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Book of Erotic Fantasy – System Mastery 120

April 25, 2018by systemmastery 2 Comments

It’s the Supplement Spectacular again!  Or, it was going to be before a child was born into this world who ate all of Jef’s time.  Luckily (for you, not for […]

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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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Wild Skies: Europa Tempest – System Mastery 118

March 27, 2018by systemmastery 2 Comments

Sail the skies in heavily armored airships and nimble fighter planes as a variety of sexy little animals.  It’s the early 1930s and Europe is embroiled in really weird battles […]

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A Flying Circus of Values – Afterthought Something or Other

March 21, 2018by systemmastery 2 Comments

Hey look we still make these from time to time.  Today we’re interviewing Erika Chappell, author of the currently Kickstarting RPG Flying Circus, which somehow includes Blimpleggers as a setting […]

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Scared Stiff – System Mastery 117

March 12, 2018by systemmastery 2 Comments

Today, we’re reviewing an earnest attempt to capture the very specific magic of the B-Movie.  You know, so there’s gonna be like a ray gun that changes the frame so […]

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WEGS Old Skool – System Mastery 116

February 27, 2018by systemmastery 10 Comments

OSR, or Old Sam Raimi, is a concept in gaming that the most fun game stuff already happened and was mostly done by the early 80s, and that games resembling […]

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Brave New World – System Mastery 115

February 13, 2018by systemmastery 3 Comments

So this is Brave New World.  What’s in the core book?  Enough superhero stuff to sort of play, if you call this playing.  A wizard class with no spells, a […]

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Promised Sands – System Mastery 114

January 29, 2018by systemmastery 2 Comments

It’s impossible to predict when we’ll hit a real speedbump on the show, a real Synnibarr or Haven… and here we are!  Promised Sands ascends the steps of the pantheon […]

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Witch Hunter: The Invisible World – System Mastery 113

January 15, 2018by systemmastery 3 Comments

Put on your buckliest hat and prepare to engage in battle with monsters most biblical!  We examine a game that truly tests the boundaries of how much White Wolf you’re […]

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Tomorrow Knights – System Mastery 112

January 2, 2018by systemmastery 2 Comments

Interesting note that we missed because we didn’t do any research:  Tomorrow Knights here is a Marvel property.  Which makes this a Marvel RPG.  We had no idea.  Thrill to […]

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Extreme Vengeance – System Mastery 111

December 20, 2017by systemmastery 5 Comments

On today’s episode we discuss Extreme Vengeance, an RPG dedicated almost entirely to recreating the feel of gung-ho action movies (there is a sliver reserved for unrelentingly dragging Hulk Hogan).  […]

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Paranoia XP – System Mastery 110

December 5, 2017by systemmastery 2 Comments

A madcap dystopia that has more accompanying memes per square centimeter than anything short of Dungeon and Dragons itself.  Is Paranoia worth braving the swamp of people at the store […]

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Dark Continent – System Mastery 108

November 8, 2017by systemmastery Leave a comment

Dark Continent is the RPG of … well venturing into Africa and killing a bunch of people.  I mean that’s vaguely frowned upon (unless you are playing a Belgian), but […]

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White Weentacular – Afterthought Special

October 31, 2017by systemmastery 2 Comments

Told you Afterthought would never die!  We were so dejected when another project went off the rails, we decided to cool down with an Afterthought.  Happy white ween!  Please note […]

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Werewolf the Apocalypse – System Mastery 107

October 24, 2017by systemmastery 7 Comments

Awoooooo White Ween continues!  Awoooooooo!  Today on System Mastery we introduce you to the colon-free world of Werewolf the Apocalypse.  I mean, there’s some colons. Werewolves probably have colons.  I […]

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Mind’s Eye Theatre: Requiem – System Mastery 105

October 9, 2017by systemmastery Leave a comment

Ah, truly the most joyous of holiday seasons is upon us!  Happy White Ween!  Today, we cover a game that turned out (well after we started reading it) to be […]

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Living Steel – System Mastery 104

September 25, 2017by systemmastery 3 Comments

Brought to you by rocket scientists hellbent on pure unadulterated realism, Living Steel is basically Heinlein by way of Games Workshop, with probably a few too many tables (which is […]

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Gear Krieg- System Mastery 103

September 12, 2017by systemmastery 7 Comments

Are you looking for a game of two-fisted derring-do and rousing pulp adventure?  You’ll be sure to find it in some other book.  Gear Krieg is an RPG companion to […]

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King Arthur: Pendragon – System Mastery 102

August 29, 2017by systemmastery 11 Comments

Yay, a game we didn’t hate!  This is a very specific sort of RPG, in which you play as a knightly dynasty during the Morte D’Arthur romantic tales.  Will you […]

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A State – System Mastery 101

August 15, 2017by systemmastery 12 Comments

This book is a grim, unrelenting slog.  Punctuated by the kind of art that would be impressive if this book was a collection of screenshots from the first Fallout game, […]

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