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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 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.

10/28/2005 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.

10/28/2005 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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.

10/27/2005 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.

10/27/2005 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 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 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 Joshua BishopRoby: Non-Binary Conflict Resolution
In discussing Dogs in the Vineyard, we came across a slight conceptual bump when it came to conflicts that included more than two parties all with mutally exclusive agendas.  Dogs'…
In RPG Theory
Participants: Joshua BishopRoby, timfire, Blankshield, lumpley, Shreyas Sampat, John Kirk, TonyLB, Trevis Martin, Michael S. Miller, Mike Holmes, LordSmerf, MatrixGamer, M. J. Young.

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10/29/2005 TTrotsky: Worth it for Town Generation?
DitV was recently recommended to me for its Town Generation system. I don't need a new rule system now, so the mechanics of character generation, escalation, combat, etc. won't be…
In lumpley games
Participants: TTrotsky, Neal, oliof, Brian Newman, nikola, foucalt.

10/29/2005 Everspinner: Demons and the Faithless
Hello Here´s a stupid question. I thought I would ask it here before my players ask me. Given that we have a game where the demons will become manifest, i.e.,…
In lumpley games
Participants: Everspinner, lumpley, Neal, Vaxalon.

10/29/2005 1of3: [Spheres] First presentation and question
Hi. I've been tossing around some ideas for an RPG with the working title "Spheres". Theme: The game will be on the hand about discovery and war in frontier places,…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: 1of3, knicknevin.

10/29/2005 two_fishes: [DitV] A couple of Questions
Hi, Last week I ran Walnut Hollow Branch. Here's a link to the version I posted on the forum: http://www.indie-rpgs.com/forum/index.php?topic=17254.0 I ran the town pretty much as written. I made…
In lumpley games
Participants: two_fishes, Neal, Vaxalon, oliof.

10/29/2005 Neal: When Demons Attack
Having designed a handful of towns for my game, the one thing that troubles me is dealing with Demon Attacks.  I appreciate that the nature of the attacks is left…
In lumpley games
Participants: Neal, oliof, lumpley, Spooky Fanboy, Sydney Freedberg.

10/29/2005 EllePepper: [Mistic Mystic] Premise and description.
Keeper Chronicle:  Seaview. Seaview was once a beautiful town, filled with people called Mistics, things out of legend and, in some cases nightmare.  These beings had taken the name Mistic,…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: EllePepper, Jasper, WhiteRat, daMoose_Neo.

10/29/2005 CSBone: [Space Ranger RPG V0.1] Starting again from scratch.
Space Ranger RPG V0.1 The goal of this thread is to get feedback, design suggestions and criticism for Space Ranger. My personal goal is to make this a solid sci-fi…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: CSBone, Ron Edwards, JakeVanDam, Gregor Hutton.

10/30/2005 anonymouse: Cool DitV prop
[url]http://www.thelibraryshop.org/toolleatjour.html[/url] Mind you, it's a little spendy for a prop, but it's pretty dang cool. It's at least a picture to point to and say, "My Dog's book looks like…
In lumpley games
Participants: anonymouse, Vaxalon, nikola, Paka.

10/30/2005 Bret Gillan: [Age of Gods] First Ever Session of AoG
Previous thread: First thread - basic concepts Myself and my friends Tom and Jeremy got together to playtest what are currently what I've called my "alpha rules" - rules…
In Actual Play
Participants: Bret Gillan, Joshua BishopRoby.

10/30/2005 Everspinner: Is a Bad Town a Bad Idea?
In the Good Town thread, someone said that there are the typical Dogs towns with various levels of trouble, and then the ends of the spectrum that might a useful…
In lumpley games
Participants: Everspinner, oliof, Neal, lumpley.

10/30/2005 Nev the Deranged: Forge Frappr
So, I started a Frappr for Forge people. A Frappr is a Google map that you can add yourself to and stuff. Check it out at http://www.frappr.com/forgizens That is all.
In Connections
Participants: Nev the Deranged, Andy Kitkowski, Andrew Morris, Victor Gijsbers, Matt Snyder, nikola, timopod, Clay, reaction.

10/30/2005 Paul Czege: Acts of Evil (playtest rules)
[size=13pt][b]Acts of Evil[/b][/size] a roleplaying game of occult ambition by Paul Czege [color=Maroon][b]Introduction[/b][/color] Player characters are new initiates to an occult tradition devoted to aggressive and competitive pursuit of personal…
In Acts of Evil Playtest Board
Participants: Paul Czege.

10/31/2005 Paul Czege: Welcome to the Acts of Evil playtest forum!
Welcome to the Acts of Evil playtest forum! Here's what's up: Although this is a hidden forum, participants and observers of the playtest I ran at this past GenCon are…
In Acts of Evil Playtest Board
Participants: Paul Czege.

10/31/2005 Victor Gijsbers: On circulation
Hello everyone! Paul, in your sticky you state: Please don't circulate What it the preferred procedure with my playtesters? Circulate the rules to them anyway, or ask…
In Acts of Evil Playtest Board
Participants: Victor Gijsbers, Paul Czege, Eva Deinum, Remko.

10/31/2005 dimitkan: Snowball campaign
Hello, I've tried last Saturday night Snowball and everybody liked it, so I 'm gonna start a campaign in Middle Earth with Snowball. I have one question. Do you create…
In Twisted Confessions
Participants: dimitkan, Lxndr.

10/31/2005 Victor Gijsbers: Small questions
[For small questions to Paul that do not deserve a seperate thread.] What happens when the dice pool contains no dice or only one die?
In Acts of Evil Playtest Board
Participants: Victor Gijsbers, Paul Czege, Mike Holmes.

10/31/2005 Rob Alexander: [Shadowrun] What's wrong here?
I think this is one of these "Please diagnose my problem" threads. I'm a jaded player who's been out of rpgs for a while, and I'm trying to work out:…
In Actual Play
Participants: Rob Alexander, Technocrat13, Noon, nikola, mutex, Victor Gijsbers, Lamorak33, TonyPace, John Burdick, Rob Carriere, ffilz, gsoylent, Ron Edwards.

10/31/2005 Hans: Capes event in Hamilton, Ontario
Hello all: Just to let you know, my normal game group and I, looking for a breather from some pretty darn intense horror stuff recently, will be playing Capes for…
In Muse of Fire Games
Participants: Hans, TonyLB.

11/1/2005 daMoose_Neo: Halloween & Spreading the word
Just thought I'd share an interesting experiment I'm attempting- While preparing for what would be a rather fun evening of sharing sugary goodness with all manner of ghouls and goblins,…
In Publishing
Participants: daMoose_Neo, Joshua BishopRoby, philreed, Blankshield.

11/1/2005 Black Talon: Greetings to all...
I run a forum for roleplaying and currently we are looking for a few good players to add to this small private community. Currently we have 3 games running with…
In Connections
Participants: Black Talon.

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