System Mastery 238 – Golden Sky Stories
We couldn’t get enough theme months! Welcome to a brand new thing here at System Mastery, Sweater Weather! Reviewing the games that make you feel as cozy and comfortable as […]
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System Mastery 237 – Alien
As we draw this festive Ween to a close, we continue the project of a brief examination of newer space horror (Yes, that last game was a heist thing, but […]
System Mastery 236 – Stealing Stories for the Devil
The customary three great blessings of Ween to each and every one of you! Okay, so this game isn’t especially scary. By now you should have recognized that we may […]
System Mastery 235 – Ray Winninger’s Underground
Hurray, one of those edgy 90s games where people have superpowers but aren’t superheroes! You know, like the other ones? This one at least has an interesting angle of entry […]
System Mastery 234 – Apocalypse World
Wait, from Psi World to Apocalypse World? Two worlds? One network family? Oh right, I should probably mention that because we both have been down for a bit with the […]
System Mastery 233 – Psi World
Back to the old psionic grind! This game has almost exactly two whole paragraphs of story. Everything else we’ve had to glean from the margins and unusually informative rules. Wanna… […]
System Mastery 232 – Leaked 6th Edition Playtest
Hell yeah, we got some leaked documents up in here! Shame we gotta do it to them. But such is the rule of law here on the wild internet frontier. […]
System Mastery 231 – Kevin & Kell RPG
A rare occasion where the “How the hell did this even happen” question seems fairly obvious (some company wanted a furry game in their line and this was close enough) […]
System Mastery 230 – White Box
Let’s GOSR! This here is one a them retro-type clones where the goal was extremely straightforward: The author liked Sword & Sorcery White Box and wanted another edition, so here […]
System Mastery 229 – Underworld
Ever had dreams about the world deep below the world you know? A world where magic and madness swirl, where animals may just speak aloud, a world where the ancient […]
System Mastery 228 – Star Wars: Age of Rebellion
Well, FFG was sort of driven off this project (it’s a really sad story) so the most recent line of Star Wars games is now in our wheelhouse, I guess. […]
System Mastery 227 – Wizards & Gunslingers
Ooh, it’s one of those cowboys and also a different thing games! You know, like cowboys and ninjas, or cowboys and dinosaurs, or cowboys and the slow crushing onset of […]
System Mastery 226 – Star Munchkin
Uh oh, someone better stop us before we get to level 10. It’s Star Munchkin, the RPG! Did you know there were RPGs of these games? You should have guessed. […]
System Mastery 225 – Marvel Multiverse RPG Playtest
Reviewing a playtest? That doesn’t seem right! Well, it certainly isn’t in our usual bag of tricks, but hey, this is a rare situation where someone writing a modern game […]
System Mastery 224 – Fiasco Classic
Mea culpa time (Jef version): This is one of those games where I knew exactly what it was and have been recommending it for years for any RP session that […]
System Mastery 223 – Tephra
Ooh, a steampunk one! You can tell because of the brown and the gear and the goggles and all. Oh, I guess it also says steampunk on there, in retrospect […]
System Mastery 222 – Umlaut: Game of Metal
Uh oh, every once in a while a time comes in which we are commanded to rock, and that time has come again. We’re discussing a game in which every […]
System Mastery 221 – Santa’s Soldiers
Happy Christmas in July in March! It’s time for some holiday cheer, because we were looking for a different game but ended up with this one (it’s explained in the […]
System Mastery 220 – The Secret Fire
This is a pretty bog-standard “Recapture the D&D I remember when I was 11” moonshot game, where the lessons learned about what D&D used to be like seem to be […]
System Mastery 219 – The Lawnmower Man RPG
How often do we get to do theme weeks? This is great! We have the Lawnmower Man RPG, which is set immediately after the events of the movie, as the […]
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