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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.

8/18/2006 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.

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.

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.

7/13/2006 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.

7/7/2006 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

1/10/2005 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.

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.

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.

12/20/2004 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.

12/16/2004 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.

12/15/2004 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.

12/15/2004 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: Wizardry School: Lordly Advisory
So as not to be a complete flake who doesn't do anything but complain that there aren't enough magical traditions out there, I thought I'd share some of the stuff…
In HeroQuest
Participants: Doyce, Mike Holmes, olleolleolle, CCW, Snowden, Donald.

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8/26/2006 Doyce: A *THIRD* Cover?
Okay, before I bitch that I ordered a revised edition copy of TSoY (apparently) about month too early and got the one cover I flat out do not like at…
In CRN Games
Participants: Doyce, Clinton R. Nixon, Squeeze, Skywalker, Brand_Robins, coffeestain, Clay.

9/6/2006 Doyce: [Mortal Coil] Tokens: Red and White and Blue and...
So I'm preparing for some Mortal Coil goodness.  I dropped on by the store and picked up a pack of poker chips (50 red, 100 white, and 50 blue... something…
In Galileo Games
Participants: Doyce, GB Steve, inthisstyle, Valamir, Iskander, coffeestain.

9/7/2006 Doyce: Three-corner magic with no Secrets
Hi all, So... I've had TSoY in one incarnation or another for about two years, and I finally sat down last week and forced myself all the way through the…
In CRN Games
Participants: Doyce, Clinton R. Nixon, shadowcourt.

9/9/2006 Doyce: [TPK] First-time Princes' Kingdom, with a six-year-old!
So, I was planning for a pretty game-filled weekend anyway, but I got a great surprise when I got home from work: both the Shab al-Hiri Roach and my hard…
In Actual Play
Participants: Doyce, demiurgeastaroth, Storn, Noon, JasperN..

9/9/2006 Doyce: [Roach] Quick question in mid-game
I'm putting this up a couple places, and this is one of them -- apologies. Starting up a Roach game, and doing relationships: The game says you have a positive…
In Bully Pulpit Games
Participants: Doyce, jrs, jasonm.

9/18/2006 Doyce: Comparing old and new editions of DitV
Hi all, So: great news -- I'm going to be running a Dogs game/campaign starting Friday, kinda.  Actually, we started about two years ago, making up characters and doing initiations…
In lumpley games
Participants: Doyce, Warren, lumpley.

9/19/2006 Doyce: [Galactic] Denver Playtest, Session Two
Our group got together Sunday for our second 'real' session of Galactic. Prep Session here: http://www.indie-rpgs.com/forum/index.php?topic=20683.0 First Session here: http://www.indie-rpgs.com/forum/index.php?topic=21025.0 Wiki pages on the whole thing here: http://random.average-bear.com/GalacticPlaytest/DenverPlaytest Okay, so...…
In Playtesting
Participants: Doyce.

9/19/2006 Doyce: [Roach] Death! Debauchery! (And we've only started the Semester)
Saturday the 9th I drove down to Lee and De's new place about an hour and a half away with Dave and Margie in tow.  I've been trying to get…
In Actual Play
Participants: Doyce, jasonm.

9/22/2006 Doyce: [DitV] Need you input on the town of Virtue
Okay, so I'm (re) starting a Dogs game tomorrow, and while digging through my old notes, I found the town I did up the first time I was going to…
In lumpley games
Participants: Doyce, Thomas Lawrence, Glendower.

9/25/2006 Doyce: [DitV] ... and it's about damned time!
Okay, so... it's been two years since I got Dogs.  More than that; I had one of the first pre-Gen Con copies of DitV and I loved it.  My enthusiasm…
In Actual Play
Participants: Doyce, Glendower.

9/26/2006 Doyce: [Capes] Show me how this game works
Hey all, I'm wondering if there's any online Capes play going on at the moment.  My impression of the game is: a) Cool b) Potentially very fun with my players…
In Muse of Fire Games
Participants: Doyce, Vaxalon, James_Nostack, Hans, arcane.

9/27/2006 Doyce: Stealing from DitV to 'slice' conflicts into smaller segments
Okay, I'm just brainstorming here, and I more than welcome input and thoughts. I got Dogs a couple years back -- one of the first couple conflict-resolution-level games that I…
In HeroQuest
Participants: Doyce, sebastianz, Mike Holmes.

10/6/2006 Doyce: [Sorcerer] Revisiting the Conflict Resolution Mechanic
Okay. First of all, this is a scary thing to post.  Ron knows I've put a lot of hours into understanding and more importantly documenting others' understanding of the Sorcerer…
In Adept Press
Participants: Doyce, Eero Tuovinen, The_Tim, James_Nostack.

10/24/2006 Doyce: Wherefore, other Mortal Coil AP and Theme Documents?
Hey all, Brennan's got a cool sticky up at the top of the forum, collecting some of the AP threads, but I don't think that's all of them (Judd's from…
In Galileo Games
Participants: Doyce, inthisstyle, cawshis.

11/11/2006 Doyce: Secret of Imbuement & Living Morph
Quick question: Someone wants a furry cloak that, norse-like, lets them change into an animal form.  Okay. Great. Secret of Imbuement with Secret of Living Morph from 3-corner magic.  Falcon-shape…
In CRN Games
Participants: Doyce, Eero Tuovinen, Ben Lehman.

1/26/2007 Doyce: TSoY Steampunk thoughts
Hi all; quick question before I run off to the airport. I've started up a tsoy steampunk game set in a sort of Italian city state in roughly the era…
In CRN Games
Participants: Doyce, segedy, Eero Tuovinen.

3/18/2007 Doyce: [AP] From the Casebook of Donne & Donne, Detectives
Next weekend, my fiance's in town and I wanted to have a social kind of gaming thing go on because (a) it's a chance for both of us to hang…
In Galileo Games
Participants: Doyce, Three-Star Dave, inthisstyle.

4/16/2007 Doyce: [TSoY Clockpunk] The City of Petrana, Session Two
(To which the author appends... "Finally!") This is a really long, detailed post, but I wanted to list everything off -- questions, comments, rules corrections, and whatever else is welcome.…
In Actual Play
Participants: Doyce, Eero Tuovinen, oliof.

6/7/2007 Doyce: [BtI] Double-blind: Can't wait for the actual game
Okay, after having the game for ages and talking about it for ages -1 with my fiance, we finally sat down late Saturday night and made up characters and setting…
In Black and Green Games
Participants: Doyce, Emily Care.

4/23/2009 Doyce: [IAWA] Two dice questions and an ONYFD question.
Hi all, let me get right to it. 1. Dice Question One: Player 1 and 2 are about to throw down. Player 1 is rolling a d12 and a d6.…
In lumpley games
Participants: Doyce, jessecoombs, Filip Luszczyk, Paul T.

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