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System Mastery 334 – Delta Green Well, at least now people can’t keep asking us to talk about it!

System Mastery 332 – 13th Age Well, I guess it’s better than 5e. How’s the 2nd edition of this? Obviously we’re taking them in order. Sound off in the comments […]

System Mastery 331 – Blood and Vigilance Shoot, we accidentally made a supplement episode. I thought this was a core book! Oh well, it’s basically a superhero patch to be […]

System Mastery 329 – Jukebox Hey how about we let Jon pick a game, that’s what I said. And then of course the moment I said okay we get a […]

System Mastery 328 – Heavy Metal Thunder Mouse I still can’t remember if this is our first FATE game or not, I think it might be? It’s about mice, that […]

System Mastery 327 – Alternity Sci-fi, TSR style. I can’t figure out why I thought this would be D&D based, maybe because it came out so late in the TSR […]

System Mastery 324 – Zenescope Presents: Age of Darkness RPG Sure it’s PBTA but really we want to talk about the rare-ish process by which specifically board games become specifically […]

System Mastery 324 – Zenescope Presents: Age of Darkness RPG Western boob comics! Remember these? They’ve long since supplanted by that single mega milk manga image, you know the one. […]

System Mastery 323 – Dragonbane Let’s take a look at a game out of Sweden, née as Drakar Och Demoner, a classic dungeon crawl game with fairly simple mechanics, sleek […]

System Mastery 322 – Incursion Find out which one of us gets mad enough to break the no research rule as we dive in to discuss this game of alien […]

System Mastery 321 – Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai Just one of your everyday run of the mill licensed games made out of Jim Jarmusch movies. Can’t tell […]

System Mastery 320 – Amazing Engine, Bughunters Fine you want major trash that time forgot? You got it, buster. You’re gonna sit write there while we review the whole pack. […]

System Mastery 319 – Red Dwarf Who’s ready for licensed comedy property RPGs? These are always the best, am I right? Today is Red Dwarf, an RPG based on a […]

System Mastery 318 – Man, Myth & Magic Two games in one box? What a bargain! MM&M here comes with basic and advanced rulesets for its historical fantasy Earth setting, […]

System Mastery 317 – Fabula Ultima Hell yeah we got something for under your tree! It’s a System Mastery review of Fabula Ultima! For future readers that joke is because […]

System Mastery 316 – Truth & Justice Well hello there, superhero game from 2005. We saw you from across the room, and we dug your weird mix between classic and […]

System Mastery 315 – Companion’s Tale A dive into the world of mapmaking games, which we’ve briefly touched on in the past but are definitely a growing area of game […]

System Mastery 314 – Laser Kittens Welcome back to our Sweater Weather season! But wait, how can this be charming and cozy if these kittens have LASERS? Listen and discover!

System Mastery 313 – 1978 (The Night They Came Home) Ween closes out with a bang, as we discuss a game designed to cover *cough* a wide variety of different […]

System Mastery 312 – Army of Darkness Oh man, I don’t know if I should just put a bunch of movie quotes here (nah, the book already made me sick […]

System Mastery 311 – Tales from the Floating Vagabond 2e, Part 2 Sorry it’s been a while friends! This episode is special and it took some work to get it […]

System Mastery 310 – Tales from the Floating Vagabond 2e Part of this job is getting to hold extremely weird things in our hands, things we never expected to be […]

System Mastery 309 – Invisible Sun Lore Yeah yeah, we did the thing. God knows there was plenty more content. James is still here to help us process all this […]

System Mastery 308 – Invisible Sun This is almost certainly the largest product we’ve ever attempted to review! As a result there are some gaps in coverage here. We may […]

System Mastery 307 – Micro Games Roundup 2 Let’s lay out what we’re discussing here this week. It’s three games (in four books) comprising Clever Girl, #Flirt Squad, and Anyone […]

System Mastery 306 – The Expanse More TV sci-fi! More TV sci-fi! Actually wait, hold on, this one is based on the books. No TV in here, which is probably […]

