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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 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 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 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 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: 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 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 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 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 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 klaveshy: Re: Vineyard of Blood
So, I'm new to this whole thing, but I had some ideas about this conversion. Tell me what you think. What if you had a Vinyard of Blood game that…
In lumpley games
Participants: klaveshy, lumpley.

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.

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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.

7/16/2006 btrc: GenCon wireless?
If last year is any indication, we can get wireless in the cafe, but not in the dealer area, at least not without paying through the nose. So, if someone…
In Conventions
Participants: btrc, abzu.

7/16/2006 Doyce: [TSoY] Key of Glittering Gold, problem
Hey all, I've run a scenario two times just recently where a character in the group (two different players, two different groups) had Key of Glittering Gold. Actually, it was…
In CRN Games
Participants: Doyce, Valamir, Clinton R. Nixon, dindenver, zmook.

7/16/2006 Dm_Nation: Live action role-playing game in the works..
I've dabbled with creating my own rpg game systems and larpg's in the past, however I believe myself to be getting to the point at which I'm able to actually…
In Connections
Participants: Dm_Nation.

7/16/2006 cthulahoops: Lost rulebook. :(
Somewhere in moving house, I've managed to lose my copy of DitV.  I will have to order another, but I have a more immediate problem.  I've agreed to run a…
In lumpley games
Participants: cthulahoops, Doyce, lumpley.

7/16/2006 signoftheserpent: serious supers for serious peopl
Yes, it's time for another superhero game. Even worse, a poe-faced aberrant ripoff that doesn't even have a name yet! Seriously though, I am devising a game that's a serious…
In First Thoughts
Participants: signoftheserpent, matthijs, dindenver, Bankuei, Certified, Dumirik, Ken.

7/16/2006 Calithena: [AP & History] Initiative Rules
I was running my system for some old friends the last couple of weeks. I decided a while back that initiative rules were not worth the time they took, but…
In Actual Play
Participants: Calithena, Tommi Brander.

7/16/2006 Hope: Me and my friends plot draft
We're making a table-top RP called Pandora's Box. This is out basic plot idea. The basic plot is there a was war on this planet Galatica  and one side created…
In First Thoughts
Participants: Hope, Ron Edwards.

7/16/2006 AsuraDemon: The Hero's Journey (Spirit-Touched)
So I've been thinking about what do I really want my game to be about, and what sort of things do I want the characters to have to deal with. …
In First Thoughts
Participants: AsuraDemon, matthijs, Call Me Curly, Graham Walmsley.

7/16/2006 andrew_kenrick: [Six Bullets for Vengeance] Looking for playtesters!
I've got a first draft of Six Bullets for Vengeance up and ready for playtesting, and I'd like some people to take it and give it a run through. The…
In Connections
Participants: andrew_kenrick, iain, Zathreyel.

7/17/2006 c: [Outside] Playtest Four, or Clyde get some direction. (Long)
So I just got in from riding my Bike home from today's playtest and was excited about the discussion I had with my players and wanted to see if other…
In Playtesting
Participants: c.

7/17/2006 ephemere: [DitV] Horton's Hope: A noob town for feedback
Shortly after being introduced to DitV a couple of weeks ago (at Origins), I convinced my regular group to try it out. (Although I've lurked around the Forge as long…
In lumpley games
Participants: ephemere, lumpley, Valamir, Gaerik.

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