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Happy derangement

2004-09-27 doycet Links & Resources

Johnny The Homicidal Maniac : Director’s Cut Mayhem and violence rule in this collection of issues one through seven Johnny

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Coding stuff

2004-09-24 doycet Links & Resources 3 comments

I’ve set up a few tweaks, which amount to combining the Random Encounters blog into the RandomWiki front page, using

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Graph-ical

2004-09-17 doycet Links & Resources

Via Dave, Downloadable PDFs of different sorts of graph paper. Squares, hexes, points, metric, kilt-plaid patterns… sweet.

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WorldWideGaming

2004-09-15 doycet Links & Resources

Dave and I got linked from… Portugal? Pretty cool, regardless. Registos das Sess?es – Vantagens e Dificuldades – Roleplay, Lda

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Sidekicks

2004-09-03 doycet Links & Resources One comment

Game Dream 12: Onward, Jeeves! In my current DnD campaign, NPC companions make little or no impression on the game

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“Dogs” Kudos

2004-09-03 doycet Links & Resources 2 comments

DitV is Jonathan Tweet’s ‘Best Game of GenCon for 2004. I almost didn’t pick Dogs because I didn’t want a

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Nice Supers Campaign set up.

2004-09-02 doycet Links & Resources One comment

At the coincidentally-named Random Encounters blog. Take 3 parts Neon Genesis Evangelion, 2 parts Incredible Hulk, 1 Part Delta Green,

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DitV

2004-09-02 doycet Links & Resources One comment

Good thread about Dogs in the Vineyard over here at RPG.net. Will update with excerpts as quotes as I read

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Brotha, I feel your pain

2004-09-01 doycet Links & Resources

this thread: There was once a time, not so long ago, when I was enjoying the outside, seeing friends, going

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Grist

2004-09-01 doycet Links & Resources

X-Com: Tactical — X-com as a table-top strategy game, with downloadable/printable map tiles. Hmmmmmm. (Also, XCom UFO creators strategy game:

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Twist and turn

2004-08-30 doycet Links & Resources One comment

The Upsidedown Map Page It came as a surprise to me after over 20 years of seeing “normal” world maps

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Calendar goodness

2004-08-05 doycet Links & Resources 3 comments

Updated the Game Calendar software and am VERY HAPPY to report: a) The glitchy things that’ve been happening recently when

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Brilliant

2004-08-03 doycet Links & Resources 2 comments

In a Gaming with Minatures thread on the Forge, Mike Holmes described a recent minis game with his three-year old

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For the over-powered wuxia/manga kung-fu game session near you…

2004-07-30 doycet Links & Resources

Fighting Video Game Move Generator “Sideways Knifehand Bazooka!”

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“What do you think about people who play Dungeons and Dragons?”

2004-07-22 doycet Links & Resources

?ber Goober – A Film about Gamers I’ve heard its kind of a decent/cute film, and while it shows gamers

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Mmm… glasses.

2004-07-20 doycet Links & Resources

Librarians are SEXY: a good jumping-off point for finding a decent pix for Shannon O’Neil in the Sorcerer game, it’s

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Sweet Unicorn Lovin’

2004-07-07 doycet Links & Resources 2 comments

The Next Ambercon T?

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Another category of annoying GM

2004-06-15 doycet Links & Resources One comment

RPG.net introduces the term Pixelbitching I call it the ‘Clickable Pixel’ style of GMing, after various computer games. Basically, you’re

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Real life reflecting in the game

2004-06-04 doycet Links & Resources

What’s funny is that Dave’s Ken Osato (in my Sorcerer game) is approaching the ‘annoyance’ of his recently rescued girlfriend

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WikiRSS

2004-06-03 doycet Links & Resources One comment

For those using an RSS aggregator (*coff*FeedDemon*coff*) and want to track my game wiki stuff, plug this feed into your

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Link for Randy

2004-06-02 doycet Links & Resources One comment

Diceless Risus: the pretentious edition Don’t look at me — it’s the author’s name for it. It needs a pool

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Grade School Sorcerers

2004-05-26 doycet Links & Resources 4 comments

I’m gonna run this. Brace yourselves. You know that little boy sleeping in other bed isn’t really your brother. Ever

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Pulpy Goodness

2004-05-24 doycet Links & Resources One comment

SeedWiki-PulpProject1557: The Collaberative Repository of Pulp Information for Pulp RPG GMs and Players

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Reading list for the Fall Semester…

2004-05-24 doycet Links & Resources

John Kim’s Styles of Roleplaying Page

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Wiki and the Perfect Campaign Trip

2004-05-22 doycet Links & Resources

Inspired by the fictional Wiki and the Perfect Camping Trip, I’m prompted toward something similar but only semi-fictional to illustrate

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Dis not the wiki

2004-05-20 doycet Links & Resources 3 comments

The difference between blog and wiki and why wiki rawks. Today I was thinking “I should put up a link

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RandomWiki Update

2004-05-19 doycet Links & Resources One comment

Wicked Sorcerer HomePage, in which I collect scads of rules clarification for… you guessed it… Sorcerer — is now up

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Applying the Theory

2004-05-13 doycet Links & Resources

There’s an old quote from Carrie Fischer, speaking to Lucas about his approach to dialogue during the filming of Star

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Game your way to riches a moderate second income.

2004-05-12 doycet Links & Resources 2 comments

A really interesting article about the real economy that grew up around the false economy of Everquest: Game Theories. As

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Words Mean Things

2004-05-11 doycet Links & Resources 8 comments

The Forge :: The Provisional Glossary — a definition of terms used on the Forge. My goal, as I stated

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

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"Let's try out the combat system," they said.
"What could go wrong?" they said...


2026 05 26
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
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