1 00:00:15,520 --> 00:00:17,880 Hello and welcome to the Weekly Scroll Podcast. 2 00:00:17,880 --> 00:00:20,480 My name is Ryan. I'm the other guy. 3 00:00:22,200 --> 00:00:26,920 And today we are doing our year end review that's already said 4 00:00:26,920 --> 00:00:29,800 year end our year. In Review. 5 00:00:30,080 --> 00:00:35,120 Of the year end in review for for 2025. 6 00:00:36,960 --> 00:00:42,920 Man, it was a year things happened, Yeah. 7 00:00:43,120 --> 00:00:45,680 It's very true. I can't disagree with that 8 00:00:45,680 --> 00:00:47,640 statement right there. Things did happen. 9 00:00:48,080 --> 00:00:49,640 Things did happen. I'm going to keep it a buck. 10 00:00:49,640 --> 00:00:54,040 2025 kind of fucking sucked. Yeah, I don't know what that. 11 00:00:55,520 --> 00:00:59,080 The return of our glorious overlord Donald J Trump, who's 12 00:00:59,080 --> 00:01:03,160 going to lead America, may to be great again, or maybe for the 13 00:01:03,160 --> 00:01:10,160 first time ever. Or into a a authoritarian death 14 00:01:10,160 --> 00:01:13,160 spot, anyway. Anyway, it was the. 15 00:01:13,240 --> 00:01:15,240 Same thing again. Yeah, same thing. 16 00:01:15,280 --> 00:01:18,840 Yeah. You know, I love being being 17 00:01:18,840 --> 00:01:25,400 beholden to a Oompa Loompa. But 2025, that's the year that 18 00:01:25,400 --> 00:01:27,560 we're looking at. It was it was an interesting 19 00:01:27,560 --> 00:01:31,080 year for the show. We did fewer reviews this year, 20 00:01:31,080 --> 00:01:34,280 a lot more interviews. Hunter decided to go back to 21 00:01:34,280 --> 00:01:37,040 school. We just it was it was a year 22 00:01:37,040 --> 00:01:41,240 things happened. So this, if you've watched our 23 00:01:41,240 --> 00:01:44,440 previous year. Oh, also, this is also episode 24 00:01:44,440 --> 00:01:48,160 300. Whoa, calm down everyone. 25 00:01:48,480 --> 00:01:53,280 Can we believe that 300 episodes is kind of crazy? 26 00:01:53,280 --> 00:01:57,040 Yeah, it's pretty crazy. Yeah, Hunter is finally learning 27 00:01:57,040 --> 00:01:58,440 how to read. Yep. 28 00:02:00,840 --> 00:02:01,960 Nope. Nope. 29 00:02:02,080 --> 00:02:04,600 You think you think you learn how to read in the American 30 00:02:04,600 --> 00:02:06,440 education system? That's crazy. 31 00:02:06,480 --> 00:02:07,720 That's. Crazy because I definitely 32 00:02:07,720 --> 00:02:13,120 platformed meat castle game onto this like year in review thing 33 00:02:13,120 --> 00:02:15,120 so whatever. Do I need to go back and delete? 34 00:02:16,160 --> 00:02:17,920 Fire drop off everything I put it on. 35 00:02:20,600 --> 00:02:27,040 I'm trying to look at when we actually dropped our first 36 00:02:27,040 --> 00:02:30,840 episode for the weekly scroll podcast. 37 00:02:32,080 --> 00:02:35,320 Mini Moons, because mini mini moons. 38 00:02:37,360 --> 00:02:41,560 Yeah, so our first episode hit YouTube on. 39 00:02:45,160 --> 00:02:47,440 Man, I got a scroll for a while because there's 300 of these 40 00:02:47,440 --> 00:02:52,040 fucking things. Our first episode hit YouTube on 41 00:02:52,040 --> 00:02:54,160 God. It doesn't actually just give a 42 00:02:54,160 --> 00:02:57,360 date, it just says 4 years ago. Click the where it says 4. 43 00:02:57,480 --> 00:02:59,160 It clicked for it on four years ago. 44 00:02:59,680 --> 00:03:11,560 Yeah, December 3rd, 2021. Wow, December 3rd, 2021. 45 00:03:11,760 --> 00:03:15,080 It is after December 3rd, 2025, so we have been doing this for 46 00:03:15,080 --> 00:03:18,680 four years. Four years strong. 300 episodes 47 00:03:18,680 --> 00:03:21,040 in four years is kind of nutty. Yeah. 48 00:03:22,480 --> 00:03:26,360 Yeah. So like I said, the review is 49 00:03:26,360 --> 00:03:27,880 going to be a bit different this year. 50 00:03:27,880 --> 00:03:30,360 We did fewer games this year. Like I said, I think we did a 51 00:03:30,360 --> 00:03:36,120 total of 21 games, which is not a less than last, not a lot less 52 00:03:36,120 --> 00:03:40,280 than yes, last year, but even last year it felt a little light 53 00:03:40,280 --> 00:03:42,120 with the 28 games with the way we did it. 54 00:03:42,240 --> 00:03:44,920 We're also going to be changing up the format of the show a 55 00:03:44,920 --> 00:03:47,040 little bit, which we'll talk about at the end. 56 00:03:47,280 --> 00:03:51,720 So scores are are what they are. So why don't we just kind of hop 57 00:03:51,720 --> 00:03:56,040 into the presentation and and kind of go from there. 58 00:03:56,040 --> 00:04:02,080 So this is the year in review of 2025 for the Weekly Scroll 59 00:04:02,080 --> 00:04:05,200 podcast and once again, Episode 300. 60 00:04:06,520 --> 00:04:08,400 Crazy. Thank you, loan Archivist. 61 00:04:09,400 --> 00:04:12,400 Yeah, fun little thing actually. Loan archivist is in our chat 62 00:04:12,400 --> 00:04:18,120 and also their H dot IO is open on my on like an extra second 63 00:04:18,120 --> 00:04:21,800 tab on my screen there. You go we we summoned them. 64 00:04:21,800 --> 00:04:23,640 Just bring up their H pages and they will come. 65 00:04:24,120 --> 00:04:26,280 I was. Looking at Warp, a micro light 66 00:04:26,280 --> 00:04:29,000 role-playing game. There you go Loan Archivist does 67 00:04:29,000 --> 00:04:33,320 make great micro RPGs. So what are we starting off with 68 00:04:33,320 --> 00:04:35,560 here? Oh, the recap of the year. 69 00:04:35,560 --> 00:04:41,200 So this this year we did 65 episodes, which is kind of 70 00:04:41,200 --> 00:04:43,280 crazy, and you were on about half of them. 71 00:04:44,160 --> 00:04:48,320 There you go. We should add that that in. 72 00:04:49,040 --> 00:04:51,360 Yeah, How many you were actually what the percentage that you 73 00:04:51,360 --> 00:04:55,200 were actually there? About about 1/4 of the 74 00:04:55,200 --> 00:04:59,800 interviews, 65 total episodes. We did 21 game reviews. 75 00:05:00,440 --> 00:05:03,920 OK, again, we did 28 the year before, which means in the two 76 00:05:03,920 --> 00:05:05,440 years part of that we did a fuck load. 77 00:05:05,440 --> 00:05:07,160 Especially the first year because I think we talked about 78 00:05:07,160 --> 00:05:09,160 it before the show started. I need to sit down and get the 79 00:05:09,160 --> 00:05:13,280 exact number, but it's over 125 different game reviews so far on 80 00:05:13,280 --> 00:05:17,200 the show. What's 100 percentage on this 81 00:05:17,200 --> 00:05:18,840 episode? Right now it's 100%, but we'll 82 00:05:18,840 --> 00:05:21,240 see how it goes. But we'll see how it gets by the 83 00:05:21,280 --> 00:05:22,320 end. I might just walk away. 84 00:05:22,720 --> 00:05:26,680 There you go. We did 18 interviews and for 85 00:05:26,680 --> 00:05:28,680 those on Podcast Land, we are live and we're going to actually 86 00:05:28,680 --> 00:05:33,400 talk to chat today. So deal with it. 65 episodes, 21 87 00:05:33,400 --> 00:05:38,640 game reviews, 18 interviews, 10 different actual play episodes, 88 00:05:41,960 --> 00:05:46,000 9 not Cat Chats episodes with Jerk from Space Penguin, which 89 00:05:46,000 --> 00:05:48,680 is our most consistent thing we do. 90 00:05:48,680 --> 00:05:50,080 I think at this point, absolutely. 91 00:05:50,840 --> 00:05:54,840 And seven special episodes. Oh, you know, we should have 92 00:05:54,840 --> 00:05:57,040 recapped the the seven special episodes. 93 00:05:57,040 --> 00:05:59,400 Maybe we'll do that a little bit in the in the next slide. 94 00:05:59,400 --> 00:06:01,440 Some of the stuff that we've been over, the cool shit we did, 95 00:06:01,920 --> 00:06:03,800 cool shit we did, cool shit we did. 96 00:06:04,280 --> 00:06:06,520 What's next? Oh, it's the cool shit we did 97 00:06:06,520 --> 00:06:08,560 this year. Perfect. 98 00:06:08,880 --> 00:06:11,640 That's perfect. You, as I bring that up, why 99 00:06:11,640 --> 00:06:13,600 don't you talk about some of the cool shit we did this year? 100 00:06:13,840 --> 00:06:17,040 Yeah, we played multiple sessions of in the light of a 101 00:06:17,040 --> 00:06:20,640 setting sun with some guy. We did a whole campaign of in 102 00:06:20,640 --> 00:06:25,320 the light of the setting sun. Yeah, some, some, some some dude 103 00:06:26,040 --> 00:06:27,240 and that. Was a blast. 104 00:06:27,240 --> 00:06:29,600 I mean, I think that that's exactly the kind of like hex 105 00:06:29,600 --> 00:06:33,880 crawl game that would I would run at my table, you know? 106 00:06:34,760 --> 00:06:36,920 Yeah. And I love, I love being a 107 00:06:36,920 --> 00:06:42,480 little cowboy, you know? Yeah, yeah, I I got to surprise 108 00:06:42,480 --> 00:06:45,400 you. Our highest viewed episode this 109 00:06:45,440 --> 00:06:47,960 year. I can give you the total on 110 00:06:47,960 --> 00:06:50,040 YouTube for the highest viewed episode. 111 00:06:50,040 --> 00:06:52,880 That is going to be episode one of our Varn. 112 00:06:54,760 --> 00:06:59,480 It got 3.23 point 2K views on YouTube, hit over 3K. 113 00:06:59,480 --> 00:07:02,280 It's a second million views. Exactly. 114 00:07:02,280 --> 00:07:05,880 Yeah, it's the second highest viewed episode ever, which is 115 00:07:05,880 --> 00:07:07,880 cool. But my Oh no. 116 00:07:08,360 --> 00:07:10,120 Yeah. My favorite part about that is 117 00:07:10,120 --> 00:07:12,600 that Varn is one of Hunter's favorite games. 118 00:07:13,000 --> 00:07:17,200 And, and Hunter didn't know I set all of that up, the entire 119 00:07:17,200 --> 00:07:19,840 AP, everything that we were going to do without letting 120 00:07:19,840 --> 00:07:23,760 Hunter know so that when he popped in the episode, Leo was 121 00:07:23,760 --> 00:07:28,720 just there and I got to surprise Hunter with, with an AP of Varn. 122 00:07:28,720 --> 00:07:31,480 We did 2 episodes of that and have talked to Leo a bunch and, 123 00:07:31,480 --> 00:07:33,640 and hopefully we'll bring them back on maybe to continue that 124 00:07:33,640 --> 00:07:38,520 or play again a, a different part once the book actually 125 00:07:38,520 --> 00:07:39,880 drops. So really excited for that. 126 00:07:39,880 --> 00:07:43,200 Leo was such a cool guy, you know, and all the stuff that was 127 00:07:43,200 --> 00:07:47,440 inspired by Varn, you know, is, is is cool too, you know? 128 00:07:48,000 --> 00:07:49,480 We talked about that before the show started. 129 00:07:49,800 --> 00:07:53,920 Yeah, some of the other cool stuff we did this year. 130 00:07:53,920 --> 00:07:57,600 Let me start. We hit our 200th episode which 131 00:07:57,600 --> 00:08:05,840 which we decided to condense after that because we went from 132 00:08:05,840 --> 00:08:13,760 like I don't know what we called it, episode like 199 to like 200 133 00:08:14,280 --> 00:08:15,960 or what was it? What was it doesn't matter. 134 00:08:16,360 --> 00:08:20,760 We went from like 200 to like 267 in one jump because I 135 00:08:20,760 --> 00:08:23,680 renumbered all of our episodes. So basically we had 67 non 136 00:08:23,680 --> 00:08:26,600 review episodes prior to that. So that was fun. 137 00:08:26,600 --> 00:08:31,600 We hit episode 200 this year and episode 300 somehow. 138 00:08:32,440 --> 00:08:38,960 We we did our violence special, which was really cool. 139 00:08:39,039 --> 00:08:43,360 We just went through the various violence publications that were 140 00:08:43,360 --> 00:08:44,159 out. We'll talk about that stuff a 141 00:08:44,159 --> 00:08:48,280 little bit later. Going back to the beginning, we 142 00:08:48,280 --> 00:08:52,480 had the we started the year with the Cloud Empress Writing 143 00:08:52,480 --> 00:08:57,320 Literary Adventures presentation with Watt, which is really fun. 144 00:08:57,400 --> 00:08:59,480 People weren't there for that. Shot Watt. 145 00:09:00,000 --> 00:09:05,160 Yeah, shout out what we also did the Liminal Horror Deluxe 146 00:09:05,160 --> 00:09:08,680 edition like preview presentation, which was awesome. 147 00:09:11,080 --> 00:09:14,080 And stop saying so much already talked about violence, hit our 148 00:09:14,080 --> 00:09:17,760 200 episodes we did rolling up a last War crew for Forbidden 149 00:09:17,760 --> 00:09:19,400 Psalm and then never touched it again. 150 00:09:19,400 --> 00:09:21,960 Maybe we'll get to that. Maybe we'll get to that in 2026. 151 00:09:21,960 --> 00:09:23,760 Hey, I've been waiting for you the whole time. 152 00:09:24,280 --> 00:09:27,760 And I got a whole tools that I'm ordering today so. 153 00:09:28,240 --> 00:09:30,360 There we go. I did send you a big list. 154 00:09:31,280 --> 00:09:34,120 I did the self promo episode with Clayton. 155 00:09:34,120 --> 00:09:37,240 Note Stein Clayton was also on for one of my favorite 156 00:09:37,240 --> 00:09:40,360 interviews of the year, which was me just talking shit about 157 00:09:40,360 --> 00:09:44,520 the Indies the entire time because fuck the Indies and I 158 00:09:44,520 --> 00:09:47,720 and I hold to that even more. So another great episode you can 159 00:09:47,720 --> 00:09:52,080 check out is Daiku had an episode in 20 in October where 160 00:09:52,080 --> 00:09:56,720 they also kind of broke down their their kind of experience 161 00:09:56,720 --> 00:10:01,200 with the Indies because they actually did submit to the 162 00:10:01,200 --> 00:10:03,680 innies and I think their take was really interesting on it. 163 00:10:03,960 --> 00:10:06,720 So that was a really fun episode with the interview. 