Recent content by Tani Coyote

Gaming is certainly alive and well yeah, just on different media. My roommate and my boyfriend each have their own weekly Discord-based DnD sessions for example. Some people still play Diplomacy by mail. There is just the fact most IOTs ultimately did not provide anything that you could not...

I think you would be hard-pressed to find an audience. The heyday of IOT correlates with a time most of us were high school or college students, and I don't think a new generation really exists. This is without mentioning any intracommunity drama that has erupted elsewhere that would make it...

1. We raise absurd amounts of money for trans people while also doing a crazy music festival. 2. Yes, yes I do. We were the "Triumvirate" but I decided Troika was better.

Dead and buried, and yet, it is frequently unearthed via this thread. It would appear many folks' physical bodies are unable to stay, but their minds are unwilling to leave. If nothing else, I lament that the collaborative GM model never really took off; having to manage a team of 200+ people...

The forum was effectively dead, but TK took that as a challenge so now we've got a classic IOT going.

After investigating reports that the people of Seattle had overthrown the liberal capitalist yoke and had been dunking most of their CEOs in steaming hot lattes with Austrian goat milk, the Confederation dispatched naval vessels to the area to evacuate any Colorado citizens who felt their safety...

Colorado has, after due consideration, accepted petitions from Sinaloa and Nayarit to become states of the Confederation. Given the increased naval presence in the Mar Bermejo ("Vermillion Sea," known previously as the Sea of Cortez *spits* or Gulf of California) and the rough geography of the...

Colorado Confederation After forging a blood pact with a pagan deity, another gay furry proceeded to use a series of bargainings, beatings, and betrayals to establish control of the bulk of the Colorado River and its watershed with its capital at Las Vegas. Despite the enormous power of the...

God. I love how nukes were basically just expedited land clearance (shoutout to Thor for trying to make them have lasting consequences though). I'll miss those days of being so ridiculous and carefree. By Xolotl, it's important to honor what is gone. I was reminded of a community I helped...

The good ole days of claim 1/3 of the world and then nuke Mecca for lulz.

Oh, to relive the days of mass extirpation of civilization in early IOT games

Who is still active around these parts, anyway? It's been something over 13.5 years to go from having a glut of games to just one at a time.

Being forced to read a bunch of UN resolutions for a research project and now I see why "doohdtf" was a thing.

So I downloaded all the files for AoI 5.0 because I can't help but always come back to this scenario... I'm using Steam's Civ3 Complete. And well when I go to open the scenario... Curious what my dumb self broke hahaha

So I had to play TanIOT IRL and manage an event that had great strategic planning but holes in execution, but I am happy to report we raised over 6,200 EP for a local trans charity.