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Week in Review

2007-10-29 doycet Actual Play, MMO & Computers, Table Top

So here’s what’s been going on. Face to Face Ran a murder mystery for the most recent Spirit of the

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[SotC/Fate] A Different Take on Phases

2007-10-23 doycet Links & Resources, Musing, Table Top

From one of the game’s author’s a great tweak to the phases in SotC character generation to move away from

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Zombies at(e) the Homecoming Dance

2007-10-18 doycet Actual Play, Table Top

Caught up by the desire to play a little wacky horror roleplaying in the middle of the week, I got

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scroll right

2007-10-16 doycet Links & Resources 2 comments

Completely. Awesome.

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Wish Fulfillment

2007-10-15 doycet Actual Play, MMO & Computers, Musing 2 comments

Last night, Kate and I were running around the edge of this orc camp up the Greenway a few miles

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Playing to win

2007-10-15 doycet Actual Play, MMO & Computers, Table Top One comment

I actually had two points for my “serious gamer” post, but the thing was getting too long, so here’s the

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Casual/Hardcore vs. the Serious Gamer

2007-10-15 doycet MMO & Computers, Musing, Table Top 4 comments

Okay. This is going to seem like it has a lot to do with MMO gaming, but at it’s heart

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Splitting the Party

2007-10-10 doycet Musing 3 comments

A good, though old, discussion about the histrionics and misconceptions that surround ‘splitting the party’ in gaming sessions. Are you

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Gaming in review

2007-10-08 doycet Actual Play, MMO & Computers, Table Top 6 comments

A mix of gaming this weekend. ((Blogging bitching: it really should be possible to just hit Ctrl-B in Moveabletype to

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He’s not pretty, but I like ‘im.

2007-10-08 doycet MMO & Computers

“What are YOU looking at?” I’ve had a couple pretty good runs with Grezzk lately, and he’s looking pretty badass:

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MMOvie

2007-10-02 doycet MMO & Computers 2 comments
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Making a hobbit of it.

2007-09-25 doycet MMO & Computers 6 comments

As mentioned here, Kate and I have been conducting a sort of Test Run of Fun on the MMORPG Lord

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The economy in an MMO

2007-09-21 doycet MMO & Computers One comment

Here is a simple fact about MMO economies: every “value” in a MMORPG boils down to time investment. In short,

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Jonathan Coulton is full of Awesome

2007-09-21 doycet Links & Resources

Don’t believe me? Peruse the Jonathan Coulton – Listening Suggestions. I’m going to buy, like… everything on his site. So

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Pretty much applies to any game

2007-09-21 doycet Links & Resources

Penny Arcade! – The Protip

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Demonstrating Learning Behavior

2007-09-19 doycet MMO & Computers, Musing One comment

Three MMO mistakes I’ll never make again “I do not need to level tonight.” For “level,” also insert “get the

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A little note for Battleground players

2007-09-10 doycet MMO & Computers

If you have a nifty little macro/code/addon widget that, when you’re down to 20% or 10% health, automatically has you

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Meh.

2007-09-10 doycet MMO & Computers

Hmm. I was planning on a basic week in review post, but I realized pretty much everything I have to

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Granted, I don’t actually digress about PHP…

2007-09-08 doycet Links & Resources

DM of the Rings XIV:Boring Distractions D&D is a sort of simulation. A simulation of living in a fantasy world

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Tiny gaming update

2007-09-04 doycet Actual Play 2 comments

Not a lot of gaming in the last week. Here’s what’s been going on. MMO – WoW Grezzk Level 70

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Grezzk: Ding 70

2007-08-30 doycet MMO & Computers

Because it is late, simply a brief screenshot summary of some of the better moments from the last 10 levels

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Week in Review

2007-08-28 doycet Actual Play, MMO & Computers 3 comments

Here’s what’s been going on in the last week or so: MMO – WoW Grezzk Level 69 orcish hunter. Farstriders

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Monday Thought for the Day

2007-08-27 doycet Musing One comment

xkcd, By Randall Munroe

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Gaming in review

2007-08-21 doycet Musing One comment

From the last week or so.

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Warhammer Online

2007-08-20 doycet MMO & Computers 4 comments

The Human Side of WAR — this is an easy to ready two-page interview, and I recommend it. Lots of

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A very limited market of appeal

2007-08-10 doycet Musing

I can’t seem to find that vital crossover audience of people who appreciate the subtle genius of taking Little Einsteins

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LOTRO Review

2007-08-07 doycet MMO & Computers One comment

Tempted in by Avocet, and as a long-time Tolkein Fanboy (let’s not talk about how many times I’ve read the

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So I can clear it out of my email/reminder folder

2007-08-06 doycet Links & Resources

Theory From the Closet: Interview with Fred Hicks This is a really good, fairly long interview. Clyde does some really

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AIR RAID! PARAGON CITY! THIS IS NO DRILL!

2007-08-02 doycet MMO & Computers

(Here’s a cunning scheme from NCSoft…) Any and all Superpowered individuals are needed immediately to stave off the Rikti Invasion

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Random Additional MMO Thoughts

2007-07-31 doycet MMO & Computers One comment

My GOD I’ve missed having Fly on a regular toon I play. Slow, but still the best move power ever.

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Mostly actual play from online tabletop games, played on Roll20. Also random other stuff.

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"Let's try out the combat system," they said.
"What could go wrong?" they said...


2026 05 26
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
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