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Category: Table Top

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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Story Games for Everybody – Shadows Over Camelot

2009-04-23 doycet Scheduling, Table Top One comment

Kate picked up Shadows Over Camelot for me this week, which is a game I’ve desperately wanted every since I

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Heck yes I’m preordering it.

2009-04-06 doycet Links & Resources, Table Top One comment

Leonard Balsera talks about Swashbucklers of the Seven Skies. It’s The Three Musketeers meets The Princess Bride meets pre-mecha Final

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Birthday presents for nerds

2009-02-12 doycet D20

From a GChat with the DM in my once-a-month DnD game: 12:59 PM Dale: Congratulations: your character gets 175 xp

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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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Amber Diceless doesn’t make the “Bucket List”?

2008-11-21 doycet Diceless, Musing One comment

Related to my previous post, a spin-off discussion about why Amber Diceless doesn’t make some people’s top-12 list. I contribute

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d20 update (and a bit of a rant at the end)

2008-08-26 doycet D20, Musing 3 comments

I feel weird using ‘d20’ to refer to a game of Dungeons and Dragons 4.0, as the game is fundamentally

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Patch 4.1 out for DnD

2008-07-21 doycet D20, Links & Resources 2 comments

Okay, not a patch, but people make the DnD = MMORPG comparison so much, I figured one more tired joke

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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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To my gamer-homies that don’t live within 10 minutes of me…

2008-07-14 doycet Musing, Scheduling, Table Top 2 comments

I’m seriously thinking about this camera (thirty bucks, so… less than a tank of gas), plus Skype (free), for in-home

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Hacking the DnD Action Point rules

2008-07-07 doycet D20, Game Design 9 comments

So I looked over the various gaming threads that had come out of discussions of Action Points and how they

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The One Where He Totally Geeked Out Like a Mid-1980s Gamer Nerd ((Hacking DnD 4 into Lord of the Rings))

2008-07-01 doycet D20, Game Design, MMO & Computers, Musing, Table Top One comment

I noticed early on that LotRO’s main conceit about their “Health Bar” really really works in DnD 4th with regards

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DnD Skill Challenges

2008-06-25 doycet D20, Musing 3 comments

Skill Challenges are a new wrinkle in DnD skill use that aim to make said skills use… well, more interesting.

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DnD “DM” Reference Screen

2008-06-24 doycet D20, Links & Resources One comment

In Flash, hosted here, and thus accessible anywhere. Because I am a nerd with a few minutes free time.

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DnD errata

2008-06-24 doycet D20, Links & Resources

*WotC’s official D&D 4e errata *enworld’s unofficial D&D 4e errata

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“Keys” for DnD

2008-06-24 doycet D20, Musing 3 comments

For a longer-term DnD game, I am seriously considering using something like the experience point system in The Shadow of

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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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Dealing with the whiff-factor in DnD

2008-06-23 doycet D20, Musing 3 comments

Played some DnD last night. It was good. I will talk about that more in a bit, but for now,

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OM Freakin’ G: The DnD 4.0 game with the seven-year old got even more awesome.

2008-06-09 doycet D20, Links & Resources

You haven’t been keeping up with the exploits of D and his dad Tony? Why on earth not? Go here.

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Watching the 4.0 DnD release

2008-06-09 doycet D20, Musing 2 comments

… is a fascinating kind of car-crash voyeurism. Lots of folks into gaming have never really tried anything outside of

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Learn about DnD 4.0 with some cool, funny guys.

2008-06-06 doycet D20, Links & Resources One comment

Okay, so here’s what happened. Tycho and Gabriel from Penny Arcade, plus Scott Kurtz from PvP, got together with one

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For the nerd on your Father’s Day list

2008-06-03 doycet D20, Links & Resources, Musing 3 comments

Dungeons and Dragons, 4th Edition. I’m sorry, I’m just hearing too much good stuff about it. The indie roleplaying community

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“I kick it (old school) for 1d6+2 damage.”

2008-05-27 doycet Musing, Table Top One comment

So a few weeks ago, I was poking through an old chest of junk from high school and found something

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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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Nobilis, renewed.

2008-03-03 doycet Diceless, Nobilis One comment

(Via Story Games:) Rebecca Borgstrom has released “Unlikely Flowerings”, the first part of the long-awaited Society of Flowers supplement for

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Week in Review

2008-02-25 doycet MMO & Computers, Table Top

Not a ton to say, really. Kate might disagree, but it doesn’t feel as though a lot’s been going on

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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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“Let’s not create a WoW-widow before we even get married, hmm?”

2008-02-21 doycet MMO & Computers, Musing, Scheduling, Table Top

… or, to be fair, a Gaming-widow in general. I’ve been giving my Google-calendar a workout for the last couple

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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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Galactic: characters and everything else

2007-11-14 doycet Table Top 2 comments

So, this part is going to be very sketchy. For more information on the characters, the setting, the worlds, and

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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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