System Mastery 246 – Dallas the Television RPG
System Mastery 246 – Dallas You know you read about this in some message board or listicle article years ago. And you know you’ve always wondered what the heck it […]
System Mastery 246 – Dallas You know you read about this in some message board or listicle article years ago. And you know you’ve always wondered what the heck it […]
System Mastery 244 – Teenagers from Outer Space A lightweight anime-inspired comedy game from… 1987? Damn, Mike Pondsmith must have been one of those guys that bought unlabeled anime VHS […]
Back to the old psionic grind! This game has almost exactly two whole paragraphs of story. Everything else we’ve had to glean from the margins and unusually informative rules. Wanna… […]
My friends, in the interest of transparency, I am only just now realized this game has a subtitle! So don’t look for that in the episode, we didn’t notice. It’s […]
It’s the 80’s in Australia and there is nothing cooler than riding BMX bikes, stealing shit you find that is obviously someone else’s, and having the worst imaginable hair.
Timelord! Would you like to play an RPG as yourself and then, you know, get rewarded for showing up to the table with weapons and German soldier uniforms and stuff? […]
It’s a nice day for something! Welcome back to our October content. This year the theme is a little looser since we’ve reviewed enough White Wolf games for two lifetimes […]
Well, we had to take a look at a Role Master game eventually, and this one chose us. This 1985 RPG is deeply, deeply mathy, and features a fantastic story […]
Straight from one bleak future to the next, only this time it’s kids. Why it’s almost as dystopic as the movie Kids! Basically the future is dream robots that put […]
So a decade or so after D&D, Gary Gygax had a brand new idea. What if cyborgs with dustbuster crotches defended the world from giant bugs made of erectile tissue? […]
Time for yet more low budget horror films from the 80s. I have to say, I almost feel like I was cheating with this one since it’s an actually decent […]
Interesting note that we missed because we didn’t do any research: Tomorrow Knights here is a Marvel property. Which makes this a Marvel RPG. We had no idea. Thrill to […]
On today’s episode we discuss Extreme Vengeance, an RPG dedicated almost entirely to recreating the feel of gung-ho action movies (there is a sliver reserved for unrelentingly dragging Hulk Hogan). […]
Brought to you by rocket scientists hellbent on pure unadulterated realism, Living Steel is basically Heinlein by way of Games Workshop, with probably a few too many tables (which is […]
Moon Prism Power! Right? Right? That’s what she says sometimes? Look this is weird for us. Not our usual thing. So we brought in a ringer! A guy that’s watched […]
The countdown to episode 100 begins! This week, Legendary Lives. Just another heartbreaker you’ve never heard of? Maybe. Does it commit several of the weird sins of old game design? […]
It’s the space 80s! Feather your hair and ready your giant wrap-around bubble glasses for some interstellar adventure where the computers are so advanced that Oregon Trail has four colors! […]
Man, I hadn’t even seen the regular cover of this til I was putting this together. That’s uhh… well I guess Luke Cage found some chain mail made by Stussy […]
Get ready to recreate the dramatic adventures of Captain John Sheridan, psychic lady Ivanova, kindly space vampire Londo Mollari, and – did the doctor guy get a name? I forget […]
Time for the HERO system, one of the big dogs of generic systems, in what is arguably it’s most popular incarnation, the very, very modular Champions. Build a hero absolutely […]