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5/4/2004 beingfrank: [kpfs] A first rampage
Does a kpfs example really need a warning for content or language? Consider yourself warned. so my regular gaming group has been trying to get me to run fucking vampire…
In Actual Play
Participants: beingfrank, ethan_greer, lumpley, Andrew Norris, Ron Edwards.

5/4/2004 Dregg: Forge Presence at Dexcon 7?
I was Just wondering who from the Forge is attending Dexcon 7 in July? The Convention really wants to work with us and time is running thin. I myself am…
In Conventions
Participants: Dregg, Michael S. Miller, buggy, JamesSterrett, Helvetian, Mike Holmes, Tav_Behemoth.

5/4/2004 Bankuei: Appropriate disapproval and troll-fu
Hi, What are some good guidelines for us non-moderator Forgies to express diapproval regarding politeness? Chris
In Site Discussion
Participants: Bankuei, Mark Johnson, pete_darby, Jack Aidley, Walt Freitag, joshua neff, Christopher Kubasik, Ron Edwards, Dev, Clinton R. Nixon, John Kim, Matt Snyder, Hunter Logan, Shreyas Sampat, Roy.

5/4/2004 Tash: Good place to get dice?
I was wondering if anyone here knows of a good online source for dice. My group has a quite limited quantity of D10s, basically one set for the players and…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: Tash, Trevis Martin, Durgil, Dain, ethan_greer, Edge.

5/3/2004 Matt Wilson: relocating a business to a different state
So at the end of July I'll be moving from Seattle to Milwaukee. I've already registered a sole proprietorship with King County and the city of Seattle. Anyone know where…
In Publishing
Participants: Matt Wilson, semprebon.

5/3/2004 johnzo: [Savage Worlds] X-Com: rattling the characters
While the PTA people in Feng's front room have been working through their feelings, the back room crew has been getting its hands dirty against Martian terrorists. The aliens…
In Actual Play
Participants: johnzo, John Harper, rafial, JamesSterrett, ZenDog, Zak Arntson, Blake Hutchins, Nev the Deranged, contracycle, DannyK.

5/3/2004 timfire: Weapon/Armor Worth? Did I miss something?
Just bought Donjon (nice game Clinton!) and I have a question: What's the rule of thumb for the worth of weapons/armor? (Or, did I just miss something when I read…
In CRN Games
Participants: timfire, Jason.

5/3/2004 Neylana: [Great Ork Gods] Sci-Fi Mayhem
I posted this on Jack's feedback forum, but I'll post it here for everyone's enjoyment. Yesterday, I ran Great Ork Gods for my usual gaming group. Player lowdown: Donald Edwards:…
In Actual Play
Participants: Neylana, Valamir, Ron Edwards, quozl, Jack Aidley.

5/3/2004 Pramas: Some Parting Thoughts
When I started posting here at the Forge, I thought people might appreciate my POV. I've been working in the game industry for 11 years professionally, and in that time…
In Publishing
Participants: Pramas, John Kim, Dav, Matt Snyder, Jack Spencer Jr, ethan_greer, Bankuei, Ravien, Storn, semprebon, pete_darby, Ron Edwards.

5/3/2004 Bifi: [Sorcerer] Questions on Combat Mechanics
Hi all, we started to play Sorcerer and met the following issues: 1. If a NPC/monster has more total penalties than, let's say, its Stamina, is it allowed to act?…
In Actual Play
Participants: Bifi, Ron Edwards, Rob MacDougall.

5/3/2004 Dregg: Indie RPGA?
Going on some Ideas from the AGOG Thread... http://www.indie-rpgs.com/viewtopic.php?t=11041 I was thinking about this over the weekend as I look at the RPGA section of the con. The RPGA... I…
In Conventions
Participants: Dregg, Michael S. Miller, Valamir.

5/3/2004 Dregg: AGOG Indie Aftermath
Well I guess I will be the 1st to start the thread on this weekend's A Gazebo of Games in the indie designer perspective. 1st I will say it was…
In Conventions
Participants: Dregg, Michael S. Miller, abzu, inthisstyle, buggy, Thor Olavsrud, Andrew Morris, urbwar, elgorade, WGPTrey.

