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6/6/2002 Bailey: 2 GM Everway
Clinton asked me to elaborate so I will. This apporach is tailored to Everway and wouldn't be applicable in many other games, unless those other games used Drama, Karma and…
In Actual Play
Participants: Bailey.

6/5/2002 Jake Norwood: Driftwood Indie Game Night: Little Fears
In the spirit of the Actual Play thread that got moved to site discussion, I would like to present our session of Actual Play from last night. We play tRoS…
In Actual Play
Participants: Jake Norwood, Jason L Blair, Tim C Koppang.

6/5/2002 Shadeling: My Transformers Game
Well, it looks like my game will be ran less often than I initially planned. But when I do run it, I am sure we will all have a blast.
In Cartoon Action Hour
Participants: Shadeling, Eddy Fate, Cynthia Celeste Miller, Sidhain, Josh D, mahoux, Bankuei, stormwerks.

6/5/2002 Shadeling: Hello
Hello. So, Yahoo wasn't treating you nicely, eh Cyndi? Well I like this better anyway.
In Cartoon Action Hour
Participants: Shadeling, Cynthia Celeste Miller.

6/5/2002 Eric J.: Remarkable Player Apathy: Is it just me?
Game: Star Wars D6 with modifications done by me. Timeframe:1:30-3:00 {break} 6:00-11:00{Episode 1} 8:00-11:00(AM) Characters: Vyroth Pthero (Human Slicer);Ray Wind (Near-Human friendly commander played by a newbie);Ron Wind (Near-Human content…
In Actual Play
Participants: Eric J., Jake Norwood, Ron Edwards, Jack Spencer Jr, J B Bell, Paul Czege, Blake Hutchins, Bankuei, contracycle, Scratchware, Walt Freitag, Valamir, Clinton R. Nixon, Le Joueur, Mike Holmes, Wart, hyphz.

6/5/2002 xiombarg: Designer Swap
Okay, at least one person liked the idea I had, so I'm rolling with it. Click here and look for my post for what I'm talking about, but in short:…
In Actual Play
Participants: xiombarg, hardcoremoose, Clinton R. Nixon, Mike Holmes, Valamir, rabidchyld, Paul Czege, Paganini, DaR, Gordon C. Landis.

6/5/2002 Cynthia Celeste Miller: CAH: the CD
At the request of my local game store owner, we burned CAH onto 10 CDs so he can sell them. I know CD RPGs don't typically sell very good, so…
In Cartoon Action Hour
Participants: Cynthia Celeste Miller, Ron Edwards, stormwerks.

6/5/2002 Seth L. Blumberg: Prescribing the kicker
There seem to be a fair number of N/S incoherent games which use a sort of Kicker, but with the peculiarity that the Kicker is prescribed by the game's rules…
In RPG Theory
Participants: Seth L. Blumberg, Jared A. Sorensen, Ron Edwards, Christopher Kubasik, contracycle.

6/5/2002 Zak Arntson: How to get (and keep) an Actual Play group
Okay, there's been some mention at http://www.indie-rpgs.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=2358 about how to get an Actual Play group playing consistently. I figured it would be better to move that particular topic over here.…
In Actual Play
Participants: Zak Arntson.

6/5/2002 Ron Edwards: Who's paid?
Hi there, Here's my list of paid-up people so far: Jake Norwood ($160) Jared Sorensen ($160) Tom Fitch ($60) Jurgen Meyer ($60) Matt Gwinn (I think $145, need to double-check)…
In GenCon Planning and Organization
Participants: Ron Edwards, Jason L Blair.

6/5/2002 Nathan: InSpectres Superhero?
I was flipping through the boob toob last night - and I flipped over to TV Land and caught a couple of episodes of Batman and Robin (the old show).…
In Memento-Mori Theatricks
Participants: Nathan, Jared A. Sorensen.

6/5/2002 contracycle: CD burners
Theres been some discussion round cutting CD's for games. Not much, but some. As it happens, browsing a techie catalogue, I see you can get a mass batch copier for…
In Publishing
Participants: contracycle, Clinton R. Nixon, A.Neill, Ron Edwards, Clay.

6/5/2002 Jaif: Adventure seeds for indecisive players
[apologies in advance if this is the wrong forum.] The short version: My local group has become very indecisive in games. I'm looking for a few low-fantasy adventure ideas that…
In Actual Play
Participants: Jaif, Christopher Kubasik, Valamir, joshua neff, Ron Edwards, Jake Norwood, Bankuei, Blake Hutchins, Mike Holmes, Paul Czege.

