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10/17/2007 Artanis: [Dirty Secrets] Don't touch my baby
Hi, This Saturday at the local con I played a new favourite of mine: Dirty Secrets! Only two players signed up, my friends Zarina and Cyril. I had played Polaris…
In Actual Play
Participants: Artanis, GreatWolf, jburneko.

10/17/2007 Rodolfo: Ten Thousand Worlds 1.01
This seemed to be the section for making this sort of post: If anyone is interested, Ten Thousand Worlds is ready to be seen. Enjoy. http://www.tenthousandworlds.org/_common/img/rss.gif http://www.tenthousandworlds.org
In Connections
Participants: Rodolfo, Vulpinoid.

10/17/2007 buggy: You are Your own GM
Hi there, My name is Mike Young and I design LARPs and LARP systems.  I am currently working on a new full weekend LARP which uses a system I am…
In First Thoughts
Participants: buggy, Vulpinoid, Noon.

10/17/2007 jburneko: Dirty Secrets in a Con Setting
Okay, so I play on running Dirty Secrets at a con here in February but I'm uncertain what to do.  The book says a Short Story should take 2 to…
In Dark Omen Games
Participants: jburneko, GreatWolf.

10/16/2007 Filip Luszczyk: [DitV] Ninja Princess Usagi-chan Episode 2: Nani? Tears, Blood and Fur...
We finished the second town of our Ninja Princess Usagi-chan game. It was split into three separate sessions and completing it took us well over ten hours of play in…
In Actual Play
Participants: Filip Luszczyk, JackTheOwner, FredGarber, Redone.

10/16/2007 Teataine: Need some feedback on a dice resolution idea
Hello everyone, first time poster. Here's my "problem" - I've been toying with various systems recently, partialy for the fun of it, partialy with the intention of gradualy making my…
In First Thoughts
Participants: Teataine, Paul Czege, Conteur, xenopulse, phatonin, Ken, masqueradeball.

10/16/2007 Gaerik: [BWr] Mostly Homogametic Rrole-playng
I played Burning Wheel Revised this weekend and the result was a mixed bag.  That's not a bad thing or a good thing really.  It's just a thing.  My wife…
In Actual Play
Participants: Gaerik, Noclue, Vulpinoid, GreatWolf, rekyl.

10/16/2007 jasonm: [Viking Con] A Day in the Life
On Friday night at Viking Con, me, Brian, Olle, and Luisa played Mikkel Baekgaard’s scenario A Day in the Life, run by Mikkel.  Thanks to my lack of Danish, we…
In Actual Play
Participants: jasonm, pfischer, FredGarber, fjj, Jonas Karlsson, Sanne Harder Flamant.

10/16/2007 Castlin: A gimmick without a game
For narrative games where players have token pools they spend to get some control: Use paperclips as tokens. To spend one, literally bend it into a hook, and figuratively use…
In First Thoughts
Participants: Castlin, Ken, Filip Luszczyk, rekyl.

10/16/2007 lighthouse: Where may I find help to go on?
Somehow against my own expectations it seems that my Newsies rpg is going forward, now reaching 12,000 words of rules and source material...
In First Thoughts
Participants: lighthouse, Ken, Vulpinoid, Catalyst N.

10/16/2007 MrSkygack: Random Pitch Generator
OK, this is totally a silly toy, but it can be a neat idea spark. I made a little page to generate random cliche pitches. http://www.barnaclepress.com/pta.php Just keep hitting "refresh"…
In Dog Eared Designs
Participants: MrSkygack, Matt Wilson, Chris Goodwin.

10/15/2007 Artanis: [Zombeja! Ovella!] No brain, no pain!
Hi reader, I had the pleasure of playing Eero Tuovinen's new game Zombeja! Ovella! at a local con this Saturday. My five co-players were all relatively young boys whom I…
In Actual Play
Participants: Artanis, Eero Tuovinen.

10/15/2007 David Artman: Alternate Ideas for Coins
A recent thread has me wondering (ALERT! POLL THREAD!).... Coins are fairly common and are easy to acquire and cost relatively little (as low as 1¢ per coin--or even lower,…
In Universalis
Participants: David Artman, rycanada, Valvorik, Robotech_Master.

