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3/28/2005 Andrew Morris: [Shadows & Light] Question on handling time
I am designing a LARP system, along with a friend. We have been working on this for a while now, and even though our setting and color are pretty well…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Andrew Morris, ironick, TonyLB, Sydney Freedberg.

3/28/2005 Aman the Rejected: Don't Step On My Gamism
Not enough people showed up to our game last night (03/27). I got some different reactions from my normal games, we had a blast, and I wanted to share due…
In Actual Play
Participants: Aman the Rejected, Noon, hyphz, Miskatonic.

3/28/2005 Chris Goodwin: Dungeon Majesty final up
The final episode of Dungeon Majesty has been posted at the wiki (http://www.innocence.com/games/dungeon-majesty/Main/HomePage). Rob and the gang, thank you for playing and posting, and most of all, for letting the…
In Dog Eared Designs
Participants: Chris Goodwin.

3/28/2005 Vaxalon: The Nixon Principle, applied to Capes
My wife is obsessed with Jedi. She plays one in every game she sits down at, sooner or later. So I made up a Click-and-lock for Jedi. Powers: Lightsaber Telekinesis…
In Muse of Fire Games
Participants: Vaxalon, Andrew Morris, TonyLB, gorckat, David Laurence.

3/28/2005 JMendes: [PtA] Heritage - POP goes the Hood!! (warning: long)
Hey, all, :) Yep. Last Friday was the day when PtA suddenly came together for us! If you want background info on this, go read this thread about our first…
In Actual Play
Participants: JMendes, Andrew Norris, Mike Holmes, ivan23, ricmadeira, Matt Wilson, B0rg, Valamir, Frank T.

3/28/2005 JMendes: PvP in PtA
Hey, :) I'm splitting this off, because I think it's become out of topic for the original thread. don't be afraid of this... specially not in…
In Dog Eared Designs
Participants: JMendes, TonyLB.

3/28/2005 sirogit: Expansion of the game-division list in the Nar Essay
I'm not 100% if this is an appropiate post. I'd really like to see an expanded version of that game-divsvion-list-thingy in the Nar essay featuring more games, either in this…
In GNS Model Discussion
Participants: sirogit, Ron Edwards, Victor Gijsbers.

3/27/2005 TonyLB: [Dulcimer Hall] Another shot at Resolution
Okay, first go read the Hybrid Resolution document to see where I'm starting from. Now go read Crypto-romance Character Development to see what I want to achieve with…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: TonyLB, MikeSands, Doug Ruff.

3/27/2005 Lord Abaddon of Wormwood: PDF?
Hello all, I would like to buy the pdf of the game, but not the print verison. Why? I live in Australia and the postage on a game that I…
In Muse of Fire Games
Participants: Lord Abaddon of Wormwood, TonyLB.

3/27/2005 hawklord2112: Dont know if this is appropriate - Looking for a game
heya all. i'm looking for a game to play online - either IRC, wiki based, Forum based, or PbEM, of Universalis.. could some kind soul point me in the right…
In Connections
Participants: hawklord2112, Shreyas Sampat.

3/27/2005 charlesperez: PM as spam?
What is the Forge policy regarding spam sent via PM? I've got someone trolling for web site hits myself. Charles
In Site Discussion
Participants: charlesperez, Peter Nordstrand, Ron Edwards, Andrew Morris, Doug Ruff, cruciel.

3/27/2005 hix: [Sorc] The Celebrity Machine
[b]The Celebrity Machine[/b] The characters are either celebrities or working in the Hollywood movie industry. Humanity is your connection to your genuine multi-faceted and unpredictable self. * Zero humanity means…
In Adept Press
Participants: hix, Miskatonic, angelfromanotherpin, J B Bell, Michael S. Miller, gorckat, Valamir.

3/26/2005 btrc: GenCon lodging?
Do we have any info on GenCon lodging yet? I waited until this long last year and ended up spending $150 per night on a room, which I only managed…
In Conventions
Participants: btrc, Matt Gwinn, Ron Edwards, daMoose_Neo, Nev the Deranged.

3/26/2005 Trevis Martin: [DitV] Kings Rock
Okay so we played Dogs earlier tonight. At first I was gonna run one of the great towns that someone else made up. It was a busy day and I…
In lumpley games
Participants: Trevis Martin.

