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2/12/2009 Sergon: the old world
One of the premises of my old west game is that the people who immigrated to America have been followed by the creatures that roam their native land. how would…
In First Thoughts
Participants: Sergon, chronoplasm, Bert.

2/12/2009 Wordman: Building (and gaming in) worlds that have infinite resources
This post takes a bit of time to get to the point. It will start using D&D as an example, but is really a post about world-building, not the specifics…
In First Thoughts
Participants: Wordman, Patrice, chronoplasm, Bert, Vulpinoid, Krippler, JoyWriter, Luke, Everspinner, Hasimir0.

2/12/2009 mcv: Establishing Premise in Serenity RPG
This thread is the next step in my quest to understand Story Now and how to give it to a new player who doesn't like Simulationism. It continues from What's…
In Actual Play
Participants: mcv, lumpley, FredGarber, Noon, JB, Marshall Burns, sirogit, Trevis Martin, greyorm, Christopher Kubasik, Dr_Pete, Caldis.

2/12/2009 Chronologist: Card RPG game: Fall of Heroes
First of all, I'm kinda new to this, so if the game seems like it's less role-play and more TCG-based, don't hesitate to tell me. I'm trying to build a…
In First Thoughts
Participants: Chronologist, greyorm, Vulpinoid, Paraplegic Racehorse.

2/12/2009 mjbauer: Power 19: Genesys (the NRPRG?)
I think I've finally given up trying to hide the fact that I'm a power gamer. This is an honest look at the game I'm working on. It's called Genesys,…
In First Thoughts
Participants: mjbauer, ShallowThoughts, Amadeo.

2/12/2009 Bert: making armour tell stories
I’m mucking around on an action/consequence system for my current project. Consequences are managed using a sort of omni-pseudo-hit-point system (?!?) called Agency Points. Agency Points reflect how big a…
In First Thoughts
Participants: Bert, Noon, greyorm, David C, Vulpinoid.

2/11/2009 Calithena: Announcing the Erol Otus Art Challenge!
[img]http://www.otherworld.me.uk/images/shared/omlogo.jpg[/img] and [IMG]http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d164/Calithena/greenlogo.png[/img] present the [IMG]http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d164/Calithena/eo3a.png[/img] [size=7][color=Maroon]Art Challenge![/color][/size] Judged by Erol Otus and shown in the pages of [i]Fight On![/i] All artists are invited to submit a picture on one…
In Endeavor
Participants: Calithena, Ron Edwards, greyorm, MacLeod, GozerTC.

2/11/2009 Bret Gillan: [Apocalypse World]Setting and Characters
Me, Ellen, Bob, and Chris did Apocalypse World prep. Ellen's my girlfriend. She's done enough gaming so that it's not new and strange and foreign but she's not a scarred…
In Playtesting
Participants: Bret Gillan, lumpley, Paka, Everspinner.

2/11/2009 Frank Tarcikowski: [Liquid] Well, I just rolled the dice for show
Every once in a while I think back to this game I played in in 2004. At the time, everybody was talking about “cinematic” role-playing, where, at last, you got…
In Actual Play
Participants: Frank Tarcikowski, Noon, oliof, Paul Czege, lumpley, Peter Nordstrand, gsoylent, Christopher Kubasik, Valamir, JoyWriter, Silmenume.

2/11/2009 Vulpinoid: Twin games interlinked.
Never being one to shy away from a challenge, I have come up with a concept. I don't know if it's been done before, but I haven't encountered it on…
In First Thoughts
Participants: Vulpinoid, David C, GregStolze, whiteknife, Ron Edwards, JoyWriter.

2/11/2009 Courage75: [Solar System] Developing Territory for Werewolf
Sorry to bombard you all with posts, but I am having difficulty coming up with additional crunch for my Werewolf: the Forsaken game which I am running with Solar System…
In Arkenstone Publishing
Participants: Courage75, Eero Tuovinen, dindenver, chance.thirteen, oliof, JoyWriter.

2/11/2009 Sergon: character creation
   In my old west game the players roll percentile dice to obtain their scores in the following six attributes; Strength, Agility, Stamina, Intellect, Wisdom, Personality. Players roll 12x and…
In First Thoughts
Participants: Sergon, whiteknife, Vulpinoid, chance.thirteen.

