systemmastery – System Mastery

Expounded Universe 267 – Where Was Anduin When the Westfall Fell? And we’re back! Our new scene is set, it’s split between Westfall and Ogrimmar, in which an author must […]

System Mastery 264 – Monsterhearts Okay, I do have a few more books with Witch in the title, and yes the urge to do Strike Witches was fairly strong, but […]

Movie Mastery – Blood and Donuts (1995) I guess the idea that being a vampire might not be great was novel in Canada in the 90’s because this movie really […]

Expounded Universe 266 – Rogue Planet Wrap Up All your questions answered! All our thoughts explained! And of course the next book, announced! I, uhhh, I let Jon pick again. […]

Expounded Universe 265 -That Can’t Be Right The end is upon us! Or at least of this book. Once again a massive amount of stuff needs to be handled in […]

System Mastery 263 – Witch: Fated Souls It’s witches aplenty this ween, and that means more than just crooked triangle hats, as we see here in a multicultural witch festival […]

Movie Mastery – Bela Lugosi Meets a Brooklyn Gorilla (1952) A knock-off Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis drag poor Bela Lugosi on screen to be as unlikeable as possible at […]

Expounded Universe 264 -Anakin and the Amazing Technicolor Sekot A new character has entered the arena, though we’ve been hanging out on them for a while now. That’s right, it’s […]

Expounded Universe 263 – Wiping at Magister’s Terrace And, as must happen in all these books when there’s like 40 pages to go, the action kicks into high gear. Anakin, […]

System Mastery 262 – Witch Hunt What’s that upon the roof I hear? Could it be the pitter-patter of seasonally appropriate witch feet ‘pon my shingles? Why, ’tis! Blessed Ween […]

Movie Mastery – Prisoners of the Ghostland (2021) Nic Cage in a movie that seemed to be tailor made to have Nic Cage in it while simultaneously unsure of what […]

Expounded Universe 261 – Crashing the Ke Party Man it has been a JOURNEY to get this thing to air. The ship is built and Ke Daiv attacks, I don’t […]

System Mastery 261 – octaNe Let’s examine a post-apocalyptic game with a penchant for low-budget outre 90s cinema styles, and a fairly simple core mechanic to boot. It’s octaNe, and […]

Movie Mastery – Star Leaf (2015) A stoner horror movie that doesn’t attempt to even remotely be scary but also doesn’t lean into the stoner comedy aspect either. Just a […]

System Mastery 260 – Star Wars Saga Edition And I said GO! If you’re wondering if we liked this game, We liked this game, It’s mostly fine, But it could […]

Movie Mastery – Sinister Squad (2016) A cash grab mockbuster of Suicide Squad about fairy tale villains fighting against the forces of Death. A sentence that makes this absolute boring […]

Expounded Universe 260 – Great Balls on Fire The shipbuilding begins! As Jabitha (that can’t be right) leaves our heroes at the gate of the great factory, they meet new […]

Expounded Universe 259 – Jabitha Hutt In this episode Anakin meets a little girl roughly his age, Obi-Wan is bored enough to start getting crabby, and Raithe Seinar is just […]

System Mastery 259 – Starfaring Sold to us as the first ever sci-fi RPG (a claim we have learned is dubious), Starfaring is basically Tunnels & Trolls, but with some […]

Movie Mastery – War-Gods of the Deep For a while in the 60’s there was a trend of Edgar Allan Poe stories getting turned into movies starring Vincent Price. Then […]

Expounded Universe 258 – Balls on Parade Our heroes emerge from the unexpected ball bath covered in the winnings of victory, which of course are more balls. Then a bunch […]

Expounded Universe 257 – Seed Partners Seek a Third In an attempt to give Anakin some more depth, we introduce… more whines of his? I guess now he loves spaceships […]

System Mastery 257 – Mythic Roleplaying Allow us to introducing our game… It’s finally here, the box set that sat on my shelf for four years while we waiting for […]

Expounded Universe 256 – Zonama Be Startin’ Somethin’ It’s weird to be reading a book that is ostensibly full of weird surprises and decisions that necessarily go nowhere after Attack […]

System Mastery 257 – Mythic Roleplaying Apparently what we have here is often considered to be the first stab at a DM-less RPG system! It’s from 2003, and boy is […]