Expedition to the Grizzly Peaks

After decompressing from the amazing awesomeness of GaryCon I talk about (amongst other things) NuTSR and Star Frontiers fiasco, Twitching with Goodman Games, and where you go when an epic campaign ends.

the glorious failure of endings

AD&D is a great game with a terrible game system

what it says on the tin

The horror game is in full flight and I reflect on whether we have created something truly scary. Messages from Joe and Julz from a while back give me a bit of a start too.

I have just finished reading Three Hearts and Three Lions by Poul Anderson. Recognized as one of the key texts that inspired and shaped D&D. I ponder how different D&D would be if we had never had heroic fantasy and been stuck in the mire with these wonky and delightful Appendix N novels. Call ins from  Rob (Menion) Barney Jason Karl Rodriguez David Henry

Many moons ago Barney sent me some messages. I am not a good friend but I try to make amends here.

Where I talk about Earthquakes and Lyonesse - and a game or two.

Wherein I talk about The Dying Earth, Clark Ashton Smith, The Empty Man and Tears for Fears

Thanks to all the callers in. Barney, Jason, BJ, Rob "Menion", Karl, Joe and Spencer

Another oh so near. This time England made us hope longer than they had since that black and white day in 1966. I reflect on a lifetime of supporting England, a lifetime of disappointment and longing. This one is all about Football so if you want gaming content - this pod is not for you!

The TSR debacle has me thinking about many things, but mostly about my friends who I game with. This is where I stand.

Continuing the mini-series documenting our journey to create audio horror. In this episode I am joined post game by Spencer, Scott, Nicky, TJ and Barney to discuss our plans for scaring our pants off. Now that I think about it, that idiom is quite silly isn't it. I mean is it because you've crapped yourself, or that your pants have been literally blown off your legs by some supernatural force.

Continuing the mini-series documenting our  journey to create audio horror. In this episode I dig deep with my collaborator TJ Drennon who edits most of our actual plays and is a sometimes player in our Call of Cthulhu games.

The end is in sight

We finally move away from the Eldritch Organ and talk about more appropriate gaming topics - like civil disorder. What a day, what a day.

Barney and Safer have a right old Barney. Whilst I dive for cover. More deep thoughts about our Eldritch experiments in Mystery Improv.

Never mind the quantity - feel the length. Three interesting responses to Barney and my speculations on Improv Cthulhu games that we are planning

I finally get back to series three and talk about the crazy month of November - and finally finish talking about preparing Masks and what horrible things have happened in Kenya so far.

After my first episodes of the Preparing for Epic series Mike got in contact and gave me a bit of a telling off (very gentle don't worry) about my assertion that you need to do a lot of extra preparation beyond the campaign book to run Masks well. I thought what better way to address the issue than to invite him on to the show. For those of you that don't know, Mike is the Creative Director of Call of Cthulhu 7th edition and one of the main writers of Masks of Nyarlathotep.

How do you prepare for heavily plotted campaign. How do you live a parallel life in a parallel world.

A question was asked a little while ago in a call in - which I studiously ignored. The reason being that to answer to would have taken not just one, but probably a whole lot of episodes. So here's my first attempt to answer - how do you prepare for an epic campaign. There's also an epic message from one of my epic players in my epic campaign.

Who knew a bloody dress could lead to so many voices raised in anger

In this episode I finally face the music. I speak to Ciara from my Call of Cthulhu campaign to discuss how I committed one of the worst sins a GM can commit - taking away player agency. 

We take a road trip into the burning California wastelands 

What would my 11-year self tell me about where I am going wrong

We continue to talk about the problems in my Masks of Nyarlathotep campaign and how we are going to make it through to the other side. Content warning - there is a pretty strong and bloody clip from the AP of Masks - but it's worth listening to. Thanks to Karl, Jason, Rob and Safer for the calls.

What does it take to keep a game together - what does it take to keep a relationship together.

