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9/25/2005 James_Nostack: [& Sword] Humanity = Honor?
I'm putting a "Sorcerer & Sword" game together -- rough notes here--and was trying to narrow down what Humanity means in this genre. In the supplement (which I don't have…
In Adept Press
Participants: James_Nostack, Lisa Padol.

9/25/2005 Shreyas Sampat: AP: El Nasl's a Pimp
So, last night I played Polaris with three friends: Frank, Sarita, and Josh. Significantly, Josh and I outlined the feel of the setting without bothering with specific details, which led…
In These Are Our Games
Participants: Shreyas Sampat, Ben Lehman, suffusionofyellow.

9/24/2005 Jonathan Hastings: [Shab-al-Hiri Roach] The Dark Fates of Regina Sutton
My first game of the Roach (took place about 3 weeks ago): The players: Me: Just getting back into RPGing after a hiatus of about 5 years.  Having some issues…
In Actual Play
Participants: Jonathan Hastings, jasonm, NBraccia.

9/24/2005 pasoliati: [Coat of Arms] first draft
COAT OF ARMS by Aaron Brown (with ideas stolen from Adam Cerling’s “Ends and Means” and ideas and text stolen from Mark Whithers’s “Anti-Pool Variation”) The Setting and Situation There…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: pasoliati, MikeSands, Joshua BishopRoby, TonyLB, Tobaselly.

9/24/2005 apemantus: A new game, a new member. Realm by Apemantus.
Hi! My name is Apemantus, and I'm new to the Forge, but I've been playing RPG's (mainly D&D) for a while now. I'm in the process of designing my own…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: apemantus, Jasper, LordSmerf, knicknevin, greyorm, Certified, Kynn, nsruf, MrSandman666.

9/24/2005 Peter Nordstrand: [Guilt and Frustration]
Welcome to the first thread about Guilt and Frustration. This first post will be a general introduction to the game. Following posts will include specific questions. You can download the…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Peter Nordstrand, Jasper, tygertyger.

9/24/2005 knicknevin: [Bridge Crew] Dynamic Dice Pools
I'm working on a tongue in cheek, Star Trek-style game in which each player is dealt a card representing a different bridge officer and they play that officer throughout the…
In First Thoughts
Participants: knicknevin, mutex, MikeSands, Joshua BishopRoby, Smithy.

9/24/2005 Nev the Deranged: Couple questions
Okay, so I finally got to actually play some Dogs tonight. Just an Initiation, but she's psyched to get a group together so it just might happen. I posted about…
In lumpley games
Participants: Nev the Deranged, nikola.

9/24/2005 Nev the Deranged: [DitV] Sister Deborah's Initiation
Wow. So, totally by accident, I ended up running Shannon through chargen for DitV tonight. A bit of background: I've been trying to convert Shannon to indie games since I've…
In Actual Play
Participants: Nev the Deranged, droog, jasonm, Meguey.

9/24/2005 Noon: Helping new arrivals who have already made many choices
This came up in a recent thread. I'd describe the situation as a new member of the Forge asking for help with their project (in this case it was a…
In Site Discussion
Participants: Noon, TonyLB, Artanis, Bankuei, Jasper, Troy_Costisick.

9/24/2005 Artanis: [Call of Poolhu] Improvised Investigation
Hello! Taking a break from my Paladin 40k campaign with this one shot mastered by our long-time CoC GM. I talked about the Pool and he thought it could be…
In Actual Play
Participants: Artanis, gsoylent.

9/23/2005 Uzzah: Another Piece of Errata?
Reading through the book again I noticed what might be an error, not sure if it's been spotted before. Page 36, in the example where Nocturne is staking debt to…
In Muse of Fire Games
Participants: Uzzah, TonyLB.

9/23/2005 Matt-M-McElroy: Site?
Hey, Something going on at www.bobgoat.com ? It doesn't seem to be there... -MMM
In Bob Goat Press
Participants: Matt-M-McElroy, Bob Goat, Roger Eberhart.

9/23/2005 nikola: [Shock:] Digging for Mold in the Company town
The first campaign designed and played in Shock: Social Science Fiction is now underway. C. and Vincent played with me. There's a planet. It's called Eck-R-P30: a designation, not a…
In Actual Play
Participants: nikola, Meguey, lumpley, ScottM, joepub.