164 00:10:06,720 --> 00:10:09,200 But the self promo episode with Clayton was really, really 165 00:10:09,200 --> 00:10:11,600 great. We got to break down two 166 00:10:11,600 --> 00:10:17,480 different kind of experiences with create like people reaching 167 00:10:17,480 --> 00:10:20,120 out to someone who writes A newsletter and stuff like that 168 00:10:20,120 --> 00:10:22,480 and someone who runs podcast and, and give our experience 169 00:10:22,480 --> 00:10:24,760 with those interactions. So that was really, really fun. 170 00:10:25,840 --> 00:10:29,160 And oh, we also did what I called a special. 171 00:10:29,160 --> 00:10:34,160 We did our one review kind of of an adventure this year. 172 00:10:34,680 --> 00:10:36,440 Yeah. Yeah, where it is. 173 00:10:36,720 --> 00:10:40,160 Did end up being just ranting about how I hate so much stuff 174 00:10:40,160 --> 00:10:41,760 for 30 minutes. That was really fun that. 175 00:10:42,320 --> 00:10:44,160 Was cool because. That was cool. 176 00:10:44,160 --> 00:10:45,920 We had a lot of really, really great interviews with a lot of 177 00:10:45,920 --> 00:10:47,440 cool people. And of course we got to see Jerk 178 00:10:47,440 --> 00:10:50,720 9 times. So that was, that was. 179 00:10:50,760 --> 00:10:52,280 Really fun, yeah? Never a bad time. 180 00:10:52,280 --> 00:10:55,760 So that's kind of the cool shit we did this year. 181 00:10:56,480 --> 00:10:57,840 What was the name of the adventure? 182 00:10:57,840 --> 00:10:59,680 The Barrow of the Elf King? Or is that what it is? 183 00:10:59,680 --> 00:11:01,440 Yeah, yeah, it's Nate Tree. Yes, thank you. 184 00:11:01,520 --> 00:11:03,520 Yeah, Nate Treme. Nate Treme is Barrow of the Elf 185 00:11:03,520 --> 00:11:06,800 King. Great adventure, incredible 186 00:11:06,800 --> 00:11:08,080 stuff, everything that Nate Treme does. 187 00:11:08,720 --> 00:11:11,240 If you ever want to check out more of that, we did a whole 188 00:11:11,240 --> 00:11:13,640 episode, especially in the past, where we go over a haunted 189 00:11:13,640 --> 00:11:15,800 Almanac from Nate, one of the most creative. 190 00:11:15,800 --> 00:11:19,240 Like you're one of those like your favorite game designer's 191 00:11:19,240 --> 00:11:21,960 favorite game designer kind of people who quietly just drops 192 00:11:22,440 --> 00:11:26,120 incredible shit all the time. So I definitely want to check 193 00:11:26,120 --> 00:11:29,080 out Highland Paranormal Society in Nature May. 194 00:11:29,080 --> 00:11:31,320 So that's cool shit we did this year. 195 00:11:31,320 --> 00:11:34,280 So let's talk about the games we reviewed. 196 00:11:35,400 --> 00:11:39,280 As I said, we reviewed 21 games this year. 21. 197 00:11:39,800 --> 00:11:40,880 Yeah, and you wonder what they are. 198 00:11:40,880 --> 00:11:42,920 Oh, here we go. For those in podcast land, I'll 199 00:11:42,920 --> 00:11:46,840 say them out loud, but this is the covers of all 21 games we 200 00:11:46,840 --> 00:11:48,600 reviewed this year. We reviewed. 201 00:11:48,680 --> 00:11:53,800 We started with Nielsenauts, went to Swibers, Wolfwald, Daisy 202 00:11:53,800 --> 00:11:59,240 Chainsaw, Fire Drop, Moonlight on Roseville Beach, Mini BX, 203 00:11:59,360 --> 00:12:05,640 Never Going Home, Rad Off Worlders, Sherwood Print, 204 00:12:05,640 --> 00:12:11,160 Weaver, Cthulhu, Dark Cyber Plus, Punk, Kane, 1000 Year Old 205 00:12:11,160 --> 00:12:15,680 Vampire, Eat the Reich, Death Game, Weird Heroes of Public 206 00:12:15,680 --> 00:12:21,280 Access, Doom Arena, Board Game and Cauldron. 207 00:12:21,920 --> 00:12:24,280 So we did. We did one solo game this year, 208 00:12:24,280 --> 00:12:27,160 1 adventure this year, and one board game this year. 209 00:12:28,680 --> 00:12:29,840 Yeah, and. Really. 210 00:12:30,040 --> 00:12:31,800 And one skirmish. Skirmish game, yeah. 211 00:12:32,160 --> 00:12:35,960 Expanded our horizons, you know, boldly look at us. 212 00:12:36,600 --> 00:12:38,560 Yeah, Thanks so much for the Congrats. 213 00:12:39,080 --> 00:12:41,280 So these are the 21 games we looked at this year. 214 00:12:41,280 --> 00:12:43,400 And as I said, we're going to do this a little bit different. 215 00:12:43,400 --> 00:12:47,960 We, we, we score games that we review with a number of metrics 216 00:12:48,720 --> 00:12:52,000 and towards the end of the year, you know, like for example, we 217 00:12:52,000 --> 00:12:54,080 reviewed Cauldron, we decided not to do metrics. 218 00:12:54,080 --> 00:12:56,720 I don't remember we did them for Doom either. 219 00:12:56,720 --> 00:13:02,040 I don't think we did because that was something that Modifius 220 00:13:02,040 --> 00:13:04,640 actually sent us because we did open ourselves up to receiving 221 00:13:04,640 --> 00:13:06,880 review copies this year. That's another thing we did. 222 00:13:07,160 --> 00:13:10,000 But I did a really good job for like 4 years of telling people 223 00:13:10,000 --> 00:13:11,440 we don't accept them. So no one sent a shit. 224 00:13:11,440 --> 00:13:13,080 Which is great because I like it. 225 00:13:13,080 --> 00:13:15,880 I, I, I would rather buy your shit, but if you really want to 226 00:13:15,880 --> 00:13:18,760 send it to me, I'll take it. But Modifius did send us the 227 00:13:18,760 --> 00:13:21,240 Doom Marina board game and it was actually really fucking fun. 228 00:13:21,440 --> 00:13:24,560 I backed the shit out of it on Kickstarter afterwards and I'm 229 00:13:24,560 --> 00:13:26,960 going to have a shit load of minis I don't really need so I 230 00:13:26,960 --> 00:13:28,680 can play more Doom. Perfect. 231 00:13:29,960 --> 00:13:35,840 But yeah, so let's talk about some of the games we reviewed. 232 00:13:35,840 --> 00:13:42,560 We gave 3/4 tens this year total across all of our metrics. 233 00:13:42,560 --> 00:13:47,480 The metrics we look at for books are art and layout, usability, 234 00:13:47,520 --> 00:13:55,600 originality, value and rule set in books and in scenes. 235 00:13:55,600 --> 00:13:58,160 It's visuals, rule set and vibes, right? 236 00:13:59,080 --> 00:14:01,600 And then we kind of mashed those together as the year went on. 237 00:14:01,600 --> 00:14:03,600 We made our episode shorter this year. 238 00:14:03,640 --> 00:14:05,800 I think we averaged about between an hour, an hour and a 239 00:14:05,800 --> 00:14:10,400 half, which is great. And, and so we gave 10, we gave 240 00:14:10,400 --> 00:14:12,880 4 total 10s. We didn't score Cauldron. 241 00:14:12,880 --> 00:14:15,520 We didn't give it scores, but Cauldron would have got a 10 or 242 00:14:15,520 --> 00:14:18,000 not it. Does have a 10 in our layout and 243 00:14:18,000 --> 00:14:22,080 I so it gets to be so. The Spirit comes way more you. 244 00:14:22,080 --> 00:14:24,840 Have an issue with that? Please, I feel like, e-mail us 245 00:14:24,840 --> 00:14:26,480 about it, you know, Send us your thoughts. 246 00:14:26,480 --> 00:14:27,640 Please leave. It in the car. 247 00:14:27,640 --> 00:14:31,680 I will now I please read everyone, send it, send it right 248 00:14:31,680 --> 00:14:33,920 to me and I promise I'll immediately fucking delete it. 249 00:14:34,560 --> 00:14:38,840 So the 10s we gave out are Ether Reich for art and layout, 250 00:14:40,080 --> 00:14:45,640 Cauldron for art and layouts, off Worlders for value and cyber 251 00:14:45,640 --> 00:14:50,520 plus Punk for visuals. So three of the 10s we give out 252 00:14:50,520 --> 00:14:53,720 were for the visuals, Just pretty fucking books, right? 253 00:14:53,800 --> 00:14:56,320 And then one for off worlders because that shit's free go 254 00:14:56,320 --> 00:14:56,880 down. Free. 255 00:14:56,880 --> 00:15:00,120 There's really in this fire statement and free, you know, 256 00:15:00,200 --> 00:15:02,000 Yeah, also, it's like a great game. 257 00:15:02,400 --> 00:15:06,000 Yeah, it's sick as fuck. Chris P Wolf killing it. 258 00:15:06,080 --> 00:15:08,800 So yeah, Eat the Reich is from Roanoke and Deckard Cauldron is 259 00:15:08,800 --> 00:15:15,600 from Hill Giant Games, Cyber Plus Punk is from Myth Works and 260 00:15:15,760 --> 00:15:17,720 Off Worlders is from Chris P Wolf. 261 00:15:17,760 --> 00:15:20,200 So what else? I don't even remember the 262 00:15:20,200 --> 00:15:22,000 presentation we just talked about, so let's see what 263 00:15:22,000 --> 00:15:24,080 happens. Oh, so the highest we're not 264 00:15:24,080 --> 00:15:26,000 going to talk about the scores a ton usually every year. 265 00:15:26,000 --> 00:15:30,160 What we've done is give the top five scores for every metric. 266 00:15:30,560 --> 00:15:31,960 Fuck that. We're not doing that this year. 267 00:15:32,280 --> 00:15:35,160 I don't want to take that much time to do this and we're going 268 00:15:35,160 --> 00:15:36,560 to be moving away from the scores. 269 00:15:36,600 --> 00:15:40,160 A little teaser for you. So, but to touch on that a 270 00:15:40,160 --> 00:15:43,120 little bit, yeah, right. We separate books and jeans. 271 00:15:43,680 --> 00:15:48,080 So the highest rated scores we gave out for books this year are 272 00:15:48,080 --> 00:15:52,240 Kane got a 40 and Moonlight on Roseville Beach got a 40. 273 00:15:52,480 --> 00:15:55,920 Do you happen to have the the actual breakdown of the scores 274 00:15:55,920 --> 00:15:57,680 up? I had it up before but I think I 275 00:15:58,080 --> 00:15:58,960 shockingly. I do. 276 00:15:59,640 --> 00:16:01,080 So what was Kane across the board? 277 00:16:01,440 --> 00:16:06,000 Kane across the board got a nine for art and layout, A7 for 278 00:16:06,000 --> 00:16:09,840 usability and eight for rule set, A7 for really originality 279 00:16:10,120 --> 00:16:12,800 and a nine for value. There you go. 280 00:16:13,400 --> 00:16:17,400 And what about moonlight? A Moonlight on Roseville Beach. 281 00:16:17,480 --> 00:16:21,200 A fantastic game. Got a nine for art and layout, 7 282 00:16:21,200 --> 00:16:25,880 for rule set, 8 for usability, 9 for originality and A7 for 283 00:16:25,880 --> 00:16:28,000 value. There you go. 284 00:16:28,720 --> 00:16:32,080 So the two highest rated books that review this year, Kane and 285 00:16:32,080 --> 00:16:35,200 Moonlight on Roseville Beach. That is Kane from Tom Bloom, who 286 00:16:35,200 --> 00:16:37,760 also put out Malagast and a little game I've heard of called 287 00:16:37,760 --> 00:16:40,680 Lancer. And Moonlight on Roseville Beach 288 00:16:40,680 --> 00:16:44,240 is put out by the wonderful friend of the show, Richard 289 00:16:44,240 --> 00:16:46,000 Rune. You're going to hear probably 290 00:16:46,000 --> 00:16:48,920 more about Richard as the as the show goes on. 291 00:16:49,480 --> 00:16:52,720 I think this is like a great spectrum of my tabletop game 292 00:16:52,720 --> 00:16:54,480 taste. Also, with these two highest, 293 00:16:54,480 --> 00:16:57,360 I'm like, I am super in love with both of these games and 294 00:16:57,360 --> 00:17:00,320 they really couldn't be further apart other than the fact that 295 00:17:00,320 --> 00:17:02,320 they are games you play at the table, you know? 296 00:17:02,920 --> 00:17:09,319 Yeah, I mean, Kane is basically like like Jujutu Kaizen slash 297 00:17:09,319 --> 00:17:12,960 Bleach Monster of the Week and look on Noble Beach. 298 00:17:13,400 --> 00:17:15,280 Yeah. And Moonlight on Roseville Beach 299 00:17:15,280 --> 00:17:23,720 is basically like a queer disco, like like 70s like Island, Yeah, 300 00:17:23,720 --> 00:17:26,319 like cosmic horror detective game. 301 00:17:27,440 --> 00:17:29,400 So yeah, they really. Yeah. 302 00:17:29,400 --> 00:17:31,160 Even artistically, they couldn't really be farther. 303 00:17:31,160 --> 00:17:33,840 And like mechanically as well, like they they couldn't really 304 00:17:33,840 --> 00:17:36,680 be farther away from each other and still still be considered 305 00:17:36,680 --> 00:17:39,800 the same genre. Which lets you know that THRBGS 306 00:17:40,160 --> 00:17:45,280 are not a monolith. I hate never mind. 307 00:17:45,280 --> 00:17:47,240 Oh, it's. All medieval fantasy. 308 00:17:47,240 --> 00:17:48,960 Ryan all the way down. I'm. 309 00:17:49,960 --> 00:17:51,880 Not even going to get in. I've ranted enough about some 310 00:17:51,880 --> 00:17:53,600 things I'm going to try to hold off for today. 311 00:17:53,600 --> 00:17:55,200 But anyway, so those are highest rated books. 312 00:17:55,560 --> 00:18:01,280 So our highest rated Zine this year was Sherwood, also from our 313 00:18:01,280 --> 00:18:05,720 Rook studio, Richard Rune, a game of Outlaws in Arcana. 314 00:18:05,720 --> 00:18:10,880 It's Sherwood exactly like you think of Sherwood Forest and 315 00:18:10,880 --> 00:18:12,200 Robin Hood and all that kind of stuff. 