns or whether there was regular air service to Berlin. It's far simpler to determine everything. You don't need some kind of background book for details - it's at the tip of your fingers. Even an unfamiliar town you can"
X Link @SandyofCthulhu 2025-10-08T21:55Z 45.8K followers, 2789 engagements

"Maggie De Block was Minister of Health in Belgium till 2020. I approve 100%"
X Link @SandyofCthulhu 2025-10-08T22:08Z 45.5K followers, 4546 engagements

"Sandys Spooky assignment for today: Read X Samuel XX. It is actually pretty creepy. Particularly if you dont pay attention to all the cope from preachers who hate what the story plainly says"
X Link @SandyofCthulhu 2025-10-09T12:16Z 45.7K followers, 6908 engagements

"This is Dunwich England. Obviously haunted & dreary. Legend says the encroaching sea has engulfed seventeen churches or abbeys. Supposedly you can hear the undersea bells in the sunken chapels ring on moonless nights at the seashore. No wonder Lovecraft named a New England town after it"
X Link @SandyofCthulhu 2025-10-09T21:05Z 45.8K followers, 2833 engagements

"I saw some people posting baby animals so here is an adorable baby lobster"
X Link @SandyofCthulhu 2025-10-10T21:39Z 45.9K followers, 4662 engagements

"Three things I believe about orcs: ONE: Orc females look like the males. As flat-chested as chimps as aggressive & cruel as the males. When pregnant they sequester themselves give birth and abandon the kid in a warren with other young orcs and a few guardians. They grow fast squabbling over food & such. 1/"
X Link @SandyofCthulhu 2025-10-11T04:14Z 45.9K followers, 14.9K engagements

"A flatearther told me that it looks curved because gravity pulls the light waves down. Its Einstein. He said"
X Link @SandyofCthulhu 2025-10-12T16:55Z 45.5K followers, 10.2K engagements

"The what if Superman was evil comics do not ring true. Superman has been shown to be able to move the moon. All he has to do is hurl the moon into the Earth - or if he wants to rule instead just threaten to do so. Thats why Superman is the most boring superhero. He can do anything"
X Link @SandyofCthulhu 2025-10-13T18:43Z 45.8K followers, 13K engagements

"Here is a design for an improved 4-sided die. IYKYK"
X Link @SandyofCthulhu 2025-10-13T21:12Z 45.7K followers, 18.7K engagements

"If youve read The Shadow Over Innsmouth you know whats going on here"
X Link @SandyofCthulhu 2025-10-14T13:57Z 45.7K followers, 31.2K engagements

"Everybody gangsta till I pull out Ral Partha's "three headed troll". Because the players KNOW they can't take these dudes down. Nyuk nyuk nyuk"
X Link @SandyofCthulhu 2025-10-14T16:22Z 45.7K followers, 9269 engagements

"Doom II Map XX was named "Nirvana" and I made it the year Kurt Cobain killed himself with a shotgun. There is a shotgun in the opening room AND a cluster of imps around a corpse. Thanks to the imp's idle animation it looks like they are eating the corpse. I swear it is a grim coincidence. I never ever listened to Nirvana (I don't think anyone at id did.). I picked the map name out of the blue"
X Link @SandyofCthulhu 2025-10-14T16:34Z 45.8K followers, 19.2K engagements

"For those mocking the absolutely-perfect Surf Dracula example you got to know your vampire rules. First its running water that stops him. Not the ocean. Thats why in Season X episode X The Bite Stuff Drac cant follow the perfume thieves over the river bridge but he can surf around the rivers mouth. Second he usually surfs at night. The glowing track is healthy phosphorescent plankton not nuclear waste. The fact that Roscoe B. thinks otherwise is a running joke. Third when he surfs in the day he is using his Sunblocker 5000 cream. You can briefly see a tube of it in his bathroom cabinet in"
X Link @SandyofCthulhu 2025-10-14T22:21Z 45.8K followers, 44.2K engagements

"The Japanese had a brilliant plan to ensure victory in world war X. Basically it was that they would be able to outrange their enemies so they could strike at the USA and not be hit back. They created gigantic battleships with guns that could fire further than anyone else's. They had the Long Lance torpedo which had triple the range of American torpedoes. And their aircraft ranges far exceeded ours. The Zero had twice the range of the Wildcat the Betty could reach 4800 km (the B-24 less than half) and the Emily flying boat reached 4500 km (the PBY 4000 but the Emily was also significantly"
X Link @SandyofCthulhu 2025-10-15T00:10Z 45.6K followers, 12.6K engagements

"The Imperial Japanese made a pretty amateurish mistake when it came to making their airplanes the best. They had incredible designers but they hung their hats on the idea of having the most maneuverable lightest and longest-range aircraft. They did this by leaving out every scrap of armor or self-sealing fuel tanks. This meant that a single bullet in the fuel meant you were going down eventually as it leaked out. So you know a self-sealing fuel tank works by a layer of foam rubber along the inside of the tank so a bullet penetrates but the foam seals up (if the bullet's not TOO big) and keeps"
X Link @SandyofCthulhu 2025-10-15T00:26Z 45.8K followers, 21.1K engagements

"About five years before his death Greg Stafford called me laughing and happy and told me that he had stopped smoking weed. He said that his mind was clear now. He could imagine things better. He said he could start writing again. The fog was gone. He actually said the words "I'm high on life." Cringe I know. I told him "Greg if I had told you these things back in the 80s you would have laughed me to scorn." A little abashed he agreed. But then he laughed and was cheery again. So that is one data point about weed from a long-time user. Of course I have others but all point in the same"
X Link @SandyofCthulhu 2025-10-15T00:35Z 45.8K followers, 16.6K engagements

"They were all immediately kicked out of the organization Jessica. I'm not defending them at all and neither is any Republican"
X Link @SandyofCthulhu 2025-10-15T14:36Z 45.4K followers, 9586 engagements

"I hear if you have X guinea pigs in Switzerland and one of them dies the police show up within the hour to take you away to a Swiss outdoor prison. Which means you have to learn how to play the alpenhorn"
X Link @SandyofCthulhu 2025-10-15T15:08Z 45.8K followers, 4470 engagements

