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System Mastery 217 – Conspiracy X

January 11, 2022by systemmastery Leave a comment

What if everything you thought you knew was actually all evidence of a secret conspiracy?  Deja Vu?  Real psychic powers.  Men in Black?  Lizard people in black.  That’s the premise […]

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System Mastery 193 – Skraypers

February 9, 2021by systemmastery 1 Comment

As go the tides, so come the times we’re both dealing with something and need a nice easy Palladium game.  Skraypers is both a Rifts and a Heroes Unlimited setting, […]

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Horrortoberfest ’20 Day 31 – Hungerford (2014)

October 31, 2020by systemmastery Leave a comment

  Hoooooly crap. You know, this year’s Horrortoberfest crop was actually pretty good, all things considered. However, we are going to bookend this year with another super low budget found […]

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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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Tekumel: Empire of the Petal Throne – System Mastery 129

August 28, 2018by systemmastery 8 Comments

We felt a little dirty doing a “new” book last episode, so here’s our course correction.  The 1975 version of Tekumel: Empire of the Petal Throne, with all acute accents […]

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The Xro Dinn Chronicles – System Mastery 119

April 10, 2018by systemmastery 4 Comments

The Xro Dinn Chronicles is, for lack of a better description, the unholy combination of Ninjas & Superspies, Babylon 5, and the sort of mindset that led to the Winchester […]

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Horrortoberfest Day 7 – Dark Skies (2013)

October 8, 2016by systemmastery Leave a comment

To be honest, Jef is much more the one that likes the Sci-Fi horror thing. While I have nothing against a good Event Horizon or Alien those are just haunted […]

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Horrortoberfest Day 29 – Infini (2015)

October 29, 2015by systemmastery 2 Comments

Sometimes there’s a need for a crappy sci-fi movie where all the special effects budget went into spray painting some laser tag equipment gray.  Infini is the result of one […]

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Horrortoberfest Day 28 – Critters 2 (1988)

October 28, 2015by jonmastery Leave a comment

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 […]

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Horrortoberfest 2014: Day 22 – Night of the Creeps (1986)

October 22, 2014by jonmastery Leave a comment

Reading the description of this movie, I immediately thought of things like Slither or Shivers (which is good because I love both of those movies). While the movie does feature […]

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Nexus – System Mastery 27

September 9, 2014by systemmastery 1 Comment

SystemMastery 27 – Nexus Live Action Roleplaying Time to gather up 50 or so of your greatest friends and then slowly and painfully lose them over the course of a […]

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Monday Movie Review – Men in Black 2 (2002)

March 10, 2014by jonmastery Leave a comment

The Men In Black franchise is one of those that I actually thought would be fine for a sequel. A lot of stories end up being fairly well wrapped up […]

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