How to Make A Literal Cat in Your Favorite RPG

94 - Making a Jack of All Trades Who Is Simply Built Different in Numenera

Wed, 01 Apr 2026 04:00:00 GMT

Numenera is a far-future sci-fi/fantasy tabletop game published by Monte Cook Games about a medieval-esque society that regards the technological remnants of a past Age like magic. We figured our only real option for a player character who made any sense is a genetically-altered cat, or as we like to call it, Built Different.

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93 - Making An Incredibly Vengeful and Corrupt Gossip Journalist in Cyberpunk RED

Wed, 18 Mar 2026 11:00:00 GMT

R. Talsorian Games themselves asked us months ago to cover Cyberpunk RED. We swear we didn't forget! We just had other projects going on, that's all. Anyway, I'm pretty sure we've never done a journalist cat before, so here! enjoy!

Also the name of the restaurant is apparently Griggsby's Station.

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92 - Making a Profoundly Naive And Easily Corrupted Politician in Arium Feat. Will Munn

Wed, 04 Mar 2026 12:00:00 GMT

Will Munn came to us to record an episode about his game, Arium. Now, Arium is somewhat unique for a game we'd cover on this show, because it also included a world-building segment as part of play! So, before we made Councilcat Mewolinda, we first made a world that would let her serve on city council!

Learn more about Arium: Evolve: https://adepticarus.com/

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91 - Making A Talented Pianist Who Fights For Acessibility in Tide Breaker

Wed, 18 Feb 2026 12:00:00 GMT

Happy Black History Month! Also, apologies for repeatedly failing to ever intentionally organize any episodes for Black History Month before! Anyway, today we bring you a cat made in Nick Butler's Tide Breaker RPG! He plays the piano!

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90 - Making a Telepathic Warrior Poet in Blue Rose

Wed, 04 Feb 2026 12:00:00 GMT

Blue Rose is a Romantic Fantasy RPG published by Green Ronin. Coincidentally, it contains rules for playing as literal animals that have gained the power of telepathy. This was really convenient for us as we built our Warrior-Poet Cat!

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89 - Making a Bisexual Daredevil Who Steals Buttons in Brindlewood Bay

Wed, 21 Jan 2026 12:00:00 GMT

Brindlewood Bay is an RPG by The Gauntlet that combines Murder, She Wrote with Lovecraftian horror where you play as a group of old ladies who solve mysteries together for fun. We put a cat in it. Oh, and by the way, she's bisexual.

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LiteralCatPod Is Going On Indefinite Hiatus

Thu, 08 Jan 2026 16:40:29 GMT

Avalon and I regret to inform you that we've decided to end How to Make A Literal Cat In Your Favorite RPG after Summer 2026. This was a difficult decision, but also one that was a long time coming. As much as we're going to miss it, for the moment at least, stepping away is the right thing for us to do. I hope it's possible to come back to this some time in the future, but for right now, we need to move on.

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88 - Making a Reluctant Companion Who Swallowed The Stone of Prophecy in Legend in the Mist

Wed, 10 Dec 2025 12:00:00 GMT

Legend in the Mist is Son of Oak's latest TTRPG based on the gameplay system they created for City of Mist, this time for a high fantasy setting. Our cat this time stumbled into a destiny greater than itself when it swallowed a stone of immense power and knowledge.

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87. Making a One-Eyed Pirate Queen in Dicey Tales

Wed, 26 Nov 2025 12:00:00 GMT

Dicey Tales is an action TTRPG that focuses on recreating the escapist fantasies of 1930's pulp fiction. At the request of one of our guests, we have made their cat into a one-eyed Pirate Queen!

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86 - Making a Glam Musician In A Punk-Rock Band in Spirit of 77 Feat. Sean Walsh

Wed, 12 Nov 2025 12:00:00 GMT

Sean Walsh has returned to us to show off another favorite game, this time it's Spirit of 77 by Monkeyfun Studios! Have a look at the 70's as portrayed through 70's media! And play as our cat, the glam rocker with the world's first Keytar!

Sean requests that you follow There's A TTRPG For That: https://theresattrpgforthat.tumblr.com/

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85 - Making an International Jewel Thief From Canada in The Troubleshooters

Wed, 29 Oct 2025 11:00:00 GMT

The Troubleshooters is an RPG by Helmgast made to mimic the style and aesthetic of Franco-Belgian comics of the 60's, like Adventures of Tintin! We decided we'd resisted the Cat's natural affinity for Crime long enough this season, and finally made a sneak thief, a phantom, a Cat Burglar for this episode!

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84 - Making a Hapless Cat Who Wandered Into The Action in Outgunned Feat. Craig Shipman

Wed, 15 Oct 2025 11:00:00 GMT

Outgunned is a game by Two Little Mice, designed to help you play out your own cinematic action films at the table. As are most of the other games we've done recently. You know, because it's Action Fiction Autumn? Anyway, this cat is one who was never prepared for the role of action hero, but just so happened to have the right skills to be a halfway decent sidekick!

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83 - Making Cat Cop, The Cop That's Just A Cat, in Straight To VHS

Wed, 01 Oct 2025 11:00:00 GMT

Hiyah! For this installment of Action Fiction Autumn, we looked at a little game called Straight to VHS by Lost Cat Games. We made Cat Cop. She's exactly what she sounds like. She's a cat. She's a cop. She's Cat Cop.

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82 - Making a Fast-Learning Assassin in Action 12 Cinema

Wed, 17 Sep 2025 11:00:00 GMT

Action 12 Cinema by The RPG Academy is a little different from the kind of game we'd normally do on this show, but it's Action Fiction Autumn, and it just called to me! Also I think you'll forgive us when you hear all about Australian Mist, the hit new action flick from up and coming Australian director [insert audience member name here], who brings us a story about a cat who was trained to kill from birth, and is now beginning to grapple with what that means...

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81 - Making a Teleporting Support Fighter in Panic At The Dojo Feat. Vel Mini

Wed, 03 Sep 2025 11:00:00 GMT

Vel Mini graced us with a supervised early look at Panic at the Dojo's second edition, which may actually be out now, to help us make a cat that fights by teleporting around, offering support to its allies, and slowly wearing down its opponents! Happy Action Fiction Autumn, everyone!

