System Mastery

Jef Aldrich and Jon Taylor

  • 1 hour 18 minutes
    316 - Truth & Justice

    Well hello there, superhero game from 2005. We saw you from across the room, and we dug your weird mix between classic and modern game design vibe.

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    11 December 2025, 6:57 pm
  • 1 hour 9 minutes
    315 - Companion's Tale

    A dive into the world of mapmaking games, which we've briefly touched on in the past but are definitely a growing area of game design, but also, combat free! Hooray for Sweater Weather!

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    30 November 2025, 5:49 pm
  • 1 hour 10 minutes
    314 - Laser Kittens

    Welcome back to our Sweater Weather season! But wait, how can this be charming and cozy if these kittens have LASERS? Listen and discover!

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    13 November 2025, 11:24 pm
  • 1 hour 8 minutes
    313 - 1978 (The Night They Came Home)

    Ween closes out with a bang, as we discuss a game designed to cover *cough* a wide variety of different Slasher movies that may or may not have specifically launched the genre in 1978 or so. Check it out, it's 1978 (The Night They Came Home)!

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    29 October 2025, 6:45 pm
  • 1 hour 20 minutes
    312 - Army of Darkness

    Oh man, I don't know if I should just put a bunch of movie quotes here (nah, the book already made me sick of them) or a bunch of Ween stuff. Let's go with that one. It's Army of Darkness as we start a look at horror movie RPG entries in a little sequence we're weenly calling WEENS ON FILM. Weenjoy.

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    16 October 2025, 11:48 pm
  • 1 hour 25 minutes
    311 - Tales from the Floating Vagabond 2e, Part 2: An Interview

    Sorry it's been a while friends! This episode is special and it took some work to get it working. We're interviewing Sean Ellis and Kira Woodmansee, two of the major names involved in getting Tales from the Floating Vagabond off the ground. Because we wanted to!

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    1 October 2025, 2:00 am
  • 1 hour 15 minutes
    310 - Tales from the Floating Vagabond 2e

    Part of this job is getting to hold extremely weird things in our hands, things we never expected to be real, and this is certainly one of those times. Three hundred and seven episodes ago we discussed Tales from the Floating Vagabond. Between then and now the author, Lee Garvin, passed away years ago. Now we have the second edition ANYWAY, and it's neat to hold. Let's talk about it!

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    4 September 2025, 7:14 pm
  • 1 hour 53 minutes
    309 - Invisible Sun Lore

    Yeah yeah, we did the thing. God knows there was plenty more content. James is still here to help us process all this stuff. Thanks James!

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    21 August 2025, 3:49 am
  • 1 hour 43 minutes
    308 - Invisible Sun

    This is almost certainly the largest product we've ever attempted to review! As a result there are some gaps in coverage here. We may yet revisit this game just to do a deep dive on the setting, if there's interest. Otherwise, welcome to the whimsical world of not quite wizards that is Invisible Sun, recorded twice for various reasons, and featuring our network president James D'Amato, because we like that guy.

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    6 August 2025, 6:26 pm
  • 1 hour 16 minutes
    307 - Micro Game Roundup 2

    Let's lay out what we're discussing here this week. It's three games (in four books) comprising Clever Girl, #Flirt Squad, and Anyone Can Wear The Mask. We love checking in on micro games from time to time, they're a refreshing change from the elderly tomes we normally peruse.

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    25 July 2025, 3:30 am
  • 1 hour 19 minutes
    306 - The Expanse

    More TV sci-fi! More TV sci-fi! Actually wait, hold on, this one is based on the books. No TV in here, which is probably for the best, because you guessed it, neither of us watched the show. Is this relatively modern relatively hard sci-fi space game fun? Well let's find out.

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    11 July 2025, 12:10 am
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