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Critical Hit: A Major Spoilers Real Play RPG Podcast

Critical Hit #810: Monster Wrangler Final Thoughts (MWS01-E21)

Critical Hit: A Major Spoilers Real Play RPG Podcast

Stephen Schleicher

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🗓️ 14 November 2025

⏱️ 59 minutes

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In this installment of Critical Hit - A Major Spoilers Podcast: The players discuss what they liked and did not like about the Monster Wrangler RPG system.

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0:00.0

Uh, good job on the monster angler game, Brian.

0:13.5

Um, I thought we'd use this episode to kind of get everybody's thoughts as we often do when we play a new system and see what everybody thought

0:22.5

about this let us go around the horn and let's do uh let's go alphabetical matthew what did you

0:32.9

think of monster wrangler wait how am i first okay him um Okay. M. Appabeticled by first name.

0:41.3

Yep.

0:41.9

Oh, right.

0:43.2

I was thinking Brian, but no, Brian ran the game.

0:45.7

Brian.

0:46.0

I'm actually impressed with how easily

0:51.4

I was able to grasp some of the more difficult concepts.

0:55.4

When we were doing the previous game, I know we had the issues where my alligator was always

1:01.0

going in the wrong direction, but I feel like this one in some ways kind of simplifies bits

1:07.6

and pieces of that, although I'm sure, you know, that's helped by the macros. Yeah, yeah. But I also, this is a game that appeals to me because there are points where it feels like you get to a point in the rules, they're like, oh, well, we didn't think of that. That's always fun for me as a player because you get to that point where you're like,, oh man, what are we going to do? And then, you know, as a unit or, you know, Brian is like, well, I'll make the final decision, but we all get to kind of pitch something and go, well, what if you just caught fire? But of course, you know, any game where I get to ride around on the back of a steam-powered Tyrannosaurus Rex. I feel like, you know, that's a winner for me.

1:48.1

Five stars.

1:49.7

Rob, what about you?

1:51.5

You're a big Pokemon fan.

1:54.7

Yeah, I love Pokemon.

1:58.1

The game hit, I really like how the game says, of Pokemon.

2:03.6

The game hit,

2:05.5

I really like how the game system functions.

2:11.4

I think it runs into the same problem that I've had with every Pokemon variance, or every like attempt at emulating Pokemon as a TTRP in that,

2:17.2

uh, like things like tournament structures mean

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