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4/1/2005 M. J. Young: Introduction to Theory article posted
In response to inquiries from Places to Go, People to Be, I have submitted a three-part miniseries attempting to summarize the basics of role playing game theory as discussed here…
In RPG Theory
Participants: M. J. Young, Mike Holmes, Ben Lehman, Doug Ruff, timfire, Kit, Dobamine, GB Steve.

4/1/2005 avidreader: [The Last Word]: An Experiment in Letter-Tile RPG Mechanics
The idea for the mechanics of The Last Word have been percolating at the back of my mind since November 2003. I was working on a collection of word games,…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: avidreader, Paul Czege, FzGhouL.

3/31/2005 Simon Kamber: [DitV]Proto-NPCs?
Just got my hands on the dogs book today (yay!), and reading through it, I've come across something I don't quite understand. As far as I understand it, the rules…
In lumpley games
Participants: Simon Kamber, Doug Ruff, sirogit, TonyLB, nikola, kaeru.

3/31/2005 Bill_White: [Ganakagok]When Morning Comes
So I've been working on Ganakagok, where people play tribal hunters on a fantastical iceberg-island as a thousand year long night comes to its end. I'm pretty satisfied with how…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Bill_White, Andrew Morris, TonyLB, Mike Holmes.

3/31/2005 demiurgeastaroth: Opposed resolution and directorial control
I like the way Trollbabe and the Pool can grant the player the ability to describe the result of a conflict. Are there any systems that combine such an approach…
In RPG Theory
Participants: demiurgeastaroth, TonyLB, Paul Czege, jburneko, Andrew Morris, ironick, JMendes, Ron Edwards.

3/31/2005 Ul: [DitV] A small town for first time players
Hi, here is a small town I have created for my first time as GM in Dogs, I recieved the package Wednesday and after a very sleepless night where I…
In lumpley games
Participants: Ul, TonyLB, joshua neff, Simon Kamber, Warren, daftnewt, Caesar_X.

3/31/2005 iago: Fate OGL is Now
As of today, Fate: Fantastic Adventures in Tabletop Entertainment, is available under the Open Gaming License. You can download the SRD here: http://www.faterpg.com/dl/Fate-SRD-2005-03-31.rtf
In Evilhat Productions
Participants: iago, ScottM, Zubon-do.

3/31/2005 Vaxalon: New, SPECIAL click and lock: Jenny Everywhere
This is a left-side clickandlock Jenny Everywhere, "The Shifter" http://www.queergranny.com/jennyeverywhere/ http://www.queergranny.com/jennyeverywhere/faqs.shtml Powers: Transcend Continuity Draw on another Jenny's wisdom Draw on another Jenny's experience Draw on another Jenny's willpower Draw…
In Muse of Fire Games
Participants: Vaxalon.

3/31/2005 Sydney Freedberg: [GroupDesign: Schrodinger's War] Doug's Draft Rules
Doug Ruff has put a pleasantly hefty set of draft rules online. There are some interesting convergences with Tobias's draft -- notably strongly structured collaborative setting design -- and some…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Sydney Freedberg, TonyLB, Doug Ruff, Tobias, Andrew Morris.

3/31/2005 Andrew Morris: Business licenses, trade names, and similar legal hassles
I'm just now looking at buying a domain name, building a web site, and eventually selling my games online. While doing this, I started thinking about the legal issues of…
In Publishing
Participants: Andrew Morris, xenopulse, timfire, Valamir, jdagna.

3/31/2005 Vaxalon: Vulnerabilities
How would vulnerabilities be handled in Capes? They're an extremely common trope in superhero comics. If Capes doesn't already handle it mechanically, I have an idea for how it could…
In Muse of Fire Games
Participants: Vaxalon, TonyLB, Sydney Freedberg.

3/31/2005 sirogit: My DitV game
Just finished the first session of a new DitV game and I have to say it went great. The set up's a little unusual. Because both me and my brother…
In lumpley games
Participants: sirogit, ScottM.

3/31/2005 Jonas Karlsson: Questions before tomorrow's game
Perhaps it’s easier for people to find questions and answers with a proper thread title, but I don’t want to create multiple threads for just one question and an answer.…
In Muse of Fire Games
Participants: Jonas Karlsson, Vaxalon, TonyLB.

