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6/15/2005 MarkMeredith: Hey, check out this thing I play...
Okay, this may be the wrong forum to post this in. Sorry if it is. How many of you have taken one of your Non-Gamer friends, and slowly, ever so…
In Actual Play
Participants: MarkMeredith, Allan, Ron Edwards, LandonSuffered, FarFromUnique, Sacha.

6/15/2005 MarkMeredith: [New Game, New Designer] My first steps into the pool
Hey all. I'm new here. I've got a game system concept, and coming up with any way to flesh it out. Basic Mechanic: D100, roll low. Percentile system style. You'd…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: MarkMeredith, TonyLB, Andrew Morris, Technocrat13, Trevis Martin, ErrathofKosh, Sydney Freedberg, ffilz, dalek_of_god, xenopulse, Valamir, Thespian, Harlequin, Remko.

6/14/2005 CCW: Goals-based rewards--actual play.
This thread is a follow up from PBEM HP Distribution OK, we had a go at using goals for experience. I outlined the system simply, I hope: * Each…
In HeroQuest
Participants: CCW, SumSum, Brand_Robins, Mike Holmes, Christopher Weeks, KingOfFarPoint.

6/14/2005 Trish2: Exploring the relationship between character and player
Hey guys, In my IRC Trek game, our characters are playing in a holonovel. Part of play for this group is to write a "log" of your character's experience of…
In Actual Play
Participants: Trish2, contracycle, James_Nostack, Miskatonic, TonyLB, demiurgeastaroth, Masada.

6/14/2005 MarkMeredith: Base Attributes
Okay, I'm looking at designing a D100 game (Roll low) but I need some names for Base Attributes. I don't want to pull a STR DEX CON INT WIS CHA…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: MarkMeredith, TonyLB, Technocrat13, indie guy, Jake Richmond, Resonantg.

6/14/2005 Kriegsaffe No. 9: [tHe bLood tRip] Is this idea new?
First off, pleased to join the community. Second: A recent 24 Hour RPG I did (I've done two successful and one failed), tHe bLood tRip (as I've dubbed it--long story,…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Kriegsaffe No. 9, Troy_Costisick, GB Steve.

6/14/2005 Technocrat13: I'll pay you to advertise your game at the cons.
So, my wife Lisa and I are actively planning our trips to GenCon and Origins this year. And we're contemplating what we wanna wear. We've pretty well settled on 'investing'…
In Conventions
Participants: Technocrat13, xenopulse, Andy Kitkowski, Andrew Morris, Ron Edwards, greyorm.

6/14/2005 Sean: One More Mainstream Note
I totally agree with the idea of bringing RPGs to new, underexplored mainstream areas, and selling RPGs to 'non-roleplayers' through mainstream venues. I think it's great that a lot of…
In RPG Theory
Participants: Sean, xenopulse, Andrew Morris, Brand_Robins, gsoylent, Andrew Norris.

6/14/2005 mjstahl: To write as fiction, or as a manual.
Hello again everyone, I have been thinking about a lot of things since I started 'physically' working on Good Intentions, and one of them is how the text should be…
In RPG Theory
Participants: mjstahl, Mike Holmes, Brand_Robins, Alan, MarkMeredith, Troy_Costisick, Kriegsaffe No. 9, Eva Deinum, Danny_K.

6/14/2005 Alan: Show Issue and Screen Presence
Here's an idea for the second edition: Give the Show itself an "Issue" and Screen Presence rating. The show's SP deterined the Producer's base dice in a conflict. Show SP…
In Dog Eared Designs
Participants: Alan, Lord_Steelhand.

6/14/2005 Andrew Morris: Side thought on mainstreaming RPGs
Sparked by the What is Main Stream gaming? Another Look. thread, I started wondering if the content is the only issue, or even the main one. Perhaps it's more a…
In RPG Theory
Participants: Andrew Morris, Technocrat13, Gaerik, Sean, Mike Holmes, contracycle.

6/14/2005 Technocrat13: [Origins] What's for sale?
There's a slightly aged thread below about who's going to be at Origins, but with the event just two weeks away, I'm curious as to what indie games I'll be…
In Conventions
Participants: Technocrat13, Thor Olavsrud, MatrixGamer.

