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4/2/2007 Kat Miller: Indie Games Explosion Gen Con 07 Schedule
Ive finished the Gen Con Indie Games Explosion schedule. I've posted this link to The IGE Live Journal and to Story Games. If your running games as part of the…
In Conventions
Participants: Kat Miller, Hans, JustinB, iago, Nev the Deranged, Matt Gwinn.

4/2/2007 Thor Olavsrud: [Robots & Rapiers Playtest v2.3] Character Creation
So we held another playtest session on Thursday. I had not had a chance to read through the revised document, and the revisions didn't update the sample characters we'd been…
In Universalis
Participants: Thor Olavsrud, Eero Tuovinen, Valamir, GreatWolf, Mike Holmes, Iskander, mtiru.

4/2/2007 Hans: GenCon: will the Wheel be there?
I have just one question, Alexander...will the roulette wheel be at GenCon this year?  If so, I want to know when and where, because I and two friends will be…
In Twisted Confessions
Participants: Hans, Lxndr.

4/2/2007 Starblade: Since my other game didn't pan out...
I've been thinking of a game system which potentially incorporates three levels. It doesn't have a theme yet, but right now here are the elements: 0. A three tiered combat…
In First Thoughts
Participants: Starblade, joepub.

4/2/2007 josephcarrington: ww2 with zombies themed d20 system play-by-post
Hello everyone. My names Joe and I'm about to start running a game for a few friends of mine over my messageboard. The theme everyone decided on was ww2, superscience…
In First Thoughts
Participants: josephcarrington, knicknevin, Majidah.

4/2/2007 jasongreeno: One FREE Card Illustration created by ME for YOUR GAME
Hi, I'm considering a shift in careers and want to see what it is like to work as a freelance illustrator. I'm a graphic designer by day with drawing ability…
In Connections
Participants: jasongreeno, iago, Eero Tuovinen.

4/2/2007 Nev the Deranged: [Bacchanal] Multiple ties?
So, I'm futzing around with the Bacchanal dice, trying to teach myself to play so I don't look like a buffon if/when I get other folks to try it. And…
In Half Meme Press
Participants: Nev the Deranged, Paul Czege.

4/1/2007 phasmaphobic: [Classroom Deathmatch] Played at Gamestorm last night
Last night I had the privilege of playing in a convention-style demo game of <i><a href="http://atarashigames.com/store/product_info.php?products_id=31" target="_blank">Classroom Deathmatch</a></i>, the new tabletop RPG by fellow Portlander Jake Richmond.  In this game,…
In Actual Play
Participants: phasmaphobic, xenopulse, Jake Richmond.

4/1/2007 Valvorik: Adding traits during complication and elimination costs
If a complication is about eliminating a component (e.g., character), and during the resolution the component is narrated as having additional traits (the controller seeking to give them traits resisting…
In Universalis
Participants: Valvorik, Valamir.

4/1/2007 Nev the Deranged: [GenCon] Event Registraton Question
Okay, this is probably a stupid question, but I've never registered for events at GenCon before. This year I'd like to get in on some games and whatnot, so I've…
In Conventions
Participants: Nev the Deranged, Blankshield, Hans.

4/1/2007 jasonm: Roach LARP at KublaCon
If you're going to KublaCon in Burlingame, California, consider playing in the world's first Roach LARP. I can't wait to see how it turns out!  Anybody planning on attending?
In Bully Pulpit Games
Participants: jasonm, Caesar_X.

4/1/2007 brianbloodaxe: Looking for advice for my card based rules system.
Ok, I'm new here, blah blah etc. Hi! :-) I am always looking for new ways to improve relisim in my games without increasing the rules or required book keeping.…
In First Thoughts
Participants: brianbloodaxe, Simon C.

4/1/2007 Paul Strack: [Improv/Zombie Dawn] Endgame RPG Night Playtest
This was a play-test for a game I am still in the process of writing. The draft may have changed since I ran the game. You can see the current…
In Playtesting
Participants: Paul Strack.

3/31/2007 xenopulse: [Inspectres] Case of the Flaming Pussy
Gamestorm 9 is going on this weekend in Portland. Last night, from 10 to 12, I played in a game of Inspectres. I've read about the game plenty of times,…
In Actual Play
Participants: xenopulse.

