Play to Find Out, S2E1: Toon!
Added 2025-05-28 13:14:35 +0000 UTCOur new series returns! PTFO is back with another notorious TTRPG from yesteryear, and today my players and I are sampling the 40-year-old v
Our new series returns! PTFO is back with another notorious TTRPG from yesteryear, and today my players and I are sampling the 40-year-old vintage... of Toon. A role-playing game designed to let you experience classic cartoons. Toon's neat for a few reasons:
(a) It might be the first dedicated comedy RPG ever written
(b) It's designed around PvP action, but remains super approachable
And (c) the golden rule is "act before you think." (Which might be good advice for playing most RPGs, to be honest.)
Can you see our character sheets? You bet your pencils you can. The trove of images for this episode, including some excerpts from the Toon .pdf, can be found here.
As always, if you're not sure how to get access to your personal Quinns Quest Patreon podcast RSS feed, you can find instructions right here. Please don't share your private podcast feed outside of the Patreon. Instead, share the public podcast feed, which can be found on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Pocket Casts, Amazon Music and Castbox. Just like with Jorune, the first episode of this season is out now on the public feed, but later episodes of the season will only be found on the Quinns Quest Patreon.
And for those of you waiting impatiently for the next big Quinns Quest video review? I love your enthusiasm! I'm happy to say that by the time we've wrapped up Toon, the next video review will be right around the corner.
Enjoy, folks.
-- Quinns (and Rob, and Emily)
Comments
Joined the Patreon mostly cause of this Find Out. I played this so much as a kid...more than D&D for sure. I have very very fond memories of this game. Great to have a very solid podcast of it. Sound effects make the cartoon!
Justin Pearson
2025-06-25 10:12:06 +0000 UTC*big kiss to the camera* Good Night Everybody!
Tyro The Fox
2025-06-10 13:42:42 +0000 UTCThat was super fun and hilariously easy to visualise 😁
Lojaan
2025-06-07 06:48:34 +0000 UTCAhhh that would have been better!
Quinns
2025-06-06 16:23:04 +0000 UTCIs it spelled Nickopotamus or Nick O'Potamus
Dragonback Lancer
2025-06-06 15:31:28 +0000 UTCI love the SFXs
Hunter Clark
2025-06-04 00:45:13 +0000 UTCJust lovely stuff. Such a great AP
Ads
2025-05-30 08:24:50 +0000 UTCHilarious, can't wait for the the rest of this!
Swampy
2025-05-30 06:48:40 +0000 UTCWhen do we get an episode of Rob GM’ing Toon? His encyclopedic knowledge of animation tropes was impressive.
Justin Campbell
2025-05-29 20:49:47 +0000 UTCGreat episode! This reminded of playing the Maid RPG by Ryo Kamiya with my group back in university. RPGs are great when they can be absolutely unhinged!
Druidspell
2025-05-29 13:14:53 +0000 UTCThis was very fun! It's very obvious how this system works best with players who aren't unsettled by failure, and having two very funny players really made this a delight to listen to.
Evan Moses
2025-05-29 12:38:03 +0000 UTCThe Cartoon TTRPG genre lives on with Helluva Town recently!
Daniel Atkinson
2025-05-29 09:49:45 +0000 UTCI couldn't possibly have known how popular the Thriddle would be 😔🥀
Quinns
2025-05-29 07:28:16 +0000 UTCNot many systems are as interesting as Jorune, to be fair! But fear not. This was a little pit-stop season for us to catch our breath. Season 3 will be exactly what you're looking for...
Quinns
2025-05-29 07:26:33 +0000 UTCI was so hoping they would go full meta-looney toons and seamlessly switch to Rob as the GM AND Quinns as Nikkopatamus! Amazing episode!!!
Andrew Straight
2025-05-29 00:16:31 +0000 UTCThe players, GM, and production are incredibly enjoyable as always. The Toon system is not nearly as interesting as Jorune was, I fear.
