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2/24/2006 Meguey: [PTA] Erie Nights
Ok, so my friend Julia who lives behind me brought over the big glossy hardcover 'Buffy:the role-playing game'a few weeks back and said "Hey I want to play this, and…
In Actual Play
Participants: Meguey, Paka, Emily Care, Frank T, Glendower, Matt Wilson.

2/24/2006 Joshua BishopRoby: [Web of Shadows] Packaging an Odd Game
For context, Power 19. This is a game that requires for play a pile of tokens, a holepunch, a whole lot of index cards, and lengths of…
In Publishing
Participants: Joshua BishopRoby, LordSmerf, TonyLB, abzu.

2/24/2006 Joshua BishopRoby: [Web of Shadows]
Mostly for reference: 1) What is your game about?  Supernatural demihumans conspire in the shadows to manipulate the unknowing world as the apocalypse descends. 2) What do characters do?  Well,…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Joshua BishopRoby.

2/24/2006 Ben Lehman: ATTN: Foreign Language Folks
Hello. This is a message to everyone who has written a foreign language translation of the Key Phrases and other basic points of play. I would like to get permission…
In These Are Our Games
Participants: Ben Lehman, Carlo, Miskatonic.

2/24/2006 Ben Lehman: -1 total posts
Several key historical threads in Indie Game Design (the Fastlane threads, Nicotine Girls, and a few others) have -1 listed as "total posts" and are inaccessible.  From an archival perspective,…
In Site Discussion
Participants: Ben Lehman, jrs.

2/24/2006 Mystery Cat: Probability & a new mechanic.
Hey folks, I'm a first-timer, so although I've got some specific questions please don't hesitate to shout out if there's any suggestions or criticisms! The mechanic: At a basic level,…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Mystery Cat, Joshua BishopRoby, Justin Marx.

2/24/2006 Ramidel: [Dragons of Blood and Water] Campaign End Report
Our group's Dragons of Blood and Water game has finally come to a conclusion after three ingame years of politics, sorcerous war against the Unmakers, and a final act of…
In Playtesting
Participants: Ramidel, Mytholder, Ben Lehman, Iskander, Ron Edwards, cmnash.

2/24/2006 jburneko: Multiple Named NPCs in a Conflict
I was reading a thread about Dogs today on RPG.net and I noticed that someone mentioned that the GM only ever rolls one single die pool in a conflict even…
In lumpley games
Participants: jburneko, Vaxalon, coffeestain.

2/24/2006 inky: [DitV] Why do the players lose conflicts?
Sorry if this has been covered in the past, but I looked back a few pages and couldn't find anything. I've played in/GMed two short games of Dogs now (three…
In lumpley games
Participants: inky, Vaxalon, Andrew Morris, coffeestain, dunlaing, ffilz, Valamir.

2/24/2006 Levi Kornelsen: Demo on Sunday... Need Characters
So.  Sunday, myself and and one of my players will be running demo games of Dogs at the grand opening of our newest FLGS.  We're expecting about 12-30 players over…
In lumpley games
Participants: Levi Kornelsen, Andrew Morris, cdr, ffilz.

2/24/2006 soundmasterj: [OtherKnight] - Hi, i´m new, will my rules work for my premise?
Hi, I am Jona, I am from germany, I don´t get to play a lot of games these days but still here I am, asking you if my Knight Game…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: soundmasterj, TonyLB, Valamir.

2/24/2006 TonyLB: [Misery Bubblegum] Power 19, Ranma 1/2, veto-based character
Okay, a few things:  First, I don't think I've ever clearly done the Power 19, and they rock on toast, so .... 1) What is your game about?  Teenagers, constantly…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: TonyLB, Joshua BishopRoby, 1of3, Troy_Costisick, c.

2/24/2006 Peter Nordstrand: Sweden: A Study Course in Gaming
Hi, If you want to study games full time for two years and live in Sweden, check out this link (in Swedish). It is a course for people who want…
In Connections
Participants: Peter Nordstrand, LordSmerf.