3/30/2007 GreatWolf: [Dirty Secrets] A painful reunion
Yay!  More playtesting!  And today, since I’m getting into the groove, I’ll actually do it up as a full-blown AP report.  Aren’t you happy? Quotable “I just want to see…
In Playtesting
Participants: GreatWolf, Artanis.

3/30/2007 phasmaphobic: Streetwise LARP - Musings on Conflict mechanics
Hey folks, I'm looking for some place to bounce around some ideas with others on some concepts I've been forming regarding revamping the rules of a LARP that I wrote…
In First Thoughts
Participants: phasmaphobic, Majidah, Andrew Morris.

3/30/2007 Ragnarok: Sorcerer: First steps
Here's a collection of thoughts and events related to character creation and introduction to the game in, hopefully, the order in which they happened. It was a bit confusing. So…
In Adept Press
Participants: Ragnarok, Karl, James_Nostack, Ron Edwards.

3/29/2007 The Crazy Player: The Meaning of Magic(k)
Greetings! This is my first foray into The Forge, so if I fumble etiquette, please let me know. I have often been fascinated by the concept of Magick in RPGs,…
In First Thoughts
Participants: The Crazy Player, Troy_Costisick, lumpley, David Artman, CommonDialog, tj333, Spooky Fanboy, Filip Luszczyk, Sentience, fantang7.

3/29/2007 andrew_kenrick: [Grey Ranks] Conpulsion playtest
So Saturday afternoon at Conpulsion as part of the Indie Games Track we got to play Grey Ranks. We had 4 players so I faciliated, and 2 hours, so we…
In Playtesting
Participants: andrew_kenrick, jasonm.

3/29/2007 pells: [Avalanche using TSOY] - Battles, battles and more battles ...
Well, continuing our adventures (and playtesting) of Avalanche. So, here it goes ... The context We had not been playing for a while now : almost ten months (since my…
In Playtesting
Participants: pells, Eero Tuovinen.

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4/2/2007 oliof: [TSOY] Snakes in the Shadows OR Dysfunction is good if it's the characters
(also posted at story games under a slightly misleading title) I was at hspielt! 14 this weekend, and ran a minimally tweaked version of a con scenario called Snakes in…
In Actual Play
Participants: oliof.

4/2/2007 Rustin: [tsoy] bonus dice statistical impact?
So with 3dF you have a 3.7% chance of getting a 3, an 11.11% of getting a 2, a 22.22 of getting a 1 and a 62.96% chance of getting …
In CRN Games
Participants: Rustin, Hans.

4/3/2007 Jake Richmond: Free ad space in Classroom Deathmatch
I have 2 blank pages in the back of Classroom Deathmatch. The book is available now for preorder and will be available for saler on April 17th. If you have…
In Connections
Participants: Jake Richmond.

4/3/2007 LandonSuffered: [InSpectres] 1st Time Role-Players -- Kids!! (long-ish)
My wife and I occasionally (every couple months or so) baby-sit/host game night for the two sons of our friends; the kids’ ages are 9 and (just barely) 13.  We’ve…
In Actual Play
Participants: LandonSuffered, skatay, matthijs, demiurgeastaroth, TonyLB, Ron Edwards, Meguey, Mr. Sluagh.

4/3/2007 LandonSuffered: Raked Over The Coals
Man...I just recommended your game Donjon to a young (age 13) friend of mine, based entirely on what he wanted to play (a stripped-down, narrative D&D) and on the…
In CRN Games
Participants: LandonSuffered, oliof, Clinton R. Nixon, Hans, Eliarhiman6.

4/3/2007 CommonDialog: [T.E.A.M.]Mechanics to Force Player Interaction
Hiya Group, I am designing a game which is heavily centered around teamwork.  The players gain all sorts of neat bonus dice if they work together, but I am toying…
In First Thoughts
Participants: CommonDialog, jueqel, Madheretic, Noon, Filip Luszczyk.

