https://blasphemoustomes.com/2021/01/05/top-3-mythos-media/
We’re back and we’re hearing the call of Cthulhu from some unusual places. Most of our consumption of Mythos media comes via the printed word. Sometimes, however, it seeps out from the page and infects other formats. Unless we commit to slapping an elder sign on the cover of every book, we had better learn to embrace this, or...
2021-01-05 13:54:08 +0000 UTC View Post
For those of you that requested it, here is a player map to accompany the scenario in issue 6. Many thanks to John Sumrow for the artwork.
2021-01-03 16:48:02 +0000 UTC View Post
Someone asked for these images to help them run the scenario from issue 6. Thought I'd make them available to everyone. If you run the scenario please do let us know how it goes.
2020-12-30 18:01:51 +0000 UTC View PostMerry Christmas one and all!
We hope this message finds you well. As a small gift to you, we are issuing a reading of The Cats of Ulthar, read by our very own Scott Dorward.
That's all from us until the new year. We wish you peace and happiness.
Love from Matt, Paul and Scott.
PS - a short seasonal poem by HPL:
Christmas
By H. P. Lovecraft
The cottage hearth beams warm and bright,
The candles ...
2020-12-25 06:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post
This is the longer, uncut version of this episode.
https://blasphemoustomes.com/2020/12/22/the-whisperer-in-darkness-part-5/
We’re back and we’re saving face. OK, it’s not one of our own faces, but that doesn’t mean we shouldn’t keep it safe. You never know when Mr Akeley may need it again. Thinking about it, we should probably do something with these hands t...
2020-12-22 14:32:45 +0000 UTC View Post
https://blasphemoustomes.com/2020/12/22/the-whisperer-in-darkness-part-5/
We’re back and we’re saving face. OK, it’s not one of our own faces, but that doesn’t mean we shouldn’t keep it safe. You never know when Mr Akeley may need it again. Thinking about it, we should probably do something with these hands too. That old Akeley is a careless sort. We’re sure he...
2020-12-22 14:19:17 +0000 UTC View Post
Our special Christmas treat concludes!
Good friend of the Good Friends, Mike Perceval-Maxwell, has organised a week of readings of Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol on our Discord server. He is joined by guest readers Dom Allen and Rina Haenze, along with Paul Fricker and Scott Dorward. Together, we have voiced Dickens’ classic festive tale, presented here in a form abridged by Dickens himself.
You...
2020-12-19 15:19:26 +0000 UTC View Post
Our special Christmas treat continues!
Good friend of the Good Friends, Mike Perceval-Maxwell, has organised a week of readings of Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol on our Discord server. He is joined by guest readers Dom Allen and Rina Haenze, along with Paul Fricker and Scott Dorward. Together, we have voiced Dickens’ classic festive tale, presented here in a form abridged by Dickens himself.
You...
2020-12-19 15:17:29 +0000 UTC View Post
Our special Christmas treat continues!
Good friend of the Good Friends, Mike Perceval-Maxwell, has organised a week of readings of Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol on our Discord server. He is joined by guest readers Dom Allen and Rina Haenze, along with Paul Fricker and Scott Dorward. Together, we have voiced Dickens’ classic festive tale, presented here in a form abridged by Dickens himself.
So ...
2020-12-19 15:15:32 +0000 UTC View Post
We have a special Christmas treat for all our listeners!
Good friend of the Good Friends, Mike Perceval-Maxwell, has organised a week of readings of Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol on our Discord server. He is joined by guest readers Dom Allen and Rina Haenze, along with Paul Fricker and Scott Dorward. Together, we have voiced Dickens’ classic festive tale, presented here in a form abridged by Dickens ...
2020-12-19 15:14:02 +0000 UTC View Post
This is the long unedited cut. And we mean unedited - Paul had a 'power cut*' during the recording, and we've left that in so you can share the experience with us.
(*daughter-spilling-tea-into-extension-cable-induced-power-cut!!)
https://blasphemoustomes.com/2020/12/08/the-whisperer-in-darkness-part-4/
We’re back and we’re getting sick of these fleshy b...
2020-12-08 13:47:04 +0000 UTC View Post
https://blasphemoustomes.com/2020/12/08/the-whisperer-in-darkness-part-4/
We’re back and we’re getting sick of these fleshy bodies of ours. They’re always going wrong and they’re too expensive to maintain. This only seems to get worse the longer we have them. We suspect they’re long out of warranty by now. Happily, our new buzzy friends seem to have the perfect sol...
2020-12-08 13:03:58 +0000 UTC View PostThe tomes are going out next week, so please take a moment to check the postal address you have listed on Patreon.
Clicking on 'my profile settings' should allow you to see the shipping address you have logged with Patreon.
If you don't have a shipping address on the system, or you are in the process of moving house, or there's any other complication, please do get in touch with us and let us know as soon as possible. If for any reason you're unable to check the Patreo...
2020-12-02 09:08:28 +0000 UTC View PostThe 200th episode of The Good Friends of Jackson Elias is fast approaching, and we want your help!
Please send any questions you have for the three of us, about gaming, Lovecraft & horror (or cider making), and we'll do our best to answer!
2020-11-26 19:35:14 +0000 UTC View Post
https://blasphemoustomes.com/2020/11/25/the-whisperer-in-darkness-part-3/
We’re back and we’re running low on dogs. Have you any to spare? For some reason, we seem to be getting through loads of them. They are considered consumables, right? We tried asking the breeder at the kennels but he just told us that we’re barking. And the fact that Professor Armitage only neede...
