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PODCAST

Team-Up Moves

Fiona Hopkins and Stephanie Burt

Hosts Fiona -- a forever GM -- and Stephanie -- a professor and comics critic -- explore the multiverse of superhero TTRPGs with a variety of expert guests from the world of roleplaying games and comic books. In each 2-4 episode run of the show we do an actual play of a different superhero RPG to demonstrate how the game works at the table. Each run ends with a detailed discussion of the system, where we talk about what kinds of superhero stories each game helps tell, how effective they are at

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01:07:28

Marvelous (back matter) w/ Emily Buza and Jay Edidin

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2023/08/08

Let’s do some talking about S. Donnelly and Hannah Rogers’ Marvelous!Our guests, Emily Buza and Jay Edidin, who you know from their respective podcasts Whelmed: The Young Justice Files and Jay and Miles X-Plain the X-Men, are with us to talk character creation, what makes this game tick, and give some comic book recommendations that fit with our characters and the kind of deconstructed superhero narratives of Marvelous.Marvelous is a Belonging Outside Belonging game of teen heroes, villains, and

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01:06:14

Marvelous (AP 2/2) w/ Emily Buza and Jay Edidin

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2023/07/18

It’s time for the 2nd half of our actual play of S. Donnelly and Hannah Rogers’ Marvelous!This is a Belonging Outside Belonging game of teen heroes, villains, and mundane friends.We’re fortunate to be joined by two powerhouses of comic podcasting: Emily Buza, who you know from Whelmed: The Young Justice Files, and Jay Edidin, who you know from Jay and Miles X-Plain the X-Men.Find out more and get the game: https://sdonnelly.itch.io/marvelousThe CastEmily Buza (she/her, @emilyofarden) — Beatrice

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01:09:41

Marvelous (AP 1/2) w/ Emily Buza and Jay Edidin

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2023/07/11

We are kicking off our second year with a phenomenal run, playing S. Donnelly and Hannah Rogers’ Marvelous, a Masks-inspired Belonging Outside Belonging game. This is a game about super teens, but not necessarily a super team. Our characters are two heroes finding their powers and their voice, a villain struggling to come into his own, and Brethyn. We’re fortunate to be joined by two powerhouses of comic podcasting: Emily Buza, who you know from Whelmed: The Young Justice Files, and Jay Edidin, who

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Annual 2023

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2023/06/27

We’re celebrating a year of podcasting with an annual episode (never not using comic book metaphors)! Hosts Fiona and Stephanie answer some listener questions, talk about what we’ve learned in a year of superhero RPGs, and talk about a few things we’re excited about for the next year.Will we find the best superhero business RPG? Will Fiona be able to play as Squirrel Girl? Which of Stephanie’s characters does she most resemble? All these and more.Mentioned Links:Lowell Francis’s History of Superhero

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01:10:42

Cypher/Claim the Sky (Back Matter) w/ Armaan Babu and...

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2023/05/23

Cyphers! Pools! Adjectives, nouns, and verb phrases! Armaan and Ian are with us to dig into Cypher and discuss how it handles superheroic characters and stories. Cypher System is a setting-agnostic RPG from Monte Cook Games. We’re using their Claim the Sky add-on book to inform how to adapt it to superheroic characters and settings.Find out more about Cypher System and Claim the Sky at https://www.montecookgames.com/Want to hear us discuss something during our Annual Episode, coming in June? E-mail

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01:03:34

Cypher/Claim the Sky (AP 2/2) w/ Armaan Babu and Ian...

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2023/05/16

It’s the 2nd half of our Cypher System / Claim the Sky AP. We’re re-joined by Armaan Babu and Ian Gregory as three heroes unlock the secrets of The Zephyr’s underground puzzle dungeon in order to save their friend.Cypher System is a setting-agnostic RPG from Monte Cook Games. We’re using their Claim the Sky add-on book to inform how to adapt it to superheroic characters and settings.Find out more about Cypher System and Claim the Sky at https://www.montecookgames.com/Want to hear us discuss

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01:16:32

Cypher/Claim the Sky (AP 1/2) w/ Armaan Babu and Ian...

