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2/18/2008 Alan: How to create an Oracle?
Over at Story Games I started a discussion aimed at creating a complete Oracle with images derived from Robert Howard's Conan stories ( Help me create a Conan Oracle…
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Participants: Alan, DainXB.

2/17/2008 Alan: [IaWA] Question on Consequences
In a chapter yesterday at ConQuest story games lounge, I GMed this situation: An NPC priestess declared that she and Balthior, a PC pass through a marriage arch and say…
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Participants: Alan, demiurgeastaroth, lumpley, Eliarhiman6, Christopher Kubasik, Ben Lehman.

2/16/2008 rycanada: [Wicked] PStr question
I kind of get the difference but have had a hard time explaining it to players. What is the difference between what you should write in the Description of a…
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Participants: rycanada, lumpley.

2/16/2008 Trevis Martin: Yet another IAWA Question and Love Fest
Well not a fest exactly, but it sounded more dramatic that way. Vincent, thanks for this game.  My two friends and I had a great time playing tonight and it…
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Participants: Trevis Martin, lumpley, Valvorik.

2/6/2008 lumpley: Persuasion rules
Here's an old friend of mine. He's speaking of In a Wicked Age but it's a great general topic across my games: So there's no mechanic…
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Participants: lumpley, Troels, PorterO, Valvorik, Aman the Rejected, David Artman.

2/5/2008 HDTVDinner: [IaWA] Firefly/Serenity Oracle
[URL=http://"http://www.box.net/shared/5mpo0py0c0"]In a Wiked Verse...[/URL] First attempt at Creating an oracle, creating a pdf, and having it hosted, so if you have a better way let me know! Thanks!
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Participants: HDTVDinner, demiurgeastaroth, DainXB.

2/3/2008 devonapple: [Hounds on the Moor/Afraid] Sanity risk dice
I went through the "Call of Cthulhu" bestiary last night and calculated approximate dice values for the Sanity risk each creature poses.  I tried to alter the dice depending on…
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Participants: devonapple.

2/3/2008 steven807: [IaWA] Questions
Firstly, I'll say that my little group just got done with a fun first chapter of Wicked.  Thanks for another great game, Vincent!  But we did have some questions: 1)…
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Participants: steven807, rycanada, demiurgeastaroth, lumpley, Rustin, yellowparis.

2/1/2008 Rustin: [IaWA] Concrete actions questions
When Shahu Seen whispers in Amek's ear, pointing out the curve of Tajie's lip and how the light falls on her throat--- is that a conversation or an action? (I…
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Participants: Rustin, Clinton R. Nixon, Valvorik, lumpley, PorterO, rycanada, demiurgeastaroth.

2/1/2008 Bret Gillan: [IaWA] Oracle Creation
No rules/guidelines on creating your own oracles? Aww man! Okay, so we did our first situation. It was great. Now, what becomes of those elements of the oracles that were…
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Participants: Bret Gillan, lumpley, DainXB, twilight, Valvorik, Garth.

1/31/2008 Rustin: [IaWA] Future Consequences
I had an idea about negotiating future consequence and enforcing future consequences. Lets say, during negotiation I agree to have my character do something in the future instead of taking…
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Participants: Rustin, lumpley.

1/28/2008 Mantisking: [Mechaton] Finally!
I finally got the chance to run a game of Mechaton a few weeks ago at a recent Pandemonium Game Day. I was a bit rusty and stumbled through the…
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Participants: Mantisking, lumpley, Yokiboy, Dev.

1/27/2008 Landon Darkwood: [IAWA] Some minor questions...
So the one game of IAWA I played was an absolute hit. Probably my favorite night of gaming in at least a year or more. But I have some procedural…
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Participants: Landon Darkwood, demiurgeastaroth, Darcy Burgess, kallisti_dk, Valvorik, lumpley, John Harper, RyanMacklin, DainXB.

