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Message: <blockquote data-quote="thullgrim" data-source="post: 9522724" data-attributes="member: 8103">They reference Call of Cthulhu both in the Cosmic Horror section on page 50 where they talk about ways to run Cosmic Horror games in SWADE utilizing various setting rules including Difficult Healing, Gritty Damage and various new Setting Rules introduced in the Horror Companion.  They are definitely trying to simulate a more mundane hero with these Setting Rules, but it's still SWADE.  It's gonna be pulpy.The second reference is on page 189, which begins an appendix of creatures specifically related to the Mythos.  This reference: The takeaway I get is that you can play these kinds of games in SWADE but you're going to get something resembling Pulp Cthulhu not baseline Call of Cthulhu.  Which is fantastic.  Who doesn't want to punch the tentacle monster in one of it's many, many mouths...Three or four years ago I started running Masks of Nyarlathotep in SWADE, pre-Horror Companion.  I used a bunch of material from Realms of Cthulhu and Achtung! Cthulhu that were published for SW Deluxe.  Worked great, we got through about 2.5 chapters before one of the character's Loyalty Hindrance caused a TPK in England.  I'd really like to re-visit MoN, with the Horror Companion now available it would make things considerably easier.</blockquote>