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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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A few thoughts on EVE, a static playerbase, and how I'd fix it

2013-12-21 doycet Musing One comment

Originally shared by +Doyce Testerman (Also: the new home of my Life in Eve posts!) Stay Awhile and Listen: Growing

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A few thoughts on EVE, a static playerbase, and how I'd fix it

2013-12-21 doycet Links & Resources One comment

Reshared post from +Doyce Testerman A few thoughts on EVE, a static playerbase, and how I'd fix it. (Also: the

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Finding Time: Google+ Saved my (Gaming) Life

2013-11-06 doycet Links & Resources

I self-identify as a gamer more readily and/or instinctively than any other social sub-caste, up to and including “parent.” Good

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Hidden Things Audiobook kickstarter

2013-11-05 doycet Links & Resources

[This post originally appeared on my other blog at doycetesterman.com.] I’m a writer. I write for a living and, more

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Why I’m Most Active on Google+

2013-08-16 doycet Links & Resources

Everything, for me, is about my (current) passions. Near as I can tell, I've always been that way. #wp  #gaming

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My review of the most surprising Marvel-published title this year

2013-07-29 doycet Links & Resources

#wp #gaming Hawkeye: My Life as a Weapon | TheMittani.com In my last review, I talked about Atomic Robo, a

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Where I’ve Been

2013-07-26 doycet Links & Resources

I haven’t been logged into Eve for awhile. Or DCUO. Or LotRO, or really anywhere online. Gaming has, in short,

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Superhero Tan Lines

2013-07-25 doycet Links & Resources 2 comments

#gaming 24.media.tumblr.com/e8eedfd1b94f54efbb876e845554e361/tumblr_mqi6vqB1SJ1qz6f9yo1_500.jpg View this post on Google+

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Atomic Robo, Some of the Most Fun You Can Have with Action Science!

2013-07-25 doycet Links & Resources

Guaranteed* 98% free of unexpected explosions. #wp  #gaming * – Should not actually be considered any kind of guarantee. At

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Went to Comic Con San Diego

2013-07-23 doycet Links & Resources 14 comments

… and got to play some Atomic Robo(!)  …With my daughter. …With her playing as my daughter. …using a character

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Fate: Trouble Magnet – Session Three

2013-07-03 doycet Links & Resources One comment

We picked up the action from Session Two the following day. Hooray for weekends and little brother’s naptime. Matthew Cuthbert

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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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FATE: Gaming with my Daughter

2013-06-22 doycet Actual Play

So my daughter’s back from grandparent camp, she’s been briefed on the Fate dice mechanic, and we’ve been talking about

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Some People Just Want to Watch the World Burn

2013-06-19 doycet Links & Resources, Musing 3 comments

So I'm thinking about Area of Effect attacks in Fate, and came up with a stunt for same.  AoE Junkie.

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Fate Core: Agent Coulson

2013-06-19 doycet Links & Resources 7 comments

I'm working on some characters that have pushed me in an interesting direction with stunts. Sharing them here to get

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Quickly, Hive Pocket

2013-06-19 doycet Links & Resources

Anyone here played Hive Pocket with their kids? I got it based off a reddit review and my daughter (7)

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FATE: The Goddamn Batman

2013-06-18 doycet Game Design, Musing, Table Top 2 comments

So there are ways to stat out Batman as a starting character. But (a) someone already did that and (b)

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"I want to knock this guy into the next zone."

2013-06-17 doycet Links & Resources 17 comments

How would you do that? Overcome with active resists? #gaming View this post on Google+

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FATE: Statting out Supers, because why not?

2013-06-14 doycet Musing, Table Top

Inspired by Ryan’s work on representing the Avengers and the JLA in Fate, and because I’m getting my head around

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Fate Core and Fate Accelerated Pseudo-review

2013-06-06 doycet Game Design, Musing, Table Top

So, a few days ago, a conversation I was having on g+ crossposted to this blog. That wasn’t intentional, but

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As much as I'm longing for some super-heroic #gaming  beat-down right now,…

2013-06-05 doycet Links & Resources One comment

As much as I'm longing for some super-heroic #gaming  beat-down right now, this pretty much sums up why I won't

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So

2013-06-04 doycet Links & Resources 13 comments

https://www.dropbox.com/s/vzy155a2ybmah7k/2013-06-04%2010.46.06.png Mind control. Tricky subject in any RPG, let alone Fate, but I've got supers on my mind, and when

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Love how the eve launcher is only half in English when you tell it your language…

2013-06-02 doycet Links & Resources One comment

Love how the eve launcher is only half in English when you tell it your language is english. #gaming View

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Testing the Google+blog plugin with a public #gaming post about the tabletop/hangouts…

2013-05-29 doycet Links & Resources One comment

Testing the Google+blog plugin with a public #gaming post about the tabletop/hangouts game I'm playing in this weekend. "In the

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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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