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5/9/2004 Doyce: Forge Presence at San Diego ComicCon?
I was wondering if any Forgeites are attending SD ComicCon in August or if GenCon Indy is going to be the place to be.
In Conventions
Participants: Doyce.

5/8/2004 Doyce: Sorcerer: When does Vitality Kick In?
Reading the recent post on Damage Effects and Demon Abilities reminded me of a question I keep forgetting to ask. The situation: 1. I have Vitality conferred on myself. 2.…
In Adept Press
Participants: Doyce, Eric J-D, Nev the Deranged, bcook1971, Fabrice G., Ron Edwards.

5/8/2004 Doyce: [Sorcerer] MacGuffin Brainstorm
Full-disclosure: the following is sort of a lame question; I acknowledge this and accept that I suck for not coming up with something better on my own. THE SHORT VERSION:…
In Adept Press
Participants: Doyce, Lxndr, Nev the Deranged, Trevis Martin, DannyK, Mike Holmes, Zak Arntson.

4/26/2004 Doyce: [Sorcerer] Third Session: Sex, Lies, and Videotape
Our third session of Sorcerer, which normally runs on alternating Friday nights, was preempted by previous commitments. Unwilling to give up the game momentum for another two weeks, I asked…
In Actual Play
Participants: Doyce, Ron Edwards, Paka, redwalker.

4/20/2004 Doyce: [Sorcerer] Clicking Sands Actual Play
Okay, after putting this off far too long, I have to get it down or I'm going to forget what happened (it's been all of 5 days now), so forgive…
In Actual Play
Participants: Doyce, Ron Edwards, DannyK, Valamir.

4/17/2004 Doyce: Rolling successes over that cover from... where?
Hey all, I'm afraid this is a rules question more than one of my more-common 'how do you do it in your game' questions. The question arose during a (new!)…
In Adept Press
Participants: Doyce, Lxndr, Bankuei, Alan, Ron Edwards.

4/13/2004 Doyce: [Paladin] Where do you drift (or do you)?
Hi all. I'm involved in Brian Bankhead's nascent Paladin game on IRC (see his recent post in this forum, and I highly recommend stopping in and joining play if you're…
In CRN Games
Participants: Doyce, Trevis Martin, tetsujin28.

4/12/2004 Doyce: [Sorcerer] Cunning Demons with Cunning Plans?
From this thread: http://www.indie-rpgs.com/viewtopic.php?t=8230#top With a demon like this, they often become big villains. Veniamin in the recent necromancy game is a good example, and it's only Power 8,…
In Adept Press
Participants: Doyce, Ron Edwards, Fabrice G., Lxndr, DannyK, Mike Holmes.

4/11/2004 Doyce: [Sorcerer] Second Session: The Things on the Doorstep
Hello all, here's the actual play from our second session of Sorcerer. The Premise as defined by the group is, roughly, "What would you give up for Knowledge? Who or…
In Actual Play
Participants: Doyce, Seth L. Blumberg, Ron Edwards, Mike Holmes, Paka, Lisa Padol.

4/9/2004 Doyce: [Sorcerer] Selling Lore
[i](edited for Sudafed typos)[/i] I'm a bad GM. Or I just don't know Sorcerer that well. Or I lent my book to another player (his is on order) and didn't…
In Adept Press
Participants: Doyce, joshua neff, Bankuei, greyorm, Andrew Norris, Mike Holmes, Ron Edwards, sirogit, Ben Lehman, tetsujin28.

4/8/2004 Doyce: [Sorcerer] A hint on Hint (and other Abilities)
Okay, I've checked out What Else Can Demons Do? and Questions About How To Read The Descriptions of Demon Powers and, while they are both educational and entertaining, they didn't…
In Adept Press
Participants: Doyce, Ron Edwards, Mike Holmes.

4/7/2004 Doyce: Being the GM & letting go in Narr play
Over here, we have an interesting thread, which produced: I think the thing you're objecting to (or at least find unusual) is players injecting objects that have the potential to…
In Actual Play
Participants: Doyce, Valamir, Matt Wilson, Bankuei, joshua neff, coxcomb, DannyK, Brand_Robins, John Harper, hanschristianandersen, hix, Scripty, Sigurth, lightcastle, clehrich, greyorm, Green.

4/1/2004 Doyce: [Sorcerer] Humanity Definitions and Premise
Over in this actual play post, I commented that the two characters in my test run each had a different definition of Humanity. Ron said: Interesting ... are you permitting…
In Actual Play
Participants: Doyce, Trevis Martin, Ron Edwards, Nev the Deranged.

