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5/11/2009 EllePepper: [mistic] tabletop rpg, gage question.
Hi, it's elle, back from the dead. My specific question is this... I am using a modified Double-gage system for most players.  A Humanity gage for those who are dual…
In First Thoughts
Participants: EllePepper, Vulpinoid, chronoplasm.

5/11/2009 Brimshack: Learning Curves and Tipping Points
Okay, I'm facing a dilemma. I have been developing this RPG (tentatively entitled, "Worlds of Hurt") for about 2 years now, not counting the year or so of working on…
In First Thoughts
Participants: Brimshack, JoyWriter, MacLeod, Luke.

5/11/2009 Graham Walmsley: Could someone help me out with PDF printing problems?
I'm having real problems printing a PDF through Lulu. I submit a PDF, they send me an anonymous error message. I submit a new PDF, they send me the same…
In Publishing
Participants: Graham Walmsley, Paul Czege, btrc, visioNationstudios, Carnifex, David Artman.

5/10/2009 SolitudeGames: Just an intro
Hi all just wanted to intro myself , not much to tell just another rpg fan who just started getting more into writing and design. I written off  and on…
In First Thoughts
Participants: SolitudeGames.

5/10/2009 ShallowThoughts: PDF Writer availability??
Hello folks, excuse me if this is in ignorant question. I hear about a lot of indie companies publishing via PDF. As far as I'm aware, that can only be…
In Publishing
Participants: ShallowThoughts, jerry, Pelgrane, visioNationstudios.

5/10/2009 zapps: Mortal Coil Revised
Hello. First post at these forums, though I have read them quite a lot. First I want to thank you Brennan for a great game! Then comes my question: Whats…
In Galileo Games
Participants: zapps, inthisstyle.

5/10/2009 Wordmaker: Flavour Scenes?
If a player or GM just wants to describe a brief scene for the sake of flavour, such as the GM throwing in a scene at the end of a…
In Incarnadine Press
Participants: Wordmaker, Dominic Claveau.

5/10/2009 Supplanter: [DITV] Simple Healing Conflict Question
Can Dogs team up in a healing conflict? Best, Jim
In lumpley games
Participants: Supplanter, lumpley.

5/10/2009 AzaLiN: [D&D4e] Feeling defeated by the ruleset
I've been DMing a D&D 4e campaign for 2 or 3 months, playing twice weekly. It started off a little rough, but after I shrank the group size to 4…
In Actual Play
Participants: AzaLiN, Eero Tuovinen, C. Edwards, Noon, JoyWriter, Brimshack, AJ_Flowers, Wordman, whiteknife, LandonSuffered, Clay.

5/10/2009 David C: Sandbox Games, can it be applied to RPGs?
Sandbox games are very popular in the video game world.  You have Grand Theft Auto and The Sims selling more copies than anything else in the market.  I know when…
In First Thoughts
Participants: David C, Vulpinoid, northerain, MacLeod, Egonblaidd, whiteknife.

5/10/2009 Eldrad: Unclassified Forum
Can there be an unclassified forum to post things about gaming that fit in no other category? There are times that I may have gamer related interest that would not…
In Site Discussion
Participants: Eldrad, Lance D. Allen, Eero Tuovinen.

5/10/2009 Eldrad: NOVEL RPG: Megalopolis Hero's Mag
Hero's Mag Using the freeform system as described in this earlier post. http://www.indie-rpgs.com/forum/index.php?topic=24786.msg245893#msg245893 Two characters were Sapphire and Jade played by my two daughters. Sapphire is a mutant that can…
In Playtesting
Participants: Eldrad, Noon.

5/9/2009 mjbauer: Design Theory Reading List
I'm wondering if there is some kind of unofficial (or, perhaps, official) canon of RPG Design Theory. Things that every RPG designer should read before trying to create a game.…
In Endeavor
Participants: mjbauer, Eero Tuovinen, Lance D. Allen, ShallowThoughts, JoyWriter, Graham Walmsley, Tomas HVM.

