Previous Topics 8/28/2007 Alex Abate: Researching and Inventing in RPGs.
Hello people!
My name is Alex, a new user here and I am soon going to start a simple rpg campaign with my friends using the rules found in the…
In Actual Play
Participants: Alex Abate, Ron Edwards.
8/28/2007 jeffmoore: The Game that I want to play ...
There is something that I want. Something that I believe the RPG gaming world does not provide for me. (After reading my criteria below explaining what it is that I…
In First Thoughts
Participants: jeffmoore, Andre Evans, tex, Eliarhiman6, migo, Noon, Ken.
8/28/2007 GreatWolf: Downloadable character sheets?
I'm beginning to gather resources for my group to play Steal Away Jordan. Something that I would find helpful is a PDF of the character sheet, so I can print…
In Stone Baby Games
Participants: GreatWolf, Parthenia, Eliarhiman6.
8/28/2007 Hoodoo: Hello All
Hi everyone, my name's Matt, I discovered this site about a day ago and thought it looked interesting, especially considering I like making new content for the RPG sessions I…
In First Thoughts
Participants: Hoodoo, SpinachBaron, Nev the Deranged, Vulpinoid, Noon.
8/28/2007 GreatWolf: [Bliss Stage] Sharing missions?
Does it make any sense to anyone to compile a list of "off-the-shelf" missions somewhere? It seems to me that this might be a helpful tool for Bliss Stage GMs.
In These Are Our Games
Participants: GreatWolf.
8/28/2007 Chuckles0707: From the rpgsite
Would it be ok to continue our conversation, or Q&A here?
In Muse of Fire Games
Participants: Chuckles0707, TonyLB.
8/28/2007 Elliott: Writing for people who have never heard of are-pee-gees
I'm writing a Shoujo Manga Storytelling Game.
It features Guan Yin as a dim-sum delivery girl from Anywhere, Japan, training those who are detached enough to see Hungry Ghosts -…
In First Thoughts
Participants: Elliott, MartiniPhilosopher, xenopulse, Elizabeth P., David Artman.
8/28/2007 Neil the Wimp: When are conflicts resolved?
...or rather, why aren't all conflicts resolved at the end of each page?
Taking the example on pp. 46-7 of the Capes book. Player order is C A B. C…
In Muse of Fire Games
Participants: Neil the Wimp, Gaerik, TonyLB.
8/27/2007 Elliott: [Magical Psychopomp Lotus Guardians] Power 19
Just as long as I posted the sitch, I may as well post the Power 19.
If anything looks like it doesn't do what I think it does, let me…
In First Thoughts
Participants: Elliott, Filip Luszczyk, Elizabeth P..
8/27/2007 Thisdude: Wrestling...
I was just wondering if anyone here is into or has ever been into wrestling or wrestling games? The reason I ask is because I have an idea for a…
In First Thoughts
Participants: Thisdude, Ron Edwards, Justin Nichol - BFG.
8/27/2007 Thisdude: Game Ideas
Hi my name is Shaun, I am a 24 year old writer. I went to school to learn how to program video games but didn't work out to well when…
In First Thoughts
Participants: Thisdude, Noon, Vulpinoid, Ron Edwards.
8/27/2007 Elliott: [Magical Psychopomp Lotus Guardians] A Shoujo Manga game. Situation.
Hey all. I used to post here as Elliott Belser, then as ElliottBelser MkII. Now I'm just Elliott.
I've come up with my first game of real worth, and I…
In First Thoughts
Participants: Elliott, Noon.
8/27/2007 Troels: [TSoY] Species metamorphoses
Hi there
I bought TSoY last week, and it looks really great. I'm tinkering with a campaign idea for when my Mortal Coil campaign ends, and I want to build…
In CRN Games
Participants: Troels, oliof, shadowcourt.
8/27/2007 David Artman: [Ebb & Flow] Resource-Driven, High Verisimilitude Combat System
As I am at risk of thread-jacking, I have split this topic from its origin thread:
Hit Location Matrix
If you…
In First Thoughts
Participants: David Artman, xenopulse, MartiniPhilosopher, Noon, davidberg.
