How to Make A Literal Cat in Your Favorite RPG

Vampire: The Masquerade, currently published by Renegade Games at the time of this episode's release, is one of those systems that was bound to pop up eventually, and here it is. It's one we worried about doing alone, but luckily Meghan Murphy of $2 Creature Feature was here to help! In all honesty, though, I think Brother Billy the Vampire Cat was inside all of us, all along, and this was merely...

It's October, so we're doing some spooky games just for you! First up is the paranormal search-and-destroy game, F.I.S.T! This week's cat is... actually they're totally not a cat, why would you think that? This is just the last living practitioner of Shield-Fu, haunted by ghosts from their past (literally) and on a quest for (???). Agent 777 is here for all your shield-throwing needs! Follow the s...

Parselings by Smunchy Games is as in-depth of a system as the Literal Cat Crew can do alone without getting scared, apparently, but we did make it through! Listen as we work our way through a game where words are power and you are a spoiled house cat with a heart of gold! I mean, you will be if you take this character sheet. Follow the show online: https://literalcatpod.start.page/   Follow J...

Anime Summer Season is over, and we are at the 30-episode mark! This episode, we took a look at Renegade Games' Kids on Bikes and Teens in Space, Tunnel Goons by Highland Paranormal Society, Bxllet by Rathayibacter, Web of Lies and Defense Engineers by Incitement Studio (which is just Joel from This Show and they'll probably be republished by Badger Trove soon), and Ghost Lines by John Harper. Thi...

Nick Duff's This World Summons Too Many Heroes!! is the story of a fantasy realm where, for some bizarre reason, the Goddess just keeps making more and more summoning scrolls. It's like, a serious problem. Like, a group of catgirl demons just randomly called forth a cat from our world and started worshipping it, just because they could. By the way, that cat's name is Tiberius, and he is the focus...

Over Arms is a TTRPG by Rookie Jet Studio made to emulate anime series like Jojo's Bizarre Adventure and other series you don't care about as much. We thought it'd be funny to make a cat in this who was as close to invincible as we were allowed to get it, the trade-off being that he's a wimpy idiot. But that doesn't stop him from using his Anima to sabotage corporate land development projects! Fol...

OVA is a generic Anime-inspired RPG system from Wise Turtle Games, and a personal favorite of Nye from $2 Creature Feature. Thanks to his help, we made it through this extensive point-buy character creation system unscathed and made it out with Tortellini, the cat that loves appearing in selfies and giving high fives around the market district. Perfect for your Slice-Of-Life character needs! Follo...

Voidheart Symphony is a game by UFO Press which draws heavy inspiration from the Persona video game series. It may not have kept the anime aesthetic, but we felt it belonged. Our cat's been in the void since it made contact with reality, and while there, he's become distorted beyond recognition. Almost. You could probably figure out he's a cat, still. BUT IT'S NOT A MORGANA SITUATION! Follow the s...

PokeRole is a fan-made Pokemon-themed RPG made to mimic the style of the Pokemon anime. Quinn Schulte of Dungeons and Dragon-Types has come to us to help us through the first month of Anime Summer Season by helping us make Lawnmower, a tired office pet from our world who survived an incident with a lawnmower as a kitten only to be run over by a truck one day. But Arceus had other plans for this ca...

Content Warning: pedophilia (lolita) mention. The RPG book itself also contains references to homophobic and transphobic tropes that were incredibly common in 90's to early 2000's anime, although none of these tropes are brought up in the episode or used in character creation. Anime Summer Season has begun! We're starting with Maid by Ryo Kamiya, translated by Ewen Cluney. In the episode with us i...

Masks: A New Generation, written by Brendan Conway and published by Magpie Games, is a game about young superheroes with big feelings to work through. Our cat this episode is the overly muscular super genius with the power of Telepathy who trained under the great hero, Psychic Boom, but has always believed his talents would be better suited for science and research than crime fighting. Featuring L...

#iHunt is a TTRPG about killing monsters in the gig economy. Download the app and accept jobs like you would an Uber or something. Our cat this time is the one and only cat to lose a lawsuit who now owes untold amounts in damages and legal fees. Her job as a paralegal was insufficient, so she took her boss's phone and accepted a job on iHunt. The rest is history. Follow the show online: https://li...

It took nearly a year of doing this show, but someone finally decided to tell us that there was an officially licensed Warrior Cats RPG. But as SOON as we were told, we knew what we had to do. Follow the show online: https://literalcatpod.start.page/   Follow Joel Holland: https://jholland.start.page/ Follow Austin Erwin: https://twitter.com/AvalonAlchemist Download the character sheets: http...

