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3/10/2007 Shia: Presentation and two little question ^^
Hello everybody ^__^ I'm a 32 year old, 5 year experienced gamer living in Rimini, Italy, and this is my first time here ^^ I've read with great interest the…
In Actual Play
Participants: Shia, Eliarhiman6.

3/10/2007 jim pinto: Relics of Power
Our playtest of Relics of Power did not go well. Because of the open-ended nature of the game, the PCs took the DAGGER OF POWER and used it to their…
In Playtesting
Participants: jim pinto, Eero Tuovinen, OliverTheMerc, Noon.

3/10/2007 inky: [SotC] Other People's Aspects
So I got SotC recently and have been looking through it with the intention of running a game with it sometime. Overall it seems like the system has a good…
In Evilhat Productions
Participants: inky, Alan, demiurgeastaroth, iago.

3/10/2007 Chainsaw Aardvark: Overwhelmed Zombie
Hello. I'm sorry if this is in the wrong place, but the forum seems to be giving me the run around. For several months now I have been working on…
In First Thoughts
Participants: Chainsaw Aardvark, Ron Edwards, jasonm.

3/10/2007 Eero Tuovinen: [Bliss Stage] Jury-rigged ANIMa in the outback
So, I've been slowly going through games published last year. One of the crop was Shock: Social Science Fiction, which has found great response from a selective clientele, my teenage…
In Playtesting
Participants: Eero Tuovinen, Ben Lehman.

3/9/2007 GreatWolf: [Dirty Secrets] Initial Playtest Process
In this thread, I said: In another post, I'll write up what I've done so far, and I'll scrawl notes as I go through my ongoing playtest as I…
In Playtesting
Participants: GreatWolf, jasonm, sn0wshrew.

3/9/2007 Andy Kitkowski: One Week Until GAME CHEF. March 17. Lock and Load!
Hey all, it's that time of the year again.  This project, so deep-rooted in the history of the Forge as to be almost inseparable, is rolling around again for it's…
In Endeavor
Participants: Andy Kitkowski, Mcrow.

3/9/2007 cydmab: [PTA] The hurricanes (Akira/Madmax hybrid)
So I finally got the group to try PTA last weekend. The last campaign of DnD/Freeform had pretty much puttered out and died, and some of the reasons I believed…
In Actual Play
Participants: cydmab.

3/9/2007 jasonm: [Grey Ranks] Full Playtest, Session Two
We had our second session last night and it went great.  It covered chapters four, five, and six, 2-7 August 1944, the high water mark of the Uprising.  Everyone returned…
In Playtesting
Participants: jasonm, segedy.

3/9/2007 Dumirik: [Kin] Mothers and daughters
Last weekend I got to run a session of Kin, my game in development. Kin is this game where you play estranged family members called together for a big family…
In Playtesting
Participants: Dumirik, joepub, J B Bell, Ice Cream Emperor, Meguey, Joshua BishopRoby.

3/9/2007 Mattias: Game mechanics for a swashbuckling Rpg (Lost Eden)
First of all im new here so…Hi to everyone! Secondly excuse my English, as I am not American Im trying to develop a game, which I call Lost Eden, the…
In First Thoughts
Participants: Mattias, Simon C.

3/9/2007 redivider: [heads of state] art and death in jakarta
Joshua, Judson, Stacy and I conducted the third playtest of Palace Gates earlier this week. That same night we played Subversive Words for the second time, with Jim taking Stacy’s…
In Playtesting
Participants: redivider, jim pinto.

3/9/2007 Eliarhiman6: [TSoY] Know Truth: "asked of her"?
Page 136, Divination Secrets, Know Truth: "Your character can know the answer to any question asked of her. The GM will determine the clarity of these answers by your success…
In CRN Games
Participants: Eliarhiman6, oliof.

3/8/2007 rafial: Rocket Red
Hey, I realized I'm totally empowered to just make something up, but I'm wondering if Rocket Red had any kind of "incognito" identity in the campaign where she originally appeared…
In Evilhat Productions
Participants: rafial, iago.

