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10/20/2006 GreatWolf: New Universalis review...on Boardgamegeek?
Weird but true.  Here is the link.
In Universalis
Participants: GreatWolf.

10/20/2006 pells: [Avalanche] - Thoughts on promotion
A very late follow-up from this thread, I am now ready to begin the promotion of Avalanche. At my disposal, I have those tools : an english and a french…
In Publishing
Participants: pells, Eero Tuovinen.

10/20/2006 Web_Weaver: GM as Facilitator, looking for signposts in the unknown
This post falls between Actual Play and First Thoughts. I place it here because primarily I am involved in adaptation of rules, and a radically altered game is likely to…
In First Thoughts
Participants: Web_Weaver, timfire, TroyLovesRPG.

10/20/2006 Iskander: [TSoY] Harm and success
So, Prince Abdul ibn Rahman al'Katab, heir to the Sultanate of the Striped Isles, is this eight-foot tiger guy, and he's in Hell, where he's unwittingly challenged the late Soul…
In CRN Games
Participants: Iskander, Clinton R. Nixon, Thor Olavsrud.

10/19/2006 timfire: An observation & a thought (AoE & KPfS)
I'm not sure where I want this thread to go, but I had an observation from our last playtest and a thought. During our last playtest---our second actual play session…
In Acts of Evil Playtest Board
Participants: timfire.

10/19/2006 jasonm: Five players?
Hey everybody, My weekly group wants to go nuts with Agon, but I'm concerned that five players is too many - I've played with three and that seemed perfect.  Any…
In one.seven design
Participants: jasonm, demiurgeastaroth, LeSingeSavant, John Harper.

10/19/2006 oliof: [Spiel Essen] The first impressions
Hello, a late night first report from Spiel Essen. To start with something you all like to hear: We have sold about thirty units, and sold out one game line…
In Conventions
Participants: oliof, Justin D. Jacobson, inthisstyle, Ron Edwards, ocasta, Ben Lehman, StefanS, Frank T, Matt, Jürgen Mayer, Daniela Nicklas, JasperN., Paul Czege, Eero Tuovinen.

10/19/2006 Melinglor: [PTA] the Penultimate Nightshade Alley
This is apparently the week for awesome Actual Play for me. Two days after I had this killer Over the Edge session with my regular group, I played PTA with…
In Actual Play
Participants: Melinglor, Paul T, hix, Kami-no-Mark, cydmab.

10/19/2006 Hans: [Donjon] Mind Control
Hi all: Here is a quick question; how have you all dealt with people trying out Mind Control type effects.  Specifically, when a person makes a casting roll, and has…
In CRN Games
Participants: Hans, memolith, Markku Tuovinen.

10/19/2006 Pelgrane: Call of Cthulhu survey
Pelgrane are doing a new version of Call of Cthulhu under license, and we've done a survey to get some idea of what people want. This data should be taken…
In Publishing
Participants: Pelgrane.

10/19/2006 Malcolm: [Contenders] This Must Be The Place
So after unanimous consent in the pub last week, this week we sat down to play Contenders. So there we sit round Per’s kitchen table drinking…ginger beer? Regardless of the…
In Actual Play
Participants: Malcolm, Joe Murphy (Broin), pfischer, iain, Dantai, Yokiboy.

10/19/2006 Kuma: Announcing the Mix-O-Tronic Challenge!
Kuma Pageworks is proud to announce the Mix-O-Tronic Challenge, a game design workshop and competition dedicated to stretching the boundaries of role-playing game design. Using the enigmatic <a href="http://mixotronic.elseworld.org">Mix-O-Tronic</a>, a…
In Endeavor
Participants: Kuma.

10/18/2006 LeSingeSavant: [Agon] Camp Nerdly: The Island of Ithaka
We played Agon the first night of Camp Nerdly. After a half hour of prep, I was ready to go. Character generation went fairly smoothly, and we ended up with:…
In Actual Play
Participants: LeSingeSavant, foucalt, John Harper, rafial, jasonm.

10/18/2006 Storn: My SotC character for upcoming game
Hi folks.  While I don't have the actual character in hand, I think I can get the gist of the character across.  Paka is holding the character sheets, just so…
In Evilhat Productions
Participants: Storn, iago, Paka.

