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5/14/2004 NeuroZombie: Moderators... Need to Check Member list
I just went to the memberlist to check out the websites of new members (By join date, descending) and found that many of the first page are links to porn…
In Site Discussion
Participants: NeuroZombie, Matt, Ron Edwards, xiombarg, Walt Freitag, greyorm, Rob Carriere, Clinton R. Nixon, ethan_greer, abzu.

5/14/2004 Malechi: Katanapunk Art
Artist Daniel Danborg has joined the Katanapunk! project. For a sample of his work check out the Shigira story here http://members.westnet.com.au/manji/shigira.html let me know what you guys think? Jason K.…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: Malechi, tetsujin28, Edge.

5/14/2004 kenjib: [Haalyr] Assigning difficulty for conflict based magic
Hello everyone, Haalyr, Adventures in the Age of Dreams, is a fantasy game that revolves around the central theme of a contest of will and the ability to impose your…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: kenjib, Mike Holmes, Walt Freitag.

5/14/2004 Tash: Akira Kurowsawa
After the recent mention of Hidden Fortress in a thread on these boards I decided I needed to see some more of this director's work (I've only seen Seven Samurai).…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: Tash, Valamir, Malechi, Uber_Munchkin, Mike Holmes, Wolfen, Jake Norwood, Bankuei, ZenDog, tetsujin28, Valthalion, Brian Leybourne, Fleinhoy.

5/13/2004 fruitbatinshades: Simple combat system
For those that are interested, this is simplified combat system after tweaking as suggested by you lot :) Simple Combat System The simple combat system is resolved…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: fruitbatinshades, Mike Holmes, Knarf.

5/13/2004 Bankuei: Trollbabe makes good Streetfighter
Hi folks, A few weeks ago, I picked up Big Eyes, Small Mouth D20, and have been watching tons of Japanese and Korean movies lately. So, my roommate and I…
In Actual Play
Participants: Bankuei, Rich Forest, contracycle.

5/13/2004 Zak Arntson: Is one type of gamer in a group boring?
I'm splitting this from the RedRavenRPG.com: I'm scared to ask! thread. I wanted to address the question, but it's not specific to the Red Raven RPG, so I'll answer it…
In GNS Model Discussion
Participants: Zak Arntson, Jack Spencer Jr, Andrew Martin, wakingjohn, Mike Holmes.

5/13/2004 Jere: [Age of PAranoia] First Session
Last night we did the first session to Age of Paranoia, an espionage game based on Chris Lehrich's Shadows in the Fog. We did the character introductions and ran two…
In Actual Play
Participants: Jere, clehrich, bluegargantua, Bryant, Mike Holmes.

5/13/2004 Dev: Roleplaying Higher (posthuman?) Beings
So I'm looking at how to develop over at Orion's Arm, since the possibility of playing (or at least dealing with) higher level intelligences is a big deal. Check the…
In RPG Theory
Participants: Dev, Green, xiombarg, M. J. Young, Noon, Rob Carriere, simon_hibbs, Scourge108, contracycle, wicked_knight, neelk, Dauntless, Erling Rognli, Ravien, Andrew Morris, Blankshield.

5/13/2004 Ron Edwards: [The Mountain Witch] Playtest comments #1
Hello, Last night we played The Mountain Witch at the campus club meeting. I GM'd with four players. First news? Massive positive response; afterwards, one person pointed out that we'd…
In Actual Play
Participants: Ron Edwards, timfire, Emily Care.

5/13/2004 DannyK: Sorcerer & Delta Green
Anybody done this? It seems like a natural fit. I was just reading a novel by Charlie Stross, "The Atrocity Archive", which posits that sophisticated mathematics and geometry can open…
In Adept Press
Participants: DannyK, Nev the Deranged, Mike Holmes, 6inTruder, Fabrice G., JamesSterrett.

5/13/2004 ethan_greer: Twisted Sicken: An RPG of mind-bending depravity
Sometimes I alarm people. This is your content warning. Here's this game I wrote. It's one of those thought experiment games, but I'd definitely play it. What I'm looking for…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: ethan_greer, JamesSterrett, Demada, Walt Freitag, isaackelley, clehrich, haze, Doctor Xero, John Harper, Dumirik, Alf_the_Often_Incorrect, Mike Holmes, Jody_Butt, Ron Edwards, Ben Lehman.

5/13/2004 dalek_of_god: [IGC] Fixing Habakkuk
Well, a freak May snowstorm has left me with little to do. I made it in to work today, but my students didn't. That leaves me with time to open…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: dalek_of_god, Mike Holmes.

