Miskatonic University Podcast

This episode is MUP’s 300th Episode! GUYS!!! This is INCREDIBLE!!! Congratulations to all of the hosts, previous hosts, editors, previous editors, fans, patreon backers, listeners, supporters, and YOU! For this special occasion, we’ve brought HPLHS onto the show to celebrate! Sean Branney and Andrew Leman join Keepers Dave & Bridgett as we continue with our Cthulhu University Curriculum Series and discuss how and when to use clues and props in your Call of Cthulhu experience! Patreon Plug & Update We have a membership of sorts too! And our backers got their own short pre-show interview discussing rumors! How do I become an MUP backer? Bridgett? To back us you can click the button on the sidebar of our website, mu-podcast.com or head over to Patreon directly at www.patreon.com/mup! The Discord Plug We have our MUP Discord and we are all there! We invite all of our listeners to come and enjoy the community of horror gaming and cute pet pics. Link in the show notes: MU Discord server invite link: https://discord.gg/vNjEv9D  And thank you to our editor Dave for editing this episode. Thanks Dave! Main Topic —  Our topic tonight is: What makes good Clues and Props? And How to Make Yours Better

This episode, Keepers Dave & Bridgett continue with our Cthulhu University Curriculum Series and discuss how to run a good Call of Cthulhu campaign! Patreon Plug & Update We have a Patreon! To back us you can click the button on the sidebar of our website, mu-podcast.com or head over to Patreon directly at www.patreon.com/mup! The Discord Plug We have our MUP Discord and we are all there! We invite all of our listeners to come and enjoy the community of horror gaming and cute pet pics. Link in the show notes: MU Discord server invite link: https://discord.gg/vNjEv9D  And thank you to our editor Dave for editing this episode. Thanks Dave! Bridgett’s Pet Pick Shout Out [No photo] Tonight I’d like to shout out the “Go Pods Wildlife Movement” in the pet pics channel! Here, listeners record video of wildlife, any wildlife, while encouraging the wildlife to give us a hearty”go pods.” There’s been a rabbit. A goose. Remind me guys and I’ll post a couple of these videos in the episode channel! Main Topic — 

This episode, Keepers Dave & Bridgett continue with our Cthulhu University Curriculum Series and discuss what it means to be a good Call of Cthulhu Keeper! Patreon Plug & Update We have a Patreon! To back us you can click the button on the sidebar of our website, mu-podcast.com or head over to Patreon directly at www.patreon.com/mup! New Backers! Skip Morton Steven Nelson Brian Murphy The Discord Plug We have our MUP Discord and we are all there! We invite all of our listeners to come and enjoy the community of horror gaming and cute pet pics. Link in the show notes: MU Discord server invite link: https://discord.gg/vNjEv9D  And thank you to our editor Nate for editing this episode. Thanks Nate! Bridgett’s Pet Pick Shout Out Shouting out J Zahler and the ongoing Feral onboarding saga! He’s been sharing photos and videos of a group of feral cats that visits his home for food. Their rival feral gang members, hatred of photos, coming into the house, and more! It’s like a soap opera! Main Topic —  As we discussed, tonight we kick off Lesson Three of our New Curriculum Enhance your Call of Cthulhu storytelling, where we will cover all the various aspects of writing, running, publishing, performing, and generally vibing with Call of Cthulhu.  Over this six episode series, we will give you all the tools you need to become a Call of Cthulhu champion.  Today is Episode 3 – How to be a great Call of Cthulhu Keeper. This is our Intermediate class – you’ve become a great player, now you want to unlock the secrets for running an amazing game. You’ve come to the right place.

This episode, Keepers Dave & Bridgett continue with our Cthulhu University Curriculum Series and discuss what it means to be a good Call of Cthulhu player! Patreon Plug & Update We have a Patreon! To back us you can click the button on the sidebar of our website, mu-podcast.com or head over to Patreon directly at www.patreon.com/mup! The Discord Plug We have our MUP Discord and we are all there! We invite all of our listeners to come and enjoy the community of horror gaming and cute pet pics. Link in the show notes: MU Discord server invite link: https://discord.gg/vNjEv9D  And thank you to our editor Dave for editing this episode. Thanks Dave! You know what else is amazing! Bridgett’s Pet Pick Shout Out Introducing Sylvie the tiny Ferret, from Fogg Realm Games! It’s nice to get some pet pic variety! Welcome to the channel Sylvie. She looks like she’s at a furry rave Main Topic — 

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This episode, Keeper Dave & Bridgett are excited to kick off a new series of episodes that provide you, dear listener, with a curriculum to enhance and grow your gameplay! These curriculum – curricula? – will be a set of episodes organized like classes that are focused on improving one set of your gaming perspective and skills.  That’s right – and so we’re starting with our first Curriculum series now! Starting tonight we debut our first Curriculum– Welcome to Cthulhu University – From Neophyte to Elder God (and everything in-between) Over the next 6 episodes, we will review the coursework for Call of Cthulhu, taking us from an introductory start, basically Call of Cthulhu for Dummies, all the way through career level professionalism. This series is targeted for both beginners and veterans alike. We’ll approach Call of Cthulhu from a fresh perspective with rejuvenating and inspiring ideas to elevate your CoC storytelling! Bridgett’s Pet Pick Shout Out I’d like to shout out Miss Miskatonic’s cat Jack, and this absurd sleeping position. Upside down, inside out, twisted, folded, and knocked out. I’m impressed. The Discord Plug We have our MUP Discord and we are all there! We invite all of our listeners to come and enjoy the community of horror gaming and cute pet pics. Link in the show notes: MU Discord server invite link: https://discord.gg/vNjEv9D Thank you to our editor Dave for editing this episode. Thanks, Dave! Patreon Plug & Update We have a Patreon! To back us you can click the button on the sidebar of our website, mu-podcast.com or head over to Patreon directly at www.patreon.com/mup! Main Topic —  As we discussed, tonight we kick off Lesson One of our New MUP Curriculum Cthulhu University, where we will cover all the various aspects of writing, running, publishing, performing, and generally vibing with Call of Cthulhu.  Over the next six episodes we will give you all the tools you need to become a Call of Cthulhu champion, but tonight we start with a simple introduction: Welcome to Call of Cthulhu. Part 1 – What is Call of Cthulhu?

This episode, Keepers Dave & Bridgett visit the city of Arkham! Join us as we delve into book, pull inspiration, become inspired, and explore creative ways to create your own Arkham! Patreon Plug & Update We have a Patreon! To back us you can click the button on the sidebar of our website, mu-podcast.com or head over to Patreon directly at www.patreon.com/mup! The Discord Plug We have our MUP Discord and we are all there! We invite all of our listeners to come and enjoy the community of horror gaming and cute pet pics. Link in the show notes: MU Discord server invite link: https://discord.gg/vNjEv9D  And thank you to our editor Max for editing this episode. Thanks Max! Bridgett’s Pet Pick Shout Out I’d like to shout out the entire situation that is ARM1384’s cat, Loki. This cat is outright plotting on a dog. Just… go to the show notes and look at the photo. Apparently he was like that for 20 minutes. Main Topic —  Riffing on the Arkham Book

This episode, Keepers Dave & Bridgett interview Chaosium’s Creative Director, Mike Mason, as he takes us on a journey into Chaosium’s newest sourcebook: Arkham! Patreon Plug & Update We have a Patreon! To back us you can click the button on the sidebar of our website, mu-podcast.com or head over to Patreon directly at www.patreon.com/mup! The Discord Plug We have our MUP Discord and we are all there! We invite all of our listeners to come and enjoy the community of horror gaming and cute pet pics. Link in the show notes: MU Discord server invite link: https://discord.gg/vNjEv9D  And thank you to our editor Nate for editing this episode. Thanks Nate!

This episode, Keepers Dave & Bridgett discuss time periods and genre in horror gaming! What’s your favorite setting? Excluding either modern or the 1920s. Those are great settings that both deserve their own shows. So we have to get out of our comfort zones! Patreon Plug & Update We have a Patreon! To back us you can click the button on the sidebar of our website, mu-podcast.com or head over to Patreon directly at www.patreon.com/mup! The Discord Plug We have our MUP Discord and we are all there! We invite all of our listeners to come and enjoy the community of horror gaming and cute pet pics. Link in the show notes: MU Discord server invite link: https://discord.gg/vNjEv9D  And thank you to our editor Sean for editing this episode. Thanks Sean! Bridgett’s Pet Pick Shout Out Cultist Damon got a new puppy!!! Four months and name TBD. She’s featured here with a piece of pizza crust she’s been carrying around today. Main Topic —  Favorite horror setting and genre… Topics Favorite setting for horror Favorite time period Favorite “type” of horror

This episode, Keepers Dave & Bridgett discuss attending conventions, especially as a first timer. Plans are starting for various 2024 cons and it’s a great time to start planning. Patreon Plug & Update Our Patreon! To back us you can click the button on the sidebar of our website, mu-podcast.com or head over to Patreon directly at www.patreon.com/mup! The Discord Plug On our MUP Discord! We invite all of our listeners to come and enjoy the community of horror gaming and cute pet pics. Link in the show notes: MU Discord server invite link: https://discord.gg/vNjEv9D  And thank you to our editor Max for editing this episode. Thanks Max! Bridgett’s Pet Pick Shout Out I’d like to shout out kittuh from Chad Bowser, Yelena! This gorgeous kittuh of in a hat. What’s that type of hat called? With the wings? Anyway, caption says, “Let it snow!! I’m staying inside anyway.” And I’m delighted. Photo in the show notes! Main Topic —  First time conventions Both your first time ever going to cons And your first time at a particular con Things to consider What is your focus? Professional, volunteering, panels Games, people, buying What and where is the convention? City and travel Hotel and location Size and convention focus – gaming versus hobby Friends and community – who do you know, and how will you find them? 5/3/1 is key Food Food Food Regulate and hydrate Finally, what games are you going to play?

