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Any RPGs Based on Lovecraft Before Call of Cthulhu?

Started by Lynn, July 19, 2014, 02:55:38 PM

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Blacky the Blackball

#15
July 23, 2014, 03:48:50 PM
Quote from: Just Another Snake Cult;771335YES. Lin Carter deserves credit for popularizing many cool writers whose works would otherwise be quite obscure.

Pity his own Cthulhu Mythos writing was so crap though.
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July 23, 2014, 04:11:41 PM
I came to Lovecraft via the CoC game followed by the Del Rey books. IMO Del Rey's Best of H.P. Lovecraft was the best (cheap) single volume collection for many years until some time in the mid-90s when publishing Lovecraft collections started to become a minor industry.

Lynn

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July 24, 2014, 01:56:41 AM
Quote from: JeremyR;771191I would disagree.

Have you ever actually seen an Arkham House book? They're pretty much just for collectors - expensive, small print runs, have to special order them. Unless you knew they exist, you never would have heard of them (or HPL).

Lin Carter actually deserves more credit than Arkham House for popularizing Lovecraft, he made Lovecraft available in bookstores in paperback form in the 70s by starting Ballantine's Adult Fantasy Line.

Yes, but from the 70s - remember that Lovecraft died in 1937.

I don't know much about Arkham House, but over the last 35 years (since I first started reading Lovecraft), I have seen fewer and fewer books being produced by them and made available in any stores that would carry them.  I sure wished I had been forward looking enough to have picked some of them up when I had a chance.

I don't know if they ever got beyond being very small press, but I think if it weren't for them + the love of the various Lovecraft Circle writers, Lin Carter probably wouldn't have known about Lovecraft.
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finarvyn

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July 25, 2014, 04:15:31 PM
In the "not D&D" category, I think that there were a couple of Cthulhu articles for Tunnels & Trolls right around 1980 in the Sorcerer's Apprentice magazine. Those pre-date CoC (which I believe was first published in 1981.)
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July 25, 2014, 06:11:15 PM
LOL.. when I read the title, I thought maybe the OP was looking for RPGs based on Lovecraft's work prior to CoC.
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July 25, 2014, 06:19:34 PM
Quote from: RPGPundit;772402LOL.. when I read the title, I thought maybe the OP was looking for RPGs based on Lovecraft's work prior to CoC.

Yes, that's what I was asking. I read that the original C of C RPG was pitched as an RPG based on the Dreamlands. I got the original boxed set when it came out. But Ive wondered if it was the first or not.

The original story is called "The Call of Cthulhu" - RPG drops the "The".
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July 25, 2014, 06:31:38 PM
Quote from: RPGPundit;772402LOL.. when I read the title, I thought maybe the OP was looking for RPGs based on Lovecraft's work prior to CoC.
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