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6/9/2007 andrew_kenrick: [Six Bullets for Vengeance] Firing Blanks
So last night I ran a playtest of Six Bullets for Vengeance with my regular gaming group. It was a spectacular failure, but a fascinating, if frustrating, playtest. First, a…
In Playtesting
Participants: andrew_kenrick, Graham Walmsley, Ron Edwards, Noon, Sydney Freedberg.

6/8/2007 boswok: [Mage: The Awakening] Here goes nothing... (split)
I have one suggestion for your mystery subplots.  This references the characters erroneously assuming that spirits were involved.  When they began hunting down info they seemed to be showing real…
In Actual Play
Participants: boswok, Reithan, Ron Edwards, Falc, David Artman, Noon, Precious Villain, The Dragon Master, FredGarber.

6/8/2007 Dean Chung: [Nine Worlds] Pace for resolving muses
Hi, I am going to be starting a new campaign with Nine Worlds, and I have a question concerning muses.  Since muses play an important role in the progression of…
In Chimera Creative
Participants: Dean Chung, Jonathan Hastings, Matt Snyder.

6/8/2007 Aman the Rejected: [The Devil's Advocates] Alpha Design
Mark Causey here. I have been tinkering with game design for quite a while. I have often (temporarily) concluded that I'm not good at it. However, I finally found something…
In First Thoughts
Participants: Aman the Rejected, jasonm, Anemone, Tymen.

6/8/2007 jasonm: [Ashes] Modeling Fight-or-Flight
So I'm working on this project that requires characters to constantly either run for their lives or fight tooth and nail.  Here's what I'm thinking: I’m imagining this as a…
In First Thoughts
Participants: jasonm, hix, Darcy Burgess, David Artman.

6/8/2007 brainwipe: [Icar] Should I go from Percentiles to D10?
Something that's been bugging me for some time is the skill percentile system in Icar. Generally, it's not very easy to use. For the uninitiated, every skill has a percentage…
In First Thoughts
Participants: brainwipe, Temple, chriscrouch, Eldrad, sid.raphael, Noon, Sydney Freedberg.

6/8/2007 Neil the Wimp: [Dirty Secrets] MKRPG second playtest
Dirty Secrets is Seth Ben-Ezra's game of detective fiction, in the mould of Philip Marlowe and Lew Archer.  Read Seth's notes and some other playtests, including the MKRPG first playtest.…
In Playtesting
Participants: Neil the Wimp, GreatWolf, ParRathorne.

6/8/2007 Brimshack: Ethno-Fantasy Setting (Ramble Warning)
Notes Toward a Campaign Setting or Two: Okay, so I've been interested in working concepts from non-standard cultural backgrounds into fantasy gaming for some time. Roughly speaking, I am talking…
In First Thoughts
Participants: Brimshack, Ron Edwards, Age of Fable.

6/8/2007 natfrobinson: Resist the Sunne [Steampunk/Space Opera]
G'day all. My names Nat and I am from Melbourne, Australia. I thought I'd jump right into things with an idea of my own - My own take on the…
In First Thoughts
Participants: natfrobinson, CommonDialog, Sovem, Reprobus, Everspinner, TwoCrows, Thenomain, Nuthael, Alan, xiombarg.

6/8/2007 John Harper: Ocean's 13: Great SotC example
In the trailer for Ocean's 13, there's a great example of a high Rapport/Contacting character doing his thing. Al Pacino threatens George Clooney: "I know people who really know how…
In Evilhat Productions
Participants: John Harper, iago.

6/8/2007 Brimshack: ETC - Big Gun versus Little Grunt
ETC - The Slaughter Okay, so this was the last game we ran before posting the online version of ETC at Crunch-Waffle. It was between myself and a friend, Chris.…
In Actual Play
Participants: Brimshack, Noon.

6/7/2007 TwoCrows: One Cat Itching to loose another life
Forgites, I am interested in a candid no punches pulled private, or offlist, dialog with any published Indie game designer that is willing to openly discuss topics regarding the Indie…
In Connections
Participants: TwoCrows.

6/7/2007 Rob Alexander: various questions after second session
Hi all, I just ran a second session of TSOY after the one described here: http://www.indie-rpgs.com/forum/index.php?topic=24038.0. Glad to say it seemed to go a lot better this time, despite having…
In CRN Games
Participants: Rob Alexander, Clinton R. Nixon, Eero Tuovinen, shadowcourt.

