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2006-11-10 doycet Links & Resources

Steampunk – via Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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Green

2006-11-10 doycet Links & Resources

I envy Paul Tevis’ upcoming gaming schedule. (Have Games, Will Travel #79)

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Very nearly enough to make me like the French

2006-11-10 doycet Links & Resources One comment

How do you take an already great game and awesomeate it? Jungle Speed: Flower Power — The game comes in

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Charted

2006-11-09 doycet Links & Resources One comment

strange maps, a fun blog with a ton of interesting bits on it, complete with — of course — maps.

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Note: I am not a cat person

2006-11-08 doycet Links & Resources 4 comments

Before the dawn of Time, all the creatures of the world came together for a great competition. The benefit to

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NYC TSoY

2006-11-08 doycet Actual Play

After nine months of dancing around the idea, I finally got a chance to run a game for the ‘geeks’

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My god, it’s full of stars…

2006-10-30 doycet Links & Resources 2 comments

How do you take a lame 80’s cartoon and make it incredibly awesome? Here’s one way: Marko Djurdjevic’s He-Man Redesign.

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Week in Review

2006-10-30 doycet Actual Play, MMO & Computers 2 comments

Marginally frustrating week, in that I keep trying to get some games going, and the combination of everyone’s schedules and

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Dungeons & Dragons flowchart

2006-10-30 doycet Links & Resources

Looks about right. Considerably more useful: Merle Rasmussen’s mission flowchart from his designer notes for Top Secret.

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B-a-l-a-n-c-e

2006-10-24 doycet Links & Resources

Durham 3: Balancing “Real Life” and gaming — certainly, I get the point of the discussion. 🙂

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Additional Prince of Persia, Warrior Within thought

2006-10-24 doycet Musing 2 comments

I haven’t muttered vulgarities at my computer this much since I had to replace the hard drive last year.

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“Isn’t that interesting? Doesn’t that just make you go ‘Oooh?'”

2006-10-24 doycet Musing

Eden Studios ends production of Buffy/Angel RPGs For a number of months now, Eden Studios has been negotiating with Fox

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Weeks and weeks and weeks in review

2006-10-23 doycet Actual Play 2 comments

Been traveling for awhile, and scheduling is always hard during the holidays, so there hasn’t been much gaming going on.

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Heh.

2006-10-21 doycet Links & Resources 2 comments

Story Games for Everybody – Fixing Gaming Theory Terminology Once and For All Ansa dansa mo go fop is for

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Gaming with Kids

2006-10-20 doycet Links & Resources 3 comments

Have Games, Will Travel discusses Faery’s Tale, The Princes Kingdom, and “playing well with others.” Good stuff, as always, and

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“Back that Legolas up! MeOW!”

2006-10-19 doycet Links & Resources 3 comments

DM of the Rings — LotR as a tabletop game. Hi-larious.

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Wah?

2006-10-18 doycet Actual Play

Somehow, I forgot to write down the Actual Play from the second Dogs session. That’s just wacky. I will fix

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Bloody huge scrolling map of Victorian London

2006-10-18 doycet Links & Resources

London, 1895

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Great Resource Thread

2006-10-17 doycet Links & Resources

Story Games – Your favourite online references.

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“Tiggers like everything… except honey.”

2006-10-17 doycet Musing One comment

The Tigger Syndrome in Gaming Seems familiar, a bit.

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Want List:

2006-10-17 doycet Musing

Shadows Over Camelot. Just a note to myself. Nothing to see here.

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I’m back in the states and enmeshed in Le Television

2006-10-17 doycet Musing One comment

I made the mistake of drinking the visual koolaid that is Studio 60 last night, back to back with two

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GNS & Exploration

2006-10-06 doycet Musing

GNS my session Ron and a Rifts player talk about the Big Model and GNS. I dunno if the end

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Extensible community.

2006-10-05 doycet Musing 3 comments

I direct your attention to the “Random Chat” link on the right sidebar. Just playing around, but it might be

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Geh

2006-10-03 doycet MMO & Computers 2 comments

Took a minute to go look at the CoH forums and take stock of all the crap I’ve written up

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Awesome

2006-10-02 doycet Links & Resources One comment

Customized Playing Cards I totally want to do some customized cards for a game of Primetime Adventures or Savage Worlds.

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Have Games, will Roach

2006-10-01 doycet Links & Resources

Have Games, Will Travel #74 talks about Don’t Rest Your Head (dark “supers” in the vein of Dark City, Matrix,

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have Spy, will travel

2006-09-28 doycet Links & Resources 4 comments

Have Games, Will Travel — Go to #73. Play it. Skip to 11 minutes in and listen to him talking

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Stealing from DitV: “Slicing” conflicts into more digestible parts

2006-09-27 doycet Musing 3 comments

Okay, I’m just brainstorming here, and I more than welcome input and thoughts. I got Dogs a couple years back

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Wear your Roach on your Sleeve

2006-09-27 doycet Links & Resources 6 comments

Bully Pulpit’s Spreadshirt Store, with a number of fun Pemberton Panthercat shirts, and some fun “MURUB” (Copulate with this person!)

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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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