"America is revoking Visas from people who praise Charlie Kirk's death. Britain is jailing people who are "anti-islamic". But these are not the same. Americans are not putting people in jail for obscene posts - we're revoking visas. We don't want them here so they have to go home. American citizens are perfectly able to cheer Kirk's death should they wish suffering only the consequences of public obluquy. Non-citizens have no such right here. But the British are jailing their actual citizens on behalf of non-citizens which is of course the opposite"
X Link @SandyofCthulhu 2025-10-15T15:11Z 45.8K followers, 13.4K engagements

"An example of how I creeped out my players in Call of Cthulhu. The players were investigating a possibly-haunted house. When one investigator was checking out the upstairs hallway I mentioned a velvet painting of a seascape on the wall. Later on one of the other players said "Wait. I want to go look at that seascape." and I told her the painting was actually a Chesley Bonestell-style moonscape. The first player asked "Wait . did it change" I said "You only glanced at it. Maybe you saw it wrong" So that had them nervous. Then when they checked their phone messages one of the messages was the"
X Link @SandyofCthulhu 2025-10-15T15:18Z 45.7K followers, 8690 engagements

"@moseley_bo Read up on the 25mm gun too its astonishingly bad"
X Link @SandyofCthulhu 2025-10-15T16:35Z 45.7K followers, XX engagements

"I actually LIKE the design of the Obama presidential library. On the other hand Im the guy raised on tales of Rlyeh and haunted towers"
X Link @SandyofCthulhu 2025-10-15T17:27Z 45.8K followers, 4458 engagements

"Greatest cosmic horror video game"
X Link @SandyofCthulhu 2025-10-15T18:17Z 45.7K followers, 7663 engagements

"Cutest dog breed. Disclaimer: Ive only ever owned mutts"
X Link @SandyofCthulhu 2025-10-15T21:54Z 45.7K followers, 4044 engagements

"We didn't love Charlie Kirk because he was "beautiful""
X Link @SandyofCthulhu 2025-10-15T23:52Z 45.8K followers, 16.1K engagements

"@FortIronhold Im pretty sure blue dragon politics dont map to human"
X Link @SandyofCthulhu 2025-10-16T00:28Z 45.8K followers, 20.1K engagements

"I Shub-Niggurath The Goat with a Thousand Young I commissioned this image and told Tom Sullivan what I wanted and his skill & imagination made something that went far beyond my hopes"
X Link @SandyofCthulhu 2025-10-16T23:45Z 45.9K followers, 5572 engagements

"@Psalm_23_4 He is the Opener of the Way. Yog-Sothoth is the Key and the Gate. All are one in Yog-Sothoth"
X Link @SandyofCthulhu 2025-10-17T05:02Z 45.8K followers, XXX engagements

"@DecryptedTech Ah. All publicity is good publicity. Did it work for Bud lite Cracker Barrel and the Edsel"
X Link @SandyofCthulhu 2025-10-16T00:32Z 46K followers, 11.5K engagements

"what's your favorite movie based on the Colour Out of Space by Lovecraft Also did I miss any"
X Link @SandyofCthulhu 2025-10-16T17:16Z 46K followers, 6802 engagements

"When someone says Why do you care so much about trivial thing Whether it is whining about a minor political hiccup or WotCs art; what they are really saying is I care about trivial thing but dont have any arguments against your points so I want you to stop"
X Link @SandyofCthulhu 2025-10-16T18:10Z 46K followers, 15K engagements

"I started in 1974. So for me there are only three classes core or otherwise"
X Link @SandyofCthulhu 2025-10-16T23:43Z 46K followers, 11.9K engagements

"The man who gave us Jar Jar Binks and Midichlorions AND decided that all Jedis wear ratty desert robes because Obi-Wan wore them when he lived on Tatooine is not the man to "save the franchise""
X Link @SandyofCthulhu 2025-10-17T19:57Z 46K followers, 29.7K engagements

"If you're a physical media collector what is your current Holy Grail media item I have two such: my coffin-shaped box of all the Blind Dead movies and my collection of all the Planet of the Ape films plus the TV show in a plastic ape head. (It was made too early to have all the movies since 2000 though.)"
X Link @SandyofCthulhu 2025-10-17T20:54Z 46K followers, 5758 engagements

"In my opinion creating a character in a TTRPG should be fun. So much so that players always have one or two pregenerated in their folder. Just in case. The best example of this is Champions where working out a hero was more fun than playing them in many cases"
X Link @SandyofCthulhu 2025-10-19T04:48Z 46K followers, 6258 engagements

"Anyway pretty much all of the colonial officials were also pro-smuggling - after all the prices affected them too. So the Gaspee found mighty little cooperation. As a result the captain decided to be more and more bellicose in its actions stopping ships beating merchant captains and confiscating goods on any suspicion of smuggling. The Gaspee eventually docked in Naragansett Harbor where it cast a pall over all the activities. No one dared to unload or load goods for fear of the Gaspee's interference even in what the British might consider legitimate trade. It came to a head when a band of"
X Link @SandyofCthulhu 2025-10-19T15:15Z 46K followers, 1769 engagements

"I felt Game of Thrones was morally gray-and-black. Basically a reduced spectrum which inherently restricted it. I admit I got bored fast and quit it so maybe it improved later"
X Link @SandyofCthulhu 2025-10-19T18:59Z 46K followers, 2171 engagements

"You know I've SEEN She-Wolf of the SS"
X Link @SandyofCthulhu 2025-10-19T23:54Z 46K followers, 4529 engagements

"I actually saw a ghost at age XX so all arguments against or dismissals of ghosts are ludicrous to me. Now you could argue that the pale translucent figure I saw floating in the air wasn't a spirit of the dead. But what I saw would be called a "ghost" by any reasonable person"
X Link @SandyofCthulhu 2025-10-01T23:28Z 45.9K followers, 5595 engagements

"Saw a Tom Bombadil post. Got triggered. Here's my take: Tom is one of the most sinister characters in LoTR. Here's why: 1) In Middle Earth when a magical ruler is evil so is the land he rules. The Old Forest is relentlessly hostile Every tree is malign. 2) Tom is a known liar. He says to the hobbits that Farmer Maggot warned him of their coming. But Farmer Maggot didn't even know that Frodo was leaving the Shire. 3) Gandalf emphatically says Tom should NOT get the ring. He gives conflicting excuses why not. 4) Tom is not ancient. Elrond had never heard of him Had no elf in millennia"
X Link @SandyofCthulhu 2025-10-05T17:40Z 46K followers, 102.6K engagements