6/7/2007 Jarx: New ideas about FATUM
[center]I think I've iritated many with my constant yapping about my "cool" game... So this will be my final topic. If nobody posts, I declarate it dead. Wanting my game…
In First Thoughts
Participants: Jarx, Spooky Fanboy, Filip Luszczyk, Adam Dray.

6/7/2007 Doyce: [BtI] Double-blind: Can't wait for the actual game
Okay, after having the game for ages and talking about it for ages -1 with my fiance, we finally sat down late Saturday night and made up characters and setting…
In Black and Green Games
Participants: Doyce, Emily Care.

6/7/2007 JasonWalters: [You Brought This On Yourself] Pivots
A big part of the slasher film/morality rpg I'm working on involves Narrative Control. A PC can attempt to seize control of the storytelling process for himself at certain specific…
In First Thoughts
Participants: JasonWalters, TwoCrows, Brimshack.

6/7/2007 GreatWolf: So, about that Wraith game....
In a different thread, Ron said this: All that said, I am still quite motivated to play a game of Wraith one of these days.…
In Adept Press
Participants: GreatWolf, Ron Edwards, HighmoonMedia, c, Eliarhiman6, Valamir, Matt Snyder, M. J. Young, Thenomain, Calithena, Jasper the Mimbo.

6/7/2007 abzu: Summer Secret Surprise 07 Hint
[url=http://burningwheel.org/forum/showthread.php?p=41456#post41456] [b]SUMMER SECRET SURPRISE 07[/b][/url] Once again, we're releasing a secret surprise project at GenCon. Preorders begin Monday, June 18th. [list] All preorders will be signed and numbered. [*]Preorderers will…
In Burning Wheel
Participants: abzu, Marhault, WildElf, Gaerik, The Dragon Master, Thor Olavsrud.

6/7/2007 Xeriar: What's in a name?
Well, I've been mulling over my setting, and have decided to split it in two.  I'm going to make 'Solar Storms' the sortof timeline-setting aspect, while the end result... an…
In First Thoughts
Participants: Xeriar, Justin Nichol - BFG, VoidDragon, Ron Edwards.

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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6/10/2007 Darcy Burgess: [Gathering Storm] -- can't shake the war!
So, here's the deal:  I just can't shake war as a theme.  It's in all of my design ideas -- it just won't go away. And here's its latest iteration. …
In First Thoughts
Participants: Darcy Burgess, jasonm, Noclue.

6/10/2007 Mister Hoppe: need a place to play ..
Hi guys RCEHoppe here i have friends of mine that are trying to start up a LARP game in Ottawa and they need a place to play, if anyone…
In First Thoughts
Participants: Mister Hoppe, Ron Edwards.

6/10/2007 GB Steve: [Daker] Eating people is bad
My French friend Ben was in town for a night so we assembled some likely faces for a game. Graham W kindly offered to give us a run of Darker,…
In Actual Play
Participants: GB Steve, jasonm, Graham Walmsley.

6/10/2007 RobNJ: [Misspent Youth] The Algorithm of Egalitarianism
This is a much-delayed AP from the June 1 JiffyCon run by Emily Care Boss in western MA. I got to run a playtest of Misspent Youth, my science fiction/youthful…
In Playtesting
Participants: RobNJ.

6/11/2007 Jonas Karlsson: [One Can Have Her] Questions on conflicts
I'm playtesting my film noir game One Can Have Her and this Thursday the players raised some concerns on how I handled conflicts and their consequences. This could just be…
In Playtesting
Participants: Jonas Karlsson, Peter Nordstrand.

6/11/2007 JoystickJunkies: Ideas for the Fate based Starblazer RPG
Hi all, I'm currently working on the new Fate space opera  RPG called Starblazer. I'd love to know if you've thought of any sci-fi related ideas for Fate or used…
In First Thoughts
Participants: JoystickJunkies, epweissengruber, TwoCrows, C.W.Richeson.

6/11/2007 JoystickJunkies: Fate based space opera RPG Starblazer needs playtesters
Hey there, check out http://www.myspace.com/Starblazeradventures and see if you'd like to be part of the playtest team for the new Starblazer RPG by Cubicle 7. It's based on a British…
In Connections
Participants: JoystickJunkies, epweissengruber.

