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8/25/2005 Nev the Deranged: GenCon 2006 Suggestion
After trying to use my cell phone as a communications tool at the Con and mostly failing, I was thinking. I have a set of 2 way radios. Maybe one…
In Conventions
Participants: Nev the Deranged, Andrew Morris, Paul Czege, Christopher Weeks, Kat Miller, M Jason Parent.

8/25/2005 Jake Norwood: Sorcer and Soldiers
So I'm packing my "A" bag for the big flight into Iraq, trying to decide if it's even worth bringing an RPG. I haven't played in about 2 years--not really,…
In Adept Press
Participants: Jake Norwood, Darcy Burgess, Ron Edwards, Peter Nordstrand, The_Tim, Miskatonic.

8/25/2005 Blankshield: [GenCon Booth Demos] Death's Door
I was able to run three demos, one on Thursday and two on Sunday, during my limited time at the booth.  It's possible that I may have been able to…
In Actual Play
Participants: Blankshield.

8/25/2005 Ron Edwards: [GenCon booth demos] My life as a player
Hello, During the exhibit time at GenCon, I participated in one or more demonstrations each of Infinite Armies, Capes, Shadow of Yesterday, Breaking the Ice, Kayfabe, Sweet Dreams, A/State, Under…
In Actual Play
Participants: Ron Edwards, Jasper the Mimbo, Meguey, Kesher, Gordon C. Landis.

8/25/2005 Joshua BishopRoby: We Need a Term
We need a term (or do we already have a term?) for all of these compact little roleplaying games that come out to nothing more than a few pages.  They're…
In Publishing
Participants: Joshua BishopRoby, Graham Walmsley, Jasper, Jeph, Addix, Heraldic Game Design, rickr, Ron Edwards, Clinton R. Nixon, Bankuei, Eero Tuovinen, timfire, TonyLB, KeithBVaughn, Miskatonic.

8/25/2005 Mike Holmes: Other Projects?
You've already mentioned plans for at least one other game. Any hints as to what we can expect out of your new venture, Em? Mike
In Black and Green Games
Participants: Mike Holmes, Emily Care, Ron Edwards, Ben Lehman, Gregor Hutton, Andrew Morris, Andrew Norris, Shreyas Sampat, Allan, Brand_Robins.

8/25/2005 Bob Goat: The Sky is Falling
My first post GenCon update is a nice little preview of the last <i>Conspiracy of Shadows</i> book, <i><b>Conspiracy of Shadows: Apocalpyse</b></i>, a book dedicated to creating and playing during the…
In Bob Goat Press
Participants: Bob Goat.

8/25/2005 Emily Care: Hello & Welcome
Hi there! This is the forum for Black & Green Games, bringing you Breaking the Ice as of Summer 2005 at GenCon Indy. I'm Emily Care Boss, the brains/shadowy figure…
In Black and Green Games
Participants: Emily Care, Andrew Norris, Nev the Deranged.

8/25/2005 gsoylent: Investigation sequences
This is taken from the Actual PLay thread Star Wars d20: Is this Sim vs. Gamism http://www.indie-rpgs.com/forum/index.php?topic=16489.0 The problem in question was in a Star Wars adventure in which the…
In RPG Theory
Participants: gsoylent, Albert of Feh, Technocrat13, Joshua BishopRoby, hix, Nogusielkt, pedyo, Eero Tuovinen.

8/25/2005 Judaicdiablo: Scene Structure - length and structure
I come from a D&D background and thus have a much more Task oriented frame of reference.  That being said, I have been reading PTA and I am a little…
In Dog Eared Designs
Participants: Judaicdiablo, Matt Wilson.

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.

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 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 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 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: [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 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 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 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 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.

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8/26/2005 Paka: Demoed at Gen Con
I find the mark of a good demo is when I just want to keep on playing and see what happens next.  Having bought so many games this year, I…
In Actual Play
Participants: Paka, nikola, Emily Care.

8/26/2005 ffilz: [D20 Arcana Evolved] How do I improve my reward cycle
I have been running a new D20 campaign since April and things are going pretty well. The players: D&A: the young couple from my previous campaign S: a new player…
In Actual Play
Participants: ffilz, Christopher Weeks, StalkingBlue, Eero Tuovinen, Gaerik, iago, Sean, Bankuei, Chris Geisel, Jasper Polane, Mike Holmes, jaw6, James_Nostack.

8/26/2005 StrongBadMun: Ember [game concept]
Ok I'm in the earliest stages of work with this game which is the latest incarnation of a game I've been working on for the better part of two years. …
In Indie Game Design
Participants: StrongBadMun, Troy_Costisick, Rorimack, Graham Walmsley, greyorm.

8/26/2005 matthijs: Review up at rpg.net
My review of Fastlane can be read here.
In Twisted Confessions
Participants: matthijs, Mike Holmes, Lxndr.

8/26/2005 Jacob: [Trollbabe] Multiple Trollbabes in one conflict.
I’ve scanned the forums and found some great Trollbabe material here, but one question still bugs me. How do you handle multiple Trollbabes in the same conflict, with the same…
In Adept Press
Participants: Jacob, John Harper, Ron Edwards.

8/26/2005 TonyLB: [Misery Bubblegum] Delayed Gratification
So, Past versions of the system have had a lot of... y'know... stuff attached to them.  Time to get back to core principles.  Thankfully, GenCon gave me plenty to think…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: TonyLB, StrongBadMun, Sydney Freedberg, Eero Tuovinen, LordSmerf.

