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6/15/2007 fluency: Grab Life by the Balls
[u][b]Grab Life by the Balls[/b][/u] [i]By Gilbert Kraag Translation from norwegian by Skjalg Kreutzer[/i] Grab Life by the Balls (GLbtB) is a live-action roleplaying game for 1 or more players.…
In First Thoughts
Participants: fluency, joepub, Vanoj, davidboze.

6/15/2007 Filip Luszczyk: [Absolute Apocalypse Academy] Change of the title and the new direction
Over a month has passed since I took a break from Absolute Destiny Apocalypse, and it’s a good moment for me to re-examine the game, consider its further development and…
In Playtesting
Participants: Filip Luszczyk.

6/15/2007 zornwil: [DitV] d12s?
(First, I'd like to apologize for not properly putting the "" in front of my other posts, still getting used to this board's etiquette) I searched posts on d12s in…
In lumpley games
Participants: zornwil, David Artman, Filip Luszczyk, lumpley, eldunce.

6/15/2007 thark: [tsoy] Zu...
So, I'm starting a new TSOY campaign, and it's set to potentially feature some Zu in it. Naturally, I'm having dreadful trouble coming up with anything that seems reasonable and…
In CRN Games
Participants: thark, Eero Tuovinen, oliof.

6/15/2007 dyjoots: Dust Devils Character sheet?
I've looked high and low, and I can't seem to find a character sheet. The website mentioned in the back of Dust Devils: Revenged doesn't seem to have a sheet…
In Chimera Creative
Participants: dyjoots, Yokiboy, Matt Snyder.

6/14/2007 Doplegager: [Zen] Core Mechanic- Inverted Dice Pool
I'm attending GenCon this year with the Ashcan Front Booth, and am in the process of developing a system to introduce myself to the gaming community with.  I'm expecting to…
In First Thoughts
Participants: Doplegager, Darcy Burgess, SpazMan, VoidDragon, Rafu.

6/14/2007 Melinglor: [Dogs] Fire and Hammer, Visions and Faith
Hi! I haven't been around here much lately, but it seemed appropriate to return "home" for this play report. And I certainly do miss me some Forge-style AP. So! I…
In Actual Play
Participants: Melinglor, JC, Noclue.

6/14/2007 Dave Graffam: [Race to Glory] My first stab at this sort of thing
I'm calling this game "Race to Glory". Objective: The point of this game is to tell a zany story and have a good time telling it. It's possible for all…
In First Thoughts
Participants: Dave Graffam, VoidDragon.

6/14/2007 AlanDeSmet: [MLwM] Problematic initial sessions, advice? Link to full session summaries.
[url=http://www.highprogrammer.com/alan/gaming/my-life-with-master/200706-game.html]The full session notes for this game are online[/url] if anyone is interested. [b]The Situation:[/b] After two sessions, the Minions all have around 6-7 Self-Loathing (SL), 1 Weariness, and 2-4…
In Actual Play
Participants: AlanDeSmet, Adam Dray, Noon, Ron Edwards, Fergus.

6/13/2007 SpazMan: Shards of the Titans [Game Setting advice; System in development]
Hello "The Forge", This is my first post, and I have only recently started looking into The Forge. I have been recently listening to back archives of podcasts such as…
In First Thoughts
Participants: SpazMan, Adam Dray, Sydney Freedberg.

6/13/2007 Robert M: Saying No at the Gaming Table
I orginally posted this over at I would knife fight a man. Vincent suggested that I post it here, so here goes! I recently I have been modifying D&D for…
In Actual Play
Participants: Robert M, Nev the Deranged, Ron Edwards, Gaerik, Noon, Marco, Noclue.

6/13/2007 MatrixGamer: Where can I put announcements of product releases?
They are not really right for the publishing section - where is the appropriate place to put press releases? Maybe you need a place for them like the have on…
In Site Discussion
Participants: MatrixGamer, Ron Edwards, GreatWolf, M. J. Young.