8/27/2007 Hackfleischkannibale: Hi, I'm new
Hello everyone, I'm Arne from Germany, and I have no clue what else about myself I should post.
Maybe a current game idea of mine: The players play humans occupied…
In First Thoughts
Participants: Hackfleischkannibale, Thisdude, Noon.
8/27/2007 Meguey: What the YLQs are up to
I had a really great clarifying conversation about YLQ last week. It's not just a fluffy game, it's got some meat at the depths. Now I have to pretty much…
In Night Sky Games
Participants: Meguey.
8/27/2007 Filip Luszczyk: [The Emperor's Heart] Uh... who needs names anyway?
We playtested Chris Chinn's The Emperor's Heart yesterday, having some spare time late evening and seeing that it should work for a two player pick up game. We played for…
In Playtesting
Participants: Filip Luszczyk, Chris_Chinn, ja-prozac.
8/27/2007 MartiniPhilosopher: [A Haunted Night] The Abandoned School
Greetings All!
Last night was the first playtest of A Haunted Night, a one page Japanese Horror inspired game.
I had a total of seven people participate in the playtest,…
In Playtesting
Participants: MartiniPhilosopher, Elizabeth P..
8/27/2007 Abkajud: Trial by combat/The Honor system
So I've been tooling around with the idea that medieval European courts had the power to make two people fight to prove which one was in the right, and claimed…
In First Thoughts
Participants: Abkajud, Noon, MartiniPhilosopher, Vulpinoid.
8/27/2007 seawolf69: MACE 2007: Official GM call
Hello all.
I am officially making the GM call for MACE 2007
MACE 2007
November 16-18, 2007
Radisson Hotel High Point, NC
http://www.justusproductions.com/
We have a lot planned already but…
In Conventions
Participants: seawolf69.
<< more previous topics | | Subsequent Topics 8/29/2007 Meguey: [In A Wicked Age] Chapter 1: The Prophet of No Self Control, plus strawberries
Ever have one of those characters that's so unlike your regular characters that it's totally freeing? That's what I got last night. Vincent's game in the works, In A Wicked…
In Playtesting
Participants: Meguey, Eero Tuovinen, Artanis, Emily Care, Anders, Parthenia, tonyd, lumpley, Marhault, GreatWolf, Archer5280, Kairos, The Bane, John Harper.
8/29/2007 Age of Fable: Once Upon A Time
Hi,
I recently bought a card game called Once Upon A Time (although the game itself was released in 1995).
There's an article on it at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Once_Upon_A_Time_(game). However the basic…
In First Thoughts
Participants: Age of Fable, Elizabeth P., Eero Tuovinen, Vulpinoid, Eliarhiman6, Justin Nichol - BFG.
8/29/2007 jim pinto: UGLY
I posted this over at SG.com and I'm sort of tinkering around with it.
It's not much of anything yet, but I thought I'd spit it out and see if…
In First Thoughts
Participants: jim pinto, FLEB, Ron Edwards, Abkajud, davidberg.
8/29/2007 andrew_kenrick: [Ordinary Angels] First playtest
So yesterday I had some friends over and we had a quick playtest of Ordinary Angels, my game of angelic cops. Me and Fred talk about it quite extensively on…
In Playtesting
Participants: andrew_kenrick.
8/29/2007 Andy Kitkowski: [Bliss Stage] Character Sheet?
Hey, I was putting together a pack (to ship the copies to my buddies in Japan) and to give them some related material (RPG info webpage, character sheet links, etc).…
In These Are Our Games
Participants: Andy Kitkowski, Ben Lehman.
8/29/2007 GreatWolf: [Bliss Stage] Saved through childbearing
[i]Right now, right this moment, right as you read these words, humanity is devastated by an alien attack from the edges of our understanding.[/i]
[b]Introduction[/b]
I’ve been really curious about…
In Actual Play
Participants: GreatWolf, Ben Lehman, Gabrielle, hix.
8/29/2007 Hans: Galactic PDF
I was pleased as punch to pick up a copy of Galactic at the Ashcan Front at GenCon, and I'm going to be running it for some friends in September.…
In Dog Eared Designs
Participants: Hans, Matt Wilson.
