Steam Powered Scoundrels: A Malifaux Podcast

Today we're bringing back the fluff feature with a brand new name! Welcome to the Malifaux Book Club where several people not named 'Doug' review fluff and lore from past Wyrd publications.   Good Things Happen is happening June 27-29th in Fairview Heights Illinois! More info at the Ko-Fi page   Having trouble building a tricky model? Check out our YouTube: ArtefactorsUnion Need something from Wyrd? We have an Affiliate Link!  

Well we kind of forgot about this recording, but it's here now! It's another very lovely Friday Night Faux-Down feature Doug, Vic, Roman and Nate. We're all kind of low-key energy in this one, but I promise we're still entertaining! Good Things Happen is happening June 27-29th in Fairview Heights Illinois! More info at the Ko-Fi page You can ask questions for us to answer in the SPS Discord, and hear us say Factually True Statements about you if you show us your appreciation on the SPS Patreon   Having trouble building a tricky model? Check out our YouTube: ArtefactorsUnion Need something from Wyrd? We have an Affiliate Link!  

You've read the reveals (and maybe the rules), and here come the Scoundrels to give you their takes! Thank you to Wyrd for graciously letting us have the rules a little early to look over and talk about.  Hopefully we can assuage your natural instincts as a gamer to fear change! Also, Good Things Happen 2025 news! You can ask questions for us to answer in the SPS Discord, and hear us say Factually True Statements about you if you show us your appreciation on the SPS Patreon   Having trouble building a tricky model? Check out our YouTube: ArtefactorsUnion Need something from Wyrd? We have an Affiliate Link!  

Do you like Shenanigans? We've got several, with a bonus of possible Eldrich Creature summoning in this, the next Best Laid Plans!  A mysterious guest takes over hosting duties as Roman and Nate try out Doug's Henchmen Hardcore rules update. Having trouble building a tricky model? Check out our YouTube: ArtefactorsUnion Need something from Wyrd? We have an Affiliate Link! Join the conversation in the SPS Discord Show us your appreciation in the SPS Patreon

We're back with yet another keyword rewrite. This time, Doug and Co update the Frontier keyword to make them (probably) overpowered. It's ok, none of this is real! Join Doug and new guests Ben and Seraph as we update the first Daddy of Malifaux.   Having trouble building a tricky model? Check out our YouTube: ArtefactorsUnion Need something from Wyrd? We have an Affiliate Link! You can ask questions for us to answer in the SPS Discord, and hear us say Factually True Statements about you if you show us your appreciation on the SPS Patreon

Doug, Vic, Nate, and Roman are joined by Mr. Dice himself for a new Friday Night Faux Down! We get up to Shenanigans…or possibly Jhenanigans, I'm not sure with how quickly janguage is changing these jays…   Having trouble building a tricky model? Check out our YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@ArtefactorsUnion Join the conversation in the SPS Discord: https://discord.gg/WnTtztBKDu Show us your appreciation in the SPS Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=4495658 We now have an Affiliate Link! https://giveusyourmoneypleasethankyou-wyrd.com/steampoweredscoundrels

Well we thought the last episode was a bit too short, so we went ahead and put this one out early for you. In this episode Doug, Vic, Roman, and Nate reveal our 'fixes' for Henchman Hardcore, as well as reveal several cards from the upcoming Bonanza Brawl expansion. 2024 saw us hard at work flexing our game design muscle, and this is what we have to show for it (besides the keyword rewrites).   Having trouble building a tricky model? Check out our YouTube: ArtefactorsUnion Need something from Wyrd? We have an Affiliate Link! You can ask questions for us to answer in the SPS Discord, and hear us say Factually True Statements about you if you show us your appreciation on the SPS Patreon

Happy new year, y'all (I guess). A quick episode to cover the past year of content and Wyrd stuff for you before we get back into our normal fare. Listen to Doug, Vic, Roman, and Nate as we kind of keep on track and discuss SPS and Malifaux in the year of 2024.   Having trouble building a tricky model? Check out our YouTube: ArtefactorsUnion Need something from Wyrd? We have an Affiliate Link! You can ask questions for us to answer in the SPS Discord, and hear us say Factually True Statements about you if you show us your appreciation on the SPS Patreon

