Modern Mythos with Jon and Seth

A podcast about the Call of Cthulhu roleplaying game, writing, game mastering, and playing -- presented by the hosts, Jon Hook and Seth Skorkowsky

Pyramid Scheme - ep.6 05/03/2026

Pyramid Scheme - ep.5 04/26/2026

Pyramid Scheme - ep.4 04/19/2026

Pyramid Scheme - ep.3 04/12/2026

Pyramid Scheme - ep.2 04/05/2026

Pyramid Scheme - ep.1 03/29/2026

MM 57 - Jon & Seth Ask Us Anything! 03/23/2026

Conversation with Mike Mason 02/16/2026

Ep.55 - Exploring New Adventures 01/28/2026

Ep.55 - Exploring New Adventures Exorcist’s Codex 2025 by Two Starving Gnolls (Pax Cthuliana, Svasbard - system-neutral adventures) Uses BRP mechanics (with ORC License) 1890s Demon Hunters Mechanics Several Occupations - Occupations offer special abilities, restrictions, and modifiers to Faith (Relic Hunter, Priest, demonologist, occult detective, Church Licensed Exorcist, etc) Holy Faith Factor - source of Power, but higher it is the more susceptible to Demonic Corruption Instead of SAN they Have Spirit - works very similar, but one key difference is that it replenishes with time. Speed based off how low it is. Spirit can be spent to inf;uency Destiny Rolls (sorta like Luck rolls) Criticisms - I dislike BRP Resistance Table. Feel the 7e CoC should have been used for BRP, but they chose not to. Unsure on diversity of adventures. But I haven’t read too deep. Indiana Jones RPG 1984 by TSR (David Cook - game designer) Uses Percentile dice for Attribute Test resolutions Setting: Pulp 1930s pre-war Mechanics Attributes - All characters have six attributes: Strength, Movement, Prowess, Backbone, Instinct, and Appeal. Each Attribute has four percentile values: Normal, Twice Normal (x2), Half of Normal (1/2), and One-Quarter of Normal (1/4). Referee (GM) determines the difficulty of an Attribute Test, and then the player attempts to roll percentile dice equal to or less than the declared difficulty level. Characters have Skills, but no skill has a percentile value; instead having an appropriate skill, (or using a skill in a clever way), can influence the difficulty level of an Attribute Test, typically making it an easier test if the character possesses the needed skill, or possibly more difficult if the character does not have the needed skill. We can’t do this show alone. We want to thank our amazing editors Max Mahaffa, Edwin Nagy, and Zach Sokol for their hard work and keen skills at making us sound awesome! We also want to thank John Sumrow, for our badass logo. He’s a very talented artist, so please follow him on Facebook, check out his official website, and please consider joining his Patreon account. Links in the show notes. And finally, we want to thank The Darkest of the Hillside Thickets for generously allowing us to use their song, Gluttony, as our intro and outro music. If you are a fan of Lovecraft’s writing and the Call of Cthulhu RPG, then you need to check out The Darkest of the Hillside Thickets. Please check out their BandCamp site and their official band site. Links in the show notes. @darkestthickets.bsky.social /episode/index/show/modernmythos/id/39892605

