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4/10/2006 Troy_Costisick: Cutthroat v4.0
Heya, I have the latest, and likely the last public, draft of Cutthroat ready for feedback.  You can dowload it here: Cutthroat Here are the latest changes I've made (PS,…
In Endeavor
Participants: Troy_Costisick, Ramidel.

4/5/2006 Troy_Costisick: Predictions for 2006
Heya, I love to read predictions.  I don't care if they turn out true or not, to prognosticate is fun, and this is the only forum anywhere where I'd bring…
In Forge Birthday Forum
Participants: Troy_Costisick, Kester Pelagius, Joshua BishopRoby, lumpley, gains, Keith Senkowski, Bryan Hansel.

4/4/2006 Troy_Costisick: This one snuck up on me
Heya, Is it birthday time again already?!?!?  Wow, these years are starting to go by fast.  Well, happy birthday Forge!  There's been a lot of changes in the last 5…
In Forge Birthday Forum
Participants: Troy_Costisick, Brand_Robins, Emily Care, Paka, jasonm, JMendes, Kesher, Graham Walmsley, nikola, John Harper, Anders, Thunder_God, Alex Fradera, Andy Kitkowski, Ron Edwards, Valamir.

3/23/2006 Troy_Costisick: [Holmes and Watson] Game Chef Entry- Playtest #2
Heya, Took me a while to get the time to write this up.  Life is really busy at the moment.  Anyway, I got a chance to give my Game Chef…
In Playtesting
Participants: Troy_Costisick.

3/13/2006 Troy_Costisick: [Holmes and Watson] Game Chef- 1st Playtest
Heya, So I entered this Iron Game Chef competition.  At first I read over the ingredients and the time constraints and I thought, “Nah, there’s no way I’d be able…
In Playtesting
Participants: Troy_Costisick, MatrixGamer.

3/7/2006 Troy_Costisick: [Ronny Games] Calling all Playtesters!
Heya, I have finally finished drafting and pre-playtesting my three Ronnies games: Cutthroat, Hierarchy, and Standoff!  I'm ready to begin open playtesting of all three.  If you are interesting in…
In Connections
Participants: Troy_Costisick, Arturo G., Hell_Puppy, freak73, Everspinner.

2/27/2006 Troy_Costisick: Maps of London
Heya, Does anyone know where I could find a map of London in the mid 1800's online?  Especially one that's copyright free? :) Peace, -Troy
In Connections
Participants: Troy_Costisick, Iskander, contracycle, Joshua BishopRoby, jasonm, Thor, micah.

2/24/2006 Troy_Costisick: [Cutthroat] v. 3.0
Heya, You can check out my latest playtest report here: Playtest 2 & 3.  In that post I raised several issues: First, this game is a heckuva a lot of…
In Endeavor
Participants: Troy_Costisick, Ramidel, Ron Edwards.

2/22/2006 Troy_Costisick: Website Help (part 1)
Heya, I need to upload a pdf file to a website I own.  I have a FTP client software.  I just can't make the two talk to each other.  What…
In Connections
Participants: Troy_Costisick, Joshua BishopRoby, Wolfen, Eero Tuovinen.

2/17/2006 Troy_Costisick: [Cutthroat]2nd and 3rd Playtest
Heya, I got in a couple playtests over the last three weeks or so.  Wow, did I learn some important stuff.  I'll go over the in-game stuff briefly here then…
In Playtesting
Participants: Troy_Costisick, Ron Edwards, Vaxalon.

2/6/2006 Troy_Costisick: [Hierarchy]1st Playtest- PvP
Heya, My friend John and I got to test out some of the mechanics in Hierarchy the other night.  It was a good opportunity.  We drew up some sample characters…
In First Thoughts
Participants: Troy_Costisick, Arturo G..

1/27/2006 Troy_Costisick: [Hierarchy] New Endgame
Heya, The 24 version of Hierarchy is here are the 1km1kt site.  Have a gander if you're not that familiar with my game. The first re-write of Hierarchy is finished. …
In Endeavor
Participants: Troy_Costisick, Arturo G..

1/20/2006 Troy_Costisick: [Standoff!] Complication Suffocation
Heya, I'm trying to come up with about a dozen or so more complications for Stand Off!, but I'm totally stumped!  So here's what I need.  Think of all the…
In Endeavor
Participants: Troy_Costisick, dindenver.

1/16/2006 Troy_Costisick: [Hierarchy] Getting the castes right
Heya, Hierarchy's revision is complete and I'll be uploading for download very soon.  Here's where you can download the origonal: http://www.1km1kt.net/rpg/Hierarchy.php One question I have for folks though is this:…
In Endeavor
Participants: Troy_Costisick, dindenver, Justin Marx, Ramidel, Sydney Freedberg, BigElvis.

