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1/17/2006 Paka: Presenting Characters to the Players for Con Scenarios
When I have played with my regular group, I know the people.  I know that one player is a district attorney, so I give him the thief so he can…
In Actual Play
Participants: Paka, Andy Kitkowski, ubergeek2012, Andrew Morris, John Kim, HenryT.

1/17/2006 Keith Senkowski: Conspiracy of Ravenloft: Session One
So on Saturday we finally hit the CoS Ravenloft game and I think it was a bit rougher in spots than it should have been.  Don't get me wrong, it…
In Actual Play
Participants: Keith Senkowski, Matt Wilson, Matt-M-McElroy, Paka, Jason Leigh, daemonchild.

1/17/2006 Hans: Questions on staking and splitting
Just off my third session of Capes.  My how I love this game. I read through this several times, and still feel shaky - Page 25 of the rules says:…
In Muse of Fire Games
Participants: Hans, Kintara, TonyLB.

1/17/2006 sirogit: [General Mud]A short playtest
Last Sunday me and two friends played some General Mud. It was a pretty good time, with a few misgivings. Character creation went pretty smooth, but one of the players…
In Actual Play
Participants: sirogit, ptevis, Rob MacDougall.

1/17/2006 inthisstyle: Playtesters
I sent out a note to some select people asking for a playtest of Mortal Coil, and then I e-mailed the PDF version of the game to them (of course…
In Galileo Games
Participants: inthisstyle, Matt-M-McElroy, Nathan P..

1/17/2006 energy: Old gamer new game?
Well I am an old gamer and haven't played any games for awhile. The most recent game I played was Wild Arms 4 that came out Jan. 10. Has anyone…
In Actual Play
Participants: energy, Andrew Morris.

1/17/2006 inthisstyle: [Mortal Coil] Recess Game 2: Old Gods
I ran Mortal Coil at the latest Recess game day in New York. There was time at the mini-convention for two sessions, and rather than run the same one twice,…
In Actual Play
Participants: inthisstyle, Paka, Iskander, gains.

1/17/2006 dunlaing: Things you want to avoid
What do you do if there are things you (and by "you" I mean your gaming group as a whole) want to avoid in Capes? The answer is definitely not…
In Muse of Fire Games
Participants: dunlaing, Vaxalon, Gaerik.

1/17/2006 inthisstyle: [Mortal Coil] Recess Game 1: Apocalypse Boulevard
I ran Mortal Coil at the latest Recess game day in New York. There was time at the mini-convention for two sessions, and rather than run the same one twice,…
In Actual Play
Participants: inthisstyle, mtiru, phredd, Nathan P..

1/17/2006 Emily Care: Just three words....
Broke Back Mountain I just saw this last night, coincidentally, as the Golden  Globe awards were going on.  It broke my heart and made me remember how powerful a medium…
In Black and Green Games
Participants: Emily Care.

1/17/2006 jasonm: [FoA] Red Prophet, Black Prophet: I'm what?
[color=Red][fair warning, probably some hot button issues follow][/color] So we finished act III of our bizarro duellin' prophets of Islam Face of Angels game last night.  It began on the…
In Actual Play
Participants: jasonm, LeSingeSavant, Clinton R. Nixon, Andy Kitkowski, urbanpagan.

1/17/2006 Aman the Rejected: Admiration and Adulation
I played my first game of Prime Time Adventures this weekend, and it was my first Forge game ever (despite years of reading about them and having purchased quite a…
In Dog Eared Designs
Participants: Aman the Rejected, Matt Wilson, Kintara, Glendower, Chris Goodwin, Bret Gillan.

1/17/2006 Chad: [Zhang Zhung] Art preview -seeking co-developer
Hi There, Posting this in the connections forum also, but thought this would be a good place to start. I am seeking a co-developer with which to collaborate on The…
In Connections
Participants: Chad.

1/17/2006 Glendower: [D20 Eberron] Lost that Spark, a Lost Gm seeks advice.
Hello everyone, My name's Jon.  Glendower is a handle of mine from a while back, I wasn't aware of the general policy to use real names here until after I…
In Actual Play
Participants: Glendower, Kintara, dindenver, Mason, Wolfen, Ron Edwards, RDU Neil, gains, Storn, Gaerik, nikola, bcook1971, CSBone, John Kim.

