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8/12/2005 Tony Irwin: Comic strip rules
The comic strip rule samples I've seen for WGP are very, very exciting. I'm looking forward to buying the finished game, I'm betting the book will have real "Hey, flick…
In Incarnadine Press
Participants: Tony Irwin, Michael S. Miller.

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.

8/12/2005 Paul Czege: one player's quest to recapture the table-top RPG experience...
...in the medium of computer rpgs: http://www.escapistmagazine.com/issue/4/31 I can't decide if I think he failed for the same reasons he thinks he failed. Paul
In RPG Theory
Participants: Paul Czege, Ron Edwards, Adam Dray, Rob Carriere, Andrew Norris, Artanis, Sean, cruciel, Resonantg, TonyLB, Gaerik, Noon, contracycle, GB Steve, Miskatonic.

8/12/2005 epweissengruber: Phantasm Game Conference 2005 Indie Games
Phantasm Game Conference 2005 Indie Games Phantasm is held September 24h & 25th, 2005 Saturday 10:00 AM - 12:00 Midnight Sunday 10:00 AM - 8:00 PM Market Hall; 336 George…
In Conventions
Participants: epweissengruber, Gaerik, Adam Dray.

8/12/2005 brainwipe: [Icar] Starting a game with medium characters and escalation
For most scenarios I run in Icar (free Sci Fi RPG), I start the characters at a base level. They can barely shoot, bargain or even get out of bed…
In Actual Play
Participants: brainwipe, TonyLB, Ron Edwards, Andrew Norris, Mike Holmes.

8/12/2005 Master Marx: PCs as money makers? Introducing money making in your RPG
Hi all. I am sure this must have been done sometime, but I can't think of any game right now. If not, how would one simulate PCs running businesses in…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Master Marx, Jack Aidley, TonyLB, James Holloway, Frank T, Sifolis, xenopulse, Ron Edwards, Justin Marx, Adam Dray.

8/12/2005 Sean: Puzzles and Monsters
In fantasy fiction, a lot of monsters are actually puzzles. That is, they are problems of the form: - Hero can't solve the puzzle (of the monster's weakness) = hero…
In RPG Theory
Participants: Sean, TonyLB, Andrew Norris, contracycle, Jack Aidley, rrr, cruciel, M. J. Young, Balbinus, jaw6, rafial, Graham Walmsley, Noon, simon_hibbs, Vaxalon, xenopulse, Gamskee, GB Steve.

8/11/2005 Andrew Morris: POD printer round up
Well, I've been trying to put together a comprehensive list of POD printers out there, who has used them, and what their experiences have been. So far, here's all I've…
In Publishing
Participants: Andrew Morris, Clinton R. Nixon, timfire, TonyLB, daMoose_Neo, Matt Wilson, Addix, Veritas Games, Paul Czege, Ron Edwards, abzu, xenopulse, philreed, jdagna, M Jason Parent, Erskin, Jared A. Sorensen, Bob Goat, Technocrat13, Polaris, smokewolf, JakeVanDam, Bardsandsages.

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.

8/11/2005 Lamorak33: Player Secrecy
Hi How do you handle players who want to hide what they do and details about their character from the other players?  This also goes for note passing and going…
In Adept Press
Participants: Lamorak33, Ron Edwards, The_Tim, Old_Scratch, Paka, jagardner.

8/11/2005 Sifolis: 'Blood Bounty: Session- Bordello of ND-N6
There were one or two requests for an actually playing session description of our game Blood Bounty. This is an attempt to deliver said product. Now i WARN everyone, we,…
In Actual Play
Participants: Sifolis, lumpley, Alan, John Harper, Adam Dray, Trevis Martin.

8/11/2005 demiurgeastaroth: Using Traits
Can a single player, in a single conflict, use multiple Traits. Example: if the player could someho justify it, could Nate Spisak use both of his Trained Paramedic and Underworld…
In Dog Eared Designs
Participants: demiurgeastaroth, Eero Tuovinen, Matt Wilson.

8/11/2005 Blankshield: [GenCon 2005] Death's Door demo kit
Hi folks, I'll be arriving Wednesday supper time-ish, and if things work out, would really like to run a couple booth monkeys/fellow publishers (at least) through the Death's Door demo…
In Conventions
Participants: Blankshield.

8/11/2005 KingOfFarPoint: Are Belongings Really A Temptation To Escalate?
in No limitations on Dog's stuff? http://www.indie-rpgs.com/forum/index.php?t=13172 Vincent says: Belongings tend to contribute their dice high up in the escalation process. A die in a gun is pressure to…
In lumpley games
Participants: KingOfFarPoint, lumpley, TonyLB, rrr.