"I don't think people realize how easy it is for an edged or pointed weapon to get stuck inside a zombie. This happened A LOT in ancient and medieval times. It's literally the reason warriors carried swords or daggers for a back-up. Any thrusting weapon is likely to get stuck and then you're disarmed. Two-handed axes or halberds are slightly less because of the huge wounds they create but also take some strength and even skill. The advantage of maces is you don't care about the directly the weapon is facing - it's awesome every way. If I had to use a non-mace/non-club in the zombie apocalypse"
X Link @SandyofCthulhu 2025-10-07T15:54Z 45.9K followers, 15.3K engagements

"If they dont read my worlds history and background I dont have to read their X page origin story"
X Link @SandyofCthulhu 2025-10-11T16:08Z 46K followers, 10.1K engagements

"This needs to be more widely recognized so reposting. I saw this ALL THE TIME working at MicroProse Software and Ensemble Studios. (Not so much id Software because we just let our publishers do all the work.)"
X Link @SandyofCthulhu 2025-10-13T18:26Z 46K followers, 9805 engagements

"I just got an idea for a really creepy movie or Call of Cthulhu scenario"
X Link @SandyofCthulhu 2025-10-14T04:44Z 46K followers, 4598 engagements

"Hes not a vampire Fight fight back against the Tom Cruises and Selma Hayeks Good man"
X Link @SandyofCthulhu 2025-10-14T13:44Z 46K followers, 2667 engagements

"@LawDogStrikes I bought one at GenCon"
X Link @SandyofCthulhu 2025-10-15T04:56Z 46K followers, XXX engagements

"Utah based horror movies that I liked: 1) Carnival of Souls 2) Deadstream 3) The Boogens 4) Troll X 5) Silent Night Deadly Night 6) Warlock 7) Hereditary Please note they are not in any order. Obviously Hereditary and Carnival of Souls are the best"
X Link @SandyofCthulhu 2025-10-15T15:04Z 46K followers, 1321 engagements

"@SaintStrega I don't know about the other D&D ish games but Call of Cthulhu is completely and utterly different from D&D"
X Link @SandyofCthulhu 2025-10-17T20:03Z 45.9K followers, XXX engagements

"@IM2BIM Nope. You miss the underlying reality of Call of Cthulhu which is that combat and improving your hero's skills & level is not the core of the game unlike literally every other RPG"
X Link @SandyofCthulhu 2025-10-17T20:04Z 45.9K followers, XXX engagements

"One day I would like to see a logo redesign that made it look better instead of soulless and terrible. Can anyone give a counterexample"
X Link @SandyofCthulhu 2025-08-20T20:17Z 46K followers, 29.5M engagements

"As a man almost XX I support this wholeheartedly. Frankly Id support destroying ALL property taxes and replacing them with a simple land sale tax. When you sell your house XX% (or whatever) goes to the government and they stay the HELL out of your property the rest of the time"
X Link @SandyofCthulhu 2025-09-10T15:57Z 46K followers, 13.8K engagements

"For those unaware a church leader of ours from Louisiana praised Tony's Creole seasoning in a sermon joking that it repaired the inadequacies of your cooking. So there's XX million members of my church heard a free advert. I get to be a hipster and say that I already knew about it and have used it. I admit I don't have it in my kitchen right now because I'm in the food wasteland of Utah"
X Link @SandyofCthulhu 2025-10-06T14:39Z 46K followers, 14.4K engagements

"In case I dont get much of a chance to post tomorrow here is Sandys Spooky Assignment for October 10th. Research the legend of the Tennessee Bell Witch. The only poltergeist known to have killed. It performed other amazing feats. Theres lots of sources so pick a favorite"
X Link @SandyofCthulhu 2025-10-10T03:24Z 46K followers, 2446 engagements

"This is the single best description of modern media I've seen. Surf Dracula"
X Link @SandyofCthulhu 2025-10-14T16:28Z 46K followers, 66.6K engagements

""Kobolds are Lawful Evil. They are organized and cooperative but thoroughly nasty to anything outside of their clan and even to each other much of the time." Actual quote from rules"
X Link @SandyofCthulhu 2025-10-16T00:19Z 46K followers, 569.5K engagements

"dLsd_25 made this and its the worst thing ever. Pls stahp"
X Link @SandyofCthulhu 2025-10-16T22:39Z 46K followers, 37.3K engagements

"A bit disappointed in the latest D&D stuff While making up your mind about it why not try Call of Cthulhu. It's utterly different from D&D so won't poison your decision. Also of every game system under the sun it's the absolute best for one-shots. Call of Cthulhu - the game that plays YOU"
X Link @SandyofCthulhu 2025-10-17T15:01Z 46K followers, 9352 engagements

"Yeah too bad Robert Kuntz has never played D&D or read a D&D book or written SEVEN of them. In other news Texas would be a lot easier to live in if the temperature ever got above XX degrees F"
X Link @SandyofCthulhu 2025-10-17T18:40Z 46K followers, 18.5K engagements

"Capitalism: Through most of history life expectancy was 30-40 years. Today it is XX worldwide. X centuries ago 90-94% of humans were at the poverty level. Middle class was 5-9% and the remaining X% were professionals and nobility. In most nations a literal X% owned almost all the land (not counting church land). Today most people are either what we call middle class or working class but even our "poor" are fabulously wealthier than old-time poor. The last great power war was Korea China vs. USA. Pre-capitalist states worked over XX hours a week often much more. In the former USSRs work week"
X Link @SandyofCthulhu 2025-10-17T19:44Z 46K followers, 13.4K engagements

"A guy complained that it was easy to do a TPK in Call of Cthulhu implying that this was the game's fault. Friend it's trivial for ANY gamemaster to pull off a TPK. He can throw a flight of X blue dragons at them. He can have a the Lord of tarasques command a squad of the things to rise from the earth. Call of Cthulhu is no different. If the investigators are down a blind hall with a shoggoth chasing them yes they will all die. Just as it's unfair for a D&D DM to have a demilich juggling spheres of annihilation at the party a shoggoth w/o any escape is unfair too. You might have to be a little"
X Link @SandyofCthulhu 2025-10-17T21:06Z 46K followers, 9387 engagements

