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11/7/2005 nuanarpoq: AntQuest!
Apologies for crosspostings... Hey folks - I spent the weekend working up a version of HeroQuest for Ants. I must be nuts. Anyway, if you've ever wanted to run a…
In HeroQuest
Participants: nuanarpoq, Mike Holmes, Joe Zeutenhorst, Mandacaru.

11/6/2005 Emily Care: [Bliss Stage playtest] on the edge of oblivion
Hey there, I did a playtest session of Bliss Stage last night with my intrepid housemate & co-conspirator, Phoebe.  To introduce the game, we played out what would likely be…
In These Are Our Games
Participants: Emily Care, Ben Lehman, Blankshield.

11/6/2005 Mandacaru: Rewarding invention
I feel I need to reward players who come up with something off-the-wall, brilliant, mythical or downright daft, according to my interpretation of Wushu-style gaming - the more dramatic the…
In HeroQuest
Participants: Mandacaru, Vaxalon, Mr Darran Sims, Lamorak33, Bryan_T, Christopher Weeks, Mike Holmes.

11/6/2005 Hans: Preventative Goals, and Resolving
Hi all: The "Not Yet" rule text says "no player may narrate how the Conflict turns out in the story until they have successfully Resolved the Conflict in the Rules." …
In Muse of Fire Games
Participants: Hans, TonyLB.

11/6/2005 Paul Czege: the dice mechanics
It seems I need to consider alternative dice mechanics. The Utrecht group has demonstrated that the endeavors of beginning occultists lack drama due to an absence of mechanical adversity. I…
In Acts of Evil Playtest Board
Participants: Paul Czege, Remko, Victor Gijsbers, Mike Holmes.

11/6/2005 Dev: VeriCon 2006 in Cambridge
Unlike previous years, I really have not been involved with the planning of VeriCon (being that I graduated and all). Much to my pleasant surprise, it seems like we Luke,…
In Conventions
Participants: Dev, Mr Darran Sims, abzu, Shreyas Sampat, Jared A. Sorensen.

11/6/2005 James_Nostack: [SOY] Witches: Brides of the Shadow
What's a "pumpkin fantasy" game without witchcraft?  Secret of Witchcraft Pick an aspect of the world: this is your theme.  A theme can be something like Night, Love, Iron, Forest,…
In CRN Games
Participants: James_Nostack, Paka, Ron Edwards, Eero Tuovinen, Twobirds, Clinton R. Nixon.

11/6/2005 Arvidos: Dogs in the Vineyard is the most well-written game.
Having played it once, I recently bought the DitV PDF so that I could help out Jonas in his endeavour to set up some Forge gaming for a swedish RPG…
In lumpley games
Participants: Arvidos, Frank T, lumpley, Copperhead.

11/6/2005 Ron Edwards: [The Drifter's Escape] Ronnies feedback
Hello, I'm liking this game. It is really strong, with brilliant GM distribution, including prep and Director Stance from players. The terms are very weak - I'm not seeing Fighting,…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Ron Edwards, talysman, Ben Lehman, Dumirik.

11/6/2005 Ron Edwards: [Disaster!] Ronnies feedback
Hello, With some important changes, this game is completely ready for playtest and development toward publication. It's the strongest of the $25 Ronnies this time around. It shows a lot…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Ron Edwards, Arturo G..

11/6/2005 Jasper Polane: [DitV] Tower Creek
Yesterday was Worldwide D&D Game Day, so we took up the plan to play a Dogs in the Vineyard one-shot, just to be contrary. It was my first time…
In Actual Play
Participants: Jasper Polane, lumpley.

11/6/2005 pedyo: Donjon/Dungeon by Lewis Trondheim et. al
Hi all, Anyone here familiar with the excellent comic book Donjon/Dungeon by, among others, Lewis Trondheim? I was wondering if that kind of story could be achieved with the Donjon…
In CRN Games
Participants: pedyo, Clinton R. Nixon.

11/6/2005 Mr Darran Sims: Up & Coming RPG Conventions [UK & Ireland]
I have updated the list of conventions armed as I am with flyers fresh from Gaelcon. There seems to be a question mark over the Ubercon 2006. No dates for…
In Conventions
Participants: Mr Darran Sims, Ron Edwards.

