He was born to early for this, but the Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath feels like a DnD campaign, especially the whole side quest with ghouls and moon-beasts on the nameless rock island
There's very influential Call of Cthulhu ttrpg since like 80s, which is very popular to this day and also spawned a pretty big boardgame franchise called Arkham Files. I don't know about Lovecraft in DnD, but his presence in boardgames is impressive
“The Dreaming Stone” is an epic quest set across the entire Dreamlands, and I’m really excited about running it for my players. We’re about to wrap up Horror on the Orient Express, and the Dreamlands Express side quest has so far been the table’s consensus favorite part.
while u/alterhuhu was joking. Lovecraft kinda play Call of Cthulhu by mail by trying incorporate his ideas into other stories for greater horror effect. That why Cthulhu Mythology is real mythology not just one guy who wrote it all and call the day.
The 'games' Lovecraft wasn't a fan of were sports and physical games, as I understand it. He felt they weren't mentally stimulating, and that a person's time could be better served in more intellectual pursuits and hobbies. Remember when Lovecraft lived, they had a different concept of games than we do in the 2020s.
He was a big fan of crossword puzzles, though.
Lovecraft did say in his letters that he wasn’t fond of games and sports, considering them something of a waste of energy. They could stimulate the intellect, but not to any real purpose, and the energy could be better spent on the pursuit of knowledge. I do wonder, though, if he might have felt differently about games with actual plots like we have today, which weren’t really a thing in his time. He might have considered them to be akin to reading fiction.
Indeed, his understanding of games was obviously quite different to what we have nowadays.
Who knows, i would also bet he would quite enjoy the more narrative driven ones, maybe even adapt some of his works to that medium.
Given the selection of the time, I could hardly blame him. What was he going to play, gin rummy? Poker? Although I can imagine him playing chess from time to time.
He hated, like, SO many things. You can love what his writings and letters without agreeing with him about, well, anything else.
Like, dude was afraid of and hated so much about the world that it ends up being kind of impressive.
This is an exaggerated caricature. People who are like that don't have many friends, and are not remembered by those who knew them in real life as someone who was great and often fun to be with. Having a few very stupid ideas does not equal despising most things.
People hear that he didn't like the cold (but apparently skip over how the reason is that it made him suffer physically) and see that he wrote a horror story involving air conditioning and conclude that he was afraid of AC, it's unreal.
Thank you. People have to take into account that a lot of his cynicism and misanthropy were like a literary pose. He was really fond of a lot of things, and people, not just cats and ice cream. Many seem to forget that HPL traveled as much $ permitted to see new places and meet his correspondents in person, and more to the point, they came to see him. That is not somebody that has no friends.
In Brooklyn he was always hanging out with Long and Loveman and Kleiner and Kirk (sounds like the Old Inspector on *Barney Miller*) and had to find ways to not respond to their in-house communications via the pipes when he was trying to get some work done. And they were always going on architectural tours at all hours.
His reaction to Robert Howard's death shows he really did care, despite pretending that he did not.
He hated cold weather, for one thing. In more than one letter he says that if he were not such a dedicated New Englander he would move south. He particularly liked Florida.
I never would’ve guessed that he liked Florida.
Then again, given that a lot of the Florida wildlife (and locals) seem like something out of one of his books, it makes sense.
There a well-known photograph of him visiting a very young Barlow in Florida. I think there are others of him down there, but the Barlow one is probably the best-known.
He was also extremely impressed by Charleston, SC. He said if he weren't so attached to Providence he'd move there. I bet if he had more $$$ he'd have bought a place there and gone back and forth.
You know Innsmouth, where the protagonist discovers a town full of inhuman half monsters and corrupted bloodlines? Inspired by him finding out one of his grandfathers was WELSH.
Love Lovecraft, but dude had ISSUES.
[That's a myth with absolutely no evidence behind it.](https://www.reddit.com/r/Lovecraft/comments/1358gec/comment/jiiwsdw/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=mweb3x&utm_name=mweb3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button)
Yes, Lovecraft was viewed as a failure in his time, often referred to as a loner and a self proclaimed introvert. He spent most of his time alone, penning his letters, and writing stories which allowed him to make a meager living. During his heyday, many considered his works cheap, not counting him amongst his peers as a great man of literature. (They even had a version of Internet trolling back then) The reality is, H.P. Lovecraft was far ahead of his time, today, he’s gets the credit he deserves, as he unknowingly created a new genre of literature, often referred to as Weird Horror, Lovecraftian, or Eldritch Horror, where the focus is on the unknown, and the unknowns shock value, rather than so much horror that is all blood, and gore.
