System Mastery 289 – The Quiet Year
System Mastery 289 – The Quiet Year Hey folks, welcome to Sweater Weather. We’re going to keep things light and distracting here for the next few months, sweater weather or […]
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System Mastery 288 – Rats!
System Mastery 288 – Rats! So these aren’t really furries, but hey, I think this was just called Hairy Ween, right? Like that sounds more like a dick joke anyway. […]
System Mastery 287 – Mutants in the Now
System Mastery 287 – Orkworld (Crunch) Blessed Ween everyone! This year we’re focusing on animal inside of us all with a Furry Ween! Or a Hairy Ween! I dunno, whatever, […]
System Mastery 286 – Orkworld (Crunch)
System Mastery 286 – Orkworld (Crunch) Oh, oh no. We thought all the worst stuff was going to be in the fluff and descriptive section. We were wrong. If you’re […]
System Mastery 285 – Orkworld (Fluff)
System Mastery 285 – Orkworld (Fluff) Well, this might be divisive, if we hadn’t spent years discussing how we feel about ol’ John Wick and his famously terrible advice. But […]
System Mastery 284 – Time Master
System Mastery 284 – Time Master Travel through time at the behest of a futuristic society at the end of time? Sounds familiar! But before you break out the Wyld […]
System Mastery 283 – Eden
System Mastery 283 – Eden Hi everyone! You’ll never guess that now the other one of us has COVID. This stupid planet and country. Anyway, this game is about people […]
System Mastery 282 – Spectaculars
System Mastery 282 – Spectaculars Part of wallowing in weird old stuff unfortunately is that it’s hard to keep abreast of what’s going on in the last decade or so […]
System Mastery 281 – Modern Knights
System Mastery 281 – Modern Knights Pssst, hey buddy, wanna buy a superhero game from 2002 that was pretty clearly written prior to 1999? How? Oh, let us explain. It’s […]
System Mastery 280 – Thirsty Sword Lesbians
System Mastery 280 – Thirsty Sword Lesbians Hey who likes lesbians what have swords and powerful yearnings related to the other sword-bearing lesbians they encounter on their wild adventures? You […]
System Mastery 279 – Iron Kingdoms
System Mastery 279 – Iron Kingdoms This one is close to home, we both sorta like this game, used to play the wargame, and wish it all was still good. […]
System Mastery 278 – The Skeletons
System Mastery 278 – The Skeletons Is it too late to call this a theme month? Because it turned out to be a theme month. Cool minimalist projects by designers […]
System Mastery 277 – For the Queen (feat. Alex Roberts)
System Mastery 277 – For The Queen Who says we can’t do cool modern design reviews? Or interview the cool working designers of today that make them? Whoever said that, […]
System Mastery 276 – Muse
System Mastery 276 – Muse Who would have thought this weird little collaborative storytelling shared narrative exercise game could be so divisive? We discuss Muse, a game that uses cards […]
System Mastery 275 – Aria: Canticle of the Monomyth (Part 2)
System Mastery 275 – Aria: Canticle of the Monomyth (Part 2) Fine, we finished it. This was truly just an awful thing to keep reading through, I think it’s been […]
System Mastery 274 – Tower 22
System Mastery 274 – Tower 22 Yeah yeah, we hit pause on Aria, we just couldn’t deal with that noise anymore. Instead, it’s time to dive into the ever-generous well […]
System Mastery 273 – Aria: Canticle of the Monomyth
System Mastery 273 – Aria: Canticle of the Monomyth Show update first, everything’s been a bit late because of travel and the deadly scary norovirus, which isn’t pretty. Sorry about […]
System Mastery 272 – City of Heroes Playtest
System Mastery 272 – City of Heroes Playtest Gather up, all you various tankers, scrapper, controllers, uhhh… that healer one… I’m just kidding I loved this game. It’s City of […]
System Mastery 271 – Active Exploits
System Mastery 271 – Active Exploits This was a tough read. Active Exploits is more of a toolkit than a game, but despite basically having every possible tool any kit […]
System Mastery 270 – Marvel Super Heroes Adventure Game
System Mastery 270 – Marvel Super Heroes Adventure Game I think… I think this is all of them? If you count the review of the Multiverse pre-test (we’ve skimmed the […]
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