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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: 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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.

9/26/2006 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.

9/26/2006 voidstate: ActualPlay.com - Cordial Invitation To Add Your Crazy Indie Game APs
Hi I've recently launched an actual play directory for gamers called (originally enough) actualplay.com. It's designed to help gamers find actual play reports of whatever games interest them, either as…
In Actual Play
Participants: voidstate, Nev the Deranged, Thunder_God, Ron Edwards.

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.

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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.

9/27/2006 Sindyr: Exhaustive list of everything you can do with Story Tokens?
I went to the Capes FAQ page looking for this, and did not find it. Here's what I can come up with off the top of my head.  Can anyone…
In Muse of Fire Games
Participants: Sindyr, Hans, Matthew Glover, Filip Luszczyk, TonyLB, Melinglor, Tuxboy.

9/27/2006 REkz: Universalis -- any Rules Gimmicks to "FORCE RPG-like" vs 'story-telling' style?
Uni gamers, I just got my copy of Unversalis.  Exciting! My small group just did a run of Prime Time Adventures, which I really enjoyed, but I heard a regular…
In Universalis
Participants: REkz, Andrew Morris, Zamiel, Valamir, Call Me Curly, demiurgeastaroth, Danny2050.

9/27/2006 Doyce: Stealing from DitV to 'slice' conflicts into smaller segments
Okay, I'm just brainstorming here, and I more than welcome input and thoughts. I got Dogs a couple years back -- one of the first couple conflict-resolution-level games that I…
In HeroQuest
Participants: Doyce, sebastianz, Mike Holmes.

9/27/2006 billvolk: [AKA] Fun with Cinematics
I finally hosted the first real one-shot playtest of All Kinds of Awesome, which began as a Tri-Stat setting but for which I've now made a significantly different system. The…
In Playtesting
Participants: billvolk, Adam Dray.

9/27/2006 mratomek: [Mod Forces] When Mobs Attack
Been altering the rules lately. I was hoping to create a system where a character's Power Level is directly translated to a dice. For example, a PL 6 is a…
In Playtesting
Participants: mratomek.

9/27/2006 Sindyr: splitting question
OK, this also happened last night: (more or less, I don't remember exact details) Someone claimed a side that would win, a side I was allied to. The single die…
In Muse of Fire Games
Participants: Sindyr, Hans, TonyLB, Matthew Glover, Filip Luszczyk.

9/28/2006 GB Steve: [1001 Nights] The camel, the monkey and the pirate with no name.
PCs Farouk (Simon) - Chronicler - old with disgusting hands - Ambition: have Sheherezade cure my hands Sheherezade (Paula) - Perfumer - young and vital with healing hands - Ambition:…
In Actual Play
Participants: GB Steve, Meguey, Pelgrane, fon.

9/28/2006 oliof: Gigantic Roach seen in germany! News at 11
Hi, a new kind of sumerian roach has been successfully put on photograph: http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&q=Germany&ie=UTF8&z=17&ll=48.857868,10.205666&spn=0.003551,0.010364&t=k&om=1 enjoy,     Harald
In Bully Pulpit Games
Participants: oliof, jasonm.

9/28/2006 Pelgrane: [Mission: Ineffable] Playtesters Sought
Mission: Ineffable is the winning entry in the 2005 Game-in-Day competition held at Dragonmeet. As a disembodied spirit, you occupy the bodies of those on the way to damnation. By…
In Connections
Participants: Pelgrane, Ron Edwards.

9/28/2006 TJ: [Mortal Coil] Theme Documents
Hello, I am getting set to run some MC in the near future.  I am wondering what others' Theme Documents actually look like.  I am also making a form for…
In Galileo Games
Participants: TJ, GB Steve.

9/28/2006 Filip Luszczyk: Character death, removal, transformation or cloning
I've been pondering how the game would work with Comic Code that would allow character death, in specific circumstances for specific characters, or without any limits. Actually, this could happen…
In Muse of Fire Games
Participants: Filip Luszczyk, TonyLB, dunlaing.

9/28/2006 Meguey: [Sign In Stranger] File clerk, some typing
This is Emily Care Boss' game in developement. Joshua, Emily, Vincent, Julia, and I all created worlds in private to start. We had a choice of planet size, and we…
In Playtesting
Participants: Meguey, Emily Care, andrew_kenrick, nikola.

9/28/2006 Eric J. Boyd: [The Committee for the Exploration of Mysteries] Playtesters Needed
The Pitch: You're a group of pulp heroes just returned from an expedition into the unknown sitting with your peers of the Committee gathered around to hear your report. Brandy…
In Connections
Participants: Eric J. Boyd.

9/29/2006 Melinglor: Confessional: I was an Illusionist Wanker!
I've been mulling this over for while, and finally decided to post about it. I think I just need to get it off my chest. Apologizes if it takes awhile…
In Actual Play
Participants: Melinglor, Precious Villain, Noon, Ron Edwards, Barlennan, Glendower, Frank T, Call Me Curly, Joe Dizzy, Caldis, komradebob, contracycle.

9/29/2006 Eero Tuovinen: [Spiel Essen] Preparing sales material
OK, here's what I got: Essen Forge Directory. It still lacks a front page, I'll figure out something appropriate later. It's one sheet per game, with a picture, short description,…
In Conventions
Participants: Eero Tuovinen, Justin D. Jacobson, Frank T, Matt, Ron Edwards, ocasta, segedy, oliof, Markku Tuovinen, jasonm.

9/29/2006 Der_Renegat: Bladerunner
I was doing some research for ideas how to write scenes which are dramatic but happen without combat. This resulted in a write up for Bladerunner. If somebody is interested,…
In HeroQuest
Participants: Der_Renegat, Vaxalon, Mike Holmes, sebastianz.

9/29/2006 sabakakrazny: Terran Praesidium Seeking Playtesters
The Terran Praesidium, a science fiction game setting to be published by Avenger Games is now moving forward! What does this mean to the rest of the world? As we…
In Connections
Participants: sabakakrazny.

9/29/2006 Lamorak33: Oh no, a new Vampyr iteration of Sorcerer
Hi I have been asked to run a World of Darkness Vampire game. Clearly I don't want to use the WoD system as others have said, it 'does not do…
In Adept Press
Participants: Lamorak33, The_Tim, James_Nostack, Trevis Martin, Blake Hutchins, charles ferguson, Anthony Herring.

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