Doug just can't get enough of 'fixing' minis, apparantly. We're back with our third iteration of 'Doug fixes a keyword', this time taking a stab at Redchapel. Join Doug, Vic, Roman, Nate, and special guest Josh as we make Seamus toy with his food first. Having trouble building a tricky model? Check out our YouTube: ArtefactorsUnion Need something from Wyrd? We have an Affiliate Link! You can ask questions for us to answer in the SPS Discord, and hear us say Factually True Statements about you if you show us your appreciation on the SPS Patreon

All five Scoundrels are back for a brand new Friday Night Faux Down, and we pulled Tim out of the basement to join us in committing comedy and saying more "nice" and "true" things about our patrons. What, you were expecting something timely, like our takes on the Brewie update?

Doug's done it again, this time thought-experimenting his way through what a Bandit re-write might look like. Brien and Jeffrey, Legitimate Outcast Players, join as consultants, with Roman and Nate there as People With Opinions because we couldn't lock them out. As always, this is not us saying Wyrd should make these changes (though if they like them and want to we'd be bashfully delighted), just Doug having fun and stretching his creativity muscles. What do you think of these changes? Having trouble building a tricky model? Check out our YouTube: ArtefactorsUnion Need something from Wyrd? We have an Affiliate Link! You can ask questions for us to answer in the SPS Discord, and hear us say Factually True Statements about you if you show us your appreciation on the SPS Patreon

Hey friendos. We got a neat little episode for you where we go over what we want to see from Wyrd in the coming years. No, we're not wishlisting new models. We are, however, discussing the steps we want to see the company take in regards to books, rules, meta, sculpts, lore, and community engagement. This episode features Doug, Vic, Nate, and new friend Cody from the Hopeful Prospect! Check out Cody's show HERE Having trouble building a tricky model? Check out the Artefactors Union, our YouTube Buying models? We now have an Affiliate Link! Join the conversation in the SPS Discord Show us your appreciation in the SPS Patreon

We got a hybrid episode for you all. The five main Scoundrels give a review of our summer of Malifaux, and then the back half of the episode is a round of Friday Night Faux-Down! Join Doug, Vic, Roman, Nate, and Eli as we recap some great events and then get a little unhinged.   Join the conversation in the SPS Discord Show us your appreciation in the SPS Patreon Having trouble building a tricky model? Check out our YouTube: ArtefactorsUnion

Are you thirsty? Good! It's time for another Malifaux Port Authority! Vic shipped in some of the questions from the FNFD list that were in-theme (read: degenerate enough) for a Port Authority. We also learn how Jesse from Boring Conversation learned about shipping/fanfic, and of course Audio Guy Doug joins. Enjoy! Join the conversation in the SPS Discord Show us your appreciation in the SPS Patreon Having trouble building a tricky model? Check out our YouTube: ArtefactorsUnion

Hey nerds, welcome to Doug test-driving another format! Since we've received two new keyword rewrites at the time of publishing this (Big Hat and Oni), it's safe to say Wyrd is comfortable with fairly large changes to established crews. As a thought experiment, Doug took this opportunity to do a bit of a rewrite of his favorite keyword, the M&SU. Note: This is NOT us saying that this keyword is in desperate need of a rewrite, nor are we demanding Wyrd make changes to these models. This is all just for fun and for Doug to flex his creativity muscles. Enjoy!   Having trouble building a tricky model? Check out the Artefactors Union, our YouTube Buying models? We now have an Affiliate Link! Join the conversation in the SPS Discord Show us your appreciation in the SPS Patreon

It's time for another Best Laid Plans! This time we have Joe piloting his 7th game of Wastrel vs Tim giving the recently re-worked Oni keyword a try. They're playing round two of this GenCon's Tyrant Tournament, recorded shortly beforehand. We'll have a GenCon recap for you all shortly, schedules and voices are recovering from the con, we had a good time! Having trouble building a tricky model? Check out the Artefactors Union, our YouTube Buying models? We now have an Affiliate Link! Join the conversation in the SPS Discord Show us your appreciation in the SPS Patreon