"It has been confirmed that apparently I am a shameless tourist who has probably never actually played a TTRPG so keep that in mind when interacting with me"
X Link @SandyofCthulhu 2025-10-17T23:53Z 46K followers, 52.5K engagements

"Please Lord no"
X Link @SandyofCthulhu 2025-10-18T18:40Z 46K followers, 21.5K engagements

"Who the heck can read Tolkien and think its black-and-white Is Denethor all bad Is Boromir Is Frodo all good One of the central most important characters in the whole book is Gollum and hes ambiguous as hell. Anyway Game of Thrones isnt morally gray. Its gray-and-black without any white - just as dull and predictable as what they falsely think LotR is"
X Link @SandyofCthulhu 2025-10-18T22:34Z 46K followers, 141.5K engagements

"The obvious answer is dragons but I have heard a strong case for beholders which unlike dragons are found in no other game and are quite distinctive"
X Link @SandyofCthulhu 2025-10-19T05:16Z 46K followers, 19.9K engagements

"One of my early D&D cronies in College Mark got into rugby. Mark also eventually dropped out of college and got a job at NASA . as a janitor. Not sure if the rugby or the D&D was related. Anyway Mark regaled me with many tales of rugby. Apparently rugby players cheat constantly. His team won more often than it should because it had a set of identical triplets and when they'd foul someone the referees were never sure which one had done the dirty deed so they kept getting away with it. Well one day they were all excited because a rugby team from the United Kingdom had flown over to play against"
X Link @SandyofCthulhu 2025-10-19T15:24Z 46K followers, 2505 engagements

"The very best Star Trek movie is Galaxy Quest and it's not even close. My most devoted Trekkie fans all agree"
X Link @SandyofCthulhu 2025-10-19T15:41Z 46K followers, 18.6K engagements

"One reason I believed RuneQuest was more realistic than D&D and switched was because of armor. It didn't make sense to me that armor made you "harder to hit". It seemed that armor if anything would make you easier to hit because you'd be slower. Of course the damage would be mitigated. This is how it works in RuneQuest (and Call of Cthulhu). Armor directly lowers incoming damage. So if you have ringmail (Armor 4) and are hit with a sword rolling X damage only X penetrates since X minus X is X. Yes this does mean some targets (like dragons) are so heavily armored only a special or critical hit"
X Link @SandyofCthulhu 2025-10-19T15:50Z 46K followers, 19.3K engagements

"@johnesparza82 I think he's also under the influence of "Gondor is gonna be destroyed""
X Link @SandyofCthulhu 2025-10-19T16:22Z 46K followers, XXX engagements

"He impaled a lot of Christian Hungarians too. Also he actually swore fealty to the Sultan several times and used Turkish support to conquer Wallachia. It's almost as if he was a morally shady 15th century ruler like Richard III or Louis XI. Who would have guessed"
X Link @SandyofCthulhu 2025-10-19T19:29Z 46K followers, 9908 engagements

""You may live to see man-made horrors beyond your comprehension" Nicolai Tesla"
X Link @SandyofCthulhu 2025-10-19T23:38Z 46K followers, 3212 engagements

""Why ARE so many men ARE afraid to date trans women." Makes no sense. in English language"
X Link @SandyofCthulhu 2025-10-19T23:44Z 46K followers, 1306 engagements

"Ash nazg durbatulk ash nazg gimbatul ash nazg thrakatulk agh burzum-ishi krimpatul"
X Link @SandyofCthulhu 2025-10-20T01:17Z 46K followers, 5921 engagements

"I have had exactly this dream. Probably because at some point Id seen this painting. Shows what power Frazettas art has"
X Link @SandyofCthulhu 2025-10-20T04:18Z 46K followers, 1831 engagements

"For those doubting Thai commercials are the best in the world. Possibly the entire solar system"
X Link @SandyofCthulhu 2025-09-20T14:28Z 46K followers, 2M engagements

"I took computer programming in high school circa 1972. We used older punch cards than this to program the school's IBM XXX. Our teacher told us that computers were the wave of the future AND that we should all consider getting jobs as punch-card typists & operators because that was going to be a great expanding field going forward and would set us up for life"
X Link @SandyofCthulhu 2025-10-02T22:24Z 46K followers, 21.3K engagements

"Comic artists will never draw a cooler image than Watterson's T-Rex in an F-15 Strike Eagle"
X Link @SandyofCthulhu 2025-10-06T14:20Z 46K followers, 1.4M engagements

"Britain's worst sandwich is the chip butty. I know that their nutrition "scientists" pushed the toast sandwich but it has to be a prank right The only purpose for the chip butty I can see is "because drunk". Full disclosure: In generally I dislike all starch-on-starch foods. I like starch but one type per meal"
X Link @SandyofCthulhu 2025-10-06T16:50Z 46K followers, 7844 engagements

"This is a XXX% accurate depiction. One of my favorite ever World of Warcraft quests (back when it was still good) was an orc quest in which it was a plot point that the orc hero had no idea that a male elf was "male""
X Link @SandyofCthulhu 2025-10-08T21:00Z 46K followers, 17.8K engagements

"The Viet Cong literally burned people alive. Theres a reason that North Vietnam sent them all into Tet to kill them off. I am ashamed that anyone of my generation thinks they were good guys"
X Link @SandyofCthulhu 2025-10-09T16:32Z 46K followers, 188.2K engagements

"Romania has an Arc de Triumph to celebrate its glorious victory in WW1. iykyk"
X Link @SandyofCthulhu 2025-10-09T17:12Z 46K followers, 1867 engagements

"I dont know who needs to hear this but women who you personally find attractive exist in the real world and they can exist in video games as well. If you cant play a video game without every woman in it looking like a repulsive hag you are brain rotted and need help"
X Link @SandyofCthulhu 2025-10-12T16:17Z 46K followers, 19.9K engagements

