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8/1/2005 Miskatonic: What ever happened to Points of Contact?
Okay, so I think this is an "Ask Ron" thread. Ron, Regarding Infamous Five #4, what's the current state of things Vanilla and Pervy? A quick seach reveals not much…
In GNS Model Discussion
Participants: Miskatonic, Eero Tuovinen, Ron Edwards, drnuncheon, Simon Marks, cruciel, Adam Dray, M. J. Young, Noon, Silmenume, daHob, Alan.

7/28/2005 Miskatonic: Barrier to newcomers
[quote author=Ron Edwards link=topic=16144.msg172103#msg172103 date=1122521152] But that sports analogy works really well. When we talk about [i]seeing[/i] a CA, actually, and when we talk about [i]satisfying[/i] it, then we gotta…
In GNS Model Discussion
Participants: Miskatonic, Ron Edwards, M. J. Young, xenopulse, droog.

7/25/2005 Miskatonic: [DitV] Busted links
My copy of Dogs arrived today! In my enthusiastic fannishness, I have noticed some of the links on the Ditv site are dead: Links to how to load and fire…
In lumpley games
Participants: Miskatonic, lumpley, George.

7/22/2005 Miskatonic: Feature wishlist
I thought it might be nice to start a thread to divert all the, "Hey, you know what would be nice...?" and "I miss feature X" posts to their own…
In Site Discussion
Participants: Miskatonic, johnmarron, Noon, Ben Lehman, Frank T, ScottM, Rob Carriere, Clinton R. Nixon, Vaxalon, Andy Kitkowski.

7/18/2005 Miskatonic: GenCon promo idea
How's this sound: Limited edition GenCon Click-and-Locks Yes, I know anyone can just punch the data into the Flash and make high-quality C&Ls. Yes, I know that these "ultra-rare" items…
In Muse of Fire Games
Participants: Miskatonic, TonyLB, Stickman.

5/14/2005 Miskatonic: [Sorcerer & Sword] Bound Gods of Ulkhur-Zakand, Sessions
Game setup was here. Shane has been too busy to post these, I think, so I'll get the ball rolling with what I can remember and let the others fill…
In Actual Play
Participants: Miskatonic, Grover, Ron Edwards, Shane Street, Christopher Weeks.

4/27/2005 Miskatonic: Splitting Conflicts (Clarification)
In Fred's, James', and Alexander's recent IRC game, the following rules dispute came up: # <Fracture> Okay, I'm going to stake a point of debt on the 2,…
In Muse of Fire Games
Participants: Miskatonic, TonyLB, Vaxalon, Jonas Karlsson.

4/15/2005 Miskatonic: Capes Target Demographics
EDIT: Unnecessary rant about "infernal hobby" I have a suspicion that Capes has done away with a number of RPG elements that are offputting to non-gamers. I just need to…
In Muse of Fire Games
Participants: Miskatonic, Valamir.

4/15/2005 Miskatonic: Deprecated Click-and-Locks
I see the new version of Capes Lite is on the site now. As I recall, the old version had a few Click-and-Locks that aren't in the full set. Insectoid…
In Muse of Fire Games
Participants: Miskatonic, TonyLB.

4/14/2005 Miskatonic: Click-n-Lock dies
This is mostly a blue sky thread. Anyone have any ideas for die-cutting Click-n-Locks on the cheap? This is an area I know nothing about, but a little research shows…
In Muse of Fire Games
Participants: Miskatonic, TonyLB, Paul Czege.

4/13/2005 Miskatonic: Negation of narration
Continued from Takes Some Getting Used To Summary: I think the rules permit one to free curb abuse of free narration, Vaxalon and others say the rules do not allow…
In Muse of Fire Games
Participants: Miskatonic, Vaxalon, TonyLB.

4/7/2005 Miskatonic: Pancakes!
I'm gonna make pancakes! Aren't pancakes awesome?
In Forge Birthday Forum
Participants: Miskatonic, joshua neff, xenopulse, C. Edwards, Lxndr, lumpley, Ben Lehman, Andy Kitkowski, Ron Edwards, Michael S. Miller, Christopher Weeks, rafial, Rob MacDougall, Danny_K.

