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7/14/2006 Call Me Curly: [Drill] Pool Variant Drills
1. Commence a game of James V. West's The Pool with friends, but without a GM.  Don't figure-out how you will accommodate GM-less play beforehand. Just start playing and every…
In Endeavor
Participants: Call Me Curly, Roger.

7/14/2006 mystic_philosopher: High Low rules?
Hi I just played a pilot episode with my family. It was fun. We came across the rule pg 65 that when deciding stakes between a tie "victory goes to…
In Dog Eared Designs
Participants: mystic_philosopher, Matt Wilson.

7/13/2006 Sindyr: Capes game at JiffyCon, July 29th?
Does anyone know about this, or who is running it, or how it will be run? http://fairgame-rpgs.com/jiffycon.html
In Muse of Fire Games
Participants: Sindyr, Hans.

7/13/2006 Zach: [Layout] Character creation in the front of the book
Good day, Experience has taught me that it is poor idea to use a term in a book and then define it several chapters later. However after reading Truth and…
In Publishing
Participants: Zach, jerry, joepub, Czar Fnord, Mcrow, Certified, Ron Edwards, Joshua BishopRoby.

7/13/2006 museleading: links pls
In poking around, I came across this thread (http://www.indie-rpgs.com/forum/index.php?t=9908) in which part of the converstation is about "old illusionism habits". Could someone explain this, or provide a few links so…
In First Thoughts
Participants: museleading, Ron Edwards.

7/13/2006 jrs: Copyright resources
Earlier Ron mentioned his interest in a post that consolidates links to copyright resources, see Regarding copyright and intellectual property.  I've taken it upon myself to compile such a post…
In Publishing
Participants: jrs, Gaerik, Ben Lehman, axonrg, Tzu-Theory, Dosoga, Ron Edwards, Selene Tan.

7/13/2006 Sindyr: A bodiless, persona less character?
Just a though that occured to me. Does anything in Capes forbid me from creating a "character" which is nothing more that a list of attributes? For example, what if…
In Muse of Fire Games
Participants: Sindyr, TheCzech, LemmingLord, Ben Lehman, Vaxalon, Hans, Gaerik, Matthew Glover, nicolasfueyo, Sydney Freedberg, TonyLB, Threlicus, Bret Gillan, Tuxboy, joshua neff.

7/13/2006 LemmingLord: Carrying Over Resources Over the Course of Game Sessions
One more quick question for Tony; are story tokens, debt and inspirations carried over from one session to the next?  I hear you talking about having 15-20 story tokens at…
In Muse of Fire Games
Participants: LemmingLord, TheCzech, Gaerik, Vaxalon, Matthew Glover, TonyLB, Sindyr.

7/13/2006 Randulf: Some questions
Q1: Suppose I want an object demon that can spy on the folks in it's immediate vicinity and somehow convery the information to the master, who isn't there.  I know…
In Adept Press
Participants: Randulf, Ron Edwards, Lisa Padol.

7/13/2006 abzu: Forge Booth Menu
OK, it's time. Who's doing the menu of companies, products, prices and URLs? Fun, fun! -L
In Conventions
Participants: abzu, Iskander, jrs, Clinton R. Nixon, Jared A. Sorensen, Troy_Costisick, inthisstyle, Justin D. Jacobson.

7/13/2006 MJGraham: Actions resolved through single or mutliple dice.
Do you prefer systems which require rolling mutiple dice to resolve actions or ones that use a single dice roll, e.g would you rather play a game that required rolling…
In Actual Play
Participants: MJGraham, Tommi Brander, Ron Edwards.

7/13/2006 Harshax: New to HeroQuest ~ need advice
I was very down on HeroWars when it was released.  It was, in my opinion, a convoluted implementation of an otherwise simple concept.  HeroQuest changed my opinion dramatically.  There are…
In HeroQuest
Participants: Harshax, soviet, Mike Holmes, Latreya Sena, Melinglor, Bankuei, sebastianz.

7/13/2006 Ron Edwards: Regarding copyright and intellectual property
If you have questions about these topics, please take them to the Publishing forum. This forum is about role-playing design ideas. However, before posting, also please take some time to…
In First Thoughts
Participants: Ron Edwards.

