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System Mastery 304 – Runequest (1984) This is one of the venerable old giants of the fantasy gaming industry. Avalon Hill producing Chaosium’s Runequest. Couldn’t be more classic. But how […]

Movie Mastery – Carpool (1996) From a hotel room in Wisconsin, we drag James into our muck and watch a Tom Arnold film that is extremely Tom Arnold

Expounded Universe 304 – Don’t Call it a Comeback That ended abruptly! Sure enough we get a chapter containing both Vader and Xizor, but… eh you’ll see. Also there’s some […]

System Mastery 302 – Capers By all account, this is the first ever superhero RPG, but don’t let that fool you, it contains virtually nothing you’d recognize as a superhero […]

Relationship Mastery 12 Hey, we made another one! I wasn’t sure, but here it is. That means yes, it’s finally time to change the tag for questions to RM13. Will […]

System Mastery 302 – Capers Okay the rumors that we like every supers game are scurrilous, devious, and increasingly accurate. This is Capers, and it’s a supers game set in […]

Movie Mastery -Sexy Evil Genius (2013) Buffy, BSG, and Lost collide in a bar with a Baldwin and what happens is, you know, fine.

Expounded Universe 303 – All I Need Is a Miracle Vader packs up and rides to join the party, Jax and company fight some crazy robots, and Xizor meets Nick […]

System Mastery 301 – The Arcanum Hi folks, let’s start up another 300 of these, what do you say? This one is about The Arcanum, an early 80s game that […]

Movie Mastery – Battlefield Earth (2000) It’s taken a while but we finally have gotten to the movie that every bad movie podcast has to talk about eventually.

Expounded Universe 302 – Here Comes a Special Droid Honestly, I-5 isn’t even super important here, we just think it’s so funny how he keeps having a module for exactly […]

System Mastery 300 – Palladium Fantasy Well that certainly was 300 times we did a thing, I tell you what! Let’s take a little victory lap by cracking open a […]

Movie Mastery – The Astrologer (1976) Another Astrologer? That’s right, it’s the other movie from 1975 with this name and probably the one we were supposed to watch initially.

Expounded Universe 301 – A Special Pinch Man is I-5 ever useful. But who's also a protocol droid with a weird gun hand that everyone wants to know about? I […]

System Mastery 299 – Bleeding Heart We’re hard at work on our giant pile of weird old box sets, and that means it’s time for Bleeding Heart, a game that […]

Relationship Mastery 11 We’re not done yet! More relationship questions, more fun stories, and Claire has a podcast pitch for you.

Movie Mastery – The Astrologer (1975) We might have ended up watching the wrong The Astrologer from 1975 since there are two bad movies of that name from that year. […]

Expounded Universe 300 – Slut Plate Summer Well dang, this was episode 300? Then I guess we shall podcast in the shade. In today’s episode Jax and the gang escape […]

System Mastery 298 – Wild West I really hope you’re enjoying this string of very old games, we’re doing our best to get back into them quickly (ever since I […]

Movie Mastery – Van Helsing (2004) Wolverine fights the Duke from Moulin Rouge in a movie that sucks so bad and yet is a spectacle of absolute joy to watch.

Expounded Universe 299 – Pardon My French, But Jax Pavan is an Asshole Oh hey, this book has act breaks! And we just found what might be the only one! […]

System Mastery 297 – Star Trek the Roleplaying Game Can we review an 80s Star Trek game without our pacemakers exploding? What if FASA made it? We’re looking at the […]

Movie Mastery – Robin and the Dreamweavers (2000) The maker of He-Man and Fat Albert decided to make an adult cartoon movie about fighting the personification of internet porn addiction […]

Expounded Universe 298 – Rostu on the Smuggle Bus This episode is a Jax-free space. We focus on Den, we check in with Nick Rostu, and somehow Kaird is still […]

System Mastery 296 – Lewd Dungeon Adventures Finally someone bought that game that advertises on Facebook, and it was us. It’s a fantasy adventure game with some sex-themed rules, but […]