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System Mastery – System Mastery
Jef and Jon review roleplaying games, Star Wars novels and anything else that crosses their paths.
Episodes
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System Mastery 337 – Double Cross
System Mastery 337 – Double Cross Big old anime RPG, and actually from Japan for once! Vaguely superhero but realistically sorta shonen, let’s talk about Double Cross. Announcement Mastery! Help […]
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System Mastery 336 – MisAdventure Games
System Mastery 335 – Tide Breaker Finally, everyone’s favorite thing, a universal OSR system! And in such a straightforward and simple 36 pages! Announcement Mastery! Help us support friends of […]
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System Mastery 334 – Delta Green
System Mastery 335 – Tide Breaker It’s a rules light game! By which of course we mean it has like several hundred rules, but none of them are especially heavy. […]
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System Mastery 334 – Delta Green
System Mastery 334 – Delta Green Well, at least now people can’t keep asking us to talk about it!
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System Mastery 333 – Marvel Heroic Roleplaying LIVE
System Mastery 333 – Marvel Heroic Roleplaying LIVE Recorded live at GenCon 2026, this episode sounds like fuzzy butt because we didn’t have a way to test the house equipment. […]
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System Mastery 332 – 13th Age
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 […]
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System Mastery 331 – Blood and Vigilance
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 […]
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System Mastery 330 – Justice League Unlimited Preview
System Mastery 330 – Justice League Unlimited Preview We’ve been pretty clear in our Marvel fanboy natures, especially when it comes to comics (we’re pretty equal opportunity with films and […]
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System Mastery 329 – Jukebox
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 […]
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System Mastery 328 – Heavy Metal Thunder Mouse
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 […]
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System Mastery 327 – Alternity
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 […]
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System Mastery 326 – Ryuutama
System Mastery 326 – Ryuutama Okay at this point I think it’s starting to get obvious that the two of us are down with the cozy games. This one is […]
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System Mastery 325 – Root RPG
System Mastery 325 – Root RPG Sure it’s PBTA but really we want to talk about the rare-ish process by which specifically board games become specifically RPGs. Plus these animals […]
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System Mastery 325 – Root RPG
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 […]
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System Mastery 324 – Zenescope Presents: Age of Darkness RPG
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. […]
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System Mastery 323 – Dragonbane
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 […]
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System Mastery 322 – Incursion
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 […]
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System Mastery 321 – Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai RPG
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 […]
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System Mastery 320 – Amazing Engine, Bughunters
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. […]
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System Mastery 319 – Red Dwarf
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 […]
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System Mastery 318 – Man, Myth & Magic
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, […]
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System Mastery 317 – Fabula Ultima
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 […]
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System Mastery 316 – Truth & Justice
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 […]
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System Mastery 315 – Companion’s Tale
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 […]
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System Mastery 314 – Laser Kittens
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!
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System Mastery 313 – 1978 (The Night They Came Home)
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 […]
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System Mastery 312 – Army of Darkness
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 […]
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System Mastery 311 – Tales from the Floating Vagabond 2e, Part 2
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 […]
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System Mastery 310 – Tales from the Floating Vagabond 2e
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 […]
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System Mastery 309 – Invisible Sun Lore
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 […]
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System Mastery 308 – Invisible Sun
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 […]
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System Mastery 307 – Micro Games Roundup 2
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 […]
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System Mastery 306 – The Expanse
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 […]
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System Mastery 305 – Time Lord
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! […]
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System Mastery 304 – Runequest (1984)
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 […]
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System Mastery 303 – Superhero 2044
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 […]
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System Mastery 302 – Capers
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 […]
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System Mastery 301 – The Arcanum
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 […]
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System Mastery 300 – Palladium Fantasy
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 […]
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System Mastery 299 – Bleeding Heart: A Game of Gothic Romance
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 […]
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System Mastery 298 – Wild West
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 […]
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System Mastery 297 – Star Trek the Roleplaying Game
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 […]
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System Mastery 296 – Lewd Dungeon Adventures
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 […]
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System Mastery 295 – Insurgent
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. […]
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System Mastery 294 – OGL Ancients
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 […]
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System Mastery 293 – Alas Vegas
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 […]
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System Mastery 291
System Mastery 292 – Unbidden Back to basics, some game you probably never heard of that we didn’t like. That’s the basic essence of the show, right? It has to […]
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System Mastery 291
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, […]
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System Mastery 290 – Icarus
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 […]
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System Mastery 289 – The Quiet Year
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 […]
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