MU Podcast 24 - Propilicious Verisimilitude

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MU Podcast 24 - Propilicious Verisimilitude

Post by Keeper Dan » Sun Feb 03, 2013 8:34 pm

ImageIn Episode 24, we're down to a skeleton crew due to a couple of pretty nasty colds. But Keepers Chad and Murph forge on, with a show dedicated to props and handouts. To kick it off, we cut the ribbon on our new Pickman’s Art Institute segment, with special guest and prop-master Jason McKittrick. And this show has our final 7th Edition segment, in which we discuss an MUP favorite -- chase rules.

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• We take a moment to honor the life and achievements of Lynn Willis, who passed away on January 18th after a long health battle.

Here are some links to thoughtful obituaries.

Charlie Krank and Greg Stafford
Paul of Cthulhu
Bret Kramer

And here are links to forum threads where you can add your own tributes to this founding father of Call of Cthulhu.

YSDC Thread
MUP Thread

• Announcing our Build an Elder God contest winner!

The cultists have spoken! The voting is in, and the winner is Agmar! This being is the creation of Marco Subias, who used Agmar in his Delta Green game, which had taken W Cell to the Dreamlands. Congratulations Marco! Check out his backstory of a human king in the dreamlands under a terrible curse.

Honorable mentions to...

-Clvau Xenthoi - the chaotic bundle of multidimensional energy ribbons by Simon Yee

-Plagiarius - poisonous sharp-toothed larvae with a potent hive mind by Randall Padilla

Another heartfelt thanks to the sponsor of this contest, Signal Fire Studios, and especially Jamie Chambers and Ben Mund.



History Lecture Series

This week, we look at the origin of modern museums and side shows, as Doctor Gerard at the Miskatonic University History Department speaks on the topic of “Doctor Worm and his Cabinet of Curiosities.”

7th Edition Segment

This week, we wrapped up our coverage of the 7th Edition playtest with a discussion of one more proposed mechanic: the chase rules.

Pickman’s Art Institute

To launch our new prop-focused series, we've got the talented thing-maker Jason McKittrick to talk about his art and how he got into Lovecraftian props. We also rope him into giving us an actual tutorial on how to make prop pages from the Necronomicon, using PDFs that you can download and use in your games.

Jason McKittrick's Deviant Art Page (The Dunwich Cthulhu Idol that Murph has.)http://jasonmckittrick.deviantart.com/
The Cryptocurium site

Here are the files for creating the Necronomicon page that Jason and Murph discussed.

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Main Topic

The main topic is a continuation of the prop theme, in which Murph and Chad talk about how to use props and handouts in your game, working them into the story, and easy ways to get started. Keepers Dan and Jon were pretty disappointed they missed this show, but they'll be back to share their thoughts about props another time.

The HPLHS is a fantastic place to start your prop-making experiments. They have a number of free downloads to start with, along with detailed instructions to make the props as historically accurate as possible.

Cthulhu Reborn also just released their first retail product, which is called Mutable Deceptions, Vol 1: Jazz Age Newspapers
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Re: MU Podcast 24 - Propilicious Verisimilitude

Post by Koakai » Mon Feb 04, 2013 5:22 pm

If you want to go beyond the bound Kinko's folder, it is possible to bind a book yourself using pretty simple methods. There are an abundance of tutorials online, going from simple glued bindings, to more long lasting glued and stitched affairs. I think cheap fabric could serve are the cover for most 'recent' rebindings, perhaps scuffed, scratch or scorched as the case may be. Leather is a more expensive proposition, but if you have a really nice prop in the works might make a long lasting keepsake.

For an Oriental Campaign: Japanese bookbinding http://homepages.nildram.co.uk/~dawe5/b ... come2.html
Bookbinding: http://briansawyer.net/craft/bookbinding/ or http://makeprojects.com/Project/Olde-Sc ... ding/1038/
Something a little Different: http://makeprojects.com/Project/Wedding+Book/842/
Something simply stitched together. http://blog.makezine.com/craft/how_to_n ... om_an_old/
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Re: MU Podcast 24 - Propilicious Verisimilitude

Post by Dr. Gerard » Tue Feb 05, 2013 2:46 am

Koakai wrote:If you want to go beyond the bound Kinko's folder, it is possible to bind a book yourself using pretty simple methods. There are an abundance of tutorials online, going from simple glued bindings, to more long lasting glued and stitched affairs. I think cheap fabric could serve are the cover for most 'recent' rebindings, perhaps scuffed, scratch or scorched as the case may be. Leather is a more expensive proposition, but if you have a really nice prop in the works might make a long lasting keepsake.

For an Oriental Campaign: Japanese bookbinding http://homepages.nildram.co.uk/~dawe5/b ... come2.html
Bookbinding: http://briansawyer.net/craft/bookbinding/ or http://makeprojects.com/Project/Olde-Sc ... ding/1038/
Something a little Different: http://makeprojects.com/Project/Wedding+Book/842/
Something simply stitched together. http://blog.makezine.com/craft/how_to_n ... om_an_old/
Fantastic additions. The Japanese one is quite advanced. Have you made any of these?

Dan did a tome in leather that we didn't get to talk about, but for sure we're going to bring up props again.
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Re: MU Podcast 24 - Propilicious Verisimilitude

Post by Koakai » Tue Feb 05, 2013 10:37 am

I have been meaning too ever since I saw some awesome books at a mini maker fair last year. Honestly I just want to get my hands on a good quality parchment, but have yet to stumble across any. I suppose I will eventually bite the bullet and order some. Thankfully I work silver and copper as a hobby, so if I do this, I can make all those lovely metal corners and straps that look great on such books.

On a related note: Thankfully not all the Timbuktu manuscripts were destroyed. And a good chunk were saved. Those that were destroyed a bunch were already digitized by this project.
http://www.tombouctoumanuscripts.org/
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