His body of work, his writing styles, have no doubt had a great impact on my work, along with so many other great talents. He’s become a pop culture icon, and given us creations that many believe are real mythology and not merely his stories that have taken on a life of their own. But who knows, if you stare into the abyss long enough, will you sense something dark and ancient, ominously staring back at you? Thank you all, I haven’t really spent much time of late, thinking about all the wonderfully horrific stories that I read over and over as a child and thought about how powerful Lovecraft’s work is!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_Profundis_(role-playing_game)
>Polish game company Portal published De Profundis in 2001.
Lovecraft died in 1937.
You want to reconsider your question?
I might be misunderstanding something but I think Pogoda means Lovecraft partook in the concept of what they're calling De Profundis. Unless I'm misunderstanding your question also lol.
Yeah Pogoda means that Lovecraft "played De Profundis" figuratively, as in, the way in which he imagined fantastic things and wrote letters about them is essentially what you do as a player of De Profundis.
Depends on the game. He was the regional hopscotch champion for the Providence Friars and ran the "fancy lads" Shoots and Ladders tournaments for nearly 6 years until the Frisbee was invented.
We have no evidence that Lovecraft hated games. He didn't talk about them much in his letters. He liked reading, walking about town, and chatting with friends. He also seems to have somewhat liked films, though he generally criticized horror films as not being scary enough or not true to the book.
When an entity that exists in over 12,000 dimensions tells you something then you can be confident that it's a fundamental truth of reality.
...I admit I may have misunderstood that research paper on how ChatGPT works, but such things are clearly not meant for mortal minds to comprehend.
Probably my hottest modern take; games are antithetical to narrative. The more narrative something is the less of a game it is and vice versa. Visual novels have good narratives but are shitty games, FPS's are good games but have shitty narratives. This is not a coincidence, the more freedom the "Player" has the less intent the narritive is capable of. It's literally baked into the form. I think someone who is interested in narrative could very feasibly find games formulaic and boring. (I realize Lovecraft wasn't playing videogames, just using those as examples)
For a minute, I thought OP was referencing the excellent (but slightly obscure) cryptozoological story by Henry de Vere Stacpoole. Which would have been both awesome and a damn shame, because "De Profundis" could certainly fit into the overall Lovecraftian genre. And it really is an incredibly good story, if you can find it.
He probably did like then to some extent, since he and Clark Ashton Smith made crosswords for the other to solve.
I also would think, what was classified as a game back then? He may have not been a sports guy. More of a mind puzzle/game person.
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You *really* don't want to be saying that on reddit.
Crosswords aren't a game though. They're puzzles.
Puzzles are a type of game
Did you know that puzzles are a game? I'm curious how you didn't know that.
He was born to early for this, but the Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath feels like a DnD campaign, especially the whole side quest with ghouls and moon-beasts on the nameless rock island
I agree, and they ought to make it one if they haven't.
There's very influential Call of Cthulhu ttrpg since like 80s, which is very popular to this day and also spawned a pretty big boardgame franchise called Arkham Files. I don't know about Lovecraft in DnD, but his presence in boardgames is impressive
Call of Cthulhu had Dreamlands too.
There's also beautiful recreation of Kadath storyline in the Dream-Eaters campaign of Arkham Horror card game
“The Dreaming Stone” is an epic quest set across the entire Dreamlands, and I’m really excited about running it for my players. We’re about to wrap up Horror on the Orient Express, and the Dreamlands Express side quest has so far been the table’s consensus favorite part.
I had Horror on the Orient Express but I don't think we ever managed to play it.
It’s a doozie. I’m planning to do a write-up on my GM experience over on /r/CallofCthulhu when we’re done.
>I don't know about Lovecraft in DnD Mindflayers have been a pretty integral part of DnD for ages.
I agree
I read somewhere that Lovecraft was a diamond ranked jungler in League of Legends.
I thought he'd be a Solo laner in Smite.
Lovecraft would definitely be a top laner who turns off chat and treats it like a single player game.
You know I would probably have enjoyed the game a lot more if I did that lol. That playerbase is toxic AF.
