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4/18/2006 Nev the Deranged: [Universalis] - Between the Clouds at Forge Midwest, Part 1
Universalis “Between the Clouds” Forge Indie Gathering ‘06 NARRATIVE VERSION (as opposed to the Component breakdown version): Background: There is a world where mountains thrust upward like islands through a…
In Actual Play
Participants: Nev the Deranged.

4/17/2006 sirogit: [Inspectres] Get in the box.
I got to run Inspectres last night and hopefully again sometime soon with a new player. The characters were "snooty filmmaker taking a day job", "big man in highschool... 3…
In Actual Play
Participants: sirogit, Nathan P., Jared A. Sorensen.

4/17/2006 Matthew Glover: Authorship Rule
[quote author=Sindyr link=topic=19494.msg204825#msg204825 date=1145222973] The authorship rule we use if any player narrates something about another player's spotlight character that's not external, the owning player can veto that part of…
In Muse of Fire Games
Participants: Matthew Glover, Vaxalon, Zamiel, Sindyr, TonyLB, Sydney Freedberg, Ben Lehman, Tuxboy, ubergeek2012.

4/17/2006 Matthew Glover: Everybody Gloats
I'm going to paraphrase rather than quote a whole bunch.  If I get a detail or point wrong, please feel free to correct me.  In this thread a peculiar situation…
In Muse of Fire Games
Participants: Matthew Glover, drnuncheon, TonyLB, Hans, TheCzech, Sindyr, Vaxalon, Tuxboy, Ben Lehman, Eero Tuovinen.

4/17/2006 John Harper: Thinking about Metamorphosis
So, I'm thinking about Nine Worlds in preparation for starting a series this Sunday, and I think Metamorphosis is kind of a problem. When I played 9W at Forge Midwest,…
In Chimera Creative
Participants: John Harper, Vaxalon, coffeestain, Matt Snyder, Paul Czege, Ben Lehman, Iskander, Ron Edwards.

4/17/2006 Michael S. Miller: Books in retail stores--Buy now or buy later?
Over in a WGP... Actual Play thread, the ever-inciteful John Kim asked the following: One thing that I sometimes feel funny about -- if the store only has one…
In Publishing
Participants: Michael S. Miller, Paul Czege, abzu, Joshua BishopRoby, inthisstyle, c, Ron Edwards.

4/17/2006 Thunder_God: [Bliss Stage Playtest] Read Through Questions
Reading a PDF, reading a book, not so good for getting questions out of it, one must sit with a pen, so I did. Some questions are answered later, I…
In These Are Our Games
Participants: Thunder_God, Ben Lehman.

4/17/2006 Hans: Non-debt generating characters...how often?
For those that have been playing a while, I have a few questions regarding non-debt generating characters (that is non-powered characters and non-person characters): * How often do they end…
In Muse of Fire Games
Participants: Hans, dunlaing, TonyLB, Sindyr, drnuncheon, Tuxboy, Sydney Freedberg, Ben Lehman, Zamiel.

4/17/2006 Bailywolf: [Stranger Things Bootleg] ‘City of Lost Wolves’
To do something different for a good friend’s birthday, I decided to try and cobble together the rules for John Harper’s fecking awesome Stranger Things from his blog posting and…
In Playtesting
Participants: Bailywolf, John Harper, philaros, Dreez.

4/17/2006 matthijs: A few rules questions
I ran a Sorcerer one-shot yesterday and have a few rules questions: 1. If a character's Confused (by a demon, or by too much boost), do they defend in combat?…
In Adept Press
Participants: matthijs, Ron Edwards.

4/17/2006 Jeremiah Lahnum: [DitV] East Absalom
This is my first attempt at creating a town.  I've just read the book and will be attempting to run this town at a gaming convention next week.  I'd appreciate…
In lumpley games
Participants: Jeremiah Lahnum, Rughat, Lagnath.

4/16/2006 Clinton R. Nixon: [AG&G] The Wyrm and the Witch
We played Vincent's newest game, Art, Grace, and Guts at our monthly local roleplayers' meetup today, and it was plenty fun. The game, if you haven't seen it, is predicated…
In Playtesting
Participants: Clinton R. Nixon, jasonm, lumpley, Marhault.

4/16/2006 Sindyr: More questions coming from actual play...
1) In what order are conflicts resolved?  Say there are 4 conflicts on the table, and at the end of the page, 3 can be resolved.  How do you determine…
In Muse of Fire Games
Participants: Sindyr, TonyLB, Hans.

