On this episode of The Weekly Scroll Podcast, we sit down with game designer Alexandre "KOBAYASHI" Jeannette to talk about The Black Sword Hack, going fulltime as a game designer, and their current project on Kickstarter—FALLEN BLADES ENDLESS STARS, a mark of the odd space opera zine where you play space knights battling an evil empire.
Back Fallen Blades, Endless Stars here: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/alexandrekobayashi/fallen-blades-endless-stars-a-space-opera-rpg-zine
Find Kobayashi here: https://alexandre-kobayashi.itch.io/
and here: https://www.drivethrurpg.com/en/publisher/12338/livres-de-l-ours
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On this episode of The Weekly Scroll Podcast, we discuss our first adventure on the show, BARROW OF THE ELF KING by Nate Treme of Highland Paranormal Society. Barrow of the Elf King is an exploratory location for fantasy tabletop adventure games, suggested for a party of 3-4 level one adventurers using The Vanilla Game by Jared Sinclair.
Alright, listen. Ryan gets a little heated in this one, so remember that these are just our (probably terrible) opinions and to take them with a big grain of salt.
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On this episode of The Weekly Scroll Podcast, we sit down to chat with artist and game designer MOLOMOOT to talk GenCon, SoulMuppet, Gordon Ramsay's ass, and their current project SERVING UP DISASTER, a ttrpg of kitchen nightmares.
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On this episode of The Weekly Scroll Podcast, we review THOUSAND YEAR OLD VAMPIRE by Tim Hutchings, a solo roleplaying game of loss, memory, and vampires with prompt-driven play and simple resource tracking that provides easy rules for exploring your character’s human failings, villainous acts, and surprising victories. Expect gut-churning decisions and irreconcilable acts.
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On this episode of The Weekly Scroll Podcast, we sit down for another 𝗡𝗢𝗧 𝗖𝗮𝘁 𝗖𝗵𝗮𝘁𝘀 with Jarrett Crader of 𝗦𝗽𝗮𝗰𝗲 𝗣𝗲𝗻𝗴𝘂𝗶𝗻 𝗜𝗻𝗸! We talk about cat dads, sumo, Weird Tales, and the newest release from Space Penguin Ink—EX INFERIS from Tyler Welch and BoRyan Crum, a Liminal Horror Twisted Classic adventure that reimagines the cult sci-fi movie Event Horizon (1997) as a modern-day nautical nightmare.
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On this episode of The Weekly Scroll Podcast, we review CAIN from Tom Bloom, a narrative roleplaying game about playing psychic death soldiers hunting monstrosities made of human trauma. You might also know Tom Bloom as the author and illustrator of Kill Six Billion Demons and co-creator of the Lancer RPG.
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On this episode of The Weekly Scroll Podcast, we're joined by Will Rahman, creator of the incredible Forbidden Psalm skirmish game, to play RUN FROM THE DARK, a folk horror roleplay game about death, light, hope, and things that go bump in the Dark. We're also joined by our wonderful and frequent player Stella Condrey.
Run From the Dark is coming to Kickstarter later this year, but you can save the campaign now to follow along. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/impioussaint/run-from-the-dark-a-folk-horror-roleplay-game
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On this episode of The Weekly Scroll Podcast, we started a long project here on the show...THE LAST WAR, an expansion for Forbidden Psalm from Will Rahman. We did a rundown of the game and then spent most of the episode rolling up our Crews. The plan is to kit bash and paint our Crews during some hobby streams on Twitch and then run them against each other on VTT. And you'll get to see the whole project from beginning to end!
Find THE LAST WAR here: https://www.forbiddenpsalm.com/last-war
Find The Last War Boxset here: https://wargamesatlantic.com/products/the-last-war
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On this episode of The Weekly Scroll Podcast, we're back with Vaults of Vaarn creator Leo Hunt for PART 2 of VAULTS OF VAARN 2E! Vaults of Vaarn is a psychedelic science-fantasy adventure game with minimalist rules that empower player creativity, a pervading tone of melancholy weirdness, and an emphasis on procedural content generation. Chris P Wolf, creator of Offworlders and Night Tripper, returns as a guest player.
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On this episode of The Weekly Scroll Podcast, we review CBR+PNK AUGMENTED from Emanoel Melo and Mythworks, a Forged in the Dark cyberpunk ttrpg where you play as a team of RUNNERS—mercs, criminals, and activists living on the edge and running in the shadows of a gritty, ultraviolent world. This is the first review in our new format, so let us know what you think!
CBR+PNK on Itch - https://itch.io/b/1830/cbrpnk-augmented-digital-bundle
CBR+PNK on Mythworks - https://www.myth.works/products/cbr-pnk
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On this episode of The Weekly Scroll Podcast, we sit down with friend of the show, one of our favorite designers, and one of our favorite people in the world, MAX MOON! Max is here to talk about TWELVE YEARS AT SEA, the epic seafaring expansion for Twelve Years inspired by classic weird fiction, mythology, and Harryhausen films.
