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8/23/2006 Garvey: [Mortal Coil] Helping Directly
My group recently played Mortal Coil, (and I may post an actual play at some point) but in the process we had a few rules questions. As I understand the…
In Galileo Games
Participants: Garvey, inthisstyle.

8/21/2006 jasonm: From Game Chef to Gen Con [split]
Yeah, what she said, and also I'd love to hear about the transformation from Game Chef entry to functional, complete game. 
In ndp design
Participants: jasonm, Nathan P., ocasta.

8/22/2006 markus_cz: Nicotine Girls - an idea
Hi, in my game group we've finally decided to try this interesting game. Thinking about the rules, I had an idea. You see... we'd only play a one-shot. And in…
In Half Meme Press
Participants: markus_cz, Paul Czege, matthijs, Mike Holmes.

8/22/2006 Valamir: Fun With Greatest Deeds
I'm liking the whole Greatest Deeds tracking thing.  Here's a thought I had that sounded kind of fun. Cut up the Greatest Deeds sheet into 8 individual "cards".  Award the…
In one.seven design
Participants: Valamir, John Harper, demiurgeastaroth, iago.

8/22/2006 Valamir: More miscellaneous queries
1) NPCs have Divine Favor.  Is it possible for them to have a god and get Favored Ability bonuses as well? 2) You can buy an Advantage die for 1…
In one.seven design
Participants: Valamir, John Harper, demiurgeastaroth.

8/22/2006 Nathan P.: [Dreamation 07] A Crazy Idea To Start Thinking About
At Dreamation 07, we* should organize an Indie Playtest Explosion, either formally or informally, part of the overall Indie Games Explosion or not. The basic point of it would be…
In Conventions
Participants: Nathan P., Andrew Morris, Bret Gillan, Bill_White, RobNJ, TonyLB, Paka, mtiru, Kat Miller, Shawn De Arment.

8/22/2006 James_Nostack: aspects neither transformed nor redeemed?
Hi Michael-- in the end of our WGP game, one my aspects had been devastated, but we defeated the villain and devastated his Plan before I could redeem the aspect. …
In Incarnadine Press
Participants: James_Nostack, Kat Miller, Michael S. Miller.

8/22/2006 David Laurence: [DitV] Massive Supernatural Carnage in Play
This is a session I ran last night using this town, for the players I've been running as detailed here. (White Falls was good fun, but nothing I felt was…
In lumpley games
Participants: David Laurence, ffilz, oliof, Brennan.

8/22/2006 Nathan P.: Ask Non-Frequent questions too!
It occurs to me that I may be shooting myself in the foot with all the stickies. The stickies are for big-picture questions/questions that I've already gotten multiple times about…
In ndp design
Participants: Nathan P..

8/22/2006 ffilz: [DitV] Buttercup Overlook 1st session
Last night, we polished off chargen (the young couple needed gear, and the husband's character needed to clarify his Dogs relationship), did initiation conflicts, and got started on Buttercup Overlook.…
In lumpley games
Participants: ffilz, oliof.

8/22/2006 joepub: [Boulevard] Ranting! and how it works.
[url]http://competitiverpgs.pbwiki.com/f/Boulevard%20Board-1.pdf[/url] The link above my head shows a sample Ranting board. For a bit of context, check out this thread if you like: [url]http://www.indie-rpgs.com/forum/index.php?topic=21010.0[/url]. I closed that one and opened…
In First Thoughts
Participants: joepub, David Artman, stefoid, contracycle.

8/22/2006 Bret Gillan: [The Apostles] Setting Good Stakes
The basic notion: this game is supposed to reward good stakes-setting. That's sort of the point of it. To take a scene, dig down beneath the layers of what's going…
In First Thoughts
Participants: Bret Gillan, Joshua BishopRoby, TonyLB, Bill_White, LordRahvin.

8/22/2006 TonyLB: [GenCon] How does the booth red-tape work?
[quote author=Clinton R. Nixon link=topic=21000.msg217798#msg217798 date=1156272771] If we could, on the other hand, build some sort of indie shanty-town of booths, well, that'd be amazing, but it's not going to…
In Conventions
Participants: TonyLB, Blankshield, Justin D. Jacobson, David Artman, LordSmerf, Jonathan Walton, Ben Lehman, Valamir, Joshua BishopRoby, Troy_Costisick.

