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… homebrew a cat into them. Don’t think about it too hard. Starting next episode, you’ll hear me working with Austin Erwin, who heard this then agreed to be my co-host.
The rules for making the cat are as follows:
- We accept no cop-outs. It is a cat, the exact animal that comes to mind when I say the word. Not an anthropomorphic race, not some person turned into a cat, not a lion, tiger, or any other cop-out you can imagine.
- Homebrew isn’t real. If the rules do not explicitly allow it to happen, it counts as a rule broken. If we come across a “Rules as Written vs Rules as Intended” situation, we go with whichever one says, “no.”
- If the game includes stats for a literal cat, those must be used or adapted to the game’s character sheet.
- The character class/background/playbook/job has to exist in the game’s core rules or as part of an official expansion. We cannot use Homebrew classes, they do not exist.
- The cat can learn any skill available to its class. We once had a cat that could seal away peoples’ superpowers because it worked for an organization that trained people to do that.
- If a tool would be physically impossible for a literal cat to use, even if comically downsized for them, they cannot use it.
- We Have to Keep Track of Every Rule we Break
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My guest this episode is Zachary Turner, who does not have a major online presence that he wants shared, but DOES say hello.
This will not be the normal theme, I made a better one with the Meowsynth and some midi loops that you’ll hear next episode.
Thanks for listening! We’ll Cat-ch you later!
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