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10/29/2006 Adam H.: ideas to complex for first thoughts but not developed enough for playtesting
First Thoughts for Operation Newborn. Operation newborn is an R.P.G. that takes place in a small country inside of a large crater on an unknown planet. The setting is mid-evil…
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Participants: Adam H., Ron Edwards.

10/19/2006 Kuma: Announcing the Mix-O-Tronic Challenge!
Kuma Pageworks is proud to announce the Mix-O-Tronic Challenge, a game design workshop and competition dedicated to stretching the boundaries of role-playing game design. Using the enigmatic <a href="http://mixotronic.elseworld.org">Mix-O-Tronic</a>, a…
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Participants: Kuma.

10/10/2006 Ken: COMPACT RPG CHALLENGE!!!
I'm happy to say that the challenge is on! Big thanks to everyone for working with me over the last week. The group is set up, the links in place,…
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Participants: Ken, btrc, Andrew Morris, redivider, aedaren, David Artman, dpetroski, Olorin, Kesher.

10/3/2006 Zahtevnik: Module Contest
This is a cash-prize contest for a gaming company, so I hope it's fine to advertise it here. If not then let me know : ) We're trying out our…
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Participants: Zahtevnik, Eero Tuovinen.

9/7/2006 jasonm: The Iron MACE Design Challenge
MACE is a local convention in High Point, North Carolina, USA.  The organizers are good people and it is a fun time.  Last year they ran a Game Chef style…
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Participants: jasonm, iago, David Artman, Andy Kitkowski.

9/3/2006 ( o Y o ): [GroFaFo Challenge] the Great Below or a mother journeys to kill her beloved son
the Great Below This was my game for the GroFaFo-Challenge. Just to remember, the words were: Mother, Cave, Sensuality, Law and we had 72 hours to finish the whole thing.…
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Participants: ( o Y o ).

8/24/2006 StefanS: [Grofafo-challenge] Goochelaar Meisjes
I've read in GroFaFo that some people here at The Forge are interested in the results of the German Grofafo-Challenge (see this report for details). To make it short, it…
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Participants: StefanS.

8/22/2006 Tomas HVM: [The Dull and the Dramatic] A game sketch
Here goes! Following is a short sketch of a possible roleplaying-game. Any comments are apprectiated. Any test of it and report in the "Actual Play"-forum is appreciated. Go gently, it's…
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Participants: Tomas HVM, matthijs, xenopulse.

8/17/2006 Roger: Don't Just Stand There
This is an idea for a game... process, I guess.  It's not really a game mechanic, per se. The basic definition of it: "Don't Just Stand There" is a bit…
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Participants: Roger, Arturo G., oreso, David Artman, Kensan_Oni, TroyLovesRPG.

8/17/2006 Madkitten: Compact RPG Challenge REVISED
Forked from the following thread: http://www.indie-rpgs.com/forum/index.php?topic=20302.0 Send YOUR contribution to this E-mail Address: CompactRPG@sverige.nu Last submission date: August the 28th. The rules for the endeavor are as follows:    …
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Participants: Madkitten, Kesher, WRPIgeek, Filip Luszczyk, Ken, Thunder_God, btrc, dpetroski, iago.

8/15/2006 Kevin Allen Jr: The reverse engineering challenge
So after some observation of other designers and talking to some folks (thanks Shreyas) I had this idea for a design contest: Thesis- Speaking generally, the last thing in most…
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Participants: Kevin Allen Jr, iago, thwaak, marknau, Darcy Burgess, NeuroZombie, Zach, BeUrgaust, Dustfather, Dumirik, gwangi, Agent_Fresh, Tomas HVM, andrew_kenrick.

8/15/2006 tj333: [Drill] 12 Cranes Style VS Iron Fist of the Dragon
Inspired by the Calvinball for Combat thread I've written up this drill. Its a wuxia/kung-fuish /super powered martial arts style drill where the power of your long and perhaps oddly…
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Participants: tj333, Noon, BeUrgaust.

8/8/2006 BeUrgaust: The Chopper RPG Challenge.
[move]In the world of motorcycles there are bikes and then there are choppers.[/move] [b]From the Wikipedia Entry on Choppers:[/b] [quote]Chopper refers to a particular type of motorcycle that was radically…
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Participants: BeUrgaust, Frank T, Dumirik.

8/4/2006 Justin D. Jacobson: Help Formulating an Experiment in Game Design
This is an idea I've been toying with for some time. I'm sure, like me, that many of you have participated in round-robin writing endeavors. The structure varies but follows…
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Participants: Justin D. Jacobson, Nathan P., Thunder_God, Noon, jasonm, preludetotheend.

