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3/23/2006 Sarako: [Fall of Prometheus] Demigods, Karma, and Powers
Fall of Prometheus is a game about fallen gods trying to regain heaven, struggling along the way with conceptions of morality and mortality. I wrote earlier about <a href="http://www.indie-rpgs.com/forum/index.php?topic=19094.0">my first…
In First Thoughts
Participants: Sarako, anders_larsen.

3/23/2006 lightcastle: [HeroQuest] - Unfettered Space
This is my first post to Actual Play, so bear with me. What I'm actually playing isn't really HeroQuest, although I am using those rules. Instead, the world is vaguely…
In Actual Play
Participants: lightcastle, contracycle, soviet, Ian Cooper.

3/23/2006 Ron Edwards: Big forums change!
Hey everyone, As you can see, Clinton and I are messin' with the forums, as promised. Don't flip out. I'll be pumping existing threads from Indie Design (say, from the…
In Site Discussion
Participants: Ron Edwards, abzu, Kesher, Troy_Costisick, Arturo G., Joshua BishopRoby, Clinton R. Nixon, Marco.

3/23/2006 Ron Edwards: Rules for the Endeavor forum
Use this forum for two purposes. The first is as a discussion venue for any current RPG design projects, like the Iron Game Chef, 24-Hour Game Project, and the Game-Game…
In Endeavor
Participants: Ron Edwards, Eero Tuovinen, Selene Tan, Walt Freitag, Czar Fnord, greyorm, BigElvis.

3/23/2006 Ron Edwards: Rules for the Playtesting forum
This is really just another Actual Play forum with a special eye toward design. For those of you interested in the ideas worked out here at the Forge over the…
In Playtesting
Participants: Ron Edwards, Thunder_God, demiurgeastaroth.

3/23/2006 Ron Edwards: Rules for the First Thoughts forum
This forum is for working through early drafts and posing design questions about the fundamental concepts for new games. If you're starting a thread here, then it's very important for…
In First Thoughts
Participants: Ron Edwards, FinalFantasy7, Justin Berman, Steven Stewart, r_donato, Sovem, andrew_kenrick, Eric Schwenke, Paul T, Sydney Freedberg, Adam Dray, bookworm_85, castus nigh, David Artman, Greg 1, Eero Tuovinen, vilonious, Carnifex.

3/23/2006 PeterAdkison: [Origins 2006] Looking for indie rpgs to play
Since I run Gen Con I'm too busy to game there. So I go to Origins every year to actually play (and sometimes actually get to do just that!). I'm…
In Conventions
Participants: PeterAdkison, Michael S. Miller, Thunder_God, Clinton R. Nixon, inthisstyle.

3/22/2006 jburneko: [DitV] The Sleepwell Canyon Branch
Hello All, So here's a complete writeup for the first town my new Dogs group has been through. Town: The Sleepwell Canyon Branch Pride: Brother Derrick thinks his daughter, Sister…
In Actual Play
Participants: jburneko, Matt Kimball, Joshua BishopRoby, lumpley.

3/22/2006 Web_Weaver: [Prince Valiant] Children as Narrators
The current thread "Young Children: Actual role-play, Actual Play?" has reminded me of my attempt to encourage my brother to roleplay with his friends, many years ago. I had bought…
In Actual Play
Participants: Web_Weaver, MatrixGamer, Noon, Ron Edwards.

3/22/2006 Ron Edwards: [Fell] Awesome Sorcerer-esque comic
This is an unabashed fanboy post. "Fell," a comic written by Warren Ellis and illustrated by Ben Templeton, is my hands-down favorite comic of my current buy-batch. It's published by…
In Adept Press
Participants: Ron Edwards, Brand_Robins, James_Nostack, Paka, Eric J-D, Miskatonic, Mister Six, Lisa Padol.

3/22/2006 James_Nostack: [Sorcerer] Weird Initial Reactions
[url=http://www.indie-rpgs.com/forum/index.php?topic=18991.0]In this thread[/url], Ron entioned that some people had weird, off-putting reactions to Sorcerer based on the game's aesthetics, or something.  I was wondering if Ron could elaborate on that,…
In Adept Press
Participants: James_Nostack, Eero Tuovinen, jburneko.

