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6/3/2007 Noon: Conflict of design goals or: THACO - To Hit Adesign Class 0
I'm trying to get over some writers block at the moment ('moment' as used here could include several years, actually). Specifically for this thread, there's something I've been thinking about…
In First Thoughts
Participants: Noon, Thenomain, Eero Tuovinen, Noclue, Filip Luszczyk, Aaron Blain, Dan Maruschak, David C, contracycle, Rafu, Simon C, OleOneEye.

6/2/2007 JC: [DITV / Afraid] Raising stats with experience
hi :) I noticed the option to raise one of your stats with experience fallout is missing from the "Afraid" PDF this caught my attention because it's one of the…
In lumpley games
Participants: JC, lumpley.

6/2/2007 TwoCrows: Second Thoughts
For my second First Thoughts I’ve chosen to take Mike Holme’s advice, reinforced by Ron’s admonitions in More Fantasy Heartbreakers. “Everyone should write a Heartbreaker.” Everyone seems a broad enough…
In First Thoughts
Participants: TwoCrows, C.W.Richeson, Eero Tuovinen, brainwipe, Valamir.

6/2/2007 TwoCrows: [DnD3ish HB] Shared Story Style DnD
Hey All, Tonight’s weekly gaming session was a blast, what our group calls a “real keeper!” We older Players have all commented that we feel like we did “back in…
In Actual Play
Participants: TwoCrows.

6/2/2007 chrisn: Primetime Adventures (Primetime Adventures)
While searching for Primetime Adventures on Google, I ran across Primetime Adventures (http://www.primetimeadv.com/) which sounds like a geekily-recursive setting for a game. Given the site description... Prince Rupert fishing…
In Dog Eared Designs
Participants: chrisn.

6/2/2007 earwig: The Return of my Amnesia Game
I've been busy with pre-production of a film, so I have not posted in awhile, but I wanted to touch base with the community again, for some basic feedback. I…
In First Thoughts
Participants: earwig, brainwipe, chris_moore.

6/2/2007 chris_moore: [psi run] editing, layout
Hey again, A few people have already expressed interest in helping with layout for Michael Lingner's and my game, psi run.  If you were one of those people, or you'd…
In Connections
Participants: chris_moore.

6/2/2007 chris_moore: [psi run] join the fun!
Hey, Forge, Michael Lingner and I have made a game called psi run, playtested here:  http://www.indie-rpgs.com/forum/index.php?topic=23832.0 and here:            http://www.indie-rpgs.com/forum/index.php?topic=23727.0 We would love to have your…
In Connections
Participants: chris_moore.

6/1/2007 JasonWalters: [You Brought This On Yourself] The First Three Chapters
Since several of you were kind enough to provide me with suggestions for my YBTOY Maniac "laundry lists," I though that I might provide a work-in- progress link to the…
In First Thoughts
Participants: JasonWalters, jasonm.

6/1/2007 Garvey: [Polaris PbP] Dreams of Eternal Night
[b]== Introduction ==[/b] I've been doing a bit of play-by-post (PbP) gaming over on [url=http://samaritan1975.proboards20.com/index.cgi]RPG Crossroads[/url], and after reading Polaris and listening to Paul Tevis' group's Polaris recordings, I thought…
In Actual Play
Participants: Garvey, Gaerik.

6/1/2007 Graham Walmsley: [Roach] With beers at SteveCon
At SteveCon, we had a go at the Roach. So there's four of us, in a pub: me, Adam and...God, I'm terrible at names...I know everyone was Biblical except for…
In Actual Play
Participants: Graham Walmsley, jasonm.

6/1/2007 Sovem: Universalis-like game mechanic?
I really like the way the Universalis game mechanic makes you spend coins for everything that you do in game. I was thinking about making a similar game mechanic in…
In First Thoughts
Participants: Sovem, Andrew Morris, Valamir, xiombarg.

6/1/2007 sambearpoet: Quanta: the game of interstellar vacations
You play an existentially bored, nearly immortal energy being who, in order to escape its ennui, has been transmitted into one of many of the invisible crystalline orbital Quanta Stations…
In First Thoughts
Participants: sambearpoet, anders_larsen, Ron Edwards, c, brainwipe, HighmoonMedia.

