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4/5/2006 Matt Snyder: And even MORE shameless promo (new Dust Devils cover)
Visit this link, ye might, and despair: http://www.chimera.info/dustdevils/images/ddcover-revised.jpg Sadly, this low-res version doesn't show off the goods in all their glory. But ... The inestimable Jon Hodgson re-illustrated the whole…
In Forge Birthday Forum
Participants: Matt Snyder, devilbunny, Marhault, inthisstyle, Eric J-D, demiurgeastaroth, Troy_Costisick, John Harper.

4/5/2006 quozl: Watchmen ... what's up with the ending?
So I finally got around to reading Watchmen and I don't get why everyone just agrees to not do anything at the end and then when Rorshach challenges them on…
In Forge Birthday Forum
Participants: quozl, joshua neff, Marhault, gains, Bankuei, Calithena, KingstonC, Eric J-D, inthisstyle, Thunder_God, Troy_Costisick, two_fishes, Eero Tuovinen, Justin Marx, nikola, c, Halzebier.

4/5/2006 Keith Senkowski: Cage Match!!!
In the tradition of such great moments as Pokey vs. Gumby at the Aragon Ballroom I bring you CAGE MATCH!!! (which always must be spelled this way).  We begin with…
In Forge Birthday Forum
Participants: Keith Senkowski, mtiru.

4/5/2006 GreatWolf: Amun-Re anyone?
As a followup to the Eurogamers thread, anyone interested in a game of Amun-Re on SpielByWeb?  The interface is fairly straightforward, and the rules are available for anyone who hasn't…
In Forge Birthday Forum
Participants: GreatWolf.

4/5/2006 Tuxboy: Morality or When is a Superhero not a Superhero?
Split from Abilities thread... Hey! A cool plot idea - Mr Evil successfully is able to dominate the planet, but Captain Good unleashes Armageddon, killing everyone on the planet and…
In Muse of Fire Games
Participants: Tuxboy, TonyLB, Ben Lehman, Hans, Sindyr, Matthew Glover, dunlaing, drnuncheon.

4/5/2006 TonyLB: Alive hearts, alive eyes, alive hands
Here's Harry Chapin (from an album, obviously) relaying something that Pete Seeger said to him about activism: All these years, protesting and being involved, I don't know if I've…
In Forge Birthday Forum
Participants: TonyLB, Andy Kitkowski, Gaerik, pells.

4/5/2006 Troy_Costisick: Predictions for 2006
Heya, I love to read predictions.  I don't care if they turn out true or not, to prognosticate is fun, and this is the only forum anywhere where I'd bring…
In Forge Birthday Forum
Participants: Troy_Costisick, Kester Pelagius, Joshua BishopRoby, lumpley, gains, Keith Senkowski, Bryan Hansel.

4/5/2006 Thunder_God: Woodcuts (split)
Anyone knows where one can find free-for-use Woodcuts?
In Connections
Participants: Thunder_God, greyorm, Clay, John Kirk, MatrixGamer, jrs.

4/5/2006 Thunder_God: Personal Message Limit?
I ran a search and could not find an answer, and since I think many users will be interested by the answer, here I am, posting! How many personal messages…
In Site Discussion
Participants: Thunder_God.

4/5/2006 GB Steve: Reality mirrors art
We were obviously channeling something deep. http://www.boingboing.net/2006/04/04/jesus_maybe_walked_o.html An oceanographer suggests that Jesus could have walked not on liquid water but rather on an isolated patch of floating ice on…
In Forge Birthday Forum
Participants: GB Steve.

4/5/2006 Ben Lehman: [Practice] Guardian Angel
So I'm going to try writing one of these puppies.  This is for 2-5 people and it's called "Guardian Angel."  It's inspired by the fact that I just read the…
In Endeavor
Participants: Ben Lehman, timfire.

