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7/26/2002 Sjohn: Any experiences with FinePrint PDF software?
Has anyone had much play with FinePrint? http://www.fineprint.com/ It's an alternative to Distiller for making PDFs (in Windows), very inexpensive. There's a lot more control than using something like Ghostscript,…
In Publishing
Participants: Sjohn, hive.

7/26/2002 Demonspahn: Played Dreamwalker with a first time GM (LONG)
Hi everyone. Just wanted to post some thoughts from a recent Dreamwalker session. This is a LONG post that covers some notes about my group as well as a run…
In Actual Play
Participants: Demonspahn.

7/25/2002 hyphz: Taking a plunge... (long and a bit waffly, sorry)
I know that a while ago on this group I posted some messages that related to being dissatisfied with a present gaming group. (Don't worry, this isn't another one of…
In Actual Play
Participants: hyphz, Gordon C. Landis, Le Joueur, Wart, Ron Edwards, Paul Czege, Ben Morgan, Mytholder, Walt Freitag, Zak Arntson.

7/25/2002 Nathan: New Era: 1950s Gaming on the Edge?
Hello folks. I have no updates on Rodendom, the Cross, or anything lately. I've been working on getting actionroll.com up and going, as well paying attention to my real life…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Nathan, Jason L Blair, Ron Edwards.

7/25/2002 Blake Hutchins: X-Games back in the Pool
Hello, With the stress and long hours incumbent with founding a startup company, I've found little time for gaming. Some of you may recall the short-lived X-games group I ran…
In Actual Play
Participants: Blake Hutchins, Ron Edwards, Le Joueur, Valamir.

7/25/2002 Matt Steflik: Inspectres - Interview variant
This is just the nugget of an idea, but I'd like to share it and see what folks think. Instead of starting with a franchise, player characters start the game…
In Memento-Mori Theatricks
Participants: Matt Steflik, Bailywolf.

7/19/2002 Michael Hopcroft: I'm beginning to wonder which is worse.....
Origins nerves or GenCon nevres. Even though I'll be at a rival booth, I have hopes that we can help each other out however we can. I hope that there…
In Publishing
Participants: Michael Hopcroft, Jürgen Mayer, Ron Edwards, Jared A. Sorensen, Eugene Zee.

7/25/2002 Ron Edwards: Otherkind in action
Hi there, I'm in the process of writing up my GenCon demo pack, including character sheets, scenario notes, NPCs, a system summary for games I don't know as well, etc.…
In Actual Play
Participants: Ron Edwards, Blake Hutchins, Bob McNamee, Dav, lumpley.

7/25/2002 Demonspahn: Playing as Belief
I once came up with a idea for a game in which the characters played "imaginary friends", protecting children (their wards) as best they could. Now I'm thinking Drop Dead…
In Key 20 Publishing
Participants: Demonspahn, Comte.

7/25/2002 Demonspahn: Banner creation
Hi everyone. It seems that banners are a big marketing tool for RPG's, I have clicked on many banners at RPGnet, but I don't recall seeing too many banner-related threads.…
In Publishing
Participants: Demonspahn, Michael Hopcroft, Matt, Mike Holmes, Ron Edwards, hive.

7/25/2002 Demonspahn: Dreamwalker demo
Hi everyone, I've been touting a free demo of Dreamwalker: Roleplaying in the Land of Dreams now for almost a week and am starting to second guess myself. I know…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Demonspahn, Ron Edwards, Mike Holmes.

7/25/2002 Zak Arntson: Promo Idea - Prizes for Reviewing
I'm not sure Publishing is the best place for it, but I'm experimenting with a way to pay for "advertising." Basically, I'm offering a 100x100 pixel icon based on a…
In Publishing
Participants: Zak Arntson, Ron Edwards, hive.

7/25/2002 xiombarg: John Wick Dead at 33
We might want to open the Wicked Press forum for a bit to post an announcement related to this: http://www.rpgnews.rpghost.com/article.php?sid=1613
In Site Discussion
Participants: xiombarg, Jason L Blair, Gordon C. Landis, Ben Morgan, Clinton R. Nixon.

