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4/3/2009 Jason Kottler: Another Peek Behind the Curtain
At least one person here asked me about posting my rules summary for Ultrablamtacular!, and I said at the time that I wasn't going to do it. Well, I've changed…
In First Thoughts
Participants: Jason Kottler, mjbauer.

4/2/2009 Seamus: NEW PUBLISHER BUSINESS PLAN
I am creating a business plan for a small publishing business. We have one project in the works we want to focus on, and hope it will be successful enough…
In Publishing
Participants: Seamus, Eero Tuovinen, preludetotheend, Paul Czege, greyorm, guildofblades, xenopulse, Noclue.

4/2/2009 Wordmaker: [PTA] First post, some questions about an idea I have
Hello to everyone. I haven't yet managed to get a game of PTA going, but I'm planning on it. In fact, I'm thinking of proposing a big special event for…
In Dog Eared Designs
Participants: Wordmaker, Eero Tuovinen.

4/2/2009 SaintandSinner: (Atlanta, GA) New Campaign Starting Now
We are starting a new Burning Wheel campaign this Saturday April 4th at 6pm. We are meeting at the Embassy Suites Perimeter Point, Sandy Springs. If interested let me know…
In Connections
Participants: SaintandSinner.

4/1/2009 lumpley: Vector movement in Mechaton
For anybody who's not following my blog but interested: I've just posted my vector movement rules for Mechaton, here. -Vincent
In lumpley games
Participants: lumpley, chance.thirteen, Eero Tuovinen.

4/1/2009 Ayyavazi: Dogs by the Numbers
Hello, I was wondering, how did you arrive at the die allocations for character creation in Dogs in the Vineyard? Was there a concern for "balance" in order to make…
In lumpley games
Participants: Ayyavazi, lumpley.

4/1/2009 Ayyavazi: Losing Heart on my Heartbreaker
Hey everyone, I'm having a problem. I want to build an RPG about morality and power. I suppose this mirrors Egon's RPG in certain ways, and I've been convincing myself,…
In First Thoughts
Participants: Ayyavazi, Luke, Egonblaidd, Darcy Burgess, soundmasterj, Eero Tuovinen, Noon.

4/1/2009 Seamus: New Publisher With Questions about GSL and OGL
Just getting started in the publishing world, and trying to decide if I should go 4E or OGL. We will have an original system or two in our lineup as…
In Publishing
Participants: Seamus, Ron Edwards, Eero Tuovinen, Luke.

4/1/2009 Seamus: How important is system to success?
Hello All, I am new here. Hopefully this is the correct place to post this. If not, I apologize. I am starting my own game company later this year, and…
In First Thoughts
Participants: Seamus, whiteknife, David C, Egonblaidd, greyorm, Noon, Luke, Eero Tuovinen.

4/1/2009 Seamus: PLAYTEST IN BOSTON AREA
Greetings, I am developing a modern RPG for publication and need playtesters. Hoping to hold playtests on Sundays. Please feel free to send me a message if you are interested.
In Connections
Participants: Seamus, Artanis.

4/1/2009 Luke: Full Color, 20¢ a page
Holy cow, has anyone seen or even used MagCloud yet? http://magcloud.com/ It's an endeavor by HP to create a Lulu-like service for short run, low page-count magazines. It seems utterly…
In Publishing
Participants: Luke, jasonm, mjbauer, Double King, Marhault.

3/31/2009 Paka: Two Games When PTA Either Didn't Work or Only Kinda Worked
A few games of PTA have fallen really flat and I just wanted to take a gander at them. The most obvious one first: I hate television When someone says…
In Dog Eared Designs
Participants: Paka, exedore6, LeSingeSavant.

3/31/2009 Morningstar: [Dreamscape Opera] Eidolon
So, I've been developing a new game, and large parts of it I've already put up. Some of you may know of me through my homebrew version of a new…
In First Thoughts
Participants: Morningstar, Spooky Fanboy, Vulpinoid.

3/31/2009 Sonja: Cinematic car chase scenes? -- is it possible?
I just watched the 1960s movie Fantomas and was really inspired from the long, dramatic and amusing chase scenes. Reminded me of the endless chicken fights in Family Guy that…
In Actual Play
Participants: Sonja, Vulpinoid, chance.thirteen, visioNationstudios, FredGarber, Mel_White, JoyWriter.

