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10/4/2006 Andy Kitkowski: "Top 10 Lies told to Designers" (for the freelancers out there)
I saw this from a post at www.lifehacker.com , and while it's simple and we've seen or heard of most of them, there may be a couple that you can…
In Publishing
Participants: Andy Kitkowski, Ron Edwards, Justin D. Jacobson, Paul Czege, Joshua BishopRoby, Jake Richmond, greyorm, Steven Stewart, Clay, Editor Drew, Brand_Robins, Narf the Mouse, MikeRM.

10/4/2006 zornwil: As Dogs get more powerful...
I have looked around but haven't seen a topic on this...apologies if I missed it... With the NPC generation method, it seems to me that inevitably the PCs will be…
In lumpley games
Participants: zornwil, cdr, jburneko, Gugliandalf, ffilz, demiurgeastaroth, museleading, Vaxalon, nikola.

10/4/2006 Reithan: Looking for feedback on Setting, Design and Rules of Work In Progress
Penetrator is a sci-fi RPG with a foundation in the cyberpunk genre. The is meant to convey a sense of 'larger-than-life' characters in a dark, gritty, realistic sci-fi environment with…
In First Thoughts
Participants: Reithan, Joshua BishopRoby, James Holloway.

10/4/2006 Reithan: Experts Wanted
Starting work on gear classification for vehicles, weapons, computer systems, etc for use in a sci-fi/cyberpunk-based RPG, could use some help in categorizing things for skill/gear design like: Aircraft Spacecraft…
In Connections
Participants: Reithan.

10/4/2006 Everspinner: Online Dogs dice roller
Hello Daniel (coffeestain) is now kindly hosting the online Dogs dice roller at www.coffeestain.org/roller. Thanks, Daniel! Main features: No installations necessary Remote, real-time viewing of other player's dice Optimized…
In lumpley games
Participants: Everspinner, zornwil.

10/4/2006 Ice Cream Emperor: [Mortal Coil] Conflicts, Actions, Rules Confusion
I recently bought Mortal Coil, and while I am definitely interested in running or playing the game, I am extremely confused by the Conflict rules -- to the point that…
In Galileo Games
Participants: Ice Cream Emperor, inthisstyle, Eero Tuovinen, coffeestain, Doyce, dyjoots, N.riweeni.

10/4/2006 klausok: A game of With Great Power
This is a very slightly expanded version of my post to the Incarnadine forum. It is now some time since we played the game. I hope this description interests you,…
In Actual Play
Participants: klausok.

10/4/2006 sirogit: Inter-party conflict, role communication and TMW.
I'm trying to evaluate the different ways that inter-party conflict(Conflict between PCs in a close knit group of some kind.) seems to bring on somewhat ugly hardcore gamism, and how…
In Actual Play
Participants: sirogit, timfire, Storn, Phlophouse.

10/4/2006 Tully305: My "Power 19" for Imperium
[i][b]Imperium[/b][/i] is the working title for my sci-fi rpg.  To get the ball rolling, I've written up a Power 19 for the game.  Any feedback would be greatly appreciated! [b]The…
In First Thoughts
Participants: Tully305, TroyLovesRPG, Frank T, Vargr Scout, Icel, mholmes52.

10/3/2006 Brian_W: [Channeling] Binding Demons and Spirits
Somehow, I completely failed to figure out a fairly major part of my game... For what i have right now you can get a PDF of my notes at http://shadowedgames.awardspace.com/channeling.html…
In First Thoughts
Participants: Brian_W, Pol Jackson.

10/3/2006 mratomek: Best Name for Game?
I am working on a universal set of minis battle and adventure rules. Something along the lines of GURPS for miniatures. I have two working titles and need some help…
In Publishing
Participants: mratomek, joepub, Valamir, Call Me Curly, jackson_tegu, TroyLovesRPG, Joshua BishopRoby, Eero Tuovinen, GregStolze, Paul Czege, Ron Edwards, dindenver.

10/3/2006 W Alexander: [Little Fears] Room 9
Okay, I'll begin this post by noting that I don't typically recount my games in forums.  Me, I've never found reading the exploits of other groups that engrosing, but I…
In Actual Play
Participants: W Alexander, JasperN., r_donato, GreatWolf.

10/3/2006 Sovem: 2 player Universalis?
Is it possible to play Universalis, as written, with only two people? I tried it once, but it seemed that between two people, there just weren't enough coins to get…
In Universalis
Participants: Sovem, Aaron Smith, Valamir, Tony Irwin, Robotech_Master, Mike Holmes.

