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11/8/2007 Jonas Karlsson: [One Can Have Her] Arson and old flames
I ran One Can Have Her on Anders Sveen's and Jonas Möckelström's excellent mini-con A Con of You this Saturday. We were enough participants for the weekend for two parallel…
In Actual Play
Participants: Jonas Karlsson, Jonas Larson.

11/8/2007 monstah: Conflict resolution using only choices?
Hi all. I have this thing for diceless mechanics, you see. What I'm really interested in seeing is what actions does the player choose to do, and how they affect…
In First Thoughts
Participants: monstah, Paul Czege, Everspinner, David Artman, Filip Luszczyk, dindenver, Raymond Caleatry, masqueradeball.

11/7/2007 chaldfont: [Mechaton] Buying from Bricklink
I recently bought Mechaton and I'm trying to get some mechs together to run a session for my friends. I bought enough pieces for a couple of Vincent's mechs from…
In lumpley games
Participants: chaldfont, lumpley, Noclue, Yokiboy, Mantisking, David Artman.

11/7/2007 Arvidos: [Mechaton] My first game
Hullo! I played two games of Mechaton (One of three players and one of four) at a modest but pleasant gathering of gamers this weekend. Both games went rather slow,…
In lumpley games
Participants: Arvidos, Yokiboy, lumpley.

11/6/2007 Dustin of the Dead: The Dead
Hello, I thought I might pass this along, but Kreg Mosier released a new version of his game called "The Dead," a game about death and relationships....in the zompocalypse. The…
In First Thoughts
Participants: Dustin of the Dead, Eldrad, Ron Edwards.

11/6/2007 dhorstman: Can't Send or Reply to a PM
OK, I may have just missed that giant PM button on a user's profile so bare with me. I've tried to send a PM from my message box with no…
In Site Discussion
Participants: dhorstman, lumpley, monstah, Ron Edwards.

11/6/2007 Paul T: Conflict in the Middle - A Crossed-Wire Act
This past August, I had the chance to spend some time in Scotland. During my time there, I saw many beautiful places, and took the chance of contacting some gamers…
In Playtesting
Participants: Paul T, Gregor Hutton, pfischer, Noon, FredGarber, Valamir.

11/6/2007 Phil: Weight of the world
In college I began to create a world (seriously how many times have I seen something like that posted, apologies for the ubiquity).  The website is http://www.alatha.com/url] for those who…
In First Thoughts
Participants: Phil, Vulpinoid, David Artman, anders_larsen.

11/6/2007 Plotin: Telltale and Cloak
I am a bit at loss pertaining to an Inconspicious Demon’s telltale. The following thread, which was the result of a search, didn’t clear things up for me: http://www.indie-rpgs.com/forum/index.php?topic=10607.msg112596;topicseen#msg112596 Example…
In Adept Press
Participants: Plotin, Ron Edwards.

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.

11/6/2007 Narf the Mouse: Critique my quickstart playtest rules?
[url=http://www.mouse-producedgames.com/Quickstart_Rules_2.rtf]Quickstart Rules v2[/url] Purpose of the game: Generic, flavourful play in any genre. Play should be quick and effective. Also, death shouldn't be something that 'Just happens'. Thanks.
In First Thoughts
Participants: Narf the Mouse, Filip Luszczyk.

11/6/2007 Willow: Contracts for Art
It's been recommended to me that I get some contracts for myself and my artists. How do I do this?  Are there templates out there?  I know what rights I…
In Publishing
Participants: Willow, pells, Ron Edwards, iago, Doc_Peck, rafael.

11/6/2007 Vittek: My first attempt: World of Brightness.
Hello, I'm from Italy and I was planning an M&M game based on Heroes and then BAM! I read PTA and decided we don't really need all the rules in…
In Dog Eared Designs
Participants: Vittek, Matt Wilson.

11/6/2007 rycanada: Lots of questions
1)  What happens when you tightly limit the number of Traits a Component can have?  (I'm thinking 5 for a non-named, 10 for a named character, max 3 named characters…
In Universalis
Participants: rycanada, David Artman, Valamir.

11/6/2007 dhorstman: Illustrator/Designer Looking for Projects & Collaboration
Hello to Everyone out there on the Forge! I'd like to introduce myself. I'm an Illustrator (also an RPG enthusiast) and I'd really like to start doing work in the…
In Connections
Participants: dhorstman, Scott Purdy, StrongBadMun, Ron Edwards.

