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9/9/2006 giblfiz: [Hell Tempered] play testers and opinions needed.
Hi everyone. I have just recently finished up with a second draft of an RPG, and I'm hoping to get some feedback from other game designers, and some playtesting from…
In Connections
Participants: giblfiz.

9/9/2006 Christopher Kubasik: Running Out of Budget
I know this has been covered. But my Search-Fu is failing me. What happens when the Producer's budget is eptied out? Does game play change in any way? Or do…
In Dog Eared Designs
Participants: Christopher Kubasik, Ben Lehman.

9/9/2006 Doyce: [TPK] First-time Princes' Kingdom, with a six-year-old!
So, I was planning for a pretty game-filled weekend anyway, but I got a great surprise when I got home from work: both the Shab al-Hiri Roach and my hard…
In Actual Play
Participants: Doyce, demiurgeastaroth, Storn, Noon, JasperN..

9/9/2006 Kensan_Oni: Opinion Gathering: Flavor of Fighting Games
I have been doing some reflecting on one of my projects, which I am still working out some of the kinks about. In the street-fighting genre computer game (from hereforth…
In First Thoughts
Participants: Kensan_Oni, Technocrat13, tj333, neko ewen, Hereward The Wake, Hans, Mike Holmes, Noon, Filip Luszczyk, Thor Olavsrud, nikola.

9/9/2006 Nathan P.: StoryGames Boston
All who live in the general Boston area are totally invited to a weekly StoryGames game night, held at Pandemonium Books in Central Square. The info: StoryGames…
In ndp design
Participants: Nathan P..

9/9/2006 sean2099: [Divinity] Quickplay derived from actual play notes
Hi all, This isn't the best actual play notes to post but I figure anything is better than nothing.  I had made this pdf file from notes that I took…
In Actual Play
Participants: sean2099, Ron Edwards.

9/9/2006 rafael: Looking to hire an artist
Hey, everybody, I'm looking for an artist who can contribute black-and-white illustrations to a role-playing game of modern horror.  This is a paying job. If you're interested, or if you…
In Connections
Participants: rafael.

9/8/2006 Spooky Fanboy: Whatever happened to Riptide?
Is it still gelling in the background, or is it kinda dead in the water? It sounded real cool...
In CRN Games
Participants: Spooky Fanboy, Clinton R. Nixon.

9/8/2006 JustinB: Marketing
Has anyone found any really good places to advertise games? Alternatively, can anyone recommend a marketing strategy or a place on this site where this has already been discussed?
In Publishing
Participants: JustinB, daMoose_Neo.

9/8/2006 clockworkjoe: Law & Orcdom: a fantasy remix of Law and Order
Some friends and I put together a new piece called Law & Orcdom. It looks at the world of law enforcement in a world of high fantasy, with stories ripped…
In Connections
Participants: clockworkjoe, Reithan.

9/8/2006 rafial: Buffing armor penetration
I've been considering experimenting with a house rule to say that each success spent on armor penetration gives -2 to the armor die roll, instead of -1.  My gut feeling…
In one.seven design
Participants: rafial, Valamir, demiurgeastaroth.

9/8/2006 rafial: One Shot Scoring
Here's my suggestion for scoring Agon sessions that are deliberate one shots: http://random.average-bear.com/Agon/OneShotScoring It's designed to put a little bit more tension onto the urge to blow through your Fate.
In one.seven design
Participants: rafial.

9/8/2006 Emily Care: [Agon] chasing shadows for Hades
We played Agon last night for the first time out here in western Mass.  We had a very fun time slaughtering mercenaries and members of an ancient assassin cult, though…
In Actual Play
Participants: Emily Care, Valamir, nikola, demiurgeastaroth, rafial, John Harper, Tony Irwin.

9/8/2006 gds: [Ruby] power 19
Hi, I'm the creator of a game called Ruby, which I have been working on for some time. I'm new to the forge though, and thought this would be a…
In First Thoughts
Participants: gds, baron samedi, Technocrat13, Ron Edwards.

9/8/2006 drnuncheon: Good demo/beginner town for 1-2 players?
So I've been demoing some indy games for the owner of my FLGS, letting him get an idea what they're like so he can actually talk them up after he…
In lumpley games
Participants: drnuncheon, ffilz, cdr.