7/13/2006 MJGraham: Insurrection
Hello, I'm a fledgling game designer in the early to middle stages of creating an independent roleplaying game. The game's working title is Insurrection and it is based around characters…
In First Thoughts
Participants: MJGraham, contracycle, Ron Edwards.

7/13/2006 REkz: [PTA] - The Cuckoo's Nest
Gamers, We just played a great game tonight of Prime Time Adventures.  I thought it went great and was quite entertaining.  I approached it exactly as discussed in the book…
In Actual Play
Participants: REkz, Matt Wilson.

7/13/2006 Doyce: [TSoY] I just ran Freebooters
It's been over a year since I've done any serious gaming, due to a lot of things, but mostly my new daughter.  I come back and the world is all…
In Actual Play
Participants: Doyce, joewolz, Mike Lucas.

7/13/2006 Tomas HVM: [Autumn of Life] Easy-to-play RPG
As some of you may have discerned there has been a competition of gamedesign in Norway running the two last years. One of the most exciting participants in this competition…
In Actual Play
Participants: Tomas HVM, Paul Czege.

7/13/2006 thwaak: [Animated Heroes] First Pass
Hello Gang, As you might remember from this thread ( http://www.indie-rpgs.com/forum/index.php?topic=20252.0 ), I had worked on a background chargen system to determine the number of points players have to develop…
In First Thoughts
Participants: thwaak, Ken, dindenver, billvolk, sean2099, stefoid.

7/13/2006 Call Me Curly: Death of a Salesman/ Prudence Gulch
Willie Loman cheated on his wife 20 years ago. One consequence of-which was that his son Biff Loman couldn't go to college. Now Willie's getting senile and thinks the old…
In lumpley games
Participants: Call Me Curly, Darcy Burgess.

7/13/2006 AsuraDemon: Spirit-Touched: The Iron World and game mechanics
So I'm creating a new RPG, and so far have just over 170 pages written for it.  The gist of it is that the characters are beings that are basically…
In First Thoughts
Participants: AsuraDemon, Eliahad, Filip Luszczyk, greyorm, Quixotica, Noon.

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7/14/2006 Randulf: Secret sorcerers
One of my players wants to be a demon hunter who hates sorcerers.  As envisioned, he will be a Naive sorcerer with a potent demon who he believes (incorrectly?) is…
In Adept Press
Participants: Randulf, JamesDJIII, Valamir.

7/14/2006 Emily Care: new game from Black & Green
<a href="http://www.fairgame-rpgs.com/ecb/StM2.pdf">Shooting the Moon</a> will be available at GenCon Indie.  Thank in great part to the amazing illustrations of the <a href="http://www.jennworks.com/">Jenn Manley Lee</a>, and lots of help from the…
In Black and Green Games
Participants: Emily Care, matthijs, Thunder_God, jasonm, Bret Gillan, ejh, Andrew Morris, JasperN., IvanVideoPlayer, joshua neff, Brand_Robins.

7/14/2006 bluegargantua: [Grey Ranks] Other Child Soldiers of WWII
Hi,   Although they never fought the Polish Scouts directly, you might be interested in the new Osprey Book about the Hitler Youth:   http://www.ospreypublishing.com/title_detail.php?title=S874X&ser=WAR later Tom
In Bully Pulpit Games
Participants: bluegargantua, jasonm.

7/14/2006 eruditus: [Mortal Coil] The Path Least Traveled
[url text="My Mortal Coil Actual Play"]http://eruditus.livejournal.com/22937.html#cutid1[/url] So what's the point? What am I doing wrong and what am I doing right? Especially from folk that have run through games with…
In Actual Play
Participants: eruditus, Ron Edwards.

7/14/2006 Randulf: Demon Files
This is not for my game, but Ron's comments about an object demon in the form of a computer made me wonder about demons manifesting as data (a particularly nasty…
In Adept Press
Participants: Randulf, jrs, greyorm.

7/14/2006 thwaak: ConQuest San Francisco
Hello Folks, I'll be attending ConQuest San Francisco (www.conquestsf.com) in early September and am eager to try my hand at some of the indie RPGs being played 'officially' there (Dogs,…
In Conventions
Participants: thwaak, EndGame, Czar Fnord, cdr, Thomas D.

