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Pictures worth a thousand words

2006-06-24 doycet Links & Resources 7 comments

Take a movie poster, make it an RPG poster. Result: The Funny. New Photoshop Challenge: RPGs go to the movies

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Happy!

2006-06-21 doycet Links & Resources One comment

Story Games Community This forum was basically created to be a midway point between RPGNet and The Forge. I love

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Relationship Mapping Tool

2006-06-19 doycet Links & Resources

Diagram Designer — a sort of Visio-lite program that seems ideal for charting out relationship maps for highly-social games. A

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Lifecycle

2006-06-19 doycet Links & Resources One comment

Multiplayer game designer Raph Koster offers some observations on the Lifecycles of a Gamer: In many ways, we are all

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Awesome

2006-06-13 doycet Links & Resources

The Cheap and Cheesy Adventure Generator

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Really do like that game…

2006-06-13 doycet Links & Resources

Risusiverse, the Risus Wiki. Awesome.

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Random Wiki thing

2006-06-12 doycet Links & Resources

Changed around the layout on the page for my City Of Characters, to two purposes: 1. Lets my just update

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Gankin’ gankin’ gankin’…

2006-05-12 doycet Links & Resources 2 comments

PVP is Serious Business. Right. Don’t gank 11 year olds, apparently. Sheesh. Also, since folks have asked, the origin(s) of

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Excellent question

2006-05-05 doycet Links & Resources One comment

I did a book report back in high school on the Icewind Dale trilogy. Yeah yeah, Drizz’t — sue me.

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Geekcast

2006-05-04 doycet Links & Resources

Geek Podcasts Durham 3: rocks. The Sons Of Kryos: Gaming bits. I started with the 11th -cast, which was fun

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Another DitV post that makes me want to run (or play) the Game

2006-05-04 doycet Links & Resources

[DitV] Temperance and Accountability

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HQ Rules analysis

2006-05-04 doycet Links & Resources

Really great Heroquest Probabilities Question that then wanders off into the question of ‘is it better to spend 10 Hero

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Introducing Keeley …

2006-04-28 doycet Links & Resources 2 comments

… with this little gem: Table 4-78: 11th-Level Office Encounters. 23-28: 1d8+2 dire secretaries 29-45: 1d2 marketers (demon)

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Fodder

2006-04-28 doycet Links & Resources

Because this should just be relinked to, periodically: Random Plot Generator. Groovy.

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“Your romantic relationships all tend to end in a plummet.”

2006-04-27 doycet Links & Resources One comment

Via Dave: How to Tell if You’re a Superhero. Darn funny.

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Too damn funny

2006-04-10 doycet Links & Resources 5 comments

Via Dave: Southpark Amber trumps. It’s kinda true, as a few people have said, that there’s nothing new under the

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Sweet; a place to practice

2006-03-17 doycet Links & Resources

Java-based Settlers of Catan

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In honor of Jacob :)

2006-02-13 doycet Links & Resources 8 comments

Morbid Fact Du Jour, the February 12th entry: Most authorities believe the character of Dracula in Bram Stoker?s novel was

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I’m afraid I have to dedicate this one to Aaron :)

2006-01-31 doycet Links & Resources 3 comments

Penny Arcade! – Just When I Get Out: Yeah… just try and take some time off of CoH 🙂

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Random Link

2006-01-03 doycet Links & Resources

Some webcomics to check out.

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Simply no way you can’t use this in your game…

2005-11-30 doycet Links & Resources One comment

… which game? Doesn’t matter. Stone Age to Sci Fi, there’s something useful here: The CIA World Factbook. ((Used it

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Unforeseen Consequences

2005-09-20 doycet Links & Resources 3 comments

Plague Strikes WoW: Blizzard recently added the Zul’Gurub instance to the game, where Hakkar, the god of blood, uses a

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Risus Mystery Men

2005-08-22 doycet Links & Resources

The Risus – MYSTERY MEN Website What is Risus? Risus is a complete FREE Role Playing Game (RPG) designed to

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Firefly stuff

2005-08-17 doycet Links & Resources 3 comments

Jamie Chambers, the creator of the Serenity RPG posts on FIREFLYFANS.NET about the upcoming launch of the highly anticipated game

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Critical Mass

2005-08-04 doycet Links & Resources 6 comments

MMORPGS and the Dunbar number This all leads me to hypothesize that the optimal size for active group members for

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Feed the Wiki!

2005-08-04 doycet Links & Resources

Please be advised that the link for the RSS feed for RandomWiki is now http://random.average-bear.com/Site/AllRecentChanges?action=rss

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What’s in a name?

2005-08-03 doycet Links & Resources

Seventh Sanctum – Name Generators Whole pages of them. Much recommended — a few excellent superhero ones, for example, and

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Might as well, since I have time

2005-08-02 doycet Links & Resources 2 comments

Please be advised that RandomWiki will be locked vs. editing while I upgrade to 2.0. This upgrade will allow for

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Because I need *this* shit today…

2005-07-28 doycet Links & Resources 5 comments

RandomWiki has been vandalized. If you grok wiki at all and understand the ‘restore’ function, I’d ask your assistance in

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Or: How to not create a Shoggoth Plot

2005-07-11 doycet Links & Resources One comment

Since this is (a) something that is terribly useful when roleplaying in a ‘systemless’ environment, (b) something that’s caused a

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

Doyce Testerman
"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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