We’re back and we’re answering the call of the void. It’s about the scariest call you can receive, regardless of what Cthulhu may claim. The yawning darkness of eternity just shouldn’t be that tempting. For all our talk about horror in space, maybe the real horror was inside us the whole time.

Main Topic: Horror in Space

This episode heads into the cold and the dark, exploring just what it is that makes space so scary. We talk about some of the real challenges and dangers posed by space travel and how they can amplify horror. Then we move on to inspirational media and just how all this relates to gaming. While we of course talk about alien life and all sorts of concepts from science fiction, the scariest part of the episode might be the details of just what can go wrong on a space walk.

Our Guest Host

We are delighted to welcome Holly to the Good Friends! Holly co-hosts RPG Reanimators, a podcast focusing on providing resources for GMs and players of horror RPGs. She’s also a regular on Into the Darkness, an actual play YouTube channel. In addition to RPGs, she’s an avid board gamer, space nerd, and all-around trivia enthusiast. You can find Holly over on the RPG Reanimators Discord.

News

A Weekend With Good Friends

Player signups for A Weekend With Good Friends will open very soon! This, of course, is the online convention organised by our lovely listeners, taking place on the Good Friends Discord server.

Key dates are:

Player signups: 22nd of May – 5th of June
A Weekend With Good Friends: 13th – 15th of June

Games and panels will run throughout the weekend.

We shall share more details are they become available.

Long Cut of the Good Friends

As existing backers may know, we release a long cut of every episode of the Good Friends on Patreon. These are almost completely unedited, giving you a chance to hear both material we couldn’t fit into the final cut and all the times we mess things up.

Some long cuts only contain a few minutes of extra material, but the two recent episodes with Evan Dorkin — RPGs and Fiction and Comedy Horror — each contain around an hour of additional content. We had such a good time chatting with Evan that we lost track of time, and we had to edit out a whole load of fascinating stuff just to get the episodes down to a reasonable length. Please do check them out if you back us.