Pod of Blunders

Each day we move further from God's light, and there's been no greater evidence of late than this episode. Richard, Cory, Ryan, and Nate sat down to paw through a ziploc bag of old Yu-Gi-Oh cards and then did their best to come up with a cohesive story. It was like trying to knit a sweater out of spaghetti. Or play soccer with a bowling ball. But dammit, in the end we did it, wet sweater and broken toes and all.

Enjoy!

If you want to support the Pod of Blunders and help ensure we can keep bringing you interviews and actual plays, please head to www.patreon.com/podofblunders to learn what your $1/$5/$10 pledge will get you. (Hint: access to our fantastically active discord, exclusive episodes of Jumping the Street Sharks, free games, etc.)

You can also support us by leaving a review on Apple Podcasts. Reviews help us reach larger audiences so we can tell more people about the amazing indie games we play and the fantastic folks that create them.

Also, a special thanks to Rolemusic for our intro and outro tune taken from the track Pokimonkey! If you enjoy the tune, check out more of Rolemusic's work here https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Rolemusic or learn about the artist here http://rolemusic.sawsquarenoise.com/

As always, if you have any questions or comments, let us know @podofblunders on Twitter or [email protected]. We truly love hearing from you!

Howdy folks! We sat with Cat to chat about this and that. Okay I promise never to to that again. Cat is an amazing asset to the TTRPG community, both as a designer and as a facilitator of the Solo But Not Alone charity bundles on itch.io. 

As of today (1/30/22), Cat's raised over $50,000 over the past two years in support of Jasper's Game Day, a wonderful charity focusing on suicide prevention. If you'd like to support this worthy cause and grab over 100 solo RPGs, head here and give what you can: https://itch.io/b/1227/solo-but-not-alone-2

And hey, maybe look through the past few weeks of reviews over on www.podofblunders.com where we've been reviewing games from the bundle. There's so much quality stuff that we'll keep on reviewing these games until the sale ends in March.

If you want to check out some of Cat's other games, especially the FANTASTIC Heroic Chord, head to their itch.io page (https://peachgardengames.itch.io/) and if you like what you see, let her know on twitter via @CatlingGun.

If you want to support the Pod of Blunders and help ensure we can keep bringing you interviews and actual plays, please head to www.patreon.com/podofblunders to learn what your $1/$5/$10 pledge will get you. (Hint: access to our fantastically active discord, exclusive episodes of Jumping the Street Sharks, free games, etc.)

You can also support us by leaving a review on Apple Podcasts. Reviews help us reach larger audiences so we can tell more people about the amazing indie games we play and the fantastic folks that create them.

Also, a special thanks to Rolemusic for our intro and outro tune taken from the track Pokimonkey! If you enjoy the tune, check out more of Rolemusic's work here https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Rolemusic or learn about the artist here http://rolemusic.sawsquarenoise.com/

As always, if you have any questions or comments, let us know @podofblunders on Twitter or [email protected]. We truly love hearing from you!

This is it, folks! The final episode of our Marsh Attacks! campaign! A huge thanks to Rich, Cory, and Jenna for sticking with the campaign through its conclusion and I hope you all had a blast! If you haven't heard session 0, 1, and 2 yet, I think they're worth going back for!

This will, in all likelihood, be the last time we play 5th edition for a while, truth be told. We like 5E but Wizards of the Coast doesn't need our help bringing attention to the game. We'll stick with indie games and their authors because there are so many amazing games out there that don't get the attention they deserve.

Like Lucha Libram! and Despite All Our Rage We Are Still Just Some Rats On Nic Cage, for example. Not that I'm biased...

https://podofblunders.itch.io/

If you want to support the Pod of Blunders and help ensure we can keep bringing you interviews and actual plays, please head to www.patreon.com/podofblunders to learn what your $1/$5/$10 pledge will get you. (Hint: access to our fantastically active discord, exclusive episodes of Jumping the Street Sharks, free games, etc.)

You can also support us by leaving a review on Apple Podcasts. Reviews help us reach larger audiences so we can tell more people about the amazing indie games we play and the fantastic folks that create them.

Also, a special thanks to Rolemusic for our intro and outro tune taken from the track Pokimonkey! If you enjoy the tune, check out more of Rolemusic's work here https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Rolemusic or learn about the artist here http://rolemusic.sawsquarenoise.com/

As always, if you have any questions or comments, let us know @podofblunders on Twitter or [email protected]. We truly love hearing from you!

