Miskatonic University Podcast

Keeper Jon spoke with Sean Murphy & Edwin Nagy about the gaming for charity event called Extra Life. The page for team Extra Carnage is found here. Sean Murphy – Captain Orono Extra Life Team Tadpole, Edwin Nagy – Captain Extra Life at Carnage Royale 19 Killington, VT November 4-6, 2016]]>

In episode 110, Murf, Jon and Dan get together to head back into the Bestiary to take another look at the dark-dwelling Ghast. This episode was recorded on October 3, 2016. We want to hear from you! By email: feedback@mu-podcast.com By phone: (401) 400-0MUP (0687) By Twitter: @MU_Podcast By Speakpipe: (Click the floating tab on the far right of this page) On our forum: mu-podcast.com/campus. Like what you hear? Please become a Patron! >> mu-podcast.com/patron << Campus Crier MUP is launching an audio contest for the 2016 Halloween season! Submit by midnight US Eastern Time on October 31, 2016 for our “One Minute of Horror” contest. Whatever you can do with one minute of audio is fair game – reading a very short story, a poem, fake newscasts, history, maybe a spectacular minute of an actual play? Or submissions can be totally wordless: audio landscapes, sound effects, playing an instrument, any combo of the above – whatever your dark imagination cooks up! There will be First, Second and Third place prizes. All material must be copyright free, and any Creative Commons material must be credited appropriately. Keep language clean enough to play on the show without bleeping. Submitting your piece also gives us permission to play it on the show whether you win or not. Send your one-minute audio files as attachments to: feedback@mu-podcast.com. Please put “One Minute Horror” in the subject line so we can tell which messages are contest entries. If you want to go with quick and raw, you could also submit using the Speakpipe link on the right of our home page. Winning Criteria: Creative, Original, Creepy. Check the MU forum for a thread on this topic – we’re happy to help! Hudson & Brand, Inquiry Agents of the Obscure. Hudson & Brand is a Call of Cthulhu book for the Gaslight era and details a ready-made anti-Cthulhu Mythos Victorian organisation. Gecco Corp Announce CTHULHU statue Price: US$259.00 The Sun Spots Kickstarter completed! Congratulations to Dave for hitting all of the stretch goals! Fantasy Flight begins selling the Mythos minis- From Arkham Horror, Eldritch Horror, and Mansions of Madness in individual blister packs.   Sentinel Hill Press’ blog is having their annual ‘October-ganza’ post-a-day series this October. And previous October-ganza entries. It runs through Halloween. Extra Life 24-hr game-a-thons– There are a couple of charity events happening in the very near future. Both are 24-hr game-a-thons in support of the Extra Life charity that raises money for the Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals. Event #1:  24-hours of gaming at Carnage Con Nov 5. We have a series of events at this con in Stowe, VT.  Big events include a DCC horror tournament using Carnival of the Damned, an overnight running of the unpublished Mike Mason & Sandy Petersen scenario Hotel Hell, a Carnival-themed LARP and an event for kids using No Thank You Evil.  In addition, such industry luminaries as Oscar Rios and Dr. Nik will be running special games in support of Extra Life Event #2:  Frog God Games presents 24-hrs of Rappan Athuk and other RPGs Nov 18. A hardy group of six or seven players will sit down at a table at 6 PM and get up 24 hours later having been led by me through the FGG dungeon delve Rappan Athuk using 5e D&D.  We expect to take a palette cleanser part way through for some Call of Cthluhu run by Sean and FGG’s author Matt Finch will guest GM an hour or so of a soon-to-be revealed special project from the Frogs.  The entire event will be broadcast live on TwitchTV and audience members are invited to donate money to mess with the game.   Card Catalog: Here is a great resource for Jazz-era ship plans for gaming, courtesy of Graham.   Main Topic: Bestiary- Ghasts We also discuss K’n-yan, the underground location mentioned in The Mound, which has ghasts living in it. Along with weird telepathic aliens that use the gasts as mounts?   A couple of sites with great ghast art- The Lovecraft Mythos Bestiary by K.L. Turner Drawing is Neat- Ghastly Ghouly : H.P. Lovecraft’s Ghouls and Ghasts   Discuss this episode on the Campus Forum]]>

