{"id":8527,"date":"2026-06-26T04:00:06","date_gmt":"2026-06-26T08:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aaronbsmith.com\/cogwheel\/?p=8527"},"modified":"2026-06-25T09:02:18","modified_gmt":"2026-06-25T13:02:18","slug":"crashs-course-s2-ep-02-news-for-june-25-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aaronbsmith.com\/cogwheel\/2026\/06\/crashs-course-s2-ep-02-news-for-june-25-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Crash&#8217;s Course S2 Ep 02: News for June 25, 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_5775\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-8527-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/cogwheelgaming\/aaronbsmith.com\/cogwheel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/CrashsCourseNews_2006-06-25.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/cogwheelgaming\/aaronbsmith.com\/cogwheel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/CrashsCourseNews_2006-06-25.mp3\">https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/cogwheelgaming\/aaronbsmith.com\/cogwheel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/CrashsCourseNews_2006-06-25.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/cogwheelgaming\/aaronbsmith.com\/cogwheel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/CrashsCourseNews_2006-06-25.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/aaronbsmith.com\/cogwheel\/?powerpress_pinw=8527-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/cogwheelgaming\/aaronbsmith.com\/cogwheel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/CrashsCourseNews_2006-06-25.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"CrashsCourseNews_2006-06-25.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p><ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/aaronbsmith.com\/cogwheel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/CrashsCourse2.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-8509\" src=\"https:\/\/aaronbsmith.com\/cogwheel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/CrashsCourse2-300x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/aaronbsmith.com\/cogwheel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/CrashsCourse2-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/aaronbsmith.com\/cogwheel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/CrashsCourse2-1024x1024.png 1024w, https:\/\/aaronbsmith.com\/cogwheel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/CrashsCourse2-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/aaronbsmith.com\/cogwheel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/CrashsCourse2-768x768.png 768w, https:\/\/aaronbsmith.com\/cogwheel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/CrashsCourse2-1200x1200.png 1200w, https:\/\/aaronbsmith.com\/cogwheel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/CrashsCourse2.png 1400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Story 1: NEW New Cypher<\/li>\n<li>Story 2: Lazy GMs Eventually Rise<\/li>\n<li>Story 3: TOON 2nd Edition<\/li>\n<li>Story 4: KOBOLDS IN SPACE!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>It is not my intention to do a news video daily, or even weekly, but if I end up with enough current-ish things I want to share to make a roughly 15 minute video I&#8217;ll make another one of these.<\/p>\n<p>The video version was posted to Patreon first, with the public video going live @ 12 hours later on <a href=\"https:\/\/tube.fediverse.games\/a\/crash\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">my PeerTube account<\/a>. I&#8217;m aware some prefer audio only (I&#8217;m one of them), so this is here one day later.<\/p>\n<p>(It also occurs to me that this will go live on this website before The previous recording does, but I can&#8217;t be bothered to renumber them.)<\/p>\n<h3>Story 1: NEW New Cypher<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Cypher Backerkit (Closed, but pre-order link is live.): <a href=\"https:\/\/www.backerkit.com\/c\/projects\/monte-cook-games\/cypher-system-faster-easier-and-even-better\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" data-link-auto=\"\">https:\/\/www.backerkit.com\/c\/projects\/monte-cook-games\/cypher-system-faster-easier-and-even-better<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Cypher Unlimited Discord: <a href=\"https:\/\/discord.gg\/cypherunlimited\">https:\/\/discord.gg\/cypherunlimited<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Story 2: Lazy GMs Eventually Rise<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Sly Flourish Website: <a href=\"https:\/\/slyflourish.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" data-link-auto=\"\">https:\/\/slyflourish.com\/<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Story 3: TOON 2nd Edition<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Toon Backerkit (Closed, except there&#8217;s a &#8220;Late Pledges&#8221; button.): <a href=\"https:\/\/www.backerkit.com\/c\/projects\/steve-jackson-games\/toon-the-cartoon-roleplaying-game\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" data-link-auto=\"\">https:\/\/www.backerkit.com\/c\/projects\/steve-jackson-games\/toon-the-cartoon-roleplaying-game<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Story 4: KOBOLDS IN SPACE!<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Get the updated PDF here: <a href=\"https:\/\/aaronbsmith.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" data-link-auto=\"\">https:\/\/aaronbsmith.com\/<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Or jump through more hoops to throw money at me for reasons I don&#8217;t understand here: <a href=\"https:\/\/crashthedm.itch.io\/kobolds-in-space\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" data-link-auto=\"\">https:\/\/crashthedm.itch.io\/kobolds-in-space<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>MP3 Download: <a href=\"https:\/\/aaronbsmith.com\/cogwheel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/CrashsCourseNews_2006-06-25.mp3\">Crash&#8217;s Course S2 Ep 02: News for June 25, 2026<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Bubble Machine by Drozerix is licensed as Public Domain and can be downloaded from <a href=\"https:\/\/modarchive.org\/index.php?request=view_by_moduleid&amp;query=176020\">http:\/\/modarchive.org <\/a><\/li>\n<li>Fedi: <a href=\"http:\/\/is.AaronBSmith.com\/@cogwheel\">is.AaronBSmith.com\/@cogwheel<\/a><\/li>\n<li>PeerTube: <a href=\"https:\/\/tube.fediverse.games\/my-library\/video-channels\">tube.fediverse.games\/my-library\/video-channels<\/a><\/li>\n<li>All content of this episode not public domain or owned by others is released under a <a href=\"https:\/\/whirling.top\/fhh\">Filthy Human Hands 1.0 license<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Patreon: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/c\/cogwheelgaming\">Patreon.com\/cogwheelgaming<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Special thanks to our Patrons: Ellie, Liv Dromen, Paul, Walter, &amp; Patron Emeritus Cindy<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Story 1: NEW New Cypher Story 2: Lazy GMs Eventually Rise Story 3: TOON 2nd Edition Story 4: KOBOLDS IN SPACE! It is not my intention to do a news video daily, or even weekly, but if I end up with enough current-ish things I want to share to make a roughly 15 minute video &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/aaronbsmith.com\/cogwheel\/2026\/06\/crashs-course-s2-ep-02-news-for-june-25-2026\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Crash&#8217;s Course S2 Ep 02: News for June 25, 2026&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[312,293],"tags":[328,364,340,385,386,384],"class_list":["post-8527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-podcast","category-ttrpg","tag-crashs-course","tag-cypher-system","tag-kobolds-in-space","tag-sly-flourish","tag-steve-jackson-games","tag-toon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aaronbsmith.com\/cogwheel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8527","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aaronbsmith.com\/cogwheel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aaronbsmith.com\/cogwheel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aaronbsmith.com\/cogwheel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aaronbsmith.com\/cogwheel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8527"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/aaronbsmith.com\/cogwheel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8527\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8529,"href":"https:\/\/aaronbsmith.com\/cogwheel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8527\/revisions\/8529"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aaronbsmith.com\/cogwheel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aaronbsmith.com\/cogwheel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aaronbsmith.com\/cogwheel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}