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4/14/2006 John Harper: [Nine Worlds] Forge Midwest
I finally got the chance to play Nine Worlds at Forge Midwest. Matt Snyder ran the session, with Paul Tevis, Paul Czege, Danielle, and myself as players. It was lots…
In Actual Play
Participants: John Harper, Matt Wilson.

4/12/2006 John Harper: Nine Worlds NPC tracker sheet
I may be running Nine Worlds soon, so I made myself an NPC tracker sheet. I figured you folks might find a use for it, too. http://www.onesevendesign.com/9w/9w_npcsheet.pdf (105KB) It has…
In Chimera Creative
Participants: John Harper, Matt Snyder.

4/5/2006 John Harper: Come as you are: The Revenge!
Same as always: Film. Book. Game. Your last of each. Aw heck, I'll add a new one: Good Meal and/or Drink. Film: V for Vendetta (excellent) Book: Latro in the…
In Forge Birthday Forum
Participants: John Harper, joshua neff, talysman, Troy_Costisick, Jeph, Paka, Ron Edwards, Eric J-D, Matt Snyder, Matt Wilson, Andy Kitkowski, Keith Senkowski, Melinglor, LordSmerf, Dav, Clinton R. Nixon, Ben Lehman, Nathan P., Peter Nordstrand, J. Tuomas Harviainen, dindenver, pells, droog, rafial, matthijs, Graham Walmsley, ( o Y o ), Marhault, devilbunny, Gaerik, Iskander, Thunder_God, Thor Olavsrud, Kesher, Chris Goodwin, GreatWolf, jasonm, ScottM, Jonathan Hastings, Alex Fradera, Paul Czege, Bryan Hansel, Calithena, jrs, ErrathofKosh.

3/29/2006 John Harper: [TSOY] Freebooters
[b]TSOY: Freebooters[/b] I just ran a one-shot (sort of playtest) for a TSOY-engine-driven thing I'm calling [b]Freebooters[/b]. Freebooters is set in the same "gaslight, magic, flintlocks, and steel" world as…
In Actual Play
Participants: John Harper, Anders, jasonm, Clinton R. Nixon, rafial, Andrew Craig, khelek, Chris Gardiner, philaros.

2/2/2006 John Harper: Alive and Well
Hello Faithful ST Fans, I just want to let you know that Stranger Things is alive and well (for those of you who aren't keeping up with the blogsphere). The…
In Stranger Things Playtest Forum
Participants: John Harper.

9/8/2005 John Harper: [Dogs] Wolves of the North
We finally got to play Dogs in the Vineyard. Or, more accurately, "Wolves of the North." I was GM. Tony, Phil, and Brandon were the players. For various reasons, we…
In Actual Play
Participants: John Harper, tonyd, Paka, Judaicdiablo, Technocrat13, jasonm, lumpley, Meguey, greyorm, Sydney Freedberg, Falc, Vaxalon, Nev the Deranged, philaros, demiurgeastaroth.

9/7/2005 John Harper: Medical attention, GM throws the conflict
So, tonight we finished up the second session of our Dogs game. Something came up that isn't mentioned in the rules. I'm running the game. After a very nasty conflict…
In lumpley games
Participants: John Harper, StalkingBlue, GB Steve, ADamnFox, Technocrat13, lumpley, Ron Edwards, Paka, DamienNeil, Bankuei, Judaicdiablo.

8/16/2005 John Harper: Ghosts
Here's a bit of new text from the book, regarding what happens to dead relationships: Consequences Relationships can be damaging to the people involved. If a re-roll based on a…
In Stranger Things Playtest Forum
Participants: John Harper, rafial, Clinton R. Nixon, Bankuei, philaros, tonyd, Matt Wilson.

8/8/2005 John Harper: Who is Playtesting?
I ran a game yesterday for Phil, Tony, and Wilhelm. It was a lot of fun. I'm hoping to convince Wil to write it up in Actual Play. :) There's…
In Stranger Things Playtest Forum
Participants: John Harper, Adam Black, demiurgeastaroth, Bankuei, jporrett, ricmadeira, Clinton R. Nixon, rafial, Rossum, Jake Richmond, RogerT.

8/8/2005 John Harper: Character Sheet (temp)
This won't be the final design, but a practical character sheet can be found here: http://www.onesevendesign.com/strangerthings/st_character_sheet.pdf Sorry it's too late for some of your first playtest games, but I'm sure…
In Stranger Things Playtest Forum
Participants: John Harper, rafial.

8/7/2005 John Harper: Stranger Things DRAFT 8/6/05
Here's the new draft of the game. I changed the Injury system back to a more Trollbabe-like method. I also added the Relationships section and cleaned up the text in…
In Stranger Things Playtest Forum
Participants: John Harper, demiurgeastaroth.

