Previous Topics 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 mjbauer: Game Design Conference
Is there such a conference? Should there be?
In Endeavor
Participants: mjbauer, Vulpinoid, Ron Edwards, Eero Tuovinen.
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.
7/27/2009 Librabys: Aethera and the kill power 19
Hi, I am designing a game, and reading here since few weeks. I've red all the articles and some posts, and I would like to put my concept on the…
In First Thoughts
Participants: Librabys, Noclue, Ron Edwards, markhaselb, Simon C, Ben Lehman.
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.
<< more previous topics | | Subsequent Topics 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
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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.
7/30/2009 Librabys: {AethEra}
Here I shall post all about what is going on in AethEra!
You are invited to post any comment or questions as well
First I will copy (and edit) a…
In Playtesting
Participants: Librabys, Adam Dray, Ben Lehman.
7/30/2009 Eero Tuovinen: Ha ha haa, I finished my TSoY book after all
I haven't worked this hard since 2005, but we did manage to put the book together complete and ready for print after all. I posted the cover and table of…
In Arkenstone Publishing
Participants: Eero Tuovinen, Paul Czege, Patrice, Nick Pagnucco.
7/30/2009 Adam Dray: Get the most out of posting your new game idea to First Thoughts
I have been a Forge member for a long time, with varying degrees of activity. I'm not the forum moderator (Ron Edwards is -- this post is advice, not rules).…
In First Thoughts
Participants: Adam Dray, MacLeod, markhaselb, Lance D. Allen, Librabys, Simon C, Ben Lehman, 7VII7, Luke, greyorm, Vulpinoid, Paka, SeeThirty.
7/30/2009 RadethDart: Fatal Destiny: Path of Choice [NEW RELEASE]
[i]Moderator note: all images have been removed from this post. Please do not include images in your Forge posts without permission from me - Ron Edwards[/i]
[i]Moderator note 2: this…
In Connections
Participants: RadethDart.
7/31/2009 red_herring: Agon Trophy for GenCon 09
GenCon is just two weeks away... check out this year's trophy for my group's Agon session http://picasaweb.google.com/mr.phillewis/Agon09?feat=email#... should also have some pictures of Agon Board 2.0 (almost finished)...
-phil
In one.seven design
Participants: red_herring, demiurgeastaroth, John Harper.
7/31/2009 Adam Black: Affordable, Professional Illustration
Hi, all--
I had so much fun illustrating Ron's S/Lay W/Me, that I thought I'd jump in here and let everyone know I'd like to do more.
I'm a professional…
In Connections
Participants: Adam Black, Adam Dray, greyorm, Ron Edwards.
7/31/2009 Jedyte: How do you record?
Hi guys,
Just played my first Universalis game. The thing my group had some difficulty with doing in a clear way, is keep the Record. How do you guys do…
In Universalis
Participants: Jedyte, EvilCat, Valamir.
7/31/2009 DWeird: Napkins, crayons, utter annihilation
Hi!
I'm taking a break from my other stuff that's slowly brewing (no! really! there's progress!), and decided to go for something silly and childish instead...
You're a crew on…
In First Thoughts
Participants: DWeird, Mike Sugarbaker, Geethree.
7/31/2009 RobNJ: Chaosium's Cthulhu license?
Hey folks,
I've heard rumor that Chaosium claims to be able to license the word "Cthulhu" for use in role playing game publications. Is that true? Given that HPL's shit…
In Publishing
Participants: RobNJ, Adam Dray, preludetotheend, Ron Edwards, chance.thirteen.
7/31/2009 Aumpa: [D&D 4e] Using D&D for Introduction to Roleplaying?
Hello! I'm glad I found this site. After taking a 10 year break from roleplaying, I'm trying to get back into it again, and I want to be educated about…
In Actual Play
Participants: Aumpa, Noon, Ron Edwards, JoyWriter, Jasper Flick, Caldis, Patrice, lachek.
7/31/2009 Togman1: Superior POD launches PUBLISHERS WAREHOUSE
Superior POD has officially launched our PUBLISHERS WAREHOUSE. You can now print, publish and sell your product designs all in one place!
Superior POD acts as your warehouse and order…
In Publishing
Participants: Togman1, Tyler.Tinsley.
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