6/11/2007 JoystickJunkies: Starblazer, the Fate RPG of space opera adventure!
Hi there, just thought I'd drop in and announce (if you'd not heard yet) that Cubicle 7 Entertainment in the UK have licenced the British space opera comic book Starblazer…
In Evilhat Productions
Participants: JoystickJunkies.

6/11/2007 btrc: [GenCon 2007] Furniture?
I'm bringing the flooring, and I assume we're doing the same thing as last year regarding tables and chairs? And, just to drool over and think about for the future:…
In Conventions
Participants: btrc, iago, jasonm, Ron Edwards, segedy, Valamir, inthisstyle, Paul Czege, Denise.

6/11/2007 jeffmoore: The Abnormal RPG ...
Vincent Baker, owner of lumpley games and author of "Dogs in the Vineyard" said, "Don't make another normal RPG. There are plenty and more than plenty, there are too many…
In First Thoughts
Participants: jeffmoore, Adam Dray.

6/11/2007 Adam Dray: [Primitive] The Order of the Big Stick
Yesterday, I had a little cook-out for some of my friends this weekend. SarahScott was back in town (she moved away to New Orleans), and she and Lisa and Mike…
In Actual Play
Participants: Adam Dray, Nev the Deranged, Eric J. Boyd, Kevin Allen Jr.

6/11/2007 Yokiboy: Fastlane on the RPG Index
Hey Alexander, I submitted Fastlane to the RPG Index. I still don't have a roulette wheel, or I'd have played the game by now. It still ranks highly on my…
In Twisted Confessions
Participants: Yokiboy, Filip Luszczyk, Lxndr.

6/12/2007 James_Nostack: [Dictionary of Mu] A Martian Armory
[i]Sorcerer & Sword[/i], on page 71, suggests that in certain contexts, particular weapons should receive tactical advantages.  While as a GM I'm quite happy doing this [i]ad hoc[/i], I felt…
In Adept Press
Participants: James_Nostack.

6/12/2007 CSBone: One Roll "High" School
This started as Power 19: One Roll Narrative Role Playing System (Long). This is the first of three concepts. My goal is to get the One Roll system ready…
In First Thoughts
Participants: CSBone.

6/12/2007 Taladel: Who's going to be manning the Forge Booth?
A guy I met through a mutual friend just told me that he's got a seat at the Forge booth for GenCon this year. He mentioned that he's demoing a…
In Conventions
Participants: Taladel, Ron Edwards, Troy_Costisick, jrs, Justin D. Jacobson.

6/12/2007 Simon C: [Fir Bolg] Fortune (near or maybe at) the Start, and GM Fiat.
Fir Bolg is this project that I'm kind of unable to let go, even though I don't really think of myself as a game designer.  It's a mostly gamist supporting…
In First Thoughts
Participants: Simon C, Noon, Rafu, contracycle, Eero Tuovinen, HighmoonMedia.

6/12/2007 RobNJ: Epigrams and The Law
As I finally begin to write the text of my sci-fi game of youthful rebellion, <a href="http://indie-insurgent.livejournal.com/1768.html">Misspent Youth</a>, I am coming up against a concern I would imagine a number…
In Publishing
Participants: RobNJ, Gaerik, Adam Dray, Ron Edwards, Tim C Koppang, jasonm, David Artman, rafael.

6/12/2007 Valvorik: Afraid fallouts and circumstances
Couple of questions (1)  For GM Fallout, Acolyte and Slave bonds are never listed as something to reveal.  I think it makes sense that in a conflict involving either, assuming…
In lumpley games
Participants: Valvorik.

6/13/2007 The Bane: [DitV] - Archons in the Night
All, Let me say that I am a DitV noob. I bought the PDF when I saw it on a forum being run. I have since joined that game and…
In lumpley games
Participants: The Bane, Filip Luszczyk, David Artman, lumpley.

6/13/2007 vertigo25: Looking for a Game
I know this falls outside of the scope of these forums, but I'd like to ask all of you, because you know what I'm talking about here. I apologize beforehand,…
In Actual Play
Participants: vertigo25, Ron Edwards.

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