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4/9/2007 Darcy Burgess: CanGame 07 -- Ottawa, Ontario
Just a quick heads up to the community. When: May 19 & 20, 2007 What: Demo table of indie rpgs during the day.  Participants get to vote for the "full-on"…
In Conventions
Participants: Darcy Burgess, Ned, walkerp, Ron Edwards.

4/9/2007 fjj: Variant: Canterbury Tales
I like the story in a story a lot. And came up with an idea for a variant: Canterbury Tales with the game engine from 1001 Nights. A group of…
In Night Sky Games
Participants: fjj, Meguey.

4/9/2007 fjj: [1001 Nights] Lots of interesting play from very little preparation
I presented and played 1001 Nights at a game convent i Århus, Denmark, this Easter (home page in Danish: www.fastaval.dk). We were a group of people doing indie game sessions.…
In Actual Play
Participants: fjj, MatrixGamer, Meguey, lumpley, Nev the Deranged.

4/9/2007 GreatWolf: [Dirty Secrets] Reggie’s Bad Day
See, guys!  I used the right name! The last couple of Fridays, I was able to playtest Dirty Secrets with my regular gaming group.  Last session was particularly memorable, and…
In Playtesting
Participants: GreatWolf, Valamir.

4/9/2007 jrs: What I like about DitV
After a long hiatus, our group has started playing Dogs again.  I'm the GM and I've reworked Judd's (Paka) New Gidea town for our play.  It's great to see how…
In lumpley games
Participants: jrs, lumpley.

4/9/2007 LandonSuffered: Obtain the Rights or Re-Write the Game??
SO…the last week or so I’ve had a full-blown brain storm blasting through my skull with a game concept I am super-excited about.  I am at the point where I’m…
In Publishing
Participants: LandonSuffered, iago, Ron Edwards.

4/9/2007 Ben Lehman: Initiation Question
So I played a game last Friday and two of my players wanted to have their initiation conflict (I hope I punched the other guy out) be a player-versus-player affair,…
In lumpley games
Participants: Ben Lehman, Glendower, lumpley.

4/9/2007 BlackSheep: [Dust Devils Revenged] Prepping a one-shot
I'm going to be running DDR in a few weeks, and was trying to decide whether the (pregenned by necessity) player characters should be a gang of outlaws or a…
In Chimera Creative
Participants: BlackSheep, Eero Tuovinen, Hans, Matt Snyder, Ron Edwards, Yokiboy.

4/9/2007 TTK: [Sorcerer] First try and questions
Hi all! So my Sorcerer game finally arrived last week and me and my group set together for the first session... After reading through most of the topics listed under…
In Adept Press
Participants: TTK, Alan.

4/8/2007 Artanis: [In a Wicked Age] A look at the "We owe" list after three chapters
We played a follow-up session to our two chapters with Zangdar's yellow gem. My brother didn't play again, but my friend Julien joined in with Romain and Jérôme, while I…
In Playtesting
Participants: Artanis.

4/8/2007 garrowolf: STLPunk Game
I am working on a space cyberpunk game. I want some realistic damage codes for my ships so I am looking for the damage values for a naval combat simulator…
In Playtesting
Participants: garrowolf.

4/7/2007 RobNJ: [Dex Con 10] 4 games for a badge
Public Service Announcement: I read up on the policies page for Dex Con and they require 128 player-hours of GMing in order to get a free badge. Kat was able…
In Conventions
Participants: RobNJ, zipht.

4/7/2007 Valamir: ROBOTS & RAPIERS BETA V2.3 NOW AVAILABLE
At long last, Robots & Rapiers is nearing completion of the design stage.  The game has gone through major revisions the last couple of years but is now at a…
In Universalis
Participants: Valamir.

4/7/2007 FLEB: Glass and Steel - Idea Intro and Concerns: Enough latitude?
I'm in the initial stages (read: a couple days, a couple premise sketches) of hashing out this game idea, but it's a rather tightly encapsulated and pre-ordained plot+game package, and…
In First Thoughts
Participants: FLEB, Noon, joepub.

