The Good Friends of Jackson Elias
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The Good Friends of Jackson Elias
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A regular podcast about Call of Cthulhu, horror films, and horror gaming in general. Hosted by Scott Dorward and Matt Sanderson.

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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
December 17, 2025 at 3:10 PM
@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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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
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December 16, 2025 at 4:39 PM
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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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.
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December 16, 2025 at 4:32 PM
@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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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
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December 2, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Ericka Skirpan joins the Good Friends again to explore how we might create horror scenarios without any external antagonists

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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
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November 18, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Ericka Skirpan joins the Good Friends to discuss how we might various techniques from LARP in our tabletop games

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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
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November 4, 2025 at 5:09 PM
@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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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
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October 21, 2025 at 6:35 PM
@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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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
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October 7, 2025 at 3:46 PM
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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.
October 1, 2025 at 2:32 PM
@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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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
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September 23, 2025 at 3:19 PM
@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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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
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September 9, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Andy Goodman from @goodmania.bsky.social joins the Good Friends to explore different ways to shake up and customise the Mythos

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Roll Your Own Mythos, with Andy Goodman - Blasphemous Tomes
Andy Goodman joins the the Good Friends to discuss how to roll your own Mythos from other inspirations and transform Call of Cthulhu
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August 13, 2025 at 3:04 PM
@stardustandsigil.bsky.social joins the Good Friends to discuss what metafiction is, how it applies to horror, and how we can bring it into our games. Or maybe how it can bring us into our games.

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Metafiction and Horror, with Eleanor Hingley - Blasphemous Tomes
Author Eleanor Hingley joins the The Good Friends of Jackson Elias to how metafiction and horror might combine in Call of Cthulhu
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July 29, 2025 at 2:21 PM
@stardustandsigil.bsky.social joins the Good Friends to discuss small town horror, looking into the tropes of the genre and discussing how we can use and subvert them in our games.

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Small Town Horror, with Eleanor Hingley - Blasphemous Tomes
Author Eleanor Hingley joins the The Good Friends of Jackson Elias to discuss how the genre of small town horror might work in Call of Cthulhu
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July 15, 2025 at 4:18 PM
This is the conclusion of our discussion with Kailas from @trebuchetmag.bsky.social about Art and the Cthulhu Mythos. Here, we flip things around and look at a range of artists and art movements as inspiration for our games.

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Art and the Cthulhu Mythos, with Kailas Elmer - Blasphemous Tomes
Kailas Elmer joins the The Good Friends of Jackson Elias to seek gaming inspiration from the relationship between art and the Cthulhu Mythos
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July 1, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Kailas Elmer, publisher of @trebuchetmag.bsky.social, joins the Good Friends for the first of two episodes looking into the relationship between art and the Cthulhu Mythos.

This time, we're looking at Lovecraft, his work, and his thoughts about art.

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Lovecraft and Art, with Kailas Elmer - Blasphemous Tomes
Kailas Elmer joins the The Good Friends of Jackson Elias to explore Lovecraft's relationship with art and how it shaped the Cthulhu Mythos
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June 17, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Holly Buteau from @rpg-reanimators.bsky.social joins us once again. This time, we're exploring analogue horror, trying to pin down just what it is, using examples from media, and how we might bring it to the gaming table.

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Analogue Horror, with Holly Buteau - Blasphemous Tomes
Holly Buteau joins the The Good Friends of Jackson Elias to explore analogue horror, trying to pin down what the genre is and how to game it
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June 4, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Our latest episode heads out into the darkness of space in search of horror. Happily, we have Holly Buteau from @rpg-reanimators.bsky.social as our guide!

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Horror in Space, with Holly Buteau - Blasphemous Tomes
Holly Buteau joins the The Good Friends of Jackson Elias to explore horror in space, seeking inspiration from fact, media, and gaming
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May 21, 2025 at 6:36 PM
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Man the Good Friends has just been killing it with great guests, case in point this Comedy Horror Episode.
May 7, 2025 at 10:54 PM
There's just over six hours left if you want to submit any games for A Weekend With Good Friends

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A Weekend With Good Friends GM Signup - Blasphemous Tomes
A Weekend With Good Friends GM Signup GM signups for the next Weekend With Good Friends have now begun. They will remain open until midnight UTC on Wednesday the 7th of May. You can offer...
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May 7, 2025 at 4:30 PM
@evandorkin.bsky.social joins the Good Friends again, this time to examine how comedy and horror work together, how we can combine them ourselves, and just why so many comedians seem to end up making horror.

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Comedy Horror, with Evan Dorkin - Blasphemous Tomes
Evan Dorkin joins the The Good Friends of Jackson Elias to discuss how we might mix comedy and horror in media and our games
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May 6, 2025 at 4:44 PM
GM signups are now open for A Weekend With Good Friends!

This is the online convention organised by the lovely listeners of The Good Friends of Jackson Elias. It will run between the 13th and 15th of June, and take place on the Good Friends Discord server.

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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
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April 23, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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I had the honor of being the guest co-host for two episodes of The Good Friends of Jackson Elias podcast, the first of which is now available to listen to. Even if you're not a table top RPG gamer, I think you'll enjoy the conversation I had with hosts @sdorward.bsky.social and Matt Sanderson.
RPGs and Fiction, with Evan Dorkin - Blasphemous Tomes
Evan Dorkin joins the The Good Friends of Jackson Elias to discuss how RPGs and fiction influence each other and merge in strange ways
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April 22, 2025 at 9:37 PM
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The ideal opportunity to shamelessly post the "lost" Milk & Cheese entry for the Monster Manual once again.
April 22, 2025 at 1:32 PM