Ep. 54 - Gareth Ryder-Hanrahan 01/21/2026

Space Between Time - ep.7 12/22/2025

Space Between Time - ep.6 12/21/2025

Modern Mythos - ep.53 10/27/2025

Space Between Time - ep. 5 10/10/2025

Space Between Time - ep. 4 09/26/2025

Ep. 52 09/15/2025

Ep. 52 This month, Seth and Jon gush about the amazing series on Hulu/FX... ALIEN: Earth. -- WARNING -- There are SPOILERS!!! In addition to ALIEN: Earth, Jon talks about the new Role-Playing Game of the Planet of the Apes, published by Magnetic Press Play. ALIEN: Earth Created for television, and written by, Noah Hawley Staring: Sydney Chandler (Wendy) Essie Davis (Dame Sylvia) Samuel Blenkin (Boy Kavalier) Babou Ceesay (Morrow) Alex Lawther (Joe Hermit) Adarsh Gourav (Slightly) Timothy Olyphant (Kirsh) The series is set two years before the classic 1979 movie, ALIEN, by Ridley Scott Five corporations govern the Earth: Weyland-Yutani (Americas) Prodigy (Oceania, Asia, and South Africa) Lynch (Russia) Dynamic (North Africa, Middle East, and the Moon) Threshold (Europe) Creatures collected by the crew of the Maginot: Xenomorphs Ticks Octo-Eye Flies Plant Pod (ie: Orchid) Xenopedia: Role-Playing Game of the Planet of the Apes Published by Magnetic Press Play: Game Engine: Modified version of the West End Games D6 D6MV: D6 Magnetic Variant Players may play as: Chimpanzees Orangutans Gorillas Tribal Humans Time-Lost Astro-nauts Mutated Humans The setting is ideally suited for: World exploration, like you might experience with Dungeons & Dragons Investigations, like you might experience with Call of Cthulhu or Blade Runner Horror, like you might experience with Call of Cthulhu We can’t do this show alone. We want to thank our amazing editors Max Mahaffa, Edwin Nagy, and Zach Sokol for their hard work and keen skills at making us sound awesome! We also want to thank John Sumrow, for our badass logo. He’s a very talented artist, so please follow him on Facebook, check out his official website, and please consider joining his Patreon account. And finally, we want to thank The Darkest of the Hillside Thickets for generously allowing us to use their song, Gluttony, as our intro and outro music. If you are a fan of Lovecraft’s writing and the Call of Cthulhu RPG, then you need to check out The Darkest of the Hillside Thickets. Please check out their BandCamp site and their official band site. @darkestthickets.bsky.social /episode/index/show/modernmythos/id/38216485

Space Between Time - ep. 3 09/12/2025

Modern Mythos - Ep.51 09/01/2025

Space Between Time - ep. 2 08/29/2025

Space Between Time - Ep. 1 08/15/2025

Summer Book Club 2025 07/21/2025

Ep. 50 - Unusual Suspects 06/16/2025

Ep. 50 - Unusual Suspects 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) creatures for the investigators to encounter New spells and new magical items, and a couple of really nice handouts Just 23 pages + Pregens Alex Guillote handled art and design Available Roll20 VTT pack for ease of play online Of Sorrow & Clay: Of Sorrow & Clay - Roll20 VTT pack: The Ritual (2017) Studio: eOne / Netflix Director: David Bruckner Staring: Rafe Spall, Arsher Ali, Robert James-Collier, & Sam Troughton Based on the book, The Ritual, by Adam Nevill Older Gods (2023) Studio: Wagyu Films Director/Writer: David A. Roberts Staring: Lindsay Bennett-Thompson, Ieuan Coombs, & Jonathan Keeble Making of Podcast: From Dream to Silver Screen (conversations about making this movie) The Void (2016) Studio: D Films / Cave Painting Pictures Directors/Writers: Steven Kostanski & Jeremy Gillespie Staring: Aaron Poole, Kenneth Welsh, Daniel Fathers, Kathleen Munroe, Ellen Wong, Evan Stern, Trish Rainone, & Mik Byskov Creature special effects crowdfunded on Indiegogo for $82,510 (the rest of the picture was funded traditionally) Underwater (2020) Studio: 20th Century Fox Director: William Eubank Starring: Kristen Stewart, Vincent Cassel, Jessica Henwick, John Gallagher Jr, Mamoudou Athie, & T. J. Miller Last movie released under the “20th Century Fox” brand, before being rebranded as “20th Century Studios”, and it was a box office bomb The Lighthouse (2019) Studio: A24 / VVS Films Director: Robert Eggers / Writers: Robert Eggers & Max Eggers Starring: Robert Pattinson & Willem Dafoe Max Eggers had the original idea for this movie as a re-envisioning of the unfinished Edgar Allan Poe short story with the same title. We can’t do this show alone. We want to thank our amazing editors Max Mahaffa, Edwin Nagy, and Zach Sokol for their hard work and keen skills at making us sound awesome! We also want to thank John Sumrow, for our badass logo. He’s a very talented artist, so please follow him on Facebook, check out his official website, and please consider joining his Patreon account. Links in the show notes. And finally, we want to thank The Darkest of the Hillside Thickets for generously allowing us to use their song, Gluttony, as our intro and outro music. If you are a fan of Lovecraft’s writing and the Call of Cthulhu RPG, then you need to check out The Darkest of the Hillside Thickets. Please check out their BandCamp site and their official band site. Links in the show notes. @darkestthickets.bsky.social And once again, a huge thank you to our sponsor Graeme Patrick. Thanks for listening. /episode/index/show/modernmythos/id/37015070

