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3/17/2006 epweissengruber: Augmentations in Extended Contests and in Simple Contests
Been doing a lot of Heroquest play lately and doing a lot of thinking about the rules.  Our group has been working out our approach to running Simple Contests and…
In HeroQuest
Participants: epweissengruber, Mike Holmes, lightcastle, Web_Weaver, soviet.

3/17/2006 jaren: Dead Meat?
I was wondering if anyone knew where to find the Dead Meat game by Sean, or if anyone would happen to have it on thier hard drive and send a…
In Connections
Participants: jaren.

3/17/2006 Willow: [TSOY] Confused about Changing Intentions
Hey there.  Recently picked up TSOY.  It's a pretty cool read, but I have problems wrapping my head around a couple of the concepts.  (And no, I'm not talking about…
In CRN Games
Participants: Willow, coffeestain, Eero Tuovinen.

3/16/2006 jrs: Comic on copyright law
I came across this today-- "Tales from the Public Domain: BOUND BY LAW".  (Free as a digital version, available for purchase in print.)  It's primary focus is copyright and fair…
In Publishing
Participants: jrs, Technocrat13.

3/16/2006 Czar Fnord: [GLASS] Reward, Death, and Fair Trade
This is a splinter thread from Request for Comments on Cost Balances. Blame Walt Freitag. ;-) I have been persuaded to address, in GLASS, difficult issues with long-running…
In First Thoughts
Participants: Czar Fnord, Valamir, pells, Noon, Walt Freitag, contracycle.

3/16/2006 TonyLB: [PTA] Happy Endings
Strange thing happened in our final episode of Bountiful. Jen played Brigit, a faerie (well, y'know, it's in space ... so a space-faerie, I suppose) whose Issue was her exile…
In Actual Play
Participants: TonyLB, dunlaing, Joe Dizzy, Noon, Everspinner, contracycle, Alan, Danny_K, Sydney Freedberg.

3/16/2006 Superstar: Delivery time for PDF?
Anyone who have ordered anything in PDF from Chimera? How long until Matt contacted you with d/l info? Been waiting 24 hours now and was planning to have 9 Worlds…
In Chimera Creative
Participants: Superstar, Matt Snyder.

3/16/2006 Chris Gardiner: [Trollbabe] VoIP play, Session 2
Character creation and first session writeup are here: http://www.indie-rpgs.com/forum/index.php?topic=19034.0 We played our second session of Trollbabe via Teamspeak last night, and I was much happier with it than the first…
In Actual Play
Participants: Chris Gardiner, John Harper, Nigel Evans.

3/16/2006 Hans: {Dust Devils] Ack!! More than I can chew!
Hi all: Well, I've gone and done it.  I've signed up to run Dust Devils at Gen Con.  I hope to high heaven I can get a chance to run…
In Chimera Creative
Participants: Hans, Eero Tuovinen.

3/16/2006 drnuncheon: Communal Non-Person Characters (Mysteries in Capes II: Electric Boogaloo)
Back here, in my Mysteries in Capes thread, I promised some of my own thoughts - but I got sidetracked and I didn't want to derail that discussion. So, here's…
In Muse of Fire Games
Participants: drnuncheon, Hans, TonyLB.

3/16/2006 nyhteg: Questions From My First Sorcerer Game
Happiness. After far too long, I've managed to get a game of Sorcerer going - one-on-one with a friend who was (briefly) a D&D player in his youth, but who…
In Adept Press
Participants: nyhteg, Ron Edwards.

3/16/2006 Melinglor: [PTA] Nightshade Alley (long)
[i]The full moon at midnight. Some eerie background noise, but no music. We pan down to gently sloping grassland, mist rising off the dew-soaked blades. There is a distant, muffled…
In Actual Play
Participants: Melinglor, Glendower.

3/16/2006 PincheGamesLoco: CHIMAERACON in Texas
Hello to The Forge!  I am just am checking if there is anyone here going to be at the CHMIARAECON going on next week?  It is going to be here…
In Conventions
Participants: PincheGamesLoco, tygertyger.

3/16/2006 PincheGamesLoco: PINCHE GAMES!
Hello toall the gamers and everyone here at The Forge!  Please excuse my English that I am working on making better. My name is LOCO!  I read here every day…
In First Thoughts
Participants: PincheGamesLoco, Ron Edwards, Arturo G..

