Movie Mastery – The Star Wars Holiday Special
So this thing is internet famous as a bizarre travesty against Star Wars right? Kind of like a Jar-Jar 1978. What the internet won’t normally tell you about the holiday […]
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Terms and Conditions – Afterthought 21
After cramming our tiny mortal meat brains with the craziness of Immortal, we needed to discuss the concept of setting a game apart by the playful act of renaming every […]
Immortal: The Invisible War Pt. 1 – System Mastery 58
It’s been a while since we’ve hit such a rich, dense vein of crazy that we had to slow the pace down and take two episodes to really tease out […]
Movie Mastery – Christmas with the Kranks
There are three Movie Mastery episodes this December, and you can be sure that every single one of them will be a holiday themed film. There’s no genre of film […]
Ripoff vs. Reference – Afterthought 20
Where’s the line between a good old fashioned ripoff and a well-crafted homage? At what point does imitation cease to be flattery? Also what would we name our kids if […]
Legacy: War of Ages – System Mastery 57
You ever get the urge to take the Highlander movies and William Gibson’s Sprawl trilogy and just artlessly mush them together like Playdough? This book does exactly that, and then […]
Movie Mastery – Sinbad of the Seven Seas
Hot off his recent triumphant return to the role of the Incredible Hulk (in a movie where he fights Thor, you should go check it out), Lou Ferrigno hits the […]
The Longest Nard – Afterthought 19
We try to marathon every question anyone sent us all week (spoiler alert, I just found another one this morning), as well as recommend a new game a listener made […]
Panty Explosion – System Mastery 56
Man, just look at that title. How terrifying is this going to be? Well, we don’t want to spoil anything, so here’s Panty Explosion, a game that is verifiably about […]
Movie Mastery – Mechanical Violator Hakaider
Never let it be said we won’t watch some insane random thing out of some vestigial sense of self preservation. Here, we sit down together to watch a tokusatsu […]
The One Shot Podcast – Afterthought 18
We talk about the value of one shot games and short campaigns in this episode, so it was hard to think of a better name. It’s cool, certainly no one […]
Horrortoberfest Day 29 – Infini (2015)
Sometimes there’s a need for a crappy sci-fi movie where all the special effects budget went into spray painting some laser tag equipment gray. Infini is the result of one […]
The World of Tales from the Crypt – System Mastery 55
After recording two episodes about this book, I’m just out of death-related puns. Sorry about that. But hey, there’s a bunch in the episode if that’s what you were hoping […]
Horrortoberfest Day 22 – The Woman in Black 2 (2014)
Ooh what a scary poster of a moment that doesn’t occur in the film at all! In this picture a bunch of british WW2 orphans are shipped off to the […]
With Special Guest David Schirduan – Afterthought 17
Another interview? What’s the deal, it’s like we’re getting respectable over here or something. Hang on… faaaaaaaart. Nope, we’re still good. This time we sit down with game designer David […]
Horrortoberfest Day 15 – The House at the End of Time (2013)
This week we review a Venezuelan horror film from the depths of Netflix. This seems like it is going to be a standard, paint-by-numbers haunted house flick but there is […]
Aberrant D20 – System Mastery 54
Let’s discuss the early aughts and their explosion of rapid-release D20 adaptations of older games! Here’s a White Wolf one that turns everything about superheroes in every way into a […]
Horrortoberfest Day 8 – The Mirror (2014)
It’s a movie about an evil mirror but not the ones that might have popped into your head. This movie takes the bold new stance that would should really happen […]
The Internet Knows Best – Afterthought 16
We reviewed a game that, while ultimately a little disappointing and overcomplicated, was propped up on the internet as a huge otherkin fetish game. Was it really? Did the people […]
Duckman RPG
Duckman the Unofficial “Fan” RPG A while back we had a little fun at the expense of our listeners by reviewing a game that sadly failed to exist. It was […]
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