I hope people have fun playing it, but I feel like the Cthulhu mythos is tied to a certain sort of cultural moment; a time when people feel like they have all the answers through logic and...
I hope people have fun playing it, but I feel like the Cthulhu mythos is tied to a certain sort of cultural moment; a time when people feel like they have all the answers through logic and rationality, where cults, monsters, and the occult are ludicrous to even consider. The Elder Gods are an out of context problem for a human-only civilization that thinks it has everything solved. Against a fantasy background Cthulhu is just a different sort of big bad, but not fundamentally weird. Of course there are monsters in dark places and unknown or unknowable mysteries.
I'm not trashing it, as I haven't tried playing it, I just don't quite see how the narrative skeins align.
I hope people have fun playing it, but I feel like the Cthulhu mythos is tied to a certain sort of cultural moment; a time when people feel like they have all the answers through logic and rationality, where cults, monsters, and the occult are ludicrous to even consider. The Elder Gods are an out of context problem for a human-only civilization that thinks it has everything solved. Against a fantasy background Cthulhu is just a different sort of big bad, but not fundamentally weird. Of course there are monsters in dark places and unknown or unknowable mysteries.
I'm not trashing it, as I haven't tried playing it, I just don't quite see how the narrative skeins align.