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4/21/2006 chris_moore: [In the Pit] resolution and reward(?)
I'm fired up about this game that tells stories of physical, emotional, and moral survival.  I'll explain a bit, then ask questions. Characters start with a list of player-created traits…
In First Thoughts
Participants: chris_moore, xzallion, joepub, Kesher, Dev, Thunder_God.

4/21/2006 Eric J-D: Three's A Crowd Redux
Over in this thread  http://www.indie-rpgs.com/forum/index.php?topic=18447.0  Wolfen asked some good questions about how to handle a host who was inhabited by both a parasite and a possessor demon. This got me…
In Adept Press
Participants: Eric J-D, Paka, Alan, Ron Edwards.

4/21/2006 dsellars: Could I have some advice on getting my campaign started?
Hello All, This is my first post here so please be gentle I've probably misunderstood things round here, I have tried to read around things though :), I also hope…
In Actual Play
Participants: dsellars, rafial, Sydney Freedberg, ScottM, Wade Lahoda.

4/21/2006 chris_moore: more setting?
Paul, how much setting have you decided on providing for players?  Maybe by describing a bit more specifically what the occultists do  would give players and GM's more material to…
In Acts of Evil Playtest Board
Participants: chris_moore, Paul Czege.

4/21/2006 sean2099: [Divinity]Looking for Playtesters
Hello Everyone: As the subject lines states, I am looking for a few people willing to be playtesters for Divinity.  It is a "freeform" game where players are gods/goddesses.  It…
In Connections
Participants: sean2099.

4/20/2006 Rustin: [DitV] Witchfinder Generals
A buddy of mine watched this Vincent Price flick called Witchfinder General, and thought it would be cool to roleplay in that setting.  I agreed. I want to tempt the…
In lumpley games
Participants: Rustin, Vaxalon, Jinx, avram, demiurgeastaroth.

4/20/2006 greyorm: [Expendable] Attributes and...Skills?
"Expendable" was a Ronnies enty last year. Here's the PDF over at 1km1t, which is very Alpha at this point. Here's the Ronnies thread. With the basic mechanics of Guilt…
In Endeavor
Participants: greyorm, Dav, Sydney Freedberg.

4/20/2006 talysman: [Kanthe] Watch Out for Beaked Snakes!
Callan asked in the How Freaky Is This? thread for some actual play descriptions of this solitaire roguelike dungeoncrawl game. I played two playtests, one using the original version…
In Playtesting
Participants: talysman, Noon, Dev.

4/20/2006 Filip Luszczyk: [InSpectres demo] Solo play
Few weeks ago, while reading InSpectres demo it occured to me that the game could theoretically be played alone. And I tried it. All in all, it was fun and…
In Actual Play
Participants: Filip Luszczyk, Jared A. Sorensen, JMendes, greyorm, demiurgeastaroth.

4/20/2006 Solamasa: [Dogs] Existential angst
Five towns and eleven sessions in and I think I've got a great GMing rhythm going.  But Pride goeth before Injustice, as they say, and I ran headlong into an…
In lumpley games
Participants: Solamasa, Vaxalon, Wolfen, Blankshield, Tindalos.

4/20/2006 Dave: Online RPGing
Hello, My name is Dave. I am am a RPG fan and a programmer as well. I am currently (as a hobby) building a program which allows a group of…
In Connections
Participants: Dave, M. J. Young, Vibilo, ocasta, arthurtuxedo, greyorm, heruca.

4/20/2006 Arturo G.: [Hierarchy] Playtesting with 14 people
I'm afraid this is going to be a long post. Twenty days ago I did a Hierarchy playtesting. I'm sorry I had no time to rewrite my draft notes until…
In Playtesting
Participants: Arturo G., Troy_Costisick, lanarch.

4/20/2006 pells: [Avalanche] - Finally, a teaser
I had to give a lot of thougths into this. I've been presenting my project for quite a while now, and finally, I've got something to show. But, I do…
In Publishing
Participants: pells, abzu, Eero Tuovinen, Jake Richmond, Selene Tan.

