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Some more art

It's unreadable.

>>98139331
It's, honestly, a great inspiration for tabletop, one of the best. Especially since it and its style have been criminally underused. The Earth Current is mysterious enough to be flexible as a source of magic-like effects and the setting of course is basically just limited by your gothic imagination and desire to stay true to the tone.

>>98139331
>constantly having to save against the house of silence or die
Pass

>>98139331
You could do a sort of post-apocalyptic cthuluesque scenario were people are transported to future / parallel dimension earth which is the night lands.
The problem is that you will have to basically do all the material from 0.
No idea also what kind of adventures could be told on the nightlands...
But for a scenario were coc investigators are transported to the nightlands and they need to find a way back it could be very interesting.

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Isn't that the book that one of the OSR-adjacent trolls is obsessed about?

>>98141824
>t. Picked a class with a shitty Silence save
Gitgud, everyone knows those classes are trap options

>>98142047
Yeah, the so-called Nightlandfag/Fishfag, but he actually got his ass blown out so hard over being found out as the same guy that he seems to have stopped trolling Night Land threads just to try to conceal the truth, in a futile attempt to save face. So we might actually be able to discuss this book in peace now.

>>98139347
Aieeeeee- is that a glowing orb?? I cannot move any farther... for eons... zzz...

Are the Watchers just autistic?

There's a few different campaign types you can run, but the Night Lands serve best as inspiration.
-Explore the Night Lands: Highly lethal, can contact degenerate/subhuman tribes adapting to the remnants of the world, try to contact or save the Lesser Redoubt.
-You can never go home: The people inside the Greater Redoubt live in perfect luxury, can't they see what is happening outside? Do they even want to? Best for hugh contrast, generation and conceptually heavy ideas
-Tourist Bus: Short campaign, high romance across generations, hit the highlights and move on

Oh no another night lands thread surely this won’t devolve into a shitposting troll fest at the expense of a resident schizoid individual

I will, however, add this book to my reading list and give it a shot, despite the warnings that I will be utterly wasting my time

>>98139401
Some people tried to fix the broken English

>>98142369
It is implied that God is keeping them at bay.

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>night land schizo is back

>>98139331
God I really have to finish this. I got 2/3rds of the way through but didn't want to go any further because of how absurdly repetitive the prose was. Absolutely awesome setting though that I've stolen things from for my own games.

I would highly recommend the James Stoddard rewrite of The Night Land for those that can't stomach the repetitive prose of the original.
It's only about two thirds as long despite having a few more scenes.
I read both back-to-back recently.
While the originals fake Middle-English vocab was sort of charming, the sequence on the return journey where they pass back through the volcanic jungle and get into relationship drama made me want to kill myself. I swear that the author must have had some sort of minor stroke while writing it seeing how much he begins to talk in circles for upwards of an hour.
The rewrite added character names and actual spoken dialogue, which made the sequence flow way smoother in my opinion. The foot fetish shit is like 5-10% of what the original had and I don't think Stoddard used the word "naughty" even once. Mirdath/Naani is also a way more likeable character and less of a shit-testing bitch.

>>98145199
He had a "try hard" problem in general, in the hog, it felt like the narrator was screaming at the readers at time.

>>98139401
Skill issue

>>98145199
>reading the night land rewrite
unironically kill yourself

>>98145199
>I swear that the author must have had some sort of minor stroke while writing it seeing how much he begins to talk in circles for upwards of an hour.
>tfw that was the exact part I dropped the book at
does it get better afterwards?

>>98145732
Not that anon, but it picks up once they get out of the forest and return to the upper night lands.

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>>98145732
Jungle sequence is followed by a fairly boring Island one, but the return to the night land, the last 50 pages or so are the best of the book. Makes alot of the slog worth it and the action is incredible. Ending is very bittersweet.

With that said I actually like the difficult prose, the book needed trimming down but the style is quite immersive. Well it works very well when it actually does. Its a shame he died in the great war before the book could actually be edited.

What is this just lovecraftian Conan universe stuff?

>>98145199
>I swear that the author must have had some sort of minor stroke while writing it seeing how much he begins to talk in circles for upwards of an hour.
I felt the same way about house on the borderland. First half was a really awesome and tense horror story. Second half was a bunch of fucking pointless nonsense.

