Pilot - Making a Roguish Team Mascot in Dungeons and Dragons

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:

1. 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.
2. 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."
3. If the game includes stats for a literal cat, those must be used or adapted to the game's character sheet.
4. 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.
5. 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.
6. If a tool would be physically impossible for a literal cat to use, even if comically downsized for them, they cannot use it.
7. 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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