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6/26/2007 Rob Alexander: [TSOY] the Hungry Ones are coming
(Sorry if this post is a monster. Might I recommend a hardcopy and a comfortable armchair?) I've been running TSOY as a fill-in game while our main (Castles and Crusades)…
In Actual Play
Participants: Rob Alexander, oliof.

6/26/2007 Zero Zeed: Stuck in the setting
Hi guys, I’m new to this forum so I will introduce myself, my name is Ciro and I am from Venezuela so sorry if my english get too wrong. I’m…
In First Thoughts
Participants: Zero Zeed, anders_larsen, rycanada, jasonm, Vanoj, Ron Edwards.

6/26/2007 Darcy Burgess: [Gathering Storm] -- That Gut-Wrenching feeling
[url=http://www.indie-rpgs.com/forum/index.php?topic=24100.0]The original genesis thread[/url]. [b]What the game's about[/b] Telling short (brutal?) stories set in Britain during the [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Blitz]Blitz[/url] (1940-41). [b]What's changed since the genesis?[/b] The game will be driven by…
In First Thoughts
Participants: Darcy Burgess, BigElvis, Zeigfreid, Sane, jasonm, Sydney Freedberg.

6/25/2007 Artanis: [Dirty Secrets] Club 138
[b]Setup[/b] Gaétan (Investigator), Jérôme, Julien, Xavier and myself tested Seth Ben-Ezra's game friday a fortnight ago. In a word, it was: great! I actually didn't understand the rules very well…
In Playtesting
Participants: Artanis, GreatWolf, Valamir.

6/25/2007 FredGarber: [D&D 3.5] playing amongst the wargamers - advice wanted
Situation ----------------------- I just discovered that my fellow player is really defined by her past playing wargames (Mechwarrior, Flames of War, Warhammer), so much so that in her mind, the…
In Actual Play
Participants: FredGarber, Gaerik, Sydney Freedberg, Noon, Eldrad, ODDin, contracycle, James_Nostack, Millsy, Vulpinoid, Valvorik, cpeterso.

6/25/2007 Matt Snyder: [Ashcan Front] Support the front with T-shirts!
We're working to get everything in place for the Ashcan Front booth at Gencon. Paul created some really cool T-shirts with the Ashcan Front logo. So, we're offering pre-orders to…
In Conventions
Participants: Matt Snyder, Matt-M-McElroy, Paul Czege.

6/25/2007 MJGraham: [Insurrection] GM Fiat: How much is too much? (NSFW)
I've been playtesting my own game and the following incident occured. In one scene the protagonists were staying the night at a religious compound. A player who was roleplaying a…
In Playtesting
Participants: MJGraham, c, Noon.

6/25/2007 Jake Norwood: Last Call for Origins?
Hey all. Just poppin' in one more time to see if there will be any forge-ites up for some pick up games or just hanging out at Origins. I'll be…
In Conventions
Participants: Jake Norwood, Nathan P., iago, Marhault, Jared A. Sorensen, c.

6/25/2007 rafial: [Tunnels & Trolls] Vaults of the Skolari
To anyone who thought that Ron might have been hallucinating when he talked up Tunnels & Trolls a couple years back, you need only check in with one of the…
In Actual Play
Participants: rafial, Trevis Martin, Ron Edwards, Simon C, Clinton R. Nixon, John Harper, joepub.

6/24/2007 Nathan P.: [carry] Endgame tweaks
Here's how I'm going to start running the Endgame for carry. 1. Everyone chooses a target and hands their Burden die to the person. The GM keeps track of who…
In ndp design
Participants: Nathan P., Yokiboy, Ron Edwards.

6/23/2007 LordEntropy: [&Sword] Trading Victories Question (split)
[quote author=Ron Edwards link=topic=15988.msg170593#msg170593 date=1121697501] Hi James, Sorry 'bout the delay; the home wireless is acting funny. Let's see if I can stay on-line long enough for this to work.…
In Adept Press
Participants: LordEntropy, Ron Edwards, Eliarhiman6.

6/24/2007 greyorm: [InSpectres] More Gaming with the Kids
After hearing about the other InSpectres game played with kids, I thought I'd give it a go as well, so last Saturday night for family night we played through a…
In Actual Play
Participants: greyorm, xenopulse, Sydney Freedberg, LandonSuffered.

6/24/2007 GestaltBennie: [TMW]Winter and Spring
[i]In preparing to run the MountainWitch, I drew on elements from my one play experience, an actual play is found here. http://www.indie-rpgs.com/forum/index.php?topic=20913.0 The graveyard and temple encounters are inspired by…
In Actual Play
Participants: GestaltBennie, Ron Edwards, Sydney Freedberg, Caesar_X.

