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4/8/2006 Nev the Deranged: [GenCon '06] D'oh...
Well, I decided to wait to reserve a room at the Marriott by the con center.... and now they are out of 2-bed rooms. Go figure. I guess I should…
In Conventions
Participants: Nev the Deranged, inthisstyle, btrc, joepub.

4/7/2006 Ron Edwards: [City of Brass] Two cannibals, no Nobility
The full title was intended to be The two mad cannibals with no nobility march off to the City of Brass. Which is, basically, what happened. Let's see ... my…
In Playtesting
Participants: Ron Edwards, jrs, Clinton R. Nixon.

4/7/2006 Noon: Valid question, but it basically asks "Who should I fight, Mr GM?"
This is from my PBP rifts game. It's a kind of an example where tactics applied would have deprotagonised the player (well, tactics would have removed a choice I thought…
In Actual Play
Participants: Noon, David Hallett, Thunder_God, Paul Strack, contracycle.

4/7/2006 inthisstyle: [Dogs] At Last I Have Him
Last Friday, my friend Sandy came by and we had a game of Dogs in the Vineyard. I've been trying to get Sandy to play for ages. He is curious…
In Actual Play
Participants: inthisstyle, Noon.

4/7/2006 Emily Care: If I was at the ForgeMidwest Gathering...
I'd be sure to play a full game of Uni with Ralph and Clinton, corner Matt W & Matt S into playing Polaris (or Bacchanal!) with me, play The Mountain…
In Forge Birthday Forum
Participants: Emily Care, inthisstyle, GreatWolf, Frank T, jrs, Ben Lehman, Gordon C. Landis, Thunder_God, Bryan Hansel, Miskatonic, Ron Edwards.

4/7/2006 J Tolson: [Twilight] Three character goals
Greetings good forum-goers, In the game that I have been working on over the last 2 years (Twilight of the Gods, or just Twilight for short) I have developed three…
In First Thoughts
Participants: J Tolson, anders_larsen, SPDuke, Thunder_God.

4/7/2006 a_verheaghe: Greyhawk keywords (long)
About a year ago I asked about converting D&D type stuff, well it took awhile but here is my Furyondy stuff for critique. The game will be centered around a…
In HeroQuest
Participants: a_verheaghe, Mike Holmes, screen_monkey, soviet.

4/7/2006 greyorm: Television Entertainment: What's your poison?
There is probably a great deal you can learn about a person in knowing what sorts of mass shows they watch regularly. Thus, this is my useless contribution to the…
In Forge Birthday Forum
Participants: greyorm, Graham Walmsley, joshua neff, Matt Wilson, Matt, Troy_Costisick, jasonm, Frank T, Alex Fradera, Miskatonic, Thor Olavsrud, Shreyas Sampat, jrs, Ron Edwards, Bryan Hansel, Warren, pfischer, talysman, Paka, Mike Holmes, Meguey, Walt Freitag, dindenver, demiurgeastaroth, Melinglor, Thunder_God, xenopulse.

4/7/2006 Thunder_God: [Slime Octopi and Coral] Redesigning Mechanics and Defining Humanity and Mr. H.
This game is what I call a CSI Game, or Competitive Story Interaction game. It's been brought up between Eric Bennett and myself. Eric is big on the Mythos and…
In First Thoughts
Participants: Thunder_God.

4/7/2006 stefoid: [Bronze] 'skills' and task/conflict resolution
This is a fictional bronze-age game.  I posted the 1st draft rules a while ago.  It was a task-based skill system.  Since being directed to other types of rules, Ive…
In First Thoughts
Participants: stefoid, contracycle, Thunder_God, lumpley, dindenver, two_fishes.

4/7/2006 Melinglor: Every title I came up with sounded sappy.
And believe me, it gets sappy enough on the inside. Something I just posted in AP is inspiring me to indulge in a little hero worship. See, I was introduced…
In Forge Birthday Forum
Participants: Melinglor, droog, lumpley.

4/7/2006 Melinglor: Heroquest purchase question
Hi, I'm strongly considering purchasing Heroquest in the very near future. However, I am planning on using it to run a game set in Middle Earth, and was wondering: 1)…
In HeroQuest
Participants: Melinglor, Paul King, droog, Mike Holmes, Lamorak33, Hobbitboy, simon_hibbs, Vaxalon, lightcastle, fredrikr.

4/7/2006 SPDuke: [Summerplay] Initial post, slightly long.
SUMMERPLAY Hi, Forge! I haven’t been here in a while, but I recently had a brainstorm for a game and wanted to share it with you to see what you…
In First Thoughts
Participants: SPDuke, Thunder_God, Shreyas Sampat.