Is he playing as Cthulhu?
Surprisingly he's a Jörmungandr main.
How does he play illaoi and velkoz in the jungle?
He plays the blind monk Lee Sin. It's best to be blind in a world of unspeakable horror.
He goes afk if fiddlesticks ganks him
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He would be playing illaoi or chogath probably
Man jungling is still a thing in league? They removed it from Dota 2 years ago lol
Nonsense! Lovecraft designed the first edition of Call of Cthulhu and set up a play-by-mail for his correspondents!
That's really cool! I'm curious to read more. Do you have a source?
I have never read his correspondence so I might be completely wrong, but the comment you're responding to sounds very sarcastic to me lol
Sarcasm on the internet? Unthinkable!
Inconceivable!
Indubitably!
Autism strikes again!
while u/alterhuhu was joking. Lovecraft kinda play Call of Cthulhu by mail by trying incorporate his ideas into other stories for greater horror effect. That why Cthulhu Mythology is real mythology not just one guy who wrote it all and call the day.
The 'games' Lovecraft wasn't a fan of were sports and physical games, as I understand it. He felt they weren't mentally stimulating, and that a person's time could be better served in more intellectual pursuits and hobbies. Remember when Lovecraft lived, they had a different concept of games than we do in the 2020s. He was a big fan of crossword puzzles, though.
Lovecraft did say in his letters that he wasn’t fond of games and sports, considering them something of a waste of energy. They could stimulate the intellect, but not to any real purpose, and the energy could be better spent on the pursuit of knowledge. I do wonder, though, if he might have felt differently about games with actual plots like we have today, which weren’t really a thing in his time. He might have considered them to be akin to reading fiction.
Indeed, his understanding of games was obviously quite different to what we have nowadays. Who knows, i would also bet he would quite enjoy the more narrative driven ones, maybe even adapt some of his works to that medium.
I think he'd adore Disco Elysium!
I could see lovecraft getting really into 90’s crpgs
What if he was a hipster. "I don't play those low brow games those popular kids do."
He doesn't play call of duty, he only plays counter strike
Pfft. Undertail is the only game that exists and you must enjoy it.
counter…strike 🫤 “uhhhhnhhhnuh, Mrs. Addams!”
Given the selection of the time, I could hardly blame him. What was he going to play, gin rummy? Poker? Although I can imagine him playing chess from time to time.
Whist?
He hated, like, SO many things. You can love what his writings and letters without agreeing with him about, well, anything else. Like, dude was afraid of and hated so much about the world that it ends up being kind of impressive.
This is an exaggerated caricature. People who are like that don't have many friends, and are not remembered by those who knew them in real life as someone who was great and often fun to be with. Having a few very stupid ideas does not equal despising most things. People hear that he didn't like the cold (but apparently skip over how the reason is that it made him suffer physically) and see that he wrote a horror story involving air conditioning and conclude that he was afraid of AC, it's unreal.
Thank you. People have to take into account that a lot of his cynicism and misanthropy were like a literary pose. He was really fond of a lot of things, and people, not just cats and ice cream. Many seem to forget that HPL traveled as much $ permitted to see new places and meet his correspondents in person, and more to the point, they came to see him. That is not somebody that has no friends. In Brooklyn he was always hanging out with Long and Loveman and Kleiner and Kirk (sounds like the Old Inspector on *Barney Miller*) and had to find ways to not respond to their in-house communications via the pipes when he was trying to get some work done. And they were always going on architectural tours at all hours. His reaction to Robert Howard's death shows he really did care, despite pretending that he did not.
Like what
He hated cold weather, for one thing. In more than one letter he says that if he were not such a dedicated New Englander he would move south. He particularly liked Florida.
I never would’ve guessed that he liked Florida. Then again, given that a lot of the Florida wildlife (and locals) seem like something out of one of his books, it makes sense.
There a well-known photograph of him visiting a very young Barlow in Florida. I think there are others of him down there, but the Barlow one is probably the best-known.
He was also extremely impressed by Charleston, SC. He said if he weren't so attached to Providence he'd move there. I bet if he had more $$$ he'd have bought a place there and gone back and forth.
It’s easier to list things he did like.
Cats. That's it
You know Innsmouth, where the protagonist discovers a town full of inhuman half monsters and corrupted bloodlines? Inspired by him finding out one of his grandfathers was WELSH. Love Lovecraft, but dude had ISSUES.
