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11/26/2006 Paul T: You've Landed on Gaming Group "Park Place", Pay $15 Rent
Hello, I am posting as a result of some thinking I've done since reading the Gatecrasher thread. I'm afraid I don't have a real concrete thesis here, but rather a…
In Actual Play
Participants: Paul T, Calithena, Simon C, Steven Stewart, Mike Holmes, contracycle, Ron Edwards, Eero Tuovinen, TroyLovesRPG, Wolfen, Wade Lahoda, James_Nostack.

11/25/2006 Graham Walmsley: [Setting Design] Darker
I'm thinking about a setting for Jason's game, The Shab al-Hiri Roach. The setting is Darker College, an Oxford University college, in Victorian times. This is a first draft. If…
In Endeavor
Participants: Graham Walmsley.

11/25/2006 clever_ravenclaw: Children of the Deities
I've written what's the beginning of what could be a very epic roleplay, the only decent idea I've ever had that's not based on a book, anime, movie, or video…
In First Thoughts
Participants: clever_ravenclaw, Troy_Costisick, greyorm, Adam Dray, billvolk.

11/25/2006 Malcolm: Launching The Collective Endeavour
So, it seems that the small press/indie games scene in the UK and Ireland isn't quite as vibrant as it is in the US. So what can we as a…
In Connections
Participants: Malcolm.

11/25/2006 greyorm: [ORX] Cover Art & Layout Help Req.
I've stayed up far too late having far too much fun doing this, and I'm going to pay for it when I have to leave for work in just a…
In Wild Hunt Studios
Participants: greyorm, nystul, Trevis Martin, Wolfen, Thunder_God, jrs.

11/25/2006 green5865: hello
hello im thinking of buying PtA and was wondering how hard would it be to run a game based around the highlander series or dr who. thank's
In Dog Eared Designs
Participants: green5865.

11/24/2006 r_donato: [TSoY] Key Scale
We played our second session of Shadow of Yesterday recently. (The write-up of the first session is here.) Good times were had. Of special note, the game was more fast-paced…
In Actual Play
Participants: r_donato, Gaerik, jasonm, crowyhead.

11/24/2006 Miskatonic: TPK review at RPGnet
New review of The Princes' Kingdom up on RPGnet: http://www.rpg.net/reviews/archive/12/12593.phtml Pretty good review.
In CRN Games
Participants: Miskatonic.

11/24/2006 Calithena: [Father & Son Fantasy] Looking for some help
Hi folks - I've now run 2 sessions of a fantasy game for a father and son in the neighborhood I like. We generated characters using a moderately homebrewed (mostly…
In Actual Play
Participants: Calithena, Paul T, Noon, Ron Edwards, WDFlores, David Artman.

11/24/2006 Claudia Cangini: Artist New Website
Hi all, in a blatant self promotion attempt, I’m posting here the address of my brand new website complete of gallery and resume: www.claudiacangini.com I know for a “hard fact”…
In Connections
Participants: Claudia Cangini.

11/24/2006 Ludanto: [Afriad] Research Conflicts
Tim M Ralphs made a very clever comparison of a Research conflict to a DitV "getting hit in the head with an axe while you sleep" conflict, and I liked…
In lumpley games
Participants: Ludanto, lumpley, Tim M Ralphs, FlamingMoose.

11/24/2006 Web_Weaver: [DitV] Narrating Giving + Fallout. Was this valid?
Last night I ran my first town, and we began to get to grips with how DitV actually plays. I chose to run the Whitechurch Branch straight out of the…
In lumpley games
Participants: Web_Weaver, Tim M Ralphs, womble.

11/24/2006 Simon C: [Coven] Struggling for "Ah ha!" moment.
"Coven" is a sort of proto-game I've had rummaging around in my head for a little while, and I'm looking for some fresh ideas to hopefully spur me to an…
In First Thoughts
Participants: Simon C, Noon, dindenver, Bailywolf.

11/24/2006 Otherworlder: Otherworlder Designs freelance art & RPG design is now open for business!
Greetings fellow imaginers and gameplayers! My name is Ryan Barger, and I've spent a lifetime with my head in the clouds illustrating everything from aliens to superheroes to fantasy beasts…
In Connections
Participants: Otherworlder, nystul.

