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11/30/2005 Brian Newman: [DITV] Good raises are hard!
We started a DITV game yesterday night.  Information is at http://bnditv.pbwiki.com ... please let me know if you see anything we did really wrong!  I did let one character have…
In lumpley games
Participants: Brian Newman, lumpley, Vaxalon, Brand_Robins, bcook1971, Valamir, Bankuei, Danny_K.

11/30/2005 Andrew Morris: Questions about the Dogs universe
I'm putting together a town, and I ran into some questions about how the Dogs "world" works. I realize some of these might have been addressed in the text and…
In lumpley games
Participants: Andrew Morris, jasonm, lumpley, nikola.

11/30/2005 Jonathan Walton: [Burning Wheel] Inheritance - MACE 2005 (long)
I told Luke I was going to write this session up, but I've been thinking heavily about it, trying to figure out where my frustrations came from.  All in all,…
In Actual Play
Participants: Jonathan Walton, Clinton R. Nixon, abzu, Brand_Robins, Thor Olavsrud, Adam Dray, lampros, Iskander, Librisia.

11/30/2005 coffeestain: Dogs in The Movies!
Hello, My girlfriend Sarah has been playing The Movies (http://www.themoviesgame.com/) and came up with a quick little DitV movie since she's so enamored with the game. http://www.coffeestain.org/downloads/All%20The%20Kings%20Dogs.wmv The engine is…
In lumpley games
Participants: coffeestain, jasonm, lumpley, foucalt.

11/30/2005 coffeestain: [Polaris] Emails from the utmost north
Hello, A group of friends and I have started playing Polaris via email to waste away some of the slow time during the work day.  While we had a number…
In Actual Play
Participants: coffeestain, Danny_K, Ben Lehman.

11/30/2005 AChicony: Tolkein must be rolling in his grave
So I’m in the games shop flicking through the new Lord of the Rings RPG and KAPOW!!! It hits me like a tonne of Balrog turd! What is this shite???…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: AChicony, Eero Tuovinen, Ron Edwards.

11/30/2005 cpeterso: [DitV] questions about See order
1. When a Raise affects multiple characters, in what order do the affected characters See? Page 59 says, "In cases where it's not clear who should open the conflict, have…
In lumpley games
Participants: cpeterso, Eero Tuovinen, Vaxalon.

11/30/2005 aedaren: Looking for a copy of Puppetland
Anyone have a copy of the free version of puppetland they could email to me or send me a link to? The link on the reviews page is broken.  It…
In Site Discussion
Participants: aedaren, Ron Edwards.

11/30/2005 Rustin: Look at my shoehorn. Ain't it pretty?
Ok, get your cringe face ready.  It's been a few months since I bought DitV and I have only managed to play it once.  None of my regular group seemed…
In lumpley games
Participants: Rustin, TonyLB, Vaxalon, jasonm, Danny_K, fmac, Neal.

11/30/2005 Ethesis: Misc comments.
[quote]BTW, [b]What is your game about?[/b] Killing monsters and taking their stuff. [b]What do the characters do?[/b] specialize their abilities (classes), work in groups, improve on a linear scale to…
In RPG Theory
Participants: Ethesis.

11/29/2005 TonyLB: Flash Example of Play
Wow ... I'm tired.  This has taken several hours out of every week for the past few months.  But it was worth it.  I do believe I've created a useful…
In Muse of Fire Games
Participants: TonyLB, dunlaing, Yokiboy, wolfgray, Bret Gillan, Doug Ruff, bcook1971, Hans, Hisho.

11/29/2005 Halzebier: Task vs. Conflict Resolution – Saying it for my group
Hello! We've had a big (though perfectly ameniable) discussion in our DSA group the other night (DSA's a German FRPG). Our fantasy heroes tried to cross a ledge to get…
In RPG Theory
Participants: Halzebier, TonyLB, Andrew Morris, lumpley, Technocrat13, Malcolm, Eero Tuovinen, Sean, Noon, Ron Edwards, xenopulse.

11/29/2005 GreatWolf: [Polaris] More Peoria Polaris, including a discussion of immersion (sorry)
My Polaris group has actually managed to squeeze in a couple more sessions of play since I last wrote here So, naturally, I’m being nagged to write it up for…
In Actual Play
Participants: GreatWolf, ptevis, Bret Gillan, Ben Lehman, Mike Holmes.

11/29/2005 seanpatfan: Challenges and Solutions, Take Two
Hello again, everyone. I do hope that the holiday was a pleasant one for everyone. As promised, I am now posting the larger document that I referenced numerous times in…
In Publishing
Participants: seanpatfan, Bankuei, timfire, abzu, Bob Goat, LloydBrown, Ben Lehman, Valamir, madelf, MatrixGamer, Troy_Costisick, komradebob, Ron Edwards, daMoose_Neo, Eero Tuovinen.

