{"id":1699,"date":"2015-04-11T11:29:18","date_gmt":"2015-04-11T17:29:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theunspeakableoath.com\/home\/?p=1699"},"modified":"2015-04-11T11:29:18","modified_gmt":"2015-04-11T17:29:18","slug":"unspeakable-episode-20-oscar-rios-of-golden-goblin-press-and-keeping-the-mythos-unpredictable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/theunspeakableoath.com\/home\/2015\/04\/unspeakable-episode-20-oscar-rios-of-golden-goblin-press-and-keeping-the-mythos-unpredictable\/","title":{"rendered":"Unspeakable! Episode 20: Oscar Rios of Golden Goblin Press and Keeping the Mythos Unpredictable"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hosted by\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.tccorp.com\/\">Adam Scott Glancy<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/arcdream.com\/\">Shane Ivey<\/a>, and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/slangdesign.com\/rppr\/\">Ross Payton<\/a>. Produced by Ross Payton.<\/p>\n<p>This episode&#8217;s guest is <strong>Oscar Rios<\/strong>, profilic\u00a0<em>Call of Cthulhu <\/em>author and\u00a0publisher of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goldengoblinpress.com\">Golden Goblin Press<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to the Unspeakable! podcast feed at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/theunspeakableoath.com\/home\/?feed=podcast\">http:\/\/theunspeakableoath.com\/home\/?feed=podcast<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/the-unspeakable-oath\/id441232694\">Or subscribe at iTunes.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>SPONSORS\u2014THANK YOU!<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/atlas-games.com\/cthulhu4kids\">Atlas Games\u00a0<em>(Where the Deep Ones Are)<\/em><\/a><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/innsmouthfreepress.com\/\">Innsmouth Free Press<\/a><em><a href=\"http:\/\/innsmouthfreepress.com\/\">\u00a0(Sword &amp; Mythos)<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em><a href=\"http:\/\/sentinelhillpress.wordpress.com\/\">Arkham Gazette<\/a><\/em><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/goldengoblinpress.com\/\">Golden Goblin Press\u00a0<\/a><em><a href=\"http:\/\/goldengoblinpress.com\/\">(Island of Ignorance\u00a0<\/a><\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/goldengoblinpress.com\/\">and<\/a><em><a href=\"http:\/\/goldengoblinpress.com\/\">\u00a0De Horrore Cosmico)<\/a>\u00a0<\/em><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/hplfilmfestival.com\/\">The H.P. Lovecraft Film Festival<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>0:04:05\u00a0NEWS AND ANNOUNCEMENTS<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Shane<\/strong>: TUO 25 still in the works. <em>Delta Green: Extraordinary Renditions<\/em> being reviewed by the Delta Green team. <em>Delta Green: The Roleplaying Game<\/em> being reviewed by Ray Winninger (&#8220;What kind of God would let a world like this exist?&#8221;) and prepped by writers. See &#8220;VISCID,&#8221;\u00a0which we played and FUUUUCKED UP at GenCon last year, at Dennis Detwiller&#8217;s Patreon page.\u00a0<em>No Soul Left Behind\u00a0<\/em>in layout.\u00a0<em>Puppetland\u00a0<\/em>in illustration and writing\u2014see Samuel Araya&#8217;s sculptures from <em>Puppetland\u00a0<\/em>on Facebook.\u00a0<em>Ninth Legion<\/em> in development: an Imperial Roman colony lost in Faerie.\u00a0<em>Wrestlenomicon\u00a0<\/em>and\u00a0<em>Underground<\/em> percolating.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Scott:<\/strong>\u00a0Housecleaning! The last original Paganista has moved out of Pagan House now that John H. Crowe III has bought his own place. Gurkhas meet Cossacks meet Kashmiri sepoys meet Tcho-Tchos in &#8220;Trespassers&#8221; for <em>Swords v. Cthulhu<\/em>. Illustrator David Lee Ingersoll joins <em>Horrors of War<\/em>. Writing and editing for <em>Delta Green<\/em>. Not taking on new projects.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Ross:<\/strong>\u00a0Back RPPR at Patreon. New RPPR contest: commemorate events from RPPR Actual Play shows. Special category: best player-character death.\u00a0Sponsored by Arc Dream Publishing. See the RPPR forums for details.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/theunspeakableoath.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Golden-Goblin-Tales-of-the-Caribbean.