This episode, we bring to you a special announcement from Keeper Murph. Patreon Plug & Update We have a Patreon! To back us you can click the button on the sidebar of our website, mu-podcast.com or head over to Patreon directly at www.patreon.com/mup! The Discord Plug We have our MUP Discord and we are all there! We invite all of our listeners to come and enjoy the community of horror gaming and cute pet pics. Link in the show notes: MU Discord server invite link: https://discord.gg/vNjEv9D 

This episode, Keepers Murph, Dave, and Bridgett welcome back to the podcast, friend of the show and writer/director of the BBC’s Lovecraft Investigations… Julian Simpson! CW: Graphic discussion regarding torture of a literary character in the Whatcha Been book review section (approximately 7:47-9:23) Patreon Plug & Update We have a Patreon! To back us you can click the button on the sidebar of our website, mu-podcast.com or head over to Patreon directly at www.patreon.com/mup! The Discord Plug We have our MUP Discord and we are all there! We invite all of our listeners to come and enjoy the community of horror gaming and cute pet pics. Link in the show notes: MU Discord server invite link: https://discord.gg/vNjEv9D  And thank you to our editor Nate for editing this episode. Thanks Nate! Main Topic —  Tonight’s guest is Julian Simpson, long-time BBC writer and director, as well as gamer and explorer of the arcane and forbidden. This is Julian’s fourth appearance on our show since March 2020, but for those who haven’t heard of you, please introduce yourself… https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julian_Simpson https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lovecraft_Investigations https://www.pleasantgreen.co.uk/

This episode, Keepers Murph & Dave talk about stuff. Good stuff. What stuff? Let’s find out together, because Bridgett, me, who writes WordPress, was out of town for this recording. Oh! Oh! I see the topic now! Recent media influences for TTRPGs Patreon Plug & Update We have a Patreon! To back us you can click the button on the sidebar of our website, mu-podcast.com or head over to Patreon directly at www.patreon.com/mup! The Discord Plug We have our MUP Discord and we are all there! We invite all of our listeners to come and enjoy the community of horror gaming and cute pet pics. Link in the show notes: MU Discord server invite link: https://discord.gg/vNjEv9D  And thank you to our editor Max for editing this episode. Thanks Max! Main Topic —  Now what do we have here for a main topic? Looks like… recent media influences for TTRPGs Dave has 2 movies, 1 TV show, and one book (series) Sicario Mission Impossible Boy and the Heron Bodies The Three Body Problem trilogy Murph has TV show or two and book or two Fringe Blue Eyed Samurai Mickey7 Dream Scenario (haven’t seen it yet)

This episode, Keepers Murph, Dave, and Bridgett reflect on their favorite gaming moments and episodes from 2023! The Discord Plug We have our MUP Discord and we are all there! We invite all of our listeners to come and enjoy the community of horror gaming and cute pet pics. Link in the show notes: MU Discord server invite link: https://discord.gg/vNjEv9D Patreon Plug We have a Patreon! To back us you can click the button on the sidebar of our website, mu-podcast.com or head over to Patreon directly at www.patreon.com/mup! Categories

This episode, Keepers Dave and Bridgett explore an immersive art museum known as Otherworld in Columbus, Ohio! Afterwards, we unpack ways to activate your senses to bring flavor and sensation to your creative writing! https://www.otherworld.com/ The Discord Plug We have our MUP Discord and we are all there! We invite all of our listeners to come and enjoy the community of horror gaming and cute pet pics. Link in the show notes: MU Discord server invite link: https://discord.gg/vNjEv9D Patreon Plug We have a Patreon! To back us you can click the button on the sidebar of our website, mu-podcast.com or head over to Patreon directly at www.patreon.com/mup!

Join Keepers Dave and Murph for a special travel episode! Part 1! Patreon Plug & Update We have a Patreon! To back us you can click the button on the sidebar of our website, mu-podcast.com or head over to Patreon directly at www.patreon.com/mup! The Discord Plug We have our MUP Discord and we are all there! We invite all of our listeners to come and enjoy the community of horror gaming and cute pet pics. Link in the show notes: MU Discord server invite link: https://discord.gg/vNjEv9D

This episode, Keepers Murph, Dave, and Bridgett welcome Lumpley Games – Vincent Baker and Meg Baker! Patreon Plug & Update We have a Patreon! To back us you can click the button on the sidebar of our website, mu-podcast.com or head over to Patreon directly at www.patreon.com/mup! And as we discussed recently – we’ll be sending out a backer survey soon so we can tune our backer rewards in January. Dave is working on it now, so look for that in late November. New Members Davin Flateau Lauren Williams Heather Poirier The Discord Plug We have our MUP Discord and we are all there! We invite all of our listeners to come and enjoy the community of horror gaming and cute pet pics. Link in the show notes: MU Discord server invite link: https://discord.gg/vNjEv9D  And thank you to our editor Max for editing this episode. Thanks Max!  Bridgett’s Pet Pick Shout Out Happy 5th birthday Thessaly from everyone at MUP! We hope that you’ve enjoyed your special day! If you’re having a bad day, go to the show notes and check out bulldogs, in party hats, preparing to eat a cake. Get your serotonin hits where you can! Thanks HelloSpaceBoy! Main Topic —  https://lumpley.games/ https://lumpley.games/portfolio/ Games such as  The Wolf King’s Son (2023) Under Hollow Hills (2022) Bedlam Beautiful (2017; limited publication) Apocalypse World (2010; 2nd Edition 2016) and the PbtA framework https://www.patreon.com/lumpley Our Travelling Home by Ash Crider? https://wundergeek.itch.io/our-traveling-home  Wolf Spell by https://epidiah.itch.io/wolfspell Bloody Handed Name of Bronze by Joshua Newman https://joshuaacnewman.itch.io/the-bloody-handed-name-of-bronze  Mashed https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/199282/MASHED-A-Korean-War-MASH-RPG–Core-Rulebook Sagas of the Icelanders https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/254224/Sagas-of-the-Icelanders Pasions d’ Pasion https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/409558/Pasion-de-las-Pasiones Nahual https://www.nahualrpg.com/

This episode, Keepers Murph, Dave, & Bridgett are back with another system unpack! And this time– we’re discussing Pulp Cthulhu. Patreon Plug & Update We have a Patreon! To back us you can click the button on the sidebar of our website, mu-podcast.com or head over to Patreon directly at www.patreon.com/mup! And as we discussed last episode – we’ll be sending out a backer survey soon so we can tune our backer rewards in January. Look for that in late November. The Discord Plug We have our MUP Discord and we are all there! We invite all of our listeners to come and enjoy the community of horror gaming and cute pet pics. Link in the show notes: MU Discord server invite link: https://discord.gg/vNjEv9D  And thank you to our editor Sean for editing this episode. Thanks Sean!  Bridgett’s Pet Pick Shout Out Two expert security guards dutifully protecting the home from local threats (ducks in the pond). Binx: Senior Security Supervisor. Finn: Grizzled Pro who shoulders their demanding job while fighting demons at the bottom of a bottle. No, I didn’t write that copy. Zondrio, fan of the show did, when they posted the photo in our pet pics shout out page. I love when my job is done well, and for me! Love these kitties! Main Topic —  Tired of your investigators dying in quick succession when jaunting around the world in a desperate bid to save humanity? Wishing that sometimes your investigator could make a stand instead of hiding and waiting for the eldritch horror to pass? Pulp Cthulhu ups the ante and provides you with tougher, more capable heroes—ready to take on the villainous machinations of the Cthulhu Mythos!

