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7/21/2009 cra2: agon play is slow?
Reading about Agon, I'm interested in the system. But when I listen to actual play podcasts, I get really frustrated. Seems like the game drags in combat. Worse than d20.…
In one.seven design
Participants: cra2, demiurgeastaroth, Ben Robbins.

7/21/2009 HeTeleports: Discovering your powers -- an exercise of IIEE (or IIEC, etc.)
You know what's always cool about superhero origin stories? The transformation of the protagonist. That's what Joseph Campbell's "Hero with a Thousand Faces" is really about. That's what the first…
In First Thoughts
Participants: HeTeleports, Simon C, Luke.

7/20/2009 jburneko: [Sorcerer] More Evil Is More Morally Taxing?
So, there’s this common fear that if you throw overt demons and sorcerers into a “Dogs in the Vineyard” game it will detract from the moral issues.  I’ve never found…
In Actual Play
Participants: jburneko, Christopher Kubasik, Rod Anderson, Ron Edwards, James_Nostack, Noon, Noclue.

7/20/2009 MacLeod: Several Minor Ideas, Thoughts Please? [somewhat lengthy]
I have some minor ideas, questions and the like... I had to wait for a while as none of these questions seemed major enough to warrant a new thread by…
In First Thoughts
Participants: MacLeod, markhaselb, Luke, JoyWriter, Mike Sugarbaker.

7/20/2009 HeTeleports: Design from the other end of the games industry
While the Forge is a role-playing design community, any amount of theory is worth investigating how it applies to our design. This is an hour-long lecture on design -- but…
In First Thoughts
Participants: HeTeleports, greyorm, Noon, ShallowThoughts, RabbitHoleGames, Ralek, Wordman, David C, AzaLiN.

7/20/2009 Eero Tuovinen: [TSoY 2nd] The last crunchy bits
I'm almost finished with my TSoY book. This is good, as I'm supposed to go to print with it next week. However, I have a bit of room in my…
In Arkenstone Publishing
Participants: Eero Tuovinen, Heikki Hallamaa, dindenver, chance.thirteen.

7/20/2009 Paul Czege: playtest Acts of Evil with me at Gen Con 2009
I want to run a playtest of Acts of Evil on Thursday, August 13th, at Gen Con, from 1:30 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. I've made a number of rules refinements…
In Conventions
Participants: Paul Czege.

7/20/2009 sockmonkey: Editorial Timeline Samples?
I'm not sure if this is where this belongs. It seems to me there is a step missing between First Thoughts and Playtesting. Perhaps a Development forum could be considered?…
In First Thoughts
Participants: sockmonkey, Luke, Lance D. Allen.

7/20/2009 Dantai: [Labyrinths & Lycanthropes] New release & marketing advice
Hi there all, just wanted to give the heads up on my latest game : Labyrinths & Lycanthropes. A RPG of Loot & Legends! It's a pacey comedic dungeon bash…
In Publishing
Participants: Dantai, MatrixGamer.

7/20/2009 flossy: New Game - Pearly Gates
I have an idea for a game called 'Pearly Gates'. The premise is that you have just died and you are justifying whether you go up to heaven or down…
In First Thoughts
Participants: flossy, Alokov, jasonm.

7/20/2009 Garbados: [Ex Deus] System: Simple, Fast, Intuitive, Universal, Compelling
I began work on Ex Deus roughly five months ago, seeking to reconcile GURPS' unprecedented universality and detail with White Wolf's compelling simplicity. No single system I knew of accommodated…
In First Thoughts
Participants: Garbados, Alokov, Bill_White, Ron Edwards, Thunder_God, Luke, Lance D. Allen, Alex Abate, SAW, Mike Sugarbaker, Fatespinner, Noclue, Tyler.Tinsley, Simon C.

7/20/2009 Alokov: New RPG idea Frozen Dawn RPG
Hey. I'm writing my own RPG now. I am only a teenager so please bear with my  teenage silliness. It's a post-apocalyptic game set at the end of the next…
In First Thoughts
Participants: Alokov, Luke, David C, brianbloodaxe, greyorm, Thunder_God, Noclue, Simon C, Noon, contracycle, AcaBerry, dindenver, cocohow, lumpley, Jeff B.

7/19/2009 Andy Kitkowski: Iron Game Chef: Anyone want to run it? A contest for The Contest
Heya all, I was realizing the other day that this year marks the 4th (?) year of me running Iron Game Chef. ( www.game-chef.com ). I think it's been a…
In Endeavor
Participants: Andy Kitkowski, Eero Tuovinen, Shreyas Sampat.