Can we play without fear, is death inevitable

You don't play DnD to go to college, you go to college to play DnD

Wherein we discuss the correct way to pronounce Dunwich and emerge smiling from the apocalypse. Thanks for all the call ins, and thanks especially to Barney, Colin, Spencer and Scott for humouring me in the first session of the Watchers at Walberswick.

Waking up to find that you are in Carcosa is a weird feeling. It's actually the 9th of September not the 10th, but you can excuse my confusion. Here's a lot of wonderful and weird call ins from my RPGaDay run. See you in Season 3

Rinse and repeat

Have you even been?

Who's that knocking on my door

Strap in

Gaming is a medium because it is neither rare nor well done

Meet cute

What's in a headline

Resting gamer face

A stack weighs a ton, and a ton is 100 and this is my 100th episode.

What do players want? I know - two episodes in one day.

How do you record a podcast by accident. This is how.

Beginning to see the light. A joint episode between myself and Safer Fantasy Crafting https://anchor.fm/sfc-saferfantasycrafting

Thanks so much to Spencer from Keep off the Borderlands for not suing https://anchor.fm/free-thrall

Immersed in the dark murky depths of roleplaying

Let's talk about sex. Romance in RPG's and rumpy pumpy

What can you say about trees

Paying tribute to better people than us

I'm beginning to see the light

The ties that bind

A deep cut on Mike's work on 7th edition Call of Cthulhu. We talk Chases, Combat, Masks of Nyarlathotep and Insanity.

In the fourth part of an ongoing series the investigators are in a fight to death with a monstrous creature at the Church of St Barnabé. If they survive will they get any closer to finding out the terrifying secret behind the play that haunts their dreams.

Join me and Nicky, Kenneth and Archie as we explore the Arkham Horror card game inspired campaign The King in Yellow

Music and Editing by the maestro TJ Drennon. https://www.patreon.com/TJD/posts

Fun can be a serious business. But fun is such a throwaway and insipid word that it hardly seems adequate to describe what happens to us at the table. I for one, though, can't help using it because after everything else is gone what keeps me coming back is the pure joy of the experience of running and playing Role Playing Games.

Call ins from Che Webster, Jason Connerly, Lieren, Spencer, TJ and Colin Green

In Call of Cthulhu there are worse things than death. Last night we found out what one of those things was.

I forgot for a while how welcoming and warm the Anchor podcast community was. Here are some of the call ins I received upon my return from exile. Thanks to Joe, Che, Barney, Colin, Jason and Spencer. You are all lovely lovely people and I'm glad I have got to know you.

This one will probably raise a few hackles in the community. In this episode I outline why acting out your character, first person, with accents and all leads to a better game experience for everyone at the table. Right I'm going to hide in my basement.

An interview with the Jim Wampler owner of Mudpuppy Games, writer of Mutant Crawl Classics, creator of Marvin the Mage, and in the midst of a super successful Kickstarter for his deluxe fanzine Scientific Barbarian https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/checkthisartifact/scientific-barbarian-1
http://mudpuppycomics.com/games/

Last week I had the huge privilege of spending some time with Scott Dorward, who as a writer and editor for Chaosium's Call of Cthulhu has helped breathe new life into one of the best loved games of all time. In this deep dive into Scott's work we range across his gaming history, his podcast The Good Friends of Jackson Elias, and amazing update he did for Masks of Nyarlathotep, still tagged "The Greatest Campaign Ever Written", You can find Scott at blasphemoustomes.com or on Twitter @sdorward

How to meet gamers and influence people. A look at the unique friendships that can be made through gaming and why they are so fragile.

It's fall in Boulder City and after the gang's crazy summer surely everything will just go back to normal. Role-playing in the 80's that never was. Join Clara "Riff Raff" Booker,  TJ Drennon, Isiah "Sparks" Dyson, and Mike "Nails"  Macklin in another season of mad science

A somewhat scattershot trawl through some past episodes courtesy of a panoply of call in from the singular Roy Lourenco of Chaoses Limb podcast. Music as always by TJ.

