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Dogs, prep

2006-09-22 doycet Links & Resources One comment

Be gentle it’s my 1st time-or what to watch out for during the first game of Dogs in the Vineyard

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The Typhoid Bay Buccaneers will sail again! :)

2006-09-21 doycet Links & Resources One comment

Via Story Games: I really loved Blood Bowl. I loved the idea. I loved all the little asides in the

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Variant Roach

2006-09-20 doycet Links & Resources One comment

Story Games for Everybody – Conflict of Interest Hack for Shab Al-Hiri Roach. Is it really a rules hack when

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Game Review Podcast

2006-09-20 doycet Links & Resources

Paul Tevis, of Have Games, Will Travel, reviews 1001 Nights and Mortal Coil. Good, informative stuff.

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Fix-ed

2006-09-20 doycet Links & Resources 8 comments

Comments should remember who you are now. Subscriptions to individual comments MIGHT be working — it’s sort of hard for

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Three shall be the number…

2006-09-18 doycet Links & Resources 5 comments

Well of Urd: Technique: Jared’s Rule of Three If you have the opportunity to describe something, give it one to

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Blog tweaking

2006-09-14 doycet Links & Resources 6 comments

Yeah, I’m fiddling with the design. I don’t intend to stay with what’s up here right now, but I wante

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Adding Color

2006-09-13 doycet Links & Resources 2 comments

Well of Urd: Technique: The Importance of the Words Previously, Meanwhile and Later I’m hoping that this post will become

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Oh yes…

2006-09-13 doycet Links & Resources

Space Rat, Nathan Russell – 24 Hour RPG – 2005 Pwned. Coming soon to a convention near me…

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Capes cogitating

2006-09-08 doycet Links & Resources 6 comments

So I’ve been (slowly) reading and trying to parse Capes, from Muse of Fire Games. It’s slow going. … and

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The Aging Gamer

2006-09-05 doycet Links & Resources, Musing 5 comments

Story Games for Everybody – Designing for the 25-35 Demographic 3) I have disposable income, better than I had at

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This is insanely cool…

2006-08-31 doycet Links & Resources One comment

Reversed Engineer The challenge- Design a character sheet. NOT A GAME. Just a character sheet. You have 2 weeks to

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A glass of wine…

2006-08-30 doycet Links & Resources 2 comments

Based on this: [Bacchanal] GenCon demos and more, I ordered this: Bacchanal, a roleplaying game for adults, by Paul Czege.

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Cooool.

2006-08-30 doycet Links & Resources 5 comments

Dogs in the Vineyard Flash Animation — if at work, have headphones.

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Hey Doyce, buy this later.

2006-08-29 doycet Links & Resources 6 comments

Hero’s Banner — link for me to remember to go get the dang thing — and Agon.

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So where’ve I been for the last 24 hours?

2006-08-27 doycet Game Design, Links & Resources, Musing 3 comments

So here’s what happened. Over on Story-Games, someone posted this: You played it till your thumbs blistered, now write it

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Resource: Vyew

2006-08-22 doycet Links & Resources

Vyew.com – Free Web-Based Collaboration – Vyew.com – looks like a cool way to run games online. Link is up

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I’m feeling Afraid…

2006-08-21 doycet Links & Resources

Afraid: a new game from Vincent Baker, using the Dogs mechanics, for playing horror. Link is to the playtest docs,

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Go. Play. Part Two.

2006-08-18 doycet Links & Resources

go-play.org: A whole web page for a simple sticker. 🙂 Apparently, the Go. Play. meme took off like gangbusters a

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Close your eyes and think of [insert country here]

2006-08-17 doycet Links & Resources One comment

After having just finished two Greg Rucka books, this is very interesting to me: The National Security Decision Making Game.

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Signs

2006-08-04 doycet Links & Resources

I like this discussion: The Secret Language of Cars — iconography for gamers. Green means go. Triangle in square means

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Candamir

2006-08-03 doycet Links & Resources

From Storygames for Everybody: Candamir is one of the spin-off games from Settlers of Catan. In it, you have a

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“Release the Atomics!”

2006-08-01 doycet Links & Resources 4 comments

Some folks in Toronto are using Donjon to run some Space Opera, and recording the results on RandomWIki. The game

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I cannot wait for Kaylee to be old enough to play this.

2006-07-21 doycet Links & Resources 2 comments

The Princes’ Kingdom You are nine years old. You just had a birthday, and your brothers got you a puppy.

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Heroquest PDFs

2006-07-19 doycet Links & Resources

DriveThruRPG.com has PDFs of several of the more recent Heroquest/HeroWars books, including the main HQ rulebook. Of real note is

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Do. You. Want. To. Play. A. Game?

2006-07-17 doycet Links & Resources

… but you cant find players? FindPlay – find gamers like you

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Barkingly Odd Resource

2006-07-11 doycet Links & Resources

Via Randy, Thousands of name for your dog, horse, cat, or pet from Chinaroad Lowchens of Australia. It’s rare you

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Two great tastes that taste great together:

2006-07-06 doycet Links & Resources

Cupcakes of Catan: Too perfect.

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PSA

2006-07-03 doycet Links & Resources One comment

Phlogiston: Another Word from Our Sponsors: Do you, or some Mad Scientist you know, struggle with bouts of crippling Sanity?

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Another one:

2006-06-24 doycet Links & Resources 10 comments

[Photoshop] Rpg motivational posters

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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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