This episode, Keepers Murph, Dave, and Bridgett are reunited. We discussed Halloween Horror Stories, Halloween Gaming, mentioned a few Halloween themed Call of Cthulhu scenarios… but mostly we just hung out. And we made Murph sad. Patreon Plug & Update We have a Patreon! To back us you can click the button on the sidebar of our website, mu-podcast.com or head over to Patreon directly at www.patreon.com/mup! Also, we are going to update our Patreon rewards at the beginning of 2024. Before we do that we will send out a survey and gather some data. It’s approaching two years since we redid the tiers and rewards, and now that everyone has a better idea of what works and what doesn’t, we just want to evolve them. The tiers themselves will not change. But we’re going to tune our rewards so that they are a) things that our backers really like, and b) we can deliver them.  So look for that survey in November, and new rewards in early January.  The Discord Plug We have our MUP Discord and we are all there! We invite all of our listeners to come and enjoy the community of horror gaming and cute pet pics. Link in the show notes: MU Discord server invite link: https://discord.gg/vNjEv9D  And thank you to our editor Moe for editing this episode. Thanks Moe!  Bridgett’s Pet Pick Shout Out I’d like to shout out our own little Vaesen, Roxie, kittuh of UndeadDomain (aka Jesse). This bundle of cute is curled into a dice tray, surrounded by Vaesen books and sheets as her dad preps for a game. Does that make Undead Domain a Thursday’s child?? Main Topic —  https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/432915/Bayt-al-Azif-5-A-magazine-for-Cthulhu-Mythos-roleplaying-games https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/220315/The-Dare https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/412108/Trick-or-Treat-2 https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/291464

This episode, Keeper Murph & Keeper Dave welcome Dean Engelhardt and Bill Adcock of Cthulhu Eternal and Cthulhu Reborn. Patreon Plug & Update We have a Patreon! To back us you can click the button on the sidebar of our website, mu-podcast.com or head over to Patreon directly at www.patreon.com/mup! The Discord Plug We have our MUP Discord and we are all there! We invite all of our listeners to come and enjoy the community of horror gaming and cute pet pics. Link in the show notes: MU Discord server invite link: https://discord.gg/vNjEv9D  And thank you to our editor Nate for editing this episode. Thanks Nate!  Ooh, Bridgett may not be here, but we still have…. Bridgett’s Pet Pick Shout Out [Using best Bridget voice]  Y’all have got to see this photo of Loki, cat of ARM1384. This cat is asleep, eyes rolled back, and legit appears as if it’s actively summoning. Spooky kitty vibes for the win! Thank you for sharing, ARM1384! Cat-astrophically creepy. Main Topic —  Please welcome to the show, friends and creative powerhouses… Dean Engelhardt and Bill Adcock from Cthulhu Eternal! Welcome gentlemen! https://cthulhueternal.com/ https://cthulhueternal.com/our-scenarios/ https://www.drivethrurpg.com/browse/pub/5143/Cthulhu-Reborn

This episode, Keeper Bridgett & Keeper Dave talk to Becky and Josh from Black Armada Games about the upcoming launch of Lovecraftesque second edition! Patreon Plug & Update We have a Patreon! To back us you can click the button on the sidebar of our website, mu-podcast.com or head over to Patreon directly at www.patreon.com/mup! It’s the return of Dave’s MUP Movie Matinee. On Sunday, Oct 8th at 2pm we’re going to watch Jordan Peele’s Nope! Who’s in? The Discord Plug We have our MUP Discord and we are all there! We invite all of our listeners to come and enjoy the community of horror gaming and cute pet pics. Link in the show notes: MU Discord server invite link: https://discord.gg/vNjEv9D  And thank you to our editor Max for editing this episode. Thanks Max!  Main Topic  Becky Annison and Josh Fox of Black Armada games can be found at https://blackarmada.com/, where they have games, podcasting, blogs and more! https://blackarmada.com/lovecraftesque/ Upcoming 2e for Lovecraftesque – link to Backerkit here MUP Episode 149 with Becky Annison Welcome Becky and Josh! Please, for our listeners who are not acquainted with all of your award-winning games, please introduce yourselves and Black Armada games.

This episode, Keeper Murph & Keeper Dave discuss the gaming side of insanity mechanics and mental health! Patreon Plug & Update We have a Patreon! To back us you can click the button on the sidebar of our website, mu-podcast.com or head over to Patreon directly at www.patreon.com/mup! The Discord Plug We have our MUP Discord and we are all there! We invite all of our listeners to come and enjoy the community of horror gaming and cute pet pics. Link in the show notes: MU Discord server invite link: https://discord.gg/vNjEv9D  And thank you to our editor Sean for editing this episode. Thanks Sean!  Bridgett’s Pet Pick Shout Out Shouting out Spooky and Frida, twins and best friends, and kittuhs of James-Big Jim! Thank you for sharing these gorgeous kitties with us! Also, MeWOW to that guitar selection in the background! Let’s move onto the main topic.  Main Topic —  Up front, a disclaimer and Content Warning – tonight we want to discuss the gaming side of insanity and mental health. We look to be sensitive and earnest in how to portray these topics in games, but also discuss them from the gaming perspective. So while we don’t plan to wander into any specific triggering moments, it is a broad topic that may move into areas listeners find uncomfortable.

This episode, Keepers Murph & Bridgett unpack horror gaming with Hunters Entertainment! Campus Crier The Campus Crier is where we talk about recent Mythos-related events and happenings in the world. This episode was recorded Thursday, August 24th, 2023. Our friend Mike Diamond of The Old Ways Podcast is currently accepting submissions for scenarios from Chaosium’s Community Content program for a chance to get the Full Diamond treatment of their works for Call of Cthulhu and Runequest. If chosen you can get a full theatrical episode with music, sound, voice acting, the whole hog. We have a link for the sign-up sheet in the show notes. https://bit.ly/YourScenario24 Our friend Dean Englehart of Cthulhu Reborn fame has just released H.P. Lovecraft’s Book of Yog-Sothothery in pdf with POD coming later in the year.  “This book is a resource that seeks to pare away the later inventions and present the purely Lovecraft inventions, compiled with game statistics that make it easy to drop them into roleplaying scenarios, campaigns, and game settings. HPL’s many Unnatural Entities, Weird Rituals, Cults, Artifacts, Tomes, and Places in this book can be considered a kind of “grab bag” of elements you can use to infuse any game world with a Lovecraftian flavor.” https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/449861/HP-Lovecrafts-Book-of-YogSothothery Patreon Plug & Update We have a Patreon! To back us you can click the button on the sidebar of our website, mu-podcast.com or head over to Patreon directly at www.patreon.com/mup! The Discord Plug We have our MUP Discord and we are all there! We invite all of our listeners to come and enjoy the community of horror gaming and cute pet pics. Link in the show notes: MU Discord server invite link: https://discord.gg/vNjEv9D  And thank you to our editor Moe for editing this episode. Thanks Moe!  Bridgett’s Pet Pick Shout Out HelloSpaceBoy, Laszlo from Strangers From Nowhere, was kind enough to show off his little birthday girl, Mazikeen! She turned 20 years young on August 19th! Congratulations Mazikeen and Lazslo! You can also follow Laszlo’s Kickstarter for Pod People which should be wrapping up right after this episode drops. Murph backed it! Mazikeen turned 20 today! (8/19)  Main Topic —  Unpacking Horror Gaming with Hunters Entertainment.  Influences, favorites, genres, tabletop translations, GM tricks and tips, and whatnot.   https://www.huntersentertainment.com https://www.youtube.com/@huntersbooks https://www.youtube.com/@Snarled https://www.indiepressrevolution.com/xcart/Sleepaway-Print-PDF.html OUTBREAK: UNDEAD.. 2E KIDS ON BIKES ICARUS ALICE IS MISSING The ABCs of D&D The 123s of D&D

This episode, Keepers Murph & Bridgett unpack Vampire: The Masquerade,.We’re joined by backer Mike Diamond! Listen as we attempt to crash through mechanics, lore, history, clans, disciplines, and more in under 90 minutes. Campus Crier The Campus Crier is where we talk about recent Mythos-related events and happenings in the world. This episode was recorded Thursday, July 27th, 2023. This has been a BIG quarter for Chaosium. The Pendragon Starter Set is out, they’ve released the first volumes of the Cults of RuneQuest books, multiple ENnie nominations including Rivers of London, the Bookshops of Arkham actual play, Community Content, and more! And now, they’ve just announced a new board game adaption of Call of Cthulhu’s Horror on the Orient Express! Horror on the Orient Express: The Board Game brings the award-winning Call of Cthulhu horror and mystery TTRPG into the world of board gaming. Special rules, ongoing character development, and awesome play pieces all providing a challenging and exciting gaming experience. Horror on the Orient Express: The Board Game is a cooperative game in which you and other investigators have to survive on the doomed train. To win, you must discover and hunt out the cultists to stop them performing a hideous ritual, as well as make sure that the train reaches its destination. With all manner of dangers facing you, the challenge is to survive, stop the horrors of the Dreamlands, and prevent calamity. The Kickstarter for the game launches next year, with a planned release date in 2025.  Speaking of ENnie nominees, let’s shout out just a handful of congratulations to our friends and previous guests who are being recognized! Apologies if we missed anyone, it wasn’t intentional!  In other news, the community is BUZZING! The Old Gods of Appalachia kickstarter books are shipping and folk are going bonkers! At the time of recording, they’re arriving in inboxes and mailboxes nation. I’ll actually be picking up my rewards in person at GenCon next week.  Patreon Plug & Update We have a Patreon! To back us you can click the button on the sidebar of our website, mu-podcast.com or head over to Patreon directly at www.patreon.com/mup! The Discord Plug We have our MUP Discord and we are all there! We invite all of our listeners to come and enjoy the community of horror gaming and cute pet pics. Link in the show notes: MU Discord server invite link: https://discord.gg/vNjEv9D  And thank you to our editor Nate for editing this episode. Thanks Nate!  Bridgett’s Pet Pick Shout Out Shouting out and also welcoming home, Jackson Elias, from listener Targard! Bear, his other dog, is already my baby, and Jackson Elias is already settling in so nicely! Main Topic — Vampire: The Masquerade Unpack 