"It's really simple. If a first-generation immigrant is a Real American which I am totally willing to admit (if they arrived properly); then European settlers of the New World are also Real Americans and land acknowledgements and faux crying over it are invalid. I love Native Americans - heck my church teaches they are the Chosen People. But their land isn't stolen. Heck it's not even conquered if you accept the "immigrants are real citizens" argument"
X Link @SandyofCthulhu 2025-10-13T21:43Z 46K followers, 4369 engagements

"Spookies (1986) might be the most fun "monsters in a haunted house" movie ever. Has a hook-handed cat-man a spider lady electric lizard things mud men and on and on. Ends in a great zombie chase. Also has the balls to kill a XX year old kid at the start"
X Link @SandyofCthulhu 2025-10-15T15:25Z 46K followers, 1630 engagements

"I don't understand. D&D grew out of fantasy fiction. Name ANY fantasy story based solely on everyone living in a happy pastel town with enough monsters to keep it diverse. I mean my ideas of great fantasy are stuff like Lord Foul's Bane Shadow of the Torturer Phantastes A Voyage to Arcturus and so forth zero of which have everyone being friends. Even the Oz books which invariably DO end in a highly diverse party have toil and sorrow and danger before the end"
X Link @SandyofCthulhu 2025-10-15T23:49Z 46K followers, 35.7K engagements

"Am I being gaslit or something Because every single piece of recent art from WotC is moronic and seemingly designed to drive players away. Do they actually have GOOD art too and I'm just seeing the terrible idiotic stuff"
X Link @SandyofCthulhu 2025-10-16T00:13Z 46K followers, 118.6K engagements

""Xenophobic and vicious creatures beholders were quick to attack enemies including anyone they deemed not 'like themselves'. Beholders are violent and greedy hungering for both wealth and power over others." Direct quote from rules"
X Link @SandyofCthulhu 2025-10-16T00:16Z 46K followers, 469.3K engagements

""Owlbears are fierce savage predators vicious ravenous beasts that combine a bear's power with an owl's perception and a nasty disposition." Actual rules"
X Link @SandyofCthulhu 2025-10-16T00:20Z 46K followers, 32.9K engagements

"I feel kind of bad for WotC. They keep trying to make cool art to entice people into their game but since they apparently have no idea why people play in the first place the images produce derision and mockery. I think the problem is problem is that WotC's images do not "Call to Adventure". Look below. The top three images of Pathfinder DD original player's handbook and original Call of Cthulhu stuff is no better in terms of art & technique to the new WotC stuff. I would argue that much of it is technically inferior to WotC's. BUT it's adventurous and exciting and puts YOU in the stead of the"
X Link @SandyofCthulhu 2025-10-16T15:50Z 46K followers, 42K engagements

"So . the word cockroach entered America from Spanish c. 1700s (cucuracha). But . what did the British call them before Does Britain not have roaches I admit I dont remember seeing them in my dozen or so trips there. I did have someone (not an American) try to claim that cockroaches are "tropical" to which my friends in Chicago and New York can give a big horse laugh and they're not alone. Also there are roaches in temperate forests in every one of the XX lower states"
X Link @SandyofCthulhu 2025-10-16T19:56Z 46K followers, 11.5K engagements

"Parents be ware because Hastur has been putting Yellow Signs in some candy. So take a peek before you Eek"
X Link @SandyofCthulhu 2025-10-16T20:35Z 46K followers, 4212 engagements

"The final thing that was important was that we had villagers have their own little AI - basically after they finish building some kind of drop site they'll automatically go and start mining the stone or whatever. Other villager changes are you don't lose any resources a villager is carrying when he is given a new task. Before if a villager had (say) X wood and is told to go build a mining camp the wood would vanish. Now you get the wood before he starts mining. Villagers space themselves around a bunch of farms when sent to a single farm so you don't need to task each villager on a separate"
X Link @SandyofCthulhu 2025-10-16T20:57Z 46K followers, 4591 engagements

"Seth is really committed to his principles. After I'd known Seth for a couple years and we'd dined together watched movies and played boardgames I asked if I could get into his current campaign. He vetted me just like any other player. Me The "great" Sandy Petersen. He let his other players judge me and listened to their feedback when I wasn't around. (Note: I did get to play in Seth's campaign for a couple months before my Dad summoned me to Valinor and I left the state. Alas.)"
X Link @SandyofCthulhu 2025-10-16T20:59Z 46K followers, 6887 engagements

"Breaking news from NASA"
X Link @SandyofCthulhu 2025-10-17T05:54Z 46K followers, 7791 engagements

"Fascism is not capitalism. Fascists preached against capitalism using the exact same language as Marxists capitalists are fat-cats capitalists oppress the poor the government should rein them back. Fascists were as anti-capitalist as Marxists. Its fashionable today among some conservatives to say that fascists are left-wing but I think it's really more like this: A triangle showing the three systems with the old-type mercantilism in the middle. The Nazis saw themselves as a "middle road" between the evils of communism and the evils of capitalism. Capitalists see ourselves as a "middle road""
X Link @SandyofCthulhu 2025-10-17T19:46Z 46K followers, 7964 engagements

"There was a great Dr Who sequence in which two warring alien empires couldnt win because both relied on supercomputers as their generals so both militaries always made the exact same moves at the same time"
X Link @SandyofCthulhu 2025-10-17T22:00Z 46K followers, 10.9K engagements

"I just want to say that my assumption is that WargamingDad was joking when he called me a tourist. I at least thought it was funny. If he cares and sees this hes welcome to confirm or deny"
X Link @SandyofCthulhu 2025-10-18T15:18Z 46K followers, 14.2K engagements

"So research into Big Trouble In Little China X gives me this: 1) its another story set in the same universe not a sequel. No Jack Burton. This is GOOD. 2) Dwayne Johnson. This is a OH HELL NO"
X Link @SandyofCthulhu 2025-10-18T20:19Z 46K followers, 9146 engagements

"I cant decide if hes using the Dutch French British Norwegian Czech or Icelandic colors. Im sure its one of those"
X Link @SandyofCthulhu 2025-10-18T20:37Z 46K followers, 7373 engagements

