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At a certain level, this is a "who got chocolate in my peanut butter" situation. That chocolate has been in there a long time by this point.

If it has hit points, we can kill it.

Cthulu is memorable and a esthetically interesting, and Call of Cthulu is a particularly strong story.

It's built into the Immortals rules of the Basic D&D sequels, and is certainly a well known trope. I guess it comes from Moorcock, who...

I think they are talking about the real life home adventures, particularly after 1e Deities and Demigods when killing gods very much...

Jaws is a great movie, and my partner’s all time favourite, but I never considered it scary* (and I was pretty young the first time I...

There is very little description of the polyps in the book, so it would be a case of making them up from scratch. You could substitute a...

The appearance of the Yith is really 2 for one, because we got the minds of the Yith, but the bodies technically belong to a sentient...

To be fair, the Cthulhu mythos was in one of the first AD&D books: Deities and Demigods. So if any RPG has some claim to it, it is kind...

It was scarey when I first read it when I was 10 or 12. Much like Jaws was terrifying and hundreds of people were scared of the ocean...

Also, it wasn't the steamship that put him back to sleep

Certainly A tradition, and one that some people like. And for them I got no problem giving Tiamat or Chthulu stats. Follow your bliss

How was 12 year old me going to get the Wand of Orcus if the big guy didn't have stats? Think, @Remathilis!

It was delayed by a boat, not killed by it. But I agree with your general point, Cthulhu is not some mountain sized monster that can't...