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5/14/2005 shaheddy: [Sorcerer] By the Sword - First session
I just started GMing Sorcerer and have done one session of play so far. The in-game situation: we're set in mid-19th century Japan, during the Meiji revolution. The premise is,…
In Adept Press
Participants: shaheddy, Ron Edwards, droog.

5/14/2005 Solly Brown: Independent Publisher Forums
Hi Cold Blooded Games would like to have a forum dedicated to Dog Town. How do you go about creating a forum on the indie publishers page. Jonathan Ridd www.coldbloodedgames.com…
In Publishing
Participants: Solly Brown, timfire.

5/14/2005 Ian Charvill: Marginalia on InSpectres
I didn't get to play yet as much as I'd like. I was looking to change job about the time I started running it and my first application turned into…
In Actual Play
Participants: Ian Charvill, Jared A. Sorensen, Michael S. Miller.

5/14/2005 Jeph: [Exemplar Revised] Plot protection and death
A year or two ago I wrote this, a dystopian kung-fu action game set in the far future. I'm doing a revision at the moment, with a stronger Sim bent…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Jeph, Jasper, FzGhouL, Doug Ruff, Dev, Andy Kitkowski.

5/14/2005 demiurgeastaroth: [TSOY] Starting Gear
Am I reading the text correctly that the only way to start with equipment that gives a bonus, is to buy the secret of imbuement? I was planning to give…
In CRN Games
Participants: demiurgeastaroth, James_Nostack.

5/14/2005 JMendes: [Sorcerer] Again with the penalty currency thing...
Hey, folks, :) This thread from back on August 24th has been brought to my attention... two characters declare they're attacking each other. Both roll, leaving dice…
In Adept Press
Participants: JMendes, Valamir, Trevis Martin, Christopher Weeks, Ron Edwards.

5/14/2005 lpsmith: 1000 Blank White Cards: The RPG
A while back I read http://www.indie-rpgs.com/viewtopic.php?t=14371 and some of the comments near the end made me think of the game 1000 Blank White Cards (aka 1KBWC). "Why not," I…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: lpsmith, Mike Holmes, Gaerik.

5/14/2005 droog: In Utero - first Sorcerer session
I ran Sorcerer on a rather impromptu basis last night at the game club. My players for HQ all had something else to do, so I took along a little…
In Actual Play
Participants: droog, Ron Edwards.

5/13/2005 Alan: Where to post feedback on posting style
In the following thread, I noticed one poster critiquing not the thread-starter's content, but his presentation. The Creation and Birth of a Character I know we want…
In Site Discussion
Participants: Alan, Ron Edwards.

5/13/2005 Jasper: Charlatan Fencing Masters Dueling for Business
[quote][i]Young knight learn, to love God and revere women, so that your honor grows. Practice knighthood and learn the Art that dignifies you, bringing honor in wars. ...So should you…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Jasper, Ron Edwards, daMoose_Neo, xenopulse, Sydney Freedberg, Latigo, Hereward The Wake, TonyLB, Bill Masek.

5/13/2005 Thierry Michel: Random numbers (split)
Apologies for resurrecting an old thread, but I found recently exactly the type of thing I was thinking of here: Chance and wargames So if you had any interest…
In RPG Theory
Participants: Thierry Michel, Ron Edwards, Mike Holmes, Bowen Simmons.

5/13/2005 Selene Tan: Meta-information/systems and Narrativism in CRPGs
This is something I've been thinking about, but haven't managed to collect my thoughts enough to write an organized essay on. So yay, semi-coherent post. One of the things I've…
In RPG Theory
Participants: Selene Tan, pete_darby, Valamir, Noon.

5/13/2005 Silmenume: The Creation and Birth of a Character
For the last couple of months the GM in the game I play in and I have been, for lack of a better term, flirting with me getting some sort…
In Actual Play
Participants: Silmenume, Mike Holmes, Sean, jdagna, Ron Edwards, James Holloway, droog.

5/12/2005 M. J. Young: Perpetuating Sing-Sex Play Groups
[quote="In [a href="http://www.indie-rpgs.com/viewtopic.php?t=15305"]Do RPGS allow for diverse participation/discourse?[/a] Julie"]One of these days I'd like to see someone address the issue of why gamers perpetuate the existance of single sex play…
In RPG Theory
Participants: M. J. Young, Mike Holmes, xenopulse, Noon, jrs, James Holloway, Bret Gillan, Gordon C. Landis, Paka, komradebob, BrennaLaRosa, Emily Care, GameLoft, Andrew Morris, Ron Edwards, contracycle, Walt Freitag.

