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1/3/2006 JohnU: Monsters in FATE
I really want to run a FATE game for the local game group.  I have the rules and am fairly familiar with character creation ect.  The question I have is…
In Evilhat Productions
Participants: JohnU, Rob Donoghue.

1/3/2006 verbosity: Need rules for 1700's Naval Battles & Bi-Plane Battles
I am working on a new campaign world to try out my new Riddle of Steel book, which I found on this site. So far, here is where I am…
In Actual Play
Participants: verbosity, Valamir, komradebob, MatrixGamer.

1/3/2006 Norbert Matausch: Revisiting the What-show-do-you-want-to-run thread
Hi all, though I clicked the "New Topic" button, it's not, but I'm always interested in what other producers have in mind... What shows do you want to run with…
In Dog Eared Designs
Participants: Norbert Matausch, Chris Goodwin, Bret Gillan, John Harper, Sydney Freedberg, Pol Jackson, Paka, Twilight Jack, Frank T, BlackSheep, DainXB, IMAGinES, cpeterso.

1/3/2006 Joshua BishopRoby: [FLFS] First Playtest -- HMS Dauntless
We had three players: myself, my wife Laura, and my brother Ben.  Six if you count our three cats, one of which had her own character sheet. We played a…
In Actual Play
Participants: Joshua BishopRoby, Brand_Robins, Nathan P., Warren, mutex.

1/3/2006 Vibilo: [Innkeep] Character Troubles
A few months ago I put up my first draft of Innkeep along with some questions I had about the game. Since I don't dedicate much time a week on…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Vibilo.

1/3/2006 Graham Walmsley: Fir Tree Branch
There was a thread a while ago called <a href="http://www.indie-rpgs.com/forum/index.php?topic=17717.0">Holidays</a>. It got me thinking and this town is the result. I'm thinking of running it later this week. Could I…
In lumpley games
Participants: Graham Walmsley, Vaxalon, Everspinner, jasonm, Andrew Morris, daHob.

1/3/2006 joepub: [Apocalypse Scissorhands] My 24 hour RPG
Hey - I finished writing a 24-hour RPG a little while ago, and it was just posted up today. I had decided to do something akin to Game Chef or…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: joepub, dindenver, Zach.

1/3/2006 Supplanter: [DITV] Bad Touch on an NPC
We finally got to play Dogs this afternoon. I GMed for Bill, with whom I game regularly, and Glen, who is a longtime gamer whom I've known for awhile but…
In Actual Play
Participants: Supplanter, dunlaing, lumpley, Wolfen, Paka.

1/3/2006 iain: Seattle area gaming comunity
I am potentially going to over in the Seattle area come March/April this year and was wondering what there was in the way of activity and gaming shops in the…
In Connections
Participants: iain, rafial.

1/3/2006 iain: CGS looking for playtesters
Hi folks, I am currently looking for playtesters for a new CGS project called 'Mob Justice' which I am currently writing. The game is a modern day gangster RPG and…
In Connections
Participants: iain.

1/2/2006 Paka: [PTA] The Owl and the Serpent
I am fairly damned sick of only setting up or setting up and playing only one session of Primetime Adventures but it happened again.  Friends were in town and it…
In Actual Play
Participants: Paka, RobNJ, Spiral Jacobs.

1/2/2006 Ron Edwards: [Soviet Politics] Ronnies feedback
[b][url=http://www.1km1kt.net/rpg/Soviet_Politics.php]Soviet Politics[/url][/b] by Remko van der Pluijm goes into the Great Non-RPG category. It reminds me of [b][url=http://www.gregstolze.com/downloads.html]Executive Decision[/url][/b]. I'm also beginning to see the possibility of a special rack…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Ron Edwards, Victor Gijsbers, Remko.

1/2/2006 Ron Edwards: [Krasnoarmeets] Ronnies feedback
[b][url=http://www.1km1kt.net/rpg/Kpachoapmee.php]Krasnoarmeets[/url][/b] by James Holloway wins a Low Ronny! Check out some earlier discussion in [b][url=http://www.indie-rpgs.com/forum/index.php?topic=17629.0][Kpachoapmee/Krasnoarmeets] Enemy at the Ronnies Gates[/url][/b]. At last, the Stalingrad RPG I was hoping for -…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Ron Edwards, James Holloway, komradebob, Sydney Freedberg, Doug Ruff.

1/2/2006 sayter: [Realm] Character "Classes"
Well, I am now at the point where the setting is devised enough that I can start conceptualizing the "classes" of characters in the game. Now, as those keeping up…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: sayter, Bill Masek, dindenver, tygertyger.

