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8/25/2006 iago: Agon: Heroic Traits Grab Bag
Okay, so, 10 Heroic Traits does not a sufficiently large grab-bag make, for me.  The ones provided on page 21 are *awesome*, but not in large enough quantities. So, I'm…
In one.seven design
Participants: iago, John Harper, demiurgeastaroth, jasonm, Shreyas Sampat, rafial.

8/17/2006 iago: [The Roach] Something interesting goin' on with them there stakes...
So, it's GenCon, and we're playing the Shab al-whatsit Roach, and I'm roached right from the beginning, and going in hard (5 status) on a particular conflict.  We know from…
In Actual Play
Participants: iago, jasonm, Mike Holmes.

8/16/2006 iago: [Sorcerer] Soulseller - The Game I'd Run (or the Supplement I'd Write?)
This might be an old idea, or it might be a new one.  If it's old, tell me! I'd love to go digest said old idea and make babies with…
In Adept Press
Participants: iago, Ron Edwards, Dav.

8/16/2006 iago: Spirit of the Century: Quick Info Thread
[b]Spirit of the Century [/b]is an upcoming Pulp RPG using a newly revised, fresh, potent version of the Fate system.  You can find out much more about the game here:…
In Evilhat Productions
Participants: iago, RedPissLegion, arete66.

8/16/2006 iago: Don't Rest Your Head: Quick Info Thread
Don't Rest Your Head is currently available at Lulu and IPR.  You can learn more about this game -- in which the protagonists are insomniacs who are so tired, and…
In Evilhat Productions
Participants: iago.

2/16/2006 iago: And we're back
The Evil Hat forum is back on the Forge after a hiatus.
In Evilhat Productions
Participants: iago, Valamir, Ben Lehman.

8/25/2005 iago: The Tower over on Actual Play
I'm starting a thread over in Actual Play about the game I was in last night, The Tower: http://www.indie-rpgs.com/forum/index.php?topic=16523.0
In Dog Eared Designs
Participants: iago, John Harper.

8/25/2005 iago: [PTA] The Tower
Rob Donoghue ran the pilot episode of "The Tower" last night, which was the first opportunity our group got to give Primetime Adventures a whirl.  We started out wanting a…
In Actual Play
Participants: iago, ScottM, Rob Donoghue, John Harper, Adam Dray, Andrew Norris.

8/2/2005 iago: Spirit of the Century
Here's a preview page for Spirit of the Century -- a project we hope to have published in PDF/POD form in Fall of this year: http://www.evilhat.com/spirit/
In Evilhat Productions
Participants: iago, Spooky Fanboy, Lord_Steelhand.

4/28/2005 iago: Cover Art for the Dresden Files RPG
The cover art for the Dresden Files Role-playing Game, from artist David Seidman of Lunar Light Studios, is in! Lunar Light: http://www.lunarlightstudios.com/ David put in some fantastic, hard work on…
In Evilhat Productions
Participants: iago.

3/31/2005 iago: Fate OGL is Now
As of today, Fate: Fantastic Adventures in Tabletop Entertainment, is available under the Open Gaming License. You can download the SRD here: http://www.faterpg.com/dl/Fate-SRD-2005-03-31.rtf
In Evilhat Productions
Participants: iago, ScottM, Zubon-do.

12/17/2004 iago: The Dresden Files Roleplaying Game Wears an Evil Hat
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: The Dresden Files Roleplaying Game Wears an Evil Hat Silver Spring, MD (PRWEB) December 16, 2004 -- Evil Hat Productions is pleased to announce that it has…
In Evilhat Productions
Participants: iago, Mike Holmes.

10/6/2004 iago: Pace released under Creative Commons
I've released the text of Pace under the Creative Commons attribution license. You can find details about this at the Pace page on Evilhat.Com.
In Evilhat Productions
Participants: iago, John Harper, Mike Holmes.

9/3/2004 iago: Sell me on a method: Creative Commons or OGL for a Pace SRD
We have plans for releasing Fate under an OGL license, hopefully on the heels of Fudge itself getting OGL'ed (an announcement was made some time back, but Grey Ghost has…
In Evilhat Productions
Participants: iago, Mike Holmes, Eero Tuovinen, Ron Edwards.

9/3/2004 iago: Welcome to the Evil Hat Productions Forum!
A quick hello and thank-you to the Forge for its continued support of Evilhat Production games -- in particular Fate and Pace (but I'll tip my hat to Texorami as…
In Evilhat Productions
Participants: iago.

