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7/24/2006 daMoose_Neo: 4 day GenCon badges - badge for demos
Alright - Fun times here at Neo ^_^ We were going to be running a skeletal crew this year anyhow, but could have managed, except for the fact that my…
In Conventions
Participants: daMoose_Neo, Gaerik, joepub.

7/24/2006 Web_Weaver: Removing attributes from HQ
I am moving this more general idea from out of the Species keywords--a kludge? thread, to avoid hijacking the keyword debate. I have discussed there, that it may be an…
In HeroQuest
Participants: Web_Weaver, Vaxalon, sebastianz, Mandrake, Der_Renegat, Mike Holmes.

7/24/2006 Revontuli: Star Wreck Roleplaying Game
We're putting a Finnish roleplaying game out in English. It's based on the Star Wreck line of sci-fi parody movies, and will be published in August of this year. It's…
In Publishing
Participants: Revontuli, Ron Edwards.

7/24/2006 coldblackwind: Adding a Link
I tried to add a link on the button that says Add a Link and it tells me that I seem to be lost.  I know that I am not…
In Site Discussion
Participants: coldblackwind.

7/24/2006 andrew_kenrick: [Six Bullets for Vengeance] first playtest
I ran my first session of Six Bullets for Vengeance tonight, and all in all I think it worked very well. My regular group games online, so I have the…
In Playtesting
Participants: andrew_kenrick, Ron Edwards, iain, Matt Wilson, Gregor Hutton, Warren, Zathreyel.

7/23/2006 greyorm: [DitV] Wizards in the Vineyard
A number of weeks ago, I came up with an idea for a Dogs variant, and went to work on it. Basically, it concerns powerful wizards who have been given…
In lumpley games
Participants: greyorm, Rustin, lumpley, klaveshy, Ramidel.

7/23/2006 timfire: "Mexican Standoff" Print edition for GenCon
Having noticed my listing for "Mexican Standoff" in my product-list for GenCon, Guy Shalev asked: So it's now more than the one-page thingy which was posted on IPR? Not really---though…
In Publishing
Participants: timfire, Emily Care.

7/23/2006 Garvey: Playtest vs Final Rules
I heard about Mortal Coil on the Have Games Will Travel podcast, which inspired me to look up the game on the net.  It looked interesting, but the lack of…
In Galileo Games
Participants: Garvey, inthisstyle.

7/23/2006 thwaak: Does (Book) Size Matter?
Hello All, Recently into the whole indie RPG thing, I perhaps went overboard and bought a ton of games (Burning Wheel, Capes, Cat, Don't Rest Your Head, The Mountain Witch,…
In Publishing
Participants: thwaak, andrew_kenrick, jasonm, timfire, Jake Richmond, Justin D. Jacobson, abzu, Valamir, Thunder_God, Czar Fnord, baron samedi, Zach, Steven Stewart.

7/23/2006 TonyLB: [Capes][DexCon] Owning your tragedy
More actual play from the DexCon Capes extravaganza.  This is still in that third session, and occurred directly after Fighting about what we're fighting about. I'm going to dump a…
In Actual Play
Participants: TonyLB, r_donato, Nathan P., dpetroski, Bret Gillan, Sydney Freedberg, phredd.

7/23/2006 Jeremiah Lahnum: Dogs Actual Play, My First Session Ever
I ran my first session of Dogs in Vineyard last night, and I figured I'd write up my thoughts here about it. My three players are Tom, Josh and Brian. …
In lumpley games
Participants: Jeremiah Lahnum, lumpley, Valamir.

7/23/2006 signoftheserpent: Designging the City of Tomorrow
Hi, I am soliciting advice and suggestions for the landmarks and makeup of a Metropolis style city; a 'city of tomorrow' in the pulp vein. Not somewhere set in the…
In First Thoughts
Participants: signoftheserpent, andrew_kenrick, TonyLB, Ken, dindenver, Latigo.

7/23/2006 c: Getting design info from your website?
I was looking at my stats for my website, this morning, via a service called Awstats which is provided by my shared hosting company. I like to check from time…
In Publishing
Participants: c.

7/23/2006 shays: Game Designer Needed
I am currently looking for some folks to help in organizing and designing rpg mechanics.  If your interested please e mail me at: iif dot internal dot com at gmail…
In Connections
Participants: shays, matthijs, Clay, Nathan P., Ron Edwards.

