So 5e has better rules for out of combat interaction? Because I've read it, and no it doesn't.

This is wildly wrong. D&D isn't the most anything of anything regarding RPGs, with the sole exception of "recognizable." You can learn to play a game like Dread or Masks or Dr. Magnethands in like 10 minutes. 10 minutes won't get you through the first quarter of the 5e rules on Grappling.

There's a pretty interesting variety of games nowadays for one-afternoon sessions. Dread is particularly great, it's a horror movie game that ratchets up tension by the only mechanic being a Jenga tower. You want to do something dangerous? Pull a tile. Tower falls? You die.

For real, I still don't get why that game has any kind of following. It's just three little books of vaguely related tables. The classes don't do anything, the skill percentages are so laughably low that there's no way to play it as anything but a failure comedy, and there's shit like "On a roll of 71-75, a wizard…

in the sense of "You can play this but you can't affect anything but you are expected to," yeah.

Star Frontiers hasn't been specifically revived, but the races from it showed up in some official WOTC space D20 stuff during 3rd edition D&D.

Yeah no, that's not really X-Rated D&D. That's just rape apologia hiding behind "well, scholarly sources like Plato said…"

Effectively it isn't any good.

Ugh, I respect that playstyle but I can't do it. Sitting around planning is the worst for me. Leads to one player armchair quarterbacking everyone else, leads to salt when the plan goes off the rails, leads to spending three hours theorizing instead of doing anything. I mean, I understand people love it, but I…

Yeah, maybe not D&D by name, since it has a lot of boring repetition and slow random elements baked in. There are however several games that are great when played lightly or by the rules that do great things in specifically podcast form. The guys playing FFG's current Star Wars RPG over at One Shot/Campaign are…

I would have gladly watched the BvS movie if it had taken place in the blacklight haunted house maze that was B&R's Gotham. Instead we got what, an empty gray dock near some empty gray warehouses.

I kinda wish there was a Tom Petty album called that.

I do! An air and space museum even! But I called in sick today.

When did Launchpad get his hands on the Sea Duck? That's disconcerting, that thing belongs in a museum. Oh wait nevermind, that thing is just some single-boom twin engine little nothing. The Sea Duck remains safe.

"Mmm, this sausage is so mildly spiced… but I fear it could be milder" - Wisconsin apparently.

Wait, the second Rocky movie was a spy thing starring Paulie?

If it had been called "Hey Look, Bears!" I would have been a lot less angry in the theater.

In a surprise twist, Larry is sent to lady prison!

That AD&D episode is one of my all-time favorites as well, by the end we're basically establishing the game's metaphysics because it's impossible that the characters don't know they are characters in a game.

My show System Mastery which reviews old RPGs has branched out as of this morning, with our first episode of Expounded Universe, in which we review Star Wars Legends novels. It’s based on fan request but honestly I couldn’t imagine anything more fun to rip into. We started with a really good one, Shadows of the…