This episode, Keepers Murph & Bridgett riff on single location horror scenario ideas! Patreon Plug & Update We have a Patreon! To back us you can click the button on the sidebar of our website, mu-podcast.com or head over to Patreon directly at www.patreon.com/mup! Murph has a movie Night coming up on August 17th at 7:30pm Central time. The Discord Plug We have our MUP Discord and we are all there! We invite all of our listeners to come and enjoy the community of horror gaming and cute pet pics. Link in the show notes: MU Discord server invite link: https://discord.gg/vNjEv9D  And thank you to our editor Max for editing this episode. Thanks Max!  Bridgett’s Pet Pick Shout Out “Okay, listen. It’s worth going to our show notes to see Jasper, doggo of friend and fan of the show, FredKiesche. I recognize that it’s not winter, but you gotta see the look on this dog’s face as it launches itself through the snow. It’s the pick me up you need today, promise!” Main Topic — Single location horror scenarios Persons in house/apartment/room Persons in vehicle Locked-Room Mysteries Class struggle in the vein of Upstairs, Downstairs but downstairs hears the prep, staging, production, fallout, and eventual aftermath of the event upstairs. The event could be the KiY or a ritual, mass murder, etc. Might be a staff only game of Regency, set entirely within the kitchens. (Sort of inspired by Miss Julie.) Players would have to defend against their mutated “Betters” who are storming downstairs to eat, pray, and be merry. Guests are invited to a house party in a friend of a friend’s apartment. Their friend never shows up, and a few guests seemingly go missing. There could be some fatally locked room, akin to Bluebeard, but their friend is actually within the trunk/coffee table at the center of the living room (a la Hitchcock’s Rope).  A group of friends witness something horrible and are seen by the perpetrator, take a spin on Rear Window and have it based across the street from the original crime, with a single bad guy hell bent on murder, but a Charm skill that is astronomical.  Take a page from Coherence and have a group of friends get together while Miller’s Comet streaks by overhead. There is an exact replica of their house next door, populated with an exact replica of themselves as well. Unbeknownst to the players, one of the guests arrives late and stumbles into the wrong house, their house. Things go even further sideways when a third house is revealed to have been there in the opposite direction the entire time.. By the end no one should be able to determine which house is real nor who is the original version of themselves. A one-shot maybe solo game, where the player(s) are part of a boiler room, akin to Glengarry Glen Ross even with a sadistic Alec Baldwin-esque boss. But the player(s) have to cold call a list of senior citizens and get them to send you money, in order to stay alive. Every dollar you gain is another second to live. After the first few calls, they find out that they can exchange a life for a life, giving the player(s) a moral quandary of whether they can help cause an old person’s death in order for them to live. A pastiche of various scenarios done for a single or pair of players that is similar to Four Rooms. Each room would be a small self-contained scene that puts the player(s), the hotel staff, in dangerous and morally fraught situations. Could just mine other scenarios for single good scenes. But they are entirely separate from one another, once the hotel room door opens, it starts, and doesn’t stop until they leave the room. So it would have to be punchy and fast. Paranormal investigators arrive to investigate the goings on in room 1408 of a downtown hotel. From the moment that they enter the room they are presented with an alternate reality. Everytime they attempt to leave the room, the scene within changes and they are just entering it again. Could actually merge with above… Much like the film Exam, the players are all set in a closed room to take a test to see who will become the next CEO of a global corp. They are given three rules: not talk to the invigilator or the armed guard not spoil their paper  and stay in the room The paper they are given is blank. They are given some tasks that allow them to work together at first, but then it is a free-for-all of violence as it turns into Thunderdome for the office-set. Solo game, or maybe a GM +1, on a small spaceship where the player is alone floating in space amidst the shipwreck. They have one sealed chamber and a Jenga tower’s worth of Oxygen. Every action requires a brick to be moved in addition to skill checks with dice. Think of the beginning of The Stars My Destination by Bester mixed with Bissette’s The Wretched. Roll a 1d6 to see how many actions you have to do to stay alive today, each action requires a pull on the tower. They start with 10 tokens, each time they

This episode, Keepers Murph and Dave interview one of their RPG heroes, Luca Rejec, the author of Ultraviolet Grasslands, Witchburner, Let Us In, and so many more. Patreon Plug & Update We have a Patreon! To back us you can click the button on the sidebar of our website, mu-podcast.com or head over to Patreon directly at www.patreon.com/mup! The Discord Plug We have our MUP Discord and we are all there! We invite all of our listeners to come and enjoy the community of horror gaming and cute pet pics. Link in the show notes: MU Discord server invite link: https://discord.gg/vNjEv9D  And thank you to our editor Moe for editing this episode. Thanks Moe!  Main Topic — Luka Rejec https://www.wizardthieffighter.com/

This episode, Keepers Murph & Dave hangout without Bridgett as part of our final summer vacation shows. Patreon Plug & Update We have a Patreon! To back us you can click the button on the sidebar of our website, mu-podcast.com or head over to Patreon directly at www.patreon.com/mup! Speaking of backers, we have one new backer to thank! Casey J Rudkin The Discord Plug We have our MUP Discord and we are all there! We invite all of our listeners to come and enjoy the community of horror gaming and cute pet pics. Link in the show notes: MU Discord server invite link: https://discord.gg/vNjEv9D  And thank you to our editor Sean for editing this episode. Thanks Sean!  Bridgett’s Pet Pick Shout Out Hey guys! It’s Bridgett, even though I sound like Dave! He’s my voice because I either don’t have one, or am too tired to use it. I’m shouting out Thalia, kittuh of friend and fan of the show John Tyler! John is awesome! Ask him about co-running a Regency Cthulhu game with me at Origins! Also, “Yar, Yar, Yar, Nar.” He was also in the most hilarious Pirate Borg game of my life. Thanks John for being awesome, and thank you for sharing this gorgeous caramel chocolate brownie with us!  Let’s move onto the main topic.  Main Topic — 

This episode, Keepers Murph, Dave, and Bridgett continue with their top 10 RPGS. Well, not Bridgett. Because she didn’t follow instructions. Enjoy! Patreon Plug & Update We have a Patreon! To back us you can click the button on the sidebar of our website, mu-podcast.com or head over to Patreon directly at www.patreon.com/mup! The Discord Plug We have our MUP Discord and we are all there! We invite all of our listeners to come and enjoy the community of horror gaming and cute pet pics. Link in the show notes: MU Discord server invite link: https://discord.gg/vNjEv9D  And thank you to our editor Nate for editing this episode. Thanks Nate!  Main Topic The hosts continue to unpack their favorite RPGS!

This episode, Keepers Murph, Dave, and Bridgett offer up something strange… something new… to bridge the gaping pit which is, “we typically don’t record the month of June, but we’re attempting to do something about that.” So… yea. Enjoy! Patreon Plug & Update We have a Patreon! To back us you can click the button on the sidebar of our website, mu-podcast.com or head over to Patreon directly at www.patreon.com/mup! The Discord Plug We have our MUP Discord and we are all there! We invite all of our listeners to come and enjoy the community of horror gaming and cute pet pics. Link in the show notes: MU Discord server invite link: https://discord.gg/vNjEv9D  And thank you to our editor Max (or maybe Dave?) for editing this episode. Thank you! Main Topic — ….Bridgett did not understand the assignment. And Bridgett is in charge of the WordPress. So uh… Listen, I dunno. HAPPY JUNE BABIES!

This episode, Keepers Murph & Dave speak to Christopher Robin Negelein/Ganza Gaming designer of the new Flesh Pit RPG on KS Patreon Plug & Update We have a Patreon! To back us you can click the button on the sidebar of our website, mu-podcast.com or head over to Patreon directly at www.patreon.com/mup! Speaking of backers, we have two new backers to thank! Chris Bates Brendan Tang The Discord Plug We have our MUP Discord and we are all there! We invite all of our listeners to come and enjoy the community of horror gaming and cute pet pics. Link in the show notes: MU Discord server invite link: https://discord.gg/vNjEv9D  And thank you to our editor Sean for editing this episode. Thanks Sean!  Bridgett’s Pet Pick Shout Out This week, I wanna shout out Kaiba, who is pictured peering into the secrets of the universe, from listener Confused Ann. You gotta see this photo. It’s a scenario seed and writing prompt! Main Topic —  Christopher Negelein https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/ganzagaming/the-mystery-flesh-pit-national-park-rpg https://www.mysteryfleshpitnationalpark.com/ http://www.thebrightcave.com/

This episode, Keepers Murph and Bridgett riff on some of our local Urban Legends and Folklore in Games! Campus Crier The Campus Crier is where we talk about recent Mythos-related events and happenings in the world. This episode was recorded on May 4th, 2023! https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/432915/Bayt-al-Azif-5-A-magazine-for-Cthulhu-Mythos-roleplaying-games https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/questingbeast/knave-rpg-second-edition https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/ganzagaming/the-mystery-flesh-pit-national-park-rpg Patreon Plug & Update We have a Patreon! To back us you can click the button on the sidebar of our website, mu-podcast.com or head over to Patreon directly at www.patreon.com/mup! Speaking of backers, we have a belated thank you to Bucho Rodenberger Steven Nelson GeeMo Claire Mendelsohn The Discord Plug We have our MUP Discord and we are all there! We invite all of our listeners to come and enjoy the community of horror gaming and cute pet pics. Link in the show notes: MU Discord server invite link: https://discord.gg/vNjEv9D  And thank you to our editor Moe for editing this episode. Thanks Moe!  Bridgett’s Pet Pick Shout Out This week, I’d like to shout out Casper the rat from listener and fan of the show, Cultist Damon. This cutie could haunt me anytime. I wuv the wittle feeties. Main Topic —  Local Urban Legends and Folklore in Games

