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5/11/2007 ChadDubya: [ENOCH] Indy game needs love
Hello all, I've done my fair share of lurking here, but this is my first post. I have recently completed my rpg ENOCH and am ready to share it with…
In First Thoughts
Participants: ChadDubya, Filip Luszczyk, jasonm, Technocrat13, michaelb.

5/11/2007 JC: [DITV] Temple Creek Branch... advice? [long]
hi :) this is my first town, so I'd like a little advice even though I've stolen bits and pieces from other towns floating around the net, I'm worried it's…
In lumpley games
Participants: JC.

5/11/2007 Brand_Robins: Toronto Games Expo
Heya all, I just got this from Justin, who heads up relations for the Toronto Game Expo. I've done this a couple of years now and while it isn't the…
In Conventions
Participants: Brand_Robins, epweissengruber.

5/11/2007 klausok: Drowning and Falling questions
I have just bought D&F and read it for the first time. It looks like it would be fun to play. But there are a couple of points that are…
In Bully Pulpit Games
Participants: klausok, jasonm.

5/11/2007 Malthusian: [Afraid] Quick question
If a player's character has a pet (dog, cat, whatever) that would defend the character where would be the best place to put that pet on the character sheet: Under…
In lumpley games
Participants: Malthusian, demiurgeastaroth, lumpley.

5/11/2007 guildofblades: Hard Backs...Sort of?
Hi Everyone, We have a new production option we might be able to use on future game books here at the Guild but its a bit unusual so I thought…
In Publishing
Participants: guildofblades, jasonm, Paul Czege, Eero Tuovinen, MatrixGamer, iago, madelf, David Artman.

5/11/2007 GregStolze: Last Night I Dreamed of GenCon
No, seriously. I dreamed I was playing "Burning Empires" with Luke Crane. I haven't read "Burning Empires" and have only played "Burning Wheel" in a demo a couple GenCons ago,…
In First Thoughts
Participants: GregStolze, WorkingMan, Filip Luszczyk.

5/11/2007 jasonm: [TSOY] With Players New and Old
Remi was recently asked by some of the improvisers in his performing company to show them what roleplaying is all about.  He ended up running PTA for a few of…
In Actual Play
Participants: jasonm, Ron Edwards, Clinton R. Nixon, LeSingeSavant.

5/11/2007 MatrixGamer: Dead Man on Campus Engle Matrix Game released
If you like Call of Cthulhu you'll love this game. Dead Man on Campus is the fourth folio EMG released this year by Hamster Press. This time the games centers…
In Publishing
Participants: MatrixGamer, Ron Edwards, guildofblades.

5/11/2007 RedPissLegion: [DRYH] Improvised play on easter hollidays
Finally I got around to writhing this, yeah! Last Easter me and something around 10/12 other guys went out for the holiday to dedicate 6 days to playing everything from…
In Actual Play
Participants: RedPissLegion.

5/11/2007 Age of Fable: looking for feedback for a fantasy 'online gamebook'
My unfinished project is more of a gamebook than a pen-and-paper role-playing game, so you might feel that it's outside of this site's brief - but anyway, here it is:…
In First Thoughts
Participants: Age of Fable, Ron Edwards, Noon, Vanoj, Simon C, Aaron Blain.

5/11/2007 Frank Tarcikowski: [BARBAREN!] Finally, The Woman
Hi there! When I first posted about BARBAREN! on the Forge, more than two years ago, Ron Edwards suggested the following: I suggest that there be some mechanism for…
In Playtesting
Participants: Frank Tarcikowski, Ron Edwards, Meguey, Eero Tuovinen, Emily Care, Noclue.

5/11/2007 Froley: The Real Game
This idea just came to me what about a game that takes place on the earth. No special powers, no monsters, no nothing. You could go all across the world…
In First Thoughts
Participants: Froley, C.W.Richeson, Nev the Deranged, Eliarhiman6, Call Me Curly, Age of Fable, Ron Edwards.

5/11/2007 Ron Edwards: [Shock] Gerald is a boy / Annette is married
One of our crew, the usual host, couldn't make it, and my wife was in Hawaii for the week, so I had Tim A and Tim K join me at…
In Actual Play
Participants: Ron Edwards, nikola, jrs, Alan.