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80 - Making A Barbarian Raised By Raccoons Feat. ALiteralRaccoonVT

Wed, 20 Aug 2025 11:00:00 GMT

Pathfinder has been one our listeners have wanted for a while, that we've been too scared to try because of the character sheet. UNTIL NOW! We brought on Ayl, a Vtuber with experience in Pathfinder Actual Plays to help us get through this, and she helped us make our most feral feline yet!

Help Ayl's Emergency New Computer fund: https://throne.com/acupofayl

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79 - Making a Friendly Widow With A Big Family in Ironsworn

Wed, 06 Aug 2025 14:54:48 GMT

Ironsworn by Shawn Tomkin is an RPG about perilous quests and difficult vows, where every bit of progress is marked by the costs it took to reach it. Even knowing the struggles, the cat we made this episode MUST see her husband's ashes spread atop Mt. Mitten - she swore a vow to see it done in her lifetime, after all!

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78 - One-Shot Lightning Round, Round 2!

Wed, 23 Jul 2025 17:41:38 GMT

As July draws to a close, and we enter our fourth year as a podcast, allow me to thank you all for listening! We really appreciate you all being along for the ride. Anyway, enjoy an assortment of RPGs that'd normally be too short for a full episode!

Games included:

Four Sherlock Holmes and a Vampire: https://thatonegm.itch.io/four-sherlock-holmes-and-a-vampire

Quantum Nobodies: https://dngnclub.itch.io/quantum-nobodies

Supernatural Sapphics: https://transtapir.itch.io/supernatural-sapphics

Fortune Favors a Sword: https://oakleaf-insignia.itch.io/fortune-favors-dice

Instant Starship: https://dngnclub.itch.io/instant-starship

Cracker Barrel Has Fallen: https://oopsallsmurph.itch.io/cracker-barrel-has-fallen

Potatoes & Molasses: https://tentacletheory.itch.io/potatoes-molasses

Dinos & Magic: https://tassallgood.itch.io/dinos-and-magic

Spindash: https://madlobotanist.itch.io/spindash

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77 - Making an Edgelord Student/Knight in Fabula Ultima Feat. Chris Longhurst

Wed, 09 Jul 2025 11:00:00 GMT

Fabula Ultima is a JRPG-Inspired Tabletop RPG by Need Games! While I highly doubt it's what they had in mind, we found we could make a cat as a Knight/College Student without breaking a single rule!

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76 - Making a MOBA Addict Renegade in Tournament Arc

Wed, 25 Jun 2025 11:00:00 GMT

Tournament Arc is a GM-less RPG by Biscuit Fund Games about acting out your own sports anime! Or really, whatever tournament you can imagine. It could realistically be used to play out the Yu-Gi-Oh anime, Blue Lock, or (ugh) the Chunin Exams in Naruto! We used it to make a cat that plays too much Pokemon Unite! (or probably something legally distinct if we're looking for licensing deals wink wink)

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75 - Making a Touch Screen-Trained Ace Pilot in ChangedStars Feat. Dieselee

Wed, 11 Jun 2025 11:00:00 GMT

ChangedStars is a space-age sci-fi RPG by DieselShot set in a more hopeful world. Lee Andercheck of DieselShot joined us in the studio to talk about making a cat race anyone could work off in the future, the viability of cats as iPad babies, and so many more cat puns than we usually include in an episode!

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74 - Making a Wizard Hunter in Flannel in Urban Shadows

Wed, 28 May 2025 11:00:00 GMT

Urban Shadows is a game published by Magpie Games about navigating the complicated politics of magical secret societies in Urban Fiction stories. We have introduced a group of redneck truckers who also happen to hunt wizards. They trained a cat to kill The Immortal Merlin. Somehow, this worked.

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73 - Making Snowbell from Stuart Little (1999) in Interstitial Feat. Riley Hopkins

Wed, 14 May 2025 11:00:00 GMT

Interstitial is a game by Riley Hopkins that started as an attempt at a Kingdom Hearts TTRPG but has since evolved into the premiere crossover fanfic RPG! We decided to make Snowbell from Stuart Little with the help of Riley Hopkins on this episode! Though we may have had some issues with staying on track...

Follow Riley Hopkins online:

Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/badfuckinpodcasts.com

Game Design: mymothercangotohell.com

Moonshot Podcast Network: moonshotpods.com

AO3: https://archiveofourown.org/works/62292763

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72 - Making a Scout of the Desert Planet Arrakis in Dune: Adventures in the Imperium

Wed, 30 Apr 2025 11:00:00 GMT

On the desert planet of Arrakis... ok I don't actually know what goes on there. I just know there's hallucinogenic jet fuel, some kid whose mom thinks he's the Chosen One, and also now, thanks to us, a Cat from a yet-to-be-determined house who does Scouting work! Also thanks to Dune: Adventures in the Imperium by Modiphius!

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71 - Making a Scrappy Alley Cat/Hard-Boiled Detective in Eureka! Feat. Anim-TTRPGs

Wed, 16 Apr 2025 11:00:00 GMT

The Agency of Narrative Intrigue and Mysteries - also known as A.N.I.M-TTRPGs - is the creator of Eureka! Investigative Urban Fantasy, a mundane-yet-supernatural Detective RPG. We were joined this episode by Addison and Ash, who helped us make our Cat as By-The-Book as is possible in the game's rules!

Support A.N.I.M: https://www.patreon.com/TheAgencyofNarrativeIntrigueandMysteryPatreon or https://ko-fi.com/animttrpgs

Join the A.N.I.M RPG Book Club: https://discord.gg/ztnxPVSqCz

Check them out on Itch.io: https://anim-ttrpg.itch.io/

And follow them online: https://www.tumblr.com/anim-ttrpgs

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70 - Making a Circus Cat with Jetpack Training in GI Joe

Wed, 02 Apr 2025 11:00:00 GMT

Happy April 2nd! You know this episode isn't a prank because it came out today! Anyway, did you know Renegade Games, makers of Kids on Bikes and current publisher of the World of Darkness RPG line, also owns a series of licensed RPGs on their Essence 20 Roleplaying system? Did you know GI Joe was one of those RPGs? Well we gave a cat a Jetpack and put it in that game. Yes, we did it in that order. You're welcome.