3/31/2005 John Kim: Running a con game of MLWM or DitV or what?
So, I'm pondering games to run for KublaCon, a Bay Area convention. I think I can only go for Sunday and Monday, but I'd like to run two games. One…
In Actual Play
Participants: John Kim, GB Steve, Michael S. Miller, inthisstyle, Andrew Morris.

3/30/2005 brianhon: [EXPLOSION RPG beta] initial ideas
Hi, I've been lurking on the forge for some time now and I've finally decided to post. The EXPLOSION RPG is my second idea for an rpg, and probably the…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: brianhon, Andrew Morris, JMendes.

3/30/2005 Vaxalon: Is this legal?
Say I've been playing for a while, and I've got a nice little stack of story tokens. I want to set up one of those big climactic battle scenes were…
In Muse of Fire Games
Participants: Vaxalon, TonyLB, Miskatonic, Jonas Karlsson.

3/30/2005 BrendanC: [DitV] Shadetree Branch - final touches
I've been working on my town for tonight's game, and I'm pretty happy, but feel that there's something still missing. If anyone from my game is reading, stop now. ------------------------------------…
In lumpley games
Participants: BrendanC.

3/30/2005 lumpley: Dogs: A Big GM Advice
As GM, you get to help establish stakes. If your player says "what's at stake is this" you can say "no, I don't dig that, how about what's at stake…
In lumpley games
Participants: lumpley, TonyLB, bcook1971, Wolfen, Bankuei, Betsi-G.

3/30/2005 lumpley: [PTA] a very good episode, a very hard session
Previously on Epidemonology: here and here. This time: The Collector. It's Cyrus Dunn's spotlight episode. His issue is grief, particularly for the death of his wife Helen. Emily plays him.…
In Actual Play
Participants: lumpley, Danny_K, Emily Care, Ben Lehman, ScottM, Sydney Freedberg, Meguey, nikola, Matt Wilson, Frank T.

3/30/2005 Vaxalon: New click-and-locks
Would this be an appropriate place to post new click-and-locks? I've got a few that don't fit in the ones in the book very well.
In Muse of Fire Games
Participants: Vaxalon, TonyLB, Jonas Karlsson, Taimu.

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4/1/2005 komradebob: Etiquette: Commercial Links in Posts?
I have an etiquette question for the mods: I want to post an essay/topic in Theory about something I'd like some input on regarding miniatures and rping. I'd like to…
In Site Discussion
Participants: komradebob, Ron Edwards.

4/1/2005 Domhnall: Harnmaster Review?
I have searched and cannot find anyone from the Forge doing a review of Harnmaster. This game sounds like my own in spirit and I wanted to hear its pros…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Domhnall, klapton, daMoose_Neo, ethan_greer, Paul Czege, Ron Edwards, contracycle, Eero Tuovinen.

4/1/2005 Norbert Matausch: An honest review of PTA
Hi all, name's Norbert, I'm 34 and into roleplaying since I'm 14 years old. I've been a GM all my roleplaying live. We started diceless roleplaying with Amber, and this…
In Dog Eared Designs
Participants: Norbert Matausch, Selene Tan, Matt Wilson, Danny_K, Emily Care.

4/1/2005 Simon Marks: Modes of Play
Simon here, long time lurker, first time poster. I am posting in regards to a question I have regarding *how* you play, as opposed to *why* you play - so…
In GNS Model Discussion
Participants: Simon Marks, Alan, TonyLB, Kat Miller, Sydney Freedberg, Ron Edwards, M. J. Young, Walt Freitag, contracycle.

4/1/2005 BrendanC: [DitV] Shadetree Branch
So we started to play this town on Wednesday, but it quickly fell apart. After 20 minutes or so I had to stop and evaluate what went wrong. Partly, I…
In Actual Play
Participants: BrendanC, TonyLB, lumpley.

4/1/2005 Eva Deinum: Can you really explore a theme in a game designed for this?
I have played several games designed around a certain thematic question. At first sight is seems those games are perfect to explore that theme. I more and more doubt so.…
In RPG Theory
Participants: Eva Deinum, MisterPoppet, Trevis Martin, TonyLB, Bob the Fighter, Ron Edwards, Andrew Norris, Bankuei, Vaxalon, timfire, Valamir, Mike Holmes, Victor Gijsbers, pete_darby, Alan.

4/1/2005 Vaxalon: "Talking dingus"
What is the ultimate symbol of power for a Super? His cape, of course! I plan on taking some red velour and making a small (3' long or so, suitable…
In Muse of Fire Games
Participants: Vaxalon, Miskatonic.

