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3/3/2008 Artanis: [IaWA] Tossing Particular strengths around
Disclaimer: I'm suspecting a major case of thickness is hiding under this post, I just can't find the relevant game text. I remember in AG&G that you could give mastery…
In lumpley games
Participants: Artanis, lumpley, Piers Brown.

3/3/2008 JustinB: GenCon Panel Attendance
Does anyone know what GenCon panels are looking for additional speakers or where to find this information out? Seems like it would be fun to get on one or two…
In Conventions
Participants: JustinB.

3/3/2008 Andy Kitkowski: Difficult Question for Layout/Publisher folk re language and macrons
Hey all. So I'm working on this Japanese RPG, and I'm doing the last round of translation and editing. I know Jack and Junk about layout and publishing, so I…
In Publishing
Participants: Andy Kitkowski, Ben Lehman, Eero Tuovinen.

3/3/2008 Alan: [IaWA] Why narration matters
The importance of narration in IaWA has been mentioned in a couple discussions, but I didn't start to understand until I finally understood the narration rules for dicing things out.…
In lumpley games
Participants: Alan.

3/3/2008 Frank Tarcikowski: [Mud Planet / Sorcerer] The Rules Work!
So I finally got to run the refined version of my Ronnies entry Mud Planet, using Sorcerer rules. Conditions were kind of not ideal: It was the evening slot in…
In Playtesting
Participants: Frank Tarcikowski, Eero Tuovinen, Ron Edwards.

3/2/2008 Blankshield: [Reality Cops] Slowly Taking Shape
Last Friday the much-delayed and rescheduled playtest of Reality Cops got off the ground. I, Fox, James T. and Davyd sat down to look at the rough bones and see…
In Playtesting
Participants: Blankshield, Ron Edwards, Spooky Fanboy, joepub.

3/2/2008 Willow: Cute PDF Resizing Pages
Hey all- For Awesome Adventures, I set up my layout in Open Office, and exported to Cute PDF so I can upload it to Lulu.  What I've found, is that…
In Publishing
Participants: Willow.

3/2/2008 travisfarber: One Shot Observations
So recently I put together a one shot of Grey Ranks for two other people.  We played through three chapters, six, seven, and eight.  I came to the game with…
In Bully Pulpit Games
Participants: travisfarber, jasonm.

3/2/2008 Alan: [IaWA] Suggestions for clarifications of rule text
Hi Vincent, After playing some games and reading your responses to questions, I think I understand the rules text. I've found some points, especially those about narration during dice rolling,…
In lumpley games
Participants: Alan, lumpley, demiurgeastaroth, Valvorik.

3/2/2008 travisfarber: [Thou Art but a Warrior] The Fall of a Kingdom
Last night I had the opportunity to put together a game of Thou Art But A Warrior.  We were unexpectedly down one player, so we ran with three, although long…
In Playtesting
Participants: travisfarber, wunderllama, SaintandSinner, Adam Dray, Ben Lehman.

3/2/2008 Frank Tarcikowski: [Polaris] Transcending the Rules
I just returned from another one of those German forum meet-ups. Yesterday’s Polaris game was a blast (what people call a homerun these days). Here are some highlights and a…
In Actual Play
Participants: Frank Tarcikowski, oliof, Ben Lehman, ( o Y o ), Eliarhiman6, Troels, cydmab, Hendrik D..

3/1/2008 Nathan P.: [JiffyCon] JiffyCon Boston March 8th
Hi all, The second annual JiffyCon Boston is coming up in Cambridge, MA. It will be March 8th at Pandemonium, a game store in Central Square in Cambridge. Full details…
In Conventions
Participants: Nathan P..

3/1/2008 Ron Edwards: Grey Ranks as physically published
Hello, This is posted to provide Bully Pulpit Games with some feedback about the paper and general physical features of Grey Ranks. A couple of days ago, I moved in…
In Bully Pulpit Games
Participants: Ron Edwards, jasonm, segedy.

3/1/2008 lumpley: For Rafial: interesting play in Poison'd
Here's the conversation so far: Okay I had gotten as far as:  If the system is handing back results to the fiction, then if Dirty Pete…
In lumpley games
Participants: lumpley, rafial.