4/3/2007 MatrixGamer: [Engle Matrix Game] Sherlock Holmes: The Case of the Dead Duke
Hamster Press has just released “Sherlock Holmes: The Case of the Dead Duke” at RPGNow. A paper version of the game is available on the Hamster Press web page. Sherlock…
In Publishing
Participants: MatrixGamer.

4/3/2007 jasonm: Roach Questions from Virginia
Thanks to Our Virginian Cousin for these: What happens if you drop to 0 reputation.  You've got nothing to wager, so can you still have a scene? "If you are…
In Bully Pulpit Games
Participants: jasonm.

4/3/2007 r_donato: Forge Borthday Forum this year?
Will the Forge birthday forum be repoened this year? It is the appropriate time.
In Site Discussion
Participants: r_donato, Ron Edwards.

4/4/2007 Caesar_X: [PTA] TV Tropes Wiki
<Cross-posting from Story-Games> I was going through my del.icio.us subscriptions feed and saw that someone posted a site called TV Tropes. I've only taken a quick look, but this could…
In Dog Eared Designs
Participants: Caesar_X, Matt Wilson.

4/4/2007 redalastor: [Elfs] Gothic Elfs
I'm about to GM my first game of Elfs. I thought about what kind of scenario I'd want to play and the thought "something gothic" went through my mind. Something…
In Adept Press
Participants: redalastor, jburneko.

4/4/2007 Priest: TRINITY SYSTEM
Hello, New here, so its nice to be able to chat with other game designers, I have been contemplating a new system that works off of a three system method.…
In First Thoughts
Participants: Priest, joepub.

4/4/2007 oliof: NordCon, 2dn/3rd of June, 2007 - Hamburg, Germany
Hi, despite limited efforts at hspielt, I want to give indie games some more spin at the biggest RPG convention in Northern Germany, NordCon. One of the organizers, Stefan Unger,…
In Conventions
Participants: oliof, Eero Tuovinen.

4/4/2007 jueqel: [Silver Cord] Story Impact Traits
I've been developing an RPG for a number of years, and a recent reworking has changed my perspective on the approach I'm looking for. Silver Cord is a psychic adventure…
In First Thoughts
Participants: jueqel, Ide.

4/4/2007 Valvorik: [Afraid] Someones.. and Interplayer Tension
In DitV, a good deal of game comes from players not seeing "the answer" the same way etc. 1..How much of that should be brought into Afraid?  This links to…
In lumpley games
Participants: Valvorik, lumpley.

4/4/2007 cglasgow: [DitV] Playing in AIM chatroom
For those of you not familiar with AIM's die roller syntax for their chatrooms, it works like this: //roll-diceX-sidesY to roll X dice with Y sides each. Forex -- "//roll-dice8-sides10"…
In lumpley games
Participants: cglasgow, lumpley, Dave Cleaver, demiurgeastaroth, Archer5280, EarthSea, Filip Luszczyk.

4/4/2007 GregStolze: [Wild Talents] Grim War: Reign of the Talents
I'm spamming the whole RPG internet with cloned AP writeups of my new WT game with REIGN companies grafted on top to eventually track how the PCs interact with the…
In Actual Play
Participants: GregStolze, Nev the Deranged, Mike Lucas, wreckage, FredGarber.

4/5/2007 Gaerik: Combat without the Fight! mechanics
At the end of the basic rules section of the BW book, Luke suggests going and burning characters and playing the game.  That's cool because the core rules really aren't…
In Burning Wheel
Participants: Gaerik, rafial, abzu, xenopulse.

4/5/2007 Ron Hammack: [D&D 3.5] Solo game with a brand new player--is this the right game for us?
[b]Background[/b] I've been roleplaying on and off since 1983, mostly D&D in its various incarnations and mostly (80% of the time, I'd say) GMing. I'm currently without a gaming group,…
In Actual Play
Participants: Ron Hammack, xjermx, xenopulse, Gaerik, Caesar_X, BabbageCliologic, Nev the Deranged.

4/5/2007 blitzkreig777: Advertising a New Forum-based RP
I hope I'm doing this in the right place.  I am starting a forum-based RP based on a PC game series called Disciples.  The forum can be found here at…
In First Thoughts
Participants: blitzkreig777.

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