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8/26/2006 Halzebier: [The Pool] Playing with fewer dice?
Hi there! I'm a teacher and plan on running The Pool for a group of 5 to 8 students, aged 15 to 18, on an upcoming class trip. I'm worried…
In Playtesting
Participants: Halzebier, Artanis, Lxndr, Ron Edwards.

8/26/2006 Willow: [Town] Whitechurch, Extended
Based on Vincents suggestions that starting towns should ramp all the way up to hate and murder, I took the Whitechurch Branch out of Dogs and ramped it up.  (In…
In lumpley games
Participants: Willow.

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.

8/26/2006 Jake Richmond: Panty Explosion : Festival of Terror!
[b]Playing Panty Explosion[/b] Right before Gencon I got together with my younger brother Nick and some friends to play Panty Explosion. Nick had helped play test the game and was…
In Actual Play
Participants: Jake Richmond, Adam Dray.

8/26/2006 c: AP: Acts of Evil August 25th 2006
This is likely to be very long so I'm going to make three posts. Pre-game Clyde questions, actual play, and post-game thoughts/positions. So here's some stuff I noticed while rereading…
In Acts of Evil Playtest Board
Participants: c, Paul Czege.

8/26/2006 tonyd: [TSOY] Tales from the Aether: The Jovian Enigma
Enigma of the Great Red Spot is the sequel to Thought Lords of Mars, John Harper’s science-fantasy TSOY variant. The adventurers from the previous episode (with some staffing changes) have…
In Actual Play
Participants: tonyd, rafial, Daermon, John Harper, Judaicdiablo, philaros.

8/26/2006 Turbo: Exalted: The Gates of Heaven
First off, I apologise if this is breaking some bit of etiquette I didn't see in the sticky information threads. I've been running a short-term Exalted 2nd Edition game, and…
In Actual Play
Participants: Turbo, Noon, Sovem.

8/25/2006 Spooky Fanboy: [Afraid] Rules quesion
In the examples provided for Afraid, one of them has the GM making the stakes "If I win, his head gets chopped off." Rules-wise how does that work: 1) In…
In lumpley games
Participants: Spooky Fanboy, lumpley.

8/25/2006 forlorn1: Firefly-esque TSOY? culture interaction etc..
Anyone ever thought of combining these two great tastes?  I seem to have a vague memory that Clinton posted something about TSOY really shinning when it came to the interaction…
In CRN Games
Participants: forlorn1, Twobirds, Doyce.

8/25/2006 drnuncheon: Agon through IPR?
So, the owner of my FLGS was kind of interested in Agon - is it going to be available through IPR?
In one.seven design
Participants: drnuncheon, iago, John Harper.

8/25/2006 Sephera: Females game, too
I'm a fairly new D&D gamer (about two years). I started gaming with my husband and a few of our friends. There are four women that game in the group…
In Conventions
Participants: Sephera, iago, jasonm, Emily Care.

8/25/2006 DAudy: [Sorceror] Currency, Combat, and Confusion
Recently I started rereading Sorcerer in preparation for running a game.  However this time through when I hit the combat section of the rules I got all confused because they…
In Adept Press
Participants: DAudy, jburneko, Valamir, greyorm, Christopher Kubasik, Ron Edwards.

8/25/2006 GreatWolf: [De Profundis] Play-by-blog
Recently I happened to remember that, back in GenCon 2002, I had purchased a copy of De Profundis, a Lovecraftian roleplaying game...of sorts.  This was part of Hogshead Publishing's line…
In Actual Play
Participants: GreatWolf, Tim C Koppang.

8/25/2006 jburneko: [InTERRORgation] More of a Drill than a Game.
Hello Everyone, So, at the upcoming SoCal Con, I've decided to run Annie Rush's game InTERRORgation.  I don't like running games for the very first time at a con so…
In Actual Play
Participants: jburneko.

8/25/2006 Eric Minton: [Degenerate States] Metamorphosis
So I’ve been toying with a vampire LARP idea in which vampirism isn’t a metaphor for adolescence, but rather about growing out of adolescence.  Vampires start out beautiful and hungry,…
In First Thoughts
Participants: Eric Minton.

