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10/27/2005 Andy Kitkowski: Another "Mini Iron Game Chef" event, with PRIZES!!
Hey guys, I'm sure most of y'all are familiar with the Iron Game Chef contest (www.game-chef.com). Anyway, the folks running a local NC game convention (MACE) contacted me to set…
In Conventions
Participants: Andy Kitkowski, Joshua BishopRoby, Tony Irwin, Bret Gillan, Darcy Burgess, jasonm.

10/27/2005 jeremycoatney: Who has actually finished a pen and paper RPG?
-Hello,     I was just wondering how many people have actually written their own pen and paper RPG game, from the ground up-system and all? I was just wondering…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: jeremycoatney, Eero Tuovinen, timfire, Jared A. Sorensen, Ron Edwards.

10/27/2005 Spooky Fanboy: [DiTV] Thread in rpg.net
If anyone's interested, it's here. So far, it's converted two people (or at least has them interested in DiTV) at last count!
In lumpley games
Participants: Spooky Fanboy, lumpley, Neal, dunlaing, Brand_Robins, Bankuei, foucalt.

10/27/2005 Lamorak33: Reducing drift and spooning out fog
Hi all On monday we played Heroquest, I as GM.  One of my players characters had a spear in his hand, was 20 feet away from a guy he wanted…
In Actual Play
Participants: Lamorak33, Ron Edwards, Joshua BishopRoby, Mike Holmes, ADGBoss, Silmenume.

10/27/2005 Emily Care: international romance
Hey there, From the orders I'm getting, looks like lots of folks in Europe are discovering Breaking the Ice.  I'm sure Ben & Eero's trek across Finland for the Polaris…
In Black and Green Games
Participants: Emily Care, Frank T, Blankshield, Arturo G., matthijs, JasperN., Remko, Victor Gijsbers, Matt Wilson, greuh, Artanis.

10/27/2005 timfire: [The Mountain Witch] Reward System?
Awhile ago, I was discussing tMW's "reward system" with Ron Edwards. It was spurred by a comment Vincent made on his blog that players get rewarded for making their characters…
In RPG Theory
Participants: timfire, Ron Edwards, MatrixGamer, Clinton R. Nixon.

10/27/2005 dunlaing: [PTA] Hi, we're the Replacements!
So we finished up our Over the Edge campaign last night (I got the final line of the campaign..."Maybe I'll take them with me to Ottawa!"). We had decided earlier…
In Dog Eared Designs
Participants: dunlaing, Bret Gillan, Jonas Karlsson, Supplanter, BlackSheep, Clint, SabreCat.

10/27/2005 Justin Marx: [7W] Player-GM negotiation without slowing play
Hi, I've posted once or twice about this here game I'm writing called Seven Worlds (I know the name is similar to other games, long story...) and essentially the gameplay…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Justin Marx, Mark Johnson, Bill Masek, Noon.

10/27/2005 matthijs: Government funding and RPGs
This thread is for exchanging information and experiences wrt getting funding for RPG design and publication. (It might be a bit euro-centric, since we're all a bunch of socialists over…
In Publishing
Participants: matthijs, Eero Tuovinen, Ron Edwards, Eirik Fatland, Jonas Karlsson, mindwanders.

10/27/2005 Lamorak33: Feedback
Ron Just taken delivery of Sorcerers Soul. Awesome book, and the missing link for my plans to run Sorcerer. If you ever get round to a second edition you could…
In Adept Press
Participants: Lamorak33, Ron Edwards.

10/27/2005 Montola: Role-playing in academia
Okay, I have to clear this up a bit: though Frans Mäyrä looks forward to one in Beyond Role and Play foreword, no faculties of role-playing studies exist yet. But…
In RPG Theory
Participants: Montola, lankoski, Ben Lehman, Matt, Blankshield, Eirik Fatland, pekkok, Mike Holmes.

10/27/2005 nikola: The Definition of Science Fiction
This is a damn fine definition of Science Fiction, complete with a discussion of the problems in the term. Hi Joshua, First off I think you…
In glyphpress
Participants: nikola, joepub, surecool73, goodwill221.

10/27/2005 Technocrat13: [MLWM] Weariness; Why do I want it again?
We got a chance to play our first session of MLWM tonight and had a great time.  Something that came up at the end of the session was that one…
In Half Meme Press
Participants: Technocrat13, Paul Czege, theghost, Victor Gijsbers, Jonas Karlsson, Ron Edwards.

