Hosts

Keeper Dave

Keeper Dave likes to design, write, publish, and talk about TTRPGs, having been an MUP co-host since early 2020 (episode 190), and a fan of the show long before that. He also has many other hobbies and interests… too many to list, but hit him up if you’re a fan of Rush or Porcupine Tree.

For Dave, TTRPGs as a new art form is still in its earliest stages of development, which is why we’re all over the place when it comes to understanding what a TTRPG even means. He loves to discuss the edges of the form, understand how it impacts people’s perspectives, and how we can continually grow the art in a healthy, fun way. The future of TTRPGs is in diversity and inclusion of people, thoughts, and perspectives, and these are based on compassion and collaboration, which is how TTRPGs change the world. Seriously, this artform is important and here to stay.

But also, weird and scary games are just fun to play.

He lives outside Washington DC, and appreciates that there are actually four distinct seasons. But he is still a Californian at heart. His blog is at Weird8.com and DTRPG store is here. Go Pods!

Keeper Bridgett

Bridgett heard the Call of Cthulhu about 10 years ago and has been madly in love with horror gaming ever since. She prefers to play, run, and write story-driven, character focused, and combat light games. Bridgett has a history degree, and so many of her games have a strong historical influence with a twist of Mythos.

Bridgett’s content can be found on DriveThruRPG. She says that what she most loves most about horror gaming is the quality of players the genre attracts: “Horror gaming has provided me with such joy that I wished to further spread the madness.” Indeed, Bridgett founded a horror gaming club, Symphony Entertainment Gaming & Arts, which solely focuses on horror-based systems.

A resident of Columbus, Ohio, USA, you can find Bridgett at conventions around the Northeast United States and beyond. She is also a co-host on the Miskatonic University Podcast. Bridgett has three dogs (Sony, Zoe, and Gabriel). They’re pretty cool. Actually, no, they’re awesome.

Editors

Editor Nate, lost in time and space

Fan and listener of MUP since 2016, Nate joined the editing team for MUP in 2022. Nate has been an active creator in the weird gaming space since 2018 as the founder and co-host of The Great Old Ones Gaming podcast. In that time, the show (with the help of many other lovely people) has managed to raise over $7,500 dollars for Doctors Without Borders during its charity livestream events, Horrors without Borders. Aside from his contributions to MUP and his efforts on his own podcast, Nate is a lifetime member of the H.P. Lovecraft Historical Society, aspiring author/scenario writer, and forever GM. When Nate isn’t working on editing podcast episodes or GM’ing horror RPGs, he is active in the open source hardware/software communities, bringing power back to the user.

Editor Ben Caven

Ben Craven is the pen name of Luca Veronese, a final year student at Durham University. Born and raised in Singapore before moving to the UK in his teens, his earliest memory of broadcast was hearing the last space shuttle launch over the radio and realising he’d just witnessed history. Call of Cthulhu was his first TTRPG, and Beyond the Mountains of Madness his first campaign. That Antarctic expedition led him and his friends out of COVID lockdown and into University. He owes a lot to those late-night games. Besides MUP, Luca has created an anthology audio-drama for his University’s radio, Purple Radio, and currently hosts a late-night music show live on air.

Editor Gene Williams

Gene is a long time TTRPG human, artist, producer and mastering engineer. He’s done a fair amount of work in the IS and audiobook industries in addition to his music and artistic pursuits.

Links: https://mindspawn.com/ https://mindspawnmastering.com/

Editor Equinox Deschanel

Equinox Deschanel (Joe McMahon) is a musician, photographer, and software engineer from way back in the mainframe area till now. He started playing TTRPGs when NASA told him he couldn’t play Adventure on the mainframe anymore, and has played Call of Cthulhu since version 1. He started doing audio editing (on tape, with a splicing block and razor blade) in college, and honed his skills assembling final tracks from multiple live performances at the Different Skies music festival. He started listening to MUP in the Keeper Dan/Keeper Chad/Keeper Murph era, continuing up to today. He lives in San Jose, California but his heart is in Monterey. He blogs about lots of things at pemungkah.com and hosts his music at Bandcamp (https://pemungkah.bandcamp.com/) and SoundCloud (https://soundcloud.com/equinox-deschanel).