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65 - Making an Errant Demon-Slayer in Inevitable: A Doomed Arthurian Western

Tue, 01 Apr 2025 11:00:00 GMT

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69 (nice) - Making a Bodega Cat With a Colorful Social Life in Flabbergasted!

Wed, 19 Mar 2025 11:00:00 GMT

After all this time, we've finally made it to every podcast's most important milestone - the 69th episode! Anyway, have you heard of Flabbergasted? It's an RPG from The Wanderer's Tome meant to replicate the comedic storytelling style of a Jeeves and Wooster story! Also, one of the game's playtesters, who goes by Sean, joined us to help us make a cat in it!

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68 pt. 2 - Finishing an Inventor With Vigilante Tendencies in Haunted West

Wed, 05 Mar 2025 12:00:00 GMT

I know it's already Spring, but Wild West Winter can't truly end until Haunted West is fully behind us. And so, without further ado, join us for part 2 of our attempt to make a playable cat in Darker Hue Studios' Haunted West RPG.

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68 pt. 1 - Starting an Inventor With Vigilante Tendencies in Haunted West

Wed, 19 Feb 2025 12:00:00 GMT

So, the bad news: It's only half an episode. The good news: You wouldn't know it looking at the runtime. Anyway, Wild West Winter is being extended a little bit into March, with the Haunted West episode being a 2-parter!

Anyway, check out Haunted West by Darker Hue Studios!

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67 - Making a Magical Gambler in Deadlands

Wed, 05 Feb 2025 12:00:00 GMT

Ladies, Gentlemen, and Nonbinaries, we present to you, the game that won Wild West Winter the last seasonal theme poll, Deadlands by Pinnacle Entertainment Group! We've resisted our urge to make a gambling cat long enough, so now, we have one who gambles with magical forces! Also he's named Tintin because they can't come for us for doing that anymore!

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66. Making a - Wait, Is That a Real Zorro Movie? In Zorro

Wed, 22 Jan 2025 12:00:00 GMT

Happy new year, everyone! On this episode of Wild West Winter, we take a look at a somewhat simpler RPG than we'd normally go for, the Zorro RPG by Gallant Knight Games. We uh... We also spent a larger amount of time focusing on a fake movie trailer than we did the cat for this week. Sorry, it's not normally like this, if you're new here.

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We Lost Episode 65.

Wed, 08 Jan 2025 12:00:31 GMT

This episode WOULD have been about Inevitable: A Doomed Arthurian Western by Soul Muppet Games. Unfortunately, the only thing we could salvage from it was the character sheet. Sorry for the inconvenience.

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64. Making a Spice Runner With a Medical Degree in Through The Breach

Wed, 25 Dec 2024 12:00:57 GMT

Man, you're listening to this one on release day? You must be dedicated to celebrating the joys of Wild West Winter! Don't worry - we understand! We feel the same way! Anyway, this is Through The Breach by Wyrd Miniatures! We made a criminal doctor, because of COURSE we did. It was the fate in the cards for us!

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63. Making a Lone Wanderer Who's Never Wandered Far in Cowboy World

Wed, 11 Dec 2024 12:00:46 GMT

Meowdy, Partner! Welcome to Wild West Winter! We're doing cowboy-themed RPGs from December to February, starting with Cowboy World by Street Rat Games! Meet an elderly cat who sees themself as a lone wanderer, the new sheriff in town, perhaps. In reality the town sheriff takes care of them and they've never gone outside the town they were born in.

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62. Making a Cyborg Phantom Thief in :Otherscape

Wed, 27 Nov 2024 12:00:03 GMT

:Otherscape is the latest published RPG from Son of Oak games, this time offering a Cyberpunk twist on the City of Mist formula. Of COURSE we put a cat in it! A cybernetically enhanced cat running an AI unit who thinks it's Arsene Lupin, to be exact!

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61. Making a Reformed Collector of Rumors in Absurdia Feat. Quinn Majeski

Wed, 13 Nov 2024 12:00:09 GMT

Some of you might recognize Absurdia from Monster Hour's second season. You might also recognize our guest from the same place. He made both of them! And now he's here with us, making a cat who's been through it, and gained the power of speech because he absolutely HAD to tell EVERYONE what he knows.

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60. Making a Dalish Cat Mage in Dragon Age

Wed, 30 Oct 2024 11:00:29 GMT

We at the Literal Cat Podcast get so few opportunities to be #topical, that when we saw we had an RPG sitting on Joel's shelf that belonged to a franchise that was ALSO Getting a new video game release in the near future, we jumped RIGHT on that. Hello, Dragon Age fans! We're one of you! At least Joel is. We're working on Avalon. Anyway this is Dragon Age by Green Ronin, and we put a cat mage in it!

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59. Making a Lab Experiment From the Future in Fate of Cthulhu

Wed, 16 Oct 2024 11:00:41 GMT

Fate of Cthulhu is a Fate-based RPG by Evil Hat Productions about going back in time to stop the rise of an Eldritch horror, Terminator-style. Before the REAL heroes got sent back though, they first ran an experiment to project a cat's consciousness back in time to see if their technology worked. And so there's also just a cat from the future here, now. It's not even, like, a normal cat. they did something to it.

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58. Making a Diplo-catic Mobster in Capers Feat. MadFishMonger

Wed, 02 Oct 2024 11:00:48 GMT

MadFishMonger is a long-time contributor to the Capers RPG, and came to us to talk about it! We made her cat into a character! Anyway, check out Capers by Nerdburger Games!

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57. Making an Anime Cat Who Rescues Kittens in Break!!

Wed, 18 Sep 2024 11:00:45 GMT

Break!! is a new fantasy RPG inspired by anime and manga from Grey Wizard! They also were kind enough to make a cat creation guide for us, so you can follow along at home with your own cat!

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56. Making a Problem Cat and his Guardian Monster Cat in Monsters & Other Childish Things Feat. JackFrostDoll

Wed, 04 Sep 2024 11:00:21 GMT

Jack is a GM and TTRPG hobbyist who came to us to talk about her favorite game, Monsters and Other Childish Things by Arc Dream! This is a game about children and their monster guardians. Or, in our case, a cat child and a cat monster. But hey! We do what we gotta!

