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2003-12-29 doycet Game Design

Perverse Access Memory: WISH 78: Two Characters, One Game Do you think allowing one player to play more than one

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Updates

2003-12-23 doycet Links & Resources 3 comments

In an effort to knock the creative rust off my brain, I’m participating in the creation of the OceanOfStoriesWiki –

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“Still… not as scary…”

2003-12-22 doycet Nobilis 2 comments

The creator of Nobilis, reinventing the ecosystem of the world’s oceans on Hitherby Dragons. The ocean should be made of

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What more need be said?

2003-12-15 doycet Links & Resources 2 comments

GURPS Vorkosigan

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The technology of game scheduling

2003-12-15 doycet Links & Resources 4 comments

Thanks to Dave noticing that, once again, Hosting Matters provides both top-notch support and the coolest toys, I’ve been able

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Cool

2003-12-12 doycet Game Design 2 comments

Timeline Tool. Online.

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The beginning of the end of the beginning…

2003-12-11 doycet D20 4 comments

So I wrapped up the OA campaign last Friday night with the the most unwrap-uppy wrap-up I’ve ever done. Let’s

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Precious goodness

2003-12-08 doycet Links & Resources

R. Sean Borstrom at Hitherby Dragons explains the dancing pope army: The Vatican forces will also clean your floors. They’re

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Giving up the linky love

2003-12-08 doycet Links & Resources

Props to OgreCave.com, which is a really good unplugged gaming site. Of recent note: the Christmas Gift Guide for Gamers

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Stepping into other shoes

2003-12-07 doycet Nobilis 2 comments

After some thoughts provoked by the posts here and here, I opted to eschew the turn timer for the Nobilis

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Schedule through February

2003-12-04 doycet Scheduling

You people make the mistake of asking me to work out a schedule, then this is what you get. (Though

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[Insert “Huzzah” and “It must be mine!” here]

2003-12-01 doycet Links & Resources 3 comments

Dork Tower, the Game Heh. Dunno if it can compare to the freebie goodness that is Dave’s copy of Dork

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PBeMs for the masses

2003-11-25 doycet Game Design

WISH 30: Is PBeM Roleplaying? Are PBeM (Play-by-email) games actually roleplaying? Why or why not? How does PBeM differ from

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Nifty

2003-11-24 doycet Links & Resources

A Nobilis chancel-making tool.

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“Discuss.”

2003-11-24 doycet Links & Resources

The 20′ By 20′ Room Roleplaying games are really interesting. From that sentence, all else flows. Roleplaying games are interesting,

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Fight the power

2003-11-24 doycet Links & Resources One comment

Mike Sullivan: Magipunk, v 2.0 — great stuff. Something that would be fun to play with/in.

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Yes, Mother

2003-11-23 doycet Game Design

Monday Mashup #17: Psycho Hmm. I think I’d got with My Life with Master on this one, simply because I’ve

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Hello, Clarice

2003-11-23 doycet Game Design, Nobilis One comment

I’ve got some catching up to do… Monday Mashup #13: Silence of the Lambs I’m combining this with Nobilis. Lecter

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Changing the world

2003-11-23 doycet Game Design One comment

WISH 73: Player-Driven Shifts What’s the biggest PC-driven shift you’ve ever experienced in a campaign? If you were a player,

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The life of the NPC

2003-11-23 doycet Game Design

WISH 71: Unwritten NPCs For GMs : when you plan or play your NPCs, do you intentionally leave out some

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Butterfinger, we barely knew yah…

2003-11-23 doycet Game Design One comment

WISH 72: Character Interruptus Talk about a few characters you had to stop playing before their stories felt finished. Where

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Human Time Line, Inc.

2003-11-17 doycet Links & Resources

Don’t want to shell out for the Pyramid subscription so you can check out the latest acid trip from Ken

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Via Ginger

2003-11-17 doycet Links & Resources

The Fantastic in Art and Fiction

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One of those times I wish it was easy to cross-post to several of my blogs

2003-11-07 doycet Links & Resources One comment

Entrances to Hell in the UK, updated fairly frequently, and complete with site history, maps, and photos. Great stuff and

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Pondering the flow

2003-11-04 doycet Game Design, Nobilis 6 comments

So, we’ve had a few players cross-over from one Nobilis game group to the other now, and someone asked one

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Ping

2003-10-30 doycet Game Design One comment

Halloween tomorrow night — some folks are coming over and I think I’ll run a one-shot for something or other.

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Update

2003-10-26 doycet Links & Resources One comment

After this post, this page will ping as http://random.average-bear.com

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I’m never want to run a game where I can’t use this story somehow

2003-10-24 doycet Game Design One comment

A one-year-old boy has been bitten 30 times by a group of more than a dozen other babies at a

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Updated shedule

2003-10-22 doycet Scheduling One comment

Current schedule, through November Oct 25, Saturday: Chrysalis C (Presuming Dave and Margie can get away in the later afternoon.)

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‘The Golden What?’

2003-10-19 doycet Game Design 14 comments

Things go awry in discussing a one-shot JL supers game with Randy on the phone. [Warning, mention of sexual paraphenalia

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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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