5/13/2004 Autocrat: Settings / Genres etc. ???
ALright, sort of a retarded post... but I want to see the responses.... As a large number of people seem to feel that settings are an important aspect of RPG…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Autocrat, xiombarg, dalek_of_god, Bob Goat, taalyn, Matt, Dev, smokewolf, Olibarro, Ravien.

5/13/2004 Palaskar: Paging Clinton R. Nixon!
Clinton, how can I publish my RPG via the Forge Bookshelf? --Michael Mendoza
In Publishing
Participants: Palaskar, xiombarg, Jack Aidley, Matt Wilson.

5/13/2004 Thuringwaethiel: Transsexed plot twist: freeware idea
Though I checked only briefly, I believe this hasn't been brought up yet.. The idea spawned from several topic about cross-gender playing. Some influence came from the Depression RPG, too.…
In RPG Theory
Participants: Thuringwaethiel, AnyaTheBlue, ethan_greer, taalyn, DannyK, Andrew Martin.

5/13/2004 gryphonkessira: RPG group finder message board
For all of you who (like me) are having a hard time finding a group to play with, or groups looking for players, I’ve started a message board where people…
In Connections
Participants: gryphonkessira, Mike Holmes.

5/13/2004 Ravien: Let's Do This Now
I think this is the correct forum for this topic because a)I am an RPG game designer, b)This topic concerns me and my game, and c)When it comes down to…
In RPG Theory
Participants: Ravien, Rob Carriere, contracycle, Nicolas Crost, Andrew Martin, xiombarg, greyorm, Walt Freitag, Valamir, Christopher Kubasik, Ron Edwards, simon_hibbs.

5/13/2004 Malechi: Settings and Unused/Pointless Priorities
I'm currently working on Katanapunk! and I've been thinking about the priorities and what to place in the character section of the book. As this game is set in 18th…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: Malechi, Tash, nsruf, kenjib, Tom.

5/13/2004 Paka: [Sorcerer] Write & Run Demons from the Hell-side of Town
http://www.indie-rpgs.com/viewtopic.php?t=10822 The Above is the link to the setting I'm going to be putting the finishing touches on and running. Character generation is next Monday and the game is next…
In Actual Play
Participants: Paka, Andrew Norris, ScottM, DannyK, Ron Edwards.

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5/14/2004 Tav_Behemoth: Two Metaphors for Indie RPGs / d20
[b]Metaphor #1: Pop Music[/b] Now that the '90s are safely dead, we can say that there were two important movements in pop music that decade: indie rock and DJ culture.…
In Publishing
Participants: Tav_Behemoth, greyorm, Halzebier, GreatWolf, daMoose_Neo, John Kim, Dev.

5/14/2004 Lxndr: [Frigid Bitch] First Playtest Ever
Well, it's the first playtest as far as I'm aware. For all I know, someone has played it on the sly and never told me about it. But that's not…
In Actual Play
Participants: Lxndr, Mike Holmes, anonymouse, Valamir, Nev the Deranged, Bob McNamee, talysman, sirogit.

5/14/2004 AnyaTheBlue: Gender: Dead horse flogging!
This is probably going to be pretty long, but I ask that you bear with me. It's quite possible that it's too far outside the scope of the Forge to…
In RPG Theory
Participants: AnyaTheBlue, John Harper, Jack Spencer Jr, Eric J-D.

5/14/2004 Paul Czege: intentionally risking the personal
Hey Chad, In your thread about your third Dead Inside playtest, you wrote: They all were slightly more amenable to *intentionally* exploring personal (that is, their own) psychological…
In RPG Theory
Participants: Paul Czege, matthijs, chadu, Mike Holmes, Valamir, Ron Edwards, AnyaTheBlue, Jack Spencer Jr, Noon.

5/14/2004 M. J. Young: Gaming Outpost Thread Restoration
Much of the pre-history of The Forge was in the discussions at Gaming Outpost. It was there that Ron Edwards first introduced System Does Matter and the distinctions between…
In Connections
Participants: M. J. Young, Mike Holmes.

5/14/2004 Doyce: Sorcerer: an unofficial Rulings collection
Hey all. A week or so ago, while working on collating a bunch of my static gaming pages into a single wiki (PMWiki, since you asked) and also reading something…
In Adept Press
Participants: Doyce, greyorm, ScottM, Ron Edwards, Nev the Deranged, Paka, sirogit, kwill, tetsujin28, pfischer.