6/23/2007 Dan Bell: Seeking feeedback of play for new free published Harn adventure
Hello all I want to announce the release of a new free pdf adventure module set in the world of Harn (but easily adaptable to another gaming world). I am…
In Actual Play
Participants: Dan Bell, Ron Edwards.

6/23/2007 Narf the Mouse: Tales From The Rusty Broadsword Inn (Take 2) - Some sort of massive problem?
I had a flash of inspiration and completely redesigned the system. Then, I posted straight to 'Connections', which now seems very premature. With about four hundred and fifty views on…
In First Thoughts
Participants: Narf the Mouse, Noon, The Dragon Master, Rafu, BigElvis.

6/23/2007 JMendes: [June Retreat 2007 – PTA] Redemption - Coolness, with weirdness in the mix
Hello, all, :) As you probably have no way of knowing, last week, a bunch of us picked up and left for an eleven-day RPG retreat. Being the one among…
In Actual Play
Participants: JMendes, REkz.

6/23/2007 DavidRapozaArt: Concept Artist looking for work
Hi my names David Rapoza, I'm a concept artist from massachuesetts. Check out my blog here for some of my most recent work: http://davidrapoza.blogspot.com/ email: rapozaster@gmail.com I have experience in…
In Connections
Participants: DavidRapozaArt.

6/22/2007 5niper9: [Sorcerer] Guarding the scottish homelands
Hello, I played Sorcerer with my Indie-Game-group recently and it was a success. Group & Setting Our game group consists of  Edwin, Anna and René (myself). All of us…
In Actual Play
Participants: 5niper9, The Dragon Master, Jonathan Hastings, Ron Edwards, hix, Simon C.

6/22/2007 MichaelCurry: [Afraid] Monster Bonds?
I'm prepping a game of Afraid for next weekend, and I've found myself stuck on choosing non-victim Bonds for the monster. The obvious choices that I come up with tend…
In lumpley games
Participants: MichaelCurry, Valvorik, lumpley.

6/22/2007 joepub: [The Infected] The Final Nail in the Coffin of Fox River
I played The Infected with two players last night. We agreed upon playing a meandering, gritty western for the backdrop - Fox River, a dying mine town on its last…
In Playtesting
Participants: joepub, Darcy Burgess, Technocrat13, MikeSands, Rich Stokes.

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6/26/2007 Frank Tarcikowski: [TSoY Prep] What is in the ancient Zaru capital?
So, in our World of Near, I am using Harald’s interpretation of the geography: The Zaru now live in the Zaru delta, but the peninsula to the north is the…
In CRN Games
Participants: Frank Tarcikowski, Eero Tuovinen, Rob Alexander, oliof.

6/26/2007 punkbohemian: Fudging Fudge dice
I know what the probability curve looks like for 4dF, but I'm wondering how it would change if the fudge dice were modified. For example, let's say it's 2dF with…
In First Thoughts
Participants: punkbohemian, VoidDragon, Age of Fable.

6/26/2007 iago: [GenCon 2007] Indie Games Passport: Rubber Stamp Designs, stat!
[img]http://www.deadlyfredly.com/gencon07/indiepassport-thumb.jpg[/img] Attention: Folks involved in the Indie Games Passport! The place I'm going to be ordering the rubber stamps from is doing a 50% off sale for one week only…
In Conventions
Participants: iago, nikola, GregStolze.

6/26/2007 Nev the Deranged: [GenCon '07] - Non-Exhibitors Wednesday Meetup Plans (?)
For those of us (if, in fact, there are any besides my crew) who are coming into town on Wednesday, but are not Exhibitors, and therefore are prohibited from helping…
In Conventions
Participants: Nev the Deranged, Matt Gwinn, Matt-M-McElroy, Ron Edwards, Troy_Costisick, Thunder_God.

6/27/2007 rycanada: D&D ran like an indie rpg - almost
This all happened at the York D&D Meetup, about 20 people were in attendance.  I recently got tired of developing my own system so I made sure to come out…
In Actual Play
Participants: rycanada, GregStolze, Narf the Mouse, sarendt, Ben S., Valvorik, James_Nostack, Hans.

6/27/2007 thespiderprince: Donald Tyson's "Necronomicon: the Wanderings of Alhazred" is right on point
I don't like to use the catch phrase "must read" but I would definitely put this on the recommended reading list. This is an excellent pastiche/ tribute of H.P. Lovecraft's…
In Adept Press
Participants: thespiderprince, Ron Edwards.

