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4/3/2006 cdr: [Gencon 06] Demo Teaching?
I recall at last year's Gencon there was a plan to cross-teach how to run demos to everyone working the Forge Booth, although I don't know if that happened or…
In Conventions
Participants: cdr.

4/3/2006 TonyLB: [Warmup] Mornington Crescent
Not to be confused with the famous game of the London Underground, this has come to me by word of mouth from (apparently) a BBC radio program of some sort. …
In Endeavor
Participants: TonyLB.

4/3/2006 Graham Walmsley: [Drill] Boris
This is an improv game, by Keith Johnstone. It's great. One player mimes being hauled in by an invisible monster. The "monster" (who is called Boris) forces him into a…
In Endeavor
Participants: Graham Walmsley, jasonm, timfire, majcher.

4/3/2006 Uriel: [Legion] first draft
These is my first for Legion, a convention game inspired by Memento and The Bourne Identity. Each player will get roughly an hour of gameplay and will use the previous…
In First Thoughts
Participants: Uriel, Troy_Costisick, Thunder_God.

4/3/2006 Joshua BishopRoby: [Agora] First Playtest. Currency & Direction Needed.
This game was previously discussed in the thread Delicate Dice Pools. So tonight we played a bit of Agora, which I would say is about 80% complete.  We played…
In Playtesting
Participants: Joshua BishopRoby, Dev.

4/3/2006 tsps128: [Marinci] Istrakon playtest
Hi, all! Well, I've finally managed to play test my 24 hour rpg called “Marinci”. I think it’s been over a year since I finished writing it, and I know…
In Playtesting
Participants: tsps128, Ron Edwards.

4/3/2006 Thunder_God: [Cranium Rats] Token Economy, also, Gamist Encouragement of Narrativism.
I have been thinking over the various ways to incorporate Tokens in my game, with the basic reasoning is that I need to add another angle to the Gamist Resource…
In First Thoughts
Participants: Thunder_God.

4/3/2006 Elishar: [The Beast Within] Ideas
Ok, I'll give a bit of overview for anyone not familiar with my game.  'The Beast Within' is a modern game based around the hidden battle between human and demons. …
In First Thoughts
Participants: Elishar, Paul Strack, TonyLB, dindenver, anders_larsen, TroyLovesRPG, Thunder_God, billvolk.

4/3/2006 James_Nostack: [Star*Babe] Trollbabe for Space Opera
in 1998, TSR/Wizards published the "Star*Drive Campaign Setting" for their short-lived science-fiction RPG Alternity.  It was, as someone once phrased it, "Forgotten Realms in Spaaaace!" and I hated it for…
In Adept Press
Participants: James_Nostack, Ron Edwards, Miskatonic, Chris Gardiner, Jonathan Hastings, sirogit.

4/3/2006 jasonm: [Drill] Invisible Knife
Ok, this is a little goofy but I think it is relevant.  I'm taking this improv class, and one of the little focus exercises we did was called "invisible knife". …
In Endeavor
Participants: jasonm, Thunder_God, Clinton R. Nixon, Zathreyel, Graham Walmsley, Ron Edwards, TonyLB, timfire, majcher.

4/3/2006 TonyLB: [Misery Bubblegum] How do you reward bad timing?
You know the story:  Boy meets girl.  Boy loves girl.  Girl loves boy. Monday:  Boy tries to tell girl he loves her ... but earlier that day girl heard a…
In First Thoughts
Participants: TonyLB, c, Paul Strack, Ben Lehman, Joshua BishopRoby, Valamir, Thunder_God.

4/3/2006 Paul Strack: Story-Weaver: A "pure" narrativist game?
Story-Weaver: A "pure" narrativist game? Hi folks, I have been posting here and there for about 2 months on these forums, but this is my first serious offering in terms…
In First Thoughts
Participants: Paul Strack, Graham Walmsley, MatrixGamer, Ron Edwards.

4/2/2006 Paul Strack: [With Great Power...] Endgame MiniCon, April 1
I ran my third game of WGP at EndGame's in-store Mini-Con in Oakland CA. It was the first time I ran the game where I actually finished the story. I…
In Actual Play
Participants: Paul Strack, Michael S. Miller, John Kim, Thor Olavsrud.

4/2/2006 Sindyr: Quick Variant Idea: Inspiration combining
Would this be a bad(tm) idea, to have some way to combine smaller inspirations to make bigger ones? Perhaps using the following method - combining two inspirations yields one higher…
In Muse of Fire Games
Participants: Sindyr, TonyLB, dunlaing, Matthew Glover, Zamiel, TheCzech.