6/14/2005 Bob Goat: [News] Two Sales & Five New Ideas
First things first we have some sales going on for Conspiracy of Shadows. Indie Press Revolution is currently selling the book for $14.99, which you can check out by going…
In Bob Goat Press
Participants: Bob Goat, Jasper.

6/14/2005 Kenway: PTA episode flow
I'm am a particpant in the 2 pbp games of PTA that DannyK has been discussing. In the first game (a supernatural crime family) we sort of kind of got…
In Dog Eared Designs
Participants: Kenway, Alan, Danny_K.

6/14/2005 Doc Blue: [PtA] Storm Front
My group and I just started a PrimeTime Adventures game. Since I had been informed during our last campaing that "I always end up running a Supers Game anyway" we…
In Actual Play
Participants: Doc Blue, Danny_K, demiurgeastaroth, ashmoo.

6/14/2005 Gaerik: [Andrew's Unnamed Game] Dice Mechanic
In my playtest, one of the slightly off things I noticed was that keeping up with how many and what type of dice to roll from the beginning of a…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Gaerik, Jasper, Walt Freitag, Everspinner.

6/14/2005 epweissengruber: Canadian National Gaming Expo (August 26-28)
The Toronto Role Player's Association posted the address of a big gaming con in Toronto. There is interest among the players of Big Games like D&D or World of Darkness.…
In Conventions
Participants: epweissengruber, Blankshield, Brand_Robins, Allan.

6/14/2005 kalyptein: preparing for a first game of Charnel Gods
Hi. I'm hoping to run a one-shot game of Charnel Gods at an upcoming yearly gathering of gaming friends. The ones I have in mind as players, upon being told…
In Adept Press
Participants: kalyptein, Old_Scratch, Ron Edwards, hardcoremoose, jagardner.

6/13/2005 Christopher Weeks: [Universalis] And the war raged on...
Four of us from IndieMN (Steve, Larry, Shane and I) met yesterday and played Uni. We were an hour late getting started and I explained the rules from the two-page…
In Actual Play
Participants: Christopher Weeks, Grover, Miskatonic, Sydney Freedberg, Valamir, Mike Holmes, Trevis Martin, TonyLB, Tobias.

6/13/2005 GB Steve: [DitV]Fort Lemon Rides again!
We played a first session of Fort Lemon tonight. We had the same players as the rather simpler Buffalo Run minus my wife who recuperating (from being ill, not from…
In Actual Play
Participants: GB Steve, jasonm.

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6/15/2005 dunlaing: Ordering from Key 20 Direct
To others who have ordered from Key20 Direct: does the Order Information update to indicate when it has shipped and what the tracking number is (if any)? I ordered on…
In Burning Wheel
Participants: dunlaing, Valamir, xenopulse, Thor Olavsrud, JasonV, jasonm.

6/15/2005 ErrathofKosh: Conflict Resolution + Task Resolution
Recently I've be considering a mechanic that uses fortune to resolve conflicts, but then goes back and uses drama to fill out the details or "tasks" of that conflict. This…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: ErrathofKosh, Gaerik, Andrew Morris, xenopulse.

6/15/2005 lumpley: Website Back!
Now with comment previews! And searching! www.lumpley.com -Vincent
In lumpley games
Participants: lumpley, ScottM.

6/15/2005 Lord_Steelhand: PTA - Guest Players Idea
I have read several posts where there was some question on how to include guests in on a PTA game without setting them up with permanent characters. The preferred solution…
In Dog Eared Designs
Participants: Lord_Steelhand.

6/16/2005 Resonantg: [Orion's Arm] Too many skills?
An issue that's been popping up in my game design for OA has been making me wonder if I'm in the minority. I just wanted to get a survey of…
In RPG Theory
Participants: Resonantg, Eero Tuovinen, Andrew Morris, Valamir, Troy_Costisick.

6/16/2005 Frank T: [Breaking the Ice] Getting earnest
Yesterday, Nicolas (Crost) and I played our first session of Breaking the Ice in IRC. We used Emily’s newest playtest version. The session lasted for three hours in which we…
In Actual Play
Participants: Frank T, Tobias, Christopher Weeks, Andrew Morris, Brand_Robins, Emily Care.

