{"id":17322,"date":"2019-05-16T07:00:38","date_gmt":"2019-05-16T12:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.d20radio.com\/main\/?p=17322"},"modified":"2019-05-14T13:51:17","modified_gmt":"2019-05-14T18:51:17","slug":"fate-of-cthulhu-kickstarter-interview-with-evil-hat-productions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.d20radio.com\/main\/fate-of-cthulhu-kickstarter-interview-with-evil-hat-productions\/","title":{"rendered":"Fate of Cthulhu Kickstarter: Interview with Evil Hat Productions"},"content":{"rendered":"

On\u00a0<\/span>Kickstarter, Evil Hat Productions<\/span><\/b>\u00a0is crowdfunding\u00a0<\/span>Fate of Cthulhu<\/span><\/i><\/b><\/a>, a re-envisioning of the Cthulhu Mythos for your tabletop using the\u00a0<\/span>Fate Core<\/span><\/i><\/b>\u00a0system. To get a sense of the game and the campaign, I spoke to five members of the\u00a0<\/span>Evil Hat<\/span><\/b>\u00a0crew:\u00a0<\/span>Fred Hicks, President of Evil Hat;<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>Sophie Lagac\u00e9, Line Development & Project Management;<\/span> Ed Turner, System Development; Stephen Blackmoore, Creative Direction; and Tom Lommel, Marketing & Social Media. <\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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EGG EMBRY (EGG)<\/span><\/b>: Thanks for breaking away from the campaign to talk about your Great New One. What can you tell me about <\/span><\/b>Fate of Cthulhu<\/span><\/i><\/b><\/a>?\u00a0<\/span><\/b>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

ED TURNER<\/span><\/b>:\u00a0<\/span>It\u2019s the end of the world; civilization as you know it has collapsed, the Earth has been overtaken by innumerable horrors following the will of an impossibly powerful cosmic menace, and what few dregs of humanity\u00a0still remaining\u00a0are being corrupted into monsters themselves. In\u00a0<\/span>Fate of Cthulhu<\/span><\/i><\/b>, the worst has already come to pass. But while there\u2019s no coming back from the end of the world, we might be able to prevent it; a combination of human ingenuity and the space- and time-warping nature of\u00a0<\/span>Yog-Sothoth<\/span>\u00a0has allowed the remaining enclaves of humanity to send a few brave heroes into the past. Just a decade, but it might be enough to prevent the end of the world from coming to pass. Or maybe just make it a little less awful.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Fate of Cthulhu<\/span><\/i><\/b>\u00a0is a\u00a0<\/span>Fate Core<\/span><\/i><\/b>-powered<\/span><\/b>\u00a0game about those time travelers, fighting to prevent a Great Old One from coming to power. The PCs have a timeline of events leading to the rise of the Great Old One, but of course, not only is their information often misleading, their own actions will ripple outward\u2014their success or failure dealing with one event will cause the others to change in unpredictable ways. In some senses, it\u2019s a very hopeful take on Cthulhu mythos\u2026 the core concept is that you can prevent the apocalypse from happening, after all, and the characters are generally able and empowered. But it\u2019s still Cthulhu, so the odds are very good that you can\u2019t fix everything, and you might just lose your humanity in the process.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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EGG<\/span><\/b>: The pitch has the feel of James Cameron\u2019s\u00a0<\/span><\/b>Terminator<\/span><\/i><\/b>. While your game is *not* making use of the <\/span><\/b>Terminator<\/span><\/i><\/b>\u00a0property, what sparked the idea of mixing premises?\u00a0<\/span><\/b>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

FRED HICKS<\/span><\/b>:<\/span>\u00a0It was a straight line between the two. Chris and I were talking about licenses that would be too much hassle, and that turned into talking about the parts of it that we loved. Once I looked at those parts I realized there were some resonances with the Mythos, which immediately sparked the idea of Cthulhu operating with Skynet\u2019s playbook. That\u2019s the starting point we handed over to the team.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

SOPHIE LAGAC\u00c9<\/span><\/b>:\u00a0<\/span>The original idea came from\u00a0<\/span>Evil Hat Productions\u2019<\/span><\/b>\u00a0president Fred Hicks and then-partner Chris Hanrahan. It started, like all our games, encapsulated in a simple pitch: \u201cCreate a\u00a0<\/span>Terminator-like<\/span><\/i><\/b>\u00a0game where Cthulhu is Skynet.\u201d From this simple idea, we put it through a go\/no-go process, including answering four basic questions we always ask of potential projects:<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n