1/2/2006 Ron Edwards: [Firestarter] Ronnies feedback
All welcome Firestarter which represents Christopher Peterson's first participation in the Ronnies. As it stands, it's a Game Notion - the set of notes that precedes a start-to-finish sketchy summary…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Ron Edwards, cpeterso, Victor Gijsbers, Noon, talysman.

1/2/2006 Ron Edwards: [Holodomor] Ronnies feedback
[b][url=http://www.1km1kt.net/rpg/Holodomor.php]Holodomor[/url][/b] by Sambucus (Zsámboki János) wins a Low Ronny, partly because it has the biggest 'nads ever in role-playing game design. Check out [b][url=http://www.indie-rpgs.com/forum/index.php?topic=17636.0][Holodomor] Not just another Ronnies thread[/url][/b] for…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Ron Edwards, Sambucus.

1/2/2006 Ron Edwards: [Stalin's Story] Ronnies feedback
[b][url=http://www.1km1kt.net/rpg/Stalins_Story.php]Stalin's Story[/url][/b] by Sydney Gijsberg seems to me a thought-provoking Game Notion. I have never enjoyed a "compete to entertain me" game design, nor been convinced that it's a viable…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Ron Edwards, Victor Gijsbers, Troy_Costisick, Rob MacDougall.

1/2/2006 Ron Edwards: [Serpentine Thunder] Ronnies feedback
[b][url=http://www.1km1kt.net/rpg/Serpentine_Thunder.php]Serpentine Thunder[/url][/b] by John Laviolette is the starting draft for a Great Non-RPG. I see it as a boxed set of specialty cards, like the game Titan from Avalon Hill,…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Ron Edwards, talysman, Sydney Freedberg.

1/2/2006 Ron Edwards: [The Other] Pre-playtest questions
Tim Kleinert and I sat down over coffee to check out the playtest version of The Other, by Jeff Diamond. For those of you who don't know, Jeff is a…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Ron Edwards.

1/2/2006 MusedFable: Mythasy: A game for bittererest roleplayers
This is a continuation of http://www.indie-rpgs.com/forum/index.php?topic=18060.0. To sum up the thread:  I said "I've played a hole crap load of rpgs over the last 9 years and I don't think…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: MusedFable, sayter, Adam Dray.

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1/3/2006 Ron Edwards: [General Mud] Ronnies feedback
[b][url=http://www.1km1kt.net/rpg/General_Mud.php]General Mud[/url][/b] by Rob Macdougall wins the sole High Ronny for this round Where do I start? This is a beautiful piece of work, specifically because of the diverse possible…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Ron Edwards, Rob MacDougall, Malcolm, contracycle, Troy_Costisick, James Holloway, TonyPace, Sydney Freedberg, Noon, droog, Ramidel.

1/3/2006 joepub: Understanding some printing terminology
[quote]Pick a cover... —Color Cover, perfect bound, 12pt cover stock, laminated.............. $1.00 aaaaoptional: Interior cover, color or B&W....................................... .50¢ —Color Cover, Laminated, Hardbound/Casebound.......................... $6.00 optional: Interior end sheet printing, color…
In Publishing
Participants: joepub, Joshua BishopRoby, Eero Tuovinen, devilbunny, Veritas Games, Chris Passeno, MatrixGamer.

1/3/2006 Matt Snyder: Native Americans in Dust Devils revised
I am starting work on revising Dust Devils for an expanded paperback edition. As part of that revision, I will include more Old West setting-type information. I do not aim…
In Chimera Creative
Participants: Matt Snyder, Valamir, Brand_Robins, rafial, Eero Tuovinen, Ben Lehman.

1/3/2006 lumpley: Three kinds of character creation
Me, Meg and Emily. We're like, hey, I know, let's make characters for each of our games in development, see how they each work. So we did. All three were…
In Actual Play
Participants: lumpley, Joshua BishopRoby, Victor Gijsbers, Ron Edwards.

1/3/2006 Rossum: [DitV] Sutter's Mill Branch
I'm doing this a little backwards- I ran the PCs through this town a few weeks ago, and am using this post as means to jumpstart my brain for tonight's…
In lumpley games
Participants: Rossum, lumpley.

1/3/2006 lumpley: Low-key towns for new players?
[quote author=Rossum link=topic=18217.msg192465#msg192465 date=1136322670] I specifically did not want to ramp up all the way to Hate and Murder. This was the first town (and the first game) for this…
In lumpley games
Participants: lumpley, Brand_Robins, Levi Kornelsen, Technocrat13, Arturo G., chriscrouch, Andrew Morris, Iskander, Rossum, Frank T.

