335 - Tide Breaker
It's a rules light game! By which of course we mean it has like several hundred rules, but none of them are especially heavy. Learn more abo...
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20 of 345 episodes334 - Delta Green
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333- Marvel Heroic Roleplaying LIVE
Recorded live at GenCon 2026, this episode sounds like fuzzy butt because we didn't have a way to test the house equipment. If you can endur...
332 - 13th Age
Well, I guess it's better than 5e. How's the 2nd edition of this? Obviously we're taking them in order. Sound off in the comments and smash...
331 - Blood and Vigilance
Shoot, we accidentally made a supplement episode. I thought this was a core book! Oh well, it's basically a superhero patch to be applied to...
330 - Justice League Unlimited Preview
We've been pretty clear in our Marvel fanboy natures, especially when it comes to comics (we're pretty equal opportunity with films and cart...
329 - Jukebox
Hey how about we let Jon pick a game, that's what I said. And then of course the moment I said okay we get a game with a karaoke mechanic. L...
328 - Heavy Metal Thunder Mouse
I still can't remember if this is our first FATE game or not, I think it might be? It's about mice, that are bikers. There's also frogs and...
327 - Alternity
Sci-fi, TSR style. I can't figure out why I thought this would be D&D based, maybe because it came out so late in the TSR lifecycle that I t...
326 - Ryutaama
Okay at this point I think it's starting to get obvious that the two of us are down with the cozy games. This one is cute as heck. Get on a...
325 - Root RPG
Sure it's PBTA but really we want to talk about the rare-ish process by which specifically board games become specifically RPGs. Plus these...
324 - Zenescope Presents: The Dark Age RPG
Western boob comics! Remember these? They've long since supplanted by that single mega milk manga image, you know the one. Anyway somewhere...
323 - Dragonbane
Let's take a look at a game out of Sweden, née as Drakar Och Demoner, a classic dungeon crawl game with fairly simple mechanics, sleek layou...
322 - Incursion
Find out which one of us gets mad enough to break the no research rule as we dive in to discuss this game of alien abduction and intergalact...
321 - Ghost Dog: Way of the Samurai
Just one of your everyday run of the mill licensed games made out of Jim Jarmusch movies. Can't tell you how sick I am of playing Palladium'...
320 - Amazing Engine, Bughunter
Fine you want major trash that time forgot? You got it, buster. You're gonna sit write there while we review the whole pack. Of Amazing Engi...
319 - Red Dwarf
Who's ready for licensed comedy property RPGs? These are always the best, am I right? Today is Red Dwarf, an RPG based on a British comedy s...
318 - Man, Myth & Magic
Two games in one box? What a bargain! MM&M here comes with basic and advanced rulesets for its historical fantasy Earth setting, though the...
317 - Fabula Ultima
Hell yeah we got something for under your tree! It's a System Mastery review of Fabula Ultima! For future readers that joke is because I put...
316 - Truth & Justice
Well hello there, superhero game from 2005. We saw you from across the room, and we dug your weird mix between classic and modern game desig...