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The Babylon Project – System Mastery 85

January 2, 2017by systemmastery 12 Comments

Get ready to recreate the dramatic adventures of Captain John Sheridan, psychic lady Ivanova, kindly space vampire Londo Mollari, and – did the doctor guy get a name?  I forget […]

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Nightlife – System Mastery 84

December 19, 2016by systemmastery 1 Comment

Looking for a game where you can play a vampire, werewolf, ghost, frankenstein, demon, or …Native American nature spirit?  And you you say you want it to predate 90% of […]

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Champions – System Mastery 83

December 5, 2016by systemmastery 7 Comments

Time for the HERO system, one of the big dogs of generic systems, in what is arguably it’s most popular incarnation, the very, very modular Champions.  Build a hero absolutely […]

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Cyberworld – System Mastery 82

November 21, 2016by systemmastery 7 Comments

] In today’s episode we gather to pass judgement down upon Cyberworld,  the story of a distant future where an emperor that bizarrely shares the first AND last name of […]

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Over the Edge – System Mastery 81

November 7, 2016by systemmastery 13 Comments

Well lookie here!  Written by Jonathan Tweet (author of 3rd Edition D&D).  Designed by Tweet and Robin D. Laws (Author of Feng Shui).  There’s basically no way this won’t be […]

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Vampire: The Masquerade (2nd Edition) – System Mastery 80

October 24, 2016by systemmastery 16 Comments

We’re drawing ever closer to the terrifying end of White Ween, and we figured why not tackle an 800 pound gorilla a week before every sad internet friend you hate […]

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Promethean: The Created – System Mastery 79

October 12, 2016by systemmastery 19 Comments

Happy October, dear listeners!  You didn’t think we’d skip it, did you?  Halloween is so easy to play around in it’s basically the podcaster Christmas.  So it’s all White Wolf, […]

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Batman Roleplaying Game – System Mastery 78

September 28, 2016by systemmastery 18 Comments

Da na na na na na na na na na na na na na na TABLES.  TABLES.  It’s Batman, all right.  Man is it ever Batman.  As a spinoff of […]

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Blue Planet – System Mastery 77

September 12, 2016by systemmastery 7 Comments

Cyborg orcas, mutant cat super scientists, “squids” and more await you on the distant water planet ingeniously named “Poseidon.”  You can make all sorts of amazing characters that certainly could […]

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Macho Women with Guns – System Mastery 76

August 29, 2016by systemmastery 5 Comments

Aw yeah, we got your boobsplosions, your vagcapitations, and your brutal wombsaws all up in this one.  It’s Macho Women with Guns, a parody game that uses generous margins and […]

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AD&D 2nd Edition – System Mastery 75

August 15, 2016by systemmastery 24 Comments

It’s our three year anniversary here at System Mastery!  Jon and Jef entered the bonds of holy podcastimony in August of 2013 and it’s been wonderful ever since, except for […]

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Testament D20 – System Mastery 74

August 1, 2016by systemmastery 9 Comments

Okay, we were getting a little too friendly about games and movies around here, it was high time we picked something to straight up laugh at.  This is Testament, the […]

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Feng Shui – System Mastery 73

July 18, 2016by systemmastery 5 Comments

This game was about as good as everyone told us it would be.  “Don’t cover it” they said.  “It’s not even for you guys.”  Well we showed them, those guys […]

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System Mastery Actual Play 4 – Love/Dread Jenga

July 4, 2016by systemmastery 2 Comments

Vacations can’t stop us, and neither can federal holidays.  Step right up and listen to our first full-length Actual Play episode, featuring the doomy tale of the Valentine’s Day killer […]

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Rifts Parts 2 – System Mastery 71

June 6, 2016by systemmastery 8 Comments

Well, here we are.  We put Rifts in the rearview.  We still love this dumb game.  In today’s episode, we finish our discussion of the core book.  RCCs, OCCs, psionics, […]

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Rifts Parts 1 – System Mastery 70

May 23, 2016by systemmastery 10 Comments

We hope you’re as ready for this as we are.  After 70 episodes, it’s time to review the game that somehow started both of us down the path that ultimately […]

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Episode 17 – Don’t Look Back: Terror is Never Far Behind

April 22, 2014by systemmastery 3 Comments

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 […]

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System Mastery 8 – Skyrealms of Jorune

November 20, 2013by systemmastery 6 Comments

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 […]

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Episode 4 – Prime Directive: The Star Fleet Universe RPG

September 24, 2013by systemmastery 6 Comments

This episode goes out to Dan, the only person we know of who ever played this game.  We have to assume he hated it as much as we did.  We’re […]

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Episode 3 – Tales From the Floating Vagabond

September 13, 2013by systemmastery 8 Comments

This time around, we review Tales from the Floating Vagabond, from Avalon Hill.  It’s a comedic sci-fi roleplaying game set the exact center of a cartoon universe.  Shticks, poorly named […]

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