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9/26/2006 Doyce: [Capes] Show me how this game works
Hey all, I'm wondering if there's any online Capes play going on at the moment.  My impression of the game is: a) Cool b) Potentially very fun with my players…
In Muse of Fire Games
Participants: Doyce, Vaxalon, James_Nostack, Hans, arcane.

9/26/2006 Emily Care: JiffyCon November, Western Mass
Hey there, We're having another mini rpg con in Greenfield, MA. It will be held on November 11 and we've got Best Friends, Carry, an Exalted Hack by Jonathan Walton…
In Conventions
Participants: Emily Care.

9/26/2006 jasonm: [Cold City] Operation Holle-Kehle
First session of Cold City with the Durham 3 last night - me, Clinton, Remi, and Andy.  Yes, that's four - we invited Andy to join us because Cold City…
In Actual Play
Participants: jasonm, Ron Edwards, Malcolm, Jonathan Hastings, Clinton R. Nixon, Andy Kitkowski, Storn, LeSingeSavant, Gregor Hutton.

9/26/2006 typo: [This Madness Ends Here!] First Look
First post here, introducing a game concept I've been toying around with based on any number of cliched confrontation scenes in movies and literature.  It was originally conceived as an…
In First Thoughts
Participants: typo, joepub, Valamir.

9/26/2006 joepub: [Boulevard] Define, Refine, Destroy
the basics (skip this if you know it): The game is called Boulevard. The basis is: You are a presuming, pretentious punk. You are an aggressive, militant kid who has…
In First Thoughts
Participants: joepub, Ice Cream Emperor, David Artman.

9/26/2006 sean2099: how to start up a test group once you have candidates (question)
I recently posted a news item on gamingreport.com looking for beta playtesters.  I have some responses but I need to know what the next step should be? To make it…
In Publishing
Participants: sean2099, David Artman, Valamir, joepub, andrew_kenrick.

9/26/2006 Aussigamer: [Nexus] Does this have the information you might need?
Name: Flechette Rifle (Storm Bringer) PL: 7 Type: Semi/ Automatic magazine feed Held: 2 handed Damage: 4d12(-4), Ballistic x3 (19-20) Single: Average: 22, recoil: 7 Burst: 3 rounds: 44, recoil:…
In First Thoughts
Participants: Aussigamer, Adam Dray, Matt, nikola, joepub, Mcrow, Eero Tuovinen, Jared A. Sorensen, Ron Edwards.

9/25/2006 Storn: [PTA} Lions at the Gate Week 3
This week was very, very good.  In TV parlance, ratings went up! Producer:  Bret Medea:  Judd Rion Greenwhich:  Bob Prometheus:  J Ulysses Station: me To be honest... I'm still feeling…
In Actual Play
Participants: Storn, John Harper, Paka, baron samedi, Bret Gillan.

9/25/2006 Selene Tan: 1001 Nights: Entertainment Analysis
I posted this in the Night Sky Games forum, and Meguey asked me to re-post it here. So in one of my classes, the first assignment was to write an…
In Actual Play
Participants: Selene Tan, Narf the Mouse.

9/25/2006 Doyce: [DitV] ... and it's about damned time!
Okay, so... it's been two years since I got Dogs.  More than that; I had one of the first pre-Gen Con copies of DitV and I loved it.  My enthusiasm…
In Actual Play
Participants: Doyce, Glendower.

9/25/2006 Darcy Burgess: [Black Cadillacs] Playtester(s) needed
[quote][i][size=14pt]It was really, really dark.[/size][/i] We were running lights out so that the Krauts wouldn't spot us.  I was at the head of the column, and nervous as hell.  Every…
In Connections
Participants: Darcy Burgess.

9/25/2006 Grail-Shadowblade: Dying Earth: The Raids
50 years ago the US government decided to approve a project designed to make a better soldier. This project continued for 10 years before they struck upon a new serum,…
In First Thoughts
Participants: Grail-Shadowblade, Everspinner, Kesher, anders_larsen, Aussigamer, sean2099, David Artman, Pol Jackson.

9/25/2006 Jonathan Hastings: Basic Story Token Clarification
I've read through the FAQ for an answer on this, but I still don't quite have a handle on it: 1. If I claim what ends up being the losing…
In Muse of Fire Games
Participants: Jonathan Hastings, Hans, TheCzech.

