The. Welcome to the Game Master
Monday, State of the podcast and also the live streams.
I'm here with our brand spank, a new fresh out-of-the-box Co GM
Supriya. How are you doing, Zoop?
Hi, I'm Zoop. My mom calls me Supriya.
You can call me either thing and I am so excited to be here.
I made sure I called you both things to the sick of my bases.
I love it. I love it.
The the reason I always put in Supriya is just because I don't
want to lose that piece of me even when I'm zoo.
I think it's a good piece of you to carry.
Yeah. I like all versions of you zoo.
Thank you. Yeah, this is your first state
of the podcast ever because you just joined our crew here this
year. Eagle eager to listeners may
note the lack of Jenny on on this particular one.
And it's because we, we, we got her.
That's it. We got it.
We got her. Just kidding.
Jenny runs her own show now. She, she does Fire Emblem Fallen
Kingdom over on YouTube just to check it out.
And she's going to be more of a helper at Game Master Monday
from now on, kind of popping in whenever she's needed.
But she's still in our Discord, so you can still page her and
call her Doctor Kuby and she'll show up.
And and tell her how wonderful of AGM she is.
I don't know if you all have caught Absurdia on the live
stream, but damn. Jenny good Jenny, unfortunately,
very good. Jenny, very good.
I'd like to do more things with Jenny, but that's up to Jenny
and also us. And also if you can't have
Jenny, at least you can have Zoop.
And I think you've been doing a banger ass job on the show so
far this year. Thank you.
Do you want to talk about your accomplishments for this year?
Why certainly, I guess I shouldn't jump ahead in the
script. Why not?
So I mean you're, you're, you're joining the show at a pretty
solid time here Zoop. So, so far in this year, we've
accumulated some pretty neat accolades.
Over the past three years or so, we've gotten 8000 streams and
downloads, at least if my Spotify numbers are right, it
might be higher, who knows what that free distribution service,
but at least that many, you know, are we?
We launched Game Master Monday Presents late last year and this
year it really took off thanks to a lot of projects that we put
out this year, including Castaway, all the guest
miniseries. We had just as a lot of people
coming on and doing their their dream projects with us and
trusting us to do that and letting us cast it and throw
people at them. A foolish endeavor, but I'm
really grateful to them for allowing us to to do all of
that. We've made some really cool shit
on the Twitch this year. Speaking of Castaway and all
those other streams you've done, we've done a lot of charity
streams this year. We got over $5000 for different
charities and mutual aid funds. Castaway has been a runaway hit.
And now I'm, you know, compared to that first season where I had
to beg a lot of people, yourself included, to come do that first
season and you. Didn't have to beg.
Let's not, let's not, let's not say, let's not be here.
I wasn't like it was. A little bit of a a beg
situation, I'll admit, because some things happen.
I was like zoo please I need you right now.
I'm like, yes, I pull on my Cape.
I was born for this moment. Let me let me play an ex cult
member. Yes.
That's what you get with the Zoop experience.
You come to Zoop last second and you get like a really heady
banger ass character concept. You know, I mean, Castaway did
gangbusters. We raised a lot of money in that
and during the island and then the desert even more so.
And there's a lot of buzz and hype for the next season of it,
and now it's just something that I feel like I'm going to be
doing forever. Probably just just locked into
this at least silly reality show we've concocted.
Shit, we picked up 4 CRED Award nominations this year too, three
of which thanks to Game Master Monday Presents.
So shout out to Can't Meadow View and Bert Creek and Gasaway
just just picking up those nominations.
And I guess the most important thing and the thing that I'm
proudest of is we finally have a real actual legitimate
production team. Bring in Zupon was kind of the
first domino to fall as we filled out what is now the the
GMM crew. So you've got me here sitting on
top of this pyramid scheme and then you have Zoop here who's
going to be Co producing and GM ING and at some point we'll be
editing parts of the show. It's.
Going to be good. We're going to teach her how to
do casting and then on the on the twitch side of things, you
of course got GN Burb, who's been just a game changing
addition for us on the Twitch side of the ball.
Tastic, fantastic person. I love them dearly.
We have a very kids who wouldn't be allowed to sit next to each
other energy in that group chat in school.
Can I tell you I actually met them in person last year and,
like, bad. Yeah.
And just, I don't think that we had talked that much online, but
we were both in the GMM server and they were just so welcoming
and it was so good. Jen's a Jen's a delight.
I, I, I love that maniac. Even though they send me the
most heinously offensive messages every single day.
Every single day there's something more and more unhinged
and and and inappropriate than the last.
Well, to be fair, you keep making typos.
I do. It's my own fault.
This is what you get from befriending GN.
And of course, I mean, we mentioned, but Jenny's also
still part of the crew. Jenny has been a lifesaver for
helping GN with production behind the scenes is currently
running absurdity at time of this recording.
I guess a little by the time this goes up, it'll still be as
of right now. So we'll talk more about those
those dates here in a bit, you know, so, so Jenny's around.
We can't truly get rid of her, you know?
Not that we would want to. I can't fire my sister.
What did my mom say? I'm too old to get a long text
message from my mom that says you have to let your sister play
with you. But yeah, I'd be a huge year
here for us. And in no small part thanks to
you for that Zoop. Your debut on the show was a
very beloved episode when you ran crushes and cryptids, and I
can say that pretty confidently because it is the only YouTube
video we've ever put out to hit over 100 views.
Amazing, amazing listen. People go feral for cryptids.
That I've learned this thanks to you.
And I, I don't know, I kind of, I kind of think that there's a
part of it. That was just how beautifully
you edited, especially the ending.
I sometimes forget about that and then I'll go back and re
listen to me. All right?
Yeah, I think it's just like a perfect culmination of like, not
that you're a first time GM, but like your first time as a
recorded GM experience, you know?
And like, I think it's a fun cast they have for that
particular ride because they're all insane people, amazingly.
Amazingly. But also this, this is so down
the clown. You know, I appreciate your
sense of pacing, how you involve characters in your stories, how
you just are. So I don't know, like you, like
you, you feel like you're you're in it as a game master.
It doesn't feel like you're sitting on a throne above
everyone playing God. It feels like you're kind of in
the trenches there with them as a game master.
I really like that style because I am definitely a God on a
throne swirling clouds around and throwing a shit.
I mean, I, I think I, you know, and I'm not, I'm not an expert
yet, but it's, it's definitely a fun mix of like, just like
throwing elements in there to move it along once it's time to
move it along. But other than that, to let your
players cook completely and our players cook.
Yeah, it turns out when you put like a handful of chaotic queers
into a room, they will do a chaos for a while.
Especially in a system with hardly any rules.
Yes, well, as as part of being on the show, consider this your,
your, your performance review. OK.
