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RPG a Day: August 3rd, 4th, and 5th

2016-08-04 doycet Musing 4 comments

August 3 What is something you have done with your game character that you are the proudest of? I really

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RPG a Day Catch Up

2016-08-02 doycet Musing 5 comments

Missed the start of this during a crazy Monday, so here's a couple answers. August 1: Do you prefer to

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Honest Slogans

2016-07-15 doycet Musing

 

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Quote of the Week

2016-07-11 doycet Musing

"They [Nintendo] could add way, way more game if they felt like it. I mean, as much as they wanted.

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Fun thing

2016-06-03 doycet Musing 3 comments

Playing something between a Choose Your Adventure and an RPG with +Kaylee Testerman via Google+, using the poll function. We

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Several regular players couldn't make our regular Hangouts game, so we played Dungeon World!

2016-06-01 doycet Actual Play One comment

Started off with questions about the player's characters (an artificier, immolator, and an elven fighter) and background (elves were cast

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Slept bad last night

2016-05-10 doycet Musing 7 comments

Here's my brain today: "You should finish that story." "But I don't want to write uaaaaaagh too harrrrrrrd. I just

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Star Wars: Rebel Ops – The Onderon Job, Part 2

2016-05-04 doycet Actual Play

… in a different part of the Galaxy.… eighteen months PRIOR to the events of the first six sessions.… with

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Star Wars: Rebel Ops – The Onderon Job

2016-04-20 doycet Musing

Meanwhile… … in a different part of the Galaxy.… eighteen months PRIOR to the events of the first six sessions.…

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Getting Closer to No Thank You, Evil!

2016-04-17 doycet Musing

Originally shared by +Doyce Testerman Kaylee (10) made up her character for No Thank You, Evil! about a week ago

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Pondering FAE Tweaks for Star Wars: Rebel Ops

2016-04-10 doycet Game Design, Musing, Table Top 4 comments

A few days ago, I publicly mulled over how the game is going. That post attracted quite a bit of

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Star Wars Art

2016-04-07 doycet Musing 4 comments

I got a finished commission from skilled Star Wars-focused artist Lorna-ka, and feel like nerding out and sharing. Dekko will

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Some Thoughts on recent Gaming

2016-04-06 doycet Musing 43 comments

Mostly the online stuff, systems, genres, et cetera. In no particular order, just stream-of-consciousness stuff. —- I like running Star

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Session Six of Star Wars: Rebel Ops

2016-04-06 doycet Musing One comment

We wrap up the "Tatooine Manhunt" arc.

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No thank you, Evil!

2016-04-04 doycet Actual Play 3 comments

My daughter and I have played a lot of RPGs together, but nothing in recent memory has gotten her psyched

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200-word RPG Challenge submission: Freaks

2016-04-02 doycet Game Design One comment

So this thing is happening: The 200 Word RPG Challenge puts your writing and editing skills to the test! What

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Mouse Guard Risus with Sean and Kaylee (and Zoe!)

2016-03-30 doycet Actual Play, Table Top

Last night, I swapped out normal bedtime activities for a little RPG fun with Sean and Kaylee, as I have

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Star Wars: Rebel Ops, Session 5

2016-03-30 doycet Musing

Probably/possibly penultimate session of the current arc of the FAE-based game.

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Risus Supers!

2016-03-10 doycet Actual Play, Links & Resources

S. John Ross (creator of Risus) mentioned a plan to run some one-shot game sessions online. I, like many others,

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Mouse Guard Risus with Sean and Kaylee

2016-03-09 doycet Actual Play, Table Top

Last night, I swapped out normal bedtime activities for a little RPG fun with Sean and Kaylee. I’ve done this

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Mostly certainly prepping this for use with +Kaylee Testerman and +Sean Testerman

2016-03-07 doycet Musing

#gaming Originally shared by +Rob Donoghue Have started refining the ruleset I want to try with the little dude. Would

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Session Two of the current Star Wars game (run using Fate Accelerated).

2016-03-05 doycet Actual Play

Our heroes, having rescued a rebel agent on KWENN STATION, are en route to the backwater world of TATOOINE, in

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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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Thinking about Spaceships and Star Wars because… well, OBVIOUSLY

2016-02-26 doycet Actual Play, Game Design, Musing, Online Table Top

First, before getting into the “thinking” part, I’ll just embed this silly song with clips from a bunch of spaceship

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Thinking about Gaming and Gaming Culture

2016-01-27 doycet Actual Play, Musing

I’m lucky. Actually, more than that: I’m privileged. There are at least a thousand ways I could illustrate and demonstrate

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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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Mulling over a Star Wars game

2016-01-10 doycet Game Design, Musing

Like (I imagine) a lot of folks, I’ve been thinking about how I’d run a Star Wars game, if I

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MMO I am Interested in: Project Gorgon

2015-12-29 doycet MMO & Computers

A few interesting bits: A video they did for a kickstarter, but NOT to make the game – to add

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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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