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Category: Links & Resources

Calling on the Hivemind

2019-07-08 doycet Links & Resources, Online Table Top, Scheduling, Table Top

Anyone have good suggestions for phone / app friendly play by post platforms or tools? The Masks game I play

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The Smartwood Children (a Lasers and Feelings hack for my kids)

2019-07-07 doycet Actual Play, Game Design, Links & Resources, Table Top

This weekend has been chock-a-block with face to face gaming goodness with cool kids. Friday was the 14th session of

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Looking Back at a Remarkably RPG-heavy Week

2019-02-06 doycet Actual Play, Links & Resources, Musing, Online Table Top, Table Top

I’ve been lucky enough to have a regular gaming group for Some Time Now (thanks, #Roll20 !) – I don’t

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Masks, Menagerie Actual Play, Session 45 – Doctor Infinity is a Purple

2019-02-02 doycet Links & Resources

The Sepia Squad’s final showdown with Dr. Infinity. Doctor Infinity’s starfish-robot questions Charade about Charlotte Palmer by sending itself through

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Girl Underground meets the TARDIS?

2018-12-12 doycet Game Design, Links & Resources, Musing

There’s a game in development called Girl Underground, which focuses on a central Girl (in the vein of Alice in

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Jonesing to play Zombie World

2018-11-07 doycet Game Design, Links & Resources

Enough that I made up a new Enclave option… one I’m surprised doesn’t exist.

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The Hollow, by way of World of Dungeon: Turbo

2018-11-07 doycet Game Design, Links & Resources

I’m running a game for my kids, inspired by The Hollow series on Netflix, and for said game I’m basically

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Fire Goose

2018-10-14 doycet D20, Game Design, Links & Resources

Created at the behest of Mark Hunt, for a silly little project on MeWe. Fire Goose Small beast, probably evil

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Masks Menagerie Tropes

2018-01-02 doycet Actual Play, Links & Resources, Musing, Online Table Top, Table Top

A couple weeks ago, I joked that I should try to identify the main tropes that show up in our

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Masks, Actual Play Analysis, Sessions 11 to 15

2017-12-04 doycet Actual Play, Links & Resources, Online Table Top

We’re back! It’s another long flight, so let’s run through Masks sessions to the latest and see what to make

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Masks “Menagerie” Campaign – Session 6 to 10

2017-12-02 doycet Actual Play, Links & Resources, Online Table Top, Table Top

It’s been awhile since I’ve written about our ongoing Masks game (superhero antics in the vein of Young Justice, Teen

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Masks AP Resource

2017-08-07 doycet Links & Resources, Online Table Top 14 comments

The whelmed podcast (located at the nigh-perfect url http://crashingthemode.com/) is basically “Buffering the Vampire Slayer,” but for Young Justice. I’ve

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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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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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I am a Nerd (Final-ish version)

2015-01-12 doycet Links & Resources

I’ve posted versions of this on my main blog, but while I like it, it didn’t quite feel like it

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The Glitcherman

2014-10-25 doycet Links & Resources 7 comments

Today, I was walking around the neighborhood with my daughter, looking at trees and houses. (There are only 3 or

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Why I haven't Blogged about Wildstar Yet

2014-06-09 doycet Links & Resources

… as explained by Tycho at PA. (See link and disregard first paragraph, which is mostly about something else.) "When

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Wonderful, detailed review of Fate and Fate Accelerated

2014-02-17 doycet Links & Resources

My go-to solution for tabletop #gaming.? The FATE of the World View this post on Google+

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Fate: Kugen Wasabi

2014-01-23 doycet Links & Resources, Online Table Top

This has been sitting in my drafts folder for something like six months, so let’s put it out there, just

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Character Progression in Fate Accelerated

2014-01-16 doycet Links & Resources 6 comments

One of the complaints/problems I've run into with previous incarnations of Fate were with character advancement. To be blunt, there

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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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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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