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12/25/2007 guildofblades: Guild of Blades, 2007 Year in Review
Guild of Blades 2007 Year in Review Hi Everyone, As had been a tradition for me for the last 6 years or so, near the end of the year I…
In Publishing
Participants: guildofblades.

12/24/2007 Xenoheart: A game based on... ASTROLOGY?
Well, hi there, Forge community. Meet Leo: Israely, fourteen, RPG(And generally a)geek, and without any conception of proper english spelling/grammer. Seem's you have just met me. Well, for a big…
In First Thoughts
Participants: Xenoheart, dindenver, LandonSuffered.

12/24/2007 Knoble: Few quick ?s
Hi Guys, I just got the book and stayed up waaay too late last night reading the first 5 chapters. I'm very excited about this game, and look forward to…
In Universalis
Participants: Knoble, Valamir.

12/24/2007 Artanis: Killing Characters
In my last session we narrate a last scene that goes roughly like this. All characters are Characters. Julien (Authority framing the scene): The Investigator arrives at her apartment, the…
In Dark Omen Games
Participants: Artanis, GreatWolf.

12/24/2007 sirelfinjedi: Good Game Gone Long
So, I've been running a super-hero game for about a year and a half. It started as a filler game when a player was absent and became the favorite campaign…
In Actual Play
Participants: sirelfinjedi, Matt Snyder.

12/23/2007 sirogit: [It's Complicated] What I didn't mention was that I poisoned everyone
Ran a game of Its Complicated, with just me and my brother Chris. By the author's suggestion, we both ran two characters. The setup: D&D Dungeon Crawl Situation: We're in…
In Playtesting
Participants: sirogit, Elizabeth, Ron Edwards, Marshall Burns, Artanis, David Artman, Madheretic.

12/23/2007 sirelfinjedi: Newby Needs Help
Hey, I'm new to the Forge and I feel a little lost. I've recently (over the past 6 months) gotten very excited about game design. I've been fired up by…
In First Thoughts
Participants: sirelfinjedi, Ron Edwards, brainwipe, FLEB.

12/23/2007 sirelfinjedi: Super-Fantasy Power System - d20 play-testers wanted.
I've been working on a d20 supplement for superheroes. I'm calling it the Super-Fantasy Powers System. While I've used and enjoyed both Mutants & Masterminds and Blood & Vigilance, I…
In Connections
Participants: sirelfinjedi.

12/23/2007 arthurtuxedo: Can talking people's heads off be as fun as slicing them off?
On a brief and semi-recent MUDding kick, I tried out the new Iron Forge MUD, Lusternia. It's pretty similar to their previous games, but one addition struck me. There was…
In First Thoughts
Participants: arthurtuxedo, masqueradeball, Noclue, Noon, dindenver, GregStolze, jag, contracycle.

12/22/2007 Filip Luszczyk: Online NPC generator doesn't work?
So, I've just started a session and, as usually, I wanted to generate Proto-NPCs using the online generator. However, this is what I see instead of a shiny new six-pack:…
In lumpley games
Participants: Filip Luszczyk, Vanoj, Yokiboy, lumpley, Dev, Wolfen.

12/22/2007 Vanoj: [DitV] Spring River: Secret rolls for gamey bliss?
I ran Dogs for the first time last night. I've been obsessed with the game for a while but hadn't gotten the chance to actually play a town. I was…
In Actual Play
Participants: Vanoj, David Artman, Noon, lumpley, Eliarhiman6.

12/22/2007 IoValde: Vagrant Stories
[center][size=20pt]VAGRANT STORIES[/size] [size=15pt]The Pie in the Gutter And other Amazing Tales[/size][/center] This is a game about bums. Not your run-of-the-mill, hard-up, dime-a-dozen schmucks, but the senile sods who’ve lived on…
In First Thoughts
Participants: IoValde, masqueradeball.

12/22/2007 masqueradeball: Beating a Dead Horse?
Okay, so all in all I'm still new to this GNS thing... though I've been reading as much as I can and trying to understand the language, but I want…
In Actual Play
Participants: masqueradeball, Noon, Ron Edwards, Frank Tarcikowski.

12/22/2007 Peter Nordstrand: [While We Were Fighting]A Board Roleplaying Game
Is While We Were Fighting (see here and here) a boardgame or a roleplaying game? Apparently this is something that makes a lot of people nervous. As if there was…
In Playtesting
Participants: Peter Nordstrand.

12/21/2007 Miskatonic: Show some spine!
Indie publishers, There is something I noticed on my last visit to my FLGS. This store is reasonably good at ordering indie stuff from IPR and even grabs a bunch…
In Publishing
Participants: Miskatonic, iago, jasonm, GreatWolf, Ron Edwards, Ben Lehman, Scro, David Artman.

12/21/2007 darthfodder: Game about going from a mortal to a God
Okay so my idea is a game about going from a mortal to a god and once godhood is achieved, keeping a faith and influencing the world in the way…
In First Thoughts
Participants: darthfodder, jag, preludetotheend, Spooky Fanboy, Xerxes, Ron Edwards.

12/21/2007 Elizabeth: Audeamus: a cinematic, non-fantasy romp in ancient Rome
So my friend Charlotte and I are designing a game about ancient Rome, entitled Audeamus. It's going to be more cinematic than slavishly historically accurate-- think Ben Hur and Gladiator.…
In First Thoughts
Participants: Elizabeth, Paul T, Phil, Stryck, Narf the Mouse.

12/20/2007 Marshall Burns: Super Action Now! (and the Way of the Disco Samurai)
So I was thinking about a comment Sam "wreckage" made about an old, old game I had designed in this thread.  He said:  Dwogres? Robots? Flesh eating owls? Grotesque character…
In First Thoughts
Participants: Marshall Burns, Noon.

