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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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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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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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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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Summer Break RPGs with Kaylee, #1: Just Figuring out What to Play

2015-06-22 doycet Actual Play, Musing, Table Top

My gaming with Kaylee is fairly well documented and, in general, we’ve been pretty happy playing Fate or Fate Accelerated.

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Fate of the Four Nations (playing FAE in the world of Korra and Aang)

2014-07-17 doycet Game Design, Musing, Table Top

My family’s getting caught up on Avatar: Legend of Korra, which has unsurprisingly led to my daughter broaching the possibility

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Wildstar Tabletop Gaming, by way of FAE/Jadepunk

2014-06-30 doycet Game Design, MMO & Computers, Musing, Online Table Top, Table Top 2 comments

“You should do a Wildstar game,” opined my daughter. “Sorry?” Her comment confused me, both because Wildstar is an MMO

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Hangouts/Roll20 Gaming: Past and Future

2014-06-26 doycet Musing, Online Table Top, Scheduling

As most of you know, I finished up a Fate game about a month ago that ran via Google Hangouts

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Doyce Testerman

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

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I started off the year with a truly new #ttrpg experience - one of my kids ran a game for ME! First time that's EVER happened.

We played #Runecairne and she damned near killed me. It was great.

(We didn't TOTALLY separate the player/warden roles in this, because part of the reason we were doing this was so I could teach her to GM, so we did a two-person game (Runecairne is great for this) and a scenario I'd already run with Sean, and had open on my screen to spot any gotchas and give her tips.)
Pretty much what it says on the title. My whole family (not just my kids, but my wife) sat down to play an RPG together. This has NEVER HAPPENED BEFORE, and it's was bloody and glorious, because that's what Eat the Reich delivers.

2024 12 28
Pretty much what it says on the title. My whole family (not just my kids, but my wife) sat down to play an RPG together. This has NEVER HAPPENED BEFORE, and it's was bloody and glorious, because that's what Eat the Reich delivers.

2024 12 27
just me rambling about the last year in gaming and what's coming up
Me and the kids sit down to talk about the One-Armed Scissor "one-shot" - kind of a celebration/wake/post mortem.

Overall Impression: The one-shot served as an enticing introduction to Wildsea's setting and mechanics. While certain areas, like travel and character origin options, left players desiring more, the unique world, engaging whisper mechanics, and collaborative ship-building process were significant highlights.

In summary - we had a good time, the game is cool, we want to play some more (even Kaylee), and we don't super-enjoy canned one-shot scenarios.

2024 08 07
Our heroes find the surviving crew of the One Armed Scissor and safely escape the Manor.

Yup. Totally safe. No problem.

2024 07 29

#wildsea #ttrpg #actualplay 

This session focuses on the players' daring escape from a collapsing library hanging precariously over the Wildsea. The escape is complicated by a powerful Whisper unleashed by Saturniidae, which causes the library to become entangled in rapidly growing thorny vines.

Key Events
    Prepping for Trouble: The crew utilize their skills to recover resources and prepare for the impending attack by pinwolves. Saturniidae uses a Whisper to try to protect the sole surviving member of the One-Armed Scissor, but accidentally summons a spectral force that injures the party.
    Thorny Escape: Saturniidae's shouted Whisper, "Secrets Wrapped in Thorns," creates a whirlwind of paper that transforms into a rapidly growing cocoon of thorny brambles. The cocoon expands, forcing the pinwolves back and pushing the library away from the tallshank tree it was anchored to.
    Descent into Chaos: The library begins to collapse, forcing the players to navigate a chaotic environment filled with falling debris, thorny vines, and oozing crezzerin. Charybdis utilizes his unique skills and knowledge of plants to carefully extract Saturniidae from the thorny cocoon.
    Leaps of Faith: Cory leaps from the collapsing library, embedding her spear into the tallshank tree and clinging for dear life. Charybdis uses his wavewalk skill to swing through a window and escape, while Saturniidae glides down to the Queen Crab using her elegant wings.
    A Sinking Feeling: The library crashes into the edge of the rift, causing the nearby One Armed Scissor to tip and sink. The sinking ship evokes a sense of dread and PTSD in Charybdis, who witnesses a vision of his past death.
    Return to Three Masks: The players successfully return to Three Masks, albeit injured and emotionally drained. They share their harrowing tale, warning others of the dangers that now infest the library and the surrounding area.

Character Highlights

    Cory: Demonstrates agility and resourcefulness, using her spear to escape the collapsing library.
    Charybdis: Utilizes his expertise in plants and his unique abilities to navigate the dangerous environment and save Saturniidae.
    Saturniidae: Unintentionally unleashes chaos with her Whisper, but ultimately aids in the party's escape through her quick thinking, and suffers injuries and the effects of crezzerin poisoning.

Lingering Questions

    What will become of the library now that it is infested with creatures and a Librico Ray?
    Will the players attempt to retrieve more books or salvage anything from the wreckage?
    How will the loss of the library affect the community of Three Masks?
    What is the significance of the One Arm Scissor sinking into the rift?
The crew climbs up to the Hanging Manor and "gets rizzed by a Rift." (I don't know what that means, but the kids assure me it's hilarious and will never sound like hopelessly dated slang.)

2024 07 27

#wildsea #ttrpg #actualplay
The crew explores the moored and apparently abandoned One-armed Scissor, before proceeding to the Hanging Manor.

2024 07 15

Art of the One-Armed Scissor by Narshero @ the Wildsea Discord.

#wildsea #ttrpg #actualplay
Our crew of wildsailors get closer to the Hanging Manor, but stop for the night at A Grove of Twisted Trees.

This is the session where Whispers finally CLICKED for everyone, and it's pretty awesome.

#wildsea #ttrpg #actualplay
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