System Mastery

Jef Aldrich and Jon Taylor

  • 1 hour 20 minutes
    294 - OGL Ancients

    It's what it says! Though it's adding a lot of stuff to the venerable old combat engine of 3.X OGL, it's an OGL game where you play as primarily Greeks and Egyptians from antiquity (you can get a Scythian or someone from Thessaly in if you want, it's just not a great plan).

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    23 January 2025, 3:51 am
  • 1 hour 28 minutes
    293 - Alas Vegas

    This is a little recent for our usual stuff, but Jon was really interested after the Fastlane review to keep looking at games that utilize classic casino games as RPG randomizers, and this one's a doozy! Combining Blackjack and Tarot stuff, no less! Right in Jon's very wheelhouse. The game is neat too! There's a ton in here, it's definitely one of those big rocks that rolled down a Kickstarter success story and accumulated content as it went, so we made some calls on what to focus on that we'll explain within. At the end of the day, this is pretty dang neat.

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    9 January 2025, 2:38 am
  • 1 hour 19 minutes
    292 - Unbidden

    Back to basics, some game you probably never heard of that we didn't like. That's the basic essence of the show, right? It has to come up sometimes. I'm talking about the show here because honestly I can't think of much to say about this sort of generic "There are secrets in the world that you can't learn about without going crazy" type game that isn't already in the episode.

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    18 December 2024, 10:14 pm
  • 1 hour 27 minutes
    291 - Fastlane

    Oh buddy you better believe we love it when the game has a weird alternative randomizing mechanic, and this thing is all about roulette. Yes, it straight up tells you at the start that you can use a digital one or even a dice based approximation, but for max results, you should get a roulette wheel. What else? Well, it's a generic system besides the ruleset, so we go all in on that.

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    5 December 2024, 9:14 pm
  • 1 hour 2 minutes
    290 - Icarus

    As we bring Sweater Weather to a close we are faced with the realization that we accidentally double-themed this month, since both of these games are explorations of civilizations over time, and in fact would make a pretty good double feature game night played together. Weird! Anyway, this is a little box set where you make a dice tower.

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    20 November 2024, 5:30 pm
  • 1 hour 8 minutes
    289 - The Quiet Year

    Hey folks, welcome to Sweater Weather. We're going to keep things light and distracting here for the next few months, sweater weather or not, so don't worry about heavy topics. If you're looking for a getaway, we got you. Also, this book is about impending change and possible doom. So. You know, we'll figure it out.

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    8 November 2024, 8:49 pm
  • 1 hour 16 minutes
    288 - Rats!

    So these aren't really furries, but hey, I think this was just called Hairy Ween, right? Like that sounds more like a dick joke anyway. Anyhow, this book is all about playing as vile, disgusting, brilliant little rats trying to retake the world from the foul humans that don't deserve it. It's a mixed bag!

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    24 October 2024, 7:41 pm
  • 1 hour 24 minutes
    287 - Mutants in the Now

    Blessed Ween everyone! This year we're focusing on animal inside of us all with a Furry Ween! Or a Hairy Ween! I dunno, whatever, we just wanted to read Mutants in the Now.

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    10 October 2024, 1:07 am
  • 1 hour 26 minutes
    286 - Orkworld (Crunch)

    Oh, oh no. We thought all the worst stuff was going to be in the fluff and descriptive section. We were wrong. If you're a fan of angry Jef and Jon, well, you probably already noticed the 84 minute runtime of the episode and got your hopes up, correctly.

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    27 September 2024, 6:57 pm
  • 1 hour 17 minutes
    285 - Orkworld (Fluff)

    Well, this might be divisive, if we hadn't spent years discussing how we feel about ol' John Wick and his famously terrible advice. But what about his games? Well, let's look at Orkworld, a game about Orcs.

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    16 September 2024, 3:00 am
  • 1 hour 12 minutes
    284 - Time Master

    Travel through time at the behest of a futuristic society at the end of time? Sounds familiar! But before you break out the Wyld Stallyns shirt, let me burst your bubble by saying this actually has a weird war game at its weird core.

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    2 September 2024, 4:28 pm
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