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10/4/2005 Darcy Burgess: [Sorc] Feudal Japan gets off the ground
[color=Maroon]The Preamble[/color] Thanks in part to Ron's really helpful feedback in my [url=http://www.indie-rpgs.com/forum/index.php?topic=16550.0]blog thread[/url], and in a very great part to an understanding group of players, our group's first try…
In Actual Play
Participants: Darcy Burgess, ScottM, Ron Edwards.

10/4/2005 Ron Edwards: [Untitled] Ronnies feedback
Feel like disappearing into a haze of hatred? Feel like a lab rat lately? Then you'll be right at home merely in reading Keith Senkowski's Untitled entry, let alone playing…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Ron Edwards, Miskatonic, Bob Goat, talysman, Spooky Fanboy.

10/4/2005 Rustin: [DitV] Cedar Hollow - What can't you set stakes on?
[center]Background[/center] First time playing. I tried to keep this town simple with only three instances of sinful progression.  I had the ethical dilemmas revolve around --not conflicting NPC agendas exactly,…
In lumpley games
Participants: Rustin, PorterO, lumpley.

10/3/2005 pasoliati: [Coat of Arms] What this game is about.
Continued from http://www.indie-rpgs.com/forum/index.php?topic=16950.0. This is the first part of my second draft.  It is on what the game is about.  I would like you to read through and tell me…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: pasoliati, MikeSands, Joshua BishopRoby, Arturo G..

10/3/2005 Lord Lance: Scarlet Wake inquiry (split)
Hallo everybody. This is my 1st post on the Forge!!!!!! The question is pretty simple... There are news about SCARLET WAKE? I think it's 1 year without news. Is the…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Lord Lance, Ron Edwards, Andrew Morris, Dumirik.

10/3/2005 Jake Boone: [Pentarch] Boffer LARP design
I began trying to create a reasonable ruleset some time before discovering the Forge (and I wish I'd run across it sooner), however, I had a few preexisting rules-of-thumb to…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Jake Boone, JonasB, John Burdick, Andrew Morris, Shreyas Sampat, rrr, Graham Walmsley, Sven, Matt, Simon Marks, Lig, Merten, daHob.

10/3/2005 StudioMammouth: French illustrator available for work
He's fast, pretty good, doesn't charge much and he's open to negociations. He's best in interior artwork, in many styles from sexy French comic book style to gritty horror. His…
In Connections
Participants: StudioMammouth.

10/3/2005 Vaxalon: [DitV] Intro to the town of Lookout Pine - any comments?
I'm going to be running DitV over IRC tonight, and I want to put the initial scene-setting up for your critique. The road to Lookout Pine runs through some very…
In lumpley games
Participants: Vaxalon, lumpley, Meguey, Nev the Deranged.

10/3/2005 Ron Edwards: [The Great Rat Raid] Ronnies feedback
Hello, Seth Ben-Ezra's The Great Rat Raid has a lot in common with Ratpack, in terms of rats roaming about and having adventures. Play seems like an interesting cross between…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Ron Edwards, GreatWolf, tygertyger.

10/3/2005 Ron Edwards: [All Growed Up] Ronnies feedback
ALL GROWED UP, STEVE HICKEY Hello, Steve Hickey's All Growed Up is probably the strongest hate/alienation game regarding the suburbs among the entries. It reminds me of the films To…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Ron Edwards, Graham Walmsley, hix, GreatWolf.

10/3/2005 Joshua BishopRoby: [CtH] Microgame Marketing Thingy!
So, experimenting with microgame publishing, I've put Conquer the Horizon into a tiny (5.5" x 4" profile) format that can probably fit into your back jeans pocket.  The registration of…
In Publishing
Participants: Joshua BishopRoby, MatrixGamer, nikola, guildofblades, Mike Holmes.

10/3/2005 Troy_Costisick: Ronnies October
Heya, The next Ronnies contest will begin October 2 and the submission time will end October 12. Have I missed the post on this? Peace, -Troy
In Publishing
Participants: Troy_Costisick, Ron Edwards.

10/3/2005 Janus: Midnight Heroquest conversion (take 2)
Hi, I'm looking into running a Midnight game with the HQ system. Midnight is your typical MERP-like fantasy setting, with one plot twist The Evil One, after being beaten up,…
In HeroQuest
Participants: Janus, StalkingBlue, Brand_Robins, Mike Holmes, Scripty.