5/9/2009 Eero Tuovinen: [TSoY 2nd] Maps of Near
So, we're doing cartography, and I have difficulty finding all the variant maps that've been created for Near. Could anybody link me to any they know of? For example, I…
In Arkenstone Publishing
Participants: Eero Tuovinen, Yokiboy, oliof.

5/8/2009 Seamus: Draw Straight Line in INdesign
How do I make straight lines in INdesign. They always come out crooked.
In Publishing
Participants: Seamus, jasonm, Matt Snyder, Carnifex.

5/8/2009 Vordark: [Genesys] My First Play-Test Report(tm)
For reference, the system is here:  http://www.chaosphere.com/genesys/ While I have run a number of sessions using the Genesys core rules, I haven't until this week had the opportunity to focus…
In Playtesting
Participants: Vordark, JoyWriter, chance.thirteen.

5/8/2009 k2lu: CCG - RPG hybrid system
Hello, all. First post, just getting some ideas down for consideration. I've been poking around with the idea of a CCG - RPG hybrid because, well, I like playing CCGs,…
In First Thoughts
Participants: k2lu, whiteknife, MacLeod, Vulpinoid, ShallowThoughts, zmobie.

5/8/2009 northerain: [Dark Days] Character Descriptions Matter!
In Dark Days, characters are mortals that came back from the dead, infected with an entity called Darkness. This entity gives them creepy ass powers but it ultimately wants to…
In First Thoughts
Participants: northerain, Noon, C. Edwards, Selene Tan, Certified, Warrior Monk.

5/8/2009 brianbloodaxe: My take on card-based combat.
I've been lurking for a little while and seeing a few threads about card-based combat systems I thought I should put my ideas out there for your perusal. The concept…
In First Thoughts
Participants: brianbloodaxe, mjbauer, redalastor.

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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5/11/2009 jlarke: [DITV] Suggestions for one-shot play
I have plans to spend Memorial Day weekend with several friends, and one of them suggested it might be a good time for a one-shot adventure to introduce people to…
In lumpley games
Participants: jlarke, lumpley, Eliarhiman6.

5/11/2009 jlarke: [Solar System] Oratory & telecommunications
Hello, Forge. I'm running a Battlestar Galactica campaign using the Solar System rules. My PCs are the officers of the Battlestar Actaeon and the civilian ships that gathered around it,…
In Arkenstone Publishing
Participants: jlarke, Eero Tuovinen, oliof.

5/11/2009 redalastor: Graphical ways to represent plot development?
I'm working on a LARP management software to make tracking all the huge pile of info that goes into a LARP bearable. It's going to track players, characters, xp, etc.…
In First Thoughts
Participants: redalastor, dauvis, pells.

5/12/2009 LandonSuffered: "Old School" Endgames, Grognardia
I’ve been waxing seriously nostalgic of late, not the least of which is due to recently discovering James Maliszewski’s wonderfully insightful blog, Grognardia: http://grognardia.blogspot.com/ I’ve been reading his essays the…
In Actual Play
Participants: LandonSuffered, Eero Tuovinen, Brimshack, Darcy Burgess, Noon.

5/12/2009 LandonSuffered: Challenge the Player, not the Stat Block (D&D)
Just one more AP post (hopefully with more AP), since I seem to have a great deal of trouble falling asleep tonight…. Again, regarding AD&D and the “old school” insights…
In Actual Play
Participants: LandonSuffered, Noon, Frank Tarcikowski, Caldis, contracycle, greyorm, JoyWriter, ShallowThoughts, AzaLiN, FredGarber, Vulpinoid, otspiii, Ron Edwards.

5/12/2009 Gregor Hutton: [Survey] The 2009 Collective Endeavour Survey
As part of the ongoing review of the services provided through The Collective Endeavour (http://www.collective-endeavour.com/), we would like to gather some information from the people who use our website and…
In Publishing
Participants: Gregor Hutton.

5/12/2009 chronoplasm: Interesting Quote
From ENWorld, in a discussion regarding the roles in 4E D&D: The fact is that in any point-based resolution system like D&D combat, there's only two things to…
In First Thoughts
Participants: chronoplasm, whiteknife, Noon, Guy Srinivasan, Vulpinoid, ShallowThoughts.

