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3/11/2005 jburneko: Drives Question
Hello, When talking about building characters it says, "Take five Heroic or Villainous Drives" which is kind of confusing since there are only 5 heroic and 5 villainous drives to…
In Muse of Fire Games
Participants: jburneko, TonyLB.

3/10/2005 makeshiftwings: Game rules for social interaction
Hi, this is my first time on these boards, and I just want to say I'm amazed to find such a resource of great information on RPGs. Anyway, on to…
In RPG Theory
Participants: makeshiftwings, Walt Freitag, The Horror, MrSandman666.

3/10/2005 Valamir: [Robots & Rapiers] 3 Problems...1 Solution
[b]A Lesson in Humility [/b] This is an exciting time for R&R development. Some pretty key system obstacles have been overcome and while there is a lot of work left…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Valamir, gorckat, bcook1971, Noon, Harlequin, Mike Holmes.

3/10/2005 soviet: (SWHQ) How would you run this as an extended contest?
OK, so yesterday I ran my first game of HeroQuest (set in the star wars universe). I'm not going to go into too much detail because I may post something…
In HeroQuest
Participants: soviet, Brand_Robins, Mandacaru, Andrew Norris, Hobbitboy, StalkingBlue.

3/10/2005 Space Cowboy: RPG.net Guest Column on Wild Sphere's developmental history
RPG.net has just published a guest column discussing Wild Sphere's developmental and conceptual history: http://www.rpg.net/news+reviews/columns/glove09mar05.html General comments and constructive feedback on the column or how well WS' rules meet their…
In RPG Theory
Participants: Space Cowboy.

3/10/2005 bcook1971: [Burning Wheel] 2005 Late Winter Campaign: II of IV
See session I here. Transcript Orcish Envoy to the Reyan Citadel A party of orcs arrived at the Reyan Citadel, representing the invaders at Pollee, bearing a token of Etharch…
In Actual Play
Participants: bcook1971, Ingenious.

3/10/2005 Silmenume: [Middle Earth - home brew] - last week - Repost
(Apparently this post was lost in the hack attack, so I am reposting it. Yeah for writing and saving posts in Word! At any rate I know that one person…
In Actual Play
Participants: Silmenume, Marco, Noon, James Holloway, LordSmerf, ffilz, contracycle, Lee Short, StalkingBlue, Gordon C. Landis.

3/10/2005 Paul Czege: password security
Hey Clinton, The hack could have included a download of user information, right? Are user passwords insecure as a result (i.e. we should change them)? Paul
In Site Discussion
Participants: Paul Czege, Clinton R. Nixon, Marco, Victor Gijsbers, Domhnall.

3/10/2005 inthisstyle: [TSOY] Game Starting
After starting IPR, I ended up with a lot of games that I want to play and that I need to demo at conventions. To help familiarize myself, I am…
In CRN Games
Participants: inthisstyle, ScottM, James_Nostack.

3/10/2005 Andrew Norris: [Sorcerer] Mystery Demon Abilities
This week our group met for the starting session of our Sorcerer campaign, "The Tenure Game". I'm sufficiently jazzed by the ideas the players came up with to start an…
In Adept Press
Participants: Andrew Norris, Ron Edwards, Fabrice G..

3/10/2005 SeanStone: Good and Evil in the Modern World
Hello Everyone, I am new to the Forge Site, well as a poster anyways, and I have run into a break wall for a small game that I am trying…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: SeanStone, Garbanzo, gorckat, Doctor Xero, Simon Kamber, NN, chadu.

3/10/2005 Clinton R. Nixon: Hack attack - officially back up
We're officially back up from our hack attack. The explanation: When searching on the version of phpBB that was running, the highlight= field in the URL allowed you to run…
In Site Discussion
Participants: Clinton R. Nixon, Ron Edwards, Miskatonic.

3/6/2005 Trevis Martin: [DitV] Stretching Description in Conflict Resolution
I just got through doing character creation for a couple of my players. Karri and Joey are friends of mine. Karri is about 33 and Joey is 17. They were…
In Actual Play
Participants: Trevis Martin.

3/5/2005 Halzebier: Gamist Advice for D&D (long)
GAMIST ADVICE FOR D&D (LONG) Background Our D&D group has mostly gamist tastes, but I sense some simulationist and illusionist tendencies in some of the others. For this particular game,…
In RPG Theory
Participants: Halzebier, Bankuei, Simon Kamber, NN, tj333, JMendes, Noon, Vaxalon, M. J. Young, Sean, ADGBoss.

