Team-Up Moves

The conclusion to our actual play of Sentinel Comics: the Roleplaying Game from Greater Than Games. Our heroes have a note from Time Keeper’s future self telling them to go to Monomer’s company office at midnight in a few days. How will they prepare? What will happen when the clock strikes 12:00?

Ian Gregory (they/them, @fissionmale) — Ursula, the Weird Sister

Ceci Mancuso (they/them, @[email protected]) — Horatio “Time Keeper” Holm

Stephanie Burt (she/her, @accommodatingly/@[email protected]) — Mona “Monomer” Maxwell-Damon

Fiona Hopkins (she/her, @fionawhim/@[email protected]) — Game Moderator

Website: https://teamupmoves.com/

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Theme Music: “Play” by Sleepyhead

Part two of our actual play of Sentinel Comics: the Roleplaying Game from Greater Than Games. There’s a volcano in the middle of the Grandsmeddow that is being brought forward in time by a strange device. Our heroes need to contend with an angry fire-wielding supervillain, Flame Jane, and quite a few lava wurms as they work to get to the device and stop it from causing more destruction in New Arcadia.

Ian Gregory (they/them, @fissionmale) — Ursula, the Weird Sister

Ceci Mancuso (they/them, @[email protected]) — Horatio “Time Keeper” Holm

Stephanie Burt (she/her, @accommodatingly/@[email protected]) — Mona “Monomer” Maxwell-Damon

Fiona Hopkins (she/her, @fionawhim/@[email protected]) — Game Moderator

Website: https://teamupmoves.com/

Email: [email protected]

Twitter: @teamupmoves

Mastodon: @[email protected]

Theme Music: “Play” by Sleepyhead

We’ve got Ian and Ceci back to play Sentinel Comics: the Roleplaying Game from Greater Than Games. It’s time for some good ol’ superheroing as a volcano erupts in the middle of New Arcadia.

Can our heroes—a scientist/entrepreneur with a powered suit of her own making, a college dropout who stole the wrong magical artifact from the mob, and Ursula, an actual witch from Macbeth—rescue civilians, fight off villains, and put a stop to the lava before it consumes the entire Grandsmeddow?

Ian Gregory (they/them, @fissionmale) — Ursula, the Weird Sister

Ceci Mancuso (they/them, @[email protected]) — Horatio “Time Keeper” Holm

Stephanie Burt (she/her, @accommodatingly/@[email protected]) — Mona “Monomer” Maxwell-Damon

Fiona Hopkins (she/her, @fionawhim/@[email protected]) — Game Moderator

Website: https://teamupmoves.com/

Email: [email protected]

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Time to talk about Mutant City Blues! In this back matter episode we discuss our feelings about creating characters using the Quade Diagram, the challenges of GMing a mystery, and the uncomfortable relationships between superheroes and cops.

Our Mundane Supernatural Life is written by Vee Hendro and Hayley Gordon, and published by Storybrewers.

• Superman: Secret Identity (2004) (trade paperback collecting the run), written by Kurt Busiek, art by Stuart Immonen
• Astonishing X-Men (2004-2013), nos. 48-51 (2013), written by Marjorie Liu and pencilled Mike Perkins, and Astonishing X-Men Annual no. 1 (2013), written by Christos Gage and penciled by David Baldéon
• X-Factor (2020) by Leah Williams, inks by David Baldeon, colors by Israel Silva
• Trial of Magneto (2021) by Leah Williams, art by Lucas Werneck, colors by Edgar Delgado
• Unbeatable Squirrel Girl #31 by Ryan North, art by Erica Henderson, colors by Rico Renzi
• Still Very Much Into Swords by Fiona “SamanthaVimes” Hopkins
• The Value of G and Let’s Go Shopping by Stephanie “NotQuiteHydePark” Burt

• Piers Plowman by William Langland
• Improv for Gamers 2nd Edition by Karen Twelves, published by Evil Hat
• Short Street to Kicklebury by notbecauseofvictories (genderbent Sam Vimes / Sybil Ramkin Discworld fic)

Stephanie Burt (she/her, @accommodatingly)

Fiona Hopkins (she/her, @fionawhim/@[email protected])

Website: https://teamupmoves.com/

Email: [email protected]

Twitter: @teamupmoves

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Fiona and Stephanie are sitting down together for the cozy and delightful Our Mundane Supernatural Life by Vee Hendro and Hayley Gordon, published by Storybrewers.

