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<blockquote data-quote="JEB" data-source="post: 8241421" data-attributes="member: 10148">Fair, but I'm not holding my breath for that to happen with most Lovecraft collections, or many works by problematic creators. Doesn't exactly help sales.I mean, can you imagine if &quot;WARNING: This game is based on works by a racist&quot; was on the cover of the next edition of Call of Cthulhu? Ethical, sure. But you might as well not even publish it at that point.(I feel really bad for the folks at Chaosium, BTW. I sincerely doubt they understood 40 years ago what sort of person they were tying themselves to, when they created their most famous RPG...)That was pretty much my experience as well (and around the same age, too). I imagine it's an awful lot of Lovecraft readers' experience with his work. &quot;That's terrible, but those are exceptions, not the rule.&quot; Then when you research Lovecraft himself...Obviously those are horrific events, and that they weren't immediately treated as atrocities is a clear example of the systemic racism at the time.But if you're trying to suggest that Lovecraft's fantasies of extermination, that his palpable rage even when in the presence of minorities, was completely normal behavior for white Americans of the era? That he wasn't worse than average? That seems like a stretch.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="JEB, post: 8241421, member: 10148"] Fair, but I'm not holding my breath for that to happen with most Lovecraft collections, or many works by problematic creators. Doesn't exactly help sales. I mean, can you imagine if "WARNING: This game is based on works by a racist" was on the cover of the next edition of Call of Cthulhu? Ethical, sure. But you might as well not even publish it at that point. (I feel really bad for the folks at Chaosium, BTW. I sincerely doubt they understood 40 years ago what sort of person they were tying themselves to, when they created their most famous RPG...) That was pretty much my experience as well (and around the same age, too). I imagine it's an awful lot of Lovecraft readers' experience with his work. "That's terrible, but those are exceptions, not the rule." Then when you research Lovecraft himself... Obviously those are horrific events, and that they weren't immediately treated as atrocities is a clear example of the systemic racism at the time. But if you're trying to suggest that Lovecraft's fantasies of extermination, that his palpable rage even when in the presence of minorities, was completely normal behavior for white Americans of the era? That he wasn't worse than average? That seems like a stretch. [/QUOTE]

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