3/30/2009 Eero Tuovinen: [Tunnels & Trolls] Colonizing goblin lands
Man, all of my best gaming seems to happen in Oulu. I live something like 300 kilometers from the city, but I visit a couple of times per year for…
In Actual Play
Participants: Eero Tuovinen, Noon, Artanis, newsalor.

3/30/2009 jasonm: An Offer I Passed On
So Alderac Entertainment Group just got in touch with me, to offer me a job.  Here are the specifics: I’d sign an NDA and then they’d show me their new…
In Publishing
Participants: jasonm, Eero Tuovinen, lumpley, Capulet, Artanis, Wolfen, guildofblades, jburneko, greyorm, C. Edwards, Gregor Hutton, Ron Edwards, shaneivey.

3/30/2009 Dirk: Phaethos RPG Playtest...
I hope this goes in here. If not, my apologies. We are offering some lucky folks the chance to play test out up and coming release of the Phaethos RPG.…
In Connections
Participants: Dirk.

3/30/2009 dindenver: [SteamPunk Crescendo] Mechanical Conundrum
Hi!  OK, this is basically a gut check.   The system I am making will use a modified version of Otherkind (I already checked with Vincent and he is cool…
In First Thoughts
Participants: dindenver, Egonblaidd.

3/30/2009 Ayyavazi: With Your Permission?
Hello Lumpley. So, I'm going to make a long story short. I started seriously developing a game system, and devised a conflict-resolution mechanic I wanted to term "rampaging d6s" After…
In lumpley games
Participants: Ayyavazi, lumpley, Paul Czege.

3/30/2009 John Blaz: Combat system - risky stakes
Hey all! After browsing through this and RPG.net's boards, I decided that I like the idea of a combat system that allows for a bit more strategy than your standard…
In First Thoughts
Participants: John Blaz, Luke, Egonblaidd, mjbauer, Seamus, MacLeod, TheDeadlyPlatypus, GozerTC.

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4/3/2009 The Magus: Discussion of Social Contract theories at the Forge
As a relative newbie to the Forge I am aware that the RPG Theory forum is now closed.  I've read a number of articles on the GNS model and feel…
In Site Discussion
Participants: The Magus, Eero Tuovinen, M. J. Young, Sindyr, lumpley, Ron Edwards.

4/4/2009 Jasper Flick: Perverted Intentions, just traits and hubris
[i]What if the next player decides your character's fate?[/i] I woke up with that questions today, and this was my answer: [b][i]Perverted Intentions[/i][/b] [i]I did WHAT? Well at least I…
In First Thoughts
Participants: Jasper Flick, whiteknife, phatonin.

4/4/2009 Spooky Fanboy: [Fastlane] Another setting, this time with psychics
Ever wanted to be a veteran from the psychic wars? Here's how to do it the Fastlane way!
In Twisted Confessions
Participants: Spooky Fanboy, Lxndr, Wolfen.

4/5/2009 Ayyavazi: Morality and Power, how it shapes my system
So far, I've been trying to make a fantasy RPG along standard lines. I've read some posts, had some similar design goals to Egon, and given some pretty good ideas…
In First Thoughts
Participants: Ayyavazi, Spooky Fanboy, Luke.

4/5/2009 Ayyavazi: Ninja Burger and my first game in a while
Hey everyone, I played my first RPG in a little over two months, and it was fun, even if it wasn't spectacular. I gathered my fiancee, best friend and nhis…
In Actual Play
Participants: Ayyavazi, Eero Tuovinen, Noon.

4/5/2009 preludetotheend: Free give away contests to get some visibility?
I am currently playing around with www.twitter.com/BitsyBook creating one of those tweet books people have been buzzing about. As I am polishing up my little game chef entry (my first…
In Publishing
Participants: preludetotheend, iago.

4/5/2009 Dirk: Phaethos RPG Playtest
I think I should have posted in here instead of in Play testing (after reading several posts there). Sorry about that. I'm new and ignorant to the ways of the…
In Connections
Participants: Dirk.