9/8/2006 Victor Gijsbers: [1001 Nights] Somewhat chaotic, somewhat short
I played the charming little game 1001 Nights last wednesday with two friends of mine, Eva and Annette. The experience was pretty good, but maybe not 'good' unqualified. So, let…
In Actual Play
Participants: Victor Gijsbers, Ron Edwards, Emily Care, Nathan P., Meguey, lumpley.

9/8/2006 GB Steve: [Mortal Coil] Twisted 50s
I've got the bug at the moment so we started a new game of Mortal Coil last night with me as GM. In this first post I'll talk about my…
In Actual Play
Participants: GB Steve, Paka, Ice Cream Emperor, inthisstyle.

9/8/2006 hix: [Anti-Pool] Haunted London, and a rules question
I'm currently playing a game set in the universe of "The Haunting of Alaizabel Cray", a novel about an alternate London that suffered massive bombings by the Prussians, leading to…
In Actual Play
Participants: hix, demiurgeastaroth, Mike Holmes.

9/8/2006 charles ferguson: [TOTSG]: Some Hard Lessons Learned
Last night we had our 6th & final session of Throne Of The Spider God in it's current form. That form is heavily drifted from the draft I put on…
In Playtesting
Participants: charles ferguson, c, Valamir, John Harper, Ron Edwards, brainwipe, TonyLB, Reithan.

9/8/2006 Madheretic: Defining Abilities. Handy little gimmick?
Lately I have been noodling over the distinction between things like theory and craft, art and technique, etc. and how these kinds of categories can apply to a wide variety…
In First Thoughts
Participants: Madheretic, Adam Dray, dindenver, Kensan_Oni, Qi Chin, knicknevin, Ron Edwards, nikola, Jonathan Hastings, Hereward The Wake, David Artman, LordRahvin, contracycle, TroyLovesRPG, Call Me Curly.

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9/9/2006 Doyce: [Roach] Quick question in mid-game
I'm putting this up a couple places, and this is one of them -- apologies. Starting up a Roach game, and doing relationships: The game says you have a positive…
In Bully Pulpit Games
Participants: Doyce, jrs, jasonm.

9/10/2006 boredoom: [Nine Worlds] Talismans and Points
I just played in Iskander's game. Good time. I accumulated 14 Pride, which kind of scream to be put toward a talisman. But how do Talismans work in conflicts: do…
In Chimera Creative
Participants: boredoom, Matt Snyder, Iskander.

9/10/2006 Tim Alexander: Learning to Play again
Hey Folks, I've spent a long time in the GM role; most of it as an illusionist/roads to rome sort of guy but have taken a lot of steps to…
In Actual Play
Participants: Tim Alexander, c, Storn, TonyLB, Ron Edwards, charles ferguson, Noon.

9/10/2006 Iskander: [Shock:] GDMN class traitors throw spanners in the works
Thor, Dro, John and I met up again on Thursday to conclude our game of Shock:, started in GDMN - the Global Distributed MindNet is working for you. Here's what…
In Actual Play
Participants: Iskander, nikola, Thor Olavsrud.

9/10/2006 alexandro: New Secret- need opinions
[b]Secret of Privileges[/b] You are nearly always acompanied by allies, underlings or slaves and you are very skilled at directing them to do all the heavy-lifting for you. You may…
In CRN Games
Participants: alexandro, Clinton R. Nixon, Eero Tuovinen, shadowcourt.

9/10/2006 Tancred: [Actual DRYH Play] Dead Voices
Hey, just noticed this is up and running again! I posted this to rpg.net already, but since the forum here is back and active I thought I'd stick it here…
In Evilhat Productions
Participants: Tancred, iago.

9/11/2006 Supplanter: [TPK] Carnation Island
This one was created especially to hook my daughter, player of Princess Rose, so it's a "princess island." I threw in what would otherwise be more male characters than I…
In CRN Games
Participants: Supplanter, dunlaing.

9/11/2006 Ron Edwards: [Best Friends] Larceny, hatred, and supportive actualization
Hi there, Last weekend, after some noodling around with a whole stack of games in front of us, my regular group and I decided upon Best Friends as a kind…
In Actual Play
Participants: Ron Edwards, timfire, Gregor Hutton.