5/31/2007 Narf the Mouse: Road Trip RPG?
I'm not sure if this is the right place for it, but I was just thinking... Anyway, I've never been on a road trip, so I wouldn't be the best…
In First Thoughts
Participants: Narf the Mouse, brainwipe, Aaron Blain.

5/31/2007 Rob Alexander: [TSOY] several beginner's questions
Hi, Finally ran the game I was talking about in http://www.indie-rpgs.com/forum/index.php?topic=23848. I raise some general issues in the AP thread (http://www.indie-rpgs.com/forum/index.php?topic=24038.0), but I've got a few specific rules questions as…
In CRN Games
Participants: Rob Alexander, shadowcourt, Eero Tuovinen, Gaerik.

5/31/2007 Rob Alexander: [TSOY] GMing in heavy gloves
I just run my first TSOY game with our semi-regular Castles and Crusades group, and although it went ok, and people seem to have enjoyed it, it was pretty confusing.…
In Actual Play
Participants: Rob Alexander, TonyLB, Paka.

5/31/2007 mjstahl: Live-Action "Powers" Mechanic
Hello everyone. I must be honest I wasn't too sure how to post to this particular forum, but I also would like some feedback on a game I have been…
In First Thoughts
Participants: mjstahl, James_Nostack, KickAssClown.

5/31/2007 Brimshack: Hmmmm... Entry?
Okay, so I have a miniatures game, ETC, that we have about 90% of the way there. Actually, if I'm reading you guys right, it's about the equivalent of what…
In Site Discussion
Participants: Brimshack, Ron Edwards.

5/31/2007 RobNJ: [Misspent Youth] The Rise of Google 2.0
(cross posted from Story Games) So I ran Misspent Youth for some friends yesterday at my house and for the first time I had a complete story from beginning to…
In Playtesting
Participants: RobNJ, TonyLB.

5/31/2007 brainwipe: [GenCon UK 2007] Reading UK
I am going to be running some Icar at GenCon UK this year. Anyone else going?
In Conventions
Participants: brainwipe.

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6/3/2007 TwoCrows: The Tin Soldier 70/80s Logo
Does anyone out there remember the old Tin Soldier hobby store that was located in the Centerville Ohio area? If memory serves me it was in the Washington Square shopping…
In Connections
Participants: TwoCrows.

6/3/2007 Peter Nordstrand: One Can Have Her
We playtested Jonas Ferry's (the artist formerly known as Jonas Karlsson) Ronny winning game One Can Have Her. The short version of this report is that the game went very…
In Playtesting
Participants: Peter Nordstrand, Ron Edwards.

6/3/2007 Graham Walmsley: [Darker] Thank heaven for little girls
Darker is my setting for the Shab al-Hiri Roach: the Roach comes to Oxford University in Victorian times. We tested it today, after Sunday lunch. There's John, Alex, Adam and…
In Playtesting
Participants: Graham Walmsley, jasonm, Ron Edwards.

6/4/2007 chrisn: Tying fan mail to index cards
In my last game I tried something new. I labeled some index cards with phrases like "shocking twist", "telling detail", "unexplained phenomenon", (and, particular to this Land of the Lost…
In Dog Eared Designs
Participants: chrisn, Matt Wilson, Filip Luszczyk, BlackSheep.

6/4/2007 Temple: [Arkana] An improvisational rpg of Fae and magic.
In this thread I mentioned that I had two projects that I was picking up. Downtown is one of them. This, Arkana, is the other. Arkana; Bortenfor, Bakenfor (Arkana; Beyond,…
In First Thoughts
Participants: Temple, brainwipe, Spooky Fanboy, David Artman.

6/4/2007 Justin Nichol - BFG: Resolution Mechanic- Need help with the use of descriptors
I'm currently trying to develop a Universal, Extensible, Open Source game engine for use with community developed settings. I want it to draw upon some narrativist game mechanics, while still…
In First Thoughts
Participants: Justin Nichol - BFG, TwoCrows, Noon, Aaron Blain, Noclue, anders_larsen.

6/4/2007 SaintandSinner: New versions of games
Should publishers update books for existing customers?  Should someone who bought PDFs Shock or Mortal Coil (just to pick a couple of examples that have been tossed around as needing…
In Publishing
Participants: SaintandSinner, Matt Snyder, MatrixGamer, Ron Edwards, Jake Richmond, Dav.