11/5/2005 talysman: suggestions for rapid RPG prototyping
someone pointed me to this article on rapid game prototyping. it's specifically about computer games, not roleplaying games, but I was struck by some of the similarities to the Iron…
In RPG Theory
Participants: talysman, Paul Czege, Ron Edwards, Noon, Roger, contracycle, Warren.

11/5/2005 Ron Edwards: [Fight Sphere] Ronnies feedback
This is a really difficult game to assess. I'm still not sure whether I've completely missed a brilliant gem, or perhaps am applying standards that shouldn't apply in some way.…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Ron Edwards, jburneko.

11/5/2005 Ron Edwards: [Whitecollar Punks] Ronnies feedback
Hello, The last four October Ronnies are giving me fits for their writeups. I've been musing over this one, I wanted to use it to talk more about the whole…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Ron Edwards, Eero Tuovinen.

11/5/2005 Paka: TSoY: The Intro
The intro is so amazing.  I read it aloud to my girlfriend.  It did what I want gaming books to do; it turned me on, made me want to play.…
In CRN Games
Participants: Paka, Twobirds.

11/5/2005 Paka: Kvelling
[i]KVELL: To beam with pride and pleasure, Jewish parents are prone to kvell over their children's achievements.[/i] I'm going to kvell over Primetime Adventures, after running it twice this week…
In Dog Eared Designs
Participants: Paka, John Harper, rafial, komradebob, Matt Wilson.

11/5/2005 Remko: Rules suggestions based on first playtest [Utrecht Evil]
These suggestions is based on the playtest here. One of the problems which arose on playtesting, was the lack of feeling with NPC's. NPC's were no more than a…
In Acts of Evil Playtest Board
Participants: Remko, Victor Gijsbers, Paul Czege.

11/5/2005 Paka: [P.T.A.] Bounty...Hunters
We sat down, six people who had never gamed before and had a splendid game. Well, okay, a few had gamed together but only a few.  I put out an…
In Actual Play
Participants: Paka, Bret Gillan, Matt Wilson.

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11/7/2005 Hans: [Actual Play] 60's themed fun
Hello: Well, no more posting about a game I have never played asking dumbass rules questions.  I have now played once, and hope to do it again very soon. I…
In Muse of Fire Games
Participants: Hans.

11/7/2005 dunlaing: Is Capes Good For...
Is Capes good for two-player play? Is Capes good as a pick-up game or one-shot? If so, why? If not, why not and are there any specific rules changes that…
In Muse of Fire Games
Participants: dunlaing, TonyLB, Bret Gillan, MooseHole.

11/7/2005 Aman the Rejected: [Stranger Things] Status?
I'm chomping at the bit for Stranger Things. Any word?
In Dog Eared Designs
Participants: Aman the Rejected, Blake Hutchins, John Harper.

11/7/2005 John Kim: Clashes over Channeling?
OK, this is picking up from Channeling and GNS at Ron's request.  I'd like to discuss the overlap of conflicts -- having GNS Nar/Sim conflict within a game as well…
In Actual Play
Participants: John Kim, Joshua BishopRoby, Wormwood, ewilen, Marco, Mike Holmes, Mark Woodhouse, contracycle.

11/8/2005 Victor Gijsbers: A Beast/Brain Master
Because the GM didn't have the time (or rather, peace of mind) to prepare for our usual (read: very infrequent) game of Trollbabe, it was decided that I would GM…
In Half Meme Press
Participants: Victor Gijsbers, Michael S. Miller.

11/8/2005 sayter: [Realm] System Breakdown and Help
Been a while since my last post. Lots of changes have gone through in the system, but the core remains the same. However, I have a exciting mechanic I want…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: sayter, Jasper, Noon, Bill Masek, dindenver.

11/8/2005 Solamasa: [Polaris] Treachery at the Utmost North
Last night we played Polaris for the second time.  If our game sessions were musical pieces, last night would have been a Queen power anthem, with the bass undulating like…
In Actual Play
Participants: Solamasa, Ben Lehman, Sydney Freedberg, GreatWolf.

11/8/2005 jeremycoatney: Comb vs. Paperback
-Hello,     I have been working on the solid format distribution of my first RPG book for some time and have recently switched to a comb binding instead of…
In Publishing
Participants: jeremycoatney, Andrew Morris, Matt Snyder, Trevis Martin, MatrixGamer, LloydBrown, madelf, Tim Alexander, Dirk Remmecke, nikola, resistor, Roland.of.Gilead.