After reviewing (https://podofblunders.com/2022/01/07/the-tabula-initiative/) Cloven Pine Games' "The Tabula Initiative" a few weeks ago, I knew I had to get it to the table. It's a great little game that's easy to teach, easy to run, and, as I hope you'll agree, lends itself to tell fun and engaging stories.

The story we ended up telling is not one featuring a heroic spy fighting against a corrupt system. Instead, Richard plays an absolute bastard. Enjoy!

Oh, and trigger warning. There are several allusions to harm to children throughout this episode. Nothing is ever graphically described or happening "on screen" but I want to give a heads up in case that sort of thing squigs you out.

If you like this episode, grab the game here: https://cloven-pine-games.itch.io/the-tabula-initiative

If you want to support the Pod of Blunders and help ensure we can keep bringing you interviews and actual plays, please head to www.patreon.com/podofblunders to learn what your $1/$5/$10 pledge will get you. (Hint: access to our fantastically active discord, exclusive episodes of Jumping the Street Sharks, free games, etc.)

You can also support us by leaving a review on Apple Podcasts. Reviews help us reach larger audiences so we can tell more people about the amazing indie games we play and the fantastic folks that create them.

Also, a special thanks to Rolemusic for our intro and outro tune taken from the track Pokimonkey! If you enjoy the tune, check out more of Rolemusic's work here https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Rolemusic or learn about the artist here http://rolemusic.sawsquarenoise.com/

As always, if you have any questions or comments, let us know @podofblunders on Twitter or [email protected]. We truly love hearing from you!

You need to understand how much I love Riley's (@GamesMarble) Rhenge setting for 5E. Living statues. Animal folk called The Cloven. A whole new, intuitive suite of tools to make exploration fun and interesting. I mean, every 5E gamemaster should head to https://blackmarblegames.com/ after listening to our interview and support such fantastic work! 

If you enjoy this interview half as much as I enjoy Riley's setting, this will be a record breaking episode!

For real though, it's a hell of a product and definitely needs more love and attention.

If you want to support the Pod of Blunders and help ensure we can keep bringing you interviews and actual plays, please head to www.patreon.com/podofblunders to learn what your $1/$5/$10 pledge will get you. (Hint: access to our fantastically active discord, exclusive episodes of Jumping the Street Sharks, free games, etc.)

You can also support us by leaving a review on Apple Podcasts. Reviews help us reach larger audiences so we can tell more people about the amazing indie games we play and the fantastic folks that create them.

Also, a special thanks to Rolemusic for our intro and outro tune taken from the track Pokimonkey! If you enjoy the tune, check out more of Rolemusic's work here https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Rolemusic or learn about the artist here http://rolemusic.sawsquarenoise.com/

As always, if you have any questions or comments, let us know @podofblunders on Twitter or [email protected]. We truly love hearing from you!

Happy New Year! Before we kissed 2021 goodbye, Richard and Nate finally got around to answering some hard-hitting questions from our listeners. I hope you enjoy this and may your 2022 brings you more joy and fulfillment than you can possibly stand!

Special thanks to all those who asked questions this year, including:

@Conan_Lybarian

@Mr_Ray_rpg

@davenportauthor

@nexodus99

@CtrlGroupPod

@Starshinescrib

@eel_gm

@DMBadWrongFun

@Gamskee

Oh, and if you want a nice, clean version of Richard saying "Brain Boner", you can find it after the end music.

If you want to support the Pod of Blunders and help ensure we can keep bringing you interviews and actual plays, please head to www.patreon.com/podofblunders to learn what your $1/$5/$10 pledge will get you. (Hint: access to our fantastically active discord, exclusive episodes of Jumping the Street Sharks, free games, etc.)

You can also support us by leaving a review on Apple Podcasts. Reviews help us reach larger audiences so we can tell more people about the amazing indie games we play and the fantastic folks that create them.

Also, a special thanks to Rolemusic for our intro and outro tune taken from the track Pokimonkey! If you enjoy the tune, check out more of Rolemusic's work here https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Rolemusic or learn about the artist here http://rolemusic.sawsquarenoise.com/

As always, if you have any questions or comments, let us know @podofblunders on Twitter or [email protected]. We truly love hearing from you!

Richard and I took a little time off to be with our families for the holidays but we didn't want to skip our scheduled weekly release. What's a podcast to do?! 

