Seth and Jon are in the balcony to talk about movies made within the last ten years that are considered Lovecraftian, or Lovecraftian adjacent. But first, thank you to Graeme Patrick for sponsoring this episode! Check out his amazing scenario, Of Sorrow & Clay, available on the Miskatonic Repository on DriveThruRPG. Of Sorrow & Clay is an 1880s scenario set deep in the Appalachian Mountains Has a fantastic cast of extremely memorable mountain-folk NPCs for the PCs to encounter and 5 pre-...
Jun 16, 2025•1 hr 2 min•Season 1Ep. 50
Seth and Jon sojourned to Ypsilanti, (Ann Arbor/Detroit adjacent), for Chaosium Con 2025! As you can well imagine, it was amazing! +++++++++++++++++++++++ Fire Lizard Games, thank you for sponsoring this episode! Check out Fire Lizard Games' upcoming Yith Borg game! Designed with the Mork Borg rules, in Yith Borg you are a Yithian looking to stake your claim on Earth in the hellscape aftermath of a Mythos-fueled cataclysm that devastated the planet in 1920. Check out their Upcoming Projects page...
May 05, 2025•1 hr 11 min•Season 1Ep. 49
Chaosium's Cthulhu by Gaslight: Keeper's Guide Hardcover book, 261 pages of content, retail price $49.99. A free PDF of the book is included with a purchase of the hardcover book directly from Chaosium.com . 7 Chapters, plus 2 Appendices Chapter 1: A Keeper’s Miscellany Chapter 2: Occult Secrets & The Golden Dawn Chapter 3: Running Gaslight Games Chapter 4: Notable Victorians Chapter 5: Victorian Horrors Chapter 6: The Forby Masterwork (Scenario #1) Chapter 7: Oranges & Lemons (Scenario ...
Mar 28, 2025•1 hr 40 min•Season 1Ep. 1
Jon and Seth are joined by Oscar Rios, President of Golden Goblin Press. We ask him about the latest news coming out of Golden Goblin Press, and why the Miskatonic Valley is such an attractive locale for Lovecraftian Gothic horror. This episode is sponsored by Matt "Doc" Tracey, and his amazing Call of Cthulhu scenarios, Ghost Trade, and Lights in the Trees. Ghost Trade is a classic 1920s scenario set in the fictional town of Pennybrook, Maine. The investigators visit Pennybrook to study a spike...
Mar 24, 2025•1 hr 17 min•Season 1Ep. 47
A Miskatonic University professor and his team of student archeologists has gone missing. The university is dispatching a new team to find their missing personnel. Featuring: Seth Skorkowsky as Dr. Caleb Buchman, a medical physician David Moore as Mr. Gilbert Palmer, a dilettante playboy (but also a secret cult leader) Rob Dennis as Mr. Hampton Fincher, an investigative journalist Andy Miesem as Mr. Shelby Avery, an occult bookstore owner Jon Hook as the Keeper of Arcane Lore Doorway of the Gods...
Mar 17, 2025•2 hr 26 min•Season 1Ep. 6
A Miskatonic University professor and his team of student archeologists has gone missing. The university is dispatching a new team to find their missing personnel. Featuring: Seth Skorkowsky as Dr. Caleb Buchman, a medical physician David Moore as Mr. Gilbert Palmer, a dilettante playboy (but also a secret cult leader) Rob Dennis as Mr. Hampton Fincher, an investigative journalist Andy Miesem as Mr. Shelby Avery, an occult bookstore owner Jon Hook as the Keeper of Arcane Lore Doorway of the Gods...
Mar 10, 2025•2 hr 1 min•Season 1Ep. 5
A Miskatonic University professor and his team of student archeologists has gone missing. The university is dispatching a new team to find their missing personnel. Featuring: Seth Skorkowsky as Dr. Caleb Buchman, a medical physician David Moore as Mr. Gilbert Palmer, a dilettante playboy (but also a secret cult leader) Rob Dennis as Mr. Hampton Fincher, an investigative journalist Andy Miesem as Mr. Shelby Avery, an occult bookstore owner Jon Hook as the Keeper of Arcane Lore Doorway of the Gods...
