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The Babylon Project – System Mastery 85 Jan 03, 2017

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Get ready to recreate the dramatic adventures of Captain John Sheridan, psychic lady Ivanova, kindly space vampire Londo Mollari, and – did the doctor guy get a name? I forget – but you know, be sure not to do it on the actual space station the show was on, and that you don’t set it in any time period after season 2, and that you don’t let too many Narn be on your team, with The Babylon Project, a stuffy game about that space show you only vaguely remember.

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Nightlife – System Mastery 84 Dec 20, 2016

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Looking for a game where you can play a vampire, werewolf, ghost, frankenstein, demon, or …Native American nature spirit? And you you say you want it to predate 90% of White Wolf? Perhaps it’s ridiculous 1991 mullets you crave? Well look no further because we bring you Nightlife!

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Champions – System Mastery 83 Dec 06, 2016

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Time for the HERO system, one of the big dogs of generic systems, in what is arguably it’s most popular incarnation, the very, very modular Champions. Build a hero absolutely any way you want. Literally any idea you have for a crazy hero, you get right on it and make that hero. Just, you know, bring some graph paper, and a calculator, and a mechanical pencil, and some .7 lead, and some Jolt Cola (it’s 1989 in this paragraph).

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Cyberworld – System Mastery 82 Nov 22, 2016

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In today’s episode we gather to pass judgement down upon Cyberworld, the story of a distant future where an emperor that bizarrely shares the first AND last name of the book’s author (what a coincidence!) rules both North and South America with an iron fist that probably has a snap bracelet on it and an Alice in Chains CD clutched in it (1992 jokes people). Join us won’t you, as we dive in to a dystopian cyber-future LARP. That’s right, this is also a LARP. With the rock paper scissors and everything.

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Over the Edge – System Mastery 81 Nov 08, 2016

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Well lookie here! Written by Jonathan Tweet (author of 3rd Edition D&D). Designed by Tweet and Robin D. Laws (Author of Feng Shui). There’s basically no way this won’t be crazy and interesting. It’s Over the Edge, almost definitely the only tabletop roleplaying game that purports to be based on the writings of William Burroughs.

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Vampire: The Masquerade (2nd Edition) – System Mastery 80 Oct 25, 2016

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We’re drawing ever closer to the terrifying end of White Ween, and we figured why not tackle an 800 pound gorilla a week before every sad internet friend you hate puts on their makeshift Harambe costumes. It’s Vampire: The Masquerade! The seminal White Wolf classic which is dripping with blood, gore, and pretension!

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Promethean: The Created – System Mastery 79 Oct 12, 2016

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Happy October, dear listeners! You didn’t think we’d skip it, did you? Halloween is so easy to play around in it’s basically the podcaster Christmas. So it’s all White Wolf, all month long at System Mastery, and we’re getting started with Promethean, the game that hoovers up the leftover mythology after all the other White Wolf monster titles and somehow adroitly bakes it into a man.. with blonde hair and a tan, and he’s good for relieving our…. tension.

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Batman Roleplaying Game – System Mastery 78 Sep 29, 2016

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Da na na na na na na na na na na na na na na TABLES. TABLES. It’s Batman, all right. Man is it ever Batman. As a spinoff of a larger game, this game really knew how to focus. But can the tone overcome the mechanics? Nope!

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Blue Planet – System Mastery 77 Sep 13, 2016

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Cyborg orcas, mutant cat super scientists, “squids” and more await you on the distant water planet ingeniously named “Poseidon.” You can make all sorts of amazing characters that certainly could have all sorts of amazing adventures, though I don’t think we ever figured one out. It’s Blue Planet! You’re going to tolerate it! Note that the cover art we used from the poster is way cooler than the book, we just got lucky and found that on the internet.

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Macho Women with Guns – System Mastery 76 Aug 30, 2016

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Aw yeah, we got your boobsplosions, your vagcapitations, and your brutal wombsaws all up in this one. It’s Macho Women with Guns, a parody game that uses generous margins and a lot of art to lightly spread a surprisingly complicated game over about 60 exploitative pages.

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