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System Mastery

Jef Aldrich and Jon Taylor

Jef and Jon review old roleplaying games

leisure games

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69:37

297 - Star Trek The Roleplaying Game

System Mastery ·

2025/03/05

Can we review an 80s Star Trek game without our pacemakers exploding? What if FASA made it? We're looking at the Star Trek RPG from roughly 1983, which means (if you're counting) that it's based on the original series, the animated series, and the first three films. Is it okay or does it have to go home and copy 10 pages out of the K section of the dictionary? Let's find out!Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

69:51

296 - Lewd Dungeon Adventures

System Mastery ·

2025/02/19

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 honestly I don't want to spoil anything here because it's a tiny wee little game that could never possibly satisfy any REAL gamer. Damn it, still with the jokes. It's a sex RPG and we read it. That's for sure.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

53:49

295 - Insurgent

System Mastery ·

2025/02/07

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. What do you rebel against? Whattaya got?Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

80:52

294 - OGL Ancients

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2025/01/23

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 where you play as primarily Greeks and Egyptians from antiquity (you can get a Scythian or someone from Thessaly in if you want, it's just not a great plan).Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

88:07

293 - Alas Vegas

System Mastery ·

2025/01/09

This is a little recent for our usual stuff, but Jon was really interested after the Fastlane review to keep looking at games that utilize classic casino games as RPG randomizers, and this one's a doozy! Combining Blackjack and Tarot stuff, no less! Right in Jon's very wheelhouse. The game is neat too! There's a ton in here, it's definitely one of those big rocks that rolled down a Kickstarter success story and accumulated content as it went, so we made some calls on what to focus on that we'll

79:44

292 - Unbidden

System Mastery ·

2024/12/18

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 come up sometimes. I'm talking about the show here because honestly I can't think of much to say about this sort of generic "There are secrets in the world that you can't learn about without going crazy" type game that isn't already in the episode.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

87:40

291 - Fastlane

System Mastery ·

2024/12/05

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, it straight up tells you at the start that you can use a digital one or even a dice based approximation, but for max results, you should get a roulette wheel. What else? Well, it's a generic system besides the ruleset, so we go all in on that.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

62:36

290 - Icarus

System Mastery ·

2024/11/20

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 are explorations of civilizations over time, and in fact would make a pretty good double feature game night played together. Weird! Anyway, this is a little box set where you make a dice tower.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

68:36

289 - The Quiet Year

System Mastery ·

2024/11/08

Hey folks, welcome to Sweater Weather. We're going to keep things light and distracting here for the next few months, sweater weather or not, so don't worry about heavy topics. If you're looking for a getaway, we got you. Also, this book is about impending change and possible doom. So. You know, we'll figure it out.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

76:07

288 - Rats!

System Mastery ·

2024/10/24

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. Anyhow, this book is all about playing as vile, disgusting, brilliant little rats trying to retake the world from the foul humans that don't deserve it. It's a mixed bag!Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

84:44

287 - Mutants in the Now

System Mastery ·

2024/10/10

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, we just wanted to read Mutants in the Now.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

86:15

286 - Orkworld (Crunch)

System Mastery ·

2024/09/27

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 a fan of angry Jef and Jon, well, you probably already noticed the 84 minute runtime of the episode and got your hopes up, correctly.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

77:31

285 - Orkworld (Fluff)

System Mastery ·

2024/09/16

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 what about his games? Well, let's look at Orkworld, a game about Orcs. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

72:15

284 - Time Master

System Mastery ·

2024/09/02

Travel through time at the behest of a futuristic society at the end of time? Sounds familiar! But before you break out the Wyld Stallyns shirt, let me burst your bubble by saying this actually has a weird war game at its weird core.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

60:45

283 - Eden

System Mastery ·

2024/08/17

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 learning lessons in a primordial garden from the animals that live there. Cool, right?Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

79:45

282 - Spectaculars

System Mastery ·

2024/07/23

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 of gaming, but Jef still pretty much orders any superhero thing if he sees it on sale, and that's what happened here! This time it paid off even, as Spectaculars turned out to be in a form factor neither of us expected but both of us enjoyed, so let us tell you all about it.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

76:48

281 - Modern Knights

System Mastery ·

2024/07/10

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 Modern Knights! At least we know that much.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

87:14

280 - Thirsty Sword Lesbians

System Mastery ·

2024/06/29

Hey who likes lesbians what have swords and powerful yearnings related to the other sword-bearing lesbians they encounter on their wild adventures? You I bet! Let's review this game for the end of Pride Month, because we were in a hurry and this one has a big old gay word right there in the title. Nothing's gayer than swords!Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

83:48

279 - Iron Kingdoms

System Mastery ·

2024/06/12

This one is close to home, we both sorta like this game, used to play the wargame, and wish it all was still good. But times change. But hey, what do we think of this game now?Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

73:01

278 - The Skeletons

System Mastery ·

2024/05/29

Is it too late to call this a theme month? Because it turned out to be a theme month. Cool minimalist projects by designers we like. Weird! The Skeletons is a thoughtful game about playing as skeletons guarding a tomb, by Jason Morningstar.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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