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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 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 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 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 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 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.

7/14/2006 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..

7/14/2006 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 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 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.

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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.

7/17/2006 Aaron: Questions from a newbie
Hi, I picked up Conspiracy of Shadows and the Companion recently and have some questions.  I have had a look at some other threads which answered some other things but…
In Bob Goat Press
Participants: Aaron, Keith Senkowski, Sinistraphobia, Matt Wilson, Dom, rrees.

7/17/2006 iain: [What a Shambles!] Encouraging humorous play
Hi guys I am almost finished the first draft of 'What a shambles', a game about love, guts and guns in a zombie apocalypse, and was lookiong for some advice…
In First Thoughts
Participants: iain, andrew_kenrick, Thunder_God, Czar Fnord, Christophe Kelm.

7/17/2006 Randulf: Object demon communicating via Telltale?
I know Object demons are logically constrained from communicating, but I wonder how absolute that prohibition might be. My player has a sword, and one of the things being considered…
In Adept Press
Participants: Randulf, Valamir, Ron Edwards, Wolfen, jburneko.

7/17/2006 timfire: Traditional Printing--Color
Hi everyone, As some of you may know or may have guessed, the color illustrations in The Mountain Witch are expensive to print with a POD printer. Lately I've been…
In Publishing
Participants: timfire, Valamir, MatrixGamer, Matt Wilson, abzu, andrew_kenrick.

7/17/2006 Paka: Dexcon 2006
When I first showed up to Dreamation in 2005 I had played a few indie RPG's but hadn't met that many of you all and if I did, it was…
In Conventions
Participants: Paka, Jared A. Sorensen, Avie, Michael S. Miller, Andrew Morris, Clinton R. Nixon, Salvius, abzu, RobNJ, Bret Gillan, TonyLB, Shawn De Arment, Gaerik, Thomas D, dpetroski, Helvetian.

7/17/2006 Arturo G.: [MLwM] A strange choice for the Outsiders?
Hi, there! Last week I organized a session of MLwM during PuCLN (a national Spanish games convention). It was highly successful. I think players really enjoyed it. Indeed, it was…
In Half Meme Press
Participants: Arturo G., baron samedi, Artanis.

7/17/2006 cjnodell: Shaking out harm???
Hi everyone. I would like to start off by saying that I love the system. It seems realy cool and i can not wait to play it. I have been…
In CRN Games
Participants: cjnodell, r_donato, Clinton R. Nixon, Gaerik, Karasu, cpeterso, TheCzech.

7/17/2006 andrew_kenrick: UK indie games conventions
If you're into your indie games (playing or running), there seems to be plenty of cons that cater for you in the US, whether indie games are at their centre…
In Conventions
Participants: andrew_kenrick, Matt, Arturo G., Graham Walmsley.

7/17/2006 RobNJ: [Dexcon] A thread of AP posts
I plan on accumulating my AP posts from DexCon in this thread.  Here's the first one. Overall: This was the best time I've ever had at a convention, and that…
In Actual Play
Participants: RobNJ, Rob Donoghue, Bill_White, Paka, Matt Wilson.

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