You should be asking for reasons NOT to joing

[spit take]

YES. But what game in the series is he basing the setting off of?

You are not one of this mans players are you?
http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive/6092423/

Yes.

Play Tingle.

>>6704536

OH GOD.

If you do not, you are weak.
Do what we couldn't, SAVE SARIA DAMN YOU.

DO IT FAGGOT

Make your character as grimdark as possible but totally genre blind.

>>6704551
Save saria, IN CTHULU ZELDA ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING, SHES PROBABLY BEING MIND TENTACLE RAPED IN 6 DIFFERENT DIMENSIONS BY THE TIME YOU EVEN REALIZIE YOU'RE GONNA NEED A BIGGER FUCKING BOAT

I think he is going to make his own zelda themed world with strong cthulu themes, so, I don't think it follows a game specific storyline.

>>6704591
Lose Saria to the depths, try to drink yourself to death, end up in Hyrule Asylum.

Oh hell yes. Picture related.

That would be cool.

Ganon is a motherfucking old one, who looks like a pig-demon beyond comprehension.

worshipped by an entire race of people who are known for their cult-like attitude, witch craft, and master rogues.

What did you think the dark world... really was?

and what were those seals really meant to protect hyrule from...?

And in strange eons that pass...

>>6704536
....

I think you broke my mind...

>>6704475
I have been thinking of running a game like that, try it out

Zelda is potentially mind-breaking when not keeping young children in mind as your demographic.

>>6704727
Shit, it's pretty fucked up in parts even WITH that mindset.

>My friend told me he is going to a D&D campaign that is basically going to be a Cthulu version of the Legend of Zelda.

So, basically this?

Because let's not kid ourselves, the Windfish IS Cthulhu.
And furthermore, when you stop to think about it, the whole plot of Links Awakening is damn grimdark.
Especially if you take it to directly precede Windwaker.

Now, if were talking lovecraftian nintendo in general, then we'd be talking about Kirby.

Because that fucker is the destroyer of worlds, who rides whole suns like horses and swallows mens souls and wears their skin in crude and horrific parodies of them.

>>6704758
>Kirby

Well fuck, when you put it that way...

>>6704758

Awakening does fucking end with Link in the middle of the fucking sea.

>>6704758
Don't forget rape-zombies. Pic related.

allright, I guess i'll join then.


going to make a grimdark tingle parody, who is absolutetly insane and wants to live in a magical world while his grip on reality crumbles away.


...I'm too scared to play this now.

>>6704829
He also has to be a full-sized man who dresses very strangely. Not a little imp of a person.

>>6704812

Yes...

Uh, was there a point to that post?

>>6704840
isn't it more grim if he's a midget?

>>6704591

>>6704941
Well I suppose it's just a matter of whether you think a full-grown man in a bodysuit who thinks he's a fairy or a small disproportionate man in a bodysuit who thinks he's a fairy is creepier. Although I suppose as his reality starts to shatter and his facade begins to crumble, him being a tiny man would be more sad.

I want in on this game.

>>6705053
I kind of liked that "More realistic Tingle" design the art guys for Twilight Princess did.

>>6704673
OH GOD

WHAT THE FUCK

>>6705794
I like the whole, "Guess what guys I'M YOUR SHADOW AND I'VE BEEN BEHIND THE WHOLE THING." angle from Zelda II.

Pretty much all the Zeldas can be pretty Cthuloid. My votes go to Twilight Princess and, my personal favorite, Majora's Mask.

>>6705827
Was the shadow behind it all? I just thought it kind of spontaneously was created as the final guardian. Kind of the whole "you're your own worst enemy" deal they rehashed in Ocarina of Time's Water Temple.

>>6705846
I thought the shadow wanted to summon Ganon with the Triforce in order to break the whole cycle because it was animated by Link's repressed resentment over having to be a pawn in Zelda and Ganon's temporal chess game.

But I could be high.

>>6704673
sauce?

OH MY GOD.
Ganon=Chaugnar Faugn
BongoBongo=Yog-Sothoth
Shadow Link=Nyarlathotep
Deadhand=Shub-Niggurath

And you'd have to fight your way through the entrails and insides of both the Tentacled Deku tree and that big creepy fish thing the zoras worship.

