System Mastery – System Mastery

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 […]

System Mastery 280 – Thirsty Sword Lesbians Hey who likes lesbians what have swords and powerful yearnings related to the other sword-bearing lesbians they encounter on their wild adventures? You […]

System Mastery 279 – Iron Kingdoms This one is close to home, we both sorta like this game, used to play the wargame, and wish it all was still good. […]

System Mastery 278 – The Skeletons Is it too late to call this a theme month? Because it turned out to be a theme month. Cool minimalist projects by designers […]

System Mastery 277 – For The Queen Who says we can’t do cool modern design reviews? Or interview the cool working designers of today that make them? Whoever said that, […]

System Mastery 276 – Muse Who would have thought this weird little collaborative storytelling shared narrative exercise game could be so divisive? We discuss Muse, a game that uses cards […]

System Mastery 275 – Aria: Canticle of the Monomyth (Part 2) Fine, we finished it. This was truly just an awful thing to keep reading through, I think it’s been […]

System Mastery 274 – Tower 22 Yeah yeah, we hit pause on Aria, we just couldn’t deal with that noise anymore. Instead, it’s time to dive into the ever-generous well […]

System Mastery 273 – Aria: Canticle of the Monomyth Show update first, everything’s been a bit late because of travel and the deadly scary norovirus, which isn’t pretty. Sorry about […]

System Mastery 272 – City of Heroes Playtest Gather up, all you various tankers, scrapper, controllers, uhhh… that healer one… I’m just kidding I loved this game. It’s City of […]

System Mastery 271 – Active Exploits This was a tough read. Active Exploits is more of a toolkit than a game, but despite basically having every possible tool any kit […]

System Mastery 270 – Marvel Super Heroes Adventure Game I think… I think this is all of them? If you count the review of the Multiverse pre-test (we’ve skimmed the […]

System Mastery 269 – Strike! This one is a little near and dear to us, we’ve used it to run Blimpleggers content in the past! Strike! is an RPG that […]

System Mastery 268 – Crime Scene Police Investigation Starting the year off the right way, with a shovelware-style OGL game about playing as real cops. Real boring cops. Announcement Mastery […]

System Mastery 267 – Mörk Borg Whoa, the art and layout in this thing is cool! What about the rest of it? Is it also cool? Can love bloom on […]

System Mastery 266 – Cozy Town Welcome to a charming little community where the townsfolk are all made up and the real world doesn’t matter. It’s Cozy Town, a game […]

System Mastery 265 – Monster Care Squad Oh boy it’s time for Sweater Weather! You know, our now two year running thing where we review specifically non or low-combat games, […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]