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2/27/2011 Bret Gillan: [Cold Soldier] The soldier who wouldn't
Cold Soldier got another go tonight with Carly. We didn't get to play a full session, but we did play a half session that gave up some interesting information and…
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Participants: Bret Gillan, Tim C Koppang, Ron Edwards.

2/27/2011 Sarashinai: A heartbreaker to call my own
Hello all! I've been gaming for a good number of years now. I started out with D&D 3 but moved on to Vampire and others shortly after. I ran a…
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Participants: Sarashinai, Jason Pitre, happysmellyfish, stefoid, Paul Czege.

2/25/2011 ssem: a game originally called: adventure in the land of Jan
I started writing a specific fantasy novel in a game world of my design back in the early 80s. this failed mostly to my lack of imagination, 90% English fluency…
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Participants: ssem, Gregor Hutton, dreamborn, Ron Edwards.

2/25/2011 Marshall Burns: [Badass City] how do you design price lists?
[url=https://docs.google.com/document/pub?id=1vQg_kLsuZB8rsGLRwhUjCaqIS4foEYZh4n1q69i8lMk]Badass City[/url] is a Step on Up RPG about a city full of badasses competing to be the most badass. Your life basically consists of competing with badasses in fights…
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Participants: Marshall Burns, Ron Edwards, Paul Czege, Chris_Chinn, dindenver, JackTheOwner.

2/22/2011 Noon: [Secret lies of roleplayers ( SLORP )] Flowchart check and verbal coherancy
Any points in the flowchart that lead to a dead end? Any opaqueness/unclear meaning in the text? Does it disappear up it's own arse, like a news report on news…
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Participants: Noon, Gregor Hutton, Ron Edwards.

2/22/2011 jburneko: [Doctor Chaos] OrcCon 2011
At OrcCon this weekend I had the opportunity to play Doctor Chaos.  Overall the game was very successful.  I'll go over some of the highlights. First the social context.  There…
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Participants: jburneko, Ron Edwards.

2/18/2011 F33: Game Lacking Content and In Development
I am not a professional, but I like to play games. I've played D&D and maybe too many RPG video games than my share. Me and some friends wanted to…
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Participants: F33, Ghostlight Games, Chris_Chinn, Noon, dreamborn.

2/17/2011 dreamborn: Omnificent Role-playing System ruleset free to download
Just a note. The Omnificent Role-playing System ™(ORS™) rule set is now available for download.  Currently only the ORS Standard Rules™ is up on the site, but as my web…
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Participants: dreamborn, SteveCooper, ssem, Sarashinai.

2/13/2011 Ghostlight Games: [The Secret Lives of Serial Killers] Playtest
I "played" this recently with my regular gaming group. I was ostensibly an audience member but I kind of wound up as a co-facilitator at the end. (For the final…
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Participants: Ghostlight Games, Willow, mccleverly, johnthedm7000, Ron Edwards, Noon, jburneko, stefoid, tzirtzi.

2/14/2011 Ron Edwards: [Cold Soldier] "... every scheme of his heart's devising ..."
Hello, Peter and I played Cold Soldier at the Dice Dojo! For those of you following the Dice Dojo game threads, you might recall that I've written about the strong…
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Participants: Ron Edwards, pkalata, Bret Gillan, Tim C Koppang.

2/14/2011 Cliff H: [Keen Edge of History] Second Playtest
A last minute cancellation in our regular game opened up the possibility to give this game a second whirl. This time, things didn't hold up nearly as well, though I'm…
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Participants: Cliff H, contracycle, happysmellyfish, Altaem, Bret Gillan.

2/10/2011 happysmellyfish: [Gems] Slapstick Heist
Okay, I've got a terrible habit of clashing with The Ronnies, but you can download Gems at... http://www.mediafire.com/?b23i33au266k66u I was thinking tonight about why Secret Hearts hit a design wall.…
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Participants: happysmellyfish.

2/9/2011 Grimcleaver: Upcoming Playtest Looking for Product in Development
(Hey sorry if this is in the wrong place, I just figured it would get the eyeballs of the folks I need.) Grimcleaver here. We've got a group of three…
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Participants: Grimcleaver, Ron Edwards, Parylus, davidberg, Ghostlight Games.

2/9/2011 Gregor Hutton: [Realization Dawning] Questions and Missing Pieces, oh and the Mood Meter
So, I was over seeing Joe Prince on Monday night and after we played some Dragon vs The Gun (another Ronnies entry from 2005) we talked a little about Realization…
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Participants: Gregor Hutton, davidberg, Ron Edwards.