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LiteralCatPod Bonus: Herding Cats, Part 2 Feat. ChaosKingJameson, Misha B, and Greg Carrobis.

Sun, 01 Sep 2024 11:00:22 GMT

Enjoy the second half of our poorly-concieved PBTA mashup game, Herding Cats! Joel is your Game Master for the evening. Avalon is playing Ryka Pirjic, a bounty hunter we hope gets cast in Star Wars canon played by Ron Pearlman. James is Kat, the cat that can seal away magic powers. Greg is Wonck, the cat that Joel previously played on his show! He's a line bull, badge name Nevis. And finally, Misha is here as Lady Diabolique Eclipse the 5th, a witch with a cool but deeply unsettling pet hat!

None of these cats are from the same game, have compatible playbooks, or really any moves that work in synergy. At least the episode is entertaining!

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55. Making a Veterinarian From Another World in Monster Care Squad

Wed, 21 Aug 2024 11:00:32 GMT

Ald-Amura is a majestic land with vast deserts and mystical, majestic creatures referred to as Monsters. You play as someone who helps to take care of the monsters when they have health issues. Welcome Wolf the Cat to the land of Monster Care Squad, by Sandy Pug Games!

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54. Making a Human Resources Officer in External Containment Bureau Feat. MintRabbit

Wed, 07 Aug 2024 11:00:35 GMT

Pam Shrewt is the office cat of your nightmares, working as the mayor of a small Alaskan town by day, and a member of Human Resources in an anomaly investigation squad by night. People who know our inspirations, Shrewt is how you spell it, right? I don't feel like looking it up. Anyway, thank you to Mint Rabbit, the face behind the popular Tumblr blog TheresATtrpgForThat, for bringing External Containment Bureau by Mythic Gazetteer onto our show!

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LiteralCatPod Bonus: Herding Cats, Part 1 Feat. ChaosKingJameson, Greg Carrobis, and Misha B

Thu, 01 Aug 2024 11:05:15 GMT

Enjoy the first half of our poorly-concieved PBTA mashup game, Herding Cats! Joel is your Game Master for the evening. Avalon is playing Ryka Pirjic, a bounty hunter we hope gets cast in Star Wars canon played by Ron Pearlman. James is Kat, the cat that can seal away magic powers. Greg is Wonck, the cat that Joel previously played on his show! He's a line bull, badge name Nevis. And finally, Misha is here as Lady Diabolique Eclipse the 5th, a witch with a cool but deeply unsettling pet hat!

None of these cats are from the same game, have compatible playbooks, or really any moves that work in synergy. At least the episode is entertaining!

If you enjoyed this episode, part 2 is out now for our Badger Knight tier or higher Patrons!

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53. Making a Forklift-Certified Soldier in Sentinel Comics Feat. FionaWhim

Wed, 24 Jul 2024 10:45:24 GMT

Ah, the permissiveness of superhero TTRPGs never ceases to amaze. Even so, the RPG that our guest, Fiona Hopkins, brought us this week might be stretching things TOO far by letting us make The Cat Forklift. Anyway, enjoy Sentinel Comics by Greater Than Games! We put a cat in it.

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52 - Into the Peter-Verse: A LiteralCatPod Anneversary Special Lightning Round

Wed, 10 Jul 2024 11:00:46 GMT

If you can believe it, this show has been going on for two years now! That's a lot of cats! For this lightning round, how about we give you a few more? We're revisiting games from previous lightning rounds and making Peter the Kaiju Reader in every single one!

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51 - Making a Shapeshifter with a CHAINSAW in Queerz!

Wed, 26 Jun 2024 10:26:49 GMT

Queerz is an upcoming RPG by Son of Oak based on the manga series by Isa Happyfield. While we tried to stay true to the intended themes of the game, Avalon made the mistake of mentioning Chainsaws in the intro, and we are merely pawns of fate.

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50 - Making a Witch With a Creepy Living Hat in Thirsty Sword Lesbians Feat. Misha B

Wed, 12 Jun 2024 11:00:55 GMT

Evil Hat Productions' Thirsty Sword Lesbians is a game designed to encapsulate the experience of seeing two characters fighting as sexual tension grows between them, and then hands you the reigns so you can actually let those characters kiss at the battle's climax. Misha B, a contributor to the Advanced Lovers and Lesbians expansion, joins us in this episode to help us make a spooky witch who wears The Hat That Swings The Sword tm.

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New Promo - How to Make a Literal Cat In Your Favorite RPG

Mon, 03 Jun 2024 23:42:30 GMT

We finally got around to updating the show's trailer!

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49 - Making a Lucky Charm-Turned Scoundrel in Scum and Villainy

Wed, 29 May 2024 10:59:02 GMT

Scum and Villainy is a Forged In the Dark space adventure game about a ragtag crew trying to make a living under the oppressive control of the Galactic Hegemony by Evil Hat Productions. In this episode, we make a small scoundrel who's used to living a life of luxury aboard spaceships, but turned to a life of crime after that peaceful life was disrupted by a bounty hunter.

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48 - Making the Grey (Tabby) Jedi in Force and Destiny

Wed, 15 May 2024 11:01:43 GMT

Force and Destiny is the second of Fantasy Flight Games's cross-compatible Star Wars RPGs we've covered. This one focused primarily on the surviving Jedi in hiding in the aftermath of the Battle of Yavin. While it is the official stance of the Literal Cat Podcast and official Star Wars brand that Grey Jedi aren't real, they never said anything about making Grey Tabbies into Jedi, and we feel like that's basically the same thing.

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47 - Making a Bounty Hunter with a Sentient Gun in Light Side Feat. Ian Mauldin

Wed, 01 May 2024 10:58:45 GMT

We all know the Star Wars trilogy of movie trilogies. This is a game that's heavily inspired by all that. Joining us this week, the creator of Light side and Game Master on the Shrimp & Crits podcast, Ian Mauldin! Enjoy!