6/5/2002 Bankuei: ROS: Death by Door...
Today was our third session of ROS, and this was the first session with a fatality. Quick Recap: At the tourney, Thomas, a young boy turned sorcerer(also aged 10 more…
In Actual Play
Participants: Bankuei, Jake Norwood.

6/5/2002 Zak Arntson: Indie Gaming Monday (06/03)
Not much to report. We played tons of Munchkin. First lesson: Put a cap on non-roleplaying activity. We should've given ourselves a 1 hour time limit. We then played Pantheon,…
In Actual Play
Participants: Zak Arntson.

6/5/2002 Brian Leybourne: Some suggestions...?
Hi all. I'm starting up a tRoS campaign shortly (as soon as the book arrives), and I'm working on the backstory at the moment. I'm looking for some suggestions for…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: Brian Leybourne.

6/4/2002 mallninja0088: Spy Craft
If any of you play spycraft what is a good class to play with a one on one Gm vs. Player game? I was thinking Pointman. Sry if this is…
In Actual Play
Participants: mallninja0088, hyphz, Ron Edwards, xiombarg, Valamir, Andrew Martin, contracycle.

6/4/2002 Ron Edwards: Missing relationship maps available
Hello, I have posted the missing relationship maps from The Sorcerer's Soul and Demon Cops at the website, at the Errata page. Also, check out the News item for the…
In Adept Press
Participants: Ron Edwards.

6/4/2002 Paul Czege: the island of misfit games
I need a conversation about this... I don't think anyone will deny that The Forge is a steambath of design effort, a hothouse of creativity. But I can't help but…
In Site Discussion
Participants: Paul Czege, Mike Holmes, Clinton R. Nixon, Ron Edwards, Zak Arntson, C. Edwards, Tim C Koppang, Seth L. Blumberg, Jared A. Sorensen, hardcoremoose, xiombarg, Valamir, Bailey, RobMuadib, Gordon C. Landis, joshua neff, Nathan, Laurel, greyorm.

6/4/2002 Claymore: Newbie Question reguarding bonus Dice in the Sorcery Pool
Hello there! I just got my copy of Riddle of Steel the other day and I am quite impressed with the game mechanics. I had one question (although I'm sure…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: Claymore, Brian Leybourne, Jaif.

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6/6/2002 Paul Czege: return to the island of misfit games
Well...some of the more controversial thoughts I raised for discussion on the island of misfit games thread got eclipsed by conversation about how the Forge might better promote actual…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Paul Czege, xiombarg, Nathan, Cynthia Celeste Miller, Gordon C. Landis, Bankuei, Le Joueur, rafael, Clinton R. Nixon, Zak Arntson, Ron Edwards, Jared A. Sorensen, Ring Kichard, Mike Holmes, greyorm, Wolfen.

6/6/2002 xiombarg: Elfs
Okay, I ran Elfs tonight -- it was f*ck-around night. We had: * James, playing a poser-cool Gential Elf named "Jesus Christ" * Emily, playing a perky Oral Elf named…
In Actual Play
Participants: xiombarg, Ron Edwards.

6/6/2002 Tim Denee: Muscle cars. Oh, yeah.
Got my first OctaNe prop. When I play OctaNe, I want to drive this baby
In Memento-Mori Theatricks
Participants: Tim Denee.

6/6/2002 Jason Sartin: Dodging bullets!
Hello, everyone. I'm delighted to see the official forum moved to somewhere less epically annoying than Yahoo Groups. ;) To help kick things off some more, I'll ask about constructing…
In Cartoon Action Hour
Participants: Jason Sartin, Cynthia Celeste Miller.

6/6/2002 Wolfen: Riddle of Steel is crap!
Don't let the subject line fool you.. I still love this game as much as it is possible to, without having actually played it. Unfortunately, not everyone shares my enthusiasm.…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: Wolfen, Bob Richter, Christopher Kubasik, Jake Norwood, Blake Hutchins, Clinton R. Nixon, Ron Edwards, Valamir, Bankuei, Rattlehead, Brian Leybourne.

6/6/2002 Cynthia Celeste Miller: Steve D's Review
I just checked out Steve Dempsey's CAH review and figured I'd pass the URL along to you guys. I found the review to be extremely thoughtful, informative and well-done. :)
In Cartoon Action Hour
Participants: Cynthia Celeste Miller, Jason L Blair, Ron Edwards, Mark Bruno.

