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10/6/2007 signoftheserpent: Basic Mechanics
Cut and pasted from Word (yay), here are the base mechanics for a Heroes-inspired (ie people that aren't superheroes - nosiree - with superpowers in the real world) rpg I'm…
In First Thoughts
Participants: signoftheserpent, Ken, Noon.

10/6/2007 LordAsteroth: [DitV] Fallout and traits for belongings
At work the other night, I was hit by an idea: Why not make it possible for belongings to take the blow in appropriate situations (for instance, your faithful hound…
In lumpley games
Participants: LordAsteroth, zornwil.

10/6/2007 hix: [Nine Worlds] Suggestions for making the rules more accessible and inspirational
Hi Matt, So, I love Nine Worlds. I took it for a one-off test drive last weekend, and our group: - created an fun story - realised the game has…
In Chimera Creative
Participants: hix.

10/6/2007 Eric Bennett: Sorcerer just arrived in the mail | Thoughts and questions thereon
Hey there! I'm a little shocked I remembered my password for here. So, I finally got around to ordering Sorcerer last week from IPR for a big honking Gaming Night…
In Adept Press
Participants: Eric Bennett, James_Nostack, Ron Edwards, Trevis Martin.

10/5/2007 Matthew Glover: Tracking claims, stakes, drives, etc.
Just as a curiosity, how do you guys track who's claimed which side of a conflict, which drive is associated with staked debt, stuff like that?  We've been making notes…
In Muse of Fire Games
Participants: Matthew Glover, Bret Gillan, oreso, Hans, TonyLB.

10/5/2007 Filip Luszczyk: [Dungeon Squad! + Coin Op] Duh.
I playtested Mark Causey's Coin Op with Magda and Kamil last Monday. The game shows promise – but sadly, in its current state it's still nearly unplayable. The session lasted…
In Playtesting
Participants: Filip Luszczyk, Redone, Aman the Rejected.

10/5/2007 Eric J. Boyd: RPGnet review of The Committee is up!
C.W. Richeson's review of The Committee is up here. I'm pleased to see Chris enjoyed the game, and hope others will, too.
In Eric J. Boyd Designs
Participants: Eric J. Boyd.

10/5/2007 Darcy Burgess: [Black Cadillacs] - Barbed Wired & Bayonets
Hi, Black Cadillacs is a game I've been working on for about a year now.  It's my attempt to make some sense out of war.  By "make sense" I don't…
In Playtesting
Participants: Darcy Burgess, Noon.

10/5/2007 Vulpinoid: Request for insights and ideas
[b]New Card Based System.[/b] Purely a question about mechanics. I’m working on an expanded mechanic for the game I submitted to the System on a Character sheet challenge. The base…
In First Thoughts
Participants: Vulpinoid, Ken, masqueradeball.

10/4/2007 RobNJ: [Misspent Youth] Putting the "story game" in story games
So something I noticed recently is that most Story Games do not focus so much on creating a story as they do on a) giving you tools to affect story-substance…
In Playtesting
Participants: RobNJ, Emily Care.

10/4/2007 Thunder_God: [Juiced Rider, Memory Mecha] Looking for Playtesters.
<b>Juiced Rider, Memory Mecha</b>, a game where there is a grim war going on and you're on the front-line, in your mecha. In order to interface with the mecha you…
In Connections
Participants: Thunder_God.

10/4/2007 GreatWolf: [Robots and Rapiers] The Struggle for the Tapestry begins...
In the midst of all the other gaming that I’ve been doing recently, I’ve also begun the promised playtest of Robots and Rapiers, the forthcoming game from Ralph Mazza’s imprint,…
In Playtesting
Participants: GreatWolf, Wormwood.

10/4/2007 Hituro: [Solipsist] Pike Brothers Records
[i]crossposted from collective endevour and story games[/i] Okay, so five of us, Myself, my wife Victoria, and friends Justin, Gregor and Per, met to play a session of Solipsist. This…
In Playtesting
Participants: Hituro, Gregor Hutton, Ron Edwards.

10/4/2007 David C: Looking for a word-smith
Are you able to come up with the right word to describe any situation? Do you enjoy coming up with words to describe anything? I'm looking for what I'm calling…
In Connections
Participants: David C, Eero Tuovinen, David Artman, RobNJ.

