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8/27/2005 LordSmerf: Did you do this on purpose?
Emily, it was great to meet you at GenCon even if I never did get to really talk to you.  Here's one of my big questions after reading through <i>Breaking…
In Black and Green Games
Participants: LordSmerf, Emily Care, GreatWolf, Andrew Morris.

8/27/2005 Frank T: Do you want a German translation of your game?
Hi, A friend has asked me to promote his work here on the Forge. His name is Sven Flottmann. He has translated WuShu into German and is currently doing the…
In Connections
Participants: Frank T, Ron Edwards, GreatWolf, 8t88, darrick, Lxndr, btrc, Palaskar.

8/27/2005 demiurgeastaroth: Post-Playtest comments
My playtest is up. I've concentrated on the events of player over there; here I'll give feedback about the actual playtest document. Read the playtest first :) I was surprised…
In Stranger Things Playtest Forum
Participants: demiurgeastaroth, John Harper, rafial.

8/27/2005 demiurgeastaroth: [Stranger Things] Blood and Shadows
A playtest of John Harper's Stranger Things (a development of Trollbabe, set in the City of Forgotten Gods - a place where demons and men coexist, not always peacefully). The…
In Actual Play
Participants: demiurgeastaroth, John Harper.

8/27/2005 cruciel: Forum Change Timetable
Quick question:  Do you have a time table for the forum changes?  Some threads can last for weeks, so it might be helpful to know when you need people to…
In Site Discussion
Participants: cruciel, Ron Edwards.

8/27/2005 Gamskee: Good Pregenerated Characters for First Game
I'm planning on introducing Capes to my campus gaming club this Tuesday, and I'd really like it to be a success. In that vein, I decided to go with the…
In Muse of Fire Games
Participants: Gamskee, TonyLB, Stickman.

8/27/2005 ricmadeira: Multiple Conflicts in one scene
I've just posted this on Actual Play: Dirtside - A moment to remember It describes one scene where I used simultaneous multiple conflicts to force a player to divide…
In Dog Eared Designs
Participants: ricmadeira.

8/27/2005 ricmadeira: [PTA] Dirtside - A moment to remember
I have an interesting Actual Play moment I've been meaning to share for like three months. It concerns the closing episode for out highly successful Dirtside series (best thing I…
In Actual Play
Participants: ricmadeira, John Harper, Matt Wilson, iago, Frank T, Nicolas Crost, Ron Edwards, Lisa Padol.

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.

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 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 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 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 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 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 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: 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 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 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 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.

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8/27/2005 jdrakeh: [Pressure Cooker] A few playtesters wanted.
I'd like to get some feedback on Pressure Cooker (it's available for download at Miscellaneous Debris). The game is ostensibly geared for one-shot scenarios of a pulse-pounding, immersive nature, with…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: jdrakeh.

8/27/2005 Paka: Trollbabe: Kissing Cousins with those Folk from the Vineyard
I made up a character with Janaki last night and I'm really impressed with this game and happy I purchased it.  The making of the character and its success is…
In Adept Press
Participants: Paka, Ron Edwards, lumpley.

8/27/2005 John Wick: Secret Design Journal
Hello everyone. I've started a new design journal for the new "Big Game" I'll be premiering at Gen Con 2006. If you've read Thirty, you know there's a sequel in…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: John Wick, Eero Tuovinen.

8/28/2005 Clinton R. Nixon: [Shadow of the Lamb] Miracles
Hey, all. I'm writing a new game hot on the heels of GenCon. It's called "Shadow of the Lamb" and is about the first three centuries of Christianity, and, hey,…
In CRN Games
Participants: Clinton R. Nixon, Sean, dyjoots, motherlessgoose, quozl, WhiteRat, Eero Tuovinen, rafial, ejh, timfire, Spooky Fanboy, Tony Irwin, Arturo G., SirValence, Doug Ruff, Paul Czege.

8/28/2005 Valamir: Forge Booth Triumphant 2005
[b]GenCon Sales Results and Comparison[/b] Click [url=http://www.indie-rpgs.com/forum/index.php?topic=12402.0]here[/url] for last year's detail. In 2003 we had 287 separate customer transactions In 2004 we had 360 separate customer transactions (+73 Customers +25.4%)…
In Conventions
Participants: Valamir, Troy_Costisick, Nev the Deranged, Jürgen Mayer, abzu, iain, Christopher Weeks, Eero Tuovinen, Mike Holmes, Matt Gwinn, Meguey.

8/28/2005 Dumirik: [The Order] Fear, Suprise and Endgames!
This thread will frequently reference the current draft and the other thread. See http://www.indie-rpgs.com/forum/index.php?topic=16456.0 for the mechanics, current draft and background information. Essentially, I want to discuss the various endgames…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Dumirik, Graham Walmsley, PrzeSzkoda, Joshua BishopRoby, Sydney Freedberg.