3/8/2007 xenopulse: Couple of Questions
You will probably be able to point me to threads discussing this before, but I couldn't find them on my own. Over on IWKFAM, you wrote: the dice don't tell…
In lumpley games
Participants: xenopulse, lumpley.

3/8/2007 Hans: The Silly Limit: unique to Capes, unique to me?
[url=http://www.indie-rpgs.com/forum/index.php?topic=23052.msg231266#msg231266]In a separate thread[/url], I attempted to coin a new term, called the Silly Limit, as follows: [quote]The Silly Limit is the greatest amount of seriousness that can occur in…
In Muse of Fire Games
Participants: Hans, TonyLB, Bret Gillan, James_Nostack, Jonathan Hastings, JohnUghrin, Gaerik, epweissengruber, BlackSheep.

3/7/2007 lambda: Interstellar diplomatic game
Hi, I'm new here (not even much lurking, but I've read a few of the theory articles), and I've been having an idea kicking around in my head for a…
In First Thoughts
Participants: lambda, MatrixGamer.

3/7/2007 tstone: Looking for a game...
I'm new to the world of indie rpgs.  I've been jumping into them wholeheartedly, with their innovative approaches to characters, stories and worldbuilding.  LOVE THEM!  But a question, hope you…
In Publishing
Participants: tstone, andrew_kenrick.

3/7/2007 Miro: How to contact glyphpress?
Hello   Does anyone know how to effectively and privately contact glyphpress?I have got some questions about my order, tried sending e-mails, can't send PM here:) so I'm looking for…
In glyphpress
Participants: Miro, nikola, AnaSaupe, jrnmariano.

3/7/2007 Roy Batty: Re: [DitV/Roanoke] Vikings vs. Horror, or Wolves of the New World
(Not sure what happened with my original post...) (Cross posted at RPG.net) I picked up Dogs in the Vineyard about a year ago, and I’d like to use it for…
In lumpley games
Participants: Roy Batty.

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3/11/2007 joepub: Indie RPG Steals D&D's Thunder (Details on Page 6)
This is technically about a game in Playtest, but it felt like it fit the AP forum more. It's just a little anecdote which I quite enjoyed and want to…
In Actual Play
Participants: joepub, Andrew Morris, Calithena.

3/11/2007 joepub: [Perfect] Swooping Vulture technique
So, I finally figured out how to run my own game (Perfect, that is). I submit, for the approval of the midnight society, a GMing technique that I tried out…
In Actual Play
Participants: joepub.

3/11/2007 Ian Charvill: [Questers of the Middle Realms] Under-prepping
In a nutshell: offering to run a game system that you've never run before while you've got a major project going on at work and at the same time you're…
In Actual Play
Participants: Ian Charvill, rafial.

3/11/2007 xenopulse: [SIS] Playtest Questions
Hi Emily, We played Sign in Stranger at the Go Play PDX II gathering yesterday.  Great fun was had by all.  I actually hadn't laughed that much in a while. …
In Black and Green Games
Participants: xenopulse, Emily Care, Alephnul, Jake Richmond.

3/11/2007 ElliottBelser MKII: My girlfriend's back, and she wants to play Spirit of Hogwarts for her birthday
Crossposted to RPG.net and Story Games. So, my girlfriend's birthday is coming up this month. I offered, as one of my birthday presents to her, to teach her how to…
In First Thoughts
Participants: ElliottBelser MKII, johnwedd, TroyLovesRPG, Ron Edwards.

3/11/2007 Caesar_X: [Cat] Meredith's Big Night Out
One of my gaming goals for 2007 is to expose more non-gamers to Story Gaming in an attempt to understand more about what excites them from a gaming perspective.  So…
In Actual Play
Participants: Caesar_X, Noon, komradebob.

3/12/2007 Myrmidon: SOTC Wiki
Is there a Spirit of the Century Wiki, akin to what is available for The Shadow of Yesterday ? It would be great if there was a place we could…
In Evilhat Productions
Participants: Myrmidon, iago.

