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10/11/2004 Silmenume: Who's Online - Bolded
Does anybody know the significance of the bolding of certain names on the Who's Online portion at the bottom of the General Forge Forum page? Just curious...
In Site Discussion
Participants: Silmenume, Ben Lehman, Ron Edwards, Sean, abzu.

10/11/2004 Exaulted_Leader: [Midnight] - SciFi/Apolcalypse Now: Setting Outline
Hello! First time poster to the Forge. I was just flipping through some 'cocktail napkin' ideas I'd scribbled down as over roughly the previous 6 months, and had a bit…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Exaulted_Leader, Nazzi, Nathan P., WhiteRat, Ron Edwards, contracycle.

10/11/2004 DannyK: First experiences running Dogs (very preliminary)
First, I'm really starting to appreciate the built-in narrativism in this game. Starting to run accomplishments over the weekend, I came up with a set up where the one character's…
In lumpley games
Participants: DannyK, Technocrat13, nikola, Paka, Albert the Absentminded.

10/11/2004 Michael S. Miller: NPA Sampler--suggestions and demos wanted
This is likely in the wrong place because the supposed NPA forum isn't up yet. This seemed the second best place. Here's the deal: I've signed up to run an…
In Connections
Participants: Michael S. Miller, Valamir, Ben Lehman, xiombarg.

10/11/2004 zephyr_cirrus: The Price
Getting back to the original topic (sorry if this has already been said, I haven't the time to read the entire thread), maybe the person who dabbled in magic could…
In RPG Theory
Participants: zephyr_cirrus, Ron Edwards.

10/11/2004 Matt Wilson: More shows worth emulating
Here's a thread where you can post new or old shows that you think are good role-model shows for Primetime Adventures, adding to the short and questionable list I included…
In Dog Eared Designs
Participants: Matt Wilson, Ron Edwards, John Harper, Meredith, Jonas Larson, rafial, pete_darby, Alan, Valamir, Mike Holmes, dunlaing, stingray20166, Caldis, kaotmus, azrianni, WarrenET2, joshua neff, Demada, Jaik, Chris Goodwin, ivan23.

10/11/2004 Christopher Kubasik: [The Mountain Witch] A Question
Hi, First, Tim. Wow. I just read the rules today. Fucking Amazing. Congratulations. What's happening with people poking and proding RPGs today is exciting as all hell -- and Mountain…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Christopher Kubasik, Ron Edwards, timfire, jrs.

9/25/2004 greyorm: [Code of Unaris] More about chat as medium
[quote="GaryTP"]From what I've found, most diehard tabletoppers tend to think of chat as a loose form of roleplay that they'll only touch if all other game choices are unavailable. Mostly,…
In Actual Play
Participants: greyorm, GaryTP.

10/11/2004 Mark D. Eddy: Well, I've got my copy now...
And, behold, it is very good. I even wrote a Haiku to celebrate: Dogs in the Vineyard: Wild West Saints fall into sin, Holy lawmen come. I may be alone…
In lumpley games
Participants: Mark D. Eddy, johnmarron, lumpley, DannyK.

10/11/2004 Ben Lehman: Link Trading?
Hi. Calder and I have a shiny new website at http://www.tao-games.com/ Well, right now, it isn't much to look at, but by GenCon SoCal, it should be very pretty, with…
In Connections
Participants: Ben Lehman, Lxndr, Matt, Bob Goat.

10/10/2004 Nazzi: [Fingers] random scenes and GM swapping Y or N?
I’ve got a question. Do you think that the idea of swapping GMs with random scenes is playable? In my game “Fingers”, players write a scene idea and put it…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Nazzi.

10/10/2004 Technocrat13: Mysteries. How do you run them? Is there another way?
Ok, so there was a thread recently that got my brain working on the idea of Mystery games. I started shuffling through random thoughts about the nature of the mystery…
In RPG Theory
Participants: Technocrat13, Zaidaco, teucer, Shreyas Sampat, Rob MacDougall, jdagna, M. J. Young, inky, Bankuei, clehrich, Green, komradebob, Lollo, Tim Alexander.

10/10/2004 Halzebier: Compensating players for railroading
Both of my gaming groups currently run canned adventures (using the D&D Eberron series and the German DSA series of modules, respectively). This usually involves a lot of GM fiat.…
In RPG Theory
Participants: Halzebier, efindel, Marco, Shreyas Sampat, ffilz, Noon, ragnar, madelf, TonyLB.

