System Mastery 251 – Heroic Visions
System Mastery 251 – Heroic Visions Jon’s special blend of DrivethruRPG search criteria has kicked us up a truly interesting and unusual blend of superheroes, afrofuturism, strong Christian undertones, and […]
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Movie Mastery – Batman: Assault on Arkham (2014)
Movie Mastery – Assault on Arkham (2014) A Batman movie with almost no Batman. This is an animated Suicide Squad film based on the Arkham games where they got to […]
System Mastery 225 – Marvel Multiverse RPG Playtest
Reviewing a playtest? That doesn’t seem right! Well, it certainly isn’t in our usual bag of tricks, but hey, this is a rare situation where someone writing a modern game […]
Movie Mastery – Megamind (2010)
One of the few actually decent DreamWorks animated films but it still can’t escape the dreaded “all the characters dance” ending.
System Mastery 218 – Silver Age Sentinels
Oh boy another supers game! You know how we love those! SIlver Age Sentinels is from the Big Eyes, Small Mouth folks, so you better believe it shares the insane […]
System Mastery 200 – Marvel Superheroes Roleplaying Game
Hey, we made it to 200 episodes! I’m sure that’s some sort of milestone! And while the choice of game to cover this time may feel kind of arbitary, I […]
System Mastery 199 – Stuperpowers
Heck yeah, comedy superhero parody game from 1997 coming in hot. You know it’s gonna make us mad, it’s just got to! Anyway, this game is designed to be LARP-ready, […]
Movie Mastery – The Punisher (1989)
At the same time that Batman was set to make his dark entrance onto the big screen; Marvel was looking to put up their own brooding man with no super […]
Horrortoberfest 2019 – Day 30 – Brightburn
There have been many takes on “What if Superman was a bad guy?” over the years. With Ultraman leading the Crime Syndicate, communist dictator Superman, and Nazi Superman just […]
In Theaters Now – Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
You asked for it (like a month ago), you got it! We cover the animated sensation of the year. Nay! The decade! Does this new Spider-Man live up to the […]
Horrortoberfest ’18 Day 14 – Venom
While not fully a horror film, I’m still counting this as an entry for the years Horrortoberfest. There’s a weird monster that possesses someone and it eats people so, you […]
In Theaters Now – Black Panther
From the bottom of our heart shaped plants, thank you for voting for this over Fifty Shades this month. It is a rare occasion that we get to see and […]
Brave New World – System Mastery 115
So this is Brave New World. What’s in the core book? Enough superhero stuff to sort of play, if you call this playing. A wizard class with no spells, a […]
Movie Mastery – Guardians (2017)
It’s time for some superhero action from the Motherland. Russia’s greatest/only heroes must band together to stop the machinations of the evil Dr. Electro-Bane. It’s like if the Fantastic Four […]
In Theaters Now – Justice League
Beloved heroes will come together in a climactic story that will both shock and entertain you as you see the spectacle you’ve been waiting years for. That’s not until Avengers: […]
Champions – System Mastery 83
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 […]
Movie Mastery: Now Playing – Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice
We’ve had it as a stretch goal on the Patreon for a while and since we were getting close, we’ve decided to give you a little taste of what […]
Movie Mastery – Steel
This is weird, right? Because you had totally forgotten this movie? And now you’re all “Oh yeah, Steel! I didn’t go see that. Looked really bad, and it came out […]
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 […]
Monday Movie Review – The Amazing Spider-Man 2
I should just say that I was really looking forward to this movie. I think the first Amazing Spider-Man was very good and I’d have to watch the Raimi Spider-Man […]
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