System Mastery 305 – Time Lord Who loves Doctor Who? Specifically and exclusively any Doctor Who made before 1991? Not us it turns out, though this game is pretty fun! […]

System Mastery 304 – Runequest (1984) This is one of the venerable old giants of the fantasy gaming industry. Avalon Hill producing Chaosium’s Runequest. Couldn’t be more classic. But how […]

System Mastery 302 – Capers By all account, this is the first ever superhero RPG, but don’t let that fool you, it contains virtually nothing you’d recognize as a superhero […]

System Mastery 302 – Capers Okay the rumors that we like every supers game are scurrilous, devious, and increasingly accurate. This is Capers, and it’s a supers game set in […]

System Mastery 301 – The Arcanum Hi folks, let’s start up another 300 of these, what do you say? This one is about The Arcanum, an early 80s game that […]

System Mastery 300 – Palladium Fantasy Well that certainly was 300 times we did a thing, I tell you what! Let’s take a little victory lap by cracking open a […]

System Mastery 299 – Bleeding Heart We’re hard at work on our giant pile of weird old box sets, and that means it’s time for Bleeding Heart, a game that […]

System Mastery 298 – Wild West I really hope you’re enjoying this string of very old games, we’re doing our best to get back into them quickly (ever since I […]

System Mastery 297 – Star Trek the Roleplaying Game Can we review an 80s Star Trek game without our pacemakers exploding? What if FASA made it? We’re looking at the […]

System Mastery 296 – Lewd Dungeon Adventures Finally someone bought that game that advertises on Facebook, and it was us. It’s a fantasy adventure game with some sex-themed rules, but […]

System Mastery 295 – Insurgent A very quick little modern game designed to be played solo or with a small group but no GM, in which you rebel against something. […]

System Mastery 294 – OGL Ancients It’s what it says! Though it’s adding a lot of stuff to the venerable old combat engine of 3.X OGL, it’s an OGL game […]

System Mastery 293 – Alas Vegas This is a little recent for our usual stuff, but Jon was really interested after the Fastlane review to keep looking at games that […]

System Mastery 291 – Fastlane Oh buddy you better believe we love it when the game has a weird alternative randomizing mechanic, and this thing is all about roulette. Yes, […]

System Mastery 290 – Icarus As we bring Sweater Weather to a close we are faced with the realization that we accidentally double-themed this month, since both of these games […]

System Mastery 289 – The Quiet Year Hey folks, welcome to Sweater Weather. We’re going to keep things light and distracting here for the next few months, sweater weather or […]

System Mastery 288 – Rats! So these aren’t really furries, but hey, I think this was just called Hairy Ween, right? Like that sounds more like a dick joke anyway. […]

System Mastery 287 – Orkworld (Crunch) Blessed Ween everyone! This year we’re focusing on animal inside of us all with a Furry Ween! Or a Hairy Ween! I dunno, whatever, […]

System Mastery 286 – Orkworld (Crunch) Oh, oh no. We thought all the worst stuff was going to be in the fluff and descriptive section. We were wrong. If you’re […]

System Mastery 285 – Orkworld (Fluff) Well, this might be divisive, if we hadn’t spent years discussing how we feel about ol’ John Wick and his famously terrible advice. But […]

System Mastery 284 – Time Master Travel through time at the behest of a futuristic society at the end of time? Sounds familiar! But before you break out the Wyld […]

System Mastery 283 – Eden Hi everyone! You’ll never guess that now the other one of us has COVID. This stupid planet and country. Anyway, this game is about people […]

System Mastery 282 – Spectaculars Part of wallowing in weird old stuff unfortunately is that it’s hard to keep abreast of what’s going on in the last decade or so […]

System Mastery 281 – Modern Knights Pssst, hey buddy, wanna buy a superhero game from 2002 that was pretty clearly written prior to 1999? How? Oh, let us explain. It’s […]