4/2/2005 Miskatonic: [MLWM] My Easter With Master
I had originally joked that we would be playing "Kill Puppies For Satan" on Easter Sunday. While no one was seriously interested in KPFS, the idea of some kind of…
In Actual Play
Participants: Miskatonic, Kesher, Christopher Weeks, Ron Edwards, Shane Street, Michael S. Miller, GB Steve, TonyLB.

3/2/2005 Miskatonic: Trollbabe print?
Any news on a print edition of Trollbabe? I've been very satisfied with the quality and value of the other Adept Press releases. Pre-orders maybe?
In Adept Press
Participants: Miskatonic, Ron Edwards, sirogit, jburneko, Bankuei, Eero Tuovinen, Paul Czege, Matt Snyder, ejh, Sean, quozl, Tony Irwin, Christopher Weeks, Valamir, jeffpreston, demiurgeastaroth.

3/1/2005 Miskatonic: Conflict resolution
We ran into a situation this week where the rules seemed a little unclear. Say we have an event on the table. Protagonist A has acted to increase the die,…
In Muse of Fire Games
Participants: Miskatonic, TonyLB, Christopher Weeks.

1/20/2005 Miskatonic: [Dunjon] Getting serious?
So I ran my first game of Donjon today for the "Indie Minnesota" gang. The stated shared goal was to try to run a serious game, as opposed to the…
In Actual Play
Participants: Miskatonic, Grover, Christopher Weeks, anonymouse, Mike Holmes.

7/17/2004 Miskatonic: My suggested replacement for Bang
So I was re-reading Ron's Narrativism essay on the bus today, and came up with a much more compelling phrase for "Bang." Hot Potato You like? I like. To me…
In RPG Theory
Participants: Miskatonic, John Kim, Alan, Bankuei.

7/17/2004 Miskatonic: Space combat
Or My Transhuman Space to HeroQuest conversion, Part 1 Background: So my Transhuman Space game has come crashing to a halt, and I'm blaming GURPS. (I'll address why at some…
In HeroQuest
Participants: Miskatonic, soru, droog, grbosch, Mac Logo, Blake Hutchins, Mike Holmes.

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8/9/2005 Miskatonic: [Capes] Floundering on Infinite Earths
So we got together on short notice at the FLGS to play some Capes. Chris, Steve, Shane, and I finally got to meet Mark. We decided we wanted to do…
In Actual Play
Participants: Miskatonic, Christopher Weeks, Grover, Mark Woodhouse, TonyLB, jburneko, Stickman.

8/11/2005 Miskatonic: Dead Characters
So in our recent game, I noticed something in Capes that's not immediately obvious. If your character is permitted by the Comics Code to be killed, and you don't have…
In Muse of Fire Games
Participants: Miskatonic, jburneko, Mark Woodhouse, TonyLB, Anders Gabrielsson.

8/12/2005 Miskatonic: Freelancing? People still do that?
So there's a column over at RPG.net about freelance authoring: http://www.rpg.net/news+reviews/columns/free10aug05.html Up front, I want to say: This is not a bash on rpg.net thread. Ain't nobody go putting down…
In Publishing
Participants: Miskatonic, Technocrat13, TonyLB, Adam Dray, Paul Czege, Addix, jdagna, greyorm, Adam, mearls, Paka, Joshua BishopRoby, LloydBrown.

8/15/2005 Miskatonic: Adept GenCon titles
Ron, Will Adept Press be selling anything kewl at the Forge booth this year, other than the four Sorcerer books and Elfs? I gotta get my picks in by Wednesday.
In Adept Press
Participants: Miskatonic, Ron Edwards, Old_Scratch, Yokiboy.

8/23/2005 Miskatonic: Anvilwerks: always on the job
Kudos to Clinton for processing a Forge Bookshelf purchase on Sunday morning! I didn't realistically expect this to happen until after GenCon. By the way, did TSoY-Fudge (pronounced "soyfudge," yummy)…
In CRN Games
Participants: Miskatonic, Clinton R. Nixon, dyjoots, Rob Donoghue, Gaerik, ScottM, motherlessgoose.