11/6/2007 Emily Care: [jeep form]Doubt PDX
[b][url=http://jeepen.org/games/doubt]Doubt[/url][/b] happened again, this time in Portland, OR. Read [url=http://www.indie-rpgs.com/forum/index.php?topic=23950.0]Moreno's post[/url] from March for the in-depth low down on this game. I played it in Finland after Ropecon with Tobias…
In Actual Play
Participants: Emily Care, sirogit, Jake Richmond, Alephnul, GB Steve, Mike Sugarbaker, Artanis, Claudia Cangini, Eliarhiman6.

11/5/2007 Miskatonic: Homer quotes
Hi, From which translation of the Odyssey did you pull the quotes in Agon? They're quite nice.
In one.seven design
Participants: Miskatonic, Darcy Burgess, John Harper.

11/5/2007 Miskatonic: Shock: squares
J, Would it be too much trouble to produce versions of the three character sheet dealies with crop marks printed on the page? The design loses a lot of its…
In glyphpress
Participants: Miskatonic, nikola.

11/5/2007 Filip Luszczyk: Creating Backgrounds
In the discussion about using Dogs for action-adventure games a question of how the dice were assigned to Backgrounds in DitV and Afraid emerged. I find it interesting - what…
In lumpley games
Participants: Filip Luszczyk, JC, lumpley, Ben Lehman, zornwil, Marhault.

11/5/2007 Limejello: Operator setting
Hi this is a quick rundown of the setting I wrote now this is very poorley written and very rough (in fact I think this is closer to being notes…
In First Thoughts
Participants: Limejello.

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11/8/2007 Melinglor: Felexibility of Key Buyoffs?
I'm preparing to run Shadow of Yesterday and I've been thinking about Key Buyoffs. I love the wholeidea,but it nags at me that the stated Buyoffs for some of the…
In CRN Games
Participants: Melinglor, Filip Luszczyk, Eero Tuovinen.

11/8/2007 Sven: [freeform scenario] Under sommaren (During the Summer)
[b][Unnecessary intro][/b] This Monday I spent the really early hours of the day puking due to some unknown sickness. I then moved from Turkey to Sweden. Then I got introduced…
In Actual Play
Participants: Sven, Emily Care, Jonas Karlsson.

11/9/2007 Aaron: New game
Hi everyone, So I'm going to be starting my first Agon campaign shortly, but it looks like I might only have three players.  Do those with experience think this is…
In one.seven design
Participants: Aaron, demiurgeastaroth, John Harper, NathanFrund.

11/9/2007 Sivá: No humans in a fantasy world? (and some random other stuff)
The basic question is: "How will a fantasy world do without humans?" Before i go into detail a btw "question": I'm a bit reluctant to post my oh so brilliant,…
In First Thoughts
Participants: Sivá, Phil, Noon, contracycle, davidberg, Age of Fable, Conteur.

11/9/2007 divineseeker: Devestated Aspects and GM Control: A Question
Dear WGPers I would just like to clarify the power a GM has over a player's devastated aspects I may have misread the book, but once devasted aspects are handed…
In Incarnadine Press
Participants: divineseeker, Hans, Michael S. Miller.

11/9/2007 davidberg: [ED&D] CA transience?
My current design attempt (Lendrhald) has me thinking about what play should look like, largely in terms of what I've played in the past: do I want to include this…
In Actual Play
Participants: davidberg, Paka, James_Nostack, Vulpinoid, FredGarber, Noon, Caldis, Paul T, contracycle, Ron Edwards.

11/10/2007 Simons: [Escape from Illeria] Cost/Profit question
I’m nearing a point right now where I will be publishing Escape from Illeria, and am starting to get nervous about the business model, in particular the costs, expenses, and…
In Publishing
Participants: Simons, Graham Walmsley, MatrixGamer, Paul Czege, Valamir.

11/10/2007 pfischer: [Bliss Stage] Edinburgh Cell
Incoming transmission… We met last week to finish prep for our BS game, sadly missing a player from when playing the  intro scenario, as she has moved to another city…
In Actual Play
Participants: pfischer, TomTitTot, Nev the Deranged.