So I mean, no, I want the audience to, to get to know you
a little bit better, understand the reasoning for why the hell
did we pick a zoop? I mean, obviously she's great,
but why specifically zoop? And, and just kind of do a Zoop
review here with you and then and then I'll open the floor to
you for you to ask me any questions in front of God and
everyone. And I have to answer because
it's only fair. I wanted to start off with that
because the one of the big reasons that we chose you to be
the game master. And I'm just going to be
completely honest, it wasn't a long list of people that I would
have given this offer to. It was literally me talking to
Jian and Jenny about how like kind of burnt out and exhaust
that I was getting since Jenny wasn't as involved in the show
late last year and throughout this year.
And they kept telling me, well, why don't you just have someone
come in to help with the Game Master stuff at the very least.
And I was like, well, there's only really one person I'd ask
to do it and it's Zoop. And they're like, so ass zoop.
And I was like final ass zoop. But the reason I I asked you in
particular was one I'm not stealing you from anything you
know, that is. So true.
You've been kind of ATTRPG nomad for the better part of the last
like 2:00-ish years or so, maybe like a smidge less.
But everywhere you go, whether it was AGM or a player, I'm
like, I know Zoop's brain is always going.
I know she gets me because we've had a lot of conversations about
the the art of actual play and what not behind the scenes.
And I was confused by a system and walk up to you head in hand.
He's been like, can you read this book to me, please?
I I love mechanics are so great. That's another good reason,
because it's the antithesis of me.
I I run a lot of systems and I do love mechanics and I love all
types of games. You eat them.
Yes, you you have an acute love for understanding mechanic and
we have the similar philosophy of letting mechanic influence
story, which is something I wanted to to keep the ball
rolling on. So our differences were enough
where I was like Zoom is a good compliment to me because she's
good at the stuff I'm bad at and is one of my safety net players.
But it's also like our similarities are present enough
for I think Zoop understands the vibe and essence of a game.
Master Monday is Plus at the time of my asking you, I'm
pretty sure you held the record for most GMM appearances anyway.
I think I have been eclipsed by Rosie, but with good reason.
And and now and now I'm on episodes as as GM, so good luck
catching up, Rosie. It is now a gauntlet has been
thrown, shots have been fired, friends fighting.
How are you feeling with us so far?
How do you like being a Game Master on on a on a Crit Award
nominated podcast? Literally, OK, so one of the
things on here is you were asking, you had initial reaction
to offer. And literally I, I messaged my
partner and I was like, Grant just asked me to be his best man
essentially that that is, you know, I haven't gotten married,
so I don't know how big of a deal marriage is.
So right now, I feel like this was a bigger deal than asking
someone to be your best man. But like, that was the closest
that I could think of. I was like, he's like putting a
piece of his life in my hands. Yeah.
It's it was like the honor, the honor of the century.
I'm glad. I'm glad it wasn't like Oh my
God no because there there is literally no other person I
would have thought of. I can't even sit here and
speculate because I'm like, I don't know who the fuck else I
would ask to do this. I mean, listen, I have done
both. I've asked someone to be my best
man and have asked someone to code you at my podcast.
And I'll tell you code Jim in the podcast is definitely a
longer term commitment, you know, but but I did a pretty
banger ass best man. So you have a big shoes fun
factor, you zoop. The best man at my wedding wrote
the GMM theme song. Oh awesome.
That's our pound, Joey Hines. But no, I, I'm glad that you
were excited about it. I am excited to have you on for
the ride. And let's talk about the the
episodes you've made so far as we we talked about crushes and
cryptids, which was your first foray into doing this.
That very famously has the ending.
That isn't an ending where everyone collectively decides to
troll me at the end of the episode, every character
breaking and looking at the camera being what you gonna do,
Grant? Yeah, you gonna do if you don't.
Make it. I think you cut out like 20
minutes of them all joking about.
I did have to take a lot of speculation out of there because
it was funny. The thing with editing is like a
bit can keep going for a while and you have to like know
exactly how long that bit stays funny for.
Exactly. And like there was, you know, at
a certain point it was funny only for you.
Like they were very they were. They were just talking to you.
Yeah, yeah. Which, you know, then gives me
the idea like, I'm going to just play this off and record my own
little thing at the end. But I think it's kind of like
really nice in a way. Because then it's like a nice
little like, I don't know, a physical baton moment almost.
Because it's like, hi, I'm still here.
I'm still part of this, this whole podcast thing.
And Zoop and I are working together on this.
It's not two people on opposite sides of the country just kind
of vaguely looking at each other in a dark room.
You know, it's a communication project.
And the other cool thing about crushes and cryptids was that it
was a beach episode. And my very first GM episode was
I think called Beach episode. So it was, it was really fun to
like bring that full circle and get to get to do my own spin on
like what a beach episode would look like.
Of course, like the these, these cryptids were not adventuring
and and then taking a break from adventuring.
They they have a house party every, every summer at the
beach. But it was it was chill and it
was an awesome chance to like practice just throwing the
elements. It's kind of like, you know,
it's like a Mario level, right? And Mario is going to do what
Mario does. And you just all you do is you
put the elements there and then Mario, you player decide how to
how to navigate those things. And that's kind of what it feels
like. Yeah, very much so.
I completely agree with that sentiment, honestly.
And it's all about like, you know, the balance of what you
throw and how often you throw it to, right.
And I, I mean, listen, I've heard nothing but rave reviews
from that cast and from audience people.
And now a zoopisode, as they're lovingly referred to in the
Discord are are like events that people look forward to and are
excited about, which kind of leads very nicely into the
second one. You have to do for us starting
out by our friend over at Shannon over at Imagine If.
Starting out was so cool because one of the things when I when I
looked at starting out and I thought about how we could use
it, realizing that, you know, I hopefully that there are
listeners out there who, you know, maybe don't get to play
TTRP GS as often. I mean, obviously like a lot of
our listeners are also AP players too.
But you know, the, I think, I think it can be confusing
sometimes when when you even even with a guide of like you
can do this, this and this. It's like you can get like a
manual that tells you what workouts to do.
But what's more helpful is like a video of, of workouts to do.
And so I figured, you know, we'll get some great character,
like people who make great characters, who think about
deeply about their characters and how they're created and let
them show you kind of like the process from the beginning.
And you had some deep thinkers on that cast too, for.
Sure. With that with with star and
Feral and Fish man, just a real heady cast, which I like a lot.
And the stuff they were able to come up with with the structure
of that game was, I mean, listen, on par for what they do,
which is of many levels above what a lot of other people are
able to do. Yes, definitely.
And it was, you know, I, I like if I were to go back and I were
to look at it like I didn't encourage making an adventure.
It was much more just making a character, which is, we play a
lot of TTRP GS where the characters aren't adventurers.
