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 […]
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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 […]
Movie Mastery – Wing Commander
Wing Commander is a film we watched. It was filmed in Luxembourg. Luxembourg is the last remaining Grand Duchy in the world, and is the country where popular internet communication […]
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 […]
Movie Mastery – D&D: Wrath of the Dragon God
It’s our second anniversary and we’re making it D&D Sequel Week, so here’s a horrible D&D sequel, Wrath of the Dragon God. Have you ever wondered what would happen if […]
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 […]
Movie Mastery – The Day After
Are you sufficiently frightened of nuclear attack? This TV movie dares ask the question “How will global thermonuclear war affect a young Steve Guttenberg?” Now fill your family condom with […]
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 […]
Movie Mastery – Wizards
Is this really a movie about a fat little wizard and his nearly-nude fairy companion trying to defeat a Nazi wizard leading an army of mutants against an army of […]
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, […]
Movie Mastery – Zardoz
While our initial plan for Mommie Dearest fell through this week, we press on undaunted, reroll the Movie Mastery Dice (currently a D17) and land on Zardoz, the movie where […]
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 […]
Fifth Cycle – System Mastery 47
Who likes their fantasy with a shot of heartbreaker and a dirt-farming sidecar? Maybe with a splash of podcast host bitters? This week we cover Fifth Cycle, a thoroughly confusing […]
Movie Mastery – Master of Disguise
It’s that Dana Carvey vehicle! Here, I’ll sum up exactly how you remember it: “Turtle, turtle.” Boy, don’t you want to know exactly what sort of package that famous catchphrase […]
Tolerance and So On – Afterthought 9
With the forward march of civil rights on our minds, it was definitely time to bring the discussion of LGBT values into the arena of old games, new games, and […]
Raven Star – System Mastery 46
Hey, remember the 90s? Do you look back fondly on Rob Liefeld, X-Force, Reboot-style 3D art, and references to monofilament technology? Then hoo boy do we have the game for […]
The DM Section – Afterthought 8
What do you think should be in the DM section? That’s totally one of the questions we should have asked in the official Afterthought Poll, as mentioned on the show. […]
Noumenon – System Mastery 45
In this installment we discuss the best soul coffin in the shape of a giant bug that solves fundamental metaphysics mysteries in an impossible mansion simulator we’ve ever read. We […]
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