On this episode of The Weekly Scroll Podcast, Ryan is joined by Watt for a Cloud Empress writing seminar. Watt discusses Literary Adventures (the what and the why) and shows how they outline their ttrpg adventure design philosophy and workflow.

Find Cloud Empress here: https://cloudempress.com/

0:00 Start

0:49 Presentation Begins

1:15 About Watt, Worlds by Watt, Cloud Empress & more

9:23 Who Cares Whether a TTRPG Adventure Is Literary or Not?

11:25 What is a "Literary Adventure?"

18:31 Writing for Cloud Empress

26:30 Method: Location in Conflict Writing Workflow

26:49 Ideate a Concept

30:15 Define the Space

43:25 Fill in the Details

49:41 Reflections and Final Thoughts

55:31 Closing and Next Steps

56:35 Q&A

On this episode of The Weekly Scroll Podcast, we recap the top scores for zines and books we gave out through the year! For zines we do the top 3 for each metric, top 3 overall, and our personal top 3s, and for books we do the top 5 for each metric, top 5 overall, and our personal top 5s. Thank you all so much for watching and listening this year!

On this episode of The Weekly Scroll Podcast, we sit down for another 𝗡𝗢𝗧 𝗖𝗮𝘁 𝗖𝗵𝗮𝘁𝘀 with Jarrett Crader of ⁠⁠𝗦𝗽𝗮𝗰𝗲 𝗣𝗲𝗻𝗴𝘂𝗶𝗻 𝗜𝗻𝗸⁠⁠! We talk about our recent trip to PAXU, tangent for a while, talk new SPI releases Season's Beatings 2 and The Mall Remastered, and discuss the future of Space Penguin Ink and The Weekly Scroll.

Find Space Penguin Ink here: https://spacepenguin.ink/

On this episode of The Weekly Scroll Podcast, we sit down with artist, game designer, and writer GAVRIEL QUIROGA to talk all things Neurocity, Warpland, Hell Night, and their current project with Gallant Knight games, Lords of Death and Illusion.

On this episode of The Weekly Scroll Podcast, we read and review ALIEN THE ROLEPLAYING GAME from Free League Publishing, the official ttrpg for the Alien franchise, which uses their Year Zero Engine but adapts and further develops it to fully support and enhance the core themes of ALIEN.

Find ALIEN RPG here: https://freeleaguepublishing.com/games/alien/

Find Free League here: https://freeleaguepublishing.com/

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On this episode of The Weekly Scroll Podcast, we continue our mini–Mothership Month by playing even more Mothership 1E! For our players, Ryan was joined by Marco Serrano of Spicy Tuna RPG, Christian Sorrell of Meatcastle Gameware, and Jarrett Crader of Space Penguin Ink. And as our Warden we had Chris Airiau of 5 Million Worlds Press, who has written a plethora of wonderful Mothership content, including the adventure he ran for us, IRON HEARTH HARVEST.

You can find Iron Hearth Harvest as part of Mothership Month in Devil's Due from Single Stage to Orbit Press, a compendium of space pirate supplements and adventures centered around the pirate plant Azimuth.

https://www.backerkit.com/c/projects/the-azimuth-gang/devil-s-due-a-space-pirate-haven-for-mothership

Chris also has his own project for Mothership Month, Not Enough Scoundrels: a supplement of smugglers, space truckers and the ships they live and die by.

https://www.backerkit.com/c/projects/5-million-worlds-press/not-enough-scoundrels-a-smuggling-module-for-mothership-rpg

Find Chris Airiau here: https://chrisair.itch.io/

Find Marco here: https://spicytunarpg.itch.io/

Find Christian here: https://meatcastlegameware.itch.io/

Find Jert and SPI here: https://spacepenguin.ink/

On this episode of The Weekly Scroll Podcast, we read and review Kosmosaurs from Diogo Nogueira of Old Skull Publishing, a minimalist action focused ttrpg with a strong narrative bent where you play as a member of an elite force of dinosaur space rangers that defend the galaxy against all forms of threats, both internal and external.

Find Kosmosaurs here: https://diogo-old-skull.itch.io/kosmosaurs-rpg

On this episode of The Weekly Scroll Podcast, Ryan sits down with game designer, artist, producer & cast member of My First Dungeon, and Co-Host of Talk of the Table, ELLIOT DAVIS. We discuss his podcast production company Many Sided Media, his past game design projects, like Project ECCO and Rom Com Drama Bomb, and finally discuss THE TIME WE HAVE, a two-player storytelling card game about brothers in the zombie apocalypse and the final days before one of them turns.

On this episode of The Weekly Scroll Podcast, we continue our mini–Mothership Month by playing some Mothership 1E. We're joined by Stella Condrey as a player, and Josh Domanski as our GM as well as the author of the adventure, TIL DEATH DO US PART. You can find Till Death Do Us Part as an add-on in the upcoming Backerkit project INTERLOPER from Joel Hines of Silverarm.

On this episode, we read and review Mothership® 1E from Tuesday Knight Games, the award-winning sci-fi horror RPG where you and your crew try to survive in the most inhospitable environment in the universe: outer space! 

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