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Rocky and Jords talk about why Project Hail Mary might actually be a better as an RPG than as a movie.

It’s a good day to live free and die hard with a vengeance, as Rocky and Jords dig into the seminal Christmas story slash action blockbuster.

Rocky and Jords put the “arr” in RPG as they take to the high seas to track down the lost treasure of pirate games.

In which Rocky takes a break from editing and Jords discovers the true meaning of Christmas.

Rocky and Jords get everybody and the stuff together to turn 1998’s saddest genre smashing anime into a roleplaying game session. 3… 2… 1… let’s jam.

Rocky and Jords turn sports into a real game as they delve into sports… movies. And it turns out that more things are sports movies than you might think.

It’s all legs and hard boiled eggs as the Pals step into your ears with a case you just can’t turn down.

Rocky and Jords figure out what it takes to ride eternal on the Fury Road.

Rocky and Jords sink their teeth into what makes a game feel like an early-2000s vampire ​hunting flick.

Rocky and Jords play judge, jury, and a lil' executioner as they convert 2012's smash hit(?) Dredd into a quip-powered depth-crawl.

Rocky and Jords dig into not one but three stories in SF writer Alastair Reynolds' Revelation Space universe.

Rocky and Jords see how deep the rabbit hole goes as they figure out how to plan a session that feels like you're in the Matrix. But then, out of the Matrix. And then, back in the Matrix again. Show notes and transcript at playtonics.net/the-matrix If you have ideas for topics you'd like to hear us cover, hit us up at [email protected], or slide into our DMs on Instagram, Bluesky and Mastodon.

Rocky and Jords dive into the world of queen bees and wannabes as they turn Mean Girls into a game. Show notes and transcript at playtonics.net/mean-girls If you have ideas for topics you'd like to hear us cover, hit us up at [email protected], or slide into our DMs on Instagram, Bluesky and Mastodon.

Rocky and Jords are back to discuss how to run a great game about being a terrible archaeologist. Show notes and transcript at playtonics.net/raiders If you have ideas for topics you'd like to hear us cover, hit us up at [email protected], or slide into our DMs on Instagram, Bluesky and Mastodon.

In a fast-and-loose end of year review, Rocky and Jords talk about some of the ideas that kept showing up in Season 1. Show notes and transcript at playtonics.net/2024-recap. If you have ideas for what you'd like to hear in 2025, hit us up at [email protected], or slide into our DMs on Instagram, Bluesky and Mastodon.

After a year of podcasting, Rocky and Jords finally ask the big question: how do you run a great game of D&D that actually feels like D&D? Show notes and transcript at playtonics.net/dandd

It's killing all the way up as Rocky and Jords tackle John Wick, the ultimate movie for hyperviolent dog people. Shownotes and transcript at playtonics.net/john-wick

Rocky and Jords dive into Stranger Things, ET and Super-8, to figure out how to nail that nostalgia-fuelled Kids On Bikes Solving Mysteries vibe. Show notes and transcript at playtonics.net

Rocky and Jords figure out how to capture the fake gods and real adventures of classic early 2000s TV show, Stargate: SG-1. (Thanks for waiting the extra month for this one! Our editor, Rocky, was in the jungles of Uganda chasing gorillas, but we should be back to our regular monthly schedule from here.) Show notes and transcript at playtonics.net/stargate

Rocky and Jords take you out to the black, to figure out how to deliver on the Space-Western-Heist vibes of Firefly. Show notes and transcript at playtonics.net/firefly

Arthur C. Clarke one said that "...any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." It's a cool idea for a book - but can it work in an RPG? Rocky and Jords are on a quest to find out. Transcript and shownotes at playtonics.net/elder-race

In this truly novel take, Rocky and Jords adapt Akira Kurosawa's Seven Samurai into a role-playing game scenario for what's surely the first time ever. Transcript and shownotes at playtonics.net/seven-samurai

Rocky and Jords master the elements of running an Avatar: The Last Airbender game that actually feels like the show. Shownotes and transcript at playtonics.net/avatar-the-last-airbender

Rocky and Jords share spicy takes on the best way to run a game about worms. Credits, transcript and a selfie at playtonics.net/dune

This week, Rocky and Jords watched some westerns, and tried to figure out how to bring a lone wolf, wild frontier vibe to a group of people playing a game indoors. Shownotes, transcript, and a tiny bonus game at playtonics.net/westerns

Rocky and Jords figure out how to capture the 'high tech, lowlife' feeling of cyberpunk in an RPG session - and figure out how to make a podcast at the same time. Transcript at playtonics.net