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11/4/2004 OnyxFlame: Gameplay idea
I don't have the game yet, but I must say I'm totally drooling over it lol. I did have a nifty idea though... What if you used random stuff off…
In Universalis
Participants: OnyxFlame, Tobias.

11/3/2004 Picador: New Sorcerer setting: The Metamorphosis
My copy of Sorcerer just arrived, although I've been lurking here at The Forge for about a year. I'm giddy. I just wrote up a new setting which I'd been…
In Adept Press
Participants: Picador, Clinton R. Nixon, Roger, DannyK, Mike Holmes, Rob MacDougall, Ron Edwards.

11/3/2004 Andy Kitkowski: Anyone get a chance to playtest yet?
Looking to see if anyone wants to share some vignettes yet. I haven't had time to playtest myself, but it's 3 down on my list. Good stuff? Bad stuff? -Andy
In Polaris Playtest Forum
Participants: Andy Kitkowski, Rich Forest, Ben Lehman.

11/3/2004 caio_maximino: Silven articles on indie RPGs and politics and RPG
It may be of interest that the new Silven Trumpeteer issue is now online, featuring the first part of the indie publishing article, by J. Carpio (http://www.silven.com/articles.asp?case=show&id=140); and the debut…
In Connections
Participants: caio_maximino.

11/3/2004 Victor Gijsbers: [Shades] Way over the edge
While playtesting the game Shades I'm working on, I had a strange roleplaying experience which I'd like to share with you. The Sorcerer book mentions Jonathan Tweet's concept of 'over…
In Actual Play
Participants: Victor Gijsbers.

11/3/2004 Eero Tuovinen: Running Day of the Dupes
It happened by accident, I get to play Sorcerer. In a couple of weeks, we'll play Sorcerer set in 17th century France, starting with the scenario depicted in the Sorcerer's…
In Adept Press
Participants: Eero Tuovinen, Ron Edwards, Tim Alexander.

11/3/2004 Adorame: Lead Beta tester for hire
This job announcement is for qualified PNP Beta testers with experiance using a variety of PNP game systems. The assignment will be to organise and manage Beta testing teams throughout…
In Connections
Participants: Adorame.

11/3/2004 Adorame: Formatting job
Anyone interested in a formatting job please email me at adorame1111@yahoo.com please include an example or link to your work. Compensation determined by ability and experiance.
In Connections
Participants: Adorame.

11/3/2004 LordSmerf: [Capes] Breakin' the rules
So, we played Capes tonight at my local university RPG club. The group was small (me and two others). The club itself is decently sized, but attendence is pretty bad.…
In Actual Play
Participants: LordSmerf, Vaxalon, TonyLB.

11/3/2004 Shreyas Sampat: Towards a More Flexible Sword of Damocles
[url=http://www.indie-rpgs.com/viewtopic.php?t=13242]The Sword of Damocles,[/url] as depicted by contracycle, is a fairly exciting [b]move toward highly abstracted but tactical conflict systems,[/b] if the concept of the "sword" is allowed to be…
In RPG Theory
Participants: Shreyas Sampat, Jonathan Walton, LordSmerf, Sydney Freedberg.

11/3/2004 Michael S. Miller: Indie RPG Explosion at Dreamation 2005
In this thread, we'll be putting together the Indie RPG Explosion at Dreamation '05 in January in New Brunswick, NJ. What are our goals? As Double Exposure has generously offered…
In Conventions
Participants: Michael S. Miller, timfire, Helvetian, Clinton R. Nixon, Matt Wilson, TonyLB, abzu, inthisstyle, Dregg, Tav_Behemoth, lumpley, Jared A. Sorensen, Bill_White, LordSmerf, Eero Tuovinen, devilbunny, Ron Edwards.

11/2/2004 daMoose_Neo: [Dunegons/Dummies]Rough Draft 1: The Imps
After playing around with some mechanics, I think I have the D/D basics down! Players roll 2d6 less than a Target Number, which starts for ALL challenges at 2. By…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: daMoose_Neo, KeithBVaughn, Tobias.

11/2/2004 TonyLB: Social Contract and upset players (Split)
In GM is God, The socalled "social contract" is an agreement on what to do and how to do it. When someone shouts out about injustice or malpractise the…
In RPG Theory
Participants: TonyLB, Tomas HVM.