10/3/2006 GreatWolf: [Trollbabe] A simple rules question about injury
Back in June, my wife (Crystal) and I played Trollbabe for the first time.  In fact, it was part of our anniversary festivities.  We bought special Trollbabe dice with different…
In Adept Press
Participants: GreatWolf, Ron Edwards, Paul Czege.

10/3/2006 Stickman: Email bounced?
Hi Matt, I tried to contact you earlier about upgrading from the pdf to full paper version of the game, but the email got bounced. Is there a better way…
In Dog Eared Designs
Participants: Stickman, Matt Wilson.

10/3/2006 TonyLB: [Misery Bubblegum] K. I. S. S.
So, three weeks ago I had a game where you wrote down recurring conflicts on 3x5 cards, and hoped that they'd gel together, then you traded those 3x5 cards back…
In Playtesting
Participants: TonyLB, andrew_kenrick, marknau.

10/3/2006 Zahtevnik: Module Contest
This is a cash-prize contest for a gaming company, so I hope it's fine to advertise it here. If not then let me know : ) We're trying out our…
In Endeavor
Participants: Zahtevnik, Eero Tuovinen.

10/3/2006 droog: Con newbie runs Sorcerer
I just attended my first con on the weekend, so I thought I'd try to get down my impressions in an actual play context. Unicon is a small con run…
In Actual Play
Participants: droog, muddlepud, Ron Edwards.

10/2/2006 Joshua BishopRoby: Bangs&Illusionism - in which Ron beats down Confusion
This is a spin-off of the story-games thread Explain to me how Bangs are not warmed-over Illusionism.  Ron asked for some Actual Play. Dogs in the Vineyard Jesse's character Sebastian…
In Actual Play
Participants: Joshua BishopRoby, Ron Edwards, jlester, greyorm, Valamir, Noon.

10/2/2006 Frank T: [BARBAREN!] Revised Playtest Edition and Power 19
Hi everybody! Having a deadline (Spiel Essen) and switching from writing in German to writing in English has helped me to finally overcome my writer’s block on BARBAREN!. I have…
In First Thoughts
Participants: Frank T, r_donato, Ron Edwards, Eero Tuovinen, jrs, Ice Cream Emperor.

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10/4/2006 Brian Newman: [DITV] Having a point to make but no dice to back it up
My players are concerned about something in play -- a situation where they still have a great point to make or something they know is a winning argument, but they…
In lumpley games
Participants: Brian Newman, Valamir, Bankuei, Thomas Lawrence, James Holloway, lumpley, Elysium, Ron Edwards, jburneko, nikola.

10/5/2006 Reithan: GNS - Where??
I keep seeing references to the GNS Theory/Gaming Model. It seems that the relevant forum has been closed, though. Can anyone point me to any sort of definition/description/guide?
In First Thoughts
Participants: Reithan, Ron Edwards, r_donato, c.

10/5/2006 Bill_White: [Ganakagok] The Wedding Festival
The main campus of Penn State has "open gaming" at its student center -- "the Hub" -- every weekend.  The kids play board games, Magic, what-have-you; I've even seen people…
In Actual Play
Participants: Bill_White, Ron Edwards, TonyLB, Andrew Morris.

10/5/2006 chriscrouch: [DitV] Actual Play: Little Bison Lake @ Vorpalcon
[b]An Actual Play report for Dogs in the Vineyard at Vorpalcon 2006 (October 2006)[/b] (www.vorpalcon.com) [hr] This was my second time GMing DitV (never been a player), and my first…
In lumpley games
Participants: chriscrouch, Charles Nicholls, carnival, Warwick.

10/5/2006 JakeVanDam: Power 19- Unnamed Fary Tale Nar Project
It's a simple nar game designed around fairy tales. 1. What is your game about? fairy tales and the themes and elements common to them, especially Grimm's 2. What do…
In First Thoughts
Participants: JakeVanDam, baron samedi, c, hatheg-kla.

10/5/2006 Solamasa: [WGP] Are our heroes doomed to failure?
Hello, We finished a great first issue of With Great Power... this week!  I'll leave the Actual Play report to Anna, but I have a couple of troublesome questions. Question…
In Incarnadine Press
Participants: Solamasa, Kat Miller, Ludanto.

