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8/24/2005 Eric Minton: Cheat Sheets
Hey Ben, When you ran your Polaris demos at GenCon, you had cheat sheets for star names and for the ritual phrases.  Will you be making these available for download? …
In These Are Our Games
Participants: Eric Minton, Ben Lehman.

8/24/2005 abzu: GenCon 2005 Pictures
Dro posted his pics up on Flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/61684657@N00/ post links here to other picture sets. We need to create an archive. -L
In Conventions
Participants: abzu, urbanpagan, Jürgen Mayer, Bob Goat, Matt Gwinn, Malcolm, Gregor Hutton, iain, Miskatonic, Matt-M-McElroy.

8/24/2005 himsati: Looking for reviews
The new 3rd Edition Immortal RPG is up at the website www.invisiblewar.com.  It's a free 248-page PDF e-book available for download from the free downloads area and is looking to…
In Connections
Participants: himsati, Jasper.

8/24/2005 Clinton R. Nixon: City of Brass (GenCon preview edition) on sale!
Peeps, I have five red-hot awesome copies of City of Brass still available from GenCon. This thing is a slick little one-night competitive RPG. I thought I'd give my Forge…
In CRN Games
Participants: Clinton R. Nixon, Miskatonic.

8/24/2005 Lord_Steelhand: Making a Freebee CD-Rom for Con - Want in?
Hello, Forge! I am creating a CD-Rom of freely-available RPGs and promotional materials in PDF format to give to RPG participants at Techwood Con 2006.  While the Con is some…
In Connections
Participants: Lord_Steelhand, jaw6.

8/24/2005 pfischer: [PTA] The Last Shore
I mananaged to persuade a couple of friends to join me in a game of PTA. We play IRC due to the fact that I am based in the UK…
In Actual Play
Participants: pfischer, David Bapst, Munkholt, pedyo, Matt Wilson, Rune, Eynowd.

8/24/2005 Technocrat13: Synchronizing scheduled events with sales.
On the plane ride back from GenCon I was thinking about my daytime gaming experience.  It was kinda lame.  My choices were indy games that were packed to the gills,…
In Conventions
Participants: Technocrat13, TonyLB, Mike Holmes, Smithy, daMoose_Neo, Blankshield, Paka, Ben Lehman, cdr, abzu, Michael S. Miller, Kat Miller, Lisa Padol.

8/24/2005 Michael S. Miller: Indie RPG Explosion
The Forge presence at GenCon was more than just the Booth and the seminar track. It was also the Indie RPG Explosion, a collection of scheduled events for the games…
In Conventions
Participants: Michael S. Miller, abzu, TonyLB, Paka, Andrew Morris, O. Rodriguez, rickr, Pauls Girl, Clinton R. Nixon, Kat Miller, daMoose_Neo, Ron Edwards, Jasper the Mimbo.

8/24/2005 TonyLB: Who's your Pep-Squad?
So I was chatting with Andrew Cooper at GenCon, and we were talking about how Capes falls apart if nobody brings the excitement to the table.  It's like people come…
In RPG Theory
Participants: TonyLB, Ron Edwards, Gaerik, Miskatonic, Technocrat13, J. Tuomas Harviainen, Joshua BishopRoby, Noon, c, Meguey.

8/24/2005 rylen dreskin: Character sheets
Hey, I'm gearing up for my first MLWM game.  I bought the hard copy version and would like printable character sheets.  Has anyone made those or other lists of key…
In Half Meme Press
Participants: rylen dreskin, Uzzah, Paul Czege, Michael S. Miller.

8/24/2005 Jared A. Sorensen: Selling yourself without selling your soul (or looking like a dick)
So, I had some great experiences at the con and wanted to share my ideas/opinions with you lot. In particular, about avoiding the "hard sell" (which I first encountered, personally,…
In Conventions
Participants: Jared A. Sorensen, TonyLB, Clinton R. Nixon, Gaerik, Andrew Morris, Bankuei, Wolfen, urbanpagan, Gordon C. Landis, Meguey, ejh.

8/24/2005 Jack Aidley: [Witch Finder] Resolution Mechanics
Witch Finder is a game set in a dark version of Medieval Europe at the time of the witch hunts. Slightly darker, a bit more gritty and with real magic.…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Jack Aidley, Dumirik, Joshua BishopRoby, Stickman, nsruf, Adam Dray, Frank T, John Harper.

8/24/2005 Hello Sailor: Polaris: Rules questions
Here's my question. When you "exhaust a theme", do you pick an aspect, but exhaust the entire theme or just the one aspect? The book seemed to say the former,…
In These Are Our Games
Participants: Hello Sailor, Ron Edwards, Ben Lehman.