11/2/2004 Pilgrim: 2 New Organization Ideas for 9 Worlds
Argus: Where Zeus has Aegis, Hera has Argus, its slightly nicer more public cousin agency. Named for the legendary watchmen, Argus is a public police and safety agency, with a…
In Chimera Creative
Participants: Pilgrim, Matt Snyder, Ron Edwards.

11/2/2004 Dangerboy: [The Myan Hotel] Monster encounter mechanic
Hello, Everyone. I'm trying to find a way to generate monsters for a horror game I'm designing. The layout of the game is that one player (the GM) controls the…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Dangerboy, TonyLB, Vaxalon, daMoose_Neo, GregS, zephyr_cirrus, Mike Holmes, Thor.

11/2/2004 Matt Snyder: VOTE FOR CHIMERA CREATIVE'S NEXT GAME!
Election day is here. Vote for Chimera Creative's next game project. Your vote counts! It's easy. Simply visit the link below to view my LiveJournal post to view the 5…
In Chimera Creative
Participants: Matt Snyder, Valamir, Mike Holmes.

11/2/2004 Simon W: preview It's a Dog's Life 2nd Edition cover art
This is not yet complete, but it is a preview of the new edition cover art http://www.geocities.com/dogs_life2003/preview.jpg The snake will be a rattler in the finished version (the artist had…
In Publishing
Participants: Simon W, Paul Czege.

11/2/2004 Chris Goodwin: Special: the RPG
This is something I've been working on recently. I feel like I'm opening up my aorta and letting it drain into this posting (sorry for the imagery, folks) but I'm…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Chris Goodwin, Tomas HVM, TonyLB, Nathan P., Sydney Freedberg, Dangerboy, Spooky Fanboy, Rick James, daMoose_Neo.

11/2/2004 Nathan P.: [Scarlet Wake] The Other Extreme
So I finally got to play Scarlet Wake again. You can see the results of my first attempt here, if you care to. This time I was playing with just…
In Actual Play
Participants: Nathan P., Ravien.

11/1/2004 bcook1971: Just Received My Copy
Just thumbing through it .. It has a rough look; like a chapbook or a university press poetry anthology. Tell Drew Baker that the cover art sold me. And Forge…
In lumpley games
Participants: bcook1971.

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11/4/2004 bcook1971: Invalidating the Script
In Action Reaction: Stump the Experts: It is my understanding that though actions may oppose one another, potentially preventing the other's desired effect, they may not resolve to…
In Burning Wheel
Participants: bcook1971, Thor Olavsrud, abzu.

11/4/2004 bcook1971: Resolving Combat Distance
More questions .. (This seemed unrelated to the other thread I have going right now, so I started this one.) Judging by the example text in the bottom two paragraghs…
In Burning Wheel
Participants: bcook1971, Thor Olavsrud, taepoong.

11/4/2004 smokewolf: Question about blank page?
Alright guys, I am about finished with my latest editted copy of The Swing. My formatting starts every chapter on the left hand page and that page is a chapter…
In Publishing
Participants: smokewolf, Jack Aidley, Ron Edwards, Matt Wilson, Matt Snyder, daMoose_Neo, jdagna, Shreyas Sampat, Chris Passeno, madelf, abzu, Michael S. Miller.

11/4/2004 Ben Lehman: The "Blurb"
In Anyone got a chance to playtest yet?, Andy asked: What's the "Blurb" for Polaris? I'm buddies with Ben, so it kind of fell into my lap, and while I've…
In Polaris Playtest Forum
Participants: Ben Lehman, Jinx, Emily Care, Andy Kitkowski, Rich Forest.

11/4/2004 Judd_da_GM: TechWoodCon (Atlanta, GA) : January 7 - 9, 2005
For those of you interested in a gaming convention in Georgia that is affordable and fun, please consider browsing to www.techwoodcon.com to check out TechWoodCon 2005. The con is located…
In Conventions
Participants: Judd_da_GM.

11/5/2004 ScottM: [DiTV] New Gidea (the Fresno group)
There are several threads related to this one; I used Paka's New Gidea this time. I had a few reasons, among them raw curiosity-- would the way my players…
In Actual Play
Participants: ScottM.

11/5/2004 thelostgm: Gamer website Help
Hey all. This may be the wrong place to post this, and if so I am sorry. I am trying to find a web hosting company for a website I…
In Site Discussion
Participants: thelostgm, Matt.