2/24/2006 ffilz: [DitV] I'm gonna run Dogs tommorow - need suggestion for a short town
I'm going to run Dogs tommorow for a couple of my players. I'm hoping to be able to get through chargen, initiation, and run a small town. Any suggestions (the…
In lumpley games
Participants: ffilz, jasonm, cdr, Andrew Morris, Supplanter, fmac.

2/24/2006 DarkAsmodeous: Lost to the mists(working title)
Hello, this is my first post! Anyway, me and my best friend/lacky have been working on an indie project, and I have decided to have a sort of design journal…
In First Thoughts
Participants: DarkAsmodeous, anders_larsen, TheineLD50.

2/24/2006 Troy_Costisick: [Cutthroat] v. 3.0
Heya, You can check out my latest playtest report here: Playtest 2 & 3.  In that post I raised several issues: First, this game is a heckuva a lot of…
In Endeavor
Participants: Troy_Costisick, Ramidel, Ron Edwards.

2/23/2006 drnuncheon: Mysteries in Capes
So we settled on Capes as the system for our upcoming supernatural detectives game (blogged here).  It struck me on the way in to work this morning, though, that the…
In Muse of Fire Games
Participants: drnuncheon, Vaxalon, Zamiel, TonyLB, John Harper, dunlaing, Hans.

2/23/2006 Ben Morgan: Spookybeans is here
Spookybeans, the gothic comics roleplaying game, has now reached playtesting phase. Check out the rules at www.spookybeans.com, and let Dregg or me know what you think. My main question is…
In First Thoughts
Participants: Ben Morgan, joepub, jburneko, Dregg, Bryan Hansel, Spooky Fanboy, Joe Murphy (Broin), agoodall.

2/23/2006 Emily Care: sin hierachy in pump up the volume
Okay, this may be a pretty frivolous thread, I admit it. I watched the 1990 movie Pump Up the Volume the other night. Unexpectedly, it didn't suck.  Christian Slater et…
In lumpley games
Participants: Emily Care, TonyLB, Vaxalon, Blankshield, Everspinner, lumpley.

2/23/2006 pfischer: [TSOY] The Shadows and the Light
The Shadow and the Light I have been wanting to play the second edition of TSOY for a while now, and last Saturday I sat down with Joe and Aaron,…
In Actual Play
Participants: pfischer, Joe Murphy (Broin), Clinton R. Nixon.

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2/24/2006 ffilz: [DitV] A few questions
Looking back over my one play session, I have some questions: First, in that session, we had a conflict on the way to town. The conflict was cool and all…
In lumpley games
Participants: ffilz, Vaxalon, Joe Zeutenhorst, Eero Tuovinen, lumpley.

2/25/2006 Lisa Padol: [Sorcerer] Our Fifth Session: Part One
Fifth Sorcerer Session -- February 14, 2006 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 The write up of the second session…
In Actual Play
Participants: Lisa Padol, Peter Nordstrand, cmnash, mneme, Ron Edwards, Trevis Martin.

2/25/2006 Supplanter: Crowds and Power
Say I have a gang of four armed men. I get the group stat, trait and relationship dice rules in the NPC chapter, no problem. But how many gun dice…
In lumpley games
Participants: Supplanter, ffilz, cdr, lumpley, Vaxalon.

2/25/2006 bcook1971: [Sorcerer] Con DFW 2006
I ran a four-hour one-shot of Sorcerer at Con DFW tonight, and geez, it couldn't have been better. Here are the pre-gens: Name: Rex Short. Player: Marco. (No! Not JAGS…
In Actual Play
Participants: bcook1971.

2/25/2006 cdr: [TMW] Cherry Blossom Bloodbath at DDC
More detail on The Mountain Witch I ran at DunDraCon.  Very long and treachery-filled. When the Fates were revealed, did the revelations act as the climax…
In Actual Play
Participants: cdr.

2/25/2006 Zamiel: Cyberpunk Archetypes
I decided to go a bit mad and to do a bit more Capes genre-exploration on my LJ. Typically, this resulted in a long, rambling discussion of genre followed by…
In Muse of Fire Games
Participants: Zamiel.

2/25/2006 Everspinner: Best online Dogs roller?
Hello One of the players in our group lives away and can rarely make it to the city. Still, we like to have him playing with us and thus use…
In lumpley games
Participants: Everspinner, Vaxalon.

