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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 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 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 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 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 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: 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 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.

10/6/2005 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..

10/6/2005 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 Christopher Weeks: [WGP...] editing comments
Hi Michael and all, I'm reading through WGP... pretty carefully and I thought I'd start a place for me to note any comments, suggestions, etc as I hit them (so…
In Incarnadine Press
Participants: Christopher Weeks, Michael S. Miller.

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.

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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.

10/8/2005 Silmenume: [DitV] - I am an incompetent Narrativist!
I am an incompetent Narrativist!  …But what a fascinating examination of the differences between Nar and Sim through contrast! Last night I met a couple of Forge-ites for the first…
In Actual Play
Participants: Silmenume, Bankuei, bcook1971, demiurgeastaroth, Kintara, WhiteRat, cruciel, Blankshield, Marco, Vaxalon, Noon, lumpley, John Harper, Eero Tuovinen, Brian Newman, Mike Holmes, John Burdick, contracycle, Jaik, ewilen, Ron Edwards.

10/8/2005 oliof: [DitV][Blue Rose] Keepers of the Flame or 'Dogs in the Veran Marshes'
So, yesterday I had the first meeting with a group of people who wants to try out forgite games and stuff. I thought we had planned on FrankT GMing Dogs…
In lumpley games
Participants: oliof, Frank T, Sydney Freedberg.

10/8/2005 Victor Gijsbers: Dutch Translation
(Draft.) Bevroren momenten uit de stroom der tijd Eens, lang geleden, zo noordelijk als noord kan zijn, leefde de het hoogste volk dat de wereld ooit zal zien. Die mensen…
In These Are Our Games
Participants: Victor Gijsbers.

10/8/2005 cj.23: My confusion lessens: GNS and Heroquest and my reviews
Hi chaps! A few nights ago I was working on a review of the Issaries game for www.rpg.net  In that review I got sidetracked in to a discussion of whether…
In GNS Model Discussion
Participants: cj.23, Lamorak33, WhiteRat, contracycle, Mike Holmes, John Kim, Ron Edwards, M. J. Young.

10/9/2005 bcook1971: [D&D v1.0] Expedition to Barrier Peaks II
[url=http://www.indie-rpgs.com/forum/index.php?topic=16793.msg178294#msg178294]Last session.[/url] This session was a lot of fun for me. We had a lot of concurrent split-party action going on. Each player (myself and Cory) had multiple characters to…
In Actual Play
Participants: bcook1971.

10/9/2005 Eero Tuovinen: [Polaris tour] Book tour experiences
Ben Lehman visited Finland for a month just now. Ben's just published a game, Polaris, so what we did was to try something new: a special book tour around Finland…
In Publishing
Participants: Eero Tuovinen, Ron Edwards, J. Tuomas Harviainen, talysman, Ben Lehman, Sydney Freedberg, Revontuli, matthijs, humis, Montola, LordSmerf, Eirik Fatland.

10/9/2005 Eero Tuovinen: Some help with a lecture
Here's the situation: I've promised to give a lecture in a small convention this month. After a little thought I decided to take formalistic game design (I'll explain what that…
In RPG Theory
Participants: Eero Tuovinen, matthijs, pekkok, cerbie, John Kim, C. Edwards, Rob Carriere, M. J. Young, Joshua BishopRoby.

10/9/2005 Pol Jackson: [PTA] Sleepy Hollow - First Playtest Notes
I ran a game of Primetime Adventures for the first time last night. (My first game of PTA ever! My first indie RPG, too!) Our pitch: "Dawson's Creek" meets "The…
In Dog Eared Designs
Participants: Pol Jackson, Matt Wilson, John Harper.

10/9/2005 Emily Care: Out of the Box write-up
Good news: Ken Hite wrote about <i>Breaking the Ice</i> in his  latest Out of the Box column, along with many other great games including the Mountain Witch and Polaris. City…
In Black and Green Games
Participants: Emily Care, Victor Gijsbers, Brand_Robins, Harlequin.

10/9/2005 droog: [Nicotine Girls] From A to C and back
I had a really good game tonight, but so unexpected! We have a friend staying with us tonight, lovely woman, completely non-geek, non-roleplaying. My wife was in bed, A was…
In Actual Play
Participants: droog, Ron Edwards, Roger.

10/9/2005 Eero Tuovinen: [TMW] Practical GM advice and GNS analysis
Seems I don't have anything urgent going right now, so I'll tell you about my TMW experiences from this week. I played two sessions with two different groups. Here's the…
In Actual Play
Participants: Eero Tuovinen, timfire, JC.

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