

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.