12/20/2007 Vanoj: [DitV] A matter of timing
This issue came up in the session of Dogs that I ran (for the first time) last night with a group of my friends. I'll give an example to illustrate…
In lumpley games
Participants: Vanoj, Eliarhiman6, lumpley, Noclue.

12/20/2007 Marshall Burns: The Rustbelt and a GNS question
I've been writing this game called The Rustbelt off and on for six years.  It's set in a place called the Rustbelt, in a non-specific part of America, sometime in…
In Playtesting
Participants: Marshall Burns, Ron Edwards, Wolfen, Eliarhiman6.

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12/26/2007 Noon: [No name yet] Fight with a monster game.
Ron recently said My usual recommendation, though, is to start by posting in Actual Play. People make this ten times harder than it is. If someone were to post, "We…
In Playtesting
Participants: Noon, davidberg.

12/26/2007 ODDin: [Demon Desire] First Ideas
About a week ago I picked up the album "The Shadow Cabinet" by Wuthering Heights. A few listens to the opening track, "Demon Desire", gave birth to an RPG. Mysterious…
In First Thoughts
Participants: ODDin, sirelfinjedi.

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.

12/26/2007 cdr: [44] Questions
I'm looking forward to running 44 at Endgame! I have a couple of notes after reading the ashcan. On p17 it doesn't mention what Program does, although later on it…
In Chimera Creative
Participants: cdr, Matt Snyder.

12/27/2007 Clay: Looking to split a web server
I am looking for somebody to share the cost of a web server with me.  The cost will be $15/month, on a reliable host.  For your money you get the…
In Connections
Participants: Clay.

12/27/2007 LandonSuffered: The Golden Compass!
All right…just saw the Golden Compass and I’m thinking when are they going to come out with an RPG for this?  What an awesome setting!  Aeronaut cowboys, armored ice bears,…
In First Thoughts
Participants: LandonSuffered, Noon, Xerxes, David C, pfischer.

12/27/2007 jburneko: [DitV} I was a Dog and I forgave the Demons
Last night I had the opportunity to play Dogs in the Vineyard.  Present were myself, Collin, James and Will.  James was GMing.  Now, when I play Dogs a) I like…
In Actual Play
Participants: jburneko, Caldis, Noon, Noclue, Ron Edwards.

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.

12/28/2007 sabbatregent: [TSoY] A silly question about araka
So, the people in Qek have this cool drink called araka. Araka is supposed to be a distilled poison. But Distill Herbs is something only Ammenites know how to do...…
In CRN Games
Participants: sabbatregent, Clinton R. Nixon.

12/28/2007 lumpley: [IaWA] A genetic nanopotion, mind tricks and Han Solo as a lesbian
Me, Emily, Julia and Rob Bohl played space opera In a Wicked Age last night. It was fun. It was set on this aquatic alien planet with increasingly bad relations…
In Playtesting
Participants: lumpley, Anders, RobNJ, Emily Care, foucalt.

12/28/2007 Capulet: "Factions at War" Freebie PDFs
(I hope this is the most appropriate forum for this. If not, sorry Ron.) Allrighty, I've compressed the core book (Factions at War) down from 386 pages to 92 pages,…
In Publishing
Participants: Capulet, Ron Edwards, Vulpinoid.

12/29/2007 Tuxhedoh: [DitV] Noob- finding players
I'm new to RPG's in general, DitV intriques me and I can find a few friends that are interested in playing, but none are experienced GM's .  I'm in the…
In lumpley games
Participants: Tuxhedoh, JC.

12/29/2007 Igtenio: D20 Lite Variant
First off, I apologize, since I know there're a million D20 derivatives out there, but I figured I'd post about one I've been thinking over. Without a doubt, others have…
In First Thoughts
Participants: Igtenio, Noon, jag, Bastoche, sirelfinjedi, Dormammu, dindenver, Ron Edwards, Eldrad.

12/29/2007 Artanis: [Zombeja! Ovella!] This time with vampires
Hello Yesterday evening a few friends and I went out to this smoky alternative bar, where some guy was having a board-game night and we thought that this would be…
In Actual Play
Participants: Artanis, Eero Tuovinen, Ron Edwards.

12/29/2007 agoodall: Alternate history/fantasy medieval setting - what do characters do?
Long-time lurker, first-time poster... I have an idea for an alternative history game set in the 13th century. Along with alternative history, there are fantasy elements. I have a good…
In First Thoughts
Participants: agoodall, ODDin, Noclue.

12/31/2007 Frank Tarcikowski: The players’ role in Participationist play
When Ron Edwards visited me in Hamburg two weeks ago, we were talking about my old games of Star Wars d6 and Ron asked me to post about something I…
In Actual Play
Participants: Frank Tarcikowski, Caldis, Noon, masqueradeball.

12/31/2007 earwig: A Conspiracy of Clippings (with Apologies to William S. Burroughs)
   I was reading something about William S. Burroughs the other day, and it was talking about how he would sometime just cut up stips of paper containing words or…
In First Thoughts
Participants: earwig, GregStolze.

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.

1/1/2008 sirelfinjedi: Gaming Podcasts
I've become a huge addict of gaming podcasts. I have some favorites, but I'm always looking for more drive-time, quality info on my favorite hobby.  My favorite is Fear the…
In Connections
Participants: sirelfinjedi, C.W.Richeson, Nathaniel, c.

1/2/2008 davidberg: [Werewolf] Simulationism: Dreaming is cool, but what's with "The Right"?
So, about a year ago, I played in a game based loosely on various World of Darkness books and rules.  It was not without hitches, but was generally fun, and…
In Actual Play
Participants: davidberg, Ron Edwards, masqueradeball, Frank Tarcikowski, Noon, Caldis.

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