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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 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 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 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.

10/26/2004 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.

10/26/2004 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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.

10/25/2004 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.

10/25/2004 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 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 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 jasonm: [DitV] Dogs Play Aids
Hey all, I put together a couple of play aids that you might find useful. One is a 36-page booklet of biblical quotes on various topics relevant to Dogs ("Whoso…
In lumpley games
Participants: jasonm, nikola, LordSmerf, lumpley, johnmarron, Mark D. Eddy, Blankshield, Brand_Robins, olleolleolle, Vagabond.

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10/27/2004 Clinton R. Nixon: The Shadow of Yesterday pre-orders
The Shadow of Yesterday nears completion, as most of my art is in and the text is nearly finished. This is a Good Thing, as it's supposed to be out…
In CRN Games
Participants: Clinton R. Nixon, John Harper, rafial, Andy Kitkowski, timfire, Bob Goat, GaryTP, friartuck, ScottM.

10/27/2004 timfire: Repeating yourself?
Hi y'all, One of the things I'm trying to do with MW is edit/layout the text in such a way that all relevent information on a given topic is present…
In Publishing
Participants: timfire, TonyLB, inthisstyle, Jasper, Jack Aidley, Ben Lehman, daMoose_Neo, jdagna.

10/27/2004 eruditus: Life and Death in the West that Never Was
Check out my first DitV game here: http://www.livejournal.com/users/eruditus/5360.html#cutid1
In lumpley games
Participants: eruditus, ScottM.

10/28/2004 GaryTP: Code of Unaris Chat Session Oct 27 (Wed) 9PM
Wed Oct. 27, 2004 8:30 CST Anyone wanted to partipate in a chat adventure for Code of Unaris can go to our ezboards at: http://p205.ezboard.com/bgoldleafgamesforum We're starting one in a…
In Connections
Participants: GaryTP.

10/28/2004 Yokiboy: [FATE] Sword & Sorcery - The Letter
Hello, The subject of this post could have said Sorcerer & Sword instead of Sword & Sorcery, as my inspiration comes for the Sorcerer supplement by that name (it's a…
In Actual Play
Participants: Yokiboy, angelopampalone, ScottM, iago.

10/28/2004 timfire: [Mountain Witch] Help w/ Promotional Take-Away
Hi y'all, Clinton has graciously offered to demo MW for me at GenCon SoCal. But in addition to the demo, I was hoping to provide some sort of promotional piece…
In Publishing
Participants: timfire, daMoose_Neo, Andy Kitkowski, GregS, Roy, Ed Cha, greedo1379.

10/28/2004 bcook1971: Critical Group Mass / Key Player Phenomenon
Lately, limited availability has caused some instances of late play or no-shows for certain members of my group. Partial starts and below quorum play has revealled some interesting dynamics. (I…
In Actual Play
Participants: bcook1971, Mike Holmes, contracycle.

10/28/2004 xiombarg: Unsung: PLAYTESTERS NEEDED
Okay, guys, I seriously need external playtesters for my upcoming game, Unsung. You can download everything you need to play from here: http://www.livejournal.com/community/rpg_workshop/2497.html The files are PDFs, and they're just…
In Connections
Participants: xiombarg, bcook1971, Ben Lehman.

10/28/2004 Shreyas Sampat: [Limitless] IRC Playtest
So, I want to try out some Limitless via IRC. I've got a thread to two running in the design forum about it, but for those of you who don't…
In Connections
Participants: Shreyas Sampat, Jonathan Walton.

10/29/2004 apparition13: Shadows and aquariums
Actual play, huh. Well, let’s see… Started playing: 1979. Played regularly until: 1984 Played irregularly until: 1989? Haven’t played since. So what the heck am I doing here? I stopped…
In Actual Play
Participants: apparition13, Mike Holmes, Ron Edwards, Paul Czege.

10/29/2004 ScottM: [DiTV] Fresno Group: Destiny Branch
This is a continuation-- the Dogs in our ongoing game moved on to the next branch. This is the the crunchy & town planning end, while this is the…
In Actual Play
Participants: ScottM.

10/29/2004 contracycle: the sword of damocles
This is a post sort of inspired by Shreyas Applied Design post and others. It's a notional mechanism offered for comment, and in this case aimed at a reinterpretation oof…
In RPG Theory
Participants: contracycle, TonyLB, Valamir, Technocrat13, Tobias, Walt Freitag, Shreyas Sampat, Mark Johnson, Precious Villain.

10/29/2004 Tim Alexander: [Sorcerer] Ordinary Tragedies Prep Session
Hey Folks, Last night was the prep session for my new Sorcerer game. The players are all friends, but they're folks who I haven't done any gaming with. I've been…
In Actual Play
Participants: Tim Alexander, Mike Holmes.

10/29/2004 Hello Sailor: [DitV] Re-entering a conflict or entering late.
Let's say that August, Bartholemew, and Cuthbert are the Dogs. Damaris is August's pretty and intelligent (high Heart and Acuity) older sister, who's become a sorcerer. Edwin is Damaris' husband.…
In lumpley games
Participants: Hello Sailor, ScottM, lumpley, Doug Ruff, Dev.

10/29/2004 Clinton R. Nixon: Open artist call on The Shadow of Yesterday
When I published Donjon, I did a program like this: after all commissioned art was done, I let artists submit work to me that they would like to have published.…
In Connections
Participants: Clinton R. Nixon, Tony Irwin.

10/29/2004 Blankshield: [Death's Door] Social contract guidance
See a summary of the game in this thread. In this thread, I want to talk about social contract setup for Death's Door. In the quote box is the extant…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Blankshield.

10/30/2004 Suvordaeus: LoserQuest: Slowly destroying all tolerance for others.
Hello, everyone. I'm pretty new here, but I have lurked on the boards for a little while. Anyways, I have created a system (see signature) and I'm working on a…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Suvordaeus, Robin Hood, contracycle, Blankshield, Miskatonic.

10/30/2004 cthulahoops: Freedom on the Seas (Gaelcon Post #2)
Hi, This is the report for my second Gaelcon game, the first being over on the Universalis forum (http://www.indie-rpgs.com/viewtopic.php?t=13218). Back in April when I was thinking about games for Gaelcon…
In Adept Press
Participants: cthulahoops, Ron Edwards.

10/30/2004 TonyLB: [Capes] Thread Index
Capes, a superhero game with heart, is an ongoing, almost completed, project in "Game Design Theater in the Round". From nigh on its earliest beginnings the game has developed right…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: TonyLB.

10/30/2004 Hobbitboy: N&R for dummies
Does anyone know where I can find examples of scenarios/adventures designed/written with narrativism in mind? Especially ones aimed at introducing the narrative style to players who have not encountered it…
In HeroQuest
Participants: Hobbitboy, Brand_Robins, Bankuei, Mike Holmes.

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