Modern Mythos 49 05/05/2025

Modern Mythos 49 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 did some "Man on the Street" interviews with convention goers we ran into in the lobby/bar in the morning hours of Friday and Saturday. This entire endeavor would not have been possible without friend-of-the-show and new Modern Mythos editor, Zach Sokol! Thank you, Zach! Zach provided all of the equipment we used to record these "live" sessions, and he fully edited this episode. We are thrilled to add Zach's audio expertise to the team. We interviewed: Ben Burns, of New Comet Games Andy Miesem Holly Buetow, of RPG Reanimators Rina Hensey Matt "Doc" Tracey Bucho Rodenberger Sandy Petersen Zach Sokol We can’t do this show alone. We want to thank our amazing editors Max Mahaffa, Edwin Nagy, and Zach Sokol for their hard work and keen skills at making us sound awesome! We also want to thank John Sumrow, for our badass logo. He’s a very talented artist, so please follow him on Facebook, check out his official website, and please consider joining his Patreon account. Links in the show notes. And finally, we want to thank The Darkest of the Hillside Thickets for generously allowing us to use their song, Gluttony, as our intro and outro music. If you are a fan of Lovecraft’s writing and the Call of Cthulhu RPG, then you need to check out The Darkest of the Hillside Thickets. Please check out their BandCamp site and their official band site. Links in the show notes. @darkestthickets.bsky.social And once again, a huge thank you to our sponsor Fire Lizard Games. Thanks for listening. /episode/index/show/modernmythos/id/36389070

Cthulhu by Gaslight: Keeper's Guide 03/28/2025

Modern Mythos - Ep.47 03/24/2025

Modern Mythos - Ep.47 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 the Pennybrook ghost. Clearly, there is a rational scientific reason for the earthquakes, and the investigators are determined to find out what it is. Lights in the Trees is a 1975 post-Vietnam War setting scenario. The investigators are veterans of the War, platoon brothers, who are called back together to help one of their own who’s having trouble adjusting to life back at home. Can they help their friend conquer his personal demons, or will those demons consume them as well? Oscar Rios & Golden Goblin Press Islands of Ignorance: The Third Cthulhu Companion Kickstarter, and Dark Seas of Infinity: The Fourth Cthulhu Companion, and Legacy of Shadows: Oscar Rios Lovecraft Wiki list of credits: We can’t do this show alone. We want to thank our amazing editors Max Mahaffa and Edwin Nagy for their hard work and keen skills at making us sound awesome! We also want to thank John Sumrow, for our badass logo. He’s a very talented artist, so please follow him on Facebook, check out his official website, and please consider joining his Patreon account. Links in the show notes. And finally, we want to thank The Darkest of the Hillside Thickets for generously allowing us to use their song, Gluttony, as our intro and outro music. If you are a fan of Lovecraft’s writing and the Call of Cthulhu RPG, then you need to check out The Darkest of the Hillside Thickets. Please check out their BandCamp site and their official band site. Links in the show notes. /episode/index/show/modernmythos/id/35622405

Doorway of the Gods - Ep.6 03/17/2025

Doorway of the Gods - Ep.5 03/10/2025

Doorway of the Gods - Ep.4 03/03/2025

Doorway of the Gods - Ep.3 02/24/2025

Matt Ryan Interview 02/17/2025

Matt Ryan Interview 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 pre-generated investigators, new spells, new Mythos tomes, new monsters, a concise history of the island nation, the Japanese people, and so much more. Japan: Empire of Shadow has achieved Platinum Level sales on DriveThruRPG. And it’s clear, with every page, that David and Amy took meticulous care to create an unparalleled sourcebook for the Call of Cthulhu game. We also want to take this moment to remember that Amy and David lost their home in the LA wildfires. In addition to buying their amazing sourcebook of Japan, please consider sending a donation to the . Matt Ryan - Artist/Cartographer/Musician/Punk Rocker! Reckoning of the Dead: Blog with Noah Lloyd Official Chaosium cartographer Currently running Masks of Nyarlathotep in parallel with Bob Geis “Armchair Keepers of Arcane Secrets” We can’t do this show alone. We want to thank our amazing editors Max Mahaffa and Edwin Nagy for their hard work and keen skills at making us sound awesome! We also want to thank John Sumrow, for our badass logo. He’s a very talented artist, so please follow him on Facebook, check out his official website, and please consider joining his Patreon account. Links in the show notes. And finally, we want to thank The Darkest of the Hillside Thickets for generously allowing us to use their song, Gluttony, as our intro and outro music. If you are a fan of Lovecraft’s writing and the Call of Cthulhu RPG, then you need to check out The Darkest of the Hillside Thickets. Please check out their BandCamp site and their official band site. Links in the show notes. And once again, a huge thank you to our sponsor Japan: Empire of Shadow, by David Trotti and Amy Kate Connolly. Remember to hit the link in the show notes and pick it up. And please consider donating to the . Thanks for listening. /episode/index/show/modernmythos/id/35233650

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