The Xro Dinn Chronicles – System Mastery 119
The Xro Dinn Chronicles is, for lack of a better description, the unholy combination of Ninjas & Superspies, Babylon 5, and the sort of mindset that led to the Winchester […]
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Wild Skies: Europa Tempest – System Mastery 118
Sail the skies in heavily armored airships and nimble fighter planes as a variety of sexy little animals. It’s the early 1930s and Europe is embroiled in really weird battles […]
Scared Stiff – System Mastery 117
Today, we’re reviewing an earnest attempt to capture the very specific magic of the B-Movie. You know, so there’s gonna be like a ray gun that changes the frame so […]
WEGS Old Skool – System Mastery 116
OSR, or Old Sam Raimi, is a concept in gaming that the most fun game stuff already happened and was mostly done by the early 80s, and that games resembling […]
Brave New World – System Mastery 115
So this is Brave New World. What’s in the core book? Enough superhero stuff to sort of play, if you call this playing. A wizard class with no spells, a […]
Promised Sands – System Mastery 114
It’s impossible to predict when we’ll hit a real speedbump on the show, a real Synnibarr or Haven… and here we are! Promised Sands ascends the steps of the pantheon […]
Witch Hunter: The Invisible World – System Mastery 113
Put on your buckliest hat and prepare to engage in battle with monsters most biblical! We examine a game that truly tests the boundaries of how much White Wolf you’re […]
Gamma Crawl X – The Final Chapter
Happy winter everyone! The gang takes on the last battle in the truck truck arena! Sorry this took so long. More AP will come soon, and we’ll have such things […]
Tomorrow Knights – System Mastery 112
Interesting note that we missed because we didn’t do any research: Tomorrow Knights here is a Marvel property. Which makes this a Marvel RPG. We had no idea. Thrill to […]
Extreme Vengeance – System Mastery 111
On today’s episode we discuss Extreme Vengeance, an RPG dedicated almost entirely to recreating the feel of gung-ho action movies (there is a sliver reserved for unrelentingly dragging Hulk Hogan). […]
Paranoia XP – System Mastery 110
A madcap dystopia that has more accompanying memes per square centimeter than anything short of Dungeon and Dragons itself. Is Paranoia worth braving the swamp of people at the store […]
Mermaid Adventures – System Mastery 109
Let’s talk about RPGs for kids. Or more accurately, one RPG that is basically for kids. It might be a little heavy on Ariels and light on editing, but Mermaid […]
Dark Continent – System Mastery 108
Dark Continent is the RPG of … well venturing into Africa and killing a bunch of people. I mean that’s vaguely frowned upon (unless you are playing a Belgian), but […]
Werewolf the Apocalypse – System Mastery 107
Awoooooo White Ween continues! Awoooooooo! Today on System Mastery we introduce you to the colon-free world of Werewolf the Apocalypse. I mean, there’s some colons. Werewolves probably have colons. I […]
Mind’s Eye Theatre: Requiem – System Mastery 105
Ah, truly the most joyous of holiday seasons is upon us! Happy White Ween! Today, we cover a game that turned out (well after we started reading it) to be […]
Living Steel – System Mastery 104
Brought to you by rocket scientists hellbent on pure unadulterated realism, Living Steel is basically Heinlein by way of Games Workshop, with probably a few too many tables (which is […]
Gear Krieg- System Mastery 103
Are you looking for a game of two-fisted derring-do and rousing pulp adventure? You’ll be sure to find it in some other book. Gear Krieg is an RPG companion to […]
Gamma Crawl X – Episode 4
Oh my goodness after a long hiatus the adventure continues. I mean, sort of. We recorded this a long time ago. In a measurement system I call “Broken Computers,” we […]
King Arthur: Pendragon – System Mastery 102
Yay, a game we didn’t hate! This is a very specific sort of RPG, in which you play as a knightly dynasty during the Morte D’Arthur romantic tales. Will you […]
A State – System Mastery 101
This book is a grim, unrelenting slog. Punctuated by the kind of art that would be impressive if this book was a collection of screenshots from the first Fallout game, […]
