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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 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 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 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 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 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 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.

8/29/2007 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.

8/29/2007 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 MicahWedemeyer: Actual Play by blog vs by forum (plus keeping characters system-neutral)
I recently started Obsidian Portal (OP), a website for hosting RPG campaigns.  It's not a "virtual tabletop" or anything like that.  It's more like a hybrid blog/wiki/cms specifically for RPGs,…
In Actual Play
Participants: MicahWedemeyer, Elizabeth P., Ron Edwards.

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8/30/2007 MartiniPhilosopher: [A Haunted Night] Playtesters invited!
For those interested in play testing the one page, horror genre game A Haunted Night, then Good News! My wonderful wife has posted a page on her site where you…
In Connections
Participants: MartiniPhilosopher.

8/30/2007 Temple: Stillwater Branch. My first DitV town; Ive created a monster!
So I was sitting at work today with the book in front of me, and I realised I wanted to try my hands at making a town. Id never tried…
In lumpley games
Participants: Temple, JC, wreckage.

8/30/2007 Emily Care: [spontaneous system] rocking in at GenCon
We wrote a new game at GenCon--right there at the table at Embassy Suites--that let us seriously rock in. I'm looking at the artifacts of this game: Four green sticky…
In Playtesting
Participants: Emily Care, Jonathan Walton, Blankshield.

8/30/2007 Mandrake: [DitV]Follow on conflicts & Injuries
We've just finished a session with the Dogs dealing with some children gone very bad. The last scene took place in the school house. One of the dogs was facing…
In lumpley games
Participants: Mandrake, zornwil.

8/30/2007 wunderllama: Looking for playtesters for Thou Art But A Warrior
I'm currently looking for people to help playtest Thou Art But A Warrior - a setting hack of Polaris written for the setting design contest back in December. Thou Art…
In Connections
Participants: wunderllama.

8/30/2007 Yokiboy: [TSoY] 1-on-1 Play - Divorcing TSoY from Near and other questions
Hello, We're about to play some TSoY for the first time. The game will have me SG'ing and just one player. Our weekly RPG group normally consists of four participants,…
In CRN Games
Participants: Yokiboy, Eero Tuovinen, Clinton R. Nixon, Gaerik, hix.

8/31/2007 dikaiosunh: [Sorcerer/Electric Ghosts] Lester Wachlowski's No Good, Very Bad Day
Last Saturday, we (finally, it seems!) had our first session of my Electric Ghosts (Sorcerer) game. The characters were: John (Kirt): A socially awkward NASA programmer in love with Cheryl…
In Actual Play
Participants: dikaiosunh, Ron Edwards, greyorm, Adam Dray, pfischer.

8/31/2007 Jonas Karlsson: [One Can Have Her] The End of the Rope
When I visited my old university for a re-exam I took the opportunity to play <a href="http://jonasferry.com/roleplaying-games/one-can-have-her/">One Can Have Her</a>, as a player and not game master. I recommend everyone…
In Actual Play
Participants: Jonas Karlsson, thark, Noon, Ron Edwards, Anders, Peter Nordstrand.

8/31/2007 error808: correct scale of accuracy?
Hi what I am doing is having ideal conditions then adding on tierdness, suppression fire, experience of solider etc to find out the probability of a hit ie Officer hitting…
In First Thoughts
Participants: error808, Chris_Chinn, Noon, Vulpinoid, Ron Edwards, contracycle, dindenver.

8/31/2007 Clay: Looking to split a web hosting server
I have a couple of websites that I'm currently hosting on my home machine.  I want to change that situation, and I'd like to move those sites to a virtual…
In Connections
Participants: Clay, Eero Tuovinen.

8/31/2007 chris_moore: [Mortal Coil] First Theme Document
After a cool GenCon demo with Brennan (I made Pluto cry!!) we want to play Mortal Coil.  Here's our first theme document.  What's missing?  Is anything over-developed? Tone:  What's the…
In Galileo Games
Participants: chris_moore, inthisstyle.

8/31/2007 Ron Edwards: [Beast Hunters] Two times!
Hello, Tim Koppang and Chris and I went down to my basement for some Beast Hunting. We swiftly created some scarred bad-ass type characters; there was a kind of driven,…
In Actual Play
Participants: Ron Edwards, rafial, xenopulse, Noon.

8/31/2007 Elliott: [Reaper Beauties] Open Playtesting Call [Was Magical Psychopomp Guardians]
[center][b]Your good friend Kan-chan died once. She was once the princess Kwan-Yin of China, Who defied her father, The King, who's heart was held by a Hungry Ghost, And was…
In Connections
Participants: Elliott.

8/31/2007 5niper9: [Vampire/Sorcerer] Go for the premise!
Hi, I just remembered a Vampire:Dark Ages game in which I participated exactly 5 months ago. I had little experience with indie games and ran Dogs on a Con. We…
In Actual Play
Participants: 5niper9, Danny_K.

9/1/2007 Michael S. Miller: [WGP...] Cosmic Zap @ GenCon
On Saturday night at the Embassy Suites, we played With Great Power... The players were Paul Czege, Ralph Mazza, Kat Miller, Ron Edwards, and me. Ron had requested the game…
In Actual Play
Participants: Michael S. Miller, Ron Edwards, Paul Czege.

9/2/2007 Falc: Donjon issues
Last Thursday I started GM'ing some Donjon sessions to fil in a gap between campaigns. It was the group's first time playing Donjon, mine as well, and while we had…
In CRN Games
Participants: Falc, The Dragon Master.

9/2/2007 Graham Walmsley: [Polaris] Question about Moon statement
Ben, apologies if you've answered this before. In our Polaris PBP game, a Moon has made a statement that I, as the Heart, naturally want to respond to by saying…
In These Are Our Games
Participants: Graham Walmsley, Ben Lehman, Garvey, Web_Weaver, yellowparis, Tanda.

9/2/2007 JC: [One Can Have Her] First game!
I GMed “One Can Have Her” yesterday for two friends, M and P. Going in, their indie game experience was limited to a single DITV game I ran for them…
In Actual Play
Participants: JC, Jonas Karlsson, Ron Edwards.

9/2/2007 jporrett: [The Emperor's Heart] Love and Death in the Imperial City
I got a chance to sit down and do a bit of playtesting of "The Emperor's Heart" this weekend.  It was at my friend's house and there was much gaming…
In Playtesting
Participants: jporrett, Chris_Chinn, ejh, dvandyke23.

9/2/2007 Ninetongues: Arch Inverted publishing questions
[b][url=http://images26.fotosik.pl/31/ac9c421268071a4a.gif]Cover image[/url][/b] Allright. I took my time with AI, and thought some things over. Now I'm sure about that: I will make AI [b]free [/b]for everyone wanting to play. For…
In Publishing
Participants: Ninetongues, Ron Edwards.

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