Stygian: Reign Of The Old Gods is about coping with terrible reality

“Lovecraftian” is a word that I wouldn’t exactly called abused, but it’s both easily recognised and a little open to interpretation.

Stygian‘s intepretation of Lovecraftian horror is almost meta. I’d call the core of Lovecraft a confrontation of reality. It’s not that the truth is gory or big or even scary. It’s that it just doesn’t fit into the human mind without shattering it. It’s not even actively malevolent. Indeed, the defining feature of a Lovecraftian monster is its sheer indifference.

It’s about how fundamentally, all humany’s ideals and beliefs and societies are inventions we cling to in order to shield us from that horror.

Stygian is basically an RPG about doing that.

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