10/4/2007 epweissengruber: Bringing Uncanny Horror to the Gaming Table [Gumshoe Rules]
I am prepping a horror game and would like anyone's input to the challenges such a game poses to all participants. I am playtesting Hite’s Trail of Cthulhu, which adapts…
In Actual Play
Participants: epweissengruber, Noon, Danny_K, David Artman, Graham Walmsley, LostSoul, Pelgrane, Ron Edwards.

10/3/2007 Myrmidon: Keys of Motivation vs Keys of Everything Else
Can anyone assist me achieve a better understanding of the how 1/2/5 keys (Motivation) differ from 1/3 keys (Everything else)? For example: Key of Conscience     Your character has…
In CRN Games
Participants: Myrmidon, Clinton R. Nixon.

10/3/2007 Marhault: [Black Fire] Playtest Report
Part I of II Four of us gathered to play Black Fire last Sunday.  I GMed, the players were Paul Czege, Danielle and Thor.  The game was so-so, but many…
In Playtesting
Participants: Marhault, Paul Czege, Ron Edwards, Noon.

10/3/2007 LordKiwi: Magic System: Needs a little polishing...
I'm writing a game, Heretic, which a dark fantasy game where characters are mages on a dieing world. It's quite a bleak game where characters try to achieve…
In First Thoughts
Participants: LordKiwi, VoidDragon, chris_moore.

10/3/2007 Jon H: Cover art available for license...
Hi all, Jon Hodgson calling. If I'm lucky, you might be aware of my work from the cover and some of the internals for Dust Devils, the cover graphics for…
In Connections
Participants: Jon H.

10/3/2007 Dryraisin: Bliss Stage Play by E-mail
    I just got my copy of Bliss stage and after reading through it I really can't wait to try it out with my friends. Problem is we really…
In These Are Our Games
Participants: Dryraisin, Ben Lehman, JC, Garvey.

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10/7/2007 TomTitTot: From Cradle To Gravy: A lovely little card game where you eat your friends.
So, due to an off-the-cuff remark from a close friend, I'm designing (alongside my Dystopia game) a cute little card game that involves heavy politicking and negotiation and cannibalism. I…
In First Thoughts
Participants: TomTitTot, SpinachBaron, Ken, contracycle, Satanman, Simon C, LordKiwi, Castlin, Jillianaire, David C, Age of Fable.

10/5/2007 Twilight Dream: [split from] Re: horror or not?
I'm sorry for bringing up a thread this old, but I have just started playing MLwM, and when I found this thread I started thinking about this. The major difference…
In Half Meme Press
Participants: Twilight Dream, Paul Czege.

10/7/2007 yellowparis: [DRYH] NPC Assists
Say we have a situation in which a PC is caught between a couple Nightmare factions, siding with one against the other.  In a conflict, he's assisted by one Nightmare…
In Evilhat Productions
Participants: yellowparis, iago, Noclue.

10/8/2007 Simons: Finding playtesters
Hey all, So "Game X"/"Escape from Illeria" is going forward.  I think I'm at a point where my close group of friends are tapped out (pretty much they all say,…
In First Thoughts
Participants: Simons, Ken, Wolfen, davidberg.

10/8/2007 Paul Czege: [Infected] Children of the White Flies
Hey Eric, We playtested on Friday, September 28th. The playtest group was myself (as GM), Corinne Knipe, Matt Gwinn, and my wife Danielle. We had fun, which isn't such a…
In Playtesting
Participants: Paul Czege, Technocrat13, hardcoremoose.

10/8/2007 JC: [Polaris] Three is a breeze
heya :) just thought I should let y'all know that I played Polaris for the first time, through IRC, and that it went very very well, even though there were…
In These Are Our Games
Participants: JC, cydmab, Ben Lehman.

10/8/2007 ijonchrist: Sorcerer Setting Idea: Feedback Very Welcome!
[b]Post Apocalyptic Setting: TechnoWizards[/b] [b]Humanity is:[/b]  Empathy [b]0 Humanity means: [/b]  You no longer care about anything. Life’s only purpose is to survive the day, and you really don't even…
In Adept Press
Participants: ijonchrist, Ron Edwards, pfischer, Vulpinoid.

