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9/2/2006 Uruush: [AP] FATE Wuxia One-Shot
This is a long post.  I'm going to post the FATE/gameplay-relevant part up first, then respond to it in a second post with the game report I sent out to…
In Evilhat Productions
Participants: Uruush, iago.

9/2/2006 IronMessiah: Writing for a game to which I have no license...?
Okay, first let me say this is my first post to The Forge.  I've long watched things going on here while I write my game materials and rules, but I…
In Publishing
Participants: IronMessiah, daMoose_Neo, Gordon C. Landis, guildofblades, greyorm, Blankshield, Thunder_God, Ron Edwards.

9/2/2006 dindenver: [LoL] Chargen idea
Hi!   I'm pretty happy with the character generation rules of LoL, but there is one part that always sort of nagged at the back of my mind: GM approval…
In First Thoughts
Participants: dindenver, anders_larsen.

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 Eric J. Boyd: [Shock:] Some questions and errors
Joshua, I picked up Shock: at Gen Con and finished reading it today. I'm very pleased to finally have a game for exploring real science fiction issues. That said, I'm…
In glyphpress
Participants: Eric J. Boyd, nikola, Iskander.

9/1/2006 metaltoad: Draconian d20
In the last D&D game I played we started coming up with a home brew variation of rules for the d20 system.  The result was a system that stripped down…
In First Thoughts
Participants: metaltoad, abjourne, neko ewen, Noon, Wood, TroyLovesRPG, anders_larsen.

9/1/2006 r_donato: My first attempt at game design
I've never seriously tried to design a game from top to bottom before, but I've had this idea kicking around in my head for a while and I thought I…
In First Thoughts
Participants: r_donato, Adam Dray, dindenver, sean2099, David Artman, contracycle, Doug Ruff, stefoid.

9/1/2006 James_Nostack: [Capes] Giant, Incontinent Robot Curmudgeon Ruins USS Intrepid
We played Capes last night.  "We" meaning the group from the "Curse of the Python God!" Sorcerer game and the "Blue Diamond Super-Spectacular Annual #1" With Great Power... game plus…
In Actual Play
Participants: James_Nostack, TonyLB, Jonathan Hastings, NBraccia, Hans, Kintara.

9/1/2006 gwangi: The Fundamental Mechanic (II)
I'm glad to have happened on this forum. I have been designing an rpg for just two days now in response to the "reveresed engineer" challenge. Basically, I inherited a…
In First Thoughts
Participants: gwangi, komradebob, Pol Jackson.

9/1/2006 Wood: [Messenger] Introduction
Hey there. I'm Wood. I write RPG books for (what passes for) a living on behalf of, among others, a big-ish publisher that doesn't get a huge amount of love…
In First Thoughts
Participants: Wood, Troy_Costisick, Skallagrim, TonyLB, WhiteRat.

9/1/2006 iain: [Mob Justice] Gencon 15 minute demos
[b]Gencon Demos - Actual Play Post [/b] So Gencon was a blast, and I ran a huge numbers of a demo titled ‘Betrayal at the Cold Cut Speakeasy’. The demos…
In Actual Play
Participants: iain, Malcolm, Ron Edwards.

9/1/2006 Iskander: [Shock:] GDMN, the Global Distributed MindNet is working for you.
As is our wont, we set out to play Shock: by the book (except where existing clarifications obtained). This gave rise to a groovy setting, some interesting issues and a…
In Actual Play
Participants: Iskander, nikola, Thor Olavsrud.

9/1/2006 aedaren: My First Game of Capes -- played online
Hey everybody!  I organized a game with my regular online group.  It turned out awesome!  I'm too tired to write very coherently, so sorry in advance. THE ENVIRONMENT I scrambled…
In Muse of Fire Games
Participants: aedaren, Hans, TheCzech.

9/1/2006 PKStyles: concept artist - character and creature...
my resume and portfolio are on my website - http://www.pkstyles.com Thanks for stopping by...if your interested in my work, please e-mail with your pay offers...
In Connections
Participants: PKStyles, Matt Wilson, Paul Czege.

