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5/21/2007 Eliarhiman6: [Jeepform] DOUBT, a Jeepform Narrative LARP
Hello! At the last Italian Ambercon (April 21-22 2007, in Modena, Italy), the Italian "roleplaying movement" Flying Circus hosted a presentation of "Jeepforms" given by two international guests, the…
In Actual Play
Participants: Eliarhiman6, Claudia Cangini, jasonm, fjj, Frank Tarcikowski.

5/21/2007 epweissengruber: Universalis and IndieRPG Toronto: Against the 13th Reich
The full details of our tenents, etc. can be found here: http://roleplayers.meetup.com/261/messages/boards/view/viewthread?thread=3087998 - feel: Buck Rodgers Raygun Sci-Fi Tenents * Science-fictiony space adventure * Buck Rodgers Rockets and tight 1-piece…
In Universalis
Participants: epweissengruber, Mike Holmes, rycanada, Tony Irwin, Valvorik.

5/21/2007 Paul Czege: the in absentia policy for having your game at The Ashcan Front booth
Hey all, Matt and I both want The Ashcan Front booth to support a small handful of folks (like maybe two or three) who can't, for whatever reason, be at…
In Conventions
Participants: Paul Czege.

5/21/2007 Nathan Herrold: Blood in the Thickets
well here goes, I've been bouncing a possible game idea off of Jason Morningstar, and he has said to post some of my thoughts and i guess proposals here, to…
In First Thoughts
Participants: Nathan Herrold, jasonm, Valamir, michaelb, Technocrat13, Marshall Burns.

5/21/2007 Joe Dizzy: [Galactic] Doubt?
Hi Matt, I'm gearing up for our Galactic game tonight, but I can't quite figure out how Doubt works. From the example on page 54 it seems that the GM…
In Dog Eared Designs
Participants: Joe Dizzy, Matt Wilson.

5/21/2007 sabedoriaclark: Real20: The Game with Balls!
Are you a manly man or a kick-ass woman? Do you have more abs than brain cells? Are you controversial, confrontational and out-of-fucking-control? Do you believe in shooting first and…
In First Thoughts
Participants: sabedoriaclark.

5/21/2007 malcolmr: A good introductory game?
[This probably isn't the right forum for this, but I can't find a better one. Please forgive.] I'm a university lecturer teaching a class in game design (all kinds of…
In Actual Play
Participants: malcolmr, Eero Tuovinen, JackTheOwner, Ron Edwards.

5/20/2007 iain: [STITCH] Actual play spodley grange
[b]Stitch – Spodley Grange playtest[/b] [b]Master:[/b] Iain McAllister [b]Team:[/b] Gregory Malkovich, Soldier - James Alex Stepovich, Engineer - Janos John Parish, Soldier - Claire Alexander Khruschev, commander - Andrew [b]Overview:[/b]…
In Playtesting
Participants: iain, Graham Walmsley, Filip Luszczyk.

5/20/2007 Alan: [SoTC] Story Now without a net
After Gerry shelved our game of Hollow Earth Expeditions because Alex could no longer attend, I suggested we try Spirit of the Century. For observations on the players and our…
In Actual Play
Participants: Alan, Noon.

5/20/2007 Filip Luszczyk: [Illumination] Back on tracks
It took me some time before I got down to writing this AP, but here it is. We playtested the new version of Illumination, my Mage: the Ascension heartbreaker game,…
In Playtesting
Participants: Filip Luszczyk, ja-prozac, JackTheOwner.

5/20/2007 JC: [DITV] Failure
Hi there :) GMed my second game of Dogs yesterday (my first very short AP post can be found here: http://forum.rpg.net/showthread.php?t=325133). This time around, it went all kinds of wrong.…
In Actual Play
Participants: JC, Eliarhiman6, The Mule, Adam Dray, Noon, Brand_Robins, Web_Weaver, oliof.

5/20/2007 preludetotheend: Kewl books worth it?
Aside from a lulu pod version I was thinking of creating a line of hand made books with a couple things in mind. 1. The "cheap ass effect" in which…
In Publishing
Participants: preludetotheend, GregStolze, Ron Edwards, C.W.Richeson, MatrixGamer, Dosoga, timfire, woodelf.