10/15/2007 Troels: [In a Wicked Age] Of Ice, Slime and Unnatural Love
I just ran a session of IaWA at Viking-con, a danish gaming convention. And it was cool and weird and funny. First, thanks to Vincent Baker for letting me have…
In Playtesting
Participants: Troels, lumpley, Artanis, John Harper, Valvorik, Anders.

10/15/2007 Graham Walmsley: Pictures in Publishing
I've recently made a game with custom dice. I'd like to post, in Publishing, about how I made them, where I got the various components and so on: one of…
In Site Discussion
Participants: Graham Walmsley, Ron Edwards.

10/15/2007 MikeSands: [The Infected] Anger Management
Just ran a playtest of The Infected. It was doubly a playtest, as it was a test run for a Halloween mini-con I'm going to be hosting a game at…
In Playtesting
Participants: MikeSands, segedy, Technocrat13.

10/15/2007 ChrisLane: Print and PDF?
I've been looking at ordering a few titles, and I really like the print and PDF package deals.  Any chance of seeing such a package for PTA at some point?
In Dog Eared Designs
Participants: ChrisLane, Matt Wilson, MrSkygack.

10/15/2007 Robotech_Master: "Orion needs to be rescued"—1 coin or 2?
Elsewhere, the tenet "Orion needs to be rescued" has been proposed as a good seed tenet, a starter to get people thinking about what the game will be about. But…
In Universalis
Participants: Robotech_Master, Valamir.

10/15/2007 Robotech_Master: Counter suggestion: party money
My brother first suggested this to me, and I tried it out today and found it works pretty well. A local party supply store has a pack of 144 shiny…
In Universalis
Participants: Robotech_Master, David Artman.

10/14/2007 Robotech_Master: Third Game: "Sid Loves Nancy"
Today at a local geek picnic fest, I started a game of Universalis. Four of us hadn't played it before, two of us had. My friend Sandy, the other one…
In Universalis
Participants: Robotech_Master.

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10/18/2007 rekyl: A Game about Alienation and Boredom (how can it be fun?)
Ok, first of all Im new to this forum and I know that its not really ok to start a "forum-career" by making a new thread/subject in it, but I…
In First Thoughts
Participants: rekyl, Vulpinoid, lighthouse, David Artman, Noon.

10/18/2007 Sydsquicious: Pantaloons & Poltergeists - Playtesters Wanted
Pantaloons & Poltergeists is a Victorian era gothic horror finishing school game coming out soon from game designer Matt Schlotte (Atarashi Games, co-designer of Panty Explosion) and Kim Baker-Schlotte.  We…
In Connections
Participants: Sydsquicious, sirelfinjedi.

10/18/2007 Troels: [TSoY] Curses and necromancy
Hi A question and an idea I'm rather proud of. Question: Here's an idea for a Secret: Cursing. It's sort of Blessing in reverse. The idea is, you make an…
In CRN Games
Participants: Troels, Clinton R. Nixon, Eero Tuovinen, lucky.

10/18/2007 Neil the Wimp: [DitV] Conflicts are tensionless
I finally get to play in a mini-campaign of DitV and things aren't going so well.  We're doing a 'rotating GM' thing where each of us takes it in turn…
In lumpley games
Participants: Neil the Wimp, lumpley, Eliarhiman6, aescleal, knicknevin, David Artman, Noclue, ffilz, Claudia Cangini, John Harper.

10/19/2007 jefgodesky: [Fifth World] Core mechanic
Sgëno! I've been working on and off for a while now on an RPG called "The Fifth World."  The last version, 0.2, came out almost a year ago.  It basically…
In First Thoughts
Participants: jefgodesky, Vulpinoid, phatonin, PlatonicPimp, monstah, c.

10/19/2007 SabreCat: [Blazing Rose] Power 19 and attendant questions
So I've got this crazy bug to write a story game, inspired by dating sims and harem anime and every other bit of fiction that involves several characters in romantic…
In First Thoughts
Participants: SabreCat, Eric J. Boyd.