2/9/2011 Parylus: [APEX] Free Universal System Feedback
Hey Forge! I'd like to get some feedback on my new system called the Adaptable Play Engine v10, or APEX for short. It's a free, simple set of universal mechanics…
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Participants: Parylus, SteveCooper, Chris_Chinn, Ghostlight Games, Dr. Velocity.

2/9/2011 stefoid: [ingenero] creative tension
Hi, I got sidetracked going from wushu -> traits in general -> creative tension at this link  http://www.lumpley.com/comment.php?entry=390 Still havent resolved my initial problem but thats by the by. Creative…
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Participants: stefoid, chronoplasm, czipeter, Mike Sugarbaker, Graham Walmsley, contracycle, simon_hibbs.

2/8/2011 Demiurges: [Innommable] how to make theme exploration prevalent ?
Hi everyone, Let me introduce myself, my name is Frédéric, I work on a few french independent games influenced by your incredible creations and theories. I participate at the forum…
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Participants: Demiurges, Noon, Artanis, Ron Edwards.

2/7/2011 davidberg: [The Eye in the Pyramid] how to document ad-lib without stalling play?
[url=http://www.shrikedesign.com/games/The_Eye_in_the_Pyramid_v4.pdf]The Eye in the Pyramid - latest rules text PDF[/url] And, if anyone's curious, here's the [url=http://www.indie-rpgs.com/forge/index.php?topic=31091.0]first playtest report[/url], [url=http://www.indie-rpgs.com/forge/index.php?topic=30958]Ronnies feedback thread[/url], and the [url=http://www.1km1kt.net/rpg/the-eye-in-the-pyramid]original rules text[/url]. The first playtest…
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Participants: davidberg, happysmellyfish, baxil.

2/6/2011 Jason Pitre: Setting your own Stakes
I have been pondering a new design which would be focused on supporting adventurer-scientists, from victorian naturalists to pulp archaeologists, modern tenure track scientists or post-apocalyptic holders of knowledge.  In…
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Participants: Jason Pitre, walruz, Vanoj, Eliarhiman6, dindenver.

2/6/2011 GarretTeldt: [d20 Modern] Adding mechanics
I've been reflecting over my (admittedly short) time playing d20 Modern and Mutants and Masterminds and decided some of the mechanics required serious overhaul to reflect the more realistic, fast-paced…
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Participants: GarretTeldt, Noon, SteveCooper, Ghostlight Games.

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3/2/2011 Ben Lehman: [Beloved] [Solo RPG] In a dream ...
I have been putting off playing <a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1gnPx8AlhF1TMarQ165Y1vGM382c6epUvCu1-HkXvICI/edit?hl=en&authkey=CJDYi58F&pli=1#">Beloved</a> because, honestly, the game scares me a bit. Plus, it's very hard for me to follow the first directions of the game:…
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Participants: Ben Lehman, dreamborn, hix, C. Edwards, Ron Edwards, baxil, Nathan P., lumpley, jrs, davidberg, Gregor Hutton, Roger, Altaem, jburneko.

3/3/2011 baxil: [Deathbird Black] The Roof, The Roof, The Roof Is On Fire
So I wrote this 24-hour game about comedy, murder, backstabbing, and throwing dice across the room.  It's called Deathbird Black.  (Ronnies thread here; game here.)  Some deity must have deemed…
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Participants: baxil, Paolo D., Ron Edwards, enderbean, Eliarhiman6.

2/27/2011 Paolo D.: Limbo between prep and play (split from Poison'd thread)
Hi guys, I'm following this thread and I'm very interested. I'm writing because I have a question: 3. And finally, to reference the older Color-First…
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Participants: Paolo D., stefoid, Ron Edwards, Alfryd.

3/3/2011 Ron Edwards: [Diary of a Skull Soldier] Dry, bitter, excellent
I put some guys at the Dice Dojo through the ringer this week. First we did a serious, intense session of Acts of Evil, and then when we were all…
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Participants: Ron Edwards, pkalata, davidberg, Noon.

3/4/2011 btrc: Verne characters
I'm posting this as a game development item as an example of how to take crunchy rules and push them into the background: http://www.rpgnow.com/product_info.php?products_id=88917 This is a question & answer…
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Participants: btrc, contracycle.

3/6/2011 Sarashinai: Psychology of Mechanics
Hello all!   Please see horomancer's thread "Simple System rework"(http://www.indie-rpgs.com/forge/index.php?topic=31227.0) to see what brought this on. The way I see it, most RP games require an "impartial" (read: random) system…
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Participants: Sarashinai, Ron Edwards, horomancer.

