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10/15/2005 Solamasa: flashinated Dogs badassery
Some of you may remember my threats from a few months ago to create a Flash animation based on a Dogs campaign that I played with an awesome group of…
In lumpley games
Participants: Solamasa, Trevis Martin, Technocrat13, hix, rafial, IMAGinES, Ben Lehman, lumpley, jasonm, John Harper.

10/15/2005 Solamasa: Problems with registration emails
I have no idea if this is the appropriate place, but half an hour of searching has not yielded me the email of the site admin, so I'm just going…
In Site Discussion
Participants: Solamasa.

10/15/2005 two_fishes: [DitV] Walnut Hollow Branch
Hi, I'm going to be running a Dogs game next weekend, and I thought it would be nice to get comments on the town. I've run one other town and…
In lumpley games
Participants: two_fishes, Technocrat13, immlass, ScottM, Vaxalon.

10/15/2005 Jasper Polane: [Cosmic Combat] First play-test
We did a first play-test of my Ronnies game Cosmic Combat. It was great! The game still needs a lot of work, of course, but I'm happy to know this…
In Actual Play
Participants: Jasper Polane, Graham Walmsley, Spooky Fanboy.

10/15/2005 heironymous: Seven Leagues (a fantasy RPG of Faerie) reawakens (split)
so after a long hiatus (part but not all of which was spent in a private group) i think i'm ready to move forward. the latest (or close to the…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: heironymous, Technocrat13, Ron Edwards, Green, Bill Masek.

10/15/2005 epweissengruber: Balazar Campaign for Indie RPG Toronto: 2 New Myths
I wanted to use some of the Sorcerer and Sword/Heroquest threads in the creation of my own campaign. I got great inspiration from one of my players.  But no one…
In HeroQuest
Participants: epweissengruber, Mike Holmes, Bryan_T.

10/15/2005 Matt Wilson: [Reality Cops] Ronnies Feedback, the unauthorized version
Actually, dangit, Ron totally authorized it, so instead you just have to pretend it's the feedback "they" didn't want you to see. Anyway, previously today I wrote up a monster…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Matt Wilson, Blankshield, Spooky Fanboy, Ron Edwards.

10/14/2005 JasonPalenske: Frontier: No Limitation as Limitation
In regards to settings your only limitation is what you impose upon yourself. I say this because I have purposefully left the Frontier settings wide open. By wide open I…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: JasonPalenske, mutex, Shreyas Sampat.

10/14/2005 Bob Goat: [Untitled RPG] Non-standard Scene Framing
I've been thinking long and hard about this statement Ron made here: I'm assuming standard scene-conflict presentation and basic play, but that does seem boring. It does seem boring and…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Bob Goat, Gregor Hutton.

10/14/2005 RobNJ: [DitV] Can someone essplain to me how Ceremonies work?
I read the section on Ceremonies but I really can't make sense of it.  It seems like invoking them just changes the dice size of the Fallout.  What's the deal? …
In lumpley games
Participants: RobNJ, lumpley, nikola, Norbert Matausch, Neal.

10/14/2005 Wormwood: Retooling the Bug ["Firefly d20"]
About a year ago I was asked to write a d20-based game for playing in the universe of the Firefly TV series. Since d20 was part of my design constraints…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Wormwood, SPDuke.

10/14/2005 RobNJ: [DitV] Zarephath, A Town Too Proud For Its Name
So tomorrow night, I'm'a run my first session of Dogs in the Vineyard ever.  Here's the town I came up with, called Zarephath after a creepy little Christian community right…
In Actual Play
Participants: RobNJ, Paka, Bastoche, Spiral Jacobs, Danny_K, lumpley.

10/14/2005 droog: 'Game', 'simulation' and DitV
On a certain forum, Vincent wrote: If you mean a 100% narrativist game to have no game and no simulation, Dogs in the Vineyard surely is not one. Any…
In GNS Model Discussion
Participants: droog, Ron Edwards, lumpley.

10/14/2005 jmac: Illusionism etc
I've looked through the forum and found few discussions about this kind of play. The topics found were either old, or opinions expressed were of a recognizable kind. It looks…
In RPG Theory
Participants: jmac, Andrew Morris, WhiteRat, Mike Holmes, Joshua BishopRoby, Marco, timfire, Halzebier, M. J. Young, komradebob.

10/14/2005 JasonPalenske: Frontier: No Way as Way
First off I really want to apologize if it seemed Frontier slipped off the face of the Earth without intent to publish. Unfortunately as it can happen with all people…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: JasonPalenske, Joshua BishopRoby, gsoylent.

