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3/20/2006 James_Nostack: [& Sword] Armies in Conflict
In a Conan story--"The Scarlet Citadel," I think--Conan is in charge of a huge army, fighting against this other huge army.  In the first Elric novel, Yyrkoon and the Angsty…
In Adept Press
Participants: James_Nostack, Ron Edwards, MatrixGamer.

3/20/2006 preludetotheend: Coptic Binding and size
Hello all Ihave been playing around with the idea of self binding my books using the coptic sewing method as it produces some very wonderful results. If you have not…
In Publishing
Participants: preludetotheend, MatrixGamer, Joshua BishopRoby, Czar Fnord.

3/20/2006 Paka: 1st Quest Monthly game: Pool Renewal, XP Hesitancy, and Pushing Conflicts Hard
[b]Pool Renewal[/b] At this game pools were renewed with scenes in which the PC's meditated in a field of pixies, counted rocks, flew through the forest, sharpening of weapons and…
In Actual Play
Participants: Paka, Anders.

3/20/2006 BlacklightLion: [Setting Concept]: Asia colonizing the West Coast of the Americas
This is just an idea that struck me as worth working on as an RPG setting... Japan & China settling the Western coast of the Americas, perhaps prior to the…
In First Thoughts
Participants: BlacklightLion, anders_larsen, JakeVanDam, contracycle, MatrixGamer.

3/20/2006 Andy Kitkowski: Looking for More Game-Chef Judges!
58 Entries. Holy fuck. http://www.1km1kt.net/forum/ftopic626.html Even with Peer Reviewing, that's about 4 reviews per game, plus a few get 5 reviews because of already registered volunteer judges. I'd like to…
In Connections
Participants: Andy Kitkowski.

3/20/2006 Mister Six: [Schism] First game
My rpg group played Schism for the first time last weekend. We have an ongoing Ninth Gate meets Twin Peaks Sorcerer game, but a player couldn't make it, so we…
In Adept Press
Participants: Mister Six, Ron Edwards, Jared A. Sorensen.

3/20/2006 nikola: Shock: pre-order the future!
[Edit: The game can now be pre-ordered from [url=http://glyphpress.com/shock/]the site[/url] directly!] I'm still hoping that Shock: will be done by the end of the month. I'm having some printing issues…
In glyphpress
Participants: nikola, Brand_Robins, Thunder_God.

3/20/2006 Eric Bennett: [Mythos] Its Conflict resolution-tastic! (or is it?)
So, I've figured out how I want to do my conflict resolution, and wanted to put it up to see if I have any gaping mechanical holes in things, prior…
In First Thoughts
Participants: Eric Bennett, anders_larsen, Danny_K.

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.

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: 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 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 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 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 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 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 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.

3/18/2006 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.

3/18/2006 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 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.

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3/20/2006 Bob the Fighter: collaborative setting creation = fun!
Hello! My name is Zac. I've lurked on the Forge for a long time, but I haven't posted in some time. I think. Anyway, I recently started GMing for a…
In Actual Play
Participants: Bob the Fighter, James_Nostack, Rich Forest, contracycle, ubergeek2012, Ben Lehman, Zamiel, Ron Edwards, demiurgeastaroth, Tommi Brander, Noon.

3/20/2006 clayton_mcfarland: GM'ing Tips and Definitions
Hey guys.  I've been reading alot of the posts here about GM'ing, and keep hearing alot about Gm's generating 'bangs' for their players characters.  I've not encuontered this term before…
In Actual Play
Participants: clayton_mcfarland, Glendower, Danny_K, Ron Edwards, Zathreyel.

3/20/2006 brokenspirit: Introduction + Interior illustrations (grayscale, line drawings, & color sample)
Hi all, this is my first post on this forum. My name is Martin Orensanz and I'm currently living in Argentina. I like game design and illustration, and I do…
In Connections
Participants: brokenspirit, daMoose_Neo.

3/21/2006 Argleblather: Help?
Not wholly sure if this is appropriate, because I just signed up, but worth a shot anyway. So, I'm playing in a rather unconventional online game- in that although I'm…
In Actual Play
Participants: Argleblather, James_Nostack.

3/21/2006 stefoid: need issue idea
Hi , just had a pilot episode of a 'firefly-like' series called  'Haven' (because thats what the spaceship appears to be to the characters that live on it). It was…
In Dog Eared Designs
Participants: stefoid, Matt Wilson, Danny_K.

3/21/2006 Willow: [The Mountain Witch] Session One: Four Ronin, Three Peaches
See also my pre-game thread: http://www.indie-rpgs.com/forum/index.php?topic=19023.0 We gathered at my apartment for a rousing game of the Mountain Witch. No one had ever played before, and I had never run…
In Actual Play
Participants: Willow, coffeestain.

