The Weekly Scroll Tabletop Podcast
By: The Weekly Scroll
Language: en
Categories: Leisure, Games
Discussion and review of ttrpgs, skirmish and war games, board games, solo games, adventures, and more.
Episodes
EP 296 | We Interview HOTHEAD COLLECTIVE
Dec 01, 2025On this episode of The Weekly Scroll Podcast, Ryan sits down with CJ Somavia of Hothead Collective to talk GLAIVE, a quarterly magazine dedicated to gaming and the subcultures surrounding its various forms of expression. We also talk PAX Unplugged, the loss of third spaces, the "osr" and storygames, Inq28, and more.
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Duration: 01:26:48EP 295 | We Interview JOEY ROYALE
Nov 18, 2025On this episode of The Weekly Scroll Podcast, Ryan sits down with the one and only JOEY ROYALE to talk Weird Heroes of Public Access, crowdfunding, skirmish games, and their current project for Mausritter Month: Tails from the Night Market, a collection of three darkly whimsical pamphlet adventures (and a map) with hours of exploration, mystery, and horror beneath a carnival’s painted smile.
Back Tails from the Night Market here: https://www.backerkit.com/c/projects/get-haunted-industries/tails-from-the-night-market
Find Joey Royale here: https://linktr.ee/whpatv13
EP 294 | We Review the DOOM Arena Board Game Prototype
Nov 15, 2025On this episode of The Weekly Scroll Podcast, Ryan is joined by Jonathan of Goblins & Gardens to discuss and review (kind of) the DOOM ARENA BOARD GAME PROTOTYPE from Modiphius, the fast-paced, brutal PvP miniatures board game based on the iconic videogame series. If you want to see the game playtested check out the vod over on our twitch channel.
Find the Kickstarter here: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/modiphius/doom-arena-board-game
Find Jonathan here: https://goblinsandgardens.com/
EP 293 | We Interview STELLA CONDREY
Nov 13, 2025On this episode of The Weekly Scroll Podcast, Ryan sits down with ttrpg writer, layout designer, and regular on the show STELLA CONDREY to talk about their stack of new releases including The Door in Murex Canyon, Von Hynd Manor, and Red Solstice 6.
Find Stella here: https://poundsofnothing.blogspot.com/
Find The Door in Murex Canyon here: https://spacepenguin.ink/products/the-door-in-murex-canyon-for-cairn-2e-rpg-and-b-x-ose
Find Red Solstice 6 here: https://spacepenguin.ink/products/red-solstice-for-many-rpg-systems
Find Von Hynd Manor here: https://500poundsofnothing.itch.io/vhm-expanded
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Duration: 01:05:09EP 292 | NOT Cat Chats 17 with Jarrett Crader
Nov 11, 2025On this episode of The Weekly Scroll Podcast, we sit down for another 𝗡𝗢𝗧 𝗖𝗮𝘁 𝗖𝗵𝗮𝘁𝘀 with Jarrett Crader of 𝗦𝗽𝗮𝗰𝗲 𝗣𝗲𝗻𝗴𝘂𝗶𝗻 𝗜𝗻𝗸! We catch up a bit, then talk new releases! We have Cairnevale from Josh Domanski, a forested fantasy festival for use with Cairn, and a bunch of stuff from Stella Condrey, including The Door in Murex Canyon and Red Solstice 6!
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Duration: 00:43:48EP 291 | We Talk SELF-PROMO with Clayton Notestine
Nov 08, 2025On this episode of The Weekly Scroll Podcast, Ryan sits down with Clayton Notestine of Explorers Design to follow up his recent article on How to Promote Your Work with our take on Self-Promotion, including the Do's and Don'ts of reaching out to bloggers and podcasters.
Find Clayton and his recent article here: https://www.explorersdesign.com/how-to-promote-your-work/
The people mentioned in this episode:
Matt Morris - https://bsky.app/profile/manarampmatt.bsky.social
Josh Domanski - https://bsky.app/profile/unenthuser.bsky.social
<... Duration: 01:57:58EP 290 | We Interview MATT MORRIS
Nov 04, 2025On this episode of The Weekly Scroll Podcast, Ryan sits down with Matt Morris of ManaDawn Tabletop Games to talk all things Mausritter Month, as well as Matt's current project with Hugh Lashbrooke of Ten Acre Games: ROLLING COAST, an ambitious, interconnected, and beautifully illustrated setting for Mausritter, transforming an amusement park into a vast mouse-scale kingdom of peril, potential, and play.
Back ROLLING COAST here: https://tinyurl.com/rollingcoast
Find Mausritter Month here: https://www.backerkit.com/c/collections/mausritter-month#nav
Find Matt Morris here: https://manadawnttg.itch.io...
Duration: 00:55:17EP 289 | We Play RUMPUS
Oct 24, 2025On this episode of The Weekly Scroll Podcast, Hunter and Ryan are once again joined by Max Moon and Kyle Reimergartin to play RUMPUS, their in-development tabletop miniatures game of tricks, traps, and jiggery-pokery where players gather a troupe of fairies, outfit them with strange and powerful items, and vie for the favor of the Fairy King!
Find the current version of Rumpus here: https://www.maxmoongames.com/product/rumpus_printandplay/79
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Duration: 02:30:03EP 288 | We Interview GOSSAMER COAST
Oct 15, 2025On this episode of The Weekly Scroll Podcast, Ryan sits down with Tyler, Robbie, and Kelsey of Gossamer Coast to talk HINTERLIGHT, a collaborative world-building game that sows the seeds of future adventure amidst the ashes of a gothic faerie empire.
Follow Hinterlight here: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/glasscutter/hinterlight
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Duration: 00:54:33EP 287 | We Review WEIRD HEROES OF PUBLIC ACCESS
Oct 07, 2025On this episode of The Weekly Scroll Podcast, we review WEIRD HEROES OF PUBLIC ACCESS from Joey Royale, a tabletop roleplaying game that lets you and your friends step into the shoes of quirky public access TV personalities battling monsters, angry moms, and juvenile delinquents to save your beloved town of Fairhaven.
