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6/8/2005 Allan: [Sweet Dreams] Example of Play
After a lot of related comments this past week, I've decided to rewrite the Example of Play for the Sweet Dreams Players' Book. My previous example was intended primarily to…
In Publishing
Participants: Allan, TonyLB, Valamir.

6/8/2005 Ethawyn: Fonts
What are the legalaties involved in font use? What fonts are open?
In Publishing
Participants: Ethawyn, Addix, madelf, daMoose_Neo, Gordon C. Landis, paulkdad, Resonantg, Victor Gijsbers, Malcolm, Peregrine, davidJ.

6/7/2005 Vaxalon: A word for "what do the PC's do?"
http://www.livejournal.com/users/mearls/97347.html#cutid1 "Core Story" What's the core story of YOUR game?
In RPG Theory
Participants: Vaxalon, pete_darby, Victor Gijsbers, Gaerik, Ron Edwards, TonyLB, contracycle, Brendan, mearls, xenopulse, Mike Holmes, paulkdad, Ben Lehman, PlotDevice, Lee Short, Paganini, Noon, Melinglor, Lord Shield, Valamir, hix.

6/7/2005 jburneko: An Experiment: Turning Capes into a More Traditional RPG
I was thinking about the entire debate about whether Capes is *really* an RPG or not. I, of course, think it IS an RPG. All the elements of a so-called…
In Muse of Fire Games
Participants: jburneko, TonyLB.

6/7/2005 John Kim: Types of Narrative Power
So I'd like to talk about narrative power. I'll break it down into different types and then discuss the impact of each. 1) Control of Characters 2) Influence over Resolution…
In RPG Theory
Participants: John Kim, TonyLB.

6/7/2005 Ron Edwards: Zero at the Bone post?
Just yesterday, I read a post presenting some observations about Zero at the Bone. I planned to reply today, but surprisingly, it has disappeared. That is very weird because I…
In Adept Press
Participants: Ron Edwards.

6/7/2005 Bill_White: [Ganakagok] The Sun Also Rises
[url=http://www.personal.psu.edu/staff/w/j/wjw11/Ganakagok.pdf]Ganakagok[/url] is a game where characters play Inuit-like tribesmen who live on an island-sized iceberg and revere the Stars in a fantasy world where the Sun is rising after a…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Bill_White, Andrew Morris.

6/7/2005 Bob the Fighter: diceless, narrativist D+D
i started up a game of D+D 3.0 a couple nights ago, and for a change i've got 3 players instead of 2. the lineup is as follows: allison, playing…
In Actual Play
Participants: Bob the Fighter, Sean, Brendan, Alan, Ron Edwards, Andrew Norris.

6/7/2005 droog: Unicon - Melbourne
Hi folks I have never attended a convention before, but I would like to attend Unicon in October for the express purpose of promoting some of the games I have…
In Conventions
Participants: droog.

6/7/2005 FarFromUnique: [Sweet Dreams] Gaming Expiriment
Starting at the next meeting of the group I run a game at, i plan to "wipe the slate clean" as it were, and have everyone make characters as a…
In Actual Play
Participants: FarFromUnique, Allan, Alan, Valamir, Ben Morgan, Andrew Norris, contracycle.

6/7/2005 Ethawyn: Just starting
Hiya. First of all thanks for these boards. Ok. Down to business. My friends and I are starting up an RPG company. Right now all we have are a bunch…
In Publishing
Participants: Ethawyn, timfire, MatrixGamer, Valamir.

6/7/2005 mjstahl: Book Structure - the ordering of chapters
I spent the last weekend looking through countless books (personally owned, and store owned) because I am having trouble deciding on the chapter structure for my current project. It seems…
In Publishing
Participants: mjstahl, Allan, Grand_Commander13, Simon Marks, timfire, Ron Edwards, MatrixGamer.

6/7/2005 Noon: Beyond crediblity
I'm going to cut straight to the chase: If you declare to a player you are pushing a vase off a balcony in game and that player then continues playing…
In RPG Theory
Participants: Noon, Alan, TonyLB, Valamir, Ron Edwards, Sean, Marco, Harlequin, Silmenume, M. J. Young, Mike Holmes, C. Edwards, Walt Freitag, Gordon C. Landis.

