Previous Topics 7/14/2002 Ring Kichard: Forge Archive Discussion My Forge Archive Plan is available. If you have any questions, comments, criticisms, or concerns about the plan in general, this would be the place to talk about them.… In Site Discussion Participants: Ring Kichard, Ron Edwards, Clinton R. Nixon.
7/14/2002 Ring Kichard: The Forge Archive In the threads on the archive, Ron and Clinton made it pretty clear they didn't have time to do the project themselves.
So here is the plan,
1. I'll manually… In Site Discussion Participants: Ring Kichard.
7/14/2002 Ron Edwards: Druine, Dunnar, and Half-dead Hi there,
I was looking through the Fantasy Heartbreaker games again, comparing various features of Deathstalkers. Deathstalkers has been released this year in hardback form (called "second edition" by the… In RPG Theory Participants: Ron Edwards, hardcoremoose, Walt Freitag, Clinton R. Nixon, Jack Spencer Jr, simondale, damion, J B Bell, amiel, Paul Czege, contracycle, Mytholder, Valamir, Matt Gwinn, Le Joueur, joshua neff, Mike Holmes, jburneko, Paganini, Jared A. Sorensen, Gordon C. Landis, greyorm, Tim Denee, xiombarg, hive, Jesse Paulsen, RobMuadib, TSL.
7/13/2002 Rod Anderson: Parasite Communication Hi,
I'm starting a Sorcerer & Sword campaign in which the PCs are Sorcerer-Kings in a Moorcock-esque world of purple skies, jagged black peaks and dangerous beasts in the mix-n-match-animal-parts… In Adept Press Participants: Rod Anderson, Ron Edwards, Jason L Blair, Uncle Dark, Mike Holmes.
7/13/2002 Jared A. Sorensen: BisbeeCon Just played some games (!) at BisbeeCon III (a friend's annual apartment convention). Here's the scoop:
I played InSpectres! Finally. :) I played Gus, the janitor in the building where… In Actual Play Participants: Jared A. Sorensen, Ron Edwards, Buddha Nature, Jürgen Mayer.
7/13/2002 Jaif: Official First Edition Errata? I've got the sorcery section rewrite, and the updated beat & stop short manuevers. Now that the second edition's coming out, is there any other errata?
-Jeff In The Riddle of Steel Participants: Jaif, Jake Norwood.
7/13/2002 Tim Denee: Small World Are the insects full-on anthropomorphic, full-on insects, or somewhere in between (like, say, Antz or A Bug's Life)? Or is it a case of "whatever works for you; it's your… In Memento-Mori Theatricks Participants: Tim Denee, Jared A. Sorensen.
7/13/2002 deidzoeb: Prepare To Be Boarded! [url=http://evilbobdayjob.tripod.com/boarded]Prepare To Be Boarded![/url] is a game of message board combat. Slightly more organized and civilized than outright trolling, PTBB should look to oblivious observers like a reasoned debate between… In Indie Game Design Participants: deidzoeb, Mike Holmes, Ring Kichard, damion, Uncle Dark, Ron Edwards, Valamir, xiombarg, greyorm.
7/12/2002 Zak Arntson: MonkeyWrench Con Edition - Harlekin-Maus Game Okay, I've totally revamped MonkeyWrench for convention play. Feel free to print up and photocopy and give away:
http://www.harlekin-maus.com/cons/monkeywrench_con.html
Looking at the original MonkeyWrench, here's what I found lacking and… In Indie Game Design Participants: Zak Arntson, Andrew Martin, Ron Edwards.
7/12/2002 Zak Arntson: MonkeyWrench - Convention Edition Not sure where to post this. It's kind of an experiment.
I'm toying with a "Convention Edition" flier for publicity: A fully playable game that fits on one piece of… In Publishing Participants: Zak Arntson, Ben Morgan.
7/12/2002 Wolfen: Simultaneous Offense Hey all, a question just hit me...
First off, it was inspired by a memory of a florentine SCA fighter I once observed in action. It was in an encounter-style… In The Riddle of Steel Participants: Wolfen, Jake Norwood.
7/12/2002 hive: Two Weeks I'm going to be having a couple of weeks off from the company job and looking to take up some freelance work. Naturally, i'm most interested in doing indie work… In Connections Participants: hive, Matt, Matt Snyder, Mike Holmes, Ron Edwards, Clinton R. Nixon, talespinnerstudios.