I mean, crushes and cryptids, they weren't adventurers.
They were just, you know, like cryptids hanging out at the
beach. So maybe if I were to redo it, I
would massage the like scenario a little bit to be more more
geared towards those characters. But it was also fun to kind of
think, OK, what if? What if you're just a normal
person and you're hit with something abnormal and you have
to start something? That's my wheelhouse.
That that's, that's where I like to operate.
I, I, I feel like a lot of GMM episodes aren't like strictly
adventures. A lot of the shows and systems
we run or just guys just just just showing up and something
happened. Some hell, your first
miniseries, Bunnies and Burroughs, was just some rabbits
hanging out and then a weird thing happened, you know?
So. Definitely, definitely a lane
I'm comfortable in. And I mean, man, the nice thing
is that Shannon said about you in this episode when it came
out, just really, I don't know, really gratifying to like, hey,
not just, you know, just to see the creators be excited to see
their games be played and to be ran by you, but also just like a
real pat on the back moment for us, the production crew to like
good people, really like Zoo, good people were not, in fact,
just listening to this for me. They are very open to giving the
new person a shot and welcoming them and celebrating them online
as well. Absolutely.
But those are the ones we have published here for you so far.
But this by no means the last you're going to hear from Zoop
this year. Hell, we have a lot of
Zoopasotes planned coming out. Like literally this Monday is
your take on Nighthawks. So if you want to talk a little
bit about that. So first of all, Nighthawks is I
just recommend this game to everyone.
It is very it is very mechanics light, but the number of
scenarios that you can create of any place, any, any place where,
where lonely people congregate or maybe not like maybe they
they can be strangers, but they can know each other.
But they like, you know, the loneliness of being on like a
sinking ship or like I, I don't even know, like, you know, four
people in in the AFK room of like a convention.
Like, OK, now I have to play. Now I have to run it again
because now I wanna do an AFK room.
But I think one of my favorite things about night, this
particular episode of Nighthawks is Grant put together just
amazing people who have like make like real deep characters.
And they, we had a conversation before we started and they were
like, what is the tone? And cause the the game is
written like you can be really grim.
You can be like a little comedic, like what is it?
And I'm like, listen, I've got the comedy covered.
You bring the feeling. And it was.
I'm just so excited. It's a it's a good one.
I love one of my favorite tropes.
I mean, I've always said that there's one philosophy that ties
all of gay masterminded together.
It's just general absurdism. dot ISM, whatever you want to call
it. The the, the philosophy of
trying to live a normal life in an absurd world is something
that I live in as a real person, but also in RP GS a lot.
So I've been editing this one and the, the the tone is going
to be very, I mean, if I if I compare it to anything, it's
similar to how we edited. This game takes place in your
hometown with Moz and Kelly. Very atmospheric, very
ultimately very melodramatic. And then there's one of these
little moments that dupe sprinkles in.
It just reminds you how silly the situation is.
Exactly like it really just drives home the the poignant
moments, of which there are many in this episode.
That one's got such. A good cast.
I mean, it's all we know how to make here maybe.
Yeah, that. Is true, but that one I was
like, yeah, we really crushed this one.
That's of course Ross from Blades and they are a top from
sole operator Rosie who Zoop is now in a fight with, but from
Magnificence and etcetera, Rosies and goddamn everything.
This also features a first timer to the show Siobhan, who is from
a show called Someplace to be, which is one that I've recently
very much so fallen in love with.
They're about to start their third season, I want to say, and
they they their their second season is all GM less like
completely GM less game. And the way Siobhan conducts the
orchestra of AGM less party. It's just like, so like, like
fun to listen to. And as a person who binges a lot
of fucking podcasts, I was like, when we are doing Nighthawks, I
want to make sure I get Siobhan because this is AGM less game
and I really want someone in there who speaks the language
beautifully. And boy was I right.
Yes. And then American demigods is.
A big reveal Zoop is taking the helm of a podcast miniseries in
the demigod system, so I don't want you to give away too much
we. Haven't I'm not going to give
I'm not going to give away too much.
I will say so Demigods is a Powered by the Apocalypse game.
So this was followed by I think two seasons for, for me, the
game Demigods was followed by like 2 seasons of mass the new
generation, you know, a very Powered by the Apocalypse game.
And we were looking at other games and, and stumbled upon
that. In general, it demigods is about
a world where you know, you can have your existing pantheons,
but also you can create pantheons and it's a, a world
where you know, gods are, are there, they're fallible.
They, they make demigods and like religion is widespread.
I mean even while the supernatural is still hidden
from mortals. And one of the things after I
had run it once for friends and each one of them chose a
pantheon except for one. One of the players was the child
of Santa Claus. Other than that.
Other than that, they were all existing pantheons and I was.
Santa exists. Yes, but but right not not as
not as a pantheon like the Norse pantheon or the Greek pantheon.
But Santa is real. Yes, 100%.
Great. I'm not taking that away from
you. 34 No one's told. Me, but you know, and mythology.
Mythology is so cool. It's also way too much to hold
in my head. There's already too many science
facts around there. So I was definitely struggling
to bring in all the mythology that that my players deserved in
that case based on the backgrounds that they chose.
And so this was a really fun chance to find a really diverse
group of individuals who beautifully represent the
diversity that you find in North America.
And I asked them specifically choose make a demigod from a
pantheon that you create. And that was so cool.
It's also been so cool to try to like, think of the supernatural
elements because at first I was like, oh, I have to research all
this mythology and find all these things.
And then I was like, wait, no beakers can have eyes and they
can be like creatures. Like there can be supernatural
beakers. I don't have to like, rely on
like the brownies or something like that.
Leprechauns. Although I think I might have
mentioned a leprechaun, I don't know.
You'll find out what we play. Yeah, there's been a very going
into a trance playing this game for sure.
But I love the direction you came with because you you
pitched it to me and you were like, I want to make sure that
we are covering the racial, social, political like like
diversity of the continent and really lead into like the actual
meaning of America, Not USA, not flags and trucks, not that kind
of shit. But like this land mass that
we're on where promises were made but have not been kept.
And I remember when you were pitching it to me, we're
thinking of who's going to be in it.
And I very blatantly was like, should I leave?
Should I not be in this one because I didn't want to like,
like, you know, be in there and muddying the waters of what you
were shooting for. And you very much like, oh, no,
we need the good white guy in there.
Tips to helping. Absolutely.
Because this is, you know, there is an idea of rescuing something
that right now I feel like is slipping out of our hands.
