MD 228 TacocaT Cafe w/ Matthew Grau (CthulhuTech, Gwar vs. Time, League of Legends)

This week’s guest is Matthew Grau of WildFire Games and we talked about his upcoming CthulhuTech: The Shadow War Quick-Start Rules (V2), working with the scumdogs of the universe to create his deck-building game Gwar vs. Time, his stint at Riot Games building the world of League of Legends, and growing up in the Twin Cities with D&D’s Dave Arneson in his life.

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This pleasant cafe’s walls are lined with tables and cat-condos covered in a menagerie of delicious tacos, hot sauce and churros. The proprietors are Keeper, a kindly middle-aged woman who’ll train you to see a TacocaT, and Sage, an old, bearded, zen dude with long hair who’ll teach you to symbiotically bond with a TacocaT. They’re both wearing deer antlers covered in hanging crystals.

To see a TacoCaT, you must clear your mind and think only taco thoughts. When you do, there’s a ton of them. They’re everywhere and it’s cat chaos. They’re pouring out of an interdimensional TacocaT waterfall into a cuddle puddle pool in the center of the room.

A TacocaT is an adorable, squamous, symbiotic dream cat from the elemental plane of tacos. They have hard-taco-shell armor with fur tufts poking out between their plates, a hot-sauce hiss, and excrete delicious churros. When you bond with a TacocaT, they can regurgitate an infinite amount of tacos of whatever variety you can imagine, and they can attach to you to create a full body TacocaT armor. A TacocaT chooses its symbiotic host and bonds for life.

Art: Tiger Wizard  Words: Steve Albertson

Story by: Andrew Bellury, Steve Albertson, Matthew Grau

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This episode is sponsored by Exalted Funeral, and we talk about ARC: Doom Tabletop RPG by momatoes aka Bianca Canoza. It’s a rules-lite, tension-heavy, adventurous race against the clock to slay the apocalypse. 

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ANNOUNCEMENTS

Dungeon Cats is a rules-light, casual TTRPG by our own Tiger Wizard. The pre-launch page is now live on the Epic Level's Kickstarter! 

We’ll be podcasting live at Gamehole Con in Madison on Oct. 19th- 24th. 

The Epic Levels - Armor Classy CDungeon is available for purchase at Exalted Funeral. 

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