8/11/2005 Tony Irwin: Fantastic Four (with movie spoilers)
I just saw Fantastic Four and I'm all super-heroed up. There's a gorgeous scene where Ben Grimm's fiance dumps him wordlessly, taking off her ring, placing it on the ground,…
In Incarnadine Press
Participants: Tony Irwin, Michael S. Miller.

8/11/2005 pedyo: [Sorcerer] Disciples of Christ
Hi, Second try… I am thinking of starting up a Sorcerer campaign. I have some ideas that I really like, but I’m uncertain how to continue. I have described the…
In Adept Press
Participants: pedyo, Paka, Clinton R. Nixon, Lamorak33, Trevis Martin, M. J. Young, jrs, Ron Edwards.

8/11/2005 KingOfFarPoint: Conflict Resolution, especially whether Traits and Things can be invoked en-mass
The way I read the resolution mechanics in the rules it says: (1) The initial dice are only for Stats and Relationships, not for Traits or Things (p34-35) (2) On…
In lumpley games
Participants: KingOfFarPoint, demiurgeastaroth, lumpley, James Holloway.

8/11/2005 Sean: Are these two things incompatible?
To reboot my other thread - here are two posts about something I'm trying to work out, one original, one in response to a clarification query by Alan: ----------------------------------- 1.…
In RPG Theory
Participants: Sean, GB Steve, contracycle, Andrew Norris, TonyLB, xenopulse, M. J. Young, Noon, Joshua BishopRoby.

8/11/2005 Ron Edwards: [Doctor Chaos] Cards, bad guys
Hi everyone, I had an idea for a game a couple of weeks ago, which I think will scrub out the final need for "must satisfy adolescent issue via Color"…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Ron Edwards, Simon Marks, Miskatonic, TonyLB, Eero Tuovinen, Dantai, Bankuei, Matt Wilson.

8/11/2005 Darcy Burgess: Is that a Dingus in your Dice Bag? -- Real world Research
For the last several months, I've been tackling what amounts to a grand experiment: Shifting my group's focus towards conflict-res, primarily narr-structured games.  Where we were before would probably be…
In RPG Theory
Participants: Darcy Burgess, GB Steve, M. J. Young.

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8/12/2005 Sean: Patch Rules and System Rewrites
Hi, I know that Indie Game Design is not an appropriate place for discussing tweaks and modifications to other people's systems. Would discussions of these make for suitable RPG theory…
In Site Discussion
Participants: Sean, Mike Holmes, Ron Edwards.

8/12/2005 Veritas Games: Hauling Stuff Around
OK, so I'm totally ignorant of this stuff.  How do you folks get materials to cons?  Also do you leave your stock at the convention center overnight or do you…
In Conventions
Participants: Veritas Games, Valamir, jdagna.

8/12/2005 Pol Jackson: [DiTV] Problematic Town Creation - Hobbestown
This is my first post at the Forge. Hi! I recently purchased Dogs, and intend to run it for my game group Real Soon Now. I came up with a…
In lumpley games
Participants: Pol Jackson, Technocrat13, jasonm.

8/12/2005 Gordon C. Landis: Playing Indie Games
This post is in (small? large? I'm not sure) part inspired by Ron's "This one's important" post (http://www.indie-rpgs.com/forum/index.php?topic=16335.0) - it's been on my mind for a while, and I wasn't…
In Site Discussion
Participants: Gordon C. Landis, Ron Edwards, TonyLB, Bankuei, Nathan P., matthijs, Eero Tuovinen, Paganini, greyorm, bcook1971, GaryTP, droog, Albert of Feh, immlass, Marco.

8/12/2005 johnzo: [Stranger Things] The Judgement of Fish
Wil ran a playtest of Stranger Things for UGAX last night.  There were four players: Alan, James, Seth, and myself. My memory is not to be trusted, but here's what…
In Actual Play
Participants: johnzo, Alan, rafial, John Harper, Ron Edwards, Bankuei.

8/12/2005 Bankuei: Prepping for Playtest
1) Logistics Aside from printing up the map tiles and the character sheets, I went and printed up the Character Creation list on pg. 31, the Conflict summary on pg.…
In Stranger Things Playtest Forum
Participants: Bankuei, John Harper.

