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8/8/2006 baron samedi: [Chronicles of Erdor] Doing away with proper nouns?
Hello everyone, I'm in the process of writing the 2nd edition and supplements of a French indie fantasy-oneiric RPG, and thinking ahead on how I'd do a translation-adaptation to English.…
In First Thoughts
Participants: baron samedi, Joshua BishopRoby, andrew_kenrick, Everspinner, Castlin, davidberg, reprobate, Kesher.

8/8/2006 Claudia Cangini: [DitV] Why sending them to Bridal Falls should ok
Since Vincent already gave some direction about who and what for should post in the “Send them to Bridal Falls” thread, and not wishing to contradict him, I took the…
In lumpley games
Participants: Claudia Cangini, Taltos, Vaxalon, Gaerik, Bret Gillan, Eliarhiman6, Liminaut, demiurgeastaroth.

8/8/2006 Jeremiah Lahnum: Avoiding the Roach from Beyond the Grave
I just read this game a few days ago and I'm eager to play it.  Other members of my group are pretty excited as well.  One thing I like is…
In Bully Pulpit Games
Participants: Jeremiah Lahnum, jasonm.

8/8/2006 contracycle: The raid on the Bank Nationale de Paris
The raid on the Bank Nationale de Paris I have been asked to provide an account of a heavily stylised, storngly directorial game that I have GM'd succesfully, and have…
In Actual Play
Participants: contracycle, Paul T, Sydney Freedberg, Ron Edwards.

8/8/2006 gorckat: [DitV] Generic Townspeople List
Hey folks! I recently got my hands on a (apparently older/first edition? its dated 2004, I think, and doesn't have some of the things I've seen mentioned here, like alternate…
In lumpley games
Participants: gorckat, Warren, cdr, chriscrouch, demiurgeastaroth.

8/8/2006 Gaerik: My GoD sessions...
Hello Game Designers! GenCon gets kicked off tomorrow night and I'm stoked.  One of the things I'm doing is manning the Games on Demand table for a single session on…
In Conventions
Participants: Gaerik, jasonm, Kat Miller.

8/8/2006 Clinton R. Nixon: GenCon demo fest Wednesday night
Peoples of the Forge, Wednesday night, I will be organizing a demo-fest. I'm sure you've got a 10-minute demo of your game, right? I'd like to help you get better…
In Conventions
Participants: Clinton R. Nixon, Justin D. Jacobson, JohnU, TonyLB, Michael S. Miller, Nathan P., John Harper, Ben Lehman, Blankshield, joepub, Yokiboy, Lxndr, Paka, Meguey.

8/8/2006 KickAssClown: The art of Zen, Tao, and the Matrix
Alright, I have my own first thoughts about a game, but for now that is not what I am going to post here, yet. I was looking to make a…
In First Thoughts
Participants: KickAssClown, David Artman, dindenver, davidberg.

8/8/2006 Rustin: [Afraid] With a Nerfed Monster
Sunday I got a chance to run Afraid with the Monster found here . Overview My players much preferred battling a monster to the regular rooting out sin, passing…
In Playtesting
Participants: Rustin, Marhault, lumpley, Mark Woodhouse, WhiteRat, Ron Edwards, Spooky Fanboy.

8/7/2006 grinnock: [Numbers] first impressions
I’ve been aware of this forum for a while, but I haven’t really delved into it. I’ve got a buddy who’s been pushing me in this direction and now that…
In First Thoughts
Participants: grinnock, TonyLB, memolith, Ron Edwards.

8/7/2006 Paul T: Silent Railroading and the Intersection of Scenario Prep & Player Authorship
Hello! I've had a bit of realization recently. I've started GMing a game with a mix of experienced roleplayers and newbies. I'm applying some Forge techniques, and generally with great…
In Actual Play
Participants: Paul T, TonyLB, jburneko, Ron Edwards, JMendes, Marco, Demiurge, Frank T, Dav, demiurgeastaroth, Web_Weaver.

8/7/2006 Justin D. Jacobson: News About RPI
I just got a letter from RPI and "Alphagraphics", and I know a lot of us around here have used them and intend to use them in the future. So…
In Publishing
Participants: Justin D. Jacobson, TonyLB, jasonm.

