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4/28/2006 Anthony Herring: [Trollbabe] How do you like your Stake?
Hello, I'm planning to run Trollbabe soon, and am looking for a little elbow-elbow, nudge-nudge in the ole gray matter. So, please share some of the Stakes and Consequences that…
In Adept Press
Participants: Anthony Herring.

4/28/2006 donbaloo: Escalating and then de-escalating
Just want to make sure on this before we play.  If a player escalates from talking to say, physical violence, but then after one round wants to back down to…
In lumpley games
Participants: donbaloo, Vaxalon, demiurgeastaroth, TheHappyAnarchist, wunderllama, Thunder_God, coffeestain, lumpley, oreso, ffilz.

4/28/2006 Salar: [Inspectres] First game
Hi all, I've been lurking here for a while just getting my head around some of the ongoing discussions. It's certainly been an education! I've been roleplaying on and off…
In Actual Play
Participants: Salar, Ron Edwards.

4/28/2006 Zamiel: Car Assault Wars Auto Double-Zeta
I'm a sick, sick man. I'm well aware of it. I have this minor obsession with making various add-on systems which are patched together, Frankenstein-like, until I have something terrifying.…
In Muse of Fire Games
Participants: Zamiel, Stickman, Miskatonic, drnuncheon, TheCzech.

4/28/2006 Precious Villain: [Shadowrun] Combat Monsters
I'm playing in a Shadowrun (4th edition) campaign.  Up until last Saturday there were three of us:  Myself (Rob), Sam and Kelsey.  Saturday, we invited an old fellow gamer from…
In Actual Play
Participants: Precious Villain, Tommi Brander, DagdaMor, Zamiel, TonyPace, TonyLB, Noon, Dav, JongWK, Ramidel, Wade Lahoda, Ron Edwards, BearKing, ffilz, Jaik, Web_Weaver.

4/28/2006 Tully305: Initial Game Idea
This is my first post on this idea I've had hanging around in my head.  The game is about the life of fighter pilots on-board a starship in the middle…
In First Thoughts
Participants: Tully305, LateNite, MarkDunder.

4/27/2006 Belinda K.: [TSoY] High Power Levels
I was wondering how well TSoY scales to high-level games, with the power level going through the roof and characters having massive pools and high levels of abilities and secrets…
In CRN Games
Participants: Belinda K., Twobirds, r_donato, Clinton R. Nixon, Eero Tuovinen, Dev, Norbert Matausch.

4/27/2006 Belinda K.: [TSoY] Extra stuff in Finnish translation?
I've been reading about some slight changes between the Finnish translation of TSoY and the English one - I'm curious, Eero - what differences were made during the translation? Are…
In CRN Games
Participants: Belinda K., Eero Tuovinen, IMAGinES, Clinton R. Nixon, r_donato, shadowcourt.

4/27/2006 ptevis: Gamex 2006, May 26-29, Los Angeles area
Joshua BishopRoby, Jesse Burneko, and myself will be running games at Gamex 2006, the Memorial Day Weekend version of Strategicon. Is anyone in the the Los Angeles area playing Nine…
In Conventions
Participants: ptevis, Joshua BishopRoby.

4/27/2006 Ron Edwards: [It Was a Mutual Decision] Case study for discussion
Post 1 of 3 Hello, Now that the It Was a Mutual Decision books are printed and shipped - yay! - I thought I'd give a little history and outline…
In Publishing
Participants: Ron Edwards, Adam Dray, Paka, Justin D. Jacobson, Clinton R. Nixon, Matt Snyder, Technocrat13, Czar Fnord, Eero Tuovinen, Clay, davidberg, Thunder_God, Bryan Hansel, Miskatonic, Adam, Dav, Andy Kitkowski, Gregor Hutton, greyorm, jasonm, Paul Czege, Sydney Freedberg, Troy_Costisick.

4/27/2006 a_verheaghe: Fighting Demons
I just ordered the PDF version and while I wait for e-mail notification my mind is running rampant. I notice from going over previous posts that demons are non-corporeal and…
In lumpley games
Participants: a_verheaghe, Vaxalon, jburneko, lumpley.

4/27/2006 baron samedi: [Chroniques d'Erdor]
Hi everyone, I’m new at the Forge, but I took the time to familiarize myself with the tripartite model used here. 1. PERSONAL INTRODUCTIONS For politeness, let me first introduce…
In First Thoughts
Participants: baron samedi, Paul Czege.

