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9/8/2005 James_Nostack: Indie Supplement Design (?)
For the past three years I had been running an IRC campaign based on TSR's Alternity game.  Now that the game has finished gloriously--thanks in part due to Forge peeps--I'd…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: James_Nostack, MikeSands, Gamskee, Rob Carriere, Troy_Costisick.

9/8/2005 Gaerik: 1 Player - 1 GM
Greetings, I'm wanting to play a game with my wife, who is not an avid gamer though she has played with my group from time to time.  However, she really…
In Actual Play
Participants: Gaerik, John Harper, Dumirik, Paka, Emily Care, Imperator, Nev the Deranged.

9/8/2005 anonymouse: Surfing game?
(I never know where to put this sort of topic at the Forge..) I'm running a mecha game with a slightly unusual method of flying, and while I've managed a…
In Connections
Participants: anonymouse, jasonm, Technocrat13.

9/7/2005 Certified: [Dead Inside] Advertising (split)
I would like to return to this post. Now that it’s been several months have you noticed an any increase in overall website traffic since the S*P ad ran? Also,…
In Publishing
Participants: Certified, chadu, Ron Edwards.

9/7/2005 mrlost: How do ceremonies work?
What are the purpose of ceremonies? Please clarify how they function in game? Are they supposed to counter Demonic Influence, and how do they modify fallout?
In lumpley games
Participants: mrlost, nikola, GB Steve, Eero Tuovinen, lumpley, TonyLB.

9/7/2005 JC: [Mountain Witch] Bangs ?
hey :) I just bought TMW and I'm planning on running it soon for some…
In Actual Play
Participants: JC, Ron Edwards, Technocrat13, Paka, Albert of Feh, timfire.

9/7/2005 nikola: Some thoughts, at Vincent's behest, about GenCon 2005
Over at his blog, Vincent challenged me to write a couple of things up for the Forge. I've been putting it off until my computer gets back from the hospital,…
In Conventions
Participants: nikola, Emily Care, Michael S. Miller.

9/7/2005 GB Steve: Connection problems
I had a hard time connecting just now. I kept getting a page with not much on except a short message at the top saying all the connections were busy.…
In Site Discussion
Participants: GB Steve, Andrew Morris.

9/7/2005 RobNJ: [Burning Wheel] Burning Carnivale
I'm running an ongoing game of Burning Wheel set in a medieval carnival.  You can find the world planning thread here and I also created a Carnival Sub-setting. So we…
In Actual Play
Participants: RobNJ, Paka, elgorade, Chris Geisel, rafial.

9/7/2005 jburneko: Simple Capes Rules Questions
Hello, Just simple rules questions: 1) Can you introduce "Free Conflicts" for free on your actual turn or only at the top of a page. 2) When you have your…
In Muse of Fire Games
Participants: jburneko, TonyLB.

9/7/2005 Paul Czege: Bacchic frenzy on the bitwaves
Paul Tevis talks about Bacchanal in the 7th installment of his Have Games, Will Travel podcast: http://havegameswilltravel.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=18642 The Bacchanal segment is about 15 minutes in, but you don't want to…
In Half Meme Press
Participants: Paul Czege.

9/7/2005 MisterPoppet: Pamphlet RPG's
The other day at work my friend (who is both my co-worker and fellow role-player) approached me about an idea he had. He knew I had been working on RPG…
In Publishing
Participants: MisterPoppet, Paul Czege, Jasper, Joshua BishopRoby, MatrixGamer, jdagna, HinterWelt.

9/7/2005 Sacha: Rebuked but undeterred
Hello again. Having been gently rebuked for starting a thread that wasn't about actual play (sorry about that), I'm going to try again. I'll also avoid using any Forge speak…
In Actual Play
Participants: Sacha, Ron Edwards, Hans.

9/7/2005 John Harper: Medical attention, GM throws the conflict
So, tonight we finished up the second session of our Dogs game. Something came up that isn't mentioned in the rules. I'm running the game. After a very nasty conflict…
In lumpley games
Participants: John Harper, StalkingBlue, GB Steve, ADamnFox, Technocrat13, lumpley, Ron Edwards, Paka, DamienNeil, Bankuei, Judaicdiablo.

