{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"327: Narration in Call of Cthulhu, with Ross Bryant","description":" We\u2019re back and we\u2019re talking to ourselves. Not everyone has an interior monologue, but apparently exterior ones are ever rarer. Describing your life in real time like the voiceover from some hard-boiled detective movie may raise some eyebrows, but it is damn good practice for narration in Call of Cthulhu. It\u2019s also a good way of drowning out your interior voice. No one wants to listen to that. If they did, podcasts wouldn\u2019t be anywhere near as popular. Main Topic: Narration in Call of Cthulhu Narration lies at the heart of tabletop roleplaying. The worlds we play in are all shared spaces we create in our heads. In traditional RPGs, such as Call of Cthulhu, most of this worldbuilding and description is in the hands of the GM. So how can we, as Keepers, bring the world to life at the gaming table? What are some techniques we\u2019ve picked up over the years? And what approaches have we learned to avoid? Our Guest Host We are delighted to welcome Ross Bryant back as our guest host for this episode. You may know Ross from The Improvised Shakespeare Company, Dropout TV, The Glass Cannon Network, or the many improvised Call of Cthulhu games he and Scott have played together on Ain\u2019t Slayed Nobody. Most recently, he has launched his own podcast, called Push the Roll With Ross Bryant, where he runs fully improvised games of Call of Cthulhu, based on listener suggestions, for various friends from the worlds of comedy, improv, and tabletop gaming. You can listen to it it wherever you find your podcasts Links Things we mention in this episode include: Blade Runner RPG \u201cIntersections\u201d from World War Cthulhu: Cold War Grizzly Peaks Radio Pulp Cthulhu \u201cDead Boarder\u201d from Gateways to Darkness Ain\u2019t Slayed Nobody Unknown Armies \u201cWhat Makes That Windmill Bleed So?\u201d on Push the Roll With Ross Bryant \u201cThe Colour Out of Space\u201d by HP Lovecraft Blades in the Dark \u201cThe Star Brothers\u201d on How We Roll \u201cThe Burning Stars\u201d from Terrors From Beyond The Sixth Sense (1999) \u201cTime For Chaos\u201d on Glass Cannon Into the Darkness The Two-Headed Serpent The Beiderbecke Trilogy The Venture Bros. The Osterman Weekend by Robert Ludlum Running Blind by Desmond Bagley The Time Machine by HG Wells \u201cThe Murders in the Rue Morgue\u201d by Edgar Allan Poe \u201cThe Cask of Amontillado\u201d by Edgar Allan Poe Diogenes of Sinope \u201cSignal to Noise\u201d by Colin Richards Candle Cove Symphony Entertainment The Stanley Parable Slay the Princess Regency Cthulhu News Christmas Ghost Story Reading Our good friend Mike Perceval-Maxwell of Mr Spike\u2019s Bedtime Stories is once again organising our annual Christmas ghost story reading. This year, we will be presenting \u201cThe Great God Pan\u201d by Arthur Machen, with an exciting cast of guest readers. The readings will take place on The Good Friends of Jackson Elias Discord server over four nights, between the 15th and 18th of December inclusive. Each reading will start at 22:30 GMT and last for 30-40 minutes. As per previous years, we plan to record these readings and release them on the Good Friends\u2019 podcast feed. You can find our previous Christmas ghost stories below. \u201cA Christmas Carol\u201d by Charles Dickens \u201cThe Canterville Ghost\u201d by Oscar Wilde \u201cThe Viy\u201d by Nikolai Gogol \u201cTold After Supper\u201d by Jerome K Jerome \u201cThe Searcher of the End House\u201d and \u201cThe Horse of the Invisible\u201d by William Hope Hodgson Matt and Scott at Illusion Con Matt and Scott will be on various panels at this year\u2019s Illusion Horror Con over the weekend of the 5th-7th of December. We are still finalising details, but you should be able to find them at the convention website. Blasphemous Tome Issue 14 Issue 14 of The Blasphemous Tome will be going out in early January of 2026. This bumper issue includes two new scenarios by Matt and Scott, presenting loose conceptual sequels to \u201cA Social Responsibility\u201d and \u201cBlackwater Creek\u201d. Anyone backing us at the $5 level or higher at the end of December will receive a print copy of the Tome, signed by our own gnarled hands. Backers at the $3 level will receive a voucher for a heavily discounted print-on-demand copy, and every backer will receive the PDF. ","author_name":"The Good Friends of Jackson Elias","author_url":"http:\/\/blasphemoustomes.com\/","html":"