8/5/2005 John Harper: Injury, Re-rolls, and Rewards
Here's a crazy idea I had about Injury and related systems. First, the basic system: When you fail a RE-ROLL, you mark a Hurt box. The boxes look like this:…
In Stranger Things Playtest Forum
Participants: John Harper, Clinton R. Nixon, demiurgeastaroth, Matt Wilson.

8/4/2005 John Harper: I'm a playtester! What do I do?
First, get the current playtest PDF. There's a topic in this forum with a link to the most recent draft. Second, read it. Third, get your group together to play.…
In Stranger Things Playtest Forum
Participants: John Harper.

8/4/2005 John Harper: Stranger Things PDF - OLD VERSION: OUT OF DATE -
The current draft of the game is available here: http://www.onesevendesign.com/strangerthings/strangerthings_draft_0804.zip There are still lots of chunks missing, and a page that still refers to the Trollbabe rules. But it's very,…
In Stranger Things Playtest Forum
Participants: John Harper.

8/3/2005 John Harper: Welcome to the playtest forum for Stranger Things
This is a hidden forum right now, so we can conduct some focused playtesting and discussion with a few select people. The forum will become public after the game is…
In Stranger Things Playtest Forum
Participants: John Harper, ricmadeira, tonyd, Bankuei, Adam Black, ejh, philaros, Clinton R. Nixon, RogerT.

7/25/2005 John Harper: [Stranger Things] Social Rolls
So, I'm busy working on Stranger Things (the used-to-be Trollbabe mini-supplement now turned full stand-alone game "inspired by Trollbabe" -- thanks to Ron's kind indulgence) and I've come to the…
In Adept Press
Participants: John Harper, Clinton R. Nixon, Ron Edwards, Bankuei, demiurgeastaroth.

3/11/2005 John Harper: Dogs on the Desktop
I had a few spare hours at work the other day, so I put together a desktop image for DitV. You can grab it here: http://www.shootingiron.com/dogs/dogs_1280.jpg It's ironic that a…
In lumpley games
Participants: John Harper, Paka, jporrett, Andrew Morris, lumpley, apparition13, Karasu, demiurgeastaroth, Iskander, Technocrat13, Everspinner, Neal, dazzler96, Ben Lehman.

10/22/2004 John Harper: Techniques for driving conflict in a scene
One of the jobs of the Producer in PTA is to drive the action of the a scene towards conflict. How do you do this? I'd like this thread to…
In Dog Eared Designs
Participants: John Harper, Alan, Matt Wilson.

9/16/2004 John Harper: PTA Shows: Elevator Pitch Time
So, we all know that show creation is a group process for PTA. But it's a good idea to arrive at the planning session with a couple of basic "elevator…
In Dog Eared Designs
Participants: John Harper, Tobias, Matt Wilson, Ron Edwards, Ben Lehman, joshua neff.

6/30/2004 John Harper: [Danger Patrol] Conflict Resolution with Cards
Lately I've been toying with a conflict resolution system for my retro-sci-fi game Danger Patrol, and I figure it's time to give the Forge a crack at it. Specific questions:…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: John Harper, TonyLB, The Fiendish Dr. Samsara, Matt Wilson, Valamir, TnT, W Alexander.

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4/19/2006 John Harper: Greek Names PDF
Here's another resource I put together for my upcoming Nine Worlds game: a large collection of Greek names, male and female. You can grab the PDF here: http://www.onesevendesign.com/9w/greeknames.pdf
In Chimera Creative
Participants: John Harper, jporrett.

4/21/2006 John Harper: Timing actions: Burning Muse points and restoring Arete/Hubris
This is a question of action sequence. I don't think the rules specify anything here, so I'll throw it out for general discussion. Let's say my Archon gets womped by…
In Chimera Creative
Participants: John Harper, Vaxalon.

5/13/2006 John Harper: [TSOY] Shodan Play
Ron has mentioned "black belt" play before, and we got a good taste of it in our last TSOY session, courtesy of Brandon. I'm calling this shodan rank play --…
In Actual Play
Participants: John Harper, Judaicdiablo, r_donato, Albert of Feh.

8/15/2006 John Harper: Agon (print version) now available!
My game of ancient Greek heroes, Agon, is now available in printed form, thanks to the good folks at Lulu.com. You can order the book here. The game website has…
In Publishing
Participants: John Harper, demiurgeastaroth.

8/17/2006 John Harper: Agon FAQ
The current version of the FAQ can be found on the Agon wiki: http://random.average-bear.com/Agon/AgonFAQ As questions crop up here and in Actual Play, I'll expand the FAQ.
In one.seven design
Participants: John Harper.

