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<blockquote data-quote="aramis erak" data-source="post: 7749958" data-attributes="member: 6779310"><p>A number of people I know came to the novels via either AD&D (it's in Appendix N), CoC, Elder Sign, or Arkham Horror.</p><p></p><p>I didn't read appendix N until I'd been gaming a decade or more, and encountered CoC well before that point. CoC got me to try reading it (Mountains of Madness), which got me to reviling HPL's work. </p><p></p><p>Noting the toxicity of his own beliefs doesn't put me off him any further; it is notable that his racism was extreme even for his time, but I would not care at all if every copy of his works disappeared on the morrow. His influence and racism, both, while not as bad as some other 1930's authors, is a far more insidious pestilence than most of them, simply because the games are quite popular, and many games have his influence.</p><p></p><p>A partial list of overt homages in RPG's: AD&D (inclusion in Appendix N), WFRP (Mentioned in a designer's note in White Dwarf), Call of Cthulhu (can't get much more open), WH40K (more obvious than WFRP), Sorcerer (in the bibliography)</p><p>And in Boardgames: Elder Sign, Mansion of Madness, Arkham Horror, Munchkin (A Cthulhu expansion was done)...</p><p></p><p>Avoiding his influence in the games industry is nigh impossible.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="aramis erak, post: 7749958, member: 6779310"] A number of people I know came to the novels via either AD&D (it's in Appendix N), CoC, Elder Sign, or Arkham Horror. I didn't read appendix N until I'd been gaming a decade or more, and encountered CoC well before that point. CoC got me to try reading it (Mountains of Madness), which got me to reviling HPL's work. Noting the toxicity of his own beliefs doesn't put me off him any further; it is notable that his racism was extreme even for his time, but I would not care at all if every copy of his works disappeared on the morrow. His influence and racism, both, while not as bad as some other 1930's authors, is a far more insidious pestilence than most of them, simply because the games are quite popular, and many games have his influence. A partial list of overt homages in RPG's: AD&D (inclusion in Appendix N), WFRP (Mentioned in a designer's note in White Dwarf), Call of Cthulhu (can't get much more open), WH40K (more obvious than WFRP), Sorcerer (in the bibliography) And in Boardgames: Elder Sign, Mansion of Madness, Arkham Horror, Munchkin (A Cthulhu expansion was done)... Avoiding his influence in the games industry is nigh impossible. [/QUOTE]
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