316 00:18:12,480 --> 00:18:15,400 And it's it's got a touch of traveler and the character 317 00:18:15,400 --> 00:18:17,240 creation. I, I fucking love this game. 318 00:18:17,440 --> 00:18:20,440 It got a 26 for Zenes, which is only rated on three. 319 00:18:20,480 --> 00:18:22,480 You could give the total scores for Zenes. 320 00:18:23,000 --> 00:18:28,560 Yeah, 4 zenes we have for sure. Would we have a nine for 321 00:18:28,560 --> 00:18:32,000 visuals, an 8 for rules set, and a nine for vibes? 322 00:18:32,000 --> 00:18:34,840 The vibes were high on this one. Yeah, yeah. 323 00:18:34,840 --> 00:18:38,560 And actually got to play it with Richard and Chris P Wolf and it 324 00:18:38,560 --> 00:18:40,960 was so much fucking fun. It was so much fun. 325 00:18:41,640 --> 00:18:44,120 Yeah, you know what? I really loved out this Z and 326 00:18:44,120 --> 00:18:49,760 actually I really loved the opening like like contextualize 327 00:18:49,840 --> 00:18:52,560 like segment of it where it's just like it gives you context 328 00:18:52,560 --> 00:18:55,760 for like these classic like Robin of Locksley stories and 329 00:18:55,760 --> 00:18:58,520 like how they relate and like some of the themes in them. 330 00:18:58,520 --> 00:19:02,520 And like when like waiting for the chosen king king, like that 331 00:19:02,520 --> 00:19:05,640 theme of like the Robin Hood stories came along and I thought 332 00:19:05,640 --> 00:19:07,320 it was really interesting. And also just like it's like 333 00:19:07,320 --> 00:19:12,640 take on magic, you know, it's much more lower fantasy magic, 334 00:19:12,640 --> 00:19:15,440 you know? No, there's really like all the 335 00:19:15,440 --> 00:19:17,720 way through every part of it is great, but for me, the character 336 00:19:17,720 --> 00:19:20,440 generation, like having the inspiration from traveler in 337 00:19:20,440 --> 00:19:25,000 there really made it stand out. And I also I I it's cool being, 338 00:19:25,000 --> 00:19:27,960 you know, not I was going to say Arthurian, you know, the kind of 339 00:19:27,960 --> 00:19:30,720 like Robin Hood times. It's interesting. 340 00:19:31,880 --> 00:19:33,320 All right, So what do we have next? 341 00:19:33,320 --> 00:19:40,440 I think we're, we, we decided to do some random awards this year. 342 00:19:40,440 --> 00:19:42,120 Yeah, getting away from the scores. 343 00:19:42,120 --> 00:19:45,160 This is kind of all we're going to talk about for scores are the 344 00:19:45,160 --> 00:19:47,280 two highest scores we gave out. And this will probably be the 345 00:19:47,280 --> 00:19:51,920 last time we give out scores. You won't see, you know, highest 346 00:19:51,920 --> 00:19:56,840 rated games again, but the first random award of the year, I 347 00:19:56,840 --> 00:20:02,400 think we did a total of five we gave is the most interesting 348 00:20:02,400 --> 00:20:07,840 mechanic of the year. So Hunter, what is your most 349 00:20:07,840 --> 00:20:11,880 interesting mechanic tidbit game bit what it what is what you 350 00:20:11,880 --> 00:20:14,600 selected? I I see Kane on the screen here 351 00:20:14,600 --> 00:20:16,880 came from Tom Bloom. What did you pick from Kane? 352 00:20:17,200 --> 00:20:21,520 So I picked Kane from Tom Bloom and the mechanic I really love 353 00:20:21,520 --> 00:20:24,880 from this is the category system, which is a like a 354 00:20:25,360 --> 00:20:28,880 internalized like power rank system running from zero to 355 00:20:28,880 --> 00:20:30,440 seven for everything in the game. 356 00:20:31,000 --> 00:20:33,040 Would it be like how big is a group of people? 357 00:20:33,280 --> 00:20:36,360 Like how strong is the monster you're fighting? 358 00:20:36,800 --> 00:20:40,120 You know, let's see how big of an area can whatever you're 359 00:20:40,120 --> 00:20:42,480 doing reach like 8? And the category is tied into 360 00:20:42,480 --> 00:20:45,920 like every ability that you you have and that your enemies have. 361 00:20:46,160 --> 00:20:49,160 I think it's like a really interesting way to like add 362 00:20:49,160 --> 00:20:52,600 context to like power scale and like it adds like a gradient of 363 00:20:52,600 --> 00:20:55,200 power scale where it really feels meaningful when you get 364 00:20:55,200 --> 00:20:59,440 higher, you know? Yeah, it's really great. 365 00:20:59,440 --> 00:21:01,680 What I should have done is pull that graphic up to show. 366 00:21:02,280 --> 00:21:03,720 Oh yeah? Well, you should have. 367 00:21:03,760 --> 00:21:04,160 Could have. Well. 368 00:21:04,520 --> 00:21:08,160 But I didn't in our podcast. You know, if you're watching 369 00:21:08,160 --> 00:21:11,040 this, imagine you're listening to a podcast and it'll be exact 370 00:21:11,040 --> 00:21:12,400 same. There you go. 371 00:21:12,440 --> 00:21:14,600 Just close your eyes and it will become a podcast. 372 00:21:15,800 --> 00:21:18,720 My, I think my most interesting weekend of the year was from 373 00:21:18,760 --> 00:21:22,560 Print Weaver from NL Morrison, really great grain. 374 00:21:22,560 --> 00:21:24,440 They also put out a new adventure this year. 375 00:21:24,440 --> 00:21:25,760 I can't remember what it's called. 376 00:21:25,760 --> 00:21:29,480 I have it right over there. Probably called went preaver. 377 00:21:32,680 --> 00:21:34,760 Man, I have it now, I have to say. 378 00:21:35,360 --> 00:21:36,880 Oh, now he's got to get out and got to check. 379 00:21:38,520 --> 00:21:42,120 It was the end of Amarna Adventure that came out this 380 00:21:42,120 --> 00:21:44,800 thick boy that came out from Print Weaver. 381 00:21:45,000 --> 00:21:50,400 Yeah, it's a couple CS on the end of that, but Print Weaver I 382 00:21:50,400 --> 00:21:52,680 thought was super fucking interesting because of the 383 00:21:52,680 --> 00:21:55,640 character generation, because why it's called Print Reaver. 384 00:21:55,640 --> 00:21:57,880 And what's so interesting about it is you actually use your 385 00:21:57,880 --> 00:22:00,720 fingerprints to generate your characters. 386 00:22:01,160 --> 00:22:08,480 So whether you have whirls or loops or what else are arches 387 00:22:08,840 --> 00:22:10,560 or. It determines through one of 388 00:22:10,560 --> 00:22:12,920 your fingers and that gets rid of that one as an option. 389 00:22:13,200 --> 00:22:17,280 Or a missing finger. Like anything, you, you actually 390 00:22:17,280 --> 00:22:20,160 use your fingerprints to create your character. 391 00:22:20,160 --> 00:22:23,560 It determines, you know, the, the kind of gifts that you get, 392 00:22:23,560 --> 00:22:27,320 it determines, you know, it's like say for example, that you 393 00:22:27,320 --> 00:22:30,720 have loop loop for your two thumbs. 394 00:22:31,120 --> 00:22:33,720 You could get plate mail armor, yeah. 395 00:22:34,360 --> 00:22:40,600 Or say that you have arch, arch, arch arch on your middle 396 00:22:40,600 --> 00:22:43,320 fingers. You get a tone containing 5 397 00:22:43,320 --> 00:22:46,480 random scrolls. So you literally get all ten of 398 00:22:46,480 --> 00:22:49,600 your fingers and the way that they're paired up with their 399 00:22:49,720 --> 00:22:51,960 fingerprints increase your character. 400 00:22:52,520 --> 00:22:54,480 It's so fucking clever. It's so interesting. 401 00:22:55,440 --> 00:22:58,560 And the tables that you used to generate on them are also really 402 00:22:58,560 --> 00:23:01,240 fucking good because you know, if they sucked, it kind of falls 403 00:23:01,240 --> 00:23:03,160 apart. But it's just really 404 00:23:03,160 --> 00:23:07,080 interesting, really ingenious, interesting mechanic. 405 00:23:07,080 --> 00:23:10,520 So that was, in my opinion, the most interesting mechanic we 406 00:23:10,520 --> 00:23:15,280 looked at this year. So what is the next award we 407 00:23:15,280 --> 00:23:17,800 gave out? Award quote UN quote. 408 00:23:17,800 --> 00:23:20,560 No, it's not it. It is whatever it is, the next 409 00:23:20,640 --> 00:23:23,560 thing that we did. The prettiest game, the 410 00:23:23,560 --> 00:23:28,160 prettiest game of the year. Hunter, what is your prettiest 411 00:23:28,160 --> 00:23:31,680 game of the year? Oh, it's a cyberpunk augmented, 412 00:23:31,680 --> 00:23:36,560 which is like one of the most like visually appealing like 413 00:23:36,920 --> 00:23:40,600 products that we've ever gone through and definitely should 414 00:23:40,600 --> 00:23:42,600 have gotten. It's like product of the year. 415 00:23:42,600 --> 00:23:47,400 Any but yeah, I just think like going through it is like really 416 00:23:47,400 --> 00:23:49,080 amazing. The way it folds out. 417 00:23:49,080 --> 00:23:52,840 It's like a very pretty thing. It feels very cohesive. 418 00:23:55,000 --> 00:23:58,520 Yeah, it's gorgeous. I mean, so again, cyberpluspunk, 419 00:23:58,840 --> 00:24:03,960 cyberpunk augmented Emmanuel Melo Mythworks, they did a 420 00:24:03,960 --> 00:24:07,400 killer job with it. They did put out a big expansion 421 00:24:07,400 --> 00:24:10,760 to it this year on Kickstarter. Still waiting for that to come 422 00:24:10,760 --> 00:24:14,120 out, but really excited for it. It is. 423 00:24:14,400 --> 00:24:16,240 We talked about this. It's a Forge in the Dark game 424 00:24:16,240 --> 00:24:18,800 that I think does Blades better than Blades does Blades because 425 00:24:18,800 --> 00:24:22,320 Blades kind of I think leans into the cyberpunk mechanical 426 00:24:22,320 --> 00:24:26,120 aspect, is a better genre than like the teen punk magic fucking 427 00:24:26,120 --> 00:24:29,320 thing that Blades does. Shadow magic, Steam punk. 428 00:24:29,320 --> 00:24:31,600 Shadow magic. Dark dark boy. 429 00:24:31,600 --> 00:24:35,040 Edge boy. But like you said, as a product, 430 00:24:35,040 --> 00:24:39,840 the way that the box that comes in folds out but also has five 431 00:24:39,840 --> 00:24:42,040 different scenes in it that all have different art and different 432 00:24:42,040 --> 00:24:44,040 styles and stuff. Yeah, incredibly pretty game. 433 00:24:45,040 --> 00:24:47,600 And one of the last games we reviewed of the year I picked 434 00:24:47,600 --> 00:24:50,320 was Cauldron from Hill Drying Games. 435 00:24:50,320 --> 00:24:52,560 That's Della Mayette and Stevens. 436 00:24:52,560 --> 00:24:55,800 Like Steve's layout on everything they do is 437 00:24:55,800 --> 00:24:57,160 incredible. You definitely want to go check 438 00:24:57,160 --> 00:25:00,120 out Big Boy Game Time. They just announced this morning 439 00:25:00,120 --> 00:25:04,560 they're putting out Boss fight issue 3IN print available at 440 00:25:04,560 --> 00:25:06,240 Adepticon. But definitely go check out Big 441 00:25:06,240 --> 00:25:08,920 Boy Game Time stuff. But the layout, the visuals are 442 00:25:08,920 --> 00:25:12,240 everything through Cauldron, which is a swamp skirmish game, 443 00:25:13,120 --> 00:25:16,320 is absolutely stunning. It is some of the best layout in 444 00:25:16,320 --> 00:25:20,600 tabletop, whether it's skirmish or or teach RPGs. 445 00:25:21,120 --> 00:25:24,080 It's just incredibly beautiful book that does a lot of really 446 00:25:24,080 --> 00:25:28,000 great graphic, not just in the like word layout, but also in 447 00:25:28,000 --> 00:25:33,080 the way that they take pictures of actual minis and then do 448 00:25:33,080 --> 00:25:35,040 really cool graphic art over it it. 449 00:25:35,040 --> 00:25:38,880 It's just absolutely stunning in my opinion, absolutely blown 450 00:25:38,880 --> 00:25:42,080 away by how the book looks. And then the game itself also 451 00:25:42,520 --> 00:25:44,520 like keeps up with that, you know, it's just as good of a 452 00:25:44,520 --> 00:25:48,920 game as it is visually. So yeah, I mean, it's so play. 453 00:25:49,560 --> 00:25:54,720 Like across the board success as both like a game and as like a 454 00:25:54,720 --> 00:25:57,360 book release. Like what a what a fucking smash 455 00:25:57,360 --> 00:25:59,840 hit right there. Yeah, yeah, I could probably 456 00:25:59,840 --> 00:26:03,080 still find that on the Big Cartel Hill Giant Games page. 457 00:26:03,080 --> 00:26:06,320 You can find them on Instagram, Hill Giant Games, but really, 458 00:26:06,320 --> 00:26:09,560 really incredible game. My current probably, you know, 459 00:26:09,600 --> 00:26:13,200 top 2 skirmish games right now. Anytime I get a chance to play 460 00:26:13,200 --> 00:26:18,840 it, I I play it again and I'm building out all of the the I I 461 00:26:18,960 --> 00:26:20,840 I'm almost finished with my physical war band. 462 00:26:20,840 --> 00:26:23,200 I was working on painting it yesterday, but also building in 463 00:26:23,200 --> 00:26:27,200 TTS all of the maps for a campaign that I'd like to do in 464 00:26:27,200 --> 00:26:28,920 2026. So that'd be sick. 465 00:26:31,040 --> 00:26:36,000 Next, we need more. Like we need more things like 466 00:26:36,000 --> 00:26:40,000 this in this space. We should have had a Zine about 467 00:26:40,000 --> 00:26:43,120 what we don't need more of, but don't never mind, I'm trying not 468 00:26:43,160 --> 00:26:44,840 to. Rant this episode guys, we can 469 00:26:44,840 --> 00:26:48,520 try live in everything trying. I'm, I'm, I'm, you know, I've 470 00:26:48,560 --> 00:26:51,280 always been described as a ray of sunshine and I always keep 471 00:26:51,280 --> 00:26:53,240 things positive. So you know that that's how 472 00:26:53,240 --> 00:26:56,880 we're doing. Out of putting up, you know, 473 00:26:56,880 --> 00:26:59,880 biggest flop of the year that he would let me do that category. 