9/23/2005 JakeVanDam: New path to Nar/Sim blend?
Jason DeVrieze and I are working on a new game based around an idea I've never seen used before, and I was just wondering if anyone has senn it done…
In RPG Theory
Participants: JakeVanDam, Halzebier, Bankuei, timfire, Joshua BishopRoby, Noon, ewilen.

9/23/2005 Judaicdiablo: Ceremony in Firefly in the Vineyard
There are 3 guiding principles to the Firefly in the Vineyard setting.  You may interpret them as you like. “A captain's goal was simple: find a crew, find a job,…
In lumpley games
Participants: Judaicdiablo, nikola, IMAGinES, Everspinner, John Harper, Frank T, lumpley, philaros.

9/22/2005 Uzzah: [Trollbabe] Bonuses for good roleplaying?
The subject pretty much says it all.  I was wondering if anyone had any experience with trying to award bonuses for good roleplaying like Sorcerer does?  Or would it screw…
In Adept Press
Participants: Uzzah, Ron Edwards.

9/22/2005 Ignotus: [Alternate Setting] Thunder in the Vineyard
DitV – Thunder in the Vineyard “They who give straight judgements to strangers and to the men of the land, and go not aside from what is just, their city…
In lumpley games
Participants: Ignotus, Brand_Robins, John Harper.

9/22/2005 Brand_Robins: Got It
Just got my copy of the final edition in the mail, and I have to say -- this book looks sweet. Good work!
In Incarnadine Press
Participants: Brand_Robins, Michael S. Miller, ScottM, Spooky Fanboy.

9/22/2005 Darcy Burgess: Towards a better Toolbox
Here's my idea, or more specifically, the genesis of my idea:  while driving in to work today, I was giving some thought to a couple of potential designs, and found…
In RPG Theory
Participants: Darcy Burgess, Paka, Joshua BishopRoby, timfire.

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9/25/2005 Denise: Please help me improve the ENnies
Hey gals'n'guys! I'm going to open up the ENnies for submissions year-round in the hopes of reducing the stress levels of the judges, and make submitting product easier on the…
In Publishing
Participants: Denise, abzu, TonyLB, Joshua BishopRoby, Justin D. Jacobson.

9/25/2005 Nev the Deranged: Jedi in the Vineyard
[quote][quote] what kinds of changes aside from Lightsabers instead of guns did you make? What kind of principles are the Jedi sworn to uphold, and what authority do they act…
In lumpley games
Participants: Nev the Deranged, Charles Nicholls, nikola, lumpley, John Harper.

9/25/2005 Karasu: Second Edition?
I've been waiting to get DitV ever since I heard that it was going to be availible in a new edition sometime after Gencon. I was wondering, is that second…
In lumpley games
Participants: Karasu, Nev the Deranged.

9/26/2005 JamesDJIII: [Donjon] IRC, sixth session
We had another game this last Wednesday on irc.magicstar.net. Raven, Nathan, and MikeD played. We also had lurkers galore, which surprised me. BTW, that was a good surprise - lurkers,…
In Actual Play
Participants: JamesDJIII, James_Nostack, Mike Holmes, mutex.

9/26/2005 Ron Edwards: [Ronnies] The winners for September
Hello, This thread announces the winners and presents general categories and thoughts about all the entries. Specific threads on all the games (except one, see below) will be coming…
In Publishing
Participants: Ron Edwards, LordSmerf, Peter Nordstrand, Ben Lehman, Frank T, J. Tuomas Harviainen, Troy_Costisick, GreatWolf, PrzeSzkoda, Graham Walmsley, talysman, sirogit, tygertyger, Paul Czege, rrr, Arturo G..

9/26/2005 TonyLB: [Misery Bubblegum] Hogwarts 90210
So at the NoVa Forge meetup yesterday we managed to get through the second-ever playtest of Misery Bubblegum.  It's improved.  It merely confused people horribly, rather than actively reaching out…
In Actual Play
Participants: TonyLB, Joshua BishopRoby, Miskatonic, Vaxalon, talysman, Frank T, daMoose_Neo, Sydney Freedberg.

9/25/2005 BlU_sKrEEm: 24-Hour Games (split)
    Howdy My name is Caleb Jensen, and I just submitted my first game. It's called Spazz When I started I wanted to make a system where people ate…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: BlU_sKrEEm, Ron Edwards, Kynn.