What is happening to the adults in the quiet little town of Boulder City and what's it got to do with a bunch of plastic robot toys. Bodie,  Angie, Erik, Brittany and Maybelline try to find out.

Our newest Tales from the Loop actual play.

Role-playing in the 80's that never was.

Players:

Brittany is Julz from NZ https://anchor.fm/jewelsfromnz

Maybelline is TJ Drennon from The Tentacled Tumbleweeds https://anchor.fm/the-tentacled-tumbleweeds

Angie is Lieren from Updates from the Middle of Nowhere https://anchor.fm/lieren

Erik is Jeff from Tome of All Dooms https://anchor.fm/tome-of-all-dooms

Bodie is Joe from Hindsightless and Weal or Woe https://anchor.fm/joe-richter9

https://www.wealorwoe.com/

About 3 months ago I did this Interview with Judd Karlman one of the creators of Sons of Kryos. Along with Jeff Lower and Storn Cook they put out one of the very first gaming podcasts ever made and one that was hugely influential I believe to many podcasters who came after. I'm a huge fan of those early days of RPG podcasting, when things were more innocent and iPhone's and D&D 4th edition didn't exist. If you want to download and listen to that amazing run of 62 episodes - here it is:
https://archive.org/details/SonsOfKryosPodcast

I am a chastised and humbled GM. I was wrong on all counts about chases and specifically chases in Call of Cthulhu 7th edition. They are great. Thanks to the Lonely Adventurer, Colin 'Spikepit' Green and Joe from Hindsightless for making me a better person.

I finally get round to addressing some call ins I got after my interview with Joe Richter where I happened to mention that I fudge dice. There's also a deep dive into my game of Scott Dorward's amazing(ly disgusting) Blackwater Creek scenario for Call of Cthulhu

A winding trail leads us to the conclusion that I don't know how to write mysteries. Also I pick up a bunch of new players on the way so it isn't a complete wash out. Also the Fantasy vs Modern cauldron is bubbling away with call-ins from Joe Richter of Hindsightless

Wherein I discuss and review the 4 starter boxes that Wizards of the Coast created for D&D 5e. 

Setting matters, perhaps more than system. That's one man's one opinion. In this episode I explore the benefits of setting your game in the modern world and how clichés become powerful when translated from other mediums. There's also a ton of spoilers for our 'Ladybug, Ladybug, Fly Away Home' actual play.

During Lockdown I've found a game that seems to push all the right buttons for me and my long time D&D group. Tales from the Loop is a game of kids on bikes in the 80's that never was. The system is elegant and simple, the setting is soaked in nostalgia, and the stories are fantastic. In this episode I go into some detail on how the game system is designed to pull out the best roleplaying from you and your players and it doesn't hurt.

I've decided to call it The Deluge. The flood of games that nearly drowned me. But in a good way. Here's the breakdown of Traveller Mongoose 2nd Edition. And in some ways one of the first "failed" systems that I've run.

I'm Baaaaaack

Grizzly Peaks Radio presents: The fifth episode of our new mini-series.  Barney from Loco Ludus, Jason from Nerds RPG  Variety Cast, Edwin the  Diplomatist, Ian (w/o podcast), Lieren from Updates From The Middle Of Nowhere, and Jeff from Tome  of All Dooms. Edited by TJ Drennon -  https://www.patreon.com/TJD/posts - Music clips  from The Miraculous Mandarin by Bela Bartok.

The Investigators get more than they bargained for when they look at Miles Shipley's masterpiece which he keeps locked in a cupboard. Meanwhile Dr Grieves in a blind panic has run down to the basement where she is joined by the kindly old Bertha Shipley.

Grizzly  Peaks Radio presents Masks of Nyarlathotep actual play. Written  by  Larry DiTillio and Lynn Willis, new version by Mike Mason,  Lynne Hardy, Paul Fricker and Scott Dorward, for Call of Cthulhu 7th edition.

