GUG!

...the lack of Gugs is nearly as unforgivable as the lack of Ghoul PCs...

GUG

NO. APPEARING 1-3

ARMOR CLASS 2[17], 6[13] vs Ghouls

MOVE 150' (50')

HIT DICE 10

% IN LAIR 25%

ATTACKS 4 claws (1-6/1-6/1-6/1-6) and bite (1-10)

SPECIAL Rending; -4 on attacks vs Ghouls
SAVE Fighter 10[5]

MORALE 10, 4 vs Ghouls

INTELLIGENCE Average

ALIGNMENT Chaotic evil

SIZE L (20'+ tall)

If a gug strikes a single opponent with two or more of its claws, it deals addition damage dependent upon the number of successful claw attacks, 1-8 for two, 2-16 for three, and 3-24 if all four strike.

Monster Stats for Nightgaunts, Moon Beasts, Gugs and More...

A whole bunch of Lovecraftian monsters on the Goblinoid Games forum...

The Elder Races

The Elder Races were various powerful, inhuman races that range from hundreds of millions to billions of years old; almost all of alien or extradimensional origin. Their civilizations sprawled across Algol in prehuman times. The reason for their decline is unknown. Nowadays there are only a few scattered populations of the Elder Races on Algol, hidden in remote or inhospitable regions.

The Elder Races may be responsible for many of the bizarre anomalies of Planet Algol, by virtue of their puissant sorcery and science they were capable of warping the planet to suit their inhuman whims.

Their abilities with technology and magic were far more powerful than anything achieved by man; although survivors of the Elder Races may seem to be gods compared to men, they are only the wretched, degenerate descendants of the true Elder Races who only possess scraps of their unthinkable knowledge and might.

Known examples of the Elder Races include:

• Grey Martians
  
• Gug
• Hluss
  
• Mi-go
• Mind Flayers
  
• Primordial Ones
• Serpent Men
• Slaad
• Ssu
  
• Yithians
  

A Realization - I Don't Like The Great Race of Yith

"What! Um, yes, our books do actually look like your normal, twentieth-century, everyday, human books. We're actually kind of embarrassed that we couldn't make them more bizarre looking. If you saw our toilets you'd be really disappointed."

I've come to realization regarding Lovecraft mythos creations in Dungeons & Dragons. This occurred to me while I was perusing Carcosa for material to use in my Planet Algol campaign. Robots? Yes! Snake Men? Yes! Primordial Ones? I loves these guys! The Great Race? Those guys piss me off.

Pretty much anything from the Cthulhu Mythos, aside from the more sad-sack pastiche creations, is fair game for consideration in use in my games. But I've never considered using the Great Race of Yith. These prehistoric communist invertebrates coldly, casually hijack peoples bodies for entertainment, and then just abandon the mess that ensues when the Flying Polys escape by kicking out the souls of a race of bugs people who are the only intelligent beings left in Earth's future. Callous! Their attitude just rubs me the wrong way, damn pompus, self-righteous rugose cones!