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I gotta disagree with you there. It’s a slow burn, but many of the best horror stories are.

Death of the Author is one thing, but also his beliefs are deeply ingrained into is writing. And I’m not just talking about Rats in the...

I am unreasonably excited for the Great Race of Yith!

Merwin is quitting Lorecast after being hired as a contractor with WotC iirc

To be fair, that is probably what this stat block is, a natural disaster to be faced by high Level PCs.

A cosmic force? Typically a character has motives - wants, needs, flaws. Eldritch horrors are typically written as so alien that their...

What else would he count as?

Yeah, for me public domain is where I personally draw the line. If someone vile profits from something, I will abstain. If it is public...

Not to defend HPL, but that's a strong statement considering who all is in Appendix N. That said, he's dead. His characters are public...

By way of agreeing with you, Dan O'Bannon literally described "Alien" as being an inverse Lovecraft story - in HPL, aliens from beyond...

Well boring is subjective. I definitely find some of HP's stories interesting, but not all of them (haven't read all of them either). On...

Listen, Lovecraft is literally the worst person...but boring...?

Because Strange Aeons AP and a warlock patron? Lovecraft was a big influence on early D&D, and that influenced other RPGs, but not as...

How dare you write such a nuanced and reasonable post balancing different factors of the conversation???

We seem to be "nu-uh"-ing multiple things that are all true. They are marketing the game to 12-24 yo AND they still care about the...