Mind=Blown.

bump

>>6706373
Zoras=Deep Ones

WHAT HAVE YOU DONE!

>>6704551 Do what we couldn't, SAVE SARIA DAMN YOU.

Was Saria in some other game than OoT? because I don't really see how the player fails her there.

>>6706373

Bumping because my god this is fucking awesome.

>Ganon=Chaugnar Faugn
>BongoBongo=Yog-Sothoth
>Shadow Link=Nyarlathotep
>Deadhand=Shub-Niggurath

I barely know half of these...

Shouldn't the Deku Tree by Shub-Niggurath?

Also what about Majora's Mask, the Moon and the four giants?

I'd like to see how the water temple plays out for you. Have fun with Dagon.

Fucking water temple...

>>6708128
Majora's Mask is totally Nyarlathotep. Now I'm going to drink something really powerful to get the thought of even SCARIER Redeads out of my mind.

>>6708333

FUCK YOU, CAN'T UNTHINK.

>>6708333

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

Am I the only one who wanted to wear Majora's mask?

>>6708333
I always figured the Mask Salesman was Nyarlathotep. What with being unspeakably creepy and powerful and all...

>>6708428
He had a mario mask and what appeared to be a ninja turtle mask as well...

>>6708466
Each one a reflection of his thousand other forms.

>>6708428
He's all of them. Nyarlathotep is both the Mask Salesman and the Masks.

>>6708514

Then why'd he want Majora's Mask back so desperately? It seemed to be pulling off the 'causing world-ending chaos for the hell of it' gig pretty well.

>>6708538
It's no fun if someone else plays the game for you.

>>6708538
He allowed it to be taken and let you recall the song of time so the world could be destroyed a thousand times and yet still be around to be meddled with again. Who knows what sort of chaos and havok that wreaked on space-time?

>>6708428

And don't forget his speed. He could likely kill you in an instant if he wished.

>>6708650

Yog-Sothoth didn't know what the fuck.

>>6708701
Yog is indifferent to nearly everything.
Sometimes he/it gets called in by ritual or Nyar but mostly too nebulous and omnipotent to care.

>>6704475
>D&D campaign that is basically going to be a Cthulu version of the Legend of Zelda
Words cannot express the awesome

SPIN ATTACK THE MOTHERFUCKING CTHULHU! FUCK YEAH!

WINDWAKER.


Imagine trying to cross the oceans.... it starts raining, lightning streakes across the sky...

and knowing... , far below you.... the great one is stirring...

>>6708538
Because Nyarlathotep is a manipulative dick with tons of time on his hands.

Is the Moon Azathoth?

>>6709236
the moon has always been azathoth. Always.

Is the GM going to be using hyrulians instead of humans? Or will the setting basically be D&D races etc. given a LoZ Cthuluesque flair?

>>6708333
How exactly do you make them creepier? Worms that Walk? Spawns of Kyuss? Give them Mohrg-tongues?

...Rip open their chest cavities to swallow you whole, combining the worst parts of Wallmaster and ReDead?

>>6709369
Hylians. It's Hylians.

>>6709164
Possibly...though worse would be getting a Treasure Map, and instead of pulling up treasure, pulling up a Deep One.

Awesome idea, OP. If it's on IRC, tell us where to find it.

>>6709600
You know that high-pitched screamy noise that happens whenever you're frozen by a ReDead looking at you?

That's the sound of SAN Loss.

>>6708128
Majora's Mask is totally Hastur. Bitches don't know about my King in Yellow Masks.

Honestly, play in the Minish Cap setting.

I just started playing it awhile ago, and it's alright, it boiler-plate Zelda. "Oh, the Princess is kidnapped, and you are the Chosen One and therefore must gather the four...yadda yadda yadda." I was content to go out and solve puzzles and whatnot...until I realized something.The reason that Link is chosen in this game is because he's still a child, and can talk to the Picori. The King of Hyrule, with the boy's adopted father's blessings, SENT A CHILD OUT TO KILL MONSTERS. ALONE.

So take your monsters: Moblins, Octoroks, etc. Not too scary when you're adult Link with bows and arrows. Now, imagine that you're fighting them as a nine-year old boy, with a knife and a wooden shield. Just imagine the looks of desperation and pain on the soldiers sending off a child because they cannot do what needs to be done.

