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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.

2/17/2009 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.

2/17/2009 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 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 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 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 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 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 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.

2/16/2009 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.

2/16/2009 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 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.

2/15/2009 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.

2/15/2009 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 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.

2/14/2009 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.

2/13/2009 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.

2/13/2009 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 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.

2/12/2009 chronoplasm: Armies: Zombies vs. Aliens vs. Super Heroes
OK, so let's say that there are six different armies fighting against each other. The battle takes place in a heavily populated urban environment. Thousands of civilians can get caught…
In First Thoughts
Participants: chronoplasm, Daniele, Ken, David C, whiteknife.

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2/18/2009 krzyzewski99: Mythweaver 2nd Edition Play Results
[b][u]Mythweaver: The Splintered Realms Second Edition Game Report for 02-13-09[/u][/b] This narrative highlights several important gaming experiences had while playing the newest edition (2008) of Teddy Bear Press’ Mythweaver product. …
In Actual Play
Participants: krzyzewski99.

2/18/2009 Joe Murphy (Broin): [DitV] NPCs can escalate, right?
Following the thread on escalation in Poison'd, I wondered if NPCs can escalate at all in Dogs? I can't see this in the rulebook, and I wondered if the GM's…
In lumpley games
Participants: Joe Murphy (Broin), lumpley.

2/18/2009 one_monkey: First Post Uncertainty
Hi, I wanted to invite anyone reading in the vicinity of Nottingham UK to participate in the test of a new RPG which is not just new in terms of…
In Site Discussion
Participants: one_monkey, Ron Edwards.

2/18/2009 Bret Gillan: [Apocalypse World] First Session - Introducing Kartak and Rabbit
We played our first session Apocalypse World last night. Judd has backed out to pay attention to schoolwork and Chris couldn't make it because he had to take his girlfriend…
In Playtesting
Participants: Bret Gillan, lumpley.

2/19/2009 Graham Walmsley: [Apocalypse World] What's wrong with this and how might I fix it?
Second session, tonight, with changes in the group: Steve, the hardholder, and Wai Kien, the hocus, couldn't make it. Replacing them we got Adrian, a driver, and Sean, a savvyhead.…
In Playtesting
Participants: Graham Walmsley, Dionysus, lumpley.

2/19/2009 Filip Luszczyk: [DitV] The text
In the other thread Joe Murphy wrote: I didn't think it was clear, no. Because the text is so genial and conversational, and refers to 'you' all the time. As…
In lumpley games
Participants: Filip Luszczyk, 5niper9, lumpley, Axhead.

2/19/2009 Welkerfan: Players Having Trouble with How to Frame Scences/Use Rules
I started playing a game (as Producer) a few weeks ago.  This was my first attempt to run PTA, though I had listened to a lot of actual play.  We…
In Dog Eared Designs
Participants: Welkerfan, Alan, Matt Wilson.

2/19/2009 one_monkey: Free Preview Events Nottingham, UK
Hi all, My colleagues and myself are indie RPG creators from Nottingham in the UK. We're launching our brand new RPG core book in June this year and in the…
In Connections
Participants: one_monkey, Gregor Hutton.

2/19/2009 apeiron: My Take on Matrixed Attributes
[url=http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=dhs623jg_55drjddjd8]This doc[/url] is an idea that came to me as i flipped through one of my many notebooks of game ideas. Gygax's [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dangerous_Journeys]Dangerous Journeys[/url] and WW's NWoD use matrixed attributes.…
In First Thoughts
Participants: apeiron, SoftNum, Vulpinoid, Abkajud, preludetotheend.

2/20/2009 Vulpinoid: Twin Games - A Part of the Experiment
A few threads and discussions here have led to some fragmented ideas. Some of those fragmented ideas have started to meld into the seed of an idea. That seed of…
In First Thoughts
Participants: Vulpinoid, whiteknife.

2/20/2009 Certified: [Dragon*Con 2009] Independent RPG Forum
Hello, This year Dragon*Con is trying to do a kind of showcase for the independent game designers out there. This includes an opening panel to discus the games, play sessions…
In Conventions
Participants: Certified, Ben Lehman, SaintandSinner, DarkTreeStudios.

2/20/2009 The Mule: Multiple Characters Creating Conflicts
Hello, I've had Capes for a while and gotten the hang of the system, but recently I've been trying to write a web-page to facilitate internet play, and in trying…
In Muse of Fire Games
Participants: The Mule, Dominic Claveau, Garth.

2/20/2009 dindenver: [TSOY] Sharing
Hi!   Running two games of TSOY at the same time is hard...   I made a couple of observations: 1) What is the deal with ties? I've only has…
In Arkenstone Publishing
Participants: dindenver, Eero Tuovinen, oliof.

2/21/2009 Abkajud: [Mask of the Emperor] Spending honor makes you look dishonorable
First real playtest session last night; good times. I posted about it over in Playtesting, go figure :) One of the things that occurred to me was that Aloof and…
In First Thoughts
Participants: Abkajud.

2/21/2009 dopefingers: something i'm calling "matches"
Little note: I'm not real well read in games anymore, so this might have been done. If it has, let me know. I'm looking to write a game from the…
In First Thoughts
Participants: dopefingers, Wordman, Abkajud, abzu.

2/21/2009 AXUM: ANNALISE & Character Death
Hi: I just played our first session of Annalise (we had some cool moments) & have some questions about it: 1.Can a Consequence be "your character dies?"  If this is…
In ndp design
Participants: AXUM, Nathan P..

2/21/2009 Paraplegic Racehorse: Packaging and Presentation
I'm definitely fishing, here, so please chime in with your opinions. Lots of us, here, provide or have provided adventure modules for someone else's game (D20 glut?). Lots of us…
In Publishing
Participants: Paraplegic Racehorse, Eero Tuovinen, Vulpinoid, preludetotheend, pells, MatrixGamer.

2/21/2009 Christian: [Trollbabe] First play, two trollbabes at Otun's Belch
Hello, I GMed my first Trollbabe game the other day. To sum up the experience : it was great but left me wanting advice. Now the detailed version. Premiminary notes…
In Actual Play
Participants: Christian, Ron Edwards, chance.thirteen.

2/22/2009 Bercilac: The Labyinth: A D&D Campaign Setting
Hello all, I've recently joined a nearby gaming group, played a good session, and I'm starting to work on a new campaign of my own.  Its setting, the Labyrinth, was…
In First Thoughts
Participants: Bercilac, greyorm, Finarvyn.

2/22/2009 Cynthia Celeste Miller: Book Sizes and PDFs
I'm currently considering going with a digest-sized book for my upcoming RPG, Slasher Flick. However, I'm also planning to release it in PDF format. And therein lies the problem. Most…
In Publishing
Participants: Cynthia Celeste Miller, Eero Tuovinen, KeithBVaughn, David Artman, Gregor Hutton.

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