Thursday, September 5, 2019

Deities and Demigods No Thank You Cthulhu

For D&D aficionados, the holy grail of 1st edition books at one time was the Deities and Demigods book which  included the statistics for the Cthulhu and Elric mythos. There are three different versions of this book, known as the "No Thank You Cthulhu", "Thank You Cthulhu" and "No Thank You, No Cthulhu" editions.

The "No Thank You" version came first and contains the write ups detailing the 2 mythos.  The "Thank You Cthulhu" edition was second and contained the two mythos and a note acknowledging that Chaosium had the rights to use characters and concepts from Lovecraft and Michael Morecock's work and thanking Chaosium for allowing TSR to use them. The "No Thank You" edition removed both the write ups of the mythos and the acknowledgement of Chaosium's rights and is the most commonly found.


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