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46 - Making An Alchemist Who Wants To Be a Real Boy in Magonomia

Wed, 17 Apr 2024 11:00:29 GMT

Magonomia by Shewstone Publishing is a Fate-based RPG of wizards in Renaissance-era Europe. The spells and skills included in the game are inspired by the actual notes and teachings of real scientists and charlatans of the era. We are kinda bastardizing this by saying a cat also did Alchemy in that setting, but in our defense, it was for the bit.

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45 - Making Just a Normal Citizen, What Do You Mean They Look Weird? In Paranoia Feat. Bees

Wed, 03 Apr 2024 11:00:07 GMT

In Mongoose Publishing's Paranoia, The Computer is all-knowing and decides all. It totally never makes any mistakes, and it'd be treasonous to imply otherwise. So Trust our guest, Bees, when she tells you that the character we made this week is in no way a Computer error! And remember, it'd be treasonous to imply otherwise.

Warning: Listening to this episode DOES constitute treason for anyone who's actually intending to play Paranoia in the future. You have been warned.

Bees does not wish to be perceived, but she does want you to listen to Paranoia: Fight Together or Die a Clone: https://shows.acast.com/paranoia-fight-together-or-die-a-clone

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Pilot - Making a Noble Monk in Dungeons & Dragons

Mon, 01 Apr 2024 11:00:57 GMT

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44 - Making the Master of the Water Shuriken in Avatar Legends

Wed, 20 Mar 2024 11:00:58 GMT

In this episode, we take a look at the RPG/Lore Bible based on the beloved Nickelodeon animated series, Avatar: The Last Airbender and Avatar: Legend of Korra. You will be happy to hear that our cat is completely lore-compliant, considering a Literal Cat did exist in the show at one point. I mean, if you ignore the fact that it can water-bend. Otherwise, perfectly lore-compliant!

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43 - Making a Leader Among Alley Cats in Scion: Origin Feat. Kevin Kutlesa

Wed, 06 Mar 2024 11:57:49 GMT

Scion is an RPG about gods and demigods and the creation of new myths and epics in the modern day by Onyx Path Publishing. Kevin Kutlesa of Lawful Good Media joins us today to talk more about it! Hope you like our street cat with the spirit of a ruler!

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42 - Making a Reality-Bending Stray in See Issue X Feat. Chris Longhurst

Wed, 21 Feb 2024 12:00:24 GMT

Chris Longhurst, aka PotatoCubed, has joined us to talk about his RPG, See Issue X! See Issue X is a superhero RPG whose unique claim to fame is that it has you develop a character using the exact same gameplay mechanics you'd use to complete every other story arc! It offered no resistance whatsoever to the cat creation process. Patrick is a stray cat who has gained the ability to rewrite reality after touching the blank pages of a history book, completing a ritual meant for a local wizard, who is now Patrick's eternal rival.

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41 - Making a Cat on a Mouse's Journey Into Public Domain in Wanderhome

Wed, 07 Feb 2024 11:59:13 GMT

Wanderhome by Possum Creek Games is the story of a journey, and the people you meet along the way. For instance, Mickey Mouse is making a journey into the public domain, and now instead of being an anthropomorphic mouse, he's an adolescent Literal Cat, in a world full of anthropomorphic animals. It'll be quite the journey for our naive young friend. Who will Micholas M. Mouse (the cat) meet along the way?

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40-Episode Special: Tunnel Goons Lightning Round!

Wed, 24 Jan 2024 12:00:35 GMT

We have made it, yet again, through another set of 10 episodes! Rejoice and enjoy as we work our way through many hacks and variants of the Tunnel Goons RPG, originally published by the Highland Paranormal Society.

You can find a list of the hacks included in this episode and countless more by following this link: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1cImeRD36N4XWFLRjuWaP9cTu64nVAzuGQPP9KOCA-qs/edit#gid=0

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39 - Making a Lab Experiment-turned Ace Pilot in Beam Saber

Wed, 10 Jan 2024 12:00:30 GMT

Beam Saber is a Forged in the Dark system that lets you live out your mecha anime fantasies, if you're into that kind of thing. If you need a fresh idea for a character, why not consider playing as Cedric, the mildly psychic cat who operates his mech via telepathic connection?

NOTE: This episode does not constitute an endorsement of CAT's actions in Gaza on behalf of Israel. We here at the Literal Cat Podcast would strongly prefer a free Palestine. Honestly if I'd known about the connection when we recorded this, we probably wouldn't have done it.

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38 - Making a Mutant Hunter with a Friendly Pet in Mutants in the Now

Wed, 27 Dec 2023 12:00:11 GMT

Mutants in the Now is an RPG system by Julian Kay, inspired by the classic Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Tabletop RPG from 1985, with updated mechanics for the modern era. However, it's still a CRONCHY system, if you like that kind of thing! If you'd like to make a mutant in the style of your favorite pizza-loving sewer dwellers, this is probably the game you want. You wanna know how it works? We basically follow the normal process step-by-step to make a mutant cat!

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37 - Making a Cow-Cat from a Loving Home in Dogs In the Vineyard Feat. Greg Carrobis

Wed, 13 Dec 2023 12:00:53 GMT

Unfortunately, Austin couldn't be here this week. Filling in for him is Greg Carrobis of Ghosts on a Train/Faustian Nonsense fame. Greg came to me with Dogs in the Vineyard for two reasons: One, it was one of his first and most formative TTRPGs. Two, it would be funny to make a literal cat in a TTRPG called "Dogs." He was right, it is pretty funny to do that.

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36 - Making a Weird Little Guy Who Knows Your Secrets in Apocalypse World

Wed, 29 Nov 2023 12:00:58 GMT

Apocalypse World by D. Vincent and Meguey Baker, the origin of the Powered By The Apocalypse flavor of RPG design, has a second edition! We looked at it this episode, and after much deliberation, landed on the Brainer playbook for our cat this week. Be careful if you pet him - he can figure out your secrets and plant ideas in your head from a single touch!

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35 - Making the Squire with a Friend in Every Town and Stable in Fellowship

Wed, 15 Nov 2023 11:50:28 GMT

Fellowship is a Lord of the Rings inspired fantasy adventure that puts a significant amount of worldbuilding power in the players' hands at the point of character creation. Cucumber Pip is your party's squire, he's a cat, the horses listen to him, and he's probably not the best at carrying your gear. But that's what the horses are for, right?