11/29/2005 ptevis: [Polaris] City of Ice and Starlight, Session 5
(Protagonists: Sirius, leader of the Knights; Matar, minstrel turned Knight; Lesath, hot-headed Knight haunted by his father's demon murderer; and Grumian, freakishly large Knight seeking just to be left alone.)…
In Actual Play
Participants: ptevis, Bret Gillan, Ben Lehman.

11/29/2005 guildofblades: Reply about Margin from the multi source thread
Hi Lloyd, >>First, how many Best Retailers do you have?  That's a fairly significant buy-in for most stores.  Your regular discount is 55%, not 60%, and the retailer pays shipping--probably…
In Publishing
Participants: guildofblades, LloydBrown.

11/29/2005 CSBone: How would you publish and market a "Rules Lite" system
As I have been working on my Space Ranger RPG, I realized that I actually had two different design goals. One was to create a solid, low handling, character driven…
In Publishing
Participants: CSBone, Paul Czege, talysman, chadu, timfire, cpeterso, Ben Lehman, nikola.

11/29/2005 Emily Care: And what can Santa bring you, little girl?
Hola! The awesome folks at OgreCave have put out the first of their annual x-mas list of games for gifts, and <a href="http://www.blackgreengames.com">BtI</a> made the cut along with PtA revised…
In Black and Green Games
Participants: Emily Care, Bret Gillan.

11/29/2005 TheTris: Character design from the eyes of a 5 year old
Reviewing most (all?) of the systems I know, character design is approached from what seems like the view of an child looking at the character in question.  My example: daddy…
In RPG Theory
Participants: TheTris, Matt, Ben Lehman, Victor Gijsbers, Joshua BishopRoby, Andrew Morris, lumpley, charles ferguson, WhiteRat, M. J. Young.

11/29/2005 mudron: Yet another artist looking for work. (Woo!)
I'm a Harvey Award-nominated artist in dire need of  work - my previous work experience includes illustrations for roleplaying manuals, storyboards, concept artwork and various illustration duties for all kinds…
In Connections
Participants: mudron, Ben Lehman, Jonathan Walton, daMoose_Neo, Matt Wilson, Sydney Freedberg, sayter, sean2099, gpetersz, Sandman.

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11/30/2005 Clinton R. Nixon: [The Face of Angels] A Georgian Hurricane
I just had my second playtest of The Face of Angels, my newest game, and it was good. Before I even talk about it too much, a quick side-note on…
In Actual Play
Participants: Clinton R. Nixon, inthisstyle, Emily Care, Technocrat13, Rob MacDougall, Thor Olavsrud, Aman the Rejected.

11/30/2005 Mike Holmes: Constructive Denial?
In the following post, Ron came up with the phrase Constructive Denial: http://www.indie-rpgs.com/forum/index.php?topic=17334.15 Actually I think that some of his last posts were some of the best statements that I've…
In GNS Model Discussion
Participants: Mike Holmes, Ron Edwards, Supplanter, GreatWolf, talysman, Marco, komradebob, Artanis, Mark Woodhouse, clehrich, jmac, contracycle, M. J. Young.

11/30/2005 Malckuss: First time here, please be gentle. (long)
This is my first post ever here. I'm very hip to the lingo, so I apologize in advance for my seemingly plebeian ways. I have a game I've been working…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Malckuss, Joshua BishopRoby, TonyLB, dindenver.

11/30/2005 ffilz: [D20 Arcana Evolved] Campaign wrapup
I don't think I ever posted here on this... I was reminded by Meg and Emiliy's blog. As I mentioned way back here, we decided to wrap up the Arcana…
In Actual Play
Participants: ffilz.

11/30/2005 Clinton R. Nixon: Playtest opens - The Face of Angels
Howdy! The Face of Angels is a new short-form role-playing game from me. It is way more drama and seriousness than most of my games. Also, it is about teens…
In CRN Games
Participants: Clinton R. Nixon, Aman the Rejected, Victor Gijsbers.

11/30/2005 timfire: [Mexican Standoff] A Party Game for You, Your Friends, & a Pile of Money
A while ago there was where different people, including myself, posted some ideas for a "Resevoir Dogs"-style Mexican Standoff RPG. I've since developed my ideas some more, and…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: timfire, xenopulse, Joshua BishopRoby, TonyLB, GreatWolf, Troy_Costisick, Eero Tuovinen, Matt, WonderLlama.

11/30/2005 ffilz: [Cold Iron] New Campaign
Back here I was talking about starting a new campaign. We ended up settling on Cold Iron after some hashing around between Cold Iron and RuneQuest. The players weren't really…
In Actual Play
Participants: ffilz.