This episode, Keepers Dave & Bridgett conduct a deep dive on Graham Walmsley’s Cthulhu Dark! Campus Crier The Campus Crier is where we talk about recent Mythos-related events and happenings in the world. This episode was recorded on April 20, 2023, and here’s Keeper Bridgett with a report on Chaosium Con 2023!  Patreon Plug & Update We have a Patreon! To back us you can click the button on the sidebar of our website, mu-podcast.com or head over to Patreon directly at www.patreon.com/mup! Speaking of backers, we have a belated thank you to Rachel Cutler, Graham Walmsley I’m hosting the next movie night, and guess what, Dave? It’s gonna be on April 29th! The weird thing, it will have already happened by the time this show drops! Lol. It was an AMAZING time. Laugh were had. Unless it was a sad movie, then likely… laughs were still had.  The Discord Plug We have our MUP Discord and we are all there! We invite all of our listeners to come and enjoy the community of horror gaming and cute pet pics. Link in the show notes: MU Discord server invite link: https://discord.gg/vNjEv9D  And thank you to our editor Max (or maybe Dave) for editing this episode. Thanks Max (or maybe Dave)!  Bridgett’s Pet Pick Shout Out This episode I’d like to shout out Leo, from listener and hype squad of the show, Evan Perlman! Leo is pictured at daycare with a dashing smile and model levels of posing. This Portuguese water dog is absolutely STUNNING! Thanks for sharing Leo with us, Evan, and thanks for breaking the bottle over the back of the “fresh MUP” ship each time it sails. Main Topic That Graham interview was so fantastic. I hope we can get him back sometime before 2033. At least 2032. To build on that conversation, which I was sorry to miss, I wanted to get us talking about Cthulhu Dark and other rules light investigative games. We both have experience with CD, so let’s start with a couple questions about the gameplay. First– let’s discuss the rules– because they’re decadent!  What are your favorite parts of running or playing in a CD game? What is a favorite story from a CD game that couldn’t happen in a game with more mechanics? What do you think is different when playing a CD scenario? What do you think is different when running a CD scenario? What do you think is different when designing a CD scenario? Do you miss anything from CD or other rules light investigative games? How would you design a rules light game differently?

This episode, Keepers Murph & Bridgett welcome back author, creator, and game designer Graham Walmsley! Patreon Plug & Update We have a Patreon! To back us you can click the button on the sidebar of our website, mu-podcast.com or head over to Patreon directly at www.patreon.com/mup! The Discord Plug We have our MUP Discord and we are all there! We invite all of our listeners to come and enjoy the community of horror gaming and cute pet pics. Link in the show notes: MU Discord server invite link: https://discord.gg/vNjEv9D  And thank you to our editor Max for editing this episode. Thanks Max!  Bridgett’s Pet Pick Shout Out This week I’m shouting out Trouble aka cat of listener Rach. They’re seen lazily stalking a set of twinkle lights. Not at fast Zappy! Main Topic —  Welcome to Graham Walmsley! http://catchyourhare.com/graham.htm https://www.drivethrurpg.com/browse/pub/4159/Graham-Walmsley https://twitter.com/grahamwalmsley

This episode, Keepers Murph, Dave, and Bridgett welcome cartographer extraordinaire, the writer and publisher of Pirate Borg, Luke Stratton! Patreon Plug & Update We have a Patreon! To back us you can click the button on the sidebar of our website, mu-podcast.com or head over to Patreon directly at www.patreon.com/mup! The Discord Plug We have our MUP Discord and we are all there! We invite all of our listeners to come and enjoy the community of horror gaming and cute pet pics. LInk in the show notes: MU Discord server invite link: https://discord.gg/vNjEv9D  And thank you to our editor Sean for editing this episode. Thanks Sean!  Bridgett’s Pet Pick Shout Out I’m shouting out the doggo Charlie from listener Dan Tice, who is absolutely SLAYING her Pirate Borg costume. Puppy pirates for the win. Now give her some booty! Main Topic —  Welcome to Luke Stratton! https://www.meetup.com/shipofthedead https://linktr.ee/limithron https://www.patreon.com/limithron

This episode, Keeper Murph runs Keepers Dave and Bridgett through an impromptu game of mystery and delight as they return to the Gardens of Ynn! Patreon Plug & Update We have a Patreon! To back us you can click the button on the sidebar of our website, mu-podcast.com or head over to Patreon directly at www.patreon.com/mup! The Discord Plug We have our MUP Discord and we are all there! We invite all of our listeners to come and enjoy the community of horror gaming and cute pet pics. LInk in the show notes: MU Discord server invite link: https://discord.gg/vNjEv9D  And thank you to our editor Moe for editing this episode. Thanks Moe!

This episode, Keepers Dave and Bridgett welcome back friend to the show Oscar Rios to discuss Golden Goblin Press, Invictus, the definition of a hero, and The Legacy of Arrius Lurco. Campus Crier The Campus Crier is where we talk about recent Mythos-related events and happenings in the world. This episode was recorded on February 23, 2023.  Step further into the dark with the latest supplement for Call of Cthulhu! Nameless Horrors contains 6 scenarios featuring brand new elements of the Mythos that will keep even the most seasoned Investigator on their toes! Available worldwide March 8th.  Good news – Laird Barron is home from the hospital! He of course has a long road to recovery but being home is a good indication that he’s heading in the right direction. For those who missed it, there is a Go Fund Me available to support his medical expenses that has raised $136,000 or so at the time of recording. Thank you to all listeners who supported Laird, and we wish him continued recovery. Speaking of needing help, Lovecraft Arts & Sciences is holding its Lovecraft Arts & Sciences 2023 Winter Fundraiser. Similar to the situation a couple years ago, they find themselves coming up short on the funding needed to keep the business running. Turns out NecronomiCon, for starters, was much more expensive than usual – with prices increasing across the board and attendance overall down from its normal capacity. Necro, the store, and all the supporting infrastructure is already run mostly on volunteer labor, and so the shortfall from last year now puts longevity at risk. The fundraiser is nearing $12k at time of recording, and we all know how important Necronomicon is to the community at large. Please take a moment to donate – even $5 adds to the bucket.  Free League prepares to launch their kickstarter for The Walking Dead Universe RPG. Free League released two new game licenses for community creators – a Free Tabletop License (FTL) for the Year Zero Engine and a third-party license for the upcoming Dragonbane fantasy RPG. Finally, with the OGL controversy momentarily in our mirrors, the newest craziness occupying geek-minds is the rapidly growing proliferation of AI-generated materials, including art and now fiction writing, and probably around the corner… ttrpg scenarios and settings. The community has been struggling with AI-generated art for a while and now people are using ChatGPT and similar tech to create fiction wholecloth. Neil Clarke, editor of SF fiction magazine Clarkesworld (among others), recently paused his submission intake due to being overwhelmed by AI-generated stories. He wrote a very detailed blogpost, including stats and stories on how this technology has blossomed to overtake his meager intake resources. Worth a read if you want to see how this is specifically affecting the broader community.  On the same note, Chaosium announced recently that it has banned AI art in its community creator communities, and one might think other creator communities would soon take similar measures. Patreon Plug & Update We have a Patreon! To back us you can click the button on the sidebar of our website, mu-podcast.com or head over to Patreon directly at www.patreon.com/mup! The Discord Plug We have our MUP Discord and we are all there! We invite all of our listeners to come and enjoy the community of horror gaming and cute pet pics. LInk in the show notes: MU Discord server invite link: https://discord.gg/vNjEv9D  And thank you to our editor Nate for editing this episode. Thanks Nate!  Bridgett’s Pet Pick Shout Out This week, I’d like to shout Cashew in their Puppy Palace by listener and fan of the show GardenGM. Main Topic —  Welcome Oscar Rios to the show!!! https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/golden-goblin-press/the-legacy-of-arrius-lurco-updated-for-7th-edition

This episode Keepers Murph and Dave are left unsupervised. Not even Keeper Bridgett knows what happened. Patreon Plug & Update This episode was recorded on February 9, 2023.  We have a Patreon! To back us you can click the button on the sidebar of our website, mu-podcast.com or head over to Patreon directly at www.patreon.com/mup! Dave’s movie night is on February 26th, so mark your calendars! This is a correction from the last episode where I said the 25th. So it’s the 26th at noon PT and 3pm ET – afternoon movie! At the time of recording our survey is still open for a few more days, but if I was a guessing man, which I most definitely am, I would guess that the 2018 remake of Suspiria is going to be our movie of choice. Finally we need to acknowledge a number of new backers. We have been remiss in calling out you amazing people, so we’re going through a number of folks who joined last October when we stopped doing it for some unknown reason.  Steve Skellet  Jay Rendon Justin Kahn TLemon65 Kamuela Enos John Tyler Steve Wallace Liam O’Connell GardenGM The Discord Plug We have our MUP Discord and we are all there! We invite all of our listeners to come and enjoy the community of horror gaming and cute pet pics. Link in the show notes: MU Discord server invite link: https://discord.gg/vNjEv9D  And thank you to our editor Sean for editing this episode. Thanks Sean!  Main Topic — 