9/26/2005 Frank T: The problem with low-key towns
I ran my second game of DitV yesterday (report on the previous here). I had about 5 minutes to prepare, so I just randomly picked one of the branches from…
In lumpley games
Participants: Frank T, lumpley, Technocrat13, TonyLB, James Holloway, Brand_Robins, Vaxalon.

9/26/2005 Ben Lehman: [Want] Tuning Hatred
This is a thread regarding <i>Want</i>, my entry to Ron's contest.  Perhaps not surprisingly, I don't agree with him that the game is half-baked in terms of overall story structure,…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Ben Lehman.

9/26/2005 droog: Charnel Gods--What's Love Got to Do with It?
Well, we started our Charnel Gods game (http://www.indie-rpgs.com/forum/index.php?topic=16866.0) down one player. Who knows where A. was, but he did have Grand Final tickets for the night before so I suspect…
In Actual Play
Participants: droog, hardcoremoose.

9/26/2005 Nev the Deranged: When/who decides when a Town is done?
It occurred to me to wonder what happens if the Dogs decide their work here is done... but still leave the Town in sin, according to the Faith. Like, I've…
In lumpley games
Participants: Nev the Deranged, nikola, lumpley.

9/26/2005 TonyLB: [Misery Bubblegum] Opinion and Truth
I sum up my concern in the Hogwarts 90210 Actual Play thread.  Super-executive summary:  It's more fun for someone to have an opinion ("Sydney's a double agent") than for them…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: TonyLB, LordSmerf, Doug Ruff, 1of3, Sydney Freedberg, Graham Walmsley, Shawn De Arment, Joshua BishopRoby.

9/26/2005 Ben Lehman: [Bliss Stage] Playtesters Wanted
I'm looking for playtesters for one of my games-in-development.  The game is called Bliss Stage: Robot Combat in the Dreams of Tomorrow. It is a reasonably dark game, focusing on…
In Connections
Participants: Ben Lehman, king_yugi2003, Steven Stewart.

9/26/2005 epweissengruber: Heroquest at Phantasm: Comments on the "Well of Souls"
Scenario: 6 players involved with an intrigue in the West.  On a holy night, two rival sons offered prayers for their father's future; the n'er-do-well elder son prayed for his…
In Actual Play
Participants: epweissengruber, Bankuei, Mike Holmes.

9/26/2005 Lisa Padol: [PTA] Keruton Pilot
KerutonPilot PTA Write Up: Magical Undying Demon Hunter Keruton Background: In 1991, I started running a campaign I dubbed "CthulhuPunk". It ran for a while, maybe 8 years? Maybe 10?…
In Actual Play
Participants: Lisa Padol.

9/26/2005 Yumi: Space Opera PBEM Looking for Gamemakers
[b][glow=red,2,300][center]SpaceBunny[/center][/glow][/b] I am making this freeform Space opera PBEM. Or, I am making peaple make the game. everything is based on that the players are building the world through a…
In Connections
Participants: Yumi.

9/26/2005 Trevis Martin: Site Offline? [BACK ONLINE, THANKS FOR PATIENCE! - Matt]
Hey Matt, I seem to be unable to reach Chimera Creative's site.  You tweaking or is this a server thing? best Trevis
In Chimera Creative
Participants: Trevis Martin, Bob Goat, Matt Snyder, smokewolf.

9/26/2005 darrick: dark / weird artwork available for rpg books
hey, this is Darrick Dishaw of Empire of Satanis rpg infamy.  in my attempts to expand EoS into a big full-color book, i realized i was having better luck coming…
In Connections
Participants: darrick.

9/26/2005 Negilent: Conflict resolution - varable effect
Right I got a quick one here. Conflict resolution is as far as I understand it a pretty digital affair. You either make it or you don't. You could say…
In RPG Theory
Participants: Negilent, xenopulse, Andrew Morris, TonyLB, timfire, Joshua BishopRoby, Arturo G., lumpley.

9/26/2005 talysman: [Court of 9 Chambers] first playtest
in the second half of august, I took a trip to the east coast (Boston/Providence area) to visit with friends and basically unwind before starting another big project. while there,…
In Actual Play
Participants: talysman, TonyLB, Emily Care, Mike Holmes, Arturo G..

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