System Mastery 253 – Savage Worlds
System Mastery 253 – Savage Worlds So we might be a bit off schedule but that’s okay, because we spent the time stuck in various airports and cities reading Savage […]
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System Mastery 252 – Valley of the Pharaohs
System Mastery 252 – Valley of the Pharaohs Well well well, if it isn’t a Palladium game. And one of those weird ones where Simbieda didn’t write it or pretend […]
System Mastery 251 – Heroic Visions
System Mastery 251 – Heroic Visions Jon’s special blend of DrivethruRPG search criteria has kicked us up a truly interesting and unusual blend of superheroes, afrofuturism, strong Christian undertones, and […]
System Mastery 250 – GURPS
System Mastery 250 – GURPS Happy April Fools! Well, sort of. We were busy. We actually were hosting a quiz show thing on April 1st proper. So this early April […]
System Mastery 249 – Rifter 9 1/2
System Mastery 249 – Rifter 9 1/2 Happy April Fools! Well, sort of. We were busy. We actually were hosting a quiz show thing on April 1st proper. So this […]
System Mastery 248 – Infinite Domains
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 […]
System Mastery 246 – Dallas the Television RPG
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 […]
System Mastery 245 – Katanas & Trenchcoats
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 […]
System Mastery 244 – Teenagers from Outer Space
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 […]
System Mastery 243 – Star Wars D20
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 […]
System Mastery 242 – Like a Rogue, One-Page Apocalypse Vol 1, Christmas Fallout
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 […]
System Mastery 241 – Kill Puppies for Satan
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 […]
System Mastery 240 – Threadbare
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 […]
System Mastery 239 – The Play’s The Thing
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 […]
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 […]
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… […]
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