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This article describes the audio equipment used by YSDC to produce our magazine-style podcasts. The different equipment used for both mobile and game recordings are the subject of another article.

In the Beginning

Before detailing our 2013 set-up it may be useful to provide a little context as to how we started back in 2004/5. During this earliest time in podcasting it was easiest to make use of what was immediately to hand, in this case an iRiver iFP-790. Holding a then hefty 256 MB of solid state storage this little device had the ability to record and hardware encode directly to MP3 as well as play back files like any ...

By Keith Herber

First published in Different Worlds magazine issue 40, July/August 1985, pp.10-12 and issue 41, January/February 1986, pp.16-18

Also available as a PDF Adventuring in the Worlds of H.P. Lovecraft by Keith ("Doc") Herber (5 MB)

Part I: The Cthulhu Mythos

H.P. Lovecraft was born in 1890 and, with the exception of a short stay in New York, lived his entire life of forty-seven years in his native Providence, Rhode Island. Dwelling with one or the other of his two aunts - his only living relatives - he passed a near-pauper's ...

By Sandy Petersen

First published in Different Worlds magazine, issue 19, February 1982, pp.8-13



FIRST COPIES OF CALL OF CTHULHU WERE DELIVERED TO OUR OFFICES AMID A THREE DAY STORM OF RAIN, LIGHTNING AND THUNDER ON FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 1981. FREQUENT POWER OUTAGES AND OTHER STRANGE HAPPENINGS WERE NUMEROUS.

A PDF version of this article is available to download. (3.5 MB)

Introduction

Ever since I found a tattered, World war II vintage copy of the ...

By Lynn Wills

First published in Different Worlds magazine, issue 19, February 1982, pp.8-13



FIRST COPIES OF CALL OF CTHULHU WERE DELIVERED TO OUR OFFICES AMID A THREE DAY STORM OF RAIN, LIGHTNING AND THUNDER ON FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 1981. FREQUENT POWER OUTAGES AND OTHER STRANGE HAPPENINGS WERE NUMEROUS.


A PDF version of this article is available to download. (3.5 MB)

Call of Cthulhu is a boxed role-playing game set in 1920s United States, the place ...

By Paul Maclean

Introduction

As you may have guessed from the title, this is not a very serious piece of literature. This article represents some of my very personal views on how I like to play and enjoy Chaosium's excellent game and has led to some moderate success (UK Student Nationals 'Horror' winner 2001, 'Open Superheroes' Winner, 2003, Call of Cthulhu winner 2007).

There are no guarantees to winning tournaments. RPG's are usually about co-operative play for good reasons, Call of ...

By Ben Monroe

The following article by Ben ("zomben") Monroe reflects many of our early (and continuing) passions for the great game that is Call of Cthulhu. Here Ben describes his introduction to the game and the creation of one of its more legendary characters, the inimitable Monterey Jack!
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In the history of the Call ...