6/7/2005 wingnix: Path to a 250-page Complete CCL RPG pdf by August 2006?
At the start of this year I accomplished a seven-year goal and published my first novel. “AmerIndian 2192” is a Native American science fiction novel that I have made available…
In Publishing
Participants: wingnix.

6/6/2005 preludetotheend: I have the updated version of the rules posted here
Character Creation: Species: The first thing you do when creating a character you must know what species he will be part of. At this point if your game master has…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: preludetotheend, Jasper.

6/6/2005 Negilent: [Burning Wheel] Duels and Destiny or Bang it works
A little while ago I had an . . . interesting . . . yeah that’s it . . . an interesting game of Burning Wheel. I've been meaning to…
In Actual Play
Participants: Negilent, abzu, Yokiboy.

6/6/2005 Gaerik: My First Game.... with no name.
Okay, I'm going to post my current Game Text in segments. As the Subject says, this is my first attempt at game design so be gentle with the virgin, please.…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Gaerik, TonyLB, ChrisJaxn.

6/6/2005 demiurgeastaroth: [DitV] What The Demons Want...
One thing I'm about shaky about. Hopefully there's a simple answer. Several Towns on the net have something like: "The Demons want the Dogs to acknowledge and confirm..." But if…
In lumpley games
Participants: demiurgeastaroth, Wolfen, Technocrat13, lumpley, sirogit, Ron Edwards, Blankshield, Mike Holmes, Eero Tuovinen, Simon Kamber, TonyLB, Brand_Robins.

6/5/2005 darrick: decent review
new review of Empire of Satanis in this Dunwich Herald issue. some of my friends at the Forge like Paul Czege and Scott Knipe found EoS to be very Lovecraftian,…
In Publishing
Participants: darrick, hardcoremoose, Jasper, daMoose_Neo, MisterPoppet, xenopulse, Ron Edwards.

6/6/2005 KingOfFarPoint: Using The Pool to play HeroQuest.
[i](Warning: this is a cross post from the HeroQuest forum. Its about The Pool and Heroquest and as such is potentially of interest to both sets of readers).[/i] I have…
In Random Order Creations
Participants: KingOfFarPoint.

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6/8/2005 FarFromUnique: [Sweet Dreams] Other Convention Demo
In a slot prior to Allan's at the VGG convention, I ran his game, Sweet dreams. For the first time, he was in a game I ran, instead of the…
In Actual Play
Participants: FarFromUnique.

6/8/2005 Gaerik: Help with D&D Campaign
Let me set up the current situation in my Forgotten Realms Campaign. The group is currently based in the Silver Marches area and near Silverymoon specifically. To those not up…
In Actual Play
Participants: Gaerik, Ron Edwards, Eero Tuovinen, contracycle, Mike Holmes, NN, komradebob, Sean, Andrew Norris, Noon.

6/8/2005 Valamir: Setting as Rules
In This Thread Its this sort of point of view that makes me think that certain setting elements are tantamount to system. If introducing elements into setting implies or compels,…
In RPG Theory
Participants: Valamir, xenopulse, Ben Lehman, Ron Edwards, FzGhouL, Noon, Dauntless, SlurpeeMoney, M. J. Young, Mike Holmes, pete_darby, Marhault.

6/8/2005 Ron Edwards: [Primetime Adventures] The Heel, episode 2
Hiya, So session #2 of The Heel aired last Saturday! This is the first time I'm playing Primetime Adventures through multiple sessions, so it's a big challenge and a chance…
In Actual Play
Participants: Ron Edwards, Ben Lehman, Matt Snyder, Matt Wilson, Mike Holmes, Eero Tuovinen, Maura Byrne.

6/8/2005 ejh: Fiduciary responsibility (split)
Holy cow. I never realized that 'james_west' wasn't 'James V. West.' Big brainshift reading that. I have a small and tangentially related response at my gaming blog, which references a…
In RPG Theory
Participants: ejh, Ron Edwards, pete_darby, contracycle, Mike Holmes, John Kim, groundhog, Marco, Ben Lehman, Walt Freitag, cruciel.

6/8/2005 mjstahl: Experience Point Simulations
After reading the 'Indie Game Design' notes concerning posting policy, I decided to err on the side of caution, since there is no specific game to which this applies. As…
In RPG Theory
Participants: mjstahl, Andrew Morris, FzGhouL, komradebob, Ron Edwards, Warren, Troy_Costisick, M. J. Young, Mike Holmes.