10/18/2006 jasonm: [Grey Ranks] The Big Grid
I haven't talked about Grey Ranks much, but I feel like I'm getting close to playtesting and will start asking for feedback on bits and pieces.  So:  In GR you…
In Playtesting
Participants: jasonm, Hans, Narf the Mouse, Bill_White, Joshua BishopRoby, Valamir, Troy_Costisick, Ben Lehman.

10/18/2006 Remko: [Dust Devils]: Failing to get really intensive conflicts
I'm now back from a small con, where I ran a short Dust Devils session, and it didn't go as I had hoped. I made a short analysis, which I've…
In Chimera Creative
Participants: Remko, Eero Tuovinen, Hans.

10/18/2006 MikeRM: [Errantry] Playtests wanted - medieval quests game based on TSOY rules
Announcing version 0.9* of Errantry, a game of knightly quests: http://www.csidemedia.com/files/Errantry.pdf This is medieval fantasy – as the medievals knew it. Play… a valiant Knight, a resourceful Lady, a talented…
In Connections
Participants: MikeRM.

10/17/2006 Ludanto: [AFRAID] Victimization & Nightmarish Resources Questions
OMG this is awsome and I'm super sad that I have to wait for a book. :(  I'm going to try to run a game anyway. Questions: 1)When a victim…
In lumpley games
Participants: Ludanto, lumpley.

10/17/2006 ElliottBelser MKII: Seeking Playtesters for a Cardgame of Interstellar Domination
'Lo all!  Armored Wing, a strategy card game of interstellar domination... with mecha!... is hitting open playtesting. No, it's NOT going to be collectible.  To the great relief of the…
In Connections
Participants: ElliottBelser MKII.

10/17/2006 crowyhead: [TSOY] New Ratkin shamanic secret
I'm kinda geeked because I wrote my first ever custom TSOY secret this week.  I'm playing an albino ratkin shaman named Lutra, and Josh (shadowcourt) and I have been having…
In CRN Games
Participants: crowyhead.

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10/21/2006 Willow: [Agon] First Try
Tim, Len, and myself met for a rousing session of killing things (and taking their stuff). The night started off a little humorously, Tim's computer couldn't be connected to both…
In Actual Play
Participants: Willow, rafial, John Harper, TJ.

10/21/2006 Willow: Some More Rules Questions
After having actually played the game now: How much Glory does a PC get for beating an NPC in a simple roll?  1?  1, plus another 1 + NPC's cost…
In one.seven design
Participants: Willow, John Harper.

10/21/2006 jasonm: [Grey Ranks] Incentivizing Play
...which is a fancy way of saying that I'm thinking about bonuses and penalties. The core mechanic is a die roll that must exceed the current scene number (1 through…
In Playtesting
Participants: jasonm, Troy_Costisick, Hans.

10/21/2006 daMoose_Neo: Halloween Upcoming- Anyone doing anything to promote your titles?
Last year I did a little something fun: I handed out cards from my dark fantasy game Final Twilights to older trick-or-treaters in my community. Posted about it on the…
In Publishing
Participants: daMoose_Neo, Jake Richmond, andrew_kenrick.

10/21/2006 Jake Richmond: Theft
Is PDF sharing a problem you are concerned about? I wasn't until recently. In the last few weeks sales of the Panty Explosion PDF have dropped from about 3 copies…
In Publishing
Participants: Jake Richmond, JakeVanDam, Joshua BishopRoby, daMoose_Neo, Wolfen, c, timfire, David Artman, pigames, Yokiboy, Peter_Hollinghurst, Steven Stewart, Ken, Ron Edwards, andrew_kenrick, David C, demiurgeastaroth, GregStolze, greyorm.

10/22/2006 andrew_kenrick: [Six Bullets] Making a better bullet
I've been tinkering with the rules for conflict resolution in Six Bullets for Vengeance, mostly as a result of the last playtest we did (which is here ). Over the…
In Playtesting
Participants: andrew_kenrick.

10/22/2006 Everspinner: [Experimental] The bastard child of Polaris and Shadowrun
Some background: Our group has been playing Shadowrun for the longest time (15 years). The latest incarnation is under new management (GM) and is called SRTeens, as we are playing…
In Actual Play
Participants: Everspinner, Ben Lehman, Steven Stewart.

