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1/19/2007 Qi Chin: [Dust in the Air] Fantasy-Steampunk in Developement
Hello there. This is my second time I'm coming to the Forge with a design idea (The first one, for those who remember something really small, was TriPent). I've had…
In First Thoughts
Participants: Qi Chin, Artanis, dindenver.

1/19/2007 jasonm: [TSoY] Princess Hralroolimi's Betrayal
I ran my TSoY Bunnies and Burrows hack as a one-shot last night and it rocked the house.  We started from scratch - I had a little map and a…
In Actual Play
Participants: jasonm.

1/19/2007 GB Steve: [Cild City] Getting at them
I started this game with the express intention of setting up one of the characters. Cold City seems to me to be one of those games where this is acceptable…
In Actual Play
Participants: GB Steve, Ron Edwards, Malcolm.

1/14/2007 Charrua: "Generic" vs. "Multi-Genre" II (split)
A thought I'd like to contribute: Semantically speaking, if your system is settlingless, it cannot be simultaneously multi-genre.  Something cannot ne everything and nothing at the same time (without cheating,…
In Publishing
Participants: Charrua, Sane, Ron Edwards, guildofblades.

1/19/2007 Neil the Wimp: Concrete Cow, Milton Keynes, UK, 10 March
Here in sunny Milton Keynes, the MK RPG club are putting on another of our one-day mini-cons.  Details are at http://wiki.mk-rpg.org.uk/index.php/ConcreteCow.  There are generally quite a few indie games played…
In Conventions
Participants: Neil the Wimp.

1/19/2007 Nathan P.: Carry Errata
Many thanks to everyone who's picked up a copy of carry. a game about war in the last several months. I'm almost out of stock, and it's time to do…
In ndp design
Participants: Nathan P., Ron Edwards, Yokiboy.

1/19/2007 Lisa Padol: [Polaris] Starting to Click
(Possibly to be crossposted on my 'blog.) We finally had our fourth session of Polaris, so long after the third we were reminding each other what had happened. I think…
In These Are Our Games
Participants: Lisa Padol, Ben Lehman.

1/19/2007 Ron Edwards: [The People's Hero] Glasnost role-playing
Hello, All the way back in November 2005, when I posted the terms for the third round of the Ronnies, a notion for a game entered my head with them.…
In Playtesting
Participants: Ron Edwards, Tim C Koppang, contracycle.

1/19/2007 drnuncheon: [AP] Changelings & Cold Iron
In this case the P in AP maybe stands for Prep, depending on how you view the setting creation part of things.  This was over in my LJ but I…
In Galileo Games
Participants: drnuncheon, inthisstyle.

1/18/2007 Troy_Costisick: Gamist Game Design and Cutthroat - Questions.
Heya, I’m going to riff a little bit off this discussion about Narrativism, but focus on a CA that I’m more familiar with.  I’ve just released Cutthroat and I love…
In Actual Play
Participants: Troy_Costisick, xenopulse, Noon.

1/18/2007 Frank Tarcikowski: Frank's summary of the Big Model
For what it’s worth, I once wrote a brief summary of what Tony called the “Ron Edwards stuff” for a German RPG board. Of course, this is filtered through my…
In Site Discussion
Participants: Frank Tarcikowski, Ron Edwards, xenopulse, Everspinner, M. J. Young, Gaerik, Troy_Costisick, Filip Luszczyk, Gugliandalf.

1/18/2007 jasonm: Watership TSoY
Hey friends, I'm going to use TSoY to run a Bunnies and Burrows event at Camp Nerdly One.* Here's a .pdf of the Abilities, Secrets, and Keys I'll be using. …
In CRN Games
Participants: jasonm, segedy, Clinton R. Nixon, crowyhead.

1/18/2007 guildofblades: Ad Sales Reps Take 2
Advertising Sales Reps Needed, The Guild of Blades Publishing Group is looking for commissioned advertising sales reps to help us sell a growing volume of internet ad inventory for our…
In Connections
Participants: guildofblades, Ron Edwards.

