We’re back and we’re listening to the strange voices that whisper to us from beyond the veil. Well, maybe they’re whispering from Twitter and Discord, but we’re not sure that’s any less frightening. At least they’re offering helpful suggestions. Opening oneself up to the dark spirits of Twitter can be a chancy thing.
Listener Suggestions
Late last year, we used Discord and Twitter to ask our listeners what kinds of things they’d like to hear us discuss. The response was overwhelming and we now have a massive list of possible topics. Although these suggestions were exceptional, there are a good number we’d struggle to turn into complete episodes. Rather than ignore these, we’ve decided to go through the replies and see what we can address succinctly.
We barely scratched the surface of the suggestions this time. As a result, we plan to revisit this list again soon in a follow-up episode.
Please do let us know if you have any suggestions of your own. We are always hungry for ideas. And cheese. But mostly ideas.
Thank you to Alixo, R’lyeh Scary and PTroilus on our Discord server for the topics we discuss in this episode.
Links
Things we mention in this episode include:
- Good Friends on Twitter
- Good Friends Discord
- Polaris
- Universalis
- Fiasco
- Red Front Fiasco playset
- Archipelago
- De Profundus
- Thousand Year Vampire
- Arcane Magazine
- Unknown Armies
- MK-RPG
- Sorcerer
- Vaesen
- Blade Runner
- Dog Eat Dog
- Seth Skorkowsky’s YouTube channel
- Traveller
- Kult
- The Witch-Cult in Western Europe by Margaret Murray
- Hocus Pocus (1993)
- Episode on the Cthulhu Mythos skill
- The Two-Headed Serpent
- Tsathoggua
- Alien RPG
- Destroyer of Worlds
- Chariot of the Gods
- Chariot of the Gods AP on How We Roll
- “My Little Sister Wants You to Suffer”
- Our Lady of Darkness by Fritz Leiber
- “Smoke Ghost” by Fritz Leiber
News
Submissions for The Blasphemous Tome issue 11
While the next issue of The Blasphemous Tome is still a few months away, we’re currently open for submissions. If you have a short article, poem or piece of flash fiction of up to 500 words, or some artwork (black and white or colour) that you think we’d like, we’d love to see it! You can send them to submissions@blasphemoustomes.com
Submissions for this issue will be open until the end of April 2023.
The Blasphemous Tome is the fully licenced Call of Cthulhu fanzine we produce for Patreon backers of the podcast.
Matt on Into the Darkness
Matt has been running more games for our good friends at Into the Darkness. In particular, he’s run a few scenarios from The Blasphemous Tome recently, including “Of This Men Shall Know Nothing” from issue 6 and “Educement” from issue 10.
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Depending on where one lives, it can be almost impossible to find a gaming group. You really take things for granted, I think, given how centrally located you all are in the hobby. Scott should remember how hard it was for him when he moved many years ago, which lead to a ten year hiatus. Despite the “ease” of doing things online today, it can still be very very difficult to get people interested, keep them from flaking out, etc. I have been unsuccessful for years now, which has been very sad. There are no clubs near me, no game stores, no conventions. And as one gets older, it gets ever more difficult to make new friends. It must help to be a gaming celebrity.
And episode 13 is excellent, albeit slightly shorter than the others. It was the final in a holy trinity of episodes on corruption (10), insanity (11), and the Cthulhu mythos. The early episodes are all gold, often much much better than the recent ones, if just less polished. The early albums are always the best.