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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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 GreatWolf: Sin City--I don't get it. Please help!
With the movie coming out, I thought that I'd check out the graphic novels by Frank Miller. I only read the first one (The Long Goodbye, I believe) with Marv.…
In Forge Birthday Forum
Participants: GreatWolf, Bankuei, Sean, Ron Edwards, Jason L Blair, John Harper, Marhault, rafial, Blake Hutchins, Nev the Deranged.

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4/7/2005 Lxndr: Ad?
So, I'd like to do some sort of advertisement swap with other publishers in future printings of Fastlane, etc. However, I don't actually have any ad of my own that…
In Connections
Participants: Lxndr, greyorm, Eero Tuovinen, xiombarg, Christopher Weeks.

4/7/2005 Ben Lehman: Centralized Sales Data
So a few publishers (Half-Meme, Dog-Eared Designs, and Ramshead, at least) have either publically released their sales data or have announced their intention to do so. I was wondering --…
In Connections
Participants: Ben Lehman, b_bankhead, jdagna, Bob Goat, Valamir, Ron Edwards, lumpley, Matt Wilson, abzu, matthijs, Clinton R. Nixon, nikola.

4/7/2005 Paul Czege: New Games Journalism
So, there's a bunch of computer games guys writing what they call "New Games Journalism." Here's an example. It's a reference to the "New Journalism" of Hunter S. Thompson…
In Forge Birthday Forum
Participants: Paul Czege, Bankuei, Andy Kitkowski, Dave Panchyk, Sean, Rob MacDougall.

4/7/2005 C. Edwards: The Sights/Sounds/Words of Your Life
What would the film, soundtrack, and book about your life be called? Tell us a little about them. Wishful thinking and artistic license is allowed. Film: Dark Mnemonic Cybernoir a…
In Forge Birthday Forum
Participants: C. Edwards.

4/7/2005 jasonm: [DitV] Liberty Branch
This one's a little unusual in that it is really a family quarrel that will impact an entire town that is essentially off-stage. Like Wahanish it is low-powered but festering,…
In lumpley games
Participants: jasonm, lumpley, nikola.

4/7/2005 Dev: [cracked idea] SharePlay Magazine Manifesto
I had a silly idea, but I want to share it before we go back to NormalForge and I'm forced to back up my arguements with facts. Quickly! ==== SharePlay…
In Forge Birthday Forum
Participants: Dev, Brendan.

4/7/2005 timfire: This is getting out of hand...
OK, maybe its just me, but everyone and their mother is abreivating their game titles now. I know I do it, but it annoys me sometimes 'cause I can't keep…
In Forge Birthday Forum
Participants: timfire, TonyLB, Jason L Blair, greyorm, Domhnall, Paganini, Andrew Morris, Emily Care, joshua neff, Ben Lehman, inthisstyle, Meguey.

4/8/2005 Ben Lehman: [Polaris] Live Playtest
Right now, four people are playtesting polaris and I am live blogging. Players are Dav, Ted, Henri and Heather. Dev: And so it was that the knight Corvus (Henri) was…
In Actual Play
Participants: Ben Lehman, Paka, Valamir, Sydney Freedberg, Harlequin.

4/8/2005 Danny_K: Greg Stolze article on RPG.net
Greg Stolze, who I hold in great esteem as a fine writer and mechanics monkey, had a recent thread on RPG.net posting the results of a poll he did about…
In Forge Birthday Forum
Participants: Danny_K, Rob MacDougall, Andrew Norris, Brand_Robins, Emily Care, Valamir.

4/8/2005 Jonathan Walton: What Should I Do With These?
So, I have these amazing pictures that I did for a game concept called We Regret to Inform You the Gamemaster is Dead, which was going to be a kind…
In Forge Birthday Forum
Participants: Jonathan Walton, Paka, daMoose_Neo.

4/8/2005 Valamir: Sneak Peak at new Robots & Rapiers art
Its a map...its an illustration...its REALLY cool Check it out (scroll down)
In Forge Birthday Forum
Participants: Valamir, Paka, abzu, James Holloway, Emily Care, Gaerik, Rob MacDougall, GreatWolf, quozl, TonyLB.

4/8/2005 Gordon C. Landis: A quote for discussion
OK, it's kinda serious stuff, and can be seen as Nar/RPG related, so maybe it doesn't have to be in the Birthday forum. But I'm interested in some free-wheeling reponses,…
In Forge Birthday Forum
Participants: Gordon C. Landis, xenopulse, pete_darby, Brendan, Wolfen.

4/8/2005 sirogit: The timing of overboost damage.
Its funny that this has never come up before. Is the intended timing of the effects of Boost this: 1. Boost raises the Sorcer's Score. 2. The Demon's power goes…
In Adept Press
Participants: sirogit, Ron Edwards.

4/8/2005 sirogit: Definition of "Porn"
I noticed Ron Edwards mentioning this in the Sin City thread, and I was wondering if most people's definitions synced up to mine, which is, anything in a story-medium which…
In Forge Birthday Forum
Participants: sirogit, Vaxalon, James Holloway, Christopher Weeks, pete_darby, Ben Lehman, Miskatonic, Ron Edwards, Brendan, Meguey, Adam Dray.

4/8/2005 pfischer: Greg Costikyan played Dark Places in Denmark
Costikyan was invited as guest of honor to the Danish con where my Dark Places Sorcerer scenario was played (10 groups in all). His feedback from the event is here:…
In Adept Press
Participants: pfischer, Ron Edwards.

4/8/2005 Sean: OGL question
I'm wondering about something. If someone wanted to publish a fantasy game that had spell lists with a vague resemblance to D&D's, but without any of the names ('Leomund's', etc.,…
In Publishing
Participants: Sean, jdagna, daemonchild, MisterPoppet, lev_lafayette, viktor_haag, daMoose_Neo, Veritas Games, Ron Edwards, efindel, jerry, LloydBrown.

4/8/2005 Ben Lehman: Best Threads of the Year
Hey, guys. Not a lot of time left in the Birthday forum. I want some nominations for Best Thread of the Year. Here are mine, and why: Writing for…
In Forge Birthday Forum
Participants: Ben Lehman, Kit, Emily Care, C. Edwards, John Kim, timfire.

4/8/2005 TonyLB: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Time is running out for a bargain!
All of the first printing Capes books are gone. It's proven wildly popular. Thanks to all those who have made it so! I've had plenty of people commenting in their…
In Muse of Fire Games
Participants: TonyLB, Jaik.

4/8/2005 nikola: Narrativist wargaming
Here's something I've been wrestling with for a long time: In Henry V, Braveheart, Lord of the Rings, and many, many others, the protagonists are involved in substantial battles. Part…
In Forge Birthday Forum
Participants: nikola, TonyLB, Paul Czege, Bankuei, Gaerik, Michael S. Miller, Thierry Michel, James Holloway, Sydney Freedberg, Wolfen, Paka.

4/8/2005 Bob the Fighter: Damage Control: When Crime-Fighting Gets Messy (long)
Hello! I'm working on an RPG called Damage Control. The theme of the game is exploring personal responsibility and the repercussions of one's actions. The mechanics support this by creating…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Bob the Fighter, TonyLB, MatrixGamer, daMoose_Neo.

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