How to Make A Literal Cat in Your Favorite RPG

Ald-Amura is a majestic land with vast deserts and mystical, majestic creatures referred to as Monsters. You play as someone who helps to take care of the monsters when they have health issues. Welcome Wolf the Cat to the land of Monster Care Squad, by Sandy Pug Games! Follow the show online: https://badgertrove.com/literalcatpod/   Follow Joel Holland: https://jholland.start.page/ Follow Ava...

Pam Shrewt is the office cat of your nightmares, working as the mayor of a small Alaskan town by day, and a member of Human Resources in an anomaly investigation squad by night. People who know our inspirations, Shrewt is how you spell it, right? I don't feel like looking it up. Anyway, thank you to Mint Rabbit, the face behind the popular Tumblr blog TheresATtrpgForThat, for bringing External Con...

Enjoy the first half of our poorly-concieved PBTA mashup game, Herding Cats! Joel is your Game Master for the evening. Avalon is playing Ryka Pirjic, a bounty hunter we hope gets cast in Star Wars canon played by Ron Pearlman. James is Kat, the cat that can seal away magic powers. Greg is Wonck, the cat that Joel previously played on his show! He's a line bull, badge name Nevis. And finally, Misha...

Ah, the permissiveness of superhero TTRPGs never ceases to amaze. Even so, the RPG that our guest, Fiona Hopkins, brought us this week might be stretching things TOO far by letting us make The Cat Forklift. Anyway, enjoy Sentinel Comics by Greater Than Games! We put a cat in it. Follow Fiona Hopkins: https://fionawhim.tumblr.com/ Follow the show online: https://literalcatpod.start.page/   Fol...

If you can believe it, this show has been going on for two years now! That's a lot of cats! For this lightning round, how about we give you a few more? We're revisiting games from previous lightning rounds and making Peter the Kaiju Reader in every single one! Follow the show online: https://literalcatpod.start.page/   Follow Joel Holland: https://jholland.start.page/ Follow Avalon: https://t...

Queerz is an upcoming RPG by Son of Oak based on the manga series by Isa Happyfield. While we tried to stay true to the intended themes of the game, Avalon made the mistake of mentioning Chainsaws in the intro, and we are merely pawns of fate. Follow the show online: https://literalcatpod.start.page/   Follow Joel Holland: https://jholland.start.page/ Follow Avalon: https://twitter.com/Avalon...

Evil Hat Productions' Thirsty Sword Lesbians is a game designed to encapsulate the experience of seeing two characters fighting as sexual tension grows between them, and then hands you the reigns so you can actually let those characters kiss at the battle's climax. Misha B, a contributor to the Advanced Lovers and Lesbians expansion, joins us in this episode to help us make a spooky witch who wear...

We finally got around to updating the show's trailer! Follow the show online: https://literalcatpod.start.page/   Follow Joel Holland: https://jholland.start.page/ Follow Avalon: https://twitter.com/AvalonAlchemist We’ve got a Patreon now! https://www.patreon.com/BadgerTrove   Download the character sheets: https://bit.ly/literalcatpod   We’re on Bluesky now! https://bsky.app/profil...

Scum and Villainy is a Forged In the Dark space adventure game about a ragtag crew trying to make a living under the oppressive control of the Galactic Hegemony by Evil Hat Productions. In this episode, we make a small scoundrel who's used to living a life of luxury aboard spaceships, but turned to a life of crime after that peaceful life was disrupted by a bounty hunter. Follow the show online: h...

Force and Destiny is the second of Fantasy Flight Games's cross-compatible Star Wars RPGs we've covered. This one focused primarily on the surviving Jedi in hiding in the aftermath of the Battle of Yavin. While it is the official stance of the Literal Cat Podcast and official Star Wars brand that Grey Jedi aren't real, they never said anything about making Grey Tabbies into Jedi, and we feel like...

We all know the Star Wars trilogy of movie trilogies. This is a game that's heavily inspired by all that. Joining us this week, the creator of Light side and Game Master on the Shrimp & Crits podcast, Ian Mauldin! Enjoy! Follow Ian Mauldin online: https://twitter.com/IanMauldin Follow the show online: https://literalcatpod.start.page/   Follow Joel Holland: https://jholland.start.page/ Fo...

Magonomia by Shewstone Publishing is a Fate-based RPG of wizards in Renaissance-era Europe. The spells and skills included in the game are inspired by the actual notes and teachings of real scientists and charlatans of the era. We are kinda bastardizing this by saying a cat also did Alchemy in that setting, but in our defense, it was for the bit. Follow the show online: https://literalcatpod.start...