6/6/2002 Cynthia Celeste Miller: Character Artwork for Iconia and Darkness Unleashed
Quite some time ago, I was thinking of ways to make the artwork more flavorful for the characters section of the two sourcebooks. Here are my ideas; For the Dark…
In Cartoon Action Hour
Participants: Cynthia Celeste Miller, Evan Waters, Eddy Fate, Erik C. Battle, James_Stubbs, Darthcestual.

6/6/2002 Zak Arntson: Real Life InSpectre
[url]http://orlandosentinel.com/features/lifestyle/orl-livghostbuster060502jun05.story[/url] This woman screams InSpectres more than any real life ghost hunters I've ever read about.
In Memento-Mori Theatricks
Participants: Zak Arntson, Ron Edwards, Jared A. Sorensen.

6/6/2002 Paul Czege: what makes me saturated?
Hey, On the island of misfit games thread, as a way of voting in favor of Clinton's game(s)-of-the-month idea, Laurel wrote: ...would probably help diminish the "spread too…
In Site Discussion
Participants: Paul Czege, jburneko, joshua neff, Blake Hutchins, Gordon C. Landis, Ace, Zak Arntson, Eric J., Ron Edwards, greyorm, Jared A. Sorensen.

6/6/2002 Christopher Kubasik: Sorcerer Contact Lists
Hi Ron, A question: Since the business plan of Sorcerer is to get people to play... And the book contains the link to the Sorcerer web page.. Are there any…
In Adept Press
Participants: Christopher Kubasik, Ron Edwards, Clinton R. Nixon, Clay.

6/6/2002 Matt Gwinn: Getting People to Play Your Games
Paul asked me to write a post about how I got people to play Kayfabe. I'm not sure if it belongs here or in actual play, but I'll take a…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Matt Gwinn, Ron Edwards, Paul Czege.

6/7/2002 Christoffer Lernö: Ygg in combat (trying to get comments) + initiative thoughts
Now this is essentially the same stuff I already posted in the Theory forum. I guess I still naively hope someone will take a look at it and trash it.…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Christoffer Lernö, Le Joueur.

6/7/2002 Jaif: Do you care if your character dies?
In our group's talks about our gaming, we've hit upon a distinction between players. Some get very attached to their characters, and don't want to see them die. Often there's…
In RPG Theory
Participants: Jaif, Ben Morgan, Eric J., Ferry Bazelmans, contracycle, Ian O'Rourke, Fabrice G., Mike Holmes, Ron Edwards.

6/7/2002 Christopher Kubasik: The Combat Simulator
Hi Brian, As MacBoy, is there a special way I'm supposed to do something to make the Simulator work for me? Download the simultoar some special way to make it…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: Christopher Kubasik, Brian Leybourne, sgtnasty, Bob Richter, montag.

6/7/2002 Jason Sartin: My "Warriors of the Cosmos" character
Steve D, saint among gamers, is demanding that I post my Cartoon Action Hour character, and (in my infinite narcissism) I've given in. Here we are. Background, story hooks, traits,…
In Cartoon Action Hour
Participants: Jason Sartin, Cynthia Celeste Miller.

6/7/2002 Ian O'Rourke: Writing for After These Messages...
Early days and all that - but what would be the process for writing for After These Messages (well, getting the game would probably come first) but beyond that point?
In Cartoon Action Hour
Participants: Ian O'Rourke, Cynthia Celeste Miller, Jason Sartin.

6/7/2002 Nathan: Eldritch Ass Kicking: On Sale Now!
[b]Eldritch Ass Kicking[/b], the roleplaying game of wizard-stomping-wizard action, is now available for instant purchase. In EAK, you will create a mighty wizard with awesome power and villainous traits. Use…
In Mystic Ages Online
Participants: Nathan.

6/7/2002 Nathan: I suck. Click here to find out why! [e-publishing]
Well, Eldritch Ass Kicking went up for sale last night. I was so excited. I came back into the office today, finished up some website changes, and so on. I…
In Publishing
Participants: Nathan, J B Bell, Mike Holmes, Gordon C. Landis, Valamir, Ron Edwards, Matt.

6/7/2002 Jake Norwood: New Math, er, Magic
Many of you have the revised edition of TROS sorcery. I'd love to hear what you all think, on a few levels: Clarity Improvements Stuff you're glad to see Stuff…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: Jake Norwood, Furious D, Jaif, Ace, Valamir, Wolfen, Ben.

6/7/2002 Ace: Ideas for stuff for PDF's only
Just wondering what you all might like to see on Fan Created PDF's. I am not talking about about outtakes from books necessarily but just the assorted rules and varients…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: Ace, Lyrax, DaR.

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