@BobTop My Mom used to have the full version of this. I'll try and remember to look around and see if I can find it.

@jmac Yes, that was one of the best ones. "G'nap! G'nap!" The infection spread when an infected smurf bit an uninfected one on the tail.

@RikerGoogling They used both. They were among the few in that place and time who actually did use firearms. Reloading was awful, though, so swords weren't at all replaced.

@chrisamaphone For me it's not quite either, but closer to "pupil".

@jmac The designer, Sandy Petersen, is probably my favorite board game designer. He's also studied more about Lovecraft than most, and was stoked to get "Call of Cthulhu" as a project. He's got some interesting videos on various Lovecraft topics, too: "The Rats in the Walls" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aJ-dTgv6Zq4 "The Tcho Tcho" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xqHPKX_Sc10 and of course "Was Lovecraft Racist?" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YLL037UiQhk

@jmac Cthulhu had very little name recognition in popular culture when that came out, and RPGs themselves were still very new. I suspect that they were trying to get the attention of some of the folks who might want to play vampire games and the like figuring that they'd not be disappointed.

@thomholwerda FrameMaker is great. I don't think there's yet a full replacement for it anywhere. Lots of apps do various things better, but nothing else comes close to touching its full feature set.