{"id":938,"date":"2011-12-21T09:53:31","date_gmt":"2011-12-21T16:53:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theunspeakableoath.com\/home\/?p=938"},"modified":"2011-12-23T12:02:21","modified_gmt":"2011-12-23T19:02:21","slug":"unspeakable-episode-4-dan-harms-and-how-to-horrify-your-players","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/theunspeakableoath.com\/home\/2011\/12\/unspeakable-episode-4-dan-harms-and-how-to-horrify-your-players\/","title":{"rendered":"Unspeakable! Episode 4 – Dan Harms and How to Horrify Your Players"},"content":{"rendered":"

We\u2019re not even remotely on schedule! But we\u2019re here. And at three hours this is enough podcast to horrify any set of ears.<\/p>\n

Unspeakable!<\/em> episode 4 is hosted by Ross Payton of Role Playing Public Radio<\/a> and Zombies of the World<\/a>,<\/em> Shane Ivey of Arc Dream Publishing<\/a> and The Unspeakable Oath<\/a>,<\/em> and Adam Scott Glancy of Pagan Publishing<\/a>. Scott just last episode was a guest and has already been promoted to cohost. That\u2019s how fast things move here at the Oath<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Our guest today is Dan Harms, author of The Cthulhu Mythos Encyclopedia<\/a><\/em> and uncounted pieces of Cthulhoid brilliance in The Unspeakable Oath, Worlds of Cthulhu<\/em> and elsewhere.<\/p>\n

We\u2019ll be talking about scaring your players at the Call of Cthulhu<\/em> game table.<\/p>\n

Subscribe to the Unspeakable! <\/em>podcast feed at http:\/\/theunspeakableoath.com\/home\/?feed=podcast<\/a>
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Show Notes<\/h1>\n

00:00:00 INTRO.<\/strong><\/p>\n

00:00:25 WELCOME.<\/strong> Who are these people? Scott appreciates Dan\u2019s treatment of Tsathoggua, the Great Old One who is so much more than an angry bunny rabbit. More about teasing out horrific details from the source material when only hints are given in the Call of Cthulhu <\/em>rules.<\/p>\n

00:11:10 Scott persuades us that Dan Harms makes a good bulletproof vest.<\/p>\n

00:23:20 NEWS.<\/strong> Announcing Delta Green: Strange Authorities<\/a>,<\/em> a collection of the award-winning Delta Green fiction of John Scott Tynes, coming in January 2012 from Arc Dream Publishing. Strange Authorities<\/em> will be published in ebook, paperback and maybe hardcover.<\/p>\n

The guys tell stories while Shane flounders around for the cover art to show them. But our listeners can see it RIGHT NOW!<\/p>\n

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00:31:55 Dennis Detwiller is still working on a new fiction collection, Delta Green: Failed Anatomies<\/em>. He\u2019s also hard at work sending out the autographed copies of Delta Green: Through a Glass, Darkly.<\/em><\/p>\n

00:35:15 The Unspeakable Oath<\/em> issue 21 is coming soon! Honest! We\u2019re working on it!<\/p>\n

00:41:10 Shane is working on the rules parts of the Delta Green role-playing game with help from Greg Stolze. Also: Being in the officially reinstated version of Delta Green will not make your investigators any happier or more cocksure.<\/p>\n

00:50:45 Scott says Pagan Publishing is gearing up to run a Kickstarter to print Bumps in the Night<\/a><\/em>, a collection of classic-era Call of Cthulhu<\/em> adventures that draw from non-Mythos supernatural folklore. Scott is working through production of an Actual Play recording of the seven-hour Delta Green game he ran at Pax. (It was based on “Divine Fire<\/a>” by Ross’ friend Tom Church.)<\/p>\n

01:05:46 Ross just finished a successfully Kickstarter for Killsplosion<\/em>, a rules-light player-vs.-player RPG. Part of the funding paid for a video camera that Ross will use to interview game designers. Also, Ross\u2019 pregen in a mountain climbing adventure needed a better Climb skill.<\/p>\n

01:11:06 Ross\u2019 book Zombies of the World<\/em> has been picked up by Barnes and Noble! Now he\u2019s working on a novel, Dead Power.<\/em><\/p>\n

01:12:53 Dan has a Wall Street scenario in Miskatonic River Press\u2019 Tales of the Sleepless City<\/em>. In playtesting: Fury of Yig<\/em>. (Not a bag of dicks!) He\u2019s working on a couple of other scenarios. \u201cThe Chapel of Contemplation,\u201d from The Unspeakable Oath<\/em> 18, will appear in the new Spanish translation of the Call of Cthulhu<\/em> rulebook from Edge Entertainment<\/a>. Dan encourages you to submit short pieces for the Oath!<\/em> Especially stuff that is uncanny and horrific and weird. Shane hijacks that discussion to talk about the upcoming new Delta Green Shotgun Scenario contest and how we\u2019re going to clamp down on the word counts for it. Dan has a book coming: an annotated edition of The Long-Lost Friend,<\/em> an 18th-century manual of folk magic.<\/p>\n

01:23:01 INTERLUDE.<\/strong> \u201cSounds of Tindalos\u201d by The Darkest of the Hillside Thickets, courtesy Divine Industries. Copyright 2011. Visit www.thickets.net<\/a>.<\/p>\n

01:24:01 SPONSORS! <\/strong>Sacrifice your time, money and blood to the people who support The Unspeakable Oath.<\/em><\/p>\n