Ep. 50 - Unusual Suspects
Modern Mythos with Jon & Seth
Seth and Jon are in the balcony to talk about movies made within the last ten years that are considered Lovecraftian, or Lovecraftian adjacent. But first, thank you to Graeme Patrick for sponsoring this episode! Check out his amazing scenario, Of Sorrow & Clay, available on the Miskatonic Repository on DriveThruRPG. Of Sorrow & Clay is an 1880s scenario set deep in the Appalachian Mountains Has a fantastic cast of extremely memorable mountain-folk NPCs for the PCs to encounter and 5 pre-gen investigators perfect for this remorse mountain setting Some really cool (and new)...
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Modern Mythos 49
Modern Mythos with Jon & 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 a Mythos-fueled cataclysm that devastated the planet in 1920. Check out their Upcoming Projects page at: And check out their full site at: +++++++++++++++++++++++ While at Chaosium Con, Seth and Jon...
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Cthulhu by Gaslight: Keeper's Guide
Modern Mythos with Jon & Seth
Chaosium's 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 . 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: Victorian Horrors Chapter 6: The Forby Masterwork (Scenario #1) Chapter 7: Oranges & Lemons (Scenario #2) Appendix A: Keeper Resources Appendix B: Generic Victorians Separate indexes for the Main Book, Each...
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Modern Mythos - Ep.47
Modern Mythos with Jon & Seth
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 scenario set in the fictional town of Pennybrook, Maine. The investigators visit Pennybrook to study a spike in the number of earthquakes in the region. Townsfolk say the earthquakes are the result of...
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Doorway of the Gods - Ep.6
Modern Mythos with Jon & Seth
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 Mr. Shelby Avery, an occult bookstore owner Jon Hook as the Keeper of Arcane Lore Doorway of the Gods is the third chapter in the Time for Sacrifice campaign, by Ben Burns, Brian...
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Doorway of the Gods - Ep.5
Modern Mythos with Jon & Seth
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 Mr. Shelby Avery, an occult bookstore owner Jon Hook as the Keeper of Arcane Lore Doorway of the Gods is the third chapter in the Time for Sacrifice campaign, by Ben Burns, Brian...
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Doorway of the Gods - Ep.4
Modern Mythos with Jon & Seth
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 Mr. Shelby Avery, an occult bookstore owner Jon Hook as the Keeper of Arcane Lore Doorway of the Gods is the third chapter in the Time for Sacrifice campaign, by Ben Burns, Brian...
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Doorway of the Gods - Ep.3
Modern Mythos with Jon & Seth
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 Mr. Shelby Avery, an occult bookstore owner Jon Hook as the Keeper of Arcane Lore Doorway of the Gods is the third chapter in the Time for Sacrifice campaign, by Ben Burns, Brian...
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Matt Ryan Interview
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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 includes information to play either as foreign investigators or as Japanese investigators. The 400 page book includes 334 unique locations, 35 full color maps, over 70 NPCs, 20 player handouts, 6...
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Doorway of the Gods - Ep.2
Modern Mythos with Jon & Seth
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 Mr. Shelby Avery, an occult bookstore owner Jon Hook as the Keeper of Arcane Lore Doorway of the Gods is the third chapter in the Time for Sacrifice campaign, by Ben Burns, Brian...
info_outlineA 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 Mr. Shelby Avery, an occult bookstore owner
Jon Hook as the Keeper of Arcane Lore
Doorway of the Gods is the third chapter in the Time for Sacrifice campaign, by Ben Burns, Brian Courtemanche, and Jonathan Bagelman.