System Mastery

By Jef Aldrich and Jon TaylorLeisure Games Hobbies

System Mastery episodes

September 01, 2015 Micro RPGs – System Mastery 51
https://systemmastery.files.wordpress.com/2015/08/micro-rpgs-episode-51.mp3
This episode was so very refreshing. Five tiny, lovely RPGs made recently by designers that had fun in mind. It’s really not our wheelhouse to cover good stuff, but we wanted to throw out some love, even if it’s just every now and then. In this episode we cover All Outta Bubblegum, Everyone is John, Lasers & Feelings, Doctor Magnethands, and Gangland. These games are all cheap to free and can be found on the internet, so go forth and play them.

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1 hr 10 min
August 25, 2015 Verisimilitude – Afterthought 13
A seemingly neverending theme in what we do is books that evaluate Gary Gygax’s grand vision of a game that is meant to be played as a big game in […]
1 hr 6 min
August 25, 2015 Verisimilitude – Afterthought 13
A seemingly neverending theme in what we do is books that evaluate Gary Gygax’s grand vision of a game that is meant to be played as a big game in […]
1 hr 6 min
August 18, 2015 Advanced Dungeons & Dragons – System Mastery 50
https://systemmastery.files.wordpress.com/2015/08/system-mastery-50.mp3
Fifty episodes in and it’s time to be confused by the grand pasture where every weird sacred cow in this industry was calved. We go looking for answers to the great mysteries of gaming? Will we find them? Or will be be stymied by clumsy vocabulary and bizarre decision making?

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1 hr 31 min
August 18, 2015 Advanced Dungeons & Dragons – System Mastery 50
Fifty episodes in and it’s time to be confused by the grand pasture where every weird sacred cow in this industry was calved. We go looking for answers to the […]
1 hr 31 min
August 11, 2015 Thanks! – Afterthought 12
This week we’re in a bit too goofy of a mood to even really dig useful information out of ACE Agents. So this episode is basically a party. We answer […]
1 hr 6 min
August 11, 2015 Thanks! – Afterthought 12
This week we’re in a bit too goofy of a mood to even really dig useful information out of ACE Agents. So this episode is basically a party. We answer […]
1 hr 6 min
August 04, 2015 A.C.E. Agents – System Mastery 49
https://systemmastery.files.wordpress.com/2015/08/system-mastery-49.mp3
Today we introduce you to a light and relatively witty GI Joe parody from around 1992. A.C.E. Agents manages a very unusual balancing act of both satirizing and explaining the workings of a JOE-style secret agency, while still remaining at least a somewhat playable game. Sadly no rules in there for what happens when you take your little fight man and wind him up via the rubber band in his torso to create a little punchcopter.

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1 hr 4 min
July 28, 2015 But What IS Satire? – Afterthought 11
There is a slight chance we reviewed a game that is essentially a prank on reviewers. We’re willing to own up to that and deal with it like the kind […]
1 hr 5 min
July 22, 2015 Human Occupied Landfill – System Mastery 48
https://systemmastery.files.wordpress.com/2015/07/system-mastery-48.mp3
Here’s a game of sorts. It’s handwritten, it’s irritating, and it’s about goofball prisoners sort of murdering each other on a garbage planet. Also it’s handwritten. It’s Human Occupied Landfill, and we hope you enjoy almost as much as we did (because we hate you).

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1 hr 4 min