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Episode 173: Great NPCs of History

This is our attempt to find interesting and overlooked figures from history and explore how they might make great NPCs for our Call of Cthulhu games. We had a great deal of fun preparing and recording this episode, so it may become a regular format. We will at least have to record one more episode anyway, as we ran out of time and couldn’t include everyone we wanted to.

Be warned that the latter half of the episode gets weird. One of our subjects was a medical innovator who d...

Episode 172: The Appeal of D&D (Long Cut)

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Episode 172: The Appeal of D&D

We’re back and we’re poking around this hole in the ground we discovered. Some more experienced adventurers told us to be prepared, so we have a 10-foot pole, 50 foot of rope and all the lamp oil we can carry. We weren’t quite sure what iron rations are, so we hope we can get by with sucking on a handful of nails. With any luck, this means we’re now prepared for any eventuality.

Main Topic: The Appeal of D&D

Dungeons & Dragons may seem a little off-topic...

Episode 171: Mythos Tomes (Long Cut)

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Episode 171: Mythos Tomes

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It’s taken a long time but we’ve finally tackled one of the most important topics in Call of Cthulhu: Mythos tomes. Hell, our website takes its name from the most famous one of all.

We spend a little time talking about how we might use Mythos tomes in our Call of Cthulhu games, how they work mechanically and what ...

Episode 170: At the Mountains of Madness (Part 5, Long Cut)

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Episode 170: At the Mountains of Madness (Part 5)

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We’re back and we’re finally free of the city of the Elder Things. Now, we’re racing off to the aëroplane as fast as our little legs will carry us. Everything will be fine once we’re airborne. We’ve learnt our lessons and we shan’t look back. Nope, no way. Not after that whole shoggoth...

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Episode 169: At the Mountains of Madness (Part 4, Long Cut)

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Episode 169: At the Mountains of Madness (Part 4)

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We’re back and we’re nearing the end of our expedition. The tunnels below this ancient, pre-human city are full of penguin droppings but somehow these aren’t the foulest things down here. Something has been polishing these floors like a giant protoplasmic Roomba. We’re not sure what it is y...

Episode 168: At the Mountains of Madness (Part 3, Long Cut)

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Episode 168: At the Mountains of Madness Part 3

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We’re back and we’re catching up with some history. Happily, the folks who lived here before documented the entire story of their civilisation in easy-to-read comics. Even more conveniently, they carved them on walls everywhere. If more graffiti were like this, we would all be historians. Sure,...

Ep167 At the Mountains of Madness (Part 2, Long Cut)

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Ep167 At the Mountains of Madness (Part 2)

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This is the second part of our expedition through Lovecraft’s short novel, At the Mountains of Madness. Our Antarctic journey is going to be a long one. Now that we’ve actually recorded al...

Ep166: At the Mountains of Madness (Part 1, Long Cut)

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Episode 166: At the Mountains of Madness (Part 1)

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We’re back and we’re putting on our thermal underwear, ready for a long journey south. Sure, we’ve timed our trip for the summer, but it still gets a little nippy down there. We’re not inured to the cold like all those rugged New Englanders. Still, we’re looking forward to our little trip...

Episode 165: A Dark Song (Long Cut)

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Episode 165: A Dark Song

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This episode wraps up our recent look at the occult by discussing a recent occult horror film, seeing what angelic inspiration it can offer. 2019-09-17 11:56:55 +0000 UTC View Post

Necronomicon Interview with Matthew M Bartlett

I first encountered Matthew M Bartlett‘s work at Necronomicon 2017. While I didn’t have the funds to buy any of his books at the time, I added them to my list. When I finally picked up Gateways to Abomination earlier thi...

Necronomicon Special with Miskatonic University Podcast

As we did in 2017, we met up with our good friends from the Miskatonic University Podcast for a live episode. While Keeper Dan was unable to make it this time, we did finally get to meet Jon Hook. As impressive a puppet as he made before, it was even better to have him there in the flesh.

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Episode 164: Occult Horror (Long Cut)

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Episode 164: Occult Horror

After spending a couple of episodes discussing how Lovecraft and Call of Cthulhu relate to real occultism, we thought we’d get a little more lurid. This is our look at the genre of occult horror, which is something quite different than occultism. It is the blood-drenched, Satan-worshipping, virgin-sacrificing insanity that you would encounter in more disreputable sources, such ...

Ep163 Lovecraft and the Occult (Part 2, Long Cut)

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Episode 163: Lovecraft and the Occult (Part 2)

This is the second part of our look into the relationship between Lovecraft’s work and real occult practices. Last episode, we looked into how Lovecraft drew upon his superficial knowledge of the occult to add verisimilitude to his stories. This time, we’re exploring something far weirder: occultists who have incorporated Lovecraft’s work into their own practices.

Once again, Mike Mason joins us on our journey into mystery. His knowledge as line editor for Call of Cthulhu...

Ep162: Lovecraft and the Occult (Part 1, Long Cut)

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Episode 162: Lovecraft and the Occult, Part 1, audio

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Episode 162: Lovecraft and the Occult

We’re back and we’re casting protective circles around our microphones, burning incense that smells like Cthulhu’s armpits and waggling our wands for all they’re worth. No matter how fevered our incantations, however, the songs always seem to break free. Some magic is too foul to be contained.

Main Topic: Lovecraft and the Occult

This is the first of a pair of episodes looking into the relationship between HP Lovecraft and the occult. The focus this time is on how much (...

Ep161 Top 3 RPG Mechanics (long cut)

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Ep161: Top 3 RPG Mechanics

It has been far too long since we last did a Top 3 episode. They were a mainstay of the podcast in our early days but the format slipped quietly out of use. It felt like time to dig it out of storage and check that it still fits.

We each choose three of our favourite individual game mechanics from some very different RPGs, explaining how they work and why they appeal to us so. There is a fair bit of variety, taking in games published between the early ’80s and the present day. Some ma...

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