6/27/2007 Dumirik: [GoPlay Northwest: Kin] This is everyone's fault but mine!
This is the second playtest I've run of Kin, at GoPlay Northwest. I had seven players, again! It was really fun, and I learned a lot. I mean, a lot.…
In Playtesting
Participants: Dumirik.

6/27/2007 algi: How My Players Surprised Me
Shira: a barbarian from the cold mountains of the distant north, who began a "peaceful" life as a mercenary among the native nador. Amron: a magician from a far eastern…
In Actual Play
Participants: algi.

6/27/2007 Rob Alexander: [TSOY] PCs can win if they want to?
In another thread, Eero said: For your concerns, I direct you to check out the resource odds the system of TSOY provides for players. There…
In CRN Games
Participants: Rob Alexander, oliof, Eliarhiman6, Eero Tuovinen.

6/27/2007 GreatWolf: Anyone out there using Scribus?
My wife does my layout work for me.  She is currently using PageMaker 6.  But that is starting to get dated, so she is considering switching to Scribus, an open-source…
In Publishing
Participants: GreatWolf, Artanis, jerry, zoom, scbenezra, David Artman, Jonas Karlsson, Clay, xenopulse, klapton.

6/28/2007 spikexander: [Mob Justice] Our Last Playtest
[center][b]Mob Justice 1.5 The Big Lie[/b][/center] [i]Okay, I have to tell a little tale. In 2005, I attended GenCon for the first time thanks to a game publisher that needed…
In Playtesting
Participants: spikexander, iain.

6/28/2007 RobNJ: [Misspent Youth] Power 19
1.) What is your game about? Misspent Youth is a game about friendship, rebellion, and growing up. 2.) What do the characters do? The Youthful Offenders stand up to The…
In Playtesting
Participants: RobNJ, Emily Care.

6/28/2007 VoidDragon: [AVERA] The line between character and equipment
Okay, I just ran the first playtest of my multi-genre roleplaying system this last Sunday.  It looks like I'll be able to fix the most obvious issues the players had…
In Playtesting
Participants: VoidDragon.

6/28/2007 Thenomain: [(A)D&D] How I Surprised My DM
I don't know why I didn't do this earlier.  This is a split of the thread " I Quit DMing", specifically the open conversation between myself and Rob Alexander.  The…
In Actual Play
Participants: Thenomain, Noon, wreckage, Web_Weaver, wgrzanic.

6/28/2007 Justin Nichol - BFG: A New Kind of Magic System
Perhaps I'm wrong. It might not be new at all. Maybe some of the fogies like Ron (I say this only after having read his Fantasy Heartbreakers series, can you…
In First Thoughts
Participants: Justin Nichol - BFG, lumpley, greyorm, VoidDragon, BigElvis, Agleos, Valamir, David Artman, chris_moore, simon_hibbs, Noclue, Creatures of Destiny, Dan Maruschak, Spooky Fanboy, JustinB.

6/28/2007 oliof: [DitV] The Movie
Hello, Black Snake Moan sounds like Craig Brewer read DitV and then wrote the script…  Talking the jealous guy out of shooting the "dog" who had chained that guy's sexually-disordered…
In lumpley games
Participants: oliof, jmac, lumpley.

6/28/2007 preludetotheend: Colored page paper?
I was just curious is any one had used the sturdier paper used in printing colored pages at all, and if so how did it go for you? If you…
In Publishing
Participants: preludetotheend, MatrixGamer, David Artman, komradebob.

6/28/2007 iago: [GenCon 2007] [Forge Booth] [Menu] Price List Finalized; Last Peek at the Design
This is the final peek at the Forge Menu (not the same as the passport -- that's still under development). Basically this is going to manifest as two 8.5x11 sheets…
In Conventions
Participants: iago, segedy, Gregor Hutton, nikola, Justin D. Jacobson.

6/28/2007 Ron Edwards: [GenCon 2007] Demonstration kits for the booth
Last year, nearly everyone followed a common design for the demo kits. Not in terms of content, but in terms of size and physical design. Basically, it was a flat…
In Conventions
Participants: Ron Edwards.

6/28/2007 sarendt: [D&D 3.x] looking for ideas for Magic systems
An on going problem I have with D&D and many similar systems is the magic rules. In a recent game in which I was GM''ing one party member was a…
In Actual Play
Participants: sarendt, Gaerik, Michael Huxley, James_Nostack.

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