2/10/2009 Courage75: [Solar System] Check-Determined Narrative Authority
I really like the Privilege mechanics from John Wick's Houses of the Blooded and I am thinking of using them in the Solar System when narrating the outcome of non-extended…
In Arkenstone Publishing
Participants: Courage75, Eero Tuovinen, dindenver.

2/10/2009 Marshall Burns: [3:16] one player play
Yesterday, I GMed some 3:16 for my cousin James.  We were actually slated to play some Dread, but the GM (Steven, from all of my previous APs) was sick.  James…
In Actual Play
Participants: Marshall Burns, ShallowThoughts, Gregor Hutton.

2/10/2009 Ron Edwards: [3:16] Home is for the hating
Hello, For previous threads, see Way Too Easy Or Just Got the Rules Wrong? and Semi-Captain, Lt.-Captain, almost-Captain on deck, sir! A few weeks ago, we played a…
In Actual Play
Participants: Ron Edwards, agony, GreatWolf, Noon, Gregor Hutton.

2/10/2009 mcv: What's narrativist about Zero RPG?
Hi, Short introduction: I'm new here, and I came to the Forge because a new player in our group (well, he's been with us for over a year, but the…
In Actual Play
Participants: mcv, Ron Edwards, pfischer, Marshall Burns, Greymorn, lumpley, FredGarber, greyorm, JB.

2/10/2009 chronoplasm: Brainstorming a System
I had a power 19 for this game I'm working on someplace... but I seem to have misplaced it. Anyway, I'm trying to make a gamist miniatues game where players…
In First Thoughts
Participants: chronoplasm, David C.

2/10/2009 northerain: Buy my art for your game!
Hopefuly you know who I am and what I do. If you don't, check out my portfolio: www.ravenkult.com I'm in dire need of cash, so I figured I'd sell some…
In Connections
Participants: northerain, iago.

2/9/2009 btrc: Keeping combat from dragging
Keeping ten seconds of combat from taking an hour or more of play time has been the bane of most simulationist rpgs. I had a recent brainstorm I'd like to…
In First Thoughts
Participants: btrc, Paul Czege, Noon, Bert, jerry, Hereward The Wake, Chronologist.

2/9/2009 punkbohemian: a card game within an rpg?
So, I've been thinking about how to deal with a resolution for a gambling skill. What I thought would be interesting is if resolution could occur, rather than with a…
In First Thoughts
Participants: punkbohemian, David C, whiteknife, chronoplasm.

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2/13/2009 Daniele: Universal Battle System - Taleworld Edition overview
Hello everyone, I'm new to this virtual space, so I hope I'll not break any rule. I also apologize for any grammatical error I may do, because I'm not English.…
In First Thoughts
Participants: Daniele.

2/13/2009 MJGraham: [Defiance] Bringing out the worst in all of us.
his actual play report is for a game that is not yet released. Please feel free to disregard this thread if you have no interested in pre-published games. The actual…
In Playtesting
Participants: MJGraham.

2/13/2009 Nathan: Contact Info for Key20
Hey folks, I noticed that Key20's website is down with a "We are closed." message. Has anyone heard word on this? All my emails have been bounced back recently that…
In Publishing
Participants: Nathan, iago, Ron Edwards, visioNationstudios.

2/14/2009 Mantisking: [Mechaton] New Lego Microfigs
Lego is supposed to be releasing some boardgames in the near future.  One of the parts for the game is something that looks like a microfig.  Take a look at…
In lumpley games
Participants: Mantisking, Zeek, lumpley.

2/15/2009 BrunoDeLaBomba: take a sec and check!
hello everybody. i have some ideas that i could need some objective criticism on. 1st idea that i got a while ago was to make a game about people that's…
In First Thoughts
Participants: BrunoDeLaBomba, Noon, Vulpinoid.

2/15/2009 Guy Srinivasan: Game Flow - what you do when
Mike, Robin, Eric, Thomas and I played our first session of Capes a few days ago. We started out fine, playing the first Scene with Capes Light, but near the…
In Muse of Fire Games
Participants: Guy Srinivasan, 5niper9.

2/15/2009 Everspinner: [AW] Apocalypse Finland - Fronts
Warning - This one turned out to be very long, and might need to be split into two posts, one for each Front. Comments and guidance on the actual content…
In Playtesting
Participants: Everspinner, lumpley.

