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7/27/2009 cra2: DiTV vs. Agon ?
In your expert opinion(s), which is 'easier' to setup & run?  Dogs in the Vineyard or Agon? I have to run a session for 3-4 players in two weeks with…
In Actual Play
Participants: cra2, Simon C, Noclue, Ron Edwards.

7/27/2009 Klaus_Welten: [Solar System] When do rocks fall in the Solar System?
Hi guys, first post, SS rocks, etc. etc. ^_^ I've gout a doubt after reading the PDF: what happens if the Story Guide narrates something like "A slide of rocks…
In Arkenstone Publishing
Participants: Klaus_Welten, Eero Tuovinen.

7/27/2009 Seamus: POD Printing and color interior
Does anyone know a POD publisher that lets you have a few color interior pages, without charging color for the whole book?
In Publishing
Participants: Seamus.

7/27/2009 Melinglor: [Spectre of the Beast] What's a little piracy among peaceful peoples?
You know, I have been very, very stupid. I've been working on game design for a couple of years now, and I have completely ignored the Forge as a mine…
In Playtesting
Participants: Melinglor.

7/27/2009 cra2: DiTV actual play AUDIO ?
Does anyone know of any audio recordings of DITV actual play? thanks, Cra2
In lumpley games
Participants: cra2, Noclue.

7/27/2009 preludetotheend: simple question (I think) on open office
Hey folks so finishing up my digital ashcan and I have decided not to tackle anything like indesign or scribus yet so I had a couple questions on the best…
In Publishing
Participants: preludetotheend, Patrice.

7/27/2009 Biled Head: Varied Artist, interested in doing cover and interior art
Hi everybody, I've known about this forum for a couple years now, but only recently have I discovered the amount of talented and prestigious game designers who come here regularily.…
In Connections
Participants: Biled Head, greyorm.

7/27/2009 Simon C: [The Heartbreaker War] Fictional Causes
Here's the pitch for my project "The Hearbreaker War": The Heartbreaker War is a campaign setting and character creation system designed to work with any fantasy RPG system.  You play…
In Playtesting
Participants: Simon C, Noclue, Lance D. Allen.

7/26/2009 kirby1024: Prime-time Adventures Season as a Con Game?
So, I've been rereading through my PTA book after a year or so of doing not a lot with it, and I suddenly hit on a cute idea that I…
In Dog Eared Designs
Participants: kirby1024, oliof, Standback, chance.thirteen.

7/26/2009 Neon White: [Sorcerer] Any groups/players in London?
Hi all, Are there any groups playing Sorcerer actively in London at the moment who could use another player?  Alternatively, are there any players about who would be interested in…
In Adept Press
Participants: Neon White, Ron Edwards, pfischer, Salar, The Magus, Neil the Wimp, GB Steve.

7/26/2009 Paul T: Trollbabe-ish setup lacking drama
About two months ago, I ran a one-session game using a simple homebrew ruleset based on Vincent Baker's Otherkind dice idea, designed specifically for three players. (Here's a link, if…
In Actual Play
Participants: Paul T, Ron Edwards, Noclue, jburneko, Arturo G., Andrew Norris, Eszed, Noon.

7/26/2009 Sebastian: First Questions - Should I self publish?
Hello, I'm new to this industry.  I don't plan to make it big, but I love designing games.  I think I've come up with something tasty and, like all the…
In Publishing
Participants: Sebastian, Lance D. Allen, preludetotheend, Ben Lehman, MatrixGamer, HeTeleports, greyorm, Selene Tan.

7/26/2009 Nocker: Schism and left controlled dice
Hello, 1) When you Schism, you take dice you control (i.e. you have Debt under) and place it on a new Side. But what if there is dice you control…
In Muse of Fire Games
Participants: Nocker, Dominic Claveau, TonyLB.

7/26/2009 David C: Other RPG design forums?
I'm basically just trying to find out what other RPG design forums are out there.  The Forge has its own culture and its own group of regulars, but sometimes you're…
In Connections
Participants: David C, Lance D. Allen, Patrice, ShallowThoughts, Frank Tarcikowski, Ron Edwards, Gregor Hutton, M. J. Young, greyorm.

