Masks - Loser Buys Pizza

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A trio of teen heroes take a break after a long night of patrolling. While chatting with another group, they all spot some action going down at a warehouse across the street. Before springing to action, the groups agree, depending on how things shake out in dealing with the bad guys -

Loser buys pizza.

Masks is a Powered by the Apocalypse game by Brendan Conway, of a new generation of super heroes coming into their own, dealing with the pressures of being a teen while saving the day in Halcyon City. The base game and official expansions are available in soft and hardcover books + PDF at Magpie Games' website, while just the PDFs are available at DriveThruRPG.

This episode incorporates content from the core book, the Halcyon City Herald Collection, and the Enduring playbook by Jon of Listen to These Nerds podcast, available in the Fan Favorite Zine, and as an updated standalone PDF, both on itch. The Enduring has also been a part of the TTRPGs for Trans Rights bundles, and the upcoming (as of posting) TTRPGs for Trans Rights Ohio itch.io bundles, so you may already have a copy.

Greg - GM

Ben - Blue Monarch (They/Them) - The Outsider

Dan - Shadow Fist / Vladamir Sandberg (He/Him) - The Beacon

Jared - The Phantom Specter / Arya Kroger (She/Her) - The Enduring

Kids on Bikes - The Glow Stone Mystery Part 2

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The teens and veterinarian of Undecided eventually meet up with their new... friends, and resolve to continue to investigate the strange glowing stones found around town...

Kids on Bikes is a game of collaborative storytelling in small towns with weird goings on, by Jon Gilmour and Doug Levandowski. The game is available at the Hunter's Entertainment website, both in pdf and physical, as well as a pdf of the Free RPG Day Edition [with additional writing by Crespin and Xasia Villarreal], which we used.

Jared - GM

Ben - Ashley Gleason, The Rich Girl

Dan - Scott Harris, The Conspiracy Boy

Greg - Tex Johnson, The Haunted Boy

Nellie - Dr. Lilanne Okafor, The Serious Veterinarian

Call of Cthulhu - Friends of Dorothy

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This episode contains body horror, threats of police violence, and themes of implicit and explicit queerphobia, depression, isolation, and loneliness. Listener discretion is advised.

June, 1981. A quartet of members of the US military make the long drive to visit a gay bar that has always been safe. A magical night devolves into a magical nightmare, as when they escape a police raid they find themselves in an other world. What limits will the servicemembers go to keep themselves safe from this nightmare, and safe from the world they want to go back to...?

Keeper Rina can be found on The Old Ways Podcast and Ain't Slayed Nobody. They can also be found on Youtube at Symphony Entertainment, where they ran a two part session of Friends of Dorothy (Part 1, Part 2). This scenario, along with others written by Rina, can be found at DriveThruRPG in PDF and print on demand.

David, as always, can be found at RPPR, RPX, and One Less Die when he's not visiting with us.

Keeper Rina - GM

David - Corpsman Janice Schmidt (They/Them), Navy

Greg - Airman Michael Kowalski (He/Him), Air Force

Kelsie - Ensign Thea Banks (She/Her), Navy

Laura - PFC Hannah Mills (She/Her), Army

Dueling Fops of Vindamere – Cobra, Darharke, & Poppy

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Another year, another trio of eccentric fencing instructors prepare for the Alle-Valley Fencinge Championeshippe, seeking glory and to undermine their rivals all along the way...

Dueling Fops of Vindamere is a GMless game by Greg Stolze, and is available at DriveThruRPG.

Dan - Cobra Darkhawk, master of the Razor Victory School

Greg - Darharke Forrest, master of the Razor Enlightenment Path

Jared - Poppy Beaumont, master of the Subtle Victory School