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Jef and Jon review roleplaying games, Star Wars novels and anything else that crosses their paths.
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Jef and Jon review roleplaying games, Star Wars novels and anything else that crosses their paths.
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 what the group needs every time. Really, this is the “Xizor Makes His Move” set of chapters.
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 cask we’ve been saving for a special occasion, a feisty little 1983 vintage called Palladium Fantasy that definitely isn’t just dust and vinegar by this point, right? Right? Announcement Mastery! Check out Gamer Mom: The Mom Who Games right now on Kickstarter!…
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 bet you all forgot about Bug Eyes, who is theoretically the MacGuffin of this production, and who JUST TURNED UP. Yeah!
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 Jon assures me is loosely based on something called the Corman Poe film era of the mid-sixties, and he’s a total horror nerd so I gotta go with him on this one. Announcement Mastery! Obelisk is launching on Kickstarter April 7th. Visit obeliskttrpg.com/kickstarter to get notified when it launches! Help listener Alex Shaw and his family recover from a devastating home fire! https://gofund.me/92b44dd2…
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. This one is 90% dialogue!
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 some droid police (DROID POLICE, BEEP BEEP BEEP) on flying Segways, while Rhinann whines and Nick Rostu… also kinda whines.
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 found one of my old box sets fully eaten by bugs and had to fumigate). In this case, it’s a game about real old timey cowboys! Like Boot Hill but not TSR!…
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! You can tell because I-5 finally finds Jax Pavan. Who is an asshole about it.
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 Star Trek RPG from roughly 1983, which means (if you’re counting) that it’s based on the original series, the animated series, and the first three films. Is it okay or does it have to go home and copy 10 pages out of the K section of the dictionary? Let’s find out! Go forth and support Celestial Bodies on Kickstarter! It’s a game about harvesting the remnants of dead gods in cool upgradeable mechs out in space, which is… pretty cool really.…
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 as a pitch for a show that I can’t imagine being sold to literally any television company.
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 kicking around, but we aren’t seeing what’s up with Jax and Laranth. Also, Rhinan is making strong moves towards just ruining the Empire’s public relations division.…
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 honestly I don’t want to spoil anything here because it’s a tiny wee little game that could never possibly satisfy any REAL gamer. Damn it, still with the jokes. It’s a sex RPG and we read it. That’s for sure. Oh and hey, go support Solo But Not Alone 5 , okay? Good cause. We’re supporting it. You get a lot of solo games for a small amount of money and contribute to a cause that’s literally never been needed more.…
Movie Mastery – Sex and the City 2 (2010) Having never seen a full episode of the show, this movie is possibly the worst way to be introduced to the property. It’s just rich white people complaining and being awful but not in a fun way like Arrested Development.
System Mastery 295 – Insurgent A very quick little modern game designed to be played solo or with a small group but no GM, in which you rebel against something. What do you rebel against? Whattaya got?
Movie Mastery – Roller Blade (1986) From the guy that brought us Baby Ghost, comes a movie that is just about the same level of quality but way more nudity, knives, and n-roller skates.
Expounded Universe 296 – Rostu to the Rescue No one new, and we’ll still moving pieces into place, but hey Nick and Jax have met and headed off for a just-dudes sushi brunch, which if you think about it, Star Wars doesn’t have nearly enough of.
System Mastery 294 – OGL Ancients It’s what it says! Though it’s adding a lot of stuff to the venerable old combat engine of 3.X OGL, it’s an OGL game where you play as primarily Greeks and Egyptians from antiquity (you can get a Scythian or someone from Thessaly in if you want, it’s just not a great plan). Announcement Mastery Coffee, Cults, and Empires is a brand new AP launching February 2025 that is a story, within a story, within a festive autumnal squash. Wait, no, it’s within a third story! Hang out with the intern that takes down the story of several professors playing RPGs as the world around them prepares to end!…
Movie Mastery – The Beastmaster (1982) A bog standard barbarian plot that gets just enough spice from the animal telepathy stuff to be kind of worth watching.
Expounded Universe 295 – The Den Dhur Bender We’ve met almost everyone we know we need to now! Just Laranth to go! But hark, we’re meeting a subvillain for the book this time, and he hates Xizor, and now we’re hearing that old classic Xizor bragging. Feels good to be home.
System Mastery 293 – Alas Vegas This is a little recent for our usual stuff, but Jon was really interested after the Fastlane review to keep looking at games that utilize classic casino games as RPG randomizers, and this one’s a doozy! Combining Blackjack and Tarot stuff, no less! Right in Jon’s very wheelhouse. The game is neat too! There’s a ton in here, it’s definitely one of those big rocks that rolled down a Kickstarter success story and accumulated content as it went, so we made some calls on what to focus on that we’ll explain within. At the end of the day, this is pretty dang neat. Announcement Mastery Ravenswool.com ! Check them out, they make awesome yarn colorways, and they’re even maybe making some based on our very jokes, it’s super cool.…
Expounded Universe 294 – Smoggy Bottom Boys Oh right, I just remembered that as much fun as Den and I-5 and laughing at Aurra Sing were, Jax Pavan is a dude what sucks. It’s all coming back. Yes, that’s right folks, welcome back to Coruscant Nights, the noir Star Wars. We’re meeting a few new to us names today. Even Piell, Nick Rostu, and of course Jax are all running around the bowels of the city planet having remarkably similar adventures, all things considered.…
Movie Mastery – Kraven the Hunter (2024) We return to the theaters to complete our grim duty of bearing witness to the slow and tragic mutilation of everything Spider-Man related that Sony shoves into the grinder.
Relationship Mastery 10 We did it! We got back on the mics. It’s the little podcast that maybe can! I bet we answer a bunch of listener questions and discuss fandom and sex stuff!
System Mastery 292 – Unbidden Back to basics, some game you probably never heard of that we didn’t like. That’s the basic essence of the show, right? It has to come up sometimes. I’m talking about the show here because honestly I can’t think of much to say about this sort of generic “There are secrets in the world that you can’t learn about without going crazy” type game that isn’t already in the episode.…
Movie Mastery – Ocean Drive Weekend (1985) A listener’s recently deceased dad worked on this movie but don’t worry, they just did director of photography so they aren’t fully to blame for this turd of a 60’s nostalgia movie.
System Mastery 291 – Fastlane Oh buddy you better believe we love it when the game has a weird alternative randomizing mechanic, and this thing is all about roulette. Yes, it straight up tells you at the start that you can use a digital one or even a dice based approximation, but for max results, you should get a roulette wheel. What else? Well, it’s a generic system besides the ruleset, so we go all in on that.…
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