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5/2/2009 weaselheart: How can I best run a game of sorcerer?
Hi, I've been a lurker on these boards for a year or so, and have thought about posting a couple of times, but only recently worked out what to say.…
In Adept Press
Participants: weaselheart, Greymorn, Alan, Ron Edwards, Lance D. Allen, jburneko, chance.thirteen.

5/1/2009 Togman1: T.O.G. Entertainment Inc. adds “PRINT ON DEMAND” Capabilities
T.O.G. Entertainment Inc., publisher of Shattered Sword Fantasy Battle Card Game, has added “PRINT ON DEMAND” capabilities in the form of Superior POD. “It was the right move for us.…
In Publishing
Participants: Togman1, JayKriz.

5/1/2009 JimLotFP: Approaching Vendors
'allo all... A lot has changed since I last came here looking for advice. I scrapped plans for my own game after playtesting fizzled, but have since started doing things…
In Publishing
Participants: JimLotFP, Eero Tuovinen, Noclue.

5/1/2009 Jasper Flick: Dice distribution calculator
I made a little online calculator for dice distributions and like to share it: http://catlikecoding.com/dice/ You can use any linear combination of dice, like 1d6, 2d10, or 1d6 + 6d10…
In First Thoughts
Participants: Jasper Flick, zmobie, Egonblaidd, mjbauer, Seamus, chance.thirteen, Guy Srinivasan, Wordman, Selene Tan, Akos Szederjei, Devenger, dindenver.

5/1/2009 HighmoonMedia: Star Wars PTA Spin-Off: The Sith Triumvirate
I'm one of the players of the Star Wars PTA game at Gen Con podcaster via Canon Puncture. Last week, instead of not gaming when players didn't show up, I…
In Dog Eared Designs
Participants: HighmoonMedia, Welkerfan, FredGarber, Wordmaker.

5/1/2009 Halfred: [DitV] How to challenge Dog teams
I got to run my first real session of Dogs on Saturday. I ran Kettle Lake Branch for three of my four players (the other will join for part 2),…
In lumpley games
Participants: Halfred, Noclue, Eliarhiman6, Supplanter, KuroFluff, David Artman, P1NBACK, lumpley, Brand_Robins.

4/30/2009 AJ_Flowers: Actual RP in MMORPGs and World of Warcraft (split)
I'm kind of necroing this thread because it looks interesting to me and because as far as I know it's OK in the rules to do that. :) Let me…
In Actual Play
Participants: AJ_Flowers, Ron Edwards, LandonSuffered, Evlyn, Noon, Greymorn, Frank Tarcikowski, ShallowThoughts, FredGarber, Lance D. Allen, contracycle, evilphd7.

4/30/2009 greyorm: Dealing with Possessors and Sorcerers
Prepping for my next session on Tuesday, I had an idea that I'm not entirely sure I should run with. One of the features of possessors is that they take…
In Adept Press
Participants: greyorm, Ron Edwards, Greymorn.

4/30/2009 Gregor Hutton: [AD 316] It began with the killing of the witches
This week a new game club started up in Edinburgh in the Espionage bar/nightclub (Tuesday nights for anyone interested). We had a 3-hour playtest of the Roman version of 3:16,…
In Playtesting
Participants: Gregor Hutton, Akora, Valamir, brianbloodaxe.

4/30/2009 Selene Tan: Drowning and Falling - Dungeons and Vegas
This is a writeup of a Drowning and Falling game from last last Thanksgiving. I started the writeup soon after playing, then got sidetracked and forgot about it, and unearthed…
In Actual Play
Participants: Selene Tan, jasonm.

4/30/2009 AJ_Flowers: Spontaneous play in on-line MUSH
Hi. I haven't logged in to this forum in a really long time, but hanging out at Forge Midwest inspired me to at least start lurking again.  I notice that…
In Actual Play
Participants: AJ_Flowers, Noon, LandonSuffered, JoyWriter.

4/30/2009 reason: syntactic sugar and tweaking Sorcerer abilities
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syntactic_sugar Link above for those who have *real* occupations - you know, things that don't involve poking keys to make nonsense sigils that cause bits to flip sign :) While…
In Adept Press
Participants: reason.

