Previous Topics In lumpley games 10/21/2008 Graham Walmsley: [Poison'd] I don't use NPC Brinkmanship The only thing NPC Brinkmanship does is decide whether the GM can escalate, right? The rules, as written, are:
1. Roll two dice. Take the higher for Brinkmanship.
2. If… In lumpley games Participants: Graham Walmsley, lumpley, Arturo G., Eero Tuovinen, watergoesred.
10/20/2008 bvierthaler: Fallout consequences I have a question to the short-term list. It says: Subtract 1 from one of your charcter´s Stats for your next conflict. What does that mean? Subtract on die? Or… In lumpley games Participants: bvierthaler, lumpley.
10/19/2008 daftnewt: Finally started a Dogs game! After having Dogs for about a year and fiddling with it on and off, I finally got a group together to play the game as written.
And it turned out… In lumpley games Participants: daftnewt, lumpley, bvierthaler, Eliarhiman6.
10/17/2008 GreatWolf: [IaWA] Mostly hypothetical question We're gearing up to get back to our game of In a Wicked Age, which I'm really looking forward to continuing. I did find myself with a slightly bizarre question,… In lumpley games Participants: GreatWolf, Yokiboy, lumpley.
10/17/2008 Yokiboy: [IaWA] Some Questions following Actual Play I completed my first chapter of In a Wicked Age with three of my best friends last night. It was a fantastic session, but did raise a few questions, and… In lumpley games Participants: Yokiboy, lumpley.
10/12/2008 Ward: [DitV] Judging a town Hey,
We finally got to play a third session of DitV and I got to run a second town. Overall we had alot of fun, but we ran into some… In lumpley games Participants: Ward, Eliarhiman6.
10/9/2008 lumpley: Storming the Wizard's Tower playtest rules I've put the playtest rules for Storming the Wizard's Tower online. They're here: www.lumpley.com/storming/.
If you haven't heard of Storming the Wizard's Tower, it's my own personal take on D&D.… In lumpley games Participants: lumpley.
10/4/2008 Paul T: [IaWA] Challenger names Answerers, Answerers Call Back Later This is another design question, and a very minor one. I'm just trying to wrap my head around how this game works.
In the rules, it says that when you… In lumpley games Participants: Paul T, lumpley, Rafu, Thomas Lawrence.
10/3/2008 Paul T: [IaWA] Two quick questions Hello!
I played IaWA for the first time a couple of weeks ago, and only afterwards read through the book. I have two questions:
1. When do you go on… In lumpley games Participants: Paul T, lumpley.
10/3/2008 David Artman: [IAWA] Six-Player Con Session Yep, I may have fucked up a bit--I set the player numbers for my session at MACE to 3-6... and I got 5 already (in two days of Pre-Reg).
I… In lumpley games Participants: David Artman, lumpley.
9/28/2008 oreso: [Mechaton AP] Noble Japan vs. Cowardly Germany! (With Pics!) 1300 hours, in Canada...
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The President's limo is disabled! Oh no!
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Stranded, just outside 'Canada's Smallest City'; Greenwood, at the edge of the wood that shares the town's… In lumpley games Participants: oreso, David Artman, lumpley, Mantisking.
9/10/2008 Paladin3970: new here, waiting for my copy of DitV Hello all,
I ran across a reference to DitV on rpg.net. It has been over 20 years since I last played an RPG - D&D Basic/Expert, a little Gamma World… In lumpley games Participants: Paladin3970, Graham Walmsley, Rustin.
9/4/2008 David Artman: [IAWA] Everway Cards as Oracles Just wondering if anyone's tried to use Everway cards as Oracles and how it worked out. I haven't looked at mine in a coon's age, but I'd imagine some might… In lumpley games Participants: David Artman, rycanada.
9/2/2008 ZenDog: [IaWA] Oracle of the Rising Sun Hey, I made an Oracle. Give it a spin if you like the look of it.
Oracle of the Rising Sun
Diamonds
A - A Sorcerer, a Kappa, a Bakemono,… In lumpley games Participants: ZenDog, David Artman, rycanada.
9/1/2008 lumpley: New Poison'd PDFs Hey Poison'd people, the first edition PDFs are now online. Go back and download them afresh.
There's also a nice Poison'd character sheet here that you can use.
-Vincent In lumpley games Participants: lumpley, Yokiboy, higgins.
9/1/2008 Khuxan: IAWA Oracles as Campaign Settings It occured to me that an IAWA game could create a campaign setting by having each player contribute a suite for an oracle. As long as basic rules (genre, tone,… In lumpley games Participants: Khuxan, lumpley, David Artman, rycanada.
8/31/2008 jmhpfan: Gunslingers in the Dark Tower I will be running a hack on Dogs at MACE con set in the universe of Stephen Kings Dark Tower series. It is mostly a strait setting hack with the… In lumpley games Participants: jmhpfan, rycanada, lumpley.
8/27/2008 anonynos: [DITV] Negative traits and how to use them So after looking at this game for awhile, I picked up a copy at this last Origins and last night got a couple of friends together and tried out char… In lumpley games Participants: anonynos, David Artman, dindenver, lumpley, LordAsteroth, Axhead, Paul T.
8/26/2008 Graham Walmsley: Poison'd: Some thoughts on violence The new GM advice section has helped me a great deal. It's cleared up some problems I had in GMing Poison'd.
Here are a couple of thoughts/questions.
1. If you… In lumpley games Participants: Graham Walmsley, lumpley.
8/24/2008 jessecoombs: New version of Poison'd? Alas, I was not able to make it to Gencon. After hearing about a new version of Poison'd, I got excited and bought the existing pdf. There was a note… In lumpley games Participants: jessecoombs, lumpley.