9/1/2006 abjourne: History, Dream, Time, Hope, Confusion, Despair, Enlightenment, 3-19 & Thanks
I started playing D&D (blue & red) way back in 6th grade. I remember playing with the Caves of Chaos pull-out cover map sprawled out on the table as I…
In First Thoughts
Participants: abjourne, Troy_Costisick.

9/1/2006 Nev the Deranged: [The Isle] - First Thoughts
So, I have some First Thoughts. Actually they are only First as far as this forum is concerned, this idea is actually the tail end of a looong history of…
In First Thoughts
Participants: Nev the Deranged.

9/1/2006 Dantai: [Contenders] Indy Gen Con play report.
I've posted this on the PoD Games forum I thought I should post this in a forum where it might get read too. ;) Better late than never. Thanks Malcolm…
In Actual Play
Participants: Dantai, jasonm, Malcolm, Matt, LeSingeSavant.

8/31/2006 Altharis: You play the Elemental!
I've been thinking about a rpg based on "the magician's apprentice" by walt disney, in which you play the brooms! You play as an elemental being animated for a purpose....…
In First Thoughts
Participants: Altharis, Noon, Adam Dray, Sovem, Ron Edwards, brainwipe.

8/31/2006 Frank T: [Vampire 2E Sabbat] Of Evil and of Simulationism
The recent “kill puppies” thread reminded me of my Sabbat character, one of my favorite ever, and a truly evil one as well. We once had one of this show-off…
In Actual Play
Participants: Frank T, Sovem, Adam Dray, Ron Edwards, r_donato, Silmenume, Thomas Lawrence, Noon, JasperN., Caldis.

8/31/2006 Malcolm: [Cold City] Gen Con 2006 15 minute demos
I’d like to talk about both the preparation for these demos and the actual play experience on the Forge/IPR booth. Prior to coming to Gen Con, there were several evenings…
In Actual Play
Participants: Malcolm.

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9/2/2006 Emily Care: [Sign in Stranger]Gen Con playtest
Hey there, Friday night at Gen Con was the peak of the con for me. I got to play the amazing Stalingrad love tragedy of Shooting the Moon with Scott…
In Playtesting
Participants: Emily Care, bluegargantua, John Harper, Clinton R. Nixon, brainwipe, Jake Richmond.

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.

9/2/2006 nikola: The Official glyphpress Discussion Forum
I've just gotten the glyphpress discussion board up over on the glyphpress site. On it, you can find discussion about the rules of Shock: and Under the Bed, including errata…
In glyphpress
Participants: nikola, greyorm.

9/2/2006 Valamir: [Agon} Week 2
Following on the heals of this actual play thread and discussions from the Helping Dice thread in the Agon forum, our group played its second session of Agon last night.…
In Actual Play
Participants: Valamir, Adam Dray, Noon.

9/2/2006 Valamir: The quest for punchier combat
Ok.  Based on our latest actual play I've been thinking about a way to perk up Agon combat. Currently Agon combat is a fairly long, attrition based, D&D-esque whittling down…
In one.seven design
Participants: Valamir, demiurgeastaroth, John Harper.

9/3/2006 Christopher Kubasik: [Sorcerer] Creativeville: a Sorcrere One Sheet
[b]Inspirations[/b] The movies The Matrix, Brazil, Naked Lunch, Soylant Green, Wild at Heart and Blue Velvet; the books Brave New World, We. Also, current theocratic Christians in the United States,…
In Adept Press
Participants: Christopher Kubasik, Ron Edwards, Ben Lehman, pfischer, charlesperez, jburneko.

9/3/2006 ed_keer: [Wasteland] A modernist RPG
I've got an idea for an RPG based on modernist literature. This would be my first RPG and I admit I have never played an indie game. Oh, and I'm…
In First Thoughts
Participants: ed_keer, Technocrat13, Wood, Troy_Costisick, Nathan P., TroyLovesRPG, tonyd, Thunder_God, joepub.

