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9/9/2005 Spooky Fanboy: Just to be sure:
The PDF contains all the new rules you mentioned in the Forums, right?
In lumpley games
Participants: Spooky Fanboy, lumpley.

12/31/2004 Spooky Fanboy: Mage: the Ascension to Heroquest conversion notes?
Pretty much what it says. I am looking for a way to "unleash" Mage and from what everyone here has said, Heroquest just seems to make everything it touches better.…
In HeroQuest
Participants: Spooky Fanboy, Bankuei, neelk, Brand_Robins, Eero Tuovinen, Jere, Mike Holmes, nichughes.

11/5/2004 Spooky Fanboy: DiTV-help from modern times....
Have any of you picked up the newest issue of Details magazine? Don't let the fact that Ben Affleck's on the cover keep you away; there's an interesting article in…
In lumpley games
Participants: Spooky Fanboy, Mike Holmes, Brand_Robins, Trevis Martin, lumpley, Blankshield, Albert the Absentminded.

10/24/2004 Spooky Fanboy: [DiTV] A question from one of the rapidly converting
Hi. I recently borrowed this game from a friend of mine. I really like what I see, especially how the game (from conflict to town creation) gradually escalates from personal…
In lumpley games
Participants: Spooky Fanboy, lumpley, Valamir, Ben Lehman, Hello Sailor.

10/19/2004 Spooky Fanboy: [Fastlane] taking submissions for supplements?
I'd like to do a modern magic and/or superpowers supplement for Fastlane. Sound interesting? Or should I simply post it in this forum?
In Twisted Confessions
Participants: Spooky Fanboy, Lxndr.

8/28/2004 Spooky Fanboy: Just got my thank-you copy
And thank you; it's a nice game. I'd like to post a review of it somewhere, but I'm borrowing computers as is, and still don't have one of my own.…
In Chimera Creative
Participants: Spooky Fanboy, Matt Snyder.

4/3/2004 Spooky Fanboy: Entry-Level Dieties: a roleplaying game in progress
Okay, I started this game being fed up with games like Lost Gods, Black and White, the Last Exodus, Nobilis, etc. for various reasons. My goal, in creating this game,…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Spooky Fanboy, gobi, taalyn, RaconteurX, Matt, Marhault.

12/9/2003 Spooky Fanboy: Enlightenment devours you: Mage the Ascension a la Sorcerer
So, I ask myself, since I like Mage the Ascension (with all it's faults) and I like Sorcerer, is there a way to get two great tastes that taste great…
In Adept Press
Participants: Spooky Fanboy.

11/10/2003 Spooky Fanboy: Augmented: The Trouble with Hyper-Humans
Okay. I want to design a game around a theme I find interesting: humans with standard human gifts/weaknesses that are augmented/uplifted to superhuman capability. Think Nobilis (for it's Aspect descriptions),…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Spooky Fanboy, Valamir, Ron Edwards, gobi, Andrew Martin, Mike Holmes, Shreyas Sampat.

11/10/2003 Spooky Fanboy: Game brewing: where to discuss ideas for games
Where on the Forge is it acceptable to discuss and refine basic ideas for games, rather than games where the work has already been accomplished and need to be reviewed?…
In Site Discussion
Participants: Spooky Fanboy, Ron Edwards.

10/30/2003 Spooky Fanboy: 9 Worlds: Hubris/Arete question
Originally, in the 9 Worlds playtest, if you declared one of these sacrosanct, the other attribute was put in danger. No matter how hard I tried, I couldn't wrap my…
In Chimera Creative
Participants: Spooky Fanboy, Matt Snyder, Valamir.

7/12/2003 Spooky Fanboy: EAK text question
Hey, will the text version of EAK have the Hubris rules? As well as more rules for character advancement and long-term play?
In Mystic Ages Online
Participants: Spooky Fanboy, buddha, Nathan, Jason L Blair.

7/10/2003 Spooky Fanboy: Disposable Heroes: a setting for Schism
While I wait for the streamline and hopped-up version of Schism to hit the streets, I came up with a setting imminently playable for Schism, either version. Basically, it's a…
In Memento-Mori Theatricks
Participants: Spooky Fanboy, Jared A. Sorensen.