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34 - Making a Familiar Face Around the Skate Park (in space) in Hard Wired Island

Wed, 01 Nov 2023 11:00:43 GMT

In the far-off year of 2020, the Grand Cross Space Station exists. People live on it. So do cats. Specifically, Wilhelm the Wheels lives on it. He's a cat that hangs around the space station's skate park, which exists, and he went viral a while back for successfully using a skateboard.

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33 - Making a Biker Gang Leader You Can't Look Away From in Vampire: The Masquerade Feat. Meghan Murphy

Wed, 18 Oct 2023 11:00:19 GMT

Vampire: The Masquerade, currently published by Renegade Games at the time of this episode's release, is one of those systems that was bound to pop up eventually, and here it is. It's one we worried about doing alone, but luckily Meghan Murphy of $2 Creature Feature was here to help! In all honesty, though, I think Brother Billy the Vampire Cat was inside all of us, all along, and this was merely the vessel he used to be written into the world.

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32 - Making The Last Living Practitioner of Shield-fu in F.I.S.T Ultra Edition

Wed, 04 Oct 2023 11:00:56 GMT

It's October, so we're doing some spooky games just for you! First up is the paranormal search-and-destroy game, F.I.S.T! This week's cat is... actually they're totally not a cat, why would you think that? This is just the last living practitioner of Shield-Fu, haunted by ghosts from their past (literally) and on a quest for (???). Agent 777 is here for all your shield-throwing needs!

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31 - Making a Mother Figure who Just Wants to Have Fun in Parselings

Wed, 20 Sep 2023 11:00:39 GMT

Parselings by Smunchy Games is as in-depth of a system as the Literal Cat Crew can do alone without getting scared, apparently, but we did make it through! Listen as we work our way through a game where words are power and you are a spoiled house cat with a heart of gold! I mean, you will be if you take this character sheet.

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30 - Midsize Lightning Round

Wed, 06 Sep 2023 11:00:59 GMT

Anime Summer Season is over, and we are at the 30-episode mark! This episode, we took a look at Renegade Games' Kids on Bikes and Teens in Space, Tunnel Goons by Highland Paranormal Society, Bxllet by Rathayibacter, Web of Lies and Defense Engineers by Incitement Studio (which is just Joel from This Show and they'll probably be republished by Badger Trove soon), and Ghost Lines by John Harper. This episode radically skews the cat-to-episode ratio, but that's okay. We'll do them anyway

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29 - Making a Demon Lord With Catgirl Servants in This World Summons Too Many Heroes!!

Wed, 23 Aug 2023 11:00:01 GMT

Nick Duff's This World Summons Too Many Heroes!! is the story of a fantasy realm where, for some bizarre reason, the Goddess just keeps making more and more summoning scrolls. It's like, a serious problem. Like, a group of catgirl demons just randomly called forth a cat from our world and started worshipping it, just because they could. By the way, that cat's name is Tiberius, and he is the focus of our episode today.

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28 - Making a Sweet Little Guy Who Cannot Be Harmed In Over Arms

Wed, 09 Aug 2023 11:00:50 GMT

Over Arms is a TTRPG by Rookie Jet Studio made to emulate anime series like Jojo's Bizarre Adventure and other series you don't care about as much. We thought it'd be funny to make a cat in this who was as close to invincible as we were allowed to get it, the trade-off being that he's a wimpy idiot. But that doesn't stop him from using his Anima to sabotage corporate land development projects!

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27 - Making a Local Celebrity from a Slice-Of-Life Show in OVA Feat. Nye

Wed, 26 Jul 2023 11:00:59 GMT

OVA is a generic Anime-inspired RPG system from Wise Turtle Games, and a personal favorite of Nye from $2 Creature Feature. Thanks to his help, we made it through this extensive point-buy character creation system unscathed and made it out with Tortellini, the cat that loves appearing in selfies and giving high fives around the market district. Perfect for your Slice-Of-Life character needs!

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26 - Making a Product of the Void in Voidheart Symphony

Wed, 12 Jul 2023 11:01:09 GMT

Voidheart Symphony is a game by UFO Press which draws heavy inspiration from the Persona video game series. It may not have kept the anime aesthetic, but we felt it belonged. Our cat's been in the void since it made contact with reality, and while there, he's become distorted beyond recognition. Almost. You could probably figure out he's a cat, still. BUT IT'S NOT A MORGANA SITUATION!

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25 - Making an Isekai'd Office Pet With a Pet Dog-Man in PokeRole Feat. Quinn Schulte

Wed, 28 Jun 2023 11:00:31 GMT

PokeRole is a fan-made Pokemon-themed RPG made to mimic the style of the Pokemon anime. Quinn Schulte of Dungeons and Dragon-Types has come to us to help us through the first month of Anime Summer Season by helping us make Lawnmower, a tired office pet from our world who survived an incident with a lawnmower as a kitten only to be run over by a truck one day. But Arceus had other plans for this cat, sending her to the world of Pokemon with one goal: Be the very best, like no one ever was.

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24 - Making a Cringefail Otaku Maid in Maid Feat. FinnOcellaris

Wed, 14 Jun 2023 11:00:32 GMT

Content Warning: pedophilia (lolita) mention. The RPG book itself also contains references to homophobic and transphobic tropes that were incredibly common in 90's to early 2000's anime, although none of these tropes are brought up in the episode or used in character creation.

Anime Summer Season has begun! We're starting with Maid by Ryo Kamiya, translated by Ewen Cluney. In the episode with us is actual anime boy, RPG player, and occasional maid dress wearer, FinnOcellaris! With his help, we made possibly the most pathetic character in the show's history. No talent, no people skills, nothing but unnaturally high luck and an obsession with bird videos. Will she succeed on her mission to infiltrate the ranks of the Master's staff? I wouldn't count on it.

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23 - Making a Telepathic Sidekick in Masks: A New Generation Feat. Laura McMill

Wed, 31 May 2023 11:00:09 GMT

Masks: A New Generation, written by Brendan Conway and published by Magpie Games, is a game about young superheroes with big feelings to work through. Our cat this episode is the overly muscular super genius with the power of Telepathy who trained under the great hero, Psychic Boom, but has always believed his talents would be better suited for science and research than crime fighting.