Demigods is a fresh new RPG about playing as the half-mortal children of Gods in the modern world by Jason Mills. After coming dangerously close to a Puss in Boots type deal, we ended the episode with Penzey, the child of a Hindu Goddess who is going through her rebellious phase at the mature age of... 1 year old. Hey, it's rough out there for talking cats! Follow the show online: https://literalc...

Greg Leatherman's Glitter Hearts is a game that allows you and your table to act out your Magical Girl fantasies, such as... Ben 10? We also took this episode as an opportunity to provide some Catboy representation, creating a Maine Coon who can transform into a muscular anthropomorphized Maine Coon who has a whip now. Hear him roar. Follow the show online: https://literalcatpod.start.page/  ...

Lancer is a mud-and-lasers Mecha RPG by Massif Press. They expect people to pilot the mechs. We had other ideas. Meet Saturn, a special-ops saboteur and his trusted Everest-model Mech, Kitty Purry. That game jam project we mentioned: https://globalgamejam.org/2023/games/tumbletown-7 Follow the show online: https://literalcatpod.start.page/   Follow Joel Holland: https://jholland.start.page/ F...

Solo But Not Alone is an itch charity bundle hosted annually to support Jasper's Game Day to help in their mission to keep people alive. If you're listening to this the week it came out, you've got a couple weeks left to check it out! If March is already over, stay tuned for next year's! You can get a whole bunch of solo play TTRPGs and help a good cause for $10! Follow Cat Online: https://twitter...

This week, we invited on the other Timeline Scavenger, James Anderson, to discuss something near and dear to his heart, Marvel Comics. Well, specifically, Marvel Multiverse, the upcoming Marvel Comics-Branded TTRPG. And because of the kind of show it is, specifically how to play as a cat in the game. And because of who we are, we gave the cat a sword and let it mug people. Fillable Excel Character...

From the world of the Netflix Original Series, The Dragon Prince, comes a TTRPG that we used to make yet another cat. Tales of Xadia is a game by Cam Banks and Dan Telfer and published by Dire Wolf. Mousetrap is a cat who never got over that one time she humilated herself as a kitten and vowed never to mess up like that around people ever again. Follow the show online: https://literalcatpod.start....

Another winter month, another episode about playing a cat with divine powers. Mr. Ray of the $2 Creature Feature Podcast brought us one of the RPGs he's made (Dethrone the Divine) and walked us through making a cat in it! He even had a stat block for a Literal Cat! Follow Mr. Ray: https://twitter.com/Mr_Ray_rpg Follow the show online: https://literalcatpod.start.page/   Follow Joel Holland: h...

On this episode, Jacob Wood of Accessible Games hijacks our discord call to walk us through making a cat in his most recent game, Survival of the Able, a TTRPG about people with disabilities surviving a zombie apocalypse in Medieval Europe. Our character this episode spent his early years living in the wild, but after sustaining an injury to one of his legs, he ended up living at St. Giles' Almsho...

Relics is a game about Angels, first and foremost, therefore we had to start the process off deciding whether a cat that died, went to heaven, and then came back to earth counted as a Literal Cat, still. Once we got that out of the way, we were able to establish that this cat went to Ancient Egypt and introduced the myth of Bast so that humans would take care of cats. Our guest this episode was St...

Jess McMahon was a simple carriage driving cat for most of her life, until she learned two important lessons: 1) Not everyone actually sees the ghosts. That's a special skill of hers. 2) Crime pays WAY better. And so she moved to Duskwall to join a gang. Our special guest, Alex Schulte, is a cohost on the A Couple of Characters podcast, another TTRPG character creation show: https://acoupleofchara...

Ever since we started doing this show, we've wanted to do a special every 10 episodes where we take 10 micro RPGs intended for the One-Shot play, and make cats as characters in them, whether it fits or not. Games played in this lightning round: Ah, Dang! Mothman Won't Move Out! (He said it was Just for the Weekend) By Ettin64/Weird Age Games https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/293335/Ah-Dang-Moth...

We are joined this episode by one Colin Parker of the Scavengers Network, Keeper and Producer of Myth Takes, a (currently) Monster of the Week show! He's here to tell us how to speedrun cat character creation and share some stories about some cats that he's known! We even base this episode's character off one of them! Oh this episode is about Monster of the Week written by Michael Sands and publis...