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Expounded Universe 281 – Rancor Ridin’ Dirty!

Okay, this one I remember. Our characters one by one begin to converge on Nal Hutta, the current homeworld of everyone’s favorite big slug gansgters. No one meets anyone else yet though. We’re saving that for sweeps.

Expounded Universe 280 – The Toxic Moxla Avenger

Okay, apparently I forgot to post this very important episode for a while and a half, between work trips and some ongoing medical drama, it just slipped my attention. I officially apologize. Also, I have no idea what happened in it. I don’t even know what a moxla is anymore. Some sort of venomous thing, I trust. Please enjoy!

Movie Mastery – Now You See Me (2014)

An otherwise decent heist movie that gets dragged down by some bad choices on CGI and presentation that could have easily been reworked.

System Mastery 278 – The Skeletons

Is it too late to call this a theme month? Because it turned out to be a theme month. Cool minimalist projects by designers we like. Weird! The Skeletons is a thoughtful game about playing as skeletons guarding a tomb, by Jason Morningstar.

Movie Mastery – Death Bed: The Bed That Eats

A 70’s horror film that was mostly forgotten because even with a premise that seems like it should be wildly memorable, the entire thing is about as interesting as someone describing paint drying.

System Mastery 277 – For The Queen

Who says we can’t do cool modern design reviews? Or interview the cool working designers of today that make them? Whoever said that, lemme at ’em! Today we’re discussing For The Queen, a game we both enjoy enough to also want get Alex Roberts (already our expert dog correspondent if you’re in the Patreon) to join us to talk about her awesome game and the new edition of it that will be out the same day as this episode! (that’s synergy)

Announcement Mastery
Find Amerarcana on Kickstarter between May 14th and June 14th. Search for Amerarcana, spelled A-M-E-R-A-R-C-A-N-A or find it here: https://tinyurl.com/Amerarcanaprelaunch

Expounded Universe 279 – Cinzia Been Gone

Welcome back to Star Wars! Specifically that special brand of Bioware-era Star Wars (like, they got their own era) set 4000 years before New Hope! Meet a bunch of new characters with forgettable fantasy names and also JET NEBULA.

System Mastery 276 – Muse

Who would have thought this weird little collaborative storytelling shared narrative exercise game could be so divisive? We discuss Muse, a game that uses cards and tokens and lots of paper to help you and your group tell a story and definitely not make everyone hate each other, at all.

Movie Mastery – Hard Rock Zombies (1984)

A literal afterthought of a movie that manages to survive mostly on being so weird that you can almost ignore how bad and boring it is.

System Mastery 275 – Aria: Canticle of the Monomyth (Part 2)

Fine, we finished it. This was truly just an awful thing to keep reading through, I think it’s been a while since we’ve both been this angry. Anyway, if you come support us on Patreon to hear the bonus content, we couldn’t be assed to make Aria characters. They suck. So we made characters in the game LIFTS instead, which doesn’t suck. This is your update on that topic.