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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 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 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 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 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.

4/28/2006 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.

4/28/2006 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 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 inchoates: World of Condemn Campaign Setting help needed
Hi all, Since this is my first post here, a little information about myself seems to be in order. I am, first and foremost, a creator(artist?)...like everyone else here. I…
In First Thoughts
Participants: inchoates, anders_larsen, davidberg, stefoid, zilla151.

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.

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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.

5/1/2006 jaw6: GenCon for players?
Sorry if this is a lame question, or the wrong place to ask... I've been trying to encourage some friends to check out various Indie games at GenCon this year,…
In Conventions
Participants: jaw6, abzu, Kat Miller, Blankshield, Gaerik, Michael S. Miller, Hans.

5/1/2006 joshua neff: [AG&G] Lights on the Water
My wife, Julie, and I were supposed to get together with some friends tonight for gaming--probably Ticket to Ride, maybe Universalis or Capes Lite. But they cancelled on us. Wondering…
In Playtesting
Participants: joshua neff, lumpley, Bryan Hansel, Clinton R. Nixon.

5/1/2006 Thunder_God: [Cranium Rats] Review Raised Questions
Dotan Dimet had posted a Review/Critique of Cranium Rats Beta 1.1(current version), I then posted my reply. In the thread some interesting questions were raised: 1. Would you be interested…
In First Thoughts
Participants: Thunder_God, Dotan Dimet, John Kirk, Filip Luszczyk.

5/1/2006 Mason: [d20] Carthage
I'm two sessions in to a new game and already there seem to be some creative disconnects among the group.  I'm the GM and its for my regular group that…
In Actual Play
Participants: Mason, Noon, epweissengruber, Wade Lahoda, donbaloo, wgrzanic, Caldis.

5/1/2006 inthisstyle: [Capes] Inuyasha with the Family
My wife and kids are big fans of the Japanese cartoon Inuyasha, featuring a half-demon swordsman and a time-traveling schoolgirl from modern times. The series is about unrequited love and…
In Actual Play
Participants: inthisstyle, Matthew Glover.

5/1/2006 Mike Holmes: That Other Game
So I was just traipsing through all of the independent company fora, and for some reason the tag line for Chimera Creative caught my eye - it says that Chimera…
In Chimera Creative
Participants: Mike Holmes, Wolfen, Matt Snyder.

5/1/2006 Malcolm: [DitV] For the kids!
There's a group in Edinburgh called the Open Roleplaying community which exists to bring new blood into the hobby and give a place where younger gamers can flourish. All ages…
In Actual Play
Participants: Malcolm, Paka, Dumirik.

5/1/2006 GreatWolf: [Polaris] Death, dismemberment, and flowers
(The previous report can be found here.) Once again, we gathered for Polaris.  Raquel is traveling for three weeks, so we wanted to pick up the pieces after our last…
In Actual Play
Participants: GreatWolf, Artanis, demiurgeastaroth, Ben Lehman, Valamir.

5/1/2006 Montola: Prosopopeia -- Playing on the Edge of Reality
Greetings, I guess Actual Play is the appropriate forum to post this paper discussing a pervasive larp Prosopopeia we staged in Sweden: Montola, Markus & Jonsson, Staffan (2006): Prosopopeia. Playing…
In Actual Play
Participants: Montola.

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