In this episode, the MU crew takes a closer look at Sanity mechanics in Call of Cthulhu and a whole slew of other other horror and Lovecraft related roleplaying games. Plus, sanecdotes and more. This episode was recorded on, May 29, 2017.

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CORRECTIONS:

Sean, who got a hat tip for the topic suggestion last time, is not officially a member of Skype of Cthulhu at this point. Chad said he is “of Skype of Cthulhu fame.” But he’s not. He is famous, however, because Jon interviewed him and Edwin about Extra Life charity events he was involved with last year.

Speaking of Skype of Cthulhu faux pas(es) – remember when we talked about how we wished there was an Actual Play of Gatsby and the Great Race out in the world somewhere? Welp, there is. Skype of Cthulhu – you know, our sister podcast? Well they did one. A big one. To celebrate their 300th episode, in fact. Back around February 2016. Skype guys, we are terrible. Links to the four-part series are in our show notes.

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Gatsby and The Great Race Game One

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Gatsby and The Great Race Game Two

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Gatsby and The Great Race Game Three

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Gatsby and The Great Race Game Extra

Call of Cthulhu writer Alan Bligh passed away on May 26 after a brief battle with cancer. His credits include Edge of Darkness, Dead Light and Crimson Letters. Mike Mason posted a nice note about his passing: “Alan loved creating stories, be it fiction or roleplay, whether it involved storming a stronghold with a multitude of tanks on a battlefield or populating dark gothic worlds with which to terrify his friends (in a good way). Over the next few days, weeks, and years, if you find yourself reading or playing through one of Alan’s many works, please raise a glass to his memory. The world is a smaller place for his loss.”

Catching up on news we missed, Joan Stanley, the author of Ex Libris Miskatonici, passed away last year at the age of 71. She has an incredible career bio, was one of the first black female US federal prosecutors in the 1970s, battled arthritis for most of her adult life, and somewhat mysteriously penned this incredible catalog of “pseudobiblia” from the Cthulhu Mythos. She served on the Convention Committee of NeconomiCon back in the 90s, and on the back cover of Ex Libris Miskatonici, it says she “fell in love with Lovecraft’s writing by reading At the Mountains of Madness in 10th grade.To a life-long resident of Boston, those shoggoths pouring out of the cave resembled nothing so much as a speeding MTA streetcar coming out of a Tremont Street tunnel, or a subway train screeching through the Park Street Under.”

She was also one of the early members of the Boston Star Trek Association and traveled as far as Australia to attend the World Science Fiction Con...

In this special report, Keepers Chad and Jon chat with Graham Walmsley, the creator of the rules-light Lovecraftian horror game Cthulhu Dark. He is currently running a Kickstarter for a new hardback print and PDF version of the game with lots of advice on creating and running investigative horror scenarios as well as four new settings that are specifically tailored for the Cthulhu Dark rules.

NOTE: Jon’s audio drops out abruptly around the 50 minute mark. Just so you know he’s not rude or painfully shy. He just stopped existing after that point.

For a taste of what playing the new Cthulhu Dark is like. Look for an upcoming Actual Play in Skype of Cthulhu with with Graham running the game for the SoC crew!

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In this episode, all four hosts talk about some of our favorite so-bad-it’s-good movies and tropes to winnow for game inspiration. This episode was recorded on, May 15, 2017, and is sponsored by Golden Goblin Press!

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Cthulhu Mythos Books from Dark Regions Press

Graham Walmsley is going to launch the Cthulhu Dark Kickstarter on Monday, May 29. It’ll last for about a month. We have an interview with Graham that we will release during the campaign.

Bagthulhu – The diabolically adorable Cthulhu Dicebag

Pax Cthuliana – A Cthulhu scenario

Srsly another MiniDisc release?? At the Mountains of Madness, by Allicorn!

Oh, by the way, Ken Hite is doing the 5th Ed of Vampire the Masquerade

Cthulhu Confidential is actually in print:

Masks of Nyarly Companion is actually in print:

The back-issue archive of Protodimension Magazine is available online again.

