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5/31/2006 Joshua BishopRoby: Los Angeles - Need players/designers for regular game night
[b]Short Form:[/b] A trio of game designers which began as a quintet are looking for folks to join us on a weekly basis in Los Angeles for an evening of…
In Connections
Participants: Joshua BishopRoby, Jasper the Mimbo.

5/31/2006 mratomek: [Monster Rules]: Jurrasic Nightmare (Super Heroes)
Besides the fantasy demo of Monster Rules, I also ran a second game called Jurrasic Nightmare. The scenario was a super hero game that was also a 2-part adventure. Game…
In Playtesting
Participants: mratomek, Eric j M.

5/31/2006 Pelgrane: Playtesters wanted for Esoterrorists and Unreality
We are looking for playtesters for two new games, one called Esoterrorists, written by Robin D Laws, the other Unreality written by Steve Dempsey. Please email me off-list simon@dyingearth.com and…
In Connections
Participants: Pelgrane, Thunder_God.

5/31/2006 rgrassi: [Collapse]: Gathering ideas for a new 'strange' RPG, need collaboration
Diceless, Master-Less. If any of you wants to help me, you're welcome. Write me in private, thanks. Rob
In First Thoughts
Participants: rgrassi, jesterina, joepub, Mike Holmes.

5/31/2006 matthijs: [PTA] Emergent ritual -> flow
Pretentious titles, we all love them. A phenomenon I've seen in every single PTA session I've played, both as player and producer, is that it takes some time to get…
In Actual Play
Participants: matthijs, GreatWolf.

5/31/2006 Bill Masek: [Monster Rules] An Outside Playtest
Intro: Over the past few years I've gotten into miniature games.  I have played a number of HeroClix tournaments and done fairly well.  I've collected a fair amount of HeroScape…
In Playtesting
Participants: Bill Masek, mratomek, Czar Fnord.

5/30/2006 mratomek: [Monser Rules]: Dragon's Forge Fantasy Game
This past Saturday, I ran a Monster Rules demo called Dragon’s Forge, a fantasy-setting game for two or more players. The scenario was a 2-part adventure that lasted about 2…
In Playtesting
Participants: mratomek.

5/30/2006 Green: Preventing munchkin behavior
I've just finished the most recent incarnation of Dramatikos.  In short, it is an interactive storytelling game.  The players each use action and narration to portray one or more roles.…
In First Thoughts
Participants: Green, Ron Edwards, dindenver, Filip Luszczyk, Gaerik, GreatWolf, Jasper, Mike Holmes, baron samedi, LemmingLord, Valamir.

5/30/2006 c: [Outside] Getting beat up with blind spots.
So I conducted my first playtest of Outside on Saturday, and it was great because it went so horribly. That is great because I had been waiting for a semi-annual…
In Playtesting
Participants: c, Jasper, jerry, Valamir, Ron Edwards.

5/30/2006 Sara Adyms: -Playtesters needed- for "Sactum : The Fallout"
Alright, I'm done lurking in the corners.  (even if forums aren't my forte) I'm not ready to actually publish details just yet, but I am looking for interested parties in…
In Connections
Participants: Sara Adyms.

5/30/2006 Sara Adyms: Looking to playtest "Sactum : The Fallout"
Alright, I'm done lurking in the corners.  (even if forums aren't my forte) I'm not ready to actually publish details just yet, but I am looking for interested parties in…
In Playtesting
Participants: Sara Adyms.

5/30/2006 hurtmypony: GNS Mention in Paranoia XP
Don't know if this is common knowledge, or if it is the right place to post it, or even if it is a good idea to post after seeing the…
In Site Discussion
Participants: hurtmypony, Ron Edwards, Marhault, Graham Walmsley.

5/30/2006 hurtmypony: [Donjon] Session Two: A Snake In The Grass
Starring: Jack created a new character:  “Frak”.  A pygmy warrior with a blowgun and what I can only identify as a “Swiss Army Mouth”.  He can bite and latch on…
In Actual Play
Participants: hurtmypony, greyorm, Noon, Miskatonic, Ron Edwards.