7/25/2009 Christopher Kubasik: Sorcerer + Kids = "YAAAAY!"
I spent this past week in New Hampshire with my family.  Spotty Internet, no tv, a lovely lake, and lots of family gathered up in one house. My sister had…
In Actual Play
Participants: Christopher Kubasik, jburneko, Ron Edwards, Finarvyn, Eszed.

7/25/2009 Lance D. Allen: [Mage Blade]: Spellcasting
It's laughable to call this a first thought. I've taken magic back to formula almost as many times as character generation. So we'll call this a Born-Again First Thought. As…
In First Thoughts
Participants: Lance D. Allen, Simon C, brianbloodaxe, Bill_White, Johnstone.

7/24/2009 Certified: [Fractured Kingdom] Starting a new Play By Post Demo
I've posted several threads regarding Fractured Kingdom. For those interested I'm starting a Demo at Hero Central. This will be my last play test before Dragon*Con. Song of Silence
In Connections
Participants: Certified.

7/24/2009 ShallowThoughts: Distinguishing between good-good/bad-good, and simply boring actions
I realize the topic title is mystifying, so I'll explain. I'm working on a character growth/reward system (mentioned in a recent post Chits and the Void) where the PCs are…
In First Thoughts
Participants: ShallowThoughts, Luke, Patrice, dindenver, Lance D. Allen, anders_larsen.

7/24/2009 Marshall Burns: [Hex Rangers] Strange Fruit revisited
[i]Hex Rangers[/i] is my design that was formerly titled [i]Witch Trails[/i]. It’s a game of investigating and exterminating the paranormal in the American frontier. A couple weeks ago, I ran…
In Playtesting
Participants: Marshall Burns, Patrice, Simon C, DWeird, Mike Sugarbaker, davidberg, Noon, JoyWriter, Emmadexter1970, contracycle, charles ferguson, northerain.

7/24/2009 Mordy: RPGing on the Fly
I'm a long-term lurker (a couple years), but this is my first post. First I want to thank everyone on the forums for turning me onto some remarkable games, and…
In First Thoughts
Participants: Mordy, Luke, brianbloodaxe, Simon C, Vulpinoid.

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7/27/2009 7VII7: I can't think of a good subject to go here.
Ok, I've been thinking of making an rpg for awhile now, but so far I only have half-baked ideas and such, however I have several ideas about what I want…
In First Thoughts
Participants: 7VII7, lumpley, Luke, Alex Abate, Bill_White, Selene Tan, greyorm, JoyWriter, Paul Czege, Noon, Simon C.

7/28/2009 mjbauer: Game Design Conference
Is there such a conference? Should there be?
In Endeavor
Participants: mjbauer, Vulpinoid, Ron Edwards, Eero Tuovinen.

7/28/2009 MatrixGamer: "Thunder Hamsters and the Temple of Cheese" at the Hamster Press booth at Gen Co
My big release for this year's Gen Con is Thunder Hamsters. It's a hybrid boardgame/Engle Matrix Game in which hamster heroes run into the temple and steal things. When they…
In Conventions
Participants: MatrixGamer, Emily Care, hoefer.

7/28/2009 MatrixGamer: I'm really liking Adobe Illustrator!
Previously I've done my cover art layout in Photoshop but for my latest game I've been doing it in Illustrator. All I can say is wow! I've always been slow…
In Publishing
Participants: MatrixGamer, Airafice.

7/28/2009 Ayyavazi: Cyclical World Explosion and Premise
Ok, I'm trying to design a setting so that it encourages premise, that is, encourages narrativist roleplaying and doesn't fall into the "excuse to publish fiction" Ron hates so much.…
In First Thoughts
Participants: Ayyavazi, jasonm.

7/28/2009 Ayyavazi: What goes into a Genre?
Hello all, I realized that coming up with genres and example movies/books does not help people to craft stories using my game, since Genre is too broad a term. What…
In First Thoughts
Participants: Ayyavazi, dindenver, JoyWriter.

7/28/2009 agony: [Solar System] Porting BE's Firefight! Mechanic
I'm looking specifically to run a Mech/Combined Arms Sci-Fi campaign using Solar System.  I recently purchased some Mechwarrior Hero Clix and am looking to use these in the game.  My…
In Arkenstone Publishing
Participants: agony, Eero Tuovinen.

