D&D 5E (2024) Cthulhu Confirmed!

there are non-elf games that include Cthulhu, while nearly all elf games ALSO include Cthulhu. Ergo, Cthulhu is more over used than elves (dark, hawt or otherwise).
Call me skeptical, but elves are pretty ubiquitous in nearly all fantasy games, but not all fantasy games have cosmic horror. Even those that do don't have the big Cth man himself.
 

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Not sure if this has been noted elsewhere, but I ran into the image below from the artist of the Ravenloft: The Horrors Withing cover on my Artstation feed. You can see just behind Strahd a page for Cthulhu with a statblock. Just thought people might be interested.

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Also in case you missed it, the Great Race of Yith:

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They seem to be going big with Mythos material here, which is new.
 

I don't think you can get your ergo on without some numbers attached to that.

Let's say there are six or seven Cthulhu-centric RPGs. It's probably a few more than that, but not much more, since Call, Trail and Delta Green soak up 90% or more of that audience.

For elf-including fantasy RPGs that include Cthulhu we have Dungeons & Dragons and Pathfinder. Any others?

And then for RPGs that include elves we have dozens, maybe hundreds of them.
Hyperbole for effect is a lost art.

The point is: Cthulhu and things like it are way overused in TTRPGs.
 



Aside from them and the usual deity-level dudes there were also stat blocks for Shoggoth, elder things, and fungi from Yuggoth in the 1980 book. I would be surprised if we didn’t see shoggoth at least.
Yup, given the full some page count that this apparently has and having two such central Mythos elements, I reckon that they are going big.
 


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