4/7/2007 phasmaphobic: LARP: Scene-Framing within the flow of the LARP
I've posted this elsewhere, but I think I might be able to get some good input from you folks here.  My major experiences with playing in LARPs leads me to…
In First Thoughts
Participants: phasmaphobic, Matt, David Artman, newsalor, Eliarhiman6, fantang7.

4/6/2007 Garvey: Non heart Protagonists and asking permission
In the book, it says you can't use another protagonist in a conflict statement without permission. My question is whether permission is given ahead of time, not knowing what the…
In These Are Our Games
Participants: Garvey, Eero Tuovinen, Ben Lehman, Web_Weaver, yellowparis.

4/6/2007 Denise: [ENnies] Attention publishers!
A request from one of our judges: When shipping product to a judge not in your country, please mark on the package "FREE SAMPLE PRODUCT FOR EVALUATION ONLY.  VALUE LISTED…
In Conventions
Participants: Denise, iago.

4/6/2007 markus_cz: How to play Nicotine Girls?
How to play Nicotine Girls? I know this sounds strange... but really, how? There's absolutely no advice in the game rules of how to play it, how to frame scenes,…
In Half Meme Press
Participants: markus_cz, hix, JC.

4/6/2007 Eliarhiman6: [Dictionary of Mu] Theme music.
Hello! For my future game of Sorcerer set in the "Dictionary of Mu" setting, I am thinking about returning to an old habit we had in a previous game group:…
In Adept Press
Participants: Eliarhiman6, Ron Edwards, Jennifer Rodgers, Paka, epweissengruber, Dumirik.

4/6/2007 MatrixGamer: Reality check
Am I wrong? It looks like the rate of posting is declining on the forum. Is that a problem? Do we need to do anything about it? Chris Engle Hamster…
In Site Discussion
Participants: MatrixGamer, Ron Edwards.

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4/10/2007 madviking: Fighting Unarmed
We played Agon for the first time a few nights ago. It was a total blast. Some questions did arise, of course and although most have been answered by this…
In one.seven design
Participants: madviking, John Harper.

4/10/2007 Simon C: [Sorcerer] Roleplaying bonus dice.
I'm planning on running a game of Sorcerer in the near future.  I got the rulebook recently, and I'm really impressed.  I have one problem with it though.  The system,…
In Adept Press
Participants: Simon C, Ron Edwards, James_Nostack, angelfromanotherpin.

4/10/2007 MJGraham: [Insurrection] GM Rewards
I'm working on an idea for my game where the both the players and the GM receives points for playing well. In return for winning these points players can make…
In First Thoughts
Participants: MJGraham, Eliarhiman6, Noon, David Artman, David C.

4/10/2007 Sentience: Decay RPG - The Seesaw of Power!
Greetings! This thread is an extention of the discussion we were having here (http://www.indie-rpgs.com/forum/index.php?topic=23611.0) about the pro's and con's of Experience (power) Levels. This thread is meant to be a…
In First Thoughts
Participants: Sentience, xenopulse, Noon, Majidah.

4/10/2007 Kat Miller: Indie Games Explosion at Dex Con (I need games by April 15)
I already posted on announcement on Story Games about this: http://www.story-games.com/forums/comments.php?DiscussionID=2784 While Double Exposure who host Dex Con have changed policy regarding Free Badges, being supportive of the Indie Community…
In Conventions
Participants: Kat Miller, iago.

4/10/2007 GreatWolf: [Dirty Secrets] We wrap our first game
Last night we wrapped up our first game of Dirty Secrets.  It’s been a bumpy ride at times, especially since the rules have shuffled around during this particular playtest, but…
In Playtesting
Participants: GreatWolf.

4/10/2007 Snarls-at-Fleas: Max number of players in PtA
I was wondering about for some time. I'm going to run PtA in nearest future and as far as I can see all the shows are usually about 3-4 protagonists.…
In Dog Eared Designs
Participants: Snarls-at-Fleas, Matt Wilson, hix.