Welcome to Malifaux! In this episode of Steam Powered Scoundrels, Doug attempts to sell the game of Malifaux to a bunch of upstanding TikTok hobbyists. Will he succeed? Will he fail?! Will he ever shut up?!?! (No) Having trouble building a tricky model? Check out our YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@ArtefactorsUnion We now have an Affiliate Link! https://giveusyourmoneypleasethankyou-wyrd.com/steampoweredscoundrels Join the conversation in the SPS Discord: https://discord.gg/fqXqxHnHj2 Show us your appreciation in the SPS Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=4495658

Sorry for the small hiatus, but in other news, Good Things Happen 2024 was a success! Anyways, in this episode we finally discuss the story of Ashes of Malifaux. Join Doug, Nate, Roman, and Victoria as we discuss our thoughts on the story, theorize over some of the decisions made, and speculate on future fluff.   Having trouble building a tricky model? Check out our YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@ArtefactorsUnion We now have an Affiliate Link! https://giveusyourmoneypleasethankyou-wyrd.com/steampoweredscoundrels Join the conversation in the SPS Discord: https://discord.gg/fqXqxHnHj2 Show us your appreciation in the SPS Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=4495658

Four months since we did one of these?! The things we do to pretend we know anything about meta. Anyways it's Faux-Down time! We get back into the groove discussing Nia, Sexy nightmare boxes, fish tanks, the difference between ' Cowgirls' and 'Cow Girls' and much more. It's a great time for all as long as you aren't one of those 'serious' types.   Join Good Things Happen!: https://ko-fi.com/goodthingshappenmalifaux   Having trouble building a tricky model? Check out our YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@ArtefactorsUnion We now have an Affiliate Link! https://giveusyourmoneypleasethankyou-wyrd.com/steampoweredscoundrels Join the conversation in the SPS Discord: https://discord.gg/KnFbYPdBn9  Show us your appreciation in the SPS Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=4495658

Doug, Vic, Roman, and Nate are back to finish up covering the last two factions for Ashes of Malifaux: Ressers and Explorers. Remember, we have Good Things Happen coming up June 28th-30th, so if you hate children's cancer and enjoy Malifaux and/or us, we hope to see you there! If you can't make if but would still like to donate (either directly or to help/hinder your favorite player) post donations and who can use them for the Flush With Cash event here You can ask questions for us to answer in the SPS Discord, and hear us say Factually True Statements about you if you show us your appreciation on the SPS Patreon   Having trouble building a tricky model? Check out our YouTube: ArtefactorsUnion Need something from Wyrd? We have an Affiliate Link!

We're onto the our third episode of us discussing the Ashes of Malifaux models. This time, we cover Outcasts and Bayou! Join Nate, Vic, Roman, and Doug as we chat about if SASS is a spider or not and sexy, sexy frogs. Attend or Donate to Good Things Happen on June 28th-30th We now have an Affiliate Link! Please donate to our Patreon!  JOIN OUR DISCORD

Hello! It's been too long. This episode was a nightmare to edit, hence the long wait. Sorry about that. Always we continue our thirsty thirsty series on the new Ashes of Malifaux models, this time covering the Guild and the Neverborn factions. Join Doug, Victoria, Nate, Roman, and best boy Eli as they discuss the absurd amount of hotties and talk meta, I guess. Attend or Donate to Good Things Happen on June 28th-30th We now have an Affiliate Link! Please donate to our Patreon!  JOIN OUR DISCORD

It's Ashes time! Simply put, this is our annual sacrifice to the meta gods as we cover the cards, fluff, and bang-ability of every new model in Ashes of Malifaux. Join Doug, Vic, Roman, and Nate as they cover the Arcanists and Ten Thunders factions.   Attend or Donate to Good Things Happen on June 28th-30th We now have an Affiliate Link! Please donate to our Patreon!  JOIN OUR DISCORD

Doug and Vic felt left out of the last Faux Down, so they made their own, with Jesse and several Jefferys! Join them for an extra helping of nonsense that only happens when you combine several Malifaux content creators on one podcast (special thanks to Boring Conversation and Defective Dice for loaning us your hosts. We hope they found Roman's Basement comfortable)   You can ask your own questions for us to answer in the SPS Discord, and hear us say Factually True Statements about you if you show us your appreciation on the SPS Patreon Having trouble building a tricky model? Check out our YouTube: ArtefactorsUnion Need something from Wyrd? We have an Affiliate Link!

Here's another government mandated Friday Night Faux-Down! This one contains zero Bromans as O'Hare airport is an absolute hellhole! Join Nate, Roman, and Eli alongside two guests UK Mike and Scott as they talk a lot about old candy and probably other stuff.   Join Good Things Happen!: https://ko-fi.com/goodthingshappenmalifaux   Having trouble building a tricky model? Check out our YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@ArtefactorsUnion We now have an Affiliate Link! https://giveusyourmoneypleasethankyou-wyrd.com/steampoweredscoundrels Join the conversation in the SPS Discord: https://discord.gg/KnFbYPdBn9  Show us your appreciation in the SPS Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=4495658

Join Doug, Vic, Nate, and Roman as they start the Scoundrels' year off right: Lamenting that Eli's not here, and talking about things we hope to see from Wyrd some time between now and the apocalypse. Directions for models and errata to take, of course, but also, lore, game variants, rules updates, and many more! Also, we are officially announcing Good Things Happen 24' (June 28th - 30th) and hope to see you there! FB Event with Longshanks links: https://fb.me/e/3kXUC5467 Event Website: https://tabletop.events/conventions/good-things-happen-2024 Having trouble building a tricky model? Check out our YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@ArtefactorsUnion We now have an Affiliate Link! https://giveusyourmoneypleasethankyou-wyrd.com/steampoweredscoundrels Join the conversation in the SPS Discord: https://discord.gg/KnFbYPdBn9  Show us your appreciation in the SPS Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=4495658

It's been a heckuva year and the Scoundrels though we we would celebrate by discussing our hobby progress and achievements over the past year, as well was what we and Wyrd did in 2023. It's a chill episode with Doug, Tori, Roman, and Nate for a chill end of year.   We now have an Affiliate Link! Please donate to our Patreon!  JOIN OUR DISCORD

Roman finally herded enough cats (including himself) to record another Best Laid Plans! It's a holiday miracle! This time we have Monk vs Syndicate piloted by Tim (Monk) and Jason (Syndicate) as they play one of their first games of GG4 and give us their thoughts on the new season! Special guest: Someone (Waldo?) mowing outside Roman's office. I did what I could to minimize it, thankfully it's not for too long. Tell this episode get you thinking about GG4 or any keywords and you want to talk about it? Join the conversation in the SPS Discord! Did this episode remind you of something you need from Wyrd? We now have an Affiliate Link! Feel free to show us your appreciation in the SPS Patreon!

We said we'd do it, here's our second wholesome episode before the Scoundrels get back to being our normal degenerate selves. Vic, Kim, Monica, and Doug continue our discussion about wholesomeness and how it matters to Malifaux shipping. We discuss a few wholesome topics too a la Friday Night Faux Down!   Please donate to our Patreon!  JOIN OUR DISCORD

We got an entire keyword rewrite! Rejoice! Hopefully this is a sign of things to come. Join Doug and Nate as we discuss our gloriously refurbished Som'er and his Big Hat band.   We now have an Affiliate Link! Please donate to our Patreon!  JOIN OUR DISCORD

Hey you know what? We hosed down all of the contestants on Malifaux Port Authority. Now since everyone has clear heads and wet socks, we're going to dedicate an episode (actually two!) to talking about the more wholesome headcanons we've come up with. This episode combines Vic, Kim, Monica, Jeff, and Tech Guy Doug as they discuss what 'wholesomeness' is why we need it, and then blow most of the runtime on giving every master a pet.   Please donate to our Patreon!  JOIN OUR DISCORD

