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5/22/2006 Frank T: [Spiel 2006] Booth Monkey Thread
Hi, Check out the discussion on Spiel 2006 here. If you are thinking about contributing money to the endeavor, you are probably interested in how well your game can be…
In Conventions
Participants: Frank T, Eero Tuovinen, Gerd H., Joe Dizzy, oliof, ocasta, Matt, Daniela Nicklas, ( o Y o ), Nicolas Crost, Yvie, btrc, Caynreth.

5/22/2006 Storn: [L5R] who asks for skill checks and what we did after
This weekend I was playing in a Legends of the Five Rings game.  It was a 2 parter, the 1st part was a solo for my charcter.  The 2nd parter…
In Actual Play
Participants: Storn, Valamir, Bankuei.

5/22/2006 drnuncheon: [Actual Play] Trenchcoats in LA, Session 2
We got a late start this time as John and I went biking Saturday afternoon (and Mel slept!).  Only three scenes, but the second one was huge. Scene 1 (John)…
In Muse of Fire Games
Participants: drnuncheon.

5/22/2006 coldblackwind: Twelve Kings RPG Premise and Summary
Hello, Here I am another newbie to this board but no stranger to RPGs or writing. First off I would like to say that all the information I have found…
In First Thoughts
Participants: coldblackwind, Ben Lehman, joepub, TonyLB, greyorm, dindenver, Oscar Evans.

5/22/2006 Tommi Brander: Bug: spellcheck
I tried to use spellchecking on a thread in First thoughts, and this was the error message it gave: An Error Has Occurred! strpos() : Offset not contained in string.
In Site Discussion
Participants: Tommi Brander.

5/22/2006 Paka: [Burning Wheel] The End of Vault
I'm really great at running a one-shot that everyone wants to keep on playing.  A few pick up and play games among my friends have become years long campaigns, serendipity,…
In Actual Play
Participants: Paka, Jim DelRosso, abzu, Storn.

5/22/2006 gains: [Lacuna Part 1, 2nd Attempt] Orientation
I ran some new players through my Lacuna "Orientation and Mobility within Blue City" scenario using the new and improved rules. The theme of the scenario is to learn to…
In Actual Play
Participants: gains, abzu, ghashsnaga, Ron Edwards.

5/21/2006 barna284: Doubts for duelling using an Extended Constest
When I started my conversion of 7th Sea to Heroquest, duelling is one of the situations I thought would be perfectly covered by extended contests. AP are a neat mechanism…
In HeroQuest
Participants: barna284, Eero Tuovinen, Der_Renegat, Vaxalon, Mike Holmes, Hobbitboy, rstites, Web_Weaver, fredrikr.

5/21/2006 joepub: [Perfect] Playtest version up!
[url]http://www.1km1kt.net/rpg/Perfect_RPG.php[/url] That is the playtest version of Perfect, right there! [b]In the final version of the game, there will be content about:[/b] -establishing who gets to set the scenes (what…
In Playtesting
Participants: joepub, Oscar Evans, Pelgrane.

5/21/2006 Brand_Robins: Bitches in the Vineyard
In case any of you had missed it, the logs for Bitches in the Vineyard (all female Dog's game) are being posted here: http://www.spaceanddeath.com/sin_aesthetics/2006/05/bitv-logs-setup-and-session-1.html Hopefully the next two logs will…
In lumpley games
Participants: Brand_Robins.

5/21/2006 Frank T: Joint booth with Projekt Odyssee at Spiel in Essen/Germany?
“Spiel” is the game fair to be in Europe, this year 19 to 22 October. Previously discussed here and here. This weekend on NordCon, I was approached by the folks…
In Conventions
Participants: Frank T, Ron Edwards, Eero Tuovinen, Ben Lehman, oliof, Nicolas Crost, Nephilim, Emily Care, Daniela Nicklas, ( o Y o ), inthisstyle, jasonm, TonyLB, Blankshield, Zoombot, Yvie, Michael S. Miller, Paul Czege, ocasta, Justin D. Jacobson.

5/21/2006 Graham Walmsley: Publishing wiki
I put this together over the last week. It links to old Forge threads (and some other resources) to answer common questions like: how do I create a PDF? How…
In Publishing
Participants: Graham Walmsley, Willow.

5/20/2006 JMendes: [TSoY] Rat Moon Solid Gold
Hello, all, :) Oh, I am become happy. Happiness has occurred within me.* Last night, we finally played our fifth session of TSoY. I should tell you right off the…
In Actual Play
Participants: JMendes, Storn.