Find Weird Heroes of Public Access here: https://linktr.ee/whpatv13
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Duration: 01:12:09EP 286 | We Interview SOULMUPPET PUBLISHING
Oct 02, 2025On this episode of The Weekly Scroll Podcast, Ryan sits down with Zach and Nick of SoulMuppet Publishing to talk DOOMSPIRAL, a new roleplaying game system set in a dying fantasy world, featuring desperate battles, mysterious secrets and fearsome monsters, inspired by games such as Dark Souls and Elden Ring.
Back DOOMSPIRAL here: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/soulmuppet/doomspiral
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Duration: 00:58:04EP 285 | NOT Cat Chats 16 with Jarrett Crader
Sep 28, 2025On this episode of The Weekly Scroll Podcast, we sit down for another 𝗡𝗢𝗧 𝗖𝗮𝘁 𝗖𝗵𝗮𝘁𝘀 with Jarrett Crader of 𝗦𝗽𝗮𝗰𝗲 𝗣𝗲𝗻𝗴𝘂𝗶𝗻 𝗜𝗻𝗸! We catch up a bit, talking about GenCon and upcoming cons, Survivors of the Core Wars, Backerkit Months coming up. We also talk this month's release: ORESTRUCK from Amanda P, an adventure for Cairn that drops your adventuring party into the middle of Pact, a town brimming with corpse thieves, vicious gangs, and an ossified monstrosity.
Grab ORESTRUCK here: https://spacepenguin.ink/products/orestruck-for-cairn-2e-rpg
Grab SURVIVORS OF THE CORE WARS here: https://spacepenguin.ink/products/survivors-of-the-core-wars-for-mothership-sci-fi-hor...
Duration: 00:53:17EP 284 | We Interview GOBLINS & GARDENS
Sep 23, 2025On this episode of The Weekly Scroll Podcast, we sit down with Jonathan Sacha of Goblins and Gardens to talk DUNGEON WILDS 2.0, a playing card game about exploring dungeons, destroying them, and dying over and over again.
Back Dungeon Wilds here: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/jonsacha/dungeon-wilds
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Duration: 00:52:01EP 283 | We Interview GRAFTBOUND PRESS
Sep 16, 2025On this episode of The Weekly Scroll Podcast, Ryan sits down once again with Emily Entner and Lucas Zellers of GRAFTBOUND PRESS. We talk about their recent collaboration with Bright Bard Games, BONDS BETWEEN, and discuss their current project coming to Kickstarter: GLATISANT, a gm-less, asymmetrical ttrpg where you and a friend quest through Arthurian myth as the heroic Knight Errant and the Questing Beast they pursue.
Back GLATISANT here: tinyurl.com/bd949nbv
Find Graftbound Press here: https://graftbound.com/
0:00 Start0:43 Who the heck is Graftbound Press4:00... Duration: 00:54:19EP 282 | We Review DEATH GAME
Sep 13, 2025On this episode of The Weekly Scroll Podcast, we review DEATH GAME from Laurie O'Connel, a narrative driven battle royale ttrpg where you fight for your life for the entertainment of the rich and powerful.
Back Full Send here: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/laurieoconnel/full-send/
Find Death Game here: https://twelvepinspress.com/products/death-game
EP 281 | We Review EAT THE REICH
Sep 08, 2025On this episode of The Weekly Scroll Podcast, we review EAT THE REICH from Grant Howitt of Rowan, Rook, and Dekard, a ttrpg in which you, a vampire commando, are coffin-dropped into occupied Paris and must cut a bloody swathe through nazi forces en route to your ultimate goal: drinking all of Adolf Hitler’s blood.
Find Eat the Reich here: https://rowanrookanddecard.com/product/eat-the-reich
EP 280 | We Interview CLAYTON NOTESTINE
Sep 02, 2025On this episode of The Weekly Scroll Podcast, Ryan sits down with CLAYTON NOTESTINE of Explorers Design to talk about the Classic Explorer Template, digital footprints, and then get REAL deep into the 2025 Ennies, of which Clayton was a judge.
Find Clayton here: www.explorersdesign.com/
EP 279 | We Interview LOGAN DEAN
Aug 28, 2025On this episode of The Weekly Scroll Podcast, we sit down with game designer, Kickstarter coordinator, gunslinger, and soldier of fortune LOGAN DEAN to talk The Company, Geocaching, violence, and their current project WRECK LEAGUE, a competitive mech brawling card game inspired by Lancer, Netrunner, EDH, and having a good fuckin time.
Find Logan here: https://logandean.games/
Sign the Kickstarter Union letter here: https://kickstarterunited.org/
EP 278 | We Interview KOBAYASHI
Aug 21, 2025On 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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Duration: 00:47:10EP 277 | We Discuss BARROW OF THE ELF KING
Aug 20, 2025On 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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Duration: 01:04:15EP 276 | We Interview MOLOMOOT
Aug 14, 2025On 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.
Back Serving Up Disaster here: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/molomoot/serving-up-disaster
Find Mol here: https://molomoot.itch.io/
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Duration: 00:51:28EP 275 | We Review THOUSAND YEAR OLD VAMPIRE
Aug 12, 2025On 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.
Find Thousand Year Old Vampire here: https://thousandyearoldvampire.com/
0:00 Start0:23 Anne Rice and aliens2:16 A giant UM and Josh Domanski2:57 Intro Thousand Year Old Vampire5:38 What have we been up to5:52 Mek 28 Mosh hack9:05 Necropolis miniatures11:51 GenCon is TO... Duration: 01:13:46EP 274 | NOT Cat Chats 15 with Jarrett Crader
Jul 29, 2025On 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.
Grab EX INFERIS here: https://spacepenguin.ink/products/ex-inferis-for-liminal-horror-rpg
EP 273 | We Review CAIN by Tom Bloom
Jul 28, 2025On 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.