3/1/2008 fanflicks: [Power of 19] Trip : RPG about Addiction
Okay it's been awhile since my last visit but when i posted my initial idea i got a lot of good responses. So here we go. 1) What is your…
In First Thoughts
Participants: fanflicks, Axe4Eye, JoyWriter, Creatures of Destiny, davidberg.

2/29/2008 Tancred: [IAWA] Conflict questions/clarifications
I ran In a Wicked Age for the first time last week for 4 players and it worked very well I think. There were a couple of minor questions that…
In lumpley games
Participants: Tancred, lumpley.

2/29/2008 Emily Care: Under my Skin in playtest
Hi all, So, I said I was taking a break on the relationship games, but somehow I've got a host of games in active development and Under my Skin has…
In Black and Green Games
Participants: Emily Care, GreatWolf, Blankshield.

2/29/2008 Greymorn: [DitV] To the bitter end?
I'm re-reading the rules and hoping I can put a group of Dogs together to run my first full game. I ran into a confusing point. (This is hypothetical, I…
In lumpley games
Participants: Greymorn, lumpley.

2/28/2008 Vulpinoid: [8th Sea] Some thoughts about scene framing
I was reading through Peter Nordstrand's Scene Framing the Renaissance, and I hit apon an idea for kernels of this concept could be applied to…
In First Thoughts
Participants: Vulpinoid, wild_card2007.

2/28/2008 northerain: Horror Game Creators wanted
I've found out it's hard to talk about creating a horror game with other designers that aren't really familiar with the horror genre. The obvious solution is to discuss horror…
In Connections
Participants: northerain, StrongBadMun, lachek, rafael, MartiniPhilosopher.

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3/3/2008 Evil Eye Gameworks: World of Hammerhell Adventures
Hello all My name is Jeremy Harden, I created the Evil Eye Gameworks indie tabletop company for a game, called World of Hammerhell Adventures.  It's a departure from complex RPG…
In Playtesting
Participants: Evil Eye Gameworks.

3/3/2008 shadowcourt: [TSOY] Giant species design
So, this is part 3 of the whole "populating the cold southern reaches of Near" series. Hopefully, it'll provoke similar interest to the vulfen and dwarf threads which have been…
In CRN Games
Participants: shadowcourt, Troels, Eero Tuovinen, Rich F, oliof.

3/4/2008 Filip Luszczyk: [Panty Explosion] Explain me how to play this game
For quite a long time, the minimum number of people required to play Panty Explosion was a difficulty for me. Back in January, however, I finally managed to try the…
In Actual Play
Participants: Filip Luszczyk, Jake Richmond.

3/4/2008 The Black Dog: Power 19 for my "EPIC" role-playing game
1. What is your game about? Working on defining it 2. What do the characters do? Combating "evil", travel the world discovering new lands, etc. 3. What do the players…
In First Thoughts
Participants: The Black Dog, Eero Tuovinen, Axe4Eye, justin1083, JoyWriter, Troy_Costisick.

3/4/2008 JustinB: Printer Roundup, or Help Me The Forge, You're My Only Hope
So apparently Avalon may be imploding and no one bothered to tell me that this has been going on for 2 months or so now. Which means that the print…
In Publishing
Participants: JustinB, Ron Edwards, jasonm, Capulet, guildofblades, visioNationstudios.

3/4/2008 Galadrin: [Power of 19] 16-bit
1. What is your game about? Telling a classic, 16-bit style JRPG tale, complete with an epic, developing plot that draws the player deeper as he or she helps to…
In First Thoughts
Participants: Galadrin, justin1083, Catalyst N.

3/4/2008 Galadrin: RIP Gary Gygax
Thanks for the games, Gary. http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5g...oAGrAD8V6PDJ00
In Site Discussion
Participants: Galadrin, lachek, Ron Edwards.

3/4/2008 Ahrimanius: Question Custom Gun Stunt
One of my Players asked me about creating a Custom Gun(p.160) with Special Ammunition causing more stress then Normal Guns. Looking at the Dr.Blitzmann write up he uses a Gadget…
In Evilhat Productions
Participants: Ahrimanius, iago.

