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Category: Table Top

So let’s talk about Galactic.

2007-11-14 doycet Table Top

Then Isabel, seeing before all others that the Scourge would indeed be the end of Humanity, did gather up the

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Galactic: good for the brain, bad for the eyes

2007-11-13 doycet Actual Play, Table Top One comment

I was going to write up a post about the character/universe generation for the Galactic game from this weekend (a

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Week in Review

2007-10-29 doycet Actual Play, MMO & Computers, Table Top

So here’s what’s been going on. Face to Face Ran a murder mystery for the most recent Spirit of the

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[SotC/Fate] A Different Take on Phases

2007-10-23 doycet Links & Resources, Musing, Table Top

From one of the game’s author’s a great tweak to the phases in SotC character generation to move away from

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Zombies at(e) the Homecoming Dance

2007-10-18 doycet Actual Play, Table Top

Caught up by the desire to play a little wacky horror roleplaying in the middle of the week, I got

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Playing to win

2007-10-15 doycet Actual Play, MMO & Computers, Table Top One comment

I actually had two points for my “serious gamer” post, but the thing was getting too long, so here’s the

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Casual/Hardcore vs. the Serious Gamer

2007-10-15 doycet MMO & Computers, Musing, Table Top 4 comments

Okay. This is going to seem like it has a lot to do with MMO gaming, but at it’s heart

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Gaming in review

2007-10-08 doycet Actual Play, MMO & Computers, Table Top 6 comments

A mix of gaming this weekend. ((Blogging bitching: it really should be possible to just hit Ctrl-B in Moveabletype to

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Week in Review

2007-07-31 doycet Actual Play, MMO & Computers, Table Top 6 comments

Tabletop Played a little Spirit of the Century this last weekend. It wasn’t the session I’d dreamed up for the

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Hmm

2007-06-19 doycet Nobilis 3 comments

I think, assuming that Birdwell Island is a Chancel (which is clearly is, otherwise all the mortals would have gone

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“Now a regular weekly publication!”

2007-06-12 doycet Scheduling, Table Top 4 comments

It’s a Spirit of the Century-palooza. First, we had a character generation shindig down at Lee and De’s for Nine

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Hell did not freeze over, but it did get a little brisk down there.

2007-06-10 doycet Table Top One comment

So I went down to Lee and De’s yesterday and, with Randy, Meera, and Kingsley, made up characters for a

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Mortal Coil

2007-03-19 doycet Diceless, Links & Resources 2 comments

This weekend, Kate’s in town and I wanted to have a social kind of gaming thing — while both she

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In other news.

2006-02-20 doycet Table Top

Heroquest, Spring Fountain, this Friday … umm soon. Woo? 🙂

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Face to face gaming? People do that?

2006-01-05 doycet Table Top

Potentially running two face to face games this coming week while Aaron and Kate are at the Casa: Ancient China.

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Very Sad

2005-10-28 doycet Nobilis 2 comments

Went looking for the the Nobilis “Lexicon” projects today. They seem to have vanished.

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Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.

2005-01-21 doycet Table Top One comment

Stan, if you get this before you’re off to Hackmaster, call me. We’re attempting an uncancellation.

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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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Weekend in gaming

2004-10-04 doycet Table Top

Friday: Played InSpectres, in which our heros (a hooker, an ex-mormon mechanic, a fringe-fringe-FRINGE scientist, and a cold-war MI-5 operative

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Nobilis pre-post-mortem

2004-09-07 doycet Nobilis 4 comments

Let’s say you get into a book club. It’s a pretty interesting set up, where you get a tremendous number

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Braaaaaiiiinsss

2004-08-30 doycet Table Top One comment

Dirty little gaming secret: I love undead. Stumbling hordes of zombies, lightning-quick skeletons — it’s all good. Shawn of the

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Site notice

2004-07-02 doycet Diceless

The CryHavoc ADRPG archives, formerly at http://average-bear.com/cryhavoc are now located on the GM’s domain: http://nineblackdoves.com/cryhavoc/.

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Analyzing the last few sessions

2004-06-29 doycet D20

It is something of an irony that the players in my d20 game have been so interested and involved and

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Cool.

2004-04-11 doycet D20

You can get a pretty cool player-driven narrative out of 3e play. See here.

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Narrative d20?

2004-04-07 doycet D20 3 comments

I’ve heard a lot of interesting stuff about the new Conan RPG from Mongoose publishing — that it gives players

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‘Scuse me while I gush

2004-03-16 doycet Nobilis One comment

In the history of Nobilis, the first 20th century was different. So were the 400 wondrous years after that, but

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d20 skill-check hack

2004-03-13 doycet D20 5 comments

As noted here: Where d20 breaks down is when it shifts to non-combat rolls where the entire task (skill) is

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d20 vs. the Dice Pool… or is it?

2004-03-10 doycet D20 2 comments

Overheard on The Forge :: d20 vs. 3d6, regarding “linear curves”. D20 combat is really a die pool system (rolling

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Greedy

2004-03-07 doycet D20 One comment

One of the things I said in the comments on this post regarded the way that d20 (or some other

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The Plot Point

2004-03-07 doycet Nobilis

A few weeks ago, Dave commented that we’ve been at this Nobilis thing for ‘about a year’. I believe my

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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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