In this episode, we’ve skyjacked Dave Sokolowski as co-host to talk about his new Kickstarter-in progress for the Lovecraft Country scenario “Sunspots.” We also riff on juicy listener feedback ideas from Brian in Mass and Canageek. This episode was recorded on September 19, 2016. We want to hear from you! By email: feedback@mu-podcast.com By phone: (401) 400-0MUP (0687) By Twitter: @MU_Podcast By Speakpipe: (Click the floating tab on the far right of this page) On our forum: mu-podcast.com/campus. Like what you hear? Please become a Patron! >> mu-podcast.com/patron << Campus Crier MUP is launching an audio contest for the 2016 Halloween season! Submit by midnight US Eastern Time on October 31, 2016 for our “One Minute of Horror” contest. Whatever you can do with one minute of audio is fair game – reading a very short story, a poem, fake newscasts, history, maybe a spectacular minute of an actual play? Or submissions can be totally wordless: audio landscapes, sound effects, playing an instrument, any combo of the above – whatever your dark imagination cooks up! There will be First, Second and Third place prizes. All material must be copyright free, and any Creative Commons material must be credited appropriately. Keep language clean enough to play on the show without bleeping. Submitting your piece also gives us permission to play it on the show whether you win or not. Send your one-minute audio files as attachments to: feedback@mu-podcast.com. Please put “One Minute Horror” in the subject line so we can tell which messages are contest entries. If you want to go with quick and raw, you could also submit using the Speakpipe link on the right of our home page. Winning Criteria: Creative, Original, Creepy. Check the MU forum for a thread on this topic – we’re happy to help! Lovecraft Tales episode 1 – a point-and-click horror in development. Re-Animator: Evolution Is Legit… Sort Of Call of Cthulhu 7th Edition has won at the inaugural Dragon Awards in Atlanta for “Best Science Fiction or Fantasy Miniatures/Collectible Card/Role Playing Game.” Miskatonic Institute of Horror Studies NYC is now in session ‘CONGO’ Historic Fantasy Miniatures Game Golden Goblin Spotlight The forges are burning hot at the Goblin Lair right now, with two projects in pre-production and two projects going to the printer. All of the artwork for Heroes of Red Hook – 18 illustrations from Ian MacLean – is now in hand, and that book is going to the printer this week. Also, hopes are high that Tales of the Caribbean will go to the the printer next week. The cover for a mysterious undisclosable upcoming KS project is in the works already. That project will Kickstart from mid February to mid March. It’s a book of scenarios with a fiction companion as one of the various stretch goals. The next fiction book, Between Twilight and Dawn, is underway. About 40% of the book filled. That KS should run in May. Topic: Sun Spots! Check here for Kickstarter updates. Discuss this episode on the Campus Forum]]>

This is just a short Crier hosted by Jon and Dan. Murf and Chad had some work commitments that prevented having a more complete crew, so we decided to keep it simple. This episode was recorded on September 12, 2016. Campus Crier Dark Regions Press- The IndieGoGo book campaign has 13 days as of recording, and they added another level- The Lovecraft Box $95 USD Surprise signed limited edition hardcover + trade paperbacks & ebooks of the first six Dark Regions Weird Fiction titles + Cthulhu Mythos Ebook Bundle + Sneak Peek at New S. T. Joshi Great Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos Anthology! The first six Dark Regions Weird Fiction titles include World War Cthulhu, Dreams from the Witch House: Female Voices of Lovecraftian Horror, A Mountain Walked: Great Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos, Return of the Old Ones, The Children of Gla’aki and an unannounced novel. Since the recording of this episode, there have been additional packages added to the campaign as well. Take a look and see what’s over there! **Also as an addendum, I now see that shipping is NOT included in the campaign. I would swear I saw that somewhere, but they have clear shipping costs listed now.   Lovecraft Colouring Book WIP Simon Cardew is drawing a coloring book based on HPL stories. He shares some of his pages on his Imgur account. His Twitter is @SimonCardew for other updates.   Chaosium joins Bits and Mortar Chaosium has joined Bits and Mortar, the pro-retailer, pro-brick-and-mortar, pro-PDF, pro-ebook initiative. Cult of Chaos News- The Chaos Library, the repository of Call of Cthulhu scenarios, is now live and available for Cult of Chaos members! You can access it via the forums at BRP Central, in the special Cult of Chaos section. The library has the same password as the Cult of Chaos section.]]>

