Goddamn I love this seventeen question FAQ about why D&D 5.5e is called D&D 5.5e now, especially since all the answers are just like "No" and "Nothing."

Perhaps the ultimate example of the rare "That's real?" type of RPG.

I hate the future but boy do I love the guys getting fired for not realizing shutting up is free.

At what point is an editorial response really just a retraction?

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

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

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

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

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.

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).

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.

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. systemmasterypodcast.com/2025/09/30/s...

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.

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!

Due to unexpected technical difficulties, this week's System Mastery episode is currently delayed. I expect it to go live next week some time. Thanks! Sorry!

Hell yeah! More books coming out everyone! That new version of the Dungeonmeister cocktail guide is gonna be rad! We've got mocktails in there now!

The day is finally here! Please go support Cosmic Century Knights, Homecoming, and Chuck on kickstarter! If you back both CCK and Homecoming you'll recieve Chuck for free, it's such a great deal. Help us grow from hopeful adventurers into legenday heroes!

Hey who wants a bunch of amazing nerdy PDFs for a pay what you want where you're supporting good causes? Because here's your chance! www.humblebundle.com/books/ultima...

And you know? I've gotta give it up to the old standbys I may not listen to all the time but ALWAYS have what I need - Jef & Jon at @systemmastery.bsky.social. That podcast is a literal treasure trove of content for all kinds of systems, but especially ones that never held the public eye for long.

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Lookee what came up at our GM support meeting as a good example of avoiding throwing the usual monsters at players. The random monster generator is so cool. @gurglespasm.bsky.social @systemmastery.bsky.social

We are like with a mystery RPG! Join @systemmastery.bsky.social @gurglespasm.bsky.social and me! Twitch.tv/OneShotRPG

Heroes, tonight is a special, final stream! MYSTERY RPG NIGHT! @oneshotrpg.bsky.social is streaming a game with @systemmastery.bsky.social and @gurglespasm.bsky.social! What game? You'll find out when the stream starts! 9pm EST, twitch.tv/oneshotrpg For Patreon! patreon.com/oneshotpodcast

Took the kid to Chilis today where we figured out her rap name

We are about to rank some fighting game characters based on how horny they are with @hardchoicespodcast.bsky.social @systemmastery.bsky.social @gurglespasm.bsky.social Twitch.tv/OneShotRPG

Indeed! We'll be at Pax U this year, so I believe we'll be in Philly for my birthday.

Hey come look at me get real mad about bad mythology.

In about ten minutes we are going to start building commander decks with @gurglespasm.bsky.social and @systemmastery.bsky.social join us to watch me crack some Final fantasy magic packs! Twitch.tv/OneShotRPG

Team players signing in.

Heroes, you're in for a treat! There are times when one Shot isn't enough, so tonight you get Two Shots! Join @superdillin.bsky.social and @shaghik.bsky.social for a live edition of the Patreon-exclusive talkback! twitch.tv/oneshotrpg in support of patreon.com/oneshotpodcast!

Haha we're in the news now.

It's funny, but like there's a kernel of useful advice in that shit discourse thing, it's just presented as needless vitriol and ivory tower fartsniffery because that's what gets the eyes.

I'm not a game designer. Sorry I don't make the rules.

She call me Unca the way I Scooge.

One of the big names we hadn't quite hit yet! systemmasterypodcast.com/2025/06/11/s...

Goodman Games right now: "I know I start to feel like I made the right moral call right around my fifth time issuing a public statement about the same thing."

You think cooler scientologists shorten thetans to "theets"? All just blasting theets on weekends with the brahs?

Warner Bros. Desperate To Cram Uncut Batman Into Any Available Hole.

I have been waiting for this for forever (not the old nGage game, a Palladium crowdfund that we can take bets on how it inevitably collapses)! www.backerkit.com/call_to_acti...

Check out our latest podcast episode featuring Jef Aldrich & Jon Taylor of the Dungeonmeister series! @thepatedwards.bsky.social @systemmastery.bsky.social @gurglespasm.bsky.social www.storytellersforge.com/blog/st-forg...

We should still get to publish that Duckman RPG though. That's a nostalgic mid-90s IP, totally different.

Remember how much we enjoyed Spectaculars? Well the author is kickstarting a cyberpunk thing so you know we're on board, and honestly you should be too. www.kickstarter.com/projects/scr...

We've monetized our weirdness for you all!

Goodman Games is so disgusted about revelations that they were working with a full-throated bigot that they have no choice but to keep working with him and say "Our children were hurt by this" about it. Gotta republish some old-ass book no one cares about though! Vital apparently!

Hi I'm really sorry our current episode sounds like crap, the raw file somehow saved at a pathetic 8k bitrate, which I set higher than that a long time ago so I'd never have to think about it, so I have no idea why it was briefly set to some Tiger Electronics 1993-ass sludge mix.

Not to get political since it's not our wheelhouse but if people wanted us to actually make the games we make up we'd need to be able to print them somewhere, on something, and pay a fair price to presumably other nations in order to do so. So when commerce is no longer a silly thing to suggest.

Hey hey, this is our 300th episode! Heck yeah buddy! systemmasterypodcast.com/2025/04/16/s...

Haha when we started System Mastery we were all "We'll be perfect for this, we know every weird old game, like Rifts and Marvel Superheroes Roleplaying! Real forgotten crazy ones! Surely there is a bottom to this barrel!"