Modern Mythos with Jon and Seth

A Time for Sacrifice campaign Chapter 1: Egg Out of Time, by Ben Burns Cast: Brett Bookout as Dr. Archibald Bleakman, an archeologist B. Sawyer as Father Doug Roth, a two-fisted missionary priest David Fogel as Beauregard Lafayette Fulbright, a culinary-focused dilettante Seth Skorkowsky as Chester Stanley, Esq., an attorney and Jon Hook as the Keeper of Arcane Lore Music composed by Jules Lawrence, and is used with permission. Visit his Bandcamp site at: https://mrwilsonlawrencescabinetofcuriosities.bandcamp.com/ It is August 1925, and our intrepid investigators are all members of a Miskatonic University archeological dig in the Mayan city of Chechen Itza.

A Time for Sacrifice campaign Chapter 1: Egg Out of Time, by Ben Burns Cast: Brett Bookout as Dr. Archibald Bleakman, an archeologist B. Sawyer as Father Doug Roth, a two-fisted missionary priest David Fogel as Beauregard Lafayette Fulbright, a culinary-focused dilettante Seth Skorkowsky as Chester Stanley, Esq., an attorney and Jon Hook as the Keeper of Arcane Lore Music composed by Jules Lawrence, and is used with permission. Visit his Bandcamp site at: https://mrwilsonlawrencescabinetofcuriosities.bandcamp.com/ It is August 1925, and our intrepid investigators are all members of a Miskatonic University archeological dig in the Mayan city of Chechen Itza.

A Time for Sacrifice campaign Chapter 1: Egg Out of Time, by Ben Burns Cast: Brett Bookout as Dr. Archibald Bleakman, an archeologist B. Sawyer as Father Doug Roth, a two-fisted missionary priest David Fogel as Beauregard Lafayette Fulbright, a culinary-focused dilettante Seth Skorkowsky as Chester Stanley, Esq., an attorney and Jon Hook as the Keeper of Arcane Lore Music composed by Jules Lawrence, and is used with permission. Visit his Bandcamp site at: https://mrwilsonlawrencescabinetofcuriosities.bandcamp.com/ It is August 1925, and our intrepid investigators are all members of a Miskatonic University archeological dig in the Mayan city of Chechen Itza.

Justin Alexander, author and creator of The Alexandrian, is a bestselling GM educator and game designer. He explains the three-clue rule, revelation lists, and node-based mystery design. He shares quick NPC templates, city and urban crawl techniques, and practical tips for learning and playtesting new RPGs.

As 2023 draws to a close Jon and Seth talk about the things they're reading, watching, and playing as inspirations for future creative endeavors. Jon's Reading: Dracula, Bram Stoker - audio book The Hollow Kind, Andy Davidson - Kindle I Am Legend, Richard Matheson - paperback Fourth Wing, Rebecca Yarros - hardback (about to start) Seth's Reading: Finished Ben Aaronovich - Rivers of London 1-9 Re-listened to Ben Riggs - Slaying the Dragon Just started C.J. Cherryh - Downbelow Station +++ Seth's Watching: 30 Coins S2 Re-watch - Battlestar Invincible S2 Only Murder in the Building Haunting in Venice Jon's Watching: UpLoad - Amazon Prime For All Mankind - Apple+ Monarch: Legacy of Monsters - Apple+ Quantum Leap - NBC 30 Coins - HBO (need to get back into it) +++ Jon's Playing: Ticket to Ride: Legends of the West - Days of Wonder Dune: Imperium - Uprising - Dire Wolf Digital Fury of Dracula (digital) - Steam Terraforming Mars (digital) - Steam Call of Cthulhu - Miskatonic Valley Campaign (patrons) - on hold Call of Cthulhu - Time for Sacrifice Campaign (patrons) Coriolis - Free League Publishing ALIEN - Fallout - Free League Publishing (with How We Roll podcast) Seth's Playing: Traveller Secrets of the Ancients - Gareth Hanrahan Cyberpunk Red Finishing up CoC Need to pickup Starfield Puzzling Pursuits - Blackbrim - La Familia We can't do this show alone. We want to thank our amazing editors Max Mahaffa and Edwin Nagy for their hard work and keen skills at making us sound awesome! We also want to thank John Sumrow, for our badass logo. He's a very talented artist, so please follow him on Facebook, check out his official website, and please consider joining his Patreon account. https://www.facebook.com/johnsumrow http://www.johnsumrow.com https://www.patreon.com/JohnSumrow And finally, we want to thank The Darkest of the Hillside Thickets for generously allowing us to use their song, Gluttony, as our intro and outro music. If you are a fan of Lovecraft's writing and the Call of Cthulhu RPG, then you need to check out The Darkest of the Hillside Thickets. Please check out their BandCamp site and their official band site. https://thedarkestofthehillsidethickets.bandcamp.com/ http://thickets.net/

