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Message: <blockquote data-quote="AdamBank" data-source="post: 1112389" data-attributes="member: 6009">Call of Cthulhu: The novellaThe RPGs called Call of Cthulhu are incredible at capturing the story, look, and feel of one particular Lovecraft story: the original Call of Cthulhu short story! Both the flavor of horror and the structure of adventures--investigation, terrible insights, flight from conspiracy, boss fight where everyone loses, etc--is taken straight from the plot and execution of the original work.Here's a <a href="http://www.gizmology.net/lovecraft/works/cthulhu.htm" target="_blank">online version of the original story</a>. The best way to understand the game is to read the story.Both versions of the game (d20 & BRP) also work well in many other flavors of horror. d20 does "survival horror" wonderfully--just start the PCs with a handful of levels. There are great BRP adventures covering subgenres such as schlock horror, slasher flicks, gothic weirdness, etc.</blockquote>