1/24/2008 Temple: [Poison'd] Sup?
Hey Vincent, are you planning on doing anything more with Poison'd, or is it pretty much as finished as its going to get from your POV?
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Participants: Temple, JC, lumpley.

1/24/2008 phargle: [DiTV ] All the Dogs do is talk!
We started a new Dogs game last night, and it went well.  The guy who had played before loved getting back into his old character, and the two new folks…
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Participants: phargle, David Artman, dindenver, Peturabo, Ben Lehman, JC, Eliarhiman6, John Harper, Wolfen, Noclue, lumpley, oliof.

1/23/2008 phargle: [DiTV] Returning to the game, questions on escalation and scene framing.
Hello, I am starting up a Dogs game after not running it seriously for a year or so.  After reading through the rules to remind myself of how things work,…
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Participants: phargle, zornwil, kallisti_dk, Eliarhiman6.

1/22/2008 daftnewt: [dogs] The nature of Traits? (n00b GM flounders a bit)
This is horribly n00bish. I apologise if this sort of thing has already been done to death long ago :) I'm running two games using Dogs, both set in the…
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Participants: daftnewt, lumpley, zornwil, Noclue, David Artman, Peturabo, phargle, dindenver.

1/21/2008 kallisti_dk: IAWA shocks!
I was trying sell IAWA to a group of friends I have played D&D with for many years, doing my very best to convey the things i find awesome about…
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Participants: kallisti_dk, Artanis, Valvorik, Rustin, Troels, Nathaniel, John Harper, Danny_K.

1/18/2008 amnesiack: [In A Wicked Age] Multiple Advantage Dice?
Hey Vincent, I know that an Advantage Die from the We Owe list stack with an Advantage Die from conflict.  However, can you get multiple versions of either one of…
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Participants: amnesiack, kallisti_dk, Thomas Lawrence, lumpley.

1/17/2008 David Artman: Frequency of "Fast Wrap"?
We had our second session of Tea Creek last night, which generally went quite well, I thought (AP to follow, prolly from GM). There's was, however, one thing that seemed...…
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Participants: David Artman, JamesDJIII, 5niper9, Thomas Lawrence.

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2/21/2008 Finarvyn: [DitV] Total Newbie
I'm a total newbie to Dogs in the Vineyard. So new, in fact, that the copy I ordered hasn't even come in the mail yet. I should probably hold off…
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Participants: Finarvyn, JC, lumpley, Eliarhiman6, Transit, Warren.

2/21/2008 a_verheaghe: [IaWA] Actual play threads or play examples anywhere?
I've got the rules, read them and went wow! I really want to play and it seems so simple, but then I started thinking about it, and after a few…
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Participants: a_verheaghe.

2/21/2008 Christopher Kubasik: I ask Vincent a bunch of questions like I was a horde of flying monkeys
I wrote a long post in another thread, and then realized this was it's own thread. The original thread is here: http://www.indie-rpgs.com/forum/index.php?topic=25765.0. Each "to hit" roll…
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Participants: Christopher Kubasik, Eliarhiman6, Alan, lumpley, DainXB, demiurgeastaroth, John Harper.

2/22/2008 Alan: [IaWA] Advantage dice question
Hi again Vincent, Advantage dice. It's clear from the text that an advantage dice bought from the Owe list is kept until the end of a conflict, but I find…
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Participants: Alan, lumpley, WildElf, rycanada, Valvorik.

2/24/2008 Rustin: [IaWA] Consequential Damage to NPC forms
Do we lower the highest dice? Do we lower both dice? Does the victor chose which dice to lower?
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Participants: Rustin, lumpley, Valvorik, WildElf.

2/25/2008 Valvorik: [IAWA] Excerpts of AP and some Q's
Siege of Akar Dal Vincent noted lack of AP reports with dice/round by round included etc. This was a game couple of weeks back over Skype, two sessions, hoping to…
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Participants: Valvorik, DainXB.