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In this episode, all four hosts are in that house to review derived characteristics, alternative ways to determine characteristics, and a few of the “Lovecraftian” occupations to choose from. If you like tangents, random riffing and a complete lack of focus – this is the episode for you! This episode was recorded on August 29, 2016. Campus Crier Murph and Chad had a Cephaloparty in Boston! [caption id="attachment_4853" align="aligncenter" width="500"] Murph and Chad tuck in to a plate of octopus in Boston.[/caption] Check out the three new books from Dark Regions Press, as discussed by Brian Sammons in MUP Episode 107. Sun Spots – the new project by Dave Sokolowski, is slated to launch on September 13. HPLHS’s Dark Adventure Radio Theater is turning a Call of Cthulhu campaign The Fungi from Yuggoth into a 30-s style radio drama! It’s set for release this Halloween. Another Lovecraftiana Kickstarter: a Lovecraft-themed gaming cafe in Providence (but it seems like it didn’t really get off the ground). Innovativ Media (INMG) launches premium online channel, HPLovecraft.TV. The channel’s page is here. Age of Cthulhu 9 printed books should be shipping soon. Jon and Dan got their copies.  Print versions of Call of Cthulhu 7th edition are now available from the Chaosium shop! These books all come with the PDF free. Chaosium’s Cthulhu Coloring Book will available for Christmas preorder later this year. Card Catalog HP Lovecraft’s Advice on Writing Golden Goblin Spotlight The official bookmarks for the Heroes of Red Hook Kickstarter supporters have arrived at the Goblin Lair! “We have a new updated cover, with all our our authors listed, for Heroes of Red Hook,” posted Oscar Rios. Topics  First, we review derived stats: Damage Bonus, Build, Hit Points, Movement Rate and Aging. We also talk about alternative ways to determine characteristics, including: starting over from scratch, modifying low rolls, rolling values and then placing them where you want them, point buying, and Sandy Petersen’s “quick fire” method. We also talk about all the different kinds of Batman. Finally, we delve into some of the traditional occupations from Lovecraft’s fiction, including Antiquarian, Author, Dilettante, Doctor Of Medicine, Journalist, Librarian, Police Detective and Professor. By the way, the only additions and subtractions in the whole occupation list from 6th Edition to 7th Edition are Librarian (new to 7th Edition) and Spokesperson (dropped in 7th Edition). There is also the story of Chad’s first reaction to seeing a room with people sleeping with CPAP machines. Discuss this episode on the Campus Forums.]]>

In episode 107, Jon, Chad and Dan are joined by Brian Sammons to talk about some upcoming book projects he’s involved in, as well as Dan’s GenCon 2016 recap. This episode was recorded on August 15th, 2016. We want to hear from you! By email: feedback@mu-podcast.com By phone: (401) 400-0MUP (0687) By Twitter: @MU_Podcast By Google+: https://plus.google.com/u/2/communities/116018663909122117898 By Speakpipe: (Click the floating tab on the far right of this page) On our forum: mu-podcast.com/campus. Like what you hear? Become a Patron! (please): mu-podcast.com/patron   Campus Crier Herald: Lovecraft and Tesla RPG (for Savage Worlds) Punktown updates Backers of The Things We Leave Behind – from Stygian Fox  – have been sent a final chance (via Kickstarter message) to let us know of any changes to the mailing address or email. If this is you, then let them know asap! The Cthulhu Wars: Kenneth Hite & Kennon Bauman, Darren Tan (art) Amazon link Jon reminds us to visit used book stores! Card Catalog From Graham (forum post dated Jul 29, 2016): A trio of websites covering the many Merchant Ships (Freight/Passenger) built under the United States War Emergency Shipbuilding Program in WWI. Steel Shipbuilding under the U. S. Shipping Board, 1917-1921 by Norman L. McKellar The Hog Islanders by Daniel H. Jones The Ferris wooden cargo ships of World War I by Jan Henri Cocatre-Zilgien Feedback: Canageek shares a tip regarding a great resource, The great detectives of old time radio. Jaymz Clemens left us a really fun liner that mentions the Mysterious Universe Podcast. Golden Goblin Spotlight Heroes of Red Hook- Formal layout for this project is complete! Ian MacLean is working on our interior art, and while progress is good, it will take time to draw eighteen quality interior illustrations.  As the illustrations are completed they’ll be dropped into the first page of each story, depicting a scene from early in that story’s narrative (so there won’t be any spoilers) Another item that might be of interest, we decided quite last minute to add a little extra content to the book.  At the end of each story is now listed a From The Author note, where each author talks a little bit about the story they’ve written  (their inspiration, the history behind it, their process, etc…).  I’d like to thank the authors for agreeing to share their thoughts with us, and for getting these back to us as quickly as they did. We hope you’ll enjoy this addition to the manuscript.       Tales of the Caribbean First off, interior art is now 100% complete and in house. LAYOUT HAS BEGUN! Lisa Padol is making great progress on setting these scenarios up for layout and emailing them to Mark Shireman. Mark has just completed laying out a fiction project for us as well, so momentum is high. Currently two of the seven scenarios are in layout, with a third being sent to him later today. What makes this truly amazing is that this is the VERY FIRST TIME this project is ahead of schedule. Jon points out the availability of Legends of New Orleans- PDF extra for Tales of the Crescent City Topics Brian’s book project- Dark Regions Press soon to participate in group IndieGoGo “Grab-Bag” campaign, including the two that Brian edited- Return of the Old Ones: Apocalyptic Lovecraftian Horror The Children of Gla’aki: A Tribute to Ramsey Campbell’s Great Old One The campaign will also include You, Human: An Anthology of Dark Science Fiction Edited by Michael Bailey The IndieGoGo campaign will launch on August 23rd.   Dan’s GenCon recap Chaosium: All CoC books in hardcover, full color All books will come with PDF codes Tales of Sandy Peterson For the curious, the young woman on the right of the show notes image is Grace, Dan’s friend that was mentioned in the show. Discuss on the Campus Forum]]>