This episode, Keepers Murph, Dave, and Bridgett chat with industry superstar, leader, coach, author, screenwriter, professional GM (and more), B. Dave. Walters. Bridgett got super distracted with both his and Murph’s voice– hence the episode title. We’re not sorry. Campus Crier The Campus Crier is where we talk about recent Mythos-related events and happenings in the world. This episode was recorded on January 26, 2023. Pound-sign facts. Something that will come as a surprise to no one who funds TTRPG Kickstarters, Funagain Logistics is closing. Another casualty of the Covid-inflicted shipping crisis – they just couldn’t keep up with the chaos and demand on their operations. They will fulfill their current agreements and continue shipping through April 30th, but after that no more complaining about Funagain and their shipping of Free League kickstarters. Update on Laird Barron and his condition, a GoFundME campaign has been started for the author Laird Barron who has been hospitalized in serious condition. Mike Davis from the Lovecraft eZine has organized this and so far they have managed to raise over $133k. Laird is still in the hospital but in stable condition, though he still has a long way to go, and that is going to cost a lot of money. American healthcare is bullshit. Aint Slayed won the Top Actual Play Podcast from ENWORLD!  Congratulations!!! Amazing team, fantastic games, and well deserved award for sure. Welcome to the Hall of Fame yo! The OGL Fiasco rolls on. In the two weeks since we last recorded, the situation has evolved, and yet, everything that was put in motion with the leaked OGL 1.1 has continued in play. Wizards, through D&D Beyond, issued not one but two statements. The first when they tried to just “whoops we’re sorry!” and then slightly alter the terms of the new OGL. And then after that just made things worse, they apologized again and then created a new 1.2 OGL which they have actually released as a draft this time for the community to help determine the terms. Or something like that.  Meanwhile, as mentioned before, out of all the chaos many game companies have collected their D&D toys and left 5e behind. For good. Paizo, creator of the largest OGL 1.0 licensed-games Pathfinder and Starfinder, has announced they are creating the irrevocable Open RPG Creative License (ORC). They are tracking a still-growing list of companies that have joined them, at least 1500 publishers as of recording, including Chaosium, EN Publishing, Fantasy Grounds, Foundry and Roll20, Frog God Games, Goodman Games, Green Ronin, Kobold Press, Pelgrane Press, and many many more. You can find a link to an updated list on the Paizo community boards.  It looks like Wizards is now in full reputation rescue mode now, but it looks like the damage has been done. WOTC has also announced they are going to release the core rules of D&D as Creative Commons content later on another sure sign that they are desperate to fix their image. There is a movement to boycott the upcoming D&D movie that has gained some traction. People hope to send a message to Wizards that they don’t appreciate being viewed as dollar signs, and so they want to flip that around and hurt Wizards and Hasbro where it counts. Dungeons and Dragons: Honor Among Thieves arrives in theaters on March 31, 2023 and you may want to avoid seeing it in the first week or so when it’s in theaters to help send a message. It seems like most of the big moves have played out, at least for now, and if Wizards wanted to stop people from making money on 5e then they have most definitely succeeded. But we haven’t seen the actual ramifications yet, as content creators are still moving things around, the ORC isn’t actually a thing yet, and OGL 1.2 is trying to squeeze its way back into the collective consciousness. So we stay wary and alert, passing our Spot Hidden rolls with EXTREME success. Patreon Plug & Update We have a Patreon! To back us you can click the button on the sidebar of our website, mu-podcast.com or head over to Patreon directly at www.patreon.com/mup! Dave’s movie night is on! February 25th! Give me a couple days to organize it, but we should have surveys out by the beginning of February. Mark your calendars! The Discord Plug We have our MUP Discord and we are all there! We invite all of our listeners to come and enjoy the community of horror gaming and cute pet pics. LInk in the show notes: MU Discord server invite link: https://discord.gg/vNjEv9D  And thank you mucho mucho to our new editor Moe for editing this episode. Thanks Moe! And thanks Nate for editing 263. Great first edit. Bridgett’s Pet Pick Shout Out “Sending happy belated birthday love to Emmy, from backer Adam! This dog in the basket is too much. I can’t even. Happy birthday sweet girl! Tell your Dad that Auntie Bridgey says it’s okay for you to her extra belated birthday treats!” Main Topic —&#160

This episode Keepers Bridgett, Dave and Murph riff on what it must be like to grow up as a deepone hybrid! Campus Crier The Campus Crier is where we talk about recent Mythos-related events and happenings in the world. This episode was recorded on January 12, 2023. Happy new year everyone! The main topic of conversation for pretty much everyone in the whole TTRPG industry is the leaking of Wizards of the Coasts OGL 1.1 last week and coverage by Gizmodo in a story called The Dungeons & Dragons’ OGL 1.1 Tightens Grip On Competition. While Wizards has yet to release an official response to the leak and subsequent uproar and backlash, many prominent game publishers have already announced complete changes in their business models and game systems (including partnering with newer systems such as Mork Borg). The hashtag OpenDND was Trending earlier today on Twitter, and is an open letter to WOTC to back off. Most prominently, Kobold Press and MCDM, both top publishers of supplemental 5e materials, have announced their own game systems that will be truly open and available for use by others. Other publishers have begun scaling back production and support for 5e materials,or shutter them entirely. Naturally, everyone has plenty to say about it all. Even Denis Detwiller and Arc Dream Publishing was forced to make a statement, which, to our listeners at least, should be funny as hell. There’s a lot to unpack with the Wizard’s announcement, official or not. And they have not yet responded to the leak in any public fashion as of the time of recording, in fact they have delayed any such announcement several times. I know some of our audience may not know how this potentially affects them, but if you enjoy games or any other media products that rely on the OGL, then this affects you. There has been some claims that they are “dismantling the RPG Industry” which should raise alarmist concerns for those, like many of our listeners, that don’t deal with WOTC or DnD. But there are a few key things to take from Wizard’s proposed changes to the OGL: They are seeking to revoke OGL 1.0a, which as unpopular as it may be, is entirely legal as far as I can tell. They are taking a cut from the signers of the new OGL based on a tiered system that has the highest tier giving 25% of income to WOTC. Signees of the new OGL will give the irrevocable, non-transferable rights to their creations in perpetuity to WOTC to use however they wish. Any crowdfunding will also have to pay revenue to WOTC, as above,, and have additional strings attached Virtual Tabletops will no longer be able to support OGL products, as everything OGL will likely have to go through OneDnD’s own VTT instead. We are still in the early parts of how this rolls out, and by the time this is live we will have certainly learned more. But however this lands, it is sure to cast a long shadow over how creators engage with Wizards and 5e going forward. And Paizo comes in with some last second additions to the news, announcing the Open RPG Creative license (ORC for short) that will be “built system agnostic for independent game publishers under the legal guidance of Azora Law, an intellectual property law firm that represents Paizo and several other game publishers.” The idea is to provide a system-agnostic license that anyone can use with their own ruleset to publicly release. You can find out more about this and all of our news in the show notes, or on our Discord where this is a constant topic of discussion. Modiphius recently announced a new addition to their community content program! In addition to the standard 2d20 World Builder program, Modiphius is now offering creators the chance to create content for their beloved Achtung! Cthulhu IP. The content guidelines are different to the standard ones. You can find the 2d20 Licensed World Builders Content Guidelines and creator resources in the link below. https://www.modiphius.net/pages/2d20worldbuilders In a bit of bad news for the weird fiction community, a GoFundME campaign has been started for the author Laird Barron who has been hospitalized in serious condition. Mike Davis from the Lovecraft eZine has organized this and so far they have managed to raise over 100k. Our thoughts and dollars https://www.gofundme.com/f/laird-barron-hospital-costs-medication-costs Patreon Plug & Update We have a Patreon! To back us you can click the button on the sidebar of our website, mu-podcast.com or head over to Patreon directly at www.patreon.com/mup! Dave needs to schedule his own movie night! Right Dave? Yes! I want to watch something as an inspiration for the Masks game, so we’ll find something on Prime probably. A quick look at my watchlist says – Indiana Jones, Hellraiser, and The Lost City of Z are all available now. I’ll talk with my scheduler and get something on the books for February! The Discord Plug We have our MUP Discord and we are all there! We invite all of our listeners to come and enjoy the community o

This episode, Keeper Murph runs Keepers Dave and Bridgett through an impromptu game of mystery and delight! Happy New Year, MUP family! Patreon Plug & Update We have a Patreon! To back us you can click the button on the sidebar of our website, mu-podcast.com or head over to Patreon directly at www.patreon.com/mup! The Discord Plug We have our MUP Discord and we are all there! We invite all of our listeners to come and enjoy the community of horror gaming and cute pet pics. MU Discord server invite link: https://discord.gg/vNjEv9D  And thank you beaucoup to Murph for editing this episode.  Main Topic —  The Gardens of Ynn. This episode was recorded on December 29th, 2022.

