{"id":62206,"date":"2023-11-16T03:21:34","date_gmt":"2023-11-16T03:21:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/?p=62206"},"modified":"2023-11-15T12:23:56","modified_gmt":"2023-11-15T12:23:56","slug":"monstrously-big-in-japan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2023\/11\/16\/monstrously-big-in-japan\/","title":{"rendered":"Monstrously big in Japan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New in the <em>Japanese Journal of Analog Role-Playing Game Studies<\/em>, an academic article offering <a href=\"https:\/\/jarps.net\/journal\/article\/view\/49\">&#8220;An Exploration of the Appeal of the Cosmic Horror Series of Gamebooks for <em>Call of Cthulhu<\/em> TRPG | RPG&#8221;<\/a>. This considers, partly via online surveys, some of the reasons for the sustained popularity of the <em>Call of Cthulhu<\/em> RPGs in Japan. <\/p>\n<p>The <em>Call of Cthulhu<\/em> series is said to be <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dicebreaker.com\/games\/call-of-cthulhu-rpg\/news\/call-of-cthulhu-dnd-japan-rpg\">bigger than D&#038;D in Japan<\/a>, and synonymous with &#8216;tabletop RPG&#8217;. The success is apparently aided by the relatively simple rules, adaptability to different time-frames and sub-genres, and a strong player base among female fans (meaning male fans can &#8216;play with my waifu&#8217;).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New in the Japanese Journal of Analog Role-Playing Game Studies, an academic article offering &#8220;An Exploration of the Appeal of &hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2023\/11\/16\/monstrously-big-in-japan\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lovecraftian-arts","category-scholarly-works"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62206","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62206"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62206\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62207,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62206\/revisions\/62207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}