A State – System Mastery 101
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, […]
Tag Archives: sci-fi
In Theaters Now – Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets
Most of your favorite sci-fi has likely borrowed something from the hugely influential comic series Valerian and Laureline. Now see the adaptation of the source material that has the bravery […]
Sailor Moon RPG – System Mastery 99
Moon Prism Power! Right? Right? That’s what she says sometimes? Look this is weird for us. Not our usual thing. So we brought in a ringer! A guy that’s watched […]
Exquisite Replicas – System Mastery 97
You know what we forgot to do in this one? Make fun of that Anonymous motto about how they’re legion or whatever. I guess we just forgot. Oh well. This […]
Nexus: The Infinite City – System Mastery 96
Man this city is so infinite, it’s like you don’t even know. Crazy aliens rub shoulders with alternate humans in this early 90s kitchen sink style game with a great […]
Talislanta – System Mastery 93
It’s not too late to go support the new Kickstarter for the next edition of this weird but fairly charming game if you want. It will be very soon, which […]
The Whispering Vault – System Mastery 91
If you listen real close you can actually hear the vault whispering. It’s not worth it though, he’s just reading the Humor in Uniform section out of old Reader’s Digests. […]
The Secret of Zir’An – System Mastery 90
The Secret of Zir’an is probably that deep under the challenging layout and heaped on layers of confusing story, accessible only to people who are really willing to roll up […]
Star Frontiers – System Mastery 88
It’s the space 80s! Feather your hair and ready your giant wrap-around bubble glasses for some interstellar adventure where the computers are so advanced that Oregon Trail has four colors! […]
XCrawl (D20) – System Mastery 86
Man, I hadn’t even seen the regular cover of this til I was putting this together. That’s uhh… well I guess Luke Cage found some chain mail made by Stussy […]
The Babylon Project – System Mastery 85
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 […]
Nightlife – System Mastery 84
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 […]
Champions – System Mastery 83
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 […]
Cyberworld – System Mastery 82
] 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 […]
Over the Edge – System Mastery 81
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 […]
Vampire: The Masquerade (2nd Edition) – System Mastery 80
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 […]
Horrortoberfest Day 7 – Dark Skies (2013)
To be honest, Jef is much more the one that likes the Sci-Fi horror thing. While I have nothing against a good Event Horizon or Alien those are just haunted […]
Blue Planet – System Mastery 77
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 […]
Macho Women with Guns – System Mastery 76
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 […]
Feng Shui – System Mastery 73
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 […]