7/25/2002 Tim Denee: Flawless victory! (new RPG: Final Stand)
Finally (hah) finished, my martial arty kung-fuey tekkeny RPG. Go put on the Mortal Kombat theme song and give it a read. Final Stand It's taken me an inordinate amount…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Tim Denee, Ron Edwards, Bailywolf, Rich Forest, Valamir, Kenway, Mike Holmes, ThreeGee.

7/25/2002 Mytholder: Friends in high places
I'm sitting here watching a chat over at enworld with Peter Adkinson, and the question comes up "who would Peter like to game with?". After the usual answer (Tweet, Greg…
In Adept Press
Participants: Mytholder, Clinton R. Nixon, jburneko, Paul Czege, Christopher Kubasik, Mike Holmes, Ron Edwards, PeterAdkison, Uncle Dark, Jürgen Mayer.

7/24/2002 Clinton R. Nixon: The Riddle of Steel review up
The Riddle of Steel review is up in the reviews section.
In Site Discussion
Participants: Clinton R. Nixon, Jake Norwood.

7/24/2002 Clinton R. Nixon: Layout and DTP
For the people here actually publishing games, what are you using for your layout and design? Are you using a DTP program, like Quark or Photoshop, or are you using…
In Publishing
Participants: Clinton R. Nixon, Matt Gwinn, Jason L Blair, Jake Norwood, Matt Snyder, Nathan, Adam, Eugene Zee, Matt, hive, mahoux, Ben Morgan, Jack Spencer Jr, Michael Hopcroft, Tim Denee, woodelf, Tim Gray, Matt Wilson, Clay.

7/24/2002 Jake Norwood: Gods of War: Blowing Things All to Hell
I've got the basic resolution mechanics to Gods of War: Blowing Things All to Hell worked out and on my site at http://www.theriddleofsteel.com/otherstuff/GodsOfWar.htm take a look. Note that as I…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Jake Norwood, Mike Holmes.

7/24/2002 Ron Edwards: Mini-supplement finance news
Hey there, Dav Harnish just sent me this email ... I just sold my 75th copy of HELLBOUND! Whoopie!! At $4.55 per copy to me (except the first 12, which…
In Adept Press
Participants: Ron Edwards, Clinton R. Nixon, Jared A. Sorensen, Dav, greyorm.

7/24/2002 Jake Norwood: Version 2 of Brian's Combat Sim is up
http://www.theriddleofsteel.com/support/ Check it out. Also, Brian, why don't you hop on and tell us what's new. Jake
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: Jake Norwood, Sneaky Git, Durgil, Brian Leybourne.

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7/26/2002 Clinton R. Nixon: New game (Paladin!) and new forum
Hey, everyone - I've got a forum now. After looking at how many posts there were about Donjon, Ron and I decided to give me my own little forum here.…
In CRN Games
Participants: Clinton R. Nixon, Jake Norwood, Valamir, greyorm, Zak Arntson, Tim Denee, Ben Morgan.

7/26/2002 Uncle Dark: Adventures in Ralios
Heya, I'm planning a game set in Ralios, centered in along the Doskior River as it creates the border of Delia, Saug, and Vustria. I have a vague idea about…
In HeroQuest
Participants: Uncle Dark, Ian Cooper.

7/26/2002 Le Joueur: You May Be at a Disadvantage, But It's Gonna Cost You!
There's something I've been thinking about for some time. (Hiding it from game design actually.) Everyone knows Scattershot is a fairly familiar 'buy abilities with points during character creation' game,…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Le Joueur, Seth L. Blumberg, Zak Arntson, Ron Edwards, Mike Holmes, xiombarg, Valamir, Andrew Martin, efindel, Philippe Tromeur, Paul Czege.

