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Save You...

The superhuman suspense of

Godlike

meets the cosmic terrors of

Achtung! Cthulhu,

fully compatible with the

Call of Cthulhu, Sixth Edition

and

Savage Worlds

roleplaying games.

Around the world and throughout the war, Talent commandos

use their amazing abilities to confront superpowered Nazi

‘Übermenschen’ and the secret, awful designs of the Black Sun.

Alec owton

Section M

Elder Godlike

adds a new alternate

dimension to the Secret War, including:

• A complete new rules system for superpowers

Call of Cthulhu.

Willpower and sanity

shape the impact of Talent powers

• A history of Talents in the Secret War

• Guidelines for Talents in mass combat

• A complete Elder Godlike adventure

• Six pre-generated characters, ready to play

In fact, a whole crossover dossier’s worth of useful alternate

historical and fantastical information to help you expand your

campaign out into the wider world of the Secret War.

You are larger than life—

but the Secret War is larger than you.

Credits

Written by

GreG Stolze , DenniS Detwiller, AllAn GooDAll,

Edited by

ShAne ivey, lynne hArDy & Scott wooDArD

Cover Artwork by

GioGio BAroni

Interior Artwork by

Dim mArtin & GioGio BAroni

Graphic Design, Layout & Cartography by

michAl e. croSS & AllAn GooDAll

Produced & Art Directed by

chriS Birch

Proofreading by

t. r. KniGht

Community Managers

zArinA KADylBeK & John DoDD

Published by

moDiphiuS entertAinment ltD.

35 Turneville Road, London. W14 9PS

info@modiphius.com

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ent in a historical context only.

ark of Dennis Detwiller.

Godlike: Superhero Roleplaying in a World on Fire, 1936-1946

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sion.

Godlike

and its related concepts are © Dennis Detwiller, 2015, used by permis

Wars: Weird Wars II

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This game references the

Savage Worlds

game system; material from

Weird

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Table of Contents

Fo re wo rdS F ro M deNNiS deTwiLLer &

P LA yT e ST e r Th A Nk S

Book oNe:

eLder GodLike

ChAPTer 1:

Talents in the Secret war

ChAPTer 2:

Talent Abilities

ChAPTer 3:

Powers that Mock the

Laws of Physics

ChAPTer 4:

The Clash of will

the Prerogatives

Talents

ChAPTer 5:

Assorted Power

ChAPTer 6:

Talents in Mass Combat

Book Two:

BeyoNd The LiMiTS

oF The NorTh

ChAPTer 1:

introduction

ChAPTer 2:

Plot episodes

ePiSode oNe : Unexpected Guests

ePiSode Two: Bookworms

ePiSode Three: Scared Stiff

ePiSode FoUr: offerings to the ice God

ePiSode Fi ve : The Citadel of the white worm

ePiLoGUe

ChAPTer 3:

Allies & Adversaries

ChAPTer 4:

New Spells for Savage worlds

Pre-GeNerATed ChArACTerS

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iNdex

Foreword from dennis detwiller

and wonder in

Had he lived long enough to see it, H.P. Lovecraft would have found absurdity

the cracks between

World War II. At the time of his death, the war for Europe was congealing in

Earth whole.

countries, assembling like some otherworldly horror preparing to consume the

of a single

The works of Lovecraft and the Second World War are a natural fit. The folly

s, matches

man on the ground pushing to end an uncontrollable conflict that engulfs million

the roiling mess

many of Lovecraft’s protagonists attempting to defeat prehuman horrors. In

ing, and slaying

of war we clearly see mankind “become as the Great Old Ones,” killing, cavort

its most extreme

in a mimicry of the inhuman secret sentinels of the world. It was a battle at

against madness.

between light and dark. The clarity of this moment imitates Lovecraft. Sanity

Of this Earth and from

beyond

reality, as

The world of

Godlike

posits the ability of the human mind to warp and twist

e, moment by

if the world could be reconfigured inside the mind and then recreated outsid

are bulletproof,

moment, through the will of a superman. The “Talents” of this world can fly,

but like the normal

can pass through walls, or perform any number of other impossible actions,

in ways that

man on the ground, they can’t do one thing: end the war. Their powers are limited

that their scope

are difficult to understand. They rapidly find, no matter how powerful they are,

may touch the

is limited to a battle, a town, or a landing on some enemy-defended beach. They

impossible, but they can never achieve it.

Something

Together, the works of Lovecraft and

Godlike

create a third flavor:

elder Godlik

t the war and

rich and deep, and full of sacrifice, power, and death. The Talents struggle agains

sacrifice may save

against inhuman forces from beyond, and sometimes, just sometimes, their

than any of

the world. But this global war, like the cosmic threats from beyond, seems greater

them. Each victory seems to gain little, and the losses keep piling up.

Will you join the fight?

Dennis Detwiller

Spring 2015

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