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4/7/2005 GreatWolf: Needing some help (and some art)
Okay, so I am heeding the various bribes, threats and cajoling found in this thread. Silly as this may sound, I did not know that there was this level of…
In Dark Omen Games
Participants: GreatWolf, Valamir, Ron Edwards, Mike Holmes.

4/6/2005 Gordon C. Landis: So, I watched House of Sand and Fog a while back
I was impressed by it. I was depressed by it. I was glad to have seen it, even though I can't honestly say I enjoyed it all that much. A…
In Forge Birthday Forum
Participants: Gordon C. Landis, xenopulse, Domhnall.

4/6/2005 Jeffrey Straszheim: [Heroquest] In store demo
I finally got to play Heroquest. This game was billed as a short in store demo to illustrate the rules. The participants were David (the GM), my wife Bridget, and…
In Actual Play
Participants: Jeffrey Straszheim, daMoose_Neo, dcboatright, Brand_Robins, Scripty, Mike Holmes.

4/6/2005 Matt Wilson: Primetime Adventures sales data
I really appreciated Paul putting up his sales figures, so I decided I'd do the same. As of the end of march, PTA has been available for sale for 6…
In Dog Eared Designs
Participants: Matt Wilson, xenopulse, Ben Lehman, JMendes, MarcoBrucale, Paul Czege, Valamir, Emily Care, inthisstyle, Andy Kitkowski.

4/6/2005 ffilz: [Sweet20] (and [TSOY] also I guess) question on keys
I've been reading Sweet20:Experience and TSOY. Many of the keys mention things per adventure. What is the definition of adventure? Looking at the Wiki, I see per session (and maybe…
In CRN Games
Participants: ffilz, Chris Geisel, Yokiboy, Clinton R. Nixon.

4/6/2005 Doug Ruff: Iron Game Chef Parlour Game! With 100% Less Game Design!
Important - This is not a real Iron Game Chef thread! That's verboten. Here's the game. I'm going to post a couple of Keywords at the end of this post.…
In Forge Birthday Forum
Participants: Doug Ruff, Dev, Lxndr, Harlequin, Christopher Weeks, Ben Lehman, Tobias.

4/6/2005 inthisstyle: [TSOY] Working the Kinks Out
The Warlords of Maldor campaign got started last night. For a recap (setup details in the Anvilwerks forum here), we have six players: - Swann, a female human Maldorian warlord…
In Actual Play
Participants: inthisstyle, James_Nostack.

4/6/2005 Shreyas Sampat: 'Nother Swap Meet: Game Concepts
I know that a bunch of us have some idea for games that they just don't want to write. Throw it up here, see if someone wants to claim it…
In Forge Birthday Forum
Participants: Shreyas Sampat, Jonathan Walton, Sean.

4/6/2005 Walt Freitag: Am I antisocial if I dislike sound-off threads?
What movie did I last see? What do I read? What book did I last read? What am I working on? Why does it rock? Which of my game moments…
In Forge Birthday Forum
Participants: Walt Freitag, Shreyas Sampat, lumpley, Eero Tuovinen, Andy Kitkowski, Frank T, nikola, Gordon C. Landis, Jason13, greyorm, Ron Edwards, Thunder_God.

4/6/2005 John Wick: Join My Church!
(from my LJ, last month or so) I'm starting my own church. This is what we believe. We believe in a reality that is very close to our own, a…
In Forge Birthday Forum
Participants: John Wick, Andy Kitkowski, inthisstyle, TonyLB, Lxndr, Bob Goat, Ben Lehman, greyorm, Miskatonic, Asrogoth, pete_darby.

4/6/2005 Rob MacDougall: Ontari-ari-ari-o! (politely seeking Central Canadian gamers)
In about three months I'm going to be moving from Boston, Massachusetts to London, Ontario, Canada. I'm looking forward to the move, but I fear my gaming choices will suffer.…
In Forge Birthday Forum
Participants: Rob MacDougall, Bryan_T, greyorm, Tymen, Piers Brown, CCW.