8/26/2005 lumpley: Can the Dogs Define Sin Away?
[quote author=Pôl Jackson link=topic=16439.msg175504#msg175504 date=1124950780] There's an idea in the game that I find problematic: that the Dogs can redefine sin so that it isn't sin anymore. But that's a…
In lumpley games
Participants: lumpley, Eero Tuovinen, TonyLB, Pol Jackson.

8/26/2005 Matt Wilson: Revised Edition: Preorders
New books will be available to ship starting September 1. The price is $20 plus shipping and handling. However, if you can't wait until then to give me money, I'm…
In Dog Eared Designs
Participants: Matt Wilson.

8/26/2005 Kat Miller: IGE at Southern Exposure
Becca was kind enough to let us know that Southern Exposure is coming up. It's being held in Cherry Hill NJ. Sept 29th to Oct2. more information can be found…
In Conventions
Participants: Kat Miller, TonyLB, Michael S. Miller, Nathan P., rickr, Andrew Morris.

8/26/2005 J. Tuomas Harviainen: [Moira] Examples of ensemble playing.
This thread continues from a theory thread, and attempts to illustrate the approach to gaming the people there used. Read that before reading this. Moira was a three-day larp in…
In Actual Play
Participants: J. Tuomas Harviainen, TonyLB, Sydney Freedberg, Artanis.

8/26/2005 Darcy Burgess: Sorc. Blog: Feudal Japan
Don't have a catchy name for the Sorc game that's a-brewin' at the Gaming Ranch, but the subject line is pretty indicative...  I'd like to use this space to keep…
In Adept Press
Participants: Darcy Burgess, Ron Edwards, Eero Tuovinen, jburneko, GreatWolf, Paka, Dumirik, Lisa Padol, MetalBard.

8/26/2005 John Kim: John's Standard Rant #1: Freeform Traits
This is a general rant about freeform traits, prompted by some off-board discussion.  I'm not opposed to them in general, but I think that some designers choose them as a…
In RPG Theory
Participants: John Kim, Sean, gsoylent, Emily Care, Nathan P., Joshua BishopRoby, greyorm, HMT, lumpley, chadu, Marco, Sydney Freedberg, cruciel, Noon, Troy_Costisick, Darcy Burgess, jaw6, Everspinner.

8/26/2005 Emily Care: [DitV]deconstructing dogs, gencon play
Hi Everybody, There’s been some talk about a certain game of Dogs in the Vineyard that happened at GenCon. It contained some serious and disturbing events that had happened in the…
In Actual Play
Participants: Emily Care, Ron Edwards, Eero Tuovinen, Sean, Meguey, Clinton R. Nixon, lumpley, Ben Lehman, Paka, Matt Wilson, Christopher Weeks, cruciel, gsoylent, GB Steve, Miskatonic, Andrew Norris, Marco.

8/26/2005 John Kim: Group Helping Strategies
OK, so as I'm preparing to GM my second Dogs game, I'm pondering group strategies.  In my first run, the players would tend to approach group conflicts by all rolling,…
In lumpley games
Participants: John Kim, mtiru, cdr.

8/26/2005 Sydney Freedberg: Ron Edwards explains why Capes freaks some people out
We've had lots of furballing discussions over the way Capes allows any player to create enormous changes in the shared imagined space at will -- e.g. "I roll up 'Goal:…
In Muse of Fire Games
Participants: Sydney Freedberg, jburneko, Andrew Morris, Tony Irwin, TonyLB, Miskatonic, LordSmerf, Ron Edwards, Gaerik, Vaxalon, Mike Holmes.

8/26/2005 Thor Olavsrud: [Burning Wheel] Throne of Fire Session I
We played the first session of a new campaign for Burning Sand: Jihad last night, and I thought I'd share. This campaign is set on a world we've called Ammun.…
In Actual Play
Participants: Thor Olavsrud.

8/26/2005 timfire: [In a Land Called...] Console RPGs done timfire's way
Hi everyone, This is my new project, that I'm tenatively calling "In a Land Called...": www.timfire.com/ialc.pdf The general set-up is that some evil plot threatens to---literally---destroy the world, and only…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: timfire, Eero Tuovinen, Graham Walmsley, Bankuei, Filip Luszczyk, Shreyas Sampat, David Bapst, Artanis, WRPIgeek, daMoose_Neo, sirogit, MisterPoppet.

8/26/2005 jburneko: Strange Reaction to Trollbabe
I've shown Trollbabe to a lot of people.  I've encountered a lot of negative reactions.  A lot of guys don't want to play Trollbabe because they'd be personally uncomfortable with…
In Adept Press
Participants: jburneko, Eero Tuovinen, Clinton R. Nixon, Sean, Bankuei, John Harper, Noon, Pol Jackson, Ron Edwards, Jacob.

8/26/2005 Silmenume: Searching for Threads started by a poster...
Is there a way to search for all Threads started by a poster? The wild card does not seem to work in the "search for" field. Thanks
In Site Discussion
Participants: Silmenume, TonyLB, Valamir.

8/26/2005 Joshua BishopRoby: [Conquer the Horizon] First Playtest
[url=http://www.indie-rpgs.com/forum/index.php?topic=16492.0]Conquer the Horizon[/url] is a microgame of four pages in which the players portray members of an exploratory team from the Old World discovering the wonders of the New World. …
In Actual Play
Participants: Joshua BishopRoby, TonyLB, Emily Care.

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