11/5/2004 RobMuadib: T:COTEC - Accuracy, How to calculate a Value
Hello people Yes I am still working on my game. (Currently titled Teramyr: Chronicles of the Eternal Cycle) Currently I am tweaking details of combat and one that's got me…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: RobMuadib, Mike Holmes, Roger, eef, Passer by.

11/5/2004 Jack Aidley: Best image formats for .pdf?
Hi there, The images for Great Ork Gods are (finally) getting done - but I'm unsure about what image formats I should be getting my brother to give them to…
In Publishing
Participants: Jack Aidley, Matt Wilson, Eero Tuovinen, Matt Snyder, abzu, madelf, Paul Czege, Ron Edwards, Malak, dredd_funk, 16CBH.

11/5/2004 thelostgm: Website Help
Hey all. I am trying to find a web hosting company for a website I want to create for gamers in my home town. I would love some suggestions if…
In Publishing
Participants: thelostgm, Clinton R. Nixon, Nathan P., Nathan, Mike Holmes, MisterPoppet, daMoose_Neo, indiedog.

11/5/2004 Spooky Fanboy: DiTV-help from modern times....
Have any of you picked up the newest issue of Details magazine? Don't let the fact that Ben Affleck's on the cover keep you away; there's an interesting article in…
In lumpley games
Participants: Spooky Fanboy, Mike Holmes, Brand_Robins, Trevis Martin, lumpley, Blankshield, Albert the Absentminded.

11/5/2004 Tony Irwin: Read Japanese?
[b]Here's what people are saying about Shoujo Story![/b] [quote]Those of the title,Shojuo Story were found. Being the Shoji ・・ being the mistake, or it does and the ・・・・・・ Virgin Story?…
In Connections
Participants: Tony Irwin, Mike Holmes, greedo1379, Andy Kitkowski.

11/5/2004 angelfromanotherpin: [Sorcerer]Two-Fisted Science!
So, I'm working on a sorcerer setting, very 30's pulp in flavor. I'm a good bit into it, but there's a few details I'd like input on. Of course, general…
In Adept Press
Participants: angelfromanotherpin, Nev the Deranged.

11/5/2004 Bryant: Convention Bookmobile
The Internet Bookmobile is a mobile printing and binding station that travels around printing public domain books in an effort to raise the awareness of the value of the public…
In Conventions
Participants: Bryant.

11/5/2004 Space Cowboy: Writing/Designing Gamebooks
Hey all, How’s it going? After I finish a trilogy of novellas I’m working on, I’m taking a page from the Homestar Runner playbook and my next project will be…
In RPG Theory
Participants: Space Cowboy, xiombarg, Cup of Iron, Kesher.

11/6/2004 daMoose_Neo: [GenCon SoCal] Anyone want to pimp Twilight?
I checked in with Clinton about possibly having my customizable card game, Final Twilight, at the SoCal booth, but I want to make sure I have someone there who can…
In Conventions
Participants: daMoose_Neo.

11/6/2004 komradebob: Participationist Play One Shot
The "GM is God" thread got me thinking about social contract and participationist style play. I'd recently encountered what I thought was a good example of how participationist style design…
In RPG Theory
Participants: komradebob.

11/6/2004 daMoose_Neo: [Dungeons/Dummies] Dungeon Design 101
[url=http://www.indie-rpgs.com/viewtopic.php?t=13280][Dunegons/Dummies]Rough Draft 1: The Imps[/url] Fairly comfortable with the way the Imps and basic play as them are handled, tis time to turn attention to one of the other core…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: daMoose_Neo, Nathan P., Walt Freitag, Tobias.

11/6/2004 Green: need independent playtesters
I've been working on my game Kathanaksaya for a while, and right now I think I'm ready for some independent groups to playtest things to make sure that the rules…
In Connections
Participants: Green.

11/6/2004 greyorm: Why Choice Sucks: the Beauty of Random Generation
Recently, I was trying to make a TROS character for a game starting via Indie-netgaming and about five minutes into character creation, I realized something: I had no idea what…
In RPG Theory
Participants: greyorm, b_bankhead, anonymouse, Eero Tuovinen, jdagna, Simon W, efindel, madelf, timfire, Cup of Iron, Ben Lehman, Noon, xiombarg, ffilz, TonyLB, M. J. Young, jerry, Sydney Freedberg, John Kim, simon_hibbs, Bankuei, inky, Caldis, Adam Dray, clehrich, contracycle, Mike Holmes, Manxome, Ron Edwards.

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