Find CAIN here: https://tombloom.itch.io/cain
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EP 272 | We Play RUN FROM THE DARK
Jul 19, 2025On 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
Find Will here: https://www.forbiddenpsalm.com/
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Duration: 02:26:32EP 271 | Rolling Up a Last War Crew | Forbidden Psalm
Jul 16, 2025On 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
<... Duration: 01:29:23EP 270 | We Play Vaults of Vaarn 2E: Part 2
Jul 12, 2025On 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.
Sign up on Backerkit for Vaults Vaarn 2E: https://www.backerkit.com/call_to_action/4f47b7f2-66b4-4e1d-8185-c7fb9ede379c...
Duration: 01:56:01EP 269 | CBR+PNK REVIEW
Jul 06, 2025On 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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Duration: 01:23:28EP 268 | 12 Years at Sea with Max Moon
Jul 06, 2025On 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.
Back Twelve Years at Sea on Kickstarter now: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/moonmax/twelve-years-at-sea-into-the-unknown-islands
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Duration: 01:05:10EP 267 | NOT Cat Chats #14
Jun 26, 2025On 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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Duration: 00:47:15EPISODE 200!
Jun 22, 2025On 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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Duration: 01:50:26TWS Plays 19 - VAULTS OF VAARN 2E
Jun 12, 2025On 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.
Sign up on Backerkit for Vaults Vaarn 2E: https://www.backerkit.com/call_to_action/4f47b7f2-66b4-4e1d-8185-c7fb9ede379c/landing<...
Duration: 02:16:47TWS Campaign: Finale - In the Light of a Setting Sun Tombstone Edition
Jun 03, 2025On 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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Duration: 01:08:43Ep. 199 - Cthulhu Dark
May 27, 2025On 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
Back Cosmic Dark here: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/grahamwalmsley/cosmic-dark
EP 13 | NOT Cat Chats with Space Penguin Ink
May 23, 2025On 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
Find Forbidden Psalm here: https://www.forbiddenpsalm.com/forbidden-psalm
0:00 Start0:50 Tangent of the month16:02 Rosethorn Keep and new SPINew Weekly Scroll Discord: https://discord.gg/SQYEuebVab
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Duration: 00:47:26Ep. 198 - VIOLENCE
May 21, 2025On 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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Duration: 01:54:41Ep. 197 - Interview: Mad As Hell
May 19, 2025On 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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Duration: 00:49:46Ep. 196 - Print Weaver
May 13, 2025On 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...
Duration: 02:07:32TWS Campaign: Session 3 - In the Light of a Setting Sun Tombstone Edition
May 07, 2025On this session of In the Light of a Setting Sun, our cowpokes deal with the aftermath of their late-night encounter then run into some strange people and places as they continue their journey to retrieve smallpox vaccines for the 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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Duration: 01:32:41TWS Campaign: Session 2 - In the Light of a Setting Sun Tombstone Edition
May 03, 2025On this session of In the Light of a Setting Sun, our cowpokes find themselves stuck in a plague-ridden town and must figure out how to get out. And how to get paid while doing it.
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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Duration: 01:45:06Ep. 195 - SHERWOOD
Apr 30, 2025On this episode of The Weekly Scroll Podcast, we read and review SHERWOOD from R. Rook Studio, a game of outlaws and arcana set in a fantastical version of 13th Century England inspired by modern Robin Hood fantasy stories, the Robin of Sherwood television series, and medieval outlaw ballads and romances.
Find Sherwood here: https://r-rook.itch.io/sherwood
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Duration: 01:42:38EP 12 | NOT Cat Chats with Space Penguin Ink
Apr 24, 2025On 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 Michael Moorcock's Eternal champion. Then we chat about Endless Horrors From Between The Stars for Forbidden Psalm and the Deluxe Edition of Liminal Horror that is currently funding on Backerkit.
Find Endless Horrors here: https://spacepenguin.ink/collections/forbidden-psalm/products/the-endless-horrors-from-between-the-stars
Back Liminal Horror Deluxe Edition here: https://liminalhorrorrpg.com/deluxe
New Weekly Scroll Discord: https://discord.gg/SQYEuebVab
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Duration: 00:53:17Ep. 194 - OFFWORLDERS
Apr 22, 2025On this episode of The Weekly Scroll Podcast, we read and review OFFWORLDERS from Chris P. Wolf, a science fiction roleplaying game about adventurers, outlaws, and guns for hire making their fortune on the rough end of the galaxy.
Find OFFWORLDERS here: https://chrispwolf.itch.io/offworlders
Find it in print here: https://www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/257632/offworlders
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Duration: 01:37:09TWS Campaign: Session 1 - In the Light of a Setting Sun Tombstone Edition
Apr 17, 2025On this episode of The Weekly Scroll Podcast, we continue our first TWS Campaign with Session 1 of IN THE LIGHT OF A SETTING SUN TOMBSTONE EDITION by Jon Davis. Hunter and Ryan are joined by Stella Condrey as players and by Jon as the Judge. The campaign will run every (ish) Monday for the next 3-10 weeks.
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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Duration: 02:03:39Liminal Horror Deluxe Edition Preview
Apr 13, 2025On this episode of The Weekly Scroll Podcast, we’re joined by Josh Domanski of the Liminal Horror writing team to preview the LIMINAL HORROR DELUXE EDITION, which is funding on Backerkit starting April 15th!
Back Liminal Horror Deluxe Edition here: https://liminalhorrorrpg.com/deluxeFind Liminal Horror here: https://liminalhorrorrpg.com/
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Duration: 01:26:53TWS Campaign: Session 0 - In the Light of a Setting Sun Tombstone Edition
Apr 12, 2025On this episode of The Weekly Scroll Podcast, we begin our first TWS Campaign with our Zero Session of IN THE LIGHT OF A SETTING SUN TOMBSTONE EDITION by Jon Davis. Hunter and Ryan are joined by Stella Condrey as players and by Jon as the Judge. The campaign will run every (ish) Monday for the next 3-10 weeks.