4/20/2006 pells: [Avalanche] - Last two concepts and Q&A about my teaser
My teaser is finally ready. So, this thread is more of a final thoughts than a first thougths, as I want to present the last two concepts needed to understand…
In First Thoughts
Participants: pells.

4/20/2006 btrc: GenCon booth accessories?
In the interest of continual upgrading of the Forge presence, I've been scouring the web for good looking and just as important, portable and storable booth accessories. Anyone have any…
In Conventions
Participants: btrc, Ron Edwards, inthisstyle, Paul Czege, abzu, Thor Olavsrud, Nathan P..

4/20/2006 Dangerboy: [SYSTEM] Reinventing system mechanic; need help task resolution
Hey guys. Posted this on RPGnet, but I'm not getting any responses yet, so I'm shotgunning it here to for a larger feedback pool. Ok, here's the idea I got…
In First Thoughts
Participants: Dangerboy, dindenver, anders_larsen, monsterboy, Tommi Brander.

4/20/2006 Matt Kimball: Sorcerous Dogs -- Actual play questions
Last Sunday I ran a one-shot session of Dogs.  A friend of mine from Salt Lake City was visiting me in L.A. and he expressed an interest in playing a…
In lumpley games
Participants: Matt Kimball, jburneko, Vaxalon, lumpley, ffilz.

4/20/2006 Eliarhiman6: Schrodinger's Fallout (on the Dogs, not on the cat )
Hello! This is my first post on the Forge. English is not my native language (I live in Italy) so please forgive my grammar errors. I would like to get…
In lumpley games
Participants: Eliarhiman6, demiurgeastaroth, Everspinner, lumpley, Pyromancer, Vaxalon, agony, Glendower.

4/20/2006 Zathreyel: [Criminal Element] Buenos Aires: the Mendoza Job
I'd known about it for about a week.  My regular Tuesday night crew had become pretty irregular for a little while, so our regularly scheduled game of Nobilis had sort…
In Actual Play
Participants: Zathreyel, Ron Edwards, CMWeck.

4/20/2006 John Kirk: [Gnostigmata] Playtesters Wanted
Gnostigmata, is a blend of "The Matrix", "Stigmata", and "The Da Vinci Code".  It is a competitive GM-less role-playing game that focuses on the ancient conflict between Gnostic and Catholic…
In Connections
Participants: John Kirk, Paul Czege.

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4/21/2006 xzallion: Looking for a few opinions
I have had an idea for a campaign world for about three months now, and would like some opinions on it.  Here is a link covering the concept and my…
In First Thoughts
Participants: xzallion, anders_larsen.

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.

4/21/2006 Belinda K.: Exalted --> TSoY Conversion
I’d like to convert my Exalted game to TSoY, to suit my light GMing style better and to make things 'flow' more. I've looked at Exalted --> Wushu, but really…
In CRN Games
Participants: Belinda K., James_Nostack, cpeterso, Filip Luszczyk, Andy Kitkowski.

4/22/2006 ( o Y o ): [TSoY] Confusion about unopposed ability check
"The third and final step is actually rolling the dice. If the success level is equal or better than the difficulty, the character has succeeded." (quote page 31) Huh???? What…
In CRN Games
Participants: ( o Y o ), Clinton R. Nixon.

4/22/2006 pfischer: [Shab-Al-Hiri Roach] Fastaval 2006 Demo Game
I was invited to the Danish convention Fastaval over Easter 2006 to demo indie games. Apart from a lot of talk about indie roleplaying games and running 60 minutes demos…
In Actual Play
Participants: pfischer, jasonm, Joe Murphy (Broin), olleolleolle, pedyo.

4/22/2006 Sindyr: Even more questions...
Which of the following goals are not legal according to the Capes rules? Goal: Fred opens the door   where Fred is an NPC (ie, can you make goals with…
In Muse of Fire Games
Participants: Sindyr, Ben Lehman, TonyLB, Hans, drnuncheon.

4/22/2006 r_donato: [TSoY] Newbie here
Hi, all, Long-time lurker at the Forge, first post. I recently discovered The Shadow of Yesterday. It looks really exciting, because it seems to provide a lot of what I've…
In CRN Games
Participants: r_donato, Clinton R. Nixon, Eero Tuovinen, Valamir, James_Nostack, rafial, Twobirds.