474 00:27:00,160 --> 00:27:01,720 Yeah, that's it. You'd be know what's the one 475 00:27:01,720 --> 00:27:04,320 that one is. But anyway, so Hunter, what? 476 00:27:04,320 --> 00:27:06,040 What do we need more like and why? 477 00:27:07,200 --> 00:27:11,640 Oh, weird Heroes of Public Access was my pick because it's 478 00:27:11,640 --> 00:27:17,960 just an oddball little unique weird game that is fun with a 479 00:27:17,960 --> 00:27:19,640 light system that gets out of your way. 480 00:27:19,880 --> 00:27:22,760 And it is just like a particularly unique concept. 481 00:27:22,760 --> 00:27:28,680 Like you are cable, like like public cable access TV host, you 482 00:27:28,680 --> 00:27:32,080 know, and you have like very odd little abilities you can do. 483 00:27:32,080 --> 00:27:35,880 They're tied into your public access TV, whatever program that 484 00:27:35,880 --> 00:27:37,960 you host, unless you're the fitness guy, in which case you 485 00:27:37,960 --> 00:27:41,720 just have insane body score. I just thought it was such a 486 00:27:41,720 --> 00:27:43,720 charming little experience, you know? 487 00:27:43,840 --> 00:27:47,280 And also I love weird things like I'd love that embraces like 488 00:27:47,400 --> 00:27:49,840 here's like a non traditional adventure, you know? 489 00:27:52,360 --> 00:27:55,200 Yeah, I mean, it's we said it when we're doing the review, 490 00:27:55,200 --> 00:27:57,800 It's it's weird. It does not take a tough too 491 00:27:57,800 --> 00:28:02,120 seriously, but it's still really, really good at what it 492 00:28:02,120 --> 00:28:05,200 does. And I wish more games did 493 00:28:05,200 --> 00:28:07,560 exactly this. Stop being so fucking polished. 494 00:28:07,560 --> 00:28:09,440 Stop taking yourself so fucking seriously. 495 00:28:09,800 --> 00:28:13,600 Like This is why I this isn't like games like this still feel 496 00:28:13,600 --> 00:28:17,080 indie to me when I think that most of the indie space has 497 00:28:17,080 --> 00:28:18,920 become the small market space in my opinion. 498 00:28:18,920 --> 00:28:21,320 Like, you know, it's the same bullshit I'm putting out my 499 00:28:21,320 --> 00:28:24,000 first game I print into a bunch of mix AM and I'm having a 500 00:28:24,000 --> 00:28:26,880 $10,000 Kickstarter and it's all just wrote. 501 00:28:26,880 --> 00:28:30,200 It's wrote at this point. And the games like we usually 502 00:28:30,200 --> 00:28:33,840 have public access that are just again, they're unserious, 503 00:28:33,840 --> 00:28:38,160 they're fun and they're just being goofy to be fucking goofy 504 00:28:38,160 --> 00:28:41,960 and and giving you an experience that is incredible time without 505 00:28:41,960 --> 00:28:44,600 taking yourself too seriously that yes, we need more games 506 00:28:44,600 --> 00:28:46,040 like that. And I love it. 507 00:28:46,040 --> 00:28:48,200 It's incredible. And Joey, we need more fucking 508 00:28:48,200 --> 00:28:51,560 people like Joey Royale because that motherfucker is awesome. 509 00:28:52,360 --> 00:28:55,160 Got to meet him at PAX and you know, we had him on the show for 510 00:28:55,160 --> 00:28:58,040 an interview and he is exactly the same in real life as he is. 511 00:28:58,520 --> 00:29:00,520 It's not a, it's not a, it's not a bit. 512 00:29:01,160 --> 00:29:06,840 He is an incredible human being. And then I said we need more 513 00:29:06,840 --> 00:29:12,880 things like the violence books. Violence from Luke Gearing is a 514 00:29:12,880 --> 00:29:17,520 great little kind of resolution mechanic that has been hacked by 515 00:29:17,520 --> 00:29:19,720 a bunch of people. You know, maybe by someone here 516 00:29:19,720 --> 00:29:21,120 on the show. On the show. 517 00:29:22,000 --> 00:29:25,120 Yeah, to to do a really cool thing. 518 00:29:25,120 --> 00:29:29,000 So a lot basically there was a jam and, and some other people 519 00:29:29,000 --> 00:29:31,320 did this like, so let me let me talk about it first. 520 00:29:31,320 --> 00:29:33,800 So basically there was a jam where people put stuff out for 521 00:29:33,800 --> 00:29:36,720 the violent system, right? Because again, it's not a whole 522 00:29:36,720 --> 00:29:38,640 game. It's a resolution mechanic. 523 00:29:38,640 --> 00:29:41,000 So there's a ton of stuff you can do for you can hack the 524 00:29:41,000 --> 00:29:43,080 system itself, you can create a game with it, you can create 525 00:29:43,080 --> 00:29:45,720 adventures for it. There's a ton of stuff and 526 00:29:46,000 --> 00:29:50,360 they've done not one, but two different physical versions of 527 00:29:50,360 --> 00:29:55,560 prints of these violence jams that they've done and both are 528 00:29:55,560 --> 00:29:57,400 incredible. They're super DIY. 529 00:29:57,400 --> 00:30:02,280 They're super, again, not super polished like it might just be 530 00:30:02,280 --> 00:30:04,840 like, hey, I thought the wounds were really cool. 531 00:30:04,840 --> 00:30:07,720 Here's a way to make it even more deadly and they just threw 532 00:30:07,720 --> 00:30:10,120 that in there. I would love to see more stuff 533 00:30:10,120 --> 00:30:12,120 like this where people like, I made a cool thing, let's slap it 534 00:30:12,120 --> 00:30:13,920 together and give you things to play with. 535 00:30:13,920 --> 00:30:17,520 So the ones one and bottoms 2 are both really, really 536 00:30:17,520 --> 00:30:21,120 incredible with some really, really great creators throughout 537 00:30:21,240 --> 00:30:25,000 both and I would love to see more people doing stuff like 538 00:30:25,000 --> 00:30:26,760 this. What someone who did you know? 539 00:30:26,760 --> 00:30:28,800 And then they polished it to the nines because of course they did 540 00:30:29,080 --> 00:30:36,880 as friend of the show Matt Morris when he put out 2000 541 00:30:36,880 --> 00:30:40,120 doors. So put out did a big jam where 542 00:30:40,120 --> 00:30:43,520 they did a dungeon with Mouse Rider and then put it together 543 00:30:43,520 --> 00:30:45,720 in a book. But then again, Polish the shit 544 00:30:45,720 --> 00:30:46,960 out of it, which is great. I love it. 545 00:30:46,960 --> 00:30:48,200 It's a it's a great little thing. 546 00:30:48,400 --> 00:30:51,400 But again, little bit more DIY, little bit more indie. 547 00:30:51,400 --> 00:30:53,440 That's the stuff that that's the reason we started the show. 548 00:30:53,440 --> 00:30:55,000 It's what we'd like to see more of. 549 00:30:55,000 --> 00:30:57,640 Yeah. You know, bits and bobs and and 550 00:30:57,640 --> 00:30:59,280 cool shit just cuz it's cool shit. 551 00:30:59,600 --> 00:31:03,200 So we need more things like Weird Here's Public Access and 552 00:31:03,200 --> 00:31:06,520 the Violence Jam books. Yeah, God damn. 553 00:31:06,560 --> 00:31:09,800 Be little freaks, little DIY freaks, and we'll talk about it 554 00:31:10,080 --> 00:31:11,800 like it. Get freaky, get freaky with your 555 00:31:11,800 --> 00:31:14,080 shit. We are much more likely to talk, 556 00:31:14,080 --> 00:31:16,720 especially in 2026. Let me tell you what, we're 557 00:31:16,720 --> 00:31:18,240 taking it back to the roots, kids. 558 00:31:18,960 --> 00:31:22,640 So game you really fucking want to play super bad that you 559 00:31:22,640 --> 00:31:26,920 haven't got to play yet, but we talked about this year or game 560 00:31:26,920 --> 00:31:28,840 you want to play Hunter, which one did you pick? 561 00:31:29,280 --> 00:31:30,920 I pick Kane. I want to play the fuck out of 562 00:31:30,920 --> 00:31:32,160 Kane. I really do. 563 00:31:32,960 --> 00:31:34,560 I really want to play it. Why? 564 00:31:34,800 --> 00:31:35,600 Why? Why I? 565 00:31:35,760 --> 00:31:40,040 Just 'cause I think it's like, I think it's a really cool like 566 00:31:40,040 --> 00:31:44,440 monster of the week ask game with like a fun twist in the 567 00:31:44,440 --> 00:31:48,720 genre that I love. Like I love jiu jitsu Kaizen. 568 00:31:48,880 --> 00:31:51,880 I loved Witch Hunter Robin and he's obvious. 569 00:31:51,880 --> 00:31:55,400 Like obviously this like you're like a weapon that kills 570 00:31:55,400 --> 00:31:57,760 monsters that is itself kind of a monster. 571 00:31:57,760 --> 00:32:00,800 And the people who are managing you are like, yeah, good job, 572 00:32:00,800 --> 00:32:04,240 stay in line, we'll kill you. You know, I just think it's an 573 00:32:04,240 --> 00:32:06,600 interesting setting and I think the mechanics seem fun. 574 00:32:08,680 --> 00:32:11,520 Yeah, yeah, I mean, Kane's game is definitely near the top of my 575 00:32:11,560 --> 00:32:14,320 list. You know, I obviously have had 576 00:32:14,720 --> 00:32:18,720 many discussions about my feelings on PBTA, but I think 577 00:32:18,800 --> 00:32:21,720 Kane is one of those games. I really like the games that 578 00:32:21,720 --> 00:32:27,440 are, how do you say this, games that kind of use Pbta but take 579 00:32:27,440 --> 00:32:28,960 out the parts that I don't like about it? 580 00:32:28,960 --> 00:32:34,280 Which to me, the core root of Pbta is the narrative structure, 581 00:32:34,280 --> 00:32:36,720 the narrative scaffolding that it has where it like moves and 582 00:32:36,720 --> 00:32:39,360 things like that. I'm not a fan of Kane. 583 00:32:39,360 --> 00:32:42,680 Uses Monster of the Week as a base, kind of uses a lot of them 584 00:32:42,680 --> 00:32:46,480 like, but turns it into like a dice pool game, removes a lot of 585 00:32:46,480 --> 00:32:51,120 that narrative, you know, like pick lists and things like that. 586 00:32:51,440 --> 00:32:54,960 And it kind of takes the core of the story gaming aspects of Pbta 587 00:32:55,320 --> 00:33:01,840 without the, in my opinion, the narrowing down of your options 588 00:33:01,960 --> 00:33:06,360 because of the storytelling scaffolding and structure that's 589 00:33:06,360 --> 00:33:09,720 put into those games. So the, the kind of PPT adjacent 590 00:33:09,720 --> 00:33:12,880 games, in my opinion, are, are really, really interesting. 591 00:33:12,880 --> 00:33:15,160 And like you said, I mean, the vibes are Immaculate Juju Kaisen 592 00:33:15,160 --> 00:33:17,200 all the way through volume 17 was great. 593 00:33:17,200 --> 00:33:21,200 And then it's hot garbage. So until then, yeah. 594 00:33:21,320 --> 00:33:23,000 And. And also, fucking Tom Bloom's 595 00:33:23,000 --> 00:33:24,560 art is insane. Yeah. 596 00:33:24,800 --> 00:33:28,400 Also like a big Tom Bloom fan and the art's great so. 597 00:33:28,680 --> 00:33:30,760 Yeah, I was going to say we did Malagas this year too, but 598 00:33:30,760 --> 00:33:31,960 that's an episode that never got released. 599 00:33:31,960 --> 00:33:33,160 It's. A big episode. 600 00:33:33,200 --> 00:33:35,320 I know I try. I like thought about referencing 601 00:33:35,320 --> 00:33:38,000 it like 3 because I wrote some notes for me on this and I 602 00:33:38,200 --> 00:33:39,880 almost referenced it more than once. 603 00:33:39,880 --> 00:33:41,800 And I was like, Oh yeah, we never released that episode. 604 00:33:41,800 --> 00:33:45,400 I was like, I know we didn't. It's in the books for when we 605 00:33:45,400 --> 00:33:48,160 skip a week and I can just throw out an extra episode. 606 00:33:49,000 --> 00:33:51,080 It was hearing our hiatus, so games really in play. 607 00:33:51,080 --> 00:33:52,520 We talked about it just a little bit ago. 608 00:33:52,520 --> 00:33:54,680 Mine is weird. Heroes of Public Access. 609 00:33:55,040 --> 00:33:58,160 I mean, it's so fun, it's so goofy. 610 00:33:58,160 --> 00:34:00,920 It's still mechanically really fucking interesting. 611 00:34:01,560 --> 00:34:06,280 There's so much stuff for it. And again, having Jora Rail on 612 00:34:06,280 --> 00:34:09,440 the show and then meeting them in person, just also a person 613 00:34:09,440 --> 00:34:11,159 I'd really love to play a game with. 614 00:34:11,159 --> 00:34:14,440 And you could obviously see where this game came from when 615 00:34:14,440 --> 00:34:18,320 you meet them. So for all of those reasons, 616 00:34:18,320 --> 00:34:21,000 this the game I want to play most right now. 617 00:34:21,000 --> 00:34:24,560 If I could call up Joey and say, hey, let's set up an AP, this is 618 00:34:24,560 --> 00:34:26,239 the game that I want to play more than anything else. 619 00:34:26,239 --> 00:34:28,320 It is weird. Here's a public access, So 620 00:34:28,480 --> 00:34:31,239 definitely check out Get Haunted Industries, definitely go find 621 00:34:32,080 --> 00:34:33,480 Joey Royale. Weird. 622 00:34:33,480 --> 00:34:37,800 Here's a public access and I'm really excited for all the stuff 623 00:34:37,800 --> 00:34:42,159 that they're doing into 2026, which I got to hear a little bit 624 00:34:42,159 --> 00:34:46,080 of little bit, little bit of some teasers at packs. 