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Frank and Tormsen wrap up their look at Unknown Armies 3rd Edition's Campaign Starter Kits. They give their takes on The Violence Inherent in the System, Raiders of the Lost Mart, and The Wasteland from Oddities and Endlings, then they close things out with opinions and advice on how to tackle Campaign Starter Kits.

After a fortuitous find during an All Mart trip, Frank and Tormsen discuss the Campaign Starter Kits of Unknown Armies 3rd Edition. In this part, our heroes delve into Heroin Highway, Derby Girls Destroy DC, The Young Practicals, and Sacred Pharma. Spoilers abound.

Frank and Tormsen finally talk about what they know, discussing the Fool and the Trickster archetypes across Unknown Armies editions, and the provocative variations lurking in between.

Taking refuge in Henry Kissinger's bathroom, Frank and Tormsen get iconoclastic on Iconomancy. Seeing their only opening, they meditate upon the school's origins, go over potential alterations to its game write-up, and talk about some new types of Iconomancers they've seen in the wild.

Avid consumers Frank and Tormsen discuss the Swap Meet and the people who run the event, how to incorporate it into your Unknown Armies campaign, and what other events for avatars are out there for you to gatecrash.

With the station's broadcasting equipment on the fritz, your hosts end up giving airtime to a variety of their alternate universe counterparts.

After their first episode idea ends up a wash, Frank and Tormsen go with their backup and do an episode on the sundry conspiracies surrounding former president Barack Obama. Follow them on a journey that takes them to Hawaii, Chicago, Mars, and the boardroom of Alex Abel as they try to squeeze a bit of gameable content out of this.

While raiding the fridges at an abandoned medical research facility, Frank and Tormsen discuss the Abnormal Pathogen Research Group and its recent exploits. Content Warning for discussions of and riffing on medical conspiracy theories within the Unknown Armies universe. The APRG is detailed on pages 11-12 of Unknown Armies 3rd Edition's Book Three: REVEAL.

Frank and Tormsen talk shop on magickal artifacts, getting into where they come from, how you make them, some shortcuts for coming up with interesting ones, and techniques for deploying them in your game.

Frank and Tormsen return to the northern hemisphere to investigate another country's occult landscape. Friend of the show Toasty accommodates us with stories of sacrificial cults, KGB psychics, and some homemade Russian conspiracy theory.

Frank and Tormsen get stuck in a pit (again!) and are set upon, verbally and conceptually, but returning friend of the show Mellonbread. A discussion on dungeon crawls in Unknown Armies ensues, along with tangents on heists and Objectives. The Temple of the Crying Buddha, a one shot scenario by Mellonbread, can be found here: https://bellenmred.blogspot.com/2023/02/temple-of-crying-buddha-masterpo...

Frank and Tormsen go crawling through Atlas Games' dungeons in search of treasure, only to discover a far stranger artifact. From the strata of the OGL's primordial days walks The Ascension of the Magdalene, a dungeon crawl for Unknown Armies 2e and Dungeons and Dragons 3e.

Alarmed by a sudden growth, Frank and Tormsen discuss two of UA's warped animal spirits and how they can be used in your Unknown Armies campaign. Information on Familiars can be found on pages 88-90 and 112-120 of the Break Today sourcebook, while Lycanthropes are described on pages 303-304 of Unknown Armies 2nd Edition.

What does it mean to "Wake the Tiger"? What really is "the Unnatural"? What makes people freak out when they witness the occult? Your two hosts get into the weeds on some common assumptions and received wisdom in the Occult Underground, looking for bugs.

Frank and Tormsen attempt to avoid going off topic too often as they scheme and plot for another year of content for our Blessed Century.

In the spirit of Christmas, Frank and Tormsen discuss the cultic consulting group currently representing many of His living incarnations, the Jesus Christ Advisory Board. They talk about some potential members of the board, give some tips for starting your own cult, and try to figure out just how many archetypes Jesus fits into.

To celebrate three years of uploads, Frank and Tormsen take a risk and bring two game designers onto the show.

Live from a holding cell at Changi airport, Frank and Tormsen discuss the developments, divergences, and bad trips to be found in sorcerous drugs and drug-addled sorcerers. Saddle up Saturn's horse, the UPS is about to hit.

Three factions, one episode! Frank and Tormsen take a look at some of the groups mentioned in passing in the second edition core book: the old world secret society the Seven Invisible Chairs, the airborne and enigmatic Awâmîd al-Samawât, and the hellish Sardinian constructions of Les Infernaux.

In search of answers for their many questions on the furry subculture, Frank and Tormsen bring Ironclaw and ABYSS designer Norman Rafferty into the studio. Most of these questions are left unanswered as the three instead talk about their experiences with Delta Green, Rafferty's time in the early years of the RPG hobby, and the changing face of occult and investigative role playing games. Rafferty...

Unfortunate circumstances involving a needle gun and various lost body parts lead into a discussion on the works Michael Moorcock and the Moorcock Hypothesis. As your hosts fight to recover the Balance of Tormsen's depth perception, they talk Moorcock's far reaching influence, multiversal Neverwhen travel, and Henry Kissinger's role as the Eternal Champion.

Frahnk, Tormsen, and Mellonbread discuss the release of RITE, a new Statosphere fan splatbook for the Scottish Rite, part of a series devoted to the squabbling factions of contemporary Mak Attax called Special Orders. Mellonbread's creations can be found at The Rogue's Wallet https://bellenmred.blogspot.com/ Look for RITE at https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/411973/Special-Orders-RITE

Frank and Tormsen bring an actual skeleton into the studio to discuss the finer points adept magick. With this meeting of some of the statospheric minds underway, they cover how they wrote adept schools of their own, principles for designing adept schools yourself, and some ideas for fixing some issues with existing adept schools. Necroturgy: https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/367440/ Qichijia:...

大家好！Frahnk's Panda Express sits forlorn and uneaten as Tormsen rants about the Brotherhood of Harmonious Repose, it's origins in the ancient Sui dynasty, the shenanigans of its modern history, and its current position within China's occult underground.

While failing to pull off some gutter magick, Frank and Tormsen reminisce on 90's style tilt rituals. Peering through a shared pair of rose tinted glasses, they compare second and third edition's different approaches to design, and give some ideas for porting over parts of tilts that got lost with the universal reset.