4/22/2006 Stefan: [DitV Town] Widow's Willow
Hi everybody, I just finished my first town for DitV, and thought to get me some feedback. The town is designed to get my players in over their heads and…
In lumpley games
Participants: Stefan, Lagnath, lumpley.

4/23/2006 Dev: [Dance and Dawn] Healthy Competition in Speed-Dating
About two years ago, The Dance and The Dawn came out of the IGC. I’m getting it together for a revision now. You can see the rules at the link,…
In First Thoughts
Participants: Dev, Ben Lehman.

4/23/2006 Ned: CanGames (Ottawa,ON) Anyone, anyone?
Hey all. My hometown Con is on May 19-22. Are there any kinky Forgey gamers to be found? I think I'm up to running some Inspectres if there are takers,…
In Conventions
Participants: Ned, Darcy Burgess, walkerp, Denise.

4/23/2006 Graham Walmsley: Postcards from London
Often, when I read a book, I wish that there was a roleplaying game based on the author's work. For example, when I read Graham Greene books, I want a…
In Endeavor
Participants: Graham Walmsley, Czar Fnord, pfischer, PrzeSzkoda.

4/23/2006 TonyLB: Inviolate characters: The Security Blanket
There's been a fair amount of talk here, recently, about how important it is to some people that their character is inviolate ... that nobody else can get inside of…
In Muse of Fire Games
Participants: TonyLB, Sindyr, jburneko, Valamir, Glendower, greyorm, humis, Gaerik, Bret Gillan, Sydney Freedberg, dunlaing, Vaxalon, drnuncheon, TheCzech, Tuxboy.

4/23/2006 inthisstyle: Bulldogs! and Bulldogs! Races on Sale at IPR
IPR is holding a 20% off sale for May Day, and you can get Bulldogs! and Bulldogs! Races at 20% off on the site through May 6.
In Galileo Games
Participants: inthisstyle.

4/23/2006 mratomek: [Monster Rules]: Mind Control Rules
The saga continues... This time around, we tried exploring a bunch of new powers, including Hate, Laughter, Blindness, Paralysis and Stun. And I found that the characters I had created…
In Playtesting
Participants: mratomek, Ken.

4/23/2006 preludetotheend: Identifiers, what are yours, whats their impact?
So I was just wonder how you think people identify to your product by just skimming through it. Whats your strategy, and how much of an impact do you think…
In Publishing
Participants: preludetotheend, abzu, Ron Edwards.

4/23/2006 rrees: London CoS Game
I've put up an advert in Playin' Games so I thought it wouldn't hurt to mention the game here as well. There's room for one or two more players in…
In Bob Goat Press
Participants: rrees, GB Steve, Keith Senkowski, Steven, Gypelemo70.

4/24/2006 JMendes: [TSoY] Rat Moon Coolness
Hello, all, :) Well. My wife blew me away, the other day. We have a regular gaming group for Saturday nights. Used to play L5R. I've posted about it here,…
In Actual Play
Participants: JMendes, James_Nostack, Frank T, tonyd, oliof.

4/24/2006 Belinda K.: [TSoY] BDTP Questions
I'm stuck on some of the wording... After the free-and-clear stage, everyone rolls ability checks for their action. If this is the first action in Bringing Down the Pain, the…
In CRN Games
Participants: Belinda K., rafial, demiurgeastaroth.

4/24/2006 ObLaDan: BDTP explanation
This is a step-by-step explanation of Brining Down the Pain that I came up with for my group, after lurking on this forum for a while.  Maybe it'll be helpful…
In CRN Games
Participants: ObLaDan, r_donato.

4/24/2006 JMendes: Mechanics Questions and Tactics Question
Hey, all, :) Finally got to play Capes for the first time, and I must say, I enjoyed it immensely, but I came away from the table with a bunch…
In Muse of Fire Games
Participants: JMendes, drnuncheon, Hans, TonyLB, Sindyr, Zamiel, Matthew Glover.

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