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8/21/2007 wunderllama: [Poison'd] Question about ship combat escalation
I had some questions after the demo of Poison’d that I played at GenCon about the ship-to-ship combat. When we played the demo and started out at pursuit, we seemed…
In lumpley games
Participants: wunderllama, lumpley, rafial.

8/21/2007 Meguey: [Poison'd] Not quite outrunning the King's ships
Vincent, Emily and I sat down to play Vincent's new game, <a href="http://goplaynow.org/?p=14">Poison'd</a>. This was awhile back, so I can't give you the exact names and sins of my pirate,…
In Actual Play
Participants: Meguey, Piers Brown.

8/21/2007 Joe: Generic Framework of an RPG Game
Hi fellow RPGists, I am thinking about creating a Framework to contain the basic parts of a Roleplaying Game (tabletop for my part, for I am not willing to design…
In Actual Play
Participants: Joe, Ron Edwards, Filip Luszczyk, Paul T.

8/21/2007 TwoCrows: Exhibitor Questions
Hey Forgites, Can anyone let some light under my rock concerning a few details surrounding the role of Exhibitor at gaming cons? 1) Booth Help – What sorts of compensation…
In Conventions
Participants: TwoCrows, Ron Edwards.

8/21/2007 Neil the Wimp: [Capes] Who owns what, and why keep characters?
I'm trying to get my head around Capes and how all the resources flow around.  My understanding is that Debt is owned by the character, while Story Tokens and Inspirations…
In Muse of Fire Games
Participants: Neil the Wimp, oreso, Hans, TonyLB.

8/21/2007 baron samedi: [New 'Noir' Game] Wondering about a core conflict-resolution system
Hi everybody, I'm in the creative process of trying to develop a one-shot RPG/campaign (somewhat like The Mountain Witch or Puppetland) in a  "Noir/Police Investigation" genre with a theme about…
In First Thoughts
Participants: baron samedi, Capulet, Mike Sugarbaker, anders_larsen, Justin Nichol - BFG.

8/21/2007 JC: Indie summer!
Here’s some stuff I learned this summer. Part of my reason for posting is that it makes me write these things down, which in turn helps me understand them better.…
In Actual Play
Participants: JC, Ron Edwards.

8/21/2007 MatrixGamer: Gen Con - How did it go for everyone?
Time to share your experiences and thoughts. I'm putting this in the publishing section because this would be for people who were there selling. First off I want to say…
In Publishing
Participants: MatrixGamer, jasonm, JustinB.

8/21/2007 Joe: The Game Development Kit (a game design tool) (split)
Hi YeGoblinQueenne, I have stumbled upon your GDK and was struck by it because I have also considered making kind of a Framework for RPGs. Nice work indeed! I thought…
In First Thoughts
Participants: Joe, Ron Edwards.

8/21/2007 Eldrad: NOVEL RPG: The Olde Realm
Well my setting the Olde Realm (See past post but ignore all rule sections)  was the setting for the first playtest of the NOVEL RPG (See first thoughts)system. I will…
In Playtesting
Participants: Eldrad.

8/21/2007 Skywalker: Final Act question
First, congrats on such a great game. One question I have is with Final Act. There are two missions. However, I am unsure on what the expectation is on how…
In These Are Our Games
Participants: Skywalker, hix, Ben Lehman.

8/20/2007 SaintandSinner: Help
I just bought LoA from the Forge Booth at GenCon.  You had just left though and no one there could run a demo.  Having gone through the book twice I'm…
In Dark Omen Games
Participants: SaintandSinner, GreatWolf, Marhault.

8/20/2007 Eliarhiman6: The misleading First Thoughts...
Hi! I am posting this to suggest changing the name of the "first thoughts" sub-forum. Why? Because most of the web forums have a "welcome, present yourself" area for new…
In Site Discussion
Participants: Eliarhiman6, David Artman, Limejello, lumpley, M. J. Young, Ron Edwards, Filip Luszczyk, David C.

8/20/2007 Limejello: Hi...please don't kill me
Hi I've fallen in love with this site so before I post I just want to say hi is Bobby, I'm from NY I'm 25 years old and I want…
In First Thoughts
Participants: Limejello, SpinachBaron, Noon, Vulpinoid, tj333, Justin Nichol - BFG, David C, Ron Edwards, 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.