7/14/2006 Call Me Curly: [Drill] Pool Variant Drills
1. Commence a game of James V. West's The Pool with friends, but without a GM.  Don't figure-out how you will accommodate GM-less play beforehand. Just start playing and every…
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Participants: Call Me Curly, Roger.

7/12/2006 Frank T: [Report] GroFaFo Challenge (Germany does it, too)
Some months ago we started talking about doing an RPG design contest at GroFaFo. There already is one 24-h-contest at FERA, but that one suffered from several problems. Too focused…
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Participants: Frank T, Caesar_X, contracycle, JasperN., Ron Edwards, oliof, jasonm.

7/4/2006 Madkitten: Compact RPG Challenge
Hello fellow RPG-tinkerers. This endeavor is about making compact games, in order to show that the making of a game can be quickly accomplished and in order to focus on…
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Participants: Madkitten, Kesher, btrc, Aman the Rejected, cpeterso, ffilz, Dustfather, WRPIgeek, Jeph, iago, Call Me Curly, Filip Luszczyk, thwaak, Ken, Obak, Thunder_God, redivider, dpetroski, gains.

6/24/2006 shays: Open New Project Design
Here is what I think the game should have: 1. A catchy name. 2. A character creation system that is flexible and fun and not bound by classes. 3. A…
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Participants: shays.

6/13/2006 Caesar_X: [Noir] Early draft of Noir rules
You can read the early draft of my Noir rules and game notes here: http://groups.google.com/group/Noir_RPG Noir is a story game that concentrates on the noir genre in film and literature. …
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Participants: Caesar_X, Jared A. Sorensen, Justin D. Jacobson, Andy Kitkowski, Krystalex, apeiron.

6/2/2006 Darcy Burgess: [Drill] - Vive la Résistance!
[b][i][color=Red]Vive la Résistance![/color][/i][/b] a high-stakes drill [color=Blue][u]Introduction[/u] a word on black-balling[/color] I don't know where the term originated, but the first time I heard it used was in reference to…
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Participants: Darcy Burgess.

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11/7/2006 Frank T: Setting Design Challenge
Ron’s TSoY actual play and the Frontier Challenge thread triggered an idea that now sits in the back of my head like an evil monkey. I’ve been saying since 2004…
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Participants: Frank T, JasonPalenske, Ben Lehman, David Artman, Eero Tuovinen, StefanS, TroyLovesRPG.

11/16/2006 Frank T: 1st Transatlantic Setting Design Challenge starting NOW
Dear aspiring (or accomplished) designers of role-playing games! We have seen thousandfold how clever rules design can change the game being played. But what about setting, I ask? Now is…
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Participants: Frank T, ElliottBelser MKII, StefanS, Caesar_X, Jonathan Walton, MikeRM, Malcolm, 8t88, btrc, tadk, Hans, Ben Lehman, Nephilim, Everspinner, Sempiternity, TroyLovesRPG, Ron Edwards, Andy Kitkowski, Eero Tuovinen, alexandro, Hedgehamster, Sam!, Dev, redivider, wunderllama, ( o Y o ), Graham Walmsley, Pauls Girl, Steven Stewart, preludetotheend, oliof, Rich Stokes.

11/25/2006 Graham Walmsley: [Setting Design] Darker
I'm thinking about a setting for Jason's game, The Shab al-Hiri Roach. The setting is Darker College, an Oxford University college, in Victorian times. This is a first draft. If…
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Participants: Graham Walmsley.

11/27/2006 Jonathan Walton: Proposal Guidelines for Push 2
I just posted <a href="http://thou-and-one.blogspot.com/2006/11/push-2-proposal-guidelines.html">proposal guidelines</a> for <i>Push</i> volume 2 on my blog. Those of you who have been thinking about (or just now started thinking about) writing for it…
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Participants: Jonathan Walton.

12/4/2006 jrients: June is Worldwide Adventure Writing Month
Tabletop roleplaying games have traditionally relied on a Game Master to create and run adventures. Sometimes that Game Master uses published adventure material. I know for a fact that the…
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Participants: jrients.

12/18/2006 Storn: Sons of Kryos Actual Play contest
I've had the good fortune of being invited to be part of Sons of Kryos, a wonderful podcast on gaming.  Link in a moment.  I'm on episodes 29 and 31…
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Participants: Storn.