3/26/2005 lupis42: [DitV] Our Third Session - Oak Bluffs
The thing that struck most about tonight's town was the degree to which the characters behaved in completely unexpected ways, even mine. (Some of you may know that I was…
In Actual Play
Participants: lupis42.

3/26/2005 greyorm: Help with ORX Press Release Text
Heya all, I plan on submitting a press release about Orx to a couple gaming sites over the next few weeks to (hopefully) generate interest, and I am wondering if…
In Publishing
Participants: greyorm, Andrew Morris, Sean, Valamir, hix, jdagna, Alan, xiombarg.

3/26/2005 Jason Newquist: [DitV] Are NPCs like Safes?
You know the clue-in-the-safe example Vincent uses when he's talking about Task Resolution vs. Conflict Resolution, where the PCs are trying to find the clue, and it doesn't matter if…
In lumpley games
Participants: Jason Newquist, Bankuei, Wolfen, TonyLB, Valamir.

3/25/2005 ffilz: Trailblazing or not?
Prompted by the GMless D20 thread, I've been doing a lot of thinking. M.J.'s suggestion of Trailblazing for my GMing style seems to have some validity, but I'm not sure.…
In Actual Play
Participants: ffilz, Andrew Norris, Ron Edwards.

3/25/2005 TonyLB: Review up at RPG.net
Jeremy Reaban crafted a nice little review of Capes for RPG.net. I like it. It says nice things about the system. He's said over at the IPR forums that he's…
In Muse of Fire Games
Participants: TonyLB, Miskatonic.

3/25/2005 BrendanC: Help with a town name
I was going to ask for help with my town in general, but I had a bit of a brainstorm just now and got it worked out to my satisfaction.…
In lumpley games
Participants: BrendanC, TonyLB, nikola, Simon W.

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3/29/2005 John Kim: The place of character sheet and die rolls within play
So I had an interesting conversation on Vincent's (aka lumpley) blog anyway: cf. "Strong stuff indeed". However, I'm afraid I may have overstepped or sidetracked discussion on there.…
In RPG Theory
Participants: John Kim, Andrew Norris, Alephnul, Bankuei, lumpley, jrs, Emily Care, M. J. Young, groundhog, contracycle, Jason Newquist.

3/29/2005 TonyLB: Capes Lite Redraft
Following on the very useful advice given me in Why Capes Lite isn't helpful I have tried to assemble a document that's more like a teaching introduction, and less like…
In Muse of Fire Games
Participants: TonyLB, Paul Hebble, Stickman, Jack Aidley, Andrew Morris.

3/29/2005 xiombarg: Free Desktop Publishing...
Okay, kids, can anyone reccommend a decent, FREE (or very, very cheap, like less than $40) desktop publishing program that works on Windows 98 andor Windows XP? Feel free to…
In Publishing
Participants: xiombarg, spawky, madelf, Trevis Martin, Dev, MisterPoppet, Victor Gijsbers, Clay, nikola, Doug Ruff, jerry, MatrixGamer.

3/29/2005 heironymous: [Seven Leagues (a fantasy RPG of Faerie)] Please comment
I have posted a working draft of my RPG, Seven Leagues, here: http://www.malcontentgames.com/7leagues.pdf Please feel free to download the file (1.7 MB, 20 pages, includes most of the first third…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: heironymous, Jasper, kenjib, Selene Tan, ironick, Ron Edwards, Bill Masek, Bob the Fighter, James Holloway, berginyon.

3/29/2005 James_Nostack: [Sorc] Sacrifice Questions
On page 87 of the 2001 printing, it says... Furthermore, performing a sacrifice entails making another Humanity check. If it is a human sacrifice, this check has a penalty equal…
In Adept Press
Participants: James_Nostack, Trevis Martin, Ron Edwards.

3/29/2005 Paka: NYC Crew meets Bridal Falls City
I met with a few old gaming buddies in NYC this weekend and we gamed us some DitV. Pete made up a former professor of Philosophy from Back East who…
In Actual Play
Participants: Paka, Stigg.

3/29/2005 bcook1971: [DitV] One-shot Prep
Hello. I finished reading the last third of the rulebook over the last two days. Getting my head around the much vaunted town creation rules stretched my mind a bit.…
In lumpley games
Participants: bcook1971, Trevis Martin, FlamingMoose.