4/5/2006 Ian Charvill: Murderball
The straightforward version is Murderball is a documentary about quadriplegic rugby, the rivalry between the Canadian and US teams in the run up to the Athens Paralympics and quadriplegia in…
In Forge Birthday Forum
Participants: Ian Charvill, Miskatonic, Meguey, jasonm, xenopulse.

4/5/2006 matthijs: Look what else I can do!
This thread is for bragging about other stuff you can do (besides writing RPG's). Abstract or concrete, intellectual or physical, tell us something else you like doing. I've made a…
In Forge Birthday Forum
Participants: matthijs, droog, Thunder_God, Troy_Costisick, Gaerik, TonyLB, Ben Lehman, Brand_Robins, Jared A. Sorensen, inthisstyle, Adam Dray, Joshua BishopRoby, GreatWolf, gains, talysman, Kesher, Paul Czege, pedyo, Frank T, ErrathofKosh, anders_larsen, Melinglor, komradebob.

4/5/2006 Ignotus: [PTA] Three Questions
Tomorrow I run episode 2 (session 3 counting the pilot) of my first-ever PTA campaign.  The name of the show is Vice President Werewolf.  It's Buffy meets the West Wing…
In Actual Play
Participants: Ignotus, Joe Dizzy, Jonathan Hastings.

4/5/2006 Ben Lehman: Third Birthday?
So, wait, we're celebrating two years late? Wow. I can't wait to celebrate the *fifth* birthday.  That'll be awesome. yrs-- --Ben P.S.  (Check the forum description.)
In Forge Birthday Forum
Participants: Ben Lehman, Arturo G..

4/5/2006 Joshua BishopRoby: Okay, what the fuck is Jungle Speed?
Y'all keep talking about it over and over and over. I think it's the flavor of Kool-Aid that they make you drink before you can work the Forge Booth.
In Forge Birthday Forum
Participants: Joshua BishopRoby, Paka, Iskander, Jared A. Sorensen, Alex Fradera, Miskatonic, gains.

4/5/2006 GreatWolf: Outside the Birthday Forum
Whenever the Birthday Forum is open, the rest of the Forge feels like an office during the in-office Christmas party.  Sure, there are a couple of people working, but there's…
In Forge Birthday Forum
Participants: GreatWolf, greyorm, Thunder_God.

4/5/2006 Eric J-D: Encomiums to Howard and "Sword & Sorcery"
In light of both the Forge's birthday and the many discussion I have been in recently at rpg.net regarding Robert E Howard and "sword & sorcery" generally, I thought it…
In Forge Birthday Forum
Participants: Eric J-D, Kester Pelagius.

4/5/2006 Ben Lehman: Singalong
<i>Happy birthday to you Happy birthday to you Happy birthday dear Fo-orge Happy birthday to you</i> Add your own favorite birthday songs.  Or other songs.  Or new languages for this…
In Forge Birthday Forum
Participants: Ben Lehman, Nathan P., Ron Edwards, talysman, Peter Nordstrand, Melinglor, matthijs, Miskatonic, drozdal, Thunder_God, Jared A. Sorensen, Bryan Hansel, Mike Holmes, quozl, Meguey, dindenver, Calithena.

4/5/2006 Valamir: More shameless self promotion
Check out the new Universalis Cover
In Forge Birthday Forum
Participants: Valamir, GreatWolf, Miskatonic, matthijs, Thunder_God, Arturo G., Tony Irwin, Graham Walmsley, Eero Tuovinen.

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4/5/2006 Nathan P.: The Employment Thread
Let us harness the power of networking. If you need a job, now or in the near future, post your skills and general location, and lets see if anyone can…
In Forge Birthday Forum
Participants: Nathan P., Bryan Hansel, Andy Kitkowski, Chris Goodwin.

4/5/2006 Eric J-D: What Book/Movie/Music Would You Be?
As a way of getting to know folks, I thought it might be fun to have people post what book or movie best represents something about who they are or…
In Forge Birthday Forum
Participants: Eric J-D, Mark D. Eddy, Thunder_God, Calithena, talysman, droog, Melinglor, anders_larsen.