3/21/2006 Chris Gardiner: [Trollbabe] A Question of Scale
Hi there, I'm running a Trollbabe game at the moment, and there's something I'm looking for input on. Currently, the Scale of the game is still Personal. Last session, due…
In Adept Press
Participants: Chris Gardiner, Ron Edwards, John Harper.

3/21/2006 Sindyr: Boundaries and the meta-game - and Capes
This doesn't just apply to Capes, but it has come up in relation to Capes, so here are some thoughts of mine... When playing an rpg, each player has boundaries,…
In Muse of Fire Games
Participants: Sindyr, TonyLB, Valamir, Tuxboy, Sydney Freedberg, Gaerik, Garg, Matthew Glover, drnuncheon.

3/21/2006 Matthew Glover: Ongoing free-for-all Capes at my FLGS
I've been camping out at my local game shop and running Capes demos for anybody who'll stand still, as well as playing some short games with people.  The interest level…
In Muse of Fire Games
Participants: Matthew Glover, Hans, TonyLB, dunlaing, Zamiel, Garg.

3/21/2006 cmnash: Sorcerers in Black
Was thinking about a setting for a Sorcerer game - Sorcerers in Black Based on the Men in Black movies, the Sorcerers are police keeping humanity 'safe' from the Aliens…
In Adept Press
Participants: cmnash, Danny_K, Ron Edwards.

3/21/2006 Kai Wren: Hi there
Hi! I''m working on a RPG based upon the anime Dragonball Z, hardly a concept which has met with a lot of support in my local area, so I figured…
In First Thoughts
Participants: Kai Wren, TonyLB, dindenver, Eric Bennett, billvolk, Miskatonic.

3/21/2006 Noon: [Address of Challenge] Deciding what is THE challenge
Recently I discussed the grand theft auto series on RPG.net. Another poster had said that GTA was only about violence as a solution, because of the guns and car theft.…
In Actual Play
Participants: Noon, Tommi Brander, ErrathofKosh, Bankuei, Silmenume, Melinglor, contracycle.

3/21/2006 lightcastle: Split Extended contests
Something I'm never quite sure how to handle are extended contests with multiple goals. Let me explain: Our evil priest is on the top of the ziggurat, with the princess.…
In HeroQuest
Participants: lightcastle, Vaxalon, Web_Weaver, Mike Holmes.

3/21/2006 jburneko: Breaking Down The Group, Overtly Changing Direction
Hello All, I thought I'd share with you the story of something rather drastic I did a few weeks ago.  For years now, I've run a weekday group.  The group…
In Actual Play
Participants: jburneko, Peter Nordstrand, Anders, joshua neff, Matt Kimball, cmnash, dunlaing, Joshua BishopRoby.

3/21/2006 TonyLB: I-Con '06
[url=http://www.iconsf.org/]I-Con 25.  [/url]Stonybrook.  This weekend (Mar. 24 - 26). I'll be there.  I'll (apparently) be somewhere in the dealer's room, with piles and piles of indie goodness, not just Capes. …
In Muse of Fire Games
Participants: TonyLB, Matthew Glover, Nathan P., mtiru.

3/21/2006 TonyLB: [Misery Bubblegum] Voting ... for creator or for player?
So, here's a sketchy thought.  You ask each player three things about their character: What was your character trying to achieve before the story started? Why do they, as a…
In First Thoughts
Participants: TonyLB, Joshua BishopRoby, Doug Ruff.

3/21/2006 Dantai: [Contenders] Ronny winner published
Hey everyone, Just a quickie to say that after months of procrastination, I've bitten the bullet and published Contenders in pdf format. I've managed to get it out in time…
In Publishing
Participants: Dantai, Ron Edwards, Miskatonic, Malcolm.

3/21/2006 ElliottBelser MKII: [Demo] [Plug] Breaking the Ice at Games of Berkeley
I'll be running Indie game demos at Games of Berkeley next month (April), and perhaps beyond - on the 15th, at 5-o'clock, I'll include a Breaking the Ice demo.  Just…
In Black and Green Games
Participants: ElliottBelser MKII, Emily Care.

3/21/2006 ElliottBelser MKII: [Demo] Games of Berkeley will demo Dogs in the Vinyard next month.
Games of Berkeley on Shattuck is hosting an Indie Press RPG night on Saturdays at 5pm, kicking off with demos of Dogs in the Vinyard on the 1st and 22nd…
In lumpley games
Participants: ElliottBelser MKII, cdr, caramida.

3/21/2006 ElliottBelser MKII: [Demo] Games of Berkeley is demoing Primetime Adventures this April!
This coming April, Games of Berkeley on Shattuck is holding Indie Press RPG night every Saturday evening at 5 pm.  On the 8th and the 29th, we'll be doing Primetime…
In Dog Eared Designs
Participants: ElliottBelser MKII, Matt Wilson, REkz.

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