8/25/2006 demiurgeastaroth: Special Items
There's that section of the character sheet taunting me, tempting me, teasing me: Special Items. What sort of thing is that box for, and if it's for special items accumulated…
In one.seven design
Participants: demiurgeastaroth, rafial, iago, Valamir, John Harper.

8/25/2006 baron samedi: (RPG Layout) Questions on layout for 6"x9" format
Hello Forgers! I am looking for the advice of people who have some experience with layout for RPGs or books in 6"x9" format. I'm an amateur at doing layouts, I'm…
In Publishing
Participants: baron samedi, MatrixGamer, KeithBVaughn, Adam, Matt Wilson, Zach, Wolfen, madelf.

8/25/2006 iago: Divine Favor - Dice adders
Divine favor expenditure includes: 1 box: +1d6 to any roll 3 boxes: +1d8 to any roll My first question, one which may have been asked and answered (if so, apologies)…
In one.seven design
Participants: iago, John Harper, demiurgeastaroth, Valamir, coffeestain.

8/25/2006 demiurgeastaroth: Highest Legend Benefits
According to the rules, the Hero with the highest Legend gets a +2 Orate in leadership-type contests. I like this. But, possibly inspired by Ralph's Greatest Deeds idea, I'd like…
In one.seven design
Participants: demiurgeastaroth, iago.

8/25/2006 TonyLB: Be good!
Okay, I'm probably not going to have net access until about Labor day. That means that if something goes wildfire out of control it better be the cool kind of…
In Muse of Fire Games
Participants: TonyLB.

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8/26/2006 demiurgeastaroth: Monster Killing
I have a couple of NPCs I plan to post to the NPC thread, but I'm having trouble thinking of special ways to kill them. According to the rules, each…
In one.seven design
Participants: demiurgeastaroth, iago.

8/26/2006 PJ Jacoby: "Weekly Sensationalist Tabloid" the RPG. . .
Hehe, I think you know where I'm going with this. The first thing I need to know is if this premise has ever been published (real curious about that). The…
In First Thoughts
Participants: PJ Jacoby, neko ewen.

8/26/2006 Jonas Karlsson: [Sorcerer] Parasites, Possessors and Trolls
Last weekend I played Sorcerer with three friends. One of them, Björn, I've played with since, oh, 1994 or so. Through Björn's student dormitory I met Tobias and I guess…
In Actual Play
Participants: Jonas Karlsson, Ron Edwards.

8/26/2006 BWA: [Sweet20] d20 Keys
Clinton, My D&D group is just getting back together this week after a long hiatus, and we were all super excited to use the version of Keys you worked out…
In CRN Games
Participants: BWA, Clinton R. Nixon, cpeterso, ffilz.

8/26/2006 Andy Kitkowski: Looking again at Stat Descriptors
Hey, Something I've forgotten to get around to asking about for a few years(?) now. I've heard here and there that it was important to understand that the descriptors for…
In Adept Press
Participants: Andy Kitkowski, Gaerik.

8/26/2006 demiurgeastaroth: Invoking Hubris, and Non-combat Battles
There's a rule in the Hubris section that I wonder about: After rolling in a simple contest (win or lose) any player has the option to “invoke hubris.” <snip> The…
In one.seven design
Participants: demiurgeastaroth.

8/26/2006 John Harper: Darren's Hydra with Minions for Heads
This is so cool. Darren has designed a Hydra that has a bunch of extra heads treated as minions in the game system. This is so brilliant, I just wanted…
In one.seven design
Participants: John Harper, iago, demiurgeastaroth.

8/26/2006 Doyce: A *THIRD* Cover?
Okay, before I bitch that I ordered a revised edition copy of TSoY (apparently) about month too early and got the one cover I flat out do not like at…
In CRN Games
Participants: Doyce, Clinton R. Nixon, Squeeze, Skywalker, Brand_Robins, coffeestain, Clay.