4/5/2006 Matt Snyder: Fuck poetry ...
... it's always been a lot more like Rock n Roll Greg Stafford = Miles Davis Ron Edwards = Elvis Presley John Wick = Paul McCartney Jared Sorensen = John…
In Forge Birthday Forum
Participants: Matt Snyder, Mark D. Eddy, GreatWolf, abzu, Keith Senkowski, Valamir, Thunder_God, greyorm, Thor Olavsrud, Eric J-D, Matt Wilson, John Harper, Jared A. Sorensen, Gordon C. Landis, Alex Fradera, nikola, Mike Holmes, Bryan Hansel, Iskander, Clinton R. Nixon, talysman, Emily Care, Miskatonic, Meguey, Ron Edwards, Zathreyel.

4/5/2006 Frank T: I NEED to run this game!
I would really, really love to play much more than I actually do. Here's the games I have already finished reading and absolutely NEED to try out: The Shadow of…
In Forge Birthday Forum
Participants: Frank T, Marhault, Jonathan Hastings, Thunder_God, rafial, Melinglor, ErrathofKosh, dindenver, Jason13, Alex Fradera, Paka, Andy Kitkowski, John Harper, pedyo, oliof, Lisa Padol, Blake Hutchins.

4/5/2006 Marhault: Origins 2006
So, once again, the big Indie convention is GenCon, which I won't be attending.  I am, however, planning to attend Origins this year.  So, who else is gonna be there? …
In Forge Birthday Forum
Participants: Marhault, inthisstyle, Michael S. Miller, Troy_Costisick, Clinton R. Nixon, Lisa Padol, Mike Holmes.

4/5/2006 quozl: RPGs for young children
I've been thinking about running an RPG for my wife and soon to be 5-year old daughter but haven't yet found anything appropriate.  What RPGs have people here found are…
In Forge Birthday Forum
Participants: quozl, ScottM, Jason13, GreatWolf, komradebob, Bryan Hansel, Meguey.

4/6/2006 Paka: Blood Simple
http://rpgtalk.net/judd/files/ At the above address I posted a pdf (thanks to the adobe skillz of Josh) of a one-sheet, character and demon sheets and descriptor list for Blood Simple, a…
In Adept Press
Participants: Paka, Jason13, Ron Edwards, Chris Gardiner, pfischer, angelfromanotherpin, The_Tim, Eric J-D, Thunder_God, Miedvied.

4/6/2006 James_Nostack: Seaguy... what's up with, well, the whole thing?
So there's already a thread on deciphering Watchmen.  But what about Seaguy, written by Grant Morrison and illustrated by Cameron Stewart?  Spoilers ahoy! While I enjoyed the hell out of…
In Forge Birthday Forum
Participants: James_Nostack, joshua neff.

4/6/2006 Jason13: Le Cirque Macabre
Hi, Firstly I must state that I do not own Conspiracy of Shadows or any of the supplements for it yet.  This is a situation that cannot be allowed to…
In Bob Goat Press
Participants: Jason13, Keith Senkowski.

4/6/2006 tj333: [suts] Anime/Maga Based RPG
Strongest Under the Sun is the name for my game.       The idea behind the game is to emulate anime/manga stories like Yu Yu Hakusho, Bleach, Shaman King,…
In First Thoughts
Participants: tj333, oreso.

4/6/2006 oreso: Klingons!
[url=http://www.geocities.com/maxkill666/klingons.html]Klingons![/url] Have a looky at the link and tell me what you think. Its meant to be a one shot party game to give you an excuse to act like…
In First Thoughts
Participants: oreso, Czar Fnord.

