{"id":959,"date":"2012-02-13T11:30:31","date_gmt":"2012-02-13T18:30:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theunspeakableoath.com\/home\/?p=959"},"modified":"2012-02-17T14:59:48","modified_gmt":"2012-02-17T21:59:48","slug":"unspeakable-episode-5-greg-stolze-and-historical-horror-gaming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/theunspeakableoath.com\/home\/2012\/02\/unspeakable-episode-5-greg-stolze-and-historical-horror-gaming\/","title":{"rendered":"Unspeakable! Episode 5 &#8211; Greg Stolze and Historical Horror Gaming"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s less than two months since the last monthly episode! That\u2019s progress.<\/p>\n<p>Unspeakable! episode 5, at a svelte two hours and twenty minutes of uninterrupted Mythos gaming geekery, is hosted by Ross Payton of <a href=\"http:\/\/slangdesign.com\/rppr\/\">Role Playing Public Radio<\/a> and <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zombiesoftheworld.com\/\">Zombies of the World<\/a><\/em>, Shane Ivey of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.arcdream.com\/\">Arc Dream Publishing<\/a> and <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theunspeakableoath.com\/\">The Unspeakable Oath<\/a>,<\/em> and Adam Scott Glancy of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tccorp.com\/\">Pagan Publishing<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Today\u2019s special guest is Greg Stolze, writer of many things for many games, including several <em>Unspeakable Oath<\/em> articles, nearly half of the award winning sourcebook <em>Delta Green: Targets of Opportunity,<\/em> and the new modern-day Cthulhu Mythos novel <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2Fgp%2Fproduct%2FB006NOC730%2Fref%3Das_li_ss_tl%3Fie%3DUTF8%26tag%3Dtheunspoath-20%26linkCode%3Das2%26camp%3D1789%26creative%3D390957%26creativeASIN%3DB006NOC730&amp;sa=D&amp;sntz=1&amp;usg=AFQjCNGNlnS8vLbWvTXXjJ6eExLnpoKRQg\">Mask of the Other<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to the Unspeakable! podcast feed at <a href=\"http:\/\/theunspeakableoath.com\/home\/?feed=podcast\">http:\/\/theunspeakableoath.com\/home\/?feed=podcast<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/theunspeakableoath.com\/home\/?feed=podcast\"><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/the-unspeakable-oath\/id441232694\">Or subscribe at iTunes.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>0:00:00 INTRO.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>0:00:21 WELCOME.<\/strong> Shane gets a better microphone and Greg loses his name.<\/p>\n<p><strong>0:02:15 SPONSORS. <\/strong>They signed on for one issue and three episodes, but we still haven\u2019t finished the next issue so they get extra episodes free. Score!<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.miskatonicriverpress.com\/products\/tloal.shtml\">Miskatonic River Press<\/a> with <em>The Legacy of Arrius Lurco<\/em>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.atlas-games.com\/product_tables\/AG1330.php\">Atlas Games<\/a> with Cliffourd the Big Red God and Cthulhu Gloom.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.innsmouthfreepress.com\/?page_id=10930\">Innsmouth Free Press<\/a> with Historical Lovecraft and lots of other things.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hplfilmfestival.com\/\">The\u00a0H.P. Lovecraft Film Festival<\/a>, with the next show this May in Portland, Ore.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>0:06:09 NEWS. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em><strong> <\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Delta Green: Strange Authorities <\/em>by John Scott Tynes is getting new material! So it\u2019ll take a little longer.<\/li>\n<li><em>Oath<\/em> 21 still languishes under Shane\u2019s slacking and Scott\u2019s overdue Delta Green column. Greg demands to know whether things that he wrote will be in the new issue.<\/li>\n<li>The outline for<em> Delta Green: The Roleplaying Game<\/em> is under review. Will it have more than just shotguns? If Shane has his way, Greg and Ken Hite will soon take over rules development.<\/li>\n<li>Greg Stolze\u2019s hands are made of baby butts.<\/li>\n<li>Coming soon: An awesome reading of the original Delta Green teaser story, \u201cFinal Report,\u201d recorded by\u00a0longtime radio announcer\u00a0Allan Tynes, the father of author John Scott Tynes. We\u2019ll have a snippet of it this episode and the whole thing online for listening soon.<\/li>\n<li>Kickstarter approved Pagan Publishing\u2019s <em>Bumps in the Night<\/em> fundraiser so it\u2019ll go live soon.<\/li>\n<li>DriveThruRPG is working on high-res PDFs of <em>Delta Green<\/em> and <em>Delta Green: Countdown<\/em> to put them on sale.<\/li>\n<li>Ross pronounces \u201cHastur\u201d funny.