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Ironsworn Ravenloft with my Kids

2021-01-21 doycet Musing, Table Top
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Working on a Thoughtful Representation of Drug Addiction for Masks

2019-08-07 doycet Actual Play, Game Design, Table Top

Hello! Things have been a little quiet on the Masks RPG front lately, because the end of summer is bananas

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The Smartwood Children (a Lasers and Feelings hack for my kids)

2019-07-07 doycet Actual Play, Game Design, Links & Resources, Table Top

This weekend has been chock-a-block with face to face gaming goodness with cool kids. Friday was the 14th session of

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A Potentially Gaming Heavy Weekend

2019-03-01 doycet Musing, Online Table Top, Table Top

Tonight, the first proper session of Apocalypse World: Ironwall with Kate and Kim and Amanda. Sunday, Masks: Phoenix Academy with

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How to Train Your (Kid to Love Dungeons and) Dragon(s)

2019-02-28 doycet Musing

I’m probably (definitely) projecting, but the bit in How to Train Your Dragon where Hiccup and Astrid bring their kids

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Looking Back at a Remarkably RPG-heavy Week

2019-02-06 doycet Actual Play, Links & Resources, Musing, Online Table Top, Table Top

I’ve been lucky enough to have a regular gaming group for Some Time Now (thanks, #Roll20 !) – I don’t

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Girl Underground meets the TARDIS?

2018-12-12 doycet Game Design, Links & Resources, Musing

There’s a game in development called Girl Underground, which focuses on a central Girl (in the vein of Alice in

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Jonesing to play Zombie World

2018-11-07 doycet Game Design, Links & Resources

Enough that I made up a new Enclave option… one I’m surprised doesn’t exist.

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The Hollow, by way of World of Dungeon: Turbo

2018-11-07 doycet Game Design, Links & Resources

I’m running a game for my kids, inspired by The Hollow series on Netflix, and for said game I’m basically

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Fire Goose

2018-10-14 doycet D20, Game Design, Links & Resources

Created at the behest of Mark Hunt, for a silly little project on MeWe. Fire Goose Small beast, probably evil

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Masks Prep: Brainstorming + Random Situation Tables

2018-03-19 doycet Game Design

MOST IMPORTANT BIT – Problems, difficulties, goals, and victims should all have a FACE (or faces): people that the heroes

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How to Train Your Dragon with Risus hacks

2018-02-21 doycet Game Design

I’ve been playing an RPG with my kids set in the Archipelago of How to Train Your Dragon. As a

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Masks, Game Advice – On Playbooks

2018-01-14 doycet Musing, Podcast

While listening to various sessions, I realized I had some advice for both Masks players and GMs when you’re getting

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Masks Menagerie Tropes

2018-01-02 doycet Actual Play, Links & Resources, Musing, Online Table Top, Table Top

A couple weeks ago, I joked that I should try to identify the main tropes that show up in our

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The Real Dark Side of Star Wars: Spoilers

2017-12-16 doycet Musing

[This is a repost of a post I wrote about two years, which has inexplicably disappeared from the site.] I need to talk about something pretty shitty, but it requires a little background information, first. Many of you probably already know this background info, but some of you don’t, so I’m filling it in for …

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The Real Dark Side of Star Wars: Spoilers

2017-12-16 doycet Musing

[This is a repost of a post I wrote about two years, which has inexplicably disappeared from the site.] I need to talk about something pretty shitty, but it requires a little background information, first. Many of you probably already know this background info, but some of you don’t, so I’m filling it in for …

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The Real Dark Side of Star Wars: Spoilers

2017-12-16 doycet Musing

[This is a repost of a post I wrote about two years, which has inexplicably disappeared from the site.] I need to talk about something pretty shitty, but it requires a little background information, first. Many of you probably already know this background info, but some of you don’t, so I’m filling it in for …

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The Real Dark Side of Star Wars: Spoilers

