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While trying to get to the bottom of what this game's tagline actually means, Frank and Tormsen take a few brief detours through the entire history of human thought. En route, they encounter methods to make Adepts and Avatars more post-modern, the premodern and modern equivalents thereof, and even …

To celebrate the looming tenth anniversary for the Kickstarter of Unknown Armies 3rd Edition, Frank and Tormsen talk about the game with a decade of hindsight. The two get into the differences in the teams behind the editions, the issues they have with the game after running it for years, and what …

Frank and Tormsen dive into the layered Mesopotamian horrors of Pazuzu's Circle from Book 3 of the 3rd edition of Unknown Armies, in the hopes of discovering who this demon actually is.

Having discovered a strange crate labeled "What Might Have Been", Frank and Tormsen go through a few of the alternate universe versions of adept schools that have wound up on unnaturalphenomena dot com. Photomancy: https://www.unnaturalphenomena.com/wp/?p=3460 Tropamancy: https://www.unnaturalphen…

Frank and Tormsen explore the dark underbelly of another mid-tier American burb, rife with cults, killers, mantises, and albinos in the hills.

Perched atop a high mountain peak, Tormsen instructs Frank in the way of the Dao. Before Tormsen leaves for the west astride a water buffalo, student and teacher go into Daoism's history, the distinction between religious and philosophical Daoism, parallels between immortals and avatars, and how mu…

Frank and Tormsen once more don their gurpsuits, this time to discuss the wild and woolly work of Kenneth Hite in his Suppressed Transmissions series for Pyramid Magazine. They debate the High Weird and its powerful proximity to the grit of Unknown Armies.

Frank hits Tormsen with some probing questions about unidentified flying objects and our brothers from outer space. Along our interstellar journey, we get into the various hypotheses behind UFOs, the emergence of abduction stories and UFO cults, and some ways to fit ET into Unknown Armies' humanoce…

Frank and Tormsen suffer varying degrees of stress and shock, becoming helpless, unnatured, violent, isolated, and unselfed as they harden and fail. Somewhere in there, they discuss these '90s-innovative mechanics for the Unknown Armies systems and variation and bastardizations thereof.