Party time! It's another Friday Night Faux-Down. Doug, Vic, Nate, and Roman answer all of the important questions about Malifaux you didn't know you needed to know! We only spend 1/3 of the time chitchatting and thanking Patrons this time! New record. We now have an Affiliate Link! Please donate to our Patreon!  JOIN OUR DISCORD

Doug, Vic, Nate, and Roman retrieve Kyle from the basement to talk about the Kickstarter for Vagrantsong Encore (which just started). He's grateful enough to give us some insights to the upcoming expansions, including some (non-story) spoilers that are a barking good time, and then keeps chugging along to a few stretch goals he's hoping the campaign reaches, which, as of release, aren't revealed on the campaign page. So, go over HERE and check out Vagrantsong Encore and Off the Rails.   Then fund it because we want a deluxe box and other shinies! And we know you do too!   We now have an Affiliate Link! Please donate to our Patreon!  JOIN OUR DISCORD

Steam Powered Scoundrels back from a hiatus (I guess) because we're all still hung-over from GenCon. SPEAKING of GenCon, that's our topic of discussion for this episode, Join Doug, Eli, Roman, Nate, and Vic (Vanilla Scoundrels) as we recap all of our nonsense we got up to during the 4 days of gaming.    We now have an Affiliate Link! Please donate to our Patreon!  JOIN OUR DISCORD

The Five core Scoundrels have a long chitchat breaking down the Good Things Happen charity weekend on June 16-18. We go over the main tourney, the Bonanza Brawl games, and the Cutthroat fundraiser event. Thank every last one of you that supported us in our effort to raise money towards battling children's cancer.   We now have an Affiliate Link! Please donate to our Patreon!  JOIN OUR DISCORD

All 5 Scoundrels are joined by a one Mr. Dice to discuss and "fix" all the forgotten, unfinished story threads, retcons, and plotholes by declaring our ideas canon until Wyrd says otherwise. Check out Mr. Dice's other excellent lore coverage We now have an Affiliate Link! Join the conversation in the SPS Discord Show us your appreciation in the SPS Patreon Check out our YouTube  

Fluff Time. Join the Big 5 Scoundrels (Vic, Nate, Roman, Eli, and Doug) as they cover all of the fluff from Madness of Malifaux. We break down the main story as well as cover interesting snippets from the individual model blurbs. Strap in and strap on for a long one (also, buy the book you cowards). We now have an Affiliate Link! Please donate to our Patreon!  JOIN OUR DISCORD

We're doing out favorite palette cleanser after all that errata wishlisting: A Faux-Down! Come listen to Doug, Victoria, Eli, Nate, and Roman wax poetic about the strangest Malifaux Questions you never knew you needed answers to, until now, and our Entirely, Factually True Statements about our beloved Patrons. Also of note: We're running a 3-day event in Iowa coming up June 16-19 and would love to see you all there! It's a charity event to help combat children's cancer. The weekend will include a fun, cutthroat event on Friday where players can bid on advantages for themselves or disadvantages for their opponent. A five-round standard Malifaux Tournament over the course of Saturday and Sunday, and a Bonanza Brawl Saturday evening! Entry Fee for the entire weekend is $30. The Facebook event has more details, we're using the Longshanks events to get the best idea of how many folks to expect for each day, so please register there as well. Facebook Event: https://fb.me/e/2njsFxhIM Flush With Clash (Cutthroat) - https://malifaux.longshanks.org/event/7772/ Voxcaster's Open (Tournament) - https://www.longshanks.org/event/7771/ Brawls and Brewsers (Bonanza Brawl) - https://www.longshanks.org/event/7773/ You can ask your own questions for us to answer in the SPS Discord, and hear us say Factually True Statements about you if you show us your appreciation on the SPS Patreon

We're done. I swear (for another year anyways). Join Doug, Eli, Nate, Per and Roman as the wrap-up this four-parter with our takes on how to errata the Guild.   We now have an Affiliate Link! Please donate to our Patreon!  JOIN OUR DISCORD