And it's it's everybody's job. And that's, that's one of the
things that I wanted to highlight is that, I mean, sure,
they're demigods in this, but we can all do something about the
circumstances. I think it's it's a good time to
do this one and it's only gotten more cathartic and pertinent as
time has gone on. And I'm really just just jazzed
about this particular cast because you've got Kendo from
tales yet told, you've got myself, you've got Diamond Lynn,
Abby, enough of Abby and a Norden on this cast and just
getting to like be in the room with like these these these
Titans of performance and just letting them do their thing for
a while. I mean, I'll just say at episode
1 and Norton does a fucking scene with you where like, I
could not keep it together. I could not stop my face.
I could not like stop wiggling around in my chair.
I, I was, I was falling over. I was emotional.
It just really, man, those are the mean moments when you listen
to this one where it feels like we're like really on the nose
and it's on purpose. We are punching the thing.
We're punching in the nose on purpose and not hiding anything
behind metaphor or parable. We're just like, no, fuck this
and fuck everything about it. Here's how we're going to beat
it. And I think I I listen far be it
for me to decide what philosophies in this world are
right, but I think ours is. Absolutely.
And another, another cool thing about this was I got my first
experience of reaching out to someone that I'd never spoken to
before that I actually had no real connection to other than
because I saw Norton originally on a panel at PAX East.
And it was like, I got to follow this guy.
And like, yes. And just the idea of of seeing
this person, seeing him on an amazing panel at PAX East and
being like, wow, like I could never speak to this person and
now I get to GM him is so cool and all I'm.
Saying is and everything like a real formal ass fucking e-mail.
It wasn't this like a like a, like an Instagram DM like yo
baby you up like no, you sent an e-mail.
Oh yeah, Oh yeah, but that's this is this is my cue to y'all
that take your shots. Yeah, that's, I think that's the
real philosophy of your GM. We we we asked a lot of folks.
So we have no business asking. And you know what?
More often than not, we get a yes and yeah, just this little
delight. If you over told me a year ago,
we would have had this cast, I would have been like, well, Zoop
and Abby makes sense. How the fuck do we pull the rest
of those off? Just just just just brilliant
people. Honored to be their friend.
You know, I got to be Kendo's roommate at Gen.
Con, and there were several moments of just me not being
able to sleep at 3:00 in the morning.
Be like, holy shit, what a cool life I have right now.
So just just just just just baller, fucking baller cast God
diamonds so good in this. Hey, if you're gay out there,
boy does Diamond have the character for you.
And if you're not gay, you will be gay.
Yeah, I guess the last question I'll ask before you can open
forum that at me here Zoop and make me look bad on the Internet
in front of all my friends. What are you most excited about
as we barreled in the 2026? This can be projects, personal
goals, killing me and taking my spot finally so I can achieve
rest whatever. No, you're not that lucky.
Dammit. Please.
But I think what I am looking forward to most is because like
when we came on for the beach episode, the the cast that I was
a part of, oh, we were very new to the scene.
Really not much to our names except like a couple episodes.
And what I really appreciate about this show is the desire to
showcase indie games that you may not have heard of, but are
so worth trying out and playing and stretching like your
creative muscles. But also, you know, taking a
chance on cast on on cast members that you know and
bringing different cast members together from like different
like spheres of the TTRPG area. And like, maybe it's a newer
voice and you we pair that newer voice with a more experienced
voice and connections are made and friendships are forged.
And I just appreciate that so much.
And what I'm looking forward to most is continuing that
tradition. Me too, Zip.
It's one of my favorite things we do here is, you know, if you
have to have the platform and like, listen, we worked really
hard to get a platform here. I'm not going to say that it was
just magically handed to us, but you know, I, I won't deny that I
have a leg up over some other folks out there.
And if I, if I'm going to have that thing, I'm not going to
squander it. You know, I want to make sure
that those, those indie TTRPG designers who made a silly
little game at 4:00 in the morning one day and get their
moment to, to have the AP they would have dreamed of.
I like finding, you know, these these these, I mean smaller in
in in what sense, But like, you know, these shows that are maybe
new or just starting out or finding their footing,
especially if they have like a BIPOC majority cast and they're
really like thrashing against the tides.
You know, just giving them a moment to like, Hey, check this
shit out. Like here's this whole wide
community of people you get to be endeared to now.
Hell, Castaway, the two winners of Castaway both came from a
podcast that have told me that, you know, prior to the GMM bump,
if you will, we're making a show basically for them and their
friends. And now they get to be involved
in other streams and get to be guests and shows and win
Castaway and do all this cool stuff.
So. Yeah, good, I think.
GMM GM really was my gateway to the indie TT RPG scene.
Like before really before that when I was streaming.
So not podcast, but like streaming in games.
I was aware of like 3 channels and I was mostly surrounded by
people who were like, nobody's playing indie TTRPG's, screw
D&D, why won't you play my favorite indie TTRPG?
And then I found out that actually there's a whole lot of
people doing it. Yeah, we have our own room in
the hotel. Yeah, and like now.
Now when I see someone now when I see some who, who's like, I'm
starting the first indie TTRPG show and I'm like, oh, baby, I
have to make you a card so that you have access to all the
different, all the different channels that are already doing
it. Like jump on and and enjoy the
ride. I mean, definitely make your own
show if you want to, but know that there are people out there
who are excited about about the Indies, just as excited as you
are. I think we can use more indie
shows anytime, and I certainly don't blame anyone who thinks of
the first person to think of it because of how much of A
stranglehold things like DND and Pathfinder and increasingly
Daggerheart have on the scene. And I've no knocks against any
of those. We've literally played all of
those systems except for Daggerheart on the show.
I still like Dungeons and Dragons.
I can get it as a storytelling vessel because the game has been
changed so much because of what a peers are doing out there.
We've all tweaked in the home brewed and bastardized it so
much that DND literally threw their hands in the air.
That fuck it fine, do whatever you want.
But I think there is something more to be gained by coming at
the indie scene. The TTRPG is the players with an
open heart and a desire to learn more things and to give those
creators, you know, their, their time to shine.
They deserve it. And you know the, the people
keep saying to, to to me and you online that Game Master Monday
is becoming kind of a pillar in the scene.
And if more people keep saying it and saying nice things, who
knows, Maybe one day I'll believe them. 100% But listen,
I'm it doesn't. I'm so happy to be here.
I'm happy to have you here. An absolute delight.
All right, lay it on me. So this is anything you want to
ask me? Have you thought at all about
writing your own NDTT RPG? Jenny and I did once.
We wrote that game. Oh yes, two or three.
I think you played it, maybe. Yes, yes, yes, yes, we did.
On a live stream, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
So so Jenny and I wrote a game based on A Christmas Carol
called God Bless Us Everyone which was.
I was one of the two twins and was like weirdly evil.
It's it's a game where you play the Cratchit children who take
matters into their own hands on Christmas Eve and go to
Scrooge's place. We did it once for the show very
early on before Game Master Monday really existed.
To be completely honest, I think if I remember right, I mean it
existed, but it was like we recorded it for the old version.
