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Tag Archives: D&D

System Mastery 230 – White Box

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Let’s GOSR!  This here is one a them retro-type clones where the goal was extremely straightforward:  The author liked Sword & Sorcery White Box and wanted another edition, so here […]

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System Mastery 213 – The Book of Vile Darkness (3.x)

November 17, 2021by systemmastery 1 Comment

Just because Ween is over doesn’t mean we can’t stay spooky!  Or at least one would hope.  This is more evil by way of edge than anything else.  Jef sought […]

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System Mastery Special – Things We Hate About D&D – Part 2

August 12, 2020by systemmastery 5 Comments

Hey whoops this was only ever free on our Patreon.  Should be here too.  Now it is.  Hooray!  The balance is complete and finally I can diminish, and go into […]

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System Mastery Special – Things We Hate About D&D – Part 3

July 3, 2020by systemmastery 10 Comments

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, […]

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System Mastery Special – Things We Hate About D&D – Part 1

May 10, 2020by systemmastery 10 Comments

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 […]

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WWE: Know Your Role – System Mastery 154 (live!)

August 13, 2019by systemmastery 2 Comments

Live from GenCon 2019, it’s System Mastery!  We’re covering the greatest entertainment to come out of the squared circle in 2005, actual wrestling!  Wait… no, probably some video game!  Or […]

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Dungeons & Dragons 5th Edition – System Mastery 150

June 18, 2019by systemmastery 12 Comments

Happy episode 150!  Still can’t believe it’s gone on this long.  Here’s D&D 5e.  It’s a game.

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Dungeons & Dragons 4th Edition – System Mastery 125

July 3, 2018by systemmastery 38 Comments

It’s high time that someone on the internet had an opinion about this edition of this game, and you know what, it might as well be us.  Please enjoy this […]

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A Flying Circus of Values – Afterthought Something or Other

March 21, 2018by systemmastery 2 Comments

Hey look we still make these from time to time.  Today we’re interviewing Erika Chappell, author of the currently Kickstarting RPG Flying Circus, which somehow includes Blimpleggers as a setting […]

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White Weentacular – Afterthought Special

October 31, 2017by systemmastery 2 Comments

Told you Afterthought would never die!  We were so dejected when another project went off the rails, we decided to cool down with an Afterthought.  Happy white ween!  Please note […]

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D&D 3rd Edition – System Mastery 100

July 31, 2017by systemmastery 15 Comments

Well, it’s been four years.  Honestly when we started the gimmick of doing D&D every 25 episodes we never thought we’d actually get as far as third edition.   Here we […]

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Movie Mastery – Scourge of Worlds (2003)

June 30, 2017by systemmastery 5 Comments

Join us on a magical adventure where YOU decide what happens! Well…not, you. I mean, WE decided what would happen. We had the controller and all. Anyway, it’s a choose […]

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The End is Near – Afterthought 56

June 1, 2017by systemmastery 4 Comments

Our trip report, a little more musing on the nature of the 200 Word RPG, and a big scary announcement.  Also listener questions and dumb jokes!

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Full Circle – Afterthought 55

May 15, 2017by systemmastery 2 Comments

In this episode we’re going to discuss mature content in games, but probably more importantly we’re going to discuss our new membership in the One Shot Podcast Network.  I’ll break […]

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Peas and Carrots – Afterthought 54

April 17, 2017by systemmastery 7 Comments

Vacation recaps!  Settling if we’re too mean about LARPing.  Questions from you!  It’s an action packed adventure through wonderment and buffoonery!

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The Secret is Inside – Afterthought 53

March 20, 2017by systemmastery 8 Comments

So here’s an interesting first.  The author of The Secret of Zir’an, Chris Hockabout, is a listener!  So when we covered his book, he reached out to us.  Thank goodness […]

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Continuation – Afterthought 52

March 6, 2017by systemmastery 3 Comments

We talk about things that aren’t FATAL so hard, it’s crazy!  Can you blame us?  We just don’t want to talk about it anymore.  Plus, your questions, answered at last.

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Rambling Men – Afterthought 51

February 20, 2017by systemmastery 6 Comments

This is legitimately not a great episode if you like people that can stay on topic.  Otherwise I think it’s one of our favorites.

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Mea Culpa – Afterthought 50

February 7, 2017by systemmastery 15 Comments

Today we invite a guest on to tell us all about how Nephilim is apparently a pretty good game, and it’s Kalum, the host of The Rolistes Podcast.  A native […]

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Mad MaXCrawl – Afterthought 49

January 23, 2017by systemmastery 3 Comments

People kept asking us what we thought the best way to adapt the XCrawl concept was.  I think our title this week makes our opinion readily apparent.

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