2/17/2004 iago: Impossible Romance (Pyramid poll & rpg.net thread)
I've been having an interesting time chatting on this thread over on RPG.net: http://forum.rpg.net/showthread.php?s=&threadid=102754 I'll quote what someone said as the opener: ..Looks like something that should be discussed here…
In RPG Theory
Participants: iago, Ron Edwards, Rob MacDougall, jburneko, talysman, Scourge108, Paul Czege, artofmagic, Michael S. Miller, jrs, Lxndr, Mike Holmes, John Kim, M. J. Young, Tomas HVM.

2/17/2004 iago: Fate - What are negative aspects good for?
Over on the Fate RPG thread, artofmagic brought up a new question about the game. I'm going to respond to him here, since that thread was over a year dead…
In Evilhat Productions
Participants: iago, Ron Edwards, artofmagic, Rob Donoghue.

8/8/2003 iago: Going outside the village
So, I'm a sucker for taking games and seeing how far I can stretch them in terms of altering the setting, or subverting the paradigm (like, with Paladin, making the…
In Half Meme Press
Participants: iago, Mike Holmes, xiombarg, jburneko, Lxndr, John Harper, lumpley, joshua neff, Ron Edwards, Bryant, Bob McNamee, b_bankhead, Paul Czege.

7/29/2003 iago: What's In Your Setting Creation Toolbox?
I'm working on creating a setting book (or, at least, pamphlet, depending on patience level) for Fate, and I've run what's been done so far by several people. One of…
In Evilhat Productions
Participants: iago, gobi, Mark Johnson, Ben Lehman, M. J. Young, HMT, Mike Holmes.

7/29/2003 iago: Fate - Miskatonic Mayhem - Flashbacks in Gaming
I'm running a Fate game called Miskatonic Mayhem, basically a Buffy game set in Arkham at Miskatonic University, where the Mythos and the Buffyverse have been on a collision course…
In Actual Play
Participants: iago, Mike Holmes, joshua neff.

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8/26/2006 iago: Agon - First Among Equals
"First Among Equals" is the name I'm using for my Agon running.  I wasn't entirely expecting to, but I ran a session for two players, including character creation, end-to-end, one…
In one.seven design
Participants: iago, coffeestain, demiurgeastaroth, John Harper, Adam Dray.

9/2/2006 iago: Agon on OgreCave
Round about the 53rd minute of the latest OgreCave Audio Report, Mike Sugarbaker (I think) calls Agon "Game of Show".
In one.seven design
Participants: iago, John Harper.

9/2/2006 iago: Spirit of the Century - Preorder Starts Today!
<b>THE CENTURY CLUB NEEDS YOUR HELP!</b> <img src="http://www.evilhat.com/spirit/wallsclosein.gif">   The deadly Doctor Methuselah seeks to unravel time itself with his solution to the Eternity Equation... Gorilla Khan stalks darkest Africa…
In Evilhat Productions
Participants: iago.

9/12/2006 iago: Small/Tiny
I have an Inconspicuous demon that I'm thinking is fist-sized.  In the 'Big' ability, there's this note: "Without this ability, Passing or Inconspicuous demons may be dwarf-sized to largish-human-sized."  But…
In Adept Press
Participants: iago, Ron Edwards, Doyce.

11/1/2006 iago: Agon: Sightings
RPG.net: http://forum.rpg.net/showthread.php?t=294209 "How do I make my game feel more mythic?" And on the latest Ogrecave audio podcast (Oct 13th, I think?) Mike Sugarbaker talks more about Agon -- both…
In one.seven design
Participants: iago, John Harper.

12/6/2006 iago: Designing Dresden #5
I've posted a lengthy delving into the ideas of lethality and toughness in the Dresden Files RPG, from a "look at the design process" perspective. Interested? Check it out here:…
In Evilhat Productions
Participants: iago.

1/30/2007 iago: [GenCon 2007] Why to go independent from the booth / Why to stay with it
I just got back from Dreamation, and I had an interesting conversation with Joshua A. C. Newman about the decision to go make an independent booth vs. staying with the…
In Conventions
Participants: iago, Valamir, TonyLB, Matt Snyder, Justin D. Jacobson, nikola, abzu, c, Nathan P..

3/22/2007 iago: Ken Hite Wants Your New Releases Info for GenCon '07 - Deadline!
Hey folks.  Ken Hite mentioned this elsewhere, and I wanted to pass this along, so I contacted him and got his permission to do so.  Beyond the whole "what indie…
In Conventions
Participants: iago, Kevin Allen Jr.

