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4/3/2005 bcook1971: [BW] The Racism Campaign III of IV
[url=http://indie-rpgs.com/viewtopic.php?t=14211&highlight=]Session I[/url]. [url=http://indie-rpgs.com/viewtopic.php?t=14612&highlight=]Session II[/url]. Apologies to my players reading this, expecting a similar format to last session; that was a bit of a lark and not something I could sustain.…
In Actual Play
Participants: bcook1971.

4/3/2005 Vaxalon: Addressing theme negatively
[quote="timfire"]As others have implied, there's always 'two sides' so to speak in regard to any theme. Not choosing an option that the system seems to push is a perfectly valid…
In RPG Theory
Participants: Vaxalon, Bankuei.

4/3/2005 Paka: Inspiring Pictures: A Boy and his Demon
http://www.ashesandsnow.org/index2.html Check out the picture of the boy with the cheetah in the Images and Archives section. That's the one I saw in the NYT magazine and thought, "Wow, a…
In Adept Press
Participants: Paka, sirogit, Selene Tan, Ben Lehman, Ron Edwards.

4/3/2005 Jonathan Walton: We Have a Webpage
[url]http://100flowers.indie-rpgs.com/push[/url] Look through it. It's a draft. Suggestions are very welcome. In the contents section, those who've submitted stuff have the title of their most recent draft listed. Those who…
In Push Editorial Board
Participants: Jonathan Walton, Eero Tuovinen.

4/3/2005 jasonm: [DitV] Wahanish Branch
Hi Everybody, I wanted to try building a town that wasn't so far along in the slide toward murder and sorcery, some place that was more foolish than evil or…
In lumpley games
Participants: jasonm, lumpley, hix, Ul, MikeSands, Simon Kamber.

4/3/2005 WhiteRat: Types of Reward?
I am interested in learning what different categories of reward mechanics exist in RPGs. I haven't found any threads that address this (my search-fu is weak) -- perhaps someone can…
In RPG Theory
Participants: WhiteRat.

4/3/2005 Vaxalon: Balancing Capes
Another thought just struck me. Let's say that there's a player in the game group who really has it all together. He rakes in the story tokens, and earns an…
In Muse of Fire Games
Participants: Vaxalon, John Harper, TonyLB, Sydney Freedberg.

4/2/2005 darrick: Satanis via Lulu
hey guys, thought you might be interested in a report from a first time rpg designer/self publisher. i just received a copy in the mail. it's my Empire of…
In Publishing
Participants: darrick, greyorm, Jasper, Grand_Commander13, MatrixGamer, madelf, Andrew Morris, paulkdad.

4/2/2005 ChrisJaxn: [whispers] resolution mechanic
I've mentioned my game here before, but only briefly, so I'll recap, and then ask my question. Whispers is a game where the players take control of pieces of some…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: ChrisJaxn, xenopulse.

4/2/2005 Simon Kamber: [DitV]First town
We played Dogs in the Vineyard for the first time today. Played with three people, which turned out to work pretty well. After having introduced the third player to the…
In Actual Play
Participants: Simon Kamber, Ul.

4/2/2005 Victor Gijsbers: Shared Imagined Space, Shared Text
In the Provisional Glossary, Shared Imagined Space is defined as: The fictional content of play as it is established among participants through role-playing interactions. This is open to different…
In RPG Theory
Participants: Victor Gijsbers, Noon, Vaxalon, lumpley, Alan, Ron Edwards, am, Sean, Jonathan Walton, JMendes, contracycle, Silmenume.

4/2/2005 elgorade: Donjon -- first try and questions
Nice game Clinton! The group I play in had a free month since one of the main characters in our usual game was out of the country. So I filled…
In CRN Games
Participants: elgorade, The_Tim, James_Nostack.

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.

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 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 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 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.

4/1/2005 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.

4/1/2005 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 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.

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4/3/2005 KingstonC: [PtA] Flux!
This was my first session with PtA. The show "FLUX!" was a combination of 30's hard-boiled detective fiction and the pulpish science fiction of the era. The players were detectives…
In Actual Play
Participants: KingstonC, JMendes.

4/3/2005 James_Nostack: [Pool] Coldblood & Dr. Mulberry
I ran my first session of the Pool last night! We didn't want to continue our regular science-fiction game because we were short a player, so we decided to explore…
In Actual Play
Participants: James_Nostack, Ron Edwards, aplath.

4/3/2005 Domhnall: Immersionist play kills off RL communication?
In the "Balance", "Fairness"? thread, Callan wrote: And on a side point, although pushing expectations onto others is a bad thing, immersionist play has a tendancy to kill off real…
In RPG Theory
Participants: Domhnall, komradebob, Valamir, Gordon C. Landis, Andrew Norris, Ron Edwards.

4/3/2005 James Holloway: Balance: System, Session, or what?
So, spinning off from the "Balance", "Fairness" ? thread, I thought I'd continue with a point I was fumbling toward at the end there. Before I get started, I want…
In RPG Theory
Participants: James Holloway, TonyLB, Troy_Costisick, Sydney Freedberg, Domhnall, contracycle, Vaxalon.

4/4/2005 Hello Sailor: [DitV] - Play writeup - Stillwater Branch
I really liked Stillwater Branch, posted elsewhere in this forum, so I ran my first Dogs game using it. This was my players' first experience with non-conventional RPGs, so they…
In lumpley games
Participants: Hello Sailor.