5/30/2006 Keith Senkowski: [Actual Play] The Smith Apocalypse
First off, all the pieces of this puzzle can be seen here.  This is versions of the various worksheets I use for the game, which are all a part of…
In Bob Goat Press
Participants: Keith Senkowski, KVargo, O. Rodriguez.

5/29/2006 Der_Renegat: Mooks, Deer and contest consequences - a matter of style ???
Mike Holmes said: Mooks exist as an extension of a group. If they die, there's another to take it's place, meaning the source of potential challenge isn't removed. So you…
In HeroQuest
Participants: Der_Renegat, barna284, Bankuei, Mike Holmes, Tim Ellis, alexandre santos, fredrikr.

5/29/2006 eah: Afraid: The Beast Who Was Cyn
Players in my game (cdr) do not read! The idea here is a straightforward face-stomping physical monster that thrives on conflict and is likely to suborn victims to become acolytes/slaves,…
In lumpley games
Participants: eah, agony.

5/29/2006 fredrikr: [Shadow World] First adventure: An Untold Tale of Reif Maglean
Hello all. As a system exercise, Mike Holmes has been helping me convert a character from my HARP/Shadow World game to HeroQuest. I've been talking to player of said character,…
In HeroQuest
Participants: fredrikr, Der_Renegat, Mike Holmes.

5/29/2006 Adam Kleizer: [La famiglia] Creating mechanics in place of blind spots
Hello everybody! Please look at the previous topic for a link to the game and some changes introduced to the latest version. About playtests First of all, let me apologize…
In First Thoughts
Participants: Adam Kleizer.

5/29/2006 lee-anne: PTA: Gun of Truth
Last Monday at a convention, I played my first game of Primetime Adventures with four strangers and an old friend. I'm pretty sure all of us were new to narrative…
In Actual Play
Participants: lee-anne, jasonm.

5/28/2006 Ron Edwards: Coolest, funnest Eurovision song winner EVER
Finland won! I know, it took me a bit to get around to posting it here. I was busy. But if you haven't seen the video yet, you just gotta:…
In Adept Press
Participants: Ron Edwards, demiurgeastaroth, Miskatonic, Everspinner, Nev the Deranged, Arturo G., ocasta.

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5/31/2006 Artanis: [Polaris] ... and now there are none who remember it
[b]Introduction[/b] I finally got around to playing Polaris with 3 close friends, who have been gaming with me since quite a few years. We know each other really well, but…
In Actual Play
Participants: Artanis, GreatWolf, Ben Lehman.

6/1/2006 Valamir: Tell me about the physical quality
I'm in the process of collecting quotes for the Universalis Revised print job.  So far one of the most competitive quotes is from the same shop that did the last…
In Universalis
Participants: Valamir, Mike Holmes, Ron Edwards, GreatWolf, Aaron Smith, Andrew Morris, Arturo G., tetsujin28.

6/1/2006 dindenver: [Perfect] Dave's playtest report
Hi!   Tonight I GM'd a playtest session of Joe's Perfect RPG. Two peeps didn't show, but we sstill managed to muster, Darcy, Joe and myself.   We played via…
In Playtesting
Participants: dindenver, joepub, Darcy Burgess.

6/1/2006 preludetotheend: Alternatives to selling your material.
    Good day all I have been slowly finishing up work on my game and setting Reflections, and have been thinking of how I want to publish my game.…
In Publishing
Participants: preludetotheend, Eero Tuovinen, Ron Edwards, Thunder_God.

6/1/2006 Eero Tuovinen: European fulfilment
Concerning the Essen thread, I've discussed the practicalities of mailing games to Europe with a couple of publishers. It's not cheap to ship to Europe, as I know from personal…
In Publishing
Participants: Eero Tuovinen.

6/1/2006 khelek: Two Player - BadWrongFun
I hosted and played in my first Polaris game last night! In expectation of the difficulty of herding my friends into a single room I invited five (5!) players, all…
In These Are Our Games
Participants: khelek, Ben Lehman, Steven Stewart.

6/2/2006 TonyLB: What Mike Mulligan taught me about courage
Things have been quiet, so I'm going to indulge myself.  It's my forum, after all. As a child, my absolute, bar-none favorite story was Mike Mulligan and his Steam Shovel,…
In Muse of Fire Games
Participants: TonyLB, TheCzech, James_Nostack.

