Previous Topics

10/12/2007 GreatWolf: [Sons of Liberty playtest] A Pyrrhic victory
Having made some comments over here and then listening to Joshua’s comments on the Master Plan podcast, I figured that I needed to sit down and write up a full…
In Playtesting
Participants: GreatWolf, Joshua BishopRoby, Heraldic Game Design, Valamir, DainXB, Gabrielle.

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.

10/4/2007 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.

9/27/2007 GreatWolf: [Sons of Liberty Versus mode] Paine vs. Washington!
Okay.  So I have just a couple of minutes to scrawl this down.  But if I don't do it now, I'll forget and never do it. I taught Versus mode…
In Playtesting
Participants: GreatWolf.

9/18/2007 GreatWolf: Voices from the Days of Slavery
So, I'm doing my research for Steal Away Jordan, specifically looking for MP3s of spirituals, and I came across this: Voices from the Days of Slavery I thought that this…
In Stone Baby Games
Participants: GreatWolf, Parthenia.

9/18/2007 GreatWolf: [Bliss Stage] We wrap Bliss Stage
…incoming transmission … … Peoria Resistance Group… Bliss Stage makes me think of this. Broadcast Archive:  Saved through childbearing Love and violence in Peoria Jude gets better, plus alien tentacles!…
In Actual Play
Participants: GreatWolf, Artanis, Gabrielle.

9/17/2007 GreatWolf: Dirty Secrets is back in stock
For those of you waiting with bated breath, Dirty Secrets is now back in stock at Indie Press Revolution.
In Dark Omen Games
Participants: GreatWolf, Artanis.

9/11/2007 GreatWolf: [Bliss Stage] Jude gets better, plus alien tentacles!
…incoming transmission … … Peoria Resistance Group… Bliss Stage makes me think of this. Broadcast Archive:  Saved through childbearing Love and violence in Peoria Last week sometime, my…
In Actual Play
Participants: GreatWolf, Marhault, Gabrielle, pfischer, Ben Lehman.

9/7/2007 GreatWolf: [Bliss Stage] Love and violence in Peoria
…incoming transmission … … Peoria Resistance Group… Bliss Stage makes me think of this. Broadcast Archive:  previous transmission located in database Gabrielle commented that she felt sorry for me.  I’m…
In Actual Play
Participants: GreatWolf, Ben Lehman, Gabrielle.

9/5/2007 GreatWolf: [Land of 1000 Kings] My children visit the Land of 1000 Kings
As my children grow older, I have been trying to think of ways to integrate them into my gaming hobby.  I don’t want to have games be a thing that…
In Playtesting
Participants: GreatWolf, 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.

8/28/2007 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 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.

8/23/2007 GreatWolf: Dirty Secrets Actual Play
This is the thread where we will post links to actual play reports of Dirty Secrets, be they on the Forge or elsewhere. Here's a thread to start: Dirty Secrets…
In Dark Omen Games
Participants: GreatWolf, jburneko, Artanis, scottdunphy.

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.

8/9/2007 GreatWolf: Being interviewed for The Score
I was interviewed by Matt Snyder for his podcast "The Score".  The first part of that interview is available here.  He's breaking it up into a few segments so that…
In Dark Omen Games
Participants: GreatWolf.

7/25/2007 GreatWolf: An early Dirty Secrets endorsement
Gerald Cameron (aka Linnaeus) writes about Dirty Secrets and has some very good things to say. In the interest of full disclosure, he did edit the book, but, as he…
In Dark Omen Games
Participants: GreatWolf, ynnen.

7/16/2007 GreatWolf: Legends of Alyria review thread
Let's put all Legends of Alyria review links here. Here's an RPGnet review by Christopher W. Richeson to start.
In Dark Omen Games
Participants: GreatWolf.

7/13/2007 GreatWolf: Dirty Secrets layout preview
My wife has been feverishly working on layout out Dirty Secrets, so I wanted to show off some of her work. This file is a preview of what we're working…
In Dark Omen Games
Participants: GreatWolf, Hans.

7/11/2007 GreatWolf: Good Dirty Secrets discussion
[url=http://www.indie-rpgs.com/forum/index.php?topic=24263.0]This playtest discussion[/url] has resulted in some helpful guidance for playing [i]Dirty Secrets[/i].  This is the sort of conversation that I'd like to have here, once the game is available…
In Dark Omen Games
Participants: GreatWolf.

<< more previous topics

Subsequent Topics

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.

11/6/2007 GreatWolf: [Robots and Rapiers] The Power of Power
We’ve played a few more sessions of Robots and Rapiers since the last writeup.  I think that we’re finally starting to catch a groove with the system.  Now that we’re…
In Playtesting
Participants: GreatWolf, Ron Edwards, Valamir.

12/5/2007 GreatWolf: New Dirty Secrets supplement!
(Heh.  I had fun with that title.) No, I haven't published anything new, but now that I've drawn you in with false advertising, I do have a helpful hint for…
In Dark Omen Games
Participants: GreatWolf, Yokiboy.

12/17/2007 GreatWolf: Dirty Secrets and racism
For those who are interested, there is a discussion about Dirty Secrets and racism going on over here.
In Dark Omen Games
Participants: GreatWolf.