3/22/2006 Joe Murphy (Broin): [Polaris] A convention game
Sunday afternoon, I'm due to 'run' an introductory session of Polaris. This is taking place as part of the 'Indie Games Track' at Conpulsion, a gaming con in Edinburgh. I…
In These Are Our Games
Participants: Joe Murphy (Broin), Ben Lehman.

3/22/2006 Twobirds: A couple SoY questions
It seems like there are lot of people into The Shadow of Yesterday, but not many people discussing it.  So I figured I would throw out a couple thoughts I…
In CRN Games
Participants: Twobirds, Clinton R. Nixon, Eero Tuovinen.

3/22/2006 Eric Bennett: [Mythos] Actual Play(test): Guyver meets Undead
Well, I finished the first playtest of Mythos last night, and I must say that overall I am very pleased with how things turned out. It taught me that some…
In Playtesting
Participants: Eric Bennett, steelcaress.

3/22/2006 Brian_W: [Channeling] Opposed extended rolls
(First post, so bear with me...) First of all, for anyone who wants more information than i'm giving, full info on my game (as it exists) can be found at…
In First Thoughts
Participants: Brian_W, Troy_Costisick, TroyLovesRPG, anders_larsen.

3/22/2006 Rustin: [Sorcerer] questions about stakes
I’m looking for any advice prior to running my first Sorcerer session. I’m interested in the use of stakes and conflict resolution as much as possible and shy away from…
In Adept Press
Participants: Rustin, Eric J-D, Ron Edwards, Eero Tuovinen.

3/22/2006 GStonecipher: An RPG with Playing Cards
Hi everyone, I have been a lurker since time immemorial, and I finally have something to post.  This could be a long one I am building a game that uses…
In First Thoughts
Participants: GStonecipher, Adam Dray, Michael S. Miller, Bill_White, Vaxalon.

3/22/2006 Sindyr: Short lived Goals?
Question: A goal gets resolved when someone has claimed a side and ends the page in control, right? That is, if one side is higher than another, and that side…
In Muse of Fire Games
Participants: Sindyr, dunlaing, drnuncheon, Tuxboy, TonyLB, Hans, Vaxalon.

3/21/2006 ElliottBelser MKII: Holding an Indie Press RPG Night at Games of Berkeley
Hello, all.  Not sure if this is the proper forum for this (move or delete this if it's the wrong one), but I've arranged for Games of Berkeley to demo…
In Connections
Participants: ElliottBelser MKII.

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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3/23/2006 Garg: Staking and Splitting - Possible Errata?
I was reviewing the rules recently and noticed something that confused me.  It's not really a rules errata so much as an errata of the excellent example chapter.  Or, well,…
In Muse of Fire Games
Participants: Garg, jburneko.

3/23/2006 May: (Sorc.) Witch brood
Hi I'm on the brink of starting a sorcerer fantasy game set in a mythical middle ages German principality where the dark woods seem to be slowly creeping up on…
In Actual Play
Participants: May, James_Nostack, Danny_K.

3/23/2006 Troy_Costisick: [Holmes and Watson] Game Chef Entry- Playtest #2
Heya, Took me a while to get the time to write this up.  Life is really busy at the moment.  Anyway, I got a chance to give my Game Chef…
In Playtesting
Participants: Troy_Costisick.

3/23/2006 Ron Edwards: [Ronnies] Summary thread
Here's the history of the Ronnies. Introducing a new contest The Ronnies, September 2005 The winners for September October contest begins! October winners It Was a Mutual…
In Endeavor
Participants: Ron Edwards.

3/23/2006 Thunder_God: RPGTalk
I'm afraid it's not really relevant, but I don't know where else to ask... What and where is RPGTalk?
In Connections
Participants: Thunder_God, Andy Kitkowski.

3/3/2006 Andy Kitkowski: Preparing for Game Chef 2006
Thanks for the plug, Joshua.  Yeah, Game Chef is like a large-scale Ronnies with weird rules and no money prizes. It starts up again for 2006 at the end of…
In Endeavor
Participants: Andy Kitkowski, Joshua BishopRoby.

3/23/2006 Thunder_God: [Cranium Rats]Personality Makeup, Boardgame Feel and other Questions.
I'm currently working on an RPG(if it can be called that) with a primary Gamist feel and seconday Narrativist feel; Sim is thrown right out of the window. In the…
In First Thoughts
Participants: Thunder_God, MatrixGamer, Czar Fnord, Ron Edwards, Eric Bennett.

