Subsequent Topics 11/26/2005 tonyd: [Magicians of England] Balancing Rewards
Thanks to everyone who helped out on my other thread. I was able to come up with some good adjustments to Magicians of England.
Magicians is a gamemasterless narrative game…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: tonyd, mutex, Roger.
4/25/2006 tonyd: [Magicians of England] Playtesters wanted
Under Queen Victoria, England presides over an empire that spans the globe. Astronomers are discovering new worlds, the railway connects the corners of the British Isles, exotic goods from every…
In Connections
Participants: tonyd.
5/3/2006 tonyd: I Draw Maps
I draw maps. That about sums it up. You can see a bit of my work here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/37996594214@N01/sets/1291106/
I also drew a bunch of map tiles for John Harper's game…
In Connections
Participants: tonyd, Clay, Miskatonic, dindenver, Larry Wickman, Rob Kuntz.
5/6/2006 tonyd: [Magicians of England] of Flaws and Faeries
We sat down for our third playtest of Magicians of England. Playtest one was phenomenal, and playtest two went pretty well, so I expected three would be smooth. I was…
In Playtesting
Participants: tonyd, John Harper.
8/24/2006 tonyd: [TSOY] Bringing Down the Dungeon
In our last week's TSOY game, I came up with an interesting tactic for bringing down the pain. The group had made their desire for some dangerous underground archaeology in…
In CRN Games
Participants: tonyd, Twobirds, Clinton R. Nixon, John Harper.
8/26/2006 tonyd: [TSOY] Tales from the Aether: The Jovian Enigma
Enigma of the Great Red Spot is the sequel to Thought Lords of Mars, John Harper’s science-fantasy TSOY variant. The adventurers from the previous episode (with some staffing changes) have…
In Actual Play
Participants: tonyd, rafial, Daermon, John Harper, Judaicdiablo, philaros.
9/11/2006 tonyd: [Burning Empires] When is it OK to hull a PC
Reading through the Burning Empires rules, it looks to me like it's quite possible to have a situation where a PC gets hulled, and the player continues to play the…
In Burning Wheel
Participants: tonyd, Thor Olavsrud.
10/8/2006 tonyd: [Burning Empires] Cheat sheet for Firefight
Whenever I play a new game, I create a number of cheat sheets for my own use. I have a very visual mind, and not a great memory, so the…
In Burning Wheel
Participants: tonyd, mtiru, Anemone, drozdal.
10/23/2006 tonyd: Fun: A Burning Empires Cosmology
The other day I was stuck at a coffee shop for an hour with my sketchpad and no book to read, so I made up a little Burning Empires cosmology…
In Burning Wheel
Participants: tonyd, abzu.
3/20/2007 tonyd: [Go Play Northwest] Registration is open!
Hi Everyone,
I'm very happy to announce that registration is (finally) open for Go Play Northwest. You can find more information and a registration link here:
http://goplaynw.wetpaint.com/.
Go Play Northwest…
In Conventions
Participants: tonyd.
10/29/2007 tonyd: I Draw Maps
I draw maps. I did the map and page corner illustrations for Luke Crane's Blossom are Falling and did some maps and diagrams for Ron Edwards' Spione (if you guys…
In Connections
Participants: tonyd.
4/11/2008 tonyd: [Go Play NW] May 31-June 1 2008, registration open
Go Play NW is a gamer's and designer's convention held yearly in Seattle, WA. Last year was our first year. We had 60 people playing all weekend, and we had…
In Conventions
Participants: tonyd.
4/16/2008 tonyd: [GenCon 2008] Second thread, random details and questions
Woo hoo! I'm so glad you guys are doing this.
Now for my dumb questions:
First, I am a loser. I registered for Gen Con. But I want to be…
In Conventions
Participants: tonyd, Blankshield, Eero Tuovinen, Matt, segedy, JustinB, Ron Edwards.
1/16/2009 tonyd: [Storming the Wizard's Tower] Monastery of Crows
We played Storming the Wizard's Tower, and it was a blast!
Now I'm going to brain dump my questions and observations.
Prep took quite a long time (about 4 hours),…
In Playtesting
Participants: tonyd, lumpley, Ben Lehman, Guy Srinivasan, amnesiack, Paul T.
2/2/2009 tonyd: [StWT] Fairtytale mayhem and the mummy queen
I ran StWT for a pickup group last Friday. We themed it around centrally Germany with a fairy tale touch to it. Players are Ben R, and Ping.
Some weird…
In Playtesting
Participants: tonyd, Darcy Burgess, lumpley.
4/24/2009 tonyd: Need external playtest for Principia
My game Principia is almost ready to go to layout, but I really a bit of external playtesting to validate the rules text.
Principia is a game of adventure in…
In Connections
Participants: tonyd, Darcy Burgess, epweissengruber.
4/28/2009 tonyd: Go Play NW - Seattle June 26-28
Go Play NW 2009 will be Friday June 16 - Sunday June 28 this year.
There are a few improvements and changes this year:
THREE days of gaming: from…
In Conventions
Participants: tonyd.
6/10/2009 tonyd: Gen Con Housing
I'm signed up for Gen Con, but don't have a place to stay. Maybe I'm not the only one. Let's talk about it! Does anyone have space at the Embassy…
In Conventions
Participants: tonyd, Eero Tuovinen, wunderllama, btrc.
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