The beginning of a new Call of Cthulhu adventure. After Professor Henry Roades and his wife Abigail went missing in the Miskatonic Valley, a ragtag team of investigators are called in to find out what happened in the creepy backwaters of Blackwater Creek. This classic adventure penned by the inestimable Scott Dorward is a great introduction to the joys of the grand daddy of horror roleplaying games.

In  the third part of an ongoing series the investigators head to Paris to seek the truth from Nigel Engram, the director of the sanity shattering play, The King in Yellow. 

Join me and my guest players, Nicky, Kenneth and Archie as we explore  the Arkham Horror card game inspired campaign The King in Yellow

Music and Editing by the maestro TJ Drennon. https://www.patreon.com/TJD/posts

Role-playing in the 80's that never was. Join Clara "Riff Raff" Booker,  TJ Drennon, Isiah "Sparks" Dyson, and Mike "Nails"  Macklin as they  uncover a frightening mystery during the long hot summer in Boulder  City, Nevada.

Bodie, Angie, Erik, Brittany and Maybelline start discovering that Adults are the real weirdos in Boulder City as the people closest to them start behaving very strangely. Maybe the Robot Toys that have come to life has something to do with it.

Our newest Tales from the Loop actual play.

Role-playing in the 80's that never was. 

Players:

Brittany is Julz from NZ https://anchor.fm/jewelsfromnz

Maybelline is TJ Drennon from The Tentacled Tumbleweeds https://anchor.fm/the-tentacled-tumbleweeds

Angie is Lieren from Updates from the Middle of Nowhere https://anchor.fm/lieren

Erik is Jeff from Tome of All Dooms https://anchor.fm/tome-of-all-dooms

Bodie is Joe from Hindsightless and Weal or Woe https://anchor.fm/joe-richter9

https://www.wealorwoe.com/

Meet Jack "The Hat" McVitie, a new recruit to the Investigative gang as they take an interest in the art world of 1920's London. Salvador Dali hasn't got anything on the bizarre paintings they find in the attic of a certain Mr Miles Shipley.

Grizzly  Peaks Radio presents Masks of Nyarlathotep actual play. Written  by  Larry DiTillio and Lynn Willis, new version by Mike Mason,  Lynne Hardy, Paul Fricker and Scott Dorward, for Call of Cthulhu 7th edition.

Grizzly Peaks Radio presents: The fourth episode of our new mini-series.  Barney from Loco Ludus, Jason from Nerds RPG  Variety Cast, Edwin the  Diplomatist, Ian (w/o podcast), Lieren from Updates From The Middle Of Nowhere, and Jeff from Tome  of All Dooms. Edited by the boy genius TJ Drennon -  https://www.patreon.com/TJD/posts - Music clips  from The Miraculous  Mandarin by Bela Bartok.

In the second part of a (maybe) ongoing series the investigators the socialite Jenny Barnes, the ex-Soldier Mark Harrington and the gravedigger William Yorick make a horrifying discovery in the confinement wing of Arkham Asylum. Can they escape with their lives and their sanity.

Join me and my guest players, Nicky, Kenneth and Archie as we explore the Arkham Horror card game inspired campaign The King in Yellow

Music and Editing by the maestro TJ Drennon. https://www.patreon.com/TJD/posts

Our investigators finally arrive in Old London Town. Hot on the trail of the brutal cultists that have brought death and insanity into their lives they decide to do a bit of sightseeing. I mean it's the sensible thing to do.

Grizzly  Peaks Radio presents Masks of Nyarlathotep actual play. Written  by  Larry DiTillio and Lynn Willis, new version by Mike Mason,  Lynne Hardy, Paul Fricker and Scott Dorward, for Call of Cthulhu 7th  edition.

Role-playing in the 80's that never was. Join Bodie, Angie, Erik, Brittany and Maybelline as the excitement builds for the launch of Our Friends the Machines, the latest money grabbing toy line to sweep the nation. Our newest Tales from the Loop actual play.

