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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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 Keith Senkowski: [GenCon] Chairs
So who is taking these things home with them?  I'm bringing the shit down, but as I said in this thread, my ass can't store them and I am bringing…
In Conventions
Participants: Keith Senkowski, btrc, Valamir, abzu.

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.

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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.

7/25/2006 Tindalos: (DitV) Walker's End - First Town Attempt
Hey guys!  I've been lurking around here a lot, reading various towns, replying to a couple of threads.  So I finally decided to give my own try at writing a…
In lumpley games
Participants: Tindalos.

7/25/2006 Jonathan Walton: Push is for sale, baby!
I am very pleased to announce (having just recieved the final, beautiful copies from the UPS man) that Push vol 1 is now available.  Copies can be purchase from the…
In Publishing
Participants: Jonathan Walton, jasonm.

7/25/2006 coffeestain: [Mortal Coil] Conflict Example
Hey!  I've just read through the book briefly and I've got a couple of questions regarding conflicts. 1 - When are individual actions in a conflict round announced?  I suspect…
In Galileo Games
Participants: coffeestain, inthisstyle, bluegargantua, Nathan P., boredoom.

7/25/2006 joewolz: [tSoY] Call me ignorant, but I have a question.
This is a question for the man himself (Mr. Nixon): Your game is avvailable as open or creative commons.  I was wondering what the parameters are for publishing derivitive work? …
In CRN Games
Participants: joewolz.

7/25/2006 slade the sniper: A few questions on overall design of a new game
Greetings, I have made my first post in the Connections area and have gotten quite a bit of useful feedback so far, but I am now on a different track.…
In Publishing
Participants: slade the sniper, Willow, MatrixGamer, Selene Tan, Jake Richmond.

7/25/2006 oliof: [DiTV] Actual Play: Hurricane
I had the opportunity to play Dogs with Vincent this weekend when he was in Berlin, and it was the first time for me not to run the game but…
In lumpley games
Participants: oliof, lumpley.

7/25/2006 TonyLB: [Theory] What goes into a plot thread?
Now I hope that most of us understand that an actual plot is something that will be ripped to shred by the demonic bacchantes that are players in Capes.  If…
In Muse of Fire Games
Participants: TonyLB, Sydney Freedberg, Matthew Glover, Hans.

7/25/2006 Mandrake: Gamism in Balazar
I've got the impression that the general character of this board leans towards the narrative agenda As stated elsewhere, I run a (previously) combat centric gamist campaign set in Balazar…
In HeroQuest
Participants: Mandrake, Harshax, Mike Holmes.

7/25/2006 LemmingLord: The Exciting Challenge of Retcon in Capes
[quote author=Valamir link=topic=20398.msg214245#msg214245 date=1153867689] [quote]This is incorrect.  At least in one way: If winning a conflict is to have meaning, it must create at least in the moment a truth. …
In Muse of Fire Games
Participants: LemmingLord, TonyLB, Bret Gillan, Gaerik, xeperi, Sindyr, Asperity.

7/25/2006 ZenDog: [& Sword] Tir Nan Og - Onesheet
Hmm, it's a onesheet but it's longer than one sheet. Any thoughts and feedback would be welcome. The Land of the Young Welcome to The Land of the Young,…
In Adept Press
Participants: ZenDog, Frank T.

7/25/2006 klaveshy: Sin Progression on DitV
Hehehe. I'm quoting myself, so I'll just make like it's new, but I really want this answered, so I could use some help, guys. ;) "I'm trying to assemble a…
In lumpley games
Participants: klaveshy, jburneko, Brand_Robins.

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