This gives me some time to work on their next adventure (well, future adventure), the D series.
I have been re-reading the D series for a bit now. It's funny how when reading it today I have a really different perspective on things than when I was going through the adventure 30 years ago. That's not a surprise really, nor is how much of it I had forgotten. What is the surprise is how much of it I remembered. Not from reading it or even the printed page, but what my characters were doing at the time.
I remembered how much I HATE Blibdoolpoolp.
Not the goddess herself actually, but the deception. 20 foot tall nude human with a lobster head? Why would Kuo-toa worship something that looked so different than themselves? Well the answer was obvious even to my then pre-teen and teenaged mind. It was an excuse to draw a naked woman.
Now generally speaking I don't have a problem with this, but I would like to think I am a bit more sophisticated today.
Since Kuo-toa are supposed to be stand-ins for Deep Ones anyway, why not go all the way and use Mother Hydra instead of Blibdoolpoolp. I can keep all the same names, Kuo-toa are a more "fishy" offshoot of the Deep Ones and they call their Goddess Blibdoolpoolp instead of Mother Hydra, but they are the same thing. She would become one of those things that is a mix of demon, goddess and what those things are from the outer darkness of Lovecraft's mind.
vs. 
I have been adding more "Lovecraft" to this adventure series anyway. Castle Amber was already very steeped in the mythos of Clark Ashton Smith. I have a bunch of Yithan minis now too. Plus I have wanted to bring the Mind Flayers closer to their Lovecraftian step-fathers. So in this sense it all works out. I also have all of these books at home with the monster stats; Deities and Demigods, Astonishing Swordsmen & Sorcerers of Hyperborea, Realms of Crawling Chaos and what I call neo-Mythos books like the Teratic Tome.
My kids are really into reading about the mythos, but not the actual stories yet. My oldest doesn't read horror and my youngest is working his way up to Lovecraft now.
Ok. For the record, I know there is so much more to Lovecraft than the Mythos. But that is the part I want to use here.
I am not planning on bringing in the big C himself. But I can see Dagon showing up sometime.
In any case it is going to be a lot of fun.
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