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System Mastery 194 – Sentinel Comics: The RPG

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From an old hero game to a new one, it’s time to talk about Sentinel Comics: The Roleplaying Game.  Sentinels is an expansive setting with a vast cast of characters […]

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Movie Mastery – Circle of Iron (1978)

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Inspired by a script from legendary martial artist Bruce Lee, comes Circle of Iron. A movie where a whiny, asshole white guy has people attempt to teach him Zen lessons […]

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Expounded Universe 161 – Danger Danger, Ghost Voltage!

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One thing about these books, they move along.  The last episode ended with Maul promising to deal with the gangs, this one starts with him doing it.  Then a bunch […]

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Expounded Universe 160 – If You Wampa Be My Lover

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We’re back!  And it’s time for the next big showcase this book has to offer, which is obviously slickly describes scenes of Darth Maul killing gross monsters.  You’ll never guess […]

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System Mastery 193 – Skraypers

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As go the tides, so come the times we’re both dealing with something and need a nice easy Palladium game.  Skraypers is both a Rifts and a Heroes Unlimited setting, […]

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Movie Mastery – Tango & Cash (1989)

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A movie that both of us had heard of but neither of us knew anything about. This film walks the delicate line of being a loving example of its genre […]

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Expounded Universe 159 – I’m A Frayed Knot

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Maul is starting gang fights as we start to meet our colorful and disposable cast of prison fightin’ guys and the weirdos in charge.  Can Maul find Zero?  Well yeah, […]

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System Mastery 192 – Shadowrun Anarchy

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It’s Shadowrun!  But… faster?  Is that the point here?  It’s honestly sort of hard to tell the exact point of this Shadowrun 5e adjacent game, but damn if we aren’t […]

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Movie Mastery – Ready Player One (2018)

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If you love pop-culture references to things from the 80’s and early 90’s and also nothing else, then this is the adaptation you’ve been waiting for.

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Expounded Universe 158 – Science Fair Volcano

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Okay, here we go.  If this one isn’t exciting I don’t know what will be.  It’s Darth Maul, he’s in a gladiatorial mega-prison, and it’s by the guy who wrote […]

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System Mastery 191 – Boot Hill

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Boot Hill is a colloquial term from the cowboy days for a cemetery.  You might think there’s some sort of metaphor their for our opinions pertaining to the game, but […]

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Movie Mastery – Hardcore Henry (2015)

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We find out if a single gimmick stretched out over an hour and a half can in some way improve upon the action movie genre. Also, Sharlto Copley gets a […]

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Expounded Universe 157 – It’s Always December 15, 2011 Somewhere

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Several of you had questions, and we answered those questions.  Then we announced that next book, and I gotta admit, I’m pretty excited to head somewhere and some time a […]

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Expounded Universe 156 – Curse Your Plodding Yet Inevitable Betrayal

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Wrap up time, I’d say we’re super proud of totally predicting this ending if there was much to have predicted.  We cover up the last couple of super short chapters […]

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System Mastery 190 – Interstitial – Our Hearts Intertwined

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Have you not gotten your fill of Kingdom Hearts yet?  Of course not, no one has.  Not until someone bursts Nomura like a pinata and eats all the ideas that […]

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Expounded Universe 155 – Don’t Go Chasing Holocrons

December 17, 2020by systemmastery Leave a comment

We’re there!  We made it!  We’re in the titular ruins of Dantooine!  Oh, wait, I guess we’re leaving them immediately.  Why is this book called this?  Anyway, time to meet […]

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System Mastery 189 – New Gods of Mankind

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Now here’s some good old fashioned back to basics shit.  Got to be, right?  Name like that?  Shirtless axe dude on the cover?  Well, color us surprised because this thing […]

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Movie Mastery – Eragon (2006)

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    When all the young adult novels were fighting to see who would come out on top, Eragon set itself apart by being written by a teen itself. A […]

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Expounded Universe 154 – Awakened the Wrath of the Lizard

December 8, 2020by systemmastery Leave a comment

Another chapter, another session of opening up lootboxes on a shuttle.  At least this time we finally make it to Dantooine, even if we don’t see much of the titular […]

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Expounded Universe 153 – Hot Corellian Nights

December 4, 2020by systemmastery Leave a comment

The next thing we knew she was getting sexually excited by guns and manhands in the back of a freighter.  I never thought it would happen to me.  Oh also […]

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