625 00:34:46,320 --> 00:34:49,920 So definitely keep an eye on Get Haunted Industries and be 626 00:34:49,920 --> 00:34:52,000 excited for some more cool, fun, goofy shit. 627 00:34:53,080 --> 00:35:00,680 Was that our last of our five No unsung heroes of the year? 628 00:35:01,440 --> 00:35:05,280 These are games that were like either smaller or didn't get 629 00:35:05,280 --> 00:35:11,120 like a ton of hype around them or, you know, when we reviewed 630 00:35:11,120 --> 00:35:13,440 them, there was one or two things that really, you know, 631 00:35:13,440 --> 00:35:14,960 kind of tanked their score down a little bit. 632 00:35:14,960 --> 00:35:18,720 But you know, as a whole, the game was really, really cool. 633 00:35:18,720 --> 00:35:23,600 So Hunter, what is yours? Mine's fire drop by meat castle 634 00:35:23,600 --> 00:35:29,880 game wear and I love this game. I think it's like a really fun 635 00:35:29,880 --> 00:35:34,440 easy like almost skirmish game that you can pick up that you 636 00:35:34,440 --> 00:35:38,640 can easily play with most people Like this game is less 637 00:35:38,640 --> 00:35:42,640 complicated than what's that one fucking board game everyone 638 00:35:42,640 --> 00:35:44,160 plays Katan, you know what I mean? 639 00:35:44,160 --> 00:35:45,840 Like if you can get your friends. 640 00:35:45,840 --> 00:35:47,400 That's not saying a lot. Katan is. 641 00:35:48,280 --> 00:35:50,520 If you can get your friends to all sit and play Katan, you can 642 00:35:50,520 --> 00:35:52,040 get them all to sit and play Fire Drop. 643 00:35:52,560 --> 00:35:56,800 I like this game and I really want to build a gigantic foam 644 00:35:56,800 --> 00:36:00,760 board for it, and I might. I'm actually looking at hex 645 00:36:00,760 --> 00:36:05,760 cookie cutters right now to press down into foam, you see. 646 00:36:06,360 --> 00:36:10,520 This is definitely one of those. Kind of like board game slash 647 00:36:10,560 --> 00:36:15,040 skirmish adjacent you know? And this is also why I wish more 648 00:36:15,040 --> 00:36:17,720 people would understand and stop being a little B holes about 649 00:36:19,600 --> 00:36:24,680 having other genres in TRPG's. TRPG's aren't special, they're 650 00:36:24,680 --> 00:36:26,200 just a game like every other fucking game. 651 00:36:27,040 --> 00:36:32,000 And there's no problem having video games inspire games, which 652 00:36:32,000 --> 00:36:34,720 clearly Fire Drop is inspired by a number of different video 653 00:36:34,720 --> 00:36:38,160 games. There's no problem yeah, right, 654 00:36:38,320 --> 00:36:41,520 there's no problem having board games and scrims games also 655 00:36:41,520 --> 00:36:44,680 inspire your teach RPGs a little bit and I think fire drop is a 656 00:36:44,680 --> 00:36:48,160 perfect fucking example of that. But like you said like man, it 657 00:36:48,160 --> 00:36:51,480 would be really dope to make terrain and turn this into like 658 00:36:51,480 --> 00:36:54,120 almost a board game for this. Like imagine like a little board 659 00:36:54,120 --> 00:36:56,640 game with a fold out fucking hex map and my. 660 00:36:56,640 --> 00:36:58,640 Dreamworld Christian does that, you know. 661 00:36:59,120 --> 00:37:02,640 Yeah, Christian, how do you feel in in the the year of our Lord 662 00:37:02,640 --> 00:37:06,360 2026 with tariffs and everything putting together a board game? 663 00:37:08,760 --> 00:37:11,080 Yeah. Reach out to the Logan Dean and 664 00:37:11,080 --> 00:37:13,640 maybe they can get that set up. But that is meat castle game 665 00:37:13,640 --> 00:37:14,840 where definitely go check them out. 666 00:37:14,840 --> 00:37:19,440 They just dropped the meat castle gamewear annual number 667 00:37:19,600 --> 00:37:21,440 three. Yeah, so snag that you can get 668 00:37:21,440 --> 00:37:24,400 that in pre-order on their on their store. 669 00:37:24,600 --> 00:37:28,600 Just Google me castle gamewear. There's not another one and 670 00:37:28,600 --> 00:37:30,880 you'll be able to snag that and print or you can get the PDFs of 671 00:37:30,880 --> 00:37:32,920 that, which is basically just like an accumulation of all the 672 00:37:32,920 --> 00:37:35,560 stuff that they put out this year and really stoked to see 673 00:37:35,560 --> 00:37:37,720 Christian getting back into making stuff again. 674 00:37:38,720 --> 00:37:41,200 And fire drop was a really good example at the beginning of the 675 00:37:41,200 --> 00:37:42,400 year of that. This is one of the first games 676 00:37:42,400 --> 00:37:44,120 we reviewed at the beginning of the year too, is I think it was 677 00:37:44,120 --> 00:37:49,560 in the first like 3 or 4. So yeah, really good example of 678 00:37:49,760 --> 00:37:53,120 a, you know, a teach RPG that leans into that kind of like 679 00:37:53,120 --> 00:37:57,120 board game skirmish space. And mine was Rad from Hippolyta. 680 00:37:57,920 --> 00:38:04,360 Rad is a kind of like God, what's that movie like Stalker? 681 00:38:04,360 --> 00:38:10,560 It's it's like a radioactive wasteland kind of game. 682 00:38:10,560 --> 00:38:14,600 Reminds me a little bit of not quite Fallout definitely, but if 683 00:38:14,600 --> 00:38:17,000 Fallout was in like Russia. I mean, that's. 684 00:38:17,480 --> 00:38:19,280 Pretty much the the not stock issues. 685 00:38:19,280 --> 00:38:22,320 What's the other metro? Metro, That's one. 686 00:38:22,320 --> 00:38:25,040 That's one. And I thought the game itself 687 00:38:25,040 --> 00:38:27,200 was incredible. The issue that we had with this 688 00:38:27,200 --> 00:38:32,160 is that it just it really needed a heavy editing pass that it 689 00:38:32,160 --> 00:38:34,720 didn't get. There were a lot of issues with 690 00:38:35,240 --> 00:38:37,680 the layout and stuff in general. Like there were sections where 691 00:38:38,080 --> 00:38:42,040 it was like reference page XXXX and it still said XXX on it. 692 00:38:42,040 --> 00:38:44,200 There's, you know, one page where a whole thing of art is 693 00:38:44,200 --> 00:38:47,480 missing. There's there's just editing 694 00:38:47,480 --> 00:38:51,320 issues throughout where there's some inconsistencies with I 695 00:38:51,320 --> 00:38:54,560 think ammo at one point. So if all of those things were 696 00:38:54,560 --> 00:38:56,920 fixed up, this game would have gotten a way higher score than 697 00:38:56,920 --> 00:38:59,120 it did. And even then they would have 698 00:38:59,120 --> 00:39:00,760 some really fun, interesting mechanics. 699 00:39:01,320 --> 00:39:06,160 A really just neat things in general that kind of brought 700 00:39:06,160 --> 00:39:09,680 some new stuff to that genre. I know we talked about it 701 00:39:09,680 --> 00:39:12,000 reminds me of nuked a little bit, but if nuked was set in, 702 00:39:12,720 --> 00:39:15,280 you know, in, you know, in more in the in Russia. 703 00:39:16,160 --> 00:39:19,560 And I definitely think that Hippolyta in general has put out 704 00:39:19,560 --> 00:39:21,000 a really a lot of really great stuff. 705 00:39:21,320 --> 00:39:27,000 But Rad could have been just it has all the things to be a 706 00:39:27,000 --> 00:39:29,680 really great game. And I'd love to see a Rad redux 707 00:39:29,960 --> 00:39:34,240 where they just hire an editor and fix up the whole thing and 708 00:39:34,240 --> 00:39:35,840 and put it out again. And I would grab it in a 709 00:39:35,840 --> 00:39:37,440 heartbeat. I think it's incredible. 710 00:39:37,440 --> 00:39:41,000 It's obviously playable the way it is, but as a book, as a Zine, 711 00:39:41,560 --> 00:39:44,680 it just kind of fell a little bit short because of, like I 712 00:39:44,680 --> 00:39:47,720 said, you know, just a missed editing password too. 713 00:39:47,960 --> 00:39:51,000 But otherwise, I thought it was a really incredible game and I 714 00:39:51,000 --> 00:39:52,200 had a lot of really cool stuff for it. 715 00:39:52,200 --> 00:39:54,640 So definitely check out Hippolita and all the stuff that 716 00:39:54,640 --> 00:39:57,520 they've done. I know we have some other stuff 717 00:39:57,520 --> 00:40:01,520 on of theirs that is on our list to do, like cantrip and stuff. 718 00:40:01,520 --> 00:40:05,640 So we'll definitely. Probably see more of them again 719 00:40:05,640 --> 00:40:07,560 next year, but those are unsung heroes of the year. 720 00:40:07,560 --> 00:40:12,160 Fire drop from me castle game where and rad from Hippolita and 721 00:40:12,200 --> 00:40:14,680 and definitely check out all of you know, South America and the 722 00:40:14,680 --> 00:40:17,320 Lat AM teach RPG community because they do some fire shit. 723 00:40:17,560 --> 00:40:22,160 I know we didn't talk about it a lot, but mini BX is a is another 724 00:40:22,160 --> 00:40:24,160 one that came out. Yeah, and that's another lat AM 725 00:40:24,160 --> 00:40:25,480 game. So definitely check out. 726 00:40:25,480 --> 00:40:29,480 They're doing a lot of really cool stuff, you know, to the 727 00:40:29,480 --> 00:40:33,320 South of us. And I think that's the end of 728 00:40:33,480 --> 00:40:38,720 our 50 extra awards we did this year. 729 00:40:38,720 --> 00:40:40,360 We did, Yeah. Most interesting we can if. 730 00:40:40,360 --> 00:40:42,960 You got an award, just send us to your address and we'll send 731 00:40:42,960 --> 00:40:46,840 you the the 2 foot by two foot gold plaque with your name on it 732 00:40:46,840 --> 00:40:49,200 that we that we commissioned for these. 733 00:40:49,480 --> 00:40:50,960 So yeah. Absolutely, because we didn't 734 00:40:50,960 --> 00:40:52,800 just come up with half of these right before the show started or 735 00:40:52,800 --> 00:40:54,200 anything. No, we did. 736 00:40:54,400 --> 00:40:57,280 Not yeah, we did. Most interesting mechanic, 737 00:40:57,280 --> 00:41:00,200 prettiest game. We need more like game you want 738 00:41:00,200 --> 00:41:03,240 to play and the unsung heroes. I spelled heroes wrong. 739 00:41:03,760 --> 00:41:07,160 No, I didn't Heroes. Why does it look wrong? 740 00:41:08,040 --> 00:41:10,360 Because that font puts too much space after the RI. 741 00:41:10,920 --> 00:41:13,840 Have to fix it usually. So. 742 00:41:14,880 --> 00:41:17,800 Hunter's top five. This is the last kind of big 743 00:41:17,800 --> 00:41:21,960 part of the show, so in no specific order. 744 00:41:22,200 --> 00:41:26,000 No whatsoever. Yeah, we're going to go through 745 00:41:26,000 --> 00:41:28,400 your top five and then this is my top five. 746 00:41:28,840 --> 00:41:31,600 And oranges in my top five. And it was like, there's no way 747 00:41:31,640 --> 00:41:32,880 I can put these against each other. 748 00:41:32,880 --> 00:41:37,120 Is like which is my, you know, so number, number blank. 749 00:41:38,640 --> 00:41:41,320 Yeah. Yeah, it's fire drop. 750 00:41:42,080 --> 00:41:44,280 I'm really into fire drop. I think it's a lot of fun. 751 00:41:44,320 --> 00:41:47,880 I also just love like, lightweight fun experiences that 752 00:41:47,880 --> 00:41:50,760 I, I like, especially things that I can draw people into that 753 00:41:50,760 --> 00:41:53,200 might not otherwise be like, well, I don't want to play like, 754 00:41:53,200 --> 00:41:55,040 you know, I say tabletop games, they're like, I don't play 755 00:41:55,040 --> 00:41:57,520 Dungeons and Dragons. I'm like, no, we'll pick up this 756 00:41:57,520 --> 00:41:59,080 little scene. It's incredibly short. 757 00:41:59,440 --> 00:42:01,760 You've heard of Hell Divers and you've laughed at the shit, or 758 00:42:01,760 --> 00:42:03,840 maybe you haven't. This is just a fun thing to do, 759 00:42:03,960 --> 00:42:05,920 you know? Yeah, yeah. 760 00:42:05,960 --> 00:42:08,800 I mean, you know, we've played games for so long and have 761 00:42:08,800 --> 00:42:11,000 reviewed so many games. We're both kind of in that space 762 00:42:11,000 --> 00:42:16,360 where I don't want necessarily a 300 page book that gives me all 763 00:42:16,360 --> 00:42:18,240 the things I need to run a 10 year campaign. 764 00:42:18,760 --> 00:42:23,280 Yeah, I would much rather just have a contained experience that 765 00:42:23,280 --> 00:42:27,160 is designed to give me that experience through 766 00:42:27,160 --> 00:42:32,640 incentivization or any other way and something that you can just 767 00:42:32,640 --> 00:42:33,800 like pick up and play as you want. 768 00:42:33,800 --> 00:42:35,760 And like you're right, Fire Drop is a great version of that. 769 00:42:37,120 --> 00:42:43,800 What's your next one we got? The next one is Moonlight on 770 00:42:43,800 --> 00:42:46,200 Roseville B Sorry. I'm watching the stream as 771 00:42:46,200 --> 00:42:47,880 you're clicking these. And I think it's on, like, a 772 00:42:47,880 --> 00:42:50,760 moment of delay. Yeah. 773 00:42:51,360 --> 00:42:54,120 So God, what do I say about this game? 774 00:42:55,000 --> 00:42:57,240 I love the setting. I love the vibe of it. 775 00:42:57,240 --> 00:43:01,760 I love this, like, like, queer safe space, beach town and like, 776 00:43:01,760 --> 00:43:04,720 the 50s, sixties when the rest of the world isn't safe. 777 00:43:04,720 --> 00:43:07,880 And like this, like this community that bands together to 778 00:43:07,880 --> 00:43:11,280 protect each other as opposed to, like, relying on outside 779 00:43:11,280 --> 00:43:13,040 forces that they can no longer trust. 