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Heavy Metal: the tempered steel of a battleaxe, that is.

2007-07-17 doycet MMO & Computers

I Am Murloc, one of the best machinima I’ve seen so far. Great stuff. I believe the band itself is

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It’s about friggin’ time, Batman.

2007-07-17 doycet MMO & Computers One comment

Starting on Tuesday, July 17th, the Training Room Test Server will have two new game features enabled for testing: Character

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Game reflects Life

2007-07-12 doycet MMO & Computers

Although it’s ostensibly about WoW, this post from Terra Nova: “Our avatars, ourselves”, makes some great observations how we relate

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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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Week in Review

2007-07-10 doycet Actual Play 2 comments

Quick gaming rundown, before I get all productive:

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Mayday, mayday

2007-07-10 doycet Musing One comment

Although they are just as flammable and thus, just as fun, the zeppelins of World of Warcraft are quite a

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More Amber Pulp!

2007-07-10 doycet Musing One comment

Jvstin of long-time Amber DRPG fame just finished up a pulp-Amber game using Spirit of the Century at “The Black

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When you know the indie designers are doing something right

2007-07-07 doycet Links & Resources One comment

“Story Game” (400 page, hard-bound, beautiful, hard-crunch, sci-fi blaster, smacking) Burning Empires won Origins’ RPG of the year award, beating

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Random MMO Bits – the tasty new cereal

2007-07-05 doycet MMO & Computers

People call bad hunters Huntards. I didn’t understand why until yesterday, playing with my paladin. One guy who didn’t understand

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The new Holy (long, with a smile at the end)

2007-07-05 doycet MMO & Computers One comment

Okay, so a few days ago, just for my own lazy-bookmarking, I linked to a guide on making a “AoE”-specced

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A game within a game

2007-07-05 doycet MMO & Computers

Last weekend, the WoW Insider guild on Zangarmarsh “It Came from the Blog” (200+ low-level alts and going strong) ran

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CoV PvP L337

2007-07-04 doycet MMO & Computers One comment

YouTube – CoV E3 2005 LEET PuG Trailer: Funny. 🙂

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Smite-adin

2007-07-04 doycet MMO & Computers

The Light and How to Swing It: The sadist’s guide to PalAOEadins : Or, “How to play your paladin like

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Go! (An excellent tutorial)

2007-07-03 doycet Links & Resources 2 comments

Click To Play

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Their stupid, epheme-hip baby names are your NPCs monikers!

2007-06-30 doycet Links & Resources 2 comments

Via ***Dave, Unique, Unusual, and invented names of 2007 & 2008 may make you laugh out loud at nine out

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Burning Aspects

2007-06-29 doycet Game Design, Musing 2 comments

This is a SotC rules tweak. I didn’t come up with it, though I am tweaking it. FATE and Spirit

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In a highly volatile nutshell

2007-06-29 doycet Game Design

Fred Hicks asks: What do *you* think needs to be in a 15-minute demo of Spirit of the Century? The

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Nine Princes in Pulp: Session One

2007-06-27 doycet Actual Play 2 comments

“Camel Cigarettes and the fresh taste of Colgate’s tooth-whitening Paste are proud to present our heroes in… The Moon Bridge

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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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*blows some dust off*

2007-06-20 doycet MMO & Computers

I’m finally done with all the stuff that’s been keeping me from playing any WoW or CoH — I’ve been

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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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And… Action!

2007-06-18 doycet Actual Play 7 comments

As I already mentioned, we played some Primetime Adventures this weekend — this was the first episode after the series

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Man, I am loving Primetime Adventures

2007-06-16 doycet Musing One comment

So I’ve run two sessions of PTA now (the Pilot and now Episode One of “Strange Allies”: fighting the arcane

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“You’re a player, too.”

2007-06-14 doycet Links & Resources

Story Games for Everybody – I’m not enjoying running Primetime Adventures. I’ve run PtA a couple of times and played

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So. Much. Fun.

2007-06-13 doycet Links & Resources

RPG Motivational Posters: all 400 of them.

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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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Bang bang bang

2007-06-11 doycet Links & Resources One comment

I’ve talked (a lot) in the past about running games that are essentially built on nothing but Bangs (or as

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Hell did not freeze over, but it did get a little brisk down there.

2007-06-10 doycet Table Top One comment

So I went down to Lee and De’s yesterday and, with Randy, Meera, and Kingsley, made up characters for a

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Conflict Resolution vs Task Resolution: FIGHT!

2007-06-08 doycet Musing One comment

So there’s a conversation on Story Games about “Conflict Resolution” systems and “Task Resolution” systems, and asking which one people

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Get ready for adventure!

2007-06-07 doycet Actual Play 5 comments

Until we figure out what we’re going to call this floating pick-up pulp game, I’m not going to make a

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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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