Zhed
2025-05-28 23:41:30 +0000 UTCSuch fond high school memories of TOON! One of the systems we actually played, rather than just spending time creating characters, designing dungeons, and throwing impact-resistant dice at fans (looking at you, first edition AD&D)…
Brett Rolfe
2025-05-28 23:40:54 +0000 UTCThe sound design on this episode is INSANE!! Best I've ever heard in an actual play!
Wusashicat
2025-05-28 23:34:10 +0000 UTCSound design was amazing! Really makes me want to use soundboards in my home games
Will Mitchell
2025-05-28 23:27:17 +0000 UTCHell yes! This is so exciting. I haven't thought about Toon in ages.
HoTeck Kan
2025-05-28 22:54:44 +0000 UTCI also signed up to finish S1 of PTFO. It’s so good and happy to support the show in my small way
Thom Madray
2025-05-28 20:07:02 +0000 UTCHUZZAH! MORE PTFO
Spencer St. James
2025-05-28 18:06:00 +0000 UTCSeeing this season start got me to finally sign on as a patreon to watch the rest of s1 of play to find out (love all your stuff, long ago SUSD backer), really excited for this too!
Joshua Aslan Smith
2025-05-28 17:59:13 +0000 UTCThe sounds were worth every penny you put into them.
Dan Svensson
2025-05-28 17:15:58 +0000 UTCI've played Toon once. It was thoroughly unfun. We did all the cartoon things but meh. I was like let's never do that again afterwards. Also you come up with a really really really cool and cartoony idea and wao wao fail the roll, it fkn sucked. I think Toon might actually work as a PBTA game though. Probably not. Great episode though, enjoyed it immensely.
Dan Svensson
2025-05-28 17:15:27 +0000 UTCOh my gosh I'm 30 minutes in and this is a hoot!
GuardianLemartes
2025-05-28 15:38:43 +0000 UTCI bought toon when I was in high school because I thought it was hilarious. I’ve ran it twice as one shots (I don’t think I knew that term then) for two different groups of people in the first half of the 1990s.
Neil Chazin
2025-05-28 14:25:51 +0000 UTCi got all ur pencils
Quinns
2025-05-28 14:21:37 +0000 UTCGenerally, I enjoy seeing whacky TTRPGs played, old or new. Amazing job!
NoFun
2025-05-28 13:50:33 +0000 UTCHALLOO HALLAY WHAT A WONDERFUL DAY
Gregory Morrison
2025-05-28 13:44:33 +0000 UTCPlaying Toon for the first time was a watershed moment for me in RPGs. “Oh! We aren’t here to WIN… We are here to delight one another with surprises, creativity, and a fun story!” Perhaps surprising that insight came packaged in a PvP RPG—or maybe with the direct conflict elevated, that was exactly why I was able to see it.
Aaron Sinner
2025-05-28 13:34:20 +0000 UTCQuinn's keeps encouraging me to gamble my pencils away, I'm not sure I can support this!
Christine Pizan
2025-05-28 13:26:33 +0000 UTCA PLAY TO FIND OUT FOR MY MORNING JOB YEAHHHH
GuardianLemartes
2025-05-28 13:21:04 +0000 UTCImagine, if you will, a saloon full of anthropomorphic wolves dressed in the style of old school Chicago gangsters. They are hooting. They are hollering. They are wafting their fedoras in front of their face at the sight of a figure silhouetted in the doorway. “Awooga,” says the head wolf, “it’s Play To Find Out season 2 episode 1”
frazninja
2025-05-28 13:19:12 +0000 UTCOh can't wait to listen to this, i really enjoyed listening to skyrealms of jorune :)
Woutarr
2025-05-28 13:17:58 +0000 UTCYesssss! I've played this one a bunch! Really fun and interesting system!
Rowan
2025-05-28 13:17:34 +0000 UTCI actually remember coming across Toon at the bookstore in the mid to late 80s. For whatever reason, my brain held on to the memory of my confusion and curiosity. I guess for today.
Max Brannan
2025-05-28 13:16:30 +0000 UTCHurray! But if this season DOESN'T start with a snail-like creature that loves explaining things then I am OUT Quinns
Vellzi
2025-05-28 13:16:18 +0000 UTC