4/1/2005 Emily Care: rpgs being designed by women
Hey there, I just took a gander at John Kim's bigass list of games and looking back year by year I was struck by how few women's names I saw.…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Emily Care, Green, Bardsandsages, Vaxalon, Frank T, daMoose_Neo, Margaret, Zahtevnik, Kat Miller, Paul Czege, Meguey, Paul's Girl, itesser, daemonchild, MatrixGamer, nikola.

4/1/2005 Chris Geisel: [TSOY] Main rulebook clarifications
During character creation for an IRC game of TSOY last night, some questions regarding the wording of some of the rules came up. From Character Creation: Abilities Players…
In CRN Games
Participants: Chris Geisel, Victor Gijsbers, Bifi, rafial, Clay.

4/1/2005 Vaxalon: Changes to the turn order to facilitate message board play
I've got such an incredible jones to play this game, I'm considering trying to start a PbP game of it... but because there are so many times when play depends…
In Muse of Fire Games
Participants: Vaxalon, Jonas Karlsson.

4/1/2005 Vaxalon: Exemplar connection to Drives?
What is the significance of an exemplar's connection to a drive? I see nothing mechanic-related about it, and frankly human interactions are complex enough that I can see some exemplars…
In Muse of Fire Games
Participants: Vaxalon, TonyLB, Jonas Karlsson.

4/1/2005 Valamir: Birthday Forum
Its about that time, any plans to open it back up this year? I think there might be some folks jonesing to take the pink piggie stacking title...
In Site Discussion
Participants: Valamir, Ron Edwards, Andy Kitkowski.

4/1/2005 Gethyn: Total Victory
Hi We were talking over here about (amongst other things) single-die rolls and a few effects of different dice combinations during conflicts. As an aside, Ron mentioned Total Victories and…
In Adept Press
Participants: Gethyn, Ron Edwards.

4/1/2005 Sean: Random Attribute Scores
OK. It sort of embarrasses me that I'm still thinking about this, but I am. You can't always be one of the smart kids if you want to make progress.…
In RPG Theory
Participants: Sean, Paul Czege, Mike Holmes, Doug Ruff, Lxndr, M. J. Young, John Kim, FzGhouL, NN, kenjib, daMoose_Neo, Lee Short, Jinx, Kit, JMendes, Noon.

4/1/2005 Ben Lehman: Polaris Goes d20!
Hi all. After much thought, I've decided to revamp Polaris as a D&D supplement using the d20 engine. Knights will be reconfigured as a nesting series of prestige classes (Angst…
In Polaris Playtest Forum
Participants: Ben Lehman, Emily Care, xiombarg, Dev.

4/2/2005 James_Nostack: [& Sword] Liches (again)
Allow me to do some forum necromancy here and bring this thread Becoming Undead back from the grave. But I've got some quick questions on that topic. 1. If you…
In Adept Press
Participants: James_Nostack, Ron Edwards, dyjoots.

4/2/2005 Miskatonic: [MLWM] My Easter With Master
I had originally joked that we would be playing "Kill Puppies For Satan" on Easter Sunday. While no one was seriously interested in KPFS, the idea of some kind of…
In Actual Play
Participants: Miskatonic, Kesher, Christopher Weeks, Ron Edwards, Shane Street, Michael S. Miller, GB Steve, TonyLB.

4/2/2005 Vaxalon: Some characters.
[img]http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y53/Vaxalon/Superheroes/Kozmik.jpg[/img][img]http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y53/Vaxalon/Superheroes/Concertina.jpg[/img] Art to start, stats in a bit. (damn, I am jonesin' SO hard)
In Muse of Fire Games
Participants: Vaxalon, TonyLB.

4/2/2005 Jonas Karlsson: Questions after yesterday’s game
We played our first session yesterday and have some questions. It mostly concerns allies and what the dice actually represent. Some of the things are perhaps hypothetical, but it would…
In Muse of Fire Games
Participants: Jonas Karlsson, TonyLB.

4/2/2005 joshua neff: [DitV] Old Habits Die Hard
Our regular gaming group took a break for a couple of months, while I wrote a novel and dealt with school. We started up again last night. I ran Dogs…
In Actual Play
Participants: joshua neff, Jason Newquist, jasonm.

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