7/12/2002 Ron Edwards: The Marquis, plus Angel Rant I ran across this great comic at the local store:
The Marquis: Danse Macabre
by Guy Davis, published by Oni Comics
It's currently in graphic novel format and it's so,… In Adept Press Participants: Ron Edwards, jburneko.
7/12/2002 Ron Edwards: In Utero So I'm building a vile little scenario that I think might be interesting.
Demon A is a fetus, a Parasite hosted in the body of its master - a pregnant… In Adept Press Participants: Ron Edwards, Jake Norwood, Bailywolf, Mike Holmes, rafael, Zak Arntson, Blake Hutchins, Stuart DJ Purdie, jrs, Gordon C. Landis, J B Bell, Solomon, Walt Freitag.
7/12/2002 Jaif: Magic system suggestions Given the recent speed-of-light, er, "discussion", I've been thinking along the following lines...
Outside of the level of vagaries used, the game system increases difficulties and places limits in the… In The Riddle of Steel Participants: Jaif, Jake Norwood.
7/11/2002 Jason L Blair: GU, Forbeck, and Independent Games Excerpt from "State of the Gaming Industry 2002" by Matt Forbeck.
From Games Unplugged Issue 17 (June 2002).
The Real Independents
I'm not denigrating the independents for their efforts. For… In Publishing Participants: Jason L Blair, Jürgen Mayer, Valamir, Ron Edwards.
7/11/2002 amiel: Use of Blackjack as Mechanic Could one of you statistics (the science not the RP term) junkies out there do some breakdowns on odds as they pertain to the popular game of Blackjack.
Yes, I'm… In RPG Theory Participants: amiel, Matt Snyder, Jared A. Sorensen, Ron Edwards, Ring Kichard, Jack Spencer Jr, Mike Holmes, damion, Mighty Platypus.
7/11/2002 jjkahrs: Where can I find TRoS? I'm intrigued, but I was wondering where I could find a copy of The Riddle of Steel? In The Riddle of Steel Participants: jjkahrs, Jake Norwood, Rattlehead, Lyrax.
7/11/2002 Matt Snyder: Dust Devils storm a brewin' Ok, folks, GenCon is almost here. I'm up to my neck in freelance design, with Universalis and octaNe up to bat next. Just finished Trollbable, and Ron's going over revisions… In Chimera Creative Participants: Matt Snyder, Jared A. Sorensen, Ron Edwards, Paul Czege, Valamir, Mike Holmes, TSL, Jason L Blair, Clay, Jürgen Mayer, James.
7/11/2002 jrients: How do you promote? Howdy folks! I'm a newbie here at the Forge, so please try to go easy on me. The Resource Library at the Forge has led me to a… In Publishing Participants: jrients, Jared A. Sorensen, Ron Edwards.
<< more previous topics | | Subsequent Topics 7/15/2002 Michael Hopcroft: Due to circumstances beyond my control.... .... I might as well crawl into a hole and detonate the nearest hand-grenade.
I got home from origins (after three days on the bus in nightmaring conditions) only to… In Publishing Participants: Michael Hopcroft, Clinton R. Nixon, Ron Edwards, Mike Holmes, Clay, Jason L Blair.
7/15/2002 Clinton R. Nixon: This morning's slowness I'm not sure what's up this morning, but the database is running very slow. I'm talking with customer service as I type this, so we should be back to normal… In Site Discussion Participants: Clinton R. Nixon.
7/15/2002 Clinton R. Nixon: RPGevolution Proposal This is the same proposal I've e-mailed you, preserved here for reference.
RPGevolution: A Proposal
I, Clinton R. Nixon, am interested in restarting the web-based independent magazine I started in… In RPGevolution Contributors Participants: Clinton R. Nixon.
7/15/2002 Clay: Lilo & Stitch as Sorcerer We took the kids to see Lilo and Stitch yesterday, and after laughing my posterior off for the entire length of the movie, it occurred to me that this was… In Adept Press Participants: Clay, Ron Edwards, hardcoremoose.
7/15/2002 Clinton R. Nixon: Inactive Forums As you can well see, I've created a new forum category (Inactive Forums) and placed two forums there.
- Wicked Press has been moved there due to John Wick, the… In Site Discussion Participants: Clinton R. Nixon, Ron Edwards, greyorm, Blake Hutchins, James, Matt Snyder, xiombarg, contracycle.