8/24/2005 Levi Kornelsen: Physical Game Staging - Black Box LARP
I've been slowly building up my methodology for staging LARP events, and I feel that it could benefit from some critical analysis and any general thoughts others had. This is…
In RPG Theory
Participants: Levi Kornelsen, Andrew Morris, komradebob, Matt, Albert of Feh.

8/24/2005 Joshua BishopRoby: [Conquer the Horizon] It Followed Me Home...
I don't quite understand what happened.  I sat down after dinner, started reading Forge threads, and then it was past midnight and I had written a rough draft of a…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Joshua BishopRoby, TonyLB, Dumirik, Emily Care.

8/24/2005 M Jason Parent: Stretching my combat system to other conflicts
About a month ago I wrote a quick and dirty 24 hour RPG called AssassinX. You can see it here: http://www.1km1kt.net/rpg/AssassinX.php It is generally simple, 80's style game design, with…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: M Jason Parent, Miskatonic, Adam Dray, Alex Johnson, iain, Kesher, Darcy Burgess, Shreyas Sampat, MatrixGamer, Resonantg.

8/24/2005 Eero Tuovinen: 15 minute demos for conventions
The only reason I write this now is that I'm really bad at remembering this stuff. So I'd probably forget later, when people actually have time to worry about this…
In Conventions
Participants: Eero Tuovinen, Peter Nordstrand, TonyLB, Lisa Padol, timfire, Gaerik, Bob Goat, Andrew Morris.

8/24/2005 hix: Star Wars d20: Is this Sim vs. Gamism?
Our group’s just started a d20 Star Wars game, which’ll probably run 4 or 5 eps (face to face). It's set about 80 years after the end of Return of…
In Actual Play
Participants: hix, Ron Edwards, Eero Tuovinen, Miskatonic, gsoylent, Rob Carriere, epweissengruber, Sydney Freedberg, Seraph, Svend, Mike Holmes.

8/24/2005 Nathan: Evening News: the concept
Hello, It's been a good while since I've posted a game design. Since several of you at Gencon were interested in what I've been working on, here is the latest…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Nathan, Graham Walmsley, Sydney Freedberg, mangaocid, Dumirik, Sifolis, Miskatonic, jasonm, gsoylent.

8/23/2005 John Wick: Gen Con 2005
Hey guys, I know The Forge did very well and you may have heard we did extremely well ourselves. I just wanted to drop a "Hey!" to everybody on the…
In Conventions
Participants: John Wick, abzu, James Holloway, Gordon C. Landis, Jürgen Mayer.

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8/24/2005 darkgar: My Experiences with Infinity Publishing and SBRPG
Well, my RPG, SBRPG, is finally out, after 5 long years of writing, testing, and proofing.  I orginally wanted to go with a more upsacale PoD printer, such as Xlibris. …
In Publishing
Participants: darkgar, Joshua BishopRoby, TonyLB.

8/24/2005 Judaicdiablo: Non-standard Scene Settings
I am curious what peoples experiences have been with unusual scene settings and I am also looking for some suggestions on ones that I haven't thought of. Examples of the…
In Dog Eared Designs
Participants: Judaicdiablo, hix, John Harper.

8/24/2005 mangaocid: [Element - CCG] Rules and Feedback!
hello all, I'm DJ from Neo Productions Unlimited( http://www.neoproductions.net ). What we have here is a new CCG called Element. It's based on a story in progress about the death…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: mangaocid, Dangerboy, daMoose_Neo.

8/24/2005 John Kim: Prepping for DitV at ConQuest
So I signed up to run a Dogs in the Vineyard game at ConQuest.  I've got six hours officially, but I expect to wrap up by five. Following Vincent's advice…
In Actual Play
Participants: John Kim, cdr, Mike Holmes, lumpley.

8/24/2005 John Kim: Prepping for Buffy at ConQuest
So my other game at ConQuest will be Buffy the Vampire Slayer RPG.  I'll be running the third in a series of games I've been doing set in Santa Cruz,…
In Actual Play
Participants: John Kim, Mike Holmes.

8/25/2005 Jasper: [Geomancy] Money and Rewards
Indie Design is really booming now (which is great to see) so I'll try to keep this question as focused as possible. I'm pretty well into designing a game about…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Jasper, Dumirik, Greg Sewell, lumpley.

8/25/2005 seawolf69: MACE 2005 - High Point, NC
just a quick post to make sure you are all aware of our little gaming con in High Point, North Carolinas MACE 2005 November 11-13, 2005 High Point, NC http://www.justusproductions.com/…
In Conventions
Participants: seawolf69, Technocrat13, abzu, Andy Kitkowski, Gaerik, btrc, JamesDJIII, Clinton R. Nixon, jasonm, Andrew Norris, Adam Dray, urbanpagan, Jonathan Walton.