4/5/2009 Tark: Paradox: Virtue, Vice, and why the world sucks
While reading over some of my old articles on the column I write for RPGnet I started putting some of the ideas together I had cooked up for them and…
In First Thoughts
Participants: Tark, Vulpinoid, preludetotheend, chance.thirteen, otspiii, MacLeod.

4/6/2009 Seamus: LULU.COM
A few publishers have recommended Lulu.Com. Does anyone here have experience with lulu?
In Publishing
Participants: Seamus, rafael, iago, greyorm, Calithena, xenopulse, Graham Walmsley, Ron Edwards, Miskatonic, jerry, April L. Hamilton, redalastor, guildofblades.

4/6/2009 MJGraham: [Defiance] The Black Rat Cometh
[b]Session One The Revolutionary Cabal[/b] Madam Shahlei (a.k.a. Lawrence) - the owner and a former employee at one of the city's less reputable brothels. Years of service and abuse from…
In Playtesting
Participants: MJGraham.

4/6/2009 GnomeWorks: Disabling Pawn Stance and Enforcing Character Beliefs on Action
Hi, new here; well, okay, I registered around a year ago and been lurking on and off, but this is my first post. Anyway, let's cut to the chase, ya?…
In First Thoughts
Participants: GnomeWorks, Ayyavazi, Luke, mjbauer, otspiii, greyorm, Noon, Sindyr, chance.thirteen, jburneko, contracycle, Jasper Flick, Egonblaidd, Vulpinoid, ShallowThoughts, JoyWriter.

4/6/2009 Sindyr: System questions: tie breaking, conflicts/scene, budget spending
I am breaking out my current round of questions into two topics: system questions, and mod ideas.  This one is some system questions I have: 1) If there are two…
In Dog Eared Designs
Participants: Sindyr, Matt Wilson, Ben Lehman, Eero Tuovinen, Welkerfan, newsalor, BlackSheep.

4/6/2009 Sindyr: Mod ideas: Quality of Success/Failure, Fan Mail Trait Use, Fan Mail Awards
Would these mods work, or cause problems? Quality of Success:  The more you beat the GM by, the more complete your success.  Win by 0 cards (by having most hearts,…
In Dog Eared Designs
Participants: Sindyr, Matt Wilson, FredGarber, Eero Tuovinen, Paka, Welkerfan, newsalor.

4/6/2009 Ayyavazi: Dice for Dogs
Hey there, Lets say I want to start a game of Dogs in the Vineyard. Lets also say I have to supply all of the dice for the game. How…
In lumpley games
Participants: Ayyavazi, David Artman, Falc, oliof, Jasper Flick, Filip Luszczyk, newsalor.

4/7/2009 Lxndr: [Fastlane]: Chip Strategies
This has come up a number of times in a lot of threads (including the most recent one by Spooky Fanboy). So, to give people a break from thread-diving to…
In Twisted Confessions
Participants: Lxndr.

4/7/2009 Jasper Flick: Seeing when everything depends on the future
We're having a little trouble with narrating a See ahead of rolling dice for traits and things. Here's an contrived example: GM raises with the guy punching you in the…
In lumpley games
Participants: Jasper Flick, lumpley, jburneko, Filip Luszczyk, David Artman.

4/7/2009 Paul Czege: questions and comments on Spirited
Hey Graham, I really like your use of language in Spirited: "gentleman," "lady." And the vision you have for the social experience of play: players "who are very special to…
In Playtesting
Participants: Paul Czege, madunkieg, Eero Tuovinen, Graham Walmsley.

4/7/2009 jburneko: [Silent Sound] Problem with Flashbacks and Memories
I'm don't know if this is the right forum for this.  What I'm about to discuss came out of play testing experience but it concerns unplaytested components arising from a…
In Playtesting
Participants: jburneko, Artanis.

4/8/2009 Nev the Deranged: Escapist's Terra Libris Project
Not sure if anyone's posted about this already, but The Escapist web magazine has put together a pretty cool project to try and get RPGs into America's libraries. I happen…
In Endeavor
Participants: Nev the Deranged, RabbitHoleGames.

4/8/2009 thadrine: Indie mechanics in "Traditional" games?
This particular example was written for Mutants and Masterminds, but could be easy converted to any system, espceacially those with a some sort of meta currency (i.e. Bennies, Artha, Action…
In First Thoughts
Participants: thadrine, Luke, chance.thirteen.

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