10/19/2007 Artanis: Questions on dirty dice
Hi Seth Some questions and probably a typo: p. 53: "The Authority opens the bidding if this is the first Exchange" versus p.55: "You may not Push a Violence…
In Dark Omen Games
Participants: Artanis, GreatWolf.

10/19/2007 GreatWolf: Rationale for initial character setup
In another thread, Per wrote: Seth, could you perhaps share your thoughts on how the initial characters in the game are written - why did you choose this approach,…
In Dark Omen Games
Participants: GreatWolf, pfischer.

10/19/2007 Coyote247: London Particular
After completing the Other as a freeware project to prove some artistic sensibility to what started as an irreverent game to play with 4channers, I'v now had my next idea…
In First Thoughts
Participants: Coyote247, Teataine.

10/20/2007 typo: Western Game: Trying to Take the Next Step
Being a big fan of the genre, I've long wanted to write a game based on TV and film Westerns.  Recently, I brainstormed up a concept for a non-historical Western-styled…
In First Thoughts
Participants: typo, StrongBadMun, Simon C, Filip Luszczyk, Catalyst N, Vulpinoid, Matt Snyder, masqueradeball, phatonin, Noon.

10/20/2007 GregStolze: [REIGN] Another ransom success! W00t!
(Note that all 733t speak is used ironically.) http://www.gregstolze.com/reign/Owners_of_the_Seas.zip There it is, another case of "to the worker shall go his wages."  This one took a lot longer than the…
In Publishing
Participants: GregStolze, xenopulse.

10/20/2007 Paul T: [TSoY] Help me poison my lover
Hello. I'm hoping to run a game of TSoY in the near future. I've been reading over the text that's just been put up on the CRN wikipage, and everything…
In CRN Games
Participants: Paul T, Clinton R. Nixon, oliof, shadowcourt, Eero Tuovinen.

10/20/2007 RobNJ: [Galactic] Big problem
Unless I'm misreading, the places on pages 52 and 53 where conflicts resolution is described doesn't actually state the conditions for winning a conflict. They say that the example conflict…
In Dog Eared Designs
Participants: RobNJ, Matt Wilson, Brad Murray.

10/21/2007 Filip Luszczyk: Dice Ladder
This is an idea for a core dice mechanic that I want to consider in separation from the game at large. I came up with it in the context of…
In First Thoughts
Participants: Filip Luszczyk, Artanis, masqueradeball, phatonin.

10/21/2007 cydmab: [bliss stage] different functions, different burdens
I persuaded a couple friends to try a game of bliss stage, and it did not go over very well. We played using the Final act scenario in the back…
In Actual Play
Participants: cydmab.

10/21/2007 Conteur: [Kissanil] Answers to Power 19
It's a great bunch of questions to help me focus my game. Answers to Power 19 1.) What is your game about?It’s about strong dilemas like “If I could drain…
In First Thoughts
Participants: Conteur, davidberg, pells.

10/22/2007 masqueradeball: Paradigms in RPGs
Hi everyone. I was just wondering if anyone had any ideas on how to deal with this little problem: I'm working on a fantasy RPG based on both the real-world…
In First Thoughts
Participants: masqueradeball, Vulpinoid, sirogit, Filip Luszczyk, Rafu, David Artman, rekyl, lighthouse, davidberg, jag, Charrua, jefgodesky, johntfrazer, Burrito.

10/22/2007 rycanada: Two kinds of conflict - what does them well?
I was in a project management course last week and one of the catchphrase like sayings that the instructor was using really stuck in my brain. It was along the…
In First Thoughts
Participants: rycanada, RobNJ, Conteur, VoidDragon, Valamir, Noclue.

10/22/2007 ChrisMcDee: [Inheritance] Early Draft - Looking for Feedback
[I] Jorng has stories of great heroes moving mountains, God Kings that shaped the empires of today and beings sent by wicked Gods to destroy the world as we know…
In First Thoughts
Participants: ChrisMcDee, Filip Luszczyk, lighthouse.

10/22/2007 GreatWolf: Dirty Secrets review thread
This is the thread to hold links to various Dirty Secrets reviews across the web. Jocelyn Robitaille's review of Dirty Secrets is up on RPGnet.
In Dark Omen Games
Participants: GreatWolf, M. J. Young.

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