5/23/2007 iago: [GenCon 2007] Indie Games Passport - Sign Your Booth Up!
[img]http://www.deadlyfredly.com/gencon07/indiepassport-thumb.jpg[/img]  So, this year I'm going to be working on doing the Forge Booth Menu, to help the Forge Booth better tell people who's games are there to be demo'd,…
In Conventions
Participants: iago, Ron Edwards, Valamir, RobNJ.

6/6/2007 iago: [GenCon 2007] The Forge Booth - Menu Update - Please Read!
I've put together a spreadsheet with the information I'll be using to construct the Forge Booth's menu.  I need all this information to be complete before the end of June…
In Conventions
Participants: iago, Ron Edwards, xenopulse, Troy_Costisick, Paul Czege, GregStolze, Denise.

6/13/2007 iago: [GenCon 2007] [Forge Booth] [Menu] You have 24 hours to pay Ron!
Hey, folks.  In the interests of keeping the "data churn" on my end to a minimum, I need to conform to Ron's Official List of Booth Folks in terms of…
In Conventions
Participants: iago.

6/26/2007 iago: [GenCon 2007] Indie Games Passport: Rubber Stamp Designs, stat!
[img]http://www.deadlyfredly.com/gencon07/indiepassport-thumb.jpg[/img] Attention: Folks involved in the Indie Games Passport! The place I'm going to be ordering the rubber stamps from is doing a 50% off sale for one week only…
In Conventions
Participants: iago, nikola, GregStolze.

6/28/2007 iago: [GenCon 2007] [Forge Booth] [Menu] Price List Finalized; Last Peek at the Design
This is the final peek at the Forge Menu (not the same as the passport -- that's still under development). Basically this is going to manifest as two 8.5x11 sheets…
In Conventions
Participants: iago, segedy, Gregor Hutton, nikola, Justin D. Jacobson.

6/28/2007 iago: [GenCon 2007] [Indie Passport] When's best for the prize drawing?
I'm looking for a time on Sunday that will be best to do the prize drawing for the Indie Games Passport. Is anything going on at Sunday noon that would…
In Conventions
Participants: iago, GregStolze, nikola, c, Paul Czege.

8/22/2007 iago: GenCon: Launching a Satellite Booth
The Forge booth was definitely interesting, and I'm glad we have the post-mortem thread going for that.  That said, I think it's possible others may be considering launching their own…
In Conventions
Participants: iago, Paka, abzu, TonyLB, jasonm, GreatWolf, JustinB, RobNJ, Ron Edwards, Michael S. Miller, Gregor Hutton, Paul Czege, nikola, Ben Lehman, Wolfen.

8/22/2007 iago: Gen-Con Indie Passport Critiques & Comments
I'm worried that the passport stuff is starting to overtake the GenCon post-mortem thread, so I'm starting this one. Perceptions appear to be in two different camps.  From where I'm…
In Conventions
Participants: iago, Valamir, GreatWolf, Blankshield, inthisstyle, Matt-M-McElroy, Ron Edwards, GB Steve, RobNJ, TonyLB, KeithBVaughn, WildElf, thelostgm, Lisa Padol, Thunder_God.

4/8/2008 iago: Other Places to Find Evil Hat Discussions
There are several Yahoo Groups: SOTC and Fate: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FateRPG (a very active community, several years old and going strong) DRYH: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/dryh (young, but populated by strong fans) Other places include:…
In Evilhat Productions
Participants: iago.

4/28/2008 iago: Indie Games Passport 2008
Hey folks, I will likely not be doing the Indie Games Passport for 2008 -- with Brennan missing GenCon, the amount of additional work I'll be taking on as IPR…
In Conventions
Participants: iago, hix, Jonathan Walton, Eero Tuovinen, Matt-M-McElroy, Justin D. Jacobson, Darcy Burgess, Andy Kitkowski, SaintandSinner, Gaerik.

5/8/2008 iago: [GenCon 2008] Forge Booth: Recruitment pitching
Hey folks, don't forget that we need to *hear from you* and get your commitment (and cash) before June 1st.  That's a little over three weeks away.  Don't miss out!
In Conventions
Participants: iago, Eero Tuovinen, Justin D. Jacobson, JustinB, Ron Edwards, segedy, Capulet, GreatWolf.

7/1/2008 iago: You should be excited about Misspent Youth
Because I sure as crap know I am. Rob, what can you tell us about the ashcan?
In Robert Bohl Games
Participants: iago, RobNJ.

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