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Ready for Prime Time

2017-05-17 doycet Musing, Online Table Top 5 comments

Last night, we started a new Dungeon World game with the regular Tuesday night group. As I shared yesterday, I've

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Dungeon World Character Creation Thread

2017-05-16 doycet Actual Play, Online Table Top, Table Top

We’re starting up a mini-campaign of Dungeon World, with most of the conversation taking place in a single private Google+

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Rebels season 3 finale

2017-04-01 doycet Musing

Ezra Bridger in bubble helmet space suit, Blaster pistol, and lightsaber was the very picture of classic pulp Adventure.

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It's Hard Not to Make any Modern-setting Game about the News

2017-03-21 doycet Musing 13 comments

It really is. Anyway, here's some random notes and thoughts and stuff that's we've dreamed up for the "long hair

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Resharing this So I Can Soak Up All the Awesome Later

2017-02-03 doycet Musing

The maps and art are amazing, and the content is excellent. #gaming Originally shared by +Randy M Here's a little

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Star Wars: Rebel Ops Update

2017-01-25 doycet Actual Play, Online Table Top 3 comments

I don't make a habit of posting links to the AP videos for our ongoing online Star Wars game, mostly

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A very special moment in tonight's Star Wars: Rebel Ops game.

2017-01-18 doycet Musing 7 comments

+Dave Hill's rebel character, Ganna, met up with her … friend, Verana (a staff sergeant with the Empire on Onderon),

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PbtA with Little Kids

2017-01-14 doycet Game Design

(I found this in a text snippet, as though I meant to post it, but as near as I can

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Online Gaming Update and Tech Review

2017-01-13 doycet Musing 5 comments

(TLDR Summary: Holy crap when did Roll20's video and voice chat get so good?) I know I don't game as

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Slapped together a mix of World of Dungeons and my Star Wars World: Rebel Ops hack to play with my kids

2017-01-08 doycet Musing 15 comments

Lucky isn't a real stat – it's a non-replenishable resource that gives you an auto success. The five stats should

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Confession

2016-11-19 doycet Musing 3 comments

I still regularly save images I think might work as PCs or NPCs for an Amber game. Just in case.

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Star Wars World: Rebel Ops

2016-10-09 doycet Actual Play 6 comments

Hey all. I know there's a fair bit of love for +Andrew Medeiros's Star Wars World around here, so (prompted

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Star Wars Rebel Ops, PTBA

2016-10-05 doycet Actual Play 7 comments

Second session of running Rebel Ops, using a new (PtbA) game system for everything. Very enjoyable stuff – good fight,

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After a long break, some No Thank You, Evil! this afternoon

2016-09-25 doycet Actual Play

+Sean Testerman (5 and a half) wandered into my office, pulled out the NTYE box, opened it up, and told

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On Fate and GMing

2016-09-22 doycet Musing 40 comments

So I kind of gave up on about halfway through August because the questions weren't that interesting for the second

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An RPG thought that's been bouncing around my head for awhile now

2016-09-15 doycet Musing 10 comments

One of the… I'm going to say "dependencies for enjoyment" in many – I might even say "most" RPGs I've

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Dungeon World with Kaylee, via Google+ Polls

2016-08-26 doycet Actual Play 2 comments

She got a 7 on her Defy Danger, trying to rush by some guards and get to the big bad,

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Star Wars, Rebel Ops – Shadowpoint Housekeeping, Part 1

2016-08-24 doycet Actual Play 4 comments

After a too-long hiatus, we're back to playing our Star Wars approach-less FAE hack game. Short session, but we got

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RPGaDay – August 18: What innovation could RPG groups gain the most benefit from?

2016-08-18 doycet Musing

This is already happening, but the tech behind online meetings and collaboration is probably the future of 'tabletop' gaming. If

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RPGaDay – August 17: What fictional character would best fit in your group? Why?

2016-08-17 doycet Musing

Finn, from The Force Awakens. I just think he'd like playing a paladin, and he seems like a nice guy.

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RPGaDay – August 16: What historical character would you like in your group? For what game?

2016-08-17 doycet Musing 2 comments

I'm going to read "historical character" as "famous person, living or dead," and then answer Benjamin Franklin, playing Dungeon Crawl

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August 15: What types or source of inspiration do you turn to most often for RPGs?

2016-08-15 doycet Musing

The people at the table, first and foremost. After that, podcasts run by enthusiastic people. Genre-relevant TV. Recommended books… Pretty

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August 14: Who would be on your dream team of people to game with?

2016-08-15 doycet Musing One comment

Ooh. That's tricky. Thing is, I'm not sure all my favorite players would be very compatible, all in a single

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RPGaDay – August 12: What game is your group most likely to play next? Why?

2016-08-15 doycet Musing

Well, odds say Star Wars FAE, since that's (allegedly) the ongoing game I'm running, and it's scheduled for tomorrow. If

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August 11: Which gamer that you have played with has most affected the way that you play?

2016-08-11 doycet Musing One comment

Probably +Tim White – he makes me roleplay more and narrate less when I GM. "More actor, less writer!" he

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RPGaDay – August 10: What was the largest in-game surprise you have experienced?

2016-08-10 doycet Musing 3 comments

In my old Amber campaign, Things in Heaven and Earth, Benedict, rather than losing an arm in his duel with…

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RPG A Day, August 9: What things are a part of your ideal session, other than the actual game?

2016-08-09 doycet Musing One comment

More and more, I treasure a diverse group of players. A table full of white dudes is a missed opportunity

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August 8: Do you prefer hardcover, softcover, or electronic books? What are the benefits of your preference?

2016-08-08 doycet Musing 7 comments

I like ebook versions of RPG texts, which are unfortunately as rare as hen's teeth. PDF is… fine. Not great.

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RPG a Day, August 6 and 7

2016-08-07 doycet Musing

August 6: What is the most amazing thing that you know a game group has done for their community? http://www.facebook.com/gamersgiving/

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I really need to start running Monster of Week

2016-08-05 doycet Musing 2 comments

Soon.  

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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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