"You know what would be awesome. Lets let a studio have enough money to do a really awesome sequel to The Fifth Element Prince of Darkness or Willow and then NOT DO IT. Spend the money on a completely original project. I can get behind that 100%. (I posted a nonexistent film image below as an example of how things could go wrong.)"
X Link @SandyofCthulhu 2025-10-18T22:50Z 46K followers, 5525 engagements

"Hopefully they spent a ton of money on this helping local business and emptying their own pocketbooks"
X Link @SandyofCthulhu 2025-10-18T22:53Z 46K followers, 3655 engagements

"There are no Safeways in the entire state of Utah anymore"
X Link @SandyofCthulhu 2025-10-18T23:49Z 46K followers, 2938 engagements

"When I say that LotR has ambiguous (gray) moral characters this obviously doesnt mean theres no clear-cut good vs. evil. There is. Plenty of it. But that just makes the moral struggles more poignant. Such as Boromirs heroic death which is triggered by a mixture of despair patriotism and treachery. Doesnt make his death less heroic and redeeming"
X Link @SandyofCthulhu 2025-10-19T05:14Z 46K followers, 9419 engagements

"In 1772 the British ship Gaspee was sailing up and down the coasts of New England on an anti-smuggling mission. Of course at the time every American was pretty much pro-smuggling. You see Britain had unilaterally instigated laws that demanded the Americans ONLY trade with Britain itself or her colonies. It was pretty much the most restrictive possible trade policy imaginable. We couldn't import goods from France Spain Holland or their colonies directly. And we couldn't ship to them. Everything was supposed to go through middlemen. Who of course lived in Britain and forced through the laws via"
X Link @SandyofCthulhu 2025-10-19T15:15Z 46K followers, 6249 engagements

"Things that bug me about many depictions of Cthulhu. 1) he shouldn't have a realistic octopus head. He's not an octopus. He doesn't need a siphon. 2) He doesn't need a beak. He can engulf food amoeba-style from anywhere. 3) he doesn't have a human-like muscle structure. Like he doesn't have "abs" or "pecs" though he could simulate them I suppose. His whole body is a potential muscle"
X Link @SandyofCthulhu 2025-10-19T15:46Z 46K followers, 7194 engagements

""Marriage costs way too much." I agree. I got married in the LDS temple in Provo. Cost: free. I rented the chapel for my reception. Cost: $XX (1979) The catering photographer and wedding luncheon cost probably 9in the low thousands of dollars. XX years later my kid got married and it cost me $25000 and I had to put my foot down and be the bad guy for not wanting to spend more. I didn't get a single bite of the catering because I was trying to orchestrate the festivities. The results My own wedding has lasted XX years so far. My kid's lasted less than XX. So I feel I got value for money in my"
X Link @SandyofCthulhu 2025-10-19T16:02Z 46K followers, 5345 engagements

"This is generally true for game companies because our cash flow is utterly different from what stockholders want. They desire a steady predictable flow and game companies do NOT deliver that. We have booms and busts and pulsations in the market. MicroProse was literally destroyed by going public. I was there"
X Link @SandyofCthulhu 2025-10-19T16:09Z 46K followers, 137K engagements

"Just learned that Tolkien was at the Somme. So was my Grandpa Jack. Tolkien got through it safely whereas Grandpa Jack got shot by the Germans lay in a mud puddle for X days and got taken prisoner by the German Red Cross who saved his life. Spent the rest of the war in a prison camp. I'm going to blame that for the reason he didn't write Lord of the Rings instead of Tolkien"
X Link @SandyofCthulhu 2025-10-19T16:25Z 46K followers, 20.4K engagements

"It takes MORE energy to split water into hydrogen & oxygen than you get from burning hydrogen. You can use hydrogen as fuel but not IN THE SAME ENGINE. You have to split the water in another device then transfer it or all you get is an energy loss. It's pretty basic physics. And of course the device that splits the water needs an outside source of energy that is NOT HYDROGEN. This claim is completely and trivially debunked"
X Link @SandyofCthulhu 2025-10-19T16:30Z 46K followers, 10.1K engagements

"Imagine is the very worst song because it wasted the time of a brilliant musician who could have been doing something else and because it somehow became popular so I hear it all the f**king time. Man I hate that song so much it almost makes me dislike John Lennon's other works. Almost. My intellectual way out is to blame Yoko Ono. If you don't hate Yoko enough please listen to her song "Don't Worry Kyoko". We were listening to the Sirius XM Beatles station and this song came on and my wife was amazed. She had never heard it and WOW she couldn't believe it was real"
X Link @SandyofCthulhu 2025-10-19T16:35Z 46K followers, 4279 engagements

"Not only am I a TTRPG tourist but I am also disgusting. At least Im not being accused of being a Satanist quite as often nowadays"
X Link @SandyofCthulhu 2025-10-19T18:19Z 46K followers, 8577 engagements

"The Call of Ktulu by Metallica. I know every word"
X Link @SandyofCthulhu 2025-10-19T20:10Z 46K followers, 7766 engagements

"I'd say No Man's Sky though they get mad creds for fixing the problems over time with constant free updates"
X Link @SandyofCthulhu 2025-10-19T23:50Z 46K followers, 5283 engagements

"Next time were at the same convention we should Afrika Korps or Battle of the Bulge or something"
X Link @SandyofCthulhu 2025-10-20T03:52Z 46K followers, 1604 engagements

"She calls me Bapa. The grandkids all love Lovecraft stuff. Ergo Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Bapa R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn"
X Link @SandyofCthulhu 2025-10-20T04:55Z 46K followers, 1276 engagements

"Terrible genre movie plans. In Gamera vs Gyaos the scientists learn that Gyaos cant stand sunlight. So they come up with two potential plans. Plan A: fill a gigantic bowl with thousands of gallons of blood & put it on a turntable. Gyaos will come to drink the blood and when the turntable is activated Gyaos will get too dizzy to fly away before sunrise. Plan B: use large sunlamps. Guess which plan they go with"
X Link @SandyofCthulhu 2025-10-10T14:51Z 46K followers, 4210 engagements

"We are giving away free our Halloween pack for 8-bit Attack if you get the 8-Bit Attack game or any expansion. Just use the code HappyH at checkout"
X Link @SandyofCthulhu 2025-10-17T04:59Z 46K followers, 1968 engagements