5/20/2006 JMendes: [TSoY] Difficulties with stakes negotiation
Hello, all, :) So, we had a most excellent TSoY session last night, about which, a post in Actual Play will follow soon. While I compose that post, I'd like…
In CRN Games
Participants: JMendes, Clinton R. Nixon, joshua neff, Ralek.

5/20/2006 Kobayashi: 10 000 Mythic RPG
First of all, I'm new here, so hi to all ! I'm currently working on a rpg named 10 000 inspired by Xenophon's Anabasis: the story of ten thousands Greek…
In First Thoughts
Participants: Kobayashi, Lewis Flanagan, Noon, Oscar Evans, Daemonworks.

5/20/2006 Hemdog560: Seeking freelance writers and game desginers
Bad Baby Productions is currently seeking freelance writers and game designers to begin working on expansions to the Worlds of Wonder RPG system. We are seeking both experienced and introductory…
In Connections
Participants: Hemdog560, Clay, Eero Tuovinen, jasonm.

5/20/2006 Hobbitboy: Messing with relationships?
In the "Request for assistance with Demo and my gaming woes" thread Mike Holmes makes the following statement... ... In fact I've been going a…
In HeroQuest
Participants: Hobbitboy, Mike Holmes, Web_Weaver.

5/20/2006 klausok: Motivation aspects
We started character creation last Thursday. We did finish it, because not everybody showed up. Swapping back issues should be done with everybody present. We are 5 players, plus me…
In Incarnadine Press
Participants: klausok.

5/20/2006 Jason Newquist: Shipping... closer?
Joshua! When will you start shipping pre-ordered Caution Orange squares?
In glyphpress
Participants: Jason Newquist, nikola, Miskatonic, epweissengruber, Thunder_God, Valamir.

5/19/2006 Lewis Flanagan: Modular System Design – Stop Me If You’ve Heard This One Before
    This is my first post in the Forge, so hello everyone. I have been making my own RPG systems for several years. I found John Kim’s list of…
In First Thoughts
Participants: Lewis Flanagan, Graham Walmsley, Oscar Evans, ssfsx17, Noon, Tommi Brander, Thunder_God.

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5/22/2006 Mike Holmes: MOLAD US Demo Team
I've been honored by having been selected to become the new HQ demo team leader in the US. I find that the demo team consists of only a very few…
In HeroQuest
Participants: Mike Holmes, a_verheaghe, epweissengruber.

5/22/2006 oliof: Roach Demo at NordCon - some not so great, and a lot of great moments.
OK, on saturday night, I was offering a game of 'Shab Al-Hiri Roach' at NordCon, the biggest rpg convention in northern germany for ten years. We were six players -…
In Bully Pulpit Games
Participants: oliof, jasonm.

5/23/2006 abzu: Burning Empires Preorders
http://www.burningempires.com/preorder.html Hello my peeps! As you may or may not know, I'm publishing a new game this summer called Burning Empires. It's kind of like Burning Wheel, but with…
In Burning Wheel
Participants: abzu, Miskatonic, Eero Tuovinen, Gaerik, Thunder_God, jenskot, IMAGinES, Iskander.

5/23/2006 cdr: [Afraid] Victim of an Angry Tiger
Earl offered to run a playtest of Vincent Baker's new game Afraid for me and a couple other of the local gamers, and it went pretty well. Here are…
In Playtesting
Participants: cdr, Mark Woodhouse, lumpley, space_parasite, agony.

5/23/2006 Sinistraphobia: Ron Edwards, guest of The Gamestas
I just wanted fans of Adept Press games, Sorcerer and It's a Mutual Decision, to know that Ron talks with us about his work in our latest installment of The…
In Adept Press
Participants: Sinistraphobia, Nev the Deranged, Ron Edwards.

5/23/2006 Brian_W: [Channeling] Skill organization
I'm trying to figure out the skill system for my game Channeling (a brain dump format of almost all my ideas can be found at http://shadowedmagi.proboards55.com/index.cgi?board=channeldev). The game is going…
In First Thoughts
Participants: Brian_W, Lewis Flanagan, Oscar Evans.

5/23/2006 sirogit: [Polaris] Underacheiving Lesbian Orphans
I got the pleasure of playing the first session a polaris game tonight after abit of waitng. The players were my brother Chris, Tony, and the unfortunately soon-to-be-moving Kevin, which…
In Actual Play
Participants: sirogit, demiurgeastaroth, Emily Care, Madheretic, dysjunct, Ben Lehman.

