Miskatonic University Podcast

This episode, Keepers Murph, Dave, and Bridgett interview YouTuber and bestselling Miskatonic Repository author, Michael Fryda! Campus Crier The Campus Crier is where we keep all the mythos related news and info for the podcast, this episode was recorded on April 21, 2022. The Old Gods of Appalachia Kickstarter is underway and is already crushing it with over 9300 backers and almost $1.3 Million raised. This kickstarter runs through May 6th. The Alien Colony War book that includes a scenario by friend of the show Drew Gaska was released on April 26th. The first round of the HPLHS Call of Cthulhu Classic Prop Box is starting to appear and it’s another top shelf item. The Discord Plug We have our MUP Discord and we are all there! We invite all of our listeners to come and enjoy the community of horror gaming and cute pet pics. MU Discord server invite link: https://discord.gg/vNjEv9D Bridgett’s Pet Pick Shout Out Shout out to backer Cornysams– thank you for sharing your new kittuh with us, Sugar, or as his partner calls her, Shug. Also, welcome to the best foster home ever to the bulldog, Eloise! Thank you listener, HelloSpaceBoy, for sharing this lovely baby with us! And thank you beaucoup to Edwin for editing this episode. Patreon Plug We have a Patreon! To back us you can click the button on the sidebar of our website, mu-podcast.com or head over to Patreon directly at www.patreon.com/mup! We need to thank our newest backer, Darrin Chandler! And you can also help out the show by buying some merch from our Teepublic store! Thanks to our backers so much for supporting the show!! Main Topic -- Michael Fryda @imaginingsRPG (Twitter) https://www.youtube.com/c/RPGImaginings/videos https://www.youtube.com/c/ClutchSituation https://www.drivethrurpg.com/browse.php?author=Michael%20Fryda ...You will worship her.

Discord server invite link >> Campus Crier Berlin the Wicked City is available now in hardback direct from Chaosium - stock is now available warehouses in the US, UK, and Australia. You can read a blog post on David Larkins about the making of this book and what it meant via a link to the Sir Larkins site. The latest Call of Cthulhu Organized Play campaign has been launched; it is called Flotsam & Jetsam. If you’re a member of Chaosium’s Cult of Chaos, you can download it now and run it for your players. Congrats to friend of the show, Christopher Smith Adair as the Pulp Cthulhu campaign, A Cold Fire Within has been released in hardcover! We have links available in the show notes. Darker Hue Studios also has a Discord server! The invite link is here >> And thank you so much to Edwin for editing this episode! Topic This episode we speak with Chris Spivey about several projects in the pipeline, including: Haunted West, a Historical Weird West RPG Corebook Scion: Masks of the Mythos Harlem Unbound, Second Edition Free Harlem Unbound Char Sheets >> Superhero campaign for Pulp Cthulhu (which Dan and Chad play tested) - interview on ENworld Dr. Who, from Cubicle 7 The art of Jabari Weathers... http://jmwillustration.com/ Hounds of Tindalos Original story by Frank Belknap Long here >> Read about Randonauts here... https://theoutline.com/post/7881/i-became-a-randonaut-to-try-to-glitch-the-simulation-and-all-i-got-was-a-bottle-of-pee?zd=1&zi=wincnczj

This episode, Keepers Dave & Bridgett conduct a deep dive on Graham Walmsley's Cthulhu Dark! Campus Crier The Campus Crier is where we talk about recent Mythos-related events and happenings in the world. This episode was recorded on April 20, 2023, and here’s Keeper Bridgett with a report on Chaosium Con 2023! Patreon Plug & Update We have a Patreon! To back us you can click the button on the sidebar of our website, mu-podcast.com or head over to Patreon directly at www.patreon.com/mup! Speaking of backers, we have a belated thank you to Rachel Cutler, Graham Walmsley I’m hosting the next movie night, and guess what, Dave? It’s gonna be on April 29th! The weird thing, it will have already happened by the time this show drops! Lol. It was an AMAZING time. Laugh were had. Unless it was a sad movie, then likely... laughs were still had. The Discord Plug We have our MUP Discord and we are all there! We invite all of our listeners to come and enjoy the community of horror gaming and cute pet pics. Link in the show notes: MU Discord server invite link: https://discord.gg/vNjEv9D And thank you to our editor Max (or maybe Dave) for editing this episode. Thanks Max (or maybe Dave)! Bridgett’s Pet Pick Shout Out This episode I'd like to shout out Leo, from listener and hype squad of the show, Evan Perlman! Leo is pictured at daycare with a dashing smile and model levels of posing. This Portuguese water dog is absolutely STUNNING! Thanks for sharing Leo with us, Evan, and thanks for breaking the bottle over the back of the "fresh MUP" ship each time it sails. Main Topic That Graham interview was so fantastic. I hope we can get him back sometime before 2033. At least 2032. To build on that conversation, which I was sorry to miss, I wanted to get us talking about Cthulhu Dark and other rules light investigative games. We both have experience with CD, so let’s start with a couple questions about the gameplay. First– let’s discuss the rules– because they’re decadent! What are your favorite parts of running or playing in a CD game? What is a favorite story from a CD game that couldn’t happen in a game with more mechanics? What do you think is different when playing a CD scenario? What do you think is different when running a CD scenario? What do you think is different when designing a CD scenario? Do you miss anything from CD or other rules light investigative games? How would you design a rules light game differently?