11/23/2006 sirogit: Reward System Idea: Asking Questions
The basic idea is, on each character's sheet, there is a space called "Questions", at any time, any of the players may add a question that they're intereasted in to…
In First Thoughts
Participants: sirogit, nystul, Simon C, dindenver, Noon, Wolfen, Ron Edwards.

11/23/2006 anders_larsen: [Distant Horizons] Setting Concept
What I want for Distant Horizons is not a complete setting, because the idea is that the players and GM will create the game world doing play. But for that…
In First Thoughts
Participants: anders_larsen, Troy_Costisick, clever_ravenclaw, billvolk, Simon C.

11/23/2006 andrew_kenrick: Editor seeks manuscript in need of a red pen
In between writing and designing games, I am a freelance editor, and it occurs to me that some of you guys might be looking for someone to cross out words…
In Connections
Participants: andrew_kenrick.

11/23/2006 Daniela Nicklas: key phrase IT WAS NOT MEANT TO BE
Hi! After playing Polaris for the first time (and aching for more -- unfortunately, it was a trial at a convention and not a regular group) I noticed that we…
In These Are Our Games
Participants: Daniela Nicklas, Steven Stewart, GB Steve, Everspinner, Ben Lehman.

11/23/2006 Tim M Ralphs: [Afraid] - Sister Nancy Piety
Play logs, and commentary that the Players can see will go over here on my mental scrapbook: http://community.livejournal.com/fateofeden/3584.html Hope Springs was a branch we played through as Dogs. 180 years…
In lumpley games
Participants: Tim M Ralphs, Ludanto, lumpley.

11/23/2006 joepub: A List of POD Publishers
Okay, here's the deal: I have a printer I use, Avalon. But... maybe Avalon isn't my best possible choice. I don't really know, because I have a weak handle on…
In Publishing
Participants: joepub, Ron Edwards, Eero Tuovinen, guildofblades, Jake Richmond.

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11/26/2006 Tancred: Apocalypse Stuff on the Wiki
It's taken me awhile, but I finally got a chance to catch up on the Conspiracy of Shadows wiki, and I'm blown away by the 'Cat and Mouse' setup/example. Kickers…
In Bob Goat Press
Participants: Tancred, Keith Senkowski.

11/26/2006 Troy_Costisick: [My Idea] An update my Periodical RPG model
Heya, I’m working on a new model for releasing RPG’s.  It all came about thanks to the Ronny contest last year.  So, thought I’d give you guys an update on…
In Publishing
Participants: Troy_Costisick, Ben Lehman.

11/27/2006 Yokiboy: [Untitled] Eleventh Hour
Hi Keith, Have you seen the show Eleventh Hour? Watch episode 3, it totally made me think of Untitled, given that this paranoid scientist is all into spirals. Very cool.…
In Bob Goat Press
Participants: Yokiboy, Keith Senkowski.

11/27/2006 Caesar_X: [Contenders] Flash of the Blades
I staked out a table on a cold and rainy Sunday at EndGame in Oakland and waited to see if anyone from the local gaming group would show up for…
In Actual Play
Participants: Caesar_X, Mel_White, cpeterso, Dantai, andrew_kenrick, David Artman.

11/27/2006 Wiredboy: shakespearean Roleplaying
Hello! This is my first post, a friend pointed me here to vent my big idea that's been brewing for a few weeks. In the past, I've done alot of…
In First Thoughts
Participants: Wiredboy, Simon C, jasonm, JacobSM, contracycle.

11/27/2006 justin1083: fighting game-inspired narrative system
Hi Everyone.  This is my first time posting here.  I'm trying to design a narrativist game based on fighting games/shows such as Street Fighter, King of Fighters, Naruto, and Tekken. …
In First Thoughts
Participants: justin1083, Filip Luszczyk, Troy_Costisick.

11/27/2006 Graham Walmsley: Dragonmeet 2006
Dragonmeet is this Saturday, 2nd December, in Kensington Town Hall. The schedule isn't on the website yet, but there's a preliminary version on the Yahoo group. Here are some quick…
In Conventions
Participants: Graham Walmsley, oliof, Matt, andrew_kenrick, Geoff Hall, GB Steve, Malcolm, Gregor Hutton.

