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10/6/2005 Ron Edwards: [She's ...] Ronnies feedback
Hello, Nathan Paoletta's She's ... is the most complex and specifically structured entry. My big issue collectively for many of the entries, including Black Widows, I Think My Girlfriend Hates…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Ron Edwards, Nathan P..

10/6/2005 Technocrat13: [DitV] Creating PCs for Convention-run towns.
I'll be attending MACE in November and running two sessions of DitV while I'm there.  What's running through my head right now is how much, if any, character generation can…
In lumpley games
Participants: Technocrat13, jasonm, lumpley, Doug Ruff, Adam Dray, Paka, Frank T.

10/6/2005 Ron Edwards: [The Suburban Crucible] Ronnies feedback
Hello, Thomas E.Robertson's The Suburban Crucible wins a Ronny, and it's the only game to do so that treats women protagonists as human beings, without satire (good, just different) or…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Ron Edwards, LordSmerf, Ben Lehman, tygertyger.

10/6/2005 Bret Gillan: [Gods] First thread - basic concepts
Using the guidelines posted in "What's the best way to present a mechanic for discussion?", I'm trying to nail down a game concept I've had for about a decade or…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Bret Gillan, Paka, Jasper, Arturo G., Hans, resistor, Joshua BishopRoby.

10/6/2005 Silmenume: Searching for old links by message number -
Is there a way to search the forums by message number?
In Site Discussion
Participants: Silmenume, Mike Holmes.

10/6/2005 Paul Czege: horror or not?
I try not to let questions about My Life with Master go unanswered. But RPG.net no longer has a working search engine. So now I look for threads where it…
In Half Meme Press
Participants: Paul Czege, Paka, Victor Gijsbers, Bob Goat, Arturo G., droog, Peter Nordstrand, Michael S. Miller, Mike Holmes, joewolz, Bret Gillan, GB Steve.

10/6/2005 Ron Edwards: [Secrets in Suburbia] Ronnies feedback
Hello, Warren Merrifield's Secrets in Surburbia makes such a strong pair with Fink, that I had to read the games side by side in order not to get mixed up…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Ron Edwards, Warren.

10/6/2005 tj333: Web Hosting
I'm currently looking a web hosting for RPG that should be going live around March. I'm thinking host the document on it, a forum, and some other small stuff. What…
In Publishing
Participants: tj333, Joshua BishopRoby, jerry, resistor, Nathan, Heraldic Game Design, guildofblades.

10/6/2005 Ron Edwards: [King Rat] Ronnies feedback
Hello, King Rat has a tremendously strong starting point, and I think it's one of the few primarily resource-driven, primarily narration-resolved entries that could really shine. My first recommendation is…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Ron Edwards, PrzeSzkoda, Malcolm.

10/5/2005 Falc: Alternate setting: Troubleshooters in Alpha Complex?
Okay, I read the alternate settings listing and this just struck me. For those of you that don't get the reference... erm, well, you need to go play Paranoia 'cause…
In lumpley games
Participants: Falc, Jonas Karlsson, Graham Walmsley.

10/5/2005 MatrixGamer: The Machine Model of Games (long)
I want to put these ideas out for the Forge community to chew on. I first published them in EGG in 1990.  It is a way of analyzing games. I…
In RPG Theory
Participants: MatrixGamer, Joshua BishopRoby, Sydney Freedberg.

10/5/2005 Ron Edwards: [Black Widows] Ronnies feedback
Hello, Clinton Nixon's Black Widows is a lot like Best Friends, in that it starts with a burst of inspiration, then sputters, and stops. It has great basics: the Bond…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Ron Edwards, Clinton R. Nixon, Adam Dray, Gregor Hutton.

10/5/2005 Ron Edwards: [January's Frost] Ronnies feedback
Jason Petrasko's January's Frost ranks among the best entries regarding treating sexual-partners women as human beings and protagonists, along with Darling Grove and The Suburban Crucible. Ha! Thought I was…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Ron Edwards, tygertyger, Jason Petrasko, Graham Walmsley.