5/3/2004 Negilent: [Burning Wheel] Summary and Sacrifice
Ok, its been a while. And the following post is from an eight+ hours session, so it is long. There were however some rather interesting moments so I think it…
In Actual Play
Participants: Negilent, abzu, Thor Olavsrud.

5/3/2004 jeffd: Shooting Stars - 5/1/04
Ron wanted more actual play. Here's some. background: Shooting stars is run by my friend Jim. The premise of the game is that it's a sci-fi TV show, inspired by…
In Actual Play
Participants: jeffd, Zak Arntson.

5/3/2004 bergh: New Trollspawn for Weyrth. Thickskins
I made the first draft for a new troll spawn for Weyrth. www.fflr.dk/tabletop/TROS/Thickskins.pdf I think i need to develop them a bit more, maybe by doing a "Story"-first style like…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: bergh, Krammer, Tash, Brian Leybourne.

5/3/2004 Nev the Deranged: Idea, free to good home
Just a throwaway idea that ran through my head that I thought someone might make use of. It's probably been done a few times, but I can't think of any…
In Adept Press
Participants: Nev the Deranged.

5/2/2004 Emiricol: PC sheet - criticism welcome
I've made my first real PC, and I'd welcome a critical review by you fine folks. The sheet is here but comes in at just under 2 megs (sorry). Next…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: Emiricol, Mike Holmes, Tash, Wolfen.

5/2/2004 apeiron: Published Your CCG?
@ Have any of you published your Collectible Card Game? If you have please share your war stories here. i've been working on one for ages and i'd really like…
In Publishing
Participants: apeiron, daMoose_Neo.

5/2/2004 Master Merlin: Neu RPG
hello i've been working on a RPG and i've got a problem, i corrently have 4 abillitys(dexterity, strength, intelligents, charisma) but i just came up with alot more but there…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Master Merlin, Zathreyel, Sean, contracycle.

5/2/2004 Nev the Deranged: Questions I already sent Ron when the Forge didn't like me..
*** The Forge decided to be kind to me today, so I am able to ask these questions to the masses, so that Ron can attend to the myriad of…
In Adept Press
Participants: Nev the Deranged, Lxndr, Ron Edwards, Valamir, clehrich.

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5/4/2004 KingOfFarPoint: Ordering actions in Extended Contests
In the Mythic Russia thread http://www.indie-rpgs.com/viewtopic.php?t=10990 Mark Galeotti suggested that initiative in an extended to the highest bidder, to encourage high bids and outrageous manouvres. …
In HeroQuest
Participants: KingOfFarPoint, soru, Bankuei, lightcastle.

5/4/2004 ghostwolf: [Eschaton] Combat flow
Hi again. Still brainstorming stuff for my Sci-fi game here. My last post was about Damage Mechanics, so now I'd like to get some input on the system I've devised…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: ghostwolf, Ravien, Walt Freitag.

5/4/2004 Andrew Morris: My first experience with Universalis
I had the chance to play Universalis this past weekend at A Gazebo of Games, a mid-size convention in Central New Jersey. The individual hosting the event (obviously, I can't…
In Universalis
Participants: Andrew Morris, Bob McNamee, Mike Holmes, ScottM, Valamir, Tony Irwin, Christopher Weeks.

5/3/2004 Borogove: [Great Ork Gods] Rule idea (split)
[i]1. Ralph's idea for various difficulty altering the way Spite is allocated, strikes me as too complicated (who was it who last appealed anyway?) for an otherwise simple system. A…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Borogove, Ron Edwards.

5/4/2004 Ashren Va'Hale: a new TROS Yahoo Group/ E-List
I just started a new yahoo group for TROS players. I figured it could be an effective way for peopel here to RP or just shootthe breeze in a format…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: Ashren Va'Hale.

5/4/2004 Loki: suggestions for a 1-shot
I'd like to run RoS for my group as a 1- or 2-shot adventure with pre-generated characters for 3-5 players. I've been reading over the sections in the book that…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: Loki, Ashren Va'Hale, kenjib, Muggins, Paka, Wolfen, Tash, Jürgen Mayer.

5/4/2004 Mike Holmes: Iron Game Chef Reviews and Results
First, I wanted to comment on some trends I saw in the judging. First, a lot of these games are very close to the line between RPG and something else…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Mike Holmes.