9/11/2006 GB Steve: Different responses to Mortal Coil
After publishing my Mortal Coil AP here, on rpg.net and Casus NO (a French rpg forum) I got very different responses. There wasn't a massive amount of discussion on any…
In Galileo Games
Participants: GB Steve, Eliarhiman6, inthisstyle, coffeestain, arete66, Steven Stewart.

9/11/2006 gds: Art pricing
So, this is a really vague subject I know, but I'm just wondering... I have a 200-or so page book, which will be digest size. I want some art -…
In Publishing
Participants: gds, Technocrat13, Ron Edwards, Paul Czege.

9/11/2006 RedPissLegion: [DRYH] My Head Hurts And So Does The Universe
In an earlier post I wrote about a couple of characters I and my girlfriend came up with for a Don’t Rest Your Head game. We played a bit in…
In Actual Play
Participants: RedPissLegion, iago.

9/11/2006 Pyromancer: [Galactic]Karlsruhe Playtest: Session 0 - Smugglers and Battlestars
Two weeks ago I finally managed to gather my Galactic-Playtest-Crew. A somewhat more details report (in German) can be found at http://grofafo.org/index.php/topic,28847.0.html To summarize it: We had a ton of…
In Playtesting
Participants: Pyromancer, TonyLB, Frank T.

9/11/2006 Storn: [PTA] Lions at the Gates
Got a chance to play Prime Time Adventures last night for the first time.  I did  some quickie sketches while at the table and they are imbedded in the character…
In Actual Play
Participants: Storn, Joe Dizzy, ubergeek2012, Paka, Bret Gillan, Matt Wilson.

9/11/2006 tonyd: [Burning Empires] When is it OK to hull a PC
Reading through the Burning Empires rules, it looks to me like it's quite possible to have a situation where a PC gets hulled, and the player continues to  play the…
In Burning Wheel
Participants: tonyd, Thor Olavsrud.

9/11/2006 Lamorak33: Pendragon Actual Play
Hi A while back I posted this, http://www.indie-rpgs.com/forum/index.php?topic=20909.0 Basically it was me bitching about the GM's style. I have since played a few games and exchanged a number of emails…
In Actual Play
Participants: Lamorak33, Caldis, Brand_Robins, Valamir, Noon, Web_Weaver.

9/11/2006 baron samedi: "Best practices" for adventure/campaign creation?
Hello Forgites! I'd like to ask the Forge's collective wisdom whether there exists somewhere a thread on the "best practices" for adventure/campaign creation, from a game writer's perspective? I'm not…
In First Thoughts
Participants: baron samedi, Anderon, anders_larsen, Matt, Wolfen, Noon, Eliarhiman6, TroyLovesRPG, pells.

9/11/2006 Justin D. Jacobson: [Passages] Help, Forge Playtesters, You're My Only Hope!
The last (and hopefully final) incarnation of the Passages ruleset is completed. The problem I've got is that I fear my existing playtesters have been tainted by my incremental rules…
In Connections
Participants: Justin D. Jacobson, Clinton R. Nixon, iago.

9/11/2006 alexandro: Helping other Characters
I think I have a problem regarding how characters can use their abilities to help each other. The book says, that you can use a secondary (or tertiary...etc.) ability to…
In CRN Games
Participants: alexandro, Clinton R. Nixon, shadowcourt.

9/11/2006 Sovem: [Divinity Horizons] Destiny mechanic
(This thread is an extension of this discussion.) Well, my wife and I spent almost the entire day yesterday trying to figure out a Destiny system for our DH game.…
In First Thoughts
Participants: Sovem, TonyLB, knicknevin, Wolfen, Valamir, sean2099, TroyLovesRPG.

9/11/2006 inthisstyle: Mortal Coil Actual Play
Here's a collection of threads to read about actual play of Mortal Coil: Old Gods Get Mean http://www.indie-rpgs.com/forum/index.php?topic=18067.0 Old Gods Returns http://www.indie-rpgs.com/forum/index.php?topic=18482.0 Arthurian enthusiasm http://www.indie-rpgs.com/forum/index.php?topic=18778.0 Dark Vegas http://www.indie-rpgs.com/forum/index.php?topic=20516.0…
In Galileo Games
Participants: inthisstyle.

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