5/10/2007 northerain: [Fallen] Power 19
As promised, here's my power 19 for my new game, ''Fallen'' which uses some material and ideas from my previous idea, ''Obscure''. The game is about fallen angels that left…
In First Thoughts
Participants: northerain, Vanoj, Everspinner, Mike Sugarbaker.

5/10/2007 phasmaphobic: Rewarding players for attendance
I got this idea earlier for an added incentive to keep players coming back to a game.  It could exist as part of a system I'm musing, or even as…
In First Thoughts
Participants: phasmaphobic, Filip Luszczyk, Noon, C.W.Richeson.

5/10/2007 WorkingMan: Power 19 overview
I've noticed that the standard for presenting a new game uses Power 19. I can easily copy the questions out of an existing thread and they seem fairly straight forward,…
In First Thoughts
Participants: WorkingMan, xenopulse, northerain, Troy_Costisick.

5/10/2007 Wormwood: [Coming of Age] Squires of Sword and Sorcery
Last night I held another playetest of <a href="http://wyrmwood.srgames.org/playtest/list.html">Coming of Age</a>. This time it was for somewhat veteran players, Zach had played the first playtest of the current incarnation, where…
In Playtesting
Participants: Wormwood.

5/10/2007 chris_moore: Ashcans for Dummies?
My buddy Michael and I want to make an ashcan of our game, psi run, for this year's Gen Con. Only, we know less that jack squat about this process.…
In Publishing
Participants: chris_moore, jasonm, c, timfire, lumpley.

5/10/2007 claes: Weighted Glory
I've just read through Agon and found it very interesting. Especially the competetive aspect. In may gaming group we'll probably play the game when not all of us can participate…
In one.seven design
Participants: claes, RedPissLegion, thark.

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5/12/2007 Archer5280: Handling the Supernatural in DitV vs. Afraid
This post includes some background about the particular game, and then an actual question. Skip the background if you like. Background My play-by-post game that started out as pretty straightforward…
In lumpley games
Participants: Archer5280, David Artman, lumpley, Malthusian.

5/12/2007 Ron Edwards: [Primitive] Grunt! Grunt! I'm talking to you
I've been looking forward to playing this for eight months! It was one of my faves from GenCon last year. Finally, at Forge Midwest, I got the chance to run…
In Actual Play
Participants: Ron Edwards, Nev the Deranged, jrs, GreatWolf, Kevin Allen Jr.

5/12/2007 Ron Edwards: [Cutthroat] Vroooooommmm!
One of my sins is not playing the Ronnies games to the fullest. I've played a lot of them, but not enough. Fortunately, in the last couple of months, I…
In Playtesting
Participants: Ron Edwards, Troy_Costisick.

5/13/2007 Darcy Burgess: [Godlike] - Marines on Guadalcanal
Given my current projects (Black Cadillacs and Escape from Pleasant Palace), it's no surprise that I've been thinking about war and rpgs a lot lately.  When I talk about war,…
In Actual Play
Participants: Darcy Burgess, lumpley, GregStolze, Ron Edwards.

5/13/2007 sabbatregent: [SotC/FATE] Player interaction
[b]Premise[/b] This is are small AP snippets of a Spirit of the Century game that happened a month ago.  I've been playing SotC / FATE 3.0 games with this specific…
In Actual Play
Participants: sabbatregent, RedPissLegion, boswok.

5/13/2007 Dustin: Seeking research participants
Hello, My name is Dustin Tanner. I am a doctoral student at the Minnesota School of Professional Psychology. I would like to invite you to participate in a research study…
In Connections
Participants: Dustin.

5/13/2007 Paul T: Converging Plotlines in the Land of Nodd
Hello. I just wrote the first draft of a new game I'm calling "Land of Nodd". It's a roleplaying game, but a "GM-ful" one, as some people around here like…
In First Thoughts
Participants: Paul T, northerain.

5/14/2007 Tranlin: good books with advice for GMs
What are some of the best books that offer advice on GMing? 
In Actual Play
Participants: Tranlin, Ron Edwards, GreatWolf.

