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Masks Actual Play (Sessions 0 to 5)

2017-09-18 doycet Actual Play, Online Table Top

There’s so much in my head with the weekly Masks game, every time I try to figure out what to

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Masks AP: Icons

2017-09-09 doycet Actual Play, Online Table Top

Here’s a playlist of our first four (five) sessions of Masks, including Session 0 chargen, plus several plotagon video diaries

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RPGaDay 31: What do you anticipate most for gaming in the next year?

2017-08-31 doycet Musing

Right now, Masks. Probably two different games, ultimately, given I'll be running it for the kids as well as the

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PC Video Journal

2017-08-30 doycet Actual Play, Online Table Top

The player for Jason Quill (nanobot-infused Doomed in our campaign, loosely based on Johnny Quest) posted a video diary, following

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RPGaDay 30: What is an RPG genre-mashup you would most like to see?

2017-08-30 doycet Musing

Mash-ups don't get me very far these days. See, I play with my kids a lot, and they don't know

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RPGaDay 28: What film/series is the biggest source of quotes in your group?

2017-08-28 doycet Musing

I'm going to go out on a limb and say Aliens, but… I mean, it could be a hundred different

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Masks Campaign Material – Super-YouTubers

2017-08-28 doycet Actual Play, Online Table Top

We've had two play sessions of our Masks campaign so far. The game opened with an excruciating interview between the

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RPGaDay 27: What are your essential ingredients for good gaming?

2017-08-27 doycet Musing

Flippant answers aside for once. Attention. Respect. Engagement. And a small group people with whom you could easily see sharing

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RPGaDay 25: What is the best way to thank your GM?

2017-08-25 doycet Musing

Players creating stuff or in similar ways demonstrating their interest and enthusiasm for the game. I love that stuff. It

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RPGaDay 22: Which RPGs are the easiest most enjoyable for you to run?

2017-08-22 doycet Musing

Switched up the question a bit, so I could answer "Probably PBTA stuff. Probably." For me it's a VERY GOOD

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RPGaDay 18: Which RPG have you played the most in your life?

2017-08-18 doycet Musing

Dungeons and Dragons, easily. I've been flailing at it since I was ten. Full-steam ahead all through high school. Several

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Masks, Session 1, Not Exactly Actual Play

2017-08-18 doycet Musing, Online Table Top One comment

For our first real session of Masks, I decided to start off the game[^1] with a super-awkward morning-news-show-style interview with

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RPGaDay 15: Which RPG do you enjoy adapting the most?

2017-08-15 doycet Musing One comment

I don't really like adapting games much. I'm not a system designer by either preference or practice – I like

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RPGaDay 11: Which 'dead game' would you like to see reborn?

2017-08-11 doycet Musing 5 comments

Haven, the Free City by Gamelords, Ltd. It was an urban setting for a DnD clone where everyone basically played

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RPGaDay 9: What is a good RPG to play for about 10 sessions?

2017-08-09 doycet Musing One comment

I'd say most PBTA games (and in a lot of cases most games that share that design-space in the industry).

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Masks, Session 0

2017-08-09 doycet Actual Play, Online Table Top 2 comments

The video recording for this session went wonky, so here's the audio for our Masks session 0. https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B5y9JJSSCg1pZnNWNDZGS2NQNUk/view?usp=sharing I'm SUPER

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RPGaDay 8: What is a good RPG to play for sessions of 2 hours or less?

2017-08-08 doycet Musing One comment

That may not be useful to a lot of other people as a recommendation, but No Thank You, Evil! and

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Masks AP Resource

2017-08-07 doycet Links & Resources, Online Table Top 14 comments

The whelmed podcast (located at the nigh-perfect url http://crashingthemode.com/) is basically “Buffering the Vampire Slayer,” but for Young Justice. I’ve

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RPGaDay 7: What was your most impactful RPG session?

2017-08-07 doycet Musing 4 comments

Who needs therapy if you've got "impactful" RPGs, right? Impactful is such a weird word. I've had lots of memorable

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RPGaDay 6: You can game every day for a week. Describe what you'd do!

2017-08-06 doycet Musing

* Monday: Pirate 101 with Sean and Kaylee. (Alternately, family game of Masks.)* Tuesday: Normal Tuesday Roll20 group, playing whatever

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RPGaDay 5: Which RPG cover best captures the spirit of the game?

2017-08-05 doycet Musing 2 comments

This one's a bit easy for me: Tales from the Loop. It's entirely possible this answer is chicken-egg cheating, since

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Campaign Starter

2017-08-05 doycet Musing One comment

… Or Discworld plot summary.  

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RPGaDay 2017: What RPG have you played most since August 2016?

2017-08-04 doycet Musing 5 comments

One of the nice things about recording all our online game sessions is it makes it pretty easy to simply

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RPGaDay 2 – What is an RPG you would like to see published?

2017-08-02 doycet Musing 3 comments

+Matt Wilson??'s Galactic. Looking back, it wasn't the dice mechanic that grabbed our group, it was the wonderful idea of

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RPGaDay, Day 1 – What published RPG do you wish you were playing right now?

2017-08-02 doycet Musing One comment

I'm actually going to be running Dungeon World in about 90 minutes, and I'm absolutely excited about that, as we

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Breakers: The Secret World

2017-07-30 doycet Actual Play 2 comments

(So… I made the mistake of clicking on Google Drive while editing a g+ post, and lost a meaty actual

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Dungeon Raiding 101

2017-07-18 doycet Actual Play, MMO & Computers One comment

Had a fun evening that ran a little later than expected, doing something I haven't done in a long time.

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Prepping for Breakers

2017-07-17 doycet Actual Play, Musing One comment

We're heading out for a family vacation next week, my niece (13) is coming along, and she wants to do

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The Art(ist) of the Game

2017-07-17 doycet Musing, Online Table Top One comment

I’m very lucky to have +Michael Williams in my regular Tuesday night (hangouts-based) gaming group. (we’re currently playing Dungeon World

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Terribly Dated Game Commentary

2017-06-29 doycet Musing, Online Table Top 7 comments

After having the core D&D fifth edition books on my shelf for well over a year almost three years, I

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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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