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329 episodes
Language
EnglishPublisher
Jef Aldrich and Jon TaylorExplicit
No
Date created
2014/06/22
Latest episode
2026/01/23
Average duration
82 min.
Release period
16 days
Description
Jef and Jon review old roleplaying games
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319 - Red Dwarf
2026/01/23
Who's ready for licensed comedy property RPGs? These are always the best, am I right? Today is Red Dwarf, an RPG based on a British comedy sci-fi series. And boy is it ever something.
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318 - Man, Myth & Magic
2026/01/09
Two games in one box? What a bargain! MM&M here comes with basic and advanced rulesets for its historical fantasy Earth setting, though the differences are so odd that it's almost like two (bad) games!
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317 - Fabula Ultima
2025/12/25
Hell yeah we got something for under your tree! It's a System Mastery review of Fabula Ultima! For future readers that joke is because I put this episode up Christmas Eve. It was hilarious at the time. Ask an old person, they'll remember.
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316 - Truth & Justice
2025/12/11
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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315 - Companion's Tale
2025/11/30
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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314 - Laser Kittens
2025/11/13
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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313 - 1978 (The Night They Came Home)
2025/10/29
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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312 - Army of Darkness
2025/10/16
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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311 - Tales from the Floating Vagabond 2e, Part 2: An Interview
2025/10/01
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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310 - Tales from the Floating Vagabond 2e
2025/09/04
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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309 - Invisible Sun Lore
2025/08/21
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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308 - Invisible Sun
2025/08/06
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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307 - Micro Game Roundup 2
2025/07/25
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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306 - The Expanse
2025/07/11
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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305 - Time Lord
2025/06/26
Who loves Doctor Who? Specifically and exclusively any Doctor Who made before 1991? Not us it turns out, though this game is pretty fun! It's got some neat design ideas and good advice and writing, and also a lot of information about old Doctors.
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PimpingMcpimpimgton 2024/04/21
A great podcast
This is good ear food, do yourself a favor and listen then give them tons of money on Patreon.
Teem Dodger 2024/08/09
Nobody’s forcing you to make this
You’re not being forced to record a podcast. And nobody’s impressed when an RPG nerd is super performative about not “knowing about” or liking specifi...
Robot BLACK 2024/05/02
Eh
Wanted to like this, but it ends up being 1 of 2 types of episodes: “here’s a game we played when we were 14 and so it must be good” or “I don’t know ...
Ulphen 2022/11/01
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 2024/01/12
never found someone who hates/loves h.ō.l and has read the max
thank you
Stack O’ Lee 2023/02/23
Very little to recommend
Crass, loud, inane banter and horribly unfunny. Often ignorant about the topics they go on and about and wrong several times in the episodes I struggl...
enil ni tsal 2022/02/18
Fun, funny and a decent way to be exposed to old ttrpgs
My brother introduced me to System Mastery and ever since I’ve been a fan. The hosts review old tabletop RPGs and crack jokes throughout.
Hamburger Helpful 2021/09/26
They read the rpgs so you don’t have to
They give you everything you need to know to feel like you know the game, condensed down into one funny hour. It’s a great way to go from knowing abou...
Somedude, Just 2021/05/21
Insightful and Hilarious
Jon and Jef have taught me a lot about designing TTRPGs over the years, and made it fun along the way. To clarify: they don't provide instruction on g...
horgar 2021/09/20
So woke
Woke, vulgar, hard leftists that are suffering liberal guilt. Maybe it’s for you. Not as much for me.
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