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** ''Creator/SethSkorkowsky'' has reviewed dozens of installments of the RPG and was so successful that he eventually was invited to do one himself.

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** ''Creator/SethSkorkowsky'' Creator/SethSkorkowsky has reviewed dozens of installments of the RPG and was so successful that he eventually was invited to do one himself.
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** ''VideoGame/CallOfCthulhuDarkCornersOfTheEarth'' is an adaptation of the game module, "Escape from Innsmouth" as well as the subsequent "Raid on Innsmouth."

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** ''VideoGame/CallOfCthulhuDarkCornersOfTheEarth'' is an adaptation of the game module, "Escape from Innsmouth" as well as the subsequent "Raid ''Raid on Innsmouth."''
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* ColbertBump: The tabletop RPG has benefited from several of its spin offs.
** ''VideoGame/CallOfCthulhuDarkCornersOfTheEarth'' is an adaptation of the game module, "Escape from Innsmouth" as well as the subsequent "Raid on Innsmouth."
** ''VideoGame/CallOfCthulhuTheOfficialVideoGame'' is a game that introduced many more players to the RPG and its setting.
** ''Creator/SethSkorkowsky'' has reviewed dozens of installments of the RPG and was so successful that he eventually was invited to do one himself.
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* WordOfGod: Author Sandy Petersen has claimed creatorship of the Dark Young of Shub-Niggurath -- basing them on the description of the "Shoggoths" from Robert Bloch's "Notebook Found in a Deserted House" (which the Lovecraft wiki says they originated from) but otherwise inventing their lore and abilities himself -- and even snuck one into ''VideoGame/{{Quake}}'' as "Shub-Niggurath".
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* FanNickname: Gnarly (Nyarlathotep), Buzz (any individual Mi-Go), [=ETs=] (Elder Things), etc.
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* FanNickname: Gnarly (Nyarlathotep), Buzz (any individual Mi-Go), [=ETs=] (Elder Things), etc.
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* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: The adventure ''Fractal Gods'' of the book ''The Stars Are Right'' was released in the 90s and it shows. The titular "Fractal Gods" is a ''fanzine'' that sends [=CDs=] with fractal-based screensavers, one of which is infected by a virus coded by a Yog-Sothoth cultist, which makes the computer summon fractal-based creatures and Yog-Sothoth's fractal form. A free PDF later tried to "update" the scenarios from ''The Stars are right'' and the [=CDs=] and screensavers become a Youtube channel, however, [[HollywoodHacking a Youtube video can somehow infect a computer with virus]].

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* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: The adventure ''Fractal Gods'' of the book ''The Stars Are Right'' was released in the 90s and it shows. The titular "Fractal Gods" is a ''fanzine'' that sends [=CDs=] with fractal-based screensavers, one of which is infected by a virus coded by a Yog-Sothoth cultist, which makes the computer summon fractal-based creatures and Yog-Sothoth's fractal form. A free PDF later tried to "update" the scenarios from ''The Stars are right'' and the [=CDs=] and screensavers become a Youtube channel, however, [[HollywoodHacking a Youtube video can somehow infect a computer with virus]].----
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* GenrePopularizer: Of Tabletop RPGs where the focus was to investigate clues and ''survive'' the horrors rather than go to dungeons and caves to fight monsters.

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* GenrePopularizer: Of Tabletop RPGs [=RPGs=] where the focus was to investigate clues and ''survive'' the horrors rather than go to dungeons and caves to fight monsters.
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* GenrePopularizer: Of Tabletop RPGs where the focus was to investigate clues and ''survive'' the horrors rather than go to dungeons and caves fight monsters.

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* GenrePopularizer: Of Tabletop RPGs where the focus was to investigate clues and ''survive'' the horrors rather than go to dungeons and caves to fight monsters.
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* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: The adventure ''Fractal Gods'' of the book ''The Stars are right'' is set in the 90s and it shows. The titular "Fractal Gods" is a ''fanzine'' that sends [=CDs=] with fractal-based screensavers, one of which is infected by a virus coded by a Yog-Sothoth cultist, which makes the computer summon fractal-based creatures and Yog-Sothoth's fractal form. A free PDF later tried to "update" the scenarios from ''The Stars are right'' and the [=CDs=] and screensavers become a Youtube channel, however, [[HollywoodHacking a Youtube video can somehow infect a computer with virus]].

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* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: The adventure ''Fractal Gods'' of the book ''The Stars are right'' is set Are Right'' was released in the 90s and it shows. The titular "Fractal Gods" is a ''fanzine'' that sends [=CDs=] with fractal-based screensavers, one of which is infected by a virus coded by a Yog-Sothoth cultist, which makes the computer summon fractal-based creatures and Yog-Sothoth's fractal form. A free PDF later tried to "update" the scenarios from ''The Stars are right'' and the [=CDs=] and screensavers become a Youtube channel, however, [[HollywoodHacking a Youtube video can somehow infect a computer with virus]].

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* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: The adventure ''Fractal Gods'' of the book ''The Stars are right'' is set in the 90s and it shows. The titular "Fractal Gods" is a ''fanzine'' that sends [=CDs=] with fractal-based screensavers, one of which is infected by a screensaver coded by a Yog-Sothoth cultist. A free PDF later tried to "update" the scenarios from ''The Stars are right'' and the [=CDs=] and screensavers become a Youtube channel.

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* GenrePopularizer: Of Tabletop RPGs where the focus was to investigate clues and ''survive'' the horrors rather than go to dungeons and caves fight monsters.
* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: The adventure ''Fractal Gods'' of the book ''The Stars are right'' is set in the 90s and it shows. The titular "Fractal Gods" is a ''fanzine'' that sends [=CDs=] with fractal-based screensavers, one of which is infected by a screensaver virus coded by a Yog-Sothoth cultist. cultist, which makes the computer summon fractal-based creatures and Yog-Sothoth's fractal form. A free PDF later tried to "update" the scenarios from ''The Stars are right'' and the [=CDs=] and screensavers become a Youtube channel.channel, however, [[HollywoodHacking a Youtube video can somehow infect a computer with virus]].
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* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: The adventure ''Fractal Gods'' of the book ''The Stars are right'' is set in the 90s and it shows. The titular "Fractal Gods" is a ''fanzine'' that sends CDs with fractal-based screensavers, one of which is infected by a screensaver coded by a Yog-Sothoth cultist. A free PDF later tried to "update" the scenarios from ''The Stars are right'' and the CDs and screensavers become a Youtube channel.

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* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: The adventure ''Fractal Gods'' of the book ''The Stars are right'' is set in the 90s and it shows. The titular "Fractal Gods" is a ''fanzine'' that sends CDs [=CDs=] with fractal-based screensavers, one of which is infected by a screensaver coded by a Yog-Sothoth cultist. A free PDF later tried to "update" the scenarios from ''The Stars are right'' and the CDs [=CDs=] and screensavers become a Youtube channel.
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* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: The adventure ''Fractal Gods'' of the book ''The Stars are right'' is set in the 90s and it shows. The titular "Fractal Gods" is a ''fanzine'' that sends CDs with fractal-based screensavers, one of which is infected by a screensaver coded by a Yog-Sothoth cultist. A free PDF later tried to "update" the scenarios from ''The Stars are right'' and the CDs and screensavers become a Youtube channel.

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