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Gateway Horror, with Sasha Sienna - Blasphemous Tomes Sasha Sienna joins the Good Friends to discuss gateway horror, exploring books, films, and games that might draw new fans into the genre

@sashasienna.bsky.social joins the Good Friends to discuss gateway horror for the young and old, and how we can draw upon it to make our games more accessible to the horror-averse

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I'm really glad you enjoyed it!

Twenty Palaces is a phenomenal series. It's the perfect antidote to the more generic forms of urban fantasy. Just pure creativity and weirdness.

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Call of Cthulhu and Urban Fantasy, with Seth Skorkowsky - Blasphemous Tomes Seth Skorkowsky joins the Good Friends to explore the genre of urban fantasy and what it might offer our games of Call of Cthulhu

I was pleased this episode of @goodfriendsofje.bsky.social, focusing on Urban Fantasy and Cthulhu, not only has @sskorkowsky.bsky.social as a guest, but they have some good deep cuts, including the Twenty Palaces series by @byharryconnolly.bsky.social

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3 weeks ago 8 2 2 0

They were on my list to discuss, but we ran out of time. I'm a huge fan of @craigschaeferbooks.com's work.

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Call of Cthulhu and Urban Fantasy, with Seth Skorkowsky - Blasphemous Tomes Seth Skorkowsky joins the Good Friends to explore the genre of urban fantasy and what it might offer our games of Call of Cthulhu

@sskorkowsky.bsky.social joins the Good Friends to explore the genre of urban fantasy and what it might offer our games of Call of Cthulhu.

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A Weekend With Good Friends - Blasphemous Tomes A Weekend With Good Friends is an online roleplaying convention run by the lovely listeners of the Good Friends of Jackson Elias podcast

A Weekend With Good Friends is returning this summer, between 12-24 June, with games and panels running throughout!

This, of course, is the online convention organised by our lovely listeners, taking place on The Good Friends of Jackson Elias Discord server.

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The Miskatonic Repository, with Bridgett Jeffries - Blasphemous Tomes Bridgett Jeffries joins the Good Friends to discuss the Miskatonic Repository and pick a few choice Call of Cthulhu scenarios from its vaults

@symphonyhorror.bsky.social joins the Good Friends to talk about some of our favourite scenarios from the Miskatonic Repository

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You definitely haven't heard the last of Bridgett on the Good Friends!

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Happy reading!

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Religious Horror, with Zach Reeves - Blasphemous Tomes Zach Reeves of Pretending to be People joins the Good Friends to discuss the subgenre of religious horror and how we might use it in our games

Zach from @pretendingpod.bsky.social joins us again, this time to explore the many ways religion connects to horror

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2 months ago 5 3 0 2

It's wonderful seeing the little fellow making a return!

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I finished Scratchman last night which was a huge amount of fun. I then started leafing through a book about Cryptids that I bought in Des Moines last year. I think my subconscious was swayed by the recent @goodfriendsofje.bsky.social episode about cryptids.

2 months ago 4 1 0 0
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Connecting Scenarios in Call of Cthulhu, with Zach Reeves - Blasphemous Tomes Zach Reeves of Pretending to be People joins the Good Friends to discuss connecting scenarios in Call of Cthulhu to create an ad hoc campaign

Zach Reeves from @pretendingpod.bsky.social joins the Good Friends to explore how we can create campaigns by mixing together disparate Call of Cthulhu scenarios.

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2 months ago 10 3 0 1

There are a pile of online cons through the year which are worth a look... @goodfriendsofje.bsky.social do an excellent horror one.

3 months ago 3 1 0 0
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Cryptids and Call of Cthulhu, with Paula Deming - Blasphemous Tomes Paula Deming joins the the Good Friends to explore the hidden world of cryptids, and how they might inspire our Call of Cthulhu games

Paula Deming joins the Good Friends once again to talk about our favourite cryptids and how they might find their way into our games

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3 months ago 5 1 0 1
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Bonus: Just One More Thing - Blasphemous Tomes The Good Friends of Jackson Elias present a sample of our backer-only podcast, Just One More Thing, offering new thoughts on recent episodes

For a little over a year, we've been putting out monthly bonus episodes on Patreon in which Matt and Scott revisit recent episodes with insights and ideas they couldn't fit into the original discussion.

We thought we'd share one of these publicly as a taste.

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3 months ago 5 3 0 1
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Cthulhu and Board Games, with Paula Deming - Blasphemous Tomes Paula Deming joins the the Good Friends to explore the overlap between Cthulhu and board games, picking some Lovecraft-themed favourites

Paula Deming joins the Good Friends to discuss the various ways Cthulhu's tentacles have wormed their way into board games.