3/5/2005 Daredevil: Two Questions for Narrativism
There are two questions being posed in this thread. 1) Is an overt, clear statement of Premise before play a prerequisite for Narrativist play? 2) When does a GM's positive…
In GNS Model Discussion
Participants: Daredevil, Bankuei, Simon Kamber, JMendes, timfire.

3/5/2005 Daredevil: Conflict vs Task Resolution to facilitate Narrativism
In Ron's essay "Narrativism: Story Now", under heading "System - 'it does matter' all over again", Ron talks about task vs. conflict resolution. I submit…
In GNS Model Discussion
Participants: Daredevil, xenopulse, Irmo, WhiteRat, Eero Tuovinen, Landon Darkwood, Ron Edwards, paulkdad, Valamir, timfire, John Kim, MatrixGamer, Caldis.

3/5/2005 Paka: Character Concept Brainstorm with my Girlfriend
All of my girlfriend's high school buddies gamed and she had a kind of shitty experience with D&D, being told her choices were wrong by the DM, etc. etc. I've…
In Actual Play
Participants: Paka, Ben Lehman, LordSmerf, Meguey, xenopulse.

3/5/2005 GameLoft: Young Gamers Need Your Help
Hello my name is Ian Howard. I am the director of a teen center based around roleplaying games. I am posting here to seek aid from the gaming community of…
In Connections
Participants: GameLoft, CPXB.

3/5/2005 matthijs: Attempts to extend rpg theory into empirical research?
A friend of mine is writing an article on RPG theory, but wants to make sure he's not just covering old ground, so he asked me to post this question:…
In RPG Theory
Participants: matthijs, J. Tuomas Harviainen, Shreyas Sampat, Steve Verdon.

3/5/2005 Domhnall: Preference concerning imbedded worlds in RPG
Hi again. Do you believe RPers generally prefer worlds as part of a RPG, or that the system is the relevant center of attention the majority of the time? Of…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Domhnall, Garbanzo, Selene Tan, Jasper, zobmie.

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3/11/2005 Matt Snyder: Daedalus: the Phoenix Saga
Daedalus is back for a special supers issue this spring. Jared Sorensen has stepped up to the plate with Dark Pages, a fully playable RPG of supers and supernatural horror.…
In Connections
Participants: Matt Snyder, Valamir, Clinton R. Nixon, Jasper, Spooky Fanboy.

3/11/2005 Paka: [CoS] The Screaming Saint - stickin' it to the man
CoS is an interesting system. It has a wiff of TRoS SA's in its Passion and Drive (which I think should be re-named) and is obviously inspired by TRoS combat.…
In Actual Play
Participants: Paka, Bob Goat.

3/11/2005 Jack Aidley: Why Capes Lite isn't helpful
Hi Tony, Over on RPG.Net I commented that the Capes Lite download wasn't very intelligable, and you asked why - I've started this thread to try and explain. Hopefully others…
In Muse of Fire Games
Participants: Jack Aidley, TonyLB, Christopher Weeks, jburneko, Matt Kimball, John Harper, Stickman, dyjoots, Valamir.

3/11/2005 Matt Wilson: [TSOY] - session 3, gamist play in maldor
It's pretty clear to me after this third episode that I've got a dominant force of gamist preference at the table. The actions of the characters appear to be tripping…
In Actual Play
Participants: Matt Wilson, Scripty.

3/11/2005 Tobias: [DitV] Augurann - a medieval setting (YGADesque)
All, YGAD has been written as DitV setting. Renamed Augurann to be a bit more distinct. Enjoy, comments welcome, I hope to play it once the hectic life I'm living…
In lumpley games
Participants: Tobias, lumpley, Valamir, daMoose_Neo.

3/11/2005 Frank T: [BARBAREN!] First playtest results and The Woman revisited
Hi, this thread is about my game BARBAREN!. You can find a long breakdown of the concept in This post. Now, the first three sessions of playtest went pretty well.…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Frank T, contracycle.

3/11/2005 LordSmerf: Character death revisited (now with bricolage!)
I've been thinking about Chris Lehrich's stuff on bricolage and long term play, and a couple of comments on this post on Anyway really caught my attention. But I also…
In RPG Theory
Participants: LordSmerf, Marco, Kesher, Silmenume, contracycle, Brendan.

