The Weekly Scroll Tabletop Podcast

On this episode, Hunter and Ryan sit down with Jon Davis and Matt Morris to discuss their new project, The Bastardized Classics . Using the Bastards. system from Micah Anderson , Jon and Matt are seeking to recreate the classic modules S1 through S4 with modern sensibilities in a compact format with a rules-lite design ethos. The project also has Micah editing, as well as fantastic art from Hodag...

On this episode, Hunter and Ryan read and review The Electrum Archive #1 from Emiel Boven , the first issue of the tabletop RPG zine series exploring the science-fantasy setting of Orn, a world where adventurers delve into ancient alien shipwrecks in search of magical ink which is used as both currency and spellcasting fuel.

On this episode, Hunter and Ryan sit down with Emiel Boven , the creator of DURF and The Electrum Archive . 

On this episode, Hunter and Ryan sit down with GameHERS Designer of the Year, Cassi Mothwin , to talk the stress of placing stickers, Cassi's new dark academia ttrpg Tangled Blessings, and of course the Groat Man! Afterwards we read through Cassi's game Clean Spirit, the token based, rules lite ttrpg designed to inspire an emotionally meaningful cleaning session with your new or old charac...

On this episode, Hunter and Ryan go through some of their favorite projects crowdfunding during the month of February for Zimo/Zine Quest. Every one of these are great and we suggest you go back each one!

On this episode, Hunter and Ryan sit down with Sophia Tinney, the creator of one of our absolute favorite games, Kingdoms . We deep dive into some of the design choices made for Kingdoms and then talk all about Sophia's new project Fever Dream Nexus , a psychedelic samurai roleplaying game in a kaleidoscopic world of surreal dreams and esoteric cultures. Fever Dream Nexus is funding right now on K...

On this episode, Hunter and Ryan sit down with Goblin Archives and Josh Domanski to talk about how Liminal Horror came to be, how Goblin Archives and Josh became writing partners, and what the future holds starting with their next project The Bloom. Then we read through Liminal Horror , the classless, rules-lite, fail forward system for battling horrors that lurk in the dark. The Bloom is itchfund...

On this episode, Hunter and Ryan sit down with Aaron King to talk bad branding, Powered by the Apocalypse, cease and desists, and their new project Low-Res Futures with Max Lander . Then we read through Patchwork World 6E , their weird fantasy PbtA with no playbooks & no stats. Low-Res Futures is funding right now on Kickstarter! CLICK HERE   (Interview goes to 1:10:52, then read through...

On this episode, Hunter and Ryan sat down with W.F. Smith of Prismatic Wasteland to talk blogs, the post-OSR, and of course his system-neutral pubcrawl pointcrawl adventure Barkeep on the Borderlands. Afterwards we do a few spotlights, unseal a few bundles from The Lost Bay, and preview what's coming up on The Weekly Scroll. Barkeep on the Borderlands is open for preorders right now! CLICK HERE

On our fifth Creator Cut, and first episode of 2023, we got to sit down and chat with the wonderful Watt about their new project Cloud Empress . Then we got to play a more horror themed Cloud Empress adventure in the Land of Ten Thousand Cicadas.

This week we had our Year End Review of 2022. We went through the top 5 games in each of the 5 categories that we rate, as well as our overall Top 5 Rated Games and both Hunter and Ryan's Top 5 games of the year. We also talked about some end of the year Itch bundles and resources for Dungeon23.  This will be our final episode of 2022. We'll be back in early January, so thank you all so much...

On our fourth Creator Cut we got to play GUILD: Sword & Magick for Hire w/ Kirby of Disaster Tourism RPG . Kirby ran The Tomb of Mother Vix, a stretch goal adventure written by Christian Sorrell of MeatCastle GameWare . 

Micah Anderson makes their return to Creator Cuts to run their game Bastards using their fetid hexcrawl adventure The Batrachian Swamps , co-written with Nate Treme .  "Twisting channels of murky water. Soggy fractals of rotten plant matter and black soil. The whine of mosquitos and swoops of bats. A heavy grey sky, like a humid woolen blanket. And over it all, the dumb, accusing stare of amp...

This week Hunter and Ryan read and reviewed Empty Cycle from Rookie Jet Studio , a game where the melancholy and existential crises we face as teenagers is used as the backdrop for the battle between planet-hopping "Parasites" and the "Reapers" that chase them across the universe. 

This week Hunter and Ryan sat down with Cory Burns of Rookie Jet Studio to talk about their many games that we've reviewed on the show, as well as their current and future projects. 

This week Hunter and Ryan read and reviewed 17th Century Minimalist from Andre Novoa and Games Omnivorous , a fast-paced and highly deadly game with a pinch of black humor that puts characters as wanderers in 17th century Europe.

This week Hunter and Ryan sat down with Marco Serrano of Spicy Tuna RPG to talk all things Mothership, including their currently funding project on Kickstarter Constant Downpour Remastered . 

On our second TWS AP we got to play Helm with creator Jon Davis . He ran us through Cluster Fuck Inn, an adventure written for 17th Century Minimalist . 

This week Hunter and Ryan went over some of their favorite game supplements for Troika, OSE, Mörk Borg, and more. 

This week Hunter and Ryan got the chance to sit down with the wonderful people at Knave of Cups , an online shop dedicated to supporting inclusion and creativity in the tabletop roleplaying community.

This week Ryan went solo to read and review Marching Order , a solo/co-op dungeon delve that plays like Choose your own Adventure and Darkest Dungeon’s analog bastard child. For more insight, be sure to listen to Ep. 54 , our interview with Crumbling Keep . 

This week Ryan sits down with James and Brad from Crumbling Keep to discuss their solo and coop dungeon delving game, Marching Order . 

This week Hunter and Ryan read and review We Deal in Lead , the new Weird West Wanders Adventure Game from By Odin's Beard RPG . For more insight be sure to listen to Ep. 52 , our interview with creator Colin Le Sueur. 

This week Hunter and Ryan sat down with Colin Le Sueur of By Odin's Beard RPG to discuss their new game We Deal in Lead , as well as everything from Vikings to Tik Tok. 

This week we ran our first TWS Actual Play! Creator Cuts will be a series of APs where the designer or writer of a game or adventure runs it for us on The Weekly Scroll.  Kicking this series off is designer, editor, and writer Micah Anderson . They ran their adventure Asteroid of the Fungid Lord which was written for Hexdrive , their sci-fi variation of the space-fantasy game Troika .