7/15/2002 Ron Edwards: GenCon plans? Hi there,
What's the plan for GenCon? Are we still on for selling copies of The Questing Beast? If so, some fees have to be discussed, as per the GenCon… In Random Order Creations Participants: Ron Edwards, Mike Holmes, James V. West.
7/15/2002 Ron Edwards: update? Hi Seth,
I'd very, very much like to see a Quickstart Alyria ready for GenCon, even in the basic form that they're already in. Right now, I'm constrained from using… In Dark Omen Games Participants: Ron Edwards, GreatWolf.
7/15/2002 GreatWolf: Playtest begins anew Last Saturday, Ralph (Valamir) joined myself, my wife, and my sister to set up an Alyria storymap. Play is scheduled for next Saturday. I'll be sure to write up brief… In Dark Omen Games Participants: GreatWolf, Jürgen Mayer, Mike Holmes.
7/15/2002 Clinton R. Nixon: Schedule for first magazine I'm thinking of doing the first issue on an accelerated schedule - September 1st would be the deadline for articles, and I'd publish (hopefully) on September 15th.
After that, deadlines… In RPGevolution Contributors Participants: Clinton R. Nixon, Jake Norwood.
7/15/2002 Jake Norwood: Permission to write articles for diverse games Clinton asked me if I'd let folks write and Publish TROS articles for RPGE, and I said yes. Who else is hopping in on that? Who's going to let their… In RPGevolution Contributors Participants: Jake Norwood, Jason L Blair, Matt Snyder, Clinton R. Nixon, Mike Holmes.
7/15/2002 Jake Norwood: Use of Articles after Publication Would it be possible to use articles from RPGE on our various websites as free downloads a few weeks/months after their initial publicaiton?
jake In RPGevolution Contributors Participants: Jake Norwood, Clinton R. Nixon.
7/15/2002 Clinton R. Nixon: Types of articles I'm looking for After this first issue, I'm going to have an open call for submissions. For the first issue, though, I'm going to keep it amongst invited contributors, and perhaps people you… In RPGevolution Contributors Participants: Clinton R. Nixon.
7/16/2002 Clinton R. Nixon: RPGevolution website I've started work on the RPGevolution website. I'll let everyone know when it's ready to check out all the features, but the start's up at http://www.indie-rpgs.com/rpge/.
- Clinton In RPGevolution Contributors Participants: Clinton R. Nixon, Jason L Blair, Jared A. Sorensen.
7/16/2002 Comte: hand me downs Good morning everybody I noticed that there hasn't been much activity on this bord lately, so I figured I'd throw up two or three posts about this or that just… In Key 20 Publishing Participants: Comte, Ron Edwards, Jason L Blair, Grave Boy 13.
7/16/2002 Comte: the fallen Here is an idea that I have been kicking around for awhile, and meaning to put on this list but I never seem to get around to it, untill now.… In Key 20 Publishing Participants: Comte, Ron Edwards.
7/16/2002 Zak Arntson: Chthonian - Indie Gaming Monday (7/15) Okay, after some Dreamcast Bomberman and general BSing, we got down to business and finished up the middle act of the Chthonian adventure. You can read the first session here.… In Actual Play Participants: Zak Arntson, Ron Edwards, Mike Holmes, rabidchyld.
7/16/2002 Michael Hopcroft: How committed is committed? IN the back of the HeartQuest book I had an ad for the next game Seraphim Guard was planning to publish, Fuzz: the Furry Police RPG. IT's a nice-looking ad… In Publishing Participants: Michael Hopcroft, Ron Edwards, rafael, Valamir, Gordon C. Landis.
7/16/2002 Ben Morgan: Just started Orkworld game last week It kinda sucks that John Wick has gone MIA recently. I just started a new game of Orkworld last saturday. There were four players, the same four as the Elfs… In Actual Play Participants: Ben Morgan, Valamir, Ron Edwards, Demonspahn.
7/16/2002 Michael Hopcroft: I'll be at the GPA Booth, but.... I'd like some advice on suitable activities to run at my booth to promote my game.
I"m scheduled to run two full demos in the veent hall -- one of… In Publishing Participants: Michael Hopcroft, Ron Edwards, Misguided Games, Valamir, Jake Norwood.
7/16/2002 contracycle: treason by the book Well, I'm not entirely sure about the appropriateness of this post, but I've come across a marvellous book for historically interested gamers. I'm not sure it is actually RPG theory,… In RPG Theory Participants: contracycle, Ron Edwards.
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