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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.

1/10/2007 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.

1/10/2007 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!: 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.

1/7/2007 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!.

1/6/2007 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.

1/5/2007 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.

1/5/2007 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.

1/2/2007 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.

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.

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.

12/4/2006 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.

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.

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.

11/16/2006 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.

11/7/2006 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.

11/4/2006 JasonPalenske: The Frontier Challenge
The Challenge So begins the First Frontier Biquarterly 24 hour Challenge! That's right boys and girls, Biquartery! Once every 4 months Frontier will sponsor a Challenge based upon the game.…
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Participants: JasonPalenske, Ron Edwards.

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.

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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.

2/3/2007 Nathan P.: The BibliOdyssey RPG Challenge
(x-posted with Story Games) Hey everyone! So I wanna run a challenge! This is one centers around..... (drumroll) ART! Specifically, old art that has been posted at the ever-wonderful BibliOdyssey…
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Participants: Nathan P..

2/13/2007 Frank Tarcikowski: 1st Transatlantic Setting Design Champion
Challengers! Finally, with half a month’s delay, it is time to announce the Champion of the 1st Transatlantic Setting Design Challenge! Aaaaaaand the winner iiiiiiiis: Thou Art But a Warrior…
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Participants: Frank Tarcikowski, Everspinner, wunderllama, Graham Walmsley, Rich Stokes, Ben Lehman, talysman.

2/14/2007 passionado: Player – Charakter Survey
hello there, i'm new to this forum and stumbled over it while researching... I'm a design student and working on my prediploma. as a scientific topic i have to complete…
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Participants: passionado, Jasper Flick, Ron Edwards.

2/27/2007 Troy_Costisick: Outtage RPG Contest- Story Games is down!
Heya, Have you read this: http://community.livejournal.com/storygamesinfo/834.html It's a great idea.  So I'm going to start it.  Who knows when Story Games will be back up?  It could be tonight, it…
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Participants: Troy_Costisick, Caesar_X, Andy Kitkowski, Bryan Hansel, talysman.

3/9/2007 Andy Kitkowski: One Week Until GAME CHEF. March 17. Lock and Load!
Hey all, it's that time of the year again.  This project, so deep-rooted in the history of the Forge as to be almost inseparable, is rolling around again for it's…
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Participants: Andy Kitkowski, Mcrow.

3/15/2007 Troy_Costisick: [Outtage RPG Contest] Review of Blackout on the Elevator
Review of “Blackout on the Elevator” By: Bryan Hansel Game Summary: Opens with the situation.  You’re trapped in an elevator.  This game doesn’t mess around.  It presents the players with…
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Participants: Troy_Costisick, Bryan Hansel.

3/15/2007 Troy_Costisick: [Outtage RPG Contest] Review of Comedy Blackout
Comedy Blackout Review By John Laviolette Game Summary: The game begins by explaining what “blackout” means in comedic circles.  That’s great because I would have had no idea.  The background…
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Participants: Troy_Costisick.

3/16/2007 Philippe Tromeur: One-page RPG's
I'm currently participating into a kind of casual contest on a French forum : each month, one has to write a full RPG, based on a given topic. The game…
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Participants: Philippe Tromeur, komradebob, scrandy, Filip Luszczyk, salkaner, Conteur, Kesher, Ron Edwards, Noon, Ken, patrice larcenet.

3/21/2007 Andy Kitkowski: Story Games "Make a Relationship Map" Contest
Here's a link and the info: http://www.story-games.com/forums/comments.php?DiscussionID=2693 With all the talk of relationship maps these days, I figured that it was time for a new Endeavor. So here it is.…
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Participants: Andy Kitkowski.

5/28/2007 anders_larsen: Game Design Groups, a proposal
[b][size=14pt]Introduction[/size][/b] This is an idea that comes from [url=http://www.game-chef.com/]Game Chef[/url] 2007, where all the participants were assigned to feedback groups of about ten people per group. This made it much…
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Participants: anders_larsen, Filip Luszczyk, David Artman, lee-anne.

7/18/2007 Filip Luszczyk: System in a Can Design Challenge
Hello everyone! Inspired by the last year's Compact RPG Challenge hosted by The Forge, I want to propose System in a Can design challenge, from this point referred to as…
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Participants: Filip Luszczyk, craigp, xenopulse, anders_larsen, ja-prozac, Darcy Burgess, greyorm, Dave Cleaver, Lobo, Chainsaw Aardvark, Vulpinoid, Reprobus, preludetotheend, Primordia.

7/20/2007 tj333: Take a Premise and Brainstorm Mechanics for it Endeavor
Take game premise <insert cool premise of choice> and then we all create mechanics for it. Taking place on the Spin forum we have a kind of game of brainstorming…
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Participants: tj333.

7/20/2007 xenopulse: [sic] Tales of Vengeance
This is my thread for the Setting In A Can challenge. I'm selecting Set A: SET A Setting: high fantasy. Theme: revenge/treasure hunt story. High fantasy, to me, means…
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Participants: xenopulse, Filip Luszczyk, ja-prozac, anders_larsen, Reprobus, Vulpinoid, Primordia.

7/20/2007 JackTheOwner: [sic] The end is comming
Ok, let's start. SET C Setting: post-apocalypse/space opera. Theme: wacky overcoming-inner-demons story. It's all about people, who have sth with "First Sign" (It's like a big boom in entire outerspace).…
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Participants: JackTheOwner, Filip Luszczyk, ja-prozac, Primordia, Chainsaw Aardvark.

7/20/2007 ja-prozac: [sic]The Ultimate Elvis Challenge!
Set C of course. The Ultimate Elvis Challenge! There can be only one true Elvis impersonator! In postapocyliptic wasteland left after alien invasion humanity has lost its spirit. Only people…
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Participants: ja-prozac, Filip Luszczyk, Primordia, Reprobus, Vulpinoid.

7/20/2007 anders_larsen: [sic] Cyber Barbarians
I go with set D here. A few hundred years in the future the world are controlled by a seven big corporations. These corporations are incomprehensible complex, and no one…
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Participants: anders_larsen, Filip Luszczyk, ja-prozac, Lobo, Reprobus, Vulpinoid, xenopulse.

7/21/2007 craigp: [sic] TIN FRIGATE
I'm definitely going with C. Mine's a Star Trek spoof. I was thinking this: http://www.projectperko.com/game/TINFRIGATE.pdf It's not actually a finished rule set, I just find I'm not so good at…
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Participants: craigp, Filip Luszczyk, ja-prozac, Vulpinoid.

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