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
Ep. 193 - RAD
Apr 08, 2025On this episode of The Weekly Scroll Podcast, we read and review RAD from Hipólita, a tabletop roleplaying game set in a post-nuclear Soviet wasteland and inspired by Metro 2033.
Find RAD here: https://hipolita.itch.io/rad
Find the RADIOACTIVE JAME here: https://itch.io/jam/radioactive-jam
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Ep. 192 - Interview: Viditya Voleti
Mar 26, 2025On this episode of The Weekly Scroll Podcast, we sit down with games educator and award-winning game designer VIDITA VOLETI to chat about A Land Once Magic, a conversational game of post-fantasy worldbuilding.
Back A Land Once Magic here: https://alomrpg.world/
Find Viditya here: https://vidityavoleti.itch.io/
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Duration: 00:57:11Ep. 191 - Never Going Home
Mar 25, 2025On this episode of The Weekly Scroll Podcast, we read and review NEVER GOING HOME from Wet Ink Games, a party-focused eldritch horror roleplaying game set in the trenches of the First World War, inspired by the World War Occult art of Charlie Ferguson-Avery
Find Never Going Home here: https://www.wetinkgames.com/store/p/sodium-kedf4
0:00 Start 2:41 Intro the game4:12 A look at the physical books9:00 Readthrough 12:31 A preface to critique1:40:22 Scores1:56:46 Wrap upAll our links here: https://linktr.ee/theweeklyscroll
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Duration: 01:58:18EP 11 | NOT Cat Chats with Space Penguin Ink
Mar 18, 2025On this episode of The Weekly Scroll Podcast, we sit down for another 𝗡𝗢𝗧 𝗖𝗮𝘁 𝗖𝗵𝗮𝘁𝘀 with Jarrett Crader of 𝗦𝗽𝗮𝗰𝗲 𝗣𝗲𝗻𝗴𝘂𝗶𝗻 𝗜𝗻𝗸! As Ryan battles the flu we chat about conventions, tariffs, and the new SPI release for the month, Playthings by Seth Ian, a funnel adventure for Liminal Horror.
Grab Playthings here: https://spacepenguin.ink/products/playthings-for-liminal-horror-rpgAll our links here: https://linktr.ee/theweeklyscrollYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@theweeklyscrollLive Streams on Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/theweeklyscroll Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/the.weekly.scrollBluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/theweeklyscroll.bsky.social
Duration: 00:50:48Ep. 190 - MINIBX
Mar 04, 2025On this episode of The Weekly Scroll Podcast, we read and review MINIBX from Lucas Rolim, a minimalist hack that may in fact be a disruption, subversion, or even a profanity against D&D B/X!
Find MINIBX here: https://lucasrolim.itch.io/minibx
Find the Complete Creative Bundle of Lucas Rolim's games here: https://itch.io/s/146345/complete-creative-bundle-support-my-art-for-just-15
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Duration: 01:34:24TWS Plays 18 - CRYO DRAKUS
Feb 24, 2025On this episode of The Weekly Scroll Podcast, we are joined by Marco Serrano of Spicy Tuna RPG to play CRYO DRAKUS: AN ALIEN RECONNAISSANCE RPG where you pilot spaceships into menacing alien hives surrounding Earth and uncover their secrets by analyzing and trading your findings back home.
Back CRYO DRAKUS here on Kickstarter: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/marcoserrano/cryo-drakus-an-alien-reconnaissance-rpg
Find Marco Serrano here: https://spicytunarpg.com/
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Duration: 01:51:31Ep. 189 - Moonlight on Roseville Beach
Feb 15, 2025On this episode of The Weekly Scroll Podcast, we read and review MOONLIGHT ON ROSEVILLE BEACH from Richard Ruane of R. Rook Studio, a tabletop roleplaying game about a queer beach town in 1979 and the residents who solve its strange, occult mysteries and protect it from elder gods, weird monsters, and greedy real-estate developers.
Find R. Rook Studio here: https://r-rook.studio
Find Moonlight on Roseville Beach here: https://rosevillebeach.r-rook.games/
Back Silver Age on Kickstarter here: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/r-rook/silver-age
Ep. 188 - Interview: Bonds Between
Feb 12, 2025On this episode of The Weekly Scroll Podcast, we sit down with Emily Entner and Lucas Zellers to talk about their ZineQuest project BONDS BETWEEN, a cozy, duet roleplaying game about everyday dragons turning their considerable magic to home improvement as they build a hoard, restore a run-down lair, and come to know their bonded neighbor in the process.
Back BONDS BETWEEN here:https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/residentbard/bonds-between
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Duration: 00:51:13TWS Plays 17 - PREQUEL
Feb 11, 2025On this episode of The Weekly Scroll Podcast, we sit down to chat with Ethan Yen and James Quigley and then get to play their current ZineQuest project PREQUEL, a tactical storytelling game of heroic sacrifice where you play as doomed heroes fighting against their final adversary.Back Prequel here:https://bit.ly/prequel-rpg
Find Etan here:https://ethanyen.com/
Find James here:https://quigjam.itch.io/
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Duration: 02:19:03Ep. 187 - FIREDROP
Feb 10, 2025On this episode of The Weekly Scroll Podcast, we read and review FIREDROP from Christian Sorrell of Meatcastle Gameware, a hex and dice wargame inspired by Helldivers 2 where you and your friends play as Soldiers dropped from low orbit to fight the hordes of superfleas infesting the planet.
Find FIREDROP here:https://shop.meatcastlegameware.com/products/firedrop
And here (link to Missives at the bottom):https://meatcastlegameware.itch.io/firedrop
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Duration: 01:08:38Ep. 186 - Interview: Celestial Bodies
Feb 05, 2025On this episode of The Weekly Scroll Podcast, we sit down with Charlotte Laskowski and Binary Star to talk about their Itch.io record-breaking project CELESTIAL BODIES, a game about humanity's long struggle to colonize the universe, and what will become of them. In Celestial Bodies you play lamplighters: a once-reverent name for the union of pilot and mech, flesh and steel, serving a home-ship.