4/16/2006 Frank T: Less Points of Contact for me, thanks
Once again, I owe a big Thank You to Ralph Mazza who, this time quite unintentionally, triggered an important realization for me. He did so by asking the seemingly harmless…
In Actual Play
Participants: Frank T, Clinton R. Nixon, Ron Edwards, rafial, coffeestain, Melinglor, Noon, Silmenume, donbaloo, Paka.

4/16/2006 Chad: [Henbane] play test
OK we had our first full group play-test of Henbane last night, and I can honestly say, it was a lot of fun.  It was disturbing and hilarious all at…
In Playtesting
Participants: Chad, Ron Edwards, Dantai.

4/16/2006 mratomek: [Monster Rues] Farnswtoth is a dead man
Experimented with the custom scenario aspect of Monster Rules. It worked out greaat At first we were going to play a fantasy-based game of Monster, but decided to stick with…
In Playtesting
Participants: mratomek.

4/16/2006 Nathan Herrold: On reading alot of these posts, it seems really complicated...
um Mike, Nate again.  Maybe this isn't the game for me.  The "war" and "uno" seeming influenced mechanic seems just as distracting from story as rolling dice, and with as…
In Incarnadine Press
Participants: Nathan Herrold, Kat Miller, Thor Olavsrud.

4/16/2006 Nathan Herrold: Hey Mike...I'm not sure if you remember me, I'm not sure if that matters...
Hey,     My names Nathan, you and your wife played with me in Scott L's superhero game, yes, it was a while back.  I was the Gorillian...and I've played…
In Incarnadine Press
Participants: Nathan Herrold, Michael S. Miller.

4/16/2006 Willow: On Editors Looking for Work?
I've been considering doing editing semi-professionally.  I found some useful threads here on the nature and general importance of editors, but nothing about how to get in touch with publishers. …
In Connections
Participants: Willow, Blankshield, Thunder_God.

4/16/2006 REkz: Card vs Dice mechanic
Matt & PTA'ers, I just got my copy.  Hoorah!  Finished reading it in 3 days. Great book, seems like a great game.  I'm psyched to run it. I would've liked…
In Dog Eared Designs
Participants: REkz, BlackSheep, jasonm.

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4/18/2006 SpinyUrchin: [PTA] Red Sands Pilot/Real Life Soap Opera
We're for the most part a fairly traditional gaming group. Been playing together for decades. Our favorite RPGs are Champions, D&D3, d6/Star Wars, and Talislanta. Occasionally I've run some of…
In Actual Play
Participants: SpinyUrchin, Matt Wilson, Joe Dizzy, Warren.

4/18/2006 Paka: Ben and Tony, Stay Away: Blood Simple Play by Post kickers and bangs
I exchanged some e-mails with Tony and talked about play by post role-playing and he really did try to talk me out of it but still, we are and the…
In Adept Press
Participants: Paka, Ron Edwards.

4/18/2006 matthijs: [Sorcerer] Action-packed first session
So I finally did a proper run of Sorcerer the other night. Three friends came to my house at around 3 o'clock. I'd figured we'd define the setting in one…
In Actual Play
Participants: matthijs, Ron Edwards.

4/18/2006 chris_moore: [In the Pit] Best setting for breaking characters?
Hi, I'm designing a game called (for now) "In the Pit", a game where people are trapped together and forced to make terrible decisions in order to escape.  the Power…
In First Thoughts
Participants: chris_moore, Thunder_God, TonyLB, Czar Fnord, Chad, Paul Czege, Everspinner, c, TroyLovesRPG, pells, sean2099, shadowcourt, Castlin, amicitia, dindenver, Nick.

4/18/2006 epweissengruber: [MLwM] My Appartment Con
Toronto IndieRPG Group played a session of MLwM during the Easter Break Con. at my pad. We tried to do a 1-shot using the recommendations in the rulebook: high fear,…
In Half Meme Press
Participants: epweissengruber, Paul Czege, two_fishes, Michael S. Miller.

4/18/2006 epweissengruber: [Cascadia] IndieRPG Toronto playtests an (anti-)Pool variant
Joshua, one of the members of IndieRPG Toronto has us experiment with a new game that adds a narrative structure and a linked resource management mechanic to the (Anti-)Pool variant.…
In Playtesting
Participants: epweissengruber, jaw6, cpeterso.

4/18/2006 jburneko: Why I Like One Point Inspirations.
Just reading around this forum I get the general impression that people think low valued inspiration is utterly useless.  However, I think low valued inspiration are totally awesome and I'd…
In Muse of Fire Games
Participants: jburneko, Hans, TonyLB, dunlaing, Matthew Glover.