1/3/2006 MatrixGamer: (Engle Matrix Game) Chaos on Campus - with the family
My sister in law and two of my nephews were over for the Holidays and in between washing dishes we played a Matrix Games. We played "Chaos on Campus" a…
In Actual Play
Participants: MatrixGamer, komradebob, Sydney Freedberg, neelk.

1/3/2006 Ron Edwards: [delete] Ronnies feedback
[b][url=http://www.1km1kt.net/rpg/Delete.php]delete[/url][/b] by Brendan Parigo presents a strong Game Notion; see [b][url=http://www.indie-rpgs.com/forum/index.php?topic=17633.0][delete] Another Ronnies feedback thread[/url][/b]. This is the one in which the character has mud for blood and is fading…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Ron Edwards, inoir, TonyPace.

1/3/2006 Ron Edwards: [Infinity] Ronnies feedback
[b][url=http://www.1km1kt.net/rpg/Infinity.php]Infinity[/url][/b] by Kirk Mitchell is another excellent Game Notion. This is the one where you wake up in a wasteland of mud, with one gun and one bullet; it's the…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Ron Edwards, Dumirik.

1/3/2006 redivider: In-person game writing group, Los Angeles region
I'm interested in setting up an in-person writing group focusing on rpgs. The goal would be to hold monthly meetings in the L.A. area to provide feedback on game drafts,…
In Connections
Participants: redivider, Joshua BishopRoby, Ron Edwards.

1/3/2006 RDU Neil: (Champions/Hero) First Try Stakes...
So... just a quick follow up to my previous post which drew a lot of comments.  I decided to try some version of stakes setting in my last couple of…
In Actual Play
Participants: RDU Neil, Hisho, Warren, Storn, daHob, Valamir.

1/4/2006 Ron Edwards: [Mud Planet] Ronnies feedback
[b][url=http://www.1km1kt.net/rpg/Mud_Planet.php]Mud Planet[/url][/b] by Frank Tarcikowski gets a Runner-Up for this round. It very nearly won the award, you should know - if Frank wants to claim he was robbed, I…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Ron Edwards, Frank T.

1/4/2006 Ron Edwards: [Dragons of Blood and Water] Ronnies feedback
[b][url=http://www.1km1kt.net/rpg/Dragons_of_Blood_and_Water.php]Dragons of Blood and Water[/url][/b] by Gareth Hanrahan wavered in my mind, back-and-forth, between Bake It, Betty and Runner-Up. Gareth, there's a little bit of arty-farty angst in here, by…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Ron Edwards, Mytholder.

1/4/2006 chriscrouch: [DitV] Some questions after our first time
I recently ran DitV for a group of friends - the first time playing for all of us. We had a bunch of rules questions come up, and a few…
In lumpley games
Participants: chriscrouch, Brand_Robins, Vaxalon, lumpley.

1/4/2006 Thunder_God: So, Ronnies Details?
I used the search function, but to no avail. I am curious and want to read the post describing the terms and goals of The Ronnies. The post that people…
In Site Discussion
Participants: Thunder_God, Ron Edwards, Sydney Freedberg.

1/4/2006 dimitkan: when will we see the PTA sheets?
Hello, I come from Greece. I like very much the PTA. I'm waiting  for the Reference Sheets and the Series Creation Sheet. When will they be available for downloading?
In Dog Eared Designs
Participants: dimitkan, Matt Wilson.

1/4/2006 lumpley: Sorcery and the Supernatural Dial
[quote author=Iskander link=topic=18218.msg192569#msg192569 date=1136389143] For me (running my first, a one-shot), the limiting factor was that it seemed that right after [i]False Doctrine[/i], you're getting into [i]Sorcery[/i], and are immediately…
In lumpley games
Participants: lumpley, Iskander, Levi Kornelsen, Brand_Robins, Vaxalon, Warren.

1/4/2006 Platemier: Frames And Icons for a CCG
I'm designing a Collectible card game, and I'm currently looking at making frames for my cards, icons representing various gameplay elements, and a few simple place holder graphics for the…
In Connections
Participants: Platemier.

1/4/2006 Valamir: Problems with Successes leading to Facts
In The Firestarter Feedback Thread Ron Spake Thusly: 3. Basing the system on the concept of "success = introduced fact" is a tricky issue, and I'm not really confident…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Valamir, Joshua BishopRoby, Ron Edwards.

1/4/2006 kregmosier: the Dead: Rough Draft and Howdy!
Firstly, long time lurker, first time long-poster…Howdy!  My name is Kreg and I’ve been playing role-playing games since 1979 when a friend and I pooled our allowances for the old…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: kregmosier, Chad.

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