4/6/2005 Christopher Weeks: Peak Oil
Someone referred to this issue in one of the other threads -- maybe the what do I hate thread. It's something that I've just recently been researching. What do you…
In Forge Birthday Forum
Participants: Christopher Weeks, Eero Tuovinen, Bob Goat, Ben Lehman, Valamir, Andy Kitkowski, kenjib, Vaxalon, Walt Freitag, Harlequin.

4/6/2005 xenopulse: Will the Forum Still Be Accessible
... once it closes down? For reading, I mean. There's a whole bunch of stuff in here that I'd love to keep reading over time. Thanks.
In Forge Birthday Forum
Participants: xenopulse, Andy Kitkowski.

4/6/2005 lumpley: The Whole Point
The whole point for me, at least. Over on my blog, me and my friends and readers compiled a great list of things. It's still open, please feel free to…
In Forge Birthday Forum
Participants: lumpley, Gordon C. Landis.

4/6/2005 Christopher Weeks: Explain the presense of your faith...
Spawning again from this thread (and from a thread on Vincent's blog a while back), I don't think I've ever asked people to analyze the source of their Faith. I…
In Forge Birthday Forum
Participants: Christopher Weeks, Bankuei, Frank T, TonyLB, inthisstyle, xenopulse, Anonymous, John Wick, Sydney Freedberg, Jason L Blair, joshua neff, Eero Tuovinen, Green, Ben Lehman, GB Steve, nikola, daMoose_Neo, Meguey, ScottM, greyorm, James Holloway, contracycle, pete_darby, Clinton R. Nixon, Andy Kitkowski, Lxndr, Miskatonic.

4/6/2005 Christopher Weeks: Why is marriage between two people?
Right, so last year we had this thread that's been continued. In it and elsewhere, I see lots of people supporting gay marriage but unabashedly assuming that marriage is still…
In Forge Birthday Forum
Participants: Christopher Weeks, Lxndr, Bob Goat, Sean, timfire, xenopulse, lumpley, Harlequin, Andrew Morris, Brand_Robins, joshua neff, Valamir, Miskatonic, Eero Tuovinen, inthisstyle, Meguey, Matt Wilson, daMoose_Neo.

4/6/2005 Sydney Freedberg: Married? Have Kids? Pets? Demons?
Real purpose of this thread: Sheer cussed curiousity. High-minded purpose of this thread: Break down the stereotype of gamers as alienated isolated misfits or at least college kids with nothin'…
In Forge Birthday Forum
Participants: Sydney Freedberg, joshua neff, Victor Gijsbers, Gaerik, Ron Edwards, Fabrice G., Bob Goat, Emily Care, inthisstyle, Andrew Norris, xenopulse, Brand_Robins, lumpley, Sean, Lxndr, ScottM, jrs, Harlequin, Christopher Weeks, Trevis Martin, Rich Forest, Clinton R. Nixon, Andy Kitkowski, Frank T, Jason L Blair, Chris Goodwin, Andrew Morris, Ben Lehman, Vaxalon, Meguey, nellist, Matt Wilson, John Kim, Bryan_T, daMoose_Neo, greyorm, Yokiboy, Domhnall, droog, pete_darby, Walt Freitag, J B Bell, Blake Hutchins, bcook1971, Kesher, Asrogoth, Doug Ruff, Doyce, Jason13, Thor Olavsrud, komradebob, abzu, devilbunny, jburneko, Eric J-D, Peter Nordstrand, pells, ( o Y o ), jasonm, Mark D. Eddy, Marhault, Mike Holmes, ErrathofKosh, Chris Gardiner, chris_moore, Iskander, Bryan Hansel, dindenver.

4/6/2005 jasonm: [DitV] Hafið
Hafið (The Sea) - Has anybody seen this film? http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0332381/ It's like a Dogs town without the Dogs. Everything goes to hell. As I was watching it I kept thinking,…
In lumpley games
Participants: jasonm, lumpley.

4/6/2005 Tobias: [Ditv] A couple of rules questions
Ok, so yesterday, I'm making sure I understand this whole DitV conflict resolution and chargen thing by making up a character up to, and including initiation. My 'guy' Zeb is…
In lumpley games
Participants: Tobias, jasonm, lumpley, Simon Kamber, Bankuei, nikola, Wolfen, Ul, Jinx, cdr, Lxndr.

