System Mastery 261 – octaNe
System Mastery 261 – octaNe Let’s examine a post-apocalyptic game with a penchant for low-budget outre 90s cinema styles, and a fairly simple core mechanic to boot. It’s octaNe, and […]
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Movie Mastery – Star Leaf (2015)
Movie Mastery – Star Leaf (2015) A stoner horror movie that doesn’t attempt to even remotely be scary but also doesn’t lean into the stoner comedy aspect either. Just a […]
System Mastery 260 – Star Wars Saga Edition
System Mastery 260 – Star Wars Saga Edition And I said GO! If you’re wondering if we liked this game, We liked this game, It’s mostly fine, But it could […]
Movie Mastery – Sinister Squad (2016)
Movie Mastery – Sinister Squad (2016) A cash grab mockbuster of Suicide Squad about fairy tale villains fighting against the forces of Death. A sentence that makes this absolute boring […]
Expounded Universe 260 – Great Balls on Fire
Expounded Universe 260 – Great Balls on Fire The shipbuilding begins! As Jabitha (that can’t be right) leaves our heroes at the gate of the great factory, they meet new […]
Expounded Universe 259 – Jabitha Hutt
Expounded Universe 259 – Jabitha Hutt In this episode Anakin meets a little girl roughly his age, Obi-Wan is bored enough to start getting crabby, and Raithe Seinar is just […]
System Mastery 259 – Starfaring
System Mastery 259 – Starfaring Sold to us as the first ever sci-fi RPG (a claim we have learned is dubious), Starfaring is basically Tunnels & Trolls, but with some […]
Movie Mastery – War-Gods of the Deep
Movie Mastery – War-Gods of the Deep For a while in the 60’s there was a trend of Edgar Allan Poe stories getting turned into movies starring Vincent Price. Then […]
Expounded Universe 258 – Balls on Parade
Expounded Universe 258 – Balls on Parade Our heroes emerge from the unexpected ball bath covered in the winnings of victory, which of course are more balls. Then a bunch […]
Expounded Universe 257 – Seed Partners Seek a Third
Expounded Universe 257 – Seed Partners Seek a Third In an attempt to give Anakin some more depth, we introduce… more whines of his? I guess now he loves spaceships […]
System Mastery 258 – Bullwinkle & Rocky Party RPG
System Mastery 257 – Mythic Roleplaying Allow us to introducing our game… It’s finally here, the box set that sat on my shelf for four years while we waiting for […]
Expounded Universe 256 – Zonama Be Startin’ Somethin’
Expounded Universe 256 – Zonama Be Startin’ Somethin’ It’s weird to be reading a book that is ostensibly full of weird surprises and decisions that necessarily go nowhere after Attack […]
System Mastery 257 – Mythic Roleplaying
System Mastery 257 – Mythic Roleplaying Apparently what we have here is often considered to be the first stab at a DM-less RPG system! It’s from 2003, and boy is […]
Movie Mastery – Warriors of Virtue (1997)
Movie Mastery – Warriors of Virtue Trying to cash in on the Ninja Turtles and Power Rangers but having none of the charm and fun that made those work. With […]
Expounded Universe 255 – Anakin’s Got Crabs
Expounded Universe 255 – Anakin’s Got Crabs Another episode about shifting pieces into place for a story to happen, but still there’s something here that’s working for us. Not sure […]
Expounded Universe 254 – Tarkin What They’re Given Cause I’m Wormin For A Livin
Expounded Universe 254 – Tarkin What They’re Given Cause I’m Wormin For A Livin Okay, so now we know the bad guy of the hour! Raithe Seinar, starship engineer and […]
System Mastery 256 – Silvervine
System Mastery 256 – Silvervine This one is interesting! It seems to be a compilation of two books, but is largely a single game about steampunk furry anime fantasy guys […]
Expounded Universe 253 – Raithe Squadron
Expounded Universe 253 – Raithe Squdron Classic villain introduction this week as we watch a discussion (that we find slightly charged in that good gay way) between Raithe Seinar and […]
Expounded Universe 252 – Jedi Believe I Can Fly
Expounded Universe 252 – Jedi Believe I Can Fly We’re opening with just chapter 1! That’s right this is gonna be a 67 episode season! Ah okay I’m just kidding, […]
System Mastery 255 – Horror Rules
System Mastery 255 – Horror Rules It’s rules, for horror. From the DTRPG files, we’ve read a 2003 horror game with some neat ideas, some snarky stuff, and a slow […]
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