Human Occupied Landfill – System Mastery 48
Here’s a game of sorts. It’s handwritten, it’s irritating, and it’s about goofball prisoners sort of murdering each other on a garbage planet. Also it’s handwritten. It’s Human Occupied Landfill, […]
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Movie Mastery – Zardoz
While our initial plan for Mommie Dearest fell through this week, we press on undaunted, reroll the Movie Mastery Dice (currently a D17) and land on Zardoz, the movie where […]
The Afterthought Poll 2
It’s still turn to ask you a few questions, friendly audience of System Mastery! As mentioned in episode 10 of our Afterthought show, we’ve so much enjoyed answering your questions […]
Farmers Only Dot Com – Afterthought 10
If a game has a random chance for your character to professionally farm dirt, isn’t it fair to expect that game to have comprehensive rules for dirt-farming? Wouldn’t you want […]
Fifth Cycle – System Mastery 47
Who likes their fantasy with a shot of heartbreaker and a dirt-farming sidecar? Maybe with a splash of podcast host bitters? This week we cover Fifth Cycle, a thoroughly confusing […]
Movie Mastery – Master of Disguise
It’s that Dana Carvey vehicle! Here, I’ll sum up exactly how you remember it: “Turtle, turtle.” Boy, don’t you want to know exactly what sort of package that famous catchphrase […]
Tolerance and So On – Afterthought 9
With the forward march of civil rights on our minds, it was definitely time to bring the discussion of LGBT values into the arena of old games, new games, and […]
Raven Star – System Mastery 46
Hey, remember the 90s? Do you look back fondly on Rob Liefeld, X-Force, Reboot-style 3D art, and references to monofilament technology? Then hoo boy do we have the game for […]
Movie Mastery 2 – Dead Heat
Treat Williams. Joe Piscopo. Vincent Price briefly. The dad from A Christmas Story. Some 80s ladies. All that and more crowd the screen searching for glory in the 1988 …hit? […]
The DM Section – Afterthought 8
What do you think should be in the DM section? That’s totally one of the questions we should have asked in the official Afterthought Poll, as mentioned on the show. […]
The Afterthought Poll
It’s our turn to ask you a few questions, friendly audience of System Mastery! As mentioned in episode 8 of our Afterthought show, we’ve so much enjoyed answering your questions […]
Noumenon – System Mastery 45
In this installment we discuss the best soul coffin in the shape of a giant bug that solves fundamental metaphysics mysteries in an impossible mansion simulator we’ve ever read. We […]
Movie Mastery – Left Behind (2014)
What, it was a lazy Thursday afternoon! System Mastery has already reviewed a few other movies. Dungeons and Dragons, a weird Carrie sequel, whatever the heck Frankenqueen was, and so […]
Supplement Supplementary – Afterthought 7
We have a little bit more to say about RPG supplements, and then significantly more to say about Beagle Boy costumes and decaying basking sharks. Then we propose Harry: The […]
Supplement Special – System Mastery 44
System Mastery 44 – Supplement Special We’ve received a number of requests since the inception of System Mastery to cover supplementary RPG material and not just core books. While we […]
Rose Colored Glasses – Afterthought 6
Rose Colored Glasses – Afterthought 6 We’re working hard on setting the record for the least amount of time spent on-topic. This week we briefly discuss how memory affects our […]
Top Secret – System Mastery 43
System Mastery 43- Top Secret There’s a story around the internet about how this game is so realistic that it summoned the FBI around to investigate the TSR offices to […]
Rock, Punk – Afterthought 5
Rock, Punk – Afterthought 5 The chaos continues as we barrel through conversation, untethered by adherence to any particular RPG. Are we talking about Cheese Dudes? The Flintstones? Don’t look […]
Space 1889 – System Mastery 42
System Mastery 42- Space 1889 Craving high adventure in an age of zeppelins, Victoriana, and space fantasy? Keep looking then, because what we have here is boring. This week Jef […]
Religion and Injokes – Afterthought 4
Religion and Injokes – Afterthought 4 Something’s gonna have to break. Just exactly how far off topic can we stray? For now the answer has progressed from somewhat to very. […]
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