7/23/2006 Matt Wilson: [Galactic] Playtest in Madison - 1
Today I spent a few hours in Madison with Sarah, Chris and Daniel setting up for what looks like a kickass game. I'll say right up front that I'm extra…
In Playtesting
Participants: Matt Wilson, John Harper.

7/22/2006 baron samedi: [DITV] Actual play : Thanks Mr. Baker!
I've just finished a 6 hour IRC session of DITV, in French... My irst experience with both IRC and DITV... it was wonderful. We only got through the initiation of…
In Actual Play
Participants: baron samedi, Artanis, lumpley.

7/22/2006 Paka: The disappearance and re-appearance of Galileo Press forum
If I am not signed in, I can't see it.
In Site Discussion
Participants: Paka.

7/22/2006 c: [MFUC]The risk of hurting players (adult language)
So my game Outside is getting a name change to reflect my new understanding of what I've been subconsciously wanting to accomplish. More about those particulars here. So ... "My…
In First Thoughts
Participants: c, Ron Edwards, nikola, Noon.

7/22/2006 Offray: Urgent: Getting sorcerer books in Chigago before my travel back to my country
Hi all, Sorry for posting this twice (this is also in general topics). I need to get help as son as I can. I'm from Columbia (South America) and I'm…
In Adept Press
Participants: Offray, ZenDog, jrs.

7/22/2006 Paka: The Mortal Coil Weekend
[url=http://forum.rpg.net/showthread.php?p=6058967#post6058967"]It has begun.[/url] This game absolutely rocks. If I had to travel from con to con, known as the GM-With-No-Name, I'd have to travel light.  I'd have PTA, Dogs in…
In Galileo Games
Participants: Paka, inthisstyle.

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7/24/2006 Tim M Ralphs: [WOD} - GM authority without GM force. And demon assassins. a dilemma
Good Afternoon, A little background, and then I’ll state my dilemma. One of the groups I game with has been playing for about 5 years. The games have been fairly…
In Actual Play
Participants: Tim M Ralphs, Gaerik, Hans, Ron Edwards, Noon, Paul T, TonyLB.

7/24/2006 Nathan P.: [carry] [DexCon] Levels of Engagement
I ran three games of Carry, my soldiers-dealing-with-issues-in-Vietnam game at DexCon, and they all went very well, in slightly different ways. Due to the short-form nature of the game (its…
In Actual Play
Participants: Nathan P., Shawn De Arment, Yokiboy, Iskander, TonyLB, RobNJ, jasonm.

7/24/2006 Hans: Does Capes need a GM?
Does Capse need a GM?  Sindyr said elsewhere... -All games, in fact all social activities have a Social Contract. -What makes D&D not broken ultimately is…
In Muse of Fire Games
Participants: Hans, Sindyr, Gaerik, Tuxboy, TonyLB, joshua neff, LemmingLord, Bret Gillan, xeperi.

7/24/2006 drnuncheon: PDF
Brennan, Over on RPG.net, you mentioned that you were going to reformat Mortal Coil and make it available as a PDF.  Do you have any plans on offering a PDF->Print…
In Galileo Games
Participants: drnuncheon, inthisstyle.

7/24/2006 Bret Gillan: Gods: The New Ideas
Because there really needs to be a thread in this forum where we don't argue with Sindyr. ;) So I came away from Dreamation with some cool ideas for Gods,…
In Muse of Fire Games
Participants: Bret Gillan, Hans, TonyLB, Tuxboy.

7/24/2006 Mandrake: Bring back edges
OK. This is really beginning to bug me now. If you take 2 warriors, identically skilled, but give one a sword and leather, the other say halberd and plate, the…
In HeroQuest
Participants: Mandrake, Der_Renegat, Vaxalon, Mike Holmes, nichughes, Jane, Web_Weaver, soviet.

7/24/2006 Hans: Capes online play, a possible environment?
Hey all: For your reference, the following two websites seem like a pretty darn good way to organize an online Capes game: http://www.imaginationcubed.com/LaunchPage and perhaps even better http://www.vyew.com/content/ since it…
In Muse of Fire Games
Participants: Hans, Bret Gillan, Sindyr, AaronLehmann, Lxndr, Adam Dray.

