A Bracket 2 MTG Commander tournament where participants bring decks thematically inspired by their favorite RPGs. Prizes are awarded for performance in the tournament and implementation of theme.
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We’ve tried to settle the argument with reasoned debate and snarky posts on social media. It’s time to definitively settle which RPG is best in the ultimate arena: Bracket 2 Commander. Participants must arrive with a complete bracket 2-deck with a commander and 99 thematically linked to their favorite tabletop RPG. Proxies are allowed. There will be custom planar deck variant rules based on RPGs to add a novel challenge to the competition. This is a non-elimination tournament. Participants are awarded points based on the order they were defeated in each round. Everyone will play at least three games. After each game, players will vote for the deck that featured their favorite theme. After the final round, points will be tallied and votes will be counted. Winners in each category will get to choose prizes and inarguably claim that their chosen system is the best RPG in 2026.
A live Hard Choices podcast! We’re flipping through the Monster Manual to tell you which ones you should roll to seduce. Hosted by MeganBob and guests James D’Amato, Jef Aldrich, and Jon Taylor!
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Who would you rather take home: A Mindflayer, a Beholder, or an Orc? That’s the kind of question we tackle on Hard Choices, the podcast that asks would-you-rather, AND how-did-it-go. Host MeganBob is gathering our party to take on the Monster Manual with James D’Amato, Jef Aldrich, and Jon Taylor. We’ll ask “how good is the sex and what is it like” with 21 iconic D&D monsters, then reveal our rankings with reckless disregard for our reputations. At the end, we’ll poll the audience in order to scientifically determine how skilled D&D monsters are in the art of love. Get there early and claim a coveted Hard Choices one-night-stand gift baggy! Are Umberhulks bed hogs? Is an Illithid a better kisser than you’d think? Are Flumphs into some straight up freak stuff? Sign up for this adventuring party and find out what really happens when the lights go out in the dungeon.
A casual Illimat tournament with Campaign: Skyjacks flair. The event will include a teaching game and four rounds of competitive play. You can’t be knocked out, and everyone gets a prize.
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Whether you are a long-time fan of Campaign: Skyjacks and a high-ranking member of the Society of Luminaries, or you have never played this game before, you are enthusiastically welcomed to join. We’ll be playing at least five rounds of Illimat, the classic card game created by Keith Baker, Jenn Ellis, and The Decemberists. Attendees will have a warm-up or teaching game followed by four formal tournament games. Points will be tallied across all four games and the players with the highest scores will be allowed to select top prizes. There will be special rules and cards based on the Campaign: Skyjacks podcast as well as a slate of prizes from our hosts James D’Amato, Jon Taylor, and Jef Aldrich. Top prizes include a one-of-a-kind Skyjacks-themed automatic wristwatch, a vinyl copy of Arne Parrot’s Skyjacks soundtrack, original sets cards, and books from Adams Media.
A session of the baffling 1979 officially licensed RPG based on the 1978 soap opera “Dallas” with a bizarre sci-fi twist. You don’t need to know anything about Dallas to play.
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While embroiled in their regular scheming and backstabbing, the oil magnates of the Ewing family discover their land is also home to an interdimensional portal connecting them to parallel universes. If there is one thing a true Ewing knows, it’s that where there are deals to be made, there is money and power to follow. Players take on the role of characters from Dallas split across many worlds. To start, you will be divided into groups in separate universes where your characters have a tangled web of power, relationships, and goals. Each universe will have a sci-fi tongue-in-cheek quirk that layers an outlandish sci-fi quirk onto the usual Dallas melodrama. Then a portal will open, allowing characters to hop between worlds, causing chaos and making their goals possible in new ways. We’re using the basic Dallas system with a few original mechanics to accommodate this strange premise.
Join the System Mastery podcast and guests, as they review Marvel Heroic, the classic 2012 Marvel RPG. They’ll dig into the Cortex engine and make jokes about it.
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A live recording of System Mastery, this event will feature all the highlights of the show. We’ll be doing a deep dive into the classic Marvel Heroic RPG, released by Margaret Weis Productions in 2012. The podcast has previously covered in some capacity every other Marvel mainline RPG, and Jef and Jon are eager to complete the cycle (at least until a sixth one comes out). There will be time for Q&A at the end of the show, both about the Marvel Heroic RPG and just System Mastery and their work in general. Joining Jef and Jon for this presentation will be James D’Amato, the host of Campaign: Skyjacks and president of the One Shot Podcast Network.