780 00:43:13,680 --> 00:43:15,960 I really love the character creation, the character origins. 781 00:43:15,960 --> 00:43:18,080 Really interesting. Any game where I can play as a 782 00:43:18,080 --> 00:43:21,920 cat that can cast spells. Really, That's a that's a big 783 00:43:22,880 --> 00:43:25,240 for me. You know, I think the trouble, 784 00:43:25,240 --> 00:43:26,840 which is a part of your character, like a really 785 00:43:26,840 --> 00:43:30,240 interesting like knife for your like your game master or 786 00:43:30,240 --> 00:43:32,600 whatever they're called in this game to use against you or to 787 00:43:32,600 --> 00:43:35,760 mechanically have crop up against you and also tie your 788 00:43:36,040 --> 00:43:38,240 character more the world. And then, yeah, I love the 789 00:43:38,240 --> 00:43:39,680 visuals. I love the public domain art. 790 00:43:40,280 --> 00:43:42,720 I know it is public domain art, but it's used incredibly well 791 00:43:42,720 --> 00:43:46,160 and it feels like it was like perfectly picked for this. 792 00:43:46,560 --> 00:43:50,840 Yeah, dye sugars always kills it and, you know, as normal, they 793 00:43:50,840 --> 00:43:53,800 killed it in this one. So, you know, great to see. 794 00:43:56,360 --> 00:43:59,800 All right, your next one is Kane. 795 00:44:00,640 --> 00:44:02,480 Kane. It's fucking Kane, bro. 796 00:44:03,120 --> 00:44:04,920 That's it. That's my whole spiel. 797 00:44:05,360 --> 00:44:07,840 Yeah, I think mechanically I really like this game. 798 00:44:08,720 --> 00:44:14,440 I love the options for like what you're what are the powers 799 00:44:14,440 --> 00:44:16,160 called? Not domains, but the powers that 800 00:44:16,160 --> 00:44:19,080 you get, I think are like incredibly interesting. 801 00:44:19,240 --> 00:44:22,800 The category system really like grounds where you are versus 802 00:44:22,800 --> 00:44:25,560 these gigantic like horrific monsters that you're chasing and 803 00:44:25,560 --> 00:44:28,720 fighting. And it's like just a especially 804 00:44:28,720 --> 00:44:32,960 dark and sad game that I really am into. 805 00:44:32,960 --> 00:44:35,320 I want to feel like an emo guy when I'm playing it, you know? 806 00:44:36,000 --> 00:44:38,040 Yeah, you know, not like real life or anything. 807 00:44:38,520 --> 00:44:40,440 Yeah, no, no, not my, not like real life. 808 00:44:42,840 --> 00:44:45,840 Next one is Weird Heroes. Oh yeah, I mean, what else do I 809 00:44:45,840 --> 00:44:48,360 say about weird heroes that we both haven't said this entire 810 00:44:48,360 --> 00:44:51,000 time? Like, it's interesting, it's 811 00:44:51,000 --> 00:44:53,800 fun, it's got some great mechanics. 812 00:44:53,800 --> 00:44:56,720 It's also just like a little bit of an oddball game. 813 00:44:57,240 --> 00:44:59,720 Like you can, you know, really lean into. 814 00:44:59,720 --> 00:45:02,480 And I love the almost like scooby-doo ish aspect. 815 00:45:02,720 --> 00:45:05,800 There's also like, a part of it that kind of reminds me of like, 816 00:45:05,800 --> 00:45:07,920 Fright Night because like, literally they're hunting a 817 00:45:07,920 --> 00:45:13,440 vampire with like, ATV, like, horror, like movie like Guy or 818 00:45:13,440 --> 00:45:13,960 Host. Yeah. 819 00:45:14,960 --> 00:45:17,160 I just think there's some magic here for me that, like, really 820 00:45:17,160 --> 00:45:17,800 hits. Absolutely. 821 00:45:20,760 --> 00:45:22,000 And then your last one is Cauldron. 822 00:45:22,920 --> 00:45:26,520 Oh yeah, maybe. What else do you say? 823 00:45:26,520 --> 00:45:31,160 It's fucking Cauldron. I mean a great easy to to pick 824 00:45:31,160 --> 00:45:34,640 up skirmish game with like fun options for the characters. 825 00:45:34,640 --> 00:45:37,600 You make the ability like it is a campaign, like you are 826 00:45:37,600 --> 00:45:42,440 constantly building on these people and Ryan, and I've just 827 00:45:42,440 --> 00:45:43,680 had a really good time playing it. 828 00:45:46,360 --> 00:45:48,720 Yeah, it's a lot of fun. Yeah. 829 00:45:48,880 --> 00:45:50,640 I'm not going to say too much because you're probably going to 830 00:45:50,640 --> 00:45:52,600 see it again in a minute, I think. 831 00:45:52,640 --> 00:45:53,880 I think that's your last one, right? 832 00:45:53,880 --> 00:45:56,360 Yeah. So the next is my top five. 833 00:45:57,680 --> 00:46:03,040 So my, again, not numbered at all was Swivers from Luke 834 00:46:03,040 --> 00:46:05,920 Gearing and David Hoskins. I mean, first of all, David 835 00:46:05,920 --> 00:46:12,000 Hoskins are incredible. Yes, every every page of this 836 00:46:12,040 --> 00:46:14,720 just drips vibes. There are some. 837 00:46:15,000 --> 00:46:17,640 Wild ass art pieces in this and they're like. 838 00:46:17,840 --> 00:46:20,080 This art pieces the. One where like the guys being 839 00:46:20,080 --> 00:46:22,520 shot with much arrows and the Spears like holding him down 840 00:46:22,520 --> 00:46:24,960 below the window like this is an insane piece. 841 00:46:25,360 --> 00:46:27,520 So good. I mean, even just this cover is 842 00:46:27,520 --> 00:46:29,520 is incredible. And I got two different versions 843 00:46:29,520 --> 00:46:32,560 of it too, the gilded ones and the ungilded 1. 844 00:46:32,800 --> 00:46:34,520 And even the size of the book is cool. 845 00:46:34,520 --> 00:46:37,040 It's like B4 or B5 or something like that. 846 00:46:37,040 --> 00:46:39,040 Like it's which I think is fucking perfect. 847 00:46:39,040 --> 00:46:41,360 It's it's a little bit it's bigger than A5 but smaller than 848 00:46:41,360 --> 00:46:44,200 a 8 1/2 by 11. It's a great size book, but the 849 00:46:44,200 --> 00:46:46,480 book itself is really great. I mean, Luke gearing, it's it's 850 00:46:46,480 --> 00:46:49,960 so fucking Luke gearing. And that's like such a strong 851 00:46:49,960 --> 00:46:52,080 point for me. I love some Luke gearing like 852 00:46:52,520 --> 00:46:54,200 imperceptible nonsense, you know? 853 00:46:54,560 --> 00:46:57,640 It's just fucking exactly that. The impenetrable. 854 00:46:57,680 --> 00:46:59,160 Nonsense. Yeah, it's going to write it 855 00:46:59,160 --> 00:47:02,080 exactly like he wants without explaining how he fucking wants 856 00:47:02,080 --> 00:47:03,960 to do it. You're going to deal with it. 857 00:47:04,360 --> 00:47:06,680 It's going to be good if you if you figure it out. 858 00:47:07,440 --> 00:47:09,400 And it's going to be British as fuck. 859 00:47:09,440 --> 00:47:11,640 I mean, this is the most British fucking game ever. 860 00:47:12,680 --> 00:47:15,920 It's just it's it's really, and mechanically it's really great. 861 00:47:15,920 --> 00:47:20,080 It really pulls a lot of interesting older stuff into a 862 00:47:20,440 --> 00:47:22,880 little bit more modernized version, you know, even the way 863 00:47:22,880 --> 00:47:23,640 that. Absolutely. 864 00:47:24,640 --> 00:47:28,480 Combat works in the way that the order of it works based on the 865 00:47:28,560 --> 00:47:31,680 kind of the size of your weapon, almost because of the way you're 866 00:47:31,680 --> 00:47:34,600 gonna get together the land. Spears are gonna hit you before 867 00:47:34,600 --> 00:47:37,960 a sword will hit you and stuff. So mechanically, really good, 868 00:47:37,960 --> 00:47:40,880 really fun, really interesting. Vibes are incredible. 869 00:47:40,880 --> 00:47:45,560 The adventures are all the stuff to build the the city out is 870 00:47:45,560 --> 00:47:47,200 incredible and again the art is fantastic. 871 00:47:47,200 --> 00:47:49,440 So that is Swivers from Luke Gearing and David Hoskins. 872 00:47:49,440 --> 00:47:51,960 You know what question I asked Luke Gearing when he was on the 873 00:47:51,960 --> 00:47:53,800 show and it were like before we were rolling. 874 00:47:53,800 --> 00:47:55,360 It was like, it's such a funny answer. 875 00:47:55,560 --> 00:47:59,440 I was, you know, I've, I'm a big wolves fan of, in case you all 876 00:47:59,440 --> 00:48:03,240 didn't fucking know, and there's two different kinds of rations 877 00:48:03,240 --> 00:48:08,360 in wolves upon the coast, a day ration, the trail ration and and 878 00:48:08,520 --> 00:48:10,320 they have a different cost. And I asked Luke was like, 879 00:48:10,320 --> 00:48:11,840 what's the difference? And he's like, I don't know, 880 00:48:13,880 --> 00:48:15,560 perfect. Perfect. 881 00:48:16,240 --> 00:48:17,960 Exactly. Because it doesn't fucking 882 00:48:17,960 --> 00:48:18,760 matter. Not really. 883 00:48:19,680 --> 00:48:25,520 So Next up we have Sherwood from our Rook studio and from Richard 884 00:48:25,520 --> 00:48:26,920 Roon. I mean, again, one of the 885 00:48:27,200 --> 00:48:31,720 nicest, kindest, most intelligent people in this 886 00:48:31,720 --> 00:48:34,640 entire space. Same person who did Moonlight on 887 00:48:34,640 --> 00:48:37,920 Roseville Beach, which is I mean, we didn't even really talk 888 00:48:37,920 --> 00:48:41,000 about the fact that the highest rated book and the highest rated 889 00:48:41,000 --> 00:48:45,480 Zine are both Richard R Rook studio and this could easily 890 00:48:45,480 --> 00:48:50,560 have been moonlight instead. Honestly, Sherwood and and and 891 00:48:50,560 --> 00:48:52,800 moonlight for me are both for different reasons. 892 00:48:53,080 --> 00:48:54,880 Incredible. So if you would have picked 893 00:48:54,880 --> 00:48:56,920 Sherwood, I would have picked moonlight here and if you would 894 00:48:56,920 --> 00:48:58,800 have picked since you picked moonlight, I picked Sherwood 895 00:48:58,800 --> 00:49:01,040 here. I'm honestly interchangeable in 896 00:49:01,040 --> 00:49:05,200 in my top five, but I I love this. 897 00:49:05,240 --> 00:49:07,680 I, I think the the vibes of this are incredible. 898 00:49:07,680 --> 00:49:11,880 Again, I, I do like, you know, the fantasy side a little bit. 899 00:49:11,880 --> 00:49:15,880 I love the character creation in this, you know, just as good as 900 00:49:15,880 --> 00:49:19,160 a character creation in in Moonlight, having those traveler 901 00:49:19,160 --> 00:49:21,400 aspects, filling out your character, you know, with your 902 00:49:21,400 --> 00:49:23,800 age and, and your background, stuff like that. 903 00:49:23,800 --> 00:49:27,040 It's really, really interesting. And again, I actually got to 904 00:49:27,040 --> 00:49:29,920 play this with Chris Wolf and with Richard, and it was such a 905 00:49:29,920 --> 00:49:31,960 fun experience and was such a great adventure. 906 00:49:32,800 --> 00:49:37,120 And it's just in general a fun, interesting game that's still 907 00:49:37,120 --> 00:49:39,240 Zine size. You know, this good is a game 908 00:49:39,240 --> 00:49:42,280 that could easily have been put out to, you know, 100 plus pages 909 00:49:42,280 --> 00:49:44,560 and it doesn't fucking need it. It's incredible the way it is 910 00:49:45,000 --> 00:49:47,320 and, and it's it's just fantastic. 911 00:49:47,320 --> 00:49:50,360 And I don't know why the cover on this has always struck me. 912 00:49:51,280 --> 00:49:54,200 And then the ribbon on the front makes an S which I didn't notice 913 00:49:54,200 --> 00:49:58,880 for a really long time and so. I missed the old cover with the 914 00:49:59,480 --> 00:50:04,400 the LA bartender on the front. Oh my God, dude, that's so good. 915 00:50:04,800 --> 00:50:07,960 But yeah, Sherwood is is again in my top five. 916 00:50:08,520 --> 00:50:12,440 Next one is Offworlders from Chris P Wolf with art by Olivia 917 00:50:12,440 --> 00:50:17,200 Gulen. This is so Chris Wolf and I have 918 00:50:17,200 --> 00:50:18,480 become friends over the past year. 919 00:50:18,880 --> 00:50:21,280 I mean, obviously no Chris too, but me and me and Chris talk a 920 00:50:21,280 --> 00:50:23,320 lot. He actually helped me, inspired 921 00:50:23,320 --> 00:50:26,760 me really to to start working on the thing that eventually became 922 00:50:26,760 --> 00:50:30,040 Death Cut in Stone. That's why he gets the special 923 00:50:30,040 --> 00:50:34,400 consideration in the book. But when I read Offworlders, I 924 00:50:34,400 --> 00:50:36,880 was like, this person thinks about making the game the same 925 00:50:36,880 --> 00:50:39,600 way that I think about making the game, like mechanically and 926 00:50:39,600 --> 00:50:41,360 stuff like that. I was like, this is probably the 927 00:50:41,360 --> 00:50:45,400 closest thing I've ever read to the way that I want to make a 928 00:50:45,400 --> 00:50:47,520 game. And it is, as I said before, 929 00:50:47,520 --> 00:50:50,440 it's kind of it's got some Pbta aspects with the 2D6 make 930 00:50:50,440 --> 00:50:53,560 success, but completely cuts out all the narrative scaffolding, 931 00:50:53,560 --> 00:50:56,840 all of the aspects of Pbta that make it Pbta and just use that 932 00:50:56,840 --> 00:51:00,200 resolution mechanic, which I think is my favorite, you know, 933 00:51:00,200 --> 00:51:03,680 because of the yes and yes, but no and no, but kind of parts of 934 00:51:03,680 --> 00:51:07,760 it again, without moves, without pick list, without any of that 935 00:51:07,760 --> 00:51:12,920 garbage on top of it and does it in a really fun, interesting 936 00:51:13,640 --> 00:51:17,440 space way. This is, you know, my favorite 937 00:51:17,440 --> 00:51:22,080 modern space game period. I think, I mean, it's, you know, 938 00:51:22,080 --> 00:51:23,960 obviously I'm an edgelord piece of shit, so I'm going to lean 939 00:51:23,960 --> 00:51:25,960 into stuff like death, you know, death in space. 