Players: 

Brittany is Julz from NZ https://anchor.fm/jewelsfromnz

Maybelline is TJ Drennon from The Tentacled Tumbleweeds https://anchor.fm/the-tentacled-tumbleweeds

Angie is Lieren from Updates from the Middle of Nowhere https://anchor.fm/lieren

Erik is Jeff from Tome of All Dooms https://anchor.fm/tome-of-all-dooms

Bodie is Joe from Hindsightless and Weal or Woe https://anchor.fm/joe-richter9 

https://www.wealorwoe.com/

Role-playing in the 80's that never was. Join Clara "Riff Raff" Booker, TJ Drennon, Isiah "Sparks" Dyson, and Mike "Nails"  Macklin as they uncover a frightening mystery during the long hot summer in Boulder City, Nevada.

For our 50th episode a very special treat. This adventure was intended to be showcased at GaryCon XII and was the second part of a scenario based on the amazing Path to Carcosa story cycle from Arkham Horror the card game by Fantasy Flight Games. Well we all know why that didn't happen, so instead we gathered on Roll20 and recorded the game for Grizzly Peaks Radio. Join me and my guest players, Nicky, Kenneth and Archie as they pay a pleasant visit to Arkham Asylum in search of answers.

Music and Editing by the maestro TJ Drennon. https://www.patreon.com/TJD/posts

Grizzly Peaks Radio presents: The third episode of our new mini-series. Barney from Loco Ludus, Jason from Nerds RPG  Variety Cast, Edwin the Diplomatist, and Ian (w/o podcast) are joined by two new players this week Lieren from Updates From The Middle Of Nowhere and Jeff from Tome of All Dooms. Edited by the multifarious TJ Drennon - https://www.patreon.com/TJD/posts - Music clips  from The Miraculous Mandarin by Bela Bartok.

Our investigators are zeroing in on the perpetrator of the horrific murders on the RMS Mauretania en route to England from New York. But will they be quick enough to save their companion Marcus Abate who is having an intimate conversation with the sadistic Count Korasov.

Grizzly  Peaks Radio presents Masks of Nyarlathotep actual play. Written  by  Larry DiTillio and Lynn Willis, new version by Mike Mason,  Lynne Hardy,  Paul Fricker and Scott Dorward, for Call of Cthulhu 7th  edition.

The Space Dicks are deep in trouble, no ship, surrounded by alien enemies, no idea where they are meant to be headed, situation normal.

We're playing the Mongoose Second Edition starter box adventure - Fall  of Tinath. Join me Andy Goodman and the gang Hugo, Jesse, Danny, and Lester as we find out just how many vehicles a team can crash in one  adventure.

Music by TJ Drennon: https://www.patreon.com/TJD/posts

To tide you over until Season 2 here is a, hopefully, illuminating chat with my friend and gaming virgin Bert who recently joined my Masks of Nyarlathotep game. Watch out for more Bonus treats in the weeks to come.

Ending season 1.  All things end, some go out with a bang, others with a whimper. Let's see how much sh*t we can blow up with one episode.  In these strange times I'm going to be taking a little pause on the "classic" Grizzly Peaks episodes for a while to take stock and think about what season 2 should be. So to see us out, here's a kind of special dedicated to the Leonardo Da Vinci / Lenny Bruce of RPG podcasts, a man of unbounded talent TJ Drennon. Check out his Patreon here https://www.patreon.com/TJD/posts.

Special thanks also to Che Webster and Lieren for their calls as well. 

https://anchor.fm/rpgrescue

https://anchor.fm/lieren

Grizzly Peaks Radio presents: The second episode of our new mini-series Brian M Sammons amazing call of Cthulhu Modern scenario Forget Me Not. An actual play starring; Barney from Loco Ludus, Jason from Nerds RPG Variety Cast, Edwin the Diplomatist, and Ian (w/o podcast).  Music clips from The Miraculous Mandarin by Bela Bartok

Role-playing in the 80's that never was. Join Clara "Riff Raff" Booker, TJ Drennon, Isiah "Sparks" Dyson, and Mike "Nails"  Macklin as they uncover a frightening mystery during the long hot summer in Boulder City, Nevada.

