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Jef and Jon review old roleplaying games

System Mastery Jef Aldrich and Jon Taylor

    • Leisure
    • 4.6 • 213 Ratings

Jef and Jon review old roleplaying games

    274 - Tower 22

    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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    • 1 hr 15 min
    273 - Aria: Canticle of the Monomyth

    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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    • 59 min
    272 - City of Heroes Playtest

    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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    • 1 hr 20 min
    271 - Active Exploits

    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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    • 1 hr 18 min
    270 - Marvel Super Heroes Adventure Game

    270 - Marvel Super Heroes Adventure Game

    I think... I think this is all of them? If you count the review of the Multiverse pre-test (we've skimmed the final version, it's pretty close), then yeah, this is the last of the Marvel licensed RPGs we hadn't covered yet. Saga edition, with the card deck and one of the two diceless systems. Is it cool? Will it Marvel? Do we have to start tracking down DC games now?
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    • 1 hr 16 min
    269 - Strike!

    269 - Strike!

    This one is a little near and dear to us, we've used it to run Blimpleggers content in the past! Strike! is an RPG that sort of combines the very abstracted narrative structure of a FATE style game with the tactical grid combat of a 4e D&D style game, and for the most part, it works. Let's talk about how!
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    • 1 hr 26 min

Customer Reviews

4.6 out of 5
213 Ratings

213 Ratings

Ulphen ,

Funny Reviews of Out of Print RPGs

All the news you can’t use about old, usually bad tabletop RPGs! I came for the reviews and stayed for the humor.

vernoid ,

never found someone who hates/loves h.ō.l and has read the max

thank you

Teem Dodger ,

Kinda boring

When they don’t like a game, they nitpick the grammar for an hour and a half. When they do like a game, they regurgitate the book from beginning to end like they’re reading the Wikipedia page.

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