Modern Mythos with Jon and Seth

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...

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: Victoria...

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 scenari...

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 M...

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 M...

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 M...

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 M...

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 incl...

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 M...

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 M...

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 Shadow...

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 fai...

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, th...

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 slicke...

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 th...

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...

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/Writ...

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 -...

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 cowb...

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 h...

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 cowb...

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 cowb...

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 co...

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 cowb...

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 experien...