Save the Kickstarter page here: https://www.binarystar.games/celestial
Find Celestial Bodies Titan Edition here: https://selkie.itch.io/celestial-bodies
Find Charlotte here: https...
Duration: 00:50:07Ep. 185 - DAISY CHAINSAW
Feb 04, 2025On this episode of The Weekly Scroll Podcast, we read and review DAISY CHAINSAW from Charlotte Laskowski, a game of magical girls, cosmic threats, and saving the world one episode at a time. Players roleplay as magical girls—teenagers with special powers living a double life.
Find Daisy Chainsaw here: https://spacepenguin.ink/products/daisy-chainsaw
Find Charlotte here: https://fragrant.garden/about/
0:00 Start 2:24 Six Degrees of Jarrett Crader 5:06 Readthrough 1:12:05 Scores 1:36:14 Wrap up and scoring changesAll our links here: https://linktr.ee/theweeklyscroll YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@theweeklyscroll Live Streams on Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/theweeklyscroll Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/the.weekly.scroll
Duration: 01:38:00Ep. 184 - WULFWALD
Jan 28, 2025On this episode of The Weekly Scroll Podcast, we read and review WULFWALD from Lee Reynoldson and Paolo Greco of Lost Pages, a ttrpg set in a world of mythic Anglo-Saxon tales where the players are Wolfsheads—outcasts, outlaws, and outsiders trying to regain a place in society.
Find Wulfwald here: https://shop.lostpages.co.uk/products/wulfwald-boxed-set
Find Lost Pages here: https://lostpages.co.uk/
0:00 Start 2:11 A look at the box set 6:52 Readthrough 2:14:01 ScoresAll our links here: https://linktr.ee/theweeklyscroll YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@theweeklyscroll Live Streams on Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/theweeklyscroll Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/the.weekly.scroll Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/theweeklyscroll.bsky.social
Duration: 02:32:02EP 10 | NOT Cat Chats with Space Penguin Ink
Jan 22, 2025On 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 our preferred pens, the future of Forbidden Psalm, and new SPI releases Unbidden Gifts of the Tyrian Vale from Katt Kirsch and Tarnation from Symbolic City.
Find Space Penguin Ink here: https://spacepenguin.ink/
Find Katt Kirsch here: https://katt-kirsch.itch.io/
Find Symbolic City here: https://symboliccity.itch.io/
Ep. 183 - SWYVERS
Jan 13, 2025On this episode of The Weekly Scroll Podcast, we read and review SWYVERS from Luke Gearing, David Hoskins, and the Melsonian Arts Council. Swyvers is a lightweight set of rules married to a full set of tools and tables for running a gang of criminals and bastards through the filthy and chaotic sprawl of The Smoke, its many districts, and The Midden.
Find Swyvers here: https://www.melsonia.com/products/swyvers
Find Luke Gearing here: https://lukegearing.blot.im/
Find David Hoskins here: https://www.davidhoskins.com/
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Ep. 182 - NIELSENAUTS
Jan 08, 2025On this episode of The Weekly Scroll Podcast, we read and review NIELSENAUTS from Chris Ramdeen, a freeform roleplaying/improv game where players assume the role of artificial intelligences trying to create successful TV in real time episodes of 15 minutes each.
Here is an audio example of play: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ti4n5cqXeWM
Find Nielsenauts here: https://spacepenguin.ink/products/nielsenauts-make-tv-and-die
Find Chris Ramdeen here: https://pathikablog.com/
Writing Literary Adventures for Cloud Empress & Beyond
Jan 05, 2025On this episode of The Weekly Scroll Podcast, Ryan is joined by Watt for a Cloud Empress writing seminar. Watt discusses Literary Adventures (the what and the why) and shows how they outline their ttrpg adventure design philosophy and workflow.
Find Cloud Empress here: https://cloudempress.com/
0:00 Start
0:49 Presentation Begins
1:15 About Watt, Worlds by Watt, Cloud Empress & more
9:23 Who Cares Whether a TTRPG Adventure Is Literary or Not?
11:25 What is a "Literary Adventure?"
18:31 Writing for Cloud...
Duration: 01:42:22Ep. 181 - 2024 Year End Review
Dec 31, 2024On this episode of The Weekly Scroll Podcast, we recap the top scores for zines and books we gave out through the year! For zines we do the top 3 for each metric, top 3 overall, and our personal top 3s, and for books we do the top 5 for each metric, top 5 overall, and our personal top 5s. Thank you all so much for watching and listening this year!
EP 9 | NOT Cat Chats with Space Penguin Ink
Dec 22, 2024On 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 our recent trip to PAXU, tangent for a while, talk new SPI releases Season's Beatings 2 and The Mall Remastered, and discuss the future of Space Penguin Ink and The Weekly Scroll.
Find Space Penguin Ink here: https://spacepenguin.ink/
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Duration: 00:51:27Ep. 180 - Interview: Gavriel Quiroga
Dec 04, 2024On this episode of The Weekly Scroll Podcast, we sit down with artist, game designer, and writer GAVRIEL QUIROGA to talk all things Neurocity, Warpland, Hell Night, and their current project with Gallant Knight games, Lords of Death and Illusion.
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Duration: 00:53:08Ep. 179 - ALIEN RPG
Dec 02, 2024On this episode of The Weekly Scroll Podcast, we read and review ALIEN THE ROLEPLAYING GAME from Free League Publishing, the official ttrpg for the Alien franchise, which uses their Year Zero Engine but adapts and further develops it to fully support and enhance the core themes of ALIEN.
