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DnD errata

2008-06-24 doycet D20, Links & Resources

*WotC’s official D&D 4e errata *enworld’s unofficial D&D 4e errata

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“Keys” for DnD

2008-06-24 doycet D20, Musing 3 comments

For a longer-term DnD game, I am seriously considering using something like the experience point system in The Shadow of

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How did they know?

2008-06-23 doycet Links & Resources

Waiting in my Inbox, early this morning… Not quite the 60% discount is was on preorder, but the box set

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Actual Play: Keep on the Shadowfells, Session One

2008-06-23 doycet Actual Play, D20 6 comments

As I mentioned, had a chance to play the first couple events in the sort of “DnD 4th Edition Lite”

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Dealing with the whiff-factor in DnD

2008-06-23 doycet D20, Musing 3 comments

Played some DnD last night. It was good. I will talk about that more in a bit, but for now,

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OM Freakin’ G: The DnD 4.0 game with the seven-year old got even more awesome.

2008-06-09 doycet D20, Links & Resources

You haven’t been keeping up with the exploits of D and his dad Tony? Why on earth not? Go here.

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Watching the 4.0 DnD release

2008-06-09 doycet D20, Musing 2 comments

… is a fascinating kind of car-crash voyeurism. Lots of folks into gaming have never really tried anything outside of

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Learn about DnD 4.0 with some cool, funny guys.

2008-06-06 doycet D20, Links & Resources One comment

Okay, so here’s what happened. Tycho and Gabriel from Penny Arcade, plus Scott Kurtz from PvP, got together with one

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For the nerd on your Father’s Day list

2008-06-03 doycet D20, Links & Resources, Musing 3 comments

Dungeons and Dragons, 4th Edition. I’m sorry, I’m just hearing too much good stuff about it. The indie roleplaying community

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How Conflicts Work (PTA, Galactic, and many many more)

2008-05-28 doycet Musing 2 comments

So in this post, I’m going to talk about some different games and how they deal with conflict resolution. Specifically,

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“I kick it (old school) for 1d6+2 damage.”

2008-05-27 doycet Musing, Table Top One comment

So a few weeks ago, I was poking through an old chest of junk from high school and found something

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In a Wicked Age

2008-05-27 doycet Actual Play, Table Top 2 comments

So I’ve mentioned this game a couple times on the site, but haven’t really gotten into the game that much

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The Sound of Silence

2008-05-21 doycet MMO & Computers

The internets are pretty darned quiet today… at least the areas I listen to. This is, I think, almost entirely

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Greetings from Shell Beach Eriador!

2008-05-13 doycet MMO & Computers

Again, look at these as snapshots from a recent vacation. The first shot is from a few weeks ago, taken

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A couple screenshots from World of Warcraft

2008-05-01 doycet MMO & Computers

Really, what is an MMO but a mini-vacation? And what should you do on a vacation? You take pictures. I’ll

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So how did that “interview” raid go?

2008-04-30 doycet MMO & Computers

You know, the first time I went to Karazhan with Grezzk, I was geared up appropriately, ready to go, and

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Not-a-job job hunt

2008-04-29 doycet MMO & Computers

Hmm. I wrote a really really long post that didn’t go anywhere. Let’s start over. Playing Grezzk, I’ve been working

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No, there haven’t been a lot of updates

2008-04-24 doycet Actual Play, MMO & Computers 2 comments

… that’s largely because there hasn’t been a lot of gaming going on. Sometime last month, Dave ran a session

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Ding: the sound of PROGRESS!

2008-03-20 doycet Links & Resources, MMO & Computers

MP3 sound files of the “level-up ding” from 40 different online games. Coming soon as a ringtone to a phone

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Playing Wrong… Right

2008-03-03 doycet Musing One comment

So Paul Czege (author of the RPG My Life with Master) has something really interesting to say about that game

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Nobilis, renewed.

2008-03-03 doycet Diceless, Nobilis One comment

(Via Story Games:) Rebecca Borgstrom has released “Unlikely Flowerings”, the first part of the long-awaited Society of Flowers supplement for

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Week in Review

2008-02-25 doycet MMO & Computers, Table Top

Not a ton to say, really. Kate might disagree, but it doesn’t feel as though a lot’s been going on

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“All right, you rudimentary-lathe people have gone too far.” (Galactic: introduction and Session One)

2008-02-22 doycet Actual Play, Table Top 3 comments

I’m really not going to be able to do the Galactic game justice with an Actual Play report. First, we’ve

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“Let’s not create a WoW-widow before we even get married, hmm?”

2008-02-21 doycet MMO & Computers, Musing, Scheduling, Table Top

… or, to be fair, a Gaming-widow in general. I’ve been giving my Google-calendar a workout for the last couple

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Fiddling with my global cooldown

2008-02-19 doycet MMO & Computers, Musing 2 comments

Cooldown: n. MMO-related. A period of wait time before a spell, ability or power can be used after that same

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Almost suspiciously perfect

2008-02-08 doycet MMO & Computers One comment

A job opening posted by Blizzard Entertainment. I’ll boldface the requirements I meet. Responsibilities: * Contribute to the written development

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New TV spot for LotRO shows Ordinary People getting their MMO on

2008-02-05 doycet MMO & Computers

Quite a lot of fun: I like the sense that it’s just regular people, going about their day, and the

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Week in Review

2008-02-04 doycet Actual Play, MMO & Computers One comment

Tabletop Got everyone together for the third installment of our Galactic semi-playtest this Sunday. Despite horrendous paint fumes and a

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Week in Review: Done with PvP

2008-02-01 doycet MMO & Computers, Musing

Okay, that’s not entirely true. I like WoW battlegrounds. I like WoW Arena. I even like flagging myself for PvP

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Week in Review

2008-01-23 doycet Actual Play, MMO & Computers, Table Top 2 comments

Just a quickie. MMO: WoW Grezzk This was kind of an exciting week with the guild, as we expanded our

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Doyce Testerman

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

Doyce Testerman
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
The Ironsworn - Tolari and Quinn are wrapped up in the spectacular mundanities of everyday survival in the Oasis sector.

(Tim is quickly figuring out the system, while Doyce forgets he has an asset 30 seconds after mentioning it, so everything is going as expected.)

2026 01 27
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