10/14/2005 Wormwood: A Faustian Arc, or The Thin Line Between Narrativism and Munckinism [7th Sea]
Bear with me here as this is a portion of a game a ran some time ago, but I believe it presents an interesting case study. Context: The system and…
In Actual Play
Participants: Wormwood, Joshua BishopRoby, Andrew Norris, mutex.

10/14/2005 Matt Snyder: [Red Rain] Oct. Ronnies Boxing RPG
Get in the ring, folks. I wrote a 24-hour game for the Oct. Ronnies called Red Rain. It's a boxing game, and I'm really proud of this sucker. Of course,…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Matt Snyder, Bob Goat, Smithy, Dantai.

10/14/2005 Certified: [6th World] Short Stories
What follows are six short stories along with the introduction to the setting of 6th World. I am hoping for in feedback is what you as readers with no other…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Certified, Troy_Costisick.

10/14/2005 J. Tuomas Harviainen: [Dirty Fucking Freaks] feedback
[quote author=Ron Edwards link=topic=17096.msg182247#msg182247 date=1129127012] 5. Finally - anyone who's not involved in the contest - I formally request that you nominate yourself as an informal judge. Pick a game…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: J. Tuomas Harviainen, Graham Walmsley.

10/14/2005 Heraldic Game Design: [PTA] Eat at Joe's - Pilot Episode
[b]Scene One[/b] Space. To the strains of [i]Also Sprach Zarathustra[/i] a large, looming object enters from the top of the screen and blacks out the stars. A thrumming sound swells,…
In Actual Play
Participants: Heraldic Game Design, Mike Holmes.

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10/16/2005 Joshua BishopRoby: [Conquer the Horizon] Godfria, Mars
Got to play Conquer the Horizon for a second time last night, and was highly satisfied with the results. Players were: myself (27), my brother (22) and his wife (27),…
In Actual Play
Participants: Joshua BishopRoby, Mike Holmes, Ice Cream Emperor, Roger.

10/16/2005 Ben Lehman: Under The Bed with Finns
Under the Bed with Finns -- So, on the <a href="http://www.indie-rpgs.com/forum/index.php?topic=17162.0">tour that Eero and I did</a>, we played a whole lot of <a href="http://www.glyphpress.com/">Under the Bed</a>.  UTB pretty much our…
In Actual Play
Participants: Ben Lehman, mutex, nikola, Eero Tuovinen, Noon.

10/16/2005 pfischer: [Sorcerer] Las Cruces
Hi, This is the one-sheet I intend to present to my players in my Mythical Wild West Sorcerer game I started developing with the players last week: http://www.indie-rpgs.com/forum/index.php?topic=17192.0 Sorcerer:…
In Adept Press
Participants: pfischer, Ron Edwards.

10/16/2005 jrs: [DitV] The Death of Brother Hiram
[i]Brother Hiram could take care of his own and didn't need help from no one, especially not from these two strange Dogs standing in his house.  He dragged Brother Newton…
In Actual Play
Participants: jrs, Technocrat13, Ron Edwards, lumpley.

10/16/2005 Wolfen: Rats in the Walls: second playtest
This weekend was an odd weekend for my gaming group. Due to some compositional changes, my normal games are falling by the wayside, and as it was my turn to…
In Actual Play
Participants: Wolfen, Ron Edwards, Lxndr.

10/16/2005 dunlaing: [Jedi] Words from the creator
"The idea of Jedi were (sic) that the Jedi are like Marshalls who come in and they're there to sort of settle disputes in the end." --George Lucas, in The…
In lumpley games
Participants: dunlaing, Vaxalon.

10/16/2005 Darcy Burgess: [Sorc] Feudal Japan Session #2
[list] [li]AP thread for first game, [url=http://www.indie-rpgs.com/forum/index.php?topic=17095.0]here[/url].[/li] [li]Blog/Prep thread, [url=http://www.indie-rpgs.com/forum/index.php?topic=16550.msg182245#msg182245]here[/url].[/li] [/list] [color=Maroon]The Preamble[/color] If you've checked out the prep thread, you'll know what I had in my bag 'o tricks…
In Actual Play
Participants: Darcy Burgess, Ron Edwards, Tymen.

10/16/2005 Lisa Padol: Sorcerer's Skull
I picked up a copy of The Sorcerer's Skull on Ron's recommendation. It's basically what he said it was, decent pulp, from the day when you could get a novel…
In Adept Press
Participants: Lisa Padol, Ron Edwards, James_Nostack.