5/12/2005 Mikko Lehtinen: [Amber] Two Sessions: Narrativism and Hardcore Gamism
We've played two more sessions of Amber. The first one had a clear Narrativist focus, and was very enjoyable for all of us. In the second session some of us…
In Actual Play
Participants: Mikko Lehtinen, TonyLB, xenopulse, Andrew Norris, immlass, contracycle.

5/12/2005 Paka: Use This Book
Burning Wheel Classic, Book1 of 2, page 230 there is an essay entitled Don't Use This Book. No such essay in the revision. I could ask Luke why that is…
In Burning Wheel
Participants: Paka, Zachary The First.

5/12/2005 afray: Japanese-style computer-rpg mechanics? [ot?]
First off, I realise this may be out of your area of expertise, but thought I'd ask anyway. :-) I'm a video games developer who's trying to develop a new…
In RPG Theory
Participants: afray, Bankuei, Mike Holmes, Miskatonic, contracycle, Selene Tan, Noon.

5/12/2005 Andy Kitkowski: [GenCon] I will not settle for Evening Gaming Only :-)
So, it looks like I'll be coming to the Con this year again, for at least three, if not all four days. Gaming in the evenings is fun and excellent,…
In Conventions
Participants: Andy Kitkowski, Ron Edwards, TonyLB, Ben Lehman, Paka, Bob Goat, daMoose_Neo, Emily Care, Mike Holmes, Allan, Nev the Deranged.

5/12/2005 johnzo: Renouncing the agenda-driven NPC
From this thread: I've encountered this very situation with many instances of Sorcerer and HeroQuest, in which playing an agenda-driven NPC has resulted in very clear cues from…
In RPG Theory
Participants: johnzo, TonyLB, Domhnall, Noon, Troy_Costisick, Danny_K, MatrixGamer.

5/12/2005 List: Larps?
I noticed that there is very little discussion of larps and larp theory... Is this because larps are not generally Forge domain? If not, could somebody point me to some…
In RPG Theory
Participants: List, Andrew Morris, komradebob.

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5/14/2005 James_Nostack: Bangs: Am I Doing This Right?
I am struggling to write engaging bangs. I tried my best for this morning's session, with results shown below. ==== Game System - Alternity, modified a bit for Stakes Resolution,…
In Actual Play
Participants: James_Nostack, Eero Tuovinen.

5/15/2005 Zachary The First: Magic Burner
Sorry if this is an idiotic question, but I've been out of the Burning Wheel loop online for a while, and I remembered there was to be a Magic Burner…
In Burning Wheel
Participants: Zachary The First, Thor Olavsrud.

5/15/2005 Polaris: Consolidators/Fulfillment List??
Greetings, I would like to ask that we start a list of consolidators/distributors here. I am asking this for selfish reasons (I am trying to find good ones), but I…
In Publishing
Participants: Polaris, Eero Tuovinen, Ron Edwards, Mike Holmes.

5/15/2005 JMendes: [Sorcerer] First try, take two
Hiya, :) So, my "indie RPG group" finally got finished with PtA. (Heritage, about five weeks ago, and yes, eventually, I'll write that up on here...) We decided we'd try…
In Actual Play
Participants: JMendes, Eero Tuovinen, Bankuei, Ron Edwards, Andrew Norris, Christopher Kubasik, sirogit, jburneko.

5/15/2005 mister.ribbit: Etiquette in this forum
I read through the Forge etiquette post, but I have a question more specific to this forum. A fairly large number of posts are simply descriptions of DitV branches, and…
In lumpley games
Participants: mister.ribbit, Technocrat13, lumpley, hix, Brendan, Mike Holmes.

5/15/2005 Christopher Kubasik: Sorcerer Doesn't Scare Me. What's Wrong with Me?
This one is specifically for Ron. Others can join in soon. Ron, I was poking around Jesse's Live Journal and found this quote he pulled from you about Sorcerer: "Let's…
In Adept Press
Participants: Christopher Kubasik, Ron Edwards, joshua neff, C. Edwards, ejh, KingstonC, Ben Lehman.

