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12/15/2004 Doyce: Once again with 'has anyone ever done this'?
I don't mean to flood the board with cries for various religions/wizard schools/whatever writeups, but it seems like there are a few major gaps in the presented magic lists in…
In HeroQuest
Participants: Doyce, Donald, Mike Holmes, ddunham.

12/13/2004 Doyce: [HQ] Thoughts from my first test session
Well, it was a slow weekend around the casa, so when one of my friends called up to see what we were doing yesterday, I proposed getting together to playtest…
In HeroQuest
Participants: Doyce, Brand_Robins, Bankuei, Mike Holmes.

12/12/2004 Doyce: Necromancy/Demon-servitude in HQ?
So I'm getting ready to run an almost-one-shot of Well of Souls as an introduction to Heroquest (though not Glorantha -- I've divorced it from the setting, basically, though the…
In HeroQuest
Participants: Doyce, Donald, MikeSands.

12/11/2004 Doyce: TSOY: quick errata check.
Okay. Got the game today. Game kicks butt. Still reading. Still loving. Quick clarification question: Page 65, top: talking about building Punks and Pogues, the text talks about whether or…
In CRN Games
Participants: Doyce, Roger Eberhart, Clinton R. Nixon.

10/31/2004 Doyce: Everyone has SP 1?
In this brilliant thread, Lxndr said: I'm also wondering what sort of episode would erupt if everyone had 1s. Would that wind up being like "Superstar" from Buffy Season…
In Dog Eared Designs
Participants: Doyce, Ron Edwards, azrianni.

10/27/2004 Doyce: Minor DitV Tool
Hey folks, While banging around on a DitV town tonight, I put together an excel spreadsheet that generates a group of six of NPCs (with free dice at the bottom…
In lumpley games
Participants: Doyce, jasonm, ScottM.

10/21/2004 Doyce: [DitV] Another batch of Dogs (my first actual group)
Last Sunday, I sat down with a couple of my regular players and we made up characters for a game of Dogs. This group and their story doesn't have anything…
In lumpley games
Participants: Doyce, ScottM, Mark D. Eddy, nikola.

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.

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.

10/3/2004 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.

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.

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.

9/10/2004 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.

9/2/2004 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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12/15/2004 Doyce: New Keyword: Squire (feedback)
Hey all, During the course of getting ready for the Well of Souls game this Friday, I've dressed up two new Occupations and thought I'd share and gather feedback and…
In HeroQuest
Participants: Doyce, Eero Tuovinen, Bankuei.

12/15/2004 Doyce: New Keyword: Herder (feedback)
Hey all, During the course of getting ready for the Well of Souls game this Friday, I've dressed up two new Occupations and thought I'd share and gather feedback and…
In HeroQuest
Participants: Doyce, Mike Holmes.

12/16/2004 Doyce: [Heroquest] Getting ready to run Well of Souls, prep/PCs
Okay, as most of the poor folks reading the Heroquest board know, I'm getting ready to run Well of Souls. * This will be my second time GMing Heroquest. *…
In Actual Play
Participants: Doyce, ScottM.

12/20/2004 Doyce: [Heroquest] Spring Fountain {well of souls} pt. 1
On Friday, the group for whom I normally GM DnD got together to play Heroquest. I've been gently nudging at the group to try something other than d20 (because, frankly,…
In Actual Play
Participants: Doyce, Bankuei, jc_madden, Mike Holmes.

12/20/2004 Doyce: Forge Wiki, Part 2 - Questions of Use
In the recent "Forge Wiki" thread, I mentioned that it was fine for folks to continue to use and grow RandomWiki along lines that interested them -- it's not like…
In Site Discussion
Participants: Doyce.

12/21/2004 Doyce: Albino Ratkin crunchy bits?
In the First impressions thread: I remember my impression to playtesting it. I got the albino ratkin magician (Whitey) and as I was polishing him up with Keys, I…
In CRN Games
Participants: Doyce, Lxndr, Bob Goat, Clinton R. Nixon.

1/10/2005 Doyce: [Heroquest] Xian Quan, the Well of Souls?
As mentioned here and here, I'm currently running an HQ game for my die-hard DnD group on the alternate Fridays from the regular game. I will talk more about this…
In Actual Play
Participants: Doyce, Eero Tuovinen.