4/27/2006 LateNite: [LateNite Publishing] Hi! Just arrived!
This is my first post, so I'll go ahead and say "Hello" to everyone. Now, the LateNite Publishing website is located at http://latenite.hostmatrix.org . And, I'll explain a little bit…
In First Thoughts
Participants: LateNite, joepub.

4/27/2006 r_donato: [TSoY] Creating my first characters
Hi, all, I just created a couple of characters to test my understanding of the TSoY system. I have several questions. 1) During chargen, you are given 5 advances. Are…
In CRN Games
Participants: r_donato, Clinton R. Nixon, Eero Tuovinen, Twobirds, IMAGinES.

4/27/2006 wgrzanic: Low-prep D&D with kickers, flags, conflict webs, and no-death
Hi all, This is my first post here, so apologies in advance if I break any rules, written or otherwise.  Just let me know. A couple of weeks ago (yes,…
In Actual Play
Participants: wgrzanic, Ben Lehman, TonyLB, Bankuei, donbaloo, Matthew Glover, BrendanC, Warren, John Harper, Alan, soviet.

4/27/2006 Vibilo: [Dreamers - WT] Initial Thoughts
Well the idea for this game popped into my head while I was at work today so I jotted it down. The idea for this game probably has influences from…
In First Thoughts
Participants: Vibilo, Thunder_God, davidberg, c.

4/27/2006 John Kirk: [Gnostigmata] Using RPG Design Patterns
In my recent call for playtesters, Paul Czege asked me how I went about designing Gnostigmata: Hey John, I started writing the game as an…
In First Thoughts
Participants: John Kirk, Bryan Hansel, r_donato.

4/27/2006 Damon C Bradshaw: [The Age of Thirteen] Some conceptualization
Greetings Forge, Been sitting on this idea for a while, but feel compelled to finally start putting some time and energy into it. The Age of Thirteen Concept Players are…
In First Thoughts
Participants: Damon C Bradshaw, TonyLB, sean2099, c.

4/27/2006 Zach: Indie Efforts at JenCon 16 (May 4-6, IA)... Stymied?
Hello good sirs and ladies: I will be demoing some of my games at a small convention located between Iowa City and Cedar Rapids. International Cooking Challenge, The Ballad of…
In Conventions
Participants: Zach.

4/26/2006 Thunder_God: A Small Suggestion.
This is meta-playtest discussion, but since it keeps coming up, I'll note it. Add Page Numbering to your file. Possibly, also add a Table of Contents. You want playtesters to…
In Playtesting
Participants: Thunder_God.

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4/28/2006 Michael S. Miller: The Roach scuttles Out of the Box
Ken Hite reviews the Shab al-Hiri Roach in his latest Out of the Box It's a brilliant recapitulation of comic and horrific tensions, an ideal "one shot" game that embraces…
In Bully Pulpit Games
Participants: Michael S. Miller, jasonm, inthisstyle.

4/28/2006 David Hallett: Quick mechanics/narration question
Apologies if this has been asked before, but I can't think what to search on to look for it. We had our first play session the other night (I'm hoping…
In lumpley games
Participants: David Hallett, demiurgeastaroth, lumpley.

4/28/2006 caramida: KublaCon 06?
Any chance any of you folk are going to KublaCon next month?  I'm finding the discussions here quite edifying and I'd love to meet some of y'all in person (having…
In lumpley games
Participants: caramida.

4/29/2006 MarkDunder: Talents
My game design is based on an idea from Dave "Zeb" Cook.  He took out attributes and such and stuck everything under Talent Pools.  This allows you to create any…
In First Thoughts
Participants: MarkDunder, dindenver, greyorm.

4/29/2006 Joshua BishopRoby: [Agora] IRC Playtest
Alright, it took me forever to post this up, but it was a messy file that needed a lot of cleaning up to make it readable.  Now it's pretty! Agora…
In Playtesting
Participants: Joshua BishopRoby, Ben Lehman, Dev, Shreyas Sampat.

4/29/2006 Paul Czege: Acts of Evil, the new evil (revised playtest rules)
Alrighty, what we obviously need as basis for conversation and further playtesting is a game text as plain instructions, complete with all current rules in as few words as I…
In Acts of Evil Playtest Board
Participants: Paul Czege.

