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The Land of Ogg – System Mastery 178 Jul 14, 2020

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We needed a break to finish our second book, and when you live in a gig economy that just means doing a smaller job that week! The Land of Ogg started around 1993 and is a game about dumb cavemen failing at everything. Here is an obligatory joke about the current federal government. Please enjoy.

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System Mastery Special – Things We Hate About D&D – Part 3 Jul 04, 2020

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No really, they’re the worst. Play another game. Also while we’ve got that picture of Radcliffe up there, our opinion is that JK Rowling is a TERF piece of shit, so. Everyone sucks. Just sucks. Sorry about it.

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SenZar – System Mastery 177 Jun 30, 2020

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With 26 races, nearly 40 classes, giant complex martial arts systems and a battle world that has run amok for aeons aesthetic, where could SenZar possibly go wrong? It’s an excess of boring riches on today’s System Mastery.

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High Strung – System Mastery 176 Jun 17, 2020

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Grab your amps and start planning setlists, as we take a look at a game that eschews the classics of dungeon diving in favor of trying to make it big in the music world. Does it deliver hot licks? Or… I am bad at music, I guess cold licks? Yes, does it deliver cold licks? Well, come find out!

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Call of Cthulhu (5.6) – System Mastery 175 Jun 03, 2020

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Yes, it’s not a D&D game. Don’t worry. It’s going to be okay. We still found a classic, the Chaosium flagship and the biggest name in leaning heavily on public domain stuff Call of Cthulhu. And hey, you might just be in need right now of people dumping on the febrile racism of a cowardly germophobe (Lovecraft. I meant Lovecraft.) so here’s that, just for you all.

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Alma Mater – System Mastery 174 May 20, 2020

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We’ve posted so many episodes at this point that the only reason this one’s description isn’t just “Fuck this game” is that I’m not sure I didn’t do that for a previous odious heap. This game was banned from GenCon in the 80s because it’s got a bunch of teen sex in it. That’s one of the reasons it’s bad. Sure. Here’s an hour of other ones.

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System Mastery Special – Things We Hate About D&D – Part 1 May 11, 2020

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So hey, remember when we wrote that book? Jef apparently didn’t because this special content powered by pre-orders has been sitting unedited on an external HD for months. The only thing that could force him to remember was the diligent reminders from listeners couple with the completion of our second book (details coming soon!). For now, please enjoy this fine list of things that we don’t like about D&D (or D&D Culture, we may have had some crossed wires in there). You earned it!

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Smallville – System Mastery 173 May 05, 2020

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It was about time we discussed the Cortex engine, and what better way to have a discussion than driving 45 minutes to a Kansas farm so I can say one sentence about how I’m upset and then drive away again to reset before I do it two more times next episode? Smallville is a game all about building out a whole season of genre soap television, and also keeping Clark from flying.

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Darwin’s World – System Mastery 172 Apr 21, 2020

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It’s post-apocalypse OGL gaming here so it may seem like something we’ve done before, but is it? I hope not, but honestly 171 is a lot of episodes to go back through and I think we’re all a little tired right now. It’s mutants, running around an irradiated post-war Earth, and they call women “furniture” in it, so you know.

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Tunnels & Trolls – System Mastery 171 Apr 07, 2020

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The year is 1975. The hair is stupid. The clothes are stupid. The music? Mostly stupid. The movie scene was okay (Rocky Horror? Jaws? Come on now). And the RPG scene was… heartbreakers already! Tunnels and Trolls sure was an attempt to fix D&D by doing things differently for once. Let’s look back, shall we.

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