The Badger Abides

THE PROBLEM WITH LOVECRAFT: A lot of controversy was had (mostly on Twitter) over the last few weeks with the release of Evil Hat Productions' Fate of Cthulhu, a new table-top RPG integrating the systems of Evil Hat's Fate Core and the Lovecraft mythos. Evil Hat proudly declared that it was bucking tropes of other Lovecraft-inspired games––mainly how it addresses Lovecraft's prejudices head-on and it doesn't include sanity meters for its players––and that, for some reason, made a lot of people upset. Andrew talks about the subsequent furor while D. Bethel shows up as our resident Lovecraft scholar.

RELEVANT LINKS:

• The MCU Disney+ Super Bowl Spot
• Evil Hat Productions tweets about how Fate of Cthulhu bends the traditional Lovecraftian gaming experience.
• Evil Hat Production's content warning included with Fate of Cthulhu:

• The adorable video of a coyote and a badger off to go hunting together.

RELEVANT EPISODES:

• Episode 02 - The Clap" (05 June 2014): Where Andrew and D. Bethel discuss the popular Lovecraft story, "The Shadow Over Innsmouth."
• "Episode 11 - Anemic-Clap" (07 August 2014): Where Andrew and D. Bethel discuss the influential Lovecraft story, "The Dunwich Horror."
• "Shortcast 03 - Interview with André La Roche" (31 December 2014): Where Andrew talks with André La Roche about Fate Core.
• "Episode 89 - High-Five Forever" (25 March 2016): Where D. Bethel discusses the Lovecraft revisionist novella, The Ballad of Black Tom, by Victor LaValle.
• "Robot Monsters From the Future" (27 December 2019): Where Andrew talks about looking forward to play Fate of Cthulhu.
• "Starting By Starting" (03 January 2020): Where D. Bethel talks about Frogwares' Lovecraftian adventure game, The Sinking City, which also openly addressed and push against Lovecraft's racism.

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