5/14/2007 c: [Forge Midwest]Interview with Ron Edwards
Hi Folks, I did an interview with Ron Edwards, at Forge Midwest. It just went up late last night. We talked about a debacle that took place in these very…
In Adept Press
Participants: c, Ron Edwards, Matt Snyder, Troy_Costisick, Valamir, Paul Czege, Yokiboy, Gaerik, Nev the Deranged, James_Nostack, HighmoonMedia, brainwipe, Mick Bradley, Wolfen.

5/14/2007 Thor Olavsrud: [Robots & Rapiers v2.3] Session I
Due to a logistical error, John took the notes for this last session and is now in Hawaii, so I’m just going to touch on some of our major findings…
In Universalis
Participants: Thor Olavsrud, Valamir, Ron Edwards, ( o Y o ), Iskander, mtiru, Matt Wilson.

5/14/2007 Rustin: [TSoY] Need advice
I've managed to play TSoY three times in the past two weeks.  I'm playing it again tonight. TSOY is now my preferred game. I still have two main issues. Stakes…
In CRN Games
Participants: Rustin, Clinton R. Nixon, oliof, Rob Alexander.

5/14/2007 Matt Wilson: bookshelf twitchiness
I'm not sure who I oughta mention this to. There's someone whose account on the bookshelf I can't seem to authorize download for. It's weird. I click the box, and…
In Site Discussion
Participants: Matt Wilson, Ron Edwards, lumpley.

5/14/2007 lumpley: The new server: banned words
The Forge's new server, by default, disallows posts containing certain spam-common words. I don't know the exact list of words; all I know is that I just had a post…
In Site Discussion
Participants: lumpley.

5/15/2007 Erick Wujcik: Erick Wujcik GMing in San Francisco Bay Area
Greetings! I've relocated to the North Bay, near San Francisco, and I'm starting to run various experimental RPGs. Here are some examples: 1. Tonight (sorry for the short notice!), I'll…
In Connections
Participants: Erick Wujcik, SaintandSinner, Devin P. Owens.

5/15/2007 stefoid: conflict, its the one bit that I cant 'get'
Hi, Ive visited this forum before asking about this aspect of PTA.  I love nearly everything about the game, except this bit.  I just dont get it. Specifically, I dont…
In Dog Eared Designs
Participants: stefoid, Eero Tuovinen, Joe Dizzy, Glendower, Matt Wilson, Warren, Alan, SabreCat, Shymer.

5/15/2007 Thor Olavsrud: [Burning Wheel] Burning THAC0: Redemption and Lost Faith
In our Burning THAC0 game (a Burning Wheel game celebrating oD&D and AD&D 1st, set in the Grand Duchy of Karameikos), our characters are dirt fucking poor. A few weeks…
In Actual Play
Participants: Thor Olavsrud, Paka.

5/15/2007 WorkingMan: Call to Adventure (Power 19)
[b]1.) What is your game about?[/b] [b]Call to Adventure[/b] is about finding Truth in a world of illusion. Once discovered, Truth is the mechanism by which change and transfiguration may…
In First Thoughts
Participants: WorkingMan, Mike Sugarbaker.

5/15/2007 michaelb: War Room - a strategic, competive RPG for large groups
Hey, Background Not only am I quite new here at The Forge, but I would also consider myself not extremely experienced in RPG's in general. Sure, I have role-playing sessions…
In First Thoughts
Participants: michaelb, C.W.Richeson, Noon, Noclue, komradebob, FLEB, Paul T, Aaron Blain.

5/16/2007 abjourne: A Start, Rise 2 Legends: FR
I’ve been running a rpg game in the forgotten realms setting for about a year & a half now using my own fantasy rules. My game is called “Rise 2…
In Actual Play
Participants: abjourne, Adam Dray, contracycle.

5/16/2007 Eric J. Boyd: Ad Swap for Soon-to-be-Published Games?
So I'm in the final stages of getting my game "The Committee for the Exploration of Mysteries" ready for publication this summer. I'm sure a lot of other folks are…
In Connections
Participants: Eric J. Boyd.

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