"I literally married the woman on the right. As in an AI drawn version of her looks like that. She hasn't been pregnant in XX years though (she's entitled at age 69)"
X Link @SandyofCthulhu 2025-10-17T20:51Z 46K followers, 7198 engagements

"Yes the evil tyrant Lincoln who guaranteed to the South that he was not going to eliminate slavery - only restrict it from entering new states. Look - the fact is that before Lincoln's election the Southern Democrats always controlled the Supreme court and the presidency (even northern-born presidents toed the line). They always had carefully-balanced equality in the Senate (which meant they won Senate votes because the North had Democrats too). The only arm of the government the South didn't fully control was the House of Representatives which frankly was the puniest of these. When Lincoln"
X Link @SandyofCthulhu 2025-10-13T18:11Z 46K followers, 44.6K engagements

"One of the best "fighting" movies ever made is Hard Times with Charles Bronson. It's about a boxer during the Depression. The reason it's so great is twofold. 1) Each time he is in a fight he uses a different strategy. Vs. the young guy with lots of vitality he tries to overwhelm with a million attacks before he's out-performed. For the older skilled guy he uses rope-a-dope etc. Every fight you can see how he responds to his opponent's talents. You never get the feeling that Bronson wins because he is stronger faster and superior. His opponents are ALWAYS better than him in some way. But not"
X Link @SandyofCthulhu 2025-10-13T18:24Z 46K followers, 39.7K engagements

"Creepy idea. During WW2 there were several flights of Japanese kamikazes which never returned (yes I know none were supposed to return) but which also the Americans never saw. It's assumed that these just crashed out at sea due to poor navigation or unwillingness to return having failed to find the US fleet. But what if they are still out there . somewhere Kept aflight by force of unnatural will and evil mental focus. Flying their ghost planes with skeletal pilots wearing hachimakis still seeking a target. Disappearances of ships since then could be caused by the appearance of one of these"
X Link @SandyofCthulhu 2025-10-15T00:31Z 46K followers, 55.5K engagements

"Holy crap are snarky morons like this still around My dad (97) still loves watching and talking about college sports. Trying to pretend that whatever YOU like is grown-up so you can demean someone else is the most childish attitude possible"
X Link @SandyofCthulhu 2025-10-15T13:50Z 46K followers, 26.7K engagements

"It's not just technology that wins in war. You hear a lot about how American radar was so awesome and of course it was. BUT Japan had radar too. It wasn't quite as good as American but ours was also pretty much in its infant stage so theirs was actually close in terms of technology. But where we beat theirs all hollow was in our culture vis-a-vis technology. You see Americans LOVE gadgets and we loved them back in WW2. One of the reasons our vehicles seemed to break down less was because every platoon had a few guys who know how to fix cars. And when radar came out of course every single"
X Link @SandyofCthulhu 2025-10-15T23:41Z 46K followers, 5608 engagements

""Blue dragons are crafty deceptive illusionists and tricksters. One of the more powerful dragons they use their mastery over illusion to mislead travelers in the deserts to their lairs. Bold and confident they consider themselves lords of all they survey. They are Lawful Evil." actual rules"
X Link @SandyofCthulhu 2025-10-16T00:22Z 46K followers, 148.7K engagements

"Greatest voice in film"
X Link @SandyofCthulhu 2025-10-16T00:55Z 46K followers, 3479 engagements

"In Call of Cthulhu while your story is yours to tell Great Cthulhu and the Outer Gods also have a say"
X Link @SandyofCthulhu 2025-10-16T15:36Z 46K followers, 8899 engagements

"When I was set to design Age of Empires II: The Conquerors the main task was of course to add new civilizations. A secondary task was to add a little something to every existing civ so they'd feel special. And the third task was to add new features to improve the game. This third task was based mostly on feedback we'd gotten in the last few weeks of tests where we found problems we would like to fix but more important tasks got in the way. So now that we were able to take a short breather as it were we could put these new features in. The first and most glorious feature that everyone loved"
X Link @SandyofCthulhu 2025-10-16T20:57Z 46K followers, 19.1K engagements

"I went to a high end German restaurant and this is what they thought was a crouton in their lentil & crouton stew. Why yes it WAS made of puff pastry"
X Link @SandyofCthulhu 2025-10-16T21:22Z 46K followers, 2954 engagements

"Hed be fine"
X Link @SandyofCthulhu 2025-10-16T21:31Z 46K followers, 37.7K engagements

"Jared Leto is a vampire too. Just not a cool one"
X Link @SandyofCthulhu 2025-10-16T21:38Z 46K followers, 2470 engagements

"My takeaway lesson from this was that Medusa shaves her armpits. This makes sense because who wants snakes sprouting from your armpits. It also answers the X-rated question of why Medusa never got married if you think about it too much"
X Link @SandyofCthulhu 2025-10-16T21:55Z 46K followers, 4980 engagements

"Pirates in the AD&D monster manual says theyre just like buccaneers except theyre always evil alignment. Speaking as a man who worked for almost a year on a Pirate game in which all the players are pirates this checks out"
X Link @SandyofCthulhu 2025-10-17T04:11Z 46K followers, 11.6K engagements

"An amazing fact is that up until the 80s or later we thought the only venomous lizards were the sister species Gila Monster & Beaded Lizard. Then a scientist noticed that people bit by komodo dragons got sick then weakened and died regardless of antibiotics. It was thought for years that this was just infections. They dissected one found venom glands. Just not hollow fangs. Then they did some more research and found that other monitor lizards alligator lizards a few iguanas and even horny toads have venom. There are at least XXX venomous lizards and we dont really know them all. Of course"
X Link @SandyofCthulhu 2025-10-17T04:42Z 46K followers, 16K engagements

"Socialists regularly deny the fact that socialism is when government controls the economy. They may say "no it's when workers control the means of production". This requires a government which is OVER those workers to control the means of production and that's forced by its nature. So socialism is always turning over more power to the government. Socialists also are usually in denial that the government is made of up people who are fallible possibly corrupt and in a one-party state not subject to any oversight. It wasn't Joseph Stalin or Pol Pot or Mao Tse-Tung who personally killed millions"
X Link @SandyofCthulhu 2025-10-17T15:18Z 46K followers, 9630 engagements