10/16/2005 emaise: [Univeralis] Actual Play - The Shadow of the Dragon
Yesterday, a few friends came over and we played Universalis. Well, we had a blast.  Since this was the first time playing for any of us, I had to teach…
In Actual Play
Participants: emaise, Mike Holmes.

10/16/2005 Iskander: [DitV] Green Creek Pass: a Dog's pride and fall (rather long).
I played the first of two Dogs in the Vineyard one-shots yesterday, visiting the unhappy little burg of Green Creek Pass. Since I'm revisiting the town next weekend with another…
In Actual Play
Participants: Iskander, mtiru, jzn, lumpley, Frank T, gains.

10/17/2005 emaise: First Universalis Session (Shadow of the Dragon) - Comments
I've posted a session log from our first Universalis actual play session at http://www.indie-rpgs.com/forum/index.php?topic=17266.0 .  Besides posting the pointer here, I wanted to add some comments specific to Universalis. 1. …
In Universalis
Participants: emaise, Arturo G., Mike Holmes, Valamir, Tobias, CPXB, Christopher Weeks.

10/17/2005 Mark Johnson: Alternative Narrativism
[quote author=lumpley link=topic=17244.msg182563#msg182563 date=1129312115] Dogs is great for narrativist play, if you define narrativist play as we do here. Not so great, necessarily, if you define it any other way.[/quote]…
In GNS Model Discussion
Participants: Mark Johnson, Alan, lumpley, cruciel, Sean, Mike Holmes.

10/17/2005 Michael S. Miller: [BW] Burning Pirates--Prep for play
I’m posting this both at the Forge and on the Burning Wheel forums, just to show how I’m preparing for my upcoming Burning Wheel game, as an example of how…
In Actual Play
Participants: Michael S. Miller.

10/17/2005 Jasper: [Geomancer] Conflict Resolution as Negotiation
I first posted about Geomancer in this thread. Now I'm doing a major rework of the conflict resolution system, so that's what this thread is about. First a recap of…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Jasper, Vaxalon, SPDuke, Bill Masek, Nogusielkt, TonyLB, Everspinner, Shreyas Sampat, Ben Lehman.

10/17/2005 Helvetian: Dreamation 2006
Hey all! We're now turning our attention to Dreamation 2006, January 19-22 at the Hilton in East Brunswick.  As always, we'll be providing the Forge-affiliated independent publishers a suite for…
In Conventions
Participants: Helvetian, Michael S. Miller, Andrew Morris, RobNJ, inthisstyle, Nathan P., Paka, TonyLB, abzu, Jared A. Sorensen, Emily Care, Bret Gillan, Clinton R. Nixon, Nathan, Shreyas Sampat, Bob Goat, devilbunny, mtiru.

10/17/2005 James_Nostack: Donjon of Oz?
Has anyone tried running Donjon in children's fantasy books?  Like, say, The Wizard of Oz or Alice in Wonderland or The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe?  These books are…
In CRN Games
Participants: James_Nostack, Vaxalon, John Harper.

10/17/2005 Mike Holmes: Simulationism Aside
Simulationism is problematic. I don't think that I'm saying anything shocking there. There is little agreement on what it actually is, which I posit is due to the fact that…
In GNS Model Discussion
Participants: Mike Holmes, timfire, Troy_Costisick, Adam Dray, Wolfen, WhiteRat, komradebob, Ron Edwards, Merten, jmac, Sydney Freedberg, HenryT, Andrew Norris, contracycle, Wormwood, Marco, Mark Woodhouse, M. J. Young.

10/17/2005 Remko: Breaking the Ice: Diplomacy [alternate setting]
[b]Facts[/b] [i]Moscow, Sovjet Republic, October 27, 1962[/i] President Khrushchev had accused the US of piracy and of trying to provoke a war which would annihilate mankind. Two U2 planes were…
In Black and Green Games
Participants: Remko.

10/17/2005 Blankshield: Alternate not-setting for BtI
Hi Emily, Just wanted to note that after I read through the text, the first thing that occured to me was "I could play this with my daughter!" And before…
In Black and Green Games
Participants: Blankshield, Emily Care.

10/17/2005 Bret Gillan: A PTA Session is Born, Shudders, and Dies
So I tried to run some of my pals through a session PTA the other night. It was aborted three scenes in due to communal frustration and a dislike of…
In Dog Eared Designs
Participants: Bret Gillan, Paka, Tim Alexander, Matthew Glover, TonyLB, John Harper, Jeremiah Lahnum, Frank T, pfischer, Landon Darkwood.

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