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10/25/2004 Ron Edwards: [Trollbabe comics] Tea and Sympathy strip #1
Hi everyone, Check out the first strip of the new Trollbabe story, written by me, pencilled by Rod Anderson, inked by James V. West, at the Trollbabe comics page. It's…
In Adept Press
Participants: Ron Edwards, Andrew Navaro, lumpley, Jonathan Walton, joshua neff, jrs, ejh, Valamir, Alan, Solomon.

10/25/2004 Michael S. Miller: [Continuum] Crashed & Burned
This is in response to Michael Goins' request for Continuum Actual Play accounts. I ran Continuum at GenCon 1999 (where it debuted--I had gotten the preview edition the autumn before).…
In Actual Play
Participants: Michael S. Miller, xiombarg.

10/25/2004 jasonm: [DitV] Little Valley
Hey all, I'd value any feedback on this town. Things sort of escalated as I developed it until it was a serious, serious problem, and I'm wondering if I shouldn't…
In lumpley games
Participants: jasonm, ScottM, lumpley, Grover, Albert the Absentminded, DannyK, nikola, LordSmerf, Piers Brown.

10/25/2004 Andy Kitkowski: Burning Wheel Fans on the East Coast: Transform & Roll O
http://www.justusproductions.com/Mace.aspx MACE 2004 · Radisson Hotel, High Point, NC · November 12-14, 2004 Game List: http://www.justusproductions.com/gaming/gamelist.cfm Luke is gonna be running demo sessions all damn day long on Saturday, now's…
In Conventions
Participants: Andy Kitkowski, abzu, Jeph.

10/25/2004 karnov: preferences
first of all sorry for my grama nad spelling ..i got more ocasions for read in english then actualy write so ..... second. this forum and gns theory is for…
In GNS Model Discussion
Participants: karnov, M. J. Young, Ron Edwards.

10/24/2004 Dregg: Questcon I
For all you New Yorkers and peeps from NJ, and CT Long Islands first hotel gaming con is nigh. www.questconvention.com We would like to see some of the Tri state…
In Conventions
Participants: Dregg.

10/24/2004 DannyK: [Nobilis] Stopping to ask for directions (long)
OK, so I've been running a forum game of Nobilis on RPG.net for almost 5 months. (The IC thread may be found here for those who are curious. RPG.net registration…
In Actual Play
Participants: DannyK.

10/24/2004 Psuedopod: Dark, low-power space opera
Hello, everyone. I'm kind of new here, and I guess I'd like some advice on the game I'm developing. It's an idea I've been working on for some time... The…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Psuedopod, darthblevis, Matt Wilson, Vaxalon, Roger, Dev, greedo1379, Walt Freitag.

10/24/2004 Clay: Scribus, or beating dead horses
Over a year ago the Linux DTP package Scribus was mentioned in these fora as a tool not ready for prime time. In that year Scribus has come a long…
In Publishing
Participants: Clay, efindel, Clinton R. Nixon.

10/24/2004 daMoose_Neo: [Dungeons/Dummies] Mechanic brainstorm
Let me run this through: 1) Read this thread last night: The Try/Fail Sequence as a Mechanic 2) Went to bed right afterword, part of it sticking in my brain.…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: daMoose_Neo, jerry.

10/24/2004 gobi: [Freak High] Second Draft
Let me start off by apologizing for my lengthy absence from the community. I've been gone for several months because of various RL reasons. Now that things are settled, I…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: gobi, Nathan P., Psuedopod, darthblevis, Dev, Shreyas Sampat.

10/24/2004 Albert the Absentminded: kpfs - how many points of evil . . .
WARNING! WARNING! WARNING! The following is a right-wing parody of left-wing anti-Bush ads. Emphasis on _parody_. You have been warned. http://www.imao.us/sound/Halliburton.mp3 So, how many points of evil has Halliburton racked…
In lumpley games
Participants: Albert the Absentminded.

10/24/2004 Spooky Fanboy: [DiTV] A question from one of the rapidly converting
Hi. I recently borrowed this game from a friend of mine. I really like what I see, especially how the game (from conflict to town creation) gradually escalates from personal…
In lumpley games
Participants: Spooky Fanboy, lumpley, Valamir, Ben Lehman, Hello Sailor.

10/24/2004 anonymouse: Looking for Continuum AP stories.
Okay, so this is a weird game. And I've tried writing a kind of intro to this post to explain where I'm coming from three or four times, and it's…
In Actual Play
Participants: anonymouse, Jonathan Walton, Michael S. Miller.

10/23/2004 JimLotFP: LotFP: RPG site live; Playtesters Wanted!
www.lotfprpg.com is live as of today! Small details are still being ironed out (mostly wording issues) but come take a look at what we've got so far. And... after a…
In Connections
Participants: JimLotFP.