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22 - Making a Paralegal with Crippling Debt in #iHunt

Wed, 17 May 2023 10:59:02 GMT

#iHunt is a TTRPG about killing monsters in the gig economy. Download the app and accept jobs like you would an Uber or something. Our cat this time is the one and only cat to lose a lawsuit who now owes untold amounts in damages and legal fees. Her job as a paralegal was insufficient, so she took her boss's phone and accepted a job on iHunt. The rest is history.

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21 - Making a Big, Strong, Focused, Dumb Boy in Warriors Adventure Game

Wed, 03 May 2023 10:57:03 GMT

It took nearly a year of doing this show, but someone finally decided to tell us that there was an officially licensed Warrior Cats RPG. But as SOON as we were told, we knew what we had to do.

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20 - Making a Silver-Tongued Trickster in Demigods

Wed, 19 Apr 2023 11:00:20 GMT

Demigods is a fresh new RPG about playing as the half-mortal children of Gods in the modern world by Jason Mills. After coming dangerously close to a Puss in Boots type deal, we ended the episode with Penzey, the child of a Hindu Goddess who is going through her rebellious phase at the mature age of... 1 year old. Hey, it's rough out there for talking cats!

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19 - Making a Jacked(?) Catboy in Glitter Hearts

Wed, 05 Apr 2023 11:00:20 GMT

Greg Leatherman's Glitter Hearts is a game that allows you and your table to act out your Magical Girl fantasies, such as... Ben 10? We also took this episode as an opportunity to provide some Catboy representation, creating a Maine Coon who can transform into a muscular anthropomorphized Maine Coon who has a whip now. Hear him roar.

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18 - Making a Special-Ops Saboteur in Lancer

Wed, 22 Mar 2023 11:00:45 GMT

Lancer is a mud-and-lasers Mecha RPG by Massif Press. They expect people to pilot the mechs. We had other ideas. Meet Saturn, a special-ops saboteur and his trusted Everest-model Mech, Kitty Purry.

That game jam project we mentioned: https://globalgamejam.org/2023/games/tumbletown-7

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17 - Solo But Not Alone Lightning Round Feat. Cat McDonald

Wed, 08 Mar 2023 12:00:09 GMT

Solo But Not Alone is an itch charity bundle hosted annually to support Jasper's Game Day to help in their mission to keep people alive. If you're listening to this the week it came out, you've got a couple weeks left to check it out! If March is already over, stay tuned for next year's! You can get a whole bunch of solo play TTRPGs and help a good cause for $10!

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Solo But Not Alone 3 Bundle: https://itch.io/b/1692/solo-but-not-alone-3

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16 - Making a Mugger with a Cat-Tana in Marvel Multiverse (Feat. James Anderson)

Wed, 22 Feb 2023 12:00:43 GMT

This week, we invited on the other Timeline Scavenger, James Anderson, to discuss something near and dear to his heart, Marvel Comics. Well, specifically, Marvel Multiverse, the upcoming Marvel Comics-Branded TTRPG. And because of the kind of show it is, specifically how to play as a cat in the game. And because of who we are, we gave the cat a sword and let it mug people.

Fillable Excel Character sheet by Reddit User Bukanir: https://www.reddit.com/r/MarvelMultiverseRPG/comments/ub3ajq/marvel_multiverse_rpg_autocalculating_character/

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A Game Austin and I made for Global Game Jam 2023: https://globalgamejam.org/2023/games/tumbletown-7

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15 - Making a Noble with a Traumatic Kittenhood in Tales of Xadia

Wed, 08 Feb 2023 11:59:40 GMT

From the world of the Netflix Original Series, The Dragon Prince, comes a TTRPG that we used to make yet another cat. Tales of Xadia is a game by Cam Banks and Dan Telfer and published by Dire Wolf. Mousetrap is a cat who never got over that one time she humilated herself as a kitten and vowed never to mess up like that around people ever again.

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If you've got a good computer, you might be able to run our terribly un-optimized game jam project at 30 fps! https://globalgamejam.org/2023/games/tumbletown-7

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14 - Making an Influencer with the Divine Spark in Dethrone the Divine Feat. Mr. Ray

Wed, 25 Jan 2023 12:00:06 GMT

Another winter month, another episode about playing a cat with divine powers. Mr. Ray of the $2 Creature Feature Podcast brought us one of the RPGs he's made (Dethrone the Divine) and walked us through making a cat in it! He even had a stat block for a Literal Cat!

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13 - Making an Emotional Support Pet for the Zombie Apocalypse in Survival of the Able Feat. Jacob Wood

Wed, 11 Jan 2023 12:01:12 GMT

On this episode, Jacob Wood of Accessible Games hijacks our discord call to walk us through making a cat in his most recent game, Survival of the Able, a TTRPG about people with disabilities surviving a zombie apocalypse in Medieval Europe. Our character this episode spent his early years living in the wild, but after sustaining an injury to one of his legs, he ended up living at St. Giles' Almshouse, providing joy to the human residents. You know, until the zombies came.

Featuring Jacob Wood (Accessible Games): https://www.drivethrurpg.com/browse/pub/4478/Accessible-Games

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12 - Making The Cat who "Came Back" in Relics: A Game of Angels

Wed, 28 Dec 2022 12:00:10 GMT

Relics is a game about Angels, first and foremost, therefore we had to start the process off deciding whether a cat that died, went to heaven, and then came back to earth counted as a Literal Cat, still. Once we got that out of the way, we were able to establish that this cat went to Ancient Egypt and introduced the myth of Bast so that humans would take care of cats.

Our guest this episode was Steve Dee of Tin Star Games, the creator of this RPG! https://tinstargames.itch.io/

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11 - Making a Mystical Cowgirl Cat in Blades in the Dark Feat. Alex Schulte

Wed, 14 Dec 2022 12:01:22 GMT

Jess McMahon was a simple carriage driving cat for most of her life, until she learned two important lessons:

1) Not everyone actually sees the ghosts. That's a special skill of hers.

2) Crime pays WAY better.

