| 1 | * ColbertBump: The tabletop RPG has benefited from several of its spin offs. |
| 2 | ** ''VideoGame/CallOfCthulhuDarkCornersOfTheEarth'' is an adaptation of the game module, "Escape from Innsmouth" as well as the subsequent ''Raid on Innsmouth.'' |
| 3 | ** ''VideoGame/CallOfCthulhuTheOfficialVideoGame'' is a game that introduced many more players to the RPG and its setting. |
| 4 | ** Creator/SethSkorkowsky has reviewed dozens of installments of the RPG and was so successful that he eventually was invited to do one himself. |
| 5 | * 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. |
| 6 | * 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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