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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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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.

4/7/2005 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.

4/7/2005 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 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 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 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 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 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 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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4/8/2005 Solly Brown: Amazon worth getting an ISBN for
I'm toying with the idea of getting an Isbn from Lulu so that I can sell Dog Town: Core Rules on Amazon. They offer the basic at $34.95 and a…
In Publishing
Participants: Solly Brown, Paul Czege, jdagna, MisterPoppet, Bob Goat, Roger, Bardsandsages, Eero Tuovinen, viktor_haag, daMoose_Neo, Brendan.

4/8/2005 xenopulse: Markers, Currency, Character Ownership [long]
I am designing a system for a court intrigue game. However, it could probably be used for pretty much anything. I'd like to get some feedback on the basic idea…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: xenopulse, Bill Masek, SPDuke.

4/8/2005 Jason Mical: [Crescent City - Tarot RPG] First Draft - Comments Please
One of the things that has always left me a little dissatisfied with RPGs is that the random element of rolling dice, flipping coins, using random number tables (thank you,…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Jason Mical, jasonm, Bill Masek, Paul Czege.

4/8/2005 vismaior1411: D&D play (split - point about spam)
Clinton R. Nixon I agree with you.
In Actual Play
Participants: vismaior1411, James Holloway, Bankuei, Matt Wilson, Ron Edwards.

4/8/2005 TonyLB: [Capes] Let's get conflicted!
I got the great pleasure of running Capes at TerpCon (thanks Josh!) out at U-MD last weekend. It was a hoot. Publishers: Do not let yourself get trapped…
In Actual Play
Participants: TonyLB, Noon, Piers Brown, Sydney Freedberg.

4/8/2005 Andy Kitkowski: Wow, now THAT takes me back...
Just found this on Tony's RPG archive: Age of Heroes v4.0 by Brian Gleichman, Bryan Harsh, Terri Gleichman Old URL "http://home.earthlink.net/~bgleichman/" Keywords: genre fantasy long A detailed fantasy-genre system. It…
In Forge Birthday Forum
Participants: Andy Kitkowski, Jason L Blair, inthisstyle, Gordon C. Landis, C. Edwards, Asrogoth, John Kim, GB Steve.

4/8/2005 Ron Edwards: Dealing with recent spam
Hiya, Check out this profile: vismaior1411. This guy has been pretty cunning. He posts comments like "Valamir I totally agree with you" with a big sig to his obnoxious website.…
In Site Discussion
Participants: Ron Edwards.

4/8/2005 Adam Dray: [MLwM] The Evil Artifact of Dr. Forrester
I ran a game of My Life with Master last Saturday. It went well and we had a lot of fun. This was the first time anyone of us had…
In Actual Play
Participants: Adam Dray, Danny_K, GB Steve, Paul Czege.

4/8/2005 Andy Kitkowski: Where is that general online design chat on irc?
I can't find it- I could have sworn it was at Magicstar... but I can only find the Indie Netgaming stuff there. Wasn't there another online server/irc channel that people…
In Forge Birthday Forum
Participants: Andy Kitkowski, LordSmerf, Doug Ruff, Jeffrey Straszheim.

4/8/2005 Doug Ruff: Good night, and thanks...
It's already 9th April here, and when I wake up in the morning this forum will be closed for another year. It's been a real privilege to be able to…
In Forge Birthday Forum
Participants: Doug Ruff, joshua neff, Shreyas Sampat, nikola, TonyLB, Chris Goodwin.

4/9/2005 Dave Panchyk: If Ralph can do it, so can I!
Kick-ass art by Eric Lofgren for the cover of my Souls of Ice & Steel player's book: http://www.mandrakegames.com/ice/i&s.jpg
In Forge Birthday Forum
Participants: Dave Panchyk.

4/9/2005 Silmenume: Humble thank you
This is a humble thank you for all those who helped me in myriads of ways beyond the understanding role-play. I have learned think more analytically. I have learned to…
In Forge Birthday Forum
Participants: Silmenume.

4/9/2005 TonyLB: How To: Interpret Charitably
[i]... or 'How I learned to stop worrying and love the bomb.'[/i] Capes gives all players tremendous freedom to contribute to the Shared Imaginary Space. Players don't have to justify…
In Muse of Fire Games
Participants: TonyLB, John Harper.

4/9/2005 daMoose_Neo: [Imp Game] Hellfire, chaos, & cows
You'd think this was a game of Diablo 2 going on! Again, "Twilight" turned to "Imps!", which rocked. Crew: Myself, Jon, and Ian, a Twilight player new to Imps Character…
In Actual Play
Participants: daMoose_Neo.

4/9/2005 ExternalStudiosLLC: [Dreamscape] mechanics in action
The Dreamscape development saga... err, cycle, continues! For those of you who are keeping track, Dreamscape is a card game introduced some time ago in this post. It's a cooperative…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: ExternalStudiosLLC, Victor Gijsbers.

4/9/2005 ( o Y o ): My Life with RPG's! (long post)
Hi everyone, this is my first post ever in any forum! This is going to be long. So be patient with me. Thank you. I am 29 years old and…
In Actual Play
Participants: ( o Y o ), Ron Edwards, Miskatonic, John Kim, JasperN., Brand_Robins, Paganini, Sean, NN, David Bapst, Frank T, Rob Carriere, drozdal, Bryan_T, olleolleolle.

4/9/2005 Shreyas Sampat: Human Behaviour is Patterned
So, I have been thinking about psychology. Human behaviour is something that has observable patterns. There are innumerable games which concern themselves solely with the emulation of observable patterns, and…
In RPG Theory
Participants: Shreyas Sampat, Bankuei, Paul Czege, Ron Edwards, efindel, JMendes, Eva Deinum, Sean, TonyLB, contracycle, Domhnall, beingfrank, James Holloway, Harlequin, John Kim, Bill Masek.

4/9/2005 GregStolze: The Ransom Model Worked.
Five months earlier than deadline, Meatbot Massacre (http://www.danielsolis.com/meatbot/) has been paid for in full and is now free to all. Tell the people! -G. Who can't make his PayPal account…
In Publishing
Participants: GregStolze, gobi, Matt, Valamir, Vaxalon, daMoose_Neo, Troy_Costisick.

4/9/2005 gobi: The ransom is paid. Meatbot Massacre is released.
Yup. Many months ahead of schedule, the full ransom for Meatbot Massacre has been paid and it's now available for download. Previous threads about Meatbot Massacre and the Ransom Model…
In Publishing
Participants: gobi.

4/9/2005 Ron Edwards: Eastern bloc role-playing
Hi everyone, Due to the very exciting My life with RPG's thread, I am starting up a general discussion of role-playing as it arose and persisted in eastern bloc countries,…
In RPG Theory
Participants: Ron Edwards, James Holloway, ( o Y o ), mindwanders.

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