8/17/2006 John Harper: Agon Resources
[url=http://random.average-bear.com/Agon/HomePage][b]The Agon Wiki[/b][/url] [url=http://random.average-bear.com/Agon/HomePage]http://random.average-bear.com/Agon/HomePage[/url] Please feel free to add your Actual Play links (or posts) or whatever else you like to the wiki. I'll manage the FAQ and the Semi-Official…
In one.seven design
Participants: John Harper, Silverback, Felon.

8/19/2006 John Harper: Agon Semi-Official Rules Changes
This thread will collect playtested rules modifications that I think improve game play. ----- Highest Position Roll The combatant with the highest position roll gets to make two moves instead…
In one.seven design
Participants: John Harper.

8/20/2006 John Harper: Oath "House Rules"
In another thread, Darren asked some good questions about handling oaths. I don't think I quite gave a complete answer there, so I'm starting another thread to offer some "house…
In one.seven design
Participants: John Harper, demiurgeastaroth, Valamir, Shreyas Sampat.

8/23/2006 John Harper: Agon: Post Your NPCs Here
This is the place to share your NPC builds. Only NPC posts here, please. If you want to discuss anything in this thread, start a new thread for commentary.
In one.seven design
Participants: John Harper, demiurgeastaroth, Willow, DainXB, NathanFrund, Excellence.

8/23/2006 John Harper: Agon: Post Your Islands Here
Post the Islands and associated Quests that you've created here. Quest-specific NPCs can also go here, though you may want to also post them in the NPC sticky thread. If…
In one.seven design
Participants: John Harper, iago, Ignus, Darcy Burgess.

8/26/2006 John Harper: Darren's Hydra with Minions for Heads
This is so cool. Darren has designed a Hydra that has a bunch of extra heads treated as minions in the game system. This is so brilliant, I just wanted…
In one.seven design
Participants: John Harper, iago, demiurgeastaroth.

8/27/2006 John Harper: Agon: Actual Play Index
Post links to Actual Play here. I'll start with a few. The Bronze Chimera (Shreyas Sampat) http://njyar.thesmerf.com/blog/2006/08/food-agon/ First Among Equals Session Zero (Fred Hicks) http://forum.rpg.net/showthread.php?t=282403
In one.seven design
Participants: John Harper, demiurgeastaroth, Emily Care, hix, MikeSands, Mel_White.

8/29/2006 John Harper: [Agon] Under Consideration: Helping dice that really help
Here's a rule that I'm seriously considering for a Semi-Official Rules Change. Advantage, Helping, & Creative Ability Dice When you use an Advantage die, a Helping die, or a…
In one.seven design
Participants: John Harper, demiurgeastaroth, iago, Valamir, GreatWolf, Shreyas Sampat.

9/23/2006 John Harper: House Rule: Another way to read the dice
Here's something I'm toying with. The result of a roll is the highest die in the pool. Add one for each extra die showing 4-7. Add two for each extra…
In one.seven design
Participants: John Harper, Alan, demiurgeastaroth, iago, Skywalker, Camtha.

2/6/2007 John Harper: Go Play Northwest : Seattle, June 22-24
Hello Everyone, We have dates and a location for Go Play Northwest. What sort of event is GPNW? It's going to be very much along the Forge Midwest model, with…
In Conventions
Participants: John Harper, Jake Richmond, b00jum.

2/14/2007 John Harper: Healing Clarification (FAQ updated)
After reading a few AP reports recently, I realized that the Healing text is poorly worded. So, I updated the FAQ with a clarification. Here it is: Healing Q. The…
In one.seven design
Participants: John Harper.

4/23/2007 John Harper: [Build-A-Monster] The Kraken
Let's build a monster. I'll start with a few details. You guys add on. Don't worry about Strife cost for now. We can total it up when we feel like…
In one.seven design
Participants: John Harper.

6/8/2007 John Harper: Ocean's 13: Great SotC example
In the trailer for Ocean's 13, there's a great example of a high Rapport/Contacting character doing his thing. Al Pacino threatens George Clooney: "I know people who really know how…
In Evilhat Productions
Participants: John Harper, iago.

9/24/2007 John Harper: Shield Ability: What it's good for
You can use the Shield ability to defend other people. The book doesn't explain this, which is totally my fault. Every ability in Agon has its own "special thing" right?…
In one.seven design
Participants: John Harper, Marhault, Mel_White, NathanFrund, Troll66, Aaron, Ben Robbins, skyla, Particle_Man.

12/14/2007 John Harper: Rules Refresher
I've noticed a few irregularities in rules applications in AP reports and recordings, so I thought I would collect a few notes here as a refresher. I realize that Agon…
In one.seven design
Participants: John Harper, Mel_White, demiurgeastaroth.

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