8/7/2006 Keith Senkowski: GenCon Loading Dock
Any of you monkeys out there know which street access to the loading dock is off of?  I didn't deliver or take shit away from there last year so I…
In Conventions
Participants: Keith Senkowski, Michael S. Miller.

8/7/2006 BeZurKur: [AFMBE] Cool Idea or Car Wreck?
Hey guys, I'm been applying the GNS theory -- as best as I understand it -- to my games, and they have shown considerable improvement.  We are having more fun…
In Actual Play
Participants: BeZurKur, Zak Arntson, Thomas D, Roger, BlackTerror.

8/7/2006 fredrikr: "What if I need to lift a rock?"
At the beginning of my second ShadowQuest session on of the players commented on the lack of common stats in the system, remarking that it might be difficult to deal …
In HeroQuest
Participants: fredrikr, Der_Renegat, Mike Holmes, Web_Weaver, droog, Raedwald Bretwalda, Ian Cooper.

8/7/2006 fredrikr: [Shadow World] Tales of the Storm Falcon - Part 2
Hello everyone, sorry about the extended silence. It's been about two weeks now since I held the second session of my ShadowQuest game, I just haven't gotten around to writing…
In HeroQuest
Participants: fredrikr, sebastianz, alexandre santos.

8/7/2006 MartiniPhilosopher: Alchemy and Apothecary in a gamist/narrativist system
I am currently working on fleshing out a personal project in which I am attempting to do some bridging between Narrativist and Gamist camps. Part of my design decision in…
In First Thoughts
Participants: MartiniPhilosopher, Joshua BishopRoby, dindenver.

8/7/2006 Eliarhiman6: [TSoY] Changing the Past
I searched for an answer to this question in the rules and in this forum, but I didn't find anything: A Khale traveling in the Green World could go in…
In CRN Games
Participants: Eliarhiman6, Twobirds, Gaerik, John Harper, joshua neff, Eero Tuovinen, Clinton R. Nixon.

8/7/2006 coffeestain: [Forget] Reward Cycle
Forget is a game about discovering your character in play and exploring strong co-ownership of characters and setting.  The premise is simple and takes cues from movies such as The…
In First Thoughts
Participants: coffeestain, matthijs, Nathan P., Joshua BishopRoby, c.

8/7/2006 TonyLB: New 15-minute demo could use review
Okay, after gruelling labor of hard, laborious work, I finished up the new version of the fifteen minute demo.  Here's the funky new features I intend to show off at…
In Muse of Fire Games
Participants: TonyLB, Kai_lord, Ben Lehman, dunlaing, John Harper, Matthew Glover, Markku Tuovinen.

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8/9/2006 JMendes: [TSoY] (June Retreat) Meaning, story arcs, GMing techniques, stakes neg. (long)
Ahey, all, :) Man, this report is loooong overdue. Anyway, the following is an account of the TSoY story arc I played during my June Retreat. It focuses on techniques,…
In Actual Play
Participants: JMendes, Clay, Joshua BishopRoby.

8/9/2006 andrew_kenrick: [MLWM] meeting no criteria for an epilogue
I ran my first game of MLWM last night, and it mostly went well (I'll post a report here later). We did find a slight hitch though ... When testing…
In Half Meme Press
Participants: andrew_kenrick, Jonas Karlsson.

8/9/2006 xenopulse: [Beast Hunters] Artist(s) Needed
I am in need of at least one artist to illustrate my upcoming game, Beast Hunters.  The game is about an ancient group of tribal warriors who hunt down magical…
In Connections
Participants: xenopulse.

8/9/2006 Randulf: Jousting combat example
Here's a sample joust to be sure I understand the ins and outs of combat, especially as it relates to Baldwin, the character I posted here.  Please kibitz. For all…
In Adept Press
Participants: Randulf, Mister Six, Calithena.

8/9/2006 Randulf: Stealth messages?
Hi, up at the top of the screen it says "Hey, Randulf, you have 2 messages, 0 are new. " but when I click the word messages I am taken…
In Site Discussion
Participants: Randulf.