8/29/2007 Ignotus: [PTA ] how to prep for sessions
I bought PTA at gencon a couple of years ago, and ran it last year. Things didn't go too well. I put it away on my bookshelf, but now, having…
In Dog Eared Designs
Participants: Ignotus, Alan, REkz.
8/29/2007 Earthling: Conflict resolution system based on asymmetric initiative
I heard that Dead of Night uses something similar, but here's what I've got so far; I'm basing it on the chase scene rules from Spirit of the Century
…
In First Thoughts
Participants: Earthling, error808, Ron Edwards.
8/29/2007 Calithena: POD in digest size?
Hi all -
I have a gaming project with legs going on with some other people and we want to do it POD. Ideally we'd like it to be digest-sized…
In Publishing
Participants: Calithena, Ron Edwards, jasonm, Ben Lehman.
8/29/2007 Temple: [Poison'd] Rules question after initial read-through.
I printed my newly aquired Poison'd pdf and read the whole ting like 5 or 6 times at work today. Its awesome.
That said, I discovered one little thing that…
In lumpley games
Participants: Temple, lumpley.
8/29/2007 Hereward The Wake: True fight Split from Pondering called shots
The below definition of combat is by 16th Century fight master Joachim Meyer. I think it sums up the reality of combat but in a way that makes it possible…
In First Thoughts
Participants: Hereward The Wake, Vulpinoid, Ghola, Ninetongues, elbows, Justin Nichol - BFG.
8/30/2007 Matt-M-McElroy: I want to buy indie t-shirts!
Hey folks,
I picked up my new Ashcan Front t-shirt at GenCon and just ordered a couple of RPG related t-shirts from Cafepress recently...
Anyway, I'm looking for a few…
In Connections
Participants: Matt-M-McElroy, Ron Edwards, Blankshield, greyorm, xenopulse, M. J. Young, Clay, Jake Richmond, iago, jasonm, rafael.
8/30/2007 gte910h: [The Infected] Giggly Manicacs on the Space Station Playtest
We played the infected after reading the rules from: http://www.geocities.com/rpgjunkie74/the_Infected.pdf
I don't know if that was the correct resource, but it was enough to get going...
We set the movie…
In Playtesting
Participants: gte910h, Technocrat13.
8/30/2007 Shadow17: Just another introductory topic (and some questions).
Hello everybody here at the forge,
I am Sander Kammeraat, I am 18 years old, am Dutch, but live in Duesseldorf, Germany. About a couple of weeks ago, I started…
In First Thoughts
Participants: Shadow17, Justin Nichol - BFG, SpinachBaron, Ron Edwards.
8/30/2007 KWR: NWod Mage PBEM system
Hello, my name is Thiago, and although this is my first post here, i´ve been already lurking through the forum for some time, and some of the work you´ve done…
In Actual Play
Participants: KWR, Ron Edwards.
8/30/2007 wild_card2007: Mechanics and destinies, drives, passions
The game I'm working on will center on heroic characters. Heroes are larger-than-life, right? Their actions are larger-than-life (heroic deeds), their passions run strong, they have great goals, a destiny.…
In First Thoughts
Participants: wild_card2007, xenopulse, Eliarhiman6, Noon, Satanman, RobNJ, Japo, Ken, contracycle, David Artman, Selene Tan.
8/30/2007 greyorm: Collective Cafepress Storefront for Indie Publishers
In another thread, Christian mentioned about Cafepress: Sadly, it only allows one design per item if you've got a basic shop. and it started me thinking.
That…
In Connections
Participants: greyorm, iago, Eero Tuovinen.
8/30/2007 Burrito: Reincarnation based game with plenty of downtime (1st post)
Hallo
(This is my first time posting - please be gentle)
I've been toying with an idea for some time about a series of one-shot scenarios roughly connected on the…
In First Thoughts
Participants: Burrito, Simons, davidberg, Ken.
8/30/2007 Caesar_X: [Best Friends] Hard Times in Loveless Gulch
(cross-posted from S-G)
Last night Malcolm Craig visited EndGame in Oakland, and some folks sat down for a pick-up game of Best Friends. This was the first time for all…
In Actual Play
Participants: Caesar_X, Ron Edwards, komradebob, Gregor Hutton.
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