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1/30/2005 Nathan P.: [Timestream] Sweet, Sweet Actual Play
Finally, at long last, I pulled a group together to play Timestream. Brief overview, its a story (standard meaning)-oriented take on time travel, low on paradox and high on player/GM…
In Actual Play
Participants: Nathan P., bcook1971.

1/30/2005 Peter Nordstrand: Good Mike -- Bad Mike
I saw that Mike Holmes' has put up another piece of narrator advice on Issaries' website: http://www.glorantha.com/support/na_heresies.html These are nine very good points (although some of them would probably benefit…
In HeroQuest
Participants: Peter Nordstrand, soru, Bankuei, Brand_Robins, Scripty, Mike Holmes, Eero Tuovinen, contracycle, Ron Edwards.

1/30/2005 sirogit: Showcasing NPCs for players.
Ran into a little spat with a player, talking about my TSOY game, Khalien Moons: Me: Using a relationship map. Him: Cool. Could you tell me what's on it, so…
In RPG Theory
Participants: sirogit, bcook1971, Doctor Xero, M. J. Young.

1/30/2005 Artanis: [CoC] 2 GM, 7 players
Hello everyone! This is my first venture into the AP forum and I'm going to discuss an aspect I found really neat in our last CoC session. I'm wondering how…
In Actual Play
Participants: Artanis, clehrich, ffilz, GB Steve.

1/29/2005 Overdrive: [DitV] Town of New Hope cleared
Hei all, Because of the lack of recent Dogs posts, I decided to write about today's session. It was my/our first attempt at DitV, so there were some bumps, but…
In Actual Play
Participants: Overdrive, Tim Alexander, lumpley, Wolfen.

1/29/2005 randomling: Help creating a setting in HeroQuest?
Um, I'm not even sure if this is an appropriate topic for the Forge, but I hope it is! I was just going through some of my old D&D notes,…
In HeroQuest
Participants: randomling, StalkingBlue, Bryan_T, Minx, Mandacaru, Mike Holmes.

1/29/2005 castiglione: Oops...
Hi - I didn't realize how old that thread was...I was just browsing through the forum (blindly clicking NEXT) late at night and that thread caught my eye. The wargamer…
In Actual Play
Participants: castiglione.

1/29/2005 Roger Eberhart: [Sorcerer] Contest of Wills
This is in regards to a post by Ron in a recent thread. Unfortunately I couldn't find the thread in question. The gist was players had opposing ideas so they…
In Adept Press
Participants: Roger Eberhart, bcook1971, Ron Edwards, hix, Valamir.

1/29/2005 castiglione: Early role-playing (split)
Grade school, playing Dungeons & Dragons. At least that's what the older kid running the game called it...I think the only similarity between what we played and Dungeons & Dragons…
In Actual Play
Participants: castiglione, Ron Edwards, JimLotFP, Kesher, xenopulse, James_Nostack, Bankuei, Sean, nellist, Bryan_T, Paul Czege, ffilz, Noon, Mike Holmes, Roger, SicaVolate, Vaxalon.

1/29/2005 Roger Eberhart: [TSOY] Question regarding Secret of Mighty Blow
From the text, it's hard to say exactly how this Secret works. Do you spend Vigor pool for bonus dice for your attack ability or are you adding directly to…
In CRN Games
Participants: Roger Eberhart, Clinton R. Nixon.

1/29/2005 immlass: Same Dog, different groups
I got my copy of DitV a couple of weeks ago and have been enthused about running and playing. I've got a number of people who might be interested in…
In lumpley games
Participants: immlass, Christopher Weeks, lumpley.

1/29/2005 matthijs: Review up at RPG.net
[url=http://www.rpg.net/reviews/archive/11/11023.phtml]Here[/url]'s my Universalis review - the first of two. This is a review of the game text, the next one will be of actual play.
In Universalis
Participants: matthijs, Christopher Weeks, Mike Holmes, Valamir.

1/28/2005 jonsan: A quick "thanks"
I began playing in formalized role-playing at the tender age of 8, over 17 years ago. Since then I have alternately immersed myself in the hobby or abandoned it entirely.…
In Site Discussion
Participants: jonsan, clehrich, xenopulse.

1/28/2005 Matt-M-McElroy: Flames Rising Review Contest!
[b]Write Reviews and Win Swag![/b] Drop by the site to add your reviews of Horror & Dark Fantasy RPGs. Be sure to check out John Walsh's helpful essay How to…
In Connections
Participants: Matt-M-McElroy.