6/8/2005 Andrew Morris: Perceived value of PDF vs. print
Recently, I was excited to hear that Trollbabe might be offered in a print version, because I've wanted to buy it for a while, but the fact that it was…
In Publishing
Participants: Andrew Morris, ethan_greer, Asrogoth, Mike Holmes, PlotDevice, Eero Tuovinen, Trevis Martin, Bob Goat, Matt Gwinn, MatrixGamer, Ron Edwards, Ria, gatekeeper, Valamir, TheLe, Travis Brown.

6/9/2005 Danny_K: How big a Cast can you have?
A quick question here. I'm re-booting the PTA game on RPG.net, this time using superheroes and making it much lighter and more anime-like. Thing is, there are a whole bunch…
In Dog Eared Designs
Participants: Danny_K, TonyLB, Ron Edwards, Trevis Martin, BlackSheep, Frank T.

6/9/2005 CCW: producer and one protagonist?
Has anyone tried playing PTA with only two people? Are there any special techniques for making this work? I ask because I may have the opportunity to play with only…
In Dog Eared Designs
Participants: CCW, Mike Holmes, Victor Gijsbers, Danny_K, Kenway.

6/9/2005 Paka: [Paladin] Jedi Summer
The monthly gaming group I meet with is six gamers, three men and three women and 3 games in and we've all really begun to bond. People bring food to…
In CRN Games
Participants: Paka, James_Nostack.

6/9/2005 PlotDevice: Falling into a different layer of reality
Hi all. Lurker mostly, occasional speaker of half off-topic things, posting about something I am working on and hoping for some advice on. I won't go into specifics on the…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: PlotDevice, Troy_Costisick, Allan.

6/9/2005 Paka: Introducing Parents to the Hobby
My parents have always been very supportive of my gaming. They think its great that I use my imagination with my friends and always have. When a co-worker of my…
In Actual Play
Participants: Paka, Jasper, abzu, Ben Lehman, nikola, Nathan P., Mike Holmes, Eero Tuovinen, GB Steve, hix, StalkingBlue, Frank T, ScottM, cdr, Tobias.

6/9/2005 Mirrenx: Have you all seen this?
Independent game - Cursed Empire,,,, new web site www.cursedempire.co.uk It has it all............... x
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Mirrenx.

6/9/2005 Shawn De Arment: June DC area Get-Together
It is now June, and I guess it is my turn to host the DC area Forge meet-up. I would like to invite you all to my place in Chantilly…
In Connections
Participants: Shawn De Arment, TonyLB, Sydney Freedberg.

6/9/2005 Andrew Morris: More info on PayPal scams
Back in this thread, the topic of scam emails appearing to come from PayPal was discussed. Here's PayPal's ten tips for spotting spoof emails, for any who are interested.
In Site Discussion
Participants: Andrew Morris.

6/9/2005 Paka: Eero's Ronin Difficulties
[quote="Eero Tuovinen"] By the by: I'm not too impressed with RONIN. Suggest considering sticking with the basic Dust Devils system. The ability definitions are awkward in RONIN, which makes it…
In Chimera Creative
Participants: Paka, Eero Tuovinen.

6/10/2005 Andrew Morris: Website down?
Do I have the wrong URL, or is http://www.septemberquestion.org/lumpley/lumpley.html down?
In lumpley games
Participants: Andrew Morris, mister.ribbit, Tobias, Jasper Polane, lumpley.

6/10/2005 Silmenume: Strange URL and header appearing when at The Forge
At the top of the web pages while I am at The Forge this "header" for lack of a better term appears on every page - On the first line…
In Site Discussion
Participants: Silmenume, Clinton R. Nixon, xiombarg.

6/10/2005 Ethawyn: Resource Library Problems
When I go to the Resource Library secion the folowing warnings appear at the top: Warning: mysql_numrows(): supplied argument is not a valid MySQL result resource in /home/.qadim/indierpg/indie-rpgs.com.new/resources/lib/lib_main.php on line…
In Site Discussion
Participants: Ethawyn, greyorm, Asrogoth, Clinton R. Nixon, Vaxalon, Jason Petrasko.

6/10/2005 JamesDJIII: Wow! Thanks!
I received my lovely Burning Wheel books last week. I was travelling over the weekend so I was able to read them both cover to cover. They are really the…
In Burning Wheel
Participants: JamesDJIII, abzu.

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