It was the whole thing. And then when the Discord hit
like 100 members, we were like, it'd be fun to do like a Discord
only stream that isn't recorded. It's only for everyone.
We play a whole bunch of weird ass Christmas videos in the pre
show and then just confuse people and then, you know, play
like a little bit of a raunchier game than we normally would.
There. There's a scene where you all
broke into A to a drag show. Yeah.
Melody, who was playing Tiny Tim, kept chanting the word
blowjob over. I wish we recorded it.
That's a fun idea. We should go back to some
Discord live shows, just do some goofy one shots.
It's just for just for the homies.
As far as writing more go, I I'm not much of a designer.
There's not like a game itching itching at your.
Socks sometimes, yeah. Nothing is taking my socks,
fortunately. But like, every now and again
I'll hear something where I think that would make a cool
concept for for a game. But I always think of it in the
context of AP, you know? And I'm also the kind of person
who's like, well, if I've thought about it, surely someone
else out there has already made this.
So, So what if they have do it again?
I one of the things that I think is so cool because I too have
been like thinking about or not maybe I too, but I personally
have been like. I have a couple TTRPG game ideas
in my pocket and as I've been talking to people about it and
thinking about it, I'm realizing that like you can have the same
subject and have like 10 different games on it.
Because the mechanics and I, I don't know why this didn't occur
to me. Like being a mechanics fanatic,
I don't know why this didn't occur to me first, but there's
so many different ways to to make the mechanics work and have
that change the game, the story that you're telling.
I, I think there's a lot of truth to that.
I'm, you know, I wouldn't call myself a mechanic fanatic, but
sometimes a mechanic does jump at me in a system and I can
build a whole thing out of that. I mean, you've experienced first
hand when I did Bunnies and Burrows, I literally only did
that series because I was so enamored by the character
creation system and that literally informed the whole
rabbit pantheon, if you will, though the whole religion of the
game. So I I'm into that kind of
stuff. I'm not I I don't consider
myself much of a designer. That said, Jenny is a hell of a
designer. Literally built the system from
the ground up she uses on her show.
So I think if we were ever going to do like a game Master Monday
sanctioned game ourselves, I think if you 2 joined forces and
G NS really good at like proofreading that shit too.
Shit, you have my blessing. Do it?
We have a niche account where we have one game just sitting
there, so we want to put more on it.
Shit, we'll raise funds for Webfest that way.
Do you ever get tired of inspiring people?
Wait, actually, no. Do you realize how much you
inspire people? I mean, you're hitting right in
the sweet spot where we just posted for GMM's third birthday.
And a lot of people that I really admire and respect and
have worked with have talked about how inspiring the show is.
And I just spent like that whole fucking Thursday just sitting on
my couch being emotional as people like fucking Rosie and
Anna from Hilarity Saves fucking Kenny from this.
The thing is, Mags from Streaming Rainbow wrote for
fucking Gina Susanna from from God Killer Balance writing this
really lovely shit about the show and me and our ethos here.
And like the thank you messages I got, I don't think it fully
clicked for me until then just how ingrained in the scene we've
been and the really good friends we've made.
I guess like tangentially, I knew we had a lot of friends
because we've done a lot of these fucking episodes and a lot
of people have come back to do more stuff with us or just pitch
things to me in general. But like, getting to hear that
people care about it and at the show helps them as not just like
Game Masters and creators, but like on hard days, you know, I
don't know, that means a lot to me.
I don't take for granted the the position we're in, you know?
Granted. All the time.
But I'm not just talking about the show, I'm talking about you
like, uh. Oh.
Yeah, OK, So like Saffy moment, I mean like I'm gonna be crying
again. Whether whether you know, like
suggesting to me that I could be a Co host on GMM that instilled
in me a confidence that you have then like steadily built like
FOLO con happened because you said supriya just do it.
And I was like, OK. Because I wasn't going to do.
It, Grant said. Do it, I'm gonna do it.
And, and that was like really cool shit.
And you had created something that's bigger than anything we
could have dreamed of. And it's like keep happening
now. Exactly.
And it's just like God just connected me with so many
people. You you are like a fantastic
skeleton key. I like opening doors.
I do want to say, Speaking of FOMO Con, just for the record, I
went, I went to Gen. Con during FOMO Con.
The reason FOMO Con existed because so many people felt bad
they couldn't go to Gen. Con this year.
And I only got to go because Janelle boss Jelly Bean very
graciously offered and paid and hired me to come run safety mode
disabled for her at Gen. Con.
So I got to go and do a few panels and wander around and the
amount of people who recognize Game Master Monday, first of
all, nuts, and second of all would walk up to me and tell me
like, man, FOMO Con looks really fun.
I almost have FOMO for FOMO Con and I'm at Gen.
Con. I'm like, that's crazy.
So great it is. So cool and and everybody,
everybody who almost everybody who joined in at the ground
floor, because I kind of like put the call out and I think I
put the call out in two places. I think I put it on threads and
I put it in the Game Master Monday Discord.
And just the beautiful team that was born out of that, like holy
shit. I think it's a real testament to
like what you're capable of. By the way, Listen, you can give
me all the credit in the world you want for believing in you
and I will happily take it. I am a little bit of a
narcissist I. Opened.
OK, You unlocked the door. I opened it.
We can both take credit. A door can be opened by anyone
or anything for any reason, but you're the one who has to go
through it and then participate with what's inside of the door
and you did that. You know, getting the
opportunity is one thing, using it and running with it is all
the you. That's not that.
I had literally I had nothing to do with FOMO con.
Like anytime I would make a post about hey do FOMO con my shit
wouldn't go nowhere. You were the one given the
marching orders on that one. It's just that's this is what
I'm saying. Like you, you inspire.
You're like a a drop of sunlight and tea.
I like doing it. I'll just say that I like doing
it. I like that.
There are a lot of stories like that that have come out of GMM,
whether it's yourself or Rosie or this Could Get Dicey or five
GM's or again or Mags or or anyone really anyone who did
their first guest anything with us, who then went on to do
bigger, cooler things with their stuff.
To see more people that we took under our wing here go on and
prosper in the scene, even like exceeding us in a lot of cases.
That that's what what makes me feel really good as a creator.
I love being Bing Bong at the bottom of the Canyon walking
someone fly off way past me and so they can send her to the moon
for me, you know, like it's, it's so cool.
You have famously talked about how a lot of your mini series
are you. At its core, it comes down to
one word. Are you willing to share the
word for the next miniseries after American Demigods?
Oh, yeah, I am actually if I put a lot of thought into this one.
So we already know what our spring miniseries is going to
be. And this is actually a great
opportunity for me to talk about a small change we're making next
year to the pod because we're increasing the number of
miniseries we do starting next year.
