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Tag Archives: 80s

Movie Mastery – BMX Bandits (1982)

May 28, 2020by systemmastery 1 Comment

  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.

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Timeship – System Mastery 168

February 25, 2020by systemmastery 4 Comments

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?  […]

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Chill – System Mastery 158

October 9, 2019by systemmastery Leave a comment

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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Space Master – System Mastery 157

September 24, 2019by systemmastery 3 Comments

Well, we had to take a look at a Role Master game eventually, and this one chose us.  This 1985 RPG is deeply, deeply mathy, and features a fantastic story […]

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Bliss Stage – System Mastery 145

April 8, 2019by systemmastery 6 Comments

Straight from one bleak future to the next, only this time it’s kids.  Why it’s almost as dystopic as the movie Kids!  Basically the future is dream robots that put […]

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Cyborg Commando – System Mastery 144

March 26, 2019by systemmastery 4 Comments

So a decade or so after D&D, Gary Gygax had a brand new idea.  What if cyborgs with dustbuster crotches defended the world from giant bugs made of erectile tissue?  […]

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Horrortoberfest ’18 Day 3 – The Stepfather (1987)

October 3, 2018by systemmastery Leave a comment

Time for yet more low budget horror films from the 80s. I have to say, I almost feel like I was cheating with this one since it’s an actually decent […]

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Tomorrow Knights – System Mastery 112

January 2, 2018by systemmastery 2 Comments

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 […]

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Extreme Vengeance – System Mastery 111

December 20, 2017by systemmastery 5 Comments

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).  […]

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Living Steel – System Mastery 104

September 25, 2017by systemmastery 3 Comments

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 […]

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Sailor Moon RPG – System Mastery 99

July 18, 2017by systemmastery 12 Comments

Moon Prism Power!  Right?  Right?  That’s what she says sometimes?  Look this is weird for us.  Not our usual thing.  So we brought in a ringer!  A guy that’s watched […]

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Legendary Lives – System Mastery 98

July 3, 2017by systemmastery 6 Comments

The countdown to episode 100 begins!  This week, Legendary Lives.  Just another heartbreaker you’ve never heard of?  Maybe.  Does it commit several of the weird sins of old game design?  […]

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Star Frontiers – System Mastery 88

February 13, 2017by systemmastery 10 Comments

It’s the space 80s!  Feather your hair and ready your giant wrap-around bubble glasses for some interstellar adventure where the computers are so advanced that Oregon Trail has four colors!  […]

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XCrawl (D20) – System Mastery 86

January 16, 2017by systemmastery 7 Comments

Man, I hadn’t even seen the regular cover of this til I was putting this together.  That’s uhh… well I guess Luke Cage found some chain mail made by Stussy […]

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The Babylon Project – System Mastery 85

January 2, 2017by systemmastery 12 Comments

Get ready to recreate the dramatic adventures of Captain John Sheridan, psychic lady Ivanova, kindly space vampire Londo Mollari, and – did the doctor guy get a name?  I forget […]

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Champions – System Mastery 83

December 5, 2016by systemmastery 7 Comments

Time for the HERO system, one of the big dogs of generic systems, in what is arguably it’s most popular incarnation, the very, very modular Champions.  Build a hero absolutely […]

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Over the Edge – System Mastery 81

November 7, 2016by systemmastery 13 Comments

Well lookie here!  Written by Jonathan Tweet (author of 3rd Edition D&D).  Designed by Tweet and Robin D. Laws (Author of Feng Shui).  There’s basically no way this won’t be […]

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Vampire: The Masquerade (2nd Edition) – System Mastery 80

October 24, 2016by systemmastery 16 Comments

We’re drawing ever closer to the terrifying end of White Ween, and we figured why not tackle an 800 pound gorilla a week before every sad internet friend you hate […]

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Batman Roleplaying Game – System Mastery 78

September 28, 2016by systemmastery 17 Comments

Da na na na na na na na na na na na na na na TABLES.  TABLES.  It’s Batman, all right.  Man is it ever Batman.  As a spinoff of […]

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Blue Planet – System Mastery 77

September 12, 2016by systemmastery 7 Comments

Cyborg orcas, mutant cat super scientists, “squids” and more await you on the distant water planet ingeniously named “Poseidon.”  You can make all sorts of amazing characters that certainly could […]

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