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System Mastery 210 – Amber Diceless

October 5, 2021by systemmastery 6 Comments

Oh geez, this one is gonna get us some letters.  Lemme just warn you in advance if you’re as hot on this property as everyone on the internet seems to […]

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System Mastery 209 – Supplement Spectacular 3

September 22, 2021by systemmastery Leave a comment

Well how about one of these?  It’s only the third one in 209 episodes, so I hope they sort of feel special by now!  It’s Supplement Spectacular, where we dig […]

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System Mastery 208 – Mutant Chronicles

September 9, 2021by systemmastery 7 Comments

This takes a while, but on the bright side we really find out some new fun and not so fun stuff about the game in the process. Good on ya […]

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System Mastery 207 – Pokemon Jr.

August 25, 2021by systemmastery 5 Comments

Desperately trying to hit a book deadline, we found ourselves in need of something fairly small, so we finally broke the tiny sheet of glass in front of the smaller […]

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System Mastery 206 – Ork! The Roleplaying Game

August 11, 2021by systemmastery Leave a comment

Comedy roleplaying game anyone?  Maybe one that’s got a bunch of jokes about how dumb orks are and how they have special blood that keeps them from ever being smart […]

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System Mastery 205 -Delta Force

July 26, 2021by systemmastery 1 Comment

My friends, in the interest of transparency, I am only just now realized this game has a subtitle!  So don’t look for that in the episode, we didn’t notice.  It’s […]

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System Mastery 204 – Engel

July 13, 2021by systemmastery 3 Comments

Well hey, surprise OGL!  Nothing on the cover, and so when Jon selected this old Sword & Sorcery product to take home and started reading, he was suddenly (after 190 […]

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System Mastery 203 – Theatrix

June 29, 2021by systemmastery Leave a comment

So what we have here is a rarity, in that it is an early (1993-1995) LARP game that is also a universal generic system.  So there’s not really a story […]

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System Mastery 202 – Providence

June 15, 2021by systemmastery 2 Comments

My friends, this is a weird one.  The vast majority of this book is difficult to explain rules, and then there’s a chunk of fascinating story hidden away towards the […]

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System Mastery 201 – Terror Network

June 1, 2021by systemmastery 3 Comments

I think we bought this one on the cover alone (and especially the back cover, which is bullet points and a photo of the Twin Towers mid-fall).  I mean, look […]

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System Mastery 200 – Marvel Superheroes Roleplaying Game

May 18, 2021by systemmastery 2 Comments

Hey, we made it to 200 episodes!  I’m sure that’s some sort of milestone!  And while the choice of game to cover this time may feel kind of arbitary, I […]

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System Mastery 199 – Stuperpowers

May 4, 2021by systemmastery 1 Comment

Heck yeah, comedy superhero parody game from 1997 coming in hot.  You know it’s gonna make us mad, it’s just got to!  Anyway, this game is designed to be LARP-ready, […]

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System Mastery 198 – Hellcats & Hockeysticks

April 22, 2021by systemmastery 1 Comment

We’ve had a great track record with games set in high schools, right?  So obviously one set in a secondary school should be at least as good as Alma Mater […]

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System Mastery 197 – Ironclaw

April 6, 2021by systemmastery Leave a comment

So many people have requested this that we finally thought we’d throw you all a bone.  Ironclaw is an anthro medieval RPG, so you’ll be playing a lot of foxes, […]

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System Mastery 196 – InSpectres

March 23, 2021by systemmastery Leave a comment

Wanna hunt ghosts but not necessarily dedicate your whole life to it?  Consider just getting a daytime job hunting ghosts, goblins, nilbogs, and Son of Kong with InSpectres, a game […]

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System Mastery 195 – Lords of Creation

March 9, 2021by systemmastery Leave a comment

Who wants to take over the multiverse?  Okay, great!  Let’s start you out as a nobody with nothing and you can grind XP in… I don’t care, let’s say mythological […]

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System Mastery 194 – Sentinel Comics: The RPG

February 23, 2021by systemmastery 1 Comment

From an old hero game to a new one, it’s time to talk about Sentinel Comics: The Roleplaying Game.  Sentinels is an expansive setting with a vast cast of characters […]

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System Mastery 193 – Skraypers

February 9, 2021by systemmastery 1 Comment

As go the tides, so come the times we’re both dealing with something and need a nice easy Palladium game.  Skraypers is both a Rifts and a Heroes Unlimited setting, […]

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System Mastery 192 – Shadowrun Anarchy

January 26, 2021by systemmastery 2 Comments

It’s Shadowrun!  But… faster?  Is that the point here?  It’s honestly sort of hard to tell the exact point of this Shadowrun 5e adjacent game, but damn if we aren’t […]

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System Mastery 191 – Boot Hill

January 12, 2021by systemmastery 1 Comment

Boot Hill is a colloquial term from the cowboy days for a cemetery.  You might think there’s some sort of metaphor their for our opinions pertaining to the game, but […]

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