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Podcast: PastMaster: Reshaping History
Episode: Becoming a God in Ancient Sparta. How Hard Can it Be?
Description: Ancient Sparta, 500 BCE. A city-state built entirely around warfare, discipline, and men who could crush your skull before breakfast. Tan asked for medieval Japan. The Game Master sent him to Sparta instead, because Ryan programmed it to be a prick. Welcome to Season 3 and "PastHard with a Vengeance" — Ryan's revenge for Hard Mode. Tan's entire frame of reference for Spartan culture is the movie 300 starring Gerard Butler.
The mission: become worshipped as a god. Tan claims to be "the cleverest and hardest man he knows," which Keon and Ryan find debatable. The Game Master offers four options to...