1/28/2005 Jonathan Walton: [Anotherkind] Children of the Corn
So we were hanging around IRC and Paganini wanted to play something, Josh was game, and I volunteered to GM. We settled on Otherkind, specifically just the dice mechanic, which…
In Actual Play
Participants: Jonathan Walton, Piers Brown.

1/28/2005 StalkingBlue: Midnight game prep: A Dornish Crown
The following are prep notes for the ongoing campaign, last session discussed here: http://www.indie-rpgs.com/viewtopic.php?t=14027 (Note: I’m adapting material from Fury of Shadow here. Thanks again to the authors for lots…
In HeroQuest
Participants: StalkingBlue, Mike Holmes, Paka, Bryan_T, KingOfFarPoint.

1/28/2005 sirogit: My TSOY game - Khalien Moons
"Hey, is that a green thing, a tree, David Bowie?" - Wino from the liquor store. Here's my Pre-First-Meeting prep for my TSOY game: Khalien Moons. Taking the scenario "The…
In CRN Games
Participants: sirogit, Clinton R. Nixon, Paka, Victor Gijsbers, James_Nostack, Roger Eberhart, DaGreatJL.

1/28/2005 Cold Black Wind: New to the Site
Greetings fellow gamers and designers, I am as the title of the thread states quite new to this site, but very interested in this place for source material in creating…
In Site Discussion
Participants: Cold Black Wind, Selene Tan, clehrich, xenopulse, greyorm, Mike Holmes.

1/28/2005 M. J. Young: Participationism with an Agendum
O.K., this happens to me periodically, as I'm responding to a post and then discover the thread has been closed. This is a continuation of the discussion over in Celebrating…
In GNS Model Discussion
Participants: M. J. Young, Silmenume, Marco, Caldis, contracycle, clehrich, Ron Edwards.

1/28/2005 Paka: Out of the Joint (Inspired by The Wire, The Corner and Oz)
[b]Inspirations[/b]: The Wire and The Corner: A Year in the Life of an Inner-City Neighborhood and Oz will probably be in there too. You only ever role-play two days in…
In Adept Press
Participants: Paka, Bret Gillan, Ron Edwards.

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1/30/2005 Silmenume: Defintion usage and drift - Rant
I’m not sure I understand this deference to the original coiners of useful terms. Right now the debate of an “idea” has been ground to a halt because of this…
In Site Discussion
Participants: Silmenume, clehrich, contracycle, CPXB.

1/30/2005 clehrich: [CoC] Ruminations on Fear
Quite a number of years ago, I ran a brief CoC campaign. It never finished up, I forget why, but one session sticks clearly in my head. It raises some…
In Actual Play
Participants: clehrich, Silmenume, bcook1971, inky, Artanis, Marco, GB Steve.

1/30/2005 Silmenume: An effort to un-gum the Discussion.
Hey Everyone, Since everything is all gummed up right now on in the other thread, I thought I would pose this question from over here. There are several underlying assumptions…
In GNS Model Discussion
Participants: Silmenume, Caldis, Marco, clehrich, Ron Edwards, M. J. Young, ffilz, groundhog.

1/30/2005 Marco: Storytelling, GM-Control, and Drift
In the Deception Thread Chris said this: If you ditch story and play WoD games Sim, you'll be happy. And the self-deception comes in if you tell yourself that…
In RPG Theory
Participants: Marco, John Kim, clehrich, M. J. Young, contracycle, Storn, Silmenume, Walt Freitag, Mark Woodhouse, Ian Charvill, Doctor Xero.

1/30/2005 Cold Black Wind: [Aenichine] Premise and Introduction
Hello Gentlemen, I have written a premise for my RPG for those who wish to view this. I have not done a fully written summary of the System, but my…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Cold Black Wind, Uccisore, xenopulse, anonymouse.

1/30/2005 Brand_Robins: Breaking a Player
In a short Dogs game I ran last night (I will do a full Actual Play write up at some point, I promise) there came a juncture at which one…
In lumpley games
Participants: Brand_Robins, Yokiboy, Jason L Blair, lumpley, Wolfen, nikola, Negilent, Mike Holmes.

1/30/2005 Jasper: Group-centric Fantasy
So I'm finally getting 'round to the "make your own fantasy heart-breaker" project (though I don't think the results of such projects can really be heart-breakers per se) and I'd…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Jasper, jerry, John Burdick, Ron Edwards.

