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Category: Actual Play

Danger Patrol: Zombie Kong and Plan 8 from Planet X

2009-09-24 doycet Actual Play 2 comments

Two of the players couldn’t make it to our PTA game last night, and since they were our spotlight character

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Mouse Guard: The River at Elmoss, and making players cry

2009-09-22 doycet Actual Play, Musing, Nobilis, Scheduling, Table Top 2 comments

Got a chance to go back and play some Mouse Guard this weekend with Dave and Margie and Kate and

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Min-Maxing Fun

2009-09-03 doycet Actual Play, Musing 12 comments

Entirely unrelated to this post here -> over on storygames, they’re kind of talking about the same sort of thing

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“This ends in Mud.”

2009-08-13 doycet Actual Play, Scheduling, Table Top One comment

((The title of this session is a tongue-in-cheek tribute to the finest, most awesome line in the new Mouse Guard

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[3:16] Actual Play: Reptiloid Chameleon Tricksters in the Goya Asteroid Belt — no way were those actual troopers.

2009-07-16 doycet Actual Play, Table Top 2 comments

So the player of this episode’s spotlight character didn’t show up for PTA last night (Khaaaaan!), I suddenly needed to

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LotRO – a set on Flickr

2009-07-08 doycet Actual Play, MMO & Computers

Kate and I have taken all the screenshots from the last two years of playing LotRO and put them up

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Optimizing my free time

2009-06-29 doycet Actual Play, D20, Musing, Scheduling, Table Top One comment

I don’t have anything against DnD 4e. In my opinion, it’s a big step up – a real evolution –

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Still making a hobbit of it.

2009-06-29 doycet Actual Play, MMO & Computers 2 comments

Kate and I started playing Lord of the Rings Online about two years ago.  I’m only aware of this because,

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LotRO: They can rebuild it. Better, stronger, faster, and dude… way f@*#ing cooler.

2009-06-24 doycet Actual Play, MMO & Computers 10 comments

As I mentioned on my other blog, Kate and I decided a week or so ago to try out some

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Making PTA work – hooray

2009-06-18 doycet Actual Play, Musing 4 comments

Played another session of Primetime Adventures last night – our Ironwall series.  There will be a summary of events from

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Our first Mouse Guard session: “Not much use as a postmouse” and “A New Route to Ivydale”

2009-06-15 doycet Actual Play, Links & Resources 14 comments

Wow, I kind of screwed some things up in the first session, but we had a lot of fun anyway.

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More Mouse Guard

2009-06-08 doycet Actual Play 2 comments

I’ve already talked about my current enjoyment of the Mouse Guard RPG, or at least the game-in-concept, as I hadn’t

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We got our butts kicked by Shadows over Camelot, and it was excellent.

2009-04-27 doycet Actual Play, Scheduling, Table Top 7 comments

As I’ve said before, I’ve wanted to play Shadows Over Camelot for quite a long time. Two and a half

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Why I wouldn’t use IAWA to run Amber (at least not with Amber players)

2009-04-23 doycet Actual Play, Diceless, Game Design, Musing, Nobilis, Scheduling, Table Top 11 comments

Wednesday night rolled around, and we were set to play In a Wicked Age. This was going to be my

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A review of my recent gaming, via pictures.

2009-02-02 doycet Actual Play, MMO & Computers, Table Top One comment

Interpret as you see fit. MMO: Lord of the Rings Online That would be Geiri, Tiranor, and our new friend,

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Don’t Rest Your Head: All Your Dreams, Remembered

2009-01-20 doycet Actual Play One comment

Last week, I had a chance to run Don’t Rest Your Head, a game by Fred Hicks of FATE and

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Gaming recap and the dangers of a character concept

2008-12-29 doycet Actual Play, MMO & Computers, Musing 2 comments

Not a lot of gaming going on, but what there was is worth a comment or two. MMOs My MMO

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Week in Review

2008-07-21 doycet Actual Play, MMO & Computers One comment

Hmm. Let’s see what was going on. In general I haven’t been feeling very well. I haven’t been sleeping well

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Gaming Update

2008-07-14 doycet Actual Play, MMO & Computers, Table Top One comment

Haven’t done one of these in awhile, mostly because I’d been updating WoW and LotRO play stuff using Twitter. However,

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Actual Play: Keep on the Shadowfells, Session One

2008-06-23 doycet Actual Play, D20 6 comments

As I mentioned, had a chance to play the first couple events in the sort of “DnD 4th Edition Lite”

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In a Wicked Age

2008-05-27 doycet Actual Play, Table Top 2 comments

So I’ve mentioned this game a couple times on the site, but haven’t really gotten into the game that much

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No, there haven’t been a lot of updates

2008-04-24 doycet Actual Play, MMO & Computers 2 comments

… that’s largely because there hasn’t been a lot of gaming going on. Sometime last month, Dave ran a session

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“All right, you rudimentary-lathe people have gone too far.” (Galactic: introduction and Session One)

2008-02-22 doycet Actual Play, Table Top 3 comments

I’m really not going to be able to do the Galactic game justice with an Actual Play report. First, we’ve

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Week in Review

2008-02-04 doycet Actual Play, MMO & Computers One comment

Tabletop Got everyone together for the third installment of our Galactic semi-playtest this Sunday. Despite horrendous paint fumes and a

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Week in Review

2008-01-23 doycet Actual Play, MMO & Computers, Table Top 2 comments

Just a quickie. MMO: WoW Grezzk This was kind of an exciting week with the guild, as we expanded our

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Week in Review

2008-01-15 doycet Actual Play, MMO & Computers

MMO – WoW Grezzk – level 70 (effective level: 117) Most of my time on Grezzk has been spent on

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Week in Review: Online

2007-12-17 doycet Actual Play, MMO & Computers

Didn’t have any face to face RPG goodness going on this week (and yes, I know I have yet to

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Week in Review

2007-12-10 doycet Actual Play

Tabletop Sunday’s Galactic session (which was the second gaming session, and the third session if you count chargen) was covered

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Week in Review

2007-11-26 doycet Actual Play

This one will be brief. I’ll got into more detail in some following posts. Tabletop: Galactic We played our first

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Week in Review

2007-11-20 doycet Actual Play, MMO & Computers

No face to face gaming this last weekend (pretty much everyone was gone or busy), but a fair bit of

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Mostly actual play from online tabletop games, played on Roll20. Also random other stuff.

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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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