8/20/2007 Filip Luszczyk: [Illumination] Memeplexes & Mindfucking
I've ran another playtest of Illumination yesterday, with Kamil as the player. The session wasn't long, but it gave us quite a blast fun-wise. The game had exactly the right…
In Playtesting
Participants: Filip Luszczyk.

8/20/2007 TomTancredi: PhilCon and a General "Thank you for the great experience at GenCon!"
Hi folks, Just wanted to say thanks to all the Game Designers, Publishers, GMs and Artists for the tremendous experience at the Forge Booth at GenCon. I tried to play…
In Conventions
Participants: TomTancredi, inthisstyle, Omnius, Mel_White.

8/20/2007 hix: Where can I find Bliss Stage character sheets?
Hi Ben, I'm reading Ignition Stage right now. Very exciting. I'm gunna pitch my group a game of it tomorrow night. I just checked the tao games site, and couldn't…
In These Are Our Games
Participants: hix, pfischer, Ben Lehman.

8/20/2007 Eliarhiman6: Sorcerer & Sword character sheets
Hi!! Does anybody have a printable character sheet specific to "Sorcerer & Sword"? (with "Past" instead of "Cover" for example)
In Adept Press
Participants: Eliarhiman6, angelfromanotherpin, Thermight.

8/20/2007 Caesar_X: [The Naked City] Prototype using index cards for scene generation
I returned from my honeymoon eager to get moving with The Naked City: a Game of Film Noir.  I've been working on this game off and on for almost a…
In Playtesting
Participants: Caesar_X, SpinachBaron, GreatWolf.

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8/21/2007 GreatWolf: [Breaking the Ice] Post GenCon indie love
[b][i]Indie[/i] love[/b] For my birthday, I was given a lot of money to take to GenCon to spend on games.  This made me very happy and allowed me to purchase…
In Actual Play
Participants: GreatWolf, Emily Care, Ron Edwards.

8/21/2007 BTRC_Minion: [Poison'd] Book of first-hand account of a pirate's activities.
I mentioned this book at GenCon, but I couldn't properly remember the title, nor properly pronounce the (probably Dutch) author's name.  For those interested, it's "THE BUCCANEERS OF AMERICA" by…
In lumpley games
Participants: BTRC_Minion.

8/21/2007 MartiniPhilosopher: A J-Horror inspired game
Greetings All! I am attempting to create a one-page based game after getting inspired by some Japanese horror movies. So far I have the following: The players are the spirits…
In First Thoughts
Participants: MartiniPhilosopher, Simons, SpinachBaron.

8/21/2007 c: [Gen Con][Steal Away Jordan]Clyde, Racism, and the threat of sex. (adult)
After lugging my damn equipment all over the convention all Gen Con, I was finally done with interviews on Sunday and stopped by the Forge booth. I asked about Steal…
In Actual Play
Participants: c, JC, Parthenia.

8/21/2007 KingOfFarPoint: [DitV] Rationing screen time. Handling unexpected changes in cast.
After a long period struggling to find players who will try an indie game I now have players for a DitV series. But there are a couple of problems 1)…
In lumpley games
Participants: KingOfFarPoint, lumpley, Filip Luszczyk, JC.

8/21/2007 KingOfFarPoint: Invoking others traits?
During character creation I was trying to explain how traits might get invoked in play and in passing said something along the lines of "of course, if you take a…
In lumpley games
Participants: KingOfFarPoint, 5niper9, Ice Cream Emperor, Filip Luszczyk.

8/21/2007 Andy Kitkowski: The GenCon Ashcan collective was a success, in my book
...because whether I participate in "booth" or not, I've determined to Be Like Paul: Come up with the game, make it as solid and tight as I can through playtests...…
In Publishing
Participants: Andy Kitkowski, Ron Edwards, iain.

8/21/2007 Skywalker: Reciprocal nature of relationships
This may seem like a dumb question but due to the reciprocal nature of pilot to pilot relationships, I assume any changes to Intimacy, Trust and Stress made by the…
In These Are Our Games
Participants: Skywalker, Ben Lehman.

8/22/2007 hix: Co-ordinating editing suggestions for Bliss Stage
Hi Ben, We played Bliss Stage for about an hour last night - got through a mission, a resolution action and an interlude action. Much fun was had, and many…
In These Are Our Games
Participants: hix, Ben Lehman, Neil the Wimp, cdr.

