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9/29/2004 balrog21: Author Submissons Wanted Part II
After receiving well constructed comments from some people here on the boards, and speaking with my business partners let me post a new and improved author submission request. 1. Any…
In Connections
Participants: balrog21.


9/29/2004 sirogit: The Art of Dramatic Writing and Sorcerer
Hey Ron I began reading this and has some very intereasting ideas I'd like to use in roleplaying. I'm wondering how much it influenced Sorcerer, and how much you think…
In Adept Press
Participants: sirogit, Ron Edwards.


9/29/2004 abzu: Silven.com Reviews many of our games
Game Reviews http://www.silven.com/otherrpgs.asp?case=show&id=417 A discussion of our booth this year: http://www.silven.com/otherrpgs.asp?case=show&id=419 And an interview with Alexander Cherry! http://www.silven.com/otherrpgs.asp?case=show&id=414 A review of The Swing: http://www.silven.com/otherrpgs.asp?case=show&id=408 And an interview with Keith Taylor:…
In Publishing
Participants: abzu.


9/29/2004 Inner Circle Inc: [Strife]Walking the line
In American society today, and most of the world, there are certain things that aren't supposed to be messed with, religion being one of those. The situation we're in, is…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Inner Circle Inc, Andrew Martin.


9/29/2004 Adorame: Going All Out
Ok, You've saved enough money, met the right industry people, have a product that has offerings unique and desirable to a global market and want to take your game to…
In Publishing
Participants: Adorame, GregS, Ron Edwards, Nathan, madelf, Valamir, Matt Wilson.


9/29/2004 Gaiaguerrilla: [Gnost]Two directions for design.
Most recent related post here. I'm hoping game design will progress better if I find the most popular road. I think my core idea is unique, but can fit in…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Gaiaguerrilla, Andrew Martin.


9/29/2004 Gaiaguerrilla: Anyone in Calgary?
Anyone in Calgary who's interested in roleplay design, I'd love to meet. Respond here or email me. Put an email subject as "roleplaying" / "calgary" or anything for me to…
In Connections
Participants: Gaiaguerrilla.


9/28/2004 abzu: First Review of the NPA
http://www.silven.com/otherrpgs.asp?case=show&id=416 In fact, I’ll go as far to say that this is a book that should belong on any RPG fan’s shelves. It will open your eyes up to what…
In Publishing
Participants: abzu, Ben Lehman, Matt, Ron Edwards.


9/28/2004 Dauntless: Game conflict of interests: Crunchiness vs. Introspection
In going with the story concept in my other thread, I want to emphasize two complementary aspects. The first aspect is the militaristic, crunchy and detailed nature of the game…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Dauntless, Green, TonyLB.


9/28/2004 nikola: Dogs' Rightitude
[quote]I think there's at least three separate meanings of the word "right" that need to be teased out here to discuss it -- right as in legally correct, right as…
In lumpley games
Participants: nikola, Brand_Robins, DannyK.


9/28/2004 LordSmerf: [Trust and Betrayal] Where's the conflict?
So i have been thinking quite a bit about Trust and Betrayal and i think i have most of what i want fleshed out. I will have to test it…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: LordSmerf, TonyLB.


9/28/2004 Tim Mahan: Gushing praise and fan art questions
I just want to say thank you to for providing that elusive something that I felt was missing from roleplaying - techniques for helping your players to create the story…
In Adept Press
Participants: Tim Mahan, greyorm, Ron Edwards.


9/28/2004 Tim Mahan: First Sorcerer session - I should have known better.
A few months ago I ran a one-shot game of Sorcerer with the gaming club at my old college. Actually, I attempted to run a one-shot game but fell quite…
In Actual Play
Participants: Tim Mahan, Ron Edwards, jburneko, Bankuei, Ravien, Adorame, Paganini.


9/28/2004 Doyce: Game supplements: using the rules and dropping the Setup
[Originally mis-posted in Lumpley Games -- my bad.] In reading a ton of great one-sheets and "Variation" proposals for everything from Sorcerer to Trollbabe to My Life with Master to…
In RPG Theory
Participants: Doyce, timfire, hanschristianandersen, DannyK, b_bankhead, M. J. Young, lumpley.


