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A comforting thought

2005-01-14 doycet Musing One comment

I have, on two seperate occassions this week, been distracted from playing City of Heroes to the point where I

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CoH post, #3

2005-01-14 doycet MMO & Computers

Live in fear: Jackie has a character on City of Heroes. Shadow.Cat is a Dark Melee/Invul Scrapper and quite a

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By comparison, I’m quite well-adjusted.

2005-01-11 doycet MMO & Computers 3 comments

Here’s a post from the main CoH Livejournal group: I’m in Costa Maya on my honeymoon… so can someone post

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Your Setting in HQ

2005-01-06 doycet Links & Resources One comment

The Forge :: What is it About the HQ Rules and Bringing Out Setting? A discussion of the recurring theme

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CoH post, #2

2005-01-05 doycet MMO & Computers 4 comments

Well, it’s been about ten days since I picked up City of Heroes, the superhero-genre multiplayer online RPG — a

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CoH entry #1

2005-01-04 doycet MMO & Computers

City of Heroes Expansion Issue #3: A Council of War What I’m already loving about the CoH updates is that

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Link of the Now

2004-12-30 doycet Links & Resources

RPGnet Forums – [Prime Time Adventures] Let’s pitch some shows

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Prison pictures

2004-12-22 doycet Links & Resources

Mirrors These images are based on a group of about two hundred 3×4″ identification photographs made between 1914 and 1937

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Heroquest, Spring Fountain: 1

2004-12-20 doycet Actual Play 7 comments

On Friday, the group for whom I normally GM DnD got together to play Heroquest. I’ve been nudging at the

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Glossary

2004-12-17 doycet Links & Resources 4 comments

Well, for those of you interested in such things, you’ll remember me discussing “Forge terminology” off and on here; like

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FATE scores a cool deal.

2004-12-16 doycet Links & Resources One comment

The guys with the FATE RPG just sealed the deal to write a The Dresden Files RPG. Mucho congrats.

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Mythic Space Opera

2004-12-16 doycet Links & Resources 3 comments

I’ve played a lot of Star Wars. Let’s get that fact out of the way right now. I played the

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Whoa

2004-12-15 doycet Table Top 2 comments

Prep for the Heroquest game has generated 105 emails in ten days, between me and five players. Upside: very damn

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Heroquest, the test run

2004-12-13 doycet Actual Play 4 comments

Well, it was a slow weekend around the casa, so when Randy called up to see what we were doing

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Recognition

2004-12-10 doycet Musing

You know what’s cool? What’s cool is when you get a new game in the mail, especially when it’s something

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Toys. Cheap.

2004-12-10 doycet Links & Resources One comment

RPG Shop: Dungeons and Dragons Miniatures Painted, plastic miniatures. Usually very cheap. Just the thing for picking up a dozen

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More HQ d20 rambling

2004-12-09 doycet Musing 12 comments

One of the things I’m looking forward to in the HQ game with the d20 group is fights and conflicts.

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What to do with that empty seat?

2004-12-09 doycet Musing One comment

Lunchtime Poll #3: Imperfect Attendance How do you cope with the absence of a player, either in a single session

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In Recent Events #3

2004-12-07 doycet Musing 2 comments

“I fear that we have awakened a sleeping giant and filled him with a terrible resolve.” — Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto,

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More d20 -> HQ thoughts

2004-12-06 doycet Musing 8 comments

Another thought from the same thread on the Forge, this one having to do with the idea that characters in

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d20 to HQ gaming conversion

2004-12-06 doycet Musing 2 comments

I’ve got an opportunity coming up to demo Heroquest for the d20 playgroup that’s been running since… oh… pretty much

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Sorcerer, Grimm Therapy, Session Six

2004-12-02 doycet Actual Play One comment

Holy Cow! The anticipated final session actually ended up being the REAL final session! Wow! Okay, I should have done

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Type. Print. Play.

2004-12-01 doycet Links & Resources

Sparks: Paper Miniatures as a Font From the same guy who brought you Risus and other cool stuff. How did

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Child’s play

2004-12-01 doycet Links & Resources

The Forge: Suprise (sic) gaming with a seven-year-old: “I cut off its head,” she said, after making a swipe with

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Writing-Gaming Connection

2004-12-01 doycet Musing

[Wow. Tough to figure out what blog to post this on. I think it goes here by virtue of the

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update on the Dibs that is Kringle in Time

2004-11-30 doycet Links & Resources

A Kringle in Time contains a lot of misbehaving and adult themes and is inappropriate for family gaming unless you

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FYI:

2004-11-23 doycet Links & Resources One comment

A Kringle in Time. Dibs. Player or GM, I don’t care, but dibs.

