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Jef and Jon review roleplaying games, Star Wars novels and anything else that crosses their paths.

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  1. Movie Mastery – The Man with the Iron Fists (2012)

    Movie Mastery – The Man with the Iron Fists (2012) RZA’s love letter to kung fu movies that mostly suffers by having RZA in it.

  2. Expounded Universe 334 – Murder Most Phow Ji

    Expounded Universe 334 – Murder Most Phow Ji Yeah we’re really hung up on this one weird moral call this book is also seemingly very hung up on, but hey […]

  3. System Mastery 337 – Double Cross

    System Mastery 337 – Double Cross Big old anime RPG, and actually from Japan for once! Vaguely superhero but realistically sorta shonen, let’s talk about Double Cross. Announcement Mastery! Help […]

  4. Movie Mastery – The Spirit (2008)

    Movie Mastery – The Spirit (2008) A comic book adaptation that fundamentally doesn’t understand its source material or even what makes a movie good.

  5. Expounded Universe 333 – The Sisters of Perpetual Convenience

    Expounded Universe 333 – The Sisters of Perpetual Convenience Look I’m sure there’s a perfectly good explanation for these highly convenient space nuns, but you see for yourself if it […]

  6. System Mastery 336 – MisAdventure Games

    System Mastery 335 – Tide Breaker Finally, everyone’s favorite thing, a universal OSR system! And in such a straightforward and simple 36 pages! Announcement Mastery! Help us support friends of […]

  7. Movie Mastery – Cat City (1986)

    Movie Mastery – Cat City (1986) A Hungarian cartoon about cat gangsters that is so much better than we ever assumed it would be.

  8. Expounded Universe 332 – Bleyd and the Vampires

    Expounded Universe 332 – Bleyd and the Vampires Who woulda guessed these two guys who wrote all the horniest Star Wars stuff we’ve dealt with, working together, would produce something […]

  9. System Mastery 334 – Delta Green

    System Mastery 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. […]

  10. Movie Mastery – The Rocketeer (1991)

    Movie Mastery – The Rocketeer (1991) For a movie that spent 8 years in development hell, they sure did put out one of the best pulp adventure films around.

  11. Expounded Universe 331 – Set Us Up The Bahm Gilyad

    Expounded Universe 331 – Set Us Up The Bahm Gilyad It took until chapter 4 of the book to do a “This dude is horny for this lady for way […]

  12. System Mastery 334 – Delta Green

    System Mastery 334 – Delta Green Well, at least now people can’t keep asking us to talk about it!

  13. Relationship Mastery 20

    Relationship Mastery 20 Not a lot of questions this time, that’s okay. We found other stuff to talk about, and we also brought Jon with us.

  14. Movie Mastery – Last Action Hero (1993)

    Movie Mastery – Last Action Hero (1993) The meta-commentary on action movies that can’t quite decide if it’s a parody or a love letter to the genre.

  15. Expounded Universe 330 – Extraneous Ass

    Expounded Universe 330 – Extraneous Ass New book time! Time to get into some clone wars era stuff as we visit the planet Drongar (uh oh that oughta raise some […]

  16. System Mastery 333 – Marvel Heroic Roleplaying LIVE

    System Mastery 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. […]

  17. System Mastery 332 – 13th Age

    System Mastery 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 […]

  18. Movie Mastery – Boris and Natasha (1992)

    Movie Mastery – Boris and Natasha (1992) The Rocky and Bullwinkle spinoff movie 30 years later that has none of the charm or humor of the original show

  19. Expounded Universe 329 – Ruins Wrap Up

    Expounded Universe 329 – Ruins Wrap Up Okay yeah here we go, all done. Questions answered, new book announced! Gonna be taking the next week off. Oh, by the way, […]

  20. System Mastery 331 – Blood and Vigilance

    System Mastery 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 […]

  21. Movie Mastery – Our Drawings (2023)

    Movie Mastery – Our Drawings (2023) An incomprehensible mess of low grade animation that barely has a plot and constantly changes what its own premise is

  22. Expounded Universe 328 – Podcasts are Weakness Leaving the Body

    Expounded Universe 328 – Podcasts are Weakness Leaving the Body The grand finale and … it all goes exactly how we’ve been saying it would. Painfully so. I guess that’s […]

  23. System Mastery 330 – Justice League Unlimited Preview

    System Mastery 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 […]

  24. Movie Mastery – Tammy and the T-Rex (1994)

    Movie Mastery – Tammy and the T-Rex (1994) A classic of the bad movie genre that only got made because someone had a mechanical dinosaur available for a month

  25. Expounded Universe 327 – Sacrificial Sacrifice

    Expounded Universe 327 – Sacrificial Sacrifice Finally some goddamn aliens. Also, a discourse on the nature of X-files episode endings.

