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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 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: [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 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 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.

6/8/2005 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.

6/8/2005 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 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 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 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 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 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 Christopher Weeks: Game at rpol
Hey, I just stumbled across a Uni game at rpol. Is anyone reading this involved? I particularly find it interesting to watch them stumble in the "Tenets - Proposals" thread.…
In Universalis
Participants: Christopher Weeks, Mike Holmes.

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.

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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.

6/10/2005 Simon Kamber: Between-the-lines Conflict Resolution
We had a discussion on a danish forum about conflict resolution and task resolution (on the what-is-it level). And as part of that, I've thought about something. In many games…
In RPG Theory
Participants: Simon Kamber, TonyLB, Gaerik, Marco, Harlequin, Valamir, John Kim, ErrathofKosh, Noon, Yokiboy, Troy_Costisick, M. J. Young.

6/10/2005 Eero Tuovinen: [Dust Devils] Teetering on the Brink
[i]Interesting[/i] game of Dust Devils last night. I'm again playing with the teens around my childhood neighborhood, this time at one player's house. Summer vacation remixes the player pool, we…
In Actual Play
Participants: Eero Tuovinen.

6/10/2005 Paganini: Relationships
So, I'm going through the Revised Edition getting ready for some actual play, and something about Relationships caught my eye. Relationships tend to be expensive - the more interesting the…
In Burning Wheel
Participants: Paganini, abzu.

6/10/2005 Bret Gillan: [Paladin] Abilities
Hey folks. I was reading through the free online version of Paladin, and it mentions Abilities and buying up Abilities, but as far as I could see there's no mention…
In CRN Games
Participants: Bret Gillan, Clinton R. Nixon.

6/10/2005 GB Steve: Buffalo Run - my first game.
I ran my first game last night. It went pretty well, although not as nicely a James Holloway's did last Saturday. For a start we had four players, two of…
In lumpley games
Participants: GB Steve, Technocrat13, nikola, demiurgeastaroth, TonyLB, James Holloway, Wolfen, Simon Kamber.

6/10/2005 Resonantg: [Orion's Arm] Dice Mechanic questions
G'day all, first time poster, recent reader. I think this is the right place to post questions on a game system I'm working on so if it's not, please forgive…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Resonantg, Gaerik, Selene Tan, Valamir, Troy_Costisick, c.

6/10/2005 Resonantg: Immersive vs. Immedeate Character Creation
G'day people :c) A question came up with the game I currently have in development regarding character creation (CC). The issue is whether gamers prefer Immersive (read as Long) processes,…
In RPG Theory
Participants: Resonantg, Jasper, Troy_Costisick, John Kim, Selene Tan, M. J. Young.

6/11/2005 Tav_Behemoth: Hypnotic Experiences in Actual Play?
The On immersion, fascination, and precious moments (long) recently had some interesting speculation about immersion as a form of hypnotic experience, which related to some thoughts of my own. Before…
In Actual Play
Participants: Tav_Behemoth, Sean, GB Steve, Russell Hoyle, matthijs, Paul Czege, Frank T, Mike Holmes, Trish2, contracycle, Lord Shield, VisionaryEntertainment.

6/11/2005 preludetotheend: Aegri Somnia play test
Alright well I have managed to carve out some time to finaly post about the playtesting going on. The First session used the very basic first version of beta rule…
In Actual Play
Participants: preludetotheend, Jasper.

6/11/2005 Technocrat13: Setting and the SIS
As part of my own personal Fantasy Heartbreaker, I've been working on formalizing collaborative setting creation. I've had a few thoughts that I'd like to present here for discussion &…
In RPG Theory
Participants: Technocrat13, Jasper, Noon, Justin A Hamilton, Marco, xenopulse, Mike Holmes, contracycle.

6/11/2005 demiurgeastaroth: Out of Dice
Here's a question. I use my last dice to Raise, and you use your last dice to See (successfully Blocking). Neither of us have dice left, so who wins? I'm…
In lumpley games
Participants: demiurgeastaroth, Technocrat13, Wolfen, Simon Kamber, lumpley.

6/11/2005 demiurgeastaroth: [DitV] Stillwater Branch
It's our first time playing Dogs In the Vineyard. We expect to be playing for 6-8 weeks, and I hope to do 4-6 towns. This is the second session -…
In Actual Play
Participants: demiurgeastaroth, immlass, Wolfen, Ben Lehman, nikola, Eric Minton.

6/12/2005 kushinagi: The Broadening of the Horizons
Hullo hullo, Maybe I'm bored, maybe I'm glutton to punish myself, but for whatever reason, I've taken interest in Indie Game Design. I toyed with the idea before, but never…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: kushinagi, TonyLB, Technocrat13.

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