6/2/2006 Caesar_X: [Noir] Flashback mechanics
I've just started work on a game to capture the flavor of Film Noir like The Maltese Falcon and LA Confidential.  One of the early mechanics I wanted to include…
In First Thoughts
Participants: Caesar_X, Adam Dray, jasonm, Czar Fnord, Dumirik.

6/2/2006 Paka: Quote from R. Scott Bakker's The Darkness That Comes Before
I'm only 74 pages into this novel and I'm not sure if I dig it yet. But this quote needed to be posted on this board, so here it is:…
In Adept Press
Participants: Paka, Nev the Deranged, Calithena.

6/2/2006 joepub: [Perfect] Varying roles of narration, collaboration
So… tonight I ran a third playtest of Perfect. (second in-person play). I think that everything that went successfully tonight… went well because the same things had gone less-than-optimally during…
In Playtesting
Participants: joepub.

6/2/2006 makeshiftwings: Narrativist system suggestions?
Hello all; I apologize in advance if this is the wrong forum to post this question in. I'm trying to do some research on more Narrativist-style RP systems, and trying…
In First Thoughts
Participants: makeshiftwings, Adam Dray, dindenver, Ron Edwards, MatrixGamer, Gasten.

6/2/2006 droog: [HQ] Dark Ages - historical narrativism
I've been working up to playing a game set in the 'real' 5th century AD for quite some time. It all started with Pendragon, which, while I enjoyed the schlocky…
In Actual Play
Participants: droog, Mike Holmes, Tancred, beingfrank, Nigel Evans.

6/2/2006 Darcy Burgess: [Drill] - Vive la Résistance!
[b][i][color=Red]Vive la Résistance![/color][/i][/b] a high-stakes drill [color=Blue][u]Introduction[/u] a word on black-balling[/color] I don't know where the term originated, but the first time I heard it used was in reference to…
In Endeavor
Participants: Darcy Burgess.

6/2/2006 Hans: [Dust Devils] First session a riot! w/questions
Hello: My first session as Dealer of Dust Devils was a riot, and apparently a hit with the players.  Thanks a LOT to Eero for the advice he posted to…
In Chimera Creative
Participants: Hans, Eero Tuovinen.

6/3/2006 iankevinmcdonald: [Component Only] Testing out various adjectives for use instead of numbers
Hi, I'm not sure exactly which forum to post this in. I'm choosing playtesting because: It is playtesting, it's just that most people don't playtest a single component of…
In Playtesting
Participants: iankevinmcdonald, joepub, Czar Fnord, slade the sniper, abjourne.

6/3/2006 Gaerik: [Adventure Game Engine] Tempting your opponent into Conflict
You can read some basic information about AGE on my blog, http://kairoscreative.blogspot.com/.  Here's my quandary though... AGE play revolves around Quests.  Quests don't necessarily mean "Get the McGuffin."  They can…
In First Thoughts
Participants: Gaerik, John Harper, TonyLB, oreso, Filip Luszczyk, Joshua BishopRoby, Mike Holmes, Gasten.

6/4/2006 IAmSwiftness: Does Clinton Have AIM?
Just curious, as it would be interesting to run some ideas by him in real time.
In CRN Games
Participants: IAmSwiftness, Ben Lehman.

6/4/2006 JMendes: [TSoY] Rat Moon Drags On
Hey, all, :) This is all in the sequence of this stuff here. We had our sixth TSoY session last night (and yes, I'm counting them). Unless something utterly surprising…
In Actual Play
Participants: JMendes, Ron Edwards, Ralek.

6/5/2006 Nev the Deranged: It Was a Mutual Decision... heterocentric?
I was thinking about which of my friends might be interested in playing, and I realized not all of them consider a male/female dating relationship standard. So I'm just wondering…
In Adept Press
Participants: Nev the Deranged, Ron Edwards, John Harper.

6/5/2006 Dumirik: [Kin] Pain and Intimacy
Right, so this is Kin, and its about sex, and love, being in a family and pathological narcissism. Also people's souls getting ripped out and shit, but thats sort of…
In First Thoughts
Participants: Dumirik, TonyLB, Bill Masek, c, joepub.

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