System Mastery 20 – Cthulhutech
Episode 20 – Cthulutech It might just be because we like 75% of the brazenly lifted source material, but Cthulhutech passes our review gauntlet and comes up looking pretty fun. […]
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System Mastery 19 – Furry Pirates
SystemMastery 19 – Furry Pirates This week, we take hold of a book with a bifurcated design sensibility. Will we actually discover “Swashbuckling Adventures in the Furry Age of Piracy”? […]
System Mastery 18 – Big Eyes, Small Mouth
SystemMastery 18 – Big Eyes, Small Mouth We sit down for a rousing discussion about the many varieties of anime, and the game that tries to let you play them […]
Episode 17 – Don’t Look Back: Terror is Never Far Behind
SystemMastery 17 – Don’t Look Back: Terror is Never Far Behind Don’t Look Back is a mid-90s Horror RPG, featuring hilarious send-ups of your favorite 80s horror film tropes! Oh […]
System Mastery 16 – Scion: Hero
In today’s installment of System Mastery we seek to determine if one dad could beat up another dad, assuming the dads were Susano-O and Papa Legba. We’re reviewing Scion, a […]
System Mastery 15 – Indiana Jones RPG
This week, we test the very limits of what defines an RPG, with a game that removes a core element to the concept. There are seven characters in this game. […]
System Mastery 14 – Street Fighter
Editors Note: Before pressing record on this podcast, I had to press Forward, Down, and Down-Forward. We take a look at the 1993 White Wolf storytelling classic, Street Fighter. A […]
Politics of Gaming – When to Roleplay and When to Roll
This week’s article is going to be dealing with the idea of role playing and when you should be relying on the acting ability of the player and when you […]
System Mastery 13 – Urban Arcana
The worst thing about this book is right there in the picture. Someone really had a …fascination with drow, and their apparent immediate abandonment of spider-themed fetish gear for spider-themed […]
System Mastery 12 – D20 Modern
Seriously, another edgy urban game with no magic or sci-fi elements at all? Well, almost. D20 Modern wants to be every game for everyone, as long as it’s not D&D. […]
Politics of Gaming – House of Rules: When to Change Things Up
It’s probably safe to say that anyone that has played any standard games has encountered some house rules, where the play of the game is changed in some way to […]
Politics of Gaming – Calling It Quits
Since we covered the various problems and obstacles that come with trying to get into a new gaming group last week, this week we are going to look at the […]
System Mastery 11 – Haven: City of Violence
Delivered straight to your grim, gritty earholes, System Mastery brings you a review of Haven: City of Violence. This “hyperkinetic action simulator” boasts a three-line deep Wikipedia page that tells […]
Politics of Gaming – Getting a Group Together
So far we’ve talked about how people game and the various reasons for why they are playing. However, none of that is going to matter if you don’t actually have […]
System Mastery 10 – Exalted
Seriously, just look at that. It’s ridiculous. That’s the cover of one of the supplements. They wanted you to buy that book. They didn’t want you to hide it a […]
System Mastery 9 – Legend of the Five Rings
Guest host Brian joins us to discuss Legend of the Five Rings, a game of swords, sorcery, swords, etiquette, and swords. It’s one of those katana things. We dig into […]
Politics of Gaming – Know Your Player Type: The Immersion Gamer
Know Your Player Type continues on during the holiday season as we look at the opposite end of the spectrum from the Power Gamer, The Immersion Gamer. This is the […]
Politics of Gaming – Know Your Player Type: The Power Gamer
Last week we talked about getting to know the group dynamic of the people you play with and finding out how to make even a group with diverse desires from […]
System Mastery 8 – Skyrealms of Jorune
We dug pretty deep to find this game, a sci-fi/fantasy far-future romp on a distant planet where all the magic is colored orbs and there are three different sizes of […]
System Mastery 7 – Everquest D20
We’re joined for the first time by a guest host, our good friend Russ, as we discuss Everquest D20, an unholy confluence of 3rd edition open-source D20 gaming and the […]
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