System Mastery

@systemmastery.bsky.social

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

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.

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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.

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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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 · 5mo ago

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."

Foucault's Pudendum@kaitave.bsky.social · 5mo ago

I don't even give that much of a shit about Andor but this is indisputably correct. The problem with Star Wars has nothing to do with "too much Jedi, not enough politics," the problem is when you put people in charge who just want to make the Star Warsiest Star Wars above anything else

I've joked with some folks before that the implosion of the Neopets RPG is their chance to step up and take a shot at it, but it seems like there really IS an opening now since John Taylor of Geekify has been sent to whatever the Neopets equivalent of the Phantom Zone is

Neopets@neopets.bsky.social · 5mo ago

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