Ideas to make the men of Carcosa even stranger.

[burningtorso]

On the G+ Carcosa group and my website, I have offered a few ideas for even more ways to make the Carcosans a bit weirder. The blogs Barnie the Flumph & Save vs Total Party Kill have also done some excellent write ups on how they make the Carcosa races different in their games.

So a few ideas:
Different Colored Blood:
To add some weird to the game, I gave each of the races different exotic colored blood in my campaign.
* Black Men:
Blood: Is the color of Oxidized Bismuth.

* Blue Men:
Blood: Looks like olive green tinted Mercury.

* Bone Men:
Blood: Looks like a clear Aquamarine color outside the body.

* Brown Men:
Blood: Looks like bright yellow-Green. (Like "The Predator".)

* Dolm Men:
Blood: Looks like Brazilian Opal.

* Green Men:
Blood: Looks like metallic purple.

* Jale Men:
Blood: Has the color of brightly polished brass.

* Orange Men:
Blood: Is a metallic turquise color.

* Purple Men:
Blood: Is an orange tinted gold color.

* Red Men:
Blood: Is a semi-transparent amber color.

* Ulfire Men:
Blood: Is a neon brown color (Your brain hurt yet?)

* White Men:
Blood: Is an oily black color.

* Yellow Men:
Blood: Is a gunmetal blue color.

Weird Looking Eyes:
Finished drawing these up this morning.

[Merctime]

I particularly love the artwork. Those eyes are awesome! Very evocative. The blue man eyes looking like a fish is really great!

The other ideas are great as well, but the artwork really pops.

[tkdco2]

Great ideas! Can I borrow them?

[burningtorso]

Sure! That's what they are here for! Also definitely take a look at the stuff from the blogs I mentioned above. They have some great ways they have made the Carcosans unique in their game settings.

[tkdco2]

Aside from their physical features, detail their lifestyles. Let's look at houses as an example. If a Green Man house looks like this and a Purple Man house looks like this they will really think the other races have truly strange ways.

[Azafuse]

That's really cool.

Yellow eyes show Cthulhu.. don't look at them or they will drive you insane!

[tkdco2]

Shouldn't Yellow Man eyes show Hastur? He is the King in Yellow, after all.

[burningtorso]

The Yellow Man eyes are not intended to look like Cthulhu. The illusion was created when the outer eye overlay was applied, as it covered the lower section.

[tkdco2]

The humans of Carcosa may also have extra body parts like the people of Arcturus and be egg-layers like the folk of Barsoom. A friend warned against making them too weird, however, or the players may have a hard time identifying with their characters.

Has anyone figured out the average lifespan of the Carcosa humans?

[burningtorso]

Probably not long due to the very rough life on Carcosa.
I did adopt Crusssdaddy's suggestion from his blog about them being egg-layers in my home games, though it really has not come up in session though.

[tkdco2]

One thing I need to do is to use more visual aids for my Carcosa game, as one of my players said he didn't quite see what makes the game unique, apart from a few weird details. Maybe having the PCs watch a sorcerer perform a ritual would help.