9/28/2004 Adorame: Idea to help all of us
I had an idea that the admins may like but then again maybe its too much work. There are quite a few people here with the same problems or so…
In Site Discussion
Participants: Adorame, Jasper.


9/28/2004 Albert the Absentminded: An alternate view as to how the Dogs are always right
Think about what Dogs do afterwards - they go on to hold high position among the Faithful. You could argue that it's not the job of the Dogs to render…
In lumpley games
Participants: Albert the Absentminded, lumpley, DannyK, inthisstyle, clehrich, Jaik.


9/28/2004 Albert the Absentminded: Nit pick about female frailty
Why, in the name of the King of Life, are frontier women expected to be frightened of mice, insects, horses, or guns? -Albert
In lumpley games
Participants: Albert the Absentminded, ChefKyle, lumpley, Brand_Robins, MajorKiz, Ron Edwards, nikola, clehrich, dunlaing, DannyK.


9/28/2004 balrog21: Author Submissons Wanted!
White Silver Publishing is sending out a call to any and all aspiring authors! If short story is your thing or a novelist, we would like to see some samples…
In Connections
Participants: balrog21, daMoose_Neo, smokewolf, Ben Lehman.


9/28/2004 balrog21: [b]PLAY TESTERS WANTED PART II[/b]
Well, I must apologive to any and all who sent an email asking to be test player. We have found out through Yahoo that our email system had some "switches"…
In Connections
Participants: balrog21.


9/28/2004 Dauntless: Story Concept: Gritty military sci-fi
Hello, I was wondering if people could give me some feedback, suggestions, and ideas on a game world I've been brewing in the undigested parts of my brain for some…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Dauntless, Precious Villain, Nazzi, Tobias.


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9/29/2004 Jonathan Walton: Dogs as Angels [Braindump]
So, I was thinking about Dogs when I was supposed to be thinking about my Fulbright research today, when I suddenly realized that I like Dogs for the exact same…
In lumpley games
Participants: Jonathan Walton, Mark D. Eddy, nikola, Brand_Robins, Ben Lehman, DannyK.


9/29/2004 Lougar01: Breaking Things in Donjon
Had an interesting situation in the game recently. Player had a BAS (Big Ass Sword), and used it to chop open a door to make a big entrance into the…
In CRN Games
Participants: Lougar01, Clinton R. Nixon, Ron Edwards.


9/29/2004 TonyLB: [Capes] Getting whooped but good
Played Capes over IRC again on monday. I've posted a transcript again, mostly because it's easy. Fun, unexpected session. Our heroes got trounced. Seriously, it is hard to describe the…
In Actual Play
Participants: TonyLB, Ron Edwards, LordSmerf, Noon.


9/29/2004 TonyLB: [Capes] Spandex Soap-opera
So I had the first session of my face-to-face Capes campaign last night. Some good stuff and some bad stuff. The good stuff: Once characters were created, they quickly lined…
In Actual Play
Participants: TonyLB, LordSmerf.


9/29/2004 TonyLB: [Capes] Speeding character design
Capes is a superhero game with very broad abilities. Your Powers or Tropes can be pretty much anything that can happen. "God answers my prayers" is just as legitimate as…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: TonyLB, LordSmerf, Sydney Freedberg, Doug Ruff, WhiteRat, efindel, John Harper, Vaxalon.


9/29/2004 Wormwood: Big Model as a Scientific Theory
Note: this is not a critique of accuracy. Rather it is an attempt to point out places where the structure and formalisms of the Big Model Theory cause difficulty in…
In GNS Model Discussion
Participants: Wormwood, clehrich, Jere, Ron Edwards, Sean, ErrathofKosh, timfire.


9/29/2004 timfire: [Design Theory] Decision-Points?
This is an idea that I've had before, but wasn't able to articulate very well. But now I think I can articulate it better. I'm calling this a 'decision-point' in…
In RPG Theory
Participants: timfire, Michael S. Miller.


9/29/2004 rafial: Escalation
So I've got a rules clarification question prompted by Hans Christian Andersen's actual play report: Moving beyond that, watching a desperate opponent Escalate from Words to Guns, and beating him…
In lumpley games
Participants: rafial, Brand_Robins, Valamir, lumpley.