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Sorcerer, Grimm Therapy, Session 5

2004-11-22 doycet Actual Play

When we last left our heroes… Kermit, Jason, and Nicky were in a knock-down, drag-out brawl with the Big Man

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Via the Forge…

2004-11-10 doycet Links & Resources

“Idea” photos for DitV games. Also… just good photos.

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Generic Heroquest

2004-11-02 doycet Musing One comment

Issaries has already comissioned a “generic” rpg game using the core HeroQuest rules and to be published with several sample

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Session 09 of our co-op playthrough of Ironsworn: Starforged.

We pause long enough to trade supplies with an old and deeply unsettling acquaintance: Anora Talin, a razor-sharp trader with too much insight and no hesitation about using it. What starts as a resupply stop turns into one of the biggest lore sessions of the campaign so far.

In this episode:

- the precursor map/tablet reveals more strange behavior
- Cole’s importance becomes clearer
- secrets about the Balefire and Cobalt Reach emerge
- a new faction concept appears: The Tethered
- Tinker risks deeper contact with the symbiote
- navigation experiments go very, very wrong
- we end with one of our favorite cliffhangers yet

Thanks for watching/listening along with our little corner of space.

2026 04 14
Sometimes, the story tells you it wants to be something else.
Timefoolery finds us once again.

2026 03 10
See the thing is, I called episode six "Crystal Snails", and then I got Vulfmon's Disco Snails stuck in my head, and then this happened. I'm so sorry.

I'm sorry if you've never heard of Disco Snails.
I'm sorry if you HAVE heard of Disco Snails.
Mostly, I'm sorry to Vulfmon.

Inside every snail shell is a tiny glowing gastropod
Precursors might be dead, or fled: transcended into spacey gods
But here they left behind these shiny slimy buggy bodies
These super freaky guards will slime and kill you as a hobby

Crystal snails, they’re on the walls and closing in on you with glowing trails
Their slime is poison that will make your nervous system FLAIL
They crawl into your suit and lick your face until you fail
To breathe! Because you cannot fight these snails

[Chorus]
Crystal what?
Crystal snails, they'rе leaving deadly trails
Crystal wherе?
Current position's in your engine
Crystal how?
They're on your ship, they've got the Drip
Crystal why?
They’re not ill-willers, they’re just killers.

There's bodies in the airlock, for the snails are on the loose
Watch your step, they're only one inch tall and they crawl right at you
They've synthesize deadly toxins up in their buggy bodies
This downright funkadelic bunch have come to start the party (P-p-p-party)

Crystal snails, they’re on the walls and closing in on you with glowing trails
Their slime is poison that will make your nervous system FLAIL
They crawl into your suit and lick your face until you fail
To breathe! Because you cannot fight these snails

[Chorus]
Crystal what?
Crystal snails, they'rе leaving deadly trails
Crystal wherе?
Current position's in your engine
Crystal how?
They're on your ship, they've got the Drip
Crystal why?
They’re not ill-willers, they’re just killers.

[Chorus]
Crystal what?
Crystal snails, they'rе leaving deadly trails
Crystal wherе?
Their location? In your station
Crystal how?
They're on your ship, they've got the Drip
Crystal why?
They’re not ill-willers, they’re just killers.
(With apologies to Vulfmon.)

Inside every snail shell is a tiny glowing gastropod
Precursors might be dead, or fled: transcended into spacey gods
But here they left behind these shiny slimy buggy bodies
These super freaky guards will slime and kill you as a hobby

Crystal snails, they’re on the walls and closing in on you with glowing trails
Their slime is poison that will make your nervous system fail
They crawl into your suit and lick your face until you fail
To breathe! Because you cannot fight these snails

[Chorus]
Crystal what?
Crystal snails, they'rе leaving deadly trails
Crystal wherе?
Current position's in your engine
Crystal how?
They're on your ship, they've got the Drip
Crystal why?
They're not ill-willer, they're just killers...

2026 03 03
Tinker and Quin engage in a time-honored spacer tradition (drinking and conspiracy theories) followed by another time-honored ironsworn tradition (fighting for your life).

2026 02 24 timebolted
We meet Quintin's daughter, and then head out on our main mission. Both of these go exactly as we expected, as usual.

2026 02 17

Music by Kevin MacLeod. Intro by kleber-kgf.
This game, man... this game....

A few notes: the audio is still uneven. I tried a few things, but I need to try a few more. Stay with us and I'll get it sorted, I promise.

2026 02 13
Kiri's symbiote saves him... from something, or for something?
Quinn pulls on the strings trailing from everyone on Providence Station.

2026 02 03
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