I really hope Nintendo just missed that, or else Zelda just got a lot more dark for me.

>>6710083
He's been doing that for YEARS. Wind Waker, anyone?

>>6710113
Yeah, but this was the first time I actually thought about the implications of it. And considering how happy-happy the theme is, it's a cruel juxatposition.

Majora's Mask. Imagine the crushing horror every human in the world feels as they watch the moon slowly fall into the planet, only for their world to be rewound and for them to be subjected to all of their pain over and over again, into eternity.

Ikana Canyon alone could be the basis for an incredibly grimdark game. Pamela's father becoming so obsessed with the afterlife after the death of his wife that he turns himself undead in a freak experiment... the ghosts of a ruined kingdom fighting eachother until their world is ground to dust... undead soldiers bound to the will of a long dead captain, unable to find rest... Sakon the bandit, cruelly tearing away the one piece of Kafei's life that connected him to the time before his curse... and the Stone Tower, which can only be solved by creating soulless clones of yourself. Grimdark as FUCK.

>>6710127
There's that.

But once you beat the game, NO replay value. Whatsoever.

Plus you keep getting Kinstones long after there is ANY use to them.

FAIRY BUMP

Bumpity-bump bamp bump.

Hey! Listen! Hey! Hey! Hey!

Oh god this is such an awesome idea.

Imagine Twilight Princess with this. The wolf form transformation causes temporary SAN loss, from the pain of your body reshaping itself. The Twilight creatures...

Oh god...

I'd like this thread to be archived, but i think it needs more content, c'mon /tg/ let's get shit done.

Also, how come Zelda knows everything when shit happens and always ends up "kidnapped"?
I tell you why, because she's the goddamned head priest priestess of the cult, that's why.

Y'know, I always wanted to see a Legend of Zelda game set in a sorta Steampunky 1900s-y version of something like Fritz Lang's Metropolis, an enormous city with prospering corporations and nobles at the top and the oppressed working class at the bottom, where Link's some mechanic's kid who's forced out of his home after dad dies due to the lack of occupational safety measures, Zelda's some social reformer chick, and Gannon's the head of the oppressive GannonCorp.

Honestly, the entire reason I think this would be cool is because I always wanted a game where at the end of one of the missions you have to jump off the top of a building that's miles high in a crowded Coruscant/Metropolis-style city and fall all the way to the bottom. Hopefully with something there to break your fall.

>>6712802

>>6712713
I think you're on to something.

GODDAMIT OP, you made me think about actually getting into cthulu shit now. i have always thought about trying to run a LoZ based campaign in DnD. both using OoT and MM total as the setting. the group starts out as a couple kokiri children, and are forced to go into the tree, volcano, and jabu jabu, for their adventure, then get trapped in time for 7 years and get thrown out into the world fucked up and grimdark. saving what was left of the gorons and zoras and the few remaining settlements of hylians. (and possibly letting one of the players get it on with rutu) once they get everything needed to attack the BBEG, the castle callapses around them, and the saved royal family member that you helped, banishes you away for ruining their plans and using magic to warp you do a different country, where they find themselves in termina field, but as adults. the group still needs to find masks and such, but put a dump trucks worth of grimdark on all the dungeons and levels, doing things to break the PC's sanity and turn them on each other, and see if they can keep it together to save the world from having a POSSESSED MOON crash into the planet. yeah, wanted to create this campaign, but moved to an area where i cant find a team to mindfuck with this idea. so much potential. then when they think its all over, mindfuck them again and throw them in TP world and scare them shitless.

pic related.

>>6712974
I mean think about it, in Ocarina of Time she sends you to obtain the spiritual stones to open the door of time, and what happens? Ganondorf follows you into the sacred realm and obtains the triforce.
Coincidence? I think not.

>>6713374
Dammit, you're right. Zelda's played us for fools all this time!

So what races are playable? do you only use hylians or every sentient being is avaliable?

>>6704673
....
FUCKING AWESOME!!