2/25/2006 ffilz: [DitV] Tower Creek Branch in Beaverton
I introduced the young couple in my gaming group to Dogs this evening. I had decided to invite just the two of them so I would be able to really…
In Actual Play
Participants: ffilz.

2/25/2006 anders_larsen: [Monster Hunters] First post
I have followed the discussions in the forge for some time now, and it have given me a lot of new ideas of how to design a roleplaying game. To…
In First Thoughts
Participants: anders_larsen, Noon, knicknevin, Sempiternity.

2/25/2006 Emily Care: Group Conflicts
Hello there, It seems like the issue of how to deal with group conflicts is a common question. My friend Charles is running a game right now and ran into…
In lumpley games
Participants: Emily Care, Warren, Alephnul, Levi Kornelsen, Valamir, jlarke, lumpley, jburneko, coffeestain, ffilz, dunlaing.

2/25/2006 ( o Y o ): The Doors of RPG-Perception
Hi All, I really did not know where to post this. But it is a question that can only be answered in Actual Play, so ... In the HeroQuest Forum…
In Actual Play
Participants: ( o Y o ), timfire, droog.

2/25/2006 Richard Campbell: Young Children: Actual role-play, Actual Play?
I have been reading posts to The Forge for some time and have developed an interest in the theory behind the play of role-playing games. I have always had an…
In Actual Play
Participants: Richard Campbell, ( o Y o ), nyhteg, droog, cmnash, komradebob, Meguey, Czar Fnord, Emily Care, Calithena, Pandelume, Bryan_T.

2/25/2006 PrzeSzkoda: [King Rat] How much history?
Hello everyone, My Ronnies submission "King Rat" is steadily becoming bigger and generally more complex. Right now, not only the basic player character setup has become broader, the in-game economics…
In Endeavor
Participants: PrzeSzkoda, Joshua BishopRoby, stefoid, Malcolm.

2/26/2006 reason: taxonomological assistance, if you would
Exhibit A: http://www.principiainfecta.com Question: what is it that I'm doing in Exhibit A? I believe I know what I think I'm doing, which is to say I'm finding it an…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: reason.

2/26/2006 Belinda K.: [WoD/Vampire] Urban Dark
This isn't really an 'indie game' as such, but I'm after some concentrated GM advice which hopefully I'm more likely to get here. My last few World of Darkness campaigns…
In Actual Play
Participants: Belinda K., Paka, Graham Walmsley, Glendower, nikola, Danny_K.

2/26/2006 Graham Walmsley: [Breaking the Ice] She shares some of the dead body with him
I played Breaking the Ice with my Liz, my girlfriend, on Friday. She's not a gamer and has never particularly been attracted to RPGs. But, when I described BtI, she…
In Actual Play
Participants: Graham Walmsley, Vaxalon, Andrew Morris, jasonm, Emily Care.

2/26/2006 bcook1971: [DitV] Con DFW 2006
I had every intention of creating a fresh town for this one-shot, but alas, 'twas not to be. Instead, I revisited Bitter Creek. And as it turned out, I'm glad…
In Actual Play
Participants: bcook1971.

2/26/2006 soundmasterj: [OtherKnight] All the rules, 20 of them. Will they do what I want them to?
This is an outline for My sword I kill with, my king I obey. It´s the first game I ever wrote down. Actually, it is just a bunch of rules…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: soundmasterj, TonyLB.

2/27/2006 robotsunshine: [Neverwake] Almost done! But how to regain health?
Well, after re-tooling the system a little bit in this thread: http://www.indie-rpgs.com/forum/index.php?topic=18724.0 I've worked over the general concept, removed the universal required magic system in favor of a more creative,…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: robotsunshine, Noon, soundmasterj, preludetotheend, TroyLovesRPG, c.

2/27/2006 ViperCommander: 2 Systems For Your Consideration
Hey all.  First time posting on the boards. The subject basically says it all.  I'm looking at 2 different system ideas for a modern day roleplaying game.  What setting that…
In First Thoughts
Participants: ViperCommander, Ben Lehman, anders_larsen, Tommi Brander.

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