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Jef & Jon. Hosts of the System Mastery podcast and more. Reviewing old TTRPGs, bad movies, Star Wars novels, and whatever else we get opinionated about.
Authors of Düngeonmeister and The Düngeonmeister Cookbook
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Slowly increasing the rhetoric that the people complaining are some flavor of hateful outside agitator, basically.
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Or wants to, really.
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I've only just started reading the playtest materials for it and I am unreasonably pumped, I've been hurting for some good cyberpunk and I'm a little picky about the more famous options in the space for it.
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You do not, in fact, have to help the racist pay his old-ass debts. You aren't paying people, you're paying a racist, Goodman.
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I gotta say suddenly adopting the stance that they desperately need to make things right for people who backed a failed Kickstarter (which they didn't own or run) ten years ago might be the most pathetic smokescreen to put in front of "we are still working with a proud racist" I've seen in a while.
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Ew who would ever write with a co-author.
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I'd say the only impediment to it being good for your show are that it's a component driven game (it uses cards and tear off story/character pads) so it's better in person. Obviously there's several possible workarounds to that. The cards aren't a randomizer, they're informative.
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They have a mix of unique and shared powers that works well for X-Men style giant lineups, they naturally form into teams which naturally produce crossovers and guest appearances, and the world is built out via a mad libs style world book as you play sessions, again becoming a living document.
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Straightforward description of Spectaculars, right here. Granted, that bad boy sold out hard during last summer, I don't know if the guy making it was able to get more printed before tariff shit. Making characters takes seconds but they all permanently join a living roster with super easy play.
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I love Lancer and Comp/Con! I think it'd be a tough job converting it to run a TMNT-alike maybe.
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I see a lot of people already recommending Sentinels which is A) objectively the correct choice, and B) we're taking credit for how much it's getting recommended.
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Plus it introduced some anime horseshit like Dragonborn and Eladrin. No thank you, I like the regular races you could play back in the good days (provided you ban gnomes which are dumb, preferably to some secondary book for weirdos).
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I'm just not sure I get this. It's a bunch of old posts about how the OSR is definitely dead, that's the premise? Even though they're called stuff like "The OSR should die" and "My own personal OSR"? Like, it reached too far. Three less examples and this would be gold! Gold I tell ya!
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Aw c'mon I didn't get any more detailed than like "it is difficult to shave a scrotum actually." The fact that I went on for 45 more minutes is largely irrelevant.
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One of my gaming bugbears is that I think it's like acting and it doesn't require twists and secrets to be hidden to be exciting. So for me it's a group where I can tell them secrets about the session in advance and they'll act surprised when they're supposed to, because they're "playing" a "role."
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Who wants a System Mastery live show? Who wants a Movie Mastery? Relationship? We'll do whatever. Maybe not that last one unless we get a gofundme going to bring Claire.
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Oh and that's an amazon link!
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We had to take him to a crisis management station after Baby Ghost. He had oversighed.
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Oh we'll find it. I have people working on it.
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And you know I think I might try... defying gravity.
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Wait wait wait, is that through Adams? Are you our book pal now? That would be awesome!
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Meanwhile elves practically are a metaphor for D&D as a whole. D&D all "Wait don't look at other stuff, we just got like five new kinds of elves! Wingy ones! Evil ones! Evil ones (no blackface!) This one might take their top off! Keep your money in here with us and these sexy ass elves!"
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Oh boy, Halflings are lucky and like their houses and Dwarves like beer and have Scottish accents, what fun. What fun indeed.
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Hey you do you. To me Gnomes are the most recent guys to get a glow-up, being made little creep-eyed weirdos from the feywild, while Dwarves and Halflings are eternally stuck on the wheel of Samsara being "reinvented" and then re-Tolkienizied by pure stolid nerd conservatism.
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In a game where there's always like fifteen kinds of elf we gotta go after the humble gnome? I mean shoot while I was typing this sentence two elves got separated and turned into distinct subspecies again.
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Oh yes like I'm a big fan of Rascal and what they're up to but this article isn't about Rascal, it's about the industry.
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Interesting timing with the Polygon article yesterday. Though I find the Industry Watchdog role gets somewhat muddied when even a slightly critical article about WOTC or whatever is often followed up by some "Ten Things You HAVE to Know About Lae'Zel" puff piece within an hour.
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And yeah, obviously Rowan is there doing good work. You know what would have gone great with this article? A link to that.
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You can probably get why I'm harder to please here, reviewing things that didn't get any attention is practically what I do for a living, so hearing a larger platform do some "But it's hard" type business bugs me. Email me, Charlie, I'll help this look less ridiculous.