10/5/2005 Ron Edwards: [SleepOver] Ronnies feedback
Brandon Parigo's SleepOver makes a nice partner with Best Friends, so I'm posting their results as twin threads. Here are the comments that apply to both. These games feature great…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Ron Edwards, inoir.

10/5/2005 Ron Edwards: [Best Friends] Ronnies feedback
Hello, Gregor Hutton's Best Friends makes a nice partner with SleepOver, so I'm posting their results as twin threads. Here are the comments that apply to both. These games…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Ron Edwards, Gregor Hutton, tygertyger, Malcolm.

10/5/2005 JonasB: The ambitions of Dragonbane
In another thread I made the following claim about Dragonbane: If you want to read about the pinnacle of Nordic fantasy larping, check out www.dragonbane.org. It is a pan-European fantasy…
In RPG Theory
Participants: JonasB, Lig.

10/5/2005 Frank T: Accomplishment Problem
Here’s one problem I've had repeatedly running Accomplishments. It’s especially sorry because the Accomplishment should, imo, present the genius resolution mechanic to its best instead of making it seem awkward…
In lumpley games
Participants: Frank T, lumpley, Falc.

10/5/2005 Arturo G.: Using d6 for complications
At the end of the new chapter-1 draft it is said that there will be an appendix explaining how to use d6s instead of d10s for complications. I have not…
In Universalis
Participants: Arturo G., Valamir, hix, Victor Gijsbers.

10/5/2005 dunlaing: Minor Quibble
My friend Jim pointed out that the click and locks are on the page in the opposite order of how you'd say them, and thought that that was backwards. For…
In Muse of Fire Games
Participants: dunlaing, Anders Gabrielsson, Jack Aidley, Hans.

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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10/6/2005 Emily Care: Actual Play Links
A place to post links to actual play of Breaking the Ice, and other B&G games.  Here are some recent threads: The ordeals of love Angels' Wings & Devils' Shards
In Black and Green Games
Participants: Emily Care, GreatWolf.

10/6/2005 Matt Wilson: Hey! It's been a year.
So 365 days ago I made the books available for sale on the site. Big thanks to everyone who bought, played, gave critique and/or kind words. You all rock.
In Dog Eared Designs
Participants: Matt Wilson, matthijs, Chris Goodwin, Frank T, Emily Care, Paka, Bob Goat, Arturo G..

10/7/2005 Ron Edwards: [Vendetta] Ronnies feedback
Hello, Drew Hart-Shea's Vendetta has one strike against it that Drew doesn't know about - I think John Campbell's "Hero" ideas are at best childish, and at worst abysmally stupid.…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Ron Edwards, rrr, Hans.

10/7/2005 Chasuk: I Hate Dice
I've been playing rpg's of one sort or another since I was 19, and I'm 44 now, so that makes me a fairly experienced player.  However, generally, I hate games…
In RPG Theory
Participants: Chasuk, planetouched, Bankuei, Valamir, jmac, contracycle, nikola, John Kim, ewilen, Sydney Freedberg, Mike Holmes, pells, greyorm, Vaxalon, RedWick, M. J. Young.

10/7/2005 Kai_lord: Secret Identies for Supers?
I've been pondering the question of how to handle supers with useful secret identities - Clark Kent's Journalist, Batman's CEO, Reed Richards, the scientist, and so on. One possiblity is…
In Muse of Fire Games
Participants: Kai_lord, TonyLB, Mark Woodhouse, Sydney Freedberg, TheCzech, James_Nostack.

10/7/2005 Chasuk: What Kind of a Gamer Am I?
I've read the glossary, and various articles filled with definitions, but I still haven't been able to divine what kind of a gamer I am; what gaming niche I occupy.…
In RPG Theory
Participants: Chasuk, contracycle, Matt, Nogusielkt, Alan, lumpley, Sydney Freedberg.

10/7/2005 Cyrus Marriner: [DitV] King's Butte Branch
Here's the town I came up with for my first session of DitV. ------ King’s Butte Branch PRIDE Steward Edwin attends to the needs of the small, poor, King’s Butte…
In lumpley games
Participants: Cyrus Marriner, Nev the Deranged, ScottM, jasonm.

