The Weekly Scroll Tabletop Podcast

On this episode of The Weekly Scroll Podcast, Ryan is joined by Jonathan of Goblins & Gardens to discuss and review (kind of) the DOOM ARENA BOARD GAME PROTOTYPE from Modiphius, the fast-paced, brutal PvP miniatures board game based on the iconic videogame series. If you want to see the game playtested check out the vod over on our twitch channel. Find the Kickstarter here: https://www.kicksta...

On this episode of The Weekly Scroll Podcast, Ryan sits down with ttrpg writer, layout designer, and regular on the show STELLA CONDREY to talk about their stack of new releases including The Door in Murex Canyon, Von Hynd Manor, and Red Solstice 6. Find Stella here: https://poundsofnothing.blogspot.com/ Find The Door in Murex Canyon here: https://spacepenguin.ink/products/the-door-in-murex-canyon...

On this episode of The Weekly Scroll Podcast, we sit down for another 𝗡𝗢𝗧 𝗖𝗮𝘁 𝗖𝗵𝗮𝘁𝘀 with Jarrett Crader of ⁠⁠𝗦𝗽𝗮𝗰𝗲 𝗣𝗲𝗻𝗴𝘂𝗶𝗻 𝗜𝗻𝗸⁠⁠! We catch up a bit, then talk new releases! We have Cairnevale from Josh Domanski, a forested fantasy festival for use with Cairn, and a bunch of stuff from Stella Condrey, including The Door in Murex Canyon and Red Solstice 6! Grab all these games from Space Penguin Ink...

On this episode of The Weekly Scroll Podcast, Ryan sits down with Clayton Notestine of Explorers Design to follow up his recent article on How to Promote Your Work with our take on Self-Promotion, including the Do's and Don'ts of reaching out to bloggers and podcasters. Find Clayton and his recent article here: https://www.explorersdesign.com/how-to-promote-your-work/ The people mentioned in this...

On this episode of The Weekly Scroll Podcast, Ryan sits down with Matt Morris of ManaDawn Tabletop Games to talk all things Mausritter Month, as well as Matt's current project with Hugh Lashbrooke of Ten Acre Games: ROLLING COAST, an ambitious, interconnected, and beautifully illustrated setting for Mausritter, transforming an amusement park into a vast mouse-scale kingdom of peril, potential,...

On this episode of The Weekly Scroll Podcast, Hunter and Ryan are once again joined by Max Moon and Kyle Reimergartin to play RUMPUS, their in-development tabletop miniatures game of tricks, traps, and jiggery-pokery where players gather a troupe of fairies, outfit them with strange and powerful items, and vie for the favor of the Fairy King! Find the current version of Rumpus here: https://www.ma...

On this episode of The Weekly Scroll Podcast, Ryan sits down with Tyler, Robbie, and Kelsey of Gossamer Coast to talk HINTERLIGHT, a collaborative world-building game that sows the seeds of future adventure amidst the ashes of a gothic faerie empire. Follow Hinterlight here: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/glasscutter/hinterlight Find Gossamer Coast here: https://www.gossamercoast.com/ All ou...

On this episode of The Weekly Scroll Podcast, we review WEIRD HEROES OF PUBLIC ACCESS from Joey Royale, a tabletop roleplaying game that lets you and your friends step into the shoes of quirky public access TV personalities battling monsters, angry moms, and juvenile delinquents to save your beloved town of Fairhaven. Find Weird Heroes of Public Access here: https://linktr.ee/whpatv13 0:00 Start 0...

On this episode of The Weekly Scroll Podcast, Ryan sits down with Zach and Nick of SoulMuppet Publishing to talk DOOMSPIRAL, a new roleplaying game system set in a dying fantasy world, featuring desperate battles, mysterious secrets and fearsome monsters, inspired by games such as Dark Souls and Elden Ring. Back DOOMSPIRAL here: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/soulmuppet/doomspiral Find SoulM...

On this episode of The Weekly Scroll Podcast, we sit down for another 𝗡𝗢𝗧 𝗖𝗮𝘁 𝗖𝗵𝗮𝘁𝘀 with Jarrett Crader of ⁠⁠𝗦𝗽𝗮𝗰𝗲 𝗣𝗲𝗻𝗴𝘂𝗶𝗻 𝗜𝗻𝗸⁠⁠! We catch up a bit, talking about GenCon and upcoming cons, Survivors of the Core Wars, Backerkit Months coming up. We also talk this month's release: ORESTRUCK from Amanda P, an adventure for Cairn that drops your adventuring party into the middle of Pact, a town br...

On this episode of The Weekly Scroll Podcast, we sit down with Jonathan Sacha of Goblins and Gardens to talk DUNGEON WILDS 2.0, a playing card game about exploring dungeons, destroying them, and dying over and over again. Back Dungeon Wilds here: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/jonsacha/dungeon-wilds Find Jonathan here: https://goblinsandgardens.com/ All our links here: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://li...

On this episode of The Weekly Scroll Podcast, Ryan sits down once again with Emily Entner and Lucas Zellers of GRAFTBOUND PRESS. We talk about their recent collaboration with Bright Bard Games, BONDS BETWEEN, and discuss their current project coming to Kickstarter: GLATISANT, a gm-less, asymmetrical ttrpg where you and a friend quest through Arthurian myth as the heroic Knight Errant and the Quest...

