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Calling on the Hivemind

2019-07-08 doycet Links & Resources, Online Table Top, Scheduling, Table Top

Anyone have good suggestions for phone / app friendly play by post platforms or tools? The Masks game I play

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Actual Play snippet: Dungeon World one-shot, Gauntlet Con

2018-10-21 doycet Actual Play, Conventions, Online Table Top

I’ve been GMing the same Masks game for over a year. Before that, there was a PBTA-based Star Wars game

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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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Offline

2012-03-21 doycet Musing, Scheduling 3 comments

So. Yeah. Here’s a post. Apologies to those waiting on posts. Triple apologies to the guys in EvE, whom I

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Brain Damage

2010-09-02 doycet Musing, Scheduling, Table Top 2 comments

Randy’s running this low-powered supers-in-Gotham thing. Interesting background. Interesting atmosphere. Running it with Mutants and Masterminds, which is a 3.x

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Mouse Guard: The River at Elmoss, and making players cry

2009-09-22 doycet Actual Play, Musing, Nobilis, Scheduling, Table Top 2 comments

Got a chance to go back and play some Mouse Guard this weekend with Dave and Margie and Kate and

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“This ends in Mud.”

2009-08-13 doycet Actual Play, Scheduling, Table Top One comment

((The title of this session is a tongue-in-cheek tribute to the finest, most awesome line in the new Mouse Guard

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Optimizing my free time

2009-06-29 doycet Actual Play, D20, Musing, Scheduling, Table Top One comment

I don’t have anything against DnD 4e. In my opinion, it’s a big step up – a real evolution –

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We got our butts kicked by Shadows over Camelot, and it was excellent.

2009-04-27 doycet Actual Play, Scheduling, Table Top 7 comments

As I’ve said before, I’ve wanted to play Shadows Over Camelot for quite a long time. Two and a half

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Why I wouldn’t use IAWA to run Amber (at least not with Amber players)

2009-04-23 doycet Actual Play, Diceless, Game Design, Musing, Nobilis, Scheduling, Table Top 11 comments

Wednesday night rolled around, and we were set to play In a Wicked Age. This was going to be my

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Story Games for Everybody – Shadows Over Camelot

2009-04-23 doycet Scheduling, Table Top One comment

Kate picked up Shadows Over Camelot for me this week, which is a game I’ve desperately wanted every since I

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Recent game activity

2008-12-10 doycet MMO & Computers, Musing, Scheduling One comment

Haven’t updated in a week or so with anything, so here’s just a few thoughts and updates. Generally, I didn’t

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Solitude: Strangely familiar

2008-11-17 doycet Scheduling One comment

Penny Arcade writes about our current gaming schedule. It’s a fact of the Holiday Season that gaming schedules take a

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To my gamer-homies that don’t live within 10 minutes of me…

2008-07-14 doycet Musing, Scheduling, Table Top 2 comments

I’m seriously thinking about this camera (thirty bucks, so… less than a tank of gas), plus Skype (free), for in-home

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“Let’s not create a WoW-widow before we even get married, hmm?”

2008-02-21 doycet MMO & Computers, Musing, Scheduling, Table Top

… or, to be fair, a Gaming-widow in general. I’ve been giving my Google-calendar a workout for the last couple

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NPiP

2007-07-11 doycet Scheduling 4 comments

When shall we get our reality-bending Amber Pulp on, chilluns?

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Too much awesome for a single sentence.

2007-06-26 doycet Scheduling

So one of the players coming by on Friday to make up a character for our spirit of the century

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“Now a regular weekly publication!”

2007-06-12 doycet Scheduling, Table Top 4 comments

It’s a Spirit of the Century-palooza. First, we had a character generation shindig down at Lee and De’s for Nine

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Forge Con, the “quick” version

2007-04-23 doycet Actual Play, Conventions, Musing 2 comments

I left my journal/notebook at home today (along with a bunch of otther stuff I should have remembered), which included

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*Gulp*

2007-03-20 doycet Conventions 2 comments

So a couple weeks ago, Alexander the Hoax (long story) talked me into going to the Forge Midwest gaming convention.

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SS TF 4, part 2

2006-08-30 doycet Scheduling 19 comments

When shall we wrap up the Shadow Shard TF #4? Saturday or Sunday evening? Chime in below, and ring the

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Linking to it because I just noticed it and thought others might have missed it, also.

2006-08-17 doycet MMO & Computers, Scheduling One comment

Monday Munchie Mailing List

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Shadow Shard TF #4, Part Two!

2006-08-07 ktbuffy Scheduling 5 comments

I posted something on the Alliance boards about finding a time to finish this up. To quote: Got most of

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Shadow Shard TF #4

2006-08-02 doycet MMO & Computers, Scheduling 10 comments

What? Shadow Shard Task Force 4 Where? Shadow Shaaaard When? This weekend, prolly eveninks Why? We wants it, precious How?

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Galactic!

2006-07-19 doycet Scheduling 5 comments

The guy who wrote PrimeTime Adventures (Matt Wilson) is working on a new game called Galactic! The game takes place…

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Previews

2006-07-10 doycet Scheduling

Game stuff, both in the recent past and upcoming: CoX stuff — not a lot. Got Dolmen to 20. Ran

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It’s all about the influence…

2006-07-03 doycet Scheduling 3 comments

I know some folks are off the grid for the long holiday, so for Monday Munchies, I thought it might

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Commence the whuppage

2006-06-27 doycet Scheduling 6 comments

Okay, they fixed ArchVillains and Giant Monsters on CoX. Who wants to do the last Shadow Shard TF, and when?

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Rudalak the Spooky TF

2006-05-25 doycet Scheduling 11 comments

What? Legend of Rudalak Task Force (SS TF2) Where? Shadow Shaaaard When? Weekend surrounding June 10th Why? Well, we wants

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Double-plus geek

2006-04-14 doycet Scheduling

If you’re interested in staying up to date on the Game Calendar for Casa/Consortium events, and you use some kind

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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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