11/10/2007 ODDin: A Small Scene Resolution Mechanic
Some time ago I decided to run a fairly standard high-fantasy campaign, but I wanted to go extremely light on rules. At first, I wanted to do it absolutely free-form.…
In First Thoughts
Participants: ODDin, monstah, Noon, BigElvis, Simon C.

11/10/2007 Sivá: Reasons for a party to form and stay together?
Ove the last two year or so i wanted to play RPGs again, after a long absence. We tried different games, setups and storytellers/Gms/DMs or whatever. There always was one…
In Actual Play
Participants: Sivá, Eero Tuovinen, Vulpinoid, Noon, davidberg, Valvorik, Miskatonic, fjj, Calithena, shadowcourt, arthurtuxedo, Jasper Flick.

11/11/2007 Eero Tuovinen: System suggestions for Call of Cthulhu?
I'm going to play a one-shot of "Call of Cthulhu", or at least something similar, come Tuesday. Our usual Acts of Evil group couldn't get together, so we're playing something…
In Actual Play
Participants: Eero Tuovinen, Filip Luszczyk, contracycle, Darcy Burgess, Troels, Paul T, Web_Weaver, Artanis, Snowden, GB Steve, fjj.

11/12/2007 Willow: Awesome Adventures needs Awesome Playtesters
Hey All- I'm developing a Fate 3.0 game called Awesome Adventures.  It's similar to Spirit of the Century, but with lighter, more focused rules, and no default setting.  If you…
In Connections
Participants: Willow.

11/12/2007 Darcy Burgess: [Black Cadillacs] Things not to do in Kon Tum when y'ain't dead
Hi, A few weeks back, I had an opportunity to run a one-off playtest of Black Cadillacs at a friend's birthday party-slash-mini con.  I've posted some early (effusive) reactions to…
In Playtesting
Participants: Darcy Burgess.

11/13/2007 zornwil: Dogs becoming sorcerers?
Hi, I don't have anything to contribute on this, sorry, but as the "?" in the topic implies, I'm curious about others' experience, both qualitatively and mechanically?  Ben Lehman's analysis…
In lumpley games
Participants: zornwil, Eero Tuovinen, Ben Lehman, Nathaniel, Filip Luszczyk, jburneko, devonapple, lumpley, David Artman.

11/13/2007 monstah: Mechanic better suited to "lone multiplayer"
I have this project for a computer "role playing experience" (rather than "role playing game"), and I'm not sure how to approach it. Key elements are: * unsettling horror thematic;…
In First Thoughts
Participants: monstah.

11/14/2007 jefgodesky: [Fifth World] Practical concerns about my character sheet
Sgëno! I have an idea I'm really taken with at the moment about using a compass/medicine wheel/mandala as a character sheet (Design Diary entry with full details), where skills/traits/attributes are…
In First Thoughts
Participants: jefgodesky, monstah, Simon C, J Tolson, PlatonicPimp, Selene Tan, Vulpinoid.

11/14/2007 Raymond Caleatry: Mechanics for "Advanced" Social Encounters
I have been writing a system for about 2 years now, and it has gone through many incarnations.  Recently I started to explore mechanics behind advanced social encounters.  Now I…
In First Thoughts
Participants: Raymond Caleatry, VoidDragon, tymotzues.

11/14/2007 zardok: [DitV] Firefly setting revisited
I read a bunch of stuff on here say a year and a half ago about playing DitV in the Firefly universe.  Thought it sounded cool and that I'd get…
In lumpley games
Participants: zardok.

11/14/2007 Filip Luszczyk: Trollbabe strips?
So, I've been reading the strips today, but some of them seem to be missing. I located two stray ones via this thread. It was mentioned the missing parts will…
In Adept Press
Participants: Filip Luszczyk, Ron Edwards, James_Nostack.

11/14/2007 Transit: [Ditv] List of interesting traits?
My players easily come up with traits like "I'm great with a gun" and "I never lose a fistfight" but they get stuck when it comes to thinking of traits…
In lumpley games
Participants: Transit, Ben Lehman, jburneko, Ron Edwards, chriscrouch, Everspinner, lumpley, Valamir, Arvidos, Noclue, charlesperez, Nathaniel, David Artman, zornwil, travisjhall, dyreno.

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