Mar 03, 2025•1 hr 57 min•Season 1Ep. 4
A Miskatonic University professor and his team of student archeologists has gone missing. The university is dispatching a new team to find their missing personnel. Featuring: Seth Skorkowsky as Dr. Caleb Buchman, a medical physician David Moore as Mr. Gilbert Palmer, a dilettante playboy (but also a secret cult leader) Rob Dennis as Mr. Hampton Fincher, an investigative journalist Andy Miesem as Mr. Shelby Avery, an occult bookstore owner Jon Hook as the Keeper of Arcane Lore Doorway of the Gods...
Feb 24, 2025•1 hr 45 min•Season 1Ep. 3
Sponsor: We want to thank authors David Trotti and Amy Kate Connolly for sponsoring this episode. They are the authors of the absolutely amazing, Japan: Empire of Shadows, the definitive sourcebook for roleplaying in Imperial Japan during the late Taisho and early Showa eras (1920 - 1932). Japan: Empire of Shadows provides single-session story hooks and multi-session narrative threads, and it includes information to play either as foreign investigators or as Japanese investigators. The 400 page ...
Feb 17, 2025•1 hr 15 min•Season 1Ep. 46
A Miskatonic University professor and his team of student archeologists has gone missing. The university is dispatching a new team to find their missing personnel. Featuring: Seth Skorkowsky as Dr. Caleb Buchman, a medical physician David Moore as Mr. Gilbert Palmer, a dilettante playboy (but also a secret cult leader) Rob Dennis as Mr. Hampton Fincher, an investigative journalist Andy Miesem as Mr. Shelby Avery, an occult bookstore owner Jon Hook as the Keeper of Arcane Lore Doorway of the Gods...
Feb 14, 2025•2 hr 17 min•Season 1Ep. 2
A Miskatonic University professor and his team of student archeologists has gone missing. The university is dispatching a new team to find their missing personnel. Featuring: Seth Skorkowsky as Dr. Caleb Buchman, a medical physician David Moore as Mr. Gilbert Palmer, a dilettante playboy (but also a secret cult leader) Rob Dennis as Mr. Hampton Fincher, an investigative journalist Andy Miesem as Mr. Shelby Avery, an occult bookstore owner Jon Hook as the Keeper of Arcane Lore Doorway of the Gods...
Jan 29, 2025•1 hr 51 min•Season 1Ep. 1
In this episode, Seth and Jon can hardly contain their excitement for the new Cthulhu by Gaslight! But first, thank you to this episode's sponsor, David Trotti and Amy Kate Connolly. They are the authors of the absolutely amazing, Japan: Empire of Shadows , the definitive sourcebook for roleplaying in Imperial Japan during the late Taisho and early Showa eras (1920 - 1932). Japan: Empire of Shadows provides single-session story hooks and multi-session narrative threads, and it includes informati...
Dec 24, 2024•1 hr 20 min•Season 1Ep. 45
Thank you to our sponsor for this episode, Adam "Bucho" Rodenberger, and his new book, Under a Black Rainbow . The worlds within Under a Black Rainbow oozes with all of our irrational thoughts and collective fears, pooling them up together in slickery shine and gives them both a voice and an unforgettable form. The underside of this particular rainbow is where the absurdity of Kafka, the dark fairy tales of Guillermo del Toro, and the surrealism of David Lynch all crash together into a single, l...
Nov 25, 2024•1 hr 12 min•Season 1Ep. 44
Seth and Jon were honored to be guests at KamCon in Kamloops, BC, Canada! While there, we met and played games with some amazing people, we were on several fun panels, and we recorded our first live show!!! Huge thank you to Tyler, James, Bryan, and the whole KamCon crew! KamCon is an amazing gaming convention! We can't wait to return! And, if you're up for a bold and awesome gaming convention, then may we suggest KamCon! Make the trip, it's well worth it. https://www.kamloopsconventions.ca/ Set...
