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10/31/2008 visioNationstudios: A Largescale Cross-Posting Idea
I said I was going to split this into a new thread, and so I have.  One of the marketing ideas that came up multiple times during my search here…
In Publishing
Participants: visioNationstudios, Eero Tuovinen, David Artman.

10/31/2008 visioNationstudios: On Marketing
Last night I came here intending to ask a few questions about marketing.  But I decided to do some searching through the archives here to see what had already been…
In Publishing
Participants: visioNationstudios, iago, Ron Edwards, Pelgrane, jburneko, Cynthia Celeste Miller, Paraplegic Racehorse.

10/31/2008 Noon: Traits and the darkness that comes before
The title is a reference to the prince of nothing fantasy trilogy and in itself refers to discovering not what is happening now, but discovering what made 'now' exist to…
In Actual Play
Participants: Noon, Markus, Marshall Burns, Ron Edwards, LandonSuffered.

10/31/2008 chronoplasm: Random Dungeon Generating Mechanic
OK, so I'll give you a brief synopsis of my idea to give this whole thing context. I just thought up an idea for a game called Goblin Mountain. You…
In First Thoughts
Participants: chronoplasm, greyorm, Rauðbjørn.

10/30/2008 hatch22: Mental Conflict
Greetings all, I haven't posted in forever and lurked very seldom because being in a Ph. D. program has really kept me from having much time for the hobby.  That…
In First Thoughts
Participants: hatch22, chance.thirteen, DWeird, Tom Garnett, dindenver, soundmasterj, Guy Srinivasan.

10/30/2008 14thWarrior: [DitV] Crusaders of Tarscolis - a fantasy adaptation.
Let me first provide a brief introduction to the ideas that spawned this adaptation. I recently decided to use an idea from a thread at RPG.net about "the city build…
In lumpley games
Participants: 14thWarrior, ShallowThoughts, Pelgrane.

10/30/2008 Willow: Escape From Tentacle City- Now In Beta Testing!
Escape From Tentacle City was my entry for the 2008 Game Chef competition, which won the Golden Katana that Shoots Smaller Katanas Award.  It's a dark-comedy game of society's underclass…
In Connections
Participants: Willow, Ron Edwards.

10/29/2008 Paul T: [Solar] Complex Conflicts with Spam
Eero, I have a few quick questions! It's about complicated conflicts--i.e., with more than two sides. You write in your book to have everyone roll, and then basically go in…
In Arkenstone Publishing
Participants: Paul T, Eero Tuovinen.

10/29/2008 newsalor: Maracon XXI | Oulu, Finland | 14.-16.11.2008
The Oulu University Roleplaying Club - CRYO welcomes people interested in indie games, traditional roleplaying games and european boardgames to Maracon XXI in Oulu, Finland, on 14.-16.11.2008. The event is…
In Conventions
Participants: newsalor, Eero Tuovinen.

10/29/2008 Eero Tuovinen: [Poison'd] About action and choice
We had bit of an impromptu house convention last week here in Sonkajärvi, as all the university students got a period break at the same time and swarmed here. Among…
In Actual Play
Participants: Eero Tuovinen, lumpley, Graham Walmsley.

10/29/2008 Filip Luszczyk: [Yuuyake Koyake] Railroady Participationism & Game Economy
I intended to write and post this AP earlier, but here goes: At the beginning of September we played a game of Yuuyake Koyake, using the early version of the…
In Actual Play
Participants: Filip Luszczyk, Andy Kitkowski.

10/29/2008 hoefer: PentaCon Fort Wayne, IN
Anyone going to PentaCon next weekend?  I'm running the Century's Edge demo I did for GenCon there, and wanted to know if anyone else would be there from this forum. …
In Conventions
Participants: hoefer.

10/29/2008 Tom Garnett: Story-structure led game idea (GNS wrangling)
Hello, I'm new here (although I've lurked on and off for ages). Brief bio: Long-time gamer, occasional GM, LARPer, and organiser thereof. Most of my play experience is non-WoD White…
In First Thoughts
Participants: Tom Garnett, Eero Tuovinen.

10/29/2008 Darcy Burgess: [My Life with Master] Beating the Love out of a Minion
So, we kicked off our new MLwM game on Monday night.  We've got a nifty Master.  He's an enormous lump of a man, with sausages for fingers and a penchant…
In Actual Play
Participants: Darcy Burgess, Eero Tuovinen, Artanis.