5/20/2007 Froley: Wargame and RPG Hybrid
Wargames are fun. I enjoy chainmail but it is missing the whole individual character creation and developement. Controlling an army is fun and so is having your own guy to…
In First Thoughts
Participants: Froley, VoidDragon, Ron Edwards, Aaron Blain, Noclue.

5/20/2007 VoidDragon: New Tabletop Rules-Light Game
Hi, I'm new here.  I just read a few posts, and decided to throw some of my ideas out there. I've been in development of my own multi-genre paper-and-dice game…
In First Thoughts
Participants: VoidDragon, Ron Edwards, Eero Tuovinen, Noon.

5/19/2007 5niper9: Questions concerning my game reflection
[size=10pt]Hi, well, I have GMed several games of Dogs and played recently in one of it. We played by the book and I always asked for feedback by the other…
In lumpley games
Participants: 5niper9, Eliarhiman6, demiurgeastaroth, The Mule, Valamir, lumpley, xenopulse, Brand_Robins.

5/19/2007 RobNJ: [Misspent Youth] Current status
So after Camp Nerdly, and between the small slice of time I had between the end of one semester and the beginning of the next, I got another draft of…
In Playtesting
Participants: RobNJ, Emily Care.

5/19/2007 jessecoombs: A few questions on the 2nd edition...
If these questions have been answered in older posts, I apologize and I'll try to seek them out. I just had a few basic questions about mechanics of PTA. -Is…
In Dog Eared Designs
Participants: jessecoombs, Filip Luszczyk, stefoid.

5/19/2007 andrew_kenrick: [Six Bullets for Vengeance] Spodley Grange playtest
Saturday afternoon at Spodley Grange I got to run a playtest of Six Bullets for Vengeance, my game of bloodshed and vengeance, I think for the 5th time. Each time…
In Playtesting
Participants: andrew_kenrick, Ron Edwards, Graham Walmsley, GreatWolf, Zathreyel.

5/19/2007 Dantai: [Piledrivers & Powerbombs] Chokeslam of Darkness edition PDF on IPR
Hi all Well, it's been one hell of a publishing journey from back in 2005 when I first penned Piledrivers & Powerbombs as a 24hr RPG. It was originally published…
In Publishing
Participants: Dantai, Ron Edwards.

5/19/2007 greyorm: [ORX] New Review at RPG.net
There's <a href="http://www.rpg.net/reviews/archive/12/12992.phtml">a new review of ORX</a> up at RPG.net, by Christopher Richeson. Some the points he makes I want to touch on with my reactions and thoughts. <b>Price</b>: $20…
In Wild Hunt Studios
Participants: greyorm, Ron Edwards, Eero Tuovinen, C.W.Richeson, Valamir.

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5/21/2007 Emily Care: JiffyCon June, and GenCon ruminations
Hey folks, We're having another rpg con out in western Massachusetts.  This is the fourth JiffyCon. It's a one day rpg event, and we've had a wide variety of the…
In Conventions
Participants: Emily Care, Ron Edwards, RobNJ, Ben Lehman.

5/21/2007 ( o Y o ): Re: [Robots & Rapiers v2.3] some questions
Hi Valamir, I mean the Difficulty. Your comment on RAM9 suggests that the "other way" round (Bonus is my Bonus and Difficulty is my Difficulty) it would be more intuitive.…
In Universalis
Participants: ( o Y o ), Valamir.

5/21/2007 ChadDubya: [ENOCH] Play-testers needed!
Hi gang, I have recently made available the first incarnation of ENOCH, a mythical post-apocalyptic RPG. It may be downloaded at www.enochrpg.com/wiki I am looking for play-testers to help me…
In Connections
Participants: ChadDubya.

5/21/2007 PlatonicPimp: "Flaws" in DITV or Afraid.
First off, Hello, this would be my first post here. Secondly, in DITV and afriad, D4 traits are typically considered "flaws" because their small size makes it easy to acheive…
In lumpley games
Participants: PlatonicPimp, The Mule, WildElf.

5/22/2007 sirconis: Open-ended player-created spells / abilities ???
I was wondering if anyone has come across a system that allows players to create their own spells / abilities?  I'm working on a game system that incorporates this and…
In First Thoughts
Participants: sirconis, KickAssClown, Eero Tuovinen, gooderguy, darquelf.

5/22/2007 timmyd: Other sources of Quests
I'll admit right off the bat that I have not yet read *all* of the Agon rulebook, and I have not yet ran a game. With that in mind, I…
In one.seven design
Participants: timmyd, RedPissLegion, MikeSands, John Harper.