3/31/2004 Doyce: Commanding Demons?
I've seen several references in Actual Play to a PC 'commanding' a demon that they didn't currently have bound (specifically, that was bound to someone else). Also, on page 41…
In Adept Press
Participants: Doyce, Fabrice G., Trevis Martin, Michael S. Miller, Ron Edwards.

3/28/2004 Doyce: [Sorcerer] First Date: The Session
(See also my previous post detailing the PCs.) With the Sorcerer characters completed no later than 8pm (!), I wanted to do something that would introduce us to all aspects…
In Actual Play
Participants: Doyce, Trevis Martin, Ron Edwards, Nev the Deranged.

3/28/2004 Doyce: [Sorcerer] First Date: Characters (session to follow)
So, with half of my inner posse out of town for the second weekend in a row I found myself starting to suffering from gaming DTs. (You can't just cold-turkey…
In Actual Play
Participants: Doyce, clehrich, Mike Holmes, Mulciber, Ron Edwards.

3/11/2004 Doyce: Software for R-Maps
By feeding PieSpy (an IRC bot used to visualize social networks) with the entire texts of Shakespeare plays, it became possible to produce drawings of the social networks present in…
In Actual Play
Participants: Doyce, GreatWolf, Paul Czege, age_of_dissent, Trevis Martin, Malechi, Christopher Weeks, Ville Takanen, Norbert G. Mataus, alexandre santos, Ron Edwards.

2/27/2004 Doyce: Trollbabe to Amber conversion
Currently at 20 x 20 foot room, referencing a post I made on my own game blog. Didn't expect it to garner much comment, but that shows what I know.…
In Adept Press
Participants: Doyce, Ron Edwards, james_west, Rob MacDougall, Bob McNamee.

2/16/2004 Doyce: Actual Play: InSpectres
[color=darkblue]Hey everyone. This is my first post to any of the Forge Forums, so apologies if I screw anything up. I thought I'd open with a tale of Friday night's…
In Actual Play
Participants: Doyce, Mike Holmes, Andrew Norris.

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5/14/2004 Doyce: Sorcerer: an unofficial Rulings collection
Hey all. A week or so ago, while working on collating a bunch of my static gaming pages into a single wiki (PMWiki, since you asked) and also reading something…
In Adept Press
Participants: Doyce, greyorm, ScottM, Ron Edwards, Nev the Deranged, Paka, sirogit, kwill, tetsujin28, pfischer.

5/16/2004 Doyce: [Sorcerer] A 'new' demon ability
Hey all, While digging through the archives looking for something to put into the Wiki regarding Daze (Some Demon abilities just never seemed to raise that many questions.), I ran…
In Adept Press
Participants: Doyce, Nev the Deranged, Ron Edwards.

5/17/2004 Doyce: Triangulating on a replacement system
Calling on the Power of the Forge. Okay, posting a question to everyone. The situation: a friend of mine is running a (reasonably fun) Spycraft game using d20 in his…
In Actual Play
Participants: Doyce, Valamir, Matt, Andrew Norris, DannyK, contracycle, chadu, ethan_greer, Jere, Ron Edwards, Clinton R. Nixon, RaconteurX, Grex, b_bankhead.

5/22/2004 Doyce: [Sorcerer] Humanity gain quickie question
Okay, quick and easy: The humanity gain check for a successful Banish against a demon whose Power is higher than your Humanity is: Humanity vs. Power The Sorcerer has to…
In Adept Press
Participants: Doyce, Ron Edwards, Solomon, Henri, sirogit, djarb, Valamir, Nev the Deranged.

5/22/2004 Doyce: [Sorcerer] Session Five (Bibliophage): Complex Conflict
Hello folks. We had our fifth session of Sorcerer last night. The whole campaign thing is detailed here, along with previous session logs. This was a really interesting and challenging…
In Actual Play
Participants: Doyce, Sydney Freedberg.

6/1/2004 Doyce: [Sorcerer] Grimm Therapy: Another gradeschool sorcerers riff
(First off, props: the following set up is all a result of Judd's great grade-school sorcerer's idea, which I shamelessly ripped off and used. The events of play are obviously…
In Actual Play
Participants: Doyce, Paka, Ron Edwards.