So you're going to start seeing seasonal miniseries from us.
We're going to gun for four next year.
We're doing 3 because turning around and doing one in the
winter right now was a fool's errand.
But the the next one will be in May.
It'll be our spring miniseries. I'm running it and the word is
vermin, yes. That is a word that has many
connotations to it. Yes it does.
Very exciting. That is one of our most
ambitious projects, probably our most loaded cast ever for a mini
series. Some of the some of the fucking
names we have in that one are fucking names and I am
infinitely geeked about it and it's physically hurting me to
not say more. So we should move on.
OK, what is your favorite mechanic that you've ever?
Oh man that's good. I have a lot of ones that I love
a lot, especially from games from this year.
Shit I might just buckshot a few.
I really love the dice pool in Monty Python's Co curricular
reenactment program because you get just a goofy amount of of
dice and it has like a kids on bikes explosion system if you
will. I don't know how else to call
it. You know on D20 when they never
stopped blowing up, it just kept calling it blowing up.
It's the only thing I can call it now.
But no, you get like AD4AD6AD8AD10AD12AD14AD16AD18AD20
and AD 30. I think that's very funny and I
like that in that game rolling really high can be a bad thing
because it's not on a scale of failure to success.
It's on a scale of silly to serious.
And if you take what you're doing too serious that you can
get demerits. So you can roll AD 30 and hit a
30 and that's a bad thing. And I and I and I love that
mechanic a lot. Shit, I mean, bunnies and
Burroughs character creation system.
I mentioned it earlier how you just roll your dice in order and
assign like whatever number you get, the number you get and the
highest number you roll is your class.
Like man I could tell 1000 stories in that fucking system.
I really enjoy dreads Jenga block system and I've done.
A few twits. On that on the show, that's it's
a system I've always loved, but I was always for a long time
like I have no idea how we'll ever play games like this on the
show because how do you audio a Jenga block tower?
How do you play Jenga over fucking discord?
And the the creative ways we figured out how to do that with
with dice systems has been really fun.
Like in and they were daughter mates where the higher number on
the die you rolled, the closer it got to Christmas and the the
convent closing or in this game takes place in your hometown.
If you rolled the same number on AD 23 times, they get you, you
know, So like there there were. I really love those creative
interpretations that we've come up with for dread type systems.
Shit play ball. One of my favorite fucking
systems of all time. I love.
I've really grown to love D12 systems the most.
I think just a D12 is a nice good safe round dive.
It's a pleasing shape. And it's a good amount of
numbers for things. Castaway.
Shit, I should talk about Castaway and their fucking D12
system. I love that the dye represents
how healthy your character is. Like you don't have hit points,
you have a die and when you run out of it, you're dead.
You know, it's it's dope. Ark Doom and the way they handle
a rolling under system by giving you like a multiplication table
with this two factor it's before you roll shit.
I love game zoop. Yeah, I'll just say just for the
record, my three favorite games of all time, all of which I've
run and have a had a great time running, are In Order, Arc,
Doom, Play Ball and Castaway. Nice.
So there you go, those are my favorites.
We, we put out a little call to our discord that's just to talk
about the, the show and ask us any questions.
So we got a couple. We got a couple from the
discord. I, I, I saved two of them for
the sake of time here today, But we're going to start with a
question from our friend Blue over at Batty Bards.
And they ask, how do you balance all the everything that comes
with being an AP studio, marketing, scheduling and
producing? What keeps you on track And on
top of it all? Short answer me.
Yes, 100%. Long answer, Google Sheets,
Google Docs. I don't know Zuvi, you are more
in line with the having to follow the the the orders and
ravings of a madman. How do you feel we handle the
organization around here? Well, I mean there there is
definitely things that we can work on that will keep our hairs
on our head and I think that we're going.
To do that, you have to stop making decisions about me.
No, no, no, I it's, it's not that I I think that we're going
to start hopefully like having a little bit more of a backlog so
that, you know, there's, there's a little bit of wiggle room here
and there the and you know, I don't know how you chuckle it.
Poorly. I think, I think it's sort of,
it sort of takes a village. To a certain extent.
Things are always easier when you have people to share them
with. And like when you, I think I,
I'm guessing, I guess I'm talking about like from FOMO con
perspectives, like when you create something and then you
have a team and you trust that team to take things on and you
cheer them on to, to do the things that they're excited
about doing. Like one of the things I'm super
excited about is like mechanics. And so like when you trust me to
like, if you're going to play a new game and you're like, I
don't understand this mechanic, I'm just going to like, you
know, shoot the message. Like I, I think we're like Jan's
mind is just incredible, but speaking.
Of people who I don't know how they manage their fucking
schedule. I mean, so GN GN Burb is of
course our twitch producer here now who I specifically brought
on to help me make Castaway work.
Because when Jenny and I were talking about doing castaway, we
just realized we did not have the infrastructure to do
everything that I was dreaming of doing.
And after asking around a little bit, people were like, well, you
know, GN produces, right? And I was like, oh, well, GN
just did his meeting with the Stardust with us and was great
in that. So we have a rapport there.
So I can at least reach out to this person and see if they can
point me in the right direction for how Jenny and I can make
this thing work, which turned into that sounds really cool.
Can I just do it? So, so GN did that.
But on top of, you know that, so we do cast way together.
We really love working together. GN just fully signs on to our
Twitch full time and says let me just, I wanted to help you guys
forever. Let me be part of what you're
building here because I believe in it and trust you, which is
awesome. But also GN is a part of like
four other fucking shows. I have no idea how they balance
it but you're so right. Having you and GN and Jenny and
me in that chat to distribute tasks and roles and also having
the blanket trust that if one of us can't or needs like step
aside or this, this does not have the spoons or time we have
a person to pull in is really nice.
I've been really enjoying the thing we've been doing lately
where I come in and say who has the spoons for this.
We're allowed to say no, and we have been more often than not
lately. Does that answer the scheduling
question? It's important to just have
people you trust is what I'm saying.
And then the the other question comes from the aforementioned
mags where it's streaming rainbow and then they ask us
what were your favorite systems to run this year?
And you've only run four of them Zoop.
So I mean if you had to pick one.
To go back Nighthawks, Nighthawks I'm going to play.
I'm going to play Nighthawks so many times.
I'm going to come up with such wacky ass scenarios.
I'm just so excited. Hell yeah.
I think that I want to play it because I was supposed to be in
that episode and then I got sick.
But after listening to it, I'm like, my unique brand of
bullshit was not me. The the spice this episode
needed. Those four were was.
The right, I just came up OK, I just came up with another one
because the the game is in units of nights, but the the creator
says that nights can mean any amount of time.
Yes, and I just I just thought of on Mount Olympus playing some
of the gods and doing it in 1000 years spans.
That'd be fun. That'd be fun.