Oct 21, 2024•1 hr 9 min•Season 1Ep. 43
Today, we’re talking about adapting elements from movies, TV, and books into your game. But first, we want to thank author Adam “Bucho” Rodenberger for sponsoring this episode. Check out “Under a Black Rainbow,” a collection of surrealistic horror stories. The worlds within Under a Black Rainbow oozes with all of our irrational thoughts and collective fears, pooling them up together in slickery shine and gives them both a voice and an unforgettable form. The underside of this particular rainbow ...
Sep 24, 2024•1 hr 7 min•Season 1Ep. 42
Summer Book Club #3, Mall of Cthulhu, by Seamus Cooper! Thank you to our sponsor, Poul Holmelund, and his new Call of Cthulhu scenario, Lost in Cremation, a sequel to The Art of Hygge. Lost in Cremation: https://www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/481189/lost-in-cremation?affiliate_id=51821 Jon and James talk about this inaugural book by author, Seamus Cooper, and (spoilers!) we loved it! Here is the Amazon blurb: A decade ago, college student Laura Harker was saved from a fate worse than death at t...
Sep 13, 2024•48 min•Season 1Ep. 3
In this episode, Jon and Seth talk about our favorite grave-mold covered cannibals... ghouls! Episode Sponsor: The Great American Dynasty We want to thank author Keller O’Leary and Space Cat Publishing for sponsoring this episode. Check out “The Great American Dynasty,” a true-blue, red-blooded, modern-day Call of Cthulhu scenario! Investigators are tasked with retrieving old files hidden in the home of a fellow “society” member who passed away from (seemingly) natural causes. The scenario blend...
Sep 02, 2024•1 hr 25 min•Season 1Ep. 41
Up next in the Summer Book Club, Writing Monsters, by Philip Athans! Listen as Jon and James discuss this (spoilers) AMAZING book on writing and designing monsters. The book is written from the perspective that the advice is for authors writing books, but the advice is equally applicable to authors writing roleplaying game adventures. Writing Monsters, by Philip Athans: https://www.amazon.com/Writing-Monsters-Believably-Terrifying-Creatures/dp/1599638088/ref=sr_1_1?crid=2DRSII9BFZN5O&dib=eyJ...
Aug 31, 2024•59 min•Season 1Ep. 2
Welcome to the first of three Summer Book Club episodes! Your hosts are Jon Hook and James Droucker. Please forgive James' audio quality. We were so excited for the book club reading that we overlooked the need to have better quality sound. Please enjoy this episode as James and I discuss the stories contained within this excellent anthology, Shadows Over Baker Street. Sponsor: Fire Lizard Games - https://www.firelizardgames.com/ Shadows Over Baker Street: https://www.amazon.com/Shadows-over-Bak...
Jul 22, 2024•1 hr 13 min•Season 1Ep. 1
A Time for Sacrifice campaign Chapter 2: The Thirteen Bak'tun , by Jonathan Bagelman Cast: David Fogel as Beauregard Lafayette Fulbright, a culinary-focused dilettante Joe Hockin as Marcus Djuric, a bold Private Investigator, and as Paolo Ortega, an intrepid native explorer Matt Repp as Gregory Lawrence Hildebrandt, a well-intentioned dilettante Bryan Stephens as Ezra Irish, a fearless cowboy and Jon Hook as the Keeper of Arcane Lore Music composed by Jules Lawrence , and is used with permission...
Jul 21, 2024•2 hr 7 min•Season 1Ep. 5
In this episode, Jon and Seth talk about Actual Play Games -- how to make them, what traits they share with normal podcast recordings, and how they differ. Episode Sponsor: The Great American Dynasty, by Keller O’Leary, published by Space Cat Publishing. The Great American Dynasty is a true-blue, red-blooded, modern-day Call of Cthulhu scenario! Investigators are tasked with retrieving old files hidden in the home of a fellow “society” member who passed away from (seemingly) natural causes. The ...
Jul 15, 2024•1 hr 13 min•Season 1Ep. 40
A Time for Sacrifice campaign Chapter 2: The Thirteen Bak'tun , by Jonathan Bagelman Cast: David Fogel as Beauregard Lafayette Fulbright, a culinary-focused dilettante Joe Hockin as Marcus Djuric, a bold Private Investigator, and as Paolo Ortega, an intrepid native explorer Matt Repp as Gregory Lawrence Hildebrandt, a well-intentioned dilettante Bryan Stephens as Ezra Irish, a fearless cowboy and Jon Hook as the Keeper of Arcane Lore Music composed by Jules Lawrence , and is used with permission...