4/4/2005 Paka: Questions through Play
Okay, today I gamed with my wargamers. Don't get me wrong, they love a good story and role-play their hexes off but they all wargame and look at games with…
In Bob Goat Press
Participants: Paka, Bob Goat.

4/4/2005 TonyLB: Folding Tables
Yes, the question really is as strange and seemingly trivial as the subject makes it sound. I need to know whether I can get a cheap 90-degree crescent table, for…
In Connections
Participants: TonyLB, daMoose_Neo, jdagna, Tintros, Knave, abzu, Paul Czege.

4/4/2005 Rob Carriere: Undead PMs
A PM to me dated 16 march (and long since read and deleted) just decided to ressurrect itself, including the e-mail warning "you have a new PM". No big whoop,…
In Site Discussion
Participants: Rob Carriere.

4/4/2005 Vaxalon: The relationship between character, sheet, and play
Spawned from another topic, link to be added momentarily... I mean... one of the things that defines a person, is the sum of his memories and experiences,…
In RPG Theory
Participants: Vaxalon, James Holloway, contracycle, Jason Newquist, Shreyas Sampat, John Kim, lumpley, Alephnul.

4/4/2005 Troy_Costisick: Character Effectiveness = CA/SIS Interface?
Heya, This is a split topic from: http://www.indie-rpgs.com/viewtopic.php?t=14908&start=0 James Holloway Wrote: Troy: Quote: You have a player who is wanting to engage in one of the Arenas of a CA…
In RPG Theory
Participants: Troy_Costisick, Noon.

4/4/2005 Kilor Di: "Ages" of Magic
I don't know if this is the right forum for this discussion... Most of the games that deal with technology also deal with (or at least refer to) the ages…
In RPG Theory
Participants: Kilor Di, efindel, Damballa, jerry.

4/4/2005 Kilor Di: [Terrae Novae] Minion Classes
Normally, I would post the link for my notes on Terrae Novae, but those notes are so out of date it's almost funny. Almost. Minion classes (classes that either summon,…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Kilor Di, tj333, Bob the Fighter.

4/4/2005 Paka: In Praise of Group Kickers
Wow, these rock. Kickers in general rock but having the cell's players come together and decide as a group where the game is going to start is just fantastic. I'm…
In Bob Goat Press
Participants: Paka.

4/4/2005 Gaerik: [D&D 3.5] Forgotten Realms Campaign part 3
We played our Forgotten Realms campaign again last night. It was a session that I thought went relatively well but that I'm still not completely settled on what I did…
In Actual Play
Participants: Gaerik, Valamir, Noon.

4/5/2005 Noon: GM facing some inadvertant illusionism from player
Recently in a PBP game I'm running, I used the old 'Okay, now you the player decide what happens if you fail the roll' by posting the following. What sort…
In Actual Play
Participants: Noon.

4/5/2005 Nuadha: Ambercon 2006
Ambercon 2005, the convention for Amber and other Diceless RPGs, was this weekend. I attended and had a blast as always. However, every year the convention seems to have less…
In Conventions
Participants: Nuadha, TonyLB, immlass, beingfrank, cdr, MichaelCurry, Tymen, Bryant, Knave.

4/5/2005 Shreyas Sampat: Happy Birthday, Forge!
Cake! Happy birthday with cake!
In Forge Birthday Forum
Participants: Shreyas Sampat, Chris Goodwin, Bankuei, Doug Ruff, Troy_Costisick, Ben Lehman, Bob Goat, daemonchild, JMendes, Frank T, eGuru, Andrew Norris.

4/5/2005 Clinton R. Nixon: What do you do besides role-playing?
So, here's my "gettin-to-know-ya" topic? What are your hobbies and passions? Mine - I read like most people sleep. Six hours a day, probably. The last book I read was…
In Forge Birthday Forum
Participants: Clinton R. Nixon, Chris Goodwin, TonyLB, Shreyas Sampat, Paka, Andy Kitkowski, Matt Wilson, Jason Newquist, Alan, JamesNostack, Brand_Robins, Ben Lehman, hix, Andrew Morris, joshua neff, abzu, Trevis Martin, Frank T, Bankuei, Tobias, Jack Aidley, James Holloway, J. Tuomas Harviainen, sirogit, Rich Forest, pete_darby, Doug Ruff, Eero Tuovinen, beingfrank, GB Steve, Sean, Domhnall, Gaerik, Bob Goat, xenopulse, Emily Care, Lee Short, C. Edwards, J B Bell, Mike Holmes, inthisstyle, Eva Deinum, Jeph, Lxndr, ethan_greer, Meguey, Leningrad, Danny_K, ScottM, zephyr.cirrus, bcook1971, John Harper, nellist, Victor Gijsbers, Scripty, Jason L Blair, Thierry Michel.

4/5/2005 Andy Kitkowski: So... Which upcoming games are you looking forward to?
I gotta say, Ben L's a friend and all, but his Polaris sounds really interesting. I'm hoping that I get a chance to pick it up and play it this…
In Forge Birthday Forum
Participants: Andy Kitkowski, Paka, Andrew Morris, Valamir, joshua neff, Ben Lehman, Bankuei, Tobias, Zathreyel, Rich Forest, Eero Tuovinen, Dev, Shreyas Sampat, Michael S. Miller, Selene Tan, Jeph, ethan_greer.

4/5/2005 jenasolian: capes lite questions/tweaking
I learned Capes lite (never played capes "hevi") at Terpcon, and got the handout. I'd like to try a couple of scenes with my friends this week, but there are…
In Muse of Fire Games
Participants: jenasolian, TonyLB, Jonas Karlsson.

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