940 00:51:25,960 --> 00:51:28,280 But I think off worlders is better because I think there's 941 00:51:28,280 --> 00:51:30,440 parts of death in space that that don't quite hit for me. 942 00:51:30,440 --> 00:51:35,960 I I just think it's incredible grounded sci-fi game with 943 00:51:36,680 --> 00:51:40,120 mechanics and modifiers and and things that are really, really 944 00:51:40,120 --> 00:51:43,120 fucking and interesting and, and it's good and they picked a 945 00:51:43,120 --> 00:51:45,000 great artist for it because the art all the way through is being 946 00:51:45,000 --> 00:51:47,760 fantastic as well. So off worlders is incredible. 947 00:51:47,760 --> 00:51:49,280 Definitely go check out all of Chris's stuff. 948 00:51:50,920 --> 00:51:53,960 I love the big, you know, I love the size of the book, honestly. 949 00:51:54,000 --> 00:51:56,960 Oh, it's a, it's a, it's a beefy paperback. 950 00:51:56,960 --> 00:51:58,480 Yeah, yeah. Always stands out. 951 00:51:59,120 --> 00:52:00,920 Yeah, and it's bright fucking yellow. 952 00:52:00,920 --> 00:52:02,080 You don't get a lot of that on the shelf. 953 00:52:04,800 --> 00:52:08,400 But last two, I mean, it's the same as Hunters. 954 00:52:08,680 --> 00:52:10,080 Weird. Here's public access again. 955 00:52:10,080 --> 00:52:12,280 There's not a whole lot to say about it that we haven't said a 956 00:52:12,280 --> 00:52:15,120 bunch already. Game fucks like Joy Rail is 957 00:52:15,120 --> 00:52:16,480 awesome. They made an awesome game. 958 00:52:16,480 --> 00:52:19,120 The game is fun. It doesn't take itself too 959 00:52:19,120 --> 00:52:21,320 seriously. There's a lot of stuff in this 960 00:52:21,320 --> 00:52:23,760 book. I do have the original Zenes. 961 00:52:23,760 --> 00:52:26,640 This book is, you know, kind of a put together of a bunch of the 962 00:52:26,640 --> 00:52:29,680 Zen content put into this bigger book and it's really, really 963 00:52:29,680 --> 00:52:31,160 great. I can't wait to see more of it. 964 00:52:31,160 --> 00:52:35,920 I have an entire stack like this big of zines and and koozies and 965 00:52:35,920 --> 00:52:37,800 dice and stuff for it and I wish there was even more. 966 00:52:38,400 --> 00:52:41,360 It's great. Again, I talked to Joey at PAX. 967 00:52:41,360 --> 00:52:43,680 Definitely want to have them come on the show and run of AP 968 00:52:43,840 --> 00:52:46,040 of this. Would love to see that expect 969 00:52:46,040 --> 00:52:49,600 that I'm gonna I'm gonna bug him until he he picks a date and 970 00:52:49,600 --> 00:52:52,720 then comes on and I want to see here's we're here's public 971 00:52:52,720 --> 00:52:54,600 access. I just want to play real bad and 972 00:52:54,600 --> 00:52:59,280 then the last one's cauldron. I mean again, Game Fox, it is 973 00:52:59,320 --> 00:53:05,120 not only a super fun, interesting, clever, funny, well 974 00:53:05,120 --> 00:53:10,320 written game from Dylan, but the art, the layout, everything from 975 00:53:10,320 --> 00:53:15,040 Steve Go so hard. It's such a beautiful, beautiful 976 00:53:15,040 --> 00:53:16,920 book. I mean just go either buy the 977 00:53:16,920 --> 00:53:20,160 fucking book or go to go to Hill Giant's itch page. 978 00:53:21,080 --> 00:53:24,920 The PDF is $5, which is insane, but and just look at how 979 00:53:24,920 --> 00:53:28,680 incredible it looks and it just UPS the vibes all the way 980 00:53:28,680 --> 00:53:30,440 through. But one of the things we said 981 00:53:30,440 --> 00:53:32,760 during the review that I thought about it is this is, in my 982 00:53:32,760 --> 00:53:38,520 opinion, the best book this year where the every aspect of it is 983 00:53:38,680 --> 00:53:41,160 of the same quality. You know, like if we actually 984 00:53:41,160 --> 00:53:43,960 gave this scores across the board, it would have been like 985 00:53:44,160 --> 00:53:46,080 all nines or 10s, you know what I mean? 986 00:53:46,120 --> 00:53:48,000 And and that's the the ones that's. 987 00:53:48,080 --> 00:53:50,200 Funny game too. It really is like genuinely 988 00:53:50,200 --> 00:53:53,000 reading it is so much fun. Yeah, well, OK. 989 00:53:53,080 --> 00:53:55,080 The only thing that it didn't is the usability score that would 990 00:53:55,080 --> 00:53:58,920 have been tagged, but, you know, PDF hyperlinks, right? 991 00:53:59,160 --> 00:54:02,520 But it it, and not only that, it's super fun to read, but 992 00:54:02,520 --> 00:54:05,000 super. I played it like 5-6, seven 993 00:54:05,000 --> 00:54:08,960 Times Now. And as a skirmish game, it's 994 00:54:08,960 --> 00:54:10,920 just so fun. And like we said numerous times, 995 00:54:10,920 --> 00:54:12,920 it's approachable, it's interesting. 996 00:54:13,960 --> 00:54:17,800 And, and yeah, and that is, I think that's the last one of my 997 00:54:17,800 --> 00:54:20,880 top five. So the last thing we're going to 998 00:54:20,880 --> 00:54:24,080 talk about a bit is the future of the weekly scroll podcast 999 00:54:24,080 --> 00:54:27,160 every year. We we've evolved a lot in the 1000 00:54:27,160 --> 00:54:29,000 last four years. Absolutely. 1001 00:54:29,000 --> 00:54:31,320 If you if you watch the first episode, it's got, it's got 1002 00:54:31,320 --> 00:54:34,440 Jason on it. And I interview like one of the 1003 00:54:34,440 --> 00:54:39,680 other people from my town in it, you know, and it, it looks very 1004 00:54:39,680 --> 00:54:42,840 different. The scores were very different. 1005 00:54:43,680 --> 00:54:46,880 And now the scores were have been a big part of the show for 1006 00:54:46,880 --> 00:54:49,960 four years. We've, it was, it was kind of a 1007 00:54:49,960 --> 00:54:52,320 core aspect of the way we used to dig through games. 1008 00:54:52,320 --> 00:54:54,040 Remember, we had three hour episodes. 1009 00:54:54,520 --> 00:54:56,440 I do remember we had three hour episodes. 1010 00:54:56,520 --> 00:54:59,520 Yeah, they were, they're they're they were fun. 1011 00:55:00,240 --> 00:55:01,840 I'm glad we don't do them anymore. 1012 00:55:01,840 --> 00:55:05,640 I do miss them on occasion but man we used to do 3 hour 1013 00:55:05,640 --> 00:55:07,760 episodes and wonder why we didn't get more listeners 1014 00:55:08,080 --> 00:55:10,960 because we have 3 hour episodes. Oh, I didn't wonder. 1015 00:55:10,960 --> 00:55:13,040 I knew it was because we did 3 hour episodes. 1016 00:55:13,320 --> 00:55:16,280 And you know what, I liked it and a lot of people did enjoy 1017 00:55:16,280 --> 00:55:18,920 it. You know, I, I've, we've had a 1018 00:55:18,920 --> 00:55:22,960 couple people hop in the discord of, of people that I'm big fans 1019 00:55:22,960 --> 00:55:25,280 of their work that have come in and said that they're fans of, 1020 00:55:25,320 --> 00:55:27,560 of our work, which always strikes me as we. 1021 00:55:27,720 --> 00:55:29,920 Don't have fans. They're fucking lying bro. 1022 00:55:30,000 --> 00:55:32,280 Exactly. Imposter syndrome forever, but 1023 00:55:32,280 --> 00:55:35,520 that's meant a lot this year. We've definitely, we had some, 1024 00:55:35,520 --> 00:55:38,320 some people reach out and it's cool to hear that. 1025 00:55:38,320 --> 00:55:39,440 It's cool. A lot of people come up to you 1026 00:55:39,440 --> 00:55:41,120 in packs and say stuff. So that was really cool. 1027 00:55:41,440 --> 00:55:43,840 But we are changing the we're, we're, we're doing some things 1028 00:55:43,840 --> 00:55:47,200 different about the show 1, as I just kind of mentioned, we're 1029 00:55:47,200 --> 00:55:50,640 getting rid of the scores. We, we, we did it with Cauldron 1030 00:55:50,640 --> 00:55:51,960 and I think it worked really, really well. 1031 00:55:51,960 --> 00:55:54,480 We're going to keep basically the exact same format we've got, 1032 00:55:54,880 --> 00:55:59,240 which is, you know, give you information about the game, give 1033 00:55:59,240 --> 00:56:02,200 you the breakdown of the rules, mechanics and character 1034 00:56:02,200 --> 00:56:05,800 generation, give you kind of, you know, our thoughts on the 1035 00:56:05,800 --> 00:56:09,800 game and then go through the the six metrics that we kind of go 1036 00:56:09,800 --> 00:56:11,280 through the game. We've we've had a lot of really 1037 00:56:11,280 --> 00:56:13,840 good feedback. It feels good when we're when 1038 00:56:13,840 --> 00:56:15,960 we're doing it and we've had a lot of good feedback about 1039 00:56:15,960 --> 00:56:19,000 people enjoying that, like still giving that kind of deep dive 1040 00:56:19,000 --> 00:56:21,840 ish. But you know, tightening up a 1041 00:56:21,840 --> 00:56:24,320 little bit and then just chopping off the last 1520 1042 00:56:24,320 --> 00:56:26,400 minutes where we hammered Hall, whether something's A7 or an 8. 1043 00:56:26,400 --> 00:56:30,120 It just is unnecessary for the way that we we do the show 1044 00:56:30,120 --> 00:56:31,600 anymore. And I don't think it adds 1045 00:56:31,600 --> 00:56:35,920 anything really except a quantification that it just 1046 00:56:35,920 --> 00:56:37,360 doesn't feel is necessary anymore. 1047 00:56:38,200 --> 00:56:39,880 So we're going to get rid of the scores. 1048 00:56:39,880 --> 00:56:42,200 So expect the episodes to be running right around an hour, 1049 00:56:42,320 --> 00:56:48,840 which is what we just hit. And and yeah, so no more scores. 1050 00:56:48,840 --> 00:56:51,200 But otherwise, we're going to still go over all the metrics of 1051 00:56:51,200 --> 00:56:52,600 the game and and everything like that. 1052 00:56:56,000 --> 00:56:59,200 Is there something that this year, Ryan that you're looking 1053 00:56:59,200 --> 00:57:02,360 forward to like a release of something or like an idea we've 1054 00:57:02,680 --> 00:57:04,320 someone was talking about with you, OK. 1055 00:57:04,760 --> 00:57:05,800 Oh, we have. We'll get there for. 1056 00:57:06,080 --> 00:57:08,760 That OK. Well, the, well, kind of the the 1057 00:57:09,520 --> 00:57:10,600 again, the future of the weekly scroll. 1058 00:57:10,600 --> 00:57:13,360 So, Hunter, tell me about your schedule and how that's going to 1059 00:57:13,360 --> 00:57:15,880 affect the show. I don't know. 1060 00:57:16,560 --> 00:57:19,360 Yeah, there we go. Who knows what tomorrow looks 1061 00:57:19,440 --> 00:57:19,960 like? Really. 1062 00:57:21,000 --> 00:57:21,960 I don't know. I have to. 1063 00:57:21,960 --> 00:57:23,920 I'm going to be really honest with you. 1064 00:57:23,920 --> 00:57:28,520 College is very expensive and I had to fill out a FAFSA which 1065 00:57:28,520 --> 00:57:33,280 will not go through until not this coming semester. 1066 00:57:33,280 --> 00:57:35,800 So I might be taking an immediate break from college 1067 00:57:35,800 --> 00:57:38,280 because I can't afford to take classes without a loan. 1068 00:57:38,960 --> 00:57:41,880 So I, I think our schedules are opened up, you know, I think 1069 00:57:41,880 --> 00:57:47,400 we're, we're raring to go so. Yeah, so so we'll we'll we'll 1070 00:57:47,400 --> 00:57:49,880 see how that goes. You know, with Hunter, you know, 1071 00:57:49,880 --> 00:57:52,520 does work a couple jobs does have that and I'm Knights and 1072 00:57:52,520 --> 00:57:55,200 he's and he's not. So we're going to try to get 1073 00:57:55,200 --> 00:57:59,280 back to that, but. I, like most people, don't work 1074 00:57:59,280 --> 00:58:00,040 nights. Yeah. 1075 00:58:00,360 --> 00:58:04,440 Yeah, but I've done it for going on 15 years, so that's not going 1076 00:58:04,440 --> 00:58:10,520 to change anytime soon. But I do plan to have a lot of a 1077 00:58:10,520 --> 00:58:13,160 lot of guests on the show. I mean, I have like 3 episodes 1078 00:58:13,160 --> 00:58:17,160 playing this week. So we're gonna have a hunter on 1079 00:58:17,160 --> 00:58:19,160 as much as you can possibly be on, but one hunter can't be 1080 00:58:19,160 --> 00:58:20,760 here. We're gonna have a lot of really 1081 00:58:20,760 --> 00:58:24,920 cool people from from the scene from from other scenes. 1082 00:58:25,280 --> 00:58:27,240 You know, we like to start expanding into some other stuff. 1083 00:58:27,240 --> 00:58:30,040 So expect a lot more guests, not more guests. 1084 00:58:30,200 --> 00:58:32,520 We'd have a lot fucking like we did like 18 interviews last year 1085 00:58:32,760 --> 00:58:34,920 so expect. A similar number of guests. 