Jul 08, 2024•1 hr 51 min•Season 1Ep. 4
A Time for Sacrifice campaign Chapter 2: The Thirteen Bak'tun , by Jonathan Bagelman Cast: David Fogel as Beauregard Lafayette Fulbright, a culinary-focused dilettante Joe Hockin as Marcus Djuric, a bold Private Investigator, and as Paolo Ortega, an intrepid native explorer Matt Repp as Gregory Lawrence Hildebrandt, a well-intentioned dilettante Bryan Stephens as Ezra Irish, a fearless cowboy and Jon Hook as the Keeper of Arcane Lore Music composed by Jules Lawrence , and is used with permission...
Jul 01, 2024•2 hr 6 min•Season 1Ep. 3
A Time for Sacrifice campaign Chapter 2: The Thirteen Bak'tun , by Jonathan Bagelman Cast: David Fogel as Beauregard Lafayette Fulbright, a culinary-focused dilettante Joe Hockin as Marcus Djuric, a bold Private Investigator, and as Paolo Ortega, an intrepid native explorer Matt Repp as Gregory Lawrence Hildebrandt, a well-intentioned dilettante Bryan Stephens as Ezra Irish, a fearless cowboy and Jon Hook as the Keeper of Arcane Lore Music composed by Jules Lawrence , and is used with permission...
Jun 24, 2024•1 hr 36 min•Season 1Ep. 2
A Time for Sacrifice campaign Chapter 2: The Thirteen Bak'tun , by Jonathan Bagelman Cast: David Fogel as Beauregard Lafayette Fulbright, a culinary-focused dilettante Joe Hockin as Marcus Djuric, a bold Private Investigator, and as Paolo Ortega, an intrepid native explorer Matt Repp as Gregory Lawrence Hildebrandt, a well-intentioned dilettante Bryan Stephens as Ezra Irish, a fearless cowboy and Jon Hook as the Keeper of Arcane Lore Music composed by Jules Lawrence , and is used with permission...
Jun 06, 2024•1 hr 50 min•Season 1Ep. 1
In this episode, Jon and Seth discuss the epic awesomeness that is PULP CTHULHU!!! Dastardly villains and bold heroes! Investigate the Mythos with jet packs, telepathy, and tommy guns! Seth is well experienced in running Call of Cthulhu campaigns using the Pulp Cthulhu rules. The player's heroes are hardier and more apt to survive their brushes with the horrors. While Jon has almost zero experience with Pulp Cthulhu. Listen in as Jon sits at the feet of the wizened master, Seth, to learn the sec...
May 20, 2024•1 hr 12 min•Season 1Ep. 39
In this episode, Jon and Seth are joined by Call of Cthulhu's Creative Director, Mike Mason! We talk about the new Arkham book, the further plans in the Miskatonic Valley line of books, Chaosium Con 2024, and the Basic Roleplay (BRP) Contest. This episode was graciously sponsored by the creators of Northern Lights & Darkness compellation of modern day Call of Cthulhu scenarios set in Scandinavian cities and country sides. Each scenario is set in the author’s home countries and uses elements ...
Apr 12, 2024•1 hr 26 min•Season 1Ep. 38
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://mrwilsonlawrencescabinetofcuri...
Apr 01, 2024•1 hr 49 min•Season 1Ep. 7
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://mrwilsonlawrencescabinetofcurios...
Mar 20, 2024•2 hr 1 min•Season 1Ep. 6
In this episode, Seth and Jon talk about werewolves and lycanthropes in your Call of Cthulhu game. Episode Sponsor: Northern Lights & Darkness Northern Lights and Darkness is a collection of six modern-day Call of Cthulhu scenarios written by Scandinavian authors and taking place in each of the author’s home countries. The settings include Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden, offering players and game masters fresh backdrops for investigating the Cthulhu Mythos. https://www.driveth...
Mar 18, 2024•56 min•Season 1Ep. 37