I like where your head's at. I thought it was you porn.
Man. I got to pick a favorite from
this year. I ran a lot of really good ones.
I think about Monty, the Monty Python game a lot because that
game is better than it has any right being.
Like, as a system goes, it's a lot of fun.
But if I had to pick an absolute favorite from this year
specifically, I guess the easy answer is Castaway.
But I guess I technically played it last year too.
But this year has felt very dictated and overshadowed by
that game and that system and what it's become and and the the
implications it's had for the show at large.
But from the podcast episode shit, I really enjoyed Fluff and
Fury. I'll be real and I'm not much of
A of a crunch guy, but Fluff and Fury is a lot of fun and I love
that setting of a post apocalypse where teddy bears and
stuffed animals are alive in a cyberpunk dystopia and they're
in gangs and trying to kill each other.
So, and I, I love that that dichotomy a lot.
And it's a very fun episode. And it's the first one in a long
time where I got to the sit and write a bunch of really dumb
ideas for NPC's. If, if you were really paying
attention listening to that one, you may have quickly caught on
that every NPC in the podcast episode at least are all real BD
babies. So I had a lot of fun doing
that. Well, that's why the the big bad
is Princess Diana. Yes, amazing.
Oh. Boy, the amount of times Uri and
Kelly on microphone and on camera, let's be right in the
eyes and told me how much they hate that I could retire.
Yeah, I guess those would be my my big three for this year.
I really enjoyed all of those systems a lot.
I'll answer for Jenny. Hers is obscurity.
It's the only one she ran this year.
Go support the Kickstarter, why don't you?
I think by the time this goes up, it ends today.
So go, go, give, go give Quinn your money.
What's what's coming up next on GMM?
I'm so glad you asked. Game Master Monday is going to
be evolving next year. Zoop.
I mean, obviously you're going to have a lot more Zoop
episodes, but let's talk about how this year wraps up on a
Monday. We have the aferment and
Nighthawks, which is one of my favorite episodes we've done.
I think ever It's it's a really good one, easily one of my
favorite Halloween specials we've done.
Following that we'll have American demigods A4 part mini
series GM by Zoop and then in December, I hope you like zoop
because you're getting more zoop baby.
Although the first episode of December is going to be one that
I am running that will be featuring Raw Raw from the heart
of the dungeon and Gina Susanna from God killer balance and
we're it listen it's it's. It's going to be amazing.
It's it's it's Grant running the religious allegory again, folks
there. There's an Angel in it.
Tis the season. We're going to remember the
reason for it in that episode and then you will type combat
family will officially be back. I heard people were very sad we
didn't do it. You will tie before December
last year. So we're bringing it back.
We're going to do it a little bit differently.
Our usual tradition is we play that at my house with our local
friends. But we've all kind of been
scattered to the winds and busy and the GMM team has changed so
much since last July. So we're we're going to have
Zoop run that for us over here at the GMM crew.
So that will be me and Jenny and our brand new production member
Shadow Sylvia, who will be officially starting with us
beginning of 2026 as an official producer for the show, helping
produce things with GN for the Twitch.
I'll talk more about here in a second.
And that episode's also going to have Dusty from Goblins and Gays
as a special guest because I crunched the numbers and Dusty
did the most episodes with us across the board this year.
So I feel it only appropriate to bring Dusty on for one last ride
that closed 2025 out. So Zoop will be running the
holiday mayhem this year watching horror as a non
Christian run. I know.
I was going to say you're you're resident agnostic Hindu.
You're gonna be running this real time.
We've really run the gauntlet with the religious beliefs
jamming this game. We we've had Jenny the VX
foreman trans woman, Jacob the practicing Catholic, and my
friend Aaron, who I'm pretty sure is just flat out atheists.
So I'll look forward to your your festive twist on this one
and what you come up with. And then January, we're going to
kick it right back to Zoop, who's running a month of soup
flavored games. Zoop soups for calling it it's.
So exciting. We're we're really throwing Zoop
to the wolves this winter so that your boy can focus on
writing some other stuff for the Twitch and for a future
miniseries. So Zoop is buying me time and
we're giving her more practice. Are we talking gassed?
Let's talk about the Twitch. You are so right on the Game
Master Monday Twitch account. The first thing coming up is
next week, absurdity. It will be back.
The final two episodes are going up on October 22nd and October
29th, so we'll be kind of celebrating the closing of the
Kickstarter. They're working towards their
stretch goals. One of our cast members, Kendo,
is one of the writers for that stretch goal.
So give liberally, wouldn't you? Then we're going to go dark for
a month for November so that we can focus squarely on demigods.
And then in December we are teaming up with Hatched Games to
run four solo one shots on the Twitch from their new system
Gassed, which is a a horror scene collection of spooky tales
and one shots and solo games. That will be me Zoop over here
forever, GM Justin from Roald D5 and Shay Geek from Rolling by
myself who will be taking the helm on those one shots.
That'll be every Monday in December.
So join us for Gassed in the Bleak Midwinter is what we
calling the series of streams. And then the moment you've all
been waiting for the big changes that we're making to the Twitch.
So I mentioned on the podcast, we are going to be pivoting to
doing more mini series. We're going to be getting three
of them next year, one of which at least will be helmed by me.
The other two, we will cross those bridges as we come to
them. We are still primarily A1 SHOT
Show, but between me and Zoop and occasionally Jenny, you're
going to be seeing a lot more diversity in those and a few
changes to how we pick the games.
Just we're really working this year to not have to be
constantly putting out fires and filling holes simply because
they exist. Zoop alluded it to it earlier.
But we really want to make sure that everything we're doing is
something we're excited about the entire time, not just after
it happens. Because every game we've made
has been exciting and fun and cool.
There have definitely been somewhere we cobbled together
something within three days, stressed about it the whole
time, recorded it, and they're like, oh, thank God we we did
it. It was fun.
We want to be bright in the good vibes the whole way through this
time. So going to be a little bit more
deliberate with that. And Zoop is also going to be
taking a larger producer role. So Zoop will help with some
editing, Zoop will help with some casting, picking the games
so that I don't have to. Yes, exactly.
Which will help with the diversity of what we're doing.
You know, it's Zoop has Zoop talks about all the doors that I
can open, but the types of people that Zoop wants to gun
for people that we haven't had on the show before, shows that
she's aware of that I haven't been aware of or people that she
admires that I just like. I don't know who that is.
Let's let's fucking do it. You know, so you're just
increasing the pool, if you will, building an extra seller
on the mansion of the what of what is a game master Monday.
So expect that from the podcast, but the twitch channel is
getting a major makeover. So the last year and a half
we've been doing Game Master Monday presents where guest GMs
come on and do the mini series they've always wanted to do.