8/22/2007 lumpley: non-nostalgic D&D
I never played D&D. I played some AD&D 2E in college but it was hardly even a thing, it was all GM handwaving and <i>role-</i>, not roll-. But now it's…
In Actual Play
Participants: lumpley, rafael, James_Nostack, Noon, Eero Tuovinen, Ben Lehman, Gugliandalf, TonyLB, Eliarhiman6, GreatWolf, Parthenia, greyorm, TwoCrows, GB Steve.

8/22/2007 jasonm: Gen Con post-mortem
Hey, let's talk about lessons learned and what we can do to improve the experience - by all measures - next year.  Also, let's celebrate!  I think everybody had a…
In Conventions
Participants: jasonm, Ron Edwards, Gregor Hutton, GreatWolf, Justin D. Jacobson, iago, abzu, Emily Care, Denise, Blankshield, Jasper the Mimbo, inthisstyle, Matt-M-McElroy, GregStolze, Rob Donoghue, btrc, JustinB, Valamir, TonyLB, Michael S. Miller, JasonWalters, Sydsquicious, TomTancredi, segedy, RobNJ, jrs.

8/22/2007 Adam Biltcliffe: Bliss Stage rules questions
So there's a handful of things I couldn't make out from a couple of read-throughs of Ignition Stage: The pilot templates have "special abilities" on them that aren't mentioned anywhere…
In These Are Our Games
Participants: Adam Biltcliffe, Ben Lehman.

8/22/2007 TomTancredi: End of the Year Conventions
What are the major conventions for the Indy games coming up this fall and winter in the New England area? I'm planning on going to PhilCon, and the Winter-version of…
In Conventions
Participants: TomTancredi, iago.

8/22/2007 twilight: [Sorcerer] Music of the Spheres
[b]Premise[/b] This is our first foray into Sorcerer - I wanted to get away from playing D&D 3.5, [i]Call of Cthulhu[/i] and [i]Savage Worlds[/i]. I like the flavor, and I…
In Actual Play
Participants: twilight, cpeterso, Ron Edwards.

8/22/2007 Parthenia: Stone Baby Games Welcomes You
Welcome to Stone Baby Games' little corner of the Forge, where we discuss matters of Stone Babies and my game Steal Away Jordan. So, I'm Julia Bond Ellingboe, the ovaries,…
In Stone Baby Games
Participants: Parthenia, GreatWolf, nikola, jasonm, Emily Care, JasonWalters, GestaltBennie.

8/22/2007 contracycle: status of external properties
I would like to request some clarity/ruling on the extent to which we can discuss game ideas for a existing property held by someone else, your typical sort of movie…
In Site Discussion
Participants: contracycle, Eero Tuovinen, Ron Edwards.

8/22/2007 iago: GenCon: Launching a Satellite Booth
The Forge booth was definitely interesting, and I'm glad we have the post-mortem thread going for that.  That said, I think it's possible others may be considering launching their own…
In Conventions
Participants: iago, Paka, abzu, TonyLB, jasonm, GreatWolf, JustinB, RobNJ, Ron Edwards, Michael S. Miller, Gregor Hutton, Paul Czege, nikola, Ben Lehman, Wolfen.

8/22/2007 Matt Snyder: [44] Actual play input -- ashcan buyers please read!
The Ashcan Front was a big success for Paul and me. We set goals in doing this project. While it will take a few months to see real results, those…
In Chimera Creative
Participants: Matt Snyder.

8/22/2007 Ron Edwards: The Ashcan Front
Hi everyone, The Ashcan Front project debuted at GenCon 2007 to great acclaim. Now, however, the buzz will diminish and it will be time to get to work. Rather than…
In Playtesting
Participants: Ron Edwards, TwoCrows, Eero Tuovinen.

8/22/2007 iago: Gen-Con Indie Passport Critiques & Comments
I'm worried that the passport stuff is starting to overtake the GenCon post-mortem thread, so I'm starting this one. Perceptions appear to be in two different camps.  From where I'm…
In Conventions
Participants: iago, Valamir, GreatWolf, Blankshield, inthisstyle, Matt-M-McElroy, Ron Edwards, GB Steve, RobNJ, TonyLB, KeithBVaughn, WildElf, thelostgm, Lisa Padol, Thunder_God.

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