System Mastery

I'll say it, I liked our Cosmic Century Knights character and want to play that game some more. The people demand more Annulus.

Well that's good at least. I figured this episode would summon a lot of podcast ghosts! It's weird how British broad comedy shows are outside both our wheelhouses but we both religiously watch like QI, Big Fat Quiz, Would You Lie To Me, etc.

Go for it! We're not Red Dwarf experts after all. I think we might have even pronounced GELF wrong.

I dunno, I think I should get extra pedantry points for wading in on some show I openly don't watch. I have no context, only annoying facts.

Sorcerer in AD&D 1e meant "Level 9 Magic-User." I haven't watched Stranger Things past season 2 but I have memorized the leveling chart tables of AD&D.

Probably for the best some of their games have jokes in them.

This might be the year where I finally have to fess up that the eighth reindeer is named Blitzen and not Fartin.

Thanks! Best of intentions all round.

That's our actual book, as far as I can tell she's just giving us free ad copy!

PF2e really isn't that similar to 4e. What's happening is that 5e was so crappy and regressive all at once that we now think stuff like "Thinking about organization in advance of writing the book" and "tagging stuff for ease of use" are hallmarks of 4e design and not just regular good RPG ideas.

I just want Muppet Drunk History where the Muppets are the drunks on the couch, and the only humans are Derek and the reenactors.

No but thankfully this outfit really exists for the Halloween for grownups Dragoncon

We know you've got a choice in heroes this Halloween. Thanks for going Gold.

Guy's really leading the charge in inspiring new Bad Religion songs.

Oh also I know it's an annoying ask but if you do buy it anywhere we could really use a few reviews. They're super important to the process!

And here's a link: a.co/d/9XCOFlu

We've got a new book dropping today! It's the second edition of our Dungeonmeister cocktail book, now with mocktails and a bunch of new recipes! A perfect gift for anyone that consumes fluids.

Well everything else is awful but at least the left has reclaimed frog imagery.

SUMMON NEW ELDER GODS NYCC Panel and Signing featuring James D'Amato, Jef Aldrich, and Jon Taylor Saturday, October 11th 11:00 AM 1E Comm Stage Book signing at 12 PM, Hall 1A Tables 39-48

I totally forgot the bananas panel we are doing at NYCC this year.

To fit the horror theme for the show, @systemmastery.bsky.social @gurglespasm.bsky.social and I are going to do a Worldbuilding panel where we create new elder gods and then perform a ritual to summon one.

Taking a seven year old on any walk is the exact same experience as an old MMO escort quest. They walk painfully slowly and every fifteen seconds you realize you lost sight of them because they pathed into an enemy encampment (stall that sells $27 bubble wands).

At the very end they say drivethru RPG is handling printing and all so that's the best we know.

Grint

Tiny Mall Wizards! An RPG of little wizards on big adventures in a contemporary mall! Borrowers inspired! Go nuts and cause chaos in the food court, right here on Itch!: GreenIntern.itch.io

Joust! by jmarv334 Rules for joustinf in fantasy and modern settings

Joust! 50 pages of system agostic (it helps if your game uses a D20) rules for jousting in both fantasy and modern settings, now on itch!: jmarv334.itch.io/joust

And how about some Announcement Masteries! Go support these folks, they've been infinitely patient with me holding up the line on production, and their work on itch is super cool.

System Mastery 311 – Tales from the Floating Vagabond 2e, Part 2 System Mastery 311 – Tales from the Floating Vagabond 2e, Part 2 Sorry it’s been a while friends! This episode is special and it took some work to get it working. We’re interviewi…

Episode 311 - Tales from the Floating Vagabond 2e, Part 2

In this one we're interviewing Kira Woodmansee and Sean Ellis, a pair of folks from the Tales from the Floating Vagabond team. Because we felt like it.
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Hi everyone! Sorry the episode was late! Jef (me!) has been going through a lot of family stuff recently and it's been tough, but hey, who isn't going through tough stuff right now, right? Anyway, I'm posting the episodes again here tonight, and I'm gonna try harder to keep doing that later, too.

You should really have us on to play it some time. One of us would be happy to run it. It's good shit.

Yes, dude. Absolutely. Sentinels. I could talk about it forever and intend to.

Here's an Amazon link! It'll be out in time for holiday gift giving! a.co/d/0ASRqCp

Wild that we wrote a book that did well enough they let us make another edition of it but here we are. Dungeonmeister Expanded! Available for preorder wherever books are sold, releasing September 28! A whole new chapter of alcohol-free recipes and several more new drinks besides!