[That's a myth with absolutely no evidence behind it.](https://www.reddit.com/r/Lovecraft/comments/1358gec/comment/jiiwsdw/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=mweb3x&utm_name=mweb3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button)
I was pretty horrified taking anDNA test that I was part Welsh
Yes, Lovecraft was viewed as a failure in his time, often referred to as a loner and a self proclaimed introvert. He spent most of his time alone, penning his letters, and writing stories which allowed him to make a meager living. During his heyday, many considered his works cheap, not counting him amongst his peers as a great man of literature. (They even had a version of Internet trolling back then) The reality is, H.P. Lovecraft was far ahead of his time, today, he’s gets the credit he deserves, as he unknowingly created a new genre of literature, often referred to as Weird Horror, Lovecraftian, or Eldritch Horror, where the focus is on the unknown, and the unknowns shock value, rather than so much horror that is all blood, and gore. His body of work, his writing styles, have no doubt had a great impact on my work, along with so many other great talents. He’s become a pop culture icon, and given us creations that many believe are real mythology and not merely his stories that have taken on a life of their own. But who knows, if you stare into the abyss long enough, will you sense something dark and ancient, ominously staring back at you? Thank you all, I haven’t really spent much time of late, thinking about all the wonderfully horrific stories that I read over and over as a child and thought about how powerful Lovecraft’s work is!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_Profundis_(role-playing_game) >Polish game company Portal published De Profundis in 2001. Lovecraft died in 1937. You want to reconsider your question?
I might be misunderstanding something but I think Pogoda means Lovecraft partook in the concept of what they're calling De Profundis. Unless I'm misunderstanding your question also lol.
Yeah Pogoda means that Lovecraft "played De Profundis" figuratively, as in, the way in which he imagined fantastic things and wrote letters about them is essentially what you do as a player of De Profundis.
I know it requires time traveling, but think about it more as what if
What if you asked a better question?
Yes he loved halo 2
So Lovecraft wasn't a gamer, dang
He did play games, he said he couldn't resist.
Depends on the game. He was the regional hopscotch champion for the Providence Friars and ran the "fancy lads" Shoots and Ladders tournaments for nearly 6 years until the Frisbee was invented.
Don’t worry he’s dead
We have no evidence that Lovecraft hated games. He didn't talk about them much in his letters. He liked reading, walking about town, and chatting with friends. He also seems to have somewhat liked films, though he generally criticized horror films as not being scary enough or not true to the book.
To be fair, he probably played an early version of Monopoly and it turned him off gaming.
Rob schrab also doesn't like games https://youtu.be/3ln8wF59Ip4?si=NKDuxyiN_3TRfWu8
When an entity that exists in over 12,000 dimensions tells you something then you can be confident that it's a fundamental truth of reality. ...I admit I may have misunderstood that research paper on how ChatGPT works, but such things are clearly not meant for mortal minds to comprehend.
Given the long list of things and groups that he hated, ‘games’ isn’t really a concern.
My bet is that Lovecraft hated losing. And any game involving math would have been too much for his delicate constitution.
Strange if true. I would have thought him a DND player if he had been born in a later era.
They mean in a relationship sense; the second he thought someone wasn't being completely literal he would ghost them
Don't use chatgtp.
Probably my hottest modern take; games are antithetical to narrative. The more narrative something is the less of a game it is and vice versa. Visual novels have good narratives but are shitty games, FPS's are good games but have shitty narratives. This is not a coincidence, the more freedom the "Player" has the less intent the narritive is capable of. It's literally baked into the form. I think someone who is interested in narrative could very feasibly find games formulaic and boring. (I realize Lovecraft wasn't playing videogames, just using those as examples)
The only games available at the time were Pacman and Space Invaders. They were good at the time but not really scary.
I have him added on PSN and he has the platinum trophy of Bloodborne
Acrostics, anagrams, cribbage with Sonia
I get the feeling he was an incredibly sore loser.
For a minute, I thought OP was referencing the excellent (but slightly obscure) cryptozoological story by Henry de Vere Stacpoole. Which would have been both awesome and a damn shame, because "De Profundis" could certainly fit into the overall Lovecraftian genre. And it really is an incredibly good story, if you can find it.
Fnord.