3/23/2006 Hans: Two very quick questions on rolling and Alliance
Not questions about rules, per se, since I'm pretty sure the answer isn't in there.  More a question of how people play.  Both of these situations have come up in…
In Muse of Fire Games
Participants: Hans, Matthew Glover.

3/23/2006 Joshua BishopRoby: [FLFS] HMS Superb - Lingering Scenes
For reference, prior posts include Reward System At Last! and Scrip Format. My LAGames group (redivider, alejandro, Judson) got together for our second session, first session of roleplay, for our…
In Playtesting
Participants: Joshua BishopRoby, Ben Lehman, redivider.

3/23/2006 Der_Renegat: descriptive abilities as a pendant to visual special effect in movies
You all know the special effect in a movie – the one that totally blasts you away, like the AT AT in The Empire Strikes Back. Or the costume that…
In HeroQuest
Participants: Der_Renegat, Vaxalon, Mike Holmes, lightcastle.

3/23/2006 Matt: [Covenant] Last Days of Judgement and Sorrow
Last weekend, in preparation for Conpulsion, I tested my two 1-hour scenarios for Indie Games Track with a few friends. Inspectres was, of course, easy and fun. It came in…
In Playtesting
Participants: Matt, Ron Edwards.

3/23/2006 dunlaing: Ganging Up
I'm playing in a play by post Capes game which is going pretty well and which I'm enjoying. One interesting thing is happening, though,...every scene ends up with just one…
In Muse of Fire Games
Participants: dunlaing, Vaxalon, Zamiel, Kintara, TheCzech.

3/23/2006 Graham Walmsley: [Holmes and Watson] The Case of the Scattered Brains
We played through Troy Costisick's Game Chef entry, "The Holmes and Watson Committee", tonight. It was an extraordinarily fun night: more H P Lovecraft than Conan Doyle, but lots of…
In Playtesting
Participants: Graham Walmsley, Troy_Costisick, Smithy, Joe Murphy (Broin).

3/23/2006 thanatopsis27: [Dungeon Crawler] Playtesters Desired.
Hello there: Over the past few months I have been designing a web browser-based RPG in PHP on Linux. Since I am a programmer by training, the technical side of…
In Connections
Participants: thanatopsis27.

3/23/2006 Chris Gardiner: [Trollbabe] VoIP Play Session 3
Session 1: http://www.indie-rpgs.com/forum/index.php?topic=19034.0 Session 2: http://www.indie-rpgs.com/forum/index.php?topic=19075.0 Slightly rough session last night. We started late, were kinda tired, and I was not at my best. Fire-Eyes and Mountain-Cloud's adventure finally reached…
In Actual Play
Participants: Chris Gardiner, Jonathan Hastings, Ron Edwards.

3/24/2006 ElliottBelser MKII: Also holding an Indie Press Day at Eudemonia in Berkeley.
Hey, all.  Eudemonia on University and Shattuck is letting me run demos for Indie Press Revolution mondays at 1 pm in the month of April.  We'll be running Dogs in…
In Connections
Participants: ElliottBelser MKII.

3/24/2006 ElliottBelser MKII: [Demo] Also holding BtI demos at Eudemonia on Mondays.
On the 10th and the 24th of April, to be precise.  Come break the ice with someone you love at 1pm.
In Black and Green Games
Participants: ElliottBelser MKII.

3/24/2006 ElliottBelser MKII: Also running Dogs demos at Eudemonia on Mondays.
On the 3rd, 17th, and 31st, I will present demos of Dogs in the Vineyard at Eudemonia, an internet cafe in Berkeley, California, on University near Shattuck. Come all ye…
In lumpley games
Participants: ElliottBelser MKII.

3/24/2006 Shawn De Arment: [CUP] pre-spice pseudo-Arrakis
I got a chance to play-test CUP last Saturday, a thing I haven’t done for 2 years. CUP is a mix of Pool (Mike Holmes anti-pool flavor), a Universalis inspired…
In Playtesting
Participants: Shawn De Arment, Emily Care.

3/24/2006 Sindyr: Backordered?
How can I get my hands on a physical copy of this game, as the website says it is backordered? Thanks.
In Dog Eared Designs
Participants: Sindyr, Matt Wilson.

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