How to Make A Literal Cat in Your Favorite RPG

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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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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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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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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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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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!

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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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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!

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

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

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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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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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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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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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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...

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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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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!

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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: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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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!

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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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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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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!

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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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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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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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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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