2/26/2008 SavageInOz: [DitV] Judges in the Mega-City - alternate setting
Had a great idea for an alternate setting for DitV (although I love the standard setting): Judges in the Mega-City ----------------------------------- Based on the 2000AD comic Judge Dread. Really easy…
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Participants: SavageInOz, Peturabo, zornwil, demiurgeastaroth.

2/26/2008 Valamir: Problems with Poisn'd
Ok, so after GoPlayPeoria, Tim K, Julie, Ron, Matt S, and myself returned to my place to play some Poisn'd. Character creation went off without a hitch.  There was some…
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Participants: Valamir, lumpley, Matt Snyder, Ben Lehman, rafial, Peter Nordstrand, Eero Tuovinen, Temple, Ron Edwards, Emily Care.

2/26/2008 Nyarly: [IaWA] 3 rounds?
We're planning to actually give In a Wicked Age a shot this evening, and having read the rules text, I'm pretty clear on how everything works.  What I'm trying to…
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Participants: Nyarly, Thor Olavsrud, Valvorik, lumpley.

2/27/2008 Alan: [IaWA] Play Aid for Best Interests
I came up with an idea for mapping Best Interests to help focus play preparation. Here's the sheet I came up with and a tutorial for using it. It places…
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Participants: Alan, Valvorik, rycanada, oliof, jenskot, David Artman.

2/28/2008 Nyarly: [IaWA] Three soft places
So, LA gamers took the Wicked Age for a spin last night, and we were our usual ruthless selves with the rules.  Dice worked out fine, we had a lot…
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Participants: Nyarly, Valvorik.

2/29/2008 Greymorn: [DitV] To the bitter end?
I'm re-reading the rules and hoping I can put a group of Dogs together to run my first full game. I ran into a confusing point. (This is hypothetical, I…
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Participants: Greymorn, lumpley.

2/29/2008 Tancred: [IAWA] Conflict questions/clarifications
I ran In a Wicked Age for the first time last week for 4 players and it worked very well I think. There were a couple of minor questions that…
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Participants: Tancred, lumpley.

3/1/2008 lumpley: For Rafial: interesting play in Poison'd
Here's the conversation so far: Okay I had gotten as far as:  If the system is handing back results to the fiction, then if Dirty Pete…
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Participants: lumpley, rafial.

3/2/2008 Alan: [IaWA] Suggestions for clarifications of rule text
Hi Vincent, After playing some games and reading your responses to questions, I think I understand the rules text. I've found some points, especially those about narration during dice rolling,…
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Participants: Alan, lumpley, demiurgeastaroth, Valvorik.

3/3/2008 Alan: [IaWA] Why narration matters
The importance of narration in IaWA has been mentioned in a couple discussions, but I didn't start to understand until I finally understood the narration rules for dicing things out.…
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Participants: Alan.

3/3/2008 Artanis: [IaWA] Tossing Particular strengths around
Disclaimer: I'm suspecting a major case of thickness is hiding under this post, I just can't find the relevant game text. I remember in AG&G that you could give mastery…
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Participants: Artanis, lumpley, Piers Brown.

3/5/2008 lumpley: [Poison'd] Burning down Cartegena
This is about a problem with Poison'd that Ralph raised, here. I have zero interest in talking right now about how well the text communicates. I'm going to go back…
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Participants: lumpley, Valamir, demiurgeastaroth, Eero Tuovinen, Matt Snyder, Piers Brown, rafial.

3/8/2008 Peturabo: Narrative Integrity
Hi ya'll I was brainstorming a DitV Town when ideas about narrative integrity popped into my head. I posted about my feelings on the boards at my local club, and…
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Participants: Peturabo, Eliarhiman6, lumpley.

3/9/2008 Willem: [IAWA] "Don't Get All Buddhist On Me" - Drinking the Wine and Making Story Now!
I've posted a couple times about my history, but since it probably got lost in the glorious shuffle that we call the Forge, here we go again: I haven't played…
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Participants: Willem, DainXB, lumpley, timeless.

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