3/11/2005 daMoose_Neo: [Imp Game] Imps vs the Big Blue Guy
Okay, so here I was, all excited about my latest run of the Imp Game and Forge goes down! So sucky :P BUT, I can share the insanity now :D…
In Actual Play
Participants: daMoose_Neo, Tobias.

3/11/2005 Halzebier: [Hack Attack] Forum reconstruction
Hi there! I've posted a draft of a post which got lost in the attack to the mangled stump of the original thread. On reflection, that was probably a bad…
In Site Discussion
Participants: Halzebier, Ron Edwards.

3/11/2005 coxcomb: [DitV] Character creation
My group got together last night to play Dogs in the Vineyard for the first time. We took the whole session to make characters and get them through their accomplishments,…
In Actual Play
Participants: coxcomb, ScottM, Jason Newquist, ironick, Wolfen.

3/11/2005 TonyLB: [Capes] Following the system
Chrysalis is the space-station at the end of time, from which our characters travel back into the past for our various reasons. Eric got totally on his "presenting adversity" game,…
In Actual Play
Participants: TonyLB, Sydney Freedberg.

3/11/2005 daMoose_Neo: [Imp Game] Playtest results and near final draft
Rules: Mischief & Mayhem Just had a rawkin playtest session (here), I mean we're talkin twenty minutes of non-stop laughter, which is what this game is all about! The nice…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: daMoose_Neo, Valamir.

3/11/2005 daMoose_Neo: Prelaunch site - Comment & Crit 2.0
Okay, restarting from earlier :D http://www.neoproductions.net/div_site(2).png Here's the new version for those keeping tabs on it (Andrew and someone else, I feel really bad your name isn't springing to mind!).…
In Connections
Participants: daMoose_Neo, Andrew Morris.

3/11/2005 John Harper: Dogs on the Desktop
I had a few spare hours at work the other day, so I put together a desktop image for DitV. You can grab it here: http://www.shootingiron.com/dogs/dogs_1280.jpg It's ironic that a…
In lumpley games
Participants: John Harper, Paka, jporrett, Andrew Morris, lumpley, apparition13, Karasu, demiurgeastaroth, Iskander, Technocrat13, Everspinner, Neal, dazzler96, Ben Lehman.

3/11/2005 bacon_x: A free game industry newsletter - Would you support it?
Hello There, After viewing the thread about getting the word out about one's creations, I realized that there may be a way to gain free publicity for new and existing…
In Publishing
Participants: bacon_x, Ron Edwards, jdagna, axonrg, Polyman.

3/11/2005 ExternalStudiosLLC: [Dreamscape] Dissect this game
So I came up with this game system one day in the shower. I became fond of it, and called it Dreamscape. Before I knew what was happening, some people…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: ExternalStudiosLLC, xenopulse, zobmie, Simon Kamber, Sydney Freedberg.

3/12/2005 Nathan P.: University Game Design
So Vaxalon found this collection of lectures for Cornell's Game Design Initiative progam. It's focused on computer games, but the course description does read "Students with no game design experience…
In RPG Theory
Participants: Nathan P..

3/12/2005 Domhnall: Immersive-Relevant Realism (essay)
I came across this site ~11 months ago and I posted this essay at that time: http://www.indie-rpgs.com/viewtopic.php?t=10632&highlight=. The conversation in the replying posts asked me the “why” regarding this structure…
In RPG Theory
Participants: Domhnall, Halzebier, Ben Lehman, John Burdick, LordSmerf, Marco, James Holloway, M. J. Young, NN.

3/12/2005 xenopulse: [Legacy of Horutep] indie-informed freeform
I just finished running my first session, as GM, of my new freeform chat game set in Ancient Egypt (or rather, a more mystical and sinister Alternate Ancient Egypt). Now,…
In Actual Play
Participants: xenopulse, Ron Edwards.

3/12/2005 Halzebier: [& Sword] Mining the Conan stories for bangs
Hi there! After reading "Sorcerer & Sword", I'm totally jazzed about the genre and have bought a collection of Robert E. Howard's original Conan stories, "The Coming of Conan the…
In Adept Press
Participants: Halzebier, matthijs, Ron Edwards, Paka, Valamir.

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