8/22/2006 Clinton R. Nixon: Planned downtime 8/27
The Forge will be down for maintenance, and hopefully, spam prevention on Aug 27, 2006 all day.
In Site Discussion
Participants: Clinton R. Nixon.

8/22/2006 Kai_lord: Look! Up in the sky! It's the CapesBOT!
Well, as Hans requested, I'm officially announcing my Capes IRC bot. It's designed to track turn order and conflicts in a IRC Capes game. As of right now, it doesn't…
In Muse of Fire Games
Participants: Kai_lord, Bret Gillan, jesterina, Hans, arcane, AaronLehmann.

8/22/2006 Cabbagetom: "Nightmare nineoneone" (PTA)
Greetings Forge!  I joined so that I could discuss Prime time and any other games we've tried out.  My group of players here in edinburgh scotland have varying tastes and…
In Actual Play
Participants: Cabbagetom, Eric J..

8/22/2006 Ron Edwards: [Bacchanal] GenCon demos and more
Hello, I decided to spin off of Meg's thread GenCon AP: Bacchanal, carry, Primitive, Roach, and more. In it, she said it was interesting to see the fleeting look…
In Actual Play
Participants: Ron Edwards, lumpley, tonyd, Frank T, markus_cz, Jonathan Walton, hardcoremoose, charlesperez, Jasper the Mimbo, matthijs.

8/22/2006 drnuncheon: Spirit preorders
Hey Fred! I just talked my FLGS owner into starting to order stuff from IPR.  Will there be some way to preorder SotC through him and still get the PDF?…
In Evilhat Productions
Participants: drnuncheon, iago.

8/22/2006 Clinton R. Nixon: [Mortal Coil] Frozen Alaska and serious rules questions
Brennan and all, My group played Mortal Coil last night in an awesome setting (the Klondike gold rush + necromancy), and I want to say that the setting-building part of…
In Galileo Games
Participants: Clinton R. Nixon, inthisstyle, boredoom, Doyce, coffeestain, jasonm, Nathan P., Andy Kitkowski.

8/22/2006 btrc: [soft landing] Seeking playtesters
As some of you know, one of the things I've been doing the past few years to stay awake on the Bataan Death March home from GenCon is to try…
In Connections
Participants: btrc.

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8/23/2006 Solamasa: [Mechaton] Assorted questions
Vincent, I have a few questions in the wake of two games and hours of explodey-mecha fun: 1.  A mech being attacked doesn't yet have a defence number, so goes…
In lumpley games
Participants: Solamasa, Valamir, lumpley, Ben Lehman, rafial.

8/23/2006 Eric J.: [Pentagon Game] How Anyone Can Love Roleplaying
Hello, I'd like to share a personal triumph with you guys. I'm visiting my old town for the summer on break from college.  I've been working on a RPG for…
In Actual Play
Participants: Eric J., JMendes.

8/23/2006 Noon: Crouching causality, hidden crane
I got into the issues of the previous design thread ('Must learn crane technique') and the problem point really, really surprised me. Which is a good thing. I'm going to…
In First Thoughts
Participants: Noon, Bill Masek, contracycle.

8/23/2006 Aaron: First Try (Sorcerer and Sword)
Sunday we played a session of Sorcerer and Sword and I've got to say fo the most part it went great! The guys were really into the character creation and…
In Actual Play
Participants: Aaron, Frank T, Ron Edwards.

8/23/2006 Melinglor: Shameless praise and some first-timer questions
Hi! I've been poring over the available (free) Capes material as well as this forum for the last few months, and I must say, Tony, this game is brilliant. Delicious,…
In Muse of Fire Games
Participants: Melinglor, Kai_lord, drnuncheon, AaronLehmann, TonyLB.

8/23/2006 lev_lafayette: Wither theory?
Now that the RPG Theory and GNS Model discussion boards have been closed I'm at a bit of loss on where theoretical perspectives on roleplaying ought to be published. Or…
In Site Discussion
Participants: lev_lafayette, r_donato, Ron Edwards, Valamir.

8/23/2006 Gregor Hutton: [Best Friends] Gen Con 06
I got to run short demo games of Best Friends on the booth at Gen Con 06. The knock on demos, in general, is that they aren't real games. In…
In Actual Play
Participants: Gregor Hutton, Malcolm, Yokiboy, John Kim, Ron Edwards.