7/19/2009 John Blaz: Speed and Accuracy, new system thought with example of play
Hey everyone, second time attempting to post this, so I'll be brief. The quicker you want something done, the less accurate it will be. Simple fact. I wanted to make…
In First Thoughts
Participants: John Blaz, Simon C, Bill_White, Noon, Garbados.

7/16/2009 HeTeleports: Death / start over (split)
[quote author=Mike Sugarbaker link=topic=28307.msg266280#msg266280 date=1247614324] The Power 19 is a great tool for crystallizing your thoughts about a game, but ... [truncation mine]... What works better: intrigue us, then ask…
In First Thoughts
Participants: HeTeleports, Lance D. Allen, Ron Edwards, contracycle, whiteknife.

7/19/2009 Eric J. Boyd: Committee is sold out - Any suggested revisions?
[i]The Committee for the Exploration of Mysteries[/i], my game of pulp/Victorian adventure storytelling, has sold out its third printing. It's also been two years now since it was released. So…
In Eric J. Boyd Designs
Participants: Eric J. Boyd.

7/18/2009 xjermx: question: body or no body?
I'm writing a short amnesia style scenario that I intend to run with a tabletop and/or online group.  I'm torn on a certain piece of the setup, and hoping I…
In First Thoughts
Participants: xjermx, Simon C, Bill_White.

7/18/2009 Luke: Kill Power 19
The so-called "Power 19" have been clogging up the design pipes here for too long. I'm here to kill the Power 19. These questions purport to consolidate nine years of…
In First Thoughts
Participants: Luke, Vulpinoid, Lance D. Allen, Jonathan Walton, ShallowThoughts, mjbauer, anders_larsen, opsneakie, Paul Czege, Andy Kitkowski, sockmonkey, Wordman, Thor Olavsrud, Noclue, Garbados, JoyWriter, Librabys, Troy_Costisick, David C, Patrice, Frank Tarcikowski, brianbloodaxe, Ben Lehman, Mike Sugarbaker, Ron Edwards.

7/17/2009 hoefer: Any thoughts on pricing a book?
Well, I'm going to press getting ready for GenCon and all the sudden (especially with the economy in the US) I'm having second thoughts on my price structure.  I've got…
In Publishing
Participants: hoefer, preludetotheend, greyorm, Selene Tan, Lance D. Allen, MatrixGamer, Paul Czege.

7/17/2009 Seamus: Lightning Source and Files
Has anyone here sent in files to lightning source. Any advice? I looked at their file creation sheet, and am a little unclear. For example, the sheet makes it look…
In Publishing
Participants: Seamus, RabbitHoleGames, reason.

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7/21/2009 JMendes: [Solar System] Rules question: spending advances
Ahey, :) As I said in the orher thread, we came across a couple of snags in our play of The West. On page 52, where you're talking about using…
In Arkenstone Publishing
Participants: JMendes, Eero Tuovinen, Ralek.

7/21/2009 GregStolze: Ugh, deprotagonize me! Make me like it!
Somewhere (probably on the internet) I read someone complaining about "the dice telling me what to do."  So I started thinking.  Why's that a bad thing?  Constraint breeds creativity, after…
In First Thoughts
Participants: GregStolze, Adam Dray, Marshall Burns, MacLeod, Noon, GreatWolf, sockmonkey, JoyWriter, TonyLB.

7/21/2009 drkrash: Bad art vs. no art vs. inappropriate art
Art question here. I'm working on a manga-themed project right now (and I use the term very loosely here), which obviously has an extremely distinctive look to it. I also…
In Publishing
Participants: drkrash, Thunder_God, Ron Edwards, greyorm, Jake Richmond.

7/21/2009 andomonir: Two-player RPGs
Hi, I'm not sure if this is the right place to post this (first time poster), but I was wondering: Has anyone addressed the scenario of two player gaming? Would…
In First Thoughts
Participants: andomonir, Ron Edwards, Jonathan Walton.

7/21/2009 Thunder_God: Jumping Text-Box.,
I don't know if it's just me, which it might, but the last couple of days whenever I post more text than the default comment-box has space, my "text-box" jumps,…
In Site Discussion
Participants: Thunder_God, Marshall Burns, lumpley, Simon C, Noon.

