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System Mastery 248 – Infinite Domains

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System Mastery 248 – Infinite Domains What is this, some sort of generic universal role playing system? Some sort of master book to rule them all? It’s Infinite Domains and […]

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System Mastery 246 – Dallas the Television RPG

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System Mastery 246 – Dallas You know you read about this in some message board or listicle article years ago. And you know you’ve always wondered what the heck it […]

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System Mastery 245 – Katanas & Trenchcoats

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System Mastery 244 – Teenagers from Outer Space Night falls on Darkest Vancouver. Will you be ready to draw your coolest anime sword and battle the eternal dancefight against the […]

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System Mastery 244 – Teenagers from Outer Space

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System Mastery 244 – Teenagers from Outer Space A lightweight anime-inspired comedy game from… 1987? Damn, Mike Pondsmith must have been one of those guys that bought unlabeled anime VHS […]

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System Mastery 243 – Star Wars D20

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System Mastery 243 – Star Wars D20 No no, not Saga Edition, the other one. This is OGL shovel-ware Star Wars. It’s got a real prominent author all right, but […]

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System Mastery 242 – Like a Rogue, One-Page Apocalypse Vol 1, Christmas Fallout

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System Mastery 242 – Like a Rogue, One-Page Apocalypse Vol 1, Christmas Fallout To close out our year we’ve decided to take a little look at a couple of very […]

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System Mastery 241 – Kill Puppies for Satan

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System Mastery 241 – Kill Puppies for Satan No more Sweater Weather? Guess it’s time for edgy fucked up December. Who wants to be nice to people and solve teddy […]

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System Mastery 240 – Threadbare

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System Mastery 240 – Threadbare If you haven’t played as a bear with a clothes hangar for one arm that has to help solve the mystery of where Starscream’s left […]

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System Mastery 239 – The Play’s The Thing

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System Mastery 239 – The Play’s The Thing Sweater Weather just will not let up as we take a tour through the non-combative games that are just so hard to […]

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System Mastery 238 – Golden Sky Stories

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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

October 19, 2022by systemmastery 3 Comments

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 […]

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System Mastery 236 – Stealing Stories for the Devil

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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 […]

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System Mastery 235 – Ray Winninger’s Underground

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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 […]

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System Mastery 234 – Apocalypse World

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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 […]

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System Mastery 233 – Psi World

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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… […]

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System Mastery 232 – Leaked 6th Edition Playtest

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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. […]

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System Mastery 231 – Kevin & Kell RPG

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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) […]

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System Mastery 230 – White Box

July 12, 2022by systemmastery 3 Comments

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 […]

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System Mastery 229 – Underworld

June 28, 2022by systemmastery Leave a comment

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 […]

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System Mastery 228 – Star Wars: Age of Rebellion

June 16, 2022by systemmastery Leave a comment

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.  […]

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