1/17/2006 Jason Leigh: Prisoner's Dilemma Redux
Reprinted from my <a href="http://www.deadpanbob.net/lt/index.php/roleplaying/2006/01/16/prisoner_s_dilemma_redux">blog</a>, I'm noodling a mechanics question that trys to instert push/pull* mechanics into conflict resolution, along with some degree of vs. player tactics (as in, you…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Jason Leigh, dindenver, Troy_Costisick.

1/17/2006 Andy Kitkowski: The Ghost Killers: Combat & Damage- Stuck, need a push
Hey all.  So I'm turning my 24 Hour Game "The Ghost Killers" into a full-fledged game. Playtested twice, but now the core mechanic changed a bit in a recent playtest…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Andy Kitkowski, dindenver, jasonm, Valamir, Noon, Jason Leigh.

1/17/2006 Iskander: [MLwM] My Life with Contessa Lenora
[b]Background[/b] The game took place at Recess - a roughly quarterly micro-con run by nerdNYC, this time held in a large room at the Gay and Lesbian Center, 13th St.,…
In Actual Play
Participants: Iskander, Michael S. Miller, Arturo G..

1/16/2006 Jake Boone: [Pentarch] Boffer LARP design (split)
Work proceeds on Pentarch, though slowly.  I've returned to this thread many times, just rereading what all of you have said and pondering what I really want from this game.…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Jake Boone, TheTris, Lig, Ron Edwards, Arpie, Simon Marks, Matt, Grover, Walt Freitag.

1/16/2006 Hrimnir: looking for the right game
Hello, this is my first post so I will keep it simple. I hope I chose the most appropriate place to post this... Anyway, I was hoping that I may…
In Actual Play
Participants: Hrimnir, joepub, WhiteRat, Ron Edwards.

1/16/2006 Hrimnir: Free Art for Creative Rpg's
Hello there. Yes I am another random artist looking for "work" so to speak. Now, I am not exactly looking to make money here. I intend on publishing an rpg…
In Connections
Participants: Hrimnir, Technocrat13, energy, komradebob, Alexander XVX, DarkAsmodeous, Thunder_God, SCSM2650, bifster, sean2099.

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1/17/2006 Bankuei: [KueiCon] Galactic
Hi folks, So first thing off on Saturday, we got into Matt Wilson's developing space opera game, Galactic, run by Albert Anderson. Galactic normally involves building a map with different…
In Actual Play
Participants: Bankuei, ptevis, Albert of Feh.

1/17/2006 Bankuei: [KueiCon] Falling Leaves
Hi folks, First- Wow.  What a brutally simple and elegant game. I got to play this with Albert & William, and our game quickly turned into something worthy of rivalling…
In Actual Play
Participants: Bankuei, William Burke, Albert of Feh, TheTris, Sydney Freedberg.

1/17/2006 Anna B: The Sim Nar Blur
So I get Sim - but then I'm the kind of person who watched The Matrix and thought "wait that volates the second law of thermodynamics! What are the computers…
In Actual Play
Participants: Anna B, Ron Edwards, nikola, Supplanter, Sydney Freedberg, Joshua BishopRoby, Silmenume.

1/17/2006 Bankuei: [KueiCon] Capes
Hi folks, Towards the end of the first night, we had 3 extra people show up, and wanted to get them into play ASAP.  In hindsight, Capes is not the…
In Actual Play
Participants: Bankuei.

1/18/2006 Bankuei: [KueiCon] Dog Eat Dog
Hi folks, On Sunday morning, we got to play the very awesome Dog Eat Dog, a game in development by William Burke.  Dog Eat Dog is a game about colonialism,…
In Actual Play
Participants: Bankuei.

1/18/2006 Bankuei: [KueiCon] Aftermath report
Hi folks, KueiCon was teh awesome, and I wanted to thank everyone who came and played with us.  Though we only set up for 2 days and 3 time slots…
In Conventions
Participants: Bankuei, ptevis, Albert of Feh, jasonm, faerieloch.

1/18/2006 Justin A Hamilton: [Sorcerer] Preparing for a pitch, King in Yellow
Hello again, let me apologize in advance if this post has a lot of jargon, please ask. So my roleplaying group has a kind of round-robin GM format.  We all…
In Adept Press
Participants: Justin A Hamilton, Neros Boot, TickTock Man, IMAGinES, Mister Six.

