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System Mastery 191 – Boot Hill

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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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System Mastery 190 – Interstitial – Our Hearts Intertwined

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Have you not gotten your fill of Kingdom Hearts yet?  Of course not, no one has.  Not until someone bursts Nomura like a pinata and eats all the ideas that […]

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System Mastery 189 – New Gods of Mankind

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Now here’s some good old fashioned back to basics shit.  Got to be, right?  Name like that?  Shirtless axe dude on the cover?  Well, color us surprised because this thing […]

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System Mastery 188 – Star Crossed

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Oh my, a game about the uncertain moments at the precipice of romance or disaster?  Neat!  Star Crossed is a 2018 game by Alex Roberts that creates tension and titillation […]

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System Mastery 187 – Marvel Universe Roleplaying

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Out of the four Marvel RPGs that have happened over the years, this is one of them.  Specifically, the 2003 diceless one made, inexplicably, by Marvel Comics themselves?  Anyhow, it’s […]

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System Mastery 186 – Supermegatopia

November 3, 2020by systemmastery 2 Comments

There’s nothing quite so exciting to find as a unique blend RPG.  Here we see a blend of comedy, furry stuff, light breast expansion and pregnancy fetishes, and superheroes.  I […]

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System Mastery 185 – Teens In Space

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Ween or Treatween!  Wait, what? This game is new!  How the heck did that happen?  Well, Jef’s supply of alien books isn’t low, but neither of us wanted to read […]

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System Mastery 184 – Men In Black

October 6, 2020by systemmastery 1 Comment

Oh no, are your pumpkins ablaze?  Have you written out your list of mischief targets exclusively for the eyes of Ol’ Weeny?  Well, get ready, because this October, it’s all […]

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Snarfquest D20 – System Mastery 152

July 16, 2019by systemmastery 3 Comments

Sometimes we get a book and we aren’t sure the exact percentage of RPG that’s going to be in there, so we end up reviewing like, a show synopsis or […]

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D&Dizzle: Dragons in the Hood – System Mastery 151

July 2, 2019by systemmastery 2 Comments

In retrospect we probably should have saved this for episode 175.  Anyhow this is a short comedy game mixing Dungeons and Dragons with hip-hop flavor pulled from the 80s and […]

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Dungeons & Dragons 5th Edition – System Mastery 150

June 18, 2019by systemmastery 11 Comments

Happy episode 150!  Still can’t believe it’s gone on this long.  Here’s D&D 5e.  It’s a game.

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Kobolds Ate My Baby – System Mastery 149

June 4, 2019by systemmastery 4 Comments

Every once in a while we’ve both got so much else going on that we have to rely on what we call “The Emergency Stack”, a collection of books short […]

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Recon – System Mastery 148

May 21, 2019by systemmastery 2 Comments

Well, so we can probably do a whole hour of laughy laughs on the … wait, Vietnam War?  Is that right?  Okay then.  Recon is from 1982, and it is […]

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Fading Suns – System Mastery 147

May 7, 2019by systemmastery 1 Comment

Sorta 40k, sorta Vampire, maybe a little Dune in there?  Anyway it’s a space RPG where there’s a church that’s basically Catholicism through a greasy mirror and a bunch of […]

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Of Gods and Men – System Mastery 146

April 23, 2019by systemmastery 3 Comments

Hey who wants an old-fashioned case of the Heartbreakers?  Because that’s what we’ve got right here.  And it’s a doozy!  In that it’s one of those small-batch ones that you […]

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Bliss Stage – System Mastery 145

April 8, 2019by systemmastery 6 Comments

Straight from one bleak future to the next, only this time it’s kids.  Why it’s almost as dystopic as the movie Kids!  Basically the future is dream robots that put […]

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Cyborg Commando – System Mastery 144

March 26, 2019by systemmastery 4 Comments

So a decade or so after D&D, Gary Gygax had a brand new idea.  What if cyborgs with dustbuster crotches defended the world from giant bugs made of erectile tissue?  […]

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Cadillacs and Dinosaurs – System Mastery 143

March 13, 2019by systemmastery 6 Comments

With Jef still recovering in the hospital, Jon turns to fan-favorite guest Claire to join in and help review this RPG based on a comic book. It promises two things […]

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System Mastery 122 – Seven13: Cycle of Existence

May 22, 2018by systemmastery Leave a comment

It’s another week of special guests with friend of the show, Quinn, stopping by to help discuss this inscrutable book with an unhealthy obsession with the numbers 7 and 13. […]

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System Mastery 121 – Dragon Lines

May 8, 2018by systemmastery 2 Comments

While Jef is too occupied with baby to do the time consuming prep on the show, we are kicking off the first of our guest appearance series. Joining me to […]

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