1/31/2005 Selene Tan: [Song of Ethera] Managing input to the SIS
I've been plugging away at Song of Ethera (see Core Mechanics and Preliminary Notes), and there's one problem I've run into that I'm not sure how to resolve. The resolution…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Selene Tan, ffilz.

1/31/2005 Marco: Nar play with Sim Rules
[quote="M. J. Young"]Marco, I want to thank you for sticking with us here through a lot of arguments about the various agenda. I think your contributions have often assisted me…
In GNS Model Discussion
Participants: Marco, Sean, Ron Edwards.

1/31/2005 ffilz: [Cold Iron] Another Tekumel session
We had our third session yesterday. Having been reminded that an event writeup isn't as useful as comments on the actual play, I'll try and deal more with actual play…
In Actual Play
Participants: ffilz, Tim Alexander, Sean, Ron Edwards, Valamir, drozdal.

1/31/2005 Paka: Dime-Store Katana's
Yes, I know katana is a Japanese word and shouldn't be plural. Dime-Store Katana's is a game about fucked up people who solve problems with violence because they are deluded…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Paka, Ron Edwards, Paganini, Brendan, Doug Ruff, Vaxalon, Ben Morgan, anonymouse, sirogit, tj333.

1/31/2005 apparition13: TROS and GNS: NS? NG!
A few months ago I started reading rpg forums and began running into references to TROS both here and elsewhere. There's alot of enthusiasm for the game, so I read…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: apparition13, Yokiboy, Ron Edwards.

1/31/2005 Michael S. Miller: [Dreamation 2005] After the Explosion
As Samwise said, "Well, I'm back." And the Indie RPG Explosion at Dreamation 2005 went really, really well. I want to thank everyone who came out and made the event…
In Conventions
Participants: Michael S. Miller, lumpley, TonyLB, RobNJ, inthisstyle, Paka, nikola, Andrew Morris, Dregg, Bill_White, Bob Goat, Mike Holmes, Helvetian, devilbunny, Tav_Behemoth.

1/31/2005 S'mon: Race issues (split)
[quote="Ron Edwards"]Regarding race in RPGs, I think it's best to consider them forms of social cliques in combination with class - usually corresponding to high school stereotypes. "Clan" in later…
In HeroQuest
Participants: S'mon, Ron Edwards, Mike Holmes, Bankuei, clehrich, soru.

1/31/2005 Bryan_T: "equipment" and ratings
I've gone a few pages back in the archives without finding a discussion of this, but I admit I did not dig back beyond last Spring, so please excuse me…
In HeroQuest
Participants: Bryan_T, Mandacaru, Mark Galeotti, Eero Tuovinen, soru, Mike Holmes, KingOfFarPoint.

1/31/2005 signoftheserpent: Whatever happened to Danger Patrol rpg
the pulp SF game. I notice that the eponymous website got heartily hacked. :(
In Publishing
Participants: signoftheserpent, Matt Wilson.

1/31/2005 Brendan: Intentional Vagueness (split)
Split from Early role-playing. Virtually all games have moved away from this model. Even Fantasy Heartbreakers tend to have 'more unified' mechanics. It's certainly more manageable for designers to create…
In RPG Theory
Participants: Brendan, TonyLB, timfire, ffilz, komradebob, Noon, Kesher, Ron Edwards, Sean.

1/31/2005 lumpley: 10 Dogs, 6 Ronin and Assorted Bombastic Aristos
Roleplaying is like sex, y'know? And I'm a hanging out getting to know each other, not on the first date kind of guy. So, yes, a gaming con, but I'm…
In Actual Play
Participants: lumpley, Paka, Eric Minton, RobNJ, nikola, Bob Goat, gains, timfire, Jared A. Sorensen, Clinton R. Nixon, TonyLB, Bankuei, Ron Edwards, Andrew Morris.

1/31/2005 TonyLB: Capes is now on sale
Specifically, at the site you can PayPal me $10 for the PDF copy, if you want. You cannot (yet) go to Indie Press Revolution for the much better deal on…
In Muse of Fire Games
Participants: TonyLB, John Harper, Ben Lehman, inthisstyle, Andrew Morris, red dragon, efindel, Doug Ruff, Ron Edwards.

1/31/2005 Jason Petrasko: [Delphian Tides] Clarified Mechanics
There seemed to be quite a bit of confusion about the mechanics of Delphian Tides, both here and other places. I'm attempting to clean this all up with better examples,…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Jason Petrasko, Spooky Fanboy.

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