5/13/2009 AJ_Flowers: A Half-Cooked Narrativist Giant Robo Battle Mechanic
So, though I haven't had one in ages, here is a crackpot design idea from me that may or may not go somewhere.  A lot of my peer group is…
In First Thoughts
Participants: AJ_Flowers, whiteknife, Wordman, Axe4Eye.

5/13/2009 whiteknife: GM or no GM?
Having abandoned, rediscovered, tweaked, re-tweaked, and re-re-tweaked my game, I've come to an impasse. The game is Tamers, and after much thinking I've decided that it's theme is exploration. You…
In First Thoughts
Participants: whiteknife, chronoplasm, Jasper Flick.

5/13/2009 Simon C: Let's See - Rethinking "Sim"
I've been following with interest Vincent's discussion of "Right to Dream" play on his blog.  I agree with him that "Right to Dream" is a far more useful handle than…
In Actual Play
Participants: Simon C, Caldis, whiteknife, contracycle, Gregor Hutton, Frank Tarcikowski, lumpley, JoyWriter, jlarke, Filip Luszczyk.

5/13/2009 Silvana: system without stage manager
I'm searching for a system without a stage manager for my game I'm creating (I'm a really beginner in this world). It's a game based on a theatreplay (3 sisters/…
In First Thoughts
Participants: Silvana.

5/14/2009 deadlytoque: (Fantastical) Democracy in Action: voting as a mechanic
I've recently written a game that uses a combination of dice and voting to determine outcomes. Most conflict will be between two players (called the Hero and the Shadow in…
In First Thoughts
Participants: deadlytoque, redalastor, Vulpinoid, JoyWriter, Abkajud.

5/14/2009 Axe4Eye: Power 19 for new [old] game.
[b]1.) What is your game about?[/b] An ancient conspiracy against all life in the universe.  One involving constantly battling occult secret societies, corrupt governments and corporations, extraterrestrial beings, ancient dark…
In First Thoughts
Participants: Axe4Eye, JoyWriter.

5/14/2009 Paul T: What's at Stake in Dogs -- who leads?
I have this intuition, and it's really just a guess, that the game plays better when the players are naming the "What's at Stake" in a conflict. Like, "Does the…
In lumpley games
Participants: Paul T, Filip Luszczyk, lumpley, Eliarhiman6, Noclue, Supplanter.

5/15/2009 Eldrad: NOVEL RPG Ideas
http://www.indie-rpgs.com/forum/index.php?topic=27983.0 In a Supers Campaign I am thinking about giving normal people 10 hitpoints Have a basic power level  for the game being played. Teen Supers – Here the players…
In First Thoughts
Participants: Eldrad, redalastor, Noclue, Vulpinoid.

5/15/2009 mjbauer: Deciding What a Game is About
How do you decide what your game is about? I know this seems like a really dumb question, but it's turning out to be much harder to do than I…
In First Thoughts
Participants: mjbauer, Noon, chronoplasm, Abkajud, JoyWriter, Luke, davidberg, dindenver.

5/15/2009 Stacey Lucht: Simming
Hello, I'm not sure if anyone here remembers me, but I am Stacey Lucht, still President of the IntraGalactic League of Sims.  It's been a few years since I've checked…
In First Thoughts
Participants: Stacey Lucht, JoyWriter, phatonin, Vulpinoid.

5/15/2009 chronoplasm: Anarchist Fantasy
A quote I've seen in somebody's sig on another site: "D&D is the ultimate right wing wet dream. A bunch of guys who are better than your average joe set…
In First Thoughts
Participants: chronoplasm, Abkajud, NN, Vulpinoid, JoyWriter, Evlyn, contracycle, dindenver.

5/15/2009 Brimshack: World (Re-)Creation
[b]Rambling Background Stuff[/b] Okay, I've been rethinking my game system for a few months now (part of the reason I came back and starting posting here lately), trying to retrace…
In First Thoughts
Participants: Brimshack, JoyWriter.

5/15/2009 Seamus: Looking for playtesting group
Hi all, Looking for people to playtest our counter terrorism RPG. It is getting to the final stages, and we are looking for gaming groups to run it and let…
In Connections
Participants: Seamus.

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