11/27/2006 Camtha: Of losing and healing
Hi I was just wondering player vs. player in sertain fashion. When someone loses in this case takes the 6th box in hubris, does the woulds "collapse" as in TSOY?…
In one.seven design
Participants: Camtha, Ludanto.

11/27/2006 Tim M Ralphs: [Afraid] Sister Piety's Victim, Mortimer Elroy
Play logs (ETG 6 days) will go here: http://community.livejournal.com/fateofeden/3584.html) Monster is here: http://www.indie-rpgs.com/forum/index.php?topic=22221.0 Mortimer is a nine year old boy. He has a much bigger sister who moved out about…
In lumpley games
Participants: Tim M Ralphs.

11/27/2006 Storn: 3 areas of improvement for next time....
Okay, played SotC last night.  And I had three areas that we couldn't lay our hands on the rules quickly.  Now.  I love this game.  So don't think I'm poo-pooing…
In Evilhat Productions
Participants: Storn, iago, Mel_White.

11/27/2006 Jonathan Walton: Proposal Guidelines for Push 2
I just posted <a href="http://thou-and-one.blogspot.com/2006/11/push-2-proposal-guidelines.html">proposal guidelines</a> for <i>Push</i> volume 2 on my blog. Those of you who have been thinking about (or just now started thinking about) writing for it…
In Endeavor
Participants: Jonathan Walton.

11/28/2006 cottc cid: Stats, cards, and the gauges who love them.
Hello all.  I am an amateur game designer, and a friend directed me to your site.  I think that it is great that there is a resource for people to…
In First Thoughts
Participants: cottc cid, anders_larsen, Simon C, David C.

11/28/2006 Ward: Combined game advice
I'm fairly new to the forge but I've been reading alot about all these wonderful devices like Relationship Maps, Scene Framing, Bob and Weave, basically most of the things listed…
In First Thoughts
Participants: Ward, timfire, Ron Edwards.

11/28/2006 reidzilla: PDF purchasing question
Hi, I just bought the paperback version at LULU and I realized I would like the PDF also. Is there a Package deal or would I have to pay full…
In one.seven design
Participants: reidzilla, John Harper.

11/29/2006 Steven Stewart: Incoherent Play and Bucket Seats
Recently in another actual play post ---> http://www.indie-rpgs.com/forum/index.php?topic=22017.0, Ron wrote something that really resonated with me. My take is that if CA is left to fend for itself, or…
In Actual Play
Participants: Steven Stewart, Adam Dray, Ron Edwards, Dennis Laffey, r_donato, davidberg, Glendower, Frank T.

11/29/2006 Ludanto: [Afraid] Joining a conflict in progress
I believe that I understand that escalating is an opportunity to bring in others to the conflict, and I understand that they use stat dice that match the new arena. …
In lumpley games
Participants: Ludanto, lumpley.

11/29/2006 Paul T: How to Teach People to Accept Death and Mind Control
...or, more descriptively: "Pool Dice as Training Wheels for Conflict Resolution". I've been thinking about playing Vincent Baker's "Art, Grace, & Guts" game, so I went and read through some…
In First Thoughts
Participants: Paul T, dindenver, Noon, Steven Stewart, Paul Czege.

11/29/2006 Temple: [Downtown] My first attempt at writing a game.
This is more of a mental excersise than an actual attempt at designing a playable game. Ive never made a game before, by any degree, but this idea struck me…
In First Thoughts
Participants: Temple, Geir, Troy_Costisick.

11/29/2006 masqueradeball: The Stars, In Opera, Roadblocked
I'm currently working on a game based around a more narrativist take on mecha anime than anything on the market. I designed the setting around a "more reactive" card-based resolution…
In First Thoughts
Participants: masqueradeball, Ron Edwards.

11/29/2006 Geir: Shambala Kingdom
Hello, I wanted to present a new game or role playing site that's called Shambala Kingdom and which hinges upon the following : "I'm not by any means a good…
In First Thoughts
Participants: Geir, Ron Edwards.

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