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Rocky and Jords figure out what it takes to ride eternal on the Fury Road. But like, in a way that involves sitting around a table and not jumping between moving vehicles.

Witness us, shiny an…

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

We leaned pretty heavily on the Vampyramid and Conspyramid this episode, which are from…

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

We landed on a depth crawl as the structure for this game, a…

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

You can find the Songs For Dead Planets playlist Jords mentioned here.

Go buy …

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.

Rocky and Jords dive into the world of queen bees and wannabes as they turn Mean Girls into a game.

One small correction for this one – the sequel to The Quiet Year is The Deep Forest, not The…

Rocky and Jords are back to discuss how to run a great game about being a terrible archaeologist.

We basically landed on “turn your RPG into a game of high-stakes globe-hopping MacGuffin Footb…

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.

If you have ideas for what you’d like to hear in 2025, hit us up at hello…

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?

We normally try to keep these under an hour, but as y…

It’s killing all the way up as Rocky and Jords tackle John Wick, the ultimate movie for hyperviolent dog people.

Our system suggestions this time were Wushu, Eat the Reich and Feng Shui.

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.

We talked about nodes a couple times in th…

Rocky and Jords figure out how to capture the fake gods and real adventures of classic early 2000s TV show, Stargate: SG-1.

If you enjoyed this episode, you might also enjoy our episode on Eld…

Rocky and Jords take you out to the black, to figure out how to deliver on the Space-Western-Heist vibes of Firefly.

“It’s not exactly Blades in the Dark. It is Scum and Villainy, built on F…

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…

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.

It’s a bold move, we know, but we think …

Rocky and Jords master the elements of running an Avatar: The Last Airbender game that actually feels like the show.

Not to spoil anything, but we really enjoyed reading through (and stealing …

Rocky and Jords share spicy takes on the best way to run a game about worms.

We’re in the same place! Look, we have faces and not just disembodied voices:

We celebrated by going to see …

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.

We made it to two episodes! …