10/23/2004 IanEHewitt: Hobgoblin & Lizardfolk PCs
After reading the advice in the DMG (and MonteCook.com) I have tried to create Hobgoblins and Lizardfolk as PC Races. My intention was to create a race that could be…
In RPG Theory
Participants: IanEHewitt, TonyLB, Ron Edwards, Ben Lehman, Noon, SlurpeeMoney, Jinx, Chris Geisel, mindwanders, John Uckele, Jack Aidley.

10/23/2004 greyorm: Frustrations with 3E
Note that you will not find much "story-update" in this post, since the situations I am going to discuss transcend any particular set of events or decisions. Mainly this is…
In Actual Play
Participants: greyorm, DannyK, Bankuei, Valamir, Noon, NN, Vaxalon, Rob Carriere, Mike Holmes, Adam Dray.

10/23/2004 Palaskar: Need help explaining the Social Contract in my RPG
Ok, I'm revising my indie RPG, and I get to the session with the Social Contract. I get feedback asking for more examples and details on how to settle problems…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Palaskar, TonyLB.

10/23/2004 Vaxalon: The structure of the scene
I went looking for information on the "try/fail sequence" mentioned in another thread, and found the following link: http://www.writetothebone.org/fiction/scene.html The nut in it is the following: * What is…
In RPG Theory
Participants: Vaxalon, Jasper, SlurpeeMoney, M. J. Young.

10/23/2004 daMoose_Neo: [Final Twilight] Print Test
Performing a little experiment here with my Final Twilight custom CG and RPGNow.com. I'm reformatting the cards from 2.5x3.5 to 2x3.5 Business Card size, in sheets of 10, so that…
In Connections
Participants: daMoose_Neo, Trevis Martin, Chris Passeno.

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10/25/2004 Grover: (unnecessary?) Narratavist-Simulationist clashes
I recently got Sex and Sorcery, and I was reading through it, when one of the examples struck me in an odd way, and so I thought I would talk…
In GNS Model Discussion
Participants: Grover, inky, Marco, Ron Edwards.

10/25/2004 Shreyas Sampat: Small Clarification on Trait Use
I'm reading on Traits now, and I'm a little confused; the rules that govern them are a bit difficult to locate. I'm posting a little synopsis below; is this all…
In Dog Eared Designs
Participants: Shreyas Sampat, Matt Wilson.

10/25/2004 grimnr: Wanted price qoutes for writers
Hello, My name is L. Lee Lamb 2nd and I am the creator of F.A.M.A.T.O.M. Games. I am Looking to hire some writers for filler text, and I would like…
In Connections
Participants: grimnr, Dave Panchyk.

10/25/2004 hix: [Sorc] Prepping for Toons
Remember this thread? It's about running a Sorceror game in the 'Roger Rabbit' universe. Tonight I'll be taking this to my group for a character-gen session - and in a…
In Adept Press
Participants: hix, Ron Edwards, DannyK, Paka.

10/26/2004 Eero Tuovinen: [long] Indiana Jones and the Antitower of Euthomios Kopris
I don't usually write these actual play posts here, mainly because I tend to be quite independent in my rpg work - unless it's to help somebody else, I rarely…
In Actual Play
Participants: Eero Tuovinen, greedo1379.

10/26/2004 Tobias: [GroupDesign] Thread Index and progress
This thread cataloges the different posts in the GroupDesign effort - a design effort by several people from the forge, on the forge. Purpose of this thread is ease of…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Tobias, Andrew Morris, Sydney Freedberg.

10/26/2004 Shreyas Sampat: Applied Design II: The False World
In many fictions (Snow Crash, Otherland, The Matrix, the .hack series, to give some examples), there is a virtual world layered on top of, or intependent from, the real world;…
In RPG Theory
Participants: Shreyas Sampat, timfire, neelk.

10/26/2004 cthulahoops: Saving Orion (Gaelcon Post #1)
Hi, I just got back from Gaelcon (the biggest Irish games convention, http://www.gaelcon.com) where I organised a Universalis game called Saving Orion. The set-up I used was really simple, there…
In Universalis
Participants: cthulahoops, Valamir, A.Neill, Gary_Bingham, OnyxFlame.

10/26/2004 Ron Edwards: [Arc Dream Publishing] Wow!
I have just been the recipient of the single most admirable (financial) act I've ever witnessed or heard of in role-playing publishing. Over a year ago, one of the companies…
In Publishing
Participants: Ron Edwards, indiedog, Widener, daMoose_Neo, Paul Czege, jdagna, Jonathan Walton, Alex Jurkat, Shane Ivey.

