System Mastery 20 – Cthulhutech
Episode 20 – Cthulutech It might just be because we like 75% of the brazenly lifted source material, but Cthulhutech passes our review gauntlet and comes up looking pretty fun. […]
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System Mastery 19 – Furry Pirates
SystemMastery 19 – Furry Pirates This week, we take hold of a book with a bifurcated design sensibility. Will we actually discover “Swashbuckling Adventures in the Furry Age of Piracy”? […]
System Mastery 18 – Big Eyes, Small Mouth
SystemMastery 18 – Big Eyes, Small Mouth We sit down for a rousing discussion about the many varieties of anime, and the game that tries to let you play them […]
Episode 17 – Don’t Look Back: Terror is Never Far Behind
SystemMastery 17 – Don’t Look Back: Terror is Never Far Behind Don’t Look Back is a mid-90s Horror RPG, featuring hilarious send-ups of your favorite 80s horror film tropes! Oh […]
System Mastery 16 – Scion: Hero
In today’s installment of System Mastery we seek to determine if one dad could beat up another dad, assuming the dads were Susano-O and Papa Legba. We’re reviewing Scion, a […]
System Mastery 15 – Indiana Jones RPG
This week, we test the very limits of what defines an RPG, with a game that removes a core element to the concept. There are seven characters in this game. […]
System Mastery 14 – Street Fighter
Editors Note: Before pressing record on this podcast, I had to press Forward, Down, and Down-Forward. We take a look at the 1993 White Wolf storytelling classic, Street Fighter. A […]
System Mastery 13 – Urban Arcana
The worst thing about this book is right there in the picture. Someone really had a …fascination with drow, and their apparent immediate abandonment of spider-themed fetish gear for spider-themed […]
System Mastery 12 – D20 Modern
Seriously, another edgy urban game with no magic or sci-fi elements at all? Well, almost. D20 Modern wants to be every game for everyone, as long as it’s not D&D. […]
System Mastery 11 – Haven: City of Violence
Delivered straight to your grim, gritty earholes, System Mastery brings you a review of Haven: City of Violence. This “hyperkinetic action simulator” boasts a three-line deep Wikipedia page that tells […]
System Mastery 10 – Exalted
Seriously, just look at that. It’s ridiculous. That’s the cover of one of the supplements. They wanted you to buy that book. They didn’t want you to hide it a […]
System Mastery 8 – Skyrealms of Jorune
We dug pretty deep to find this game, a sci-fi/fantasy far-future romp on a distant planet where all the magic is colored orbs and there are three different sizes of […]
System Mastery 7 – Everquest D20
We’re joined for the first time by a guest host, our good friend Russ, as we discuss Everquest D20, an unholy confluence of 3rd edition open-source D20 gaming and the […]
System Mastery 6 – Ghostbusters RPG
Is Slimer the Judas of the Ghostbusters franchise? We delve into the long-gone Ghostbusters RPG, and apparently hit our heads on the bottom. This RPG is tiny and weird and […]
Episode 5 – Orpheus
The mild, heartwarming scares continue with our first Horrortoberfest podcast of October! Orpheus is a weird, weird outlier from the Old World of Darkness family. Get some friends together to […]
Episode 4 – Prime Directive: The Star Fleet Universe RPG
This episode goes out to Dan, the only person we know of who ever played this game. We have to assume he hated it as much as we did. We’re […]
Kickstarter Minisode 1 – Centerpiece
System Mastery Minisode 1 – Centerpiece Our first minisode rolls off the edge of the gameboard! Don’t have a full hour to devote to us droning on? Try this five […]
Episode 3 – Tales From the Floating Vagabond
This time around, we review Tales from the Floating Vagabond, from Avalon Hill. It’s a comedic sci-fi roleplaying game set the exact center of a cartoon universe. Shticks, poorly named […]
Episode 2 – Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Hey there Mr. Skippy! Not sure how you found your way to our little corner of the web, did you get lost while trying to find that hot new nightclub? […]
Episode 1 – Heroes Unlimited
Episode 1 – Heroes Unlimited Aliens, Cyborgs, Mutants, and Stage Magicians share the pages of the 1998 classic “Heroes Unlimited.” We dive into the odd but oddly beautiful Palladium Games […]