7/14/2006 Randulf: Dave's quickref (split)
[quote author=Nev the Deranged link=topic=16067.msg171792#msg171792 date=1122340835] Demons are not required (unless commanded) to tell the truth, or to reveal anything at all about their actions on their own time. A…
In Adept Press
Participants: Randulf, Ron Edwards.

7/14/2006 Mike Holmes: HP Transference
We're changing phases in the IRC game, and this is where I prefer to get in rule changes as they tend to stick best if implemented during the transition. So,…
In HeroQuest
Participants: Mike Holmes, Vaxalon, Latreya Sena, sebastianz, Doyce, Mandrake, Tim Ellis, Jane.

7/14/2006 David Laurence: [DitV] Actual Play: Red Clay Branch
Background: This was our second session of Dogs, and likewise our second as a group. The group consists of myself, Brennan, Todd, and Tonya. We’ve all known each other since…
In lumpley games
Participants: David Laurence, lumpley.

7/14/2006 Paul T: A long time ago... anecdote one [Fudge]
Hello. This is the first of two actual play accounts I will be posting in the hopes of generating some discussion about issues I'm trying to deal with in my…
In Actual Play
Participants: Paul T, Noon, Emily Care, Sydney Freedberg, Czar Fnord.

7/14/2006 LemmingLord: "The Incredible Hulk" "ER" and Making My Character Suffer
Poor David Banner.  Poor Dr. Green. These characters from two popular television shows get more than their fair share of getting messed with.  (Spiderman is another example, though perhaps to…
In Muse of Fire Games
Participants: LemmingLord, Sindyr, Sydney Freedberg.

7/14/2006 btrc: Looking for terrain modeler
I'm working on a project that needs an island a few kilometers across to be mapped in some detail. Not in terms of buildings and such, but nice, realistic looking…
In Connections
Participants: btrc, thelonegoldfish, Jasper, Clay.

7/14/2006 Zak Arntson: [Trollbabe] A sleepy scene ...
[b]Introduction[/b] A few weeks ago I mentioned to my wife that we could try Trollbabe. It was a hopeful throwaway comment, considering she shows no interest in roleplaying games and…
In Actual Play
Participants: Zak Arntson, jrs, zmook, Noon, Arturo G..

7/15/2006 Hans: [Donjon] Selecting abilities for NPC's
This selecting abilities things seems to me like it would be easy, but as I sit here fooling around with different ideas, it turns out to be giving me more…
In CRN Games
Participants: Hans.

7/15/2006 LemmingLord: Alliances
Ok, so I played my first game with more than two players today...  It went about as well as I could have imagined - with everyone a bit mentally sore,…
In Muse of Fire Games
Participants: LemmingLord, Sindyr, Gaerik, Hans, Vaxalon, TheCzech, TonyLB.

7/15/2006 woodelf: space opera with Dust Devils
OK, we're about to wrap up our current campaign (probably this session or next), and we've agreed that the next game will be Dust Devils mechanics, space opera setting. Think…
In Chimera Creative
Participants: woodelf, Dev.

7/15/2006 Valamir: Viktory looking for demo help at GenCon
I've mentioned Morrison Games here before as a fellow small press publisher, publishing Viktory: a faced paced wargame in the same category as Axis & Allies or Risk (but in…
In Conventions
Participants: Valamir.

7/15/2006 wunderllama: Sorceror character sheets
My husband, a friend, and I are gearing up to play a campaign of Sorceror with a Middle-Eastern flavor. So at my husband's request, I used my meager skills with…
In Adept Press
Participants: wunderllama, Ron Edwards.

7/15/2006 klaveshy: Sim reward systems?
Hey, guys! Moderator, if you could put this where it belongs, that would be great. I don't know which out of the available forums it belongs in. I was looking…
In Actual Play
Participants: klaveshy, Ron Edwards.

7/15/2006 rex monday: Shipping times
I'm not sure where to post a question like this. If this place isn't appropriate, please close or delete this thread. What are the normal shipping times people have experienced…
In CRN Games
Participants: rex monday, Thunder_God, Clinton R. Nixon.

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