1/5/2006 Troy_Costisick: [Cutthroat] First Playtest
Heya, Finally, I got to playtest Cutthroat.  It was hard work getting my dyed-in-the-wool Fantasy RPer buddies to play this with me, but with enough convincing I got it done. …
In Actual Play
Participants: Troy_Costisick, Ron Edwards.

12/29/2005 Troy_Costisick: [GenCon 2006] Forge Booth
Heya, Really hope I'm not overstepping my bounds here, but I would like to point out that the Exhibitor Package has been posted on the GenCon website.  Nev's already strated…
In Conventions
Participants: Troy_Costisick, abzu.

12/7/2005 Troy_Costisick: [D&D] GM's Fun
Heya, To bribe my friends to help me playtest my Ronny games, I'm agreeing to take part in one of their D&D campaigns.  I was discussing the kinds of characters…
In Actual Play
Participants: Troy_Costisick, jasonm, Joshua BishopRoby, Calithena, joshua neff, Mike Holmes, Warren, ffilz, Lamorak33, contracycle, Rob Carriere, CSBone, Danny_K, Adam Dray, Wade Lahoda.

12/2/2005 Troy_Costisick: Learn from my mistakes
Heya, I’ve been going over several design threads lately both here and on RPGnet.  There are some common questions I see newer designers raise that in the end, really don’t…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Troy_Costisick, Joshua BishopRoby, inthisstyle, Paul Czege, dindenver, FlameLover, TonyLB, Dumirik.

11/21/2005 Troy_Costisick: Drawing in Experiences
Heya, I'm trying to get right in my head what I've enjoyed most about the Settings I've played in.  I want to understand why I've found certain ones compelling, and…
In Actual Play
Participants: Troy_Costisick.

11/17/2005 Troy_Costisick: [Cutthroat] Revised Edition!
Heya, First off let me thank James from Blankshield Press for lending me a hand by hosting my pdf document.  Give his site a once over if you get a…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Troy_Costisick, TonyLB.

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7/22/2006 Troy_Costisick: GenCon 2006 Booth Menu Draft and Redraft
Heya, I thought I'd post this here so that there's no confusion with the other thread in conventions.  Okay, here we go.  I've posted the first draft of the Menu…
In Publishing
Participants: Troy_Costisick, Iskander, c, Nathan P., Clinton R. Nixon, Ben Lehman, Valamir, Blankshield, abzu, timfire, Matt Wilson, jasonm, Paka, Justin D. Jacobson, Kevin Allen Jr, Thunder_God, joepub, Paul Czege, Matt, Malcolm, LordSmerf, Jonathan Walton, John Harper, Denise, Keith Senkowski, nikola, btrc, Matt Snyder, Thor Olavsrud, iago, Emily Care, lumpley.

9/5/2006 Troy_Costisick: [My Idea] New Business Model- Inspired by Ken Hite
Heya, What a trip my path towards game publishing has been lately.  Recently I read This Post by Ron.  There’s a road of no return that people walk when they…
In Publishing
Participants: Troy_Costisick, Eero Tuovinen, cpeterso, pells, komradebob, MatrixGamer, sean2099.

10/26/2006 Troy_Costisick: Having Trouble with Pagemaker 7
Heya guys, I'm having some real trouble with my Pagemaker software.  I've got my games layed out in the regular pmd format and they look great.  I print them on…
In Publishing
Participants: Troy_Costisick, MatrixGamer, David Artman.

11/26/2006 Troy_Costisick: [My Idea] An update my Periodical RPG model
Heya, I’m working on a new model for releasing RPG’s.  It all came about thanks to the Ronny contest last year.  So, thought I’d give you guys an update on…
In Publishing
Participants: Troy_Costisick, Ben Lehman.

1/2/2007 Troy_Costisick: [Periodical RPG Model] DL-Quarterly initial reflections
Heya, Well the first issue of DL-Quarterly, Cutthroat, went out on December 30th and the PDFs were sent out the next day.  Despite numerous delays from my printer, I was…
In Publishing
Participants: Troy_Costisick, Eero Tuovinen, Ben Lehman, jeremycoatney, Sane, pells, Graham Walmsley, preludetotheend.

1/18/2007 Troy_Costisick: Gamist Game Design and Cutthroat - Questions.
Heya, I’m going to riff a little bit off this discussion about Narrativism, but focus on a CA that I’m more familiar with.  I’ve just released Cutthroat and I love…
In Actual Play
Participants: Troy_Costisick, xenopulse, Noon.