And so she moved to Duskwall to join a gang.

Our special guest, Alex Schulte, is a cohost on the A Couple of Characters podcast, another TTRPG character creation show: https://acoupleofcharacterspodcast.com/

Community-Made Form-Fillable Character Sheets found here: http://ad1066.com/bens-character-sheets/blades-in-the-dark-playbooks

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10-episode Special: 1-Page One-Shot Lightning Round

Wed, 30 Nov 2022 12:00:41 GMT

Ever since we started doing this show, we've wanted to do a special every 10 episodes where we take 10 micro RPGs intended for the One-Shot play, and make cats as characters in them, whether it fits or not.

Games played in this lightning round:

Ah, Dang! Mothman Won't Move Out! (He said it was Just for the Weekend) By Ettin64/Weird Age Games https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/293335/Ah-Dang-Mothman-Wont-Move-Out-He-Said-It-Was-Just-For-The-Weekend

All Outta Bubblegum by Jeffrey Grant and Michael Sullivan https://index.rpg.net/display-entry.phtml?mainid=16688

Pdf made by Reddit User Adolpheappia https://www.reddit.com/r/rpg/comments/35gvtv/comment/cr4sw9k/

ANTological Theory by Adira Slattery https://adira.itch.io/antological-theory

Bonsai Brawlers by Sinta Posadas https://diwatamnl.itch.io/bonsai-brawlers

Honey Heist by Grant Howitt https://gshowitt.itch.io/honey-heist

Lasers and Feelings by John Harper https://johnharper.itch.io/lasers-feelings

Mechas and Monsters by Scott Selvidge https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/291332/Mechas--Monsters

Oh, Dang! Bigfoot Stole My Car with my Friend's Birthday Present Inside! By Ettin64/Weird Age Games https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/252501/Oh-Dang-Bigfoot-Stole-My-Car-With-My-Friends-Birthday-Present-Inside

Steal This Game: Rebels and Renegades by Death Meet Author https://deathmeetauthor.itch.io/steal-this-game-rebels-and-renegades

The Fight Before Christmas by Ettin64/Weird Age Games https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/229333/The-Fight-Before-Christmas

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9 - Immortalizing an Old Friend as a Monstrous Hunter in Monster of the Week (Feat. Colin Parker)

Wed, 16 Nov 2022 12:00:09 GMT

We are joined this episode by one Colin Parker of the Scavengers Network, Keeper and Producer of Myth Takes, a (currently) Monster of the Week show! He's here to tell us how to speedrun cat character creation and share some stories about some cats that he's known! We even base this episode's character off one of them!

Oh this episode is about Monster of the Week written by Michael Sands and published by Evil Hat.

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8 - Making a Corporate PR Stunt in Kaiju, Incorporated

Wed, 02 Nov 2022 11:00:04 GMT

Peter the Kaiju Reader became famous after correctly predicting weak points on 5 different Kaiju. The corporation the cat's owner worked for has capitalized HARD on this fact. Join us on How to Make a Literal Cat in your Favorite RPG for our first-ever in-episode roleplay! (it was part of character creation) in Kaiju, Incorporated by Evil Hat Productions!

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7 - Creating a Pilot who Makes his Own Luck in Edge of the Empire

Wed, 19 Oct 2022 11:00:24 GMT

This Week on How to Make a Literal Cat in your Favorite RPG, we blast off to a galaxy far, far away as we do a Star War! Edge of the Empire by Fantasy Flight Games lets us play in the outer rim during the height of the Empire's power as a bunch of scoundrels and explorers. For this setting, we created a hairless cat who wandered onto a ship one day and the crew let it be the pilot.

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Fillable Character Sheet from https://www.strikingcrayon.com/blog/2017/4/19/edge-of-the-empire-character-sheet-form-fillable

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6 pt.2 - Finishing a Witch's Familiar Who's Considering a Solo Adventure in The Dark Eye

Wed, 05 Oct 2022 11:00:40 GMT

In the second half of the character creation process, Joel & Austin wrap up the number-crunching and get back to what they do best: writing vague lore based on random details they decided on during character creation.

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The fillable character sheet used in this episode was a community resource found here: https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/297244/TDE5-free-character-sheets--fillable-PDF-BW

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6 pt.1 - Starting a Witch's Familiar Who's Considering a Solo Adventure in The Dark Eye

Wed, 21 Sep 2022 11:00:31 GMT

In the first half of our The Dark Eye cat creation session, Joel & Austin crunch lots of numbers as they try to work out just how to play as a magical cat. Little did they know the rules were gonna help them out, big time.

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5 - Making a Hunter from the Mountains in Shadows of Esteren

Wed, 07 Sep 2022 11:00:35 GMT

Shadows of Esteren is a french horror RPG about the peninsula of Tri-Kazel and all the horrific beasts that people must live alongside. For this episode, we made a cat that lives in a mountain community and "helps" with the hunting.

Character Creation Tool used: https://jdr.pierstoval.com/esteren/en/

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4 - Making a Power-Sealing Secret Agent (and his human sidekick) in City of Mist (feat. ChaosKingTyrone)

Wed, 24 Aug 2022 11:00:10 GMT

This episode we were joined by my old work friend and RPG Table member, James, aka ChaosKingTyrone on Twitch. Because it was his birthday back when we recorded this, we let him do the honors of making the cat, while Austin tried making a boring old human character.

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3 - Making a Messenger for the Mob with a Double Life in Modern AGE

Wed, 10 Aug 2022 11:00:32 GMT

Modern AGE is a generic ruleset by Green Ronin Games for playing games in modern/futuristic settings. While we typically won't do generic rulesets, this one was structured enough that we felt we could make it work.

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2 - Making a Tactical Support Cat in Power Outage

Wed, 27 Jul 2022 11:00:54 GMT

Power Outage is a kid-friendly superhero TTRPG with a character creation system that doesn't require you to break a single rule to play as a literal cat... if you accept some loose interpretations of the rules. Welcome Austin Erwin to the show. Hope you like him, because he's hopefully a permanent co-host!

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Pilot - Making a Roguish Team Mascot in Dungeons and Dragons

Wed, 13 Jul 2022 11:00:24 GMT

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.

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