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The Glitterbois Two blokes with a long-lived love for the rich RPG worlds created by Palladium Books.

Join us as we talk about the vast the Palladium Megaverse in a quest to spread appreciation, meet established wanderers, and bring new players into the fold.

10/11/2023

After a bit of a break to bask in the glow of the awesomeness that is the return of Palladium’s TMNT license, we’re back to look at the next book in the Rifts World Books series: Japan!…

26/10/2023

Hello friends! We finally got (most of) our schedules aligned to be able to get Kevin Siembieda and Sean Owen Roberson – aka Palladium Books – on the show! They’re here to tell us…

23/10/2023

Fanboy time: EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!! We just recorded an interview with Kevin and Sean and EEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!

Just a dang lovely time.

20/10/2023

Well this has been a fantastic week for us at the Breakfast Puppies studio, what with the big news that TMNT RPG IS COMING BACK, BABY! YEAH! In this free-form episode, we discuss our reactions to t…

21/07/2023

Apologies to folks following this page, we don't update here as often as I'd like. This is be cause Facebook consistently makes it more and more of a chore to manage pages, with new degredations and forced annoyances seemingly every week. I try to come around every now and then and manually post new things, but seriously, the page management features here just suck. Anyway, thanks for your support!

21/07/2023

Today we’re talking about a crucial part of all role-playing games: effectively recording your character’s numbers and details. Long-time readers and players of Palladium games are prob…

Thanks for the glowing review, mister Hides-behind-spam-email listener! We will treasure this forever
15/06/2023

Thanks for the glowing review, mister Hides-behind-spam-email listener! We will treasure this forever

11/03/2023

We’re back from a life break to release more fun discussion on Palladium’s gmaes, yay! This time we’re looking at the first and only (for a long time) third-party licensed Rifts b…

03/02/2023

Today’s fairly rambling discussion episode is (mostly) about the idea of “Perception Rolls” in Palladium’s games. It’s a contentious subject, and after you give us a l…

27/01/2023

We return to the Phase World setting with the third Rifts Dimension Book, aka the Phase World Sourcebook. This is a companion piece to the previous book in the series, expanding the universe with m…

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06/01/2023

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06/01/2023

A very happy new year to everyone! We wanted to kick this year off with a hefty dose of positivity. To accomplish this, we wanted to finally spend an episode acknowledging the awesome podcast revie…

16/12/2022

In today’s discussion episode, we gnash our teeth over the growing trend of “homogenization” of once-great “Friendly Local Game Shops” (FLGS). By this we mean the tren…

14/10/2022

Next up in our look through the run of Palladium’s Rifter magazine is issue #8. There’s some really cool stuff in here, especially if you’re a fan of the Fantasy and Nightbane set…

05/10/2022

We’ve had a lot of demand for an episode on Rifts Underseas, and we’ve finally made it to its place in the long sequence of World Books. This one’s not high on our list of favorit…

29/09/2022

Hooray, our schedules finally re-aligned so we could record some more episodes! This time we have a chat about the Rogue Scientist core OCC from the Rifts role-playing game, discussing its versatil…

07/09/2022

Chugging onward through the Rifts World Book series, we make it to possibly the coolest one yet: South America! There has always been a lot of conversation around this book and its contribution to …

31/08/2022

Folks wrote to let us know that our previous episode on Missiles didn’t actually explain how they worked. So we recorded this one as a follow-up, hoping to finally answer all the main confusi…

26/08/2022

We venture back into the mystical lands of the Palladium Known World for a look at the second book in the Fantasy RPG product line: Old Ones. My friends, this one is truly epic in every conceivable…

11/08/2022

Our progress through the long series of Rifts World Books continues with Book 5: Triax and the NGR. This continues the ongoing trend of giving your players new villains and (potential) allies in th…

03/08/2022

Today we take a look into the life and story of one of the more complex characters of the Robotech universe, Breetai the Zentraedi warlord. Initially a villain set on destroying the puny earthlings…

22/07/2022

We’re making characters for the TMNT and Other Strangeness RPG! Will we ever actually play them in anything extended or worthwhile? Who knows! If you want to hear some actual play with this c…

23/06/2022

Welcome back friends! Today NPC is joined by retuirning guest host Just Jacob to talk more about Palladium’s metal-as-heck Fantasy RPG, focusing solely on what made the first edition rulebook…

01/06/2022

We are not experts on anything that we talk about. Just fans – really passionate ones with a lot of experience in the subject, but still just fans. But the more we read, play, and talk about …

19/05/2022

Another news post! We’ll be releasing these occasionally as new things come up that we want to keep folks more immediately notified on. In this issue: We now have a Valheim server! Wagoncon r…

19/05/2022

Join us for a fun thought experiment, in which we take the characters from Marvel’s Avengers (primarily the MCU versions) and use them as root inspirations for a similarly-focused adventurer …

03/05/2022

The Mechanoids are back! ARCHIE-3 dun goofed and now our favorite villains from the Megaverse are invading Rifts Earth! That’s right, we’re looking at what I think may be the first big …

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