week, we talked about how stupid and crazy tabletop
games are in general. No, I'm just kidding. Not
tabletop games in general. And we just got canceled.
But no, we talked about what was that tabletop
game that we talked about? It was Assassin's
Creed, the board game. Yeah. Why is everything
got to be a board game? Dumb. So dumb. So anyways,
when I was looking for topic ideas for tonight's
show and I was like, what is there? What is there?
That's not depressing. I came across these like
three tabletop games that I'm saying are rumors
and because I did not see like from an accredited
source. Okay. So we have attack on Titan RPG.
Table top RPG. This was supposedly revealed at
Gen Con this year. Then we have Marvel Tabletop
RPG Adventure Marvel Rivals. This is supposed
to be released March 2026. And then we have Diablo
Tabletop RPG Incoming Diablo. That's supposed
to be on Kickstarter later this fall. And I was
like, oh my tabletops. That's a lot. And why
does everything have to be a tabletop? I think
Alex is currently trying to fact check and look.
to see if there's any sort of credibility to
these. So there is some credibility to these.
Yeah. Polygon's got the Attack on Titan tabletop
RPG now confirmed to release the yet unnamed
game. Final unnamed. Well, our fans and players
to step into the dramatic quarrel created by
Hajime Isayama for his award winning manga. So
that one is absolutely 100 percent real. I could
have sworn there was already a Diablo TTRPG at
one point. Yep, it's that is happening Yep gates
of hell opens in 22. Yep This is happening that
Diablo one Actually, that looks kind of neat.
So let's bring up that view. This is the Diablo
tabletop RPG Look, I mean that's some cool -looking
minis. That's now I'll tell you right now this
kind of licensed stuff So, who makes Twilight
2000? It's Free League. Free League Publishing
does a lot of these, right? They do a crap ton
of these, these games. If you look at Free League
Publishing, they do the alien role playing game,
Blade Runner, Lord of the Rings, Walking Dead.
They've done these for a while. Look, did I say
T .T .R., but you're not. Yes, that's what Jay
said. Yeah, I. I don't know. Yeah. Marvel rivals
just play the freaking video again, it's even
free. Diablo, I don't know why you would just
not play Diablo like actual Diablo. Attack on
Titan, I could kind of I don't know. I could
kind of see that. But like everything, everything
has to be some sort of game. I I don't know that
what the the their mind from a business standpoint,
I understand. Right. Let's get a really recognizable
IP and try and bring people in and get them to
do this stuff. I get it. I absolutely do. I just
to me, it's never really appealed to me to play
inside someone else's sandbox like this, especially
something with like a set cannon. The only exception
to this rule for me is the Teenage Mutant Ninja
Turtle tabletop RPG. TMNT was awesome. And I
liked playing with mutant animal Ninja Turtles.
Yeah, I mean, that that checks. I have an idea,
Alex. Get to 5000 subs. We should come out with
our own board game. No, no, no. I mean, like
a podcast board game. No podcast board game.
Oh, no, I was in that space for for far, far
too long. It drives me absolutely up the wall.
I'll tell you, there's almost nothing that could
make me go back. to tabletop publishing under
any circumstances. And again, I respect to be
able to do it. I love tabletop RPGs. I love board
games. But this is it's. Most of the time, it's
a money grab. Yeah. And I mean, that's what this
would be. It would be a money grab. But you could
play as Octokitty. Yeah, playing as Octokitty
would be great. We would have to come up with
some more characters, I think. I don't know who
we would do, but we'd have to have more characters
in our board game than you, me, and Octokitty.
Somebody in the chat says we met the Star Wars
tabletop RPGs. Again, exception, not the rule.
I think that's the exception that proves the
rule. Yeah, I'm generally against licensed IP
in tabletop RPGs. Give me something original.
That's very true. Yeah Teenage Mutant Octokitty
What if like I don't know you could create a
whole backstory of octokitty like how I don't
know the cracking came to Seattle and an octokitty
like it was from a very old clan of octokitties
and then Its home was ravaged by the Kraken and
then like Octokitty washed up on the Seattle
shore. Much like the feet. The feet that are
in the shoes. There you go. Octokitty washed
up on shore. Did Octokitty eat the people? I
don't know. I'm not saying no. All right, so
let's end this segment with this. If you could
do a licensed RPG, like either create it or play
it, right? If you were like, this is the one
where I would do it. Which one would it be? Right?
What IP would you want to play? Yeah, let me
think about this. Dank. What? Yeah, let me let
me think about this. Trying to think of something
super cringe. I don't know. I think. Uh I think
I think Dragon Ball Z might be fun. I don't know
if that already exists. That one does already
exist. It does. Somebody made that a long time
ago. Uh yeah and somebody in the chat's gotta
bring up a lot of them have been done. Uh a lot
of them they've been done before. I get it. You
know, for me, I honestly got to go neon Genesis
Evangelion. That is a really good one. That that
would be really cool. But you would have to somehow
incorporate severe depression. Yes. In your case.
And disturbing imagery. OK. What do you think?
Is there any? Tell us down in the chat below.
Is there any ips that you like? Do you think
the ip craze for tabletop RPGs has just gone
too fucking far? Let us know what you think down
in the comments below Okay With that first off
i'm gonna i'm gonna grab this and actually this
would be a good little mini topic Somebody brought
up the rdj and ryan reynolds huge doomsday fight
so I was following this story because I thought
it was interesting that apparently there was
a big blow up on the Avengers doomsday set between
two major stars and it was causing all kinds
of problems on the set and the first the first
Rumors that came out was that it was Ryan Reynolds
and rdj right that Ryan Reynolds said something
stupid to rdj and rdj was like fu As you all
know, I do watch the John Campion show. He's
pretty well connected in there and other people
have not broken this as well. That turned out
not to be true. RDJ and Ryan Reynolds have never
met in person as of when that event occurred.
They've never actually been in the same room
together. Both camps came out like, no, that
wasn't what happened. Now, Campion was able to
confirm there was a fight -ish on the Doomsday
set. uh no confirmation as to who it was but
apparently there was a kerfuffle but it was squashed
very quickly and everybody's you know happy and
back in their corners now but the ryan reynolds
and rdj thing turned out not to be true although
i did see and i would real quickly jay for your
opinion on this does it shock you that immediately
without confirmation everybody went it was ryan
reynolds ryan reynolds is the asshole um I. I
wouldn't say asshole like, but I would say like
it wouldn't surprise me at all that like Ryan
Reynolds would say something snarky that would
start an argument, especially with anyone that's
in our current like, I don't know. Administration.
The funny. Yeah. Yeah. The funny part to me was
that everybody was like immediately went to Ryan
Reynolds and also. Like everybody came down on
rdj's side. Everybody was like no rdj is the
king of the mcu Screw you ryan. You're not gonna
mess with iron man Yeah, I mean that's that's
very true. Um Yeah You can't You can't really
fuck with robber downey jr