Sailor Moon RPG – System Mastery 99
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 […]
Tag Archives: 80s
Legendary Lives – System Mastery 98
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? […]
Star Frontiers – System Mastery 88
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! […]
XCrawl (D20) – System Mastery 86
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 […]
The Babylon Project – System Mastery 85
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 […]
Champions – System Mastery 83
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 […]
Over the Edge – System Mastery 81
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 […]
Vampire: The Masquerade (2nd Edition) – System Mastery 80
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 […]
Batman Roleplaying Game – System Mastery 78
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 […]
Blue Planet – System Mastery 77
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 […]
Macho Women with Guns – System Mastery 76
Aw yeah, we got your boobsplosions, your vagcapitations, and your brutal wombsaws all up in this one. It’s Macho Women with Guns, a parody game that uses generous margins and […]
AD&D 2nd Edition – System Mastery 75
It’s our three year anniversary here at System Mastery! Jon and Jef entered the bonds of holy podcastimony in August of 2013 and it’s been wonderful ever since, except for […]
Feng Shui – System Mastery 73
This game was about as good as everyone told us it would be. “Don’t cover it” they said. “It’s not even for you guys.” Well we showed them, those guys […]
Rifts Parts 2 – System Mastery 71
Well, here we are. We put Rifts in the rearview. We still love this dumb game. In today’s episode, we finish our discussion of the core book. RCCs, OCCs, psionics, […]
Rifts Parts 1 – System Mastery 70
We hope you’re as ready for this as we are. After 70 episodes, it’s time to review the game that somehow started both of us down the path that ultimately […]
Movie Mastery – Mazes & Monsters (1982)
Dare ye enter the magical realm of what filmmakers in the early 80s thought RPGs looked like? It’s a terrifying world of whiny yuppie children and blaming mental illness on […]
Movie Mastery – Ewoks: The Battle for Endor (1985)
Yes, I know this is the second one. We roll randomly, remember? We’ll get to Caravan of Courage at some point. Today, Movie Mastery covers the best Star Wars movie […]
Movie Mastery – Mommie Dearest (1981)
An old friend drops by the show to help us review a movie she made us watch in the first place. Claire joins us for Mommie Dearest, a bizarre, slowly-paced […]
Horrortoberfest Day 28 – Critters 2 (1988)
I never saw the first Critters movie. In fact, the only exposure to the franchise I had up until this point was actually seeing about 5 minutes of Critters 2 […]
A.C.E. Agents – System Mastery 49
Today we introduce you to a light and relatively witty GI Joe parody from around 1992. A.C.E. Agents manages a very unusual balancing act of both satirizing and explaining the […]