4/29/2009 Darcy Burgess: [Go-Play Ottawa] - Like a Thief in the Night!
Last outing, The Slushy Maelstrom, was a big pile of fun! GPO returns sometime in the May-August nebula. I'm trying to step back from the GM/Facilitator role a bit this…
In Conventions
Participants: Darcy Burgess.

4/29/2009 John Blaz: d20 or 3d10? A skill improvement system question
Hey Forgers! It's me again (you know the guy that posts an idea for a new system about once a month). Anyway, I have an idea for a Swords &…
In First Thoughts
Participants: John Blaz, Selene Tan, MacLeod, zmobie, Egonblaidd.

4/29/2009 Neil the Wimp: [Sorcerer] Stupid summoning dice question
If this question has an obvious answer, please enlighten me.  Consider my Sorcerer PC with Will 4, Humanity 6.  He's trying to Summon a Demon with Power 5.  Who rolls…
In Adept Press
Participants: Neil the Wimp, greyorm, Ron Edwards, jburneko, The Dragon Master.

4/29/2009 reason: Those guidelines for publishing sorcerer mini-supplements
Where are they hiding? Context: I'm presently writing what amounts to a Sorcerer mini-supplement. So I note that guidelines for being generally polite in the process of rolling out a…
In Adept Press
Participants: reason, Ron Edwards.

4/29/2009 GregTaylor: Freelance concept artist / illustrator available for work
Hello My name is Greg Taylor and I'm a freelance concept artist and illustrator. I've previously done work for bands, writers, and indie game studios. My website has more examples…
In Connections
Participants: GregTaylor, greyorm, Sebastian.

4/29/2009 Vordark: How "Complete" Do You Want Your Rules?
RPGs require a certain number/character of rules to define it and the various types of things common to the game such as task resolution, perhaps combat, etc.  But many RPGs…
In First Thoughts
Participants: Vordark, Noon, JoyWriter, Luke, Vulpinoid, Seamus, mjbauer, chance.thirteen, Egonblaidd, LandonSuffered.

4/28/2009 ShallowThoughts: Unbalanced PC groups - is this okay?
Hello again, (I'm beginning to feel like a haunt with all my posts, but I must admit I appreciate the Forge's rules to prevent threads from devolving into meaningless noise..)…
In Actual Play
Participants: ShallowThoughts, Lance D. Allen, greyorm, Jasper Flick, Ron Edwards, LandonSuffered, Cranewings, nikola, Brimshack.

4/28/2009 tonyd: Go Play NW - Seattle June 26-28
Go Play NW 2009 will be Friday June 16 - Sunday June 28 this year. There are a few improvements and changes this year: THREE days of gaming: from…
In Conventions
Participants: tonyd.

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5/3/2009 jefgodesky: [Fifth World] Building an adversity economy from the map
[url=http://thefifthworldsg.blogspot.com/2009/04/fifth-world-in-forge-parlance-one-more.html]My most recent stab at the Power 19 for this project.[/url] To summarize the relevant bits as succinctly as possible, the game's fiction deals with tribes of feral humans living…
In First Thoughts
Participants: jefgodesky, Vulpinoid, pells, JoyWriter, Brimshack.

5/4/2009 David C: Book Layout
So I'm putting my game into pdf format.  I'd like to get it right the first time, so that I have the option of using the same file for printing…
In Publishing
Participants: David C, Lance D. Allen, Eero Tuovinen, Seamus.

5/4/2009 Vordark: Genesys Needs Play-Testers
After going through the stickies and asking in First Thoughts, it appears that this would be the place to ask if anyone would like to do a bit of the…
In Connections
Participants: Vordark.

5/4/2009 Akora: 3:16 - Starting Advice
This is my first post here, so please bear with me :) I am doing my best to prepare a campaign of 3:16. I've read through the purchased PDF and…
In Actual Play
Participants: Akora, Lance D. Allen, Gregor Hutton.

5/4/2009 mjbauer: Using Hearts as a Combat System
[i]This is still in the very early stages, but I thought I'd get it out and see what you think. It's a combat system for a squad-based tactical game. I'm…
In First Thoughts
Participants: mjbauer, Vulpinoid, Simon C, Noon.

5/5/2009 Welkerfan: Looking for 1st Edition
Ron Edwards has mentioned that there is a difference in how some ideas were presented between the first and second editions of PTA, and I am curious as to what…
In Dog Eared Designs
Participants: Welkerfan, HighmoonMedia, Alan, Matt Wilson, abeg43.