Find ALIEN RPG here: https://freeleaguepublishing.com/games/alien/
Find Free League here: https://freeleaguepublishing.com/
0:00 Start 1:11 A look at the book and Starter Set 10:27 Readthrough 2:40:46 ScoresAll our links here: https://linktr.ee/theweeklyscroll YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@theweeklyscroll Live Streams on Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/theweeklyscroll Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/the.weekly.scr
Duration: 03:03:58TWS Plays 16 - MOTHERSHIP 1E: Iron Hearth Harvest
Nov 27, 2024On this episode of The Weekly Scroll Podcast, we continue our mini–Mothership Month by playing even more Mothership 1E! For our players, Ryan was joined by Marco Serrano of Spicy Tuna RPG, Christian Sorrell of Meatcastle Gameware, and Jarrett Crader of Space Penguin Ink. And as our Warden we had Chris Airiau of 5 Million Worlds Press, who has written a plethora of wonderful Mothership content, including the adventure he ran for us, IRON HEARTH HARVEST.
You can find Iron Hearth Harvest as part of Mothership Month in Devil's Due from Single Stage to Orbit Press, a co...
Duration: 02:09:48Ep. 178 - Kosmosaurs
Nov 19, 2024On this episode of The Weekly Scroll Podcast, we read and review Kosmosaurs from Diogo Nogueira of Old Skull Publishing, a minimalist action focused ttrpg with a strong narrative bent where you play as a member of an elite force of dinosaur space rangers that defend the galaxy against all forms of threats, both internal and external. Find Old Skull Publishing here: https://oldskull-publishing.com/
Find Kosmosaurs here: https://diogo-old-skull.itch.io/kosmosaurs-rpg
0:00 Start 3:22 A look at the book 7:21 Disclaimer 9:04 Readthrough 1:24:25 ScoresAll our links here: https://linktr.ee/theweeklyscroll YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@theweeklyscroll Live Streams on Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/theweeklyscroll Instagram: https://www.instagr
Duration: 01:40:01Ep. 177 - Interview: Elliot Davis
Nov 14, 2024On this episode of The Weekly Scroll Podcast, Ryan sits down with game designer, artist, producer & cast member of My First Dungeon, and Co-Host of Talk of the Table, ELLIOT DAVIS. We discuss his podcast production company Many Sided Media, his past game design projects, like Project ECCO and Rom Com Drama Bomb, and finally discuss THE TIME WE HAVE, a two-player storytelling card game about brothers in the zombie apocalypse and the final days before one of them turns.
TWS Plays 15 - MOTHERSHIP 1E: Til Death Do Us Part
Nov 11, 2024On this episode of The Weekly Scroll Podcast, we continue our mini–Mothership Month by playing some Mothership 1E. We're joined by Stella Condrey as a player, and Josh Domanski as our GM as well as the author of the adventure, TIL DEATH DO US PART. You can find Till Death Do Us Part as an add-on in the upcoming Backerkit project INTERLOPER from Joel Hines of Silverarm.
Ep. 176 - MOTHERSHIP 1E
Nov 10, 2024On this episode, we read and review Mothership® 1E from Tuesday Knight Games, the award-winning sci-fi horror RPG where you and your crew try to survive in the most inhospitable environment in the universe: outer space!
0:00 Start 5:49 Unboxing 15:07 Disclaimer 16:36 Readthrough 1:53:14 ScoresAll our links here: https://linktr.ee/theweeklyscroll Live Streams on Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/theweeklyscroll Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/the.weekly.scroll Twitter: https://x.com/Weekly_Scroll YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@theweeklyscroll
Duration: 02:11:15EP 8 | NOT Cat Chats with Space Penguin Ink
Nov 08, 2024On this episode of The Weekly Scroll Podcast, we sit down for another 𝗡𝗢𝗧 𝗖𝗮𝘁 𝗖𝗵𝗮𝘁𝘀 with Jarrett Crader of 𝗦𝗽𝗮𝗰𝗲 𝗣𝗲𝗻𝗴𝘂𝗶𝗻 𝗜𝗻𝗸 AND Will Rahman, creator of Forbidden Psalm! We talk Liminal Horror, Forbidden Psalm, The Ghosts of Zoazanna Mountain, Rimbound Transmissions, and more!
Go back The Ghosts of Zoazanna Mountain on Backerkit! https://www.backerkit.com/c/projects/space-penguin-ink/the-ghosts-of-zoazanna-mountain
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Duration: 01:10:03Ep. 175 - Interview: Paint the Town Red - SoulMuppet Publishing
Oct 22, 2024On this episode, we sit down with Zach (Jelly Muppet) of SoulMuppet Publishing to discuss PAINT THE TOWN RED, a sad vampire ttrpg about depression, partying, and falling in love, that explores themes of trauma, vice and loneliness.
Find Paint the Town Red Backerkit here: https://www.backerkit.com/c/projects/soulmuppet/paint-the-town-red
Find the SoulMuppet Discord here: https://discord.gg/kQUc83Q5
Find Paint the Town Red Actual Plays here
My First Dungeon: https://open.spotify.com/episode/18BLIdpc4gAuv6zY3YqVpJ?si=2b25...
Duration: 00:55:31Ep. 174 - Interview: 1D10+5
Oct 17, 2024On this episode, Ryan sits down with Phil of 1D10+5 to talk all things Sölitary Defilement, solo rpgs, game generators, and more! Sölitary Defilement is a set of comprehensive rules for exploring the dying lands solitaire.
Pre-orders are open right now for a new limited edition "Futility of Prayer" Box Set for Sölitary Defilement, designed and screen printed with metallic gold ink by Max Moon!
Find the Futility of Prayer Box Set here: https://www.maxmoongames.com/product/sdBox_futilityofprayer/94?cs=true&cst=custom
All our links her...
Duration: 01:05:12SideQuests Ep 9 - BEST LEFT BURIED: Behind Closed Doors
Oct 16, 2024On episode 9 of SideQuests, we play BEST LEFT BURIED from SoulMuppet Publishing, a rules-light, fantasy horror roleplaying game where the monsters are scary, and you are scared. We have the regular SQ crew of Stella, Ryan, and Hunter, with our resident amazing GM Josh Domanski running the Castle Ascania adventure in Behind Closed Doors by Luke Gearing.
