Robotech – System Mastery 180
Yeah, we needed a break again. Jesus, Wraeththu. So for now, let’s dive into dependable old Palladium. Two scoops of whoops in every book! Robotech is one of the early […]
Category Archives: System Mastery
Wraeththu: From Enchantment to Fulfillment – System Mastery 179
Okay, guess break time’s over! This book is enormous, weird, and in a lot of ways, misguided. The world has collapsed, humanity has fallen, and the Wraeththu have risen in […]
The Land of Ogg – System Mastery 178
We needed a break to finish our second book, and when you live in a gig economy that just means doing a smaller job that week! The Land of Ogg […]
System Mastery Special – Things We Hate About D&D – Part 3
No really, they’re the worst. Play another game. Also while we’ve got that picture of Radcliffe up there, our opinion is that JK Rowling is a TERF piece of shit, […]
SenZar – System Mastery 177
With 26 races, nearly 40 classes, giant complex martial arts systems and a battle world that has run amok for aeons aesthetic, where could SenZar possibly go wrong? It’s an […]
High Strung – System Mastery 176
Grab your amps and start planning setlists, as we take a look at a game that eschews the classics of dungeon diving in favor of trying to make it big […]
Call of Cthulhu (5.6) – System Mastery 175
Yes, it’s not a D&D game. Don’t worry. It’s going to be okay. We still found a classic, the Chaosium flagship and the biggest name in leaning heavily on public […]
Alma Mater – System Mastery 174
We’ve posted so many episodes at this point that the only reason this one’s description isn’t just “Fuck this game” is that I’m not sure I didn’t do that for […]
System Mastery Special – Things We Hate About D&D – Part 1
So hey, remember when we wrote that book? Jef apparently didn’t because this special content powered by pre-orders has been sitting unedited on an external HD for months. The only […]
Smallville – System Mastery 173
It was about time we discussed the Cortex engine, and what better way to have a discussion than driving 45 minutes to a Kansas farm so I can say one […]
Darwin’s World – System Mastery 172
It’s post-apocalypse OGL gaming here so it may seem like something we’ve done before, but is it? I hope not, but honestly 171 is a lot of episodes to go […]
Tunnels & Trolls – System Mastery 171
The year is 1975. The hair is stupid. The clothes are stupid. The music? Mostly stupid. The movie scene was okay (Rocky Horror? Jaws? Come on now). And the RPG […]
DragonRaid – System Mastery 170
Someone tweeted about this, someone else linked it to us, and now we’ve reviewed it. The DragonRaid Adventure Learning System: A Roleplaying Game for Courageous Christians. It’s probably safest to […]
Rampant: Live Action Roleplaying – System Mastery 169
Lightning bolt! Lightning bolt! Lightning b… you get the idea. It’s a LARP game! And for us, a weird one, since we’ve never actually encountered one before that just looks […]
Timeship – System Mastery 168
Timelord! Would you like to play an RPG as yourself and then, you know, get rewarded for showing up to the table with weapons and German soldier uniforms and stuff? […]
Supplement Spectacular 2! – System Mastery 167
A fun side effect of doing what we do is that listeners send us stuff. All the time. We have just tons of books. Jef’s room is basically two used […]
Dream Park – System Mastery 166
This has been on Jon’s to-get list for most of the time we’ve made the show, and who should suddenly show up with a copy of the thing but our […]
Toon – System Mastery 165
Time to tackle some more Steve Jackson stuff. No GURPS still (somehow we still don’t have a copy) but I do have Toon so here we go! Play as a […]
Glyphs: RPG Blueprint (Part 2) – System Mastery 164
This thing is huge and bizarre and we have come back to finish it because you are not prepared… for more Glyphs.
Glyphs: RPG Blueprint (Part 1) – System Mastery 163
Let’s finish off the year with something wild, what do you say? How about a game that uses a flicked token carom style mechanic for all random resolution? This thing […]