2020-11-26 16:57:24 +0000 UTC View Post
https://blasphemoustomes.com/2020/11/25/the-whisperer-in-darkness-part-3/
We’re back and we’re running low on dogs. Have you any to spare? For some reason, we seem to be getting through loads of them. They are considered consumables, right? We tried asking the breeder at the kennels but he just told us that we’re barking. And the fact that Professor Armitage only neede...
2020-11-26 16:54:17 +0000 UTC View Post
We’re back with another special interview episode. This time, however, we’re breaking away from cults and turning back to a topic we discussed in 2020-11-17 13:07:47 +0000 UTC View Post
https://blasphemoustomes.com/2020/11/10/the-whisperer-in-darkness-part-2/
This is the longer, uncut version (for backers only) of the second instalment of our multi-episode investigation of Lovecraft’s classic weird tale, “The Whisperer in Darkness”. Part one 2020-11-10 13:57:26 +0000 UTC View Post
https://blasphemoustomes.com/2020/11/10/the-whisperer-in-darkness-part-2/
This is the second instalment of our multi-episode investigation of Lovecraft’s classic weird tale, “The Whisperer in Darkness”. Part one offered some background to the story and a po...
2020-11-10 13:54:03 +0000 UTC View Post
https://blasphemoustomes.com/2020/11/03/special-secret-societies-and-cults-part-2/
We’re back with the conclusion of our special interview with Robert Howells about secret societies, building on our recent episodes about cults. The 2020-11-03 17:57:11 +0000 UTC View Post
This is the longer, unedited version of this episode for backers only.
https://blasphemoustomes.com/2020/10/27/the-whisperer-in-darkness-part-1/
We’re back and we’re heading up into the hills of Vermont. A folklorist friend told us that the nice creatures that live there might make us some surprising offers. There’s a risk that we could undergo a repellent mental...
2020-10-27 09:49:18 +0000 UTC View Post
https://blasphemoustomes.com/2020/10/27/the-whisperer-in-darkness-part-1/
We’re back and we’re heading up into the hills of Vermont. A folklorist friend told us that the nice creatures that live there might make us some surprising offers. There’s a risk that we could undergo a repellent mental change, but it seems unlikely anyone will notice that. The whole thing sound...
2020-10-27 09:43:08 +0000 UTC View Post
https://blasphemoustomes.com/2020/10/20/special-secret-societies-and-cults-part-1/
We’re back with a special interview episode about secret societies and how they might relate to Call of Cthulhu.
In our recent episodes about cults, we briefly touched on how the representation of cults in Call of Cthulhu sometimes more resembled secret societies or magical or...
2020-10-20 12:49:32 +0000 UTC View Post
https://blasphemoustomes.com/2020/10/13/three-views-of-the-weird-west-part-2/
This is the extended backer-only version of this episode.
We’re back and we’re heading down darker trails. We really hope that those are tumbleweeds rolling towards us. That rustling in the sagebrush is making us jumpy too — we’re pretty sure that sagebrush doesn’t usually have ...
2020-10-13 10:43:47 +0000 UTC View Post
https://blasphemoustomes.com/2020/10/13/three-views-of-the-weird-west-part-2/
We’re back and we’re heading down darker trails. We really hope that those are tumbleweeds rolling towards us. That rustling in the sagebrush is making us jumpy too — we’re pretty sure that sagebrush doesn’t usually have that many eyes. For a such a wide-open place, this landscape is ...
2020-10-13 10:35:13 +0000 UTC View Post
This is the second part of our discussion with our good friend Bence Szlamka about the murky grey area between cults and conspiracy theories. Those of you on our Discord server will know Bence as TRNSHMN, one of our moderators. While Bence is clear that he is not a scholar, he has spent a great deal of time studying conspiracy theories.
Our last episode largely focused on QAnon, which dominates the modern conspiracy landscape. In this instalment, Scott talks to Bence about some of the w...
2020-10-06 11:48:20 +0000 UTC View Post
https://blasphemoustomes.com/2020/09/29/three-views-of-the-weird-west-part-1/
We’re back and we’re saddling up our shantaks, filling our waterskins with space mead and heading out to where the land is weird. For a long time, we thought that “weird west” just meant Austin, but it turns out to be a whole subgenre. Let’s hope we can explore it before the heat, out...
2020-09-29 20:55:04 +0000 UTC View Posthttps://blasphemoustomes.com/2020/09/29/three-views-of-the-weird-west-part-1/
We’re back and we’re saddling up our shantaks, filling our waterskins with space mead and heading out to where the land is weird. For a long time, we thought that “weird west” just meant Austin, but it turns out to be a whole subgenre. Let’s hope we can explore it before the heat, out...
2020-09-29 11:27:27 +0000 UTC View Post
https://blasphemoustomes.com/2020/09/22/special-conspiracy-theories-and-cults-part-1/
In our recent episodes about cults, we mentioned how social media has blurred the line between cults and conspiracy theories. Phenomena like QAnon display many cult-like attributes but ...
2020-09-22 13:03:43 +0000 UTC View PostI just posted on Twitter (@paulfricker) about the scenario I'm writing for the next issue of the tome, due out in December. The scenario has been playtested a couple of times with a world war two setting (allied PCs behind enemy lines in Germany). It still needs some work, and I've been pondering changing the setting/period, and making it 1920s or modern day. Do you have a preference?
I started a new document this morning, I started writing 'How to get ahead in World War Two', but halfw...
2020-09-16 09:46:27 +0000 UTC View Post