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Audioplay: Amber: NPiA

2020-02-11 doycet Diceless Leave a comment

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Actual Play of Do: Pilgrims of the Flying Temple with my family

2011-08-01 doycet Actual Play, Diceless, Musing, Table Top 5 comments

I grew up in central South Dakota and, as a gamer from an early age (I convinced my folks to

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Actual Play of Do: Pilgrims of the Flying Temple — “Swallowed Whole”

2011-03-11 doycet Actual Play, Diceless, Table Top 2 comments

Despite crazy schedules and a newborn to deal with, Chris and Tim and I managed to get together last night

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Sacrifice, Interesting Failure, and Diaspora Hacks

2010-05-13 doycet Game Design, Musing, Nobilis, Table Top 2 comments

I’ve been thinking (and talking) about sacrifice in games, and how that ends up playing out at the table. Originally,

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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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Meta-gaming, Actor-Stance, Author-stance, and Narration

2009-08-31 doycet Actual Play, Musing, Nobilis, Scheduling 12 comments

Twitter. The final frontier new hotness. These are the transcripts of gaming nerds, trying to discuss involved game sessions using

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Primetime Adventures Pitch Session: Apocalypse Fairies!

2009-05-07 doycet Actual Play, Game Design, Musing, Nobilis, Scheduling, Table Top 6 comments

So last night we got got together to work through the Pitch Session for a new Primetime Adventures game. ((For

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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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Amber Diceless doesn’t make the “Bucket List”?

2008-11-21 doycet Diceless, Musing One comment

Related to my previous post, a spin-off discussion about why Amber Diceless doesn’t make some people’s top-12 list. I contribute

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Nobilis, renewed.

2008-03-03 doycet Diceless, Nobilis One comment

(Via Story Games:) Rebecca Borgstrom has released “Unlikely Flowerings”, the first part of the long-awaited Society of Flowers supplement for

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Hmm

2007-06-19 doycet Nobilis 3 comments

I think, assuming that Birdwell Island is a Chancel (which is clearly is, otherwise all the mortals would have gone

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Mortal Coil

2007-03-19 doycet Diceless, Links & Resources 2 comments

This weekend, Kate’s in town and I wanted to have a social kind of gaming thing — while both she

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Very Sad

2005-10-28 doycet Nobilis 2 comments

Went looking for the the Nobilis “Lexicon” projects today. They seem to have vanished.

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Nobilis pre-post-mortem

2004-09-07 doycet Nobilis 4 comments

Let’s say you get into a book club. It’s a pretty interesting set up, where you get a tremendous number

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Site notice

2004-07-02 doycet Diceless

The CryHavoc ADRPG archives, formerly at http://average-bear.com/cryhavoc are now located on the GM’s domain: http://nineblackdoves.com/cryhavoc/.

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‘Scuse me while I gush

2004-03-16 doycet Nobilis One comment

In the history of Nobilis, the first 20th century was different. So were the 400 wondrous years after that, but

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The Plot Point

2004-03-07 doycet Nobilis

A few weeks ago, Dave commented that we’ve been at this Nobilis thing for ‘about a year’. I believe my

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Cool, baby. Cool.

2004-01-30 doycet Nobilis 2 comments

So for the last couple weeks I’ve been contributing the insanity of the Lexicon Of The Second Age, in which

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Making Magic… magic.

2004-01-22 doycet Game Design, Nobilis 12 comments

A long email exchange on magic in rpgs — not a lot that resonated with me, but I did want

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Order of events

2004-01-20 doycet Nobilis 2 comments

Interesting thoughts on why to decide your Estate last when creating a character in Nobilis, stored here for my convenience:

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“Still… not as scary…”

2003-12-22 doycet Nobilis 2 comments

The creator of Nobilis, reinventing the ecosystem of the world’s oceans on Hitherby Dragons. The ocean should be made of

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Stepping into other shoes

2003-12-07 doycet Nobilis 2 comments

After some thoughts provoked by the posts here and here, I opted to eschew the turn timer for the Nobilis

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Hello, Clarice

2003-11-23 doycet Game Design, Nobilis One comment

I’ve got some catching up to do… Monday Mashup #13: Silence of the Lambs I’m combining this with Nobilis. Lecter

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Pondering the flow

2003-11-04 doycet Game Design, Nobilis 6 comments

So, we’ve had a few players cross-over from one Nobilis game group to the other now, and someone asked one

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Of gods, guest stars, plots, and naming conventions

2003-10-15 doycet Nobilis One comment

Sunday, we had our first ‘guest star’ in the ongoing Nobilis game. Hmm, before I get into that, though, let’s

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Weeknight relaxation.

2003-10-01 doycet Game Design, Nobilis

Ran the ‘Chrysalis A’ group last night (the first time with the full group), and got things rolling with the

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Weekend review 2

2003-09-28 doycet Nobilis 2 comments

Saturday: First half of the second session of the second story-arc in Nobilis (which of course would be designated Session

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Update

2003-09-16 doycet Nobilis 2 comments

Note to self: preparing a list of likely (and point-balanced) qualities for a well-known Chancel and Imperator does not appreciably

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Missed it

2003-07-24 doycet Diceless

In my Palm, July 6th, 2003: 1st TiHE Game Session (not counting bidding war – 1997) Six years ago… wow.

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Diceless con game

2003-07-20 doycet Conventions, Diceless, Links & Resources

Something I’ve mentioned before: someone who took Nobilis and the League of Extradinary Gentlemen comic and came up with Convention

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