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Panty Explosion – System Mastery 56 Nov 10, 2015

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Man, just look at that title. How terrifying is this going to be? Well, we don’t want to spoil anything, so here’s Panty Explosion, a game that is verifiably about Japanese schoolgirls, and some of them are psychic sometimes!

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The World of Tales from the Crypt – System Mastery 55 Oct 27, 2015

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After recording two episodes about this book, I’m just out of death-related puns. Sorry about that. But hey, there’s a bunch in the episode if that’s what you were hoping for! It’s the Masterbook licensed-classic, The World of Tales from the Crypt!

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Aberrant D20 – System Mastery 54 Oct 14, 2015

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Let’s discuss the early aughts and their explosion of rapid-release D20 adaptations of older games! Here’s a White Wolf one that turns everything about superheroes in every way into a series of ever-more-complicated feats. Also Jef is super sick the whole time, sorry about that.

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Fireborn – System Mastery 53 Sep 29, 2015

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Have you ever felt like you weren’t just this shell you are now? That perhaps within you lurks something ancient, something fierce and fiery? Well, it’s true! Also, you should stop eating at Chipotle. This week we cover Fireborn, the famous FFG outing in which various self-absorbed London dorks discover that they are dragons on the inside and then start doing some sort of loosely defined thing in a mad dash to become dragons on the outside too!

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Fantasy Wargaming: The Highest Level of All – System Mastery 52 Sep 15, 2015

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Two weeks ago, the phrase “British Nerd” was relatively pleasant to me. I’d picture David Tennant, or Richard Ayoade, or even Hermione Granger, and everything was fine. “Oh,” I’d think, “Perhaps they’d like to discuss Neil Gaiman for a while!” Not now though. Now I picture a guy sitting alone at a restaurant, his waiter sending out every available physical signal of “I’m busy” as this lone man asks for the third time if she’s sure they don’t have mead, much as they did 700 years ago when this very building was the most prolific mead-hall in all of Pevensey. This book is called Fantasy Wargaming: The Highest Level of All. It’s got a game in there if you hate games and fun.

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Micro RPGs – System Mastery 51 Sep 01, 2015

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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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Advanced Dungeons & Dragons – System Mastery 50 Aug 18, 2015

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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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A.C.E. Agents – System Mastery 49 Aug 04, 2015

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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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Human Occupied Landfill – System Mastery 48 Jul 22, 2015

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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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Fifth Cycle – System Mastery 47 Jul 07, 2015

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Who likes their fantasy with a shot of heartbreaker and a dirt-farming sidecar? Maybe with a splash of podcast host bitters? This week we cover Fifth Cycle, a thoroughly confusing game about wizard archaeologists where you hope like crazy to play as a wizard archaeologist and not a farmer.

Let us know what you thought of Fifth Cycle in the comments! Have a book you’d us to cover? Let us know about that too.

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