5/14/2004 Simon Bray: Sons of Kargzant Reviews.
SONS OF KARGZANT, the HeroQuest sourcebook on the brutal and fearless Char-Un riders of Erigia, is now released by the Unspoken Word! The Char-Un are feared throughout the Lunar Empire…
In HeroQuest
Participants: Simon Bray, Moah, Mark Galeotti, Nick Brooke, MrWrong, Invain, keithn.

5/15/2004 Noon: The game of social contract forging
From the 'A Hard Look at Dungeons and Dragons' article No wonder people either idealize or vilify their youthful experiences playing D&D. On the one hand, it was you and…
In RPG Theory
Participants: Noon, bcook1971, Asrogoth, clehrich, Ron Edwards.

5/15/2004 Paul Czege: shelve with: counterculture erotica
Jonathan Woodward reviews My Life with Master in the second installment of his Exploding Dice review column at BlueBlood.net: www.blueblood.net/bb_55.html(cautionary note: Blue Blood has ads and links to some adult…
In Half Meme Press
Participants: Paul Czege, RaconteurX.

5/15/2004 Alan McVey: [Fudge: Collectors] The first playtest
The Fudge setting, Collectors: The Burning House, has been out for a while now, but I thought it was time for a reminder of just how good it can be.…
In Actual Play
Participants: Alan McVey, ethan_greer.

5/15/2004 Asrogoth: The Bleeding Edge
In the thread Perceptions of Civility at the Forge, the discussion turned to the bland-ness of "recent" rpg design, especially here at the Forge. If considering the rpg…
In RPG Theory
Participants: Asrogoth, Jonathan Walton, Noon, Valamir, Hunter Logan, Jack Spencer Jr, greyorm, M. J. Young, pete_darby, Ron Edwards.

5/15/2004 Space Cowboy: Online Playtesting for Anime Space Western RPG
Hey guys, Now that the school year is over, members of my playtest group have gone home for the summer and we're moving online. If you're interested in an original-mechanic…
In Connections
Participants: Space Cowboy, Andy Kitkowski.

5/15/2004 Rick: Now we see the violence inherent in the system...
I'm just curious. Has anyone destroyed the world, slaughtered their gaming group, fallen prey to the spiral of death, or had any other catastrophe predicted to occur upon engaging in…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: Rick, Tash, Jake Norwood.

5/15/2004 bcook1971: Force and Pressing for Action
I've been thinking about Force a bit. I understand it to be a technique by which the GM makes significant decisions for the PCs. It implies the concept of Input…
In RPG Theory
Participants: bcook1971, Ian Charvill, contracycle, Noon, M. J. Young.

5/15/2004 sirogit: 100% Blood and Sex... Relationship Maps.
Is a relationship map in which ALL of the characterss are connected through blood or sex ties more, less, or not conducive to play? It sounds implausible on paper, but…
In Adept Press
Participants: sirogit, Paka, Mike Holmes, Michael S. Miller.

5/15/2004 daMoose_Neo: [FT Divergence]Initial ideas, opinions desired, more to come
I've posted about the CG before, Final Twilight, and my intent to make it an RPG/TCG hybred, and for the most part I think I've done a fair job of…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: daMoose_Neo, Ron Edwards.

5/15/2004 Jacob Ossar: [Donjon] Questions about Abilities, Initiative, and Loot
I haven't done any role-playing other than the occasional LARP for quite a while, but I disovered D&D back in the late 70s when I was a kid and played…
In CRN Games
Participants: Jacob Ossar, JamesSterrett, Clinton R. Nixon.

5/15/2004 sirogit: Hunter Logan: "Dice-driven railroading"?
In that Bleeding Edge thread, Hunter Logan said Parts of it are flat-out fucking brilliant. But other parts are not quite so brilliant, and it seems to me that…
In RPG Theory
Participants: sirogit, Hunter Logan, greyorm, Ian Charvill, Trevis Martin, Ron Edwards.

5/16/2004 Ravien: Kill Bill Inspired Mechanics
Forge Notebook Entry #2: Kill Bill Inspired Mechanics. Yeah, saw Kill Bill the other day, kicked myself for not seeing it at the cinemas, then immediately went and saw Kill…
In RPG Theory
Participants: Ravien, Valamir, anonymouse, Ben Morgan, Andrew Martin, Rob Carriere, John Harper, Trevis Martin, Andrew Morris, dalek_of_god, M. J. Young, frictorious, Sledgeman, Dumirik.

5/16/2004 Moah: A Eurmali Myth
This is being a little quiet, so i'm quickly (and probably badly) translating a myth i've written for a recent game. “Eurmal was exhausted from having supported his best friends's…
In HeroQuest
Participants: Moah, Mike Holmes.

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