3/29/2005 matthijs: [electrified spikes through the soles of your feet] V. 0
[i]The world is hard and cruel. God hates you, and wants to destroy everything you love. When it's your turn to be God, you can get revenge on the world.…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: matthijs, Mike Holmes, xenopulse, xiombarg, Valamir, daMoose_Neo, Bill Masek.

3/29/2005 Matt Wilson: The Primetime Adventures PDF Wish List
Someday, far from now, the book will be revised, and it will have neat new things in it that everyone wishes were in it. But first it will be a…
In Dog Eared Designs
Participants: Matt Wilson, Chris Goodwin, Ben Lehman, lumpley, Danny_K, JMendes, Emily Care, KingstonC, Yokiboy, Andy Kitkowski, Jasper Polane, Jonas Karlsson, xenopulse, Shiffer, Matthew Glover, IMAGinES.

3/29/2005 Mandacaru: My first real Bang! ;-)
Just set up a new game online to try out starting from zero and seeing where we go. Basic information is a character has to be an Uz of some…
In HeroQuest
Participants: Mandacaru, Mike Holmes, StalkingBlue.

3/29/2005 BrendanC: [DitV] Player power vs. Character power
The background to this was in this thread. I wanted to follow up with some comments, but I thought it was better to split this off into its own thread.…
In lumpley games
Participants: BrendanC, Lxndr, lumpley, Valamir.

3/29/2005 Ben Lehman: [Polaris] Two Tales of Six Knights
I played the new Polaris twice. Thoughts: General Thoughts 1) Both times, it was a really good game. The game I played with Vincent and Meg was excellent, but very…
In Actual Play
Participants: Ben Lehman, lumpley.

3/29/2005 Vaxalon: Click-and-Lock improvements
After playing Capes (and buying it) the other night, my wife and I have been thinking about improvements to the layout. It's pretty... but it's really really hard to make…
In Muse of Fire Games
Participants: Vaxalon, TonyLB, Taimu.

3/29/2005 Matt Gwinn: Creating a Survey
hey everyone. I just hooked up with a bunch of gamers in Ann Arbor through dnd.meetup.com. Well, we have quite a few people in the group with a wide variety…
In Actual Play
Participants: Matt Gwinn, Vaxalon, Mike Holmes, Simon Kamber, Danny_K.

3/29/2005 Jonas Karlsson: Veto ability use
Hello, My first post on The Forge and all. So, I just bought Capes and plan to play the first session on Friday. One question is if there's a way…
In Muse of Fire Games
Participants: Jonas Karlsson, TonyLB, Vaxalon, LordSmerf.

3/29/2005 Vaxalon: Clarify something for me...
An event hits the table, played by the guy to my right. "A giant robot runs amok in Central City." It comes out, as usual, with two dice on it...…
In Muse of Fire Games
Participants: Vaxalon, TonyLB, Paul Hebble, Jonas Karlsson, Doug Ruff.

3/29/2005 jamesdbr: Spotlight time in D20.
I'm considering running a one-shot dungeon crawl for a regular gaming group of mine, to give the GM a break from running all the time and also to get some…
In RPG Theory
Participants: jamesdbr, Valamir, Noon, Bankuei, Rob Carriere.

3/29/2005 Kilor Di: [Terrae Novae] Latin Lessons
I'm currently converting my notes on Terrae Novae into a manuscript so I can try to get it published. I would like to know if anyone knows of a website…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Kilor Di, Andrew Morris, Selene Tan, 1of3.

3/30/2005 MikeSands: Rewarding in-character socialising
Background: I'm writing a game of naval adventure stories, inspired by Hornblower, Aubrey & Maturin, Honor Harrington etc. After the first playtest session, the biggest hole in the game so…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: MikeSands, TonyLB, Bailywolf, Doehring, Valamir, Shreyas Sampat.

3/30/2005 Jerry D. Grayson: GODSEND Agenda (Character progression system)
Hello all, I lurk here a lot but never post but lately I’ve been beating my head against the wall. Some of you may be familiar with my game GODSEND…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Jerry D. Grayson, Andy Kitkowski, Sydney Freedberg, gorckat.

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