System Mastery

System Mastery

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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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Remember those "enterprising young people CAN buy a house if they bootstrap hard enough" articles where you'd always find "with a small 1.3 million dollar loan from their hedge fund investor father" in them?

Michael Hobbes@michaelhobbes.bsky.social

This is a quietly metastasizing moral panic

My daughter started watching Minecraft youtube content and it's amazing how a single ordinary sentence can just mean nothing to me. "I tracked ALL the MOST ILLEGAL mob babies. 0.00001%!"

Lol you plebs are "talking" about "improving" the thing you "enjoy?" Ho ho ho, not while I have a meme for that!

DANIEL D. FOX@zweihanderrpg.bsky.social

/peeks inside "Deathbringer!" "Pirate Borg!" "Dark Sun!" "D&D!" "The OSR!" TTRPG 💿🐎 is still a thing? /chortles and closes the door

If you had told me six months ago the primary purpose of that Harry Potter show was to ruin my opinion of actors I liked who are specifically named Nick, I probably would have believed you because shit also sucked at that point.

More output from that AI-Cardgage creep Whitman. Hey man, what's "creative exhaust?" That makes it sound like the AIs are being fed like food scraps or some shit. No, you irrelevant dinosaur. They're being fed everyone's active whole fucking lunch.

Hey so I know the vast majority of you are not going to GenCon, but for the slim minority that are, we're gonna be there, and I'm gonna tell you some events we're doing, with links. We put a ton of work into these, and it shows, because of how dumb and goddamn crazy they are.

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Hey so I know the vast majority of you are not going to GenCon, but for the slim minority that are, we're gonna be there, and I'm gonna tell you some events we're doing, with links. We put a ton of work into these, and it shows, because of how dumb and goddamn crazy they are.

Telling my DM I have the premium Paladin battlepass so after I kill 15 more half-orcs my character will unlock the Peppa Pig (TM) "Daddy Pigadin" skin complete with radial impact laughing fall damage and custom voice pack.

Especially enjoying watching the dingalings at the 4Pillar thing make an AI do a little shuck and jive dance equivocation "the truth is never black and white" routine around Nazis like Barker and sexpests like all the ones you would expect. That's gonna go over great for them long term, I bet.

Man this is a bad ad. Like what the hell does "no memorizing" mean? Does it mean you don't have to memorize anything, or does it mean you're not allowed to somehow? The vast majority of games don't actually force you to memorize anything, that's why they come in convenient tools we call "books."

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Man this is a bad ad. Like what the hell does "no memorizing" mean? Does it mean you don't have to memorize anything, or does it mean you're not allowed to somehow? The vast majority of games don't actually force you to memorize anything, that's why they come in convenient tools we call "books."

How does one enforce no rules-lawyering? Would enforcing it be rules-lawyering? Could the G.O.D. (Game Operations Director from Haven, other option was Nobilis' Hollyhock God, fuck yeah) create a rule so lawyery even they couldn't lawyer it?

No calculating! My attack does some damage. How much? I dunno, some. Don't ask me to calculate, because A) I'm not supposed to remember book stuff, and B) asking me to engage with the rules is rules-lawyering.

RPG title length and degree of poetic nature is inversely proportionate to page count. A zine may be called "We are But God's Worms in this Dessicated Railyard." A game over 400 pages should be called "Fantasy RPG."

Bad news everyone, Disney has shockingly cut our license access. Now I guess no one gets to see the exactly one thousand and one immaculate pages of "Stand around the main areas spamming A/S/L in chat between little minigames" rules we had written. Frankly it's your fault.

System Mastery@systemmastery.bsky.social

Good news everyone, we just acquired the Club Penguin RPG license! Now I know your first question and yes, we have detailed rules for the penguins disemboweling each other with filthy sawblades.

Good news everyone, we just acquired the Club Penguin RPG license! Now I know your first question and yes, we have detailed rules for the penguins disemboweling each other with filthy sawblades.

It's funny because I full agree with this but it feels like the same forces in reverse in comics. You get neat development and cool new characters and stories until they replace the lead writer, and they invariably go "fuck all this what if Hal Jordan met Abin Sur and then had to fight Sinestro."

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I think it's obvious that the problem is they've hired the wrong Jon Taylor from the internet's nerd spheres. We have a solution ready for the Neopet people when they are ready to hear it.

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Episode corrections: DBZ RPG used Fuzion and not tri-stat, I should have remembered it as the game where my bonus character was Hot Noodles We did cover BESM but like so long ago that I have genuinely no recollection of that. It's me Jef though so that could honestly be yesterday.