6/22/2003 Spooky Fanboy: Divination in 9W
How does divination or or "detect (fill in the blank)" magic work in 9W? Also, is it possible to combine Urges to alter the current reality?
In Chimera Creative
Participants: Spooky Fanboy, Matt Snyder.

6/20/2003 Spooky Fanboy: Nitpick: "Sleeper" in 9W
In your lexicon, it gives "Sleeper" as the term for those who remain ignorant of what's really going on. Mage uses the same word for the same thing. This game…
In Chimera Creative
Participants: Spooky Fanboy.

6/16/2003 Spooky Fanboy: Hero's Journey: a game of heroes and the supernatural
This is my first attempt at making a roleplaying game. Be only as harsh as you need to be. What it's about: The power to change the world--and the responsibility…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Spooky Fanboy, Shreyas Sampat, John Harper.

6/4/2003 Spooky Fanboy: Based on Feedback from octaNe play
Hi. I like octaNe. I really do. But I had a friend of mine run the game for me, and he came up with a nice elaborate backstory. My six…
In Memento-Mori Theatricks
Participants: Spooky Fanboy, Jared A. Sorensen.

6/1/2003 Spooky Fanboy: Creating the world in 9W
Okay, now that that's solved: A scenario idea popped into my head while reading this thread: some rival bad guy, another Archon, has created a fictional town in Nevada, a…
In Chimera Creative
Participants: Spooky Fanboy, Matt Snyder.

5/29/2003 Spooky Fanboy: Question about Nine Worlds
Namely: the whole permanency issue. The reason I initially wanted to keep Arete actions permanent and Hubris actions changeable unless Locked is because I had problems with killed opponents suddenly…
In Chimera Creative
Participants: Spooky Fanboy, Matt Snyder.

5/8/2003 Spooky Fanboy: Invoking the Trait
I recall there was a bit of controversy over what happened when two players invoked the same Trait. Has there been any progress in that department? I still stick by…
In Dark Omen Games
Participants: Spooky Fanboy, M. J. Young.

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9/18/2005 Spooky Fanboy: Wacky alternate setting idea from RPGnet
I stumbled across this in an RPGnet thread about, of all things, Mage: the Awakening. Bruce Baugh dropped the original idea seed. I chimed in about how DitV would be…
In lumpley games
Participants: Spooky Fanboy, jasonm, Vaxalon.

10/27/2005 Spooky Fanboy: [DiTV] Thread in rpg.net
If anyone's interested, it's here. So far, it's converted two people (or at least has them interested in DiTV) at last count!
In lumpley games
Participants: Spooky Fanboy, lumpley, Neal, dunlaing, Brand_Robins, Bankuei, foucalt.

11/3/2005 Spooky Fanboy: [Junk Dreams] split II
Okay...so the Control Machines are fighting each other as well as the junkies? Or are individual junkies Control Machines themselves, and it's all against everyone else? I'm not sure, based…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Spooky Fanboy, Ron Edwards.

12/5/2005 Spooky Fanboy: Orphans of Chaos
Hey, kiddoes, looking for a little twist to your 9W games? Check out the interesting new book by Jon C. Wright, Orphans of Chaos. It has lovely little non-traditional nuggets…
In Chimera Creative
Participants: Spooky Fanboy, Thor Olavsrud.

4/4/2006 Spooky Fanboy: Updated Wish Lists for 2006
darkpages and Lacuna from Wicked Dead Studios. Elfworld and that new magic game John's working on from Wicked Dead. Bailywolf's On the Threshold and Stealing Heaven. Tenra Bansho Zero from…
In Forge Birthday Forum
Participants: Spooky Fanboy, GreatWolf, jburneko, Andy Kitkowski, Thunder_God, Peter Nordstrand, Emily Care, Jeph, Troy_Costisick, Graham Walmsley, joshua neff, Miskatonic, Ron Edwards, Dav, Lisa Padol, Paka, Keith Senkowski, JMendes, Ben Lehman, Melinglor, Shreyas Sampat, GB Steve, Matt, Arturo G., Marhault, Michael S. Miller, Chris Gardiner, Gaerik, Joshua BishopRoby, Paul Czege, gains, Frank T, ErrathofKosh, James Holloway, neko ewen, Nathan P..