4/6/2006 Frank T: What’s your life like?
Here’s another one of those “show me yours I’ll show you mine”-threads. To get to know you people better: What do you do when your’re not designing RPGs or posting…
In Forge Birthday Forum
Participants: Frank T, Matt, Gaerik, GreatWolf, Bryan Hansel, pells, James_Nostack, abzu, greyorm, Silmenume, Calithena, xenopulse.

4/6/2006 pells: [Avalanche] - Redefining publishing of content
I'm still in preparation of my teaser, which I should be able to present in about two weeks. While preparing the related post, I came across this interesting conversation in…
In Publishing
Participants: pells, Clay, Jake Richmond.

4/6/2006 ( o Y o ): [TRoS] But this time the system does not matter!
In our ongoing Midnight campaign our elven twin brothers have one major flaw: Enemy! It happens that the enemy is a demon and that he plagued the twins since ever.…
In Actual Play
Participants: ( o Y o ), Tommi Brander, Wolfen, Lamorak33, Mike Holmes, Blankshield, ironick.

4/6/2006 Andy Kitkowski: What other Analog Games do you play?
I'm not talking computer games here (because I'll open that op to another thread), I'm specifically thinking non-digital only. Settlers of Catan is always a favorite with my group. We…
In Forge Birthday Forum
Participants: Andy Kitkowski, Ben Lehman, jasonm, Warren, Troy_Costisick, Jonathan Hastings, Graham Walmsley, Brendan, Jared A. Sorensen, GreatWolf, joshua neff, pfischer, Mike Holmes, Michael S. Miller, nikola, ScottM, jrs, rafial, talysman, mneme, Jeph, Bryan Hansel, Peter Nordstrand, LordSmerf.

4/6/2006 Andy Kitkowski: What Digital/Computer/Console Games do you play?
Followup to this thread on Analog games: http://www.indie-rpgs.com/forum/index.php?topic=19383.0 If you think console games are evil, Awesome. STEP OFF!!! But if you consent to play them console or computer games every…
In Forge Birthday Forum
Participants: Andy Kitkowski, Warren, Matt Snyder, Troy_Costisick, Graham Walmsley, Jonathan Hastings, Valamir, Jared A. Sorensen, jasonm, Ben Lehman, GreatWolf, Jason13, Mike Holmes, joshua neff, jrs, ScottM, Miskatonic, talysman, Marhault, timfire, mneme, Bryan Hansel, neko ewen, Doug Ruff, LordSmerf.

4/6/2006 Brendan: [Drill] Fedayeen
Or drill, warmup, kata, whatever.  This is inspired by (and crossposted from) John Harper's Game Sketch No. 2 thread at Story Games. Fedayeen What you need to play: Four…
In Endeavor
Participants: Brendan, SPDuke.

4/6/2006 abzu: Self Locking Old Threads?
Hello Clinton, In the wonderful fabulous Bday forum I have twice been tricked into posting into year-old threads. Is there any way to institute a mechanism that locks a thread…
In Site Discussion
Participants: abzu, Thunder_God, M. J. Young, Julian, greyorm, Clinton R. Nixon, Lisa Padol, Nathan P., Christopher Kubasik, Ron Edwards.

4/6/2006 dunlaing: New Character
Brother Solomon retired last night. He retired at the end of the session, so we didn't do character creation. Should I follow the "don't think about your character before the…
In lumpley games
Participants: dunlaing, lumpley, TheHappyAnarchist.

4/6/2006 Paul Czege: who's your unteacher
Western academic and corporate culture is infested with the idealization of a certain kind of mentorship: the mentor imparts skills and wisdom to the protege, who thereby develops and grows…
In Forge Birthday Forum
Participants: Paul Czege, Thunder_God, Troy_Costisick, Matt Snyder, Brand_Robins, nikola, Calithena, Madheretic, Ben Lehman, Smithy, Frank T, Peter Nordstrand, droog, Graham Walmsley, Matt Wilson, joshua neff, Bryan Hansel, Doug Ruff, Gaerik, Gordon C. Landis, Ron Edwards.

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