3/16/2006 DarkAsmodeous: [Beat] need playtesters!
My game Beat is a small narrative game in which players both form and solve a case on the scene. My plans for the game are $3.00 PDF publishing, but…
In Connections
Participants: DarkAsmodeous.

3/16/2006 jburneko: Goal Sniping.
Hello Again, While thinking about the whole narrative control thing, I remembered a condition of gameplay that *does* really irritate me.  I call the condition Goal Sniping.  Goal Sniping happens…
In Muse of Fire Games
Participants: jburneko, Zamiel, Sindyr, TonyLB, Adam Biltcliffe, Hans.

3/15/2006 bts: [TSOY] Newbie running Rat Moon Rising
I'm psyched to try out TSOY with my group.  I'm hoping to start with Rat Moon Rising, but using the revised rules.  It seems pretty clear how to convert abilities,…
In CRN Games
Participants: bts, Clinton R. Nixon.

3/15/2006 Alex Fradera: [PTA-Kin] A promising pilot, but conflicts hard to find.
So I was the producer for a pilot episode of a new PTA series a few weeks ago; it went well enough that we're doing it again this weekend, and…
In Actual Play
Participants: Alex Fradera, Danny_K.

3/15/2006 Kat Miller: What I need from Indie Games Explosion at Gen Con Volenteers
What do I need to do to be part of the Indie Games Explosion at Gen Con? Gen Con has changed their Event Registration process for this year.  For a…
In Conventions
Participants: Kat Miller, LordSmerf, Ben Lehman, Michael S. Miller, jasonm, TonyLB, Mike Holmes.

3/15/2006 billvolk: [BESM/AKA] GM-heavy character creation
I was running my first game with the All Kinds of Awesome setting I'm talking about in the Indie Game Design section and using the Tri-Stat d6 rules. Because none…
In Actual Play
Participants: billvolk, MatrixGamer.

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3/17/2006 Kat Miller: Link to the IGE at Gencon06 Events page.
I have collected all the information I have been sent. This is the Link to the IGE Events for Gen Con 06 that I have been given so far- http://www.enter.net/~whim/Conventions/Gencon06IGE.html…
In Conventions
Participants: Kat Miller, Hans, Michael S. Miller.

3/17/2006 Elishar: Superheroes: [what next?]
Hello all, I'm new to the forum here.  I've been checking out the forums off and on for some time now to get a feel for the community but this…
In First Thoughts
Participants: Elishar, Eero Tuovinen, anders_larsen, Certified, billvolk, Eric Bennett, Ken, Melinglor, Mark Johnson, dindenver, Vibilo.

3/17/2006 Glendower: [Capes-Lite] - RTFM
RTFM - Read that fine manual.  Yes, that would have made this whole session a lot smoother.  I'd like to first tell Tony that he made an amazing game with…
In Actual Play
Participants: Glendower, Hans, drnuncheon.

3/17/2006 Calithena: Heroquest Probabilities Question
Talking extended contests here - rough answers are OK. (I already know the answers for simple contests, they're easy to analyze, and weird - I think I'd come extended or…
In HeroQuest
Participants: Calithena, Tim Ellis, Mike Holmes, Hans, Vaxalon, epweissengruber.

3/17/2006 Hans: Capes fun; superpowers appear!
I have started a wiki here (http://wiki.rpg.net/index.php/Capes_in_Missassauga) to track the ongoing Capes sessions we are running here in Ontario.  In the very first session we had such diverse conflicts hit…
In Muse of Fire Games
Participants: Hans, Kintara, TonyLB, Sindyr.

3/17/2006 TheHappyAnarchist: Reverse Dog Style (Not like that!!!)
Courtesy of jhkim here. http://forum.rpg.net/showthread.php?t=251894&page=2 Anyone ever considered doing dogs with the players creating a town and the GM creating the dogs and trying to fix the town with his…
In lumpley games
Participants: TheHappyAnarchist, Vaxalon, coffeestain, BollaertN.