This episode, Keepers Murph & Dave talk with some of our Professor Tiered Patreons! Campus Crier The Campus Crier is where we talk about recent Mythos-related events and happenings in the world. This episode was recorded on December 1st, 2022.  Looks like management of Noble Knight Games has shown bad faith in their employees’ ramp up to a unionization vote on December 8th. A story on Dicebreaker details the back and forth by management to dissuade employees from joining the unionization effort, as well as examples of management’s bad faith comments and attitudes. More in the story on Dicebreaker.  And hot off the presses, it seems that Noble Knight has decided to recognize the union! So congratulations to the workers, and management at Noble Knight for this landmark decision.  Keeper Dave’s Patreon Backer Masks Campaign Update No new updates for my Masks campaign except to say that, as expected, response has been overwhelming. Probably just around the time this episode drops near the end of December we will have made player choices. We’ve got a mid-January start scheduled, and everyone is all in! More soon on this for sure. Patreon Plug & Update We have a Patreon! To back us you can click the button on the sidebar of our website, mu-podcast.com or head over to Patreon directly at www.patreon.com/mup! And hey, look at three of our top tier backers hanging with us right now. One more incredible perk from backing MUP on Patreon. The Discord Plug We have our MUP Discord and we are all there! We invite all of our listeners to come and enjoy the community of horror gaming and cute pet pics. MU Discord server invite link: https://discord.gg/vNjEv9D  And thank you beaucoup to Max for editing this episode.  Bridgett’s Pet Pick Shout Out “Hey guys! It’s me. Ya’girl Bridgett. I know, I know. This time I sound like Dave. I’ve got raaaange, baaaaby. Tonight, I’d like to shout out James/Ibis’ gorgeous fur baby, Virgil. Listen, this photo of James and Virgil rolling around on the floor is the one of the most wholesome examples of the joy that comes with canine companionship. Thanks for sharing Virgil with us, Ibis. You really seriously consider getting that photo framed. The joy on both of your faces is priceless. Oh, and I secretly love Dave’s accents.” Main Topic —  This is our Professors show! Some of our top-tiered patrons came on the show to hang out with us!

This episode, Keepers Murph, Dave, and Bridgett sat down with award winning game designer Sen-Foong Lim! Keeper Dave’s Patreon Backer Masks Campaign Update This episode was recorded on November 17th, 2022.  The time is nigh! Keeper Dave (that’s me) will be running Masks of Nyarlathotep for our Patreon backers, starting in January 2023. Ending at the end of today, Monday, December 12th – when this episode goes live – I am closing the survey for backers interested in playing in my game.  Once the survey is closed today – we will be choosing from backers starting at the highest backer level – Professor – and moving down through the tiers until we have a full party of six investigators. If, by chance, there are still open slots after then, we will have a limited opening to other listeners. But if you want to get a seat at the table, becoming a backer is your best bet. We will be playing bi-weekly – every other Friday – from 7-10pm ET, using Chaosium’s official Fantasy Grounds, as well as the Pulp Cthulhu rules. It will look and feel like David Cronenberg directed Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom. It will be unforgettable. Patreon Plug & Update We have a Patreon! To back us you can click the button on the sidebar of our website, mu-podcast.com or head over to Patreon directly at www.patreon.com/mup! The Discord Plug We have our MUP Discord and we are all there! We invite all of our listeners to come and enjoy the community of horror gaming and cute pet pics. MU Discord server invite link: https://discord.gg/vNjEv9D  And thank you beaucoup to MURPH for editing this episode.  Bridgett’s Pet Pick Shout Out Tonight, I’d like to shout out my absolute favorite chameleon ever, Godzilla, affectionately known as GiGi, by backer, mod, and friend of the show Chris! Gigi is a petpic channel highlight for me, because her photos typically drop with fun lizard facts and plus– she’s gorgeous and always looks to have to an attitude in her photos. Keep the Gigi and the facts coming, Chris! Main Topic — 

This episode Keepers Murph & Dave sit down with Lynne Hardy to discuss Chaosium’s newest supplement, Regency Cthulhu! Keeper Dave’s Patreon Backer Masks Campaign Update The time is nigh! Keeper Dave will be running Masks of Nyarlathotep for our Patreon backers, starting in January 2023. Starting today, Monday, November 28th – when this episode goes live – and running for two weeks – there will be an open survey for interested backers.  Once the survey is closed – just after the airing of Ep 260 – we will be choosing from backers starting at the highest backer level – Professor – and moving down through the tiers until we have a full party of six investigators. If, by chance, there are still open slots after then, we will have a limited opening to other listeners. But if you want to get a seat at the table, becoming a backer is your best bet. We will be playing bi-weekly – every other Friday – from 7-10pm ET, using Chaosium’s official Fantasy Grounds, as well as the Pulp Cthulhu rules. It will look and feel like David Cronenberg directed Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom. It will be unforgettable. Patreon Plug & Update We have a Patreon! To back us you can click the button on the sidebar of our website, mu-podcast.com or head over to Patreon directly at www.patreon.com/mup! Movie night preview by Murph – survey is over! The winner is… The Northman The Discord Plug We have our MUP Discord and we are all there! We invite all of our listeners to come and enjoy the community of horror gaming and cute pet pics. MU Discord server invite link: https://discord.gg/vNjEv9D  And thank you beaucoup to MURPH for editing this episode.  Bridgett’s Pet Pick Shout Out “Hi, guys! It’s me! Bridgett. I know, I know, I sound like Murph again. I’ve been practicing my range! I’d like to shout out KingofBlades113’s cat….Jim. because listen, human names on pets are my jam. Plus, Jim just got a new scratch post, so double win! Thanks for sharing Jim with us, KingofBlades113! Oh! And since this worked last time. And by this, I mean, getting Murph to read exactly what I type… I’m Lynne’s favorite. Toodles!” Main Topic —  Lynne Hardy and Regency Cthulhu

This episode, Keepers Murph and Bridgett bring back RIFFING! That’s right, we’re riffing on a classic folklore monster, the will o’ wisp, will of the wisp, the willy wispy, whatever! You know what we mean! Patreon Plug & Update We have a Patreon! To back us you can click the button on the sidebar of our website, mu-podcast.com or head over to Patreon directly at www.patreon.com/mup! The Discord Plug We have our MUP Discord and we are all there! We invite all of our listeners to come and enjoy the community of horror gaming and cute pet pics. MU Discord server invite link: https://discord.gg/vNjEv9D  And thank you beaucoup to SEAN for editing this episode.  Bridgett’s Pet Pick Shout Out This week I’m shouting out Odysseus and Circe! Gorgeous, high fiving kittuhs from listener Aiine!  Thanks for sharing videos of these gorgeous cats with it!  Main Topic Will-o-Wisps!

This episode, Keepers Dave & Bridgett interview writer Paul St. John Mackintosh about books, poetry, RPGs, and more! Patreon Plug & Update We have a Patreon! To back us you can click the button on the sidebar of our website, mu-podcast.com or head over to Patreon directly at www.patreon.com/mup! The Discord Plug We have our MUP Discord and we are all there! We invite all of our listeners to come and enjoy the community of horror gaming and cute pet pics. MU Discord server invite link: https://discord.gg/vNjEv9D  And thank you beaucoup to MAX for editing this episode.  Bridgett’s Pet Pick Shout Out Listen, I may have shouted out this dog before, but since she’s my daughter niece, I’m doing it again! Shout out to Kara, the most princess of all princess huskies from backer, moderator, and massive friend of the show, a whole ass Mike Diamond of The Old Ways Podcast!!! Main Topic —  http://paulstjohnmackintosh.com/ http://www.amazon.com/Paul-St.-John-Mackintosh/e/B00CEH18BM https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/334163/Casting-the-Runes-Occult-Investigation-in-the-World-of-M-R-James https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/401006/Sleuths-of-the-Golden-Age-Mini Cthulhu Mythos RPG and Games – https://www.facebook.com/groups/675419816536523

This episode Keepers Murph and Dave talk with Youtuber XPLovecat about gaming and life! Campus Crier The Campus Crier is where we keep all the mythos related news and info for the podcast, this episode was recorded on October 5th, 2022.  We are looking for new Show Editors! If you want to help this show stay online, and help preserve my sanity, then I will teach you how to edit our audio. This isn’t for the faint of heart, however. Beginning audio editing can take many hours for one of our typical shows, but that gets better as you get better. As a thank you for this, we will give you a Professorial status as a Backer (minus the episode) and gain massive influence with us and some special Discord Channel access, etc.. Into the Odd Remastered is out and available to all to order! You can pick it up now at the Free League webstore or DriveThruRPG. Judge Dredd: The Game of Crime Fighting in Mega-City is getting a re-release 40 years after its initial run. You can follow the link in the show notes to pre-order. Patreon has rolled out a new type of billing that will charge patrons on the day that they started backing a content creator, as opposed to the beginning of the month. It is optional as to whether we swap to this method, but we thought we would ask you guys which you prefer. So let us know on our Discord server, or you can send us an email at [email protected]. Roll20Con 2022 is starting on October 21st through 23rd. Speaking of email Dave, we got a bunch of email from people that listened to the last episode! So a hearty thank you goes out to… Fred Ritterton Chris Will James And in a bid to take over Cute Pet Picks Andrew Leman emailed a pic of his dogs as well, you’ll have to go to the Show notes to see those. Patreon Plug & Update We have a Patreon! To back us you can click the button on the sidebar of our website, mu-podcast.com or head over to Patreon directly at www.patreon.com/mup! Speaking of amazing backers we have new backers! Everyone welcome: Puddletime Brian Dunn Pete Shanahan The Discord Plug We have our MUP Discord and we are all there! We invite all of our listeners to come and enjoy the community of horror gaming and cute pet pics. Dave’s Discord discussion Call Out – what are we talking about today? #shelves-mail discussion on Kickstarters, fulfilled and not. MU Discord server invite link: https://discord.gg/vNjEv9D  And thank you beaucoup to MURPH for editing this episode.  Bridgett’s Pet Pick Shout Out “Hi guys! It’s Bridgett! I may sound like Murph right now, but that’s just because I’m probably 36,000 feet into the air. I’d like to shout out the lovely kittuhs of 12gmsc: Franny, Edie and Charlie! Thanks for sharing these gorgeous cats with us in the petpics channel!” titty-sprinkles. Because Bridgett demanded I say it. titty-sprinkles. Main Topic —  A chat with XPLoveCat. Leslie is a part of a fundraiser for the month of October called “Play Cancer Away” (https://twitter.com/playcanceraway?lang=en) which plays RPGs to raise money for Stand Up 2 Cancer. Check out her YouTube channel (www.youtube.com/c/xplovecat) and the editing services she provides for RPGs on her website (www.xplovecat.com) Do you find that YouTube is a less toxic platform than the RPG blog-o-sphere, or convention gaming? How’d you come up with the name XPLovecat? Do you do your own video editing? How does she decide what topics to make videos on? Do certain ones reliably get more traction? What professional services do you offer for those in the ttRPG community? What value does developmental editing add, and how should MR authors go about using it?

