MU Podcast 031 - Golden Oscar

[Keeper Dan]

We have guest host Oscar Rios, president of Golden Goblin Press! We talk about his first book, the future project for Golden Goblin, and how he found the Mythos.


Campus Crier


Pelgrane Press News
http://www.pelgranepress.com/?p=10941


Ken Writes About Stuff – subscribe now to 12 issues of Ken Hite-ly goodness. Topics have been given in advance!
Talking at Yourself by Robin D. Laws, useful advice on how to manage conversations with multiple NPCs.
The Call of Chicago: Expediting, Ordering, Inquiring – a sneak peak at the upcoming Mythos Expeditions by Kenneth Hite
How to play GUMSHOE - Kevin Kulp explains General Abilities and Investigative Abilities for new players



The H.P. Lovecraft Bronze Bust Project will erect a life size tribute to the iconic author in his hometown of Providence, Rhode Island.


http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/66144730/the-hp-lovecraft-bronze-bust-project


HPPodcraft Live at NecronomiCon has succeeded and we get a new podcast on the way!
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/2084279113/hppodcraft-live-in-providence?ref=live



Artist Jason Thompson, at www.Mockman.com


This guys is freaking amazing. He illustrated Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath, and has tons of Mythos pics on his site, and a full color poster map of the Dreamlands. Freaking awesome!


Island of Ignorance – The Third Cthulhu Companion


Listen to it get funded while recording!http://www.goldengoblinpress.com/island-of-ignorance/
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/621718369/island-of-ignorance-the-third-cthulhu-companion?ref=live
Murph also mentions copies of the Express Diaries have arrived at Chaosium.


http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/448333182/horror-on-the-orient-express-a-chaosium-publicatio/posts/471829?ref=activity



We now have a new RSS/iTunes feed exclusive to live play games. Last weekend we released a game recorded and run by our guest Oscar Rios. Look over at the right to grab the link!
In the wings we have a Delta Green one-shot game run by EddyPo, and a MAPS game with three sessions run by Dan.

Card Catalog

This week’s hidden online resource for keepers is:


WWI propaganda postcards


http://www.ww1-propaganda-cards.com/


Main Topic


The Side topic and Main topic were combined together into one longer conversation. We start off with a talk about Robert E. Howard's work in the Mythos, then we go into all the things happening at Golden Goblin Press.
The Fire Of Asshurbanipal

The Black Stone


Masters Of Horror – the original stories in audio

[trevlix]

Great show as always! I loved hearing Oscar talk about how he got involved and his passion for the game.

[Nvision]

Excellent show, guys! Thanks for helping me get through a rather tedious day (dozens and dozens of isometric terrain tiles, blech). It's great to hear that Golden Goblin is doing so well right out of the gates and that there's a lot of cool projects waiting in the wings. If Oscar's ever looking for additional art help I may know someone who's got a hankering for creating some mythos art...

[fallingtower]

Thine Linkeths
Not Stinketh

GREAT LINKS!!

Cthanx!!!

[WinstonP]

In case you didn't get the email and are still looking for a room at Necronomicon, the con has created a new forum in part to allow attendees to coordinate their plans.

http://necronomicon-pvd.freeforums.net/

[Howard]

Great Show guys.

[cjearkham]

Hi, guys. I really enjoyed the conversation with Oscar Rios, but I was sorry that the discussion of the Mythos works of Robert E. Howard was shorter than I would have liked.

For those interested in these works, the best collection to date is Chaosium's Nameless Cults, now out of print but still available through various retailers. You can see the contents on http://www.yog-sothoth.com/wiki/index.p ... fiction%29. Most of the stories from the old Baen collection which Oscar and Jon remembered are in it, but the Baen PB had some non-Mythos (but still good) horror tales as well, such as the excellent "Pigeons from Hell".

Luckily, most of the stories in Nameless Cults are also in the more reasonably priced collection, The Horror Stories of Robert E. Howard. Missing are those fragments which were finished by others, the novel "Skull-Face", the weird menace story "The Black Bear Bites", and the greatest loss, "The Gods of Bal-Sagoth", which mentions Gol-Goroth, whose name Oscar uses on the YSDC forums. "Skull-Face" and "Bal-Sagoth" (along with other REH stories) are out of copyright in Australia and so appear on gutenberg.net.au.

Other REH stories perhaps not considered to be Mythos by anyone but me include the Conan tale "The Tower of the Elephant" (surely Yag-kosha is related to Chaugnar Faugn), "The Dwellers under the Tombs" (ghouls), "The Haunter of the Ring" (uses Thoth-Amon's ring from "The Phoenix on the Sword", which is also Mythos in my book), the Solomon Kane story "The Moon of Skulls", and the fragment "The Isle of the Eons". By extension, most of Howard's heroic characters end up being connected to the Mythos.

I also engaged in speculation as to "Who Was Worshipped at the Black Stone?" on YSDC, but a fuller version may be found at http://www.rci.rutgers.edu/~cje/mythos/BlackStone.html.

[Howard]

Other REH stories perhaps not considered to be Mythos by anyone but me include the Conan tale "The Tower of the Elephant" (surely Yag-kosha is related to Chaugnar Faugn), "The Dwellers under the Tombs" (ghouls), "The Haunter of the Ring" (uses Thoth-Amon's ring from "The Phoenix on the Sword", which is also Mythos in my book), the Solomon Kane story "The Moon of Skulls", and the fragment "The Isle of the Eons". By extension, most of Howard's heroic characters end up being connected to the Mythos. I also engaged in speculation as to "Who Was Worshipped at the Black Stone?"

Welcome. Good stuff. Thanks for enriching my perspective of his works. Cheers!

[Shannon Mac]

A nice podcast. It was nice to hear Oscar in action since I recently added him to my Facebook (the only real social media that I use besides Goodreads).