12/25/2006 Frank T: Setting Challenge Submission Thread
Dear participants of the 1st Transatlantic Setting Design Challenge! This is the official submission thread. Please post your entry here before 2007, with a download link, mention of the game…
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Participants: Frank T, wunderllama, Steven Stewart, Graham Walmsley, Malcolm, Eero Tuovinen, Everspinner, Rich Stokes, Sam!, Ben Lehman, talysman.

1/2/2007 Frank T: Setting Challenge: The Voting
Happy New Year to you, Challengers! The submission deadline for the 1st Transatlantic Setting Design Challenge has wooshed past. Graham has been so kind to collect the submissions: Anna Kreider:…
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Participants: Frank T, Everspinner, Ben Lehman, Eero Tuovinen, Graham Walmsley, Rich Stokes, talysman, Frank Tarcikowski.

1/5/2007 Graham Walmsley: Lords and Ladies: Setting Challenge review
I really liked Lords and Ladies. It takes Dust Devils and, very successfully, transplants it to a Jane Austen-ish setting. It also blends immersionist LARPs with Dust Devils' conflict resolution:…
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Participants: Graham Walmsley, talysman, Sam!, Ben Lehman.

1/5/2007 Malcolm: Umlaut: Setting Challenge review
Every one of the settings I was given made me feel something different and out of all of them, Umlaut, by Rich Stokes, produced the most wry smiles, nods and…
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Participants: Malcolm, talysman, Sam!, Graham Walmsley, Rich Stokes, Dantai, Ben Lehman, Everspinner.

1/6/2007 wunderllama: The Engine: Setting challenge review
I'll admit that when I opened up The Engine, I groaned when I saw the massive page count. (I read The Engine last, and since I'd drawn the two beefiest…
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Participants: wunderllama, Malcolm, Everspinner, Sam!, tadk, talysman.

1/7/2007 Graham Walmsley: The Legion Of SuperScience: Setting Challenge Review
I'm realising that there are two broad categories of entry in this competition: those which shoehorn a game into a completely different setting (Umlaut, Western Journeyers) and those which use…
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Participants: Graham Walmsley, talysman, Sam!.

1/10/2007 Sam!: Darker: Setting Challenge review
As I already mentioned when judging Umläut, I expect a new setting to somehow change the original system. It's nasty, because this is not the way Darker was designed. So…
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Participants: Sam!, Graham Walmsley, Eero Tuovinen, Everspinner, Gregor Hutton.

1/10/2007 Rich Stokes: Thou Art But a Warrior: Setting Challenge Review
Thou Art But a Warrior is a setting for Polaris by Anna Kreider.  It's a 13 page PDF. I find this entry very hard to judge.  After reading this brief…
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Participants: Rich Stokes, Malcolm, Eero Tuovinen, wunderllama, Graham Walmsley, Ben Lehman, Everspinner, talysman, Sam!.

1/10/2007 Sam!: Western Journeyers: Setting Challenge review
Why did I get all the hard ones? Western Journeyers is an anomalous entry in the setting contest. It takes Under the Bed, a game of childhood and growing up,…
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Participants: Sam!, Ben Lehman, Graham Walmsley, talysman.

1/13/2007 Rich Stokes: Revolutionaries: setting challenge review
I was rather hoping someone else would start a thread about this, quite simply because Malcolm started a thread about Umläut and was very complementary about it.  And the problem…
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Participants: Rich Stokes, Graham Walmsley, Malcolm, Everspinner, Ben Lehman.

1/15/2007 Gregor Hutton: [Three Sixteen] The First Session (Character Creation and Flashback)
OK, today I went through the character creation part of my Three Sixteen playtest with Shevaun and Shannon, here in Edinburgh. They gave me good feedback and going through the…
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Participants: Gregor Hutton, Ron Edwards.

1/15/2007 Everspinner: Atlas: Setting challenge feedback and observations
As I seem to be the first one writing about it, I could put out a proper review of Atlas. It is a setting that certainly deserves it. Alas, with…
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Participants: Everspinner, wunderllama, Eero Tuovinen.

1/23/2007 Frank Tarcikowski: [Setting Challenge] The Voting, Part 2
Dear Challengers! Though the Fates conspire to derail us, willing to take it out on innocent forum accounts, we are back on track and laughing in their faces. Here now,…
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Participants: Frank Tarcikowski, Malcolm, Everspinner, wunderllama, talysman.

1/23/2007 Gregor Hutton: [Three Sixteen] The Second Session (Where we actually kill some bugs)
So, following on from The First Session (Character Creation and Flashback), we have the second session. Malc and Neil created characters without all the footering of last week…
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Participants: Gregor Hutton.

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