8/25/2005 Technocrat13: [GenCon/L5R] 5 minutes of fun packed tightly into 4 hours of dysfunction.
Well, I debated some about the usefulness of actually posting this account, but the entertainment value it had for Ron has convinced me to press on and tell you all…
In Actual Play
Participants: Technocrat13, Gamskee, John Kim, Bankuei, JC, GB Steve, Christopher Weeks, Ron Edwards, Mike Holmes, komradebob, xenopulse, Miskatonic, Gaerik, urbanpagan, StalkingBlue, jasonm, droog, C. Edwards.

8/25/2005 JamesDJIII: [Donjon] IRC, second session, part 1 [long]
Raven, Nathan, and I kicked up another Donjon session. We had a couple of "I dunno" moments about dice and victories. Issue 1: If I have 9 dice, and the…
In Actual Play
Participants: JamesDJIII, Miskatonic, Hedge Knight, Christopher Weeks, NytCrawlr, greyorm, Clinton R. Nixon.

8/25/2005 Nathan P.: Timestream: Cover For Critique
Heya, The stars have finally aligned, and Timestream is set to go. I would like to get some feedback on the front and back cover over the next day or…
In Connections
Participants: Nathan P., matthijs, Kesher, TonyLB, StrongBadMun.

8/25/2005 GreatWolf: Is Polaris chargen part of play?
This may seem like a nitpicky question, but the ritual aspects of Polaris are a big part of the game and therefore important.  Does a group starting play for the…
In These Are Our Games
Participants: GreatWolf, pfischer, Christopher Weeks, Ben Lehman, Paka, Ron Edwards, Nev the Deranged, Blankshield.

8/25/2005 demiurgeastaroth: Scale
On the scale chart, you have Scale 1 = Person or Small Group. I wonder why you rolled these two into one - I quite like the idea of a…
In Stranger Things Playtest Forum
Participants: demiurgeastaroth, John Harper.

8/25/2005 Silmenume: Exploration does not equal Bricolage.
I broke this off from Xenopulse’s (Christian) thread Complications Instead of Failure as I felt this would be too far out of the original subject matter.  A link to the…
In RPG Theory
Participants: Silmenume, ewilen, cruciel.

8/25/2005 matthijs: Slow?
The last couple of days it seems loading pages takes a looong time. Is it just me, or are others experiencing the same problem?
In Site Discussion
Participants: matthijs, pedyo, Rob Carriere.

8/25/2005 iago: [PTA] The Tower
Rob Donoghue ran the pilot episode of "The Tower" last night, which was the first opportunity our group got to give Primetime Adventures a whirl.  We started out wanting a…
In Actual Play
Participants: iago, ScottM, Rob Donoghue, John Harper, Adam Dray, Andrew Norris.

8/25/2005 nikola: Welcome to the glyphpress forum!
Welcome to the glyphpress, where failsafes are optional. Dangerous topics and language is encouraged as long as it's in the service of the games and stories they help you make.…
In glyphpress
Participants: nikola, Ben Lehman, joshua neff, Karsten.

8/25/2005 iago: The Tower over on Actual Play
I'm starting a thread over in Actual Play about the game I was in last night, The Tower: http://www.indie-rpgs.com/forum/index.php?topic=16523.0
In Dog Eared Designs
Participants: iago, John Harper.

8/25/2005 Ron Edwards: [GenCon Sorcerer demo] Zhanna
Hello, I discovered the hard way in 2002 and 2003 that Sorcerer gets under-sold and under-mentioned at the Forge booth. Much in the same way that people will cite someone…
In Actual Play
Participants: Ron Edwards, Mike Holmes, Sydney Freedberg, Technocrat13, TonyLB, Jake Norwood, Meguey, Tim C Koppang, GreatWolf, LordSmerf.

8/25/2005 Andy Kitkowski: Ha! THe first post! (and Alternate Settings to BTI)
Cool, we've got Hot Forum-on-Forum action in the house. So, I never got a chance to run it at GenCon, but I so want to soon run BTI in alternate…
In Black and Green Games
Participants: Andy Kitkowski, Clinton R. Nixon, Emily Care, TonyLB, Ron Edwards, John Harper, Allan, Ben Lehman, jasonm, Dumirik, Frank T, JasperN., GB Steve, Victor Gijsbers.

8/25/2005 lumpley: My Favorite and Only puppies Demo
So somebody who shall remain nameless* comes up to me on Thursday and is all like, "I got this guy over here wants a kill puppies for satan demo" and…
In Actual Play
Participants: lumpley, Clinton R. Nixon, Albert of Feh, Ron Edwards, Shiffer.

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