2/22/2007 Troy_Costisick: Sorcerer Settings
Heya, I guess I'm kind of out of the loop on some things.  I always thought that Dictionary of Mu was the first setting for Sorcerer released by someone other…
In Adept Press
Participants: Troy_Costisick, Ron Edwards.

2/27/2007 Troy_Costisick: Outtage RPG Contest- Story Games is down!
Heya, Have you read this: http://community.livejournal.com/storygamesinfo/834.html It's a great idea.  So I'm going to start it.  Who knows when Story Games will be back up?  It could be tonight, it…
In Endeavor
Participants: Troy_Costisick, Caesar_X, Andy Kitkowski, Bryan Hansel, talysman.

3/5/2007 Troy_Costisick: [Dark Sands- 1st Run] Gearing up for DL-Quarterly Series #2
Heya, So I'm starting to playtest the games I'll be releasing for DL-Quarterly Series 2.  Most of these games won't be released until 2008, but it's never too early to…
In Playtesting
Participants: Troy_Costisick.

3/15/2007 Troy_Costisick: [Outtage RPG Contest] Review of Blackout on the Elevator
Review of “Blackout on the Elevator” By: Bryan Hansel Game Summary: Opens with the situation.  You’re trapped in an elevator.  This game doesn’t mess around.  It presents the players with…
In Endeavor
Participants: Troy_Costisick, Bryan Hansel.

3/15/2007 Troy_Costisick: [Outtage RPG Contest] Review of Comedy Blackout
Comedy Blackout Review By John Laviolette Game Summary: The game begins by explaining what “blackout” means in comedic circles.  That’s great because I would have had no idea.  The background…
In Endeavor
Participants: Troy_Costisick.

4/23/2007 Troy_Costisick: [Forge Midwest 2007] Reflection
Heya guys, I'd like to ask you guys a few thing about the hotel and how it facilitating your experience at this year's Forge Midwest.  If you get a chance,…
In Conventions
Participants: Troy_Costisick, Matt Wilson, Valamir, Doyce, c, jrs, Tod Olson, GamerChick, Nev the Deranged, TJ.

5/6/2007 Troy_Costisick: [No Greater Love] Power 19
[b]1.) What is your game about?**[/b] No Greater Love is about getting the chance to die for something your say you would die for.  This is your chance to really…
In First Thoughts
Participants: Troy_Costisick, joepub, Malcolm, Arturo G., Wormwood, Everspinner.

5/8/2007 Troy_Costisick: [GenCon 2007] Forge Booth Menu
Heya, Last year I started to work on a booth menu, then Alexander took it over and did an awesome job.  Is anyone up for starting this project again for…
In Conventions
Participants: Troy_Costisick, Ron Edwards, c, iago, jrs, Eero Tuovinen, Gregor Hutton, Iskander, inthisstyle, Paul Czege, jasonm, Valamir, Blankshield.

1/18/2008 Troy_Costisick: [Social Contract] How I killed My Partner
Heya, I don't post here in this forum much, but in preparing to run a very gamist campaign for one my newer designs, I began to reflect on what happened…
In Actual Play
Participants: Troy_Costisick, Artanis, Caldis, Noon.

2/12/2008 Troy_Costisick: [Low Power Fantasy] Playtest 3, Session 1
Heya, I held the first session of the third playtest for a new game and system engine last Saturday.  Before I start describing the session, I’ll link the power 19…
In Playtesting
Participants: Troy_Costisick.

2/12/2008 Troy_Costisick: [Sorcerer] Kind of a Weird, maybe Sad Story
Heya, I went to my FLGS (named Something 2 Do) a couple weeks ago for the Morningtide set release tournament for Magic: The Gathering.  It's on the second floor of…
In Adept Press
Participants: Troy_Costisick, jburneko, rafial, Ron Edwards, Finarvyn.

3/21/2008 Troy_Costisick: [Low Power Fantasy] Power 19
Heya, Posting this here for reference and historical purposes.  I hope to get another playtest of it in soon (weather permitting). 1.) What is your game about?** The game us…
In First Thoughts
Participants: Troy_Costisick.

12/7/2010 Troy_Costisick: [Three Roses] Vision Statement
Heya, Back a few years ago I wrote a game for Game Chef.  It was called Hunter Rose.  I loved the game.  A few playtests showed me that it could…
In Game Development
Participants: Troy_Costisick, Artanis, Ron Edwards.

1/4/2011 Troy_Costisick: Round One - (almost) over that fast
Wow, that was fast.  Ron, were you expecting the entries to come in so quickly?
In Endeavor: Ronnies 2011
Participants: Troy_Costisick, Ron Edwards, M. J. Young.

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