Joel Holland & Avalon Erwin

How to Make A Literal Cat in Your Favorite RPG

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We hope you're not here to learn character creation in new roleplaying systems, because here, we're all about breaking rules to adapt the character creator to let us play as a basic, run-of-the-mill cat. We accept no cop-outs, we don't acknowledge Homebrew materials, and we... very rarely come close to a pure and simple feline, but we do have fun along the way! Join us every other Wednesday to see what RPG we try to learn next! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Joel Holland & Avalon Erwin

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8 - Making a Corporate PR Stunt in Kaiju, Incorporated 02.11.2022 1:01:48

Peter the Kaiju Reader became famous after correctly predicting weak points on 5 different Kaiju. The corporation the cat's owner worked for has capitalized HARD on this fact. Join us on How to Make a Literal Cat in your Favorite RPG for our first-ever in-episode roleplay! (it was part of character creation) in Kaiju, Incorporated by Evil Hat Productions! Follow the show online: https://literalcat...

7 - Creating a Pilot who Makes his Own Luck in Edge of the Empire 19.10.2022 1:43:15

This Week on How to Make a Literal Cat in your Favorite RPG, we blast off to a galaxy far, far away as we do a Star War! Edge of the Empire by Fantasy Flight Games lets us play in the outer rim during the height of the Empire's power as a bunch of scoundrels and explorers. For this setting, we created a hairless cat who wandered onto a ship one day and the crew let it be the pilot. Follow the show...

6 pt.2 - Finishing a Witch's Familiar Who's Considering a Solo Adventure in The Dark Eye 05.10.2022 58:58

In the second half of the character creation process, Joel & Austin wrap up the number-crunching and get back to what they do best: writing vague lore based on random details they decided on during character creation. Follow the show online: https://literalcatpod.start.page/   Follow Joel Holland: https://jholland.start.page/ Follow Austin Erwin: https://twitter.com/AvalonAlchemist Downlo...

6 pt.1 - Starting a Witch's Familiar Who's Considering a Solo Adventure in The Dark Eye 21.09.2022 1:11:55

In the first half of our The Dark Eye cat creation session, Joel & Austin crunch lots of numbers as they try to work out just how to play as a magical cat. Little did they know the rules were gonna help them out, big time. Follow the show online: https://literalcatpod.start.page/   Follow Joel Holland: https://jholland.start.page/ Follow Austin Erwin: https://twitter.com/AvalonAlchemist D...

5 - Making a Hunter from the Mountains in Shadows of Esteren 07.09.2022 1:11:00

Shadows of Esteren is a french horror RPG about the peninsula of Tri-Kazel and all the horrific beasts that people must live alongside. For this episode, we made a cat that lives in a mountain community and "helps" with the hunting. Character Creation Tool used: https://jdr.pierstoval.com/esteren/en/ Follow the show online: https://twitter.com/literalcatpod Follow Joel Holland: https://jholland.st...

4 - Making a Power-Sealing Secret Agent (and his human sidekick) in City of Mist (feat. ChaosKingTyrone) 24.08.2022 2:18:07

This episode we were joined by my old work friend and RPG Table member, James, aka ChaosKingTyrone on Twitch. Because it was his birthday back when we recorded this, we let him do the honors of making the cat, while Austin tried making a boring old human character. Follow the show online: https://twitter.com/literalcatpod Follow Joel Holland: https://jholland.start.page/ Follow Austin Erwin: https...

3 - Making a Messenger for the Mob with a Double Life in Modern AGE 10.08.2022 1:08:08

Modern AGE is a generic ruleset by Green Ronin Games for playing games in modern/futuristic settings. While we typically won't do generic rulesets, this one was structured enough that we felt we could make it work. Follow the show online: https://twitter.com/literalcatpod Follow Joel Holland: https://jholland.start.page/ Follow Austin Erwin: https://twitter.com/AvalonAlchemist Download the charact...

2 - Making a Tactical Support Cat in Power Outage 27.07.2022 48:02

Power Outage is a kid-friendly superhero TTRPG with a character creation system that doesn't require you to break a single rule to play as a literal cat... if you accept some loose interpretations of the rules. Welcome Austin Erwin to the show. Hope you like him, because he's hopefully a permanent co-host! Follow the show online: https://literalcatpod.start.page/   Follow Joel Holland: https:...

Pilot - Making a Roguish Team Mascot in Dungeons and Dragons 13.07.2022 33:38

This pilot was done as a test episode/proof of concept back in late 2020 and published in January 2021 with the help of my friend, Zach. We recorded a D&D episode because D&D players are plentiful and now nobody can legally ever ask me where the D&D episode is because it's done and you're looking at it. Now we can focus on RPGs that are good without a mountain of homebrew and... homebr...