6/13/2007 zornwil: More on Dogs and action-adventure, but for long-running campaigns and Exp.
As mentioned in my other post of today, we are doing Dogs with action-adventure more and more. One thing that we haven't decided on is how Experience/Fall-out should work where…
In lumpley games
Participants: zornwil, lumpley.

6/13/2007 iago: [GenCon 2007] [Forge Booth] [Menu] You have 24 hours to pay Ron!
Hey, folks.  In the interests of keeping the "data churn" on my end to a minimum, I need to conform to Ron's Official List of Booth Folks in terms of…
In Conventions
Participants: iago.

6/13/2007 zornwil: Dogs mechanics, action-adventure, and lethality
Warning - long post. First, we are really digging Dogs a lot.  So much so, that we are expanding it into "traditional" action-adventure realms, as it well-complements the kinds of…
In lumpley games
Participants: zornwil, lumpley, Filip Luszczyk.

6/13/2007 WRPIgeek: Seeking art for Sufficiently Advanced
Hi everyone. <a href="http://community.livejournal.com/suffadv/">Sufficiently Advanced</a> is getting to the stage where I need artwork. Ergo, I am looking for artists. I'm going to be looking not just for good art,…
In Connections
Participants: WRPIgeek, clevername, Claudia Cangini, Technocrat13, rogue_artist, roningenius.

6/13/2007 hatheg-kla: [Dying earth] Persuasion in play
Hi there. I ran a convention game of the Dying Earth RPG the other day and I thought I'm post my observations.  This is the first time I've run it…
In Actual Play
Participants: hatheg-kla, Tim C Koppang, Pelgrane.

6/13/2007 Archer5280: [DitV / Afraid] Some Actual Play-by-Post Play
So, I've posted a few items on these boards related to my play-by-post game, regarding conflict tracking and rules and dice rolling, and ceremonies. Some other players in the game…
In lumpley games
Participants: Archer5280, The Bane.

6/13/2007 RiverofTearsJvL: Looking for a program for Tree Graphs
Anyone know of a program that will let me run long Tree Graphs? Im converting notes and rules i wrote over the last few years to my laptop, and i…
In First Thoughts
Participants: RiverofTearsJvL, SpazMan.

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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6/16/2007 The Bane: Disclosure
This may be a funny question to most, but I just purchased the PDF and am dieing to run a PbP game of it. I am wondering what amount/type of…
In lumpley games
Participants: The Bane, zornwil, Filip Luszczyk.

6/16/2007 zornwil: [Afraid] Clarification needed on Afraid group NPC Answers in Conflicts
Hi, I'm not quite grokking one thing (er, at least one thing, but I THINK only one thing!) in Afraid group conflict resolution.  I searched the boards and didn't find…
In lumpley games
Participants: zornwil, Filip Luszczyk.

6/16/2007 Alan: Clockwise or Counterclockwise
Hi Joshua, I'm going to present Shock at Go Play NW next weekend. I've studied the rules and the recommendations for effective play on the Forge, but I'm confused about…
In glyphpress
Participants: Alan, nikola.

6/16/2007 SkuToV: [Death Team] First Timers First Idea
Hi, I'm completely and utterly new to these forums. I found out about them from the perosn working on Raid Earth and I came up with my own idea for…
In First Thoughts
Participants: SkuToV, Noon, Ron Edwards, Sydney Freedberg.

6/16/2007 The Dragon Master: So what's sorcerer about anyway?
After reading a brief wikipedia article on GNS Theory at the turn of the year, I began to explore some some of the games referenced in there. Most of them…
In Adept Press
Participants: The Dragon Master, Ron Edwards, M. J. Young.

6/17/2007 Meguey: [Psi Run] One game right after another!
Last Thursday we finished up our first Psi Run, as per this thread, with Vincent running for Emily, Julia, and me. It was fantastic! I got to break my lock-box…
In Playtesting
Participants: Meguey, Parthenia, michael lingner, chris_moore, lumpley.

6/17/2007 GDorn: [kpfs] lowercase, right? or: running it for complete strangers
got in a game of kpfs, finally, after having bought the pdf a couple years ago and never finding people to play it with.  it was in the context of…
In Actual Play
Participants: GDorn, lumpley.