1/10/2005 Doyce: [Heroquest] Spring Fountain {well of souls} pt. 2
As mentioned here and here, I'm currently running an HQ game for my die-hard DnD group on the alternate Fridays from the regular game. Here's what happened in the most…
In Actual Play
Participants: Doyce, Bankuei, joshua neff, Christopher Kubasik, Mike Holmes, Peter Nordstrand, Eero Tuovinen, Ron Edwards, Bryan_T.

1/17/2005 Doyce: [Heroquest] Xian Quan, the Well of Souls, session 1
[Game Account from a player's point of view, with parentheical notes by me as to who's who from the original Well of Souls.] (15 Jan 2005) It is the afternoon…
In Actual Play
Participants: Doyce, Bankuei, Christopher Kubasik, Mike Holmes.

2/1/2005 Doyce: [Heroquest] Xian Quan, the Well of Souls, 2
Another session of the Ancient China version of Well of Souls. The wiki-pages on the whole thing are here: Heroquest.XianQuan Eliang goes to sleep for the evening, exhausted from…
In Actual Play
Participants: Doyce.

3/4/2005 Doyce: Crunchy chargen questions, mostly Zu-ish.
Just a few. I'm working on an introductory test-run of TSoY with one of my player groups, cuz we've been pussyfooting around for awhile and haven't really decided what we…
In CRN Games
Participants: Doyce, James_Nostack, Clinton R. Nixon.

8/2/2005 Doyce: NOTICE: RandomWiki Updates/Upgrade
Please be advised that RandomWiki will be locked to prevent edits for the next couple little while so I can update the sight to PMWiki 2.0.  This upgrade should allow…
In Connections
Participants: Doyce, Mike Holmes.

2/27/2006 Doyce: "How Would I..." question
'lo all. Long time, no play.  Looking to fix that up in the near future, and one of the ways I'm doing that is with a Red Harvest-inspired Clicking Sands…
In Adept Press
Participants: Doyce, Paka, Julian, jburneko, Hisho, Valamir, Ron Edwards.

7/7/2006 Doyce: Quick question about Demonic Influence in Tower Creek branch (from the book)
So, I'm riding into Tower Creek, and the first thing I get is Sister Doeswell coming up with her stillborn baby in her arms, asking me to name him, even…
In lumpley games
Participants: Doyce, wingedcoyote, Gaerik, coffeestain, Mark Woodhouse, ffilz, lumpley, klaveshy, Warren, Taltos.

7/13/2006 Doyce: [TSoY] I just ran Freebooters
It's been over a year since I've done any serious gaming, due to a lot of things, but mostly my new daughter.  I come back and the world is all…
In Actual Play
Participants: Doyce, joewolz, Mike Lucas.

7/16/2006 Doyce: [TSoY] Key of Glittering Gold, problem
Hey all, I've run a scenario two times just recently where a character in the group (two different players, two different groups) had Key of Glittering Gold. Actually, it was…
In CRN Games
Participants: Doyce, Valamir, Clinton R. Nixon, dindenver, zmook.

7/31/2006 Doyce: [Galactic] Denver Playtest: Session 0
So folks got together on Friday, roughly around 6pm, to run through all the prep-work for a Galactic! campaign: Captains, Crews, Factions, the Galaxy, our First Worlds, and an addition…
In Playtesting
Participants: Doyce, Matt Wilson.

8/18/2006 Doyce: [Galactic] Question about the Goals update
Over here, Matt said: Pursuing goals as written in the game is a little hazy. This update tightens it up nicely and provides a good visual resource for dramatic…
In Dog Eared Designs
Participants: Doyce, Matt Wilson.

8/21/2006 Doyce: [Galactic] Denver Playtest: Session One
Okay, so the group got together for our first 'real' session of Galactic, since our first session (also detailed here in the forum) was pretty much nothing but the prep…
In Playtesting
Participants: Doyce, Matt Wilson, Pyromancer.

8/24/2006 Doyce: [Mortal Coil] Wiki space for ... stuff
Hey all, Per my usual habits when working to grok a new system, I've been prowling the forum and checking out all the questions and answers that have come before…
In Galileo Games
Participants: Doyce, inthisstyle.

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