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System Mastery 290 – Icarus

As we bring Sweater Weather to a close we are faced with the realization that we accidentally double-themed this month, since both of these games are explorations of civilizations over time, and in fact would make a pretty good double feature game night played together. Weird! Anyway, this is a little box set where you make a dice tower.

System Mastery 289 – The Quiet Year

Hey folks, welcome to Sweater Weather. We’re going to keep things light and distracting here for the next few months, sweater weather or not, so don’t worry about heavy topics. If you’re looking for a getaway, we got you. Also, this book is about impending change and possible doom. So. You know, we’ll figure it out.

System Mastery 288 – Rats!

So these aren’t really furries, but hey, I think this was just called Hairy Ween, right? Like that sounds more like a dick joke anyway. Anyhow, this book is all about playing as vile, disgusting, brilliant little rats trying to retake the world from the foul humans that don’t deserve it. It’s a mixed bag!

System Mastery 287 – Orkworld (Crunch)

Blessed Ween everyone! This year we’re focusing on animal inside of us all with a Furry Ween! Or a Hairy Ween! I dunno, whatever, we just wanted to read Mutants in the Now.

System Mastery 286 – Orkworld (Crunch)

Oh, oh no. We thought all the worst stuff was going to be in the fluff and descriptive section. We were wrong. If you’re a fan of angry Jef and Jon, well, you probably already noticed the 84 minute runtime of the episode and got your hopes up, correctly.

System Mastery 285 – Orkworld (Fluff)

Well, this might be divisive, if we hadn’t spent years discussing how we feel about ol’ John Wick and his famously terrible advice. But what about his games? Well, let’s look at Orkworld, a game about Orcs.

System Mastery 284 – Time Master

Travel through time at the behest of a futuristic society at the end of time? Sounds familiar! But before you break out the Wyld Stallyns shirt, let me burst your bubble by saying this actually has a weird war game at its weird core.

System Mastery 283 – Eden

Hi everyone! You’ll never guess that now the other one of us has COVID. This stupid planet and country. Anyway, this game is about people learning lessons in a primordial garden from the animals that live there. Cool, right?

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 of gaming, but Jef still pretty much orders any superhero thing if he sees it on sale, and that’s what happened here! This time it paid off even, as Spectaculars turned out to be in a form factor neither of us expected but both of us enjoyed, so let us tell you all about it.

Announcement Mastery!
Develop both company as well as your character as you navigate the downtime phase, prospects of mutiny and the ever-closer reaching hand of old age, as you try to survive in a time of terror, violence and terrifying wickedness. SOUDARD!

The Core Rulebook is available on itch.io/soudard-crb as well as DriveThruRPG and will soonish be joined by the campaign which will take you on the journey through the first war and allow you and your friends to experience the late middle ages as never before. SOUDARD!”

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 Modern Knights! At least we know that much.