{"id":255172,"date":"2022-08-07T12:03:50","date_gmt":"2022-08-07T17:03:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.meeplemountain.com\/?post_type=topics&#038;p=255172"},"modified":"2022-08-07T23:10:25","modified_gmt":"2022-08-08T04:10:25","slug":"cthulhu-themed-board-games","status":"publish","type":"topics","link":"https:\/\/www.meeplemountain.com\/topics\/cthulhu-themed-board-games\/","title":{"rendered":"Cthulhu Themed Board Games"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>H.P. Lovecraft introduced his most famous cosmic entity, Cthulhu, in a short story published in <i>Weird Tales<\/i> in 1928. The greatest of The Old Ones, Cthulhu is an evil entity, hibernating in the underwater city of R\u2019lyeh. Worshiped by some cults, feared by most, Cthulhu\u2019s return threatens to cause mankind to suffer madness through unspeakable horrors.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s no wonder that the Cthulhu mythos has been a source of inspiration for board game designers for years. Here\u2019s a sampling of games featuring the Great One.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Can you escape madness long enough to hold back the return of The Greatest of Lovecraft&#8217;s Old Ones?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":56,"featured_media":255185,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"MSN_Categories":"Uncategorized","MSN_Publish_Option":false,"MSN_Is_Local_News":false,"MSN_Is_AIAC_Included":"Empty","MSN_Location":"[]","MSN_Add_Feature_Img_On_Top_Of_Post":false,"MSN_Has_Custom_Author":false,"MSN_Custom_Author":"","MSN_Has_Custom_Canonical_Url":false,"MSN_Custom_Canonical_Url":"","footnotes":""},"tags":[],"coauthors":[2466],"class_list":["post-255172","topics","type-topics","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Cthulhu Themed Board Games &#8212; Meeple Mountain<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.meeplemountain.com\/topics\/cthulhu-themed-board-games\/\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.meeplemountain.com\/topics\/cthulhu-themed-board-games\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.meeplemountain.com\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Board Game Topics\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.meeplemountain.com\/topics\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":3,\"name\":\"Cthulhu Themed Board Games\"}]}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Cthulhu Themed Board Games &#8212; Meeple Mountain","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.meeplemountain.com\/topics\/cthulhu-themed-board-games\/","schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.meeplemountain.com\/topics\/cthulhu-themed-board-games\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.meeplemountain.com\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Board Game Topics","item":"https:\/\/www.meeplemountain.com\/topics\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"name":"Cthulhu Themed Board Games"}]}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meeplemountain.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics\/255172"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meeplemountain.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meeplemountain.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/topics"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meeplemountain.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/56"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meeplemountain.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=255172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.meeplemountain.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics\/255172\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meeplemountain.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/255185"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meeplemountain.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=255172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meeplemountain.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=255172"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meeplemountain.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=255172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}