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Message: <blockquote data-quote="MGibster" data-source="post: 9709100" data-attributes="member: 4534">I've never actually run a Cthulhu by Gaslight game, it's just that I majored in history, even went to graduate school, and the area of American history I specialized in was Reconstruction through 1939.  When I'm not busy thinking of the Roman empire, as all men are wont to do, I'm thinking of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.  Call of Cthulhu came out in 1981, and back then the game was typically set in the 1920s.  We're fast approaching the point where the 1980s is as far to us as the 1920s were to players in 1981.  Indeed, I would argue for people in their early 20s, that 1981 would represent a liminal space between the contemporary and the past.  They'd recognize most things from the 1980s, but a lot of what they take for granted wouldn't be there.</blockquote>