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Relationship Mastery 1 The inaugural episode of our silly new show. If you thought Jef and Jon weren’t qualified to discuss RPGs, just want until you hear Claire and Jef […]

System Mastery 281 – Modern Knights Pssst, hey buddy, wanna buy a superhero game from 2002 that was pretty clearly written prior to 1999? How? Oh, let us explain. It’s […]

Expounded Universe 283 – Hex on the Breach Well well, we’re already at a lightsaber fight. And get this, it’s like three chapters of action sequence in a row! In […]

System Mastery 280 – Thirsty Sword Lesbians Hey who likes lesbians what have swords and powerful yearnings related to the other sword-bearing lesbians they encounter on their wild adventures? You […]

Movie Mastery – Billy Jack (1971) A movie that seems by all measures to be one thing ends up being something else entirely. While not exactly a masterpiece because of […]

Expounded Universe 282 – Holy Stryver The streams have begun to cross, but gently at first, as Ula Vii the reluctant spy has met everyone’s instant favorite, JET NEBULA. Meanwhile, […]

System Mastery 279 – Iron Kingdoms This one is close to home, we both sorta like this game, used to play the wargame, and wish it all was still good. […]

Movie Mastery – Tower of Terror (1997) Based on the Disney ride of the same name, this made for TV movie is desperately trying to not be scary. Or interesting.

Expounded Universe 281 – Rancor Ridin’ Dirty! Okay, this one I remember. Our characters one by one begin to converge on Nal Hutta, the current homeworld of everyone’s favorite big […]

Expounded Universe 280 – The Toxic Moxla Avenger Okay, apparently I forgot to post this very important episode for a while and a half, between work trips and some ongoing […]

Movie Mastery – Now You See Me (2014) An otherwise decent heist movie that gets dragged down by some bad choices on CGI and presentation that could have easily been […]

System Mastery 278 – The Skeletons Is it too late to call this a theme month? Because it turned out to be a theme month. Cool minimalist projects by designers […]

Movie Mastery – Death Bed: The Bed That Eats A 70’s horror film that was mostly forgotten because even with a premise that seems like it should be wildly memorable, […]

System Mastery 277 – For The Queen Who says we can’t do cool modern design reviews? Or interview the cool working designers of today that make them? Whoever said that, […]

Expounded Universe 279 – Cinzia Been Gone Welcome back to Star Wars! Specifically that special brand of Bioware-era Star Wars (like, they got their own era) set 4000 years before […]

System Mastery 276 – Muse Who would have thought this weird little collaborative storytelling shared narrative exercise game could be so divisive? We discuss Muse, a game that uses cards […]

Movie Mastery – Hard Rock Zombies (1984) A literal afterthought of a movie that manages to survive mostly on being so weird that you can almost ignore how bad and […]

System Mastery 275 – Aria: Canticle of the Monomyth (Part 2) Fine, we finished it. This was truly just an awful thing to keep reading through, I think it’s been […]

Movie Mastery – Puppet Master 4 It’s another Full Moon Features picture which means low budget kills and the absolute bare minimum of thrills. Unless you find extremely slow back-and-forth […]

Expounded Universe 278 – Shadows Rising Wrapup What did we think? What did you want to know? What are we doing next? The elements? We answer all the questions!

System Mastery 274 – Tower 22 Yeah yeah, we hit pause on Aria, we just couldn’t deal with that noise anymore. Instead, it’s time to dive into the ever-generous well […]

Movie Mastery – The Stolen Princess (2018) Not every cartoon movie funded by a country can be as absolutely bonkers as Sir Billi or Millionaire Dogs. Sometimes you just get […]

Expounded Universe 277 – Bwon with the Wind The climax is reached, can this book actually change anything or move any of the in-game story along? Will Bwonsamdi survive? Who […]

System Mastery 273 – Aria: Canticle of the Monomyth Show update first, everything’s been a bit late because of travel and the deadly scary norovirus, which isn’t pretty. Sorry about […]

Movie Mastery – Morbius (2022) As requested, we are doing the follow up to the Madame Web watch with a look back at the first sign that maybe Sony just […]