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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.

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.

4/12/2007 Nev the Deranged: Strife and NPCs
So, how do you deal with spending Strife on NPCs before you know how they will be disposed toward the heroes? Should Strife only be spent on definite enemies? Would…
In one.seven design
Participants: Nev the Deranged, John Harper, Skywalker.

4/2/2007 Nev the Deranged: [Bacchanal] Multiple ties?
So, I'm futzing around with the Bacchanal dice, trying to teach myself to play so I don't look like a buffon if/when I get other folks to try it. And…
In Half Meme Press
Participants: Nev the Deranged, Paul Czege.

4/1/2007 Nev the Deranged: [GenCon] Event Registraton Question
Okay, this is probably a stupid question, but I've never registered for events at GenCon before. This year I'd like to get in on some games and whatnot, so I've…
In Conventions
Participants: Nev the Deranged, Blankshield, Hans.

3/22/2007 Nev the Deranged: Agon - Oracle idea, looking for feedback
Hiya. Still working on putting together that con scenario. One of the ideas I had was for one of the quests to involve an Oracle on a mountaintop. And of…
In one.seven design
Participants: Nev the Deranged, John Harper, demiurgeastaroth, Mel_White, Noclue.

3/21/2007 Nev the Deranged: Fortune-at-the-Very-Beginning?
Wasn't sure where to post this, so feel free to move it if this is inappropriate. I was wondering if there are any games where the die roll (or whatever)…
In Actual Play
Participants: Nev the Deranged, Paul Czege, greyorm, chris_moore.

3/17/2007 Nev the Deranged: Just watched Silent Hill, the movie
Holy crap on a pogo stick, can we say Sorcerer reference material boys and girls? I knew you could. I am a huge fan of the first SH game, that…
In Adept Press
Participants: Nev the Deranged, Ron Edwards, Gaerik, xenopulse, jburneko.

3/2/2007 Nev the Deranged: CodCon, micro-IGE?
I recently learned that CodCon is coming up just before Forge Midwest, and I was thinking of running something indie there. Probably either taking another crack at DRYH, or maybe…
In Conventions
Participants: Nev the Deranged.

2/25/2007 Nev the Deranged: [Agon / DRYH] EN World Game Day Actual Play
So! ENWorld's Game Day at Games Plus in Mt. Prospect, Illinois was yesterday. I played some Agon, and ran some Don't Rest Your Head. Both rocked. Here are the bits…
In Actual Play
Participants: Nev the Deranged, John Harper, Tim C Koppang, iago.

9/1/2006 Nev the Deranged: [The Isle] - First Thoughts
So, I have some First Thoughts. Actually they are only First as far as this forum is concerned, this idea is actually the tail end of a looong history of…
In First Thoughts
Participants: Nev the Deranged.

8/24/2006 Nev the Deranged: [Polaris] GenCon '06 Embassy After Hours Game
I came to the con knowing that at some point, I wanted to play Polaris. Some time Friday night I realized I had a much better chance of doing that…
In Actual Play
Participants: Nev the Deranged, Ron Edwards, Eric J. Boyd, Ben Lehman, jrs, joepub.

8/22/2006 Nev the Deranged: Tony's alter-ego, in the flesh!
http://www.whowantstobeasuperhero.tv/cast/#majorvictory
In Muse of Fire Games
Participants: Nev the Deranged, TonyLB, Wolfen, AaronLehmann.

8/18/2006 Nev the Deranged: [Shock:] Interesting link I ran across while looking around for more Shock:
[url]http://yudkowsky.net/sing/shocklevels.html[/url]
In glyphpress
Participants: Nev the Deranged, nikola, TempvsMortis.

6/15/2006 Nev the Deranged: [UTB] Questions
At the end, once all the face up cards have been used and you're in the endgame, how exactly does the turn structure work? From the manual it sounds like…
In glyphpress
Participants: Nev the Deranged, nikola.

6/15/2006 Nev the Deranged: [It Was a Mutual Decision] mechanics question
Quick question which I didn't feel like starting a new thread for: When ticking off scores, are the transformation threshholds the ORIGINAL scores or the Trust-modified scores? I am assuming…
In Adept Press
Participants: Nev the Deranged, Ron Edwards.

6/5/2006 Nev the Deranged: It Was a Mutual Decision... heterocentric?
I was thinking about which of my friends might be interested in playing, and I realized not all of them consider a male/female dating relationship standard. So I'm just wondering…
In Adept Press
Participants: Nev the Deranged, Ron Edwards, John Harper.

5/24/2006 Nev the Deranged: So my copy of It Was a Mutual Decision arrived, wee!
I'm psyched to try and sneak this into my regular board gaming group and see if I can make it sing. In the interest of that, I'm pondering taking a…
In Adept Press
Participants: Nev the Deranged, jburneko, Ron Edwards.

4/18/2006 Nev the Deranged: [Universalis] - Between the Clouds at Forge Midwest, Part 1
Universalis “Between the Clouds” Forge Indie Gathering ‘06 NARRATIVE VERSION (as opposed to the Component breakdown version): Background: There is a world where mountains thrust upward like islands through a…
In Actual Play
Participants: Nev the Deranged.

4/8/2006 Nev the Deranged: [GenCon '06] D'oh...
Well, I decided to wait to reserve a room at the Marriott by the con center.... and now they are out of 2-bed rooms. Go figure. I guess I should…
In Conventions
Participants: Nev the Deranged, inthisstyle, btrc, joepub.

