Spookshow: The Game of Ectoplasmic Intrigue – System Mastery 28
SystemMastery 28 – Spookshow This game is about ghost spies. Get it? It’s a double meaning on the word. I’m not sure if you get it. You see, spook is […]
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Nexus – System Mastery 27
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 […]
Car Wars – System Mastery 26
System Mastery 26 – Car Wars Strap in, it’s going to be a dense, chart-heavy ride. Steve Jackson’s Car Wars is heavy on near-future apocalyptic flavor, and equally heavy on […]
D&D Set 1 Basic Rules – System Mastery 25
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 […]
C°ntinuum – System Mastery 24
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 […]
Star Wars RPG – System Mastery 23
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 […]
After the Bomb – System Mastery 22
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 […]
System Mastery 21 – Nobilis
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 […]
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. […]
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 9 – Legend of the Five Rings
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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