Grizzly  Peaks Radio presents Masks of Nyarlathotep actual play. Written  by  Larry DiTillio and Lynn Willis, new version by Mike Mason,  Lynne Hardy,  Paul Fricker and Scott Dorward, for Call of Cthulhu 7th  edition.

The action starts to hot up on the Mauretania, as our investigators recover from the disturbing visions they saw during the Professors ritual, more horror is just around the corner.

In their new sub-series, Appendicitis, Andy and Barney from Loco Ludus discuss works NOT on the infamous  AD&D Appendix N. In this discussion they look at two poignant and horrifying short stories by Clark Ashton Smith; The Immeasurable Horror and The Metamorphosis of Earth. Both deal with man coming into contact with alien lifeforms and suffering the hideous consequences. Two tales that take on even more resonance in our current times of trouble.

The hapless Space Dicks stumble into a spot of aerial trouble then find a mysterious ancient site, what could possibly go wrong?

We're playing the Mongoose Second Edition starter box adventure - Fall  of Tinath. Join me Andy Goodman and the gang Hugo, Jesse, Danny, and  Lester as we find out just how many vehicles a team can crash in one  adventure.

This episode was edited and has musical accompaniments by the awesome TJ Drennon, check out his patreon here: https://www.patreon.com/TJD/posts

Grizzly Peaks Radio presents Masks of Nyarlathotep actual play. Written  by Larry DiTillio and Lynn Willis, new version by Mike Mason,  Lynne Hardy, Paul Fricker and Scott Dorward, for Call of Cthulhu 7th  edition.

The delightful little cruise on the Mauretania continues, no drama, no worries, just plain sailing.

A grab bag of an episode with plenty of call-ins about my family's two day jaunt to DunDraCon, playing Mutant Crawl Classics and gaming with kids (and anxiety) thanks to all the contributions from Che, Josh, Barney, Edwin, Spencer. And apologies for the car noise.

With music as always by TJ - https://www.patreon.com/TJD/posts

In response to my first podcast on Judges Guild. Goodman Games and the Bledsaw racism controversy I had a ton of call ins from all manner of lovely people in the community. Here I try to answer the all and give my final words on the subject. Call-ins from Daniel from NYC,  Tim Shorts https://anchor.fm/gothridgemanor Che Webster https://anchor.fm/rpgrescue Lonely Adventurer https://anchor.fm/lonely-adventurer  Lieren https://anchor.fm/lieren and Josh Beckelhimer https://anchor.fm/jbpublishing  Music by TJ Drennon https://www.patreon.com/TJD/posts

In this freewheeling discussion Joe Richter and I discuss all manner of nonsense about recording and launching an Actual Play RPG podcast. Joe is the GM for Weal or Woe, the first Pathfinder 2 AP out there and as such is infinitely more knowledgeable about the topic than me, but that didn't stop me inserting my own ignorant opinions into the chat. Hope you enjoy. Check out Joe and his crew at https://www.wealorwoe.com/ or his brilliant Anchor podcast, Hindsightless at https://anchor.fm/joe-richter9 .

APOLOGIES ABOUT THE AUDIO QUALITY OF THIS EPISODE, I'LL GET BETTER I PROMISE :(.
Grizzly Peaks Radio presents Masks of Nyarlathotep actual play. Written by Larry DiTillio and Lynn Willis, new version by Mike Mason, Lynne Hardy, Paul Fricker and Scott Dorward, for Call of Cthulhu 7th edition. Ejected from their home and country our heroic investigators set sail for Southampton, England aboard the magnificent vessel the RMS Mauretania. What could be more relaxing than a 6-day cruise across the Atlantic.

The first of a series of episodes where I talk about my love for 5th edition Dungeons and Dragons. In this first part I talk about the elegance of character progression and bounded accuracy.

