System Mastery 304 – Runequest (1984)

This is one of the venerable old giants of the fantasy gaming industry. Avalon Hill producing Chaosium’s Runequest. Couldn’t be more classic. But how does it read 40 years later? Let’s all find out together.

Neon City Outlaws!
Go support an awesome game, you’ve got like two days and a late pledge window if you’re lucky! Jef’s been reading it and it’s so good!

System Mastery 302 – Capers

By all account, this is the first ever superhero RPG, but don’t let that fool you, it contains virtually nothing you’d recognize as a superhero game. In fact, it’s wild what it contains. You’ll see.

Mutants From the Archives: Pet Shop Blues Kickstarter! Go support this at once, you!

jk! Games site:
j-k.games

System Mastery 302 – Capers

Okay the rumors that we like every supers game are scurrilous, devious, and increasingly accurate. This is Capers, and it’s a supers game set in a slightly less socially shitty 1920s, which is a neat thing.

System Mastery 301 – The Arcanum

Hi folks, let’s start up another 300 of these, what do you say? This one is about The Arcanum, an early 80s game that sure seems similar for some reasons (the same reasons they always do? Probably!

System Mastery 300 – Palladium Fantasy

Well that certainly was 300 times we did a thing, I tell you what! Let’s take a little victory lap by cracking open a cask we’ve been saving for a special occasion, a feisty little 1983 vintage called Palladium Fantasy that definitely isn’t just dust and vinegar by this point, right? Right?

Announcement Mastery!
Check out Gamer Mom: The Mom Who Games right now on Kickstarter!

System Mastery 299 – Bleeding Heart

We’re hard at work on our giant pile of weird old box sets, and that means it’s time for Bleeding Heart, a game that Jon assures me is loosely based on something called the Corman Poe film era of the mid-sixties, and he’s a total horror nerd so I gotta go with him on this one.

Announcement Mastery!
Obelisk is launching on Kickstarter April 7th. 
Visit obeliskttrpg.com/kickstarter to get notified when it launches!

Help listener Alex Shaw and his family recover from a devastating home fire! https://gofund.me/92b44dd2

System Mastery 298 – Wild West

I really hope you’re enjoying this string of very old games, we’re doing our best to get back into them quickly (ever since I found one of my old box sets fully eaten by bugs and had to fumigate). In this case, it’s a game about real old timey cowboys! Like Boot Hill but not TSR!

System Mastery 297 – Star Trek the Roleplaying Game

Can we review an 80s Star Trek game without our pacemakers exploding? What if FASA made it? We’re looking at the Star Trek RPG from roughly 1983, which means (if you’re counting) that it’s based on the original series, the animated series, and the first three films. Is it okay or does it have to go home and copy 10 pages out of the K section of the dictionary? Let’s find out!

Go forth and support Celestial Bodies on Kickstarter! It’s a game about harvesting the remnants of dead gods in cool upgradeable mechs out in space, which is… pretty cool really.

System Mastery 296 – Lewd Dungeon Adventures

Finally someone bought that game that advertises on Facebook, and it was us. It’s a fantasy adventure game with some sex-themed rules, but honestly I don’t want to spoil anything here because it’s a tiny wee little game that could never possibly satisfy any REAL gamer. Damn it, still with the jokes. It’s a sex RPG and we read it. That’s for sure.

Oh and hey, go support Solo But Not Alone 5, okay? Good cause. We’re supporting it. You get a lot of solo games for a small amount of money and contribute to a cause that’s literally never been needed more.

System Mastery 295 – Insurgent

A very quick little modern game designed to be played solo or with a small group but no GM, in which you rebel against something. What do you rebel against? Whattaya got?