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2023/05/09

Two of our Team-Up Moves All Stars are back to play Cypher System and the Claim the Sky setting book! Our heroes are delving into a supervillain’s death trap in search of a lost friend. What dangers await them there? What amazing technology will they find? And who else might be doing their own scavenging?Cypher System is a setting-agnostic RPG from Monte Cook Games. We’re using their Claim the Sky add-on book to inform how to adapt it to superheroic characters and settings.Find out more about Cypher

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01:27:12

Masks: A New Generation (Back Matter) w/ James Malloy...

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2023/04/18

It’s time to talk about Masks: A New Generation with two of our favorite Masks GMs: James Malloy of Protean City Comics and Indi Tan of Dice Comics are with us to share their perspectives on this game, what makes it tick, and what parts they actually… kind of ignore.Listen as we talk about character creation, the labels mechanism, and share some of our favorite stories in the back issues.Find out more about Masks: A New Generation at https://magpiegames.com/Back IssuesTeen Titans (2003), written by

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01:15:43

Masks: A New Generation (AP 2/2) w/ James Malloy and...

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2023/04/11

We’ve got the second half of our Masks: A New Generation AP! James Malloy of Protean City Comics and Indi Tan of Dice Comics are back to finish out this delightful story.Things heat up as Artie tracks down the mysterious figure in the library and discovers she is his missing princess pal, Ness, but she’s not happy to see him. Meanwhile, Gekko unwisely ventures back into the Warehouse District.Find out more about Masks: A New Generation at https://magpiegames.com/The CastJames Malloy (he/him,

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01:26:12

Masks: A New Generation (AP 1/2) w/ James Malloy and...

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2023/04/04

It is time for the modern classic, the best superhero TTRPG there is, darling of the podcast scene, Masks: A New Generation by Brendan Conway and published by Magpie Games.We have been saving this game for some very special guests and we found them. James Malloy of Protean City and Indi Tan of Dice Comics came through for a phenomenal AP and insightful discussion.Join a Janus, a Transformed, and an Outsider as the city championship for girls’ varsity basketball (our own New Arcadia North High School

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01:06:03

See Issue X (Back Matter) w/ Connor Goldsmith

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2023/03/21

We played See Issue X and now it’s time to talk about it! We’re joined by our special guest, Connor Goldsmith of the Cerebro podcast, to learn about his history with comics and TTRPGs, and then dig in to what makes See Issue X tick and what it says about superhero stories.Find out more about See Issue X, by Chris Longhurst, at https://potatocubed.itch.io/see-issue-xBack IssuesUncanny X-Men 129-137 (1979-80), The Dark Phoenix Saga, by Chris Claremont and John ByrneUncanny X-Men 168-176 (1983-84),

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See Issue X (AP 2/2) w/ Connor Goldsmith

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2023/03/14

We’re back to play See Issue X with our special guest, Connor Goldsmith of the Cerebro podcast. Join us for one more arc as The Sibyl and Chimera deal with an old enemy who hits very close to home.Find out more about See Issue X at https://potatocubed.itch.io/see-issue-xThe CastConnor Goldsmith (he/him, @dreamoforgonon) —Charlotte Bishop (“The Sibyl”)Stephanie Burt (she/her, @accommodatingly/@accommodatingly@zirk.us) — Maggie Cone (“Chimera”)Fiona Hopkins (she/her, @fionawhim/@fionawhim@dice.camp) —

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01:03:48

See Issue X (AP 1/2) w/ Connor Goldsmith

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2023/03/07

We’ve got our decks of cards and we’re ready to deal with the hash demands of superhero continuity of See Issue X with our special guest, Connor Goldsmith of the Cerebro podcast.Find out more about See Issue X at https://potatocubed.itch.io/see-issue-xThe CastConnor Goldsmith (he/him, @dreamoforgonon) —Charlotte Bishop (“The Sibyl”)Stephanie Burt (she/her, @accommodatingly/@accommodatingly@zirk.us) — Maggie Cone (“Chimera”)Fiona Hopkins (she/her, @fionawhim/@fionawhim@dice.camp) — FacilitatorShow

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01:25:26

Spectaculars (Back Matter) w/ Seanan McGuire and...