10/29/2008 gsoylent: [3:16] Way Too Easy Or Just Got the Rules Wrong?
Ran my first game of 3:16.  There were two players besides me, none of us had played this game before and only I had read the rules. My planet involved…
In Actual Play
Participants: gsoylent, pfischer, Ron Edwards, Gregor Hutton, Wolfen.

10/29/2008 davidberg: renaming The Rustbelt?
Most of my inspirations run along the lines of "setting's impact on the characters" and derive from the original title: Rusted Out Rusted Away The Rusted Rusted Lives Rusted Fates…
In Beyond the Wire Productions
Participants: davidberg, Marshall Burns, Everspinner, DWeird, Wolfen, agony, Peter Nordstrand, Eero Tuovinen, Krippler, Valamir, Ron Edwards.

10/28/2008 Ron Edwards: [L5R, The Pool, and others] A new look at Drift
Hello, I've chosen to begin a new thread using one of Markus' final posts in Can someone explain the true reason behind "traits" (PTA-style) to me? as the starting point.…
In Actual Play
Participants: Ron Edwards, Simon C, Noon, Tim C Koppang, jag, Artanis.

10/28/2008 Willow: Layout for Dummies?
If you've read Awesome Adventures, you may have noticed that it's not the most beautifully laid out book.  That's because I laid it out myself, using Open Office. So, I'm…
In Publishing
Participants: Willow, iago, lev_lafayette, jerry, Ben Lehman, Gregor Hutton.

10/28/2008 Paul T: Three-sided stakes are hurting my head ... [design help]
Hello, I'm posting here in hopes of receiving some help with a design problem I'm facing. I designed and wrote a game I feel quite happy with (although I have…
In First Thoughts
Participants: Paul T, anders_larsen, Eero Tuovinen, monkey, Vulpinoid, Tom Garnett, Guy Srinivasan, lumpley, Ron Edwards.

10/28/2008 John Blaz: Fear/ Sanity system for a Survival Horror game
I'm looking for a fear system to implement into my modern day survival horror system. The main premise involves creatures from other dimensions appearing in our world, and the players…
In First Thoughts
Participants: John Blaz, anders_larsen, Sentience.

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10/31/2008 visioNationstudios: [dLITE] Power 19, First Draft
Allow me to preface this Power 19 list with a note that this game is primarily intended for play over the internet, via chat-based systems such as OpenRPG.  Also, it…
In First Thoughts
Participants: visioNationstudios, Vulpinoid.

11/1/2008 jmhpfan: MACE Nov. 7-9 2008
I am going to be at MACE down in Highpoint, NC in a few weekends and I will be running a Dogs game and a BW game.  I was just…
In Conventions
Participants: jmhpfan.

11/1/2008 soundmasterj: [Otherknight] Conflict in Conflict, I don´t know what to do
A while ago, I wrote this game and I finally came around to playing it for the first time. Since the Forge helped me immensly in peparing the first drafts…
In Playtesting
Participants: soundmasterj, Adrian F., Artanis, Ron Edwards, Valamir.

11/2/2008 Darcy Burgess: [Go-Play Ottawa] - November 8
We're baaaaaaack... We had a riotous good time during the summer, so GPO is back for its second installment. We're looking for more folks willing to run games!  We've got…
In Conventions
Participants: Darcy Burgess, Ned.

11/2/2008 EvilCat: Are there any Universalis gaming communities online?
I got to know this wonderful system during an RPG event in my city, but currently I reside in other, smaller town with no RPG community. Suffice to say, I…
In Universalis
Participants: EvilCat, Lord Goon, Trevis Martin.

11/2/2008 James_Nostack: Reading Suggestions for Humanity = Hope for the Future
After a many month hiatus, our gang is gearing up to run Sorcerer again, using Dictionary of Mu.  I'm keen to try some of the Humanity-focused stuff from Sorcerer's Soul,…
In Adept Press
Participants: James_Nostack, Ron Edwards.

11/3/2008 GregStolze: [3:16] Planet Bosch: Stop Picking At It
I'd been eager to try out 3:16 Carnage Among the Stars, and when we had an unexpected GM-less session, I whipped up Planet Bosch and threw the players into it.…
In Actual Play
Participants: GregStolze, Eero Tuovinen, LandonSuffered, Wolfen, Ron Edwards.