Jon and Seth welcome back the Creative Director for Chaosium's Call of Cthulhu line, Mike Mason! In this episode, we talk about the soon-to-be released Arkham book and how it's the first in the new Arkham Unveiled series of books. Mike also tells us about the new podcast he and Paul Fricker are creating, Mason and Fricker's Eldritch Stories: http://www.eldritchstories.com Please be sure to sign-up and listen to them weave short tales of terror and talk about their love the horror genre. It's a fantastic podcast. And finally, Mike, Seth, and Jon all talk about their favorite Call of Cthulhu scenarios, and which ones are good for introducing new players into the Call of Cthulhu RPG. We can't do this show alone. We want to thank our amazing editors Max Mahaffa and Edwin Nagy for their hard work and keen skills at making us sound awesome! We also want to thank John Sumrow, for our badass logo. He's a very talented artist, so please follow him on Facebook, check out his official website, and please consider joining his Patreon account. Links in the show notes. https://www.facebook.com/johnsumrow http://www.johnsumrow.com https://www.patreon.com/JohnSumrow And finally, we want to thank The Darkest of the Hillside Thickets for generously allowing us to use their song, Gluttony, as our intro and outro music. If you are a fan of Lovecraft's writing and the Call of Cthulhu RPG, then you need to check out The Darkest of the Hillside Thickets. Please check out their BandCamp site and their official band site. Links in the show notes. https://thedarkestofthehillsidethickets.bandcamp.com/ http://thickets.net/

In this episode, Seth and Jon are joined by one of our Patreon members, Martin Heuschober to talk about Kult: Divinity Lost. Martin recently ran Seth and Jon through a short Kult scenario that he designed. The game was fully completed in just a single session, but it was filled with some very cool decisions and consequences. Unfortunately, Jon forgot to record the game, so it only lives in the player's memories and in the stories shared in this episode. We can't do this show alone. We want to thank our amazing editors Max Mahaffa and Edwin Nagy for their hard work and keen skills at making us sound awesome! We also want to thank John Sumrow, for our badass logo. He's a very talented artist, so please follow him on Facebook, check out his official website, and please consider joining his Patreon account. Links in the show notes. https://www.facebook.com/johnsumrow http://www.johnsumrow.com https://www.patreon.com/JohnSumrow And finally, we want to thank The Darkest of the Hillside Thickets for generously allowing us to use their song, Gluttony, as our intro and outro music. If you are a fan of Lovecraft's writing and the Call of Cthulhu RPG, then you need to check out The Darkest of the Hillside Thickets. Please check out their BandCamp site and their official band site. Links in the show notes. https://thedarkestofthehillsidethickets.bandcamp.com/ http://thickets.net/

Scott Glancy, co-creator and original Shadow Handler of Delta Green and long-time Call of Cthulhu writer. He recounts early gaming and Lovecraft discoveries. He explains Delta Green’s origins, intelligence research influences, and how the game evolved. He describes memorable scenarios, new campaign themes, and his revival of Nodens as a cult with strange dream elements.

Jon and Seth are joined by Alex Guillotte and James Droucker to talk about their new book coming out, Grindhouse vol.4! Like the other previous Grindhouse books, this is a gritty Call of Cthulhu double-feature. Grindhouse vol.4 contains... Nazi Bikers Must Die! - by James Droucher Cold as Hell - by Alex Guillotte Alex and James are great guests and a whole lot of fun to talk to. We hope you enjoy listening to this episode as much as we enjoyed making it. Use the following links to check out all of the things we talked about with Alex: Critical Hit Publishing Store: https://www.etsy.com/shop/CriticalHitMerch and Alex's DriveThruRPG Books: http://www.criticalhitpublishing.com And use the following link to check out all of the things we talked about with James: James' DriveThruRPG Books: https://www.drivethrurpg.com/browse.php?author=James%20Droucker Jon has new books now available as print-on-demand: Of Wrath & Blood -- https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/271923/Of-Wrath-and-Blood?term=of+wrath+and+blood Spark of Life -- https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/278700/Spark-of-Life Seth Skorkowsky's Gold Ennie Award-Winning YouTube Channel: YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@SSkorkowsky Seth's Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/SSkorkowsky We can't do this show alone. We want to thank our amazing editors Max Mahaffa and Edwin Nagy for their hard work and keen skills at making us sound awesome! We also want to thank John Sumrow, for our badass logo. He's a very talented artist, so please follow him on Facebook, check out his official website, and please consider joining his Patreon account. Links in the show notes. https://www.facebook.com/johnsumrow http://www.johnsumrow.com https://www.patreon.com/JohnSumrow And finally, we want to thank The Darkest of the Hillside Thickets for generously allowing us to use their song, Gluttony, as our intro and outro music. If you are a fan of Lovecraft's writing and the Call of Cthulhu RPG, then you need to check out The Darkest of the Hillside Thickets. Please check out their BandCamp site and their official band site. Links in the show notes. https://thedarkestofthehillsidethickets.bandcamp.com/ http://thickets.net/