10/10/2004 Paka: The Evils of Civilization
The City is all cities, a primordial urban mess whose alleys lead everywhere and everywhen. Sorcerers are the desperate, the rugged or the just plain mad who live outside in…
In Adept Press
Participants: Paka, Ron Edwards, sirogit, Mike Holmes.

10/10/2004 Jeph: [Exemplar] thinking of doing a total redesign.
First off, if you haven't looked at the original, you might want to check it out. Otherwise, a good portion of this post will be gibberish. The link is in…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Jeph, Andy Kitkowski.

10/10/2004 Technocrat13: [DitV] First session tomorrow morning
Hiya all. I've just gotten finished working out the basics of my first town for Dogs, and I'd love it if I could get any feedback before our first session…
In Actual Play
Participants: Technocrat13, lumpley, Meguey, humis.

10/10/2004 bastion-b: Another first time sorcerer prep-thread...
Hi all! The purpose of this thread is basically to get some pointers from all you experienced sorcerer buffs and maybe get some help in finding solutions to my woes…
In Adept Press
Participants: bastion-b, sirogit, Ron Edwards.

10/9/2004 balrog21: White Silver Publishing website goes Live
Hi Everyone, Just wanted to let you all know that our website went live yesterday. We are still tweaking it so to speak so some of the links and backgrounds…
In Connections
Participants: balrog21, daMoose_Neo, Jack Aidley.

10/9/2004 teucer: Automatic Login
...isn't working for me. I check the little box, but whenever I load the page, I am not logged in.
In Site Discussion
Participants: teucer, Rob MacDougall.

10/9/2004 bluegargantua: [DitV] One-on-One Session
Hi, So I had a Friday night free and decided to play me some Dogs. Only my friend Lucas was free. So we just did a one-on-one session. So here's…
In Actual Play
Participants: bluegargantua, Rob MacDougall.

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10/11/2004 Mark Johnson: Player Death
Have you ever had a player die in a long term campaign? Does the campaign continue? Does the player's character remain alive in the campaign? Does the player's character get…
In RPG Theory
Participants: Mark Johnson, ffilz, Ron Edwards, M. J. Young, SlurpeeMoney, jdagna, contracycle, Factor 8, Blankshield, daMoose_Neo, nikola, Riff Raff.

10/11/2004 bigsimon: A Diceless Resolution System using Resource Management
This is a repost from RPG.net, but I thought I'd run it by you guys (for those of you who don't browse that other site). Please keep in mind that…
In RPG Theory
Participants: bigsimon, Ben Lehman, TonyLB, dredd_funk, andy, LordSmerf, neelk, M. J. Young, simon_hibbs.

10/12/2004 redivider: [Heads of State] draft of all nine games
I’ve posted a draft of my game Heads of State: nine short games about Tyrants in pdf form at: http://home.earthlink.net/~markvalli To quote from the intro, “Presidents for Life. Coups. Cults…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: redivider.

10/12/2004 John Kim: Medicinal Soap
So I played Soap for the first time a few weeks ago, with my friends Bill, Russell, and Liz. We decided on a show about a teaching hospital, where the…
In Actual Play
Participants: John Kim.

10/12/2004 Jonathan Walton: Dogs in the IRC - Initiations
Okay, I'm going to post the entire transcipt online (for Vincent and people who like reading all the Peanut Gallery comments), but here's the quick-and-dirty version of the first session…
In Actual Play
Participants: Jonathan Walton, beingfrank, lumpley, ScottM, Ben Lehman, DannyK.

10/12/2004 Peter Nordstrand: Roleplaying with Kids
Hi, I've been searching for old threads (I know they are there) about roleplaying with kids. Apparently, I'm not very good at the search tool here at the Forge, so…
In RPG Theory
Participants: Peter Nordstrand, Arref, Ron Edwards, cappadocius, Green, hajons, ffilz, Jeremy, M. J. Young, TonyLB, nikola.

10/12/2004 Yokiboy: FATE Sword & Sorcery
Hello, I just wanted to drop in and let you know that I'm about to start a FATE Sword & Sorcery campaign, with the help of Ron Edward's fantastic Sorcery…
In Evilhat Productions
Participants: Yokiboy, ScottM, iago, Mike Holmes.

10/12/2004 pfischer: [Sorcerer] Dark Places version 2
[b]Dark Places - a Sorcerer one sheet.[/b] Written by Per Fischer. Additional ideas by Bailywolf, and also inspiration from Tim's Ordinary Tragedies one sheet. Ron provided helpful comments as well.…
In Adept Press
Participants: pfischer, Ron Edwards, Lisa Padol.

