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5/5/2006 dsellars: games 'in play'?
This query of mine has basically come about by reading this thread (a few times through now) here: http://www.indie-rpgs.com/forum/index.php?topic=19690.0 It basically revolves around the following paragraphs, written by Ron.: First…
In Actual Play
Participants: dsellars, Ron Edwards.

5/5/2006 Bret Gillan: [Sorcerer] Charnel Gods - The Irthan Epoch
Last night was the first night of my Charnel Gods campaign, and it rocked. After my previous Sorcerer campaign left me feeling a little cold, I really wanted this one…
In Actual Play
Participants: Bret Gillan, Ron Edwards, Paka, Eric J-D, greyorm.

5/5/2006 Nigel Evans: [DitV] great play and minor troubles
Right, so after a long-term game ended, my group decided that we'd play some Dogs one-shots before launching into the next big thing.  A few people had suggested doing a…
In lumpley games
Participants: Nigel Evans, demiurgeastaroth, TheHappyAnarchist, Bankuei.

5/5/2006 Bailywolf: [Strange Alias] Being human is hard
Oddly enough, this game idea came from my efforts to learn Photoshop.  I was compositing and image… here, : this one Basic image concept- ‘when cheap holographic projectors and flash…
In First Thoughts
Participants: Bailywolf, c, Castlin, knicknevin, TonyLB, cognis, Mike Holmes, ironick.

5/5/2006 barna284: Too many Keywords? (was Heroquest 7th Sea)
In my recent attempt to convert 7th Sea to Heroquest, I stumbled upon a problem. Generally, I think of Keywords as important issues you need to define about your character;…
In HeroQuest
Participants: barna284, a_verheaghe, mneme, Mike Holmes, soviet, Jane.

5/5/2006 Bailywolf: "Transhuman Contact"- Breaking the Ice for posthuman relationship woes?
After reading the novel Mindscan - a fascinating book dealing with consciousness, uploading, and the legal and social ramifications of that kind of thing- I got to thinking about a…
In Black and Green Games
Participants: Bailywolf, Emily Care.

5/5/2006 Troy_Costisick: Looking for a web Builder
Heya, I need someone to build a website for my games.  I want nothing fancy, just functional.  It will be a maximum of two pages- a front page and a…
In Connections
Participants: Troy_Costisick.

5/5/2006 Yokiboy: Non-Ensamble Cast Series
Hello, Does anyone have experience playing a Non-Ensamble Cast Series in Primetime Adventures? How did it impact the play? Without an ensamble cast how does one ensure that the Problem…
In Dog Eared Designs
Participants: Yokiboy, Alan, Sindyr, Adam Biltcliffe, Glendower, dpetroski, Call Me Curly.

5/5/2006 bluenotebooks: Question - Not sure where to post it.
I have played d&d a bit, and like it for the most part.  But I do not care for how centered it is on combat.  I believe I would prefer…
In Actual Play
Participants: bluenotebooks, Storn, Ron Edwards.

5/5/2006 Thunder_God: [CSI Games] Competitive RPGs, a New Project
So, I've decided to begin a new project, a personal outgrowth of my ideas regarding RPGs and games in general. This project is called(at least for now) CSI Games, which…
In Connections
Participants: Thunder_God, Paul Czege, Filip Luszczyk, Adam Kleizer, Ron Edwards, Dantai, mratomek, inthisstyle.

5/5/2006 donbaloo: Escalating in conflicts without opponents?
Hi folks.  I'm curious how you experienced Dogs players handle those conflicts that don't include a a true opponent.  The rules state that when there isn't an opponent the GM…
In lumpley games
Participants: donbaloo, demiurgeastaroth, Vaxalon.

5/5/2006 greyorm: [DitV] Demoing & Playing with Kids
First question: I've posted a notice about running a demo of Dogs next Thursday night at our relatively new local comic/game store -- a nice, big, clean store with a…
In lumpley games
Participants: greyorm, demiurgeastaroth, oreso.

5/5/2006 Paul Czege: character sheet contest: out sephiroth the designer
So I've been messing around with character sheet designs, taking graphical inspiration from the kabbalistic sephiroth and other occult and astrological sigils. And though I'm pretty pleased with how it's…
In Acts of Evil Playtest Board
Participants: Paul Czege, chris_moore, c.