9/25/2006 Copperhead: SS Dogs breaking the game - split
[quote author=Spooky Fanboy link=topic=16895.msg179525#msg179525 date=1127258894] [quote author=Sydney Freedberg link=topic=16895.msg179519#msg179519 date=1127254126] The SS game wouldn't work because the SS aren't heroes: they ARE the hostile elements from Outside dressed up in…
In lumpley games
Participants: Copperhead, nikola.

9/25/2006 Willow: What is Shattered Vistas?
What is Shattered Vistas? Shattered Vistas is a game about life.  Life that sucks hard and is an uphill battle, possibly filled with eldritch horrors and ninjas. In Shattered Vistas,…
In First Thoughts
Participants: Willow, James Holloway, baron samedi, Mike Holmes, coffeestain, nikola, Joshua BishopRoby, c, Noon, TroyLovesRPG.

9/25/2006 Ramidel: [DitV] 82nd Airborne in Iraq
Well, I was looking over the necromanced SSitV thread, and I was struck on the head with this post: American megachurch fascism?  Yes, just as revolting.…
In lumpley games
Participants: Ramidel, demiurgeastaroth, Dev, Vaxalon, oreso, Call Me Curly, Taltos.

9/24/2006 David Coulter: [DitV] Actual Play: Still River
Last night was our first DitV session. It fucking rocked. I was a little nervous at first, as I haven't run anything quite like it before, but it really seemed…
In lumpley games
Participants: David Coulter, Copperhead.

9/24/2006 1of3: [Donjon] Variant: Bloody Donjon
Hi. I always thought that the idea of Donjon is great but the rules always felt clunky. Now a player didn't arrive and we decided to have some old-school dungeoneering…
In CRN Games
Participants: 1of3.

9/24/2006 Caesar_X: [Touch of Noir] Bidding to define conflict resolution
In the Film Noir game I've been working on, I've been thinking more about how to define player vs. player conflict resolution.  Each character has certain stats such as "Face"…
In First Thoughts
Participants: Caesar_X, JustinB, Artanis, joepub, TroyLovesRPG.

9/24/2006 Artanis: [Iä! Iä! Ph'iles] Twisting the plot
Hello, This is an idea submitted by my friend Julien for my game The Iä! iä! Ph'iles, a game of prep- and GM-less investigation with an attempt to include dramatic…
In First Thoughts
Participants: Artanis, pells, GreatWolf.

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9/26/2006 Glendower: [DITV] Three and three In authority
I'm still trying to cathc my breath after running a session of Dogs in the Vineyard with Six people.  I'd say it was a success, but man, I don't know…
In Actual Play
Participants: Glendower, Narf the Mouse.

9/27/2006 GregStolze: [ORE Noir] What's the intellectual equivalent of a 2x4 to the skull?
(This is a cross-post from RPG.NET, if you care.) was "Good Cop, Bad Cop" and it came to a thunderous conclusion last session. (A writeup from one of the players,…
In First Thoughts
Participants: GregStolze, joepub, Darcy Burgess, TroyLovesRPG, Vaxalon.

9/27/2006 Darcy Burgess: [Shock] Missing Rules?
I remember back in the heady days of the playtest editions that there was some talk re: fixing the game for two players. Did that ever happen?  From my reading…
In glyphpress
Participants: Darcy Burgess, nikola.

9/27/2006 tonylf: artwork for donations...
I'm working with a con in Charlotte, N.C. For $20 donations to the con, I'm creating artwork for gamers and perhaps gamer designers? Here are some samples of the kinds…
In Connections
Participants: tonylf, daMoose_Neo.

9/27/2006 chriscrouch: [SotC] Consequences - free tag?
So, I'm having a great time reading through Spirit of the Century. I've got a quick and easy question: When you put a consequence on someone, do you get a…
In Evilhat Productions
Participants: chriscrouch, iago.

9/27/2006 Kevin Allen Jr: [Cold City] In the Dirty Jersey
tonight was my first Cold City game. I have read the book and played malc's short demo. I am playing with James, and Carl, my roomates, and BJ, a friend…
In Actual Play
Participants: Kevin Allen Jr, Malcolm.

9/27/2006 Kevin Allen Jr: [Primitive] The island dwellers
Last week, as the meet and greet game for a new gathering of players I ran a game of Primitive. I was playing with some folks that had never roleplayed…
In Actual Play
Participants: Kevin Allen Jr, Paul Czege, Nathan P., Noon.