Stephanie plays the sentient robot G.I.M.A., who was built by New Arcadia to help with municipal infrastructure maintenance but developed a mind of her own. Fiona is her roommate Emily, the owner of the small boutique yarn and fabric shop Puns and Needles.

Listen to three days in their life as G.I.M.A. deals with being possessed by the villainous Grid Ghost and Emily prepares for a visit from a knitting VIP.

Stephanie Burt (she/her, @accommodatingly) — G.I.M.A.

Fiona Hopkins (she/her, @fionawhim/@[email protected]) — Emily Ostby

• Bye Bye Kitty Cat by The Mice

Website: https://teamupmoves.com/

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Time to talk about Mutant City Blues! In this back matter episode we discuss our feelings about creating characters using the Quade Diagram, the challenges of GMing a mystery, and the uncomfortable relationships between superheroes and cops.

Mutant City Blues is written by Robin D. Laws and Gareth Ryder-Hanrahan, and published by Pelgrane Press.

• Powers by Brian Michael Bendis, illustrated by Michael Avon Oeming
• Top 10 by Alan Moore, illustrated by Gene Ha and Zander Cannon
• District X #1–6 by David Hine, illustrated by David Yardin
• X-Factor (1986) #71–90 by Peter David, illustrated by Larry Stroman
• X-Factor (2020) by Leah Williams, inks by David Baldeon, colors by Israel Silva
• Rosemary and Rue and other October Daye novels by Seanan McGuire
• Doctor Strange and the Sorcerers Supreme (2016) by Robbie Thompson, illustrated by Javier Rodriguez
• The Reckoners (but actually read Mistborn) by Brandon Sanderson

• Strong Female Protagonist by Brennan Lee Mulligan and Molly Knox Ostertag
• Nightwing (2021) by Tom Taylor, art by Bruno Redondo
• Superman, Son of Kal-El by Tom Taylor, art by John Timms
• The Discord of Gods (A Chorus of Dragons series) by Jenn Lyons

Rachel Gold (she/they, @RachelGold) — Look for Being Emily and Synclair wherever books are sold!

Shana Hausman (they/them, @shanajeanh) — Find them on TikTok as @shanajeanh!

Stephanie Burt (she/her, @accommodatingly)

Fiona Hopkins (she/her, @fionawhim)

Website: https://teamupmoves.com/

Email: [email protected]

Twitter: @teamupmoves

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It’s the second half of our actual play of Mutant City Blues by Robin D. Laws (@RobinDLaws) and Gareth Hanrahan (@mytholder), published by Pelgrane Press. Our three investigators from LICK, Inc. have headed to Leos, a café in VR Heights, to track down Kerrigan Park. They found suspicious payments to Ms. Park’s B*Spoke shop on a thumb drive owned by the late Carson Davis.

Content Warning: Swearing. PC uses emotion control powers on NPCs. Descriptions of an entitled, possessive dude taking the end of a relationship badly.

Find out more about the game: https://pelgranepress.com/product/mutant-city-blues-2nd-edition/

This month we’re also including selections from We Are Mermaids, Stephanie’s new book of poetry, published by Graywolf Press! Listen at the end of the show for a reading.