11/30/2005 Ron Edwards: [Lacuna Part 1] "Nine gram medal"
Hello, That does it. I'm outing Jared. 1. He does too role-play, just like I do - both a variety of existing games, and his own. In fact, he does…
In Actual Play
Participants: Ron Edwards, timfire, Matt Snyder, Jared A. Sorensen, abzu, Sydney Freedberg, nilsderondeau, drozdal, Thor Olavsrud, jrs, Paul Czege, Miskatonic, Danny_K.

11/30/2005 talysman: Reward Cycle III: hybrids
this thread isn't actually a spin-off of Reward Cycle I and II, but it may address some of the minor definition disagreements occurring in those threads. this thread is really…
In GNS Model Discussion
Participants: talysman, Ron Edwards, Mike Holmes, M. J. Young, Sean.

12/1/2005 Brand_Robins: Dog's Actual MUSH Play
Heya all, I just posted 1/5th of the Initiation session of a Dogs game I played online. The actual "game text" is fairly short, but the post is huge because…
In lumpley games
Participants: Brand_Robins, Mike Lucas, Adam Dray, Joshua BishopRoby.

12/1/2005 komradebob: Minis, Narr Techniques, and my 9 year old daughter [long]
I've been working on the idea of creating a minis game that uses some of the narr supportive techniques that folks around here have developed. A discussion of those possibilities…
In Actual Play
Participants: komradebob, Mark Woodhouse, Arturo G., joshua neff, Tony Irwin, Arpie, John Kim, James Holloway, Danny_K.

12/1/2005 alejandro: Market Share
is there anyway to determine what the market share is like for the major players, d20, WW, Gurps, etc?
In Indie Game Design
Participants: alejandro, Eero Tuovinen.

12/1/2005 Rossum: [DitV] First post-Katrina GMing; play with strangers
Allow me to delurk. Firstly, a shout out to El Clintonian for Findplay and D. Vincent Baker for Dogs. Since it rained, my regular gaming groups haven't met. Many of…
In Actual Play
Participants: Rossum, jasonm, ScottM, lumpley.

12/1/2005 Ben Lehman: [Dreamation 2006] Room Party
Does the Room Party need funds or contributions of snacks / booze / party games, etc? yrs-- --Ben
In Conventions
Participants: Ben Lehman, Michael S. Miller, Clinton R. Nixon, TonyLB, Bob Goat, Jared A. Sorensen, abzu, Andrew Morris, Thor Olavsrud, RobNJ, Diabolik, Ron Edwards.

12/1/2005 jasonm: DoW Question
In my continuing effort to break myself on the wheel, last night I started our session with a kickin' duel of wits.  I ran into a big problem, though, and…
In Burning Wheel
Participants: jasonm, abzu, MetalBard.

12/1/2005 nikola: Lines vs. Authors
Several times in recent threads, store owners, large publishers, and distributors have pointed out that game lines sell, where single books don't. I'm not going to debate that. I think…
In Publishing
Participants: nikola, GreatWolf, John Burdick, Ron Edwards, Joshua BishopRoby, chadu, Blankshield, Adam, timfire, Paul Czege, Jared A. Sorensen, inthisstyle, guildofblades, James Holloway, LloydBrown, Roger, Michael S. Miller, Nathan P., Troy_Costisick, Jonathan Walton.

12/1/2005 Ron Edwards: [A GNS STORY] The liberals
[b]First in a series. I don't know how many yet.[/b] So I'm in the foxhole, up to my mid-shins in muddy water. It's been a rough day, not so much…
In GNS Model Discussion
Participants: Ron Edwards, Eero Tuovinen, Mike Holmes, John Harper, RobNJ, matthijs, Arturo G., GreatWolf.

12/1/2005 Ron Edwards: [A PUBLISHING STORY] The emissary
[b]Second in a series. I don't know how many yet.[/b] They call him a freelance negotiator, and maybe he even believes it. Sometimes they think they're journalists, sometimes attaches or…
In Publishing
Participants: Ron Edwards, Troy_Costisick, Brand_Robins, Bob Goat, abzu, nikola, Jared A. Sorensen.

12/1/2005 Ron Edwards: [A THEORY STORY] The youngsters
[b]Third in a series. I don't know how many yet.[/b] Some of them arrived on stretchers. Some were born here. Quite a few arrived through the Underground, passed like parcels…
In RPG Theory
Participants: Ron Edwards, Clinton R. Nixon, Matt Snyder, Paka, Halzebier, John Kim, M. J. Young, Iskander, Noon.

12/1/2005 Neal: [DitV] Red Horse Pass
This past Tuesday, I ran my players (Dave and Mike) through Red Horse Pass.  The town is described in its own posting in lumpley's forum.  The Dogs were Brothers Thomas…
In Actual Play
Participants: Neal, jasonm, lumpley, Joshua BishopRoby, Valamir.

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