Games, Books, Movies & Improv (Cloud Empress) (E314)

About this episode

This episode covers a variety of topics including games, books, movies, and improv.

This is an off-the-cuff episode, wherein I cover a variety of things. Free PDFs: Cairn: Barebones Edition by Yochai Gal https://yochaigal.itch.io/cairn-barebones-edition Intergalactic Bastionland: Beyond Into The Odd: Playtest by Chris McDowall https://open.substack.com/pub/bastionland/p/bastionland-goes-intergalactic?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web Books: Promethean Horrors: Classic Tales of Mad Science by Xavier Aldana Reyes for British Library Tales of the Weird The Uncanny by Sigmund Freud It Was All A Dream: An Anthology of Bad Horror Tropes Done Right by Brandon Applegate Films: Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1931) dir. Rouben Mamoulian The Black Cat (1934) dir. Edgar G. Ulmer Black Pit of Dr. M (1959) dir. Fernando Mendez The Plague of the Zombies (1966) dir. John Gilling Theatre of Blood (1973) dir. Douglas Hickox Frightmare (1974) dir. Pete Walker Messiah of Evil (1974) dir. Willard Huych, Gloria Katz Phantasm (1979) dir. Don Coscarelli Weapons (2025) dir. Zach Cregger RPG Material: Cosmic Dark by Graham Walmsley The No-Prep Gamemaster: Train Your Brain to Run Tabletop Roleplayng Games Second Edition by Matt Davids…

Topics covered

• RPGs
• books
• movies
• improv

Keywords

• Cairn
• Intergalactic Bastionland
• Promethean Horrors
• The Uncanny
• Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
• Cosmic Dark

Mentioned in this episode

Products: Cairn: Barebones Edition, Intergalactic Bastionland: Beyond Into The Odd, Promethean Horrors: Classic Tales of Mad Science, The Uncanny, It Was All A Dream: An Anthology of Bad Horror Tropes Done Right, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

Books & works: Cairn: Barebones Edition, Intergalactic Bastionland: Beyond Into The Odd, Promethean Horrors, Tales of the Weird, The Uncanny by Sigmund Freud, It Was All A Dream, The Black Cat, The Plague of the Zombies, Theatre of Blood, Messiah of Evil

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