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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ruleslawyer" data-source="post: 132742" data-attributes="member: 1757">Momentary rantI must affirm that at no time did Lovecraft, Clark Ashton Smith, or REH ever write a story (aside from the spuriously-attributed "pastiches" ghost-written in collaboration with later writers) involving a struggle between evil Old Ones and neutral-to-uncaring Elder Gods. That's pretty much a total invention of August Derleth's. There are independent races that wage war with Cthulhu's spawn, and entities out there that are less malevolent than the G.O.O. and their ilk, but the idea of an intergalactic/interdimensional slugfest between opposing sides is not HPL by any means, even when taking into account the often contradictory nature of his works. IMHO, this was the view of the Mythos adopted by the CoC d20 authors, who include only Nodens as an anthropomorphic, somewhat more human-friendly deity.</blockquote>