Movie Mastery – Fright Night (1985)
Movie Mastery – Fright Night (1985) We look at the original Fright Night, a classic 80’s horror movie where everyone is kind of a goober and there’s a vampire named […]
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Movie Mastery – Gleaming the Cube (1989)
Movie Mastery – Gleaming the Cube (1989) A totally radical skateboarding movie that has very little to do with skateboarding and a lot to do with Vietnamese crime drama
System Mastery 306 – The Expanse
System Mastery 306 – The Expanse More TV sci-fi! More TV sci-fi! Actually wait, hold on, this one is based on the books. No TV in here, which is probably […]
System Mastery 305 – Time Lord
System Mastery 305 – Time Lord Who loves Doctor Who? Specifically and exclusively any Doctor Who made before 1991? Not us it turns out, though this game is pretty fun! […]
System Mastery 304 – Runequest (1984)
System Mastery 304 – Runequest (1984) This is one of the venerable old giants of the fantasy gaming industry. Avalon Hill producing Chaosium’s Runequest. Couldn’t be more classic. But how […]
System Mastery 303 – Superhero 2044
System Mastery 302 – Capers By all account, this is the first ever superhero RPG, but don’t let that fool you, it contains virtually nothing you’d recognize as a superhero […]
System Mastery 302 – Capers
System Mastery 302 – Capers Okay the rumors that we like every supers game are scurrilous, devious, and increasingly accurate. This is Capers, and it’s a supers game set in […]
System Mastery 301 – The Arcanum
System Mastery 301 – The Arcanum Hi folks, let’s start up another 300 of these, what do you say? This one is about The Arcanum, an early 80s game that […]
System Mastery 300 – Palladium Fantasy
System Mastery 300 – Palladium Fantasy Well that certainly was 300 times we did a thing, I tell you what! Let’s take a little victory lap by cracking open a […]
System Mastery 299 – Bleeding Heart: A Game of Gothic Romance
System Mastery 299 – Bleeding Heart We’re hard at work on our giant pile of weird old box sets, and that means it’s time for Bleeding Heart, a game that […]
System Mastery 298 – Wild West
System Mastery 298 – Wild West I really hope you’re enjoying this string of very old games, we’re doing our best to get back into them quickly (ever since I […]
Movie Mastery – The Beastmaster (1982)
Movie Mastery – The Beastmaster (1982) A bog standard barbarian plot that gets just enough spice from the animal telepathy stuff to be kind of worth watching.
System Mastery 284 – Time Master
System Mastery 284 – Time Master Travel through time at the behest of a futuristic society at the end of time? Sounds familiar! But before you break out the Wyld […]
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 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 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 205 -Delta Force
My friends, in the interest of transparency, I am only just now realized this game has a subtitle! So don’t look for that in the episode, we didn’t notice. It’s […]
Movie Mastery – BMX Bandits (1982)
It’s the 80’s in Australia and there is nothing cooler than riding BMX bikes, stealing shit you find that is obviously someone else’s, and having the worst imaginable hair.
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? […]
Chill – System Mastery 158
It’s a nice day for something! Welcome back to our October content. This year the theme is a little looser since we’ve reviewed enough White Wolf games for two lifetimes […]
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