4/7/2006 Noon: [Drill] System Sez
System Sez Some quick scenarios to try out. Relatively easy to try out with others, if your willing to be GM. Since you'll be feeling the brunt of the exercises…
In Endeavor
Participants: Noon.

4/6/2006 Alex Fradera: Relationships polarity
Am I right in understanding that (stepping into PC's shoes for clarity) every PC you like hates you, and every PC you hate likes you? That's what I get from…
In Bully Pulpit Games
Participants: Alex Fradera, Peter Nordstrand, jasonm, segedy.

4/6/2006 Alex Fradera: [Dogs Town] King's Garden
I took a stab at writing a town, based in a verdant stretch of the territory. Here it is. Bro Matthew and Bro Enoch are lifelong friends, and share an…
In lumpley games
Participants: Alex Fradera.

4/6/2006 Brother Seth: A good point about DitV...
It's been said that a role-playing game lives or dies by it's combat system. Every system out there has a more-or-less detailed system to deal with combat, with varying levels…
In lumpley games
Participants: Brother Seth, Vaxalon, Wolfen, lumpley, jasonm.

4/6/2006 Keith Senkowski: Snyder Has No Cell Phone
What the fuck is up with that?  He is some sort of luddite or some shit?  I don't know.  What is your theory as to why he has not joined…
In Forge Birthday Forum
Participants: Keith Senkowski, Joshua BishopRoby, Marhault, timfire, Bryan Hansel, Andy Kitkowski, Matt Snyder, Ron Edwards, jrs, Miskatonic, Thor Olavsrud, Thunder_God, droog, talysman, greyorm, jburneko, HMT, Bankuei, abzu, drozdal, contracycle, Matt Wilson, Sydney Freedberg.

4/6/2006 Joshua BishopRoby: Where Are You?
This is where I live: Nation: The United States State/Province: California Region: Southern California City: Whittier, suburb of LA
In Forge Birthday Forum
Participants: Joshua BishopRoby, Thunder_God, inthisstyle, ErrathofKosh, Marhault, Jeph, GreatWolf, Bryan Hansel, pells, joshua neff, monsterboy, nikola, Gaerik, anders_larsen, Miskatonic, Alex Fradera, Emily Care, JMendes, Melinglor, Andrew Morris, Eric J-D, Ben Lehman, ffilz, A.Neill, Artanis, Warren, droog.

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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4/8/2006 Latreya Sena: Fuck Rock n Roll!
...These stars are more like filmmakers! Ron Edwards = George Lucas - in his younger years :-) Vincent Baker = Quentin Tarantino Paul Czege = Tim Burton Clinton R. Nixon…
In Forge Birthday Forum
Participants: Latreya Sena, Thunder_God, Ben Lehman, droog, Gordon C. Landis, talysman, TonyLB, lumpley, Ron Edwards, joshua neff, Eric J-D, Bryan Hansel.

4/8/2006 Alex Fradera: To what degree can you impact the fiction without a conflict to back it up?
Just to get this straight: a) I'm pretty clear on this: Only the spotlight character can call for a conflict, and they set the stakes. Other players have some…
In Bully Pulpit Games
Participants: Alex Fradera, jasonm.

4/8/2006 Sindyr: Further game aids
Now that I am about to run my first Capes game, I am realizing that I could (or could have) use the following: An exhaustive list of everything you can…
In Muse of Fire Games
Participants: Sindyr, Glendower, Vaxalon, Miskatonic, Adam Biltcliffe.

4/8/2006 Miskatonic: Hey Vincent...
Just how sexy is it to roleplay with Meg and Emily all the time?
In Forge Birthday Forum
Participants: Miskatonic, lumpley.

4/8/2006 knicknevin: [Drill] Ripples
This is a model I have used in some game sessions (partially at the end of my Loose Toys campaign) which I think would also make a good drill. One…
In Endeavor
Participants: knicknevin, Dumirik.

4/9/2006 Animation: Are Powers actually Effective?
All, Newbie question / need to grok. Please be kind. :) A friend (Matthew Glover) ran a Capes demo for me today and it was fun. However, after the fact,…
In Muse of Fire Games
Participants: Animation, Zamiel, Matthew Glover, Hans.

4/9/2006 Joshua BishopRoby: [Agora] Playtester Shout Out
Hey there, hi there, ho there, folks. I'm looking for brave souls to join the Agora Playtest, running now through June 30th. Agora is a scifi transhumanist space opera colonization…
In Connections
Participants: Joshua BishopRoby.

4/9/2006 Silmenume: Thanks
Just wanted to say, “Thank you,” to everyone who has sweat blood and tears to make this a real “functioning” place in the ether where solid attempts to understand our…
In Forge Birthday Forum
Participants: Silmenume, Latreya Sena, Meguey.

