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System Mastery 228 – Star Wars: Age of Rebellion

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Well, FFG was sort of driven off this project (it’s a really sad story) so the most recent line of Star Wars games is now in our wheelhouse, I guess.  […]

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System Mastery 227 – Wizards & Gunslingers

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Ooh, it’s one of those cowboys and also a different thing games!  You know, like cowboys and ninjas, or cowboys and dinosaurs, or cowboys and the slow crushing onset of […]

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System Mastery 226 – Star Munchkin

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Uh oh, someone better stop us before we get to level 10.  It’s Star Munchkin, the RPG!  Did you know there were RPGs of these games?  You should have guessed.  […]

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System Mastery 225 – Marvel Multiverse RPG Playtest

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Reviewing a playtest?  That doesn’t seem right!  Well, it certainly isn’t in our usual bag of tricks, but hey, this is a rare situation where someone writing a modern game […]

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System Mastery 224 – Fiasco Classic

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Mea culpa time (Jef version):  This is one of those games where I knew exactly what it was and have been recommending it for years for any RP session that […]

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System Mastery 223 – Tephra

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Ooh, a steampunk one!  You can tell because of the brown and the gear and the goggles and all.  Oh, I guess it also says steampunk on there, in retrospect […]

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System Mastery 222 – Umlaut: Game of Metal

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Uh oh, every once in a while a time comes in which we are commanded to rock, and that time has come again.  We’re discussing a game in which every […]

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System Mastery 221 – Santa’s Soldiers

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Happy Christmas in July in March!  It’s time for some holiday cheer, because we were looking for a different game but ended up with this one (it’s explained in the […]

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System Mastery 220 – The Secret Fire

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This is a pretty bog-standard “Recapture the D&D I remember when I was 11” moonshot game, where the lessons learned about what D&D used to be like seem to be […]

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System Mastery 219 – The Lawnmower Man RPG

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How often do we get to do theme weeks?  This is great!  We have the Lawnmower Man RPG, which is set immediately after the events of the movie, as the […]

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System Mastery 218 – Silver Age Sentinels

January 25, 2022by systemmastery Leave a comment

Oh boy another supers game!  You know how we love those!  SIlver Age Sentinels is from the Big Eyes, Small Mouth folks, so you better believe it shares the insane […]

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System Mastery 217 – Conspiracy X

January 11, 2022by systemmastery Leave a comment

What if everything you thought you knew was actually all evidence of a secret conspiracy?  Deja Vu?  Real psychic powers.  Men in Black?  Lizard people in black.  That’s the premise […]

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System Mastery 216 – Psychosis: Ship of Fools

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Post-Show PS:  Turns out there is at least one more of these, Jef’s on-air googling failed to turn up Psychosis: Solitary Confinement.  Cool?  Cool. Well, when the name of the […]

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System Mastery 215 – Blue Rose

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Let’s dispense with the obvious question first.  This is the OGL version.  Now before that gets too depressing, note that this is one of the most modified OGL games we’ve […]

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System Mastery 214 – Mystic Forces

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Heck yeah, one of those weird games so little known I couldn’t GIS the cover and had to take a picture of our copy!  Mystic Forces is a 2000 RPG […]

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System Mastery 213 – The Book of Vile Darkness (3.x)

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Just because Ween is over doesn’t mean we can’t stay spooky!  Or at least one would hope.  This is more evil by way of edge than anything else.  Jef sought […]

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System Mastery 212 – Outbreak: Undead

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Okay so maybe it’s November, and maybe we forgot when October started this year, but that won’t stop us from delivering our yearly load of horror ween stuff!  Here’s Outbreak […]

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System Mastery 211 – All Flesh Must Be Eaten

October 19, 2021by systemmastery 1 Comment

Behold our triumph, the ZombieWeen!  It’s alive!  Well, sort of alive.  This ‘Ween around we’ll be focusing on zombie RPGs, investigating games about surviving short infestations and full-blown apocalypses.  This […]

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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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