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Dohyo Download 0023: Tetsuba and Yusho Winner Amao!

This is the Official Podcast of the Road to Yokozuna Discord game at https://discord.gg/Z4xdG5fy6s . If you aren’t playing, why not? This is the best sumo game around! We have a great community and we’re always ready to welcome an enthusiastic new player! Join us! Without thinking, DJ (Suijin) starts recording without realizing that content might be a little thin this week… but it’s a good thing…

Game Master of Darkness: Meta and Progression

I spend my experience on Protean Level 3, Earth Meld. Ok, player, it’s an out of Clan Discipline, who taught you? I have the XP for it, I just learn it. Uh, no. You’re a Toreador. You have the XP to learn the Discipline, yes, but you realistically need someone to teach you HOW to perform this wonderful feat of Earth Melding. I’ll just figure it out. Ok, that’ll take, oh let’s say, 150 years. How…

Emerald Specter 141: Divided

The United States of America is no longer a united country. Sure, on paper, we appear to be a united nation working towards a common goal, but there are two definitive factions working to actively tear the nation apart with wildly different agendas and neither seems to want to see the fact that their own agenda has little to do with being an actual working government for the people as is stated…

Dohyo Download 0022: Block 4 Update and Retirement Talk

This is the Official Podcast of the Road to Yokozuna Discord game at https://discord.gg/Z4xdG5fy6s . If you aren’t playing, why not? This is the best sumo game around! We have a great community and we’re always ready to welcome an enthusiastic new player! Join us! It’s a little late this week as DJ (Suijin) forgot that Sunday was the first day of his two day weekend and not the last day. A…

Dohyo Download 0021: Block 3 In Progress, Rambling Man Returns!

This is the Official Podcast of the Road to Yokozuna Discord game at https://discord.gg/Z4xdG5fy6s . If you aren’t playing, why not? This is the best sumo game around! We have a great community and we’re always ready to welcome an enthusiastic new player! Join us! Without a plan, I (Suijin/DJ), manage to fill up over 30 minutes of Road to Yokozuna goodness without a direction! There are match…

Game Master of Darkness: Character

I want Celerity, Dominate, and Protean… but I also want to have Auspex, so I need to get Animalism. Does this sound familiar? There are a lot of players that want to play a character in your chronicle and some of those players have the background of their character in the back of their minds… because what they can do is in the forefront. Powers seem to be the thing that they are concerned with…

Dohyo Download 0020: Block 2 Review

This is the Official Podcast of the Road to Yokozuna Discord game at https://discord.gg/Z4xdG5fy6s . If you aren’t playing, why not? This is the best sumo game around! We have a great community and we’re always ready to welcome an enthusiastic new player! Join us! With the imminent departure of a lot of the upper echelon in Makuuchi, Road to Yokozuna is reviewed under the close eye of Suijin as…

Dohyo Download 0019: Slow Week

This is the Official Podcast of the Road to Yokozuna Discord game at https://discord.gg/Z4xdG5fy6s . If you aren’t playing, why not? This is the best sumo game around! We have a great community and we’re always ready to welcome an enthusiastic new player! Join us! The basho has started, the first block is underway, and… there isn’t much else going on. Slow show, but there is a bit to discuss and…

Dohyo Download 0018: RTY Degeiko Ends, Wakatakakage Dominates

This is the Official Podcast of the Road to Yokozuna Discord game at https://discord.gg/Z4xdG5fy6s . If you aren’t playing, why not? This is the best sumo game around! We have a great community and we’re always ready to welcome an enthusiastic new player! Join us! With the Road to Yokozuna preparing to transition between Degeiko activities into a full on basho, DJ talks a little about a…

Game Master of Darkness: Coteries

Welcome to the new and improved Gamemaster’s Screen, where I shift gears from a general tips plus column into something geared a little more towards the world I’ve got the most experience in: the World of Darkness. I’m going to start with the concept of Coteries. Your coterie is your group of friends that you rely on, fight with, and get things done with. Sometimes coteries end up not lasting…

140: Getting Stuff Done

Once again, I have returned with another column and this one isn’t going to be a big hullabaloo about how things have fallen behind. I know they’ve fallen behind and you know they’ve fallen behind, we’ve established that and it’s just time to move along. What I need to address is what I’m doing, what is going on, where these things are happening, and what to look out for in the near future.Can…

Dohyo Download 0017: Guess Who’s Back?

This is the Official Podcast of the Road to Yokozuna Discord game at https://discord.gg/Z4xdG5fy6s . It’s been a while and DJ/Suijin is back with a podcast! There is a few things on the docket, though sumo isn’t necessarily the big news on this one, folks! That’s right, sumo isn’t the big news on a sumo game podcast! What could it be? Listen and find out! The Patreon is at…

Dohyo Download 0016: Back in the Saddle Again

This is the Official Podcast of the Road to Yokozuna Discord game at https://discord.gg/Z4xdG5fy6s . Talking about the Scotland Basho, promotions, reviewing the Hatsu 2022 banzuke, and talking a little bit about why you should be using fatigue dice until you’re very far into playing Road to Yokozuna. The Patreon is at patreon.com/EmeraldSpecter, Twitter is @EmeraldSpecter, and if you want to…

Dohyo Download 0015: Basho Out, Basho In

This is the Official Podcast of the Road to Yokozuna Discord game at https://discord.gg/Z4xdG5fy6s . Late for reviewing each block of the last basho, I’m reviewing the whole thing! I am also taking a look at the banzuke for the Scotland basho! Just listen! The Patreon is at patreon.com/EmeraldSpecter, Twitter is @EmeraldSpecter, and if you want to help out, please just drop a monthly donation……

139: Gamemaster’s Screen Metamorphosis

I’m using an Emerald Specter column to explain what the Gamemaster’s Screen is going to become, which will be it’s own newer column. That’s three different things all relating to one single thing. Good job me. RPG Blog for GM Tips and Playing So, when I came up with the concept for the Gamemaster’s Screen, I really wanted to write about RPG gaming as a hobby in general. TTRPG (table top RPG) I…

Dohyo Download 0014: I’m Back for Pre-Basho Goodness!

This is the Official Podcast of the Road to Yokozuna Discord game at https://discord.gg/Z4xdG5fy6s . With the impending Road to Yokozuna Nagoya 2021 Basho coming, DJ covers the Banzuke and welcomes the newbies to the fray! Pronunciation fun is had and there is a wonderful sponsor that you’ll all want to run right out and purchase from right now! The Patreon is at patreon.com/EmeraldSpecter,…

Dohyo Download 0013: Back From Hiatus

This is the Official Podcast of the Road to Yokozuna Discord game at https://discord.gg/Z4xdG5fy6s . DJ goes over a little bit of everything as he’s been quiet for way too long. Heck, this was even recorded a week and a half before this release! Hopefully this gets things back on track! NOTICE: The mention of the “you simulate vs. real rikishi” spreadsheet has encountered a fatal flaw in the…