Duration: 03:24:36Liminal Horror Writing Seminar 2: Writing Short Form Horror
Oct 09, 2024On this episode, we’re joined by Josh Domanski of the Liminal Horror writing team to discuss tips and tricks for writing short form horror content for both your home games and publication. Find Liminal Horror here: https://liminalhorrorrpg.com/
Find Case Files here: https://unenthuser.itch.io/case-files-vol-1
Find the Horrors of the Americas Jam here: https://itch.io/jam/horror-of-the-americas-jam
Join the Liminal Horror discord here: https://discord.gg/ptHUNSVDrJ
0:00 Start
0:17 What is LH writing seminar 2 about?
2:10 Hungry Hollow, Twisted Classics, and Horror of the Americ...
Duration: 02:10:01Ep. 173- ECO MOFOS!!
Oct 07, 2024On this episode, we read and review ECO MOFOS!! from David Blandy and Daniel Locke of the Copy Paste Co-Op, a mid-future, weird hope, ecopunk, ruin-delving, survival game.
All our links here: https://linktr.ee/theweeklyscroll Live Streams on Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/theweeklyscroll Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/the.weekly.scroll Twitter: https://x.com/Weekly_Scroll YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@theweeklyscroll
Duration: 02:07:26Ep. 172 - Marching Order Launch Party
Oct 02, 2024On this episode, we host a launch party for Day 1 of the Kickstarter campaign for MARCHING ORDER: CURSE & COIN EDITION from friends of the show James and Brad of Crumbling Keep! We were joined by Matt of ManaDawn Tabletop Games, and the wonderful Janell, who you might recognize from our Mork Borg campaigns. We chatted about the new edition of Marching Order, James ran us through a game of Marching Order, and we game away a PLETHORA of Crumbling Keep books, zines, and pamphlets. Music from The Citadel of Evil by Gnoll, used with permission from Heimat Der Katastrophe ...
Duration: 02:54:42Ep. 171 - TORQ
Sep 30, 2024On this episode, we read and review TORQ from Will Jobst of Good Luck Press, a post-apocalyptic car-PG that's half road warrior tactics, half freeform roleplaying, where you play as a driver with special talents that ventures from community-to-community to help in any way you can.
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Duration: 01:58:46EP 7 | NOT Cat Chats with Space Penguin Ink
Sep 14, 2024On this episode, we sit down for another 𝗡𝗢𝗧 𝗖𝗮𝘁 𝗖𝗵𝗮𝘁𝘀 with Jarrett Crader of 𝗦𝗽𝗮𝗰𝗲 𝗣𝗲𝗻𝗴𝘂𝗶𝗻 𝗜𝗻𝗸! We talk about all of SPI's new releases, including the dual statted DCC/5E adventure The Cobra Express, the new Forbidden Psalm Monthly (for Dread Nights) A Night in the Museum, and new things for The Last War including the Alt Cover softcover and something else exciting on the way. Jert also chats a bit about recent con trips and shows off some loot!
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Duration: 01:12:54Ep. 170 - Interview: Lost Pages
Sep 05, 2024On this episode, Ryan sits down with Paolo Greco of Lost Pages, a small press publisher of fantasy, occult, and weird ttrpgs. Lost Pages has released games such as the original Into the Odd from Chris McDowell, Macchiato Monsters from Eric Nieudan, Book of Gaub, and most recently Beyond the Pale from Yochai Gal. All our links here: https://linktr.ee/theweeklyscroll Live Streams on Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/theweeklyscroll Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/the.weekly.scroll Twitter: https://x.com/Weekly_Scroll YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@theweeklyscroll
Duration: 00:54:45Ep. 169 - His Majesty the Worm
Sep 04, 2024On this episode, we read and review HIS MAJESTY THE WORM from Josh McCrowell, a tarot based megadungeon ttrpg with robust procedures, narrative mechanics, and a focus on oft ignored elements such as food, light, hunger, and inventory management. This is a bit of a long one, so buckle in folks. You can see our previous interviews with Josh on episodes 167 and 117.
Be sure to check out the Worm Jam here: https://itch.io/jam/worm-jam
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Duration: 03:32:04Ep. 168 - Interview: Dai Shugars
Sep 02, 2024On this episode, Ryan sits down with the wonderful Dai Shugars—graphic designer, publisher, accessibility consultant, and social media manager. Dai has worked with Space Penguin Ink, Exalted Funeral, Free League, SoulMuppet, Necrotic Gnome, Tuesday Night Games, and many more. He is also currently developing the gothic horror ttrpg HALFLIGHT. All our links here: https://linktr.ee/theweeklyscroll Live Streams on Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/theweeklyscroll Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/the.weekly.scroll Twitter: https://x.com/Weekly_Scroll YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@theweeklyscroll
Duration: 01:10:54Ep. 167 - Interview: His Majesty the Worm 2
Aug 21, 2024On this episode, we sit down once again with Josh of Rise Up Comus to talk about the release of their long-awaited tarot based mega dungeon game HIS MAJESTY THE WORM and get in the weeds about what it took to get it published and how it feels now.
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Duration: 01:02:44Ep. 166 - Heroes of Cerulea
Aug 12, 2024On this episode, we read and review HEROES OF CERULEA from Lucas Falk of Blackfisk Publishing, an adventure tabletop roleplaying game with lo-fi art and rules and high playability, heavily inspired by the classic Legend of Zelda games.
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Duration: 01:30:37Ep. 165 - Perils & Princesses
Aug 03, 2024On this episode, we read and review PERILS & PRINCESSES, a gritty and pretty fairy tale adventure game from Ryan Lynch of Outrider Creative.
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Duration: 01:55:21Ep. 164 - Forgotten Ballad
Jul 29, 2024On this episode, we read and review FORGOTTEN BALLAD from Fellipe da Silva of Coolwayink, a minimalist Adventure Game style TTRPG heavily inspired by The Legend of Zelda series and the OSR movement.
