System Mastery

The victory lap of Shadows of the Empire begins.  We bring a pile of stuff to the table, between the book’s exciting (note: not really) epilogue, a wonderful copy of […]

WE ARE DONE!  This is it, the end of the story of Shadows of The Empire!  Who lives?  Who dies?  What is it to harn?  You’ll find out here in […]

https://systemmastery.files.wordpress.com/2017/11/system-mastery-109-mermaid-adventures.mp3 Let’s talk about RPGs for kids.  Or more accurately, one RPG that is basically for kids.  It might be a little heavy on Ariels and light on editing, but Mermaid Adventures manages to remain a charming and accessible game for kids, without somehow shoehorning in transformation fetishes or weird political viewpoints, an apparently difficult trick, at least according to the rest of the industry...

Our signature sultry audio has returned!  On today’s episode, it’s the sewer level, Vader finally makes his move via a catty phone call, and Xizor is confused about his relationship […]

https://systemmastery.files.wordpress.com/2017/11/system-mastery-108-dark-continent.mp3 Dark Continent is the RPG of … well venturing into Africa and killing a bunch of people.  I mean that’s vaguely frowned upon (unless you are playing a Belgian), but it’s still pretty much expected.  Also, it stars the biggest package that they could afford for cover art.  Look at that thing.  It’s like there’s two Mt. Kilimanjaros in the art...

Let’s put the cards on the table regarding this episode.  The sound sucks.  There was a catastrophic sound failure during our recording a weekend or two ago that ate a […]

Told you Afterthought would never die!  We were so dejected when another project went off the rails, we decided to cool down with an Afterthought.  Happy white ween!  Please note […]

https://systemmastery.files.wordpress.com/2017/10/system-mastery-107-werewolf-the-apocalypse.mp3 Awoooooo White Ween continues!  Awoooooooo!  Today on System Mastery we introduce you to the colon-free world of Werewolf the Apocalypse.  I mean, there’s some colons. Werewolves probably have colons.  I bet they poop constantly on the lawns of corporate criminals and polluters and so on.  What I meant was that the title lacks a colon.  So it’s an instruction, and werewolf is just a verb...

We are joined in today’s episode by Kat and Pranks from a friendly Star Wars podcast of their very own, Never Tell Me The Pods! We’ll be exploring chapters 28-30, […]

https://systemmastery.files.wordpress.com/2017/10/episode-105-minds-eye-theatre-requiem.mp3 Ah, truly the most joyous of holiday seasons is upon us!  Happy White Ween!  Today, we cover a game that turned out (well after we started reading it) to be a sourcebook.  Whoops!  We are bit in the butt by our lack of research yet again!  Oh well, we bravely soldier on in true Ween spirit to cover Mind’s Eye Theatre: Requiem, a LARPing guide for the thoroughly modern vampire.  Too spooky, indeed...