3/12/2007 1of3: [Donjon] Tweaking Skills and Saves
Some more tweaks for Donjon. When my fellow players like these as well (and I'm pretty sure, they will), there's hardly anything left from the original rules. ;) Anyway, I…
In CRN Games
Participants: 1of3, The Dragon Master, Hans.

3/12/2007 andrew_kenrick: [1st Quest] Wolves of the World Tree
Last night I ran a playtest session of 1st Quest, Judd's new game. We played through the World Tree Pack tutorial from the book - essentially you play members of…
In Playtesting
Participants: andrew_kenrick, Paka.

3/12/2007 tstone: Would like to buy your games...
Paper copies, but have no access to Paypal.  Any way to send you a money order and pick up some of your games? Thanx!
In Half Meme Press
Participants: tstone.

3/12/2007 scrandy: Mystix RPG - The Big 3
Hi! I did some RPG developing, for some time now, because I was bored and disappointed with other Systems. Till now (3/2007) I have got a nearly playable Version (with…
In First Thoughts
Participants: scrandy, Conteur, mauriciocabaleiro.

3/12/2007 rulvestad: A Song of Ice and Fire (and Capes)
I've just read the Capes Lite rules (and will almost certainly be buying the full rules soon) and had an idea that this could be adapted really well to George…
In Muse of Fire Games
Participants: rulvestad, Andrew Morris.

3/13/2007 Valvorik: [Afraid] Clarification over stats in the rule outline
The rule outline says a couple of times: Bad: 1d61d8; good: 2d6 (e.g. assigning dice to relationships, assigning dice to traits) Is that supposed to be Bad 1d6, Good 1d8,…
In lumpley games
Participants: Valvorik, lumpley.

3/13/2007 Arilyn: Hi all, and a request for purchase of both BtI and StM
Hi, I'm rather new to the non pop-cultured versions of mainstream RPGs, and both of these games really do seem pretty interesting to RP in my games. Congrats, Emily!!!  Thing…
In Black and Green Games
Participants: Arilyn, Emily Care.

3/13/2007 Bjorn: Some newbie questions about DitV
Hi, I just bought the game and have some questions. Some of these might be terribly naive but here goes. 1) How important is it to have a basic foundation…
In lumpley games
Participants: Bjorn, Warren, lumpley, David Artman, Wolfen.

3/13/2007 TwilightCorps: Twilight Corps
While this isn't a new idea(I've been working on it for two years now) It's new to the Forge. It's a futuristic single origin supers game, meaning that everyone got…
In First Thoughts
Participants: TwilightCorps, Mcrow.

3/13/2007 Hereward The Wake: Idea for a dice mechanic
I am working on a combat system, non missile weapons at the moment. The emphasis of which is the tactical choices made in regard to moves, attacks reactions  I want…
In First Thoughts
Participants: Hereward The Wake, Mcrow, JCunkle, Conteur.

3/13/2007 John Brown: [ TSOY ] Clarification request: Zu words
I am assuming, though unsure, that the word Zu or Uz can be known by more than one character at a time thus differing from other Zu words of power.…
In CRN Games
Participants: John Brown, Eero Tuovinen.

3/14/2007 Valvorik: [Afraid] Questions - flashbacks and nature of monsters/victims
1.  Can ‘flashback’ scenes be used to resolve research or absentee stakes?  Not as something to recount in raises etc. (page 88 of DiTV) but as the stage for a…
In lumpley games
Participants: Valvorik, lumpley.

3/14/2007 Matt Snyder: [Forge Midwest 2007] Official Event Schedule -- Plan games here!
Here is the schedule for sessions at Forge Midwest. This year, it's important to stay on schedule. It's especially important because we're all in one room. That means it'll likely…
In Conventions
Participants: Matt Snyder, GreatWolf, Troy_Costisick, Kesher, GamerChick, Blankshield, Nev the Deranged, Doyce, Clinton R. Nixon, c, Valamir, TJ, greyorm, Thor Olavsrud, Harlequin, Matt Wilson, Paul Czege.

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