9/7/2005 sirogit: (Sorc) Handling the creation of new characters.
Looking for suggestions on how to handle people making up new characters mid-game, espicially early on. Case in point, a character goes to Humanity 0 in the first session(Which went…
In Adept Press
Participants: sirogit, Ron Edwards.

9/7/2005 slavlin: A couple of concepts to bounce
I had a couple of ideas that I wanted to spitball off of some of the experienced players here. One of my friends actually reads the forums WAY more than…
In Muse of Fire Games
Participants: slavlin, Stickman, TonyLB, Uzzah, Gaerik.

9/7/2005 Rich: Boost and Vitality (split)
So can Vitality be used to keep aging at bay? In other words to keep the user vital?
In Adept Press
Participants: Rich, Ron Edwards.

9/7/2005 Dumirik: Surrounded by Genius
Ok, this thread might be something new, or it might have already been dealt with before, in which case give me a swift kick in the ass and point me…
In RPG Theory
Participants: Dumirik, timfire, Vaxalon, Andrew Morris, TonyLB, bcook1971, Graham Walmsley, contracycle, Arturo G., Paul Czege, xenopulse, Blankshield, Joshua BishopRoby, gsoylent, Troy_Costisick, Ron Edwards, Michael S. Miller, Nathan P..

9/7/2005 c: [Outside] Alpha chargen test
Hello everyone, Background: 2 to 4 times a years some of my friends here in Wisconsin and some friends from another state get together and play boardgames all weekend. This…
In Actual Play
Participants: c.

9/6/2005 Lisa Padol: More Questions
Okay, so, Avram, Beth, Josh, and I played 2 pilot eps of PTA this past weekend, with me as the producer both times. When 2 or more people have their…
In Dog Eared Designs
Participants: Lisa Padol, Matt Wilson, mneme, demiurgeastaroth, MarcoBrucale, John Harper, Blankshield, Rob Donoghue, Landon Darkwood, iago, Andrew Norris, Alan, avram.

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9/8/2005 Emily Care: [PtA] Reading between Blue Lines (GenCon play)
Vincent, your wish is my demand:  So, it's Sunday night, last night of GenCon.  Allan, Joshua, Ben & I are up in our hotel room in the Embassy Suites.  Obviously…
In Actual Play
Participants: Emily Care, Paka, Meguey, Ben Lehman, John Harper, nikola, Harlequin.

9/8/2005 Eero Tuovinen: [Errata] Egyptian spelling
Tony: you ask for corrections to Capes on your website, so I'm posting one: 'pharaoh' isn't spelled "pharoah", which you do in your examples at least twice. Search and replace,…
In Muse of Fire Games
Participants: Eero Tuovinen.

9/8/2005 jasonm: Swedish Freeform and the Forge
[url=http://polyfem.blogspot.com/]Sven Holmström[/url] has some interesting things to say about the similarities and differences between narrativist games emerging from the Forge and nordic [i]friform[/i] gaming.  It was pointed out to me…
In RPG Theory
Participants: jasonm, Green, J. Tuomas Harviainen, Merten, Sven, JonasB.

9/8/2005 Jack Aidley: Challenges: a rules questions
It wasn't clear to me reading the rules as we played last night (great game, BTW!) - when someone challenges one of your statements do you take the coin you…
In Universalis
Participants: Jack Aidley, Valamir, Arturo G., Mike Holmes.

9/8/2005 JamesDJIII: [Donjon] via IRC, fourth session
Last night we played Donjon again, set in the DarkSun setting published in the 1990s for AD&D. One of the things we all set out to do was to play…
In Actual Play
Participants: JamesDJIII, greyorm, Christopher Weeks.

9/8/2005 Matthew Glover: Handing Out Fanmail Before The First Conflict
Hi!  I couldn't wait to get my hands on a copy of the new edition, so I had a friend of a friend pick one up at Gencon and got…
In Dog Eared Designs
Participants: Matthew Glover, Meguey, Matt Wilson.

9/8/2005 TonyLB: Advantage/Disadvantage: What does the divide tell us?
Characters in many games have clear-cut advantages and disadvantages.  The way games treat these is becoming a source of fascination for me. I was raised (as a gamer) in Champions. …
In RPG Theory
Participants: TonyLB, Technocrat13, c, Joshua BishopRoby, Noon, Tony Irwin.