2017-12-16 doycet Musing

[This is a repost of a post I wrote about two years, which has inexplicably disappeared from the site.] I need to talk about something pretty shitty, but it requires a little background information, first. Many of you probably already know this background info, but some of you don’t, so I’m filling it in for …

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The Real Dark Side of Star Wars: Spoilers

2017-12-16 doycet Musing

[This is a repost of a post I wrote about two years, which has inexplicably disappeared from the site.] I need to talk about something pretty shitty, but it requires a little background information, first. Many of you probably already know this background info, but some of you don’t, so I’m filling it in for …

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The Real Dark Side of Star Wars: Spoilers

2017-12-16 doycet Musing

[This is a repost of a post I wrote about two years, which has inexplicably disappeared from the site.] I need to talk about something pretty shitty, but it requires a little background information, first. Many of you probably already know this background info, but some of you don’t, so I’m filling it in for …

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The Real Dark Side of Star Wars: Spoilers

2017-12-16 doycet Musing

[This is a repost of a post I wrote about two years, which has inexplicably disappeared from the site.] I need to talk about something pretty shitty, but it requires a little background information, first. Many of you probably already know this background info, but some of you don’t, so I’m filling it in for …

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The Real Dark Side of Star Wars: Spoilers

2017-12-16 doycet Musing

[This is a repost of a post I wrote about two years, which has inexplicably disappeared from the site.] I need to talk about something pretty shitty, but it requires a little background information, first. Many of you probably already know this background info, but some of you don’t, so I’m filling it in for …

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The Real Dark Side of Star Wars: Spoilers

2017-12-16 doycet Musing

[This is a repost of a post I wrote about two years, which has inexplicably disappeared from the site.] I need to talk about something pretty shitty, but it requires a little background information, first. Many of you probably already know this background info, but some of you don’t, so I’m filling it in for …

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The Real Dark Side of Star Wars: Spoilers

2017-12-16 doycet Musing

[This is a repost of a post I wrote about two years, which has inexplicably disappeared from the site.] I need to talk about something pretty shitty, but it requires a little background information, first. Many of you probably already know this background info, but some of you don’t, so I’m filling it in for …

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The Real Dark Side of Star Wars: Spoilers

2017-12-16 doycet Musing

[This is a repost of a post I wrote about two years, which has inexplicably disappeared from the site.] I need to talk about something pretty shitty, but it requires a little background information, first. Many of you probably already know this background info, but some of you don’t, so I’m filling it in for …

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The Real Dark Side of Star Wars: Spoilers

2017-12-16 doycet Musing

[This is a repost of a post I wrote about two years, which has inexplicably disappeared from the site.] I need to talk about something pretty shitty, but it requires a little background information, first. Many of you probably already know this background info, but some of you don’t, so I’m filling it in for …

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The Real Dark Side of Star Wars: Spoilers

2017-12-16 doycet Musing

[This is a repost of a post I wrote about two years, which has inexplicably disappeared from the site.] I need to talk about something pretty shitty, but it requires a little background information, first. Many of you probably already know this background info, but some of you don’t, so I’m filling it in for …

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The Real Dark Side of Star Wars: Spoilers

2017-12-16 doycet Musing

[This is a repost of a post I wrote about two years, which has inexplicably disappeared from the site.] I need to talk about something pretty shitty, but it requires a little background information, first. Many of you probably already know this background info, but some of you don’t, so I’m filling it in for …

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The Real Dark Side of Star Wars: Spoilers

2017-12-16 doycet Musing

[This is a repost of a post I wrote about two years, which has inexplicably disappeared from the site.] I need to talk about something pretty shitty, but it requires a little background information, first. Many of you probably already know this background info, but some of you don’t, so I’m filling it in for …

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The Real Dark Side of Star Wars: Spoilers

2017-12-16 doycet Musing

[This is a repost of a post I wrote about two years, which has inexplicably disappeared from the site.] I need to talk about something pretty shitty, but it requires a little background information, first. Many of you probably already know this background info, but some of you don’t, so I’m filling it in for …

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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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