12/26/2007 GreatWolf: Go Play Peoria February minicon
In a fit of insanity, Ralph Mazza, Keith Sears, and I have started a group called Go Play Peoria.  We're looking to the nerdNYC model and trying to do something…
In Conventions
Participants: GreatWolf.

12/28/2007 GreatWolf: Trying to choose between Parasites and Possessors
I just bought Sorcerer, and I'm working on putting together my thoughts for the game that's been floating around in my head for awhile. The basic concept is that demons…
In Adept Press
Participants: GreatWolf, Ron Edwards, lumpley.

12/31/2007 GreatWolf: [Dogs in the Vineyard] In the line of duty….
[b]Introduction[/b] [i]There's a man goin' 'round takin' names. An' he decides who to free and who to blame. Everybody won't be treated all the same. There'll be a golden ladder…
In Actual Play
Participants: GreatWolf, lumpley, Ron Edwards.

1/2/2008 GreatWolf: [Dogs in the Vineyard] Girls can be cruel
The New Year holiday was good for roleplaying.  On New Year’s Eve, we played Primetime Adventures with James and Theresa, which I will write up in due course.  Then, on…
In Actual Play
Participants: GreatWolf, Valamir, Gabrielle, lumpley, Raquel.

1/2/2008 GreatWolf: [Primetime Adventures] Political comedy for the new year
We have a running New Year’s Eve tradition of getting together with James and Theresa to eat wings, drink liquor, and play games until the New Year comes…and then continuing…
In Actual Play
Participants: GreatWolf, Redone, Filip Luszczyk.

1/8/2008 GreatWolf: [Grey Ranks] Joyriding in tanks and other skylarks that will get you killed
Our Friday night group sat down and planned out the next stretch of roleplaying that we’re going to do.  We agreed to give Grey Ranks a whirl and then head…
In Actual Play
Participants: GreatWolf, jasonm, Ron Edwards, Filip Luszczyk, Valamir.

1/9/2008 GreatWolf: [A Flower for Mara] Jump-starting the game
"She died that night.  She was the light of my days, the glory of my existence, cut down like a flower in the prime of her life.  And now I…
In Playtesting
Participants: GreatWolf, Artanis, jasonm, Noon.

1/15/2008 GreatWolf: [Grey Ranks] The joy of soul-crushing defeat
We gathered again to play Grey Ranks.  (Our last session is here.)  To kick things off on a cheery note, I played a portion of the Radio Lightning broadcast and…
In Actual Play
Participants: GreatWolf, jasonm, Reithan, Valamir, Ron Edwards, Paul T.

1/18/2008 GreatWolf: [A Flower for Mara] Playing with the n00bs…and loving it!
I have this theory that people are naturally creative, that those who aren’t “creative” are actually afraid of looking dumb and therefore edit themselves.  This isn’t an original theory, of…
In Playtesting
Participants: GreatWolf, hix, Artanis, Emily Care, Bret Gillan.

1/21/2008 GreatWolf: [Grey Ranks] Life in the ruins
We finished up Grey Ranks on Friday.  We started off the night tired and dragged out.  Nevertheless, we managed to wrap up an incredible game with an incredibly powerful session. …
In Actual Play
Participants: GreatWolf, jasonm, Valamir.

1/25/2008 GreatWolf: [Nine Worlds] How Shall We Then Prep?
So, tonight, my group ventures into the Nine Worlds.  My current plan is to prep similarly to how I prep for Legends of Alyria, to wit: 1)  Do fly-over of…
In Chimera Creative
Participants: GreatWolf, Matt Snyder.

2/10/2008 GreatWolf: A Flower for Mara Actual Play
This is the thread where we will collect actual play of A Flower for Mara. To begin, here are the two playtests that I've done so far: A Flower for…
In Dark Omen Games
Participants: GreatWolf.

2/18/2008 GreatWolf: [Nine Worlds] Euro roleplaying in the Nine Worlds
It’s been a long time coming, but finally our group was able to sit down and play Nine Worlds.  Last week we did chargen, but we didn’t actually play until…
In Actual Play
Participants: GreatWolf, Ron Edwards.

2/19/2008 GreatWolf: [A Flower for Mara] Actual Play videos
When we playtested A Flower for Mara last month, we videotaped the whole thing.  I'm still working on assembling footage, but these are approximately the first half of the game:…
In Dark Omen Games
Participants: GreatWolf.

2/26/2008 GreatWolf: [Go Play Peoria][Dirty Secrets] A simple plan….
Why yes, the title is a film reference.  But the concept is so very noir.  We’ll just transgress the boundaries just this once, and no one will get hurt.  The…
In Actual Play
Participants: GreatWolf, Nev the Deranged, Raquel, Ron Edwards, Tim C Koppang.

4/1/2008 GreatWolf: A Flower for Mara at Forge Midwest
So, I'm going to be at Forge Midwest, and I'll be bringing the necessary material to play A Flower for Mara.  If you're going to be there, and you'd be…
In Dark Omen Games
Participants: GreatWolf.

more subsequent topics >>