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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Veltharis ap Rylix" data-source="post: 9094893" data-attributes="member: 66357">Chthulu is mentioned in the 5e PHB as a possible patron for Great Old One Warlocks, as I recall, so it exists in current D&D lore at least to the same degree that deities from real-world mythology like Zeus and Thor do.That said, I suspect that Mecheon was referring to the old 1e Deities & Demigods, which had an initial printing containing a number of entries drawn from Lovecraft, Moorcock, etc. that weren't public domain at that time and they either flat out weren't supposed to use or the license they were working under got yanked, causing them to remove those entries for all future printings (my familiarity with 1e-era shenanigans is limited, so feel free to correct me if I'm misremembering something).Lovecraft's work is public domain these days to my knowledge (very much not an expert, so again, feel free to correct me), but I believe Paizo still has a licensing agreement with Chaosium (publishers of the Call of Chthulu TTRPG) to use Chthulu et al. in Pathfinder.</blockquote>