1086 00:58:34,920 --> 00:58:41,200 Yeah, probably fewer APS, we do. But one thing to expect a lot 1087 00:58:41,200 --> 00:58:44,800 is, and I'm not going to get into a big rant about it, a lot 1088 00:58:44,800 --> 00:58:48,320 more skirmish games on the show. It is where, you know, my brain 1089 00:58:48,320 --> 00:58:50,840 is moving into kind of more skirmishy, board gamey stuff, 1090 00:58:50,840 --> 00:58:55,560 but especially skirmish. So I also think that is a scene 1091 00:58:55,800 --> 00:58:59,120 that has a lot of really fun, interesting, cool stuff that 1092 00:58:59,120 --> 00:59:05,120 could use a little bit of of spotlighting kind of I I think 1093 00:59:05,120 --> 00:59:06,600 it would be fun to do it the way we do it. 1094 00:59:06,600 --> 00:59:09,520 There's so much stuff out there and a lot and plenty of people 1095 00:59:09,520 --> 00:59:12,200 talking about things. But instead of having, you know, 1096 00:59:12,240 --> 00:59:16,320 be about hobbying necessarily more about kind of what we do 1097 00:59:16,320 --> 00:59:19,120 about the books that you put out in in the games and, and have 1098 00:59:19,120 --> 00:59:20,880 people on and be able to talk about that a little bit more. 1099 00:59:20,880 --> 00:59:24,520 So that's something I'm really looking forward to embracing a 1100 00:59:24,520 --> 00:59:28,600 little bit more. And with Skirmish, we want to 1101 00:59:28,600 --> 00:59:32,920 play those games, you know, especially before we review 1102 00:59:32,920 --> 00:59:34,560 them. You can debate all you want 1103 00:59:34,560 --> 00:59:36,360 about whether you can read a book and review it or not. 1104 00:59:36,840 --> 00:59:39,480 I think the way that we do it is a good way to do it. 1105 00:59:39,480 --> 00:59:42,240 Or we basically just talk about the book and the mechanics and 1106 00:59:42,240 --> 00:59:46,040 stuff like that versus the play. Because there is a difference. 1107 00:59:46,360 --> 00:59:53,880 Go fuck yourself between a game and play and and for right now, 1108 00:59:53,880 --> 00:59:56,680 what we've been doing is leaving those episodes on our twitch 1109 00:59:56,680 --> 00:59:58,200 channel. So if you want to, if we ever 1110 00:59:58,200 --> 01:00:01,320 review a skirmish game, you can go to our twitch channel and 1111 01:00:01,320 --> 01:00:04,720 look at the highlights and you will find usually about like a 1112 01:00:04,720 --> 01:00:07,320 two to three hour play of that game. 1113 01:00:07,320 --> 01:00:09,360 You can go over right now and go watch some mech 28. 1114 01:00:09,920 --> 01:00:13,520 You can go watch some Cauldron. So go check that out, but might 1115 01:00:13,520 --> 01:00:18,680 eventually be putting that into. Maybe more video kind of things 1116 01:00:18,680 --> 01:00:20,840 for for YouTube. Also expect the show to kind of 1117 01:00:21,560 --> 01:00:24,480 kind of start leaning in towards that kind of moving away from 1118 01:00:24,480 --> 01:00:28,080 the kind of stream feel more into the video feel. 1119 01:00:28,080 --> 01:00:30,280 And we've been talking about kind of figuring out a way to 1120 01:00:30,280 --> 01:00:33,880 adapt that a little bit more. But you know, the podcast will 1121 01:00:33,880 --> 01:00:35,760 always still be the podcast. Don't worry about that. 1122 01:00:35,760 --> 01:00:39,480 But we'll see how how that goes. Was there anything else we 1123 01:00:39,480 --> 01:00:41,680 talked about before, before what you were saying? 1124 01:00:43,960 --> 01:00:45,160 I don't. I think that's about it. 1125 01:00:45,640 --> 01:00:49,040 More skirmish, More. Video format. 1126 01:00:49,640 --> 01:00:53,720 Yeah, more no scores. And that's kind of that's kind 1127 01:00:53,720 --> 01:00:55,960 of what we're looking at. And I'll try to be a little bit 1128 01:00:55,960 --> 01:00:57,440 more consistent with our schedule. 1129 01:00:57,440 --> 01:01:00,920 And I would like to release an episode every Tuesday morning 1130 01:01:01,680 --> 01:01:03,400 and if we do have a second one, release it later. 1131 01:01:03,400 --> 01:01:06,480 But you know, expect to to try to have something put out at the 1132 01:01:06,480 --> 01:01:08,360 same time every time to have some more consistency. 1133 01:01:08,360 --> 01:01:12,200 But you were, you were saying. Oh, things were talking about 1134 01:01:13,120 --> 01:01:15,160 Ryan. What are we looking forward? 1135 01:01:15,440 --> 01:01:16,840 To what are you looking forward to? 1136 01:01:16,840 --> 01:01:19,560 I have a thought in mind. Mine's thing as imaginary? 1137 01:01:19,560 --> 01:01:20,800 Not really yet, but what's yours? 1138 01:01:20,800 --> 01:01:25,200 Do you have a thing? I mean the slow sweet release of 1139 01:01:25,200 --> 01:01:28,280 death at some point, but other? Than that I can't really just in 1140 01:01:28,280 --> 01:01:29,760 general, right? Yeah, yeah. 1141 01:01:30,560 --> 01:01:31,360 What? What's yours? 1142 01:01:31,360 --> 01:01:33,120 And maybe that'll trigger whatever you're trying to get me 1143 01:01:33,120 --> 01:01:35,960 to say. Logan Dean mentioned a deck 1144 01:01:35,960 --> 01:01:38,520 building mech battle game. Yes. 1145 01:01:39,400 --> 01:01:42,240 And he's mentioned it and that was like months. 1146 01:01:42,240 --> 01:01:44,560 That was like maybe like 8 months ago, nine months months 1147 01:01:44,560 --> 01:01:46,840 ago that still. Going you got to get on blue sky 1148 01:01:46,840 --> 01:01:48,040 more. There's how many updates? 1149 01:01:48,120 --> 01:01:51,080 Man, yeah, I'm not. But like, I have never stopped 1150 01:01:51,080 --> 01:01:53,480 thinking about it. There's no point in which I've 1151 01:01:53,480 --> 01:01:55,440 stopped thinking about it. Reach out and bug him because 1152 01:01:55,440 --> 01:01:57,720 when he was on the show he said he was going to drop a TTS 1153 01:01:57,720 --> 01:02:01,840 module that we could play. So reach out and and to to Logan 1154 01:02:01,840 --> 01:02:04,440 and honestly. He just has like cards that I 1155 01:02:04,440 --> 01:02:06,480 can print out and play test at home. 1156 01:02:06,480 --> 01:02:09,600 I'll do it today, you know. Just reach out. 1157 01:02:09,600 --> 01:02:11,920 I mean there's a lot of stuff coming up in 2026 that I'm 1158 01:02:11,920 --> 01:02:13,240 excited for. We're going to keep going with 1159 01:02:13,240 --> 01:02:16,480 our night cat chats with dirt trying to get another nine. 1160 01:02:16,480 --> 01:02:17,920 We did 9 last year, nine this year. 1161 01:02:17,920 --> 01:02:22,760 So and you know, if you watch the episode I just dropped this 1162 01:02:22,760 --> 01:02:25,080 morning, talk about the cool stuff that's coming out in 2026. 1163 01:02:25,080 --> 01:02:26,480 We're going to get liminal horror deluxe. 1164 01:02:28,160 --> 01:02:31,800 Just heard Karen Space Penguin puts out Karen to we, but just 1165 01:02:31,880 --> 01:02:38,320 read the other day that Yohi is gonna start Karen Press and 1166 01:02:38,320 --> 01:02:41,000 start being a publisher for Karen stuff. 1167 01:02:41,000 --> 01:02:41,960 So that sounds cool. Shit. 1168 01:02:42,120 --> 01:02:45,120 I can only assume that Gerald is gonna keep distributing that 1169 01:02:45,120 --> 01:02:46,400 through Space Bank, but we'll see. 1170 01:02:47,280 --> 01:02:50,280 They're also, if you don't listen to Between Two Karens 1171 01:02:50,280 --> 01:02:54,920 podcast, they're having a con this year in Portland. 1172 01:02:56,640 --> 01:03:00,960 So I think so, yeah. So, so we're going to I 1173 01:03:00,960 --> 01:03:03,480 definitely want to go to that. My plan this year, what I'm 1174 01:03:03,480 --> 01:03:05,000 looking forward to is a lot more cons. 1175 01:03:05,000 --> 01:03:06,400 I want to do a lot of small cons. 1176 01:03:07,040 --> 01:03:10,280 Having a fun thing in January with some homies. 1177 01:03:10,840 --> 01:03:13,360 Want to go to Adepticon. Obviously I want to go to PAX. 1178 01:03:13,560 --> 01:03:16,040 I want to go to under the Dice Fest with the Hype Scum podcast. 1179 01:03:16,040 --> 01:03:17,320 If you don't. Yeah. 1180 01:03:17,720 --> 01:03:19,680 Especially if you're into the skirmish kind of way. 1181 01:03:19,680 --> 01:03:21,160 We're going listen to the Hype Scum podcast. 1182 01:03:21,160 --> 01:03:26,560 They're way cooler than we are. And I would love to go to Arcane 1183 01:03:26,560 --> 01:03:29,440 Con too, but I just found out that's like 2 weeks before under 1184 01:03:29,440 --> 01:03:31,800 the dice, so I don't think I can go to New England twice in one 1185 01:03:31,800 --> 01:03:34,280 month. And there's some other small 1186 01:03:34,280 --> 01:03:39,800 cons, you know, there's another tabletop CON in Portland that I 1187 01:03:39,800 --> 01:03:41,760 saw at Goblin Archives. And then we're going to go to 1188 01:03:41,760 --> 01:03:46,800 PDX CON, look it up. So that that's what I'm looking 1189 01:03:46,800 --> 01:03:49,680 forward to. Also, just just a little pitch 1190 01:03:49,680 --> 01:03:51,480 for myself. I did put out a skirmish game. 1191 01:03:51,480 --> 01:03:55,000 It's called death cut in stone. It is currently in alpha right 1192 01:03:55,000 --> 01:03:58,440 now, but the layout is basically done. 1193 01:03:58,440 --> 01:04:00,120 It just needs some some tweaking. 1194 01:04:00,120 --> 01:04:03,560 I got to put a a character sheet together, but the game is fully 1195 01:04:03,560 --> 01:04:08,920 playable right now on my itch. Midnight Oil pH dot itch dot IO. 1196 01:04:08,920 --> 01:04:10,280 It's Midnight Oil publishing house. 1197 01:04:10,280 --> 01:04:13,280 That's what I'm publishing under and the game is completely free. 1198 01:04:13,280 --> 01:04:15,520 It'll always be free. Even when the final art full 1199 01:04:15,520 --> 01:04:18,160 version comes out, it will always be free and maybe I'll do 1200 01:04:18,160 --> 01:04:20,400 a print run at some point which will be as cheap as I can 1201 01:04:20,400 --> 01:04:23,600 possibly make it. But it is talked about violence 1202 01:04:23,600 --> 01:04:26,560 before with Luke Gearing. It is a hack on Luke Gearing's 1203 01:04:26,560 --> 01:04:30,360 violence system. Basically turns it into like a 1204 01:04:30,360 --> 01:04:35,720 Old West shootout a la Tombstone gunfight at the OK Corral. 1205 01:04:36,600 --> 01:04:38,480 It's I think it's fun. People have enjoyed it. 1206 01:04:38,480 --> 01:04:41,320 So go check that out. But the full release of that, 1207 01:04:41,320 --> 01:04:42,480 that's one thing I wanted to look at. 1208 01:04:42,720 --> 01:04:45,200 What I'm looking forward to doing in in 2026 is I want to 1209 01:04:45,200 --> 01:04:47,840 put out two skirmish games. 1 is basically done already and it 1210 01:04:47,840 --> 01:04:50,600 just needs to be released and then I'm going to put out a a 1211 01:04:50,600 --> 01:04:53,280 sumo skirmish game A. Sumo one. 1212 01:04:54,080 --> 01:04:57,920 Yeah, and and check that out. So those are my plans for 2026. 1213 01:04:57,920 --> 01:05:01,280 That is the future of the Weekly Scroll podcast in 2026. 1214 01:05:01,680 --> 01:05:02,880 Anything else you got to say, Hunter? 1215 01:05:04,880 --> 01:05:09,560 Hey, happy New Year. Yeah, we are we are mere days 1216 01:05:09,560 --> 01:05:13,840 away by the time this drops. We'll see We'll see if if I get 1217 01:05:13,840 --> 01:05:16,800 it out before 2026. No, trust me, I won't. 1218 01:05:16,800 --> 01:05:19,920 This will get out next week. So yeah, Connor, it's been 1219 01:05:19,920 --> 01:05:22,080 great. You know, I've I'm, I would love 1220 01:05:22,080 --> 01:05:23,720 for you to stay in school, but if you get to be on the show a 1221 01:05:23,720 --> 01:05:25,840 little bit more at the beginning of the year, I'm happy to to 1222 01:05:26,520 --> 01:05:27,680 keep doing this with you. I'd. 1223 01:05:27,800 --> 01:05:30,520 Love to stay in school as well. It's really expensive actually. 1224 01:05:30,520 --> 01:05:32,440 Like even Community College classes are like. 1225 01:05:32,960 --> 01:05:36,600 Oh no, I know one. One class cost me like $800 and 1226 01:05:36,600 --> 01:05:39,600 I was like, OK. I have two degrees. 1227 01:05:39,600 --> 01:05:42,880 I've, I've been and I only, I did not get them paid off till, 1228 01:05:42,880 --> 01:05:45,480 well, until my 30s. So I, I hear you. 1229 01:05:45,480 --> 01:05:48,360 I feel you. But but yeah, that's us. 1230 01:05:48,400 --> 01:05:51,480 That is the year interview for 2025. 1231 01:05:51,480 --> 01:05:55,440 Thank you all for listening. Thank you all for for supporting 1232 01:05:55,440 --> 01:05:58,120 us throughout the year. Comment. 1233 01:05:58,880 --> 01:06:00,480 Tell us what you like. Tell us what you don't like. 1234 01:06:00,480 --> 01:06:03,320 Help us, you know, get, I mean, we're going to do it the way we 1235 01:06:03,320 --> 01:06:05,480 fucking what? But hearing from people is 1236 01:06:05,480 --> 01:06:08,000 always nice. And we're going to keep doing 1237 01:06:08,000 --> 01:06:10,800 what we do and, and hope you enjoy it. 1238 01:06:11,360 --> 01:06:16,160 If not, cool, we will. Yeah, we'll catch you next year. 1239 01:06:16,160 --> 01:06:17,560 Bye everybody. Bye.