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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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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.

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.

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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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.

4/29/2006 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.

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5/1/2006 Paul Czege: the evolution of evil
I'm interested in some conversation about the changes I've made to the rules. Of course I think they're improvements, that they make the game tighter, but I'm interested in doubts…
In Acts of Evil Playtest Board
Participants: Paul Czege, chris_moore, c.

5/1/2006 mratomek: [Monster Rules]: Final Supers Game
In our last game before moving on to more fantasy-based settings, the villains had to enter 5 different bunkers and reconfigure a computer/telecommunications system to communicate with a different satellite…
In Playtesting
Participants: mratomek, Bill Masek.

5/1/2006 sirogit: [Play Right!] Matrix Sequels
I gave Play-Write! a whirl last night. It was a bit more difficult to find a story 4 people were all familiar/invested in than either I thought or the text…
In Actual Play
Participants: sirogit.

5/1/2006 Christopher Kubasik: Sorcerer, FitM, and Cinematic Narration
Hi all, This post is divided into two parts: a preamble and then the actual meat for thread discussion. So... The twenty-something's in my graphics department discovered I used to…
In Adept Press
Participants: Christopher Kubasik, Eric J-D, Bankuei.

5/2/2006 Ron Edwards: [D&D 3.0/3.5] Skill combat and blood drinking
Hooray! After an intervening family vacation and a couple of other interruptions, Dan and Christopher and I reconvened for our second session of D&D 3.25. (Definition: I have one of…
In Actual Play
Participants: Ron Edwards, Noon, Eero Tuovinen, James_Nostack, wgrzanic, Sydney Freedberg, Ben Lehman, Miskatonic, JamesDJIII, Melinglor, Bankuei, Valamir, IMAGinES, Blankshield, contracycle, buzz, Gaerik, ffilz, Glendower.

5/2/2006 jknevitt: [The Valley] Concept Notes
So, I've had an idea kicking around in my head for a rules-lite, genre-vague game set in and called, simply, The Valley. What is The Valley? It's exactly that --…
In First Thoughts
Participants: jknevitt, Thunder_God, Chad, davidberg, jasonm, sean2099, c, flammifer, Czar Fnord, joepub.

5/2/2006 John Kirk: [Gnostigmata] The Gospel of Michael
You can download the current version of Gnostigmata from here The Social Aspects of our first play-test The players were:  Bill Boucher, Kim Boucher, Ralph Buttner, John Kirk, Melissa Kirk,…
In Actual Play
Participants: John Kirk, drnuncheon.

5/2/2006 emarald: new user
hi i am new here.
In Connections
Participants: emarald, M. J. Young.

5/2/2006 Karlkrlarsson: First session
Had an excellent first session with Capes on sunday. A real brain teaser. Anyhow, three things came up, and I just want to make sure i get them right 1.…
In Muse of Fire Games
Participants: Karlkrlarsson, Zamiel, Hans, drnuncheon, TonyLB, Matthew Glover, JMendes, Kai_lord.

5/2/2006 ocasta: All Roaches are not created equal.
A couple of weeks ago I got an opportunity to play the Roach. There were four of us, all old time roleplayers who hadn't roleplayed for many years and were…
In Bully Pulpit Games
Participants: ocasta, jasonm, Technocrat13.

5/2/2006 John M W: rpgg.shroovy.com - Digg-like Indie RPG Site
Hi, my name is John and I have been a lurker on these forums for a while now. I'm just plugging a site that some people might find useful. I…
In Connections
Participants: John M W.

5/2/2006 Technocrat13: [Red Box D&D] Module B4: The Lost City
A few months back I'd acquired a mint condition copy of the ol' Red Box edition of D&D.  After reading through it again for the first time in what must…
In Actual Play
Participants: Technocrat13, James_Nostack, JamesDJIII, Miskatonic, Bryan Hansel, Ron Edwards, Noon, Calithena.

5/2/2006 Christopher Kubasik: Sorcerer and Training Wheels?
In this ( http://www.indie-rpgs.com/forum/index.php?topic=19689.0 thread, Chris wrote: For folks who've really only known D&D, do you -really- want to start them off with Sorcerer?  Does anything like Donjon or octaNe…
In Adept Press
Participants: Christopher Kubasik, Bankuei, Eric J-D.

5/2/2006 Hans: Too much pressure! This pressure's got to stop! (Debt in ongoing Capes)
In the last session (the fourth) or our ongoing game, two of us (Liz and I) were playing our spotlight characters that had been in two of the three previous…
In Muse of Fire Games
Participants: Hans, drnuncheon, Gaerik, TheCzech, TonyLB, Sydney Freedberg.

5/2/2006 Hans: TSOY, Donjon in G.O.D. session at GenCon
Hi all: I am going to be running two Games on Demand (G.O.D.) session at GenCon, and would like to be prepared to run either Donjon or TSOY for people…
In CRN Games
Participants: Hans, Clinton R. Nixon.

5/2/2006 Tindalos: Ignoring Raises
I'm asking for some people's thoughts on the ability of Raises to be ignored. For example, demons it seems like typical raises (gunshots) can be ignored, whereas ceremony cannot be…
In lumpley games
Participants: Tindalos, Vaxalon, demiurgeastaroth, lumpley, Wolfen.

5/2/2006 Czar Fnord: [GLASS] System Test Document v1.0 (beta)
Thanks to very useful feedback from participants on my previous GLASS threads (see my sig), I am now able to release... GLASS System Test Document v1.0(beta) GLASS-System-v1-0-beta.pdf GLASS-Costs-v1-0-beta.pdf Major Changes…
In First Thoughts
Participants: Czar Fnord.

5/2/2006 Zamiel: Splitting From Multi-Die Pools
I'm a bit of an anal-retentive geek. I'm well aware of this fact. As such, I've been reviewing the FAQ posting and the messages it links to, as well as…
In Muse of Fire Games
Participants: Zamiel, Hans.

5/2/2006 JMendes: Couple-o-Quickies and one not so obvious one
Ahey, :) I and two friends got together to draw up a couple of characters, the other day, and a few questions were raised in my mind. First, mechanics stuff:…
In lumpley games
Participants: JMendes, Vaxalon, agony, Thunder_God, oreso, Ben Lehman, Alex Fradera, Warren, demiurgeastaroth, khelek, ffilz, donbaloo.

5/2/2006 Kat Miller: A slightly used game idea
I’ve been a fan of Everway for many years.  I’ve twitched, and flicked and nudged it along the way, I’ve run the system for the Supers Genre to great success. …
In Publishing
Participants: Kat Miller, Bill_White, Czar Fnord, Damon C Bradshaw, Thunder_God.

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