7/22/2009 Seamus: Embedding Fonts and Images- INdesign
In INdesign, do how do I embed the fonts and images before making a PDF? Does INdesign do it automatically when it created the PDF file?
In Publishing
Participants: Seamus, hoefer.

7/22/2009 Alex Abate: An educative rpg idea.
First, I would like to say I am sorry for not being a very consistent poster here. I would like to post around here a lot more than I do,…
In First Thoughts
Participants: Alex Abate, Jonathan Walton, Thor Olavsrud.

7/22/2009 jburneko: The Demonic Plague Scenario
So, as promised here is my Demonic Plague scenario that CK affectionately refers to my "demonic venereal disease story".  Enjoy! The Humanity definition for this scenario is: Love.  Love is…
In Adept Press
Participants: jburneko, Ron Edwards, Paul T.

7/22/2009 Alokov: Game of Thrones RPG editions
Alright. First of all I really don't know if this fits in this forum but I have no idea where else to post it so forgive me if I screwed…
In First Thoughts
Participants: Alokov, chaviro, Luke, Adam Dray.

7/22/2009 noahtrammell: Two-Player FATE
  With reading all the discussions on twosies lately, I think the idea for a two-player game kinda slipped into my subconscious.  While reading, I've noticed that most of these…
In First Thoughts
Participants: noahtrammell, jasonm, Ron Edwards, Patrice.

7/22/2009 Ben Lehman: Thoughts on Sitch and Sorcerer
This is inspired by <a href="http://www.indie-rpgs.com/forum/index.php?topic=28341">More Evil Is More Morally Taxing?</a> but it's not about actual play, just shooting my mouth off. So anyway. The thread got me thinking about…
In Adept Press
Participants: Ben Lehman, jburneko.

7/22/2009 Doplegager: (Path of Journeys) Sandbox and Litterbox
[b]A little Background[/b] I'm doing revisions of the Path of Journeys, one of the Ashcan Front games from 2007. The original impetus for the game was a combination of A)…
In Playtesting
Participants: Doplegager, Adam Dray, Ron Edwards, Paul Czege.

7/22/2009 reveal: The ENnies are now on Twitter!
Do you have a Twitter account? Well so do the ENnies! Feel free to follow them to get all the latest ENnies updates. The results of the 2009 ceremony will…
In Conventions
Participants: reveal.

7/22/2009 Moltora: Help with combat system
I am designing a game and i would just like to ask you to look for any holes or arguments in my system... Here is the link, just click the…
In First Thoughts
Participants: Moltora, Simon C, Luke.

7/22/2009 sockmonkey: [Chronoplex] A Brief Overview
I meant to have this posted long before now, but real life keeps horning in. So before I lose my chance, here is a brief introduction to Chronoplex: ------------------------------ Chronoplex…
In First Thoughts
Participants: sockmonkey, chronoplasm, Simon C, VoidDragon, brianbloodaxe.

7/22/2009 brianbloodaxe: [Oxygen] Non-physical conflicts
After a couple of test sessions of my SF game Oxygen (read all about it here:http://www.indie-rpgs.com/forum/index.php?topic=28244.0) and after reading a load of threads in here I have had a couple…
In First Thoughts
Participants: brianbloodaxe, chance.thirteen, Luke, Simon C, Gregor Hutton, HeTeleports, Lance D. Allen.

7/22/2009 chronoplasm: Roll to Break the Rules
OK, so I've been working (off and on) on a game that is similar to D&D except that the Dungeon Master is an opponent that is encouraged for killing off…
In First Thoughts
Participants: chronoplasm, Luke, Simon C, Noon, Patrice, markhaselb, M. Burrell, sockmonkey, mjbauer, JoyWriter.

7/23/2009 TJ: Gen Con 2009 Games On Demand?
Does anyone know where the GoD room is going to be this year, and who is in charge?
In Conventions
Participants: TJ, Darcy Burgess, SaintandSinner.

7/23/2009 Patrice: [D&D]Balance killed my game
All my D&D games since the 3.5 came out were boring. So much for actual play. Just boring. Boring to the point my players and I have just quit playing…
In Actual Play
Participants: Patrice, Jasper Flick, Noon, Adam Dray, Ayyavazi, contracycle, Ron Edwards, Guy Srinivasan, Frank Tarcikowski, JoyWriter.

7/23/2009 mirrored: Michal Cielecki - professional music composition
Greetings, My name is Michal Cielecki. I am a performer and a freelance composer from Poland, having years of experience in various music genres, both performing and composing. My skills…
In Connections
Participants: mirrored.

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