3/5/2008 sirelfinjedi: The End
Wow... this weekend we finished a two year campaign. It was wonderful! It was sad. Those characters were kinda like friends in a way, and I'm gonna miss them. Our…
In Actual Play
Participants: sirelfinjedi, contracycle.

3/5/2008 LeSingeSavant: [Agon] AGONY Supervillain Mod
I've run Agon as an opening game for the past two Camp Nerdly's, and I'd like to do it a third time. However, variety is the spice of life, and…
In one.seven design
Participants: LeSingeSavant, Ben Robbins, John Harper.

3/5/2008 lumpley: [Poison'd] Burning down Cartegena
This is about a problem with Poison'd that Ralph raised, here. I have zero interest in talking right now about how well the text communicates. I'm going to go back…
In lumpley games
Participants: lumpley, Valamir, demiurgeastaroth, Eero Tuovinen, Matt Snyder, Piers Brown, rafial.

3/5/2008 anders_larsen: Ideas for how to get better feedback in First Thought
I am not so active in First Thought anymore as I used to be, so I may not be the right person to be saying what I am about to…
In Site Discussion
Participants: anders_larsen, Valamir, Ron Edwards, Peter Nordstrand.

3/6/2008 David Artman: [ASCII @HACK] One-Shot Gear
I am developing a roguelike RPG simulator which balances somewhat-freeform character creation and situation generation against a die rank and success-counting system, with the aim of playing out any genre…
In First Thoughts
Participants: David Artman, Darcy Burgess, JoyWriter, Falc, dindenver.

3/6/2008 NickL: Candycreeps -- aesthetics and mechanics
Hi, everybody, I'm Nick, and I'm working up a game, tentatively entitled Candycreeps, that I'll publish through Green Fairy Games, the folks who do Fae Noir.  I've just now managed…
In First Thoughts
Participants: NickL, Darcy Burgess, Adrian F., joepub.

3/6/2008 Alan: [IaWA] War upon Arkadia
March 1, 2008 at the Wayward cafe in Seattle, we played <b>In a Wicked Age</b> for about 3 hours. Players, clockwise around the table, were Alan (me), John, Ken, Pete,…
In Actual Play
Participants: Alan, lumpley.

3/7/2008 Paka: Amazing Series of Sorcerer Threads on SG
Links below: Conflict Subtleties http://www.story-games.com/forums/comments.php?DiscussionID=5945&page=1#Item_15 Conflict & Inanimate Objects http://www.story-games.com/forums/comments.php?DiscussionID=5952&page=1#Item_0 Social Conflict http://www.story-games.com/forums/comments.php?DiscussionID=5950&page=1#Item_13 Sorcery as Conflict http://www.story-games.com/forums/comments.php?DiscussionID=5956&page=1#Item_1 System & Narrative http://www.story-games.com/forums/comments.php?DiscussionID=5955&page=1#Item_3
In Adept Press
Participants: Paka, Eliarhiman6, jburneko, Nev the Deranged, Ron Edwards, pfischer, Marshall Burns, Yokiboy, greyorm.

3/7/2008 etheruk: [Power of 19] High Stakes
HIGH STAKES 1.)What is your game about?** High stakes is a game about superheroes and the sacrifices they are willing to make to save the world. 2.) What do the…
In First Thoughts
Participants: etheruk, GeeX Underground, anders_larsen, danielsan, Creatures of Destiny.

3/7/2008 Marshall Burns: [SAN!] system changes, highlights: "Jimbo's Saga" "Fantastical Wizard of Frotz"
Okay, I haven't been posting about it, but we've been playing the HELL out of this game.  Seriously, I can barely pull my players away from it.  If I ask,…
In Playtesting
Participants: Marshall Burns, Ron Edwards.

3/7/2008 MKAdams: [Seattle Area] Call For Playtesters
Do you like supernatural horror?  Do you like paranormal investigations?  Are you a fan of Supernatural, The X-Files or Kolchak: The Night Stalker? Do you live in the greater Puget…
In Connections
Participants: MKAdams.

3/8/2008 Le Joueur: An Open Request for Help
Hi! You probably don't know me, but I used to moderate <a href="http://www.indie-rpgs.com/forum/index.php?board=22.0">this forum</a> here on the Forge.  I haven't poked my head in here for almost five years.  I…
In First Thoughts
Participants: Le Joueur.

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