286 episodes
System Mastery Jef Aldrich and Jon Taylor
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- Leisure
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4.4 • 17 Ratings
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Jef and Jon review old roleplaying games
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276 - Muse
Who would have thought this weird little collaborative storytelling shared narrative exercise game could be so divisive? We discuss Muse, a game that uses cards and tokens and lots of paper to help you and your group tell a story and definitely not make everyone hate each other, at all.
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275 - Aria: Canticle of the Monomyth (Part 2)
Fine, we finished it. This was truly just an awful thing to keep reading through, I think it's been a while since we've both been this angry. Anyway, if you come support us on Patreon to hear the bonus content, we couldn't be assed to make Aria characters. They suck. So we made characters in the game LIFTS instead, which doesn't suck. This is your update on that topic.
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274 - Tower 22
Yeah yeah, we hit pause on Aria, we just couldn't deal with that noise anymore. Instead, it's time to dive into the ever-generous well of dumb OGL titles, with this bizarre 2002 Fantasy Strike classic, in which the authors really really want you to know about beach lifeguards and how important and cool and... military they are.
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273 - Aria: Canticle of the Monomyth
Show update first, everything's been a bit late because of travel and the deadly scary norovirus, which isn't pretty. Sorry about that. Show news on this episode? The sound a shudder that indicates a man has seen too much, written down, thank you.
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272 - City of Heroes Playtest
Gather up, all you various tankers, scrapper, controllers, uhhh... that healer one... I'm just kidding I loved this game. It's City of Heroes, sort of! Insofar as it's a Unisystem take on the popular superhero MMO. Some of one. This is just an old playtest doc. We talk about why and what and all the rest today!
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271 - Active Exploits
This was a tough read. Active Exploits is more of a toolkit than a game, but despite basically having every possible tool any kit could ever have, especially for a diceless engine, we still just aren't seeing how the numbers line up. But hey, who knows, right?
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Customer Reviews
A Perfect Storm
The question you have to ask yourself is do you actually want a podcast about irrelevant old role playing games and the answer should be no. You listen to this for the hosts amazing off topic banter, because the on topic banter (while entertaining and interesting, they are clearly experts in this field from reading lord knows how many terrible old RPG’s and I’d recommend any beginning RPG writer to have a listen even if I don’t totally agree with all points) is probably the least fun portion of this fantastic podcast. I couldn’t recommend this highly enough if you have even the tiniest bit of curiosity about terrible old games
Fun!
I really enjoy listening to Jef and Jon banter with one another. I know it's not to everyone's tastes, but their chat is incredibly natural and they seem like chaps I'd like to go down (to) the pub with. Banter aside, I do enjoy their take on the games they review and the obvious knowledge behind their ratings and discussions. They're well-versed in many forms of RPG and that comes across quite clearly. I thought I ought to leave a review since System Mastery is one of the few podcasts I'm quite happy to listen to repeatedly. :)
Waste of time
It takes 10 minutes of stupid jokes to hear anything worth listening.
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