The Weekly Scroll Tabletop Podcast · July 28, 2025 · 1 hr 18 min
EP 273 | We Review CAIN by Tom Bloom
On this episode of The Weekly Scroll Podcast, we review CAIN from Tom Bloom, a narrative roleplaying game about playing psychic death soldiers hunting monstrosities made of human trauma. You might also know Tom Bloom as the author and illustrator of Kill Six Billion Demons and co-creator of the Lancer RPG. Find CAIN here: https://tombloom.itch.io/cain Grab our merch here: https://www.bonfire.com/store/the-weekly-scroll/ 0:00 Start 0:15 Actual start 0:40 Thoughts on JJK 2:46 What the fuck are we doing here? CAIN 3:13 Maleghast and (Not) Weekly Wargames 6:50 Oh hey, we have merch! (at-cost) 8:05 Videos on Spotify 9:09 More merch talk 13:29 CAIN Intro and Info 19:32 Rules Breakdown 34:35 Character Generation Breakdown 50:31 Likes and Dislikes 54:47 Metrics 1:08:15 Scores 1:16:19 Outro & Ryan's going to GenCon! All our links here: https://linktr.ee/theweeklyscroll YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@theweeklyscroll Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/theweeklyscroll Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/the.weekly.scroll Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/theweeklyscroll.com Discord: https://discord.gg/SQYEuebVab Merch: https://www.bonfire.com/store/the-weekly-scroll/