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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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Masks, Actual Play Analysis, Sessions 11 to 15

2017-12-04 doycet Actual Play, Links & Resources, Online Table Top

We’re back! It’s another long flight, so let’s run through Masks sessions to the latest and see what to make

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Masks “Menagerie” Campaign – Session 6 to 10

2017-12-02 doycet Actual Play, Links & Resources, Online Table Top, Table Top

It’s been awhile since I’ve written about our ongoing Masks game (superhero antics in the vein of Young Justice, Teen

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Thinking about Spaceships and Star Wars because… well, OBVIOUSLY

2016-02-26 doycet Actual Play, Game Design, Musing, Online Table Top

First, before getting into the “thinking” part, I’ll just embed this silly song with clips from a bunch of spaceship

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Mulling Over *Mountain Witch* mashups

2014-08-27 doycet Game Design, Musing, Online Table Top, Table Top

For the last few weeks, I’ve been working on stuff related to the Mountain Witch, specifically: Prepping for a traditional

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Wildstar Tabletop Gaming, by way of FAE/Jadepunk

2014-06-30 doycet Game Design, MMO & Computers, Musing, Online Table Top, Table Top 2 comments

“You should do a Wildstar game,” opined my daughter. “Sorry?” Her comment confused me, both because Wildstar is an MMO

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Hangouts/Roll20 Gaming: Past and Future

2014-06-26 doycet Musing, Online Table Top, Scheduling

As most of you know, I finished up a Fate game about a month ago that ran via Google Hangouts

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Fate, The Demolished Ones, Sessions 5 and 6

2014-04-28 doycet Actual Play, Online Table Top, Table Top 4 comments

Under normal circumstances, I wouldn’t be blogging about this game at all, right now: the last anyone would have heard

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Fate, The Demolished Ones, Session 4

2014-04-15 doycet Actual Play, Online Table Top, Table Top One comment

After a week off for illness (mine) we’re jumping back into the Demolished Ones tonight, with session five. While checking

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Fate: The Demolished Ones, Session Three

2014-04-01 doycet Actual Play, Online Table Top, Table Top

“But first, I believe formal introductions are in order.” The statement hangs in the air for more than a few

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Fate: The Demolished Ones, Session Two

2014-03-17 doycet Actual Play, Online Table Top, Table Top

“Anyone know where Beacon Street is?” He looks around at the quiet, fog-shrouded night streets. “Or where we are?” That’s

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Fate: Kugen Wasabi

2014-01-23 doycet Links & Resources, Online Table Top

This has been sitting in my drafts folder for something like six months, so let’s put it out there, just

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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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