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Category: Table Top

First proper session of the Pandemic Legacy campaign

2016-03-05 doycet Actual Play, Table Top

Got together on Thursday night with Kim, Tim, and Kate after a long hiatus following our ‘prep session.’ We managed

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Still totally not running a Star Wars game

2016-01-15 doycet Musing, Table Top 2 comments

… just killing some time, making up a character with my daughter. Nothing to see here. Move along. Move along…

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The Clone Wars as they were Fought in my Head

2016-01-14 doycet Musing, Table Top One comment

This post jarred this loose and onto the page. Back in college, I played a minor character in a long-running

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Converting Starship Stats from WEG to Fate

2016-01-12 doycet Game Design, Table Top

Contrary to the evidence from this and previous posts, I am definitely not running thinking about running a Fate-based Star

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Summer Break RPGs with Kaylee, #5: Tearful Farewells

2015-07-15 doycet Actual Play, Table Top

After Kaylee voiced her concerns with the way things were going during the last session, we started off this session

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Summer Break RPGs with Kaylee, #4: Lines and Veils

2015-06-29 doycet Actual Play, Musing, Table Top

The title for this post doesn’t have anything to do with the story of what happened in the game. It

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Summer Break RPGs with Kaylee, #3: Getting Things Started

2015-06-26 doycet Actual Play, Table Top

I promise I’m (almost) done mulling over game systems and talking about what might or might not work. Instead, lets

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Summer Break RPGs with Kaylee, #2: Dungeon Age? Dragon World?

2015-06-24 doycet Actual Play, Musing, Table Top

So I’m pondering Dungeon World with only one player, but player characters in DW need bonds with other characters, and

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Summer Break RPGs with Kaylee, #1: Just Figuring out What to Play

2015-06-22 doycet Actual Play, Musing, Table Top

My gaming with Kaylee is fairly well documented and, in general, we’ve been pretty happy playing Fate or Fate Accelerated.

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Playing Hero Kids with my Hero Kids

2015-03-11 doycet Actual Play, Game Design, Links & Resources, Table Top 2 comments

Last night, in lieu of normal bedtime activities (reading Winnie-the-Pooh, Justice League I-Can-Read books, or our new favorite, Bone), Kaylee

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Mulling Over *Mountain Witch* mashups

2014-08-27 doycet Game Design, Musing, Online Table Top, Table Top

For the last few weeks, I’ve been working on stuff related to the Mountain Witch, specifically: Prepping for a traditional

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Fate of the Four Nations (playing FAE in the world of Korra and Aang)

2014-07-17 doycet Game Design, Musing, Table Top

My family’s getting caught up on Avatar: Legend of Korra, which has unsurprisingly led to my daughter broaching the possibility

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Wildstar Tabletop Gaming, by way of FAE/Jadepunk

2014-06-30 doycet Game Design, MMO & Computers, Musing, Online Table Top, Table Top 2 comments

“You should do a Wildstar game,” opined my daughter. “Sorry?” Her comment confused me, both because Wildstar is an MMO

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Fate, The Demolished Ones, Sessions 5 and 6

2014-04-28 doycet Actual Play, Online Table Top, Table Top 4 comments

Under normal circumstances, I wouldn’t be blogging about this game at all, right now: the last anyone would have heard

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Fate, The Demolished Ones, Session 4

2014-04-15 doycet Actual Play, Online Table Top, Table Top One comment

After a week off for illness (mine) we’re jumping back into the Demolished Ones tonight, with session five. While checking

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Fate: The Demolished Ones, Session Three

2014-04-01 doycet Actual Play, Online Table Top, Table Top

“But first, I believe formal introductions are in order.” The statement hangs in the air for more than a few

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Fate: The Demolished Ones, Session Two

2014-03-17 doycet Actual Play, Online Table Top, Table Top

“Anyone know where Beacon Street is?” He looks around at the quiet, fog-shrouded night streets. “Or where we are?” That’s

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Fate: The Demolished Ones, Session One

2014-03-11 doycet Actual Play, Table Top 3 comments

Because I didn’t have enough going on, I decided to start an online game of Fate, using a combination of

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Fate Accelerated: Trouble Magnet – Kaylee’s Solo Supers Session #6 – Fight Fire

2014-02-03 doycet Actual Play, D20, Table Top

Due to unexpected fallout from last session, Nataly’s brawl with an alien gargoyle got her and her new family put

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Fate Accelerated: Trouble Magnet – Kaylee’s Solo Supers Session #5 – Blacklisted

2014-01-28 doycet Actual Play, Table Top

At the end of our last session, the hunt for a new home in Mercury Bay hit a snag when

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Post Ludus Analysis: (Fate) Gaming with Kids

2014-01-24 doycet Actual Play, Musing, Table Top 3 comments

Almost all of the RPG gaming I’ve done recently has been with kids 14 and younger. All, in fact, of

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Fate Accelerated: Trouble Magnet – Kaylee’s Solo Supers Session #4 – “House Hunters Supernatural”

2014-01-23 doycet Actual Play, Table Top

I’ve been remiss in my actual play reports. During the summer, Kaylee and I started up a solo supers campaign,

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Business End of a Boom Tube – FAE Supers Gaming with my Family, Part Four (of Four)

2014-01-22 doycet Actual Play, Table Top One comment

First, a disclaimer: I’m not very good at Fate. There are players out there who can wave their hand, summon

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Garbage Disposal – FAE Supers Gaming with my Family, Part Three

2014-01-15 doycet Actual Play, Table Top 2 comments

In the last session with my niece, nephew, and daughter, the three young heroes were sneaking through the ship on

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“We’re on a Ship?” – FAE Supers Gaming with my Family, Part Two

2014-01-06 doycet Actual Play, Table Top 2 comments

[Not a lot of dice rolling and no fights in this one, but good character building stuff.] When we last

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“Escape from the Science Tubes” – FAE Supers Gaming with my Family, Part One

2014-01-02 doycet Actual Play, Table Top 6 comments

I could write about this game for a week. It’s possible I might. There’s so much to take out of

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I’m told the Fate Accelerated rule book arrived alongside my copy of Fate Core.

2013-07-03 doycet Actual Play, Table Top One comment

I didn’t get a chance to really see it, though. Kaylee snapped it up (and the accompanying bookmark+rules summary). Then

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FATE: Kaylee’s Solo Supers Session Two – Trouble Magnet

2013-07-01 doycet Actual Play, Table Top

Nataly wakes up in her room at the Clearwater Campus, her head foggy and filled with that nagging feeling you

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FATE: Short “Supers” Session with Kaylee

2013-06-25 doycet Actual Play, Table Top

Last night, Kaylee and I decided to trade our bedtime reading for a introductory mini-session of Fate Accelerated Edition, with

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Apologies for the reposting-of-same-post spam

2013-06-22 doycet Table Top

I’m still working out the various strange drug interactions between this blog (wordpress) and google+. I generally LIKE how I

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

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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
Kiri's symbiote saves him... from something, or for something?
Quinn pulls on the strings trailing from everyone on Providence Station.

2026 02 03
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