8/13/2005 Nev the Deranged: Skeleton Key
So I saw Skeleton Key tonight. Pretty decent movie. Not exactly fitting in the Sorcerer mold, no demons per se. But still coll and still with that sort of vibe.…
In Adept Press
Participants: Nev the Deranged.

8/13/2005 James_Nostack: [R Map] The Big Lebowski
I am working my way through Sorcerer's Soul, but since I seldom read mystery novels I thought I would use The Big Lebowski instead.  It's a "detective story" though certainly…
In Adept Press
Participants: James_Nostack, Ron Edwards, Miskatonic, Sean, Yokiboy.

8/13/2005 Technocrat13: [DitV] Five hours of fun tightly packed in five hours of play.
Tonight we played a quick pickup game of DitV with a virgin gamer.  Most of this post will likely be about her. Maura is in her mid thirties and has…
In Actual Play
Participants: Technocrat13, ScottM, jasonm.

8/13/2005 daMoose_Neo: [GenCon] 3 tickets available, assistance needed!
Let me say once more how much I hate retail. One of my helper-monkeys for GenCon got their request denied for time off, effectively getting a swift kick in the…
In Conventions
Participants: daMoose_Neo, LordSmerf, Ron Edwards, Andy Kitkowski.

8/13/2005 Clinton R. Nixon: [GenCon 2005] Phone list
If you have a cell phone and you are part of the Forge GenCon booth in any capacity, you will want to be on the booth phone list. Send cell…
In Conventions
Participants: Clinton R. Nixon, timfire, Bob Goat, Blankshield, Matt Gwinn, Paul Czege.

8/13/2005 Jonas Karlsson: [The Tavern] Introduction and player engagement
Several things I've read and written lately have collided in my brain, spawning an idea of a game. I usually get random ideas that don't go beyond a set of…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Jonas Karlsson, PrzeSzkoda, daMoose_Neo, Ron Edwards, jasonm, Albert of Feh.

8/13/2005 timfire: Resources on world/setting building
I'm in the research phase of a new project. I would like to research world/setting building. I would preferably like sources that discuss world-building in play, but in lieu of…
In RPG Theory
Participants: timfire, Adam Dray, Jasper, Paganini, M. J. Young.

8/14/2005 HenryT: [Parlor Larp] Snow White
Snow White is a Parlor Larp--a one-shot live action game intended for six to eight people, plus a director, with few requirements on space or props. The game is intended…
In Actual Play
Participants: HenryT, Paka, thelostgm, komradebob.

8/14/2005 Rossum: [Stranger Things] Two Nights a Stranger, playtest session one (longish)
Last Tuesday, I hoped to get into a new game of Paranoia XP one of my gang planned to run, but some folks had left town and it fell through.…
In Actual Play
Participants: Rossum, philaros, Paka, John Harper, Tim Alexander.

8/14/2005 Rossum: Stranger vs. Stranger Conflict resolution
I'm being warned by my players that one will call for a conflict on the other. Keteb will try to steal Annalise's pocket watch. How should this be handled? Does…
In Stranger Things Playtest Forum
Participants: Rossum, John Harper, tonyd.

8/14/2005 Bankuei: [Stranger Things] Lock, Stock, and Smoking Dragonhide
Fun?  Lots of fun. First, I ended up with 5 players, which is more than I wanted to handle, but I expected at least one person to flake.  Instead, everyone…
In Actual Play
Participants: Bankuei, John Harper, Paka, jetboy, rafial, Alan, demiurgeastaroth, Sydney Freedberg.

8/14/2005 apeiron: NoVA Apartment Con Scheduling Thread
It seemed that most people could not attend an ApartmentCon in August, so we'll try here for a September event. The weekends of September are: the 2nd, the 9th, the…
In Conventions
Participants: apeiron, Vaxalon, Adam Dray, D. Woolsey, TonyLB, Shawn De Arment, Sydney Freedberg, Nathan.

8/14/2005 GB Steve: [DitV] Fort Lemon, again.
I ran Fort Lemon for the third time yesterday. This run was a Consternation in Cambridge for first time players. I didn't use the fort time because we only had…
In lumpley games
Participants: GB Steve, Jonas Karlsson, jasonm.

8/15/2005 Artanis: [Paladin+W40K] Game prep, or my first try at conscious Nar
I've been reading the Forge since a bit more than a year and am beginning to understand some of the stuff in a way that would allow me to actually…
In Actual Play
Participants: Artanis, Surcapitaine, BeZurKur, Andrew Morris, Gaerik, Trevis Martin, Miskatonic.

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