5/5/2006 Paka: Burning Wheel: Elf vs. Orc
So, it is the weekly Burning Wheel group.  Excuse me while I kvell a bit. We took time off to playtest Luke's Sooper Seekrit Project but found out that one…
In Actual Play
Participants: Paka, Ron Edwards, Storn, agony, taepoong.

5/4/2006 Joshua BishopRoby: Alternate Click-n-Locks
I may be convincing my brothers to play our traditional summertime roleplaying game in Capes instead of something boring.  We're not too keyed up on superheroes, but the two of…
In Muse of Fire Games
Participants: Joshua BishopRoby, Zamiel, Hans, drnuncheon, cpeterso, TonyLB, Glendower, Gaerik, Kai_lord, dunlaing, JMendes.

5/4/2006 greyorm: [DitV] GMing and Relationships
I just recieved my copy of DitV in the mail...hrm, two days ago (yay to IPR's May sale!) and finished a read through. I have one question that has been…
In lumpley games
Participants: greyorm, Vaxalon, demiurgeastaroth.

5/4/2006 14thWarrior: [DitV Town] Transit Branch
The problems in this 'town' are obvious, despite not having escalated beyond the level of Sin; the solution, however, is not so obvious.  I'm just wondering if the town's problems…
In lumpley games
Participants: 14thWarrior, Vaxalon.

5/4/2006 jmac: should I refer to the book?
I'm not sure, maybe I should have asked this in publishing forum. My question is about game text. There is a game, I'm trying to finish, It's being playtested now,…
In First Thoughts
Participants: jmac, Thunder_God, c, Andy Kitkowski.

5/4/2006 Eric J-D: Nicotine Girls--An Odd Proposal
Hi Paul, This is the first time I've posted in your forum I think, so forgive me if this is a strange first post (as well as a longish one). …
In Half Meme Press
Participants: Eric J-D, Paul Czege.

5/4/2006 JavaApp: Jared Sorenson’s The Farm – How does it play?
I originally posted this on RPG.net, and all I got in response was a bunch of people telling me, "Hey, let us know how it turns out." I used the…
In Actual Play
Participants: JavaApp.

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5/5/2006 Czar Fnord: Will Edit for Credit
I am hereby offering my services as a production editor (post-typeset) for any RPG that will, in turn, provide me with "Production Editor" credit in the game book front matter.…
In Connections
Participants: Czar Fnord, David Artman.

5/5/2006 a_verheaghe: Dogs Play by Post- how too? any advise?
I've ssne a couple of threads that mention play by post games and I'm wondering how this is working with the bids and conflicts? Any advise to someone very interested…
In lumpley games
Participants: a_verheaghe, Vaxalon.

5/5/2006 Darcy Burgess: [paladin] -- rules clarification
Our group is likely going to be playing a paladin game v. soon (open source rules, setting will be derived from Werewolf: the Apocalypse -- basically taking "warriors for Gaia"…
In CRN Games
Participants: Darcy Burgess, Artanis.

5/5/2006 Paladin Knight: Questions about accuracy and evasion.
Hi, everyone. I've been working on making an RPG with rules that have elements of various RPG video games I've played before such as Final Fantasy games and Diablo, just…
In First Thoughts
Participants: Paladin Knight, TroyLovesRPG, greyorm, c, Blankshield.

5/6/2006 greyorm: [ORX] Forge Midwest Demo Observations
Juli, Tod and Tim (Kleinert) were gracious enough to play a quick game of Orx with me at Forge Midwest. This was also a milestone in Orx play as the…
In Actual Play
Participants: greyorm.

5/6/2006 Frank T: [TSoY] Snakes in the Shadows - prep for a convention game
Hi everybody. I’m preparing to run a game of TSoY at NordCon, one of the biggest European role-playing conventions. I have decided to use pre-generated characters. I do like to…
In CRN Games
Participants: Frank T, Eero Tuovinen, ( o Y o ), oliof.

5/6/2006 flammifer: Card-based character creation
Does anybody have any experience with using randomly dealt cards for character creation ? I am partly inspired by some recent posts on Vincent Baker's blog around the Cheap and…
In First Thoughts
Participants: flammifer, cpeterso, Damon C Bradshaw, Czar Fnord, gains, playbywiki.