3/17/2006 Emmett: Web promotion
*sigh* I wish there was a good way to get an RPG known. I know that I usually don't have time to play any of the other titles out there…
In Publishing
Participants: Emmett, Ron Edwards, anders_larsen, JakeVanDam, Julian, Selene Tan, sean2099, Ben Lehman.

3/18/2006 stefoid: tasks, conflicts, and a room full of Boggles
We have this HeroWars game which has been going on for some time.  The GM is inventive and improvises well, but his methods are strictly old school.  Another player and…
In Actual Play
Participants: stefoid, Kesher, Walt Freitag.

3/18/2006 btrc: Origins Awards first?
Don't know if it's a gaming first or not, but my Infinite Armies game has just been nominated for a 2006 Origins Award (Vanguard category). This is a "publishing" note…
In Publishing
Participants: btrc, Ron Edwards, abzu, Michael S. Miller.

3/18/2006 Victor Gijsbers: [Bacchanal] A question on soldiers
Tonight, I will play my first game of Bacchanal, so I just reread the rules. They leave me wondering: if someone puts a soldier in my glass during the initial…
In Half Meme Press
Participants: Victor Gijsbers, Paul Czege.

3/18/2006 Sarako: [Fall of Prometheus] First Playtest: balancing player-controlled narrative
Disclaimer: I've read a lot of stuff on the Forge and on game design blogs and such, but I'm still pretty new to game design. It's a little scary to…
In Playtesting
Participants: Sarako, ironick, Noon, Alan.

3/19/2006 Silmenume: Dragon Magazine uses - "Gamism, Narrativism and Simulation" in an article
I just thought I would point out that some of the concepts that are the backbone of the theory here have found themselves in, for what passes for mass media…
In Site Discussion
Participants: Silmenume, coffeestain, Miskatonic, Kitanin, Czar Fnord, Thunder_God, Ben Lehman, Clinton R. Nixon, Julian, c, Ron Edwards, Gaerik.

3/19/2006 knicknevin: [Deadline] 1 Page, 24 Hours
Well, I wrote a game in a day yesterday: from initial idea to final document actually took me about 8 hours (including a trip to the cinema to see V…
In Endeavor
Participants: knicknevin, Selene Tan, Walt Freitag.

3/19/2006 Ken: POD vs. Distributors
Hey Everybody, I'm (hopefully) a few months short of publishing my first rpg (a superhero game). The Forge has been an incredible resource and has allowed me to focus my…
In Publishing
Participants: Ken, TonyLB, c, Ron Edwards, guildofblades, Michael S. Miller, Joshua BishopRoby.

3/19/2006 Ken: Alliance Distributors
HI, This is kind of follow up to my other post. I talked to my local comic book shop owner (here in Virginia) the other day to find out which…
In Publishing
Participants: Ken, daMoose_Neo.

3/19/2006 klausok: With Great Power - Questions
I have just bought and read With Great Power. It seems very interesting. I think I will try running a story with it. There are a couple of things I…
In Incarnadine Press
Participants: klausok, Michael S. Miller, Thor Olavsrud, yogshog.

3/19/2006 Peter Nordstrand: The Uchtman Factor: An Overview
See the end of this post for specific questions. The Uchtman Factor The Uchtman Factor is a narration game for three players and one game master. Players take turns playing…
In First Thoughts
Participants: Peter Nordstrand, Artanis, Mister Six, c, Ken, Jonas Karlsson, jasonm, Czar Fnord, Thunder_God.

3/19/2006 Sindyr: Many on one?
Looking at the comics, many of them are teams - the X-men, the Avengers, the Fantastic Four, etc.  And while they do go up against villain teams, its common for…
In Muse of Fire Games
Participants: Sindyr, jburneko, Hans, Ben Lehman, TheCzech, Sydney Freedberg, Tuxboy.

3/19/2006 Sindyr: A way to win when you want to?
If I recall correctly, when creating the Scene you can bring in one character for free, and extra characters for one story token each. Or, you can bring in character's…
In Muse of Fire Games
Participants: Sindyr, jburneko, TonyLB, Glendower.

3/19/2006 Sindyr: Why can't we edit posts?
I make a ton of spelling mistakes, grammar snafu's, etc. Why can't we edit posts we have made?  I have seen other forums do this.  Is there some technical reason…
In Muse of Fire Games
Participants: Sindyr, Glendower, Valamir.

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