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3/22/2009 Spooky Fanboy: [Super Action NOW!] PDF available soon?
As the title says, is there any hope for a pdf or document of some sort for SAN! ?
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Participants: Spooky Fanboy, Marshall Burns.

2/26/2009 Marshall Burns: [Rustbelt] de-ashcanification stage one: I need your eyes
So, I've got a draft of a new Rustbelt text. I'm not happy with it yet, but I don't know what to do to fix it. Specifically, I'm not satisfied…
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Participants: Marshall Burns, JoyWriter, Nocker.

2/3/2009 Marshall Burns: [The Rustbelt] attributes for a setting mod: "Heatwave"
So, I'm working on this chapter for Rustbelt 1st ed. in which I explain how to modify the setting.  I do this partially because I know that people love tinkering…
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Participants: Marshall Burns, agony.

1/6/2009 Marshall Burns: I need your gamer knowledge!
Hey everyone, I need you to help me with some research.  I need to know about all the RPGs out there with post-apocalyptic themes, and I need to know as…
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Participants: Marshall Burns, Eero Tuovinen, greyorm, jasonm, Darcy Burgess, Krippler, JoyWriter.

11/13/2008 Marshall Burns: [Ride! With Great Justice] prototype ready
I've finished the scratch rules for Ride! With Great Justice, a game in which you play members of an elite police force doing battle with vicious motorgangs in a futuristic…
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Participants: Marshall Burns.

11/5/2008 Marshall Burns: [GRiM] Lemme borrow your ears for a bit
Ok, so, as you probably know, I put together a CD of original music to accompany the Rustbelt ashcan.  The idea was for the songs to serve the same purposes…
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Participants: Marshall Burns, davidberg.

11/3/2008 DWeird: [Rustbelt] Changing setting
Split off from this thread here, as requested: http://www.indie-rpgs.com/forum/index.php?topic=26919.0 (though I *am* having some troubles with the complete lack of tidbits…
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Participants: DWeird, Marshall Burns, Wolfen.

10/29/2008 davidberg: renaming The Rustbelt?
Most of my inspirations run along the lines of "setting's impact on the characters" and derive from the original title: Rusted Out Rusted Away The Rusted Rusted Lives Rusted Fates…
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Participants: davidberg, Marshall Burns, Everspinner, DWeird, Wolfen, agony, Peter Nordstrand, Eero Tuovinen, Krippler, Valamir, Ron Edwards.

10/3/2008 Marshall Burns: [Rustbelt] contemplated rules change: Blood recovery
The Blood recovery rules stick out like a sore thumb to me, but I couldn't think of an alternative until I saw No Country for Old Men (which is a…
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Participants: Marshall Burns.

8/27/2008 Ron Edwards: NPCs in Rustbelt play
Hi Marshall, Jari Tuovinen and I are playing Rustbelt in a kind of quick-and-dirty way, beginning a scenario and skipping through to a later time. It's just me and him,…
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Participants: Ron Edwards, Marshall Burns.

8/26/2008 Marshall Burns: RUSTBELT ERRATA
There's a few things that should have made it into the book that did not.  And they are: PACKAGED EFFECTS So, a moment from actual play: Kitt, the shady doctor,…
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Participants: Marshall Burns.

8/26/2008 Marshall Burns: Welcome to Beyond the Wire Productions
Hi, welcome to the forum for Beyond the Wire Productions.  BtW consists of me, and a few friends that I'm collaborating with on some new game ideas. I primarily set…
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Participants: Marshall Burns, jasonm, davidberg.

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4/20/2009 Marshall Burns: Lunar Notes
Inspired by John Harper's GHOST/ECHO and Lady Blackbird, I made Lunar Notes: http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v53/foolish_Paeter/lunarnotesp1thumb.pnghttp://img.photobucket.com/albums/v53/foolish_Paeter/lunarnotesp2thumb.png Page One PDF Page Two PDF I'm not as hot as John Harper with the layout,…
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Participants: Marshall Burns, Ron Edwards, Noclue, DWeird, JoyWriter.

5/26/2009 Marshall Burns: [Super Action Now!] a crazy-ass advertisement
So, in preparation for the First Super Action Edition of my favorite stupid little game, Super Action Now!, I asked this guy if he'd be willing to draw some illos…
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Participants: Marshall Burns, DWeird.

8/3/2009 Marshall Burns: Coffee & Cigarettes Live Action Roleplay
COFFEE & CIGARETTES LIVE ACTION ROLEPLAY inspired by the film by Jim Jarmusch This game is for two players and a director. Each player chooses a famous person to portray.…
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Participants: Marshall Burns.

10/28/2009 Marshall Burns: [MADCorp] I'm posting class handbooks on my blog
I'm posting the "Employee Handbooks" (class guide pamphlets for the players) from the design-in-progress MADCorp on my blog. Each week, I'll post between 1 and 3 of them until they're…
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Participants: Marshall Burns.

1/11/2010 Marshall Burns: [Rustbelt self-parody] The Cookie Crumbles: a tale of pain
Fans of the Rustbelt might get a kick out of this cartoon I drew starring Matchley "Match" Daws, one of the guys on the cover of the ashcan. The cartoon…
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Participants: Marshall Burns, Ron Edwards.

2/24/2010 Marshall Burns: Rules & Precepts for Creating Fantasy
I wrote this because I'm writing a fantasy story. When I write, I have to set ground rules for myself, otherwise I second-guess myself, revise things that don't need revising,…
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Participants: Marshall Burns.

2/26/2010 Spooky Fanboy: [Super Action Now!] Game inspiration
http://axecop.com/index.php Seems to be where you're heading with the game.
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Participants: Spooky Fanboy, Marshall Burns.

7/13/2010 Marshall Burns: Musical magic
(I didn't post this in First Thoughts because there's not actually anything I need help with. It's just some musing and design-process-think. But we can still talk about it if…
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Participants: Marshall Burns.

7/15/2010 Marshall Burns: [The Rustbelt] first crack at a character sheet; feedback requested!
[url=http://beyondthewireproductions.wikispaces.com/file/view/Rustbelt+Character+Sheet.pdf]Here's my first crack at a Rustbelt character sheet[/url]. I want some feedback on it from a.) layout-savvy peeps and b.) those who have played the Rustbelt. Layout-savvy peeps: What…
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Participants: Marshall Burns.

7/17/2010 Marshall Burns: [BtW store] four games for $2 each!
I'm currently in some dire straights financially right now, but I'm not one to just ask for money, so I'm sellin' some games! I've put together a store webpage where…
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Participants: Marshall Burns.

8/7/2010 Marshall Burns: [The Rustbelt] PRE-ORDERS
I'm taking pre-orders for the Rustbelt first edition starting now. Hit up my crude store here for details and the PayPal button. It costs $24 plus $2.77 shipping. It's 164…
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Participants: Marshall Burns, Nocker, Darla Shockley, Courage75, Ron Edwards, pfischer, Tim C Koppang.

11/23/2010 Marshall Burns: [The Rustbelt] yay, my first review!
Wilper reviewed the Rustbelt on his blog. Check it out! http://wilper.wordpress.com/2010/11/23/reading-the-rustbelt-tales-of-tenacity-depravity-and-hope-by-d-marshall-burns/ -Marshall
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Participants: Marshall Burns.

3/4/2011 Marshall Burns: My games are available at the Unstore again
I have internet at home now, which means that I've been able to access my Unstore account and get all my games up there. I don't have images up yet,…
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Participants: Marshall Burns.

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