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Message: <blockquote data-quote="MarkB" data-source="post: 5013726" data-attributes="member: 40176">I'd hardly call it "required reading". I've not read so much as a page of Lovecraft, and don't generally read the horror genre either, but that does nothing to stop me enjoying and employing Lovecraftian tropes in my games, whether it's including a little bit of weirdness in a D&D campaign, or playing full-out wibbliness in Call of Cthulhu.These are themes that have pervaded our hobby for decades, and everything I need to know about them, I learned from that hobby. I may miss the odd specific reference, but in general I'm as well-equipped for a venture into Lovecraftian madness as any other player. Lovecraft is no more required reading for me when playing Call of Cthulhu than the Drizzt trilogies are in order to play in the Forgotten Realms.</blockquote>