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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.

8/14/2005 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 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 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 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 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.

8/13/2005 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.

8/13/2005 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 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 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 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 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 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.

8/12/2005 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.

8/12/2005 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 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 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 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 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 Clinton R. Nixon: [TSOY] Love and death on the Poison Coast
This is somewhat of a follow-up post to Eating the Black. Only somewhat. Eight lovely sessions, and what do we have? Last night was session eight of my current The…
In Actual Play
Participants: Clinton R. Nixon, Ron Edwards, Bankuei, bcook1971, Paka, RedPissLegion.

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8/15/2005 Toki0: AoA: Looking for Members
Lets start by saying, I want this team to be as much as a learning experience as it is a rewarding or non-rewarding game design process. It's purpose is to…
In Connections
Participants: Toki0.

8/15/2005 Paka: [Burning Wheel] Words, Ghosts and Mead in the Vault
Here's the thread in which the foundation for the campaign is laid: http://www.burningwheel.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=949 I ran a series of one-shots with pre-made characters in order to get a grip on the…
In Actual Play
Participants: Paka, John Harper.

8/15/2005 Valamir: Final Cash Register Issues
I'm nailing down the final list now and have some questions and confirmations as I reprogram the machine Not returning to the booth this year and about to be deleted…
In Conventions
Participants: Valamir, TonyLB, hardcoremoose, Matt Wilson, lumpley, Clinton R. Nixon, Blankshield, Paul Czege, Allan, Michael S. Miller, Ron Edwards.

8/15/2005 guildofblades: Virtual Distributorship. Idea...
Hi Everyone, This is a topic I have tossed out for discussion on a indie board game group I am a member of. I thought I would toss it up…
In Publishing
Participants: guildofblades, MatrixGamer, Gaerik, jdagna, Joshua BishopRoby.

8/15/2005 Kesher: [dungeonkind] Otherkind meets my breaking heart...
This game was written as a tangent while in the course of working on another much larger and more complicated game, which uses Vincent Baker’s lovely Otherkind rules (http://www.septemberquestion.org/lumpley/other.html) as…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Kesher, Miskatonic, Clinton R. Nixon, Joshua BishopRoby, Alex Johnson, Landon Darkwood, lumpley.

8/15/2005 Andy Kitkowski: [GenCon] People Selling Games, A Heads Up
I was preparing some adventures for demos, but realized that most of the stuff I'm going to run is going to be of the top of my head anyway. I…
In Conventions
Participants: Andy Kitkowski, TonyLB, Adam Dray, daMoose_Neo, Miskatonic.

8/15/2005 Bandari: [Saint Sever] mechanics for an iron age game
Hi all, this is my first post, so an introduction is in order. My name is Luka*, I've been playing and GMing rpgs for 10 years or so and this…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Bandari, greyorm, Balbinus, Adam Dray.

8/15/2005 lumpley: We're Onto Something
This weekend I happened to have Under the Bed, The Mountain Witch, Polaris, and Breaking the Ice all at my house. They look good. They don't look like anything I've…
In Publishing
Participants: lumpley, Andrew Morris, Matt Snyder, Bob Goat, Ron Edwards.

8/15/2005 TonyLB: Psychological Limitations in Capes
So I'm a Champions player from way back.  Big surprise, right?  And I will admit that I sort of miss the horrible, distorted strait-jackets that were Psychological Limitations.  They always…
In Muse of Fire Games
Participants: TonyLB, Ron Edwards, Mark Woodhouse, Vaxalon.

8/15/2005 RobNJ: [You're It] Conflict/task resolution system
I'm thinking of designing a near-future fascist utopian game of juvenile delinquency called You're It!  I have some ideas worked out but I want to wait a bit before elaborating…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: RobNJ, TonyLB, Gaerik, Andrew Morris, Alan, Technocrat13, Paka.

8/15/2005 abzu: [Gencon] Forge Boother Vendors -- You Must Do This
Hello All, The indomitable Clinton has set up a small web database for our credit card scheme. You must now populate that database. Go the following link. Enter in the…
In Conventions
Participants: abzu, TonyLB, Matt Wilson, Ron Edwards, timfire, Paul Czege, Clinton R. Nixon, daMoose_Neo, Blankshield, Michael S. Miller.

8/15/2005 Troy_Costisick: What Role Does Setting Play In System?
Heya, I'm working on a problem in my latest design, and am hoping to get some good input from you guys.  Let's say you have a finite ammount of space-…
In RPG Theory
Participants: Troy_Costisick, Ron Edwards, GB Steve, Artanis.

8/15/2005 Tobias Wrigstad: [Knutpunkt 2006 RPG con] Call for Papers
[size=10pt][tt] Hi there, the Call for Papers for the book accompanying the Knutpunkt 2006 convention on role-playing is now official. It can be found here: http://jeepen.org/knutpunkt/ but is also included…
In RPG Theory
Participants: Tobias Wrigstad.

8/15/2005 Jasper Polane: [DSA] In the Cave of the Sea Ogre
We've been playing DSA, a German fantasy RPG. The 4th edition is translated into English as The Dark Eye, but we're playing 1st edition, which for the most part is…
In Actual Play
Participants: Jasper Polane, Adam Dray, xenopulse, Halzebier, Sydney Freedberg, Victor Gijsbers, Erdog, Rimke, wkoepf.

8/15/2005 Dangerboy: Artis [Game setting for QBase System]
I got one reply about my mechanic not having a setting to wrap around it, so I thought I'd post up my treatment on the game setting. This is pretty…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Dangerboy, Troy_Costisick, Adam Dray.

8/15/2005 Sean: Humanity as Heroism?
I haven't quite been able to make 'humanity as empathy' work for S&S, despite some broad agreement with Ron that this is at least one of the staple definitions of…
In Adept Press
Participants: Sean, Ron Edwards.

8/15/2005 hix: Perception of non .com domain names?
I want to set up a website to sell RPG pdfs. Now, the .com domain name I want seems to have been registered*. So I'm wondering if international customers are…
In Publishing
Participants: hix, MikeSands, Joshua BishopRoby, Adam Dray, jdagna, demiurgeastaroth, Addix, Andrew Morris.

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.

8/15/2005 Joshua BishopRoby: Certain Misconceptions of Mine (Ron?)
It appears I have some misconceptions about GNS, as evidenced by something I said in http://www.indie-rpgs.com/forum/index.php?topic=16217.0;topicseen.  Anyone care to illuminate me?  Thanks much!
In GNS Model Discussion
Participants: Joshua BishopRoby, Ron Edwards, Eero Tuovinen.

8/15/2005 1of3: Inspiration & Debt - When?
Hi. There is something about Inspiration and Debt, I didn't understand. Exactly when can a player spend them? thx
In Muse of Fire Games
Participants: 1of3, TonyLB.

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