5/4/2004 cruciel: The Whole Model & Venn Diagrams
This is a split from Forget Immersion: Sympathy vs Empathy. There may not be too much to this topic, but... Maybe I just don't get the whole Venn diagram thing,…
In GNS Model Discussion
Participants: cruciel, Walt Freitag, Ron Edwards, Rob Carriere, Jack Aidley.

5/4/2004 Thor Olavsrud: [Sorcerer] Urban Squalor
This past weekend, I played in my first Sorcerer game: Mike M.'s Urban Squalor scenario at A Gazebo of Games. As I expected, we got some nice meaty play out…
In Actual Play
Participants: Thor Olavsrud, urbwar, Andrew Morris, Michael S. Miller.

5/4/2004 timfire: Post-ICG Results thread!
[url=http://www.indie-rpgs.com/viewtopic.php?t=11060]The ICG results are in![/url] Congrats to Bill White, Hans Christian Andersen, Dev, and especially Jack Aidley. I'm going to have to go back and reread those entries now. Thanks…
In Site Discussion
Participants: timfire, Zak Arntson, Ron Edwards.

5/4/2004 historian: Chronopia Adventures: A Dungeon Crawl Hack 'n' Slash RPGoid
Hi all This my first post in this forum and it is about one of my most promising game designs. This is a game I've been working loosely for the…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: historian, andy, Ron Edwards, NeuroZombie, Noon, Dumirik, Clinton R. Nixon.

5/4/2004 Eric J-D: Sorcerer handout request
Dear Ron, I am gearing up to begin a game of Sorcerer just as soon as I can get out from under these *&@#ing research papers that I am grading.…
In Adept Press
Participants: Eric J-D, Ron Edwards.

5/5/2004 Malechi: TROS Review
I've posted a review of TROS over at a couple of Australian websites and while I don't want to take the credit the FLGS has had to restock twice since…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: Malechi, Jake Norwood, Wolfen.

5/5/2004 hanschristianandersen: [IGC:Snow Day] Postmodern? Huh?
First of, another hearty round of applause for Mike Holmes for staging and judging the Iron Game Chef contest! from Mike's review of my IGC game "Snow Day": Who…
In RPG Theory
Participants: hanschristianandersen, clehrich, John Kim, Peter Hollinghurst, talysman, Mike Holmes.

5/5/2004 Frogknight: Game setting
What I have here is lots of random background info that I like typing up, and I was hoping people would help me out by commenting on it, to clarify…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Frogknight, clehrich, hanschristianandersen, Sydney Freedberg.

5/5/2004 Azmodan: wikipedia
Wikipedia is an awesome encyclopedia on the web where the content is added by users. With it's ever-increasing popularity, you can now find great informations on most topics. Try it…
In Universalis
Participants: Azmodan.

5/5/2004 Nev the Deranged: Contain
Okay, the rules for Contains are pretty vague. No actual mechanics in there aside from something nonspecific about Lore rolls or something. The actual line (p89) says: "The sorcerer must…
In Adept Press
Participants: Nev the Deranged, Ron Edwards, Fabrice G..

5/5/2004 quozl: Semi-RPGs?
[quote="Mike Holmes"]First, a lot of these games are very close to the line between RPG and something else - something like a boardgame. That is, sure one can narrate events…
In RPG Theory
Participants: quozl, Jack Aidley, orbsmatt, Walt Freitag, Mike Holmes, Sean, Dev, dalek_of_god, pete_darby, contracycle, Nathan P., John Kim, Lxndr, Rich Forest, M. J. Young.

5/5/2004 Ron Edwards: [The Mountain Witch] Initial comments based on reading
Hello, This game floats my boat, so here are some comments I've worked up from reading. More will come, I'm sure, after I get a chance to play. The comments…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Ron Edwards, timfire, Mike Holmes.

5/5/2004 Eric J-D: Sorcerer Question: Building the Art-Deco Gun
Apologies from the start about the weird subject line, but those of you familiar with the series of "Art-Deco Melodrama" threads will understand what I am talking about. As I…
In Adept Press
Participants: Eric J-D, Ron Edwards, Nev the Deranged, Michael S. Miller.

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