11/3/2008 preludetotheend: Gaming store models
 Hello folks so I have my thread on http://www.indie-rpgs.com/forum/index.php?action=post;board=12.0 in regards to intellectual property purchasing, but I also have a business model for development that I am looking to get…
In Publishing
Participants: preludetotheend, Eero Tuovinen, jag, David Artman, Paul Czege, Wolfen, Ron Edwards, guildofblades.

11/3/2008 decline: how to do very large combats/wars?
several times when running a game i've found the pc's getting into some very large combats of potentially hundreds/thousands of people.  in other words, they are in the midst of…
In First Thoughts
Participants: decline, Eero Tuovinen, David C, chance.thirteen, Nath.

11/3/2008 David C: Mechanic for advancing the game's calender
I have a mechanic that advances the calender of a game.  In many games, I became annoyed that (using a fantasy setting) we went from common farmers to slaying dragons…
In First Thoughts
Participants: David C, Eero Tuovinen, Nath, walruz, Levyathyn.

11/3/2008 David C: Pretty easy request - Bookmark/Tab icon
There is an icon associated with many web pages that appears next to a bookmark or a tab.  I would appreciate it if you guys added this for the forge,…
In Site Discussion
Participants: David C, Eero Tuovinen, lumpley, soundmasterj, jag, Miskatonic.

11/3/2008 David C: The Power 19 cheat sheet?
I was writing my power 19 and I started encountering questions that definitely got me thinking about things. To begin, I need to provide you some background on my game…
In First Thoughts
Participants: David C, soundmasterj, Eero Tuovinen, dindenver, Peter Nordstrand.

11/3/2008 Peter Nordstrand: [While We Were Fighting]Playtesting With Strangers
I've done a number of playtests with strangers, people at conventions that ended up playing my game without really knowing anything about it. I've discovered a few things that seem…
In Playtesting
Participants: Peter Nordstrand, Ron Edwards, Altaem.

11/3/2008 vgunn: Resource Management / d6 Pool system -- I need some help in developing
Okay, here are my first thoughts. Please feel free to make suggestions, I am not married to anything at this point. My intitial desire is to create a d6 die…
In First Thoughts
Participants: vgunn, Tom Garnett.

11/3/2008 Willow: Escape From Tentacle City- Halloween in Tentacle City
Last week I played a game of Escape From Tentacle City, using the new set of rules and tweaks to the mechanics.  I found it played pretty well, but I…
In Playtesting
Participants: Willow, Ron Edwards, davidberg.

11/3/2008 Bret Gillan: [The Final Girl] Scenes and Endgame
I ran my first playtest of The Final Girl, my "pick them off one by one" horror movie game with Judd (of Paka fame), my college buddy Chris, and my…
In Playtesting
Participants: Bret Gillan, Ron Edwards, Paul Czege, Jonathan Walton, jasonm.

11/3/2008 DWeird: [Rustbelt] Changing setting
Split off from this thread here, as requested: http://www.indie-rpgs.com/forum/index.php?topic=26919.0 (though I *am* having some troubles with the complete lack of tidbits…
In Beyond the Wire Productions
Participants: DWeird, Marshall Burns, Wolfen.

11/3/2008 Cynthia Celeste Miller: Printer-Friendly PDF?
How does one go about making a printer-friendly version of an existing PDF product? This may sound like a rather silly question, considering that I've been involved with PDF publishing…
In Publishing
Participants: Cynthia Celeste Miller, Vulpinoid, iago, btrc.

11/3/2008 lumpley: Have we already reached everyone?
Here's Jesse from another thread: ...what I've observed is a general attitude that "everyone who can be reached, has been reached."  ...just last con I ran…
In Publishing
Participants: lumpley, preludetotheend, Cynthia Celeste Miller, iago, Pelgrane, Jake Richmond, greyorm, guildofblades, Valamir, jburneko, eyebeams, Ron Edwards.

11/4/2008 Dementia Games: Fear Mechanics
I'm working on a game I've already posted about here and ran into a problem before getting to playtest mode.  It uses accumulated stress (Mental Trauma) which is rolled against…
In First Thoughts
Participants: Dementia Games, Eero Tuovinen, David C.

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