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 […]
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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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Fireborn – System Mastery 53
Have you ever felt like you weren’t just this shell you are now? That perhaps within you lurks something ancient, something fierce and fiery? Well, it’s true! Also, you should […]
Stick the Landing – Afterthought 15
Questions answered, poll discussed, and then we try like crazy to wring more to talk about out of the grim experience of reading Fantasy Wargaming: The Highest Level of All. […]
Fantasy Wargaming: The Highest Level of All – System Mastery 52
Two weeks ago, the phrase “British Nerd” was relatively pleasant to me. I’d picture David Tennant, or Richard Ayoade, or even Hermione Granger, and everything was fine. “Oh,” I’d think, […]
With Special Guest James D’Amato – Afterthought 14
What the hell, did we conduct an actual interview with an industry person? Man, I guess so. We sit down with James D’Amato, host of the One Shot Podcast, who […]
Micro RPGs – System Mastery 51
This episode was so very refreshing. Five tiny, lovely RPGs made recently by designers that had fun in mind. It’s really not our wheelhouse to cover good stuff, but we […]
Verisimilitude – Afterthought 13
A seemingly neverending theme in what we do is books that evaluate Gary Gygax’s grand vision of a game that is meant to be played as a big game in […]
Advanced Dungeons & Dragons – System Mastery 50
Fifty episodes in and it’s time to be confused by the grand pasture where every weird sacred cow in this industry was calved. We go looking for answers to the […]
Thanks! – Afterthought 12
This week we’re in a bit too goofy of a mood to even really dig useful information out of ACE Agents. So this episode is basically a party. We answer […]
A.C.E. Agents – System Mastery 49
Today we introduce you to a light and relatively witty GI Joe parody from around 1992. A.C.E. Agents manages a very unusual balancing act of both satirizing and explaining the […]
But What IS Satire? – Afterthought 11
There is a slight chance we reviewed a game that is essentially a prank on reviewers. We’re willing to own up to that and deal with it like the kind […]
Human Occupied Landfill – System Mastery 48
Here’s a game of sorts. It’s handwritten, it’s irritating, and it’s about goofball prisoners sort of murdering each other on a garbage planet. Also it’s handwritten. It’s Human Occupied Landfill, […]
Farmers Only Dot Com – Afterthought 10
If a game has a random chance for your character to professionally farm dirt, isn’t it fair to expect that game to have comprehensive rules for dirt-farming? Wouldn’t you want […]
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