Two classic Chaosium publications, Blood Brothers and Blood Brothers 2, each include Gothic monsters as those books were designed to emulate the kind of stories seen in movies featuring those beasties. Oath of Blood (BB1) - features vampires The Haunting - Walter Corbitt was essentially a vampire or at least vampire-like Vampire Lore is an example of Lore Specialization skill in CoC (starts at 1%) — as "Lore (Vampire)" vs EDU/Know. Upcoming 'Last Voyage of the Demeter' -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Last_Voyage_of_the_Demeter Great New England Vampire Panic - 1854 https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-great-new-england-vampire-panic-36482878/ Mercy Brown - Exeter, Rhode Island - Exhumed her body in 1892 two months after burial and removed and burned her heart, then mixed ashes into a potion for a sick family member to drink (he died anyway 2 months later) https://www.roadsideamerica.com/tip/14336 Goth subculture - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goth_subculture Part of the fun in the classic monster movies is seeing the heroes explore and discover the truth or falsehood of the folklore pertaining to the monster. The Keeper can play with this so the investigators have their own unique experience in discovering those truths: Do vampires need to be invited over a threshold? Does silver injure vampires? Do holy symbols repel vampires? Must they only be wielded by someone with unfaltering faith? Will any holy symbol work? Can the bite of a vampire be cured? If a "parent" monster is destroyed, does that destroy/release/cure any of the "children" that they sired? Can vampires shapeshift into other forms? Do vampires only feed on blood? (book says POW, but what if CON or STR to represent blood-loss like Lucy in Dracula) Can Vampires change appearance? Anne Rice their hair was always exactly the length as it was when they died, One character was groomed and shaved before he was transformed because of that. Various folklore from around the world - Aswangs from Phillipines Penanggalan from Malasia Babalonia and Assyiria had Lilitu which possibly links to stories of Lilith. Popular folklore the Players and likely the PCs are familiar with, but PCs have to discover which folklore is true. - EX: Lost Boys garlic didn't work of vampires, American Werewolf in London any bullet worked (in fact the silver bullet folklore came from Hollywood). Lost Boys premiere date: July 31, 1987 (36th anniversary) Take a page from World of Darkness and different kinds of Vampires (Nosferatu, Ventru, Brujah, etc). Or as vampire becomes older more powerful if looks less and less human (or more and more human) In Seth's Valducan series I had 2 types. One was if the vampire took them over before death and the other was after death. Modern Mythos Patreon Link: https://www.patreon.com/modern_mythos Of Wrath & Blood is now available as a print-on-demand book: https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/271923/Of-Wrath-and-Blood?term=of+wrath+and+blood Spark of Life is now available as a print-on-demand book: https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/278700/Spark-of-Life Seth Skorkowsky's Gold Ennie Award-Winning YouTube Channel: YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@SSkorkowsky Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/SSkorkowsky We can't do this show alone. We want to thank our amazing editors Max Mahaffa and Edwin Nagy for their hard work and keen skills at making us sound awesome! We also want to thank John Sumrow, for our badass logo. He's a very talented artist, so please follow him on Facebook, check out his official website, and please consider joining his Patreon account. Links in the show notes. https://www.facebook.com/johnsumrow http://www.johnsumrow.com https://www.patreon.com/JohnSumrow And finally, we want to thank The Darkest of the Hillside Thickets for generously allowing us to use their song, Gluttony, as our intro and outro music. If you are a fan of Lovecraft's writing and the Call of Cthulhu RPG, then you need to check out The Darkest of the Hillside Thickets. Please check out their BandCamp site and their official band site. Links in the show notes. https://thedarkestofthehillsidethickets.bandcamp.com/ http://thickets.net/