  26. System Mastery 329 – Jukebox

    System Mastery 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 […]

  27. Expounded Universe 326 – Raisin’ The Jakes

    Expounded Universe 326 – Raisin’ The James Shit seems to have begun to pop off in a big way. There’s bodies and soldiers and earthquakes and all kinds of shit!

  28. Movie Mastery – Bloodrunners (2017)

    Movie Mastery – Bloodrunners (2017) Prohibition era vampires running bootleg blood using a speakeasy as a cover is a great idea but unfortunately this movie was made for None Dollars […]

  29. System Mastery 328 – Heavy Metal Thunder Mouse

    System Mastery 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 […]

  30. Relationship Mastery 19

    Relationship Mastery 19 Sorry about the delay, we seem to be plagued by death in the family recently. Also I have no idea what’s in here. I hope it’s funny!

  31. Movie Mastery – Gingerdead Man vs. Evil Bong (2013)

    Movie Mastery – Gingerdead Man vs. Evil Bong (2013) A crossover movie that is entirely coasting on the title and the knowledge that some people will watch literally anything to […]

  32. Expounded Universe 325 – Mulder Most Foul

    Expounded Universe 325 – Mulder Most Foul Oh no! An important character has come to an unfortunate end! Also military men are willing to shoot cats.

  33. System Mastery 327 – Alternity

    System Mastery 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 […]

  34. Movie Mastery – Voyage of the Rock Aliens (1984)

    Movie Mastery – Voyage of the Rock Aliens (1984) Pia Zadora briefly falls in love with an alien musician in this sci-fi/musical/comedy B-movie mash-up that feels like if Troma had […]

  35. Expounded Universe 324 – Jakes Meridian

    Expounded Universe 324 – Jakes Meridian We are getting sloppy, Jakes isn’t even in this episode!

  36. System Mastery 326 – Ryuutama

    System Mastery 326 – Ryuutama 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 […]

  37. System Mastery 325 – Root RPG

    System Mastery 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 animals […]

  38. Movie Mastery – Push (2009)

    Movie Mastery – Push (2009) A film that feels like an RPG with a bunch of psychics fighting a secret government agency.

  39. Expounded Universe 323 – Aliens in America

    Expounded Universe 323 – Aliens in America Our heroes (and a hidden villain perhaps?) begin their trek into the mysterious jungle, meanwhile a new super soldier enters the fray, and […]

  40. System Mastery 325 – Root RPG

    System Mastery 324 – Zenescope Presents: Age of Darkness RPG Sure it’s PBTA but really we want to talk about the rare-ish process by which specifically board games become specifically […]

  41. Expounded Universe 322 – Spring Break Scully

    Expounded Universe 322 – Spring Break Scully Our heroes hit Cancun as we start killing off side characters.

  42. System Mastery 324 – Zenescope Presents: Age of Darkness RPG

    System Mastery 324 – Zenescope Presents: Age of Darkness RPG Western boob comics! Remember these? They’ve long since supplanted by that single mega milk manga image, you know the one. […]

  43. Movie Mastery – Caravan of Courage: An Ewok Adventure (1984)

    Movie Mastery – Caravan of Courage: An Ewok Adventure (1984) Journey back to the forest moon of Endor, where magic is real, the Force isn’t a thing, and the 12 […]

  44. System Mastery 323 – Dragonbane

    System Mastery 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 […]

  45. Movie Mastery – Alpha and Omega (2010)

    Movie Mastery – Alpha and Omega (2010) An animated movie about wolf romance that has some weird ideas about what being an Omega wolf means (no not like that you […]

  46. Expounded Universe 321 – Dinosaur Teeth

    Expounded Universe 321 – Dinosaur Teeth Background extras abound as our heroes mostly just faff around checking in with the lone gunmen and collect NPCs they’ll need for later.

  47. System Mastery 322 – Incursion

    System Mastery 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 […]

  48. Movie Mastery – Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai (1999)

    Movie Mastery – Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai (1999) A feature that mashes up samurai films, mafia movies, and hip hop into something you are either going to […]

  49. Expounded Universe 320 – Funky Yellow Patina

    Expounded Universe 320 – Funky Yellow Patina Well, if you let Jon off the leash, you get X thing that isn’t Star Wars, so I guess we shouldn’t be surprised […]

  50. System Mastery 321 – Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai RPG

    System Mastery 321 – Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai Just one of your everyday run of the mill licensed games made out of Jim Jarmusch movies. Can’t tell […]

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Jef and Jon review roleplaying games, Star Wars novels and anything else that crosses their paths.

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