10/26/2004 The_Confessor: Free PDF Programs
I'm sure you guys get this all the time, but: I'm working on a sci-fi rpg that I'm planning on releasing for free, but I'd like it to look as…
In Publishing
Participants: The_Confessor, Simon W, timfire, seasong.

10/26/2004 jasonm: [DitV] Territorial Authority
I'm reading Kingdom in the West right now, which has a Dogworthy predicament on every page. It's got me thinking about the Territorial Authority and its relationship to the work…
In lumpley games
Participants: jasonm.

10/26/2004 Walt Freitag: Literary Comedy, Answered Premise, and Narrativism
Brought to a thread from private messages initiated by Tim Alexander: Hiya Walt, I was looking through the archives and in the midst of following a few threads I ended…
In GNS Model Discussion
Participants: Walt Freitag, Ben Lehman, contracycle, pete_darby, Ron Edwards, Tim Alexander, Victor Gijsbers, GaryTP.

10/26/2004 Wormwood: Play as Social Function
This is a split from Classifying By Social Function and is related to some discussions I started a while ago, Technical Play and the one word GNS. John asked me…
In GNS Model Discussion
Participants: Wormwood, contracycle.

10/26/2004 anonymouse: [DITV] Dogs in the IRC: Sorrow part II
Session 1/initation here. Session 2/Sorrow I here. So, as we'll see, I (the player) took a long-ass time to take care of my scene; and as such, I'll be your…
In Actual Play
Participants: anonymouse.

10/26/2004 Michael S. Miller: Profiling, Fall 2004
It's been over a year since the last profiling thread. Let's go again. To recap, the questions are: What are the last three role-playing games that you actually, really played?…
In Actual Play
Participants: Michael S. Miller, anonymouse, Kat Miller, C. Edwards, TonyLB, drozdal, joshua neff, Paka, Clinton R. Nixon, Jonathan Walton, hanschristianandersen, Ron Edwards, Andy Kitkowski, ffilz, Ben Lehman, hix, Rich Forest, Dev, bcook1971, Chris Goodwin, Eero Tuovinen, John Harper, A.Neill, Jack Aidley, ricmadeira, nellist, humis, pfischer, johnmarron, Jeph, James Holloway, timfire, Matt Snyder, Paul Czege, GreatWolf, Simon W, jrients, Emily Care, Mark Woodhouse, jeffd, Lee Short, Jaik, Blake Hutchins, clehrich, Chris Passeno, jdagna, ScottM, John Kim, Thor Olavsrud, CCW, LordSmerf, jrs, lumpley, Sydney Freedberg, Sean, xiombarg, DannyK, Nathan P., Fabrice G., abzu, sirogit, rafial, beingfrank, Negilent, Trevis Martin, Marhault, Halzebier, Tobias, MichaelCurry, Tony Irwin, Doug Ruff, Silent Tamatama, neelk, Bryant, Peter Nordstrand, matthijs, Yokiboy, Alan, GaryTP, Shreyas Sampat, Lisa Padol, SlurpeeMoney, b_bankhead, Caynreth, cappadocius, Zathreyel, ptevis, Andrew Morris, Dumirik, Jason L Blair, Bob Goat, newsalor, Doyce, friartuck, Ville Takanen.

10/27/2004 Doyce: Minor DitV Tool
Hey folks, While banging around on a DitV town tonight, I put together an excel spreadsheet that generates a group of six of NPCs (with free dice at the bottom…
In lumpley games
Participants: Doyce, jasonm, ScottM.

10/27/2004 bcook1971: Tying Tests Together
A knight and squire, travelling on horseback, pass through the woods of a baron's vassal. They ride late into the night, intent on delivering a message from their lord. Up…
In Burning Wheel
Participants: bcook1971, abzu, rafial, Thor Olavsrud, Negilent.

10/27/2004 greedo1379: Restrictive setting (split)
I realize I'm bringing this one back from the dead. I hope that's ok. The alien admiral you are talking about is named Thrawn. He was a super cool villian…
In RPG Theory
Participants: greedo1379, Ron Edwards.

10/27/2004 Andrew Navaro: The Shadow of Yesterday - Maldor Artwork
Hello, everyone. I'd like to invite anyone who's interested to check out the illustrations I recently finished for Clinton's way-cool, post-apocalyptic fantasy RPG, The Shadow of Yesterday. My task (a…
In CRN Games
Participants: Andrew Navaro, Matt Wilson, Matt Snyder, Clinton R. Nixon, Simon W.

10/27/2004 TonyLB: [Capes] Tropes or no Tropes
In the Polishing thread, Frankly, since chain-reactions of "no, I trope that" was such a big part of the fun in playtest -- and such a powerful form…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: TonyLB, Sydney Freedberg, LordSmerf, Doug Ruff, Eamon, efindel.

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