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3 months ago 4 3 0 1
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GOAT OF THE YEAR
Commission for the Blasphemous Tome #14 @goodfriendsofje.bsky.social Inked traditionally, colored digitally by yours truly 2025

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The Birds, with Ross Bryant - Blasphemous Tomes Ross Bryant joins the the Good Friends to discuss Alfred Hitchcock's horror film The Birds and the Daphne du Maurier story which hatched it

@rossbryant.bsky.social joins the Good Friends once again, this time to discuss Hitchcock's 1963 classic The Birds and the Daphne du Maurier story which inspired it.

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4 months ago 6 5 1 1
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The Great God Pan, by Arthur Machen - part 1 - Blasphemous Tomes The Good Friends of Jackson Elias present a reading of Arthur Machen's "The Great God Pan", directed by Mike Perceval-Maxwell.

Part 1 of our annual festive ghost story reading is now out! You can hear the next part live at 22:30 GMT on the Good Friends Discord server.

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Narration in Call of Cthulhu, with Ross Bryant - Blasphemous Tomes Ross Bryant joins the the Good Friends to discuss various narration techniques that can bring our games of Call of Cthulhu to horrifying life

@rossbryant.bsky.social joins the Good Friends once again to discuss techniques for bringing narration to life as a Keeper. There's a lot of solid, practical advice in this episode.

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4 months ago 5 1 0 1

Glad you liked it!

I totally get the appeal of bofffer larps, but I agree that they're not my thing. It was an interesting and weirdly educational experience, however, and it did affect how I look at tabletop games.

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We Are the Horror, with Ericka Skirpan - Blasphemous Tomes Ericka Skirpan joins the the Good Friends to discuss how we can play horror RPGs with no external antagonists

Ericka Skirpan joins the Good Friends again to explore how we might create horror scenarios without any external antagonists

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Using LARP Techniques at the Table, with Ericka Skirpan - Blasphemous Tomes Ericka Skirpan joins the the Good Friends to explore how we can apply LARP techniques to tabletop RPGs such as Call of Cthulhu

Ericka Skirpan joins the Good Friends to discuss how we might various techniques from LARP in our tabletop games

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The White People, with Jared Logan - Blasphemous Tomes Jared Logan joins the the Good Friends to Arthur Machen's weird fairy tale The White People and how it can our inspire Call of Cthulhu games

@jaredlogan.bsky.social joins the Good Friends once more, this time for a deep dive into Arthur Machen's classic weird tale "The White People"

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6 months ago 4 1 0 1
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The Joy of Gore, with Jared Logan - Blasphemous Tomes Jared Logan joins the the Good Friends to discuss the the joy of gore, and how we can bring some blood and guts to our Call of Cthulhu games

@jaredlogan.bsky.social joins the Good Friends to help us work out why we love gore so much, why it makes us laugh, and how we can use it in our games without it becoming numbing

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6 months ago 5 0 1 1
Push the Roll with Ross Bryant stylized heading with a photo of Rashawn Scott smiling backstage underneath. In the bottom third the text "Completed Series" with the title "The Day we Met? with Rashawn Scott." Beside the text is an illustration of a duck wearing a coat.

Push the Roll with Ross Bryant stylized heading with a photo of Rashawn Scott smiling backstage underneath. In the bottom third the text "Completed Series" with the title "The Day we Met? with Rashawn Scott." Beside the text is an illustration of a duck wearing a coat.

The Day We Met? is now a completed series on Push the Roll with @rossbryant.bsky.social

We laughed, we panicked, we maybe fell in love. Big thanks to @rashawnscott.bsky.social for making this game unforgettable.

Catch all the episodes wherever you listen to podcasts.

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28 Days Later, with Maverick Haenze - Blasphemous Tomes Maverick Haenze joins the the Good Friends to discuss the 2002 British horror film 28 Days Later, looking for gaming inspiration

@rinahaenze.bsky.social joins us for a follow-up to our zombie chat. This time, we're sinking our teeth into 28 Days Later, looking for gaming inspiration.

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6 months ago 4 1 1 2
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Zombies, with Maverick Haenze - Blasphemous Tomes Maverick Haenze joins the the Good Friends to discuss how zombies have shambled from Haitian beliefs to horror media, mutating on the way

@rinahaenze.bsky.social joins the Good Friends to discuss how zombies changed from sorcerously cursed slaves to apocalyptic hordes of flesh-eating ghouls, and how we might use them in our games.

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7 months ago 3 1 0 3

Most of that was down to @aptshadow.bsky.social and his amazing GMing

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