On this episode of The Weekly Scroll Podcast, we review DEATH GAME from Laurie O'Connel, a narrative driven battle royale ttrpg where you fight for your life for the entertainment of the rich and powerful. Back Full Send here: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/laurieoconnel/full-send/ Find Death Game here: https://twelvepinspress.com/products/death-game 0:00 Start 1:15 What we've been u...

On this episode of The Weekly Scroll Podcast, we review EAT THE REICH from Grant Howitt of Rowan, Rook, and Dekard, a ttrpg in which you, a vampire commando, are coffin-dropped into occupied Paris and must cut a bloody swathe through nazi forces en route to your ultimate goal: drinking all of Adolf Hitler’s blood. Find Eat the Reich here: https://rowanrookanddecard.com/product/eat-the-reich 0:00 S...

On this episode of The Weekly Scroll Podcast, Ryan sits down with CLAYTON NOTESTINE of Explorers Design to talk about the Classic Explorer Template, digital footprints, and then get REAL deep into the 2025 Ennies, of which Clayton was a judge. Find Clayton here: www.explorersdesign.com/ 0:00 Start 1:35 We did this already 2:09 Classic Explorer Template 8:40 The internet is the problem 12:52 Cowork...

On this episode of The Weekly Scroll Podcast, we sit down with game designer, Kickstarter coordinator, gunslinger, and soldier of fortune LOGAN DEAN to talk The Company, Geocaching, violence, and their current project WRECK LEAGUE, a competitive mech brawling card game inspired by Lancer, Netrunner, EDH, and having a good fuckin time. Find Logan here: https://logandean.games/ Sign the Kickstarter...

On this episode of The Weekly Scroll Podcast, we sit down with game designer Alexandre "KOBAYASHI" Jeannette to talk about The Black Sword Hack, going fulltime as a game designer, and their current project on Kickstarter—FALLEN BLADES ENDLESS STARS, a mark of the odd space opera zine where you play space knights battling an evil empire. Back Fallen Blades, Endless Stars here: https://www.kickstart...

On this episode of The Weekly Scroll Podcast, we discuss our first adventure on the show, BARROW OF THE ELF KING by Nate Treme of Highland Paranormal Society. Barrow of the Elf King is an exploratory location for fantasy tabletop adventure games, suggested for a party of 3-4 level one adventurers using The Vanilla Game by Jared Sinclair. Alright, listen. Ryan gets a little heated in this one, so r...

On this episode of The Weekly Scroll Podcast, we sit down to chat with artist and game designer MOLOMOOT to talk GenCon, SoulMuppet, Gordon Ramsay's ass, and their current project SERVING UP DISASTER, a ttrpg of kitchen nightmares. Back Serving Up Disaster here: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/molomoot/serving-up-disaster Find Mol here: https://molomoot.itch.io/ 0:00 Start 3:35 GenCon is...

On this episode of The Weekly Scroll Podcast, we review THOUSAND YEAR OLD VAMPIRE by Tim Hutchings, a solo roleplaying game of loss, memory, and vampires with prompt-driven play and simple resource tracking that provides easy rules for exploring your character’s human failings, villainous acts, and surprising victories. Expect gut-churning decisions and irreconcilable acts. Find Thousand Year Old...

On this episode of The Weekly Scroll Podcast, we sit down for another 𝗡𝗢𝗧 𝗖𝗮𝘁 𝗖𝗵𝗮𝘁𝘀 with Jarrett Crader of ⁠⁠𝗦𝗽𝗮𝗰𝗲 𝗣𝗲𝗻𝗴𝘂𝗶𝗻 𝗜𝗻𝗸⁠⁠! We talk about cat dads, sumo, Weird Tales, and the newest release from Space Penguin Ink—EX INFERIS from Tyler Welch and BoRyan Crum, a Liminal Horror Twisted Classic adventure that reimagines the cult sci-fi movie Event Horizon (1997) as a modern-day nautical nightmare...

On this episode of The Weekly Scroll Podcast, we review CAIN from Tom Bloom, a narrative roleplaying game about playing psychic death soldiers hunting monstrosities made of human trauma. You might also know Tom Bloom as the author and illustrator of Kill Six Billion Demons and co-creator of the Lancer RPG. Find CAIN here: https://tombloom.itch.io/cain Grab our merch here: https://www.bonfire.com/s...

On this episode of The Weekly Scroll Podcast, we're joined by Will Rahman, creator of the incredible Forbidden Psalm skirmish game, to play RUN FROM THE DARK, a folk horror roleplay game about death, light, hope, and things that go bump in the Dark. We're also joined by our wonderful and frequent player Stella Condrey. Run From the Dark is coming to Kickstarter later this year, but you can...

On this episode of The Weekly Scroll Podcast, we started a long project here on the show...THE LAST WAR, an expansion for Forbidden Psalm from Will Rahman. We did a rundown of the game and then spent most of the episode rolling up our Crews. The plan is to kit bash and paint our Crews during some hobby streams on Twitch and then run them against each other on VTT. And you'll get to see the who...

On this episode of The Weekly Scroll Podcast, we're back with Vaults of Vaarn creator Leo Hunt for PART 2 of VAULTS OF VAARN 2E! Vaults of Vaarn is a psychedelic science-fantasy adventure game with minimalist rules that empower player creativity, a pervading tone of melancholy weirdness, and an emphasis on procedural content generation. Chris P Wolf, creator of Offworlders and Night Tripper, r...