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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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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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The Creepiest Option is Probably Best

2014-04-11 doycet Musing

This is for all those well-meaning #hailhydra nerds out there who are trying to mash-up the HYDRA logo with SHIELD.

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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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First #fatecore #gaming session with +Kim Stone, +Dave Hill, +Reggie Sanders, and +Amanda Brueschke, playing a vivisected version of The Demolished Ones

2014-03-11 doycet Musing

Post just before we start session two. Originally shared by +Doyce Testerman First session with +Kim Stone, +Dave Hill, +Reggie

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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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Wonderful, detailed review of Fate and Fate Accelerated

2014-02-17 doycet Musing

My go-to solution for tabletop . The FATE of the World

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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 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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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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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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Forbidden Island: Tropical Death Trap, or Charming Vacation Getaway?

2014-01-22 doycet Actual Play One comment

Kate’s response: Why not both? A few weeks ago, I noticed a thread on reddit’s /r/boardgames in which the original

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Character Progression in Fate Accelerated

2014-01-16 doycet Musing 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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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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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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Mostly actual play from online tabletop games, played on Roll20. Also random other stuff.

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"Let's try out the combat system," they said.
"What could go wrong?" they said...


2026 05 26
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
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