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D&D Set 1 Basic Rules – System Mastery 25

August 12, 2014by systemmastery 7 Comments

SystemMastery 25 – D&D Set 1 Basic Rules We celebrate a year’s worth of RPG reviews with a return to a true classic.  The original Red Box D&D, complete with […]

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C°ntinuum – System Mastery 24

July 29, 2014by systemmastery 7 Comments

SystemMastery 24 – C°ntinuum: Roleplaying in the Yet It’s a time travel game!  More accurately, it’s a game about keeping meticulous detailed notes because the DM might check to see […]

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Star Wars RPG – System Mastery 23

July 15, 2014by systemmastery 9 Comments

SystemMastery 23 – Star Wars RPG Our second look at West End Games takes us to a galaxy far, far away, where an antagonistic GM is expected to control the […]

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After the Bomb – System Mastery 22

July 1, 2014by systemmastery 2 Comments

SystemMastery 22 – After the Bomb Wounded and battered from months of learning new systems, we take a brief respite to review something we knew already.  This week, we spend […]

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System Mastery 21 – Nobilis

June 17, 2014by systemmastery 6 Comments

  SystemMastery 21 – Nobilis Have you ever dreamed of being the god of something?  Perhaps the god of socks, or the god of internet memes, or the god of […]

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System Mastery 20 – Cthulhutech

June 4, 2014by systemmastery 8 Comments

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

May 20, 2014by systemmastery 5 Comments

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”?  […]

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System Mastery 18 – Big Eyes, Small Mouth

May 6, 2014by systemmastery 7 Comments

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 […]

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Episode 17 – Don’t Look Back: Terror is Never Far Behind

April 22, 2014by systemmastery 3 Comments

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 […]

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System Mastery 16 – Scion: Hero

April 8, 2014by systemmastery 14 Comments

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 […]

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System Mastery 15 – Indiana Jones RPG

March 26, 2014by systemmastery 7 Comments

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.  […]

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System Mastery 14 – Street Fighter

March 5, 2014by systemmastery 3 Comments

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 […]

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System Mastery 13 – Urban Arcana

February 17, 2014by systemmastery 5 Comments

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 […]

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System Mastery 12 – D20 Modern

February 7, 2014by systemmastery 2 Comments

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.  […]

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System Mastery 11 – Haven: City of Violence

January 22, 2014by systemmastery 9 Comments

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 […]

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System Mastery 10 – Exalted

January 10, 2014by systemmastery 2 Comments

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 […]

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System Mastery 9 – Legend of the Five Rings

December 17, 2013by systemmastery Leave a comment

Guest host Brian joins us to discuss Legend of the Five Rings, a game of swords, sorcery, swords, etiquette, and swords.  It’s one of those katana things.  We dig into […]

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System Mastery 8 – Skyrealms of Jorune

November 20, 2013by systemmastery 5 Comments

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 […]

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System Mastery 7 – Everquest D20

November 8, 2013by systemmastery 1 Comment

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 […]

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System Mastery 6 – Ghostbusters RPG

October 24, 2013by systemmastery Leave a comment

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 […]

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