5/15/2005 demiurgeastaroth: Starting Skills
When we designed characters yesterday, something struck us as odd: Players can then choose all abilities that fall into A-rated categories, 5 abilities that fall into B-rated categories, and 3…
In CRN Games
Participants: demiurgeastaroth, KingstonC.

5/15/2005 Vaxalon: Need icons designed
I need four icons designed. I have a feeling the job will be something of a challenge. They should be scaled to work at about a 1/2" x 1/2" scale,…
In Connections
Participants: Vaxalon, Wolfen.

5/15/2005 TonyLB: [InSpectres] Am I doing this right?
We ran three missions of InSpectres last night, and had a lot of fun with it. We investigated the haunting of television station WHGL by the ghost of Annabelle the…
In Actual Play
Participants: TonyLB, Jared A. Sorensen.

5/15/2005 Dev: Rotating Dogs - does it work?
I'm lucky enough to have a few really good players that I'm itching to introduce to Dogs. Sweet! I also have quite a few friends who would be great for…
In lumpley games
Participants: Dev, Technocrat13, lumpley, ptikachu, nikola, urbanpagan, Simon Kamber.

5/15/2005 Valamir: First Fully Burned character, some questions
Ok so I sat down and Burned up my first BW character from scratch and wanted to run it it by some folks for tips and comments. I didn't do…
In Burning Wheel
Participants: Valamir, Thor Olavsrud, Angaros, abzu, Mike Holmes, Yokiboy.

5/16/2005 TonyLB: [Misery Bubblegum] How do you win at high school?
Previous discussion of Misery Bubblegum (nee Dulcimer Hall) can be found here. I've got this lovely, elegant little positioning mechanism, which will let people shift their resources around in all…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: TonyLB, Kesher, Sydney Freedberg, Valamir, Bill_White, Doug Ruff, Andrew Morris, Allan, Noon, Shim.

5/16/2005 ravenx99: [DitV] Finally got started on our game...
We finally got started, but we only got through character creation. (I finished the details of my town at the last minute, so I didn't post it for review. I'll…
In lumpley games
Participants: ravenx99, Simon Kamber, lumpley.

5/16/2005 Paka: Burning Wheel: The King in Gray
We got together to play BW and one of the players just wasn't grokkin' it. The chunkiness of the system, the density of the rule-book, the two different books, everything…
In Actual Play
Participants: Paka, bcook1971, Thor Olavsrud.

5/16/2005 zephyr_cirrus: Time - Battle Mechanic
Well, here's a time mechanic I came up with for use in the RPG that I'm currently working on. Just tell me what you think of it and what could…
In RPG Theory
Participants: zephyr_cirrus, Jasper, Lee Short, Albert of Feh.

5/16/2005 Gaerik: [D&D 3.5] Kids in the game.
I ran my D&D 3.5 Forgotten Realms campaign this weekend. This is the second session since we brought in two very young players, Caitlin (9 year old girl) and Sean…
In Actual Play
Participants: Gaerik, ffilz, droog, Valamir, contracycle, Noon, Stickman, Zachary The First, matthijs, komradebob, Mike Holmes, Ron Edwards.

5/16/2005 Matt Wilson: looking for art
Hey: A project I'm working on needs two pieces, both about 4 x 3 inches, or in that neighborhood, in b/w. Anyone who has room enough to get them to…
In Connections
Participants: Matt Wilson, neoknocker.

5/16/2005 Tony Irwin: Pixellation and dpi
The new pictures I've done for Shoujo Story are printing out ever so slightly pixellated. I scanned and saved the images at 300 dpi, which I understand is kind of…
In Publishing
Participants: Tony Irwin, abzu, Ron Edwards, Matt Snyder, Bob Goat, jdagna, Veritas Games, Angaros, MatrixGamer, Chris Passeno.

5/16/2005 Chris Goodwin: Cool fight scenes
I'm very curious to see how people have played out fights using PTA. Mainly I'm interested in the narration leading up to a conflict roll, the aftermath, and how the…
In Dog Eared Designs
Participants: Chris Goodwin, Mike Holmes, Frank T.

5/16/2005 foucalt: Gaming at the Senior Citizens Center?
Recently there was some attention paid to the fact that staying "mentally active" helps ward off Alzheimer's disease. I remember wondering whether roleplaying games might be a good way…
In RPG Theory
Participants: foucalt, Adam Dray, Mike Holmes, Andrew Morris, TonyLB, komradebob.

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