1/18/2007 corprwhs: Light Crusades Themed Card Game
I just discovered this forum today, and this is my first post, so I'd like to being by extending my greeting to everyone on here. Anyway, earlier I came up…
In First Thoughts
Participants: corprwhs, Artanis.

1/17/2007 The Dragon Master: [Donjon] The Hitchhikers Guide to the Donjon...
Once I get my other setting for Donjon finished I plan to start this one. The basic idea is to take Donjon into the world of The Hitchhikers Guide to…
In CRN Games
Participants: The Dragon Master, quozl, Hans.

1/17/2007 iain: [Reel Adventures] Curse of the Glass Rose (Pt1)
After a winter hiatus, the sunday group I am a part of got back together and helped me with the second playtest for Reel Adventures. You can find copies of…
In Playtesting
Participants: iain, Ron Edwards.

1/17/2007 Koljaiczek: Starflight, new... ¿RPG game?
I'm Spanish, so excuse my poor English. :) I've created a rulebook, inspirated in Starflight, a old game from early 80's. Spacial adventures similar to Star Trek or Stargate series.…
In First Thoughts
Participants: Koljaiczek, xenopulse, Ramidel, Noon, Sane.

1/17/2007 Kami-no-Mark: [Bloodlines - a generational RPG]
Years ago, I came up with the idea of having an RPG co-operative where you took on the roles of heads of noble households, moving on to playing their children,…
In First Thoughts
Participants: Kami-no-Mark, xenopulse, Simon C, jasonm.

1/17/2007 zoom: Copyright resources / UK
Hi there I'm new to this forum, but I have been playing RPG's for the last 15 years. I have built 3 gaming systems in that time and was very…
In Publishing
Participants: zoom, Ron Edwards.

1/16/2007 Helvetian: Dreamation schedule
The Dreamation schedule is now posted at www.dexposure.com/d2007sched.html. Please be sure to get pre-registered online at www.dexposure.com/d2007i.html, so that your badge is all set for when you arrive and so…
In Conventions
Participants: Helvetian.

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1/19/2007 Ron Edwards: Hey I have a dice question
I bet someone's asked this before - direct me to the thread if necessary. How many dice, and what kinds, do you come to the game with? I'm talking about…
In ndp design
Participants: Ron Edwards, Nathan P., Yokiboy.

1/20/2007 Artanis: Moons and Mistaken character control
Hello! A rule question popped up last time I played. Do Moon characters move to the Mistaken part of the Cosmos when the Mistaken follows a suggestion with "we shall…
In These Are Our Games
Participants: Artanis, Ben Lehman.

1/20/2007 Caesar_X: [TMW] The Dirty Half-Dozen minicon game
Last weekend at the EndGame Oakland Minicon I ran a modified version of The Mountain Witch in a 4-hour time slot for six players.  This was my first con game…
In Actual Play
Participants: Caesar_X.

1/20/2007 Caesar_X: [TMW] The Dirty Half-Dozen (part two)
After the group killed "Train", several of them put on the uniforms of the SS Major and the two corporals they had killed and started walking up the road towards…
In Actual Play
Participants: Caesar_X.

1/20/2007 joshua neff: The Princes' Kingdom, family-style
I've been taking a break from role-playing/story games. But my daughter, Morgan, had gotten a taste for this kind of play last spring, playing a few sessions of a game…
In Actual Play
Participants: joshua neff, Clinton R. Nixon, Caesar_X, Everspinner.

1/20/2007 kpklukken: Serious Creators Block
*Isn't EXACTLY sure if this is the right forum area* So if this post is supposed to be somewhere else then my apologies. move it wherever you will. Some time…
In First Thoughts
Participants: kpklukken, Mike Sugarbaker, Simon C, GB Steve, Adam Dray, Sane, Leviathan, johnwedd, deneb829, Ron Edwards.

1/20/2007 Jake Norwood: [Origins 2007] Looking for other Forge-ites to go
Hi all. I've been away from the gaming scene for a bit over two years now, given my profession, but I'm looking pretty hungrily to get back into it here…
In Conventions
Participants: Jake Norwood, inthisstyle, JustinB, Jared A. Sorensen.