4/29/2006 Peter Nordstrand: Anal Retentive Me
Hi, Is bumping old threads permitted in Connections? I am asking because I have seen it done several times with no moderator visibly moderating. I'm just, you know, wondering. Peace,…
In Site Discussion
Participants: Peter Nordstrand, Ron Edwards.

4/29/2006 xeperi: [Paladin] New to the Forge
Hi there, I'm new to the Forge and have been learning a few of the games buzzed about 'round these here parts.  I just wanted to post saying that Paladin…
In CRN Games
Participants: xeperi, r_donato, James_Nostack, Artanis.

4/29/2006 ghoyle1: My Life With "Ming"
Hi there, I've just bought MLWM, and I'm still trying to get my brain wrapped gooily around the game system, which, at this point, seems to be a rather daunting…
In Half Meme Press
Participants: ghoyle1, Jonas Karlsson.

4/30/2006 Sindyr: Question: Brining in a character
First of all, I was going to open the PTA pdf, and copy the relevant section of text, and paste it here. The PTA pdf is aparently locked, and won't…
In Dog Eared Designs
Participants: Sindyr, Matt Wilson.

4/30/2006 Certified: [6th World] Demo Beta run for 6 player
Hi, some of you may have seen other posts I’ve made regarding 6th World, a post apocalypse fantasy. We’re working on a demo for this years Dragon*Con and maybe beyond.…
In Connections
Participants: Certified.

4/30/2006 Lisa Padol: [Sorcerer] Link to Seventh Session Write Up
I've posted the write up of the seventh session of our Sorcerer campaign here: http://community.livejournal.com/labcats/10758.html#cutid1. For any who missed the link and want to read it, the write up of…
In Actual Play
Participants: Lisa Padol, Paka.

4/30/2006 zmobie: Dungeon Action!
I've been inspired as of late. http://www.studiohunty.com/dungeon/ http://www.dragons-lair-project.com/ The video dungeon games of the 80's and the lo-fi remake "dungeon escape" have really reminded me of what playing a great…
In First Thoughts
Participants: zmobie, Vibilo, FLEB, Tommi Brander, anders_larsen, flammifer, Umberhulk, Noon.

4/30/2006 Sindyr: Nitpick error?
In the appendice on page 101 it says that Alan/Alice has four cards. On page 102 it says that Josh spends a point of fan mail to bring her to…
In Dog Eared Designs
Participants: Sindyr, Matt Wilson, Alan.

4/30/2006 Sindyr: Only one conflict per scene?
I know that sometimes Scenes can occur with no conflicts - do they ever occur with 2 or more conflicts? What is the signal that a scene is over and…
In Dog Eared Designs
Participants: Sindyr, Matt Wilson, Glendower.

4/30/2006 barna284: Heroquest 7th Sea
My copy of Heroquest is arriving in about two weeks, and I've been craving to do a 7th Sea conversion for some time now. I have read that a lot…
In HeroQuest
Participants: barna284, Mike Holmes, Hobbitboy.

4/30/2006 PrzeSzkoda: [King Rat] Change log + To randomize or not?
Due to my laziness and other objective reasons my work on King Rat's been proceeding very slowly. Basically, I've been reconsidering many ideas included in the 24hour version and pondering…
In Endeavor
Participants: PrzeSzkoda, Malcolm.

4/30/2006 Artanis: [The Great Journey] Hike Morn's fantastic travels
[b]Intro[/b] Intrigued by the recent discussions about [url=http://www.indie-rpgs.com/forum/index.php?topic=19290.0]drills[/url] and having some time to spend with my mother and two brothers, I suggested a "quick" game of [url=http://www.indie-rpgs.com/forum/index.php?topic=19310.0]The Great Journey[/url], by…
In Actual Play
Participants: Artanis.

4/30/2006 Storn: [WotG] A game session that rocked!
Having delved into the HERO System, M&M and assessing incoherence thread here: http://www.indie-rpgs.com/forum/index.php?topic=19543.0, which also branched into some really interesting Exalted threads... especially this one,  Exalted: searching for my…
In Actual Play
Participants: Storn, Ron Edwards, Paka, dunlaing, Stickman, Maleficence, ptikachu.

4/30/2006 Graham Walmsley: [Nighttime Animals] Cat Mafia
A night in with the girlfriend tonight. I was meant to buy a Scrabble set over the weekend, but I couldn't find a cheap one. So, instead, I suggested that…
In Actual Play
Participants: Graham Walmsley, jasonm, Bryan Hansel, chris_moore.

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