10/22/2006 John A: [tMW] First game...
Yesterday a group of us met to play the first half of a game of the Mountain Witch, lasting about 7 hours in all. Myself, Alex F, David, Bjorn and…
In Actual Play
Participants: John A, timfire.

10/23/2006 Gregor Hutton: [It Was A Mutual Decision] Huw and Delphine
Tonight we played a game of It Was A Mutual Decision, a game that doesn't get enough AP around here (I found one from Ron here, for comparison). We had…
In Actual Play
Participants: Gregor Hutton, Shevaun, Ron Edwards, jburneko, Malcolm.

10/23/2006 Frank T: [Spiel Essen] Numbers and impressions
Hi everyone! So, back from Essen. It was a lot of fun and also very exhausting. I am at work right now, so I don’t have time to post extensively.…
In Conventions
Participants: Frank T, jasonm, Justin D. Jacobson, Eero Tuovinen, Paul Czege, oliof, TheTris, StefanS.

10/23/2006 Simon C: [Savage Worlds] New thinking on old style of play
Hi!  I'm new 'round these parts so please forgive me if I've missed some forum rules, and for starting off with a hefty post. Recently I finished a long running…
In Actual Play
Participants: Simon C, baron samedi, r_donato, anders_larsen, Storn, Barlennan, Narf the Mouse, Mike Holmes, Noon.

10/23/2006 Graham Walmsley: Rabbit cartoons
I'd like some cartoons of a running rabbit (well, a hare, actually, but the idea's the same). They're for my website, which is at: http://www.catchyourhare.com/ As you can see, I've…
In Connections
Participants: Graham Walmsley, daMoose_Neo.

10/23/2006 GB Steve: Universalis spotted in Forbidden Planet
I was browsing in Forbidden Planet on Friday night. It's the largest comic book, DVD and genre fiction outlet in London. They have a selection of RPGs, about 3 IKEA…
In Universalis
Participants: GB Steve, Salar, Tony Irwin, Valamir, Mike Holmes, Alex Fradera.

10/23/2006 Nephilim: [Wiedergänger] First ideas for a game...
Hi there! I'm one of the Projekt Odyssee authors from Germany and part-time Forge-reader (though not poster). The successful cooperation at the Essen game fair made me think about posting…
In First Thoughts
Participants: Nephilim, Troy_Costisick, David Artman, dindenver, TroyLovesRPG.

10/23/2006 oliof: [Roach] Rules additions and game handling propositions.
Hi, in some conversations at Spiel Essen I talked to people that played the Roach and complained about it being too random. I gather this is because of some things:…
In Bully Pulpit Games
Participants: oliof, jasonm.

10/23/2006 Nathan P.: [Carry] NC Gameday AP-ish
Jeffrey Collyer, (forlorn1 on these boards) is a fine fellow that I've gamed with at Dreamation and Dex Con. He contacted me a couple of months ago about running carry…
In ndp design
Participants: Nathan P., Technocrat13.

10/23/2006 Salar: Universalis as creator of worlds
Hi all, I've just bought Universalis and spent my weekend reading through it (instead of working) and I must say I'm really impressed by both its simplicity and it's depth…
In Burning Wheel
Participants: Salar, fredrikr, Mike Holmes, Jake Norwood.

10/23/2006 tonyd: Fun: A Burning Empires Cosmology
The other day I was stuck at a coffee shop for an hour with my sketchpad and no book to read, so I made up a little Burning Empires cosmology…
In Burning Wheel
Participants: tonyd, abzu.

10/24/2006 Tim C Koppang: [Hero's Banner] Gameday 2006
I was recently in Mt Prospect, Illinois for the En World Gameday 2006 -- which I must say was all kinds of fun. During the morning session, I ran an…
In Actual Play
Participants: Tim C Koppang, WildElf.

10/24/2006 muddlepud: [A Thousand And One Nights] and [InSpectres] Indie Sunday 22/10/06
I'm starting up a regular game day I'm calling Indie Sunday to try our numerous rpgs that Jye and myself brought back from GenCon earlier this year. This time around…
In Actual Play
Participants: muddlepud, droog, Emily Care, timfire.

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