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Praise

2002-08-21 doycet Diceless 8 comments

Now that I’m done ranting about Diceless stuff, I’ll say this: Mike’s rules for New Mutiny are smart, elegant, clean,

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Coming to a Conclusion

2002-08-19 doycet Game Design 2 comments

I’ve been giving a lot of thought to what I want in a game system; what works for me and

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Obviously, I should not…

2002-08-19 doycet Diceless 3 comments

1.) Play while tired. 2.) Design warfare-characters for a game system whose combat system I despise (a word I chose

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Honey, can you pass me the dice bag?

2002-08-19 doycet Game Design One comment

Turn of a Friendly Die: WISH 9: Significant Others Have you ever gotten a significant other into gaming? Those of

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Session 14

2002-08-13 doycet Actual Play

Star Wars: The Prince of AlderaanThe RimWorld Bacta WarPart VII: “Sometimes the Worm Eats You” Dave Hill12 July 02 After

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Amber Page updates

2002-08-11 doycet Diceless

I’ve finally posted the log of the last TiHE session (the 91st) after thinking I’d lost it. You can read

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Maxims, the Sequel

2002-08-09 doycet Game Design

WISH 8: Maxims, Redux Pick three gaming maxims that other people wrote about and discuss how you think they have

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Maxims

2002-08-05 doycet Game Design 3 comments

WISH 7: Maxims List three or more maxims/proverbs/bits of conventional wisdom/etc. that you’ve learned in your gaming career, and explain

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To whom…

2002-08-05 doycet Links & Resources

Rey has made good on his threat promise to set up the RPGamer Blogs Web Ring. If this is the

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Secret, secret, who’s got a secret?

2002-07-26 doycet Game Design

WISH 6: Secrets Sometimes the plot of a game requires a GM to keep secrets. Is it better for the

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…and again.

2002-07-23 doycet Game Design

Turn of a Friendly Die: WISH 5: Communication Gaming requires the GM and players to communicate a large amount of

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Catching Up

2002-07-23 doycet Game Design 2 comments

Turn of a Friendly Die: WISH 4: Systems Describe three systems you have gamed under: one you thought was good,

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Side-think

2002-07-21 doycet Game Design 4 comments

In an effort to reduce the boring “anvil chorus” of a typical DnD combat, I added a house rule on

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Star Wars – Session 12 & 13

2002-07-11 doycet Actual Play

Session 12 – Stunning Revelations The GM has lost his notes on this session, so until he finds them, here’s

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Go for it

2002-07-11 doycet Game Design

Yeah, horrible pun, but a good article and introduction to Go.

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If I had $1,000,000

2002-07-10 doycet Game Design 3 comments

Actually, how about this: You have $100 to spend on RPG’s… for your entire life. What do you buy? Assume

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Wish 3: Ideas

2002-07-09 doycet Game Design

From Turn of a Friendly Die: Discuss three setting ideas or ideas for elements of settings that you got from

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Wish 2: Romances

2002-07-01 doycet Game Design

Again, from Turn of a Friendly Die (recently added to the linkbar). Describe two romantic relationships involving a PC you’ve

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Master Yoda, your next student is here…

2002-06-28 doycet Links & Resources One comment

and she’s got a really cool lightsaber. (link (and Katherine) via Dave)

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Blogathon 2002

2002-06-28 doycet Links & Resources

I’ve put up my Blogathon information on a page of it’s own, and I encourage everyone to check out the

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So this is what that feels like

2002-06-24 doycet Game Design 6 comments

Wendi was there first, and Rey showed me how the damn things worked, but I really feel like, within the

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Bit Players

2002-06-24 doycet Game Design 2 comments

Turn of a Friendly Die has an interesting little query: Describe three NPCs (not major villains) that you really liked

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I’m Ttthooper!

2002-06-18 doycet Links & Resources

I am SO SORRY I missed this game.

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Might be too late for the game tonight, but…

2002-06-14 doycet Links & Resources

Here’s a Character sheet for the Revised Star Wars Rules, written in Excel. Pretty good stuff.

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Enough Talk, Time for Action!

2002-06-12 doycet Conventions One comment

Well, Living Pulp is in the schedule for Tacticon, now we just have to figure out if we’re going to

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Just when you thought was safe to go back in the Scheduler…

2002-06-12 doycet D20

Okay folks, this looks like what I’ve got on the upcoming game schedule, both from Friday night stuff and what

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*mumble grumble*

2002-05-31 doycet Links & Resources One comment

It’s really really annoying to work out a bunch of stuff about how Bail Antilles and Bail Organa are the

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Food for thought from Rey…

2002-05-20 doycet Musing One comment

It’s not spoiler stuff — it’s just thinking out loud. Still, some might want to abstain. Leia: “General Kenobi. Years

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Sessions 9, 10, and 11

2002-05-16 doycet Actual Play

A Scrolling intro for Session 9, 10, 11 (and probably 12 and 13) can be view here. Here’s a summary

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Just a warning

2002-05-16 doycet Scheduling One comment

No talking about the movie at the game Friday night. Some people won’t have seen it yet.

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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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