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-1700\" src=\"http:\/\/theunspeakableoath.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Golden-Goblin-Tales-of-the-Caribbean.jpg\" alt=\"Golden Goblin Tales of the Caribbean\" width=\"600\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"http:\/\/theunspeakableoath.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Golden-Goblin-Tales-of-the-Caribbean.jpg 720w, http:\/\/theunspeakableoath.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Golden-Goblin-Tales-of-the-Caribbean-225x300.jpg 225w, http:\/\/theunspeakableoath.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Golden-Goblin-Tales-of-the-Caribbean-560x746.jpg 560w, http:\/\/theunspeakableoath.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Golden-Goblin-Tales-of-the-Caribbean-260x346.jpg 260w, http:\/\/theunspeakableoath.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Golden-Goblin-Tales-of-the-Caribbean-160x213.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>0:24:40\u00a0INSIDE\u00a0OSCAR RIOS<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Not literally.<\/li>\n<li>Golden Goblin Press: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goldengoblinpress.com\">website<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/GoldenGoblinPress\">Facebook<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/profile\/goldengoblinpress\">Kickstarter<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>From con games\u00a0to scenario design: &#8220;Ripples from Carcosa&#8221; and good words from Richard Watts. Miskatonic River Press.<\/li>\n<li>Golden Goblin&#8217;s goals: updated Old School. New approaches to classic ideas.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.goldengoblinpress.com\/store\/#!\/Island-of-Ignorance-The-Third-Cthulhu-Companion\/p\/29415440\/category=6641141\"><em>Island of Ignorance: The Third Cthulhu Companion.<\/em><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.goldengoblinpress.com\/store\/#!\/Tales-of-the-Crescent-City-Adventures-in-Jazz-Era-New-Orleans\/p\/39617030\/category=6641141\"><em>Tales of the Crescent City.<\/em><\/a><\/li>\n<li>We love our audience so deeply!<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/goldengoblinpress\/de-horrore-cosmico-six-scenarios-for-cthulhu-invic\"><em>De Horrore Cosmico.<\/em><\/a><\/li>\n<li>Suprising players while revisiting great stories.<\/li>\n<li>Keeping to the schedule!<\/li>\n<li><em>Tales of the Carribean: <\/em>No hurricanes, pirates, Deep Ones, Atlantis, sea ghouls, or Bermuda Triangle.<\/li>\n<li>Sandbox scenario design with ideas from LARPs: goals and actions for all characters, not just PCs.<\/li>\n<li>Scenarios you can&#8217;t solve.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>01:20:05 KEEPING THE MYTHOS UNPREDICTABLE<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Challenge: drawing from a limited body of work.<\/li>\n<li>An old threat in disguise\u2014or make something up from scratch.<\/li>\n<li>Changing details on an old threat is easier. Do that enough and it looks new. See <em>Trail of Cthulhu<\/em> and especially\u00a0<em>Ken Writes About Stuff.<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Use a monster&#8217;s spells to change its actions.<\/li>\n<li>Put yourself into the creature&#8217;s head space and how it came to behave this way.<\/li>\n<li><em>Going Clear<\/em>\u00a0and weirdness from real-world cults and cultists, featuring a dinner with Mike Daisey. (See <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/deltagreenrpg\">Delta Green on Facebook<\/a>, btw.)<\/li>\n<li>The power\u00a0of inexplicability. (But let the GM in on things.)<\/li>\n<li>New settings and kinds of player characters.<\/li>\n<li>New motivations for the player characters.<\/li>\n<li>Remember the monsters don&#8217;t know humans so well.<\/li>\n<li>Misdirection! Make them forget they&#8217;re playing a Mythos game.<\/li>\n<li>Fun ideas from Cody Goodfellow stories.<\/li>\n<li>Use creatures and spells that haven&#8217;t been seen\u00a0enough.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>2:35:43\u00a0NYARLATHOTEP!\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This episode\u2019s music is \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/album\/nyarlathotep\/id260106387?i=260106578&amp;uo=4&amp;at=1l3vm3L\">Nyarlathotep<\/a>\u201d by the Darkest of the Hillside Thickets, courtesy Divine Industries. Copyright 2015. 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