8/9/2006 JMendes: [TSoY] (June Retreat) Five Keys in need of Feedback
Ahey, :) A'ight, then, here's a bunch of Keys that came up during this play session, which stemmed from this initial situation. I'm gonna post these on the wiki, eventually,…
In CRN Games
Participants: JMendes, Twobirds.

8/9/2006 jonthegm: [MLwM] First Time - Our Life with Lord Billingsworth
To begin our (about 5 hour) session, we set out to create The Master. After a good half hour of creative prodding on my part and a mix of serious…
In Actual Play
Participants: jonthegm.

8/9/2006 andrew_kenrick: [MLWM] My Life with Herr Doktor
So last night I ran my first game of My Life with Master, and all in all I think it went pretty well. I botched a couple of rules, including…
In Actual Play
Participants: andrew_kenrick.

8/9/2006 Taltos: Alternate 'disadvantage' approach?
We are ramping up for our Firefly based DitV setting and in going through the first conflicts I had a thought on a way to handle disadvantaged situations that I…
In lumpley games
Participants: Taltos, Wolfen, demiurgeastaroth, Eliarhiman6.

8/9/2006 SilentScope: Tycoon: First Draft
[quote="Tycoon"]In this game set in the far future, the entire galaxy is run by tycoons, business magnates and moguls that have managed to gain themselves political power by using economic…
In First Thoughts
Participants: SilentScope.

8/10/2006 Chirikh: RP Log Thread.
I'd posted these on the old forum, and the online game has some new folks who need the old backstory again. So it's past time to be doing them up…
In Galileo Games
Participants: Chirikh.

8/10/2006 BeUrgaust: Calvinballing for viable combat?
Okay lets set a scene... lets do a wuxia kungfuish game with a strong narritive bent. However, the rules for combat are as follows: The participant of combat that initiates…
In First Thoughts
Participants: BeUrgaust, Noon, matthijs, Filip Luszczyk, Thomas D, tj333.

8/10/2006 Taltos: [DitV - Firefly] Whirling with the Dervish
The background: Some friends and I are inspired by the DitV mechanics, but one of our players is horribly turned off by the setting. He is a big Firefly fan.…
In lumpley games
Participants: Taltos, JMendes.

8/10/2006 Jonas Karlsson: [Sorcerer] Prep, Swedish 19th century folklore
Next weekend I'm playing Sorcerer with three friends, and now I'm preparing for the character creation session. I have suggested three different settings in an email, and the players were…
In Adept Press
Participants: Jonas Karlsson.

8/10/2006 MJGraham: [Insurrection] Idea for using Karma to resolve conflicts
I wanted to run this idea for using a karma based system for resolving conflicts and I was hoping for some criticism At the beginning of a scene the GM…
In First Thoughts
Participants: MJGraham, matthijs.

8/10/2006 Jacob: [DitV] Reoccurring NPCs / Towns in Dogs
I’m getting ready to start running my first DitV campaign, and one of my players has mentioned that she would really like to emphasize on in-game relationships. She pointed out…
In lumpley games
Participants: Jacob, Vaxalon, Eliarhiman6, baron samedi, oliof, Bret Gillan, Claudia Cangini, lumpley, cdr.

8/10/2006 stack0v3rflow: [System] System check
OK, so the setting is the William Marshal meets “Fast and the Furious”, kind of a knight-punk; think “A Knight’s Tale” with good music and a larger part for Alan…
In First Thoughts
Participants: stack0v3rflow, Joshua BishopRoby.

8/10/2006 andrew_kenrick: [Six Bullets for Vengeance] Second Playtest - this time with 100% more apes!
We played the second playtest game of Six Bullets last night. This time round we had the right number of players (7), and with a mix of veterans and newbies,…
In Playtesting
Participants: andrew_kenrick.

8/11/2006 ElliottBelser MKII: {HENSHIN!} I need a resolution mechanic...
I'd like to make a game about teenaged magical girls juggling relationships and a normal life against thier duty to fight the monsters menacing their school and town.  Mostly Sailor…
In First Thoughts
Participants: ElliottBelser MKII, Kesher, Kintara.

8/11/2006 Wolfen: Rats in the Walls - Playtesters needed
Greetings! My fellow Forgites, I am in need of your services, if you are interested in helping me out. I've (finally) gotten around to putting together the latest version of…
In Connections
Participants: Wolfen.

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