5/22/2007 TwoCrows: The Product I thought of while thinking about Indie RPG products
Greetings, After days of lurking, reading, and ruminating (…and certainly there’s enough material here that an admission of only having barely skimmed the surface should be a forgivable sin…) I’ve…
In First Thoughts
Participants: TwoCrows, Paul Czege, KickAssClown, Noon, pells, Ron Edwards.

5/22/2007 Nev the Deranged: Rise of the Argonauts
There's not a lot of info available (for free anyway) on the web about this upcoming game, but the articles I've read sound pretty badass. And, not incidentally, pretty Agonesque.…
In one.seven design
Participants: Nev the Deranged, John Harper.

5/23/2007 epweissengruber: Indie RPG Toronto Takes on Universalis: AGAINST THE 13th REICH!
http://roleplayers.meetup.com/261/messages/boards/view/viewthread?thread=3087998 We had a good experience with the game and I hope to pull it out again for our next social meeting.
In Universalis
Participants: epweissengruber.

5/23/2007 Judaicdiablo: [SotC] Reference Sheets
Here are the current incarnations of some reference sheets that I am working on.  They are still not really done yet, but I am at a bit of a stand…
In Evilhat Productions
Participants: Judaicdiablo, Yokiboy, demiurgeastaroth, BastardToadflax.

5/23/2007 RedPissLegion: [TSoY] IIEE breakdown and stakes
Hi, Initial note: I didn't want to de rail Rustin's thread so I started this one. After reading the link that Rustin posted on this reply a couple of doubts…
In CRN Games
Participants: RedPissLegion, Clinton R. Nixon, oliof.

5/23/2007 Joe Dizzy: [GALACTIC] Berlin Playtest 2007
[b]Session 1 - Character and setting creation [/b] These are a few of my impressions of our first Galactic session on Monday. All in all it took us a little…
In Playtesting
Participants: Joe Dizzy, Matt Wilson, Emily Care, yothales, Alan.

5/23/2007 gds: [Quest] Comments on this game concept?
So I’m thinking about a new game, and I thought I’d float some mechanics out here to see what people think. Note that this is completely untried and unplaytested, so…
In First Thoughts
Participants: gds.

5/22/2007 Hereward The Wake: A New System for Martial Arts Fighting (split)
I too would have liked to see more on it. From my point, it seemed that it was going from a very specific approach whiich while intersting was outside of…
In First Thoughts
Participants: Hereward The Wake, Ron Edwards.

5/23/2007 Gaerik: Giving in DitV
There are a couple of threads in Actual Play concerning DitV and one of them is discussing Giving during a conflict and the conversation there is making me think that…
In lumpley games
Participants: Gaerik, lumpley, Eliarhiman6.

5/23/2007 anubis9: The currency of "Fame" in a competitive superhero game
OK, so after sitting on the fence, and lurking for awhile, I’ve decided to stick my head out. You see, I heard about this really cool contest called “game chef,”…
In First Thoughts
Participants: anubis9, Mike Sugarbaker, Narf the Mouse, Ken, Noon, boswok.

5/23/2007 Sentience: [Decay RPG] Artists, playtesters, concept designers, and others needed!
Greetings! As the middle of the year quickly closes in, Sentient Games has come to realize that we're behind schedule! A few of our designers have parted ways due to…
In Connections
Participants: Sentience.

5/23/2007 Neil the Wimp: [Dirty Secrets] MKRPG first playtest
Dirty Secrets is Seth Ben-Ezra's game of detective fiction, in the mould of Philip Marlowe and Lew Archer.  Read Ben's notes and some other playtests We played Dirty Secrets last…
In Playtesting
Participants: Neil the Wimp, GreatWolf.

5/23/2007 fjj: Indie Game Designer for Guest Star Appearance on Danish Game Con wanted
Viking Con 26 is held October 12 -14 2007 in Copenhagen, Denmark. Last year, we did a workshop and demo games of many different indie games like Dogs in the…
In Conventions
Participants: fjj.

5/23/2007 btrc: Anyone fluent in Arabic?
I've got a project that could benefit from someone (a gamer, preferably) literate in Arabic. Contact me privately if you're able and interested and I'll give you the details. Greg…
In Connections
Participants: btrc.

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