5/23/2006 mratomek: Monster Rules Game Posted--Please, Take a Look
Hello all, Its been a loooooooooooooooooong time coming, but I have finally posted a beta version of Monster Rules for everyone to download. Monster Rules attempts to compress an RPG…
In Endeavor
Participants: mratomek, Czar Fnord, Bill Masek.

5/23/2006 barna284: Writting adventures for Heroquest
During my recent brush with RPG theory, I´ve discovered a lot of new ideas regarding RPG´s and their structure. This, in turn, has made me analyze the way I usually…
In HeroQuest
Participants: barna284, Mike Holmes, CCW, Valamir, Peter Nordstrand, Sydney Freedberg, a_verheaghe.

5/23/2006 J. Tuomas Harviainen: [Bliss Stage] Your hopes and joys shall lift us up.
Here's a brief glimpse from our last session (delayed by me misplacing all the notes from that session). Interestingly enough, what my nordic-immersive players seem to do is take a…
In Playtesting
Participants: J. Tuomas Harviainen, Ben Lehman, ptikachu.

5/23/2006 MatrixGamer: [Engle Matrix Game] Sherlock Holmes Murder Mystery
SHERLOCK HOLMES AND THE CASE OF THE DEAD DUKE This is the Matrix Game scenario that I have run the most. I first ran it in 1997 and I officially…
In Actual Play
Participants: MatrixGamer.

5/23/2006 Hans: [Actual Play] Capes in Missassauga, a forensic analysis
Hi all: Well, we have jointly decided to put our Capes game on hold here in Ontario, after 5 sessions.  That does not mean we will not play Capes in…
In Muse of Fire Games
Participants: Hans, jaw6, Bret Gillan, drnuncheon, TonyLB, Sydney Freedberg, nicolasfueyo.

5/24/2006 Nev the Deranged: So my copy of It Was a Mutual Decision arrived, wee!
I'm psyched to try and sneak this into my regular board gaming group and see if I can make it sing. In the interest of that, I'm pondering taking a…
In Adept Press
Participants: Nev the Deranged, jburneko, Ron Edwards.

5/24/2006 Davaris: RPGs for the Computer
I have a question for everyone. What or who do you use for art for your books? Whenever I've approached artists, the prices they quote are very expensive. Are there…
In Publishing
Participants: Davaris, Graham Walmsley, jeremycoatney, gpetersz.

5/24/2006 James Buchanan: My "Fantasy Heartbreaker" ;)
Hey there, I wanted to get some feedback on a collection of mechanics that I have been developing. A lot of it draws inspiration from The Riddle of Steel and…
In First Thoughts
Participants: James Buchanan, Ron Edwards, Hermes3, charles ferguson.

5/24/2006 Frank T: [Grimm d20] Yeah, let’s roll for Attributes!
Last weekend was NordCon. I played PtA again, which didn’t kick off quite as much as usual, and TSoY, which really rocked. And then there was Saturday evening. We had…
In Actual Play
Participants: Frank T.

5/24/2006 Kat Miller: [EverLARP] Piper’s Court
Ok this is a LARP, but the mechanics and the plot are mine even if its set in “Everway” I ran the LARP for the second time on Sunday.  I…
In Playtesting
Participants: Kat Miller, Czar Fnord, Julian, mneme, c, Lisa Padol.

5/24/2006 TonyLB: [Motive and Opportunity] The Perversions of Lord Dunham
Playtested the "Motive and Opportunity" mini-game on the Foundry.  Here's the log if people want the blow-by-blow. The game is almost entirely mechanics free, but nicely structured.  There's a murder. …
In Playtesting
Participants: TonyLB, Sydney Freedberg.

5/24/2006 Gaerik: Descriptors: What's the big deal?
I've been reading advice on creating one sheets and prepping for Sorcerer play and creating new Descriptors customized for the setting gets a fair amount of press.  Why is this? …
In Adept Press
Participants: Gaerik, Alan, Valamir, jburneko, Bankuei, Ron Edwards, The_Tim, Sydney Freedberg, Paka, Old_Scratch.

5/24/2006 Johan Granberg: Crappety crap crap.
I ordered Polaris (along with some other stuff, but Polaris was the real reason i placed the order) from IPR a couple of weeks ago and have been itching to…
In These Are Our Games
Participants: Johan Granberg, Ben Lehman, Eero Tuovinen.

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