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

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 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 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.

5/1/2006 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.

5/1/2006 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 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 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 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.

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.

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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.

5/3/2006 wunderllama: Washing the blood off our hands... again
Just about a year ago now, our gaming group played a campaign of Dogs that ended in a spectacular sorcerous shootout between the Dogs; you can find the actual play…
In lumpley games
Participants: wunderllama, greyorm, TonyLB, Bankuei, oliof, Ravingmad, demiurgeastaroth, lumpley, ironick.

5/3/2006 Thunder_God: [Cranium Rats] Playtesters Needed.
I've just released Cranium Rats Beta V. 1.2, available here. While I can rewrite the whole thing from ground up to make it clearer and closer to the end-product, I…
In Connections
Participants: Thunder_God, 7Storyfall, Selene Tan, Filip Luszczyk.

5/3/2006 Sindyr: Matt Wilson: where are you?
I have some more PTA questions for Matt, asked a few of them here as well as sent him some of them using the private messaging system - is Matt…
In Dog Eared Designs
Participants: Sindyr, Ben Lehman.

5/3/2006 chris_moore: Clarity vs. Teachers
Clarity is defined as: "your mastery of the occult worldview, and also your status among occultists.  The more confidently immersed you are in thinking like a cthonic god, the more…
In Acts of Evil Playtest Board
Participants: chris_moore, Paul Czege.

5/3/2006 nikola: Under the Bed is now back under your bed!
[url=http://glyphpress.com/UtB/]Under the Bed[/url], second edition is now available from the glyphpress site! The new cards are smaller (2.25" x 3.5") and some rules have been refined (The game now goes…
In glyphpress
Participants: nikola, b00jum, Artanis, matthijs.

5/3/2006 Matthew Glover: "Bound" Debt
In a couple of other threads there's been some talk about schisms and debt and stuff and it triggered a question that I've had in the back of my mind…
In Muse of Fire Games
Participants: Matthew Glover, Hans, TonyLB, Kai_lord, Zamiel.

5/3/2006 Adam SBG: Promotion tips
Hello everyone: I'm a little lost. Our first new game in a long, long time (we were on hiatus while my partner dealt with a death in the family) came…
In Connections
Participants: Adam SBG, tonyd.

5/3/2006 foucalt: DitV Coolest Lyrics contest!
Putting together a DitV mix for my players to listen to in their cars or whenever they need their fix out-of-game, and so I'm going through some of the music…
In lumpley games
Participants: foucalt, lumpley, Ben Lehman, ironick, Matt Kimball, Supplanter.

5/3/2006 tonyd: I Draw Maps
I draw maps. That about sums it up. You can see a bit of my work here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/37996594214@N01/sets/1291106/ I also drew a bunch of map tiles for John Harper's game…
In Connections
Participants: tonyd, Clay, Miskatonic, dindenver, Larry Wickman, Rob Kuntz.

5/3/2006 Grail-Shadowblade: Raid Earth
Hi this is one of the systems I'm working on at the moment and it's got me stumped, I've got some idea's and combat done but I can't find a…
In First Thoughts
Participants: Grail-Shadowblade, MarkDunder, sean2099, Czar Fnord, joepub, Smithy, KKinsane.

5/3/2006 Miedvied: Sorceror Updates/Revisions
Are there any plans in the works regarding updating and revising Sorceror? I've noticed that in a lot of discussions here there occurs the comment - not infrequently - that…
In Adept Press
Participants: Miedvied, Ron Edwards, greyorm, jburneko.

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