8/29/2005 Miskatonic: Chinese stamp
Ben, So it was pointed out to me by Chris Weeks that if you rub the red stamp on the limited editions, it will smudge. So it occurs to me…
In These Are Our Games
Participants: Miskatonic, Ben Lehman, John Harper, Paul Czege.

9/17/2005 Miskatonic: [DitV] Mormonism and drugs
So, as I understand it, Mormonism has a complete taboo on drugs, including "smart drugs" like caffeine. And drugs, of course, are bad because they alter your judgment. Gamers routinely…
In lumpley games
Participants: Miskatonic, Adam Dray, Meguey, TonyLB, Vaxalon, lumpley, Brand_Robins, nikola.

4/8/2006 Miskatonic: Hey Vincent...
Just how sexy is it to roleplay with Meg and Emily all the time?
In Forge Birthday Forum
Participants: Miskatonic, lumpley.

6/20/2006 Miskatonic: New Capes review on RPGnet
http://www.rpg.net/reviews/archive/12/12256.phtml
In Muse of Fire Games
Participants: Miskatonic.

11/24/2006 Miskatonic: TPK review at RPGnet
New review of The Princes' Kingdom up on RPGnet: http://www.rpg.net/reviews/archive/12/12593.phtml Pretty good review.
In CRN Games
Participants: Miskatonic.

12/5/2006 Miskatonic: Seeking wiki host
Hi all, I'm looking for someplace to host (gratis) a wiki of interest to the Forge community. Requirements are MediaWiki 1.7 with MySQL 5.0, PHP 5.2, and admin capability for…
In Connections
Participants: Miskatonic.

1/6/2007 Miskatonic: DDR review at RPGnet
Hey look! A review already! http://www.rpg.net/reviews/archive/12/12686.phtml
In Chimera Creative
Participants: Miskatonic, Matt Snyder.

11/5/2007 Miskatonic: Shock: squares
J, Would it be too much trouble to produce versions of the three character sheet dealies with crop marks printed on the page? The design loses a lot of its…
In glyphpress
Participants: Miskatonic, nikola.

11/5/2007 Miskatonic: Homer quotes
Hi, From which translation of the Odyssey did you pull the quotes in Agon? They're quite nice.
In one.seven design
Participants: Miskatonic, Darcy Burgess, John Harper.

11/19/2007 Miskatonic: Character cards
Nathan, I've just picked up Carry, and would like to play it. The book offers a promise that all matter of handout-type things can be downloaded at the Hamsterprophet web…
In ndp design
Participants: Miskatonic, Nathan P..

12/14/2007 Miskatonic: **unsolicited!!** - a game of spam and human desperation
[tt]YOU LOVER NOT SATISFIED IN BED? NEW ALL NATURAL CURE FOR MALE PROBLEMS! BETTER THAN VIAGRA![/tt] Where to begin? You know spam, that thing every single person who uses the…
In First Thoughts
Participants: Miskatonic, earwig, TomTitTot, Elizabeth, matthijs.

12/21/2007 Miskatonic: Show some spine!
Indie publishers, There is something I noticed on my last visit to my FLGS. This store is reasonably good at ordering indie stuff from IPR and even grabs a bunch…
In Publishing
Participants: Miskatonic, iago, jasonm, GreatWolf, Ron Edwards, Ben Lehman, Scro, David Artman.

7/13/2008 Miskatonic: [Sign In Stranger] Oh, we just LOVE humans here! - Forge Midwest
Emily Care Boss ran a game of Sign In Stranger at Forge Midwest. Players were Emily, Eppy, me, Matt*, Tim, and Willow. Hilarity ensued. First came the world generation. The…
In Playtesting
Participants: Miskatonic, Willow, Emily Care, davidberg.

5/10/2010 Miskatonic: Frazetta
[url=http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/05/10/frank-frazetta-fantasy-illustrator-dies-at-82/?src=mv]Frank Frazetta[/url] passed away this afternoon.
In Adept Press
Participants: Miskatonic, Ron Edwards, Jonathan Hastings, Melinglor.

5/18/2012 Miskatonic: Five minutes to midnight
Hi, I just ran some math. If the entire existence of The Forge (in its current incarnation) spans but a single day, then today is 11:55 PM. If you prefer…
In Site Discussion
Participants: Miskatonic.

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