6/16/2005 Darcy Burgess: Strong Foundations: Good games where PCs are v.similar
I'm trauling for some ideas, sounds pretty theoretical to me. I'm currently wrestling with finding a way to make a game "interesting" when all of the PCs are essentially identical…
In RPG Theory
Participants: Darcy Burgess, GB Steve, TonyLB, timfire, Andrew Morris, gsoylent, Jasper, Troy_Costisick, Harlequin, Chad Sonderberg.

6/16/2005 Simon Marks: Is it ok to ... ?
Hello people. I am in the midst of (re)designing an LRP (LARP?) System being used here in the UK. The current system is established, published and successful. Now, as pointed…
In Site Discussion
Participants: Simon Marks, Andrew Morris, Gaerik, greyorm, Eero Tuovinen, timfire, Ron Edwards.

6/16/2005 Gaerik: Dual Resolution Systems
In one of Mike's Standard Rants, he bashes on systems that have more than one resolution system pretty hard. Especially ones that have 1 system for what are genereally called…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Gaerik, Justin Marx, TonyLB, contracycle, Troy_Costisick.

6/16/2005 GregStolze: Indie Games hit National Public Radio
At least one indie game, anyhow: NPR's On The Media (http://www.onthemedia.org/) interviewed Daniel Solis and myself about Meatbot Massacre (www.danielsolis.com/meatbot) and the ransom model of publishing. I know. I'm as…
In Publishing
Participants: GregStolze, Yokiboy, Jasper, Paul Czege, Space Cowboy, jrs.

6/16/2005 bigcape: GM running WGP this weekend for the first time.
I just bought WGP preview and I have now read it and the interim edition through a few times. I am going to run WGP for a few of my…
In Incarnadine Press
Participants: bigcape, Michael S. Miller, pfischer, Christopher Weeks, Valamir.

6/16/2005 Rob Donoghue: Playtest Guidelines
Ok, so my search fu has failed me. If there's already a decent thread on this, I'd be glad to go absorb it. Here's the situation. We just started the…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Rob Donoghue, buddha, Ben Lehman, Spooky Fanboy.

6/16/2005 Malcolm: 2nd Editions: How far to go?
Just throwing the door open to opinion on this one. Recently, I've had something of a change of heart when it comes to games design (I was going to say…
In Publishing
Participants: Malcolm, c, Justin Marx, Matt, Eero Tuovinen, abzu, Bob Goat.

6/16/2005 CodexArcanum: [Chromed] A Shadowrun to Donjon Conversion
The title about says it, but I'll let my introduction say just a bit more. As a college student, I'm blessed with a fair bit of free time,…
In CRN Games
Participants: CodexArcanum, b_bankhead, Clinton R. Nixon.

6/16/2005 Justin Marx: [7W] Quantifying fate and player power in a Gamist world
Hi everyone, Am fairly new here, but I suppose I wouldn't be browsing these forums if I wasn't trying to write a damn RPG like everyone else. In any case,…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Justin Marx, Troy_Costisick, PlotDevice.

6/16/2005 Everspinner: [Universalis] First go
Ok, our first game of Universalis. It was our first Forge game as well, unless Puppetland counts? The Group: We have a group of seven players which has stuck together…
In Actual Play
Participants: Everspinner, hix.

6/16/2005 TonyLB: [Misery Bubblegum] Where do the dice all go?
So, having thought hard on all the good stuff said in the most recent Misery Bubblegum thread, I sat myself down and put together an actual draft ruleset. Man, this…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: TonyLB, Technocrat13, hix, Sydney Freedberg, TheCzech, Allan, 1of3, Shawn De Arment, Doug Ruff.

6/17/2005 daMoose_Neo: [GenCon] Previous customer counts & freebies
I must say this has to be the shortest span for developing something and figuring out how to print it- in less than three days, I have not only a…
In Conventions
Participants: daMoose_Neo, Michael S. Miller, Ron Edwards, Ben Lehman.

6/17/2005 sirogit: [DITV] Blood, Guns and Breasts
Here's the rundown of my most recent DITV game: The players are: Me, playing Ezri, the intensly passionate guy. My brother Chris, the GM. Our friend Jeri, playing Omar, who…
In Actual Play
Participants: sirogit.

6/17/2005 Valamir: Indie Boardgame Publisher
Since there've been a recent spate of threads interested in boardgame publishing I thought I'd throw up a link to Viktory. Its an independently published wargame which could be summarized…
In Publishing
Participants: Valamir, Clinton R. Nixon.

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