>>6704475
Can you imagine what terrible existence created the Triforce? Or if the triforce is really the essence of some horrifying old one slain in some great war that can only be described as hell turned in upon itself?
Think of the fucked up abilities that would be granted by the respective pieces.
Wisdom?
Courage?
Power?
Not to mention how link would get more hearts or the true nature of the magic sword.
*shudder*

>>6713959
Personally, I'd say Hylians only, if for the sole reason that other races would then be free to get perverted into everything else.

Gorons should be either mostly or entirely extinct. They delved too greedily and too deep, you know.

>>6714128
Think of all of the powers the other races can have though . The kokiri can have some kind of unnatural connection to plant life due to being born from some ancient tree god.
The Gorons from the mountain of death can have some type of inherent rock control ability and massive strength and durability
The Zora are humanoid ocean beings who have great strength and durability but little speed upon the surface and great weakness to water
The garudo? An entire race of beautiful bronze skinned deadly sex starved femme fatale ninjas? The one male born for every 1000 is fairly hax and has immense strength and abilities. Many people will want to play as that.
Then there are the Sheike. Ancient order of assasins with super powers?
Then there are the other peoples that can be brought in from other games.

>>6714237
Alternatively, very, very corrupted (for the same reasons).

>>6714237
bullshit, they're just reduced to nomadic gypsies in human towns because they corrupted all the mountains

>>6714240
Right, but this is trying to be Cthulhu, not just straight D&D. "All kinds of powers" is usually reserved for people who don't mind taking huge SAN loss, NPCs who aren't entirely of this world, or terrors beyond comprehension.

>>6714240
>Zora
>weakness to water

>>6714278
But disregarding the others would limit the game to only hyrulians and the only hyrulian worth a damn is Link
Maybe zelda, if she could fight like a shiek and the triforce of wisdom did more than suck and fail.
Okay what is this going to be about. Link Zelda and Gannondorf are normal beings changed by the triforce and everyone else is simply fucked?
>>6714280
I mean fire damnit...but unnatural water might be good.

>>6714360
>the only hyrulian worth a damn

Cthulhu PCs are supposed to be worth a damn?

What the fuck am I reading?

>>6714374
At a glance, it looks like the description of Exalted in a nutshell.

>>6714374
Okay. I was thinking more like Cthulhu version of Zelda with D&D elements and not Cthulhu version of Legend of Zelda

>>6714374
>>6714408
I'd prefer CoC LoZ. But DnD CoG (Call of Ganon) could be fun too. But in CoC LoZ I would totally play the postman.

>>6714390
Exactly. Which is like taking the point and vaulting over it with a pole made of special unique snowflake. I mean, really:

>The garudo? An entire race of beautiful bronze skinned deadly sex starved femme fatale ninjas? The one male born for every 1000 is fairly hax and has immense strength and abilities. Many people will want to play as that.

Encouraging people to play as goddamn Ganondorf is just...ugh, gives me a bad taste in my mouth. Borderline trolling at best.

>>6714429
I think even by Exalted standards a PC playing a male Gerudo is pants shittingly retarded. At least Exalted characters aren't super special ultra badasses until AFTER they're born.

>>6714429
You have a point.

How about making it so that the male Gerudo is concieved at the exact moment of the old male's death? That way, as long as Ganondorf is active, no male Gerudo PC's.

>>6714450
No man, one male Gerudo is born every 100 years. They're rarer than rare. It'd be like playing as Tarrasque. You shouldn't even need to come up with a rule like that to say "fuck no" to anyone expecting to play as one.

>>6714450
I'm generally cool with that.

Assuming we use any non-Hylians, at any rate. Gerudo are close enough that I wouldn't mind including them in a Hylian-only interpretation.

>>6714390
I don't know what exalted is but i will take that as an insult. So i say to you good sir, eat a bag of dicks.
>>6714429
There is only one Ganondorf and he's been nearly consumed by the triforce of power. He's been partially transformed into some fucked up lovecraftian entity now.
I'm talking about the other garudo. In the original description there is only one male. If males were few but fairly powerful then...wow. that does sound very over the top.

>>6714505
It's not an insult, but it is on the exact opposite end of the PC power level spectrum from almost every horror game.

>>6714518
It sounds more like we're talking about a standard action/adventure with particularly horrifying opponents than a survival horror game.

>>6714539
I'm not entirely sure we have any consensus on what we're talking about.

