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System Mastery 227 – Wizards & Gunslingers

June 1, 2022by systemmastery Leave a comment

Ooh, it’s one of those cowboys and also a different thing games!  You know, like cowboys and ninjas, or cowboys and dinosaurs, or cowboys and the slow crushing onset of […]

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System Mastery 220 – The Secret Fire

February 22, 2022by systemmastery Leave a comment

This is a pretty bog-standard “Recapture the D&D I remember when I was 11” moonshot game, where the lessons learned about what D&D used to be like seem to be […]

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System Mastery 214 – Mystic Forces

November 30, 2021by systemmastery 1 Comment

Heck yeah, one of those weird games so little known I couldn’t GIS the cover and had to take a picture of our copy!  Mystic Forces is a 2000 RPG […]

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Tunnels & Trolls – System Mastery 171

April 7, 2020by systemmastery 15 Comments

The year is 1975.  The hair is stupid.  The clothes are stupid.  The music?  Mostly stupid.  The movie scene was okay (Rocky Horror?  Jaws?  Come on now).  And the RPG […]

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Quest of the Ancients – System Mastery 161

November 19, 2019by systemmastery 2 Comments

Have you missed the good old fashioned heartbreaker game paradigm?  Well fret no longer friend, because this one has it all!  Elves! Dwarves!  Saracens for some reason!  This reprint of […]

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Dark Realms – System Mastery 159

October 22, 2019by systemmastery Leave a comment

We didn’t know it when we started, but there’s a theme to this year’s Ween episodes beyond just leftover horror games floating around the library.  And that theme is “Oops […]

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Fading Suns – System Mastery 147

May 7, 2019by systemmastery 1 Comment

Sorta 40k, sorta Vampire, maybe a little Dune in there?  Anyway it’s a space RPG where there’s a church that’s basically Catholicism through a greasy mirror and a bunch of […]

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Of Gods and Men – System Mastery 146

April 23, 2019by systemmastery 3 Comments

Hey who wants an old-fashioned case of the Heartbreakers?  Because that’s what we’ve got right here.  And it’s a doozy!  In that it’s one of those small-batch ones that you […]

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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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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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Fifth Cycle – System Mastery 47

July 7, 2015by systemmastery 11 Comments

Who likes their fantasy with a shot of heartbreaker and a dirt-farming sidecar?  Maybe with a splash of podcast host bitters?  This week we cover Fifth Cycle, a thoroughly confusing […]

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