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8/9/2007 Nev the Deranged: [Shock: 1.1] - First game
Okay, I am gonna do this in chunks, because I don't have time to type it all out in one go. I managed to get some people, namely Juli, Karin,…
In Actual Play
Participants: Nev the Deranged, tylure.

8/11/2007 Nev the Deranged: [Roach-ish] Pseudopod's _The Disciple_
Roach enthusiasts might enjoy this episode of horror webcast Pseudopod: http://pseudopod.org/2007/07/27/68/
In Bully Pulpit Games
Participants: Nev the Deranged, jasonm.

8/20/2007 Nev the Deranged: Bliss Stage Fantasy?
So, Bliss Stage was the first game I demoed at GenCon, and also my first purchase of the con. As a result, I was thinking about it whenever I wasn't…
In These Are Our Games
Participants: Nev the Deranged, Skywalker, Ben Lehman.

8/25/2007 Nev the Deranged: [Bliss Stage] - "Real World" question
I read through Ignition Stage, and it looks like it'll take some actually trying it to get a more comprehensive handle on how things work beyond the stuff covered by…
In These Are Our Games
Participants: Nev the Deranged, Eero Tuovinen, Skywalker, Mark Woodhouse, Ben Lehman.

8/27/2007 Nev the Deranged: [Mechaton] - First Sortie Questions
So, I tricked my friend Karin into playing Mechaton with me, by just dumping a bucket of Legos out in front of her and not telling her it was going…
In lumpley games
Participants: Nev the Deranged, lumpley, Uriel, Mantisking.

11/4/2007 Nev the Deranged: EnWorld Game Day at Games Plus in Mt. Prospect
Nov 10th, EnWorld is hosting another Game Day at Games Plus in Mt. Prospect, Illinois. It's always a good time, and there are lots of games going down, including some…
In Conventions
Participants: Nev the Deranged.

11/17/2007 Nev the Deranged: Escape Pod: Union Dues
So, Escape Pod is one of my favorite short-fiction webcasts. There's a series of stories on there about a "Superhero Union", set in a very morally grey universe, which is…
In Incarnadine Press
Participants: Nev the Deranged.

11/17/2007 Nev the Deranged: Escape Pod: Union Dues.
So, Escape Pod is one of my favorite short-fiction webcasts. There's a series of stories on there about a "Superhero Union", set in a very morally grey universe, which is…
In Muse of Fire Games
Participants: Nev the Deranged.

11/24/2007 Nev the Deranged: [Pace/Otherkind Hybrid] Swashbuckling Librarian & Demonic Cheerleader!
Hanging out tonight, a friend and I were bored, so I decided to fiddle around with the simple dice mechanic Vincent posted about (http://www.lumpley.com/archive/148.html). To start with a little momentum…
In Actual Play
Participants: Nev the Deranged, Ron Edwards, GregStolze, Paul T, Valamir.

12/11/2007 Nev the Deranged: GameGeeks review of DRYH on YouTube
Sorry if this has been posted before, but I just ran across it http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SU03BdBcCps Looks like there's one for PTA too... D.
In Evilhat Productions
Participants: Nev the Deranged.

12/15/2007 Nev the Deranged: [the pickup game] - descriptor tables
I recently posted over in AP about "the pickup game", http://www.indie-rpgs.com/forum/index.php?topic=25253.0, and I am doing further thinking about it. So, I have been fiddling around with a chart to facilitate…
In First Thoughts
Participants: Nev the Deranged.

1/12/2008 Nev the Deranged: Seminar on the impact of Forgeish theory stuff on online social gaming
I'll save the story of how I ran across this, but I found it interesting. It's a seminar, held on M*U*S*H (an online massively multiplayer text based social environment), about…
In Actual Play
Participants: Nev the Deranged.

4/17/2008 Nev the Deranged: [The Mountain Witch] - Forge Midwest '08 - More Cross Dressing
The TMW game on Sunday was out of control. We had eye-gouging (I don't feel a TMW game is complete without eye-gouging, since the game where Alexander lost his), and,…
In Actual Play
Participants: Nev the Deranged, coffeestain, Willow, Tim C Koppang.

12/15/2008 Nev the Deranged: Dice result charts or calculators?
I'm working on a chart of the percentage chance of meeting or beating target numbers on various kinds of dice. I know this sort of thing has been done countless…
In Endeavor
Participants: Nev the Deranged, causticbuddhist, greyorm, Erudite.

4/8/2009 Nev the Deranged: Escapist's Terra Libris Project
Not sure if anyone's posted about this already, but The Escapist web magazine has put together a pretty cool project to try and get RPGs into America's libraries. I happen…
In Endeavor
Participants: Nev the Deranged, RabbitHoleGames.

5/7/2009 Nev the Deranged: "Fuse dice", wacky DRYH inspired mechanic, free to good home
So I was thinking about the funky ways DRYH uses dice, and wondering if I could come up with something similar. I came up with something, how useful it might…
In First Thoughts
Participants: Nev the Deranged, Wordman.

3/28/2010 Nev the Deranged: [The Pickup Game] - Mazio the Feral Prince & Lucinda the Clever Dodo
My friend K swung down to take me out for pizza, so we hit the local Uno’s for some savory deep dish (the leftovers of which I am devouring as…
In Playtesting
Participants: Nev the Deranged.

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