![]() ![]() It should come as no surprise that in this environment, with fiction from the 30s and 50s being interpreted for gaming for a 70s audience, a great deal of prejudice was effectively “baked in.” Lovecraft’s Mythos fiction, among many others. ![]() ![]() Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings, Robert E. The players and designers of that period were typically white, heterosexual, cisgender males-reflecting in many ways the audience of fantasy and science fiction fans at the time-and D&D developed in the middle of a boom in paperback publishing that saw the mass market publication of J. Roleplaying games as currently understood and popularized begin with the publication of the original Dungeons & Dragons boxed set in 1974. product description for Strange Bedfellows on etsy With the release of this zine I hope that Lovecraft is screaming and crying and spinning in his grave. ![]()
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