10/26/2005 JSDiamond: All's quiet... final draft for core rules
With help from everyone who posted comments, here is what I hope will be the final draft. http://www.orbit-rpg.com/Alls_Quiet_rules.pdf Changes made to: Modifier values Number of mods Character and Player relationship…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: JSDiamond.

10/26/2005 Andrew Morris: Function request
The easy-to-spot icons for topics you've posted in are great. Is there any way to add something like that for topics you've read? Even better would be a way to…
In Site Discussion
Participants: Andrew Morris, Technocrat13.

10/26/2005 preludetotheend: Running my own con.
Good day all, Some time late next year I am hoping to run a convention funded by my company Ink Blot Publishing in Albany New York or some place close…
In Conventions
Participants: preludetotheend, LloydBrown.

10/26/2005 Pelgrane: Game in a Day
Dragonmeet 2005 will be hosting another Game in a Day event. I wondered, first if any indie publishers would be willing to offer prize support (PDFs are fine), and second,…
In Conventions
Participants: Pelgrane, Gregor Hutton, Paul Czege, Malcolm.

10/26/2005 greyorm: White Noise as a Sorcerer game
Ok, I just watched the movie referred to in the title about an hour ago, and during the whole thing -- particularly as it moved further and further towards resolution…
In Adept Press
Participants: greyorm.

10/26/2005 Montola: Publishing theory
Okay, as I've bragged already, I'm working with a PhD on role-playing pretty soon. In that effort, and in my real work (researching pervasive games) I have one major pet…
In RPG Theory
Participants: Montola, Eero Tuovinen, Ben Lehman, Ron Edwards, Eirik Fatland, Rorimack, Mike Holmes, matthijs, Arturo G., J. Tuomas Harviainen, M. J. Young, Noon, J B Bell, Mark Johnson, timfire, Thor Olavsrud, pekkok.

10/26/2005 Chris Goodwin: Retroactive fan mail?
I think I know what the answer is gonna be, but can you give fan mail (when there's something to give) for that cool thing they did in the teaser…
In Dog Eared Designs
Participants: Chris Goodwin, Bret Gillan.

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10/27/2005 Joshua BishopRoby: Long Running Campaigns
What's the longest campaign you've played Dogs for?  How many towns did you go through?  Did character progression/development change the way the game played eventually?  Did the formula (Dogs enter…
In lumpley games
Participants: Joshua BishopRoby, Vaxalon.

10/27/2005 Eric J-D: Kickers for Dummies Part 1
Hi folks.  I hope this is kosher Ron; if not I trust you'll tell me.  I wrote up the following thoughts on Kickers to distribute to new Sorcerer players and…
In Adept Press
Participants: Eric J-D, Ron Edwards.

10/27/2005 darrick: SenZar ???
aaahh, that explains it!   i heard about this scifi/dark fantasy/horror rpg called SenZar by accident.  a few guys on rpg.net disparagingly referred to SenZar when writing about my rpg: …
In RPG Theory
Participants: darrick, Jasper, daMoose_Neo, Sean, M. J. Young, Mike Holmes, Dr. Velocity.

10/27/2005 Eric J-D: Kickers for Dummies Part 2
Here's part 2: II. How Kickers relate to Theme, or Why the Kicker is Not the Whole Story Morninglory. I said earlier that the Kicker is the player’s announcement to…
In Adept Press
Participants: Eric J-D, Ron Edwards, John Harper, James_Nostack.

10/28/2005 Eric J.: [D&D] Differing Dynamics
Hey, I've gone a while without roleplaying (a number of months).  See, I've recently moved and started college and now I've found a new group to roleplay with. I was…
In Actual Play
Participants: Eric J., Ron Edwards, JasperN., Halzebier, NN, Andrew Norris, Jeph, Noon, Vaxalon.

10/28/2005 Lisa Padol: [Sorcerer] Beginning Character Creation
Table of contents for this rambly post: 1. Meeting, with notes about food 2. Characters 3. One sheet, third and current draft (with thanks to Jesse, Josh, Julian, Dave, and…
In Actual Play
Participants: Lisa Padol, Trevis Martin, mneme, Ron Edwards.