9/8/2005 Bankuei: [L5R] A learning experience, if nothing else
Hi, About a month ago I finished up running a game of the new (3rd) edition of Legend of the 5 Rings that ran for about 10 sessions in total.…
In Actual Play
Participants: Bankuei, Technocrat13, Tony Irwin, John Burdick, sirogit, Storn, c, John Wick.

9/8/2005 TonyLB: Why should player's support their characters?
[i][ Okay, I am arrogant enough to think that what follows is a whole separate topic from [url=http://www.indie-rpgs.com/forum/index.php?topic=16750.0]Advantages/Disadvantages[/url].  They are clearly linked, in mindset if nothing else, but they seem…
In RPG Theory
Participants: TonyLB, Joshua BishopRoby, Troy_Costisick, Ben Lehman, Gordon C. Landis, timfire, Noon, lumpley, Emily Care, xenopulse, demiurgeastaroth, cruciel, Kynn.

9/8/2005 Artanis: [Paladin 40K] #2: Nurgle (why did I feel bad?)
Following on this AP-report, here comes the second mission. We left combat behind and delved into some more "political" complications. Three things I really need to get straight: 1) The…
In Actual Play
Participants: Artanis, GreatWolf.

9/8/2005 RPGnut: who needs a GM?
Now as much as the title might make it sound as if I'm looking for work as a gorups GM I'm not.  Instead I'm curious as to everyone's thoughts on…
In RPG Theory
Participants: RPGnut, Technocrat13, Andrew Morris, lumpley, Halzebier.

9/8/2005 Andrew Morris: Problems making a PDF using OpenOffice
This is a pretty simple question, but I couldn't seem to find the answer anywhere, either on the Forge or online. I have a game that is nearing the playtest…
In Publishing
Participants: Andrew Morris, Chris Goodwin, Joshua BishopRoby, rrr.

9/8/2005 ragnar: Harming characters...let players narrate their own pain?
While GMing a diceless free form game (with some elements of Theatrix) a while back I came across one problem. I didn't want to harm the characters of the story.…
In RPG Theory
Participants: ragnar, Joshua BishopRoby, Ron Edwards, Arturo G., M. J. Young, Noon, Vaxalon, xenopulse.

9/9/2005 Andy Kitkowski: Our Indie Comic Bretheren (Wash DC, Sept 23rd)
http://www.spxpo.com/index.shtml A comic expo/convention for indies comics artists. Man, does this give anyone ideas, or what? It's in DC later this month.  If anyone out there is in the vicinity…
In Conventions
Participants: Andy Kitkowski, Vaxalon.

9/9/2005 TonyLB: Have I got the math of the economy right?
It seems to me that, since the producer only gets back half of spent fan-mail as more budget, there is a statistically finite amount of budget available for an episode. …
In Dog Eared Designs
Participants: TonyLB, dyjoots, Matt Wilson, Ron Edwards, Yokiboy, demiurgeastaroth.

9/9/2005 Technocrat13: [tMW] The Fatman takes a bride.
It was such a great night I hardly know where to start.  I'm sure I won't get all the interesting bits down, but they'll come by eventually, if it takes…
In Actual Play
Participants: Technocrat13, jasonm, timfire.

9/9/2005 Blankshield: [PtA]The Belt: Creating the show and Stealth Gaming works.
(This is part of my on-going resolve to be more useful on the forge, instead of just walking away with the goods) This Thursday (as in, about 4 hours ago)…
In Actual Play
Participants: Blankshield, Tim Alexander, Joshua BishopRoby, Bregon, Arturo G..

9/9/2005 contracycle: Payoffs
Ron Edwards wrote: This is foul. Gareth, you have a choice. Either the reasons you're here are paying off, for you and others, or they're not. If not, then…
In Site Discussion
Participants: contracycle, Andrew Norris, greyorm, joshua neff, cruciel.

9/9/2005 Stickman: [Universalis] First Steps
Last night I got together with my regular group and, as we were a few down, we decided to play a one off. Jack and I had deiscussed playing Capes…
In Actual Play
Participants: Stickman, Jack Aidley, bcook1971, Valamir.

9/9/2005 Ron Edwards: Frustrating artist website
Hello, This is a very specific question. I found an awesome picture on an artist's website gallery. Not only would I like to use this picture for an Adept Press…
In Publishing
Participants: Ron Edwards, jasonm, Jack Aidley, Joshua BishopRoby, greyorm, Paul Czege, Certified, madelf, Adam.

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