6/17/2007 Rick Danger: one/two-shot advice
I'd like to get some pointers for running one-shots with Agon. How long do you expect a one-shot to be for Fate to be relevant and for characters to retire?…
In one.seven design
Participants: Rick Danger, demiurgeastaroth, John Harper.

6/17/2007 Vanoj: [Silent] Introductory Feedback Requested
[b]Personal and Project Background[/b] After months of lurking, only occasionally burrowing out to shoot off a comment or two, I'm glad to have some ideas to present for critique. I've…
In First Thoughts
Participants: Vanoj, northerain, Artanis.

6/17/2007 travisfarber: [Grey Ranks] A little thing called War
So, I have had the great opportunity to read through and play Grey Ranks.  This is the first of three sessions. To give a little background to the preperation part…
In Playtesting
Participants: travisfarber, jasonm, BlackTerror, ironick.

6/17/2007 fluency: The Drunken Man in the Corner & Mr. Happy Loveshine
[u]The Drunken Man in the Corner[/u] [i]By Gilbert Kraag Translated from norwegian by Skjalg Kreutzer[/i] You need: *3-10 players *An empty beer bottle. Sit in a circle. Spin the bottle.…
In First Thoughts
Participants: fluency, SkuToV, Ron Edwards, David Artman.

6/17/2007 jasonm: [Business Solutions] Comedy of (Copier) Errors
Joel, Lisa, and Jon played Business Solutions yesterday at Mayacon, Andy Kitkowski's house-con devoted to playtesting.  Lisa posts around here as Urbanpagan.  Joel's in my weekly TSoY group.  Jon is…
In Playtesting
Participants: jasonm, Ben Lehman.

6/17/2007 preludetotheend: Hard Wired (Gears and Cogs (GaC)) first thoughts please longish :(
    Thanks for giving things read over I will try and be as brief on setting as possible and get to the meat and potatoes of what the forums…
In First Thoughts
Participants: preludetotheend, SkuToV, VoidDragon.

6/17/2007 algi: I Need More Feedback from My Players
Because I hate reading long posts, but love to write them, I make some chapters. Sorry for the long foreword, just skip it if you think it doesn't help. To…
In Actual Play
Participants: algi, TonyLB, Noon, Filip Luszczyk, Frank Tarcikowski, Sydney Freedberg, wgrzanic.

6/17/2007 vertigo25: PODs Who Print Slipcases and/or Boxes?
I'm working on my game (which will, of course, revolutionize the industry and make everyone who ever plays it wish they had thought of it first and will win every…
In Publishing
Participants: vertigo25, guildofblades.

6/17/2007 Wolfen: About Alex - IMPORTANT
I am posting at the request of Alexander Cherry. Some of you may know that he was headed to Spain for the summer, for a foreign education program. Unfortunately, his…
In Twisted Confessions
Participants: Wolfen, Lxndr.

6/18/2007 zornwil: Relationship Reflection Dice Rules Question (simple!)
Hi - I've been thinking something worked a certain way....and realizing after all this time, maybe I'm dead wrong... "Add any two dice to your unassigned Relationship dice" - okay,…
In lumpley games
Participants: zornwil, Filip Luszczyk.

6/18/2007 Noon: [D&D 3.x, partly the basic game] Beware: The orcs bite!
I recently tried out my 'try to throw a dice into a distant box to see if a monsters there' idea. Played last weekend with my seven year old son…
In Actual Play
Participants: Noon, Filip Luszczyk, wgrzanic.

6/18/2007 Filip Luszczyk: [DitV] The Pirate Game
An idea for a pirate mod came to my mind today. Dunno if I run it, but might just as well share. There are no Dogs as in "we go…
In lumpley games
Participants: Filip Luszczyk, lumpley, zornwil, Archer5280.

6/18/2007 jasonm: [Medical Hospital] Arts and Crafts
I got to playtest Medical Hospital, my game about medicine and hospitals, ay Mayacon last Saturday.  It was pretty interesting.  Medical Hospital is going to be a modular game with…
In Playtesting
Participants: jasonm, LeSingeSavant, Aman the Rejected.

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