10/5/2006 r_donato: [Machiavelli] Italian vs. English words
Hi, all, As my work on Machiavelli proceeds (I should have a first draft ready in a couple of weeks), I have a decision to make. Machiavelli is set in…
In First Thoughts
Participants: r_donato, JakeVanDam, dindenver.

10/5/2006 Sindyr: Heroes: new show on NBC, mondays, 9PM
Guys - i don't think that this is entirely off-topic.  This show is all about the same heart that Capes is about - without the costumes. And I need to…
In Muse of Fire Games
Participants: Sindyr, Matthew Glover, epweissengruber, Hans.

10/5/2006 Glendower: [Burning Wheel] Spiking the Gift
Character burning for the game discussed here was going rough.  We had spent the last two sessions Burning (about 4 hours per session) with not a completed character in sight. …
In Actual Play
Participants: Glendower, Paka, abzu, memolith.

10/6/2006 Matt-M-McElroy: Books & Games for the Troops
Hey folks, I'm putting together a box of books, CDs and RPGs to send to some troops over in Iraq. If anyone is interested in donating stuff to be sent…
In Connections
Participants: Matt-M-McElroy, Eero Tuovinen.

10/6/2006 Mel_White: [Working Title: ‘Foresworn’] (Southern Exposure)
Greetings, I’m pretty new to independent RPGs and I’d like to contribute a little bit to the hobby with some Actual Play reports from Southern Exposure III.  I was disappointed…
In Actual Play
Participants: Mel_White.

10/6/2006 Shreyas Sampat: [not exactly actual play] Battles Are Crazy
Tonight I ran another island. It was way fun. As one of the challenges, the heroes had to "defend the corpse of the Golden Goar of Ion from the hounds…
In one.seven design
Participants: Shreyas Sampat, demiurgeastaroth.

10/6/2006 Eero Tuovinen: [Spien Essen] Demoing Universalis
So I heard from Ralph that Universalis doesn't traditionally have a very elaborate demo, and usually he just does a bit of tenets and a first scene as a demo.…
In Conventions
Participants: Eero Tuovinen, Valamir.

10/6/2006 marknau: [Fantasy Non-Heartbreaker] First Playtest
I conducted a one-hour playtest of my WIP, the result of which follows. What I’d like is to get some attention focused on the core mechanic: Successes, Dings, Complications, and…
In Playtesting
Participants: marknau, timfire, Adam Dray, Steven Stewart.

10/6/2006 dyjoots: [Mortal Coil] Passion questions
I'm just about set on the rules, but I'm running the game tonight for my wife so I wanted to try and get a few final clarifications on the way…
In Galileo Games
Participants: dyjoots, RedPissLegion, inthisstyle.

10/6/2006 Ron Edwards: Deleting with author's permission
Hi there, Occasionally, the forum software doesn't let me split threads. It works most of the time and not always. Clinton tells me it's buried way deep in the code…
In Site Discussion
Participants: Ron Edwards.

10/6/2006 Reithan: In need of informational source
I'm building a sci-fi game with a cyberpunk 'feel' (I think the proper term, as far as The Big Model goes would be Color...but I'm still hazy on the whole…
In First Thoughts
Participants: Reithan, Eero Tuovinen, Joshua BishopRoby, joepub, Certified, Call Me Curly, dindenver, TroyLovesRPG.

10/6/2006 Doyce: [Sorcerer] Revisiting the Conflict Resolution Mechanic
Okay. First of all, this is a scary thing to post.  Ron knows I've put a lot of hours into understanding and more importantly documenting others' understanding of the Sorcerer…
In Adept Press
Participants: Doyce, Eero Tuovinen, The_Tim, James_Nostack.

10/6/2006 Ron Edwards: [Forum News] Announcement
Hi guys, Due to changes in Issaries publishing policy, which have been in place for a little while now, this forum can't be held at the Forge any more. I'm…
In HeroQuest
Participants: Ron Edwards, boredoom, WildElf, Der_Renegat, Vaxalon, Ben Lehman, alexandre santos, lev_lafayette, Mike Holmes, MrWrong, tzunder, sebastianz, Web_Weaver, Ian Cooper, Ward, Blake Hutchins, rylen dreskin.

10/6/2006 museleading: Dying in Dogs
I'm reading the chapter on Resolution in Action (pg 89-90 in the new version) and I was hoping someone could explain something to me. For instance, I have a possessed…
In lumpley games
Participants: museleading, lumpley, nikola.

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