6/7/2004 Doyce: [Sorcerer] Session Five (Bibliophage): The Big Chill
We had our sixth session of the Bibliophage Sorcerer story Friday night. The whole thing is detailed here, along with previous session logs. This was an interesting session, mostly because…
In Actual Play
Participants: Doyce, Ron Edwards.

6/15/2004 Doyce: FATE: the El Dorado game?
[Hopefully, this is the forum to present and discuss this idea.] One of the questions I've been trying to answer when pondering a new campaign is "What do I want…
In Evilhat Productions
Participants: Doyce, Andrew Norris, Mike Holmes.

6/28/2004 Doyce: [UA variant] Using Conflict Resolution & Dealing w/Whiff
Hey folks, This weekend, I had a chance to play-test a Firefly game using a stripped-down version of Unknown Armies 2nd edition. (Details on chargen are over here, but basically…
In Actual Play
Participants: Doyce, DannyK, Valamir, GreatWolf, montag, Ron Edwards, John Harper.

7/6/2004 Doyce: [Sorcerer] Bibliophage Seven: Whiteout
We had our seventh session of the Bibliophage Sorcerer story Friday night. The whole thing is detailed here, along with previous session logs. This was an interesting, but kind of…
In Actual Play
Participants: Doyce, Rob Carriere, JamesDJIII, Ron Edwards, Eero Tuovinen.

7/13/2004 Doyce: [Sorcerer & Sword] Fistful of Humanity
Hey folks, quick thinker-question. I'm planning on revisiting the abortive Clicking Sands one-shot I ran a few months ago, and in the interim I've had time to consider the relationship…
In Adept Press
Participants: Doyce, Ron Edwards.

8/1/2004 Doyce: A look at the Bloody Crown of Conan
While at the San Diego Comic-Con last week, I had a chance to chat with the folks at the Del Rey booth. One of the publishers let me take a…
In Adept Press
Participants: Doyce, Andy Kitkowski.

8/3/2004 Doyce: [Sorcerer] Bibliophage Eight: Final Negotiations
So, Friday the 30th was the last session of the Bibliophage Sorcerer campaign. There was gunplay. There were demons. Candelabras were swung in anger. Some people even used naughty words.…
In Actual Play
Participants: Doyce, Ron Edwards, JamesDJIII.

9/2/2004 Doyce: Bookshelf errors?
Just logged into the Forge bookshelf... well, I tried to, that is. The system didn't recognize my username, nor did it think my email belonged to any ongoing user. I…
In Site Discussion
Participants: Doyce, Ron Edwards.

9/10/2004 Doyce: eighteen: a sorcerer one-sheet (draft)
With apologies to various good golfing movies, the sport itself, the hobby of roleplaying, and Ron Edwards, I present eighteen: a golfing epic for sorcerer. Notes: * I'm…
In Adept Press
Participants: Doyce, Paka, Mike Holmes, hix, Ron Edwards.

9/19/2004 Doyce: [DitV] Stupidly detail-picky fallout question
Preface: got the book -- friggin' love the book. Color tone of following questions with that knowledge. --- K, in both the short- and long-term fallout lists, the first choice…
In lumpley games
Participants: Doyce, lumpley.

9/28/2004 Doyce: Game supplements: using the rules and dropping the Setup
[Originally mis-posted in Lumpley Games -- my bad.] In reading a ton of great one-sheets and "Variation" proposals for everything from Sorcerer to Trollbabe to My Life with Master to…
In RPG Theory
Participants: Doyce, timfire, hanschristianandersen, DannyK, b_bankhead, M. J. Young, lumpley.

10/3/2004 Doyce: How do I reflect these two magical styles
Hi all, I've been working on a conversion for Heroquest -- a primitive Jungle setting -- and I'm trying to get a handle on how to reflect the two dominant…
In HeroQuest
Participants: Doyce, Minx, soru, Jinx, Mike Holmes, Ian Cooper.

10/17/2004 Doyce: [DitV] A new Dog hits the trail
Every other Saturday, my wife attends a game that I'm not involved in, leaving me and my kid to bang around the house for about six or seven hours. Lately,…
In lumpley games
Participants: Doyce, clehrich, stingray20166, DannyK, lumpley.

10/21/2004 Doyce: [DitV] Dealing with *reservoir* Dogs :)
So this weekend, I sat down with three of my regular players and we made up characters for a Dogs game (completely separate from the solo game I'm running with…
In lumpley games
Participants: Doyce, DannyK, Blankshield, lumpley, nikola.

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