This episode, Keepers Murph, Dave, and Bridgett interview Andrew Leman and Sean Branney from the award-winning HP Lovecraft Historical Society! Campus Crier Patreon Plug & Update Our Patreon Plug is where we update our listeners on all our backers and activities. This episode was recorded on Sept 22, 2022.  We have a Patreon! To back us you can click the button on the sidebar of our website, mu-podcast.com or head over to Patreon directly at www.patreon.com/mup! Speaking of amazing backers we have a new backer! Everyone welcome: John Arko And thank you to everyone else that has updated their pledge to match our new tiers!  Drop us an email or discord note and let me know what you’d like to play – [email protected] Thanks to our backers so much for supporting the show!!  The Discord Plug We have our MUP Discord and we are all there! We invite all of our listeners to come and enjoy the community of horror gaming and cute pet pics. MU Discord server invite link: https://discord.gg/vNjEv9D  And thank you beaucoup to MURPH for editing this episode.  Bridgett’s Pet Pick Shout Out The Dog Squad by Plumbism Main Topic Podcasting, researching, burying live bodies, and helicopters over the Mohave with Sean and Andrew of HPLHS! What follows is Andrews images and some text about the Helicopter Story told at the end of this episode. Here was the giant symbol as seen from the chopper. The two little red arrows are pointing to cars, to give you some sense of how big the thing was. This photo has been retouched to hide the other rocketry symbol that was also present. Here’s the unretouched picture: And here’s an enhanced view: Here’s the view as they were landing. And here we are taking off at sunset. The intrepid investigators: Stephanie Morey, Dan Harper, and Sean This was the mummified corpse revealed by the earthquake that they flew out to examine. There is a creepy statue clutched in its right hand. Here they are examining it: Chris Lackey, also of podcast fame, played the sheriff. We turned my Toyota into a sheriff’s car. Sean, as coroner, performed an autopsy on the mummy, removing its glass eye. That was how they identified the corpse as a fellow named J.D. Titan, who had disappeared in the 1930s while being investigated for murder. Titan was one of my old player characters from our original Call of Cthulhu days. The photo used in this newspaper clipping was taken at one of our earlier Cthulhu Lives! games from around 1989.

This episode, Keepers Murph, Dave, and Bridgett discuss highlights, favorite purchases, and lessons learned from NecronomiCon. Campus Crier The Campus Crier is where we keep all the mythos related news and info for the podcast, this episode was recorded on Sept 9, 2022.  The convention organisers are pleased to announce the dates for the next convention being held on the Good Friends of Jackson Elias Discord! Bringing new levels of mind-bending chaos and anarchy, they are pleased to present, A Weekend With Good Friends : Dread Daylight Savings Con Edition running 4th – 6th November 2022; roll SAN! Check the show notes for the dates. The dates for the convention are as follows: 30th September – 13th October 2022 – GM signups 21st October – 27th October – Player signups 28th October 2022 – The Lottery results are announced 4th – 6th November 2022 – A Weekend With Good Friends! They will shortly be adding the convention channels to the Good Friends of Jackson Elias Discord and updating the Blasphemous Tomes website with further announcements and information about the convention. Now in worldwide release! Call of Cthulhu Classic – horror roleplaying in the world of Chaosium’s Cthulhu Mythos Available now exclusively from Chaosium.com: a recreation of the classic Call of Cthulhu boxed set from 1981, brought to horrific life 40 years later! Created thanks to the wildly successful Call of Cthulhu Classic Kickstarter, this product is very limited! Chaosium is pleased to announce the release of Call of Cthulhu Classic, launched at GenCon in Indianapolis and online exclusively at chaosium.com. Both the Classic 1” Box and the Classic Deluxe 2” Box will be sold in limited quantities, while stocks last. Miskatonic Repository Convention is a FREE three-day virtual convention celebrating Chaosium’s online collection of community content. Annnnnnd it’s coming back October 14th-16th, 2022!  We’ll have games, special guest Keepers, panels, and more! Check this link for details and dates. Chaosium has leaked some images of the upcoming Regency Cthulhu online a few days ago, and it looks fantastic! Patreon Plug & Update We have a Patreon! To back us you can click the button on the sidebar of our website, mu-podcast.com or head over to Patreon directly at www.patreon.com/mup! New movie night coming in Sept! Hosted by me and streaming on Netflix, I have collected a group of folks ready to watch 13 Ghosts on Friday, Sept 23rd!  Our backers are so incredibly important to us and we want to make clear our commitment to every one of you. We hope our updated tiers help you feel more connected to us and that your contributions are rewarded. Speaking of amazing backers we have new backers! We’ve not recorded since before Necronomicon so we have lots of great people to mention! Everyone welcome: Nathan Hughes Ann Steven Anderson Antheny Matthew C McHorris Philip Rogers Rina the Glitterfae And thank you to everyone else that has updated their pledge to match our new tiers!  CALL TO ACTION Drop us an email or discord note and let me know what you’d like to play – [email protected] And you can also help out the show by buying some merch from our Teepublic store!  Thanks to our backers so much for supporting the show!!  The Discord Plug We have our MUP Discord and we are all there! We invite all of our listeners to come and enjoy the community of horror gaming and cute pet pics. MU Discord server invite link: https://discord.gg/vNjEv9D  And thank you beaucoup to SEAN for editing this episode.  Bridgett’s Pet Pick Shout Out Griffon by Keeper Gladius Main Topic —  Necronomicon 2022 Recap How was the return home and recovery? What was your favorite part? What will you/we do differently next time? What was your favorite purchase?

LIVE FROM NECRONOMICON! That’s right friends– here is the LIVE recording from the MUP Live Show at NecronomiCon2022! Join Keepers Murph, Dave, & Bridgett as they discuss “why horror,” Dave does some reaaaaaally bad accents, Murph drops some gems, and Bridgett almost starts crying. Thank you to all of the backers, fans, listeners, contributors, guests, editors, previous hosts, mods, Discord users, lurkers, family & friends. It takes a village… and you are our village. Recorded on Sunday, August 21, 2022 The Discord Plug We have our MUP Discord and we are all there! We invite all of our listeners to come and enjoy the community of horror gaming and cute pet pics. MU Discord server invite link: https://discord.gg/vNjEv9D  And thank you beaucoup to Murph for editing this episode.  Patreon Plug We have a Patreon! To back us you can click the button on the sidebar of our website, mu-podcast.com or head over to Patreon directly at www.patreon.com/mup!

This episode, Keepers Murph, Dave, and Bridgett sat down with Chaosium Creative Director, Mike Mason! We took direct questions from our Patreon backers and put them before Mike. Join us as we discuss what’s in the Chaosium pipeline, Chaosium’s plans for the Cubicle 7 properties, and even what Mike has been reading lately! Special Note We are recording this episode on July 31, 2022.  While we don’t have much news this episode, I did want to give an update to those listeners that are traveling to NecronomiCON this year. Last episode I mentioned a Wednesday night meetup at Blake’s Pub, that has now changed however to the Trinity Beergarden which is located in Biltmore Park directly across the street from The Graduate. We will loosely be gathered there until they close at 9pm, and then we might traverse across the park to another venue if there is a need. Also, the Miskatonic University Podcast Live Show will be Sunday at Noon. We hope to see all of you there! Patreon Plug & Update We have a Patreon! To back us you can click the button on the sidebar of our website, mu-podcast.com or head over to Patreon directly at www.patreon.com/mup! Speaking of amazing backers we have new backers! Everyone welcome: Angelo Chiriaco Corryvreckan And thank you to everyone else that has updated their pledge to match our new tiers!  Thanks to our backers so much for supporting the show!!  The Discord Plug We have our MUP Discord and we are all there! We invite all of our listeners to come and enjoy the community of horror gaming and cute pet pics. MU Discord server invite link: https://discord.gg/vNjEv9D  And thank you beaucoup to Edwin for editing this episode.  Bridgett’s Pet Pick Shout Out Please meet Glacier and Toothless from Listener Arko! Main Topic Mike Mason