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2023/02/21

We are closing out our run of Spectaculars from Rodney Thompson and Scratchpad Publishing with our back matter, when we talk about the game mechansims, how they fit in with super hero fiction, and give you some stellar comic book and novel recommendations.We also spend some time talking with Seanan McGuire about her history with RPGs and some of her most memorable dice rolls, which will soon become some of your most memorable dice rolls.Back IssuesX-Men: Spotlight on Starjammers (1990),by Terry

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01:15:51

Spectaculars (AP 2/2) w/ Seanan McGuire and Shana...

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2023/02/14

We are back to play Spectaculars with Seanan McGuire, one of our favorite author, known for Middlegame, the Wayward Children and October Daye series of novels, and many others.Across Gliding, Emmett Low, and Lily have boarded the ragged-looking Facilitator spaceship (with cyborg-cat-person-from-the-future L reluctantly in tow) to find who triggered the distress call and do what they can to keep this infested vessel from colliding with Earth.Find out more about Spectaculars at

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01:12:39

Spectaculars (AP 1/2) w/ Seanan McGuire and Shana...

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2023/02/07

It’s one of our favorite writers! Playing an RPG with us! This run is Spectaculars by Rodney Thompson, and we’re joined by none other than Seanan McGuire, author of Middlegame, the Wayward Children and October Daye series of novels, and many others.Our characters, crew of a space ship they accidentally stole, were about to leave Earth when said ship was in turn nearly stolen from them. Confronting the cybernetic cat thief, they find out about a distress call from the Facilitators —an intergalactic

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01:20:12

A City of Shining Stars (Back Matter) w/ Jeff Stormer

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2023/01/24

It’s time to dissect A City of Shining Stars by Aaron Lim, with our guest from this run, Jeff Stormer. For our Origin Story segment, we took the opportunity to interview Jeff about how he prepped for this game with a lifetime of watching, reading, and studying superhero stories.Back IssuesMarvels by Kurt Busiek and Alex Ross (1994). The influential, and optimistic, mini-series follows a non-powered photographer through his career in Silver Age Marvel New York, looking at super-people as they emerge

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A City of Shining Stars (AP 2/2) w/ Jeff Stormer

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2023/01/17

We’re back with Jeff Stormer of Party of One and All My Fantasy Children — not to mention Anyone Can Wear the Mask —to play Aaron Lim’s A City of Shining Stars.We’re using this superhero city-building game to develop the history of New Olympia, a parallel-universe version of New Arcadia.Find all of Aaron Lim’s games here: https://ehronlime.itch.io/And, hear Jeff play another baseball-themed superhero, Slugger King, in the Protean City Comics Pride Annual #1: The Hometown Hero of Hillside Park.The

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01:07:32

A City of Shining Stars (AP 1/2) w/ Jeff Stormer

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2023/01/10

This run we’re joined by Jeff Stormer of Party of One and All My Fantasy Children — not to mention Anyone Can Wear the Mask —to play Aaron Lim’s A City of Shining Stars.We’re using this superhero city-building game to develop the history of New Olympia, a parallel-universe version of New Arcadia.Find all of Aaron Lim’s games here: https://ehronlime.itch.io/And, read Steph’s New Yorker article about multiverses in superhero media.The CastJeff Stormer (he/him, @PartyOfOnePod)Stephanie Burt (she/her,

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01:34:42

Sentinel Comics (Back Matter) w/ Ian Gregory and Ceci...

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2022/12/20

Time to talk about Sentinel Comics: The Roleplaying Game! In this back matter episode we go over the remarkable guided character creation mechanism, the balance between narrative and simulationist play, and Fiona breaks out a spreadsheet to report on probabilities.Sentinel Comics: The Roleplaying Game was co-developed with Critical Hits Studios and is published by Greater Than Games.Back IssuesInferno (1988) by Louise Simonson, with art by Walter Simonson, Bret Blevins, Terry Shoemaker and others:

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