"When me and my tiny team were creating Age of Empires: The Conquerors one of the fixes we did was letting you stack up farms. Basically you'd pay your wood costs ahead of time and then as farms timed out the farmer could grab one from the stack and keep going. I have been told that in age of Empires Definitive Edition the farmers now can just grab wood from your supply instead of you needing to queue them up. We actually considered this while working on the Conquerors but we decided that having the farmers basically "steal" wood from your pile would sometimes result in some real frustration"
X Link @SandyofCthulhu 2025-10-17T16:19Z 46K followers, 28.9K engagements

"I once ran a LARP called Space Station Zanzibar in which the players acted as characters from all different science fiction & fantasy universes. A high point was when Rick Deckard ran down the halls screaming "Soylent Green is TRIBBLES". Good times. He was right by the way"
X Link @SandyofCthulhu 2025-10-17T16:25Z 46K followers, 4099 engagements

"Martin Landau killed it as Bela Lugosi in "Ed Wood". Also I read an interview with Johnny Depp about that same time (1994) in which Depp said he'd lost interest in making movies and had decided that Ed Wood would be his last. It just wasn't fun any more. Then he watched Martin Landau (age 64) just LOVING the camera and lapping up the attention and working like a demon to get the part Just So and aiming at perfection and Depp said Landau's obvious love and devotion for acting & movies rekindled his heart and made him change his mind and plunge back into acting excited and cheerful. So it was"
X Link @SandyofCthulhu 2025-10-17T16:30Z 46K followers, 9348 engagements

"Your job as gamemaster of a roleplaying game isn't to play fair. You're not a player in the same sense as your players. Your job is to craft an awesome tale with their participation and cooperation to entertain them. Their job is to entertain you in return. HENCEFORTH it is perfectly okay for you as gamemaster to fudge a die roll here and there if it would ruin some aspect of the game and hurt the players' fun. And I'm not saying this means you have to keep the players from losing or treat them as snowflakes. Risk of death (or worse in Call of Cthulhu) is absolutely part of the fun. Sometimes"
X Link @SandyofCthulhu 2025-10-17T16:36Z 46K followers, 8515 engagements

"Only if both parents are citizens"
X Link @SandyofCthulhu 2025-10-17T17:59Z 46K followers, 7430 engagements

"What makes Call of Cthulhu unique Every roleplaying game has the basic cycle of: (1) players fight bad guys; (2) players level up; (3) players fight tougher bad guys. This is a compelling cycle which is why it's so popular. It's used in JRPGs MMO RPGs etc. etc. It's why combat is so important in roleplaying games. Don't get me wrong I love this cycle too and use it when I play fantasy or science fiction RPGs. And please - when I say combat is important this doesn't mean that other aspects of RPGs aren't also important. Look at the length of the combat chapter in your game. It's long and"
X Link @SandyofCthulhu 2025-10-17T20:42Z 46K followers, 10.2K engagements

"Salted Herring flavored candy from Germany. Yum. Also its ❤egan whatever that means. I love Germany"
X Link @SandyofCthulhu 2025-10-18T16:11Z 46K followers, 3404 engagements

"There's a pretty good Call of Cthulhu scenario in there somewhere. Not to mention 2000+ angry vengeful ghosts"
X Link @SandyofCthulhu 2025-10-18T23:45Z 46K followers, 6907 engagements

"The one facet of my career that I am most proud of is not Doom or Age of Empires or even Cthulhu Wars. Its that I popularized Lovecraft. Before Call of Cthulhu Lovecraft was vanishingly obscure. Only hardcore guys like me & Gary Gygax knew of him. Starting with Call of Cthulhu and accelerating with Stuart Gordons films Lovecraft awareness spread. At the spook alley last night there was an Innsmouth section complete with Deep Ones & Cthulhu. I told my granddaughters that the main reason that section existed originated with me. I was proud. So many have told me they were inspired to read HPL"
X Link @SandyofCthulhu 2025-10-19T02:22Z 46K followers, 21.6K engagements

"Dynamite is super useful in Call of Cthulhu. Therere plenty of monsters it still wont kill but you can wreck cult centers destroy archeological sites and close cave exits"
X Link @SandyofCthulhu 2025-10-19T04:44Z 46K followers, 3581 engagements

"You must realize that this was a big DECREASE in the work week. Ford eased the workers burden folks"
X Link @SandyofCthulhu 2025-10-19T05:33Z 46K followers, 42K engagements

"One feature of Tolkien's orcs that tends to gradually be erased over time is their size. In the fight in Moria it's notworthy that one of the orcs is "nearly as tall as a man" clearly indicating that these creatures are NOT tall. Many are taller than dwarfs but also their size can range down to as small as a hobbit because Frodo & Sam pass as orcs in Mordor. Even the Uruk-Hai were only about man-sized at best. But starting with Games Workshop's Warhammer and extending into Blizzard's Warcraft orcs have been portrayed as larger than human. I am so proud of Peter Jackson's LotR which showed"
X Link @SandyofCthulhu 2025-10-19T15:38Z 46K followers, 36.1K engagements

"Jack Vance articulated this argument but it resonates strongly with me. My property exists because I have sacrificed part of my life to earn it. Hence someone who steals or destroys my property is literally destroying part of my life. This is not "capitalist" as private property exists in every society even communist (look it up). Therefore severe penalties and use of deadly force vs. theft or vandalism is justified. The perpetrators killed part of your finite lifespan"
X Link @SandyofCthulhu 2025-10-19T16:17Z 46K followers, 16.8K engagements

"keep it going"
X Link @SandyofCthulhu 2025-10-19T19:26Z 46K followers, 2562 engagements

"I am glad to have a final definitive answer. Thank you sir"
X Link @SandyofCthulhu 2025-10-19T19:54Z 46K followers, 13.4K engagements

"She was great in Spirited Away"
X Link @SandyofCthulhu 2025-10-20T04:22Z 46K followers, 1766 engagements

"The thing that really excited me about Age of Empires is that it let us reproduce the panoply & spectacle of an old-school historical miniatures tabletop game"
X Link @SandyofCthulhu 2025-10-20T04:57Z 46K followers, 2260 engagements

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