10/12/2004 Matt Wilson: merchant alternatives to Paypal
Ever since I started selling Primetime Adventures I've had problems with Paypal. Over the last few days I've been unable to even access my account. As far as I can…
In Publishing
Participants: Matt Wilson, M Jason Parent, Valamir, jdagna, Matt Snyder, Blankshield, Clay, indiedog.

10/12/2004 The All Powerful Yeti: New to the Pool
So my gaming group has decided we've become dissatisfied with only playing what has basically been a Simulationist game, so we've decided to give the Pool a shot with your's…
In Random Order Creations
Participants: The All Powerful Yeti, Ron Edwards.

10/12/2004 Simon W: Get yourself a good editor
It's a Dog's Life has been reviewed. I'm delighted with the review. I was sure I didn't edit it that badly, but perhaps being so close to it means you…
In Publishing
Participants: Simon W, daMoose_Neo, Matt, clehrich.

10/12/2004 alexandria2000: Hi, I'm A2K, and I'm a 'turtle'.
Hi. Long time lurker, and I don't think I've ever posted. I'm better known over on RPGnet. But an old thread here in Actual Play slapped me in the face…
In Actual Play
Participants: alexandria2000, Alan, Doug Ruff, Vaxalon, Ben Lehman, Marco, jdagna, Bankuei, Ron Edwards, TonyLB, Michael S. Miller, Christopher Kubasik, Matt Snyder, Precious Villain, bcook1971, apparition13, hyphz, John Burdick, dyjoots, DannyK.

10/12/2004 Eero Tuovinen: IGC book?
I'm asking this in public, mainly so that those who haven't yet asked get the answer all at once. So, what's the status of the Iron Game Chef book Dav…
In Publishing
Participants: Eero Tuovinen, greyorm.

10/12/2004 Lougar01: Gamma Donjon Powers
Hi All, I just started a Gamma Donjon Campaign. Got all Pure-Strain Humans so far. Which is just as well, since I haven't got any good ideas on how to…
In CRN Games
Participants: Lougar01.

10/12/2004 Blankshield: Relationships used as Traits
[quote="lumpley"] [quote]Discussion of using Relationships like Traits.[/quote] I'm just going to lose that battle over and over again, aren't I.[/quote] Yoinked from [url=http://www.indie-rpgs.com/viewtopic.php?t=13031]this thread[/url] over in Actual Play. I'm curious…
In lumpley games
Participants: Blankshield.

10/12/2004 Paul Czege: pta: fan mail fixes dysfunctional narrativism
It's the second scene of our game. Matt Gwinn's Russian defector to the American space program just lost a dice roll against the Producer. And we all know that means…
In Actual Play
Participants: Paul Czege, Bankuei, Matt Wilson, nikola.

10/12/2004 Paul's Girl: PTA: On the Shoulders of Giants
Last night we played our pilot episode of our PTA game, On the Shoulders of Giants. The premise is mid 60s Space Race, after JFK and before 1st man on…
In Actual Play
Participants: Paul's Girl, Paul Czege, hardcoremoose, Matt Wilson.

10/12/2004 ffilz: Balancing story continuity against player participation
[url=http://p222.ezboard.com/fokayyourturnfrm9.showMessage?topicID=2821.topic]This thread[/url] on Monte Cook's EzBoard has got me thinking about how to balance continuity of story against player participation. Many of my experiences as a player (as opposed to…
In RPG Theory
Participants: ffilz, TonyLB, Thor Olavsrud, M. J. Young, Marco, bcook1971.

10/12/2004 Matt Snyder: [HeroQuest] Fields of Freedom
[b]Note:[/b] This first [i]long[/i] post discusses HeroQuest in general, but "Fields of Freedom" not at all. Rather, it focuses on my group's makeup, our recent gaming history, and a profile…
In Actual Play
Participants: Matt Snyder, Ian Cooper, Mike Holmes, The GM, Asaraludu, Mark D. Eddy, nellist, TonyLB, inky, Brand_Robins, Valamir, Flash.

10/12/2004 oversoul01: Selling from you own website??
I am looking to start a website for directly sales to the public and I am trying to gather as much information as I can. Since several people here do…
In Publishing
Participants: oversoul01, greyorm, bcook1971, efindel, Marco.

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