10/9/2007 DainXB: [Sons of Liberty playtest] Actual Play and Benjamin Franklin's sack!
'Sons of Liberty' AP Report 10/07/07  I finally got the chance to play the beta version of Sons of Liberty!  Present for the game were: Dain (myself), a 30-year veteran…
In Playtesting
Participants: DainXB, GreatWolf, Valamir, Joshua BishopRoby.

10/9/2007 Tubbybottom: Could anyone give me some feedbacks on this game? :)
Hey As my student projekt work I am doing an RPG and evaluating the problems while making an RPG for my homemade game I have chosen a mix of D&D,…
In First Thoughts
Participants: Tubbybottom, contracycle, StrongBadMun, Satanman, xenopulse, Japo, Simons, Noon, Castlin.

10/9/2007 Black Armos: [DRYH] One-Shot game help.
Hey all, I have been trying to create an indie games seen at my local game store and have had a little success (although they will still only order the…
In Evilhat Productions
Participants: Black Armos, iago.

10/9/2007 GreatWolf: [Shock: v 1.1] Be Careful Where You Litter
When I heard that Shock: was being released in its 1.1 edition, I was pretty excited.  I had heard some nifty things about the original edition of the game, but…
In Actual Play
Participants: GreatWolf, Gabrielle.

10/9/2007 Aman the Rejected: [TSOY] The Shadow of the Abyss
On Saturday I ran a game for Eric and Lisa Provost and a new member of our local area, Eric Lofgren. It was intended to be a Conspiracy of Shadows…
In CRN Games
Participants: Aman the Rejected, oliof, Eero Tuovinen.

10/10/2007 Jasper the Mimbo: Fun with Simulationism (Star Wars D6) Long post.
I was discussing the old Star Wars system with some friends, who are rabid Star Wars fans, and they convinced me to run a game for them. Luckily, I'd had…
In Actual Play
Participants: Jasper the Mimbo, SpinachBaron, contracycle.

10/10/2007 higgins: Group play vs. Individual play
Hi all! I've heard a lot of good things about The Forge. Happy to finally be here! As for my thread... There's been a lot of talk regarding gaming systems…
In First Thoughts
Participants: higgins, Artanis, Conteur, Ron Edwards, Japo, davidberg.

10/10/2007 Scott Purdy: Looking for John Grigas
Hey everyone, If you know Jon Grigas could you please tell him that my emails to him are bouncing, it's looking like his email account has added me as SPAM..…
In Connections
Participants: Scott Purdy, StrongBadMun.

10/10/2007 The Black Dog: Game Idea in the works: can a man get some feedback!?
A friend of mine and I had an Idea for a tabletop RPG of our own. We came up with some pretty novel ideas (I should say "I did" as…
In First Thoughts
Participants: The Black Dog, Simon C, dindenver, Japo, Noon.

10/10/2007 David C: Steampunk - Magic Revisited
While I could hack together a magic system that "works," I want... no, I need to make a system that makes sense to me. I'm probably not the only one…
In First Thoughts
Participants: David C, Vulpinoid, Ken, contracycle, dindenver, xenopulse, RobNJ, David Artman.

10/10/2007 JC: [Under the bed] Bottom of page 2?
hey :) looked around a bit but couldn't find it, so I'm asking here: what's the text missing at the bottom of page 2? I can sort of guess, but…
In glyphpress
Participants: JC, RussellGrieshop, jane566, nikola.

10/11/2007 Grujav: Victorian Horror Game
My wife and I are working on a new game. Not the original game we were working on, because that exploded during its first playtest which may lead to two…
In First Thoughts
Participants: Grujav, Sydsquicious, Noon, BigElvis, Castlin.

10/11/2007 Jake Richmond: GameStorm: Indie Hurricane march 2008, Portland!
Hi. I’m really pleased to be able to announce GameStorm: Indie Hurricane! Come hang with us in Portland, OR (Vancouver, WA actually, but it’s only a few minutes away from…
In Conventions
Participants: Jake Richmond.

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