Miskatonic University Podcast MUP EP 207 – Muddied & Bloodied with Liam Stevens
Campus Crier
The Campus Crier is where we keep all the mythos related news and info for the podcast, this episode was recorded on August 16, 2021.
I want to personally congratulate each of the Alumni of the Storytelling Collective’s Write Your First Adventure Workshop last month. The market has been flooded with over 50+ titles on the MR, Chaosium’s Community Creator Content hub. Ya’ll, I’m so proud of each and every one of you. These scenarios look amazing, the cover arts are BOSS, the Miskatonic Repository Creator’s Circle is buzzing, you’re being featured in Chaosium newsletters, and you’re making your first sales. I’m just– I’m just so proud of you guys. Congrats! Head over to the Miskatonic Repository and make someone’s day by checking out their newest creations!
Annnd speaking of the Miskatonic Repository, Miskatonic Repository Con GM Signups just opened up! This virtual con will be hosted October 15th – October 17th. We have 3 awesome panels and over 16 events already submitted! So, come play some 7th Edition Call of Cthulhu with us! A link to the TTE will be in the show notes… and you can email MisktatonicRepositoryCon@gmail.com to get in touch!
Innsmouth The Missing Child: A Gamebook is a choose your own adventure styled solo game book where you are an investigator brought in to find the whereabouts of a missing child amongst the odd and terrible inhabitants of Innsmouth. It has funded with $23k of a $1300 goal and still has 23 days left at the time of recording. The art looks sparse, but that’s what I would expect from a product of this type. You can get a PDF for as little as $9 and a physical starting at $17. Overall it looks pretty neat, and I’m trying to not back it.
Free League has another Kickstarter out for two new products in their Forbidden Lands line, this time a bestiary of sorts called Forbidden Lands: Book of Beasts and a campaign called The Blood March. As we have come to expect from Free League, the art on display is absolutely gorgeous. And this seems to be a no brainer for any fan of the weird fantasy setting. You can get a pdf of both books for $35 or either individual book in print for $35. If you want both in print it will cost you $69. The project has already funded with $285k of a $12k goal, and will have another three days left at the time of this release.
Good friend of the show and proprietor of The Old Ways Podcast, Mike Diamond, has officially announced a third campaign for their excellent live play series, but this time with a twist! They are currently accepting GM pitches for a new campaign run by a new Storyteller. So if you have a campaign in mind and have it well thought out put in your submission at the link in the show notes. You can also find Mike on our own Discord, where he is a mod, or over at The Old Ones Discord, or you can just email him at theoldwayspodcast@gmail.com
And finally, it is with great sadness that we have to say a final goodbye to RPG Legend Steve Perrin, who passed away earlier this month. Goodbye Steve, safe travels.
https://www.chaosium.com/blogvale-and-farewell-steve-perrin-1946-2021/
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Recent Gaming
Bridgett – Pale Rider Playtest 2
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We create a monster from scratch!
In this episode, Keepers Dave and Jon welcome Liam Stevens, game designer and podcaster. Liam co-hosts the Mud & Blood Podcast. Enjoy!
Campus Crier
The Campus Crier is the Miskatonic University’s student newspaper. This edition was collected on August 28th, 2020.
AfterShock Comics announced Miskatonic, a new Lovecraftian horror series by writer Mark Sable and artist Giorgio Pontrelli. The series promises “a mix of historical crime fiction and Lovecraftian-horror that dives deep into the American nightmare.”
The full APOCTHULHU core game has been released! Only the PDF is available on DriveThruRPG, but if your intent is to obtain both the PDF and a printed edition of the game, then have no fear. Each purchase of the PDF comes with a discount code that will enable you to buy the print edition at a reduced price. The discount will be equal to the full PDF purchase price. The print edition is expected later this year.
Composer Graham Plowman has posted an hour of original orchestral music on YouTube that you can play as background music for your Call of Cthulhu or other horror tabletop games. The composition is called From the Vault of the Miskatonic Valley. Plowman has other cool orchestral mood music on YouTube too, including The Great Old Ones and Other Beings.
Matic Games and Red Scar Publishing have released their Hellboy RPG Quickstart rules for free on DriveThruRPG. The Kickstarter for the fully Hellboy RPG rules is live now. The game was funded in one hour, and is well on its way to knocking down several stretch goals. The game is designed to use D&D 5E rules.
Actress and YouTube personality, Becca Scott, is the Keeper of Arcane Lore for The Ties that Bind, a YouTube actual play sponsored by Chaosium. This amazing all-woman game features Gina DeVivo, Amy Dallen, Whitney Moore, and Stef Woodburn. The game series, initially streaming on Twitch, is archived on YouTube.
Jon recently contributed to Shoggoth.net. Please go check out my short essay on shoggoths. It includes a brief description of the types of shoggoths in the Keeper Rulebook and Malleus Monstrorum, scenario hooks, and a brand new type of shoggoth that I call a Tindalosian Shoggoth.
Dave will also be writing something on Shoggoths for Shoggoth.net! And there’s a new trailer on YouTube for a movie called Intersect that looks cool. It’s set at Miskatonic University! It doesn’t look like a big-budget movie, so the quality is definitely in question, but it could be fun.
Recent Gaming
Dave’s played both Call of Cthulhu and Dungeon World, but otherwise has taken his first real break in months. It’s weird.
Jon has begun an ALIEN game on Mondays; “It’s been amazing and fun.” And he’s preparing notes for the Spawn of Azathoth campaign that he’s going to be running for the Into The Darkness YouTube channel. He’s also in the early stages of planning a game with Seth Skorkowski; “I’m going to run my Shadows Over Providence for him and two other players. So I’m looking forward to that too.”
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