Protodimension Archive

Chaosium News:

Fiction editor announced – James Lwowder!

Chaosium New Fiction Submissions Guidelines Released

Big News! Chaosium releases new RPG submissions guidelines

We’ve been missing these new items from Dean Englehart from Cthulhu Reborn, who is posting a lot of material for the Australian setting Convicts & Cthulhu.

Podcast Promo Tangent…Brian Posehn’s Nerd Poker (On iTunes here).

Dad DND podcast. (On iTunes)

Winners of the Cult of Chaos scenario writing contest have been announced!

Of the 11 finalist scenarios, Chaosium picked 6 that to further develop into fully laid out convention scenarios, to make available at conventions in 2017 and 2018.

These winning entries are:

Weekend in the Woods by Matt Ryan

The Kids are Alright by Jason and Ann D’Angelo

Those Within by Freddie Folds

Midnight Masquerade by Ed Possing W00t!

Searching for the Rhinegold by Benjaim Constantineau and Jean-Sébastien Boisvert Dansereau

As the Leaf Withers on the Vine by Charles Perryman

Congratulations!

Runners up: Mark Platt, Morgan Hua, Jay Jong, Aaron Eskenazi, and Jason Michal.

In this episode, Dan, Jon and Chad are joined by Beast of Editing Brian Sammons to discuss an upcoming Golden Goblin Press fiction anthology “Between Twilight and Dawn,” a collection of Lovecraftian horror stories that begin at twilight and end at dawn. We discuss the book and ways to use horror fiction to inform your horror gaming, plus some other projects underway and a few questions from listeners. This episode was recorded on May 1, 2017 and is sponsored by Golden Goblin Press.

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An update on Into the Cold Waste, a new album by YSDC musical virtuoso Allicorn on…minidisc. Why minidisc? Because Paul is a silly. You can hear more about it on a recent News From Pnakotus

Check out this article about Guillermo del Toro on ‘At the Mountains of Madness’ and a Hard Lesson Learned.

There’s a new teaser out for “Call of Cthulhu – The Official Video Game.”

Mike Mason was a guest author at Fantasy Grounds’ FG Con

Listen to guest author Mike Mason of Chaosium talk about Call of Cthulhu, Chaosium and Pulp Cthulhu at FG Con 10.

The Bloop: An Underwater Mystery That Took Nearly 10 Years to Solve

The sound of bursting of glacial bubbles, or “Breath of Ages” was also mentioned.

Here’s a first look inside the printed Grand Grimoire of Cthulhu Mythos Magic, new supplement for Call of Cthulhu

Ongoing Campaign Updates:

A Forest: Lovecraft based “choose your own adventure,” where half the profit will go to cancer research.

A Cthulhu based interactive horror novel that develops differently based on your decisions.

Here’s a look at the hallucinogenic text the Scott Dorward found promoting a fake PF copy of The Two-Headed Serpent.

Westminster is the Arab. Thereby viscid settee was being authentically Pulp Cthulhu about the stockholder. Signwriter uncloaks through a joannie. Togs is the epichthyolite. Family is munificently The Two-Headed Serpent toward the bane. In posse aforethought license is the nicholle. Thrillingly afghani slowpoke is a intension. Arabick enoch extremly implacably gets around snarkily for the stagnantly unsophisticated furfur. Sootflakes were the modishly jurassic episcopes. Transrhenane frazzle was decadently boring. Personable jana can round up. Misleading arman can mingle. Serial methadone must plead from the splintered possessorship. Neoprenes can bloat. Pulp Cthulhu is the handsomely deplorable gaiety. Unspoilt reselection infixes. Bearably unvarnished jarrod has quipped from the gastronomic foraminifer. Superfluous aborts were the threnetic multivalves. Concussive spaniel can unfetter per the synthetically drony yardage.

Sigil & Sign update – the Cubicle 7 game where you pla...