Episode One Hundred And Seventy – Mad Science: Don’t try this at home kids

Mad Science. Don't try this at home kids. Episode 170.

The Heroes are defeated, ground down by a controlling society. As the last remaining bastion of ‘otherness’, Mad Scientists reach out to children through the medium of educational television, trying to spark a sense of rebellion in the only people who can still hear them.

Educational Television in a world of Science Heroes, Supergenius Villains, and Pulp Adventurer-Explorers!

For any problem, there’s a technical solution. Even the problems caused by the previous technical solution.
And sometimes the people coming up with those solutions need to be reigned in, before their backyard nuclear reactor contaminates the whole neighborhood.

Alien scientists simultaneously guiding & observing ( and occasionally running from the catastrophic actions of ) the human scientific community.

(Episode updated with actual audio! Apologies, the mad science is strong with this lot. I hope you didn’t strain yourselves trying to hear the absent data. ~ T. Jones )

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Episode One Hundred And Sixty Two And A Half – The Audient Mailbag

Hero Roadies – Your job is to make the Hero look good & to not get noticed, which gets more difficult the more heroic their actions become

Just Make Me Look Good – Maybe the Hero’s power is fading, maybe their powers are drastically oversold, or maybe they were just lucky at the right time.
No matter what, they need you to keep them in the spotlight, to keep them relevant, and to keep them alive

Laser Plated Hero – What condiments do you want on your enormous high-tech sandwich?

Hearts & Minds On Mars – Trying to effect political change in a high-tech serfdom


Episode Eighty Seven – Canadian Mind Beams

Episode One Hundred And Sixty Two – Ruins Of The Ancients
Episode One Hundred And Sixty – Laser-Plated Hero

Sky High
Spider-Man: Far From Home

Speed Racer
Episode One Hundred And Forty Two – Power Drift

Masks
Apocalypse Engine

Dread
Star Crossed

Episode Six – Food Court Wars

Star Trek: Discovery

The Uplift War, by David Brin

Paranoia

Episode One Hundred And Sixty One – Cognitive Dissidents

Fate

The League Of Super Redundant Heroes comic John mentioned

Diaspora
This may not be available anymore – I couldn’t find a link which leads to a place to buy the thing ~ T. Jones

Blades in the Dark

Ayn Rand

Kubla KhanSamuel Taylor Coleridge
“In Xanadu did Kubla Khan
A stately pleasure-dome decree:”

…or maybe these lads?

Marooned In Realtime, by Vernor Vinge

Green Boots

The Expanse

Inside Out

Dashiell Hammett

The Emperor’s New Groove

Starfleet Battles

Episode One Hundred And Sixty – Laser-Plated Hero

Knives Out, With Food, In Space

“Plated” has a very different meaning in the Culinary world

For this game, we’ll be playing the “Punk” settings. Every one of them. All at the same time.

I have battled my super-powered nemesis on multiple occasions, and have defended this city for many years, but somehow I can’t shake the feeling that a month ago we both worked in a Starbucks.

Someone has etched the circuitry for superpowers into your skin, and you have no idea who or why. Or even what your powers are.

Will wrote a game based on Ben’s pitch, and kindly allowed us to share it;
I’m Sorry, We’re Out Of Stilton (ISWOOS)
( How did this happen? How did we achieve gaming relevance? It certainly wasn’t what I signed up for. ~ T. Jones )

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