10/28/2005 Certified: Defining a game’s setting, how much is too little or too much?
These are just some general questions about world building, open to anyone, for any setting. These are questions I’ve been asking myself lately and will answer them in another post,…
In RPG Theory
Participants: Certified, Jack Aidley, Lamorak33, Adam Dray, Mike Holmes, Joshua BishopRoby, Troy_Costisick, talysman, Shreyas Sampat, Sydney Freedberg, M. J. Young, Michael S. Miller, Paka.

10/28/2005 greyorm: [eXpendables] Ronnies Entry Examination
I've been looking over my submission and am having some second thoughts about a number of system features, plus finding all sorts of misteaakes. The most glaring one to me…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: greyorm, Ron Edwards.

10/28/2005 greyorm: Parlor Narration and Simulationism
Over in  Going beyond "Parlor Narration", Callan complained: was thinking, "Hey, it'll be cool to see how the characters interact," but then I restricted it to algorithms so…
In RPG Theory
Participants: greyorm.

10/28/2005 Silmenume: Enumerating Lists
Hi Clinton, You probably have a real life beyond the Forge here, but I thought I would put this out. I remember in the prior software we were able to…
In Site Discussion
Participants: Silmenume.

10/28/2005 James_Nostack: [PTA] Radio Free Kroia!
Welcome to Kroia, economic powerhouse of the Eastern European (or possibly Central Asian) nation of Navistan.  Kroia is a port city known for its shipyards.  In the Summer of 1991,…
In Actual Play
Participants: James_Nostack, Jonathan Hastings, nikola, komradebob, demiurgeastaroth.

10/28/2005 Spiral Jacobs: Starting stats for a 2 minion game?
OK, so tonight's the night, but my third minion may not be coming.  I was thinking as starting stats: 3 Fear 3 Reason 1 Love 1 Innocent Would this work…
In Half Meme Press
Participants: Spiral Jacobs, Ron Edwards, Victor Gijsbers, Arturo G..

10/28/2005 MatrixGamer: The Great Engle Matrix Game Debate: Turn resolution and the art of contradiction
The Great Debate: Turn resolution and the art of contradiction An interesting debate has come up from the latest Play by Email Game – “Zulu.”  The game is based on…
In Actual Play
Participants: MatrixGamer, komradebob, contracycle.

10/28/2005 Jeroen: Some remarks
[quote]Just as a little thing of knowledge, Mandragon is a roleplaying forum from Belgium, but in the Flanders, Belgium, people also speak a dialect of Dutch. Actually, In the Flanders,…
In Black and Green Games
Participants: Jeroen, Victor Gijsbers, Emily Care.

10/28/2005 hix: Agents in the Matrix
This is an alternate setting inspired by SS in the Valley (aside from The Farm, probably the only true horror game I've ever read). I wonder if this is a…
In lumpley games
Participants: hix, Danny_K, Vaxalon, Brian Newman, Brand_Robins, Chris Geisel, Ignotus, Everspinner, lumpley, John Harper.

10/28/2005 JasonPalenske: Playtester Invites for Frontier
As I work on the final draft of Frontier I'm looking for new playtesters to hash things out. I'm offering up free copies of the final book for effort people…
In Connections
Participants: JasonPalenske.

10/28/2005 Brendan: Baal and Easter Platte: Working up a planet-town
I've been wanting to play DitV for months, and my gamer friends got much more into the idea once I mentioned that we could play it in a Fireflylike setting…
In lumpley games
Participants: Brendan.

10/29/2005 preludetotheend: Depending on Donations?
Alright recently I have landed myself a good, job that can more than pay the bills and gives me a decent amount of free time so I have been thinking…
In Publishing
Participants: preludetotheend, Mike Holmes.

10/29/2005 oliof: [DitV][Blue Rose] Keepers of the Flame visit High Rockton
Just a little teaser to have some follow up posts. First, transposing Dogs to Aldea/Jarzon is a snap. Just replace names. Second, Eric Provosts towns rock. Without his hard work…
In lumpley games
Participants: oliof, Vaxalon, Frank T.

10/29/2005 RenjiKage: Component-based design of RPGs
Two weeks ago I read about John Kirk's RPG Design patterns. I downloaded the book, read it and was very excited. As a student of computer science, focused on software…
In RPG Theory
Participants: RenjiKage, John Kirk.

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