4/18/2006 chris_moore: [In the Pit] Should they care?.
So let's pretend the setting is Vietnam, and the players make U.S. soldier protagonists. (If you missed the setting discussion, it's here:) http://www.indie-rpgs.com/forum/index.php?topic=19537.0 As it stands now (and it's rough)…
In First Thoughts
Participants: chris_moore, joepub, TonyLB, Ron Edwards.

4/18/2006 Sandman: [Portal] Artwork Request
Good day everyone, First off, my apologies for not using my first name instead of an alias for posting; I noticed that using our real names was preferred after I…
In Connections
Participants: Sandman.

4/18/2006 buzz: HERO System, M&M and assessing incoherence
Apologies in advance if this is posted in the wrong forum. I'm still beginning to wrap my brain around the theory discussed here. In Chapter Five: Role-playing Design and Coherence…
In Actual Play
Participants: buzz, Paka, Ron Edwards, Ramidel, jlarke, Gaerik, Storn, Brand_Robins, Caldis.

4/18/2006 donbaloo: Thoughts and questions after first read...
So these indie games are getting me pretty pumped about roleplaying again but my group and I are having a very rough go transitioning from our old "follow the DM"…
In lumpley games
Participants: donbaloo, agony, lumpley, jburneko, TheHappyAnarchist, ScottM.

4/18/2006 joepub: (Perfect -wt) Images, Objects and Humanity.
Some of this stuff carries over from the original Perfect thread: http://www.indie-rpgs.com/forum/index.php?topic=19466.0 But really, there shouldn`t be any need to refer back to that thread too much, because I lifted…
In First Thoughts
Participants: joepub, MatrixGamer, dindenver, Castlin, sean2099.

4/18/2006 Ron Edwards: Preparation help!
Hi Keith, So, we have our characters, and I-as-GM have to prepare for next week. To orient you, the series is set in the Theocracy of Malindarov, and there seems…
In Bob Goat Press
Participants: Ron Edwards, Keith Senkowski, jrs.

4/18/2006 Emmett: Mechanic for matching Players to Characters
I'm trying to think of a kind of "E-harmony" for Players to find/create the character they will enjoy playing the best. It seems to me that so many new players…
In First Thoughts
Participants: Emmett, Tomas HVM, c, Filip Luszczyk, Czar Fnord, contracycle, talysman.

4/18/2006 GregStolze: REIGN's release model: A ransom/hard copy hybrid
It's interesting that the quarterly sales of UA continue to chip in a hundred copies of the core book every time.  It seems to support the theory that "the MRB…
In Publishing
Participants: GregStolze, Paka, c, Dav, Thunder_God, MikeSands, Ben Lehman, jasonm, andrew_kenrick, Nathan Herrold, Yokiboy.

4/19/2006 Filip Luszczyk: [Threads] Competitive/Cooperative Story Interaction Game, Open Playtest v 1.0
I have finally finished the first English draft of my game. I'd be grateful for any comments, and if anyone tries to playtest the material, more so. Bear in mind…
In Connections
Participants: Filip Luszczyk.

4/19/2006 Blankshield: [Blood and Bronze] Playtesters wanted
Heya, I'm looking for some group or groups willing to playtest Blood and Bronze for me.  The game, in it's original Game Chef version is here, but it's several rule…
In Connections
Participants: Blankshield.

4/19/2006 pedyo: (tMW) Demo-games at Fastaval
At this year’s Fastaval - www.fastaval.dk, I demoed two games of The Mountain Witch as part of the Indie-RPG workshop. Both demos went great and at least two of the…
In Actual Play
Participants: pedyo.

4/19/2006 Clinton R. Nixon: [AG&G] The life and death of Rama, bandit-king
So, we played Vincent's new game, Art, Grace, and Guts again. It's officially my game I'd take to a desert island, not only because it's more fun than anything I've…
In Playtesting
Participants: Clinton R. Nixon, jasonm, lumpley, LeSingeSavant, Jeph.

4/19/2006 dreamborn: Omnificent Role-playing System (ORS)
Dreamborn™ is looking for qualified people to assist in the development of ORS™. There are two types of positions currently available: ORS™ Partners and ORS™ Associates.  Go to www.dreamborn for…
In Connections
Participants: dreamborn, Valamir, Sandman, Filip Luszczyk, Ron Edwards, Sane, Fifth Element, Simon C.

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