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Why do I like gaming?

2007-04-20 doycet Musing 2 comments

It’s the people. The long and the short of it is that I like the people I meet through gaming.

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Random Thought on Tweaking a Game System for a ‘weird’ setting

2007-04-19 doycet Musing One comment

So here’s a thought, grown from an offhand comment in a podcast last week. If you’re going to run a

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“Roflmao

2007-04-18 doycet Links & Resources

Funniest Machinima video I’ve seen in awhile, even if you’ve never seen WoW. Great spin on a classic Muppet bit.

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Organizing my game books

2007-04-17 doycet Musing 3 comments

Specifically, organizing each book, internally. I’ve done this a lot in the past, simply because the games I was running

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Not-so WoW

2007-04-17 doycet MMO & Computers 2 comments

WoW PvP Frustration — not coming from where you’d expect. There’s some pretty cool stuff you can get for your

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WoW

2007-04-17 doycet MMO & Computers

Grezzk (my first/main character in World of Warcraft) dinged level fifty a few nights ago. Almost simultaneously, he achieved Exalted

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My favorite phrase from the Gaming Internet, this week:

2007-04-17 doycet Musing 2 comments

“Crazy Moon Language Forgite Babble Theories”

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Heh

2007-04-17 doycet Links & Resources

Real women wear armor.

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This makes me happy

2007-04-17 doycet Musing One comment

Capcom Entertainment, a leading worldwide developer and publisher of video games, have been given a license to produce a digitally

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We finally got to play some more of the “City of Petrana”

2007-04-16 doycet Actual Play 8 comments

I’m very pleased with how it turned out

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Tells

2007-04-04 doycet Musing

In this post, I wrote: I don’t think I have too many ‘headspace’ or ‘immersive’ characters to begin with. Of

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I totally stole this from Knife Fight

2007-04-04 doycet Musing 11 comments

But I don’t care: it’s a really interesting question. 1) Name a roleplaying game character you can think like, outside

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I have very high hopes for this Forum

2007-04-02 doycet Links & Resources, Musing 2 comments

I would knife fight a man – Sex, God, and RPGs

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Random dohickey

2007-03-30 doycet MMO & Computers

WoW Signature Image Generator Something in this doesn’t seem to want to work with my work internet, but I’m posting

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Science!

2007-03-22 doycet Links & Resources

Or rather, superscience: how to run Venture Brothers style adventures using InSpectres.

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The sweet, sweet backbeat… of grenade launchers

2007-03-20 doycet Links & Resources

The Ballad of Black Mesa makes me want to go buy Half-life 2.

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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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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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“Theeeeese are the people geeks in your neighborhood…”

2007-03-13 doycet Links & Resources

NearbyGamers — a gamer locator, since FindPlay doesn’t exactly… umm… work. Right now.

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Minions Assemble!

2007-03-13 doycet Links & Resources

Minion Cards! Minions, being the salt and bone of Spirit of the century, need heavy use and lots and lots

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Awesome… (and yet, ‘wary’)

2007-03-07 doycet Links & Resources

((With thanks to Andy Kitkowski for the post title.)) How… interesting. Wizards of the Coast is offering a limited supply

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Captain America

2007-03-07 doycet Links & Resources

Marvel’s Civil War storyline (which directly addresses things like 9/11 and the Patriot Act) makes a pretty bold move. (Huge

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Another great game we’ll probably never have time to play.

2007-03-06 doycet Links & Resources

AFRAID: Dogs in the Vineyard + horror + a lot more = AWESOME!

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Steampunk!

2007-03-04 doycet Links & Resources

Related to that last post: steampunk magazine – putting the punk back into steampunk Before the age of homogenization and

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Train up

2007-03-02 doycet MMO & Computers

World of Warcraft (WoW) Starting Guide – Google Video Interesting? Eh. Thorough, and education in terms of what you can

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And the breathing sound would stay the same…

2007-03-02 doycet Links & Resources

Eric’s Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Idea: steampunk star wars Awesome. Especially Vader.

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A little of this and a little of that.

2007-02-28 doycet Musing One comment

Linear vs. Gestalt vs. Emergent Play Very interesting post from Brand. One of the reason I really like the “Gestalt”

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Wouldn’t it be Nice

2007-02-27 doycet Musing 3 comments

Okay, I haven’t done a lot (read: any) gaming of pretty much any kind in the last few weeks, due

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Getting ready to game

2007-02-14 doycet Links & Resources One comment

Have Games Will Travel: Focuses specifically on the responsibilities of players to engage in the game and shout out when

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Prove the Glory of Your Name!

2007-02-14 doycet Musing One comment

What gets me thinking: 300 movie trailer. What I’m thinking: AGON: Competitive Roleplaying in Ancient Greece Inspiring: Agon: Index of

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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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