10/3/2005 IMAGinES: [DitV] A Pair of Branches
As mentioned in the Dogs in the Voice Chat thread over in Actual Play, I'm planning to run some Dogs in the Vineyard for my wife and a good friend.…
In lumpley games
Participants: IMAGinES, lumpley, oliof.

10/3/2005 Ribonucleic: FUDGE-y Action Resolution using 3d6 : thoughts?
Apologies in advance if this has been covered before, but I didn't find anything when doing a forum search... I'm considering using FUDGE as the foundation for a new project.…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Ribonucleic, Rob Carriere.

10/3/2005 Ron Edwards: [Space Rat] Ronnies feedback
Hello, Yaaaayy! This was another of the very few games which, upon reading, I sat right up and said "Winner, winner!" It was also the only Ronnies entry which had…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Ron Edwards, tygertyger, Dantai, Miskatonic, Graham Walmsley, Rusty.

10/2/2005 Kai_lord: The Quest
Well, I played, and then bought WGP over the weekend, and I'd like input on a possible variant of the standard rules. Now, in the normal game, a player chooses…
In Incarnadine Press
Participants: Kai_lord, Michael S. Miller.

10/2/2005 Graham Walmsley: [DitV] Willow Tree Branch
I ran Dogs for the first time tonight, with two players: my brother, who hasn't played RPGs for years, and my LARP friend Rachel. The town was a variation on…
In lumpley games
Participants: Graham Walmsley, lumpley.

10/2/2005 Ron Edwards: [I Think My Girlfriend Hates Me] Ronnies feedback
Hello, Look, it's Nicotine Girls II, evil version! Which is to say, Sean Musgrave's I Think My Girlfriend Hates Me. It reminds me a lot of the movie Hexed, and…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Ron Edwards, sirogit.

10/2/2005 jdrakeh: Own Miscellaneous Debris!
Seriously. Here's the deal - Miscellaneous Debris is closing its doors forever. I'll transfer all of the main site files and copyrights to the first individual who convinces me that…
In Connections
Participants: jdrakeh, ejh.

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10/4/2005 Clinton R. Nixon: [DitV] All Dogs Go to Heaven
This last Sunday, Andy Kitkowski, who you may know from the Indie RPG Awards, hosted the second YukiCon, his house-convention. We had quite a bit of good play, and I…
In Actual Play
Participants: Clinton R. Nixon, bcook1971, jasonm, Bob Goat, Technocrat13, urbanpagan, Mike Holmes, lumpley, ptikachu.

10/4/2005 Digs: Introduction - Day of the Crows
Hi, I'm new here, and I just, so I thought I would just introduce myself before coming to you with questions/advice, etc. I am currently in the process of completing…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Digs, Adam Dray.

10/4/2005 Kilor Di: [Terrae Novae] Questions
www.geocities.com/greginkelaar/projects.html   Click on Terrae for my old notes and Novae for my current attempt at converting those notes into an actual game. Basically, I'm posting this thread to answer any…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Kilor Di, Jasper.

10/4/2005 lrojas: General Question
Hi all, I am designing a setting and mechanics to match but so far i am concentrating on getting the setting right. I woudl liek to ask for help/review of…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: lrojas, Jasper, Andrew Morris.

10/4/2005 jasonm: Shield
So I'm prepping for a campaign using BW and set in warring states China, or close enough.  I have a question on how to handle a couple of ideosyncratic items…
In Burning Wheel
Participants: jasonm, taepoong, abzu.

10/4/2005 Jasper: Number of threads displayed
There's been so much activity in Indie Design lately that even recent, active posts get scrolled off the front page. Is there a way to allow more threads to be…
In Site Discussion
Participants: Jasper, Ron Edwards.

10/4/2005 Kat Miller: Southern Exposure - Exposure over sales
I was somewhat dissapointed by the turnout for this Convention, it seemed there weren't as many people at Southern this year.  Half of the schedualled games folded, and the sales…
In Conventions
Participants: Kat Miller, Michael S. Miller, TonyLB, LordSmerf, Andrew Morris, Nathan P., abzu.

10/4/2005 Victor Gijsbers: [Breaking the Ice] The ordeals of love
In my first-ever IRC game, we were planning on playing Polaris; but when one of the four prospective players didn't turn up and the other had severe connection problems, Remko…
In Actual Play
Participants: Victor Gijsbers, Meguey, Remko, Mike Holmes, Emily Care.