Why, release another episode of our Patreon-exclusive podcast Jumping the Street Sharks, of course! Please enjoy our chat about the buckwild 14th episode of the mid-90s greatest TV show and if you like it, consider heading to www.patreon.com/podofblunders for more content like this!

Ho Ho How's about a wonderfully weird Christmas episode? Richard, Nate, Liam, and Ryan played a Christmas hack of Lasers & Feelings by John Harper, only this time our two stats were Naughty and Nice! Nate even wrote a custom poem for the occasion and Liam...Liam'd extra hard on this one. Please enjoy and if you want any other Christmas chicanery, check out last year's episode: https://anchor.fm/pod-of-blunders/episodes/Pod-of-Blunders-One-Shot-Santa-But-eo0cbj

If you want to support the Pod of Blunders and help ensure we can keep bringing you interviews and actual plays, please head to www.patreon.com/podofblunders to learn what your $1/$5/$10 pledge will get you. (Hint: access to our fantastically active discord, exclusive episodes of Jumping the Street Sharks, free games, etc.)

You can also support us by leaving a review on Apple Podcasts. Reviews help us reach larger audiences so we can tell more people about the amazing indie games we play and the fantastic folks that create them.

Also, a special thanks to Rolemusic for our intro and outro tune taken from the track Pokimonkey! If you enjoy the tune, check out more of Rolemusic's work here https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Rolemusic or learn about the artist here http://rolemusic.sawsquarenoise.com/

As always, if you have any questions or comments, let us know @podofblunders on Twitter or [email protected]. We truly love hearing from you!

The only thing that compares to Richards hate of anime is his love for me, which is why he agreed to play Starshine Scribbles' My Girlfriend Has Turned Into A Car (And We're Escaping This City). This game is based on a 15ish minute section of the late 90's anime The Adolescence of Utena and I really, really suggest you check it out. It's fairly easy to find on the internet - retrocrush has it, though I don't know about the legality of it all so find it there at your own risk - but if you do watch it, you can skip to around the 1 hour mark and watch the next 15 minutes or so. It's...a whole thing and my life has been forever changed by watching it. Changed for the better? Only time will tell.

To find a copy of this game (or one of Star's other amazing games), head to their itch.io page: https://starshinescribbles.itch.io/

If you want to support the Pod of Blunders and help ensure we can keep bringing you interviews and actual plays, please head to www.patreon.com/podofblunders to learn what your $1/$5/$10 pledge will get you. (Hint: access to our fantastically active discord, exclusive episodes of Jumping the Street Sharks, free games, etc.)

You can also support us by leaving a review on Apple Podcasts. Reviews help us reach larger audiences so we can tell more people about the amazing indie games we play and the fantastic folks that create them.

Also, a special thanks to Rolemusic for our intro and outro tune taken from the track Pokimonkey! If you enjoy the tune, check out more of Rolemusic's work here https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Rolemusic or learn about the artist here http://rolemusic.sawsquarenoise.com/

As always, if you have any questions or comments, let us know @podofblunders on Twitter or [email protected]. We truly love hearing from you!

Star's (@Starshinescrib) easily one of my favorite indie designers out there. One look at their itch.io page (https://starshinescribbles.itch.io/) and you can understand why. Star is brilliantly inventive and you'd be hard pressed to find a designer who is better at fitting mechanics to theme. 

In case I wasn't laying it on thick enough, I'm a big fan.

I hope you enjoy this interview and make sure you tune in next week for our actual play of Star's game "My Girlfriend Turned Into a Car and We're Escaping this City". 

If you want to support the Pod of Blunders and help ensure we can keep bringing you interviews and actual plays, please head to www.patreon.com/podofblunders to learn what your $1/$5/$10 pledge will get you. (Hint: access to our fantastically active discord, exclusive episodes of Jumping the Street Sharks, free games, etc.)

You can also support us by leaving a review on Apple Podcasts. Reviews help us reach larger audiences so we can tell more people about the amazing indie games we play and the fantastic folks that create them.

Also, a special thanks to Rolemusic for our intro and outro tune taken from the track Pokimonkey! If you enjoy the tune, check out more of Rolemusic's work here https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Rolemusic or learn about the artist here http://rolemusic.sawsquarenoise.com/

As always, if you have any questions or comments, let us know @podofblunders on Twitter or [email protected]. We truly love hearing from you!