3/6/2011 Paolo D.: [Wings of Blood] Belt of children heads
Finally, my first chance to playtest Wings of Blood, my game for the February Ronnies! (see here for the original feedback thread, if you want to) This Monday night we…
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Participants: Paolo D., Ron Edwards, Ghostlight Games, baxil.

3/6/2011 ChrisMcDee: [Thousand Spears] Looking for Feedback and Testers
[URL=http://"https://docs.google.com/document/d/1heOUrzhm9JizBOH9vw21uTJWt33WxOcW7z3E0juHiKg/edit?hl=en&authkey=CNDhqs0G#"][B]Thousand Spears[/B][/URL] is my most recent game project. [B]The Elevator Pitch[/B] Thousand Spears is... Hercules and the 300 Spartans voyaging around an ancient world varying from Hyborian savagery to classical…
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Participants: ChrisMcDee, stefoid, Ron Edwards.

3/7/2011 Trollkin: Project[World Crash]
My idea for this game was what if people got trapped in an online video game, simple concept. I’m currently using the name for the game World Crash till I…
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Participants: Trollkin, baxil, Troy_Costisick, phatonin.

3/7/2011 RegisFrey: Drunken Wizards (Drink Mechanics)
Drunken Wizards is a storytelling card game where everyone plays inebriated spellcasters and describes the ensuing chaos. The key mechanic is an Apples to Apples like response situation where a…
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Participants: RegisFrey, SteveCooper, Unforgivingmuse.

3/7/2011 Ron Edwards: [Death's Head]
Julie, Maura and I played Death's Head this past weekend. Two major points These are so important I'm presenting them up-front, out of context. 1. Most chess I've played, including…
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Participants: Ron Edwards, FetusCommander, whduryea, jrs.

3/8/2011 Paul Czege: Guy Shalev's The Friendship Game, with mechanics like real friendship
After a bit of boardgaming this past Saturday a group of us switched to roleplaying with a stab at Guy Shalev's <a href="http://craniumrats.pbworks.com/f/The%20Friendship%20Game%20V2.pdf">The Friendship Game (v. 2)</a>. It was me,…
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Participants: Paul Czege, Thunder_God, d.anderson.

3/8/2011 Enker: [Golden Age RPG] Experience as a physical item in-game.
Hello all, I wanted to make my first post on the board about something that I personally have found fun and compelling within an RPG system of my own creation.…
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Participants: Enker, simon_hibbs, Ghostlight Games, baxil.

3/8/2011 Troy_Costisick: [Dreadsands] Applying Lessons Learned from the Ronnies
Heya, Along the way to creating my Three Roses Project I submitted an entry to the Ronnies.  Some of the mechanics in that game were the incarnation of ideas I’d…
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Participants: Troy_Costisick.

3/8/2011 David Hallett: [From Beyond]
A couple of links, to a basic system draft and a basic char sheet: http://frombeyondrpg.com.s3.amazonaws.com/Prototype%207.pdf http://frombeyondrpg.com.s3.amazonaws.com/Print%20Character%20sheet%2020Oct10.pdf From Beyond is another attempt at that perennial favourite, Cthulhu Done Right (or at…
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Participants: David Hallett, davidberg, stefoid, contracycle, Mike Sugarbaker.

3/10/2011 Ben Lehman: [Beloved] [Solo RPG] Textual revisions
So based on some playtesting feedback, I have made textual revisions to Beloved, which I'm hoping the get some feedback on. In particular, to those who saw the Beloved as…
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Participants: Ben Lehman.

3/10/2011 jburneko: [Nine] A Game of Covert Operations
Over on Story-Games there was a thread about writing a whole game in a single paragraph.  I took a couple of minutes to scribble some notes and came up with…
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Participants: jburneko.

3/11/2011 Natespank: [A Game Called School...] Using Game Design Outside of Gaming
I'd like to use game design theory and principles to build a motivation structure for Real World applications. (The short of this post is that I need better reward cycles.…
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Participants: Natespank, baxil, Noon, Paul Czege, Ron Edwards, happysmellyfish, contracycle, Roger, Chris_Chinn.

3/11/2011 Nath: [Two Peoples]
We've just got up the website for an international larp project I'm working on. http://twopeoples.uphero.com/ Feedback and questions welcome.
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Participants: Nath, Ron Edwards.

3/11/2011 whduryea: [Danse Macabre] "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down"
After nearly three weeks of delays, my group finally got together to play our fourth session of Danse Macabre. I talked briefly about the first three sessions in the playtesting…
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Participants: whduryea.

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