4/10/2007 Ben Lehman: Space for Indie non-RPG ads
I'm publishing a book called the Drifter's Escape, which is a combination of stories and a role-playing game.  I want to advertise some other stuff in it, but I don't…
In Connections
Participants: Ben Lehman, iago, xenopulse, RyanMacklin.

4/10/2007 Frank Tarcikowski: [Aller Tage Abend] License to Tweak
Hi there! This morning I had a very good conversation about role-playing and the ever-problematic issue of “cheating”, or, more precisely, tweaking the dice. For my game in (early) development…
In First Thoughts
Participants: Frank Tarcikowski, Eliarhiman6, Eero Tuovinen, anders_larsen, Filip Luszczyk, Noon, Ben Lehman.

4/11/2007 epweissengruber: [Sorcerer One Sheet]
These are the first steps towards a one-sheet for IndieRPG Toronto.  Comments welcome Life Under the Double Sun - j"stone age" post-apocalypse, coming out of ice age and hurtling towards…
In Adept Press
Participants: epweissengruber, Ron Edwards.

4/11/2007 KeithBVaughn: Marketing Mistakes at a Local Con
In the interest of sharing information and passing on some experience to other members, I want to relate what happened to me at a local convention and some mistakes I…
In Publishing
Participants: KeithBVaughn, iago, JSDiamond, Ron Edwards, sean2099, Michael S. Miller, Jake Richmond, Adam SBG, c.

4/11/2007 GreatWolf: Dirty Secrets is in playtest
Hey, everyone.  My next game is currently in production.  It's entitled Dirty Secrets, and it's all about the classic detective story, in the vein of Raymond Chandler and Ross MacDonald. …
In Dark Omen Games
Participants: GreatWolf, Hans, hix, Neil the Wimp, Eero Tuovinen, Gaerik, Artanis, Finarvyn.

4/11/2007 sabbatregent: Time travel
Hi, everyone. I'm on the process of designing a time-traveling RPG. Basically, the PCs are time-cops who use Matrix style fighting and Time witchraft to fight time-criminals and cults. On…
In First Thoughts
Participants: sabbatregent, jerry, MJGraham, David Artman, FLEB, Thenomain, Options, Hans, BlackTerror.

4/12/2007 Nev the Deranged: Strife and NPCs
So, how do you deal with spending Strife on NPCs before you know how they will be disposed toward the heroes? Should Strife only be spent on definite enemies? Would…
In one.seven design
Participants: Nev the Deranged, John Harper, Skywalker.

4/12/2007 Ian ORourke: Gadgets..Weird and Mad
Okay, just some general advice and discussion really. The gadget rules are the part of the game I feel less comfortable, not saying there is anything wrong with them, it's…
In Evilhat Productions
Participants: Ian ORourke, iago, TomTitTot, Mel_White.

4/13/2007 Filip Luszczyk: Re: [Absolute Destiny Apocalypse] Berlin 1939, prep session
I'm after the first full-session playtest of Absolute Destiny Apocalypse, my Game Chef entry. Information about the game and link to the document itself can be found here. It was…
In Playtesting
Participants: Filip Luszczyk.

4/13/2007 BlackSheep: School me on relationship maps
Following up from a post in the Chimera forum: Actually, what you're describing isn't a relationship map, not as I introduced the term in my book…
In Adept Press
Participants: BlackSheep, Ron Edwards, Eero Tuovinen.

4/13/2007 MJGraham: [Insurrection] Power 19.
Here is my attempt at answering the Power 19 for my game called Insurrection: 1.) What is your game about?** The game is about the tension between the characters virtues…
In First Thoughts
Participants: MJGraham.

4/13/2007 signoftheserpent: Wuxia Space Opera
I've started a blog for my design of a wuxia space opera game (something i brought up here briefly a long while back), initially dealing with the setting (gotta have…
In First Thoughts
Participants: signoftheserpent, preludetotheend, Thenomain, Ron Edwards.

4/13/2007 fnord3125: [DitV] Question about Exorcisms
Since I'm brand-spankin' new to these forums, I'll apologize right away if this topic has ever been discussed before, but after reading through Dogs and thinking about it a lot…
In lumpley games
Participants: fnord3125, lumpley, Web_Weaver.

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