8/18/2006 Spooky Fanboy: [Afraid] Please explain to someone who just stumbled across it
I found out last night, while browsing here, that there was a way to adapt DiTV to horror, a way called Afraid. I'm curious: is it being written up as…
In lumpley games
Participants: Spooky Fanboy, Rustin, demiurgeastaroth, lumpley, claes.

8/21/2006 Spooky Fanboy: Could you tell me a bit about your game?
Sorry, I did not see a webpage for it, and I'm assuming from the title it's based on 1001 Arabian Nights, and perhaps a competitive story game. Is that roughly…
In Night Sky Games
Participants: Spooky Fanboy, Meguey, Ron Edwards, komradebob, 114211.

8/25/2006 Spooky Fanboy: [Afraid] Rules quesion
In the examples provided for Afraid, one of them has the GM making the stakes "If I win, his head gets chopped off." Rules-wise how does that work: 1) In…
In lumpley games
Participants: Spooky Fanboy, lumpley.

9/8/2006 Spooky Fanboy: Whatever happened to Riptide?
Is it still gelling in the background, or is it kinda dead in the water? It sounded real cool...
In CRN Games
Participants: Spooky Fanboy, Clinton R. Nixon.

5/28/2007 Spooky Fanboy: [DRYH] a more competitive style of play
Let us say, hypothetically, that I felt like monkeying around with Don't Rest Your Head a bit. One thing in particular I wanted to try would be to take the…
In Evilhat Productions
Participants: Spooky Fanboy, iago, demiurgeastaroth.

9/19/2007 Spooky Fanboy: On the Ashcan Front...
On this thread, I loaded a mash of suggestions and questions I had regarding the Acts of Evil ashcan. I really had two suggestions: one to more quickly protagonize a…
In Half Meme Press
Participants: Spooky Fanboy.

9/23/2007 Spooky Fanboy: [Acts of Evil] Hexes and blessings
For those good, old-fashioned curses that last unto the seventh generation, which Aspect would they use? I can see arguments for Voice, but I think Memory, with it's attachment to…
In Half Meme Press
Participants: Spooky Fanboy, Eero Tuovinen, Paul Czege.

6/21/2008 Spooky Fanboy: Don't Tempt Your Fate: musings about a modern occult game
Let's say I want a tense game about modern-day magic, with a tight yet abstract system for my players to do spooky stuff in, and have spooky stuff done to…
In Evilhat Productions
Participants: Spooky Fanboy, iago.

7/5/2008 Spooky Fanboy: Ron, a few questions:
To preface this, I've read two installments of your recent interview with Rafael Chandler. It got me thinking, and I'm curious about a few things. 1) Knowing what you know…
In Adept Press
Participants: Spooky Fanboy, Ron Edwards.

12/20/2008 Spooky Fanboy: [Fastlane] Shirking favors
For some reason, the text of FASTLANE resists my reading comprehension. What happens, in plain English, when I shirk a favor in game? And what would change in the game…
In Twisted Confessions
Participants: Spooky Fanboy, Lxndr.

12/27/2008 Spooky Fanboy: Fastlane: a sword&sorcery setting at RPG.net
http://forum.rpg.net/showthread.php?t=430715 Any feedback would be welcome.
In Twisted Confessions
Participants: Spooky Fanboy, Lxndr.

3/22/2009 Spooky Fanboy: [Super Action NOW!] PDF available soon?
As the title says, is there any hope for a pdf or document of some sort for SAN! ?
In Beyond the Wire Productions
Participants: Spooky Fanboy, Marshall Burns.

4/4/2009 Spooky Fanboy: [Fastlane] Another setting, this time with psychics
Ever wanted to be a veteran from the psychic wars? Here's how to do it the Fastlane way!
In Twisted Confessions
Participants: Spooky Fanboy, Lxndr, Wolfen.

4/23/2009 Spooky Fanboy: [Mortal Coil] Revised?
Has MC Revised come to fruition yet? Or is it still on the back burner?
In Galileo Games
Participants: Spooky Fanboy, inthisstyle, Ice Cream Emperor.

2/26/2010 Spooky Fanboy: [Super Action Now!] Game inspiration
http://axecop.com/index.php Seems to be where you're heading with the game.
In Beyond the Wire Productions
Participants: Spooky Fanboy, Marshall Burns.

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