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On this episode of The Weekly Scroll Podcast, we sit down for another 𝗡𝗢𝗧 𝗖𝗮𝘁 𝗖𝗵𝗮𝘁𝘀 with Jarrett Crader of 𝗦𝗽𝗮𝗰𝗲 𝗣𝗲𝗻𝗴𝘂𝗶𝗻 𝗜𝗻𝗸! We talk about thunderstorms, what the year looks like for Space Penguin Ink, and the new release for this month— Empire of Hatred from Sam Sorenson, a black metal hexcrawl adventure written for MÖRK BORG with over 300 keyed locations.
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On EPISODE 200 of The Weekly Scroll Podcast, we talk about some big changes that are coming to the show, then we discuss our favorite games that we think are the best and most underrated that we've looked at since we started this.
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On this episode of The Weekly Scroll Podcast, we're joined by Vaults of Vaarn creator Leo Hunt to talk and play VAULTS OF VAARN 2E, a psychedelic science-fantasy adventure game with minimalist rules that empower player creativity, a pervading tone of melancholy weirdness, and an emphasis on procedural content generation. Chris P Wolf, creator of Offworlders and Night Tripper, also joins us as a guest player.
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On the finale of In the Light of a Setting Sun, our cowpokes face off against the bandits that have overrun Fort Cotswald in a last-ditch effort to retrieve a shipment of smallpox vaccines for the stricken town of Black Tongue.Find In the Light of a Setting Sun here: https://sivads-sanctum.itch.io/in-the-light-of-a-setting-sun-tombstone-edition Find Ghosts of the Seirra Verde here: https://sivads-sanctum.itch.io/ghosts-of-the-sierra-verde
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On this episode of The Weekly Scroll Podcast, we read and review CTHULHU DARK from Ennie-winning creator Graham Walmsley, a rules-light tabletop roleplaying game of bleak, cosmic horror. Graham is currently kickstarting COSMIC DARK, a game of weird space horror set in a universe in which life, technology, and reality become twisted and wrong.
Find Cthulhu Dark here: https://www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/341997/cthulhu-dark
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On this episode of The Weekly Scroll Podcast, we sit down for another 𝗡𝗢𝗧 𝗖𝗮𝘁 𝗖𝗵𝗮𝘁𝘀 with Jarrett Crader of 𝗦𝗽𝗮𝗰𝗲 𝗣𝗲𝗻𝗴𝘂𝗶𝗻 𝗜𝗻𝗸! We start with our monthly tangent; this time it's Sumo Wrestling, Rock Climbing, and Football (Soccer). Then we talk new released and happenings with SPI, including Rosethorn Keep from Kaydevs and Charlotte Laskowski, and upcoming things from Forbidden Psalm. Find Rosethorn Keep here: https://spacepenguin.ink/products/rosethorn-keep
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On this episode of The Weekly Scroll Podcast, we read and discuss Luke Gearing's VIOLENCE, a fast, nasty, and light resolution system, as well as two collections made for it of adventures, rules, settings, and more, both of which started as itch jams.
VIOLENCE on Luke Gearing's blog: https://lukegearing.blot.im/violence
Violence Collection: https://magical-b.itch.io/violence-jam-fuck-war
Violence Collection in print: https://spearwitch.com/products/violence-collection
Violence2: https://empty-the-clip.itch.io/violence2
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On this episode of The Weekly Scroll Podcast, we sit down once again with Zach Cox, aka Jelly Muppet, to talk about a new project from Soul Muppet Publishing—MAD AS HELL, a radical, liberationist, anti-capitalist, demon hunting ttrpg, written by Evie Moriarty with illustrations by Per Janke, Scrap Princess, and Alex Eckman-Lawn.Mad As Hell is funding right now on Kickstarter: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/soulmuppet/mad-as-hellFind Soul Muppet Publishing here: https://soulmuppet-store.co.uk/
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On this episode of The Weekly Scroll Podcast, we read and review PRINT WEAVERS from N.L. Morrison, where players use their own fingerprints to create characters in a gothic soulslike tabletop roleplaying game.
To start, we throw it back to the "Kickstart the Podcast" days and look at a number of projects that are crowdfunding right now.
Find Print Weaver here: https://nlmorrison.itch.io/print-weaver
Liminal Horror Deluxe Edition: https://www.backerkit.com/c/projects/space-penguin-ink/liminal-horror-deluxe-edition
Golem Parade: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/alexandrekobayashi/golem-parade
OSRIC 3: https://www.backerkit.com/c/projects/mythmere-games/osric-3
Flames of Orion: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/flames-of-orion/flames-of-orion
Cloud Empress: Stories from the Slip: https://www.backerkit.com/c/projects/worlds-by-watt/cloud-empress-tales-from-the-hereafter
The Job: Boxset Edition: https://www.backerkit.com/c/projects/exalted-funeral/the-job
Mad As Hell: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/soulmuppet/mad-as-hell
Liquid Steel: https://www.backerkit.com/c/projects/melsonian-arts-council/liquid-steel
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