8/28/2005 Paka: 2005 Gen Con Sessions: BW, Sorcerer & DitV
I ran three games this year, one off the books due to an RPG.netter asking me to run a game because my two on the books games were sold out. …
In Actual Play
Participants: Paka, Old_Scratch, RobNJ, Ron Edwards.

8/28/2005 btrc: GenCon leftovers?
After any convention I always seem to have a few copies of this and that with smudged covers or some other cosmetic imperfection that keeps me from selling it through…
In Conventions
Participants: btrc.

8/28/2005 Graham Walmsley: The GM as safety net
This is an idea that's currently interesting me. I'm hoping you guys will kick it around and tell me a. Whether it might work, b. Whether it's hopelessly naive and…
In RPG Theory
Participants: Graham Walmsley, lumpley, Halzebier, TonyLB, demiurgeastaroth, Noon, MrSandman666, contracycle, c, GB Steve.

8/28/2005 timfire: Rewarded for winning---backwards?
Over in Indie Design I posted my ideas for a new project. One of my main ideas for the game is this---When you win a conflict, you win the stakes,…
In RPG Theory
Participants: timfire, matthijs, Filip Luszczyk, Marco, Troy_Costisick, TonyLB, Noon, Ron Edwards, Halzebier, John Harper, Shreyas Sampat, contracycle, Bankuei, Joshua BishopRoby, ewilen, Negilent.

8/28/2005 MCroft: [DitV] I don't want to say 'yes' and I don't want to put dice on the table...
I had a pretty serious train wreck in my last session.  The dogs had just successfully gone in, guns blazing, and won a conflict with two posessed women for the…
In lumpley games
Participants: MCroft, Blankshield, lumpley, TonyLB, Christopher Weeks, James Holloway.

8/28/2005 MCroft: [DitV] How to decide what happens when you take a blow?
I'm not sure how to handle taking the blow in a number of situations.  In the back-and-forth of an undecided conflict, does the declared action (which the opponent cannot ignore)…
In lumpley games
Participants: MCroft, lumpley.

8/28/2005 Ron Edwards: [Doctor Chaos] Next phase playtesting
Wow, this is weird, posting in Indie Design. I tend to keep my designing pretty private. Playtesting so far has included the session described in Cards, bad guys,…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Ron Edwards, Graham Walmsley, jasonm, Troy_Costisick, Doug Ruff.

8/28/2005 GaryTP: anvilwerks and katrina
Hey, Clinton. Notice Anvilwerks is down. You going to be okay with the hurricane? Gary
In CRN Games
Participants: GaryTP, Clinton R. Nixon, Matt-M-McElroy, Negilent, Justin D. Jacobson, abzu, cleahpatra.

8/28/2005 Nev the Deranged: Overheard at GenCon '05
The best comment I overheard all Con, was from a customer at the racks. Having just participated in a demo or two, he was deciding which games he was going…
In Conventions
Participants: Nev the Deranged, Ben Lehman.

8/28/2005 jburneko: Con-Game Phenomenon or Actual Play Style?
I was reading "5 minutes of fun packed in 4 hours of dysfunction" thead and a very loud bell went off.  Take a look at these threads: The original L5R…
In Actual Play
Participants: jburneko, Frank T, Jasper Polane, RobNJ, Merten, Nicolas Crost, Sean, Bankuei, komradebob, jaw6, Joshua BishopRoby, Paka, Blankshield, Andrew Morris, GB Steve, contracycle, Ron Edwards.

8/29/2005 komradebob: Did Clinton Evacuate?
I've been watching the weather and trying to make sure my friends and family back in the Crescent City have evacuated. Has anyone heard whether Clinton evacuated, and if so…
In Site Discussion
Participants: komradebob, GaryTP, Rossum.

8/29/2005 Nev the Deranged: Sky High
So I picked up Sky High at GenCon, I'd heard good things about it. Watched it tonight. Wow. There may not be any actual demons in it, but the Sorcerer…
In Adept Press
Participants: Nev the Deranged, John Harper, rafial.

8/29/2005 Lisa Padol: Questions on Revised PTA
I picked up a few copies of 2nd ed PTA at GenCon and emailed Matt a couple of questions which he said to post here. (Note that my experience with…
In Dog Eared Designs
Participants: Lisa Padol, Matt Wilson, demiurgeastaroth, ricmadeira, Chris Goodwin, avram, John Harper.

8/29/2005 Andrew Morris: [Capes] Capes is like pizza
I had a session of Capes the other night which made me realize that Capes is like pizza -- even when it's bad, it's good. Let me give the background.…
In Actual Play
Participants: Andrew Morris, Technocrat13, droog, TonyLB, TheCzech, neelk, Joshua BishopRoby, gsoylent, Vaxalon, Gaerik.

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