4/6/2005 Ron Edwards: [Trollbabe] Sales spike
I'm not sure why, but Trollbabe has been selling like hotcakes for about a month. I wonder why? Usually such things happen due to a review at a widely-visited site,…
In Adept Press
Participants: Ron Edwards, Miskatonic, inthisstyle, Rausch, Rob MacDougall, lumpley, Andrew Norris, Bob Goat, sirogit, MarcoBrucale, Eero Tuovinen, Paul Czege, Sölvi, b_bankhead, JamesDJIII, remi, matthijs.

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4/7/2005 dysjunct: [My Life With Bigotry] first look!
[size=18px]My Life With Bigotry[/size] (inspired by the gay-marriage threads in the Birthday forum) [u][b]Introduction[/b][/u] Like MLWM, this game is about the tragic things people do to each other in pursuit…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: dysjunct, Bob the Fighter, Asrogoth, Bill Masek, Frank T, Mike Holmes.

4/7/2005 Lord Sciannath: Looking for an Engine
Greetz all, I'm looking for a working download link for the Diaspora sourcecode. Does anyone know where I can get this? Cheers -Sciannath
In Connections
Participants: Lord Sciannath, daMoose_Neo.

4/7/2005 Shreyas Sampat: Wishlist III
[quote="Paul Czege"]One of the common thread-starts in online game forums is someone describing a concept they wish had been made into a game. Often the idea is for the game…
In Forge Birthday Forum
Participants: Shreyas Sampat, Frank T, Jonathan Walton, lumpley, Harlequin.

4/7/2005 cdr: [DitV] Trait vs. Belonging
I've been yearning to run Dogs ever since I read it six weeks ago and finally got to, twice. I like it even better than I'd hoped to, and plan…
In lumpley games
Participants: cdr, jasonm, lumpley, Lxndr.

4/7/2005 John Kim: Since I Came to the Forge...
So, first of all, faux pas on Clinton's part: Welcome back! We're live and we thrive after three long years. Er, that's four long years for the Forge,…
In Forge Birthday Forum
Participants: John Kim.

4/7/2005 Kit: Looking for someone to cowrite a game with
Hi, If you know me at all it's probably from my intermittent wittering about my homebrew system called Option. It's been a project of mine on a semi-regular basis for…
In Connections
Participants: Kit, Ben Lehman, TonyLB, Doug Ruff, Emily Care.

4/7/2005 JMendes: [PtA] Heritage - A Spotlight Episode (again, long)
Hey, :) (I've been meaning to write this up since it happened, last Saturday, but irregular sleep and connectivity problems have precluded it...) Last Saturday, we had another episode of…
In Actual Play
Participants: JMendes, Andrew Norris.

4/7/2005 Thierry Michel: About that mechanics/mechanisms thing
It always bothered me, as a second-language speaker. Am I correct in believing that mechanism is the word I want when I mean 'process' and mechanic is the guy that…
In Forge Birthday Forum
Participants: Thierry Michel, contracycle, Rich Forest, Walt Freitag, Selene Tan, Emily Care.

4/7/2005 Jack Aidley: I don't believe in evil
Today, I will mostly be taking a philosophical outlook. I've been thinking about evil - kind of inspired by reading some people talking about the Pope having being a great…
In Forge Birthday Forum
Participants: Jack Aidley, contracycle, Domhnall, GB Steve, Victor Gijsbers, Ben Lehman, Christopher Weeks, pete_darby, Sean, Wolfen, groundhog, Anonymous, Miskatonic, Nev the Deranged, Gordon C. Landis.

4/7/2005 GB Steve: After the Forge? A wiki?
Is this a suitable place to ask about future plans for the Forge? I know it's been said somewhere that it's not going to be around forever as a live…
In Forge Birthday Forum
Participants: GB Steve, Andy Kitkowski, Vaxalon, Shreyas Sampat, John Kim, Trevis Martin.

4/7/2005 Yokiboy: Paka's The Vault
Here's the intro to our new TROS campaign. Many thanks to Paka, who came up with the idea. In the center of the great continent Ecal-Pémos there rests a metropolis,…
In Actual Play
Participants: Yokiboy, BrendanC, Paka, Negilent.