In Mongoose Publishing's Paranoia, The Computer is all-knowing and decides all. It totally never makes any mistakes, and it'd be treasonous to imply otherwise. So Trust our guest, Bees, when she tells you that the character we made this week is in no way a Computer error! And remember, it'd be treasonous to imply otherwise. Warning: Listening to this episode DOES constitute treason for anyone who'...

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In this episode, we take a look at the RPG/Lore Bible based on the beloved Nickelodeon animated series, Avatar: The Last Airbender and Avatar: Legend of Korra. You will be happy to hear that our cat is completely lore-compliant, considering a Literal Cat did exist in the show at one point. I mean, if you ignore the fact that it can water-bend. Otherwise, perfectly lore-compliant! Silent Mayhem Und...

Scion is an RPG about gods and demigods and the creation of new myths and epics in the modern day by Onyx Path Publishing. Kevin Kutlesa of Lawful Good Media joins us today to talk more about it! Hope you like our street cat with the spirit of a ruler! Follow Kevin Kutlesa Online: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCs8UKu1M0dnj0fdORZWMJGA Follow the show online: https://literalcatpod.start.page/ &nb...

Chris Longhurst, aka PotatoCubed, has joined us to talk about his RPG, See Issue X! See Issue X is a superhero RPG whose unique claim to fame is that it has you develop a character using the exact same gameplay mechanics you'd use to complete every other story arc! It offered no resistance whatsoever to the cat creation process. Patrick is a stray cat who has gained the ability to rewrite reality...

Wanderhome by Possum Creek Games is the story of a journey, and the people you meet along the way. For instance, Mickey Mouse is making a journey into the public domain, and now instead of being an anthropomorphic mouse, he's an adolescent Literal Cat, in a world full of anthropomorphic animals. It'll be quite the journey for our naive young friend. Who will Micholas M. Mouse (the cat) meet along...

We have made it, yet again, through another set of 10 episodes! Rejoice and enjoy as we work our way through many hacks and variants of the Tunnel Goons RPG, originally published by the Highland Paranormal Society. You can find a list of the hacks included in this episode and countless more by following this link: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1cImeRD36N4XWFLRjuWaP9cTu64nVAzuGQPP9KOCA-qs/...

Beam Saber is a Forged in the Dark system that lets you live out your mecha anime fantasies, if you're into that kind of thing. If you need a fresh idea for a character, why not consider playing as Cedric, the mildly psychic cat who operates his mech via telepathic connection? NOTE: This episode does not constitute an endorsement of CAT's actions in Gaza on behalf of Israel. We here at the Literal...

Mutants in the Now is an RPG system by Julian Kay, inspired by the classic Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Tabletop RPG from 1985, with updated mechanics for the modern era. However, it's still a CRONCHY system, if you like that kind of thing! If you'd like to make a mutant in the style of your favorite pizza-loving sewer dwellers, this is probably the game you want. You wanna know how it works? We b...

Unfortunately, Austin couldn't be here this week. Filling in for him is Greg Carrobis of Ghosts on a Train/Faustian Nonsense fame. Greg came to me with Dogs in the Vineyard for two reasons: One, it was one of his first and most formative TTRPGs. Two, it would be funny to make a literal cat in a TTRPG called "Dogs." He was right, it is pretty funny to do that. Community-made character sheets by Red...

Apocalypse World by D. Vincent and Meguey Baker, the origin of the Powered By The Apocalypse flavor of RPG design, has a second edition! We looked at it this episode, and after much deliberation, landed on the Brainer playbook for our cat this week. Be careful if you pet him - he can figure out your secrets and plant ideas in your head from a single touch! Follow the show online: https://literalca...

Fellowship is a Lord of the Rings inspired fantasy adventure that puts a significant amount of worldbuilding power in the players' hands at the point of character creation. Cucumber Pip is your party's squire, he's a cat, the horses listen to him, and he's probably not the best at carrying your gear. But that's what the horses are for, right? Follow the show online: https://literalcatpod.start.pag...

In the far-off year of 2020, the Grand Cross Space Station exists. People live on it. So do cats. Specifically, Wilhelm the Wheels lives on it. He's a cat that hangs around the space station's skate park, which exists, and he went viral a while back for successfully using a skateboard. Follow the show online: https://literalcatpod.start.page/   Follow Joel Holland: https://jholland.start.page...