9/3/2006 sean2099: (Divinity) Beta Playtesters wanted
Hi Forgites: I wanted to thank everyone for the past comments they have made about Divinity.  With your help, I have, at least in my own mind, have gotten to…
In Connections
Participants: sean2099.

9/3/2006 TheLHF: Large scale games.
Angry Argrath over on RPG.net mentioned that you could use HeroQuest to run anything you can write up a 100 word description for. Gods, kingdoms, cities or sailing ships all…
In HeroQuest
Participants: TheLHF, Der_Renegat, Vaxalon, droog, Lamorak33, Shreyas Sampat, Mike Holmes.

9/3/2006 Claudia Cangini: Freelance Illustrator
Hello, I’m an illustrator and would love to do some RPG work. Please, visit my gallery at the following link: http://claudiacangini.deviantart.com/ For any further information or to check about my…
In Connections
Participants: Claudia Cangini.

9/3/2006 eyebeams: Mongoose (split)
[quote author=lumpley link=topic=20139.msg210551#msg210551 date=1150477918] Matthew Sprange wrote me a little while back, offering to publish Dogs in the Vineyard under a new imprint that Mongoose is launching (or considering launching).…
In Publishing
Participants: eyebeams, Ron Edwards.

9/3/2006 ( o Y o ): [GroFaFo Challenge] the Great Below or a mother journeys to kill her beloved son
the Great Below This was my game for the GroFaFo-Challenge. Just to remember, the words were: Mother, Cave, Sensuality, Law and we had 72 hours to finish the whole thing.…
In Endeavor
Participants: ( o Y o ).

9/3/2006 Supplanter: Princes' Kingdom as Low-Dice Dogs Hint?
Vincent, awhile back you said that if you had to do Dogs over you'd give PCs fewer dice. How close is the general die-quantity range in TPK to your might-have-been…
In lumpley games
Participants: Supplanter, lumpley.

9/3/2006 Rob MacDougall: Gorgeous char sheet for superhero game using Dogs/Afraid hack
Some of my Boston friends are talking about running a superhero game using a variant of Dogs/Afraid as the basic system (what can I say, we/they love Dogs). I just…
In lumpley games
Participants: Rob MacDougall, coffeestain, lumpley, claes, johnobrien, Copperhead, zornwil.

9/3/2006 Waiwode: [Cold City]Kammergericht Nights.
We gathered together for our first session of Cold City. My “pitch” had been successful, the guys were all fairly eager to begin the new game, and the prospects of…
In Actual Play
Participants: Waiwode, Malcolm.

9/4/2006 ghashsnaga: Lacuna Questions
I moved this to a new thread as requested :) . I was looking for some guidance on running Lacuna. I ran a one night session using the first attempt…
In Actual Play
Participants: ghashsnaga, Thomas D, matthijs.

9/4/2006 Aussigamer: Magic System [Nexus] - Comments please
[b]SPELL CASTING BASICS[/b] Arcane spells are abilities beyond the scope of most ordinary individuals. [b]SPELLS[/b] A spell is a one-time magical effect. Magic is used by individuals with magical power,…
In First Thoughts
Participants: Aussigamer, Qi Chin, dindenver.

9/4/2006 Aussigamer: Nexus Stuff for your input
http://www.rpgprojects.com/downloads.php?cat=5 There are several items already there so pick one and lets chat.
In First Thoughts
Participants: Aussigamer, MikeH.

9/4/2006 qingtian: Babel Deluxe Game
Use your word skills to build an inspiring tower in this lexical challenge in the ancient world. Travel through time to a land where words have yet to be invented.…
In CRN Games
Participants: qingtian.

9/4/2006 c: Mechaton: The battle for Madison
So this isn't a roleplaying game per se. I did buy it at the Forge booth at Gen Con so I hope this post is alright. This isn't a post…
In Actual Play
Participants: c, brettspiel, Valamir, cdr, nikola, lumpley.

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