9/29/2004 Nathan: CreationCrash.Com News?
Well, PhilReed posted this over at RPG.Net in a post. I don't know what it means, but I suppose it does mean one less pdf online store. Over the…
In Publishing
Participants: Nathan, rpghost, madelf, Ron Edwards, philreed.


9/29/2004 GregS: PDF Marketing
So, I'm adapting to the whole PDF infiltration marketing model but I'm stuck on a quandery that, to my knowledge, has really never been addressed on the Forge. What have…
In Publishing
Participants: GregS, Nathan, LordSmerf, rpghost, daMoose_Neo, Ron Edwards, Blankshield, efindel, Rorimack.


9/29/2004 Dauntless: A look at skills
I've been beating my head against a wall trying to decide exactly how I want to implement skills in my game. First off, let me introduce what I call the…
In RPG Theory
Participants: Dauntless, Andrew Martin, Dr. Velocity, TonyLB, M. J. Young.


9/29/2004 Lougar01: Social Skills vs. Physical
Another Curious Incident. One of the playes took the ability, "Talk You To Death" (based on Bill from the "Kill Bill" Movie), used with their Sociality. Then, when one of…
In CRN Games
Participants: Lougar01, Jason.


9/29/2004 Dauntless: When does combat resolution become too slow?
My system currently has quite a few factors to be considered during the play of combat. Most of it also requires quite a bit of record keeping. While I haven't…
In RPG Theory
Participants: Dauntless, TonyLB, Noon, Andrew Martin, Jack Aidley, Vaxalon, Shreyas Sampat, John Kim, DannyK, John Uckele, contracycle, Mike Holmes, M. J. Young, Precious Villain, bcook1971, Doug Ruff, LordSmerf, Ben Lehman.


9/30/2004 GregS: PDF Publishing: Borders or no borders?
As I'm laying out my first PDF I'm hit with what might be a significant question: do you include borders (artistic, flashy types) on sellable PDFs? The pro is that…
In Publishing
Participants: GregS, M Jason Parent, Paul Czege, jgbrowning, Andrew Martin, Matt Wilson, TheLe, Edward Kann.


9/30/2004 Jonathan Walton: Dogs in the IRC
Okay, I'm done thinking about this game. Now I've got to play it. So, let's play Dogs on IRC, as soon as possible. I'm 12 time zones away from most…
In lumpley games
Participants: Jonathan Walton, Ben Lehman, Vaxalon, lumpley, DannyK, anonymouse, beingfrank, Blankshield, Doyce.


9/30/2004 madelf: consequences of magic redux
Awhile back I brought up some vague notions in this thread... http://www.indie-rpgs.com/viewtopic.php?t=12009&highlight= where a bunch of you helped me sort through my ideas. I found it very helpful. I've been…
In RPG Theory
Participants: madelf, clehrich, Andrew Martin, Ron Edwards, Vaxalon, Valamir, Jinx, TonyLB.


9/30/2004 Dauntless: Reverse OGL: Marketing gimmick
I'm not sure if this belongs in Publishing or not.... Okay, how stupid is this? Instead of getting people to buy into your system by charging for the rules but…
In Publishing
Participants: Dauntless, Nazzi, Ron Edwards, jerry, Valamir, greyorm, madelf.


9/30/2004 Michael Hopcroft: Wanted: an indepeent appraisal
I tend to make my publishing decisions for creative reasons rather than due to cold hard marketing. I don;t have access to any research data at all. And now this…
In Publishing
Participants: Michael Hopcroft, Ron Edwards.


9/30/2004 Michael Hopcroft: GameStorm 2005
I'm trying to find otu how much a booth at Game Storm 7, a game con in portland that will be held in march of 2005, will cost me. Since…
In Conventions
Participants: Michael Hopcroft, jdagna.


9/30/2004 LordSmerf: Reasons for cross-gender play
I am a male. I play female characters in roughly 40% of my games. I was idly wondering about that the other day when i realized why i do it.…
In RPG Theory
Participants: LordSmerf, Vaxalon, beingfrank, Ben Lehman, Emily Care, Matt Wilson, Paul Czege, DannyK, Dr. Velocity, M Jason Parent, Sydney Freedberg, Roger, Ron Edwards, jrs, John Kim, M. J. Young, Ravien, List, Baraboo, John Uckele.


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