And we're still going to be keeping that intact in some
capacity, but it's going to be taking a smaller role as our
Twitch pivot to what we are now calling Shadowy Productions.
So if you've been a fan of the last two seasons of Castaway of
the Island and the Desert, as well as the one shots of the
interns and Callus Connor, you know that there's this mythical
production company we keep alluding to called the Shadowy
Productions who are going to be making another appearance and
another charity one shot we're doing here on October 27th.
Myself, GN and Shadow Sylvia are going to be the three headed
monster of what Shadowy Productions is and we're going
to be increasing our recurring series on the Twitch channel
under this umbrella and they're going to keep Castaways reality
competition theme going. So January you already know, but
Castaway the Tundra will be coming out the third season of
Castaway and we'll do our fourth season in July.
Both are already being worked on, but we're also adding
another little production. It doesn't have a name just yet,
but it will be GM by our friend Taz.
It will be a show that is very heavily inspired by The
Bachelorette using the system I want your bite.
That's right, we're doing The Bachelorette as if it were a
vampire doing the wooing, and it's gonna be a five part mini
series. There will be eliminations.
It'll follow the vibe of what you expect from Castaway,
anything on the table, very romance driven.
And we've already greenlit it for a second season.
So you'll see a sequel at this, a sequel series to this one in
October with an entirely new Bachelorette contestant and a
different Game Master running that one.
And we'll keep doing that until the wheels fall off off.
And we're also looking at doing a third one of these.
So with that in mind, half of our year, it's going to be very
much so covered by the shadowy production projects.
Meaning the Game Master Monday Presents series will be fewer
and farther between, which I consider to be a good thing
because earlier we mentioned the whole putting out fires and
filling holes simply because they're there.
Don't get me wrong, we're very good at filling in holes simply
because they're there. And every reason you heard it to
your folks, Game Master Monday, we're good at filling holes.
But you know, sometimes we see a hole in our schedule, then we
think we must put something here.
And we're very good at putting something here and putting
together a banger series. It can get a little stressful
with how by the speed of our pants we have to fly sometimes,
so we're going to be a little bit more picky with our series
this year. At maximum you'll only see about
four of them, possibly less. And this is so we can maintain
our own sanity, but also because of some of the larger goals we
have with the Twitch. So Shadowy Productions will
allow us to keep raising money for charity with in house
projects that we're passionate about and that really nobody
else in our space is doing as far as I know.
I could be wrong, if I'm wrong please tell me, but I think
we're the only ones doing elimination style reality TTRPG
shows and I, I, we're kind of riding and banking on that and
using those opportunities to raise money for charity and keep
our players on their toes. It's going to give us more space
to breathe in between the projects by giving us more
luxury to pick up and run exactly what we want, when we
want it. And it gives us the flexibility
to ensure that we're not repeating game masters, we're
not duplicating systems. Anyone who comes on will be a
new face that we are hoping to highlight and accentuate and you
know that if they land a GMM present series then you know
that we really put a lot of thought into it ahead of time.
And then finally, this opens a clear Ave. for us to have
sponsored content. I get emails all the time from
people who ask us to run their game or to feature their system,
maybe even some willing to to pay us or reimburse us for their
efforts. And I have felt bad so many
times because we just simply did not have the space in our
schedule or the flexibility to do that.
Having a floating show where we can throw something like that
together will help us. It'll help us take care of our
team. It'll help us do bigger and
better things. It'll raise our platform a
little bit higher. And we want to really if we if
we are going to make money doing this thing, which we might next
year a little bit here and there, we want to use those
opportunities to get GM going to Webfest.
So we want to be able to do more mutual aid stuff.
If you want to be able to have these spaces in our schedule, we
can do one shots to feature a sponsored system or to help a
community member in need. Or if, if a bad thing happens on
the planet, which seems to keep happening every single day.
And the four of five of us think Josh, if although there is some
way we could help now we have that flexibility.
And maybe Zoop's culture tables. We're also going to be doing a
Zoop's Culture Tables, an idea that Zoop has been throwing at
me for as long as I've known her.
But that's another thing though. It gives us the opportunity and
a space where if we want to run a live miniseries that we're
even thinking of, it gives us the flexibility to do the things
that we want to do if something strikes us.
Hell, Jenny's already pitched A miniseries she wants to run next
fall, and we can actually do that now because we don't have
to look at our schedule and go, we accidentally booked three
months worth of shit, you know, so.
And we can do Zoop's diversity tables.
And we can do GN's Daggerheart adventure.
And I can sleep. Yes, exactly.
On camera, on stream. So in some ways we're trying to
make things more efficient and in some ways we're just making
our lives more difficult, and that is the beautiful part of
living. I, I, I think the efficiency
will make things a little bit easier for us.
Having more hands in the kitchen help having a producer in Shadow
Sylvia, who really loves the medium that we're crafting here.
Huge gap for us. And I'm really excited about it.
I'm excited to do these things that we're we're doing with more
and more new people. It'd be really easy to just
finally sit down and have like a set cast that we pull from
constantly and a safe system we like a lot.
Fun. It's not as fun and I have ADHD
and I hate consistency. 01 other thing if you're going to pax U
pax U never got back to me about doing a sponsored GMO meet up
but I'm going to make it happen anyways so keep your eyes glued
on the discord. And follow Zoop for information
on that because that's all her. Oh, and Speaking of PAX, you
FOMO con is coming back and that's also going through a
rebrand. Do you want to talk about that
Real quick Soup? Yeah, we're calling it
Convention 0 after the fact that Session 0 is possibly the most
important part of any game. It's the part where we keep each
other, we learn to keep each other safe.
We we form those friendships, we talk and we build the, you know,
the, the, the base of what we're building.
And yeah, so conzero, we have a blue sky, we have a threads, we
have a Discord account for it and we are are working on that
and I hope to have more stuff for it soon.
And I'll be a modern at this time because you've been on your
trading spaces. Yes, but yeah, that one's going
to be a lot of fun and I I'm excited to see what they pull
off this time around. So just to briefly recap
everything Zoop good 2025, really good 2026 gonna rule more
miniseries in the podcast. Yay big changes to the twitch.
Cool and and I love you. I ran out of sounds.
What a good one to end. Oh boy.
OK zoo, before we let let the people go back to what they were
doing with their lives. If people just want to know what
you're up to, where should they be finding you?
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We'll see you Monday with Nighthawks and that's going to
be a good ass fucking time. Yeah, hawk noise.
I just just end it with the sound of a hawk.
Yep, you got it. Make me do work.
Welcome to the Game Master Monday, state of the Podcast.
It's us, your parents. Hi, Zoop.
I'll take that again. Put that right in the blooper
video box. Basically, I did not agree to
this bit. Absolutely not.
It's. Just was very unexpected I.
Told you it was informal.