Oh come the fuck on. Why can't the amount of male garudo's be raised from 1 long lived nigh immortal super bad ass that makes even the most mary sue of bad asses look like a puss too an immensly strong overly agressive fighter with some inherent magical ability that are only slightly rarer at 1-1000/10000?
>>6714450
>the male Gerudo is concieved at the exact moment of the old male's death
How in the fuck would that be possible?

>>6714584
the players still shouldn't be playing as one

>>6714584
At a guess, the same sort of magic that makes a gigantic tribe of all women only give birth to one man every century.

And it doesn't have to make sense, it's meant to shut down newfags trying to pull a Drizzt-style clone of Ganondorf.

rolled 32 = 32

>>6714600
ehy guys i mad a half garudo half zorra character. wat do u think about him?

>>6714539
It's quite a few magnitudes above even that, though.

>>6704475
D&D ? Cthulhu ? Legend of Zelda ?
Run away.

>>6714600
PFFFT
If done correctly it would be awesome.
>>6714621
The none existent kind? The way it's set up Gannondorf is basically their entire races stud. Hell he's probably fucking his way through half the fertile ovulating portion of the population when he isn't trying to get the other triforce pieces.
The rest are essentially sterile without the male so they find males from other races to shag.
Isn't it better if the garudo male is merely rare and not simply one?
Besides the only true means to power is the triforce and it is clasped tightly in the hands of the monstrous gannondorf in posession of the princess of the nigh unbeatable empire of hyrule an in the hands of the being known as link. That means that it is a no go.

>>6714714
>The way it's set up Gannondorf is basically their entire races stud.

Nnnnnnnnnoooooooo.....

I'm sure Ganon gets as much pussy as he wants but Gerudo fuck humans from other races more than they fuck their single male, because in all likelihood there won't even be a male Gerudo alive throughout a given female Gerudo's breeding years.

>>6714714
>If done correctly it would be awesome.

You mean making one player a huge Mary Sue?

>>6714584

>the male Gerudo is concieved at the exact moment of the old male's death
>How in the fuck would that be possible?

It's magic, I ain't gotta explain shit.

>>6714738
There are only 2 possibilities
1. That there are only a few Gerudo women who can give birth and the rest are sterile. Ganon only fucks the sterile ones for sport.
When a male is born he is taken away to be trained by younger Gerudo women.
2. They have dominant genes which overwrite the genes of any male it sleeps with. Taking only the strongest genes and the ones that leave them essentially Gerudo. But only the best specimens will do.
>>6714745
If everyone had access to the triforce then sure. .

>>6714714
It's one Gerudo male every 100 years, if I recall. So by the time of later games, there might be ONE other Gerudo male around aside from Ganondorf.

But if the 'Twili are/were Gerudo' theory holds any water, he'll no longer be king by right and instead might be a whiny little skitzo who's fundamentalist for Ganondorf.

>>6714882
>2. They have dominant genes which overwrite the genes of any male it sleeps with.

It's this one, the other option is retarded.

>>6714914
How can there be one other male if there is supposed to be only one male every 100 years?
>>6714942
No, it actually makes perfect sense.

>>6714957
No, it's retarded and needlessly complicated. They're not hive insects. They're a tribe of warrior women who ride out and fuck dudes from outside the tribe to get pragnet.

>>6714971
1. Is needlessly complicated and 2. Isn't?
Only a few of them are able to get pregnant.
They are usually the most beautiful and powerful. The alpha females if you will.
The rest usually stay as foot soldiers or leave to become hired ninja assassins and rogues.
When a new male comes of age it leaves with some other alpha females and a few hand picked foot soldiers to start a new tribe.
That makes perfect sense!

>>6715010
Okay you're right they're actually human-shaped bees and not arabic amazons. Go ahead and use that social structure.

>>6715025
will do.

I'm not even sure what you guys are arguing about anymore. However I second the use of Link's Awakening as one of the adventures you use, although it would do better if it came after one or two others. That way the characters like Marin etc who resemble Zelda and other people from the previous adventures will take on a creepy doppelganger feel.

Link to the past would probably make a good adventure too, with Aghardim or whatever his name is getting tricked by an elder god infused ganon into letting him out of the "golden land" with the triforce in hand.

(Also, does anyone else feel that "Link's Awakening" sounds vaguely like porn?)

