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Russ “Morrus” Morrissey

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5362 total appearances

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Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
330 | 2025's Most Anticipated TTRPGs, D&D Monster Manual News, Mainstream News Discovers 'Species'

Yeah.

Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
330 | 2025's Most Anticipated TTRPGs, D&D Monster Manual News, Mainstream News Discovers 'Species'

Yeah.

Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
330 | 2025's Most Anticipated TTRPGs, D&D Monster Manual News, Mainstream News Discovers 'Species'

The thing with Star Wars, though, if you take out the Jedi and you take out the Empire... You're left with Guardians of the Galaxy. And this really struck me when I was watching Skeleton Crew. I'm really enjoying Skeleton Crew. It's great. It's amazing. It's great. But it occurred to me that there's no Jedi in it and there's no Empire in it.

Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
330 | 2025's Most Anticipated TTRPGs, D&D Monster Manual News, Mainstream News Discovers 'Species'

The thing with Star Wars, though, if you take out the Jedi and you take out the Empire... You're left with Guardians of the Galaxy. And this really struck me when I was watching Skeleton Crew. I'm really enjoying Skeleton Crew. It's great. It's amazing. It's great. But it occurred to me that there's no Jedi in it and there's no Empire in it.

Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
330 | 2025's Most Anticipated TTRPGs, D&D Monster Manual News, Mainstream News Discovers 'Species'

Basically, if you told me I was watching a Guardians of the Galaxy set I believe you, because it was indistinguishable without those iconic Star Wars elements. There wasn't the music, which is another big Star Wars thing. There wasn't the iconic Star Wars music. It's got its own music, but not the Star Wars music you know. It hasn't got Jedi. It hasn't got the Empire. So basically...

Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
330 | 2025's Most Anticipated TTRPGs, D&D Monster Manual News, Mainstream News Discovers 'Species'

Basically, if you told me I was watching a Guardians of the Galaxy set I believe you, because it was indistinguishable without those iconic Star Wars elements. There wasn't the music, which is another big Star Wars thing. There wasn't the iconic Star Wars music. It's got its own music, but not the Star Wars music you know. It hasn't got Jedi. It hasn't got the Empire. So basically...

Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
330 | 2025's Most Anticipated TTRPGs, D&D Monster Manual News, Mainstream News Discovers 'Species'

it felt like Guardians of the Galaxy. And that's not a criticism. I'm just saying those are the things that, to me, make something less generic and more Star Wars specifically.

Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
330 | 2025's Most Anticipated TTRPGs, D&D Monster Manual News, Mainstream News Discovers 'Species'

it felt like Guardians of the Galaxy. And that's not a criticism. I'm just saying those are the things that, to me, make something less generic and more Star Wars specifically.

Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
330 | 2025's Most Anticipated TTRPGs, D&D Monster Manual News, Mainstream News Discovers 'Species'

Let's find out. What is it?

Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
330 | 2025's Most Anticipated TTRPGs, D&D Monster Manual News, Mainstream News Discovers 'Species'

Let's find out. What is it?

Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
330 | 2025's Most Anticipated TTRPGs, D&D Monster Manual News, Mainstream News Discovers 'Species'

This is something that I wasn't really familiar with. Legend of the mist or legend in the mist. Um, so, um,

Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
330 | 2025's Most Anticipated TTRPGs, D&D Monster Manual News, Mainstream News Discovers 'Species'

This is something that I wasn't really familiar with. Legend of the mist or legend in the mist. Um, so, um,

Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
330 | 2025's Most Anticipated TTRPGs, D&D Monster Manual News, Mainstream News Discovers 'Species'

it did really really well um partly because it just had a very very recent kickstarter so people are excited about it now it's one of these things these lists is that the timing if you've got a big kickstarter going on at the time um people are going to be excited about it yeah at that moment um so um this is i'm going to describe it as a rustic fantasy tabletop rpg based on the acclaimed city of mist um

Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
330 | 2025's Most Anticipated TTRPGs, D&D Monster Manual News, Mainstream News Discovers 'Species'

it did really really well um partly because it just had a very very recent kickstarter so people are excited about it now it's one of these things these lists is that the timing if you've got a big kickstarter going on at the time um people are going to be excited about it yeah at that moment um so um this is i'm going to describe it as a rustic fantasy tabletop rpg based on the acclaimed city of mist um

Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
330 | 2025's Most Anticipated TTRPGs, D&D Monster Manual News, Mainstream News Discovers 'Species'

Again, I am not personally familiar with it. It's from Son of Oak Studios. I mean, it looks great. It looks great. If you like, like Lord of the Rings, The Wheel of Time, Princess Mononoke. Is that how you say that?

Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
330 | 2025's Most Anticipated TTRPGs, D&D Monster Manual News, Mainstream News Discovers 'Species'

Again, I am not personally familiar with it. It's from Son of Oak Studios. I mean, it looks great. It looks great. If you like, like Lord of the Rings, The Wheel of Time, Princess Mononoke. Is that how you say that?

Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
330 | 2025's Most Anticipated TTRPGs, D&D Monster Manual News, Mainstream News Discovers 'Species'

Mononoke and things like that. That's the kind of inspirations for it. It looks gorgeous. It's got, you know, it did very, very well on Kickstarter, made nearly a million dollars on Kickstarter.

Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
330 | 2025's Most Anticipated TTRPGs, D&D Monster Manual News, Mainstream News Discovers 'Species'

Mononoke and things like that. That's the kind of inspirations for it. It looks gorgeous. It's got, you know, it did very, very well on Kickstarter, made nearly a million dollars on Kickstarter.

Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
330 | 2025's Most Anticipated TTRPGs, D&D Monster Manual News, Mainstream News Discovers 'Species'

yeah it's got tons of stuff with it as well this one this is um this is one of those big kickstarters with dice screens and cards and and special editions and cloth maps and art cards and tokens and yeah so much stuff but it's all really gorgeous i love the art style it's all really really nice looking Yeah. That was the most anticipated tabletop RPG of 2025.

Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
330 | 2025's Most Anticipated TTRPGs, D&D Monster Manual News, Mainstream News Discovers 'Species'

yeah it's got tons of stuff with it as well this one this is um this is one of those big kickstarters with dice screens and cards and and special editions and cloth maps and art cards and tokens and yeah so much stuff but it's all really gorgeous i love the art style it's all really really nice looking Yeah. That was the most anticipated tabletop RPG of 2025.