10/4/2005 dunlaing: Any progress on selling Click-n-locks?
I noticed that there was an old thread from April about using a die to cut them out and sell them in which Tony remarked about how if he could…
In Muse of Fire Games
Participants: dunlaing, TonyLB, Andrew Morris.

10/4/2005 Emily Care: TV done right
Just posted <i>my</i> ideal Thursday night lineup for the telly. http://lumpley.com/fairgame/ : ) best, Emily
In Dog Eared Designs
Participants: Emily Care, Adam Dray, Matt Wilson, Frank T, hix, ashmoo, Chris Goodwin.

10/4/2005 foucalt: [DitV] Comprehensive Alternate Setting Thread...
Hi all - I'm relatively new to the forge, and definitely new to DitV. I bought DitV, and really want to play it, but one of my key players (in…
In lumpley games
Participants: foucalt, lumpley, Andrew Morris, Sydney Freedberg, Tobias, Joshua BishopRoby, hix, oliof, Everspinner, Particle_Man, Eynowd, TheHappyAnarchist, BollaertN, Jalathas, ElliottBelser MKII, Mr. Sluagh, oreso, Gugliandalf, Taltos, Pelgrane, Dustin of the Dead, Eliarhiman6, lachek, Filip Luszczyk, SavageInOz, Levi Kornelsen, gorckat, dyreno, cra2, Warren, Solarsaurus, knicknevin, Gareth_Lazelle, Maestro.

10/4/2005 chris_moore: taking the blow
Does "taking the blow" mean that you lose the conflict stakes and get fallout, or are they separate things?
In lumpley games
Participants: chris_moore, James Holloway, Vaxalon, Jonas Karlsson, Eero Tuovinen, lumpley, bcook1971, dunlaing.

10/4/2005 Eric Minton: [Donjon] The Cellars of Zenopus (prep)
After reading epweissengruber's post about running The Slave Pits of the Under-City with Donjon, I reckoned that this would be a great use for my old D&D modules.  I'm planning…
In CRN Games
Participants: Eric Minton, Sean, Clinton R. Nixon, Vaxalon.

10/4/2005 Jonas Karlsson: [One Can Have Her] A new mechanic
A friend of mine, Jonas Barkå, suggested that some scenes in One Can Have Her could be a game of chicken, and I thought, "why not?" More precisely, I'm not…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Jonas Karlsson, Ron Edwards, Graham Walmsley, rbingham2000, JSDiamond.

10/5/2005 Ron Edwards: [Munch-Mausen Tales] Ronnies feedback
Hello, Joe J. Prince's Munch-Mausen Tales makes a nice trilogy with The Rat-God's Girlfriend and Me & the Rat. It'd be a neat thing if all of them became products…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Ron Edwards, Dantai.

10/5/2005 Ron Edwards: [The Rat-God's Girlfriend] Ronnies feedback
THE RAT-GOD'S GIRLFRIEND, KIRK MITCHELL Kirk Mitchell's The Rat-God's Girlfriend makes a nice trilogy with Munch-Mausen Tales and Me & the Rat . It'd be a neat thing if all…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Ron Edwards, Graham Walmsley, Joshua BishopRoby, tygertyger, Dumirik.

10/5/2005 Ron Edwards: [Me & the Rat] Ronnies feedback
ME & THE RAT, JASPER MCCHESNEY Jasper McChesney's Me & the Rat makes a nice trilogy with Munch-Mausen Tales and The Rat-God's Girlfriend. It'd be a neat thing if all…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Ron Edwards, Jasper, Dumirik, Dantai.

10/5/2005 Ribonucleic: Must the play be the thing?
[i][As always: apologies in advance if this has been covered before. There's more than 100 pages of threads here, and I couldn't think of any useful search keywords.][/i] This question…
In RPG Theory
Participants: Ribonucleic, Joshua BishopRoby, Nogusielkt, simon_hibbs, Mark Johnson, Noon, Vaxalon, talysman, RedWick, timfire.

10/5/2005 Frank T: [BARBAREN!] Adventure Formula?
So I’m continuing the rough clearance, before going down to the details of revising BARBAREN!. Let me explain first what I want, and then what I got. I like the…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Frank T, Ron Edwards, Ben Lehman.

10/5/2005 Ron Edwards: [Alien Angels] Ronnies feedback
Hello, Why look, more objectified female bimboids ... I think it's another Ronnies winner!! Michael Walton's Alien Angels is your basic sexy alien RPG, but with actual sex! Funny how…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Ron Edwards, tygertyger, Frank T, IMAGinES.

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