>>98145199
Never really looked into this series, what the fuck is exactly wrong with its writing to the point that it had to be legitimately rewritten? And why then anyone cared enough to do it in the first place?
First time I've heard of anything like that happening

>>98145785
>Well it works very well when it actually does. Its a shame he died in the great war before the book could actually be edited.
He did a second trimmed down edition, tales of X.
To guarantee the copyright

I notice that OP reposts this thread every 2-3 months. Not often, but often enough to be noticeable.

>>98147838
The author tried to go for a more archaic English, like the worm ouroboros, but it ended up a mess that even Lovecraft called it as incomprehensible obtuse.

>>98147699
>filtered from cosmic horror by inability to understand abstract concepts like entropy
weird flex but ok

Someone post the part where a creature is laughing and saying its existence is pure mockery of human life.

>>98147972
>N-no, you don't understand, it was *good* that it was boring and disconnected for the last 100 pages! That's cosmic!

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>>98147699
I really liked House on the Borderland, but I could see having that reaction. You really have to just go with the flow of the weirdness. It's kinda like Dream Quest of Unknown-Kadath or the first Dark Tower book in that way.
If you want more straight-up work by Hodgson, I'd recommend the Carnacki stories.

>>98147985
2nd this

>>98148514
>You really have to just go with the flow of the weirdness. It's kinda like Dream Quest of Unknown-Kadath or the first Dark Tower book in that way.
Yeah, agree with this. You have to just take it all in stride or it doesn't work.

>>98142084
You guys are just making up -fags at this point

>>98155189
I also thought so, than said fag went nuclear in a night land thread.

>>98139401
Skill issue

>>98139331
It's definitely full of potential to be mined for material--part of what's so interesting about The Night Land though is that it was written by someone who very clearly lived in the physical world. So much of the story is concerned with small things like setting a regular pace in harsh conditions, keeping careful track of time and direction. Tthe danger is enormous, and yet the landscape is so massive that the protagonist really only encounters danger a handful of times in the story, even finding relative safety in some parts of the land.

Absolutely kino, I'm glad they've never tried to adapt it or modernize it into a movie or something. Though, a Night Land Vidya would fucking rock. I'm not sure what you'd do for a tabletop game though. Maybe just base it off the premise but a bit less bleak? Maybe the Redoubt starts collapsing and you've got to go recover a watcher chip from a failed redoubt elsewhere?

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>>98145199
>2020s
"Time to have a sassy nigger bitch berate the hero, can't have people thinking the white man is cool again"

>1900s
"Time to have our hero flog his girlfriend with a rope for not eating all of her vitamin pills. See that's how you know he really loves her."

How our civilization has fallen.

>>98139331
>>98145199
Ignore this.

If anyone wants to actually read The Night Land, you should read the real version, not the fanfic knockoff that tries to pretend it's just an "updated" version, it's completely unofficial and completely misses the tone of the real version. You just have to get over that Hodgeson will repeat multiple times how often the protagonist stops to make a camp, especially on his journey back home because there's a whole new element put into the mix then and he really likes to focus on "pretty toes". But other than that, you can't get the same feeling of otherworldliness from MCU-tier dialogue and descriptions like the fanfic imitations have.

>>98162622
Based
James Stoddard has been shilling his shitty rewrite on this board for years by now

>>98147956
He's a weird guy. He also seems to samefag quite a lot and is probably gonna bump this thread for weeks.

Whoever anon that recommended me the Night Land back in the solo threads, thank you.

>>98162622
I first read the OG novel about two years ago (it's now my favorite book), then immediately followed it with Stoddard's version. He threw the baby out with the bathwater. As I recall, the rewrite
>not only gives the House of Silence a backstory, but does so with a throwaway line.
>added some scene where the House of Silence's victims' bodies are puppeted outside the Redoubt.
>made Naani stop and think of a way to effectively push a boulder onto a giant slug, undermining the danger of the original scene, where it was an act of sheer desperation and adrenaline
>made Naani forgettable in general
As a side note, it seems that a lot of the Night Land fanfiction I've read turns the Silent Ones into generic servants of the Forces of Evil and the House of Silence itself. I thought the novel implied they're their own faction, and the protagonist even admits to having a respect for them instead of hatred. They don't actively hunt humans, but they are territorial.
Also, verifying that I'm human in order to post makes me think of the Master-word.

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