Deep in one of the many packed boxes, a mint condition book of Call of Cthulu D20 awaits for its next victim to find it. Reading the blasphemous book will rend the mind with aeons-old pieces of the greater chaos that awaits, lurking, within the places that humans do not look, the place where false assumptions hide the real chaos. Insanity could be the only outcome, if there weren't something far darker and deeper yet to be awakened. Lovecraftian horror awaits you. But what is it that defines Lovecraftian horror, over all the various subgenres of horror that evolved since? Simply put, Lovecraftian horror is defined by the discovery of new knowledge that destroys the human assumptions of the world so profoundly, that it causes insanity. I cannot emphasize enough how utterly brilliant the piece "Lovecraft's Concept of Blasphemy" by Robert M. Price is in describing the true nature of the dangers in Lovecraftian horror. If you truly want to capture the dang...
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