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Nexus – System Mastery 27 Sep 09, 2014

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SystemMastery 27 – Nexus Live Action Roleplaying

Time to gather up 50 or so of your greatest friends and then slowly and painfully lose them over the course of a complex, sweaty, argumentative weekend! We discuss our very first LARP with Nexus, a game of galactic intrigue, simple rules, bad puns and lots and lots of backrubs. Can the Konathians enslave the Earth before the Inner Empire citizens discover their plot? Will the space plague spread before people get bored and head to Wendy’s? Listen in and we’ll find all this out!

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

Editor’s correction: The Myriads ARE his grandson, ya dick.

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Car Wars – System Mastery 26 Aug 26, 2014

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System Mastery 26 – Car Wars

Strap in, it’s going to be a dense, chart-heavy ride. Steve Jackson’s Car Wars is heavy on near-future apocalyptic flavor, and equally heavy on complex movement and combat rules. It’s a battle of cars, bikes, trucks, trikes, trars, trike-trucks, truck-trikes, and for some reason, helicopters on this 80s-charged episode.

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Editor’s correction: Upon research, we have determined that Steve Jackson does not look like a Bruce Vilanche type, but rather like the sort of guy that designs beige pebble-plastic 80s computers that can run Oregon Trail. We remain convinced that he is a cool dude, however.

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D&D Set 1 Basic Rules – System Mastery 25 Aug 12, 2014

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SystemMastery 25 – D&D Set 1 Basic Rules

We celebrate a year’s worth of RPG reviews with a return to a true classic. The original Red Box D&D, complete with the white crayon for your dice and the $30 registration form for the 1981 RPGA. Take to the dungeon as a fighter, a magic-user, or perhaps a halfling in one of the earliest iterations of the Dungeons & Dragons name.

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C°ntinuum – System Mastery 24 Jul 29, 2014

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SystemMastery 24 – C°ntinuum: Roleplaying in the Yet

It’s a time travel game! More accurately, it’s a game about keeping meticulous detailed notes because the DM might check to see if you did at any second! Join millions of other time travelers working and playing together, but try not to accidentally erase yourself from existence! It’s shockingly easy to do, after all. We review C°ntinuum – Roleplaying in the Yet, all the while wishing it was Roleplaying in the Yeti.

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Editor’s correction: For some reason, we spent the whole podcast thinking this game was called C°ntinuum – Adventures in the Yet.

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Star Wars RPG – System Mastery 23 Jul 16, 2014

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SystemMastery 23 – Star Wars RPG

Our second look at West End Games takes us to a galaxy far, far away, where an antagonistic GM is expected to control the party with an iron (if capricious) fist. We’ll discuss whether or not Boba Fett lives up to his hype, what the deal is with all that expanded universe stuff, and maybe even briefly talk about the actual RPG we’re ostensibly here for.

As always, if you’ve got a suggestion for an RPG, let us know! We’ve got a little list together and are reading into some of your great suggestions already!

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After the Bomb – System Mastery 22 Jul 02, 2014

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SystemMastery 22 – After the Bomb

Wounded and battered from months of learning new systems, we take a brief respite to review something we knew already. This week, we spend a lot of time talking about Bio-E, the difference between the rad animal men of yesteryear and today’s watered-down furries, and general Palladium shenanigans.

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System Mastery 21 – Nobilis Jun 17, 2014

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SystemMastery 21 – Nobilis

Have you ever dreamed of being the god of something? Perhaps the god of socks, or the god of internet memes, or the god of cabbage? This odd, dense game may be as close as you can get to realize your weird boring dreams, internet friends! Take a tour through the mind of Rebecca Bergstrom, aka Jenna Moran, aka the Writer clad in Ranunculus, aka the Auctor Errabundus, as we look into the crazy (but interesting) Nobilis!

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System Mastery 20 – Cthulhutech Jun 05, 2014

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Episode 20 – Cthulutech

It might just be because we like 75% of the brazenly lifted source material, but Cthulhutech passes our review gauntlet and comes up looking pretty fun. We discuss the many variations on giant robot and giant monster robot you can play as, discuss the latest iteration of merits and flaws, and hash out the concept of poker dice in our latest episode.

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System Mastery 19 – Furry Pirates May 20, 2014

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SystemMastery 19 – Furry Pirates

This week, we take hold of a book with a bifurcated design sensibility. Will we actually discover “Swashbuckling Adventures in the Furry Age of Piracy”? Or will we find that the furries appear to have been added to this book late during development? Is this a case of Type 1 or Type 2 Furabetes? What social rank must a male furry be at before he is expected to wear a wig (unless he is a Puritan)? We struggle to answer all these questions in our 19th episode. Special thanks to Ryan for the suggestion. Never suggest anything again, Ryan (keep suggesting things).

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System Mastery 18 – Big Eyes, Small Mouth May 07, 2014

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SystemMastery 18 – Big Eyes, Small Mouth

We sit down for a rousing discussion about the many varieties of anime, and the game that tries to let you play them all. Big Eyes, Small Mouth is a charming attempt to capture the entirety of a diverse range of shows into a single ruleset. There are a few glaring errors, but that’s what new editions are for, we guess. In the meantime, let’s make fun of an old book and a bunch of TV shows!

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