7/26/2002 Seth L. Blumberg: Google indexing the Forums?
Check out what I found while ego-surfing. Can we get a /robots.txt that excludes search engines from the Forums, please? I don't necessarily want a prospective employer to be looking…
In Site Discussion
Participants: Seth L. Blumberg, Clinton R. Nixon, Zak Arntson, Matt Snyder, Le Joueur, Victor Gijsbers, Paul Czege.

7/26/2002 Paul Czege: Social Contract and Synthesis
Hey Mike, JB, On the X-Games back in the Pool thread, Ron wrote: Related to that, regarding the Social Contract issue (and I recognize that "social contract" is…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Paul Czege, Ron Edwards, Mike Holmes, Wolfen, Valamir, Le Joueur.

7/26/2002 Jake Norwood: I want it on one page or a pdf
Okay, I'm sick of it. I want to read and get (as in "understand") Scattershot really badly, but I can't get it from a hundred random posts full of inter-line…
In Scattershot
Participants: Jake Norwood, Seth L. Blumberg, Le Joueur, damion.

7/26/2002 Paul Czege: Second-guessing Self in Synthesis
Mike, JB, So, I've been reading Synthesis. And I have to say, I literally can't envision how Self will play out during an actual scenario. PCs always have a…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Paul Czege, Mike Holmes.

7/26/2002 greyorm: Indie Netgaming Monday: Otherkind
Well I ran a game of Otherkind last Monday night in our channel (#indierpgs ) on the magicstar IRC network, and we continued it on Tuesday night. I must say…
In Actual Play
Participants: greyorm, Valamir, Ron Edwards, Blake Hutchins, Andrew Martin, Bob McNamee.

7/27/2002 Paul Czege: The Rest of Synthesis
Hey Mike, JB, Here's the remainder of my comments and reactions to Synthesis, all crammed into one big post. Text in red is from the game document. Bold text subheads…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Paul Czege, Syphon, J B Bell, Mike Holmes.

7/27/2002 Hoser: Hoody-hoo!
[color=darkred][/color] Hello folks! I am new to the board and to the game. I am in the process of moving, and packed up all of my books and minis and…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: Hoser.

7/27/2002 Jason L Blair: Can I just say... Holy shit!
Peter Adkison, uberhomes behind GenCon, has joined The Forge. Now, how cool would it be to work with him on elevating the Indie Booth from a simple you+me+devotees to a…
In GenCon Planning and Organization
Participants: Jason L Blair, Ron Edwards, Clinton R. Nixon.

7/27/2002 Jake Norwood: Bladeslingers
Most of you have read (or should have read) Ron Edward's Review of TROS here at the forge (www.indie-rpgs.com/reviews/). In it he refers to the seemingly out-of-place role of the…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: Jake Norwood, Wolfen, Blake Hutchins, Bob Richter, Rattlehead, Sneaky Git, Brian Leybourne, Lyrax, Mokkurkalfe, Gordon C. Landis, Silanthous, Roy, Chade.

7/27/2002 Fnork de Sporg: My Lawer has Shark Teeth
[a href="http://www.geocities.com/fnorkdesporg/my-lawyer-has-shark-teeth.html"]Here[/a] is the rough draft of the basic outline of my very first ever indie game, My Lawyer has Shark Teeth, the competitive game of vicious legal combat. IT…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Fnork de Sporg, Ron Edwards.

7/28/2002 Jason L Blair: I got a rack.
You can check it out here: http://www.key20.com/images/mag-rack.jpg I got it from Rob Stone (Citizen Games). He's going to deliver it to me at GenCon. It has 20 8.5x11 slots.
In GenCon Planning and Organization
Participants: Jason L Blair, Ron Edwards.

7/28/2002 Riddlemaster: Sorcery questions
OK need yoru help here got many questions about sorcery and hope you guiys can help 1. Mage gets jumped in alley.. assuming no suprise he and the mugger square…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: Riddlemaster, Lyrax, Bob Richter, Wolfen, Sneaky Git, Jake Norwood, Brian Leybourne, Silanthous, [FHE]dave, Shadeling.

7/28/2002 