1/20/2007 Robotech_Master: Interrupt interrogative
I was reading through the rules on Interrupts and something wasn't quite clear to me. Say there are four players, A, B, C, and D. It is player A's turn,…
In Universalis
Participants: Robotech_Master, Valamir, Mike Holmes.

1/20/2007 Jake Norwood: Playing again. Sort of.
So after a multiyear hiatus of gaming I got together with some members of my college gaming group over Thanksgiving. We played like highschoolers again, finishing an entire story in…
In Actual Play
Participants: Jake Norwood, James_Nostack, Ron Edwards, WDFlores.

1/20/2007 The Dragon Master: Alternate Donjon Board?
Does anyone know if there is a more active board for Donjon? Or is this pretty much it?
In CRN Games
Participants: The Dragon Master, Clinton R. Nixon, Ante.

1/20/2007 goldongman: Weathertop 2007 - Vancouver, BC
[color=purple][b]Weathertop 2007[/b][/color] Vancouver's Premier Gaming Convention We would like to invite you to Weathertop 2007, a gaming convention taking place in greater Vancouver, BC, Canada, March 2nd to 4th; a…
In Conventions
Participants: goldongman, Ron Edwards, joepub, Danny_K.

1/21/2007 Clinton R. Nixon: HeroQuest - Testosterone-filled Imperial goodness
Throw up the devil horns! The Durham 3 are playing HeroQuest and it is crazy wild. I've wanted to play HeroQuest for a very long time. If you aren't a…
In Actual Play
Participants: Clinton R. Nixon, Brand_Robins, ( o Y o ), joshua neff, Neil the Wimp, jasonm, Frank Tarcikowski, Ian Cooper.

1/21/2007 Robotech_Master: 2-page Play Aid: Free Dialog?
I was glancing at the 2-Page Play Aid on the Resources page, and happened to notice, under its list of things you could do at any time, it says that…
In Universalis
Participants: Robotech_Master.

1/21/2007 Eric J.: Startup questions
I have a question too. As part of the intial binding of the PC's first demon, do they have to make a flat Stamina/Will versus Will roll?  It would seem…
In Adept Press
Participants: Eric J., Ron Edwards.

1/21/2007 Nathaniel B: Game Operations Director's Holistic Universal Gaming System
I have read many of the threads on this site and have mined all I think I can from the discussions in the now closed G/N/S & theory forums and…
In First Thoughts
Participants: Nathaniel B, Mike Sugarbaker, Everspinner, Lostscotsman.

1/21/2007 Leviathan: Free PDF idea: The Cursed
I am still in the first draft version of a small (10-11 page) PDF for free release as the initial work for Boundless Allegory. It should be ready for playtesting…
In First Thoughts
Participants: Leviathan, Everspinner, Ron Edwards.

1/21/2007 Jasper Flick: [D&D] Who's boss?
Hi all, this is my first Forge post and it's about the first (actually, a pre-play) session of our new RPG initiative. The big themes, if there is any, would…
In Actual Play
Participants: Jasper Flick, James_Nostack, r_donato, Eero Tuovinen, cydmab, lev_lafayette.

1/21/2007 clam of god: Project: C.H.A.I.R.- a game by nick smith
hi everyone my names nick smith, i live in portland, Oregon and i think i have the basic concept for my new rpg Project: C.H.A.I.R. and would appreciate any feedback…
In First Thoughts
Participants: clam of god, Jake Richmond, Ron Edwards.

1/22/2007 sean2099: can anyone read this for me?
I was surfing around and I noticed my covers on a forum site...just wondering if anyone can read what they are saying? http://forums.the-orc.com/viewtopic.php?p=35439 Thanks, Sean
In Connections
Participants: sean2099, Thunder_God.

1/22/2007 Mike Sugarbaker: A little self-mandated public humiliation
So, here I've been spending the last two years pimping PTA every chance I get, telling people it's my favorite game, the game that got me back into roleplaying, and…
In Dog Eared Designs
Participants: Mike Sugarbaker, John Harper.

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