<\/li>\n<li>We love the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.malaysian-explorer.com\/carcosa.html\">Hotel Carcosa<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Ross\u2019 new story is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Zombies-in-Afghanistan-ebook\/dp\/B0075DPD6G\">\u201cZombies in Afghanistan.\u201d<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Ross is putting recordings together for YouTube and AP podcasts.<\/li>\n<li>Tell us in the comments if you want to hear the full recording of Scott\u2019s shenanigan-filled GenCon game.<\/li>\n<li>Greg talks about <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B006NOC730\/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=theunspoath-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=B006NOC730\">Mask of the Other<\/a>,<\/em> which a reader described as \u201c\u2018The Shadow Over Innsmouth\u2019 crossed with <em>Black Hawk Down.\u201d<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Greg wrote an introductory scenario for the Delta Green RPG called \u201cWormwood Arena,\u201d where investigators must go undercover to infiltrate a dangerous cult.<\/li>\n<li>Greg has another Delta Green adventure called \u201cStar Chamber,\u201d where the horror unfolds in memory and in conflicting perspectives.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/theunspeakableoath.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/DGSA-cover-front-web1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-940\" title=\"DGSA-cover-front-web\" src=\"http:\/\/theunspeakableoath.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/DGSA-cover-front-web1-192x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"192\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/theunspeakableoath.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/DGSA-cover-front-web1-192x300.jpg 192w, http:\/\/theunspeakableoath.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/DGSA-cover-front-web1.jpg 650w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 192px) 100vw, 192px\" \/><\/a>0:40:05 INTERLUDE.<\/strong> An excerpt of John Scott Tynes\u2019 \u201cFinal Report\u201d read by Allan Tynes.<\/p>\n<p><strong>0:41:18 MYTHOS HORROR GAMING IN THE PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Ross\u2019 Yakuza game set in post-WW2 Japan.<\/li>\n<li>Research!<\/li>\n<li>Taking advantage of player expertise.<\/li>\n<li>Take care where you hang your plot points.<\/li>\n<li>The challenge of keeping your players in suspense.<\/li>\n<li>Watch for misunderstandings and conflicting assumptions.<\/li>\n<li>The perils of the infodump.<\/li>\n<li>Mythos horror in the modern day.<\/li>\n<li>More information is not always a good thing!<\/li>\n<li>Scanning Mythos tomes for fun and prophets.<\/li>\n<li>Giving the players access.<\/li>\n<li>A digression into the Gumshoe model.<\/li>\n<li>The key things to research: Interviews and social norms. Laws and law enforcement. How does research happen. Communications. Geography.<\/li>\n<li>A few key details to evoke the setting.<\/li>\n<li>Making it accessible while keeping it strange and interesting.<\/li>\n<li>Policing around the world.<\/li>\n<li>Using the unpleasant mores of the day for misdirection and versimilitude.<\/li>\n<li>Greg and Scott love <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/1597802328\/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=theunspoath-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=1597802328\">The Book of Cthulhu<\/a>.<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Supernatural evil and cultural conflict.<\/li>\n<li>Cultural bias and things people don\u2019t believe.<\/li>\n<li><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/1568820313\/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=theunspoath-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=1568820313\">Strange Aeons <\/a><\/em>and <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/1568823266\/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=theunspoath-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=1568823266\">Strange Aeons II<\/a>.<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>2:20:00 NYARLATHOTEP!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/the-unspeakable-oath\/id441232694\">Rate us on iTunes! <\/a><\/p>\n<p>This episode\u2019s music includes \u201cRide the Flying Polyp\u201d and \u201cNyarlathotep\u201d by the Darkest of the Hillside Thickets, courtesy Divine Industries. Copyright 2011. Visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thickets.net\/\">www.thickets.net<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>Delta Green: Strange Authorities<\/em> cover art by Dennis Detwiller, \u00a9 2012. 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