6/4/2007 Jonathan Hastings: [DitV] What should possession look like in a low supernatural dial game?
So - I'm GMing my first game of Dogs for James and Scott.  James has skimmed through the rules before and Scott is coming to the table having heard about…
In lumpley games
Participants: Jonathan Hastings, demiurgeastaroth, oliof, Ron Edwards, lumpley, zornwil.

6/5/2007 ChadDubya: [ENOCH] Playtest
The first official playtest of Enoch happened this weekend. Me and three players spend roughly 3 hours together, half of which was actual play, while the other half was talking…
In Playtesting
Participants: ChadDubya, nitramwi, TJ, c.

6/5/2007 Sovem: A new method for combat?
AJ's post of several weeks ago about a new system for martial arts has really got me thinking about alternative ways to run combat. Her suggestion was that instead of…
In First Thoughts
Participants: Sovem, Justin Nichol - BFG, Noon, hix, Noclue, VoidDragon, brainwipe, Aaron Blain, contracycle, boswok.

6/5/2007 daedalvs: [Mortal Coil] Some Rules-related Questions
Hello everyone! Quite some time has passed since I posted a bunch of questions in the thread relating the AP we did here in Spain, named "Malleus Malleficarum", and received…
In Galileo Games
Participants: daedalvs, RedPissLegion, GB Steve, inthisstyle.

6/5/2007 klausok: [Dust Devils] Chips
Are the examples in the rules realistic? In one, a player has 13 chips. I have a hard time seeing how you could ever accumulate that many.
In Chimera Creative
Participants: klausok, Matt Snyder.

6/6/2007 Eldrad: The Olde Realm
This is a possible intro to the Olde Realm RPG/Novel It is a genre called swordpunk. Take the cyberpunk model and  reniassance level technology mixed with a bit of magic…
In First Thoughts
Participants: Eldrad, Sovem, brainwipe, Adam Dray, TwoCrows, Vanoj.

6/6/2007 AlanDeSmet: MLwM: The math behind the game
I'm running my first game of My Life with Master (play report "Soon"), and I became curious about the math behind the game.  For example, theoretically a Minion can successfully…
In Half Meme Press
Participants: AlanDeSmet.

6/6/2007 itiro: EIRPG 15 - São Paulo, Brasil
The 15th edition of EIRPG (Encontro Internacional de RPG - "International RPG Meeting") will happen in São Paulo on July 7th and 8th. We are planning to run demo games…
In Conventions
Participants: itiro.

6/6/2007 MatrixGamer: [Engle Matrix Game] I need some help seeing if buying arguments is good mechanic
I want some help finding the bugs in a new rules mechanic I'm playing around with. The basic rule of Matrix Games now is that each turn a player makes…
In First Thoughts
Participants: MatrixGamer.

6/6/2007 hatheg-kla: [The Pool] Looking for a scenario idea for first-time convention play!
Hi. I've been talked into running a game at a mini convention in 2 days time with a bunch of people I don't know.  I've never GM'ed The Pool, but…
In Actual Play
Participants: hatheg-kla.

6/6/2007 iago: [GenCon 2007] The Forge Booth - Menu Update - Please Read!
I've put together a spreadsheet with the information I'll be using to construct the Forge Booth's menu.  I need all this information to be complete before the end of June…
In Conventions
Participants: iago, Ron Edwards, xenopulse, Troy_Costisick, Paul Czege, GregStolze, Denise.

6/6/2007 Ludanto: [TSoY] Perception in BDtP?
Hi! Here's the situation.  Pick-Tooth the ratkin is sneaking past a guard (Stealth vs. React), but fails, so he Brings Down the Pain.  Now Pick-Tooth continues to try to evade…
In CRN Games
Participants: Ludanto, Gaerik, Eero Tuovinen.

6/6/2007 Justin Nichol - BFG: Contest and Combat Brainstorm
So I'm currently interested in designing an interesting combat system around the open source game engine I'm developing, CORE, and I've seena couple interesting ideas here on the fourms, so…
In First Thoughts
Participants: Justin Nichol - BFG, anders_larsen, Sovem.

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