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12/18/2005 Diabolik: Offering opportunities to spread the word about your game.
I would like to offer the ability to have my staff and I review your game, any game, and give our honest opinion of that game. Let me explain a…
In Connections
Participants: Diabolik.

12/17/2005 Particle_Man: Getting "udner the hood" of Sins and acts of Pride.
I am looking at Dogs in the Vinyard, trying to figure out *why* certain sins and acts of pride are such (apart from "Because it says so"). Here is what…
In lumpley games
Participants: Particle_Man, lumpley, Vaxalon.

12/17/2005 juandsix: Hello, and an interesting little mechanic / statistical observation
Hi, I'm new to the board. I've never produced a game, and odds-are I won't (rather a large investment of time and energy) but I've thought about it from time…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: juandsix, Eero Tuovinen, Ben Lehman, demiurgeastaroth, Darcy Burgess.

12/17/2005 raithe: [Heretic] Avoiding the OMGWTFBBQ!!?!?!?!!! disease
"A man may take to drink because he feels himself a failure, then fail all the more because he has taken to drink. It is rather the same thing that…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: raithe, dindenver, WhiteRat, Bob the Fighter, Danny_K, Joshua BishopRoby, Sydney Freedberg, neko ewen, Noon, Arpie, dunlaing, Ice Cream Emperor, Ron Edwards, Bill Masek, Ethesis.

12/17/2005 preludetotheend: Creating a fan base.
Good day, I have been trying to decide on different approaches to my getting a setting heavy game into the public and have pretty much decided that creating a fan…
In Publishing
Participants: preludetotheend, abzu, TonyLB, Ben Lehman, Certified, Ron Edwards, nikola, MatrixGamer, Sydney Freedberg.

12/16/2005 lokis wrangling: Excellent Adventures in the Living Room Theatre
Just wanted to tell y'all that I had an excellent online game of PtA with my Korean gaming buddies, only using d10s instead of cards. It was about high school…
In Dog Eared Designs
Participants: lokis wrangling, matthijs, John Harper, Matt Wilson.

12/16/2005 matthijs: [Prime Time Adventures] "Renselsen" and the role of Facilitator
We've started the third epoch of our Draug campaign, set in a mythical Norway in the early 1800's. Since the second epoch ended in a local apocalypse - the coastal…
In Actual Play
Participants: matthijs, SabreCat.

12/16/2005 Paul Czege: beyond the post-Utrecht reformulation
My current thinking is driven by these post-Utrecht concerns: On a need to make Teachers more effective as antagonists. On a need to increase the frequency of Humanizing across the…
In Acts of Evil Playtest Board
Participants: Paul Czege, Eero Tuovinen.

12/16/2005 James Holloway: Multiple relationships at once?
So let's say I have multiple relevant relationships in a contest -- for instance, I have a relationship with my brother for 2d6, and I find that he's sleeping with…
In lumpley games
Participants: James Holloway, Vaxalon, Ben Lehman, lumpley.

12/16/2005 nikola: [Shock:] 0.2.0 released
When I posted here about two months back, I got some profoundly excellent encouragement and feedback on Shock 0.1.0. Thank you all for such excellent help! The time has come…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: nikola, Kaare Berg (Old), joepub, Sydney Freedberg.

12/16/2005 nikola: Shock playtest 0.2.0
Hey, folks. Shock: Social Science Fiction has entered version 0.2.0. A lot's changed, so if you're planning on running your existing games with it (and I wholeheartedly recommend it), make…
In glyphpress
Participants: nikola, Bret Gillan, Matt.

12/16/2005 Tobias: PTA for non-fiction shows?
Has anyone ever used PTA for the following types of non-fiction shows? - documentary/news story - reality tv (a day in the life of, extreme makeover, survivor, paradise hotel) If…
In Dog Eared Designs
Participants: Tobias, Paka, ScottM, Danny_K, JarrodHenry, jasonm.

12/16/2005 Arpie: [Capes] Party Tricks
Some manga-obsessed friends of mine (I dislike manga and, for the most part, anime, but I don't have many friends) ran a couple games of Capes over at their house…
In Actual Play
Participants: Arpie, contracycle, Sydney Freedberg, Bret Gillan, TonyLB, Grover.

12/16/2005 jrs: [DitV] Trinity Dogleg Branch, LONG
Here's the first town I developed for our group's run of Dogs.  These are my notes that I wrote up before play.  The set-up included the Dogs noticing they carried…
In lumpley games
Participants: jrs, Brendan.