5/6/2006 tonyd: [Magicians of England] of Flaws and Faeries
We sat down for our third playtest of Magicians of England. Playtest one was phenomenal, and playtest two went pretty well, so I expected three would be smooth. I was…
In Playtesting
Participants: tonyd, John Harper.

5/6/2006 nyhteg: [InSpectres] Demons in the Dinner Hall
There have been a couple of threads in recent memory about running games with/for kids so I thought this might be of interest to someone. In a nutshell, I ran…
In Actual Play
Participants: nyhteg, Bryan Hansel.

5/7/2006 Paka: Afraid: Madame Lamara Keene: Devourer of Dreams
A woman who reads people's dreams and tells them what they mean.  She loves hearing about their dreams.  She is a liar and a con artist but she truly loves…
In lumpley games
Participants: Paka, Vaxalon, Rob MacDougall, Rustin.

5/7/2006 redivider: Heads of State: Palace Gates & As I Lay Dying
Last weekend Alex, Josh & I played two Heads of State games in succession, using the same dictator (Alex's Star of Freedom). A small milestone in passing the half-way point…
In Playtesting
Participants: redivider, alejandro.

5/7/2006 palikka: Impressions of computer aided npc design.
Most of GM:ing is just playing out various characters and I'm rather weak at making them up on the fly and too lazy to prep for it. Thus to improve,…
In Playtesting
Participants: palikka, Tommi Brander.

5/7/2006 Sindyr: Question: Use of fan mail to use used-up traits?
It's in the beginning, under Basic Rules Concepts: Traits, it says: "After the player must spend…
In Dog Eared Designs
Participants: Sindyr, drnuncheon, Gabe McKean.

5/7/2006 Sindyr: Uneven Screen Presences
Thought I would break this into it's own topic. Has anyone ever played PTA with different players having different and uneven distributions of Screen Presence?  That is, with each character…
In Dog Eared Designs
Participants: Sindyr.

5/7/2006 barna284: Athletic skills: Scope & Reason of being
I like the freeform structure of skill in HQ, but it is a definite change from the usual, more structured game systems I tend to use. Something I never liked…
In HeroQuest
Participants: barna284, Bankuei, TheLHF, Jane, Mike Holmes.

5/7/2006 jeremycoatney: Advertising without a budget?
    I'm fairly certain this falls under the catagory of a publishing question, but not entirely, so if it doesn't,please bare with me here.     I have my…
In Publishing
Participants: jeremycoatney, Nathan P., Thunder_God, dindenver, Ben Lehman, Bryan Hansel, Ron Edwards, axonrg.

5/7/2006 drnuncheon: [Actual Play] Trenchcoats in LA, Session 1
So we actually finally got started on our first long-term Capes game yesterday.  Rather than superheroes per se, it's more a supernatural mystery/character drama, sort of Angel meets Jim Butcher's…
In Muse of Fire Games
Participants: drnuncheon, Hans, TheCzech, nicolasfueyo, Matthew Glover.

5/7/2006 Joshua BishopRoby: Sheer Madness, or Doable -- Click-n-Lock Triangle
So in trying to set up my Capes Fantasy game, it occured to me that unlike the Capes-default superhero of two character components (Persona and Powerset), generic fantasy characters usually…
In Muse of Fire Games
Participants: Joshua BishopRoby, Andrew Morris, demiurgeastaroth, dunlaing, Ben Lehman, TonyLB, Tuxboy, Hans, Uhlrik, drnuncheon, Sindyr.

5/8/2006 Halzebier: [TSOY] How many (fudge) dice do I need?
Hi there! I'm preparing for TSOY Revised and I wonder how many fudge dice I will need for myself and my group. They're quite expensive and not easy to get…
In CRN Games
Participants: Halzebier, Clinton R. Nixon, r_donato, Gaerik, Eero Tuovinen.

5/8/2006 pells: [Avalanche] - using TSOY for the first time
I've played again last night, continuing our adventure and playtest of Avalanche. But this session was special since we changed system. The premise We've been playing together this campaign for…
In Playtesting
Participants: pells.

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