<< more previous topics | | Subsequent Topics In lumpley games 10/27/2008 Caesar_X: [DitV] Questions from a first-time GM I ran Dogs for the first time this weekend, and had a fun time. But ended up with some questions about confusing issues or where I thought I might have… In lumpley games Participants: Caesar_X, Noclue, Warren, lumpley.
10/28/2008 Filip Luszczyk: [DitV] Alternative rules for NPCs questions So, I knew the alternative NPC templates based on Afraid rules were supposed to be included in the hardcover edition, but it's only last week that I've learned they were… In lumpley games Participants: Filip Luszczyk, lumpley.
10/30/2008 14thWarrior: [DitV] Crusaders of Tarscolis - a fantasy adaptation. Let me first provide a brief introduction to the ideas that spawned this adaptation.
I recently decided to use an idea from a thread at RPG.net about "the city build… In lumpley games Participants: 14thWarrior, ShallowThoughts, Pelgrane.
10/31/2008 Paul T: [IaWA] Negotiating consequences based on circumstances This is a rule application question that arose for me during a game of IaWA.
My character had a Best Interest to convince an illegal surgeon to stop from carrying… In lumpley games Participants: Paul T, Brand_Robins, lumpley.
11/6/2008 Filip Luszczyk: [DitV] Shooting UFOs and escalations In our last game we had the following situation:
The conflict was about the community's trust in the Sorcerer. We've already "opened" Just Talking and Physical arenas, it was still… In lumpley games Participants: Filip Luszczyk, Warren, lumpley, David Artman, Paul T.
11/6/2008 deinol: Can't Find Dogs in Store I was going to put in an order for Dogs in the Vineyard today at the IPR site, but I can't find it listed anymore. Is there no way to… In lumpley games Participants: deinol, Ben Lehman, lumpley, Eero Tuovinen, Ante, Axhead, Dionysus, Eliarhiman6.
11/11/2008 Graham Walmsley: [Poison'd] More simple questions 1. What do I do when a player says: "I want to talk to the crew and incite a mutiny"? What he really wants is to be Captain without a… In lumpley games Participants: Graham Walmsley, lumpley.
11/12/2008 Melinglor: [IAWA] Exclusivity of Forms? Hi! I'm playing In a Wicked Age tonight (first time GMing) and I had a question: how exclusive are the Forms supposed to be, in terms of narrowing down narrative… In lumpley games Participants: Melinglor, David Artman, lumpley, Valamir, Eliarhiman6, GreatWolf.
11/14/2008 Yokiboy: [IaWA] Hey,
I have a couple of questions for experienced In a Wicked Age... players.
1) How long does the Oracle part and creation of characters take you on average? That… In lumpley games Participants: Yokiboy, Brand_Robins, lumpley, GreatWolf, jburneko, Valamir.
11/17/2008 Paul T: [IaWA] Rules question: forces of nature as NPCs? I have feeling this might have been covered before, but I can't seem to find it:
Does/would it make sense to represent some powerful abstract force in the setting as… In lumpley games Participants: Paul T, Brand_Robins, lumpley.
11/18/2008 gardenphilosoph: [DitV]Play-by-Post So as a first time Dogs in the Vineyard GM, I am going to try and run a play-by-post game on these forums. I've, to be perfectly honest, never ran… In lumpley games Participants: gardenphilosoph.
11/21/2008 cra2: Using Poker Cards vs Dice
I saw this post about using Poker Cards instead of dice.
http://www.indie-rpgs.com/forum/index.php?topic=26195.msg251157#msg251157
Has anyone else experimented with that? In lumpley games Participants: cra2, Paul T, Wordman.
11/22/2008 gardenphilosoph: Accomplishments So for working out accomplishments, instead of actually rolling the NPC's dice, you instead roll 4d6+4d10? In lumpley games Participants: gardenphilosoph, lumpley.
11/22/2008 deinol: Dogs in the Vineyard Review If anyone is interested, I wrote a review of Dogs in the Vineyard: http://www.apathyblogs.com/2008/09/28/dogs-in-the-vineyard/ In lumpley games Participants: deinol.
11/24/2008 Dionysus: [IaWA] using different dice? Howdy.
Just wondering if anyone has given thougt to changing the dice?
I have a metric ton of d6 and d10, but no d12, d8 or d4 dice.
Has anyone… In lumpley games Participants: Dionysus, lumpley, Paul T, Brand_Robins, rycanada, Valvorik, way.
11/26/2008 spooked: [DitV] Question from a new-ish GM. Perhaps this is the intention of the rule and not a flaw, but... I'm find that with four players that while I can force them into SEEing all my raises,… In lumpley games Participants: spooked, Eliarhiman6.
12/5/2008 Paka: The Last Watchdog Over the Faithful A solo campaign in a wild west that never was and has moved on, starting off in a ghost-town called Bridal Falls, winding through what is left of the Desert… In lumpley games Participants: Paka, agony, Brand_Robins, Graham Walmsley, jefgodesky.
12/8/2008 TomTitTot: [Mechaton] Line of Sight? A short, stupid question, but...
Am I right in thinking that a mech has to at least be visible to their attacker slightly, otherwise they can't attack?
Because the text… In lumpley games Participants: TomTitTot, rafial, lumpley.
12/8/2008 otspiii: Inspiration vs. Theft I've been working on a system meant to emulate shounen-action style manga in my spare time.
I've always been fond of the genre's neurotic method of storytelling, which is typified… In lumpley games Participants: otspiii, lumpley.
12/8/2008 Dionysus: [DitV] How many dice? Howdy..
guess i'm going to succumb and get myself some d4 and d8s (d6 ad d10 i've got plenty of)
about how many would i need to play this game?… In lumpley games Participants: Dionysus, lumpley.
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