12/16/2005 RobMuadib: A resource for those trying to keep up on the Forge Diaspora RPG D&T Blogosphere
Hi all I put this deal the other day, You may find it useful, from my canned announcement: A new resource for budding tabletop RPG designers, a Squidoo.com "lens", PPD…
In Connections
Participants: RobMuadib, Andy Kitkowski, Eero Tuovinen.

12/16/2005 Lisa Padol: [Sorcerer] Our second session
Write Up of Second Sorcerer Session The description of the characters and the write up of the first session are here: http://www.indie-rpgs.com/forum/index.php?topic=17765.0 Demons are limited to Passers (in animal form)…
In Actual Play
Participants: Lisa Padol, Julian, Trevis Martin, Eero Tuovinen, Victor Gijsbers, Bret Gillan, joshua neff, Valamir, mneme, Calithena, rafial, coffeestain, demiurgeastaroth.

12/16/2005 warrenfry: [Ring-Hall; Beowulf] qurious what you think....
Hello, I’m new to the Forge but excited to start sharing.  I have been working on a game design for the past two years and I am very close to…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: warrenfry, TonyLB, Joshua BishopRoby, Bob the Fighter.

12/15/2005 daMoose_Neo: Required Purchases - do they work or put off?
I'm wrapping up work on my new book for the Imp Game, Traps & Mishaps, sans some additional contnet, and have an important decision to make. This isn't a survey…
In Publishing
Participants: daMoose_Neo, Thor Olavsrud, guildofblades, matthijs, nikola, Eero Tuovinen, Jared A. Sorensen, Brendan, Joshua BishopRoby, komradebob.

12/15/2005 wburdick: Anyone interested in a Universalis mud?
Anyone interested in helping to make an online version of Universalis in mud-form?  The plan I have is turn-based, real-time interaction.  I.e. not a forum -- the players would all…
In Universalis
Participants: wburdick, Mike Holmes, CPXB, Nev the Deranged, Gaerik, Robotech_Master.

12/15/2005 sayter: [Realm] Dreamers: Rough Draft
Bear with me on the redundancy within some of the paragraphs. Im looking for feedback primarily on the Periapts, and ideas on how their philosophies fit or could be logically…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: sayter, Bill Masek.

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12/18/2005 KingstonC: [the shadow of yesterday] Rats, Revenge, and Revolution (part 2)
This is the second part of my Rats, Revenge, and Revolution actual play report. It describes the final act in my wonderfully successful The Shadow of Yesterday campaign. When we…
In Actual Play
Participants: KingstonC, Clinton R. Nixon, Kamia.

12/18/2005 Victor Gijsbers: [The Face of Angels] Playtest - Camera... lights... revolution!
We played our first session of Clinton's new game The Face of Angels yesterday. It rocked. It felt much more like playing a complete game than like playing a playtest…
In Actual Play
Participants: Victor Gijsbers, Clinton R. Nixon, Roger, Remko, Wilco Smits, Aman the Rejected, Paul Bakker.

12/18/2005 Darcy Burgess: Everybody loves cards! But do you have a tuckbox?
I can think of one or two games 'round here that have come out recently that involve cards -- custom or otherwise. I thought that this might be a useful…
In Publishing
Participants: Darcy Burgess, Joshua BishopRoby, nikola, guildofblades, Mike Sugarbaker, daMoose_Neo, Veritas Games.

12/18/2005 nixrlame: Feedback request: Realms of rivalry - Multiplayer turn-based strategy/rpg
Hey guys. We're two guys working on a small web-based multiplayer game called Realms of Rivalry. Realms of Rivalry has alot of similarities to classic titles like Space Crusade, XCom…
In Connections
Participants: nixrlame.

12/19/2005 Barlennan: [TSoY] Confused by the 2nd edition
I recently read the TSoY revised edition Creative Commons version, and I'm afraid I'm finding parts of it hard to follow. I should mention that my only experience with narrativist…
In CRN Games
Participants: Barlennan, Clinton R. Nixon.

12/19/2005 TonyLB: Sussing out details of an Actual Play post
I had to pull out this rules-discussion from an actual play post, because Actual Play is not the right place for me to be doing detailed rules tutelage, given that…
In Muse of Fire Games
Participants: TonyLB, Arpie.

12/19/2005 ragnar: [PTA] Somewhere in Newfoundland - population 15.000
We just finished a very successful first session of Prime Time Adventures (thanks Matt for a great game). One of the elements that I think made this work so well…
In Actual Play
Participants: ragnar, ScottM.

12/19/2005 Silmenume: [Middle Earth - home brew] - A first, another group with the same play style!
What I had started to despair as the impossible has been demonstrated to me to be utterly possible!  Through a strange and convoluted series of incidents my GM and I…
In Actual Play
Participants: Silmenume, Caldis, Supplanter, Noon, Christopher Kubasik, contracycle, beingfrank, RDU Neil.