So, moving away from the brain breaking complications of Gerudo breeding patterns for a minute, hows this for a campaign chronology.

First Campaign: Ocarina out of Time
Ganondorf discovers ancient blashemous rituals that will bond the basic essence of godhood still trapped within the triforces and turn the recipient into an elder god.
He succeeds.
Not before Nyarlo- sorry, Zelda passes the PC's an instrument allowing them to travel through time. The players have to travel through a slowly corrupting timestream back to the formation of the Triforces and then INSERT a specific weakness to a certain artifact at their birth. They then have to travel back UP the timestream to Ganon's apotheosis and defeat him in a twisted version of their own reality, that has become corrupted simply by the existence of Ganon at some point within it.
They shatter the triforces and horribly weaken Ganon, allowing him to be sealed up in the 12 wisemans seal, whose components you have collected from the 12 wise men of hyrulian history. Of course for a single person to cast would destroy them, but needs must eh?
The breaking of the Triforce also frees Nyarlothotheps master from confinement, and without Ganon, he's able to rule over Hyrule via one of his masks - JUST AS PLANNED.

Meanwhile, with Ganon isolated inside the seal reality begins to repair itself back to what it was, this leads to lots of sanity loss as reality and time shift and change like quicksand around the players.

This either leads to The Masks of Majora or A Link to the Past.

>>6715159

I never played Majora's Mask, so someone else will have to do that.

A Link to the Past

Roll up new characters, descendants of the survivors from the first game ideally.
They get a psychic message from Nyarly that he/she's being imprisioned in the castle and Angahnim is trying to break the twelve wiseman's seal via numerous virgin sacrifices.

(Angahnim being an Avatar of Ganon)

To cut a long story short you rescue her only to have her recaptured again. Angahnim then sacrifices her breaking the wiseman's seal allowing Ganon to return, in a case of bolting the gate after the horse has bolted you kill Angahnim.

Meanwhile within the seal, Ganon has corrupted it's internal leading to the creation of the Dark World, which begins to merge with Hyrule.
The players have to descend to the Dark World and defeat a Ganon who no longer relies on the Triforce for power, and then kill him by piercing his hid with Arrows made of frozen mercury and then using the pearl of reality to transport him through reality to the real world.
Realitvistic effects mean that mercury erases from existence anything touchng it whilst travelling through dimensions, which meant collecting the mercury IN the dark world from a dragon made completely out of the stuff.
Ganon ceases to be, you all appear in the real world as the shadow corruption folds back with the erasure of ganon.
Technically the Shadow world is still fused with the real world, but without Ganon corrupting it, it becomes impossible to tell the difference.
(Except possibly very slight ones that cause the occaisional SAN loss for the players.)

This leads directly to: The Call of the Wind Fish AKA Links Awakening.

>>6715232

Links Awakening

PLAYS EXACTLY THE SAME

NO CHANGES NEEDED

It then leads on to WindWaker.

>>6715232
Nyarl- sorry, Majora's Mask.
Nyarlathotep is being a MASSIVE dick. Players have to stop a plan he's set in motion to make humanity nuke itself. After three days, war is generally declared. Someone keeps harnessing the energy of the blast to hurl the PCs and the contents of the device they use back in time three days.

Oh, that's nyarlathotep too. He's dicking with the players bigtime.
The four giants? Genetic experiments, if you work them in somehow.

Basically, MM is set in a future where nyarlathotep is stepping up his influence with humanity, in preparation for something.

>>6715268
MM is then removed from game chronology entirely, because it never happened.

>>6715289
Indeed.

Bumping with tangentially related Anime Link.

>>6715268
When the fuck did Nyarlathothep go from being the soul and messenger of the outer gods, to being a mad scientist?

>>6716664
He does this for fun on occasion, when it suits him. he's also played the part of an egyptologist, a wealthy stranger who offers 'research material' to other scientists and historians, and played the part of the Black Man in witches sabbaths.

He gets around.

>>6716730
It isn't the bit about him getting involved which stinks to high heaven, it's how. Harnessing energy? Genetic experiments? Basically holding everyone's hand all the time?

He's an as-good-as-omnipotent being known for giving people a few gentle prods in amusing directions, not some generic BBEG trying to win power and influence.