5/5/2009 izlear: Card Based Mechanics I came up with
This just popped into my head and I was wondering what opinions of it would be to see if it may be worth pursuing (or if its actually unoriginal after…
In First Thoughts
Participants: izlear, JoyWriter, mjbauer, Vulpinoid.

5/6/2009 Certified: Fractured Kingdom World Overview and Glossary
Back in September I posted a new setting concept along with power 19. Since then I've continued to develop the setting and have recently run the first play test. Although…
In First Thoughts
Participants: Certified, JoyWriter, RandomCitizenx.

5/6/2009 Certified: [Fractured Kingdom] Song of Silence
Currently the Fractured Kingdoms setting and design is still in development. However, I recently ran the first play test. I'll begin by posting the demo's set up and follow it…
In Playtesting
Participants: Certified.

5/6/2009 Vulpinoid: Quincunx: Power 19
The game is designed to be played on a few levels, so I'll answer these questions twice. The first response is a superficial look at the game. The second response…
In First Thoughts
Participants: Vulpinoid, JoyWriter.

5/6/2009 Wordmaker: Question about The Plan
When the GM decides on The Plan for the story, does he let the players know what it is and how it relates to their Strife Aspects?
In Incarnadine Press
Participants: Wordmaker, Dominic Claveau.

5/6/2009 Wordmaker: [WGP] Tarnished
[i]Moving my thread on our new With Great Power... game here:[/i] [b]Background Pitch:[/b] Everything changed the day Superman died. Metropolis is gone. Nothing remains but a crater and the surrounding…
In Actual Play
Participants: Wordmaker, James_Nostack, Lance D. Allen.

5/6/2009 jburneko: Question About Liches From Sorcerer & Sword
I was looking at the How To Become An Undead section of Sorcerer & Sword.  So the way I understand it is that you effectively become a demon.  But when…
In Adept Press
Participants: jburneko, Ron Edwards, Marshall Burns, AXUM, greyorm.

5/7/2009 Nev the Deranged: "Fuse dice", wacky DRYH inspired mechanic, free to good home
So I was thinking about the funky ways DRYH uses dice, and wondering if I could come up with something similar. I came up with something, how useful it might…
In First Thoughts
Participants: Nev the Deranged, Wordman.

5/7/2009 ghashsnaga: Wanderer: A fantasy version of Traveller and 3 questions
There are several version of this kickin around on the internet. So I am creating my own version (Book 1 mostly done) under the OGL. One of the things I…
In First Thoughts
Participants: ghashsnaga, Abkajud.

5/7/2009 Valamir: Blood Red Sands Beta V3.0 is now available.
A competitive, in your face, testosterone fueled role playing experience in a brutal, over the top, heavy metal world of savagery and dark sorcery. Download the playtest rules and play…
In Universalis
Participants: Valamir, Troy_Costisick.

5/7/2009 The Dragon Master: Demons and NPCs in Combat...
I ran a one-shot to demonstrate Sorcerer a couple weeks ago. The game started with me trying to explain the bonus dice system, and Sorcery, and Oblique Conflict, and ended…
In Adept Press
Participants: The Dragon Master, jburneko, Ron Edwards.

5/7/2009 Jason Kottler: A Learning Experience
I recently ran an indie game that provided me a lot of insight - in a bad way. For all the details, check out my post: http://blog.ultrablamtacular.com/2009/05/04/antipatterns/ In other news,…
In First Thoughts
Participants: Jason Kottler, JoyWriter, Pilsnerquest, Noon, Vulpinoid, ShallowThoughts, Brimshack.

5/7/2009 zmobie: Swordfighting system - Link
http://www.shamusyoung.com/twentysidedtale/?p=188 The link above is for a video-game sword fighting system, but I thought it would also be great for an rpg. What kinds of adaptations do you think you…
In First Thoughts
Participants: zmobie, JoyWriter, ShallowThoughts, MacLeod, Vulpinoid.

5/8/2009 Simon C: [Covenant] First Name Terms
(Crossposted and more information here:http://www.collective-endeavour.com/node/1602) Malcolm, Steve, Emma and I played a three-session game of Covenant. There were things I really liked and things I really didn't like about the…
In Actual Play
Participants: Simon C, Noon, ShallowThoughts, AJ_Flowers, Matt, JoyWriter.

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