12/19/2005 MusedFable: Hello Forge + I need a game to play/ I'm designing a game
I would like this post to accomplish these two things: -I want to start playing an RPG I like as soon as possible -I want to take measurable steps toward…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: MusedFable, Tobias, daMoose_Neo, Frank T, Joshua BishopRoby, Paul Czege, WhiteRat, Andy Kitkowski, dindenver, JarrodHenry, Dantai, Paka, Arpie, Ron Edwards.

12/19/2005 Bret Gillan: [Capes] Finally, a campaign
I am pumped. For the first time I will be playing multiple sessions of Capes in a short-term campaign. My friend Jere is home from college from break, so while…
In Actual Play
Participants: Bret Gillan, Sydney Freedberg, Paka, TonyLB, Jeremiah Lahnum, TheCzech.

12/19/2005 Bret Gillan: "Guest Stars"
Has anyone run a regular campaign of Capes, and occasionally had people who wanted to participate for a single session? This seems very easy to do, but I'm wondering if…
In Muse of Fire Games
Participants: Bret Gillan, Vaxalon, Sydney Freedberg.

12/19/2005 Vaxalon: [Panaesthon Fantasy] Getting started
Okay, so I have these friends.  They're that kind of player who has been playing DnD for a long time, but never really engaging the system... letting other people handle…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Vaxalon, joepub, sayter, Sydney Freedberg.

12/19/2005 gains: [Mage] Cross pollination
My usual DitV game almost wasn't on last night. In fact, I expected it would just be me GMing and one player, so we discussed possible alternates for the evening.…
In Actual Play
Participants: gains, Graham Walmsley, Ron Edwards, Joshua BishopRoby, Blankshield, Noon.

12/19/2005 The_Confessor: Copyright Law regarding government art
Greetings,    I'm presently designing a pulp RPG set in a post apocalyptic 1949 called Atomic Storm. I'm organizing and formatting my first draft and have begun looking into where…
In Publishing
Participants: The_Confessor, Joshua BishopRoby, jasonm, jrs, jeremycoatney, Ben Lehman, Veritas Games, Darkshadow, Troy_Costisick, thanatopsis27, btrc.

12/19/2005 TonyLB: [Amber] Why won't you let me set stakes?
I'm taking Paka's advice to put the question of "What are stakes?  What is risk?  Does it imply gambling?" into the context of my own experiences with folks who couldn't…
In Actual Play
Participants: TonyLB, C. Edwards, Marhault, Supplanter, Joshua BishopRoby, Brand_Robins, Mark Woodhouse, Mikko Lehtinen, Noon, Andy Kitkowski, Bankuei, William Burke, Gaerik, Blankshield, Thor Olavsrud, Unco Lober, Storn.

12/19/2005 inthisstyle: [Mortal Coil] Follow-Up Playtest: Old Gods Get Mean
So we got together again last Friday for another playtest session of Mortal Coil. This was a follow-up session to the one I wrote about last month, and we preserved…
In Actual Play
Participants: inthisstyle, gains.

12/19/2005 rvowles: PDF/Short book of best of forge articles?
Is there a pdf or purchase-able book somewhere of all of the articles and (maybe) key discussions from the Forge? Reading them on the web site is... annoying? And I…
In Site Discussion
Participants: rvowles, Trevis Martin.

12/19/2005 Jeffrey Straszheim: Length of game
The rules point out that it takes and average of 27 experience rolls to complete the cycle of a character, and the fast game option roughly halves that.  The folks…
In These Are Our Games
Participants: Jeffrey Straszheim, Ben Lehman, Frank T, GreatWolf.

12/19/2005 Joshua BishopRoby: The Wonderful and Terrible world of CMS -- advice?
Hey there!  I've been merrily setting up my imprint's site and before I get too far along I want to set it up 'right' with a Content Management System rather…
In Connections
Participants: Joshua BishopRoby, Andy Kitkowski, Eero Tuovinen, jasonm, CommonDialog, pfischer, Bryan Hansel, greyorm, Clay.

12/20/2005 AnyaTheBlue: BW.org forums broken?
Um -- can anybody else get into the BW.org forums (normally located here)? All I see is "Please ensure both the install/ and contrib/ directories are deleted"... Thanks!
In Burning Wheel
Participants: AnyaTheBlue, Thor Olavsrud, abzu, Mencelus, Kaare Berg (Old), taepoong, JamesDJIII, Aman the Rejected.

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