2/16/2009 vgunn: I need some help in condensing qualities -- some feedback please
I need to condense down some of the qualities from Hither lands. But I do not want to go too rules light. A problem I have is that all Silvan…
In First Thoughts
Participants: vgunn, Vulpinoid, Paul Czege, Darcy Burgess.

2/16/2009 GreatWolf: [Go Play Peoria] 2009 schedule
For those of you who don't know, I coordinate a minicon in the Peoria, IL area that we call Go Play Peoria. We're essentially set up as an extended game…
In Conventions
Participants: GreatWolf, Nev the Deranged, Heraldic Game Design, Valamir.

2/16/2009 Bert: Magic and Ethics
I'm working on a magic system and I want magic to have an ethical component. This is intended to impose a great sense of personal responsibility on those who wield…
In First Thoughts
Participants: Bert, Noon, Sergon, dindenver, Ken, Vulpinoid, Finarvyn, contracycle, DWeird, Chronologist, preludetotheend, otspiii, scarik.

2/17/2009 jburneko: [Dirty Secrets] How I Accidentally Playtested Dirty Cities.
Hello, So this weekend at OrcCon I played a very awesome but highly unusual Dirty Secrets game.  It was my intension to experiment with recording all my sessions this con…
In Actual Play
Participants: jburneko, GreatWolf.

2/17/2009 ODDin: Project Dreamland - a game of conspiracy
Just had this though half an hour ago, so it's extremely raw. The idea is a game of dark but somewhat pulpish conspiracy. Setting: there exists Project Dreamland. This fact…
In First Thoughts
Participants: ODDin, whiteknife, Abkajud.

2/17/2009 xechnao: rpg theory
Hi! I have not posted over here for a long time -not that my posts were anything relatively important really- but I felt revisiting the "particular" wisdom of this place,…
In Actual Play
Participants: xechnao, CKNIGHT, Ron Edwards, mjbauer, Vulpinoid, mcv, Patrice, Noon, abzu.

2/17/2009 preludetotheend: GaC (Gears and Cogs: dice pool questions)
  Hello folks as some know I am currently (slowly) scraping together a mini supplement for sorcerer but I also have my own system I am working on, and have…
In First Thoughts
Participants: preludetotheend, Vulpinoid, JoyWriter.

2/17/2009 punkbohemian: spatial relations in non-miniatures systems
My current design was going to go all out with miniatures and battlemaps, but I recently started considering doing without it, for a variety of reasons. When I started to…
In First Thoughts
Participants: punkbohemian, Vulpinoid, xechnao, thadrine, contracycle, Megoru, Mike Sugarbaker, davidberg.

2/17/2009 tzirtzi: Shakespearean Comedy RPG
Hello! :) This is my first attempt at designing an RPG from scratch, though I've been playing role playing for a good number of years. I've drawn shamelessly from other…
In First Thoughts
Participants: tzirtzi, Vulpinoid, Noon.

2/17/2009 Klaus Graziade: Setting Perfectionism
[Before I get started, I need to offer a proverbial "throat clearing" (at least that's what we Creative Writing MFAs call it).  Anyway, what I need to get out in…
In First Thoughts
Participants: Klaus Graziade, David C, Paul Czege, Amadeo, ArchSteve, ShallowThoughts, Luke, JoyWriter.

2/17/2009 Amadeo: Power 19 for Biohazard Dawn
1.) What is your game about?** In Biohazard Dawn you play as a group of survivors trying to eke out an existence in a dystopian future where the dead walk…
In First Thoughts
Participants: Amadeo, mjbauer, Abkajud.

2/18/2009 StrongBadMun: Indie Games for my Store
Hey folks, I know some of you probably know me from my postings about Ember and if you don't then you'll know me soon from all my upcoming projects but…
In Connections
Participants: StrongBadMun, iago, SaintandSinner, Eliarhiman6.

2/18/2009 eraofthefallen: New FRPG Codename Era of the Fallen Seeking Playtesters
A new FRPG called 'Codename: Era of the Fallen' is now seeking playtesters.  It emphasizes narrative storytelling, allowing for deeply immersive roleplaying, and encourages a different sort of play style…
In Connections
Participants: eraofthefallen.

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