7/24/2006 Iskander: [GenCon] Booth flyer - IMPORTANT for game designers
Dear designers, If you are going to GenCon, and have not yet looked at the GenCon menu thread, what are you waiting for? Love and hugs, Alexander P.S. I will…
In Conventions
Participants: Iskander, abzu, Justin D. Jacobson, LordSmerf, Emily Care, lumpley, jrs, timfire, Andrew Morris, Ron Edwards, Valamir.

7/24/2006 ColinC: Galactic Soundtrack
I hope to be playtesting Galactic sometime soon, and am trying to think of music to play while we're playing.  Here's what I've got so far. (all of these are…
In Dog Eared Designs
Participants: ColinC, Dev, joshua neff, Matt Wilson, Michael McAleese, ironick, Andrew Morris, Joe Dizzy, Frank T.

7/24/2006 Valamir: Gen Con Cash Register
Once again I'm providing the cash register that will be used at GenCon.  This year, instead of being staffed by overworked underpaid volunteers, Brennan of IPR will be providing the…
In Conventions
Participants: Valamir, Blankshield, Keith Senkowski, Matt Snyder, inthisstyle, iago, John Harper.

7/24/2006 Harshax: Healing as extended contest ~ how?
HQ suggests that one may treat healing wounds as an extended contest, by using the inverse (I assume) of the injury as the starting AP total, and a TN as…
In HeroQuest
Participants: Harshax, soviet, Mike Holmes, sebastianz, Doyce.

7/25/2006 muddlepud: My Life With Master (first time running)
So I bought My Life With Master the other day and was itching to run it. I got a humourous group of players together. We played it for laughs -…
In Actual Play
Participants: muddlepud, Ron Edwards, Adam Dray.

7/25/2006 Mr. Sluagh: Making it Big: the Band Roleplaying Game
This is a game idea I've been tossing around for a while, although I only started figuring out the specifics earlier tonight.  The default premise has the PCs as members…
In First Thoughts
Participants: Mr. Sluagh, Glendower, billvolk, slade the sniper, Tim M Ralphs, Nathan P., Arturo G., Call Me Curly, iago.

7/25/2006 slade the sniper: Finishing Touches on a new Game (well now what?)
[color=Blue][u][b]BLUF[/b]: [/u] I need art and advice on completing a game that is 75% to 90% done, but no art and no strategy for distribution or a final plan on…
In Publishing
Participants: slade the sniper, daMoose_Neo, Nathan P., btrc, abzu, Valamir, MatrixGamer.

7/25/2006 TonyLB: [Capes][DexCon] The impact of judgment
So, these days at conventions I play Capes in a competitive format.  I've actually got a formula (" ( ( Story Tokens * 2 ) - Debt ) * (Total…
In Actual Play
Participants: TonyLB, Bret Gillan, drnuncheon, Hans, phredd, Asperity, Matthew Glover, Noon.

7/25/2006 Joe Dizzy: [PTA] Company of Strangers
We played this game on Sunday after Ron had talked about Spione, the Forge and RPGs in general at “Die Burg” (the castle), which is where the local gaming club…
In Actual Play
Participants: Joe Dizzy, JasperN., Frank T, Ron Edwards, Jestocost, Matt Wilson.

7/25/2006 bluegargantua: Mr. Nobody Resolves
Hi,   I've got a conflict.  I've claimed one side of it.  No one else has claimed the other side, but, for various reasons, they all chip in some debt,…
In Muse of Fire Games
Participants: bluegargantua, Bret Gillan, TonyLB, Hans.

7/25/2006 boredoom: Same aptitude twice in one round?
The rules say you can't use the same faculty twice in a round. What about aptitudes? I think this must come up a lot: In a wrestling match, a player…
In Galileo Games
Participants: boredoom, inthisstyle.

7/25/2006 xlii: [WGP] Joss Whedon's Firefly?
I remember reading that WGP had been playtested running Buffy the Vampire Slayer Games. I'm underwhelmed with the Official Serenity/Firefly RPG and was wondering if anyone had run a similar…
In Incarnadine Press
Participants: xlii, Michael S. Miller.

7/25/2006 Lxndr: Outside Playtesters Wanted
[b]Ensemble[/b] has been getting a lot of playtesting, much of it very good.  However, I think it's time for it to go through some rigors in groups that don't happen…
In Connections
Participants: Lxndr.

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