Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchSpecial: Necronomicon 2017 with the Miskatonic University Podcast
Our recent visit to the Necronomicon convention in Providence was a blur of wonders. One of the highlights was finally getting to meet our friends fr…
8 years, 10 months ago
Pacing in Horror Games
We’re back and we’re putting ourselves through our paces. Over on our Google+ Community, Tore Nielsen recently asked us to explain a little more abou…
8 years, 10 months ago
R’lyeh Roulette III: Monster Madness
Main Topic We’re back and we’re giving the wheel of misfortune another spin. In our earlier R’lyeh Roulette episodes — 37 and 60 — we rolled for rand…
8 years, 11 months ago
The Call of Cthulhu (part 2)
We’re back and we’re still being haunted by those hellish dreams surfacing from lost R’yeh like bubbles of pure madness. This is the second part of o…
8 years, 11 months ago
The Call of Cthulhu (part 1)
We’re back and we’re talking about one of Lovecraft’s best-known stories. The Call of Cthulhu probably boasts more name recognition than any other Lo…
9 years ago
Mage: the Awakening
We’re back and we’re following up episode 105‘s discussion of the World of Darkness with a more detailed look at one of the core games that make up t…
9 years ago
Special: UK Games Expo 2017
Paul attended the UK Games Expo in Birmingham recently. While he was there, he took part in a seminar about running horror games, with Mike Mason and…
9 years, 1 month ago
Portraying Memorable Non-Player Characters
We’re back and we’re putting on silly voices, adopting exaggerated mannerisms and making life as miserable as possible for the player characters. In …
9 years, 1 month ago
Creating Memorable Non-Player Characters
We’re back and we’re poring over stat blocks, writing up physical descriptions and searching the internet for names. This is the first of two episode…
9 years, 1 month ago
The World of Darkness
We’re back and we’re sharpening our fangs, picking the nits out of our fur and preparing for some paradox. Born in 1991 out of Vampire: the Masquerad…
9 years, 2 months ago