4/9/2006 Zamiel: PDF Edition
I'm already a very proud owner of the 108pg print edition of PTA, but I find myself on the go a lot, and I make frequent reference to my PDF…
In Dog Eared Designs
Participants: Zamiel, Mike Lucas.

4/9/2006 Meguey: What else are you geeky about?
I have this theory that everyone is secretly a geek, which in my book (or at least for the purpose of this thread) is someone who knows waaaay too much…
In Forge Birthday Forum
Participants: Meguey, xenopulse, joshua neff, Ben Lehman, droog, Eric J-D, jasonm, Bryan Hansel, James_Nostack, talysman, Graham Walmsley, anders_larsen, Thunder_God, Miskatonic, Shreyas Sampat, lumpley, ironick, Michael S. Miller.

4/9/2006 TonyLB: [Misery Bubblegum] Character tangle-kickers
So I had a very productive playtest experience of the draft rules of Misery Bubblegum last night ... which is to say that there was the promise of greatness, wholly…
In Playtesting
Participants: TonyLB, Joshua BishopRoby, Adam Dray, Madheretic.

4/9/2006 Lizbet: I'm a Literature student. I'm alowed.
Hey there. I'm something of a newbie here, so...yeah. New. Hai. I was musing the other day about games and I had the notion of creating one based on the…
In First Thoughts
Participants: Lizbet, TonyLB, Joshua BishopRoby, nikola, MatrixGamer.

4/9/2006 Chad: Henbane: role‐playinge the detestable wickednesse of wytchcrafte
Hi folks, I have recently put together the Henbane PDF http://www.ookytentacles.com/Henbane.htmland would like to get your take on it. Henbane is a witty take on shakespearian witchcraft. It’s has grandiose…
In First Thoughts
Participants: Chad, TonyLB, Graham Walmsley, Mark D. Eddy, Eric J-D, chris_moore, ivan23.

4/9/2006 Jake Richmond: New gallery
Hi. Let me start by saying this isnt me trolling for work. But I have a new gallery and I am looking for feedback. It's not fancy, but I think…
In Connections
Participants: Jake Richmond, Clay, c, John Harper.

4/9/2006 markus_cz: Ordering "My Life with Master"
Paul, I've recently stumbled upon "My life with Master", and really enjoyed it. I'd love to order a PDF version, but there's a little problem: I don't have a PayPal…
In Half Meme Press
Participants: markus_cz, Paul Czege.

4/10/2006 Ben Lehman: I hereby take this opportunity
To declare obsolete any game that does not have a "draw your robot" space on the character sheet. "But Ben!" you protest feebly, "my game does not have robots at…
In Forge Birthday Forum
Participants: Ben Lehman, talysman, TonyLB, Miskatonic, Dev, Walt Freitag, Bankuei, Melinglor, joshua neff.

4/10/2006 JMendes: Is there going to be a Last Word thread this year?
Hi, :) Well? Is there? Cheers, J.
In Forge Birthday Forum
Participants: JMendes, TonyLB, Walt Freitag, Nathan P., Melinglor, talysman, Miskatonic, Ben Lehman, droog, joshua neff.

4/10/2006 Everspinner: Games as a metaphor for something else
(This is a duplicate to the thread I accidentally started in Story Games. My apologies to anyone who is interested in the topic and needs to jump between the two…
In First Thoughts
Participants: Everspinner, pells, greyorm, MatrixGamer, Paul Czege, Ron Edwards, TroyLovesRPG, Michael S. Miller, Thunder_God.

4/10/2006 James Holloway: [KRASNOARMEETS] Making miniatures easy
OK, it's been a little while since I talked about progress on my Ronnies entry from back in the day, Krasnoarmeets. You can check out the previous discussion of it…
In First Thoughts
Participants: James Holloway, Bryan Hansel, Ben Lehman, komradebob, MatrixGamer, Sydney Freedberg, J Tolson, TroyLovesRPG.

4/10/2006 abzu: Forge Midwest Love
Where's the love? Is everyone still too exhausted to post? So, ye who attended, what did you think? Did you enjoy yourself? Would you come back again? What did you…
In Conventions
Participants: abzu, Matt Wilson, Keith Senkowski, chris_moore, Thor Olavsrud, Jason L Blair, jenskot, Jared A. Sorensen, greyorm, c, jrs, Mike Holmes, Blankshield, Iskander, John Harper, Miskatonic, Paul Czege, Paka, tylure, ivan23, ptevis, Matt Snyder, mtiru, Kesher, Tim C Koppang, Andy Kitkowski, GregStolze, timfire, Dav, Nev the Deranged.

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