Welcome to the start of series 73! This series, Amelia agreed to cover TMNT for Ryan's birthday month! So we invited Jef and Jon from the System Mastery podcast to join us and help us through the experience. Since TMNT is so small, we are also covering Palladium's After the Bomb to give us more options and a more robust setting! This episode, we learn all about these two games, including a really interesting history for the TMNT game itself. Character Creation Cast Patreon https://patreon.com/charactercreationcast Announcements: Dungeonmeister: A Drink Master’s Guide Product Page: https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Dungeonmeister/Jef-Aldrich/Dungeonmeister/9781507214657 The Düngeonmeister Random Monster Generator: A Mix-and-Match RPG Flipbook Pre-order: https://amzn.to/3VQ4tHB Product Page: https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Dungeonmeister-Random-Monster-Generator/Jef-Aldrich/Dungeonmeister-Series/9781507222539 Leave us reviews in any, or all, of these places: Character Creation Cast on Apple Podcasts (The best place to leave reviews for us) https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/character-creation-cast/id1363822066?mt=2&ls=1 Character Creation Cast on Podchaser https://podchaser.com/CharacterCreationCast Guests Jef Aldrich Twitter: https://x.com/systemmastery Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/systemmastery.bsky.social Jon Taylor Twitter: https://x.com/Gurglespasm Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/gurglespasm.bsky.social System Mastery Website: https://systemmasterypodcast.com/ Games/Tools discussed this episode: TMNT and Other Strangenesses: Backerkit for latest version: https://teenage-mutant-ninja-turtles-and-other-strangeness.backerkit.com/hosted_preorders After the Bomb 2nd Edition: Amazon: https://amzn.to/3W1eenv DriveThruRPG: https://www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/61133/After-the-BombR-RPG?affiliate_id=1601603 Timestamps: (00:00:00) - Announcements (00:01:25) - Introductions (00:06:32) - What's in a game? - Core Concepts of TMNT and After the Bomb (00:13:53) - What is the setting? (00:22:54) - What tools do we need to play? (00:26:24) - What stories can you tell with TMNT or After the Bomb? (00:32:19) - What do characters do in these games? (00:37:05) - What is unique about this system? (00:47:29) - History of TMNT and After the Bomb (00:51:05) - Terms and Concepts - Bio-E (00:54:42) - Call to Action (01:01:08) - Credits Music: Opening: Meditation Impromptu 03 (https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Kevin_MacLeod/Calming/Meditation_Impromptu_03) by Kevin MacLeod Clip 1: Mutations by Cast of Characters From Soundstripe: https://app.soundstripe.com/songs/15126 Clip 2: System Mastery Podcast Intro: From the System Mastery Podcast: https://systemmasterypodcast.com Main Theme: Hero (Remix) (https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Steve_Combs/Principal_Photography_1493/11_Hero_Remix) by Steve Combs Our Podcast: Character Creation Cast: Website: https://www.charactercreationcast.com Contact Us: https://contact.charactercreationcast.com BlueSky: @CreationCast.net (https://bsky.app/profile/creationcast.net) Twitter: @CreationCast (https://twitter.com/CreationCast) Discord: https://discord.charactercreationcast.com/ Amelia Antrim: BlueSky: @gingerreckoning.bsky.social (https://bsky.app/profile/gingerreckoning.bsky.social) Twitter: @gingerreckoning (https://twitter.com/gingerreckoning) Ryan Boelter: BlueSky: @lordneptune.com (https://bsky.app/profile/lordneptune.com) Twitter: @lordneptune (https://twitter.com/lordneptune) Our Network: https://oneshotpodcast.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices