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Message: <blockquote data-quote="jcfiala" data-source="post: 2069751" data-attributes="member: 6223">Well, that was the impression I got from talking to them last week at Genghis Con (Note: I may have misheard - I'm just representing what I thought I heard).  In particular, they thought that they had just as much the right to publish a lovecraftean game as anyone else, and that they had created enough that the game stood on it's own.Which is true - CoC is something most gamers seem at least somewhat aware of.I also heard (or think I overheard) that the problem with the Cthulhu D20 had to do with someone at WotC announcing that CD20 was almost sold out in an attempt to increase sales.  It wasn't sold out, but this apparently caused all interest in CD20 to hit the skids - and so they backed off of publishing anything that wouldn't get bought.  I wouldn't be surprised if some of the CD20 backlash from the CoC Grognards wasn't part of that too.So - not only do I think that a Lovecraft D20 game would be a good idea, but I *think* Chaosium wouldn't mind it too much as long as it didn't tromp on trademarks - because it's a part of the industry they've decided not to work in.But I wouldn't put Cthulhu in the name of the game - I'd probably call it something atmopheric...</blockquote>