7/28/2009 Nocker: Claiming and treason
Sides are undifferentiated apart from the Characters who are allied to them and the actions that make them becoming allied. When you create a Conflict (e.g. The Villains take over…
In Muse of Fire Games
Participants: Nocker, JMendes, TonyLB.

7/28/2009 Wordman: Designing to constraints (airport games)
I can't tell if this post is really intended to design a real game, or just tripping over beehives. I think it is the former, but given my recent ranting…
In First Thoughts
Participants: Wordman, HeTeleports, Librabys, Doplegager, JoyWriter, Vladius, Guy Srinivasan.

7/28/2009 7VII7: TAROT (working title) stuff
Color: Classic fantasy elements with a new take on it, things like magic being a daily part of life, elves being more like aliens, dwarves incased cybernetic suits, etc, for…
In First Thoughts
Participants: 7VII7, markhaselb, Simon C, Adam Dray.

7/28/2009 jburneko: Basic Contain Mechanic Question
Hello, In the text it says that you can make a series of Lore vs. Stamina tests while constructing a Contain to generate bonus dice that will eventually add to…
In Adept Press
Participants: jburneko, Ron Edwards.

7/28/2009 Klaus_Welten: [Solar System] What differs from TSoY?
I red the SS first, but then I red TSoY and loved every piece of crunch and most of the fluff. So, in what do the games differ? What rules…
In Arkenstone Publishing
Participants: Klaus_Welten, Eero Tuovinen, oliof, StefanS.

7/29/2009 cra2: Vice vs Virtue
Need help with this mechanic idea... I took an old TSR Boot Hill module and replaced the resolution system with something fast - a trimmed down version of the Fuzion…
In First Thoughts
Participants: cra2, Luke, Lance D. Allen, Mike Sugarbaker, Simon C.

7/29/2009 Doplegager: (Path of Looting and Slaying) Elfs snuck into my fantasy parody...
In another playtesting thread, I've talked about about a poor playtest experience I had last week, with a focus on failure on the social level but touching on ways to…
In Playtesting
Participants: Doplegager, JoyWriter.

7/29/2009 Salar: [DiTV] Jedi in the Vineyard
Hi all, Got together with 2 friends last night and ran a game of Jedi in the Vineyard. A jedi master and padawan caught up in the turmoil of the…
In lumpley games
Participants: Salar, Narmical, lumpley, watergoesred, mike_the_pirate, henebry, Gareth_Lazelle.

7/29/2009 reveal: [ENnies] A quick update from the ENnies
Just a quick update from the ENnies. As of right now, 6009 individual voters have made their voices heard. With five days left for voting, I think we can reach…
In Conventions
Participants: reveal.

7/29/2009 Tyler.Tinsley: principled play Vs. lawful play and the "players contract"
I'm trying a little experiment with my latest project and it's helped me clear up some issues I have been having. On a lark I thought it would be a…
In First Thoughts
Participants: Tyler.Tinsley, HeTeleports, Luke, JoyWriter, Noon.

7/29/2009 mjbauer: Make Something Playable ASAP (Open to All)
[b]THE INSPIRATION[/b] While browsing through the forums I came across this bit of advice: [quote author=Alex Abate Biral link=topic=28395.msg267038#msg267038 date=1248721592] I do have one piece of advice: prototype! Thinking about…
In Endeavor
Participants: mjbauer, Thor, Ctrlphreak, M. Burrell, Paul Czege, noahtrammell, Ayyavazi, Bret Gillan.

7/29/2009 agony: Forced goals/conditions on players
  edit  whisperquote# 1 I'm working on a mechanic where damage received is translated to "Scars". Scars may only be healed by buying them off. Each Scar will have its…
In First Thoughts
Participants: agony, Simon C, Mike Sugarbaker, 7VII7, JoyWriter, Thor Olavsrud, Noon, Vladius.

7/29/2009 Lance D. Allen: [Mage Blade]: Spell Building
Okay! Once I have managed to get past this, I will really have no excuse to not finish and begin playtesting the hell out of my game. The magic system…
In First Thoughts
Participants: Lance D. Allen, brianbloodaxe, David C, 7VII7, Simon C, Geethree, Guy Srinivasan, Johnstone.

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