The Weekly Scroll Tabletop Podcast

On this episode of The Weekly Scroll Podcast, we sit down for the first NOT CAT CHATS of 2026 with the one and only Jarret Crader of Space Penguin Ink. We talk caps, ttrpg hubs, cons, and HANG THE DJ from Reece Carter, a new adventure module for CY-Borg where a shady fixer gives your Crew a job: kill a popular DJ and his slick promoter before they leave town! Grab Hang the DJ from Space Penguin In...

On this episode of The Weekly Scroll Podcast, Ryan is joined by Garry Snow of Dieku Game to review VENGEANCE CALIFORNIA from Hounskull, an over-the-top, ultra-violent, narrative RPG designed to recreate pulpy revenge fantasies like Kill Bill, John Wick, or Mandy. Find Vengeance California here: https://hounskul.itch.io/vengeance-california Find Dieku Games here: https://diekugames.com/ Find the Fa...

On this episode of The Weekly Scroll Podcast, Ryan sits down with Jonathon Boyle and Bri de Danann of BRIGHT BARD GAMES to talk about axolotls with various weaponry, magical girl trash goblins, and much more. Back Axolotl with a Gun 2e here: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/residentbard/axolotl-with-a-gun-2nd-edition/ Find Bright Bard Games here: https://brightbardgames.com/ All our links here...

On this episode of The Weekly Scroll Podcast, Ryan sits down with award-winning game designer, editor, and publisher WILL JOBST to talk Good Luck Press, cons, podcasts, editing, Plasmodics, and our shared love of all things Adam Vass. Find Good Luck Press here: https://goodluckpress.co/ 0:00 Start 0:25 The big reveal 01:29 Shot out Dark Wizard 02:05 Who the heck is Will Jobst 04:35 Adam Vass stan...

On this episode of The Weekly Scroll Podcast, we review MEK28 from BerserkerWorks, a miniature and setting agnostic 28mm tabletop skirmish mech fighting game. Kitbash some robots or monsters or anything you want and fight your friends! It's also the month of zines, so we kick off the episode talking about some cool projects you should back from some friends of the show. Find MEK28 here: https://be...

On this episode of The Weekly Scroll Podcast, Ryan is joined by CJ of Hothead Collective to give A PRIMER ON TABLETOP MAGAZINES, ZINES, AND PERIODICALS. We discuss a wide variety of mostly print media, from magazines about the tabletop and hobby space to zines and digests full of playable ttrpg material and everything in between. 0:00 Start 0:45 What is this episode? 2:45 CJ and print media 9:15 G...

On this episode of The Weekly Scroll Podcast, Ryan is joined by Christian Sorrell, aka Meatcastle Gameware, to review HAMMERS by Jon Davis of Sivad's Sanctum, an old-school dungeon crawler for fans of Hammer Horror, Universal Monsters, and folk horror. Find Hammers here: https://sivads-sanctum.itch.io/hammers Find Christian here: https://meatcastlegameware.com/ 0:00 Start 1:05 Who the heck is...

On this episode of The Weekly Scroll Podcast, Ryan sits down with prolific illustrator, art director, and generally awesome guy DAVID HOSKINS to talk art, games, the year behind us, the year ahead us, and more. Find David Hoskins here: https://www.davidhoskins.com/ 0:00 Start 1:55 Who the heck is David Hoskins? 4:15 Art direction at Exalted Funeral 15:45 2025 and MTG 29:40 DIY, skirmish, and pendu...

On this episode of The Weekly Scroll Podcast, we do our annual YEAR END REVIEW! We talk about our highest scoring games of the year, pass out some superlatives, and give our personal TOP 5s. We also discuss the future of The Weekly Scroll and how it will be changing in 2026. Oh, it's also episode #300. Crazy, right 0:00 Start 4:30 Recap of this year's episodes 6:00 Cool shit we did this year 11:30...

On this episode of The Weekly Scroll Podcast, we sit down for the last NOT CAT CHATS of 2025 with Jarrett Crader of Space Penguin Ink⁠! We talk about new releases; like UNDER THE SKIN, a new mothership module from Daniel Hallinan, and HOPE IS FOR THE DEAD, the new zombie forbidden psalm from Will RD. Then we talk plans about the Space Penguin releases for early 2026. Grab all these games from Spac...

On this episode of The Weekly Scroll Podcast, we sit down to chat with artist, game designer, and world builder CHARLIE FERGUSON-AVERY. We talk setting books, art, mega dungeons, skirmish games, and more. Find Feral Indie Studio here: https://www.feralindiestudio.com/ Find on itch here: https://feral-indie-studios.itch.io/ 0:00 Start 0:50 Who the heck is Charlie Ferguson-Avery? 3:05 Talking VyrmHa...

On this episode of The Weekly Scroll Podcast, we review CAULDRON from Hill Giant Games, a swamp skirmish game where you concoct a tight warband of 3-7 orcs, trolls, and goblins, and duke it out in the gnarly swamp. Hill Giant Games is a collaboration between Dellon Myette, aka White Tiger Tablecraft, and Steven Zych, aka BIGBOYGAMETIME. Find Cauldron here: https://hillgiant.itch.io/cauldron Find C...

On this episode of The Weekly Scroll Podcast, Ryan sits down with CJ Somavia of Hothead Collective to talk GLAIVE, a quarterly magazine dedicated to gaming and the subcultures surrounding its various forms of expression. We also talk PAX Unplugged, the loss of third spaces, the "osr" and storygames, Inq28, and more. Find Hothead Collective here: https://www.hotheadcollective.com/ All our...

On this episode of The Weekly Scroll Podcast, Ryan sits down with the one and only JOEY ROYALE to talk Weird Heroes of Public Access, crowdfunding, skirmish games, and their current project for Mausritter Month: Tails from the Night Market, a collection of three darkly whimsical pamphlet adventures (and a map) with hours of exploration, mystery, and horror beneath a carnival’s painted smile. Back...

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...