Microphones of Madness

Steve and Rodney tackle the 1993 Jackie Chan film City Hunter so you don't have to.

(Pulp Cthulhu) Tempers flare when the samurai interrogate a prisoner with nothing to lose, meanwhile, the puppeteer Morotame’s philandering past catches up to him.

Steve and Rodney travel back to WWII with Asamatsu Ken's Kthulhu Reich. Grab a copy for yourself HERE .

(Pulp Cthulhu) The mystery of the bloodless corpses thickens, a familiar face leads Rodney, Lillie, Nicholas, and Wesley on a chase through the red light district of Sunrise. All this and yokai in this week’s Mask of the Oni by Microphones of Madness.

Steve and Rodney discuss the best film of all time, Akira Kurosawa's Yojimbo.

(Pulp Cthulhu) Tasked by their lord to investigate the foul sorcery discovered at Slow Tide Harbor, the Heroes of Hamamatsu journey to the town of Sunrise to look into the deaths of several samurai whose bodies were found drained of blood. What horrors will these noble samurai uncover? Find out in the continuation of Steve's chanbara epic.

Steve and Rodney challenge themselves to create encounters/ short scenarios based on the scene from Doom Patrol linked below. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=80X_WuqsLv4 If you are interested in playing either of these scenarios and don't feel confident reconstructing them from our discussion, we will be making our notes available on the Microphones of Madness page on Facebook. https://www.faceboo...

(Pulp Cthulhu) The heroes race to the docks of Slow Tide Harbor to prevent the horrid fate of a several captured samurai. Will the Monday Night Heroes survive this encounter with terror? Find out in this episode!

Steve and Rodney ponder adapting setting ideas from favorite media and the disadvantages of gaming in popular licensed universes.

(Pulp Cthulhu) Fed up with spinning their wheels in the morass of Slow Tide Harbor, the heroes decide that the wheels of Justice need to be greased Monday Night Heroes style. 

Steve and Rodney discuss session prep, campaign planning, and Michael Shea's Return of the Lazy Dungeon Master.  Get it at the link below. http://slyflourish.com/returnofthelazydm/

The disappearance of Doji Hirashige grows ever more complex and the heroes face the shade of a murdered samurai. It's sword slinging, investigative action as only the Monday Night Heroes can. 

The Madmen join the World's Strangest Heroes and take a look at DC Universe's DOOM PATROL and compare it to Grant Morrison's run on the comics.

(Pulp Cthulhu) Slow Tide Harbor presents to be a formidable challenge to outsiders seeking information in this second installment of Steve's latest samurai epic.

Steve and Rodney check out Jordan Peel's Us. What did they think? Tune in to find out!

(Pulp Cthulhu) The Monday Night Heroes return to Steve's fantasy Japan for another sanity shattering adventure. A group of bushi are tasked to recover the wayward son of an allied lord, but found that they have ventured into a den of iniquity.

Steve and Rodney take a look at Craig Laurence Gidney's A Spectral Hue from Worde Horde! Get it here !

( ICPRG Core ) A group of adventurers journey across a vast and ancient desert to retrieve a map that leads to an item of great power and encounter a dying village. To obtain the map, the heroes must lift the curse that poisons the town's well. Will they succeed or will they all become lost beneath the shifting sands of a world at the end of the time? Find out as Rodney runs the Monday Night Heroe...

And the weather is sweet... Steve and Rodney continue their look at Gene Wolfe's Book of the New Sun.

(ICONS Assembled Edition) The Justice Association faces the powerful cosmic entity Mortraeth summoned into the cloned form of The Alpha. Will they survive? Find out in the finale of Reflection of a Paragon. 

It takes an epic length episode to cover something like the late Gene Wolfe's Book of the New Sun, but we had to do it in two. Here is the first part of our wanderings into the far future.

(ICONS Assembled Edition) The coming of Mortraeth is at hand but the Justice Association must deal with the terror of Phobos. 

Steve and Rodney talk about the 2019 film by Frant Gwo, The Wandering Earth. The sci-fi /disaster /action film is available on Netflix. 

(ICONS Assembled Edition) Slick Silver awakens from his coma with  a new form and the Justice Association decides to test his skill. Meanwhile, the menacing Phobos blankets Kirby in terror. Will the heroes be able to save the city or will they fall victim to the Lord of Nightmares? Find out in this week's episode of Reflection of a Paragon, Rodney's Silver Age superhero campaign!

Steve and Rodney take a look a Brian Hauser's Momento Mori: The Fathomless Shadows from Worde Horde . Check it out by clicking the highlighted text.