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Duration: 01:49:26EP 6 | NOT Cat Chats with Space Penguin Ink
Jul 25, 2024On this episode of The Weekly Scroll Podcast, we sit down for another 𝗡𝗢𝗧 𝗖𝗮𝘁 𝗖𝗵𝗮𝘁𝘀 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗦𝗽𝗮𝗰𝗲 𝗣𝗲𝗻𝗴𝘂𝗶𝗻 𝗜𝗻𝗸, with Jarrett Crader! We talk dead CCG's, Tephrotic Nightmares, Gen Con, new SPI releases (including the Forbidden Psalm Monthly We Are Dust and Red Solstice Issue 5), and more!
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Duration: 01:17:10Ep. 163 - Interview: Prismatic Wasteland
Jul 16, 2024On this episode, we sit down once again with blogger and ENNIE award winning adventure writer W.F. Smith, aka Prismatic Wasteland, to talk about the Barkeep on the Borderlands, the Barkeep Jam (happening now), Trouble in Paradisa, and Wonky Willie's Authentic Interactive Extravaganza!
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Ep. 162 - Macchiato Monsters
Jul 14, 2024On this episode, we read and review MACCHIATO MONSTERS from Eric Nieudan and Lost Pages, a rules-light, slightly collaborative, old school roleplaying game. That is not a game about coffee.
0:00 Start 1:32 Lost Pages books 10:19 Readthrough 1:41:44 ScoresAll our links here: https://linktr.ee/theweeklyscroll Live Streams on Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/theweeklyscroll Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/the.weekly.scroll Twitter: https://x.com/Weekly_Scroll YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@theweeklyscroll
Duration: 01:57:05Ep. 161 - Interview: Paweł Kicman & Hellpower
Jul 11, 2024On this episode, we sit down once again with Paweł Kicman to talk about their current project on Backerkit, HELLPOWER, a compatible with Mörk Borg rules-light TTRPG about normal people living in a world dominated by evil super-powered individuals.
Back Hellpower here: https://www.backerkit.com/c/projects/heltung-storytelling/hellpower
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Duration: 00:55:37Ep. 160 - Whitehack 4E
Jul 06, 2024On this episode, we read and review WHITEHACK 4E from Christian Mehrstram, a complete fantasy role-playing game in the original tradition that works by picking a very limited set of pieces and then triangulating them to pin-point how monsters, spells, or abilities works. But before we get into Whitehack we chat a bit about the recent 2024 ENNIE nominations, the Greedy Goblin Summer Sale over at Crumbling Keep, and the release of Red Solstice Issue 5 from Stella Condrey.
0:00 Start 1:55 ENNIE Nominations 10:51 Crumbling Keep Sale 12:19 Red Solstice 14:15 Readthrough 2:38:39 Review 2:53:45 Wrap upAll our links here: https://linktr.ee/theweeklyscroll Live Streams on Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/theweeklys...
Duration: 02:55:22Ep. 159 - Interview: Max Moon & The Village Expansion
Jul 02, 2024On this episode, we sit down once again with one of our favorite designers, and one of our favorite people in the world, MAX MOON! Max is here to discuss the long-awaited and longer planned newest expansion for Twelve Years, THE VILLAGE. The Village is a new option to discover while hexploring, and provides a whole new set of activities as well as a few new classes. Hunter and Ryan each roll up a party and visit a Village to check out what it has to offer.
The funding campaign for The Village Expansion will not be...
Duration: 01:11:41EP 5 | NOT Cat Chats with Space Penguin Ink
Jun 18, 2024On this episode, we sit down for another 𝗡𝗢𝗧 𝗖𝗮𝘁 𝗖𝗵𝗮𝘁𝘀 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗦𝗽𝗮𝗰𝗲 𝗣𝗲𝗻𝗴𝘂𝗶𝗻 𝗜𝗻𝗸, with Jarrett Crader AND Will Rahman, creator of Forbidden Psalm! We talk about the new Forbidden Psalm zines dropping this month—7 Deadly Sins: Gluttony and Most Muscular Minis—as well as Will's current project funding now on Kickstarter, ENDLESS HORROR BETWEEN THE STARS!
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Duration: 01:04:31Ep. 158 - Handbaskets
Jun 01, 2024On this episode, we read and review HANDBASKETS from Max Lander, a cyberwitch, demon-summoning, battle royale ttrpg inspired by CyberMetal 2012 from Adam Vass of World Champ Game Co.
Find Handbaskets here: https://maxwellander.itch.io/handbaskets
0:00 Start 7:24 Readthrough 1:11:30 ScoresAll our links here: https://linktr.ee/theweeklyscroll Live Streams on Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/theweeklyscroll Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/the.weekly.scroll Twitter: https://x.com/Weekly_Scroll YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@theweeklyscroll
Duration: 01:22:04Ep. 157 - Interview: Maxwell Lander
Jun 01, 2024On this episode, we sit down once again with game designer, co-host of the RTFM Podcast, photographer, musician, professor, etc. etc., MAXWELL LANDER. We talked about story games and the OSR, whether game design is art, and a number of other tangents, and briefly discussed their half of the Low-Res Futures flipbook HANDBASKETS.
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Duration: 01:11:57Ep. 156 - Interview: Psychodungeon
May 29, 2024On this episode, Ryan sits down once again with Kayla Dice of Rat Wave Game House to discuss their current project on Kickstarter PSYCHODUNGEON, a fantasy workplace action drama, played using No Dice and No Masters, set in a strange but all too familiar world of mobile phones and magic spells, mass transit and malevolent demons, and the supernatural intermingled with the everyday.
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Duration: 00:59:34Ep. 155 - Shortsword
May 29, 2024On this episode, we read and review SHORTSWORD from Giuliano Roverato, a rules light system inspired by grim TTRPGs of old where a bunch of down-on-their-luck adventurers' team up to do odd jobs in hope of gaining some Ceramic.
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Duration: 00:54:40Liminal Horror Writing Seminar 1: Adapting a Mystery
May 27, 2024On this episode, we’re joined by the Liminal Horror writing team to discuss the tips and tricks for taking existing adventures and stories and adapting them for use in your home games and third-party supplements.
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