Jason Cordova joins us to discuss Michael Shea’s “A Quest for Simbilis”, Powered by the Apocalypse games, the correct pronunciation of Cugel, gothic horror, the publishing world in the 1970s, Lovecraftian horror fiction, high stakes games of strip poker, moving from absurdity to horror in an instant, crunchier traditional game systems, comedic hijinks, high fantasy vs sword and sorcery, fantasy fiction in the 80s and 90s, and much more!
Appendix N Book Club 
À propos of the name Cugel, it is worth noting that it probably comes from the Yiddish kugel (pronounced with a hard g), the name of a soufflé-like dish, which would therefore fit the character’s “puffed up” demeanour, at least in the original Vancian iteration.
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