4/2/2006 JMendes: [Drill] No, Mr. Bond, I expect you to die!
Hi, all, :) I thought I'd ((try to) be the first to) take up Ron's suggestion that we develop role-playing drills. I present to you: I Expect You To Die!…
In Endeavor
Participants: JMendes, TonyLB.

4/2/2006 Yaksha: [srenken] To ditch or not to ditch? That is the question...
Hi all, http://www.geocities.com/rubboferraro/srenken_b01.pdf I wrote this little game a while ago now, then just dropped it and forgot about it. As it stands I don’t think it is anything great…
In First Thoughts
Participants: Yaksha, dindenver, anders_larsen, Bryan Hansel.

4/2/2006 Ron Edwards: Drills
Hello, A couple of months ago, through a few discussions with Julie (jrs) and Tim (timfire), we developed the notion that Forge-ish activities might include ... drills. Like repetitive punching…
In Endeavor
Participants: Ron Edwards, TonyLB, jasonm, Keith Senkowski, Peter Nordstrand, timfire, JMendes, Joshua BishopRoby, Troy_Costisick, Thunder_God, Justin D. Jacobson, Czar Fnord, Eero Tuovinen, chris_moore, majcher.

4/2/2006 Nathan P.: [Meetup Proposal] DeisCon, April 15-16 or 22-23
So I have an idea that I wanna float, and see if it would interest anyone. I have a big hunk o' break over Passover in which I will be…
In Conventions
Participants: Nathan P..

4/2/2006 soviet: Advancement Revisited
After reading the recent(ish) thread on HP reward systems I've been thinking a lot about advancement in HQ. In general I like the system presented in the book. Many players…
In HeroQuest
Participants: soviet, Vaxalon, Mike Holmes, lightcastle.

4/1/2006 FlameLover: DM vs. Players
I thought i'd posted this before, but I searched for it and found nothing. So sorry if I posted this earlier ;) I've been hanging around these boards for a…
In First Thoughts
Participants: FlameLover, sirogit, Noon, JMendes, Thunder_God.

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4/3/2006 Madkitten: [Rules] Automatication
I have been thinking a little. Now, for me, the most important thing about rules (as both a GM and a Player) is that they are fast, in the mood…
In First Thoughts
Participants: Madkitten, Jinx, MatrixGamer, anders_larsen, Joshua BishopRoby, Noon, Harrower, CaptainImpressive, TroyLovesRPG, btrc.

4/3/2006 Mike Holmes: [Concinnity] Wrap Up
Concinnity 6 is over, and I thought I'd put in a quick after action review. I really have to say that this was a very well run small convention...one that…
In Conventions
Participants: Mike Holmes, Matt-M-McElroy.

4/3/2006 Bill Masek: [Drill] The Great Journey
I really like the idea of RPG drills and hope that this drill will help players develop their RPG skill set, honing skills ranging from general description skills to story…
In Endeavor
Participants: Bill Masek, Thunder_God.

4/3/2006 Ron Edwards: [D&D 3.0/3.5] The kid two houses down
Hello, Two houses down from where my wife and I live, there's a family whom we like a lot. They include Christopher, who's 11 or 12. Since we moved here,…
In Actual Play
Participants: Ron Edwards, Troy_Costisick, Kintara, Ben Lehman, Calithena, Noon, cmnash, Wolfen, Tommi Brander, ffilz, Adam Dray, Glendower, matthijs, ( o Y o ), Storn, Thunder_God, jburneko, greyorm.

4/4/2006 Sindyr: Four-color rules?
Was thinking of ways to add house rules and mods to encourage four color play; especially that heroes generally triumph over villains, and thought of this: Villains have some kind…
In Muse of Fire Games
Participants: Sindyr, TonyLB, Glendower, Tuxboy, ubergeek2012, Matthew Glover, drnuncheon, TheCzech, humis, Kintara, Hans.

4/4/2006 harish: This post was spam
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In These Are Our Games
Participants: harish, Ben Lehman, Clinton R. Nixon.

4/4/2006 Willow: [DitV Town] New Prosperity
If you know me and you think there's any chance I might run this for you, DON'T READ THIS! That means YOU, Daniel! Anyway, everyone else, go ahead and read…
In lumpley games
Participants: Willow, ffilz, Alex Fradera.