11/8/2005 MrSandman666: [MLwM] My unsatisfying Life with Dr. Ernst (long)
Hi guys and gals... Well, this Saturday I finally had my first chance to play My Life with Master (my first chance to play any indie game, for that matter)…
In Actual Play
Participants: MrSandman666, Victor Gijsbers, Michael S. Miller, Eero Tuovinen, Paul Czege, Vaxalon, Mike Holmes, CPXB, Arturo G., Ron Edwards, TonyLB.

11/8/2005 Joshua BishopRoby: FindPlay Connection!
Clinton, I just got my first email through FindPlay from a guy local to me who'd like to play.  That's great, and I'm going to try and set something up.…
In Connections
Participants: Joshua BishopRoby, Andrew Morris.

11/8/2005 pells: About writing for RPG
This thread is a follow up of About dices, rules and narrative (http://www.indie-rpgs.com/forum/index.php?topic=17184.0. I'd like to present the way I write, or let's say, the tool I design for scenarisation.…
In RPG Theory
Participants: pells, WhiteRat, contracycle, MatrixGamer, komradebob.

11/8/2005 TheRealMethuselah: Plains of Chaos v1.0 Beta 1 (A GameMaker 6.1 RPG)
[color=red][b]Plains of Chaos[/b][/color] v1.0 Beta 1 Download: [url=http://www.barrashomes.com/PlainsofChaos.zip]PlainsofChaos.zip (1.25MB)[/url] [img]http://www.barrashomes.com/PlainsofChaos0001.gif[/img] [b]Keyboard Shortcuts:[/b] [color=blue]F4[/color] : Toggle fullscreen/windowed mode [color=blue]Enter[/color]: Toggle background music on/off [color=blue]Arrows[/color]: Move [color=blue]S[/color]: Take a screenshot (Screenshots are…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: TheRealMethuselah, Trevis Martin.

11/9/2005 cthulahoops: Fashion Experts on a Reality TV Show
I should be posting about some of the great DitV play I've had recently, but I had this twisted idea instead. Fashion Experts on a Reality TV Show A young…
In lumpley games
Participants: cthulahoops, IMAGinES, Vaxalon, Brian Newman, Iskander, oliof, Neal, fmac, Judaicdiablo.

11/9/2005 Karl: Couple of Demon Ability questions
Hi (i) A parasite demon inhabiting a limousine... player wants Travel so the demon can drive the limo around, does it need Perception as well? I think so. Why not…
In Adept Press
Participants: Karl, Ron Edwards, Peter Nordstrand.

11/9/2005 Ben Lehman: [Drifter's Escape] Strategy and RPG Texts
Hi everyone. This is a theoretical design question, in that it applies to every design, but it happens to apply very concretely to a game that I'm working on, so…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Ben Lehman, Ron Edwards, Frank T, Nogusielkt, contracycle, John Harper, Joshua BishopRoby, Graham Walmsley, Noon.

11/9/2005 Twobirds: [SOY] Dealing with scrubs
After reading through a lot of the SOY posts here and docs elsewhere, I had an idea that I'm not sure is the best, but might work.  It concerns punks,…
In CRN Games
Participants: Twobirds, Clinton R. Nixon.

11/9/2005 CPXB: New rules gimmick critique requested
I'm thinking of proposing a rules gimmick and was wondering if y'all could point out how it might change the game.  It is: "Back and Forth" Complications:  Probably my biggest…
In Universalis
Participants: CPXB, Christopher Weeks, TonyLB, Valamir, Mike Holmes, Danny2050.

11/9/2005 Bob Goat: Stranger Than Fiction
Now this is some crazy shit. I'm skimming the fiction contest entries over at Flames Rising and what do I see? An entry by Mike Holmes. And not only is…
In Bob Goat Press
Participants: Bob Goat.

11/9/2005 Neal: [DitV] Olive Grove
There were only two players for this session.  Mike played Brother Thomas, brought up in a strict religious house where personal liberties and happiness were very often sacrificed to right…
In Actual Play
Participants: Neal, lumpley, jasonm, oliof, Pol Jackson.

11/9/2005 MatrixGamer: Horror and players that balk
A while back I ran a Cthulhu like horror game in which the players were on a river boat which ran aground on a small island. There were two players.…
In GNS Model Discussion
Participants: MatrixGamer, Joshua BishopRoby, Eric J-D, komradebob, timfire, M. J. Young.

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