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Recognition

2004-12-10 doycet Musing

You know what’s cool? What’s cool is when you get a new game in the mail, especially when it’s something

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Toys. Cheap.

2004-12-10 doycet Links & Resources One comment

RPG Shop: Dungeons and Dragons Miniatures Painted, plastic miniatures. Usually very cheap. Just the thing for picking up a dozen

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More HQ d20 rambling

2004-12-09 doycet Musing 12 comments

One of the things I’m looking forward to in the HQ game with the d20 group is fights and conflicts.

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What to do with that empty seat?

2004-12-09 doycet Musing One comment

Lunchtime Poll #3: Imperfect Attendance How do you cope with the absence of a player, either in a single session

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In Recent Events #3

2004-12-07 doycet Musing 2 comments

“I fear that we have awakened a sleeping giant and filled him with a terrible resolve.” — Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto,

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More d20 -> HQ thoughts

2004-12-06 doycet Musing 8 comments

Another thought from the same thread on the Forge, this one having to do with the idea that characters in

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d20 to HQ gaming conversion

2004-12-06 doycet Musing 2 comments

I’ve got an opportunity coming up to demo Heroquest for the d20 playgroup that’s been running since… oh… pretty much

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Sorcerer, Grimm Therapy, Session Six

2004-12-02 doycet Actual Play One comment

Holy Cow! The anticipated final session actually ended up being the REAL final session! Wow! Okay, I should have done

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Type. Print. Play.

2004-12-01 doycet Links & Resources

Sparks: Paper Miniatures as a Font From the same guy who brought you Risus and other cool stuff. How did

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Child’s play

2004-12-01 doycet Links & Resources

The Forge: Suprise (sic) gaming with a seven-year-old: “I cut off its head,” she said, after making a swipe with

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Writing-Gaming Connection

2004-12-01 doycet Musing

[Wow. Tough to figure out what blog to post this on. I think it goes here by virtue of the

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update on the Dibs that is Kringle in Time

2004-11-30 doycet Links & Resources

A Kringle in Time contains a lot of misbehaving and adult themes and is inappropriate for family gaming unless you

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FYI:

2004-11-23 doycet Links & Resources One comment

A Kringle in Time. Dibs. Player or GM, I don’t care, but dibs.

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Sorcerer, Grimm Therapy, Session 5

2004-11-22 doycet Actual Play

When we last left our heroes… Kermit, Jason, and Nicky were in a knock-down, drag-out brawl with the Big Man

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Via the Forge…

2004-11-10 doycet Links & Resources

“Idea” photos for DitV games. Also… just good photos.

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Generic Heroquest

2004-11-02 doycet Musing One comment

Issaries has already comissioned a “generic” rpg game using the core HeroQuest rules and to be published with several sample

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Musing

2004-11-01 doycet Links & Resources

Using PmWiki 1.x as a blogging tool, via a few minor WikiCalendar hacks. Hmm.

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Sorcerer, Grimm Therapy, Session 4

2004-10-28 doycet Actual Play

When we last left our heroes… Kermit and Nicky decided to go and poke around the old Factory where “Nicky’s

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How to play Dogs when you don’t want to play Dogs

2004-10-27 doycet Musing 2 comments

Based on the back-cover copy for DitV and incorporating a suggested alternative setting from the GM’s section: Dogs in the

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Toys for Dogs

2004-10-25 doycet Links & Resources

Resources, Tools, and Ephemera for DitV: Worth it for the mocked-up book covers alone.

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Dogs in the Vineyard, first group chargen

2004-10-25 doycet Actual Play 2 comments

Justin and I have been messing around with Dogs in the Vineyard a bit. I really like this game. Anyway,

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Dogs in the Vineyard, the long intro

2004-10-21 doycet Links & Resources 18 comments

K, I don’t know how on earth folks have missed my references to Dogs in the Vineyard up to this

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Solo DitV with the Boy: Chargen

2004-10-20 doycet Actual Play One comment

Every other Saturday, Jackie attends a game that I’m not involved in, leaving me and Justin to bang around the

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Asking questions to set up your game

2004-10-16 doycet Links & Resources

Chris gives some great tips on how to get together for a new game and really tie your players’ characters

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Weekend in gaming

2004-10-04 doycet Table Top

Friday: Played InSpectres, in which our heros (a hooker, an ex-mormon mechanic, a fringe-fringe-FRINGE scientist, and a cold-war MI-5 operative

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Change is… eh.

2004-10-04 doycet Musing

Well, I went back to a slightly tweaked version of the original blog page; not due to negative feedback as

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Lick the Good Press

2004-10-02 doycet Links & Resources

Ken Hite talks about DitV.

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Building Dogs

2004-10-02 doycet Links & Resources 3 comments

Some folks on the Forge are getting ready to play Dogs in the Vineyard on IRC, and they’re conducting all

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The Sorcerer/Amber Connection

2004-09-29 doycet Musing 3 comments

So here’s an interesting thing: One of the main bits of preparation that you’re supposed to do (as the GM)

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So many good things.

2004-09-28 doycet Links & Resources

Harlekin-Maus — gaming gold waiting to be mined.

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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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