Thanks to TJ Drennon for his music mastery. Find him on Patreon at https://patreon.com/TJD

Grizzly Peaks Radio presents Masks of Nyarlathotep actual play. Written   by Larry DiTillio and Lynn Willis, new version by Mike Mason, Lynne   Hardy, Paul Fricker and Scott Dorward, for Call of Cthulhu 7th edition.

After the horrors at Ju Ju House our intrepid investigators are taken to a safe house at Emerson imports where they nervously wait for passage out of America. Will the weird objects they recovered from that hellish basement prove to be too tempting to resist? What mind shattering revelations will happen when they delve into the foul books and objects that nag away at the edge of their vision.

Grizzly Peaks Radio presents Masks of Nyarlathotep actual play. Written  by Larry DiTillio and Lynn Willis, new version by Mike Mason, Lynne  Hardy, Paul Fricker and Scott Dorward, for Call of Cthulhu 7th edition.

The horrifying conclusion to the New York Chapter - our intrepid investigators descend in to the depths of Ju-Ju House. What mind melting monstrosities await them? Will they avenge the death of their good friend Jackson Elias? Will they finally get their hands on some nunchuks. 

A show dedicated to an epic call-in from Barney from Loco Ludus. All about GM'ing styles, improv vs narrative, and a "take-down" of my Call of Cthulhu actual play!

Grizzly Peaks Radio presents Masks of Nyarlathotep actual play. Written by Larry DiTillio and Lynn Willis, new version by Mike Mason, Lynne Hardy, Paul Fricker and Scott Dorward, for Call of Cthulhu 7th edition.

The investigators head to Harlem to try and find help as they prepare to venture into the depths of JuJu House, but forces are aligning against them.

Introducing:

Claudia Stein, former U-Boat Captain in WWI, now a dilettante spending her summers in the Swiss Alps and her winters in Monaco.

G.R.U.M.S. a rootin', tootin', rail riding hobo from Louisiana, never to be found too far away from a cat.

Bill Rakesheare, a Scottish groundsman with a troubled past and a good throwing arm. Always has a wrench slipped up his sleeve

Dr Gwen Grieves, a doctor up to her neck with the New York mob, she uses Morphine to ease her pain and memories of her dead husband.

Cole 'Charon' Morteson, a horribly scarred PI who used to work for the NYPD

Marcus Abate, an academic with a wild streak, watch out for that switchblade. Likes alcohol in bags.

As is traditional you've got to end the year with a call in show. So here is the roll of honour. 

Thanks to:

Spencer, Jason, Josh, Che, Varin, Joe, Shandy Andy, Vance, Danny, Daniel, John, Evil Jeff, and Barney.

Grizzly Peaks Radio presents Masks of Nyarlathotep actual play. Written by Larry DiTillio and Lynn Willis, new version by Mike Mason, Lynne Hardy, Paul Fricker and Scott Dorward, for Call of Cthulhu 7th edition. 

Introducing the cast: 

Claudia Stein, former U-Boat Captain in WWI, now a dilettante spending her summers in the Swiss Alps and her winters in Monaco.

G.R.U.M.S. a rootin', tootin', rail riding hobo from Louisiana, never to be found too far away from a cat.

Bill Rakesheare, a Scottish groundsman with a troubled past and a good throwing arm. Always has a wrench slipped up his sleeve

Dr Gwen Grieves, a doctor up to her neck with the New York mob, she uses Morphine to ease her pain and memories of her dead husband.

Cole 'Charon' Morteson, a horribly scarred PI who used to work for the NYPD 

Marcus Abate, an academic with a wild streak, watch out for that switchblade. Likes alcohol in bags.

In this first episode we have a recap of the teams adventures so far in Peru and New York and we begin in the Westchester mansion of Erika Carlyle, sister of Roger, the leader of the lost expedition to Egypt and Kenya. The have found a stash of his ancient and powerful tomes which they are casually perusing in Erika's library.

Taking running the game literally. Concluding the America chapter of Masks of Nyarlathotep.

A random collection of bits. Turkey carnage, angry at the OSR anchorites, "comedy", thank you's to Jason, Jeff and Spencer. And Out of Office.