8/27/2006 joepub: Pitch and a Miss (why my non-gamer friends won't try it)
So, this isn't really an actual play thread. This is an I-didn't-get-any-actual-play-because-I-can't-convince-my-friends-to-try-RPGs thread. So, I'm not going to get into specific examples here too much, because I want more general…
In Actual Play
Participants: joepub, Noon, Frank T, Alan, greyorm, Storn, Blankshield, Lamorak33, Doyce, Mike Sugarbaker.

8/27/2006 Turbo: Getting My Feet Wet -- 'Capes in the Wasteland'
Lo, after overloading my geek batteries (in the good way) at GenCon, an idea has grabbed a hold of me and refuses to let go. It's bad enough that my…
In First Thoughts
Participants: Turbo, Ken, Hans.

8/27/2006 John Harper: Agon: Actual Play Index
Post links to Actual Play here. I'll start with a few. The Bronze Chimera (Shreyas Sampat) http://njyar.thesmerf.com/blog/2006/08/food-agon/ First Among Equals Session Zero (Fred Hicks) http://forum.rpg.net/showthread.php?t=282403
In one.seven design
Participants: John Harper, demiurgeastaroth, Emily Care, hix, MikeSands, Mel_White.

8/27/2006 jim pinto: from the desk of...
Hi Everyone, This is my first excursion into the forums of the Forge. I had the pleasure of meeting a great deal of the lead Indie publishers at GenCon and…
In First Thoughts
Participants: jim pinto, Ron Edwards.

8/27/2006 LemmingLord: Gloating Feature
[i]Gloating If Resolving would violate the group Code the Claimant instead Gloats. Starting with their highest die on the Conflict they may turn dice to 1. For each die turned…
In Muse of Fire Games
Participants: LemmingLord, Vaxalon, AaronLehmann, Hans, drnuncheon.

8/27/2006 Adam Dray: Just a cool Dogs scene
At Games on Demand at GenCon this year, Carl Rigney runs Dogs in the Vineyard for me, Piers, Clyde, and Nathan.  Forgive me if I have the names wrong; GenCon…
In Actual Play
Participants: Adam Dray, c, Ron Edwards, Clinton R. Nixon, Frank T, cdr.

8/27/2006 Daermon: [tSoY] Quick one-shot report with some questions
So, after sitting on it for over a year, I finally convinced my group to try a game of tSoY. We ran the one-shot Rat Moon Rising and everyone seemed…
In Actual Play
Participants: Daermon, Clinton R. Nixon, r_donato.

8/27/2006 Dev: [Dust Devils] Texas Hold Em mechanic for consideration
More than a few times, people asked for a Dust Devils mechanic that works with Texas Hold 'em, in part to help ameilorate the problem of running out of cards…
In Chimera Creative
Participants: Dev, Matt Snyder, Hans, Nathan P..

8/27/2006 Silgaer: Nine Worlds - ¿similar to Nobilis?
Hello everybody, i'm totally new in this forum and in the world of indie rpgs. Maybe you can help me. ¿Is NW similar to Nobilis? if not in mechanics ¿similar…
In Chimera Creative
Participants: Silgaer, Matt Snyder, Ben Lehman.

8/28/2006 Jonathan Walton: Push Sales: Our First Month
In case anyone's interested in what sales figures might look like for a new product with a reasonable amount of hype, I've posted a summery of our first month's sales…
In Publishing
Participants: Jonathan Walton.

8/28/2006 Paka: Dictionary of Mu Available @ Indie Press Revolution
[url=http://www.indie-rpgs.com/forum/index.php?topic=3506.msg33348#msg33348%22"]Four years since the first post where the idea was spawned[/url], the Dictionary of Mu, a setting supplement for Sorcerer, is now available at [url=http://www.indiepressrevolution.com"]Indie Press Revolution[/url]. Inspired by Howard's…
In Adept Press
Participants: Paka, cpeterso, Yokiboy, Ron Edwards, iago.

8/28/2006 Ron Edwards: [Shock] rules question
More about setup, actually. So we're sitting at the table. Myself, Chuck, Bob, Betty, and Sue. The names are fictitious, this is not a real example, I haven't sat down…
In glyphpress
Participants: Ron Edwards, nikola, lumpley.

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