8/23/2006 David Hallett: Another escalation question
We just finished our first town last night, and it was fun, though I think I can do better on the next one. We had to replay the final conflict…
In lumpley games
Participants: David Hallett, lumpley, Technocrat13.

8/23/2006 TonyLB: [Dreamation] The Indie Passport
This idea has been bandied about for years, and now the time has come.  It's a fun little invented reward for people to come hang around the booth ... and…
In Conventions
Participants: TonyLB, iago, Rob Donoghue, Ben Lehman, RobNJ, Technocrat13, Andrew Morris, Shawn De Arment, andrew_kenrick.

8/23/2006 Aaron Smith: PTA demoing at Con?
I'm looking to run several demo games of PTA at the San Fransisco bay area KublaCon on the memorial day weekend. I'd like to have a small stock of books…
In Dog Eared Designs
Participants: Aaron Smith, Matt Wilson, 1000buffalo.

8/23/2006 Malcolm: [Cold City] Gen Con After Hours Game
On the Friday night of Gen Con Indy, I had the good fortune to run what turned out to be a very intense game of Cold City for an excellent…
In Actual Play
Participants: Malcolm, nikola, Yokiboy, GB Steve, RobNJ, Rob MacDougall.

8/23/2006 LemmingLord: GURPS to CAPES Conversion
Oh my is this going to be fun.  This is my hypothesis: GURPS characters can easily be converted into CAPES and will point out that capes is all about narrativist…
In Muse of Fire Games
Participants: LemmingLord, Vaxalon, TonyLB, Gaerik, xeperi, Hans.

8/23/2006 Roy Batty: America vs. insurgents: RPG campaign allegory
I’m looking to get back into gaming after a long hiatus.  The idea that’s itching my noodle so bad that I have to run it:  explore the moral difficulties in…
In First Thoughts
Participants: Roy Batty, joepub, mikefernandez, anders_larsen, aaronil, lollerkeet, NN, MatrixGamer, TonyPace.

8/18/2006 opsneakie: Dogs in Nightmare
I've been playing Dogs and Afraid recently, and I've been wondering about possible adaptations of the system: For a while now, I've been toying with the idea of running a…
In lumpley games
Participants: opsneakie, lumpley, Taltos, Lagnath.

8/23/2006 DaveyJJ: Sorcerer retail in southern Ontario? Also newbie thoughts ...
I should quickly start off by mentioning the great community around here and wonderful sense that Ron has created something quite special and ground-breaking with Sorcerer as a RPG. I'm…
In Adept Press
Participants: DaveyJJ, Ron Edwards, epweissengruber.

8/23/2006 John Kim: [The Shab-al-Hiri Roach] Sweet innocence at GenCon
So I was interested by the thread on (The Shab-al-Hiri Roach) Disturbed at GenCon, and contrasted that with my own GenCon play of SAHR.  I played in a game of…
In Actual Play
Participants: John Kim, Technocrat13, jasonm, oliof, Ron Edwards, Adam Dray.

8/23/2006 John Harper: Agon: Post Your NPCs Here
This is the place to share your NPC builds. Only NPC posts here, please. If you want to discuss anything in this thread, start a new thread for commentary.
In one.seven design
Participants: John Harper, demiurgeastaroth, Willow, DainXB, NathanFrund, Excellence.

8/23/2006 John Harper: Agon: Post Your Islands Here
Post the Islands and associated Quests that you've created here. Quest-specific NPCs can also go here, though you may want to also post them in the NPC sticky thread. If…
In one.seven design
Participants: John Harper, iago, Ignus, Darcy Burgess.

8/23/2006 Rob Donoghue: [DitV] Jericho Mills, my first swing at a town
Too stoned on cold medicine to put together a coherent AP, but I figured I'd toss up my town writeup: Jericho Mills Jericho Mills is a small mill town, with…
In lumpley games
Participants: Rob Donoghue.

8/23/2006 David Artman: Booth Design: Size, Layout, and Theme
[size=8pt]...Ooookayyy. Maybe the third time's the charm--surely, I can't get booted out of my own topic....[/size] Please feel free to post your thoughts, suggestions, and experiences with regards to the…
In Conventions
Participants: David Artman, Gregor Hutton, TonyLB.

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