9/27/2006 Sindyr: Forum necrology: A question for the moderator
I know there is some rule about posting in older thread, but I was involved in several conversations a couple of months ago when I had a few different more…
In Muse of Fire Games
Participants: Sindyr, Vaxalon, TonyLB.

9/27/2006 Iskander: [Nine Worlds] Points question
[size=8pt][i]Shit! Fucking Firefox! Fuck! Fuck! I had a whole fucking page of post that FF just fucking nuked. I hate it. This crappy board system, too, that doesn't save a…
In Chimera Creative
Participants: Iskander, Matt Snyder, Jonathan Hastings, Thor Olavsrud, boredoom, Valamir, John Harper.

9/27/2006 Nathan P.: Countdown Play Log: The Gifted
[b]Intro[/b] This thread is a cleaned up text log of the Countdown game I'm currently running, called The Gifted. Countdown is a specifically play-by-email game, and can be downloaded [url=http://www.1km1kt.net/rpg/Countdown.php]here[/url].…
In ndp design
Participants: Nathan P..

9/27/2006 segedy: Problems with RPI / Alphagraphics?
I know that there are at least <a href="http://www.indie-rpgs.com/forum/index.php?topic=20790.0">a few folks here</a> doing printing with <a href="http://www.rpiprint.com/">RPI</a> / <a href="http://www.us297.alphagraphics.com/">Alphagraphics</a>, and I'm wondering-  is anyone else is seeing delays or…
In Publishing
Participants: segedy, jasonm, nikola, inthisstyle, timfire, Ron Edwards, Andy Kitkowski, Valamir, Joshua BishopRoby, Justin D. Jacobson, Paul Czege.

9/27/2006 Sindyr: Quick questions: Debt Staking Citation?
Came up in my regular weekly Capes game (I have a regular weekly Capes game! 4 hours most every Tuesday!  Had 3-4 sessions so far, developing nicely.) 1) Does the…
In Muse of Fire Games
Participants: Sindyr, Hans, TonyLB.

9/27/2006 Sindyr: Speeding up war of story tokens?
In the game we played last night, another player and I were going at a particular conflict very intensely - the final one of the scene and night.  He had…
In Muse of Fire Games
Participants: Sindyr, Hans, TonyLB, LemmingLord, Matthew Glover.

9/27/2006 Rimke: [Universalis] my first game
A few weeks ago Wilco, Rachèl, Brian and I came together to play a game of Universalis. We had met eachother on a Dutch RPG site and didn’t know eachother…
In Actual Play
Participants: Rimke, Valamir.

9/27/2006 peccable: [Flashback] Incorporating 'Indie' Sensibilities Into A 'Traditional' RPG
Even when I was mainly into 'mainstream' RPGs, I was always more attracted to the weirder ones: Continuum, Unknown Armies, etc.  So discovering the Forge and the Indie game scene…
In First Thoughts
Participants: peccable, Artanis, Joshua BishopRoby, Call Me Curly, r_donato.

9/27/2006 Sindyr: Capes FAQ suggestion
Hans, I *think* you are the overseer of the Capes FAQ, right?  There is one suggestion I would make for a change to it that I think would be very…
In Muse of Fire Games
Participants: Sindyr, Hans.

9/27/2006 Der_Renegat: intellectual and emotional "combat"
Interesting thread on rpg.net about intellectual and emotional "combat": http://forum.rpg.net/showthread.php?t=288090 A lot of inspirational ideas for HQ ! I like this part a lot: Clothing worn by the attacker…
In HeroQuest
Participants: Der_Renegat, Mike Holmes.

9/27/2006 Sindyr: More gloating...
A very interesting question was raised that I myself raised many months ago: Gloating If Resolving would violate the group Code the Claimant instead Gloats. Starting with their highest die…
In Muse of Fire Games
Participants: Sindyr, TonyLB, Dave Cleaver, Hans, Matthew Glover, Melinglor, Eero Tuovinen, Ben Lehman.

9/27/2006 Ron Blessing: [WGP] PDF vs. Print
What is the difference between the PDF and the print edition? I'm confused due to the different number of pages. Thanks!
In Incarnadine Press
Participants: Ron Blessing.

9/27/2006 Sindyr: The forums suffer some SERIOUS performance issue - give hamsters more food?
Old Topic was: http://www.indie-rpgs.com/forum/index.php?topic=20591.0 Things seem to be OK now, FYI Sindyr, It's your ISP. The site is plenty fast. And yeah, your post…
In Muse of Fire Games
Participants: Sindyr.

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