Recent content by ersatzphil

I mean, HPL wrote that story in 1928 - a big steamship was huge and leading technology at the time, and Cthulhu pops and reforms unhurt, but goes back to sleep. Had he written it 20 years later, I imagine we would've seen Cthulhu get winded by being hit with a nuclear weapon.

By way of agreeing with you, Dan O'Bannon literally described "Alien" as being an inverse Lovecraft story - in HPL, aliens from beyond the stars come to earth, in "Alien" people from earth go beyond the stars and find the horrors where they come from.

Just because it has tentacles doesn't mean it's Lovecraftian.

I think what bothers me - to modify your excellent example - is the implication that if Cthulhu or Godzilla is in Ravenloft, they aren't anywhere else. Ravenloft is supposed to be a trap, after all. edit: I think this really is the crux of it for me. Putting Mythos stuff in Ravenloft? A little...

I'm pretty ignorant of Thunderbirds as a property, but I can 100% see the "this is what Americans think the British are like" angle.

It hadn’t occurred to me before, but if you gave someone the writing prompt, “What if the Fox sisters were also Nancy Drew’s in D&D?”, you pretty much get there.

It wouldn’t surprise me, but I took them as a reference to the real life fox sisters.

That's fair. It occurred to me after posting that you could probably argue Legrasse arresting the entirety of the Louisiana cult could be argued as "directly fighting Cthulhu", if only through his influence. Still, the Alert pulled off an act of desperation after waking Cthulhu essentially on...

In "The Call of Cthulhu"? What protagonist fights Cthulhu directly?

But, like, tell me how the Great Race makes sense in the game…?

The Beadle & Grimm Curse of Strahd box came with a deck that was 3.25" x 5.25".

I can see it.

I mean - I would argue that you can do horror in D&D, just not every kind of horror. D&D is (usually) a world where the Divine exists as a matter of fact, and cares enough about people - for good or ill - to interfere in people's lives and grant power to their followers through prayer. It's a...

I agree with you that that could very well be the rationale behind it, but "Cthulhu has to be in Ravenloft because Cthulhu is horror and Ravenloft has to have all horror in it" feels weirdly tautological to me.