Chris and Jeremy tackle five different ways to establish party cohesion. Plus, Steve Jackson Games announces Toon 2e, MCDM's Draw Steel: Crack the Sun Backerkit campaign surges past its crowdfunding goal, and Orphaned Bookworm Productions is funding the Warmage, a new class for Pathfinder 1e.

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• 00:00 Open
• 01:07 Toon 2e
• 03:25 Draw Steel Crack the Sun
• 04:35 The Warmage
• 07:03 Five Ways to Bring the Party Together
• 23:01 Capers Update
• 23:43 Wrap

Links:

• Toon https://www.sjgames.com/ https://www.backerkit.com/call_to_action/a5976d11-0069-4119-acf2-4d16a54cf8db/landing
• Bell of Lost Souls https://www.belloflostsouls.net/2025/12/dd-five-ways-to-start-your-next-adventure.html
• Draw Steel Crack the Sun
• https://www.backerkit.com/c/projects/mcdm-productions/draw-steel-crack-the-sun?ref=bk-discover-hero-feature
• Breath of Life–The Warmage https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1868610612/breath-of-life-the-warmage-pathfinder-1st-edition/
• Night’s Black Agents https://pelgranepress.com/nights-black-agents/
• Call of Cthulhu https://www.chaosium.com/call-of-cthulhu-rpg/
• Thousand Year Old Vampire https://thousandyearoldvampire.com/
• Mutant: Year Zero https://freeleaguepublishing.com/games/mutant-year-zero/

Help us choose which game to feature in our next season of Thieves’ Cant: Capers. We’ve narrowed the list to four finalists.

Plus, ENWorld’s list of most anticipated games of 2026, WizKids’ Kong, Crisis Protocol’s new starter sets, and Draw Steel’s upcoming crowdfunder.

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• 00:00 Open
• 01:35 Listener Feedback
• 03:21 ENWorld Most Anticipated Games
• 05:03 Kong Mini
• 06:22 Marvel: Crisis Protocol
• 07:19 Draw Steel
• 10:55 Capers Finalists
• 16:23 Wrap

Links:

• ENWorld Most Anticipated https://www.enworld.org/threads/nominate-your-most-anticipated-rpg-of-2026.716454/
• WizKids Kong https://icv2.com/articles/news/view/61159/next-wave-wizkids-deep-cuts-miniatures-features-kong
• Marvel Crisis Protocol https://www.belloflostsouls.net/2025/12/marvel-crisis-protocol-new-x-men-spider-foes-starter-sets-arrive-this-week.html
• Draw Steel https://www.mcdmproductions.com/
• Night’s Black Agents https://pelgranepress.com/nights-black-agents/
• Call of Cthulhu https://www.chaosium.com/call-of-cthulhu-rpg/
• Thousand Year Old Vampire https://thousandyearoldvampire.com/
• Mutant: Year Zero https://freeleaguepublishing.com/games/mutant-year-zero/

This week, we’ve got big news for the show: starting January 5, Thieves’ Cant will drop episodes Monday through Friday, with bonus Saturday episodes when Capers is in season.

Plus, we dig into the HPLHS’s prop-packed Call of Cthulhu release The Spark Devil, new Draw Steel content from MCDM—including the Summoner class and The Fall of Blackbottom—and the DarkSpace Kickstarter bringing Shadowdark into space. And in Unearthed Obscura, we explore Centralia, Pennsylvania—the ghost town still burning from the mine fire that started in 1962.

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• 00:00 Open
• 02:00 Thieves’ Cant Schedule Change
• 03:33 The Spark Devil
• 06:43 Draw Steel
• 07:53 DarkSpace
• 10:54 Everburning Fire of Centralia
• 22:52 Listener Feedback
• 26:15 Wrap

Links:

• The Spark Devil:https://store.hplhs.org/products/the-spark-devil
• Draw Steel: https://shop.mcdmproductions.com/collections/draw-steel

• DarkSpace: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/dmingtheworld/darkspace-sci-fi-rules-for-shadowdark

• The Centralia Fire: https://www.businessinsider.com/centralia-pennsylvania-underground-fire-town-photos?utm_source=chatgpt.com#centralia-is-a-borough-in-the-northeastern-mountains-of-pennsylvania-1