4/4/2006 mobuttu: [ORN RPG] My Big 3 answers
After reading several posts about The Big 3 RPG design questions (thanks Troy_Costisick for his clarifications from here: http://www.indie-rpgs.com/forum/index.php?topic=16996.0) I’ve tried to come up with mine. Here they go. Please…
In First Thoughts
Participants: mobuttu, anders_larsen, Troy_Costisick, Ron Edwards.

4/4/2006 jasonm: [Shooting the Moon] Volcano Goddesses of Dinosaur Island
We playtested Shooting the Moon last night and I wanted to provide some critical feedback.  Some stuff went very well and some didn't, which is to be expected.  We played…
In Playtesting
Participants: jasonm, Emily Care, Clinton R. Nixon, LeSingeSavant, Joshua BishopRoby.

4/4/2006 bballchic1049: Free, right?
[color=Teal][/color] This place is free, right?
In Site Discussion
Participants: bballchic1049, Thunder_God.

4/4/2006 MatrixGamer: Manufacturing cardboard counters
I'd like to hear people's experiences with making cardboard counters. I'm move Engle Matrix Games into a folio format. The game comes in a hardback cover (color and glossy) with…
In Publishing
Participants: MatrixGamer, Gaerik, Czar Fnord, guildofblades, Veritas Games.

4/4/2006 Lisa Padol: [Cantarella] Possible Sorcerer source material
Hi. My name is Lisa, and I'm a manga addict. So, I picked up volume two of a manga called Cantarella. It's about Cesare Borgia, and how his father agreed…
In Adept Press
Participants: Lisa Padol, mneme.

4/4/2006 Matt-M-McElroy: [Mortal Coil] Characters
Hey, Would it be possible for you to post a sample character two? It would be interesting to see what they might look like and help guide me through character…
In Galileo Games
Participants: Matt-M-McElroy, inthisstyle, Paka.

4/4/2006 Ben Lehman: New Powerset
I was thinking about Gangbuster, and the awesome "unleash artifacts of power" on the magician set, and suddenly I was writing a new powerset.  The goal is to be the…
In Muse of Fire Games
Participants: Ben Lehman, Vaxalon, TonyLB, Sindyr, Hans.

4/4/2006 Gaeokerena: Daemornia Studios
Hello everyone, We would just like to introduce ourselves; Daemornia Studios, as independent role-playing game publishers. We are the publishers of the Daemornia RPG line, with our core book available…
In First Thoughts
Participants: Gaeokerena, Thunder_God.

4/4/2006 preludetotheend: Almost an Endeavor (Reflections)
The below is the link to the original idea I had its not much important to this thread as I will give an overview of what my current idea is…
In First Thoughts
Participants: preludetotheend, MatrixGamer.

4/4/2006 Thunder_God: Oooh! Ooooh!
I'm first this year! :) I'm Guy, and I'm all about self-pimping :D
In Forge Birthday Forum
Participants: Thunder_God, GreatWolf, Eric Bennett.

4/4/2006 Troy_Costisick: This one snuck up on me
Heya, Is it birthday time again already?!?!?  Wow, these years are starting to go by fast.  Well, happy birthday Forge!  There's been a lot of changes in the last 5…
In Forge Birthday Forum
Participants: Troy_Costisick, Brand_Robins, Emily Care, Paka, jasonm, JMendes, Kesher, Graham Walmsley, nikola, John Harper, Anders, Thunder_God, Alex Fradera, Andy Kitkowski, Ron Edwards, Valamir.

4/4/2006 Matt Snyder: Forge Midwest
MAN, I had no idea the Midwest gig and the Forge birthday coincided. Awesome. I hereby declare this the thread to go nutso planning and spooing oneself for this weekend.…
In Forge Birthday Forum
Participants: Matt Snyder, Thunder_God, Ron Edwards, Keith Senkowski, Kesher, chris_moore, Thor Olavsrud, greyorm, John Harper, mtiru, Andy Kitkowski, Blankshield, Ben Lehman, Matt Wilson.

4/4/2006 Paka: DIaspora Birthday Fall-Out (but not in a bad way)
Between Story Games and RPGtalk, it feels like I have access to the birthday forum kind of communication with Forge-i-zens every day. In the last year we've see the diaspora…
In Forge Birthday Forum
Participants: Paka, ffilz, Anders, Keith Senkowski, Thunder_God, xenopulse, Andy Kitkowski.

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