Rachel Gold (she/they, @RachelGold) — Micah Nichols

Shana Hausman (they/them, @shanajeanh) — Aubergine

Stephanie Burt (she/her, @accommodatingly) — Clarissa Marlowe

Fiona Hopkins (she/her, @fionawhim) — Game Moderator

Website: https://teamupmoves.com/

Email: [email protected]

Twitter: @teamupmoves

Theme Music: “Play” by Sleepyhead

We’re starting our actual play of Mutant City Blues by Robin D. Laws (@RobinDLaws) and Gareth Hanrahan (@mytholder), published by Pelgrane Press. Hear our three super-powered private investigators, who have been hired by the local transit engineers’ union to investigate a suspicious fire on a subway car.

Find out more about the game: https://pelgranepress.com/product/mutant-city-blues-2nd-edition/

There are a lot of visual references in this episode, so we made a Twitter thread covering them all: https://twitter.com/teamupmoves/status/1574929575720939520

This month we’re also including selections from We Are Mermaids, Stephanie’s new book of poetry, published by Graywolf Press! Listen at the end of the show for a reading.

Rachel Gold (she/they, @RachelGold) — Micah Nichols

Shana Hausman (they/them, @shanajeanh) — Aubergine

Stephanie Burt (she/her, @accommodatingly) — Clarissa Marlowe

Fiona Hopkins (she/her, @fionawhim) — Game Moderator

Website: https://teamupmoves.com/

Email: [email protected]

Twitter: @teamupmoves

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Come for the uncharacteristically sloppy opening, keep listening for a great discussion about Exceptionals by Gar Atkins, and stay to the end for a li’l song.

In this back matter episode, we dig into character creation, game mechanisms, and the comics we think go with this game.

More Info: https://bramblewolfgames.itch.io/exceptionals

• New Mutants Vol. 4 (2020) #14–present by written by Vita Ayala and art by Rod Reis
• New Mutants Vol. 3 (2009) #33 written by Dan Abnett and Andy Lanning
• New Mutants Vol. 1 (1983) #21, “Slumber Party” (and Steph’s article about why it’s the best) and many others by Chris Claremont and Louise Simonson
• X-Men Evolution s2e1 “Growing Pains”
• Any story with the Morlocks
• New X-Men Vol. 1 #135–138, “Riot at Xavier’s” written by Grant Morrison
• Comic by Raphael Salimena (@linhadotrem): https://imgur.com/gallery/zu4DGps (translated)
• New Mutants Vol. 2 (2003) written by Nunzio DeFilippis and Christina Weir
• Astro City by Kurt Busiek
• Domino Annual (2018) by Gail Simone
• X-Men Unlimited #22, “Cat and Mouse” by Brian K. Vaughan

• @DanTalksGames thread about crits in Pathfinder 2e

Armaan Babu (he/him, @ArmaanBabu) — Find his work at ComicsXF and on Twitter.

Becca Petunia (she/her, @UnclePetunio) — Look for Hubba-Wha?! on Tough Pigs’ podcast feed and hear her on the first two seasons of Roll Out!

Stephanie Burt (she/her, @accommodatingly)

Fiona Hopkins (she/her, @fionawhim)

Website: https://teamupmoves.com/

Email: [email protected]

Twitter: @teamupmoves

Theme Music: “Play” by Sleepyhead

We’re back with the second half of our AP of Exceptionals by Gar Atkins (@Sahoni_Stuff). We left off just as Manticore was writing her lesson plans. Find out how she rolled, and then what happens when the crew paddles over to the Traipse River power plant to give it what for.

Find out more about the game: https://bramblewolfgames.itch.io/exceptionals

Armaan Babu (he/him, @ArmaanBabu) — Eddie Varma

Becca Petunia (she/her, @UnclePetunio) — Mandy “Manticore” Corr

Stephanie Burt (she/her, @accommodatingly) — Penny “Faraday” Madrid

Fiona Hopkins (she/her, @fionawhim) — The Editor

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Twitter: @teamupmoves

Theme Music: “Play” by Sleepyhead