This episode, Keepers Murph, Dave, and Bridgett chat with industry superstar, leader, coach, author, screenwriter, professional GM (and more), B. Dave. Walters. Bridgett got super distracted with both his and Murph's voice-- hence the episode title. We're not sorry. Campus Crier The Campus Crier is where we talk about recent Mythos-related events and happenings in the world. This episode was recorded on January 26, 2023. Pound-sign facts. Something that will come as a surprise to no one who funds TTRPG Kickstarters, Funagain Logistics is closing. Another casualty of the Covid-inflicted shipping crisis - they just couldn’t keep up with the chaos and demand on their operations. They will fulfill their current agreements and continue shipping through April 30th, but after that no more complaining about Funagain and their shipping of Free League kickstarters. Update on Laird Barron and his condition, a GoFundME campaign has been started for the author Laird Barron who has been hospitalized in serious condition. Mike Davis from the Lovecraft eZine has organized this and so far they have managed to raise over $133k. Laird is still in the hospital but in stable condition, though he still has a long way to go, and that is going to cost a lot of money. American healthcare is bullshit. Aint Slayed won the Top Actual Play Podcast from ENWORLD! Congratulations!!! Amazing team, fantastic games, and well deserved award for sure. Welcome to the Hall of Fame yo! The OGL Fiasco rolls on. In the two weeks since we last recorded, the situation has evolved, and yet, everything that was put in motion with the leaked OGL 1.1 has continued in play. Wizards, through D&D Beyond, issued not one but two statements. The first when they tried to just “whoops we’re sorry!” and then slightly alter the terms of the new OGL. And then after that just made things worse, they apologized again and then created a new 1.2 OGL which they have actually released as a draft this time for the community to help determine the terms. Or something like that. Meanwhile, as mentioned before, out of all the chaos many game companies have collected their D&D toys and left 5e behind. For good. Paizo, creator of the largest OGL 1.0 licensed-games Pathfinder and Starfinder, has announced they are creating the irrevocable Open RPG Creative License (ORC). They are tracking a still-growing list of companies that have joined them, at least 1500 publishers as of recording, including Chaosium, EN Publishing, Fantasy Grounds, Foundry and Roll20, Frog God Games, Goodman Games, Green Ronin, Kobold Press, Pelgrane Press, and many many more. You can find a link to an updated list on the Paizo community boards. It looks like Wizards is now in full reputation rescue mode now, but it looks like the damage has been done. WOTC has also announced they are going to release the core rules of D&D as Creative Commons content later on another sure sign that they are desperate to fix their image. There is a movement to boycott the upcoming D&D movie that has gained some traction. People hope to send a message to Wizards that they don’t appreciate being viewed as dollar signs, and so they want to flip that around and hurt Wizards and Hasbro where it counts. Dungeons and Dragons: Honor Among Thieves arrives in theaters on March 31, 2023 and you may want to avoid seeing it in the first week or so when it’s in theaters to help send a message. It seems like most of the big moves have played out, at least for now, and if Wizards wanted to stop people from making money on 5e then they have most definitely succeeded. But we haven’t seen the actual ramifications yet, as content creators are still moving things around, the ORC isn’t actually a thing yet, and OGL 1.2 is trying to squeeze its way back into the collective consciousness. So we stay wary and alert, passing our Spot Hidden rolls with EXTREME success. Patreon Plug & Update We have a Patreon!

This episode, Keepers Murph & Dave talk with some of our Professor Tiered Patreons! Campus Crier The Campus Crier is where we talk about recent Mythos-related events and happenings in the world. This episode was recorded on December 1st, 2022. Looks like management of Noble Knight Games has shown bad faith in their employees’ ramp up to a unionization vote on December 8th. A story on Dicebreaker details the back and forth by management to dissuade employees from joining the unionization effort, as well as examples of management’s bad faith comments and attitudes. More in the story on Dicebreaker. And hot off the presses, it seems that Noble Knight has decided to recognize the union! So congratulations to the workers, and management at Noble Knight for this landmark decision. Keeper Dave’s Patreon Backer Masks Campaign Update No new updates for my Masks campaign except to say that, as expected, response has been overwhelming. Probably just around the time this episode drops near the end of December we will have made player choices. We’ve got a mid-January start scheduled, and everyone is all in! More soon on this for sure. Patreon Plug & Update We have a Patreon! To back us you can click the button on the sidebar of our website, mu-podcast.com or head over to Patreon directly at www.patreon.com/mup! And hey, look at three of our top tier backers hanging with us right now. One more incredible perk from backing MUP on Patreon. The Discord Plug We have our MUP Discord and we are all there! We invite all of our listeners to come and enjoy the community of horror gaming and cute pet pics. MU Discord server invite link: https://discord.gg/vNjEv9D And thank you beaucoup to Max for editing this episode. Bridgett’s Pet Pick Shout Out "Hey guys! It's me. Ya'girl Bridgett. I know, I know. This time I sound like Dave. I've got raaaange, baaaaby. Tonight, I'd like to shout out James/Ibis' gorgeous fur baby, Virgil. Listen, this photo of James and Virgil rolling around on the floor is the one of the most wholesome examples of the joy that comes with canine companionship. Thanks for sharing Virgil with us, Ibis. You really seriously consider getting that photo framed. The joy on both of your faces is priceless. Oh, and I secretly love Dave's accents." Main Topic -- This is our Professors show! Some of our top-tiered patrons came on the show to hang out with us!