History YMMV / CthulhuTech

* SlidingScaleOfSocialSatisfaction: "Outside is Burning, Inside is Safe". Life in the {{Arcolog|y}}es is quite good because of the fact they are safe heavens in a ravaged world and thanks to [[{{Magitek}} archanotech]] that provides advanced healthcare which includes psychiatric care for essential workers. Alas, there's [[HopelessWar Aeon War]] on the outside and while the government is the only thing protecting humanity from cosmic horrors, it's a PoliceState.

* SlidingScaleOfSocialSatisfaction: Categorized as "Outside is Burning, Inside is Safe". Life in the Arcologies is actually quite good, despite the war. The Death Shadows want to turn them into a Dystopia.

* SlidingScaleOfSocialSatisfaction: Life in the Arcologies is actually quite good, despite the war. The Death Shadows want to turn them into a Dystopia.
* {{Squick}}:
** There is an ''awful'' lot of references to rape (anything from the Old Ones having "rape camps" up to a gadget on one of the equipment sections (used by the bad guys, mind) that steals energy for a magical artifact charging out of people (via being, essentially, a rape machine). It got so bad that one of the explicitly mentioned changes done for the game's Second Edition is that it will cut down on these references.

** There is an ''awful'' lot of references to rape (anything from the Old Ones having "rape camps" up to a gadget on one of the equipment sections (used by the bad guys, mind) that steals energy for magical artifact charging out of people (via being, essentially, a rape machine). It got so bad that one of the explicitly mentioned changes done for the game's Second Edition is that it will cut down on these references.

** There is an ''awful'' lot of references to rape (anything from the Old Ones having "rape camps" up to a gadget on one of the equipment sections (used by the bad guys, mind) that steals energy for magical artifact charging out of people via being, essentially, a rape machine). It got so bad that one of the explicitly mentioned changes done for the game's Second Edition is that it will cut down on these references.

* {{Squick}}: There is an ''awful'' lot of references to rape (anything from the Old Ones having "rape camps" up to a gadget on one of the equipment sections (used by the bad guys, mind) that steals energy for magical artifact charging out of people via being, essentially, a rape machine). It got so bad that one of the explicitly mentioned changes done for the game's Second Edition is that it will cut down on these references.

-->"''That is not dead which can eternal lie''
-->''And with strange aeons even death may die''"
* OvershadowedByControversy: Supplement ''Damnation View'' is best known for two things- blatant {{railroading}} in the plot (up to and including the [=GM=] being told to never let the players win) and a segment where the [=PCs=] have to infiltrate a sex cult of FunnyAnimals.

* ArtisticLicensePhysics: Usually explained away by magic or it being an anime genre convention, but sometimes just odd. Perhaps the most glaring example (both due to its short length and because of the way it defies not just science, but basic logic) is the description of electrokinetic weapons:
-->"With a minimum of moving parts, electrokinetic rail weapons ''silently'' fire metallic projectiles at an extremely high and accurate rate with a muzzle velocity ''that exceeds the speed of sound.''"
** The next paragraph does mention "Beyond the audible crack of breaking the sound barrier, electrokinetic weapons are virtually silent", so it is probable they just didn't want to mention it twice.
** Or the line from "Burning Horizons" about how [[StealthInSpace it's ''easier'' to hide things in space]] because you can vent all the heat "into space", which is actually the '''exact''' opposite of how it works.

* FridgeBrilliance: Why is it called the ''Aeon War''? Eh? Eh?

* {{Squick}}: There is an ''awful'' lot of references to rape (anything from the Old Ones having "rape camps" up to a gadget on one of the equipment sections (used by the bad guys, mind) that steals energy for magical artifact charging out of people via being, essentially, a rape machine). It got so bad (and people disliked it so much) that one of the explicitly mentioned changes done for the game's Second Edition is that it will cut down on these references.

* SlidingScaleOfSocialSatisfaction: Life in the Arcologies is actually quite good, despite the war. The Death Shadows want to turn them into a Dystopia.

* CompleteMonster: Entire cults of them, most notably the Rapine Storm, Children of Chaos, Death Shadows, and the Esoteric Order of Dagon. (Yes, that's ''all'' the Cults. It's a CrapsackWorld.)
** All the cults except the Sleepers and the Scions of Forever, the former are essentially ChaoticGood and the later is [[BlueAndOrangeMorality utterly incomprehensible]].

** All the cults except the Sleepers and the Scions of Forever, the former are essentially ChaoticGood and the later is utterly incomprehensible.

* CompleteMonster: Entire cults of them, most notably the Rapine Storm, Children of Chaos, Death Shadows, and Esoteric Order of Dagon. (Yes, that's ''all'' the Cults. It's a CrapsackWorld.)
* SlidingScaleOfSocialSatisfaction: The life in Arcologies is quite good actually, despite the war. Death Shadows want to change that into Dystopia.