System Mastery – System Mastery

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 […]

System Mastery 256 – Silvervine This one is interesting! It seems to be a compilation of two books, but is largely a single game about steampunk furry anime fantasy guys […]

System Mastery 255 – Horror Rules It’s rules, for horror. From the DTRPG files, we’ve read a 2003 horror game with some neat ideas, some snarky stuff, and a slow […]

System Mastery 254 – Savage Worlds Rifts So we might be a bit off schedule but that’s okay, because we spent the time stuck in various airports and cities reading […]

System Mastery 253 – Savage Worlds So we might be a bit off schedule but that’s okay, because we spent the time stuck in various airports and cities reading Savage […]

System Mastery 252 – Valley of the Pharaohs Well well well, if it isn’t a Palladium game. And one of those weird ones where Simbieda didn’t write it or pretend […]

System Mastery 251 – Heroic Visions Jon’s special blend of DrivethruRPG search criteria has kicked us up a truly interesting and unusual blend of superheroes, afrofuturism, strong Christian undertones, and […]

System Mastery 250 – GURPS Happy April Fools! Well, sort of. We were busy. We actually were hosting a quiz show thing on April 1st proper. So this early April […]

System Mastery 249 – Rifter 9 1/2 Happy April Fools! Well, sort of. We were busy. We actually were hosting a quiz show thing on April 1st proper. So this […]

System Mastery 248 – Infinite Domains What is this, some sort of generic universal role playing system? Some sort of master book to rule them all? It’s Infinite Domains and […]

System Mastery 246 – Dallas You know you read about this in some message board or listicle article years ago. And you know you’ve always wondered what the heck it […]

System Mastery 244 – Teenagers from Outer Space Night falls on Darkest Vancouver. Will you be ready to draw your coolest anime sword and battle the eternal dancefight against the […]

System Mastery 244 – Teenagers from Outer Space A lightweight anime-inspired comedy game from… 1987? Damn, Mike Pondsmith must have been one of those guys that bought unlabeled anime VHS […]

System Mastery 243 – Star Wars D20 No no, not Saga Edition, the other one. This is OGL shovel-ware Star Wars. It’s got a real prominent author all right, but […]

System Mastery 242 – Like a Rogue, One-Page Apocalypse Vol 1, Christmas Fallout To close out our year we’ve decided to take a little look at a couple of very […]

System Mastery 241 – Kill Puppies for Satan No more Sweater Weather? Guess it’s time for edgy fucked up December. Who wants to be nice to people and solve teddy […]

System Mastery 240 – Threadbare If you haven’t played as a bear with a clothes hangar for one arm that has to help solve the mystery of where Starscream’s left […]

System Mastery 239 – The Play’s The Thing Sweater Weather just will not let up as we take a tour through the non-combative games that are just so hard to […]

We couldn’t get enough theme months!  Welcome to a brand new thing here at System Mastery, Sweater Weather!  Reviewing the games that make you feel as cozy and comfortable as […]

As we draw this festive Ween to a close, we continue the project of a brief examination of newer space horror (Yes, that last game was a heist thing, but […]

The customary three great blessings of Ween to each and every one of you!  Okay, so this game isn’t especially scary.  By now you should have recognized that we may […]

Hurray, one of those edgy 90s games where people have superpowers but aren’t superheroes!  You know, like the other ones?  This one at least has an interesting angle of entry […]

Wait, from Psi World to Apocalypse World?  Two worlds?  One network family?  Oh right, I should probably mention that because we both have been down for a bit with the […]

Back to the old psionic grind!  This game has almost exactly two whole paragraphs of story.  Everything else we’ve had to glean from the margins and unusually informative rules.  Wanna… […]

Hell yeah, we got some leaked documents up in here!  Shame we gotta do it to them.  But such is the rule of law here on the wild internet frontier. […]