We don't shut up. It's impossible. This 3-part series is now 4 parts because we're bad at time management. Hey ALL! Steam Powered Scoundrels back with another exciting discussion on Errata wishlisting, this time covering Explorers and Ten Thunders. Join Doug, Roman, Nate, Eli and Per as we...do the aformentioned.   We now have an Affiliate Link! Please donate to our Patreon!  JOIN OUR DISCORD

We continue the wishlist train, this time covering the Bayou,  Outcasts, and Arcanists. Please donate to our Patreon!  JOIN OUR DISCORD

It's that time of year again (maybe) where we talk about our wishlists for the upcoming (possibly) errata. We get a bit long-winded this time, so we're going to break it down into 3 episodes! I this one we talk about emergency fixes for current problems, Resurrectionists, and Neverborn. Join Doug, Eli, Roman, Nate, Jeffrey, and Per as we give our highly intelligent and well-thought-out opinions on how to 'fix' the game. Please donate to our Patreon!  JOIN OUR DISCORD

What's that? A FNFD?!? In this economy? Sorry this one took a little longer than usual, we've been busy setting up important things! Join the five of us (Nate, Doug, Vic, Roman, and Eli) as we contemplate the deep questions of Malifaux, and talk about killing characters weirdly more than usual. Nothing odd about that, surely... Join the conversation in the SPS Discord Show us your appreciation in the SPS Patreon

We're back with another Best Laid Plans! Nate hosts while Roman and Cole try out the new Angler and Bygone crews from Madness of Malifaux, and talk a bit about how they approach a crew that's new to them for the first time, how it affects their play, and what they learn from trying these two new crews out. Enjoy! Join the conversation in the SPS Discord Show us your appreciation in the SPS Patreon

2022 was definitely a year. So the Scoundrels discuss what happened to themselves and the hobby over the year and what we're looking forward to in 2023. Join Eli, Nate, Roman, Victoria, and Doug as we reflect, reminisce, and ruminate (so much rumination) so that you don't have to!   Please donate to our Patreon!  JOIN OUR DISCORD

Join Nate and Eli as they take a peek at Chronicles #4, and the story "The White Fist". For extra fun, take a drink every time Nate says "Narrative" or "Meta-Plot" like he know things about writing. Please donate to our Patreon!  JOIN OUR DISCORD

No Malifaux expansion is official without the Scoundrels telling you who is doinking who. Welcome back to a very stuffed episode of Malifaux Port Authority. Join Vic, Kim, Mike, Jeffrey, DZ, Joe, and some loser named Doug as they blind ship all of the characters from Madness of Malifaux revealed pre-launch. NSFW. Please donate to our Patreon!  JOIN OUR DISCORD

Part Two of the Scoundrels' takes on the newly revealed goodness in the upcoming Madness of Malifaux. Eli, Doug, Roman, and Vic are joined by guest and Patron Tim as they discuss the known characters for the Bygone, Returned, and Library keywords along with their make wild speculation as to the story implications.   Please donate to our Patreon!  JOIN OUR DISCORD

I hear we have some new masters and keywords on the Horizon? WELL settle in as the Scoundrels give their takes on the newly revealed goodness. Join Eli, Doug, Roman, Vic, and Nate as they discuss the known characters for the Cavalier, Witness, and Angler keyword and make wild speculation as to their story implications.   Please donate to our Patreon!  JOIN OUR DISCORD

Looking for laughs? The Scoundrels have wares if you have...ears. We're back with Malifaux's most popular game show(?), Friday Night Faux-Down. Join Doug, Vic, Nate, Eli, Roman, and our friend Merchant while they laugh and occasionally talk through the latest batch of burning (man) questions fans have asked on our discord. You can join the discord and ask yours too! Please donate to our Patreon!  JOIN OUR DISCORD

The Scoundrels and Kim hang out and discuss our thought processes as we begin thinking in earnest about a Bonanza Brawl expansion deck!   Please donate to our Patreon!  JOIN OUR DISCORD