Dinosaur Planet: Broncosaurus Rex – System Mastery 62
It’s become apparent over time that there are a few archetypes of bad games. You’ve got Vision of a Madman, as seen in Synnibarr or Skyrealms of Jorune. Fun-Hating Deathslog, […]
Tag Archives: podcast
Movie Mastery – Mommie Dearest (1981)
An old friend drops by the show to help us review a movie she made us watch in the first place. Claire joins us for Mommie Dearest, a bizarre, slowly-paced […]
Peevish – Afterthought 24
In this episode we discuss our pet peeves in game design. Yes, I know that’s the theme of the whole podcast. We were just being more specific this time. Tell […]
Ralph Bakshi’s Wizards – System Mastery 61
Someone must have really liked our review of the movie, because the demand for this was pretty high. Today we present Wizards: the RPG. The game that finally tells us […]
Movie Mastery – Soul Man (1986)
This movie was harder to find that the Holiday Special, and what we can learn from that is that someone needs to work harder at hiding this, because it’s horrible, […]
Randomized – Afterthought 23
Please find enclosed one discussion regarding random elements in games. Can there be too much randomization? Where’s the balancing point and how to find it? Could we perhaps abandon that […]
Gamma World – System Mastery 60
Today we’re thrilled to bring you a game where you can play as a swarm of tiny yetis hanging around with a robot hawk and have an amazing, basically balanced […]
Movie Mastery – Santa with Muscles (1996)
Oh boy, it’s Hulk Hogan! According to that poster, we know he goes sleeveless, doesn’t like buttoning up, and gives some very harmless looking dudes the business. I mean, look […]
Positive Vibes – Afterthought 22
Tell me boy, what day was this recorded? Why, ’twas Christmas Day! And then it was released the Tuesday following, thus ruining any Christmas magic it may have contained! This […]
Immortal: The Invisible War Pt. 2 – System Mastery 59
We discussed the rules, now let’s talk about the fluff in the second episode of Immortal: The Invisible War. Just what is a Darkle, and what Femmes it? And shouldn’t […]
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 […]
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 […]
