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The Call of Cthulhu influenced DnD, D&D
Added by Media Influence Map · 27 September 2026
The evidence
Gary Gygax lists it in Appendix N of the 1979 Advanced Dungeons & Dragons Dungeon Master's Guide, his published list of the fiction that shaped the game. Lovecraft is on it, and the debt went further than a reading list: Deities & Demigods (1980) printed the Cthulhu Mythos, with Cthulhu among its entries, as one of the game's pantheons.
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