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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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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.

9/10/2006 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.

9/10/2006 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 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 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 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.

9/9/2006 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.

9/9/2006 beacon: [Idea] vision
Hello, it's my first thread at the forge, so please - don't shout at me too much ;p While reading Wiki searchin' for some information about terrorism, I've come out…
In First Thoughts
Participants: beacon, anders_larsen, brainwipe, Adam Dray, joepub.

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9/11/2006 Garth: Playing Without a Producer?
Here's our situation:  We came up with a great premise and set of characters and issues... then the Producer had to bow out.  Can't run the series. We hate to…
In Dog Eared Designs
Participants: Garth, Aaron Smith, John Harper.

9/11/2006 DAudy: [Sorceror] Storm Watch - A cathartic exercise in roleplay
Both my wife and I used to be avid roleplayers but children, work, scheduling with other players, and general dissatisfaction with play had reduced me to not playing at all…
In Actual Play
Participants: DAudy, Ron Edwards, Technocrat13, Blankshield.

9/11/2006 DAudy: [Sorceror] Storm Watch - character and world creation
In another post I talked a bit about botching up a game with my wife, then working through coming up with another game that looks like it will rock.  This…
In Actual Play
Participants: DAudy, Ron Edwards.

9/11/2006 JMendes: [TSoY] Rat Moon Setting (long - but juicy, hopefully)
Ahey, all, :) After eleven high-fun, high-learning, action-packed sessions, Rat Moon Rising has finally come to a close, bringing with it some interesting conclusions, some healthy post game talk, and…
In Actual Play
Participants: JMendes, Clinton R. Nixon, Ron Edwards, brainwipe, Melinglor, Ralek.

9/11/2006 Meguey: YLQ
I'm now officially working on a new game (yes, you may laugh now, those of you who heard my protestations at GenCon). It's called Miss Schiffer's School for Young Ladies…
In Night Sky Games
Participants: Meguey, Iskander, komradebob.

9/12/2006 MegaMinis: FREE Townfolk Mega Art License
24 different Free TOWN FOLK illustrations in TIFF format newly posted.  Mega Miniatures website  http://www.MegaMinis.com    launched a FREE artwork database on June 2006 and will be adding to this…
In Connections
Participants: MegaMinis.

9/12/2006 Matthew_Teets: Creating a "Hard" Science Fiction RPG --- Too Hard?
I'm working on trying to make a "Hard" science fiction game, basically without any "magic foozle" things or anything like that.  My biggest struggle is that with trying to use…
In First Thoughts
Participants: Matthew_Teets, Aussigamer, Eero Tuovinen, Noon, epweissengruber, TroyLovesRPG, razzmataz, b_bankhead, joepub, nikola, dindenver.

9/12/2006 Alan: A few rules questions
Hi John, Some quick questions on Agon second printing: 1) Under invoking hubris, it says losers suffer wounds. But under battle it says the winner gets advantage die. I suspect…
In one.seven design
Participants: Alan, rafial, John Harper.

9/12/2006 drnuncheon: [AP] Dogs in the Gamestore
[size=8pt][i]crossposted from [url=http://drnuncheon.livejournal.com"]Nuncheonland[/url], my LJ[/i][/size] "Indie Game Monday" continued last night with D. Vincent Baker's <i><a href="http://www.lumpley.com/dogs.html">Dogs in the Vineyard</a></i>, the game that got me into the whole indie scene…
In lumpley games
Participants: drnuncheon, Thomas Lawrence, cdr.

9/12/2006 Sovem: Dying to play
I am absolutely dying to try this game out, but I can't get my players to give it a chance for the life of me. To be fair, we're in…
In Universalis
Participants: Sovem, Trevis Martin, Mike Holmes.

9/12/2006 REkz: Re: Comments on Uni as a "storytelling game" vis-a-vis an RPG
[quote="Valamir"]Split from [url=http://www.indie-rpgs.com/forum/index.php?topic=17301.0]this thread[/url][/quote] Arturo, I was waiting to hear you say if you liked UNIVERSALIS or didn't like it after getting open-minded and buying it? My copy just arrived. …
In Universalis
Participants: REkz, Mike Holmes.

9/12/2006 Bobson: [DitV] Trial game
Last week, when 4/6 of my gaming group didn't show up for our scheduled D&D session, I pulled out a Dogs town I'd created, and ran it for the two…
In Actual Play
Participants: Bobson, lumpley, Adam Dray, r_donato, museleading, baron samedi, Ron Edwards.

9/12/2006 Keith Senkowski: CoS at GGG
If you live in NYC and want to play Conspiracy of Shadows check out the pitch this game that will be going on at GGG. The Hooded Ones The Silent…
In Bob Goat Press
Participants: Keith Senkowski.

9/12/2006 Web_Weaver: Extended Contests - Mining HQs Narrativist core
There have been many discussions here that have focused on utilising HeroQuest for a narrativist agenda, and many have expoused the view that the best way to facilitate this is…
In HeroQuest
Participants: Web_Weaver, Vaxalon, sebastianz, Lamorak33, Melinglor, Mike Holmes, Ian Cooper, Valamir, soru.

9/12/2006 Kai_lord: Capes Flowchart
Since I'm going to be running a few Capes Games at Southern Exposure, I made a simple flowchart to help me teach the game to new people. Any comments or…
In Muse of Fire Games
Participants: Kai_lord, Hans, TonyLB, Vasco Brown, oreso, Yokiboy, Keiko.

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.

9/12/2006 anders_larsen: [Distant Horizons] Game flow and Exploration Sheet
To understand what's going on here you have to read the initial post of my last Distant Horizons thread: http://www.indie-rpgs.com/forum/index.php?topic=20974.0 Sorry about this, but there are just a lot of…
In First Thoughts
Participants: anders_larsen.

9/12/2006 Jastlin: Professional Editing Services
Hello, I have more than 10 years of professional writing and editing experience with more than 25 years of gaming experience. I don't edit on the side, I do it…
In Connections
Participants: Jastlin, iago.

9/12/2006 boredoom: [Nine Worlds] Gaming Talismans
As mentioned in a previous thread, I have 14 points with which to buy a talisman. Thinking about how to distribute them, I got into a gamey mindset. Three main…
In Chimera Creative
Participants: boredoom, Matt Snyder, Ron Edwards, Iskander.

9/13/2006 Glendower: [Universalis/Burning Wheel] Playing a game to set up another game
In order to play Burning Wheel, I needed a setting.  I looked at all the settings currently out and thought to myself "I want a setting that everyone is invested…
In Actual Play
Participants: Glendower, Valamir, Thor Olavsrud, Sovem.

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