4/7/2005 Ben Lehman: Talk About Your Religious Beliefs
Hi. An attempt to make a cooler religion thread. Better. Faster. Stronger. We have the technology. Instead of just sounding off about why we believe in God, a thing which…
In Forge Birthday Forum
Participants: Ben Lehman, Christopher Weeks, pete_darby, Danny_K, Eero Tuovinen, Clinton R. Nixon, Anonymous, xenopulse, Lxndr, Green, joshua neff, lumpley, Ron Edwards, greyorm, Harlequin, Shreyas Sampat, J B Bell, Bankuei, groundhog, Meguey, Leningrad, Dumirik, Domhnall, James Holloway, nikola, Yasha, LordSmerf, Chris Goodwin, Silmenume, taalyn, ADGConscience.

4/7/2005 TonyLB: [TNaRPG] Dibs! I called it!
Inspired by this thread over on RPG.net, I have thought of a wonderful puff-piece of a game to write: That's Not an RPG!, the RPG I think the way to…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: TonyLB, Gaerik, daMoose_Neo, Aman the Rejected, Selene Tan, Brendan, Mike Holmes, MatrixGamer, killacozzy.

4/7/2005 Sean: A Couple of Miscellaneous Notes
These are just a couple things I've been thinking about. 1) On rpg.net a while back I started a thread on Fantasy Heartbreakers: http://forum.rpg.net/showthread.php?t=182565 I said there that I thought…
In Forge Birthday Forum
Participants: Sean, Ben Lehman, lumpley, Brendan.

4/7/2005 Andy Kitkowski: Twelve Kingdoms: A MUST WATCH Anime...
[b]Twelve Kingdoms[/b] So, for the Forge Birthday folks, I give to you this gift: If you can enjoy anime, check it out. The chance that it doesn't resonate with you…
In Forge Birthday Forum
Participants: Andy Kitkowski, Ben Lehman, Bankuei, Green.

4/7/2005 Jasper: [Trials Distilled] Describing credibility
I'm still hacking away at the text of Trials of the Grail: Distilled (go to the link in my sig if you want to read about it) and I'd appreciate…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Jasper, Garbanzo.

4/7/2005 Sean: The Booze Thread
Not as much discussion of drinking at this year's party! What are your favorite drinks these days? I have a passion for all things grape-derived. I'm a big wine guy,…
In Forge Birthday Forum
Participants: Sean, Christopher Weeks, Dev, Andy Kitkowski, timfire, Ben Lehman, Paul Czege, Lee Short, Ron Edwards, Matt Snyder, Andrew Morris, Danny_K, C. Edwards, Frank T, Jason L Blair, xenopulse, James Holloway, Yokiboy, Doug Ruff, joshua neff, Gordon C. Landis, John Harper, groundhog, Kesher, Jack Aidley, Matt, Thor Olavsrud, Shawn De Arment, Matt Wilson, Asrogoth.

4/7/2005 Christopher Weeks: Socialist? What are you doing about it?
Right, so there are a bunch of people here who are socialist-communist to some extent. I spent most of my life as an anarcho-capitalist, even before I knew those words.…
In Forge Birthday Forum
Participants: Christopher Weeks, Andy Kitkowski, lumpley, greyorm, J B Bell, Alan, Ben Lehman, Matt Snyder, Emily Care, Victor Gijsbers, pfischer, Yokiboy, joshua neff, C. Edwards, bastion-b, kenjib, Anonymous, Dave Panchyk.

4/7/2005 Miskatonic: Pancakes!
I'm gonna make pancakes! Aren't pancakes awesome?
In Forge Birthday Forum
Participants: Miskatonic, joshua neff, xenopulse, C. Edwards, Lxndr, lumpley, Ben Lehman, Andy Kitkowski, Ron Edwards, Michael S. Miller, Christopher Weeks, rafial, Rob MacDougall, Danny_K.

4/7/2005 Gaerik: Tony's Wish Fullfillment
I'd like to co-write a game with an experienced designer. You pick the game. You provide artistic direction. You boss me around unmercifully (I'm ex-military. I like that.). I get…
In Connections
Participants: Gaerik, TonyLB, inthisstyle.

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