1/18/2006 Adam Biltcliffe: useless relationships?
So, one of my players' characters has a relationship with her dead brother. She reckons this is important, and it certainly seems right to me that it should be down…
In lumpley games
Participants: Adam Biltcliffe, Vaxalon, demiurgeastaroth, Matt, jasonm, Andrew Morris, lumpley, daHob.

1/18/2006 IMAGinES: [RPGnet Forum / Wiki] Sorcerer: A Menu
As the RPGnet forums are no longer searchable, Paka set up a forum thread called A Menu with the intent of collecting all the best RPGnet threads relating to…
In Adept Press
Participants: IMAGinES, Ron Edwards.

1/18/2006 Neros Boot: Sorcerer in Spaaaaaaaaace!
I have an idea for a Sorcerer adaptation, which I've already emailed to Mr. Edwards as a potential mini-supplement.  Essentially, the mini-supplement would be about human pilots in the near…
In Adept Press
Participants: Neros Boot, Justin A Hamilton, Sydney Freedberg, ubergeek2012, Bret Gillan, cpeterso, IMAGinES, Peter Nordstrand.

1/18/2006 Doc Blue: A Modest Proposal for an Origins Event....
I early-bird registered for Origins earlier this month. At the time, I largely figured I wouldn't be running any events. Naturally, because I made a conscious decision, my subconscious decided…
In Dog Eared Designs
Participants: Doc Blue.

1/18/2006 Storn: Character Prompting Sheet
{pardon if this double post} This thread prompted this in conjunction to something our group was exploring: http://www.indie-rpgs.com/forum/index.php?topic=18369.0 Linked below is a pdf to my RPGnet thread on art.  The…
In Actual Play
Participants: Storn, dunlaing, Warren, RDU Neil, Sydney Freedberg, Kintara, Nuadha, zornwil.

1/18/2006 dancross: A deal with a publisher
I've worked out a deal with a publisher where I get 40% of profits on all things sold in relation to my RPG system. I thought I had worked out…
In Publishing
Participants: dancross, dindenver, Ron Edwards, Joshua BishopRoby.

1/18/2006 LeSingeSavant: [Shab-al-Hiri Roach] One, Two, Three . . . Roach!
I played The Shab-al-Hiri Roach with a bunch of non-gamer friends this past weekend at the tail-end of a business trip to DC this weekend. We only had 2 and…
In Actual Play
Participants: LeSingeSavant, jasonm, Ron Edwards.

1/18/2006 Vaxalon: Not sure what to do if...
So there's this girl in a town I'm working up that has a crippled hand.  It's crippled as a result of the actions of one of the other NPC's. The…
In lumpley games
Participants: Vaxalon, Andrew Morris, Levi Kornelsen, TheHappyAnarchist, Pol Jackson.

1/18/2006 Neros Boot: Indie Press Revolution
How long does it typically take IPR to send out dead-tree-format books once you've ordered them? --I ordered Sorcerer and Sword and Sex and Sorcery off them, and am curious…
In Adept Press
Participants: Neros Boot, Justin A Hamilton.

1/18/2006 Bret Gillan: [TSOY] Buyoff XP Amount
Wouldn't it be better to make a Key's Buyoff equal to two Advances of XP rather than a flat 10 XP? In a 5XP Advance game, buying off a Key…
In CRN Games
Participants: Bret Gillan, Clinton R. Nixon, Tancred, Eero Tuovinen.

1/18/2006 Neros Boot: [Sorcerer] The mini-supplements
What can y'all tell me 'bout the Sorcerer mini-supplements?  As preparation for writing my own mini-supplement, I have decided to buy all six currently available e-sourcebooks.  I am particularly interested…
In Adept Press
Participants: Neros Boot, Bret Gillan, Peter Nordstrand, Eero Tuovinen, Hisho, Jasper Polane.

1/18/2006 Sydney Freedberg: [apocalypse girl] - getting unsafe, with safewords
[i]apocalypse girl[/i] is my November 2006 Ronnies submission, which I'm now revising (slowly) in light of the excellent suggestions from many people in various threads (listed below), especially Unco Lober,…
In Endeavor
Participants: Sydney Freedberg, Mark Woodhouse, Joshua BishopRoby, dindenver, Unco Lober, Andy Kitkowski, Ron Edwards.

1/19/2006 hix: [Lucky Jones] Thinking about the reward system
So, before I get to work on redrafting my Ronnies entries, I want to finish Lucky Jones - a game set in the world of family sitcoms - that I've…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: hix, MikeSands.

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