10/7/2005 Kai_lord: Fact mechanic Revisited
Well, I'm raising this old thread from the dead, because I have a different take on how to allow facts which (I think) meshes better with the existing mechanics. At…
In Muse of Fire Games
Participants: Kai_lord, TonyLB, LordSmerf, Vaxalon, Gaerik.

10/7/2005 Kat Miller: [With Great Power] Dr. Mermaid and the Kung-fu Zombie
I’ve been avoiding writing up an actual play post.  Partially I’m afraid of “selling” this game here or at least giving the impression of selling, and partially I’ve been running…
In Actual Play
Participants: Kat Miller, Michael S. Miller, Emily Care, knicknevin.

10/7/2005 lumpley: Procedure of Play, Determined by Nothing but the Group
Spun off from The Role of Fortune Hi Ivan, welcome to the Forge! I'm Vincent. which is why we're discussing the roles…
In RPG Theory
Participants: lumpley, Paka, ewilen, matthijs, cruciel, talysman, jmac, Ron Edwards, Mike Holmes, Joshua BishopRoby.

10/7/2005 Ron Edwards: [My Girlfriend is a Slut] Ronnies feedback
Hello, At first, I was delighted to think that Frank Tarcikowski's My Girlfriend's a Slut / My Boyfriend's a Dick had paralleled my long-standing desire to see two different rules-sets…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Ron Edwards, Frank T.

10/7/2005 lumpley: Whatever Functional Application of the Rules Text I Please
Spun off from The Role of Fortune What none of you've provided yet is the purely procedural function randomness serves in GURPS.…
In RPG Theory
Participants: lumpley.

10/7/2005 Ron Edwards: [The World Class Rats Handbook] Ronnies feedback
THE WORLD CLASS RATS HANDBOOK, ERIC BAHR Hello, Eric Bahr's The World Class Rats Handbook is very, very ambitious - perhaps too big a chunk to start with. One of…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Ron Edwards, Eric J..

10/7/2005 Ron Edwards: [Fink] Ronnies feedback
Hello, J. Tuomas Harviainen's Fink is a strong partner for Secrets in Suburbia, and as I mention in that thread, I had to read the two games side by side,…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Ron Edwards, J. Tuomas Harviainen.

10/7/2005 Ron Edwards: [Regis Furor] Ronnies feedback
Hello, Jacob X's Regis Furor almost got disqualified. For one thing, both "rat" and "hate" are quite weak, little more than labels for game mechanics like "powers." There's room for…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Ron Edwards.

10/7/2005 jasonm: More Names, More Places
Hey Everybody, Dave Younce put together some Dog's-themed name generators for people and places and I posted the files on my site: http://www.meekmok.com/sassy/dogs/tools.html His names go way deeper than my…
In lumpley games
Participants: jasonm, foucalt, Ben Lehman, Copperhead.

10/7/2005 Artanis: French Translation of important terms and phrases
Thanks Frank, your german translation helped me out for the french! Moments gelés dans le cours du temps Il était une fois, aussi loin au nord que faire se…
In These Are Our Games
Participants: Artanis, Ben Lehman.

10/7/2005 Chasuk: What Kind of a Gamer Am I?
This thread has been transplanted from another forum (RPG Theory). a) You can post in Actual Play your favorite roleplaying experience, a time when you got…
In Actual Play
Participants: Chasuk, droog, Sydney Freedberg, GreatWolf, Noon, pells, Meguey.

10/8/2005 MacGuges: [Finale Fusion] online epic fantasy
In this thread I'd like to discuss ideas for an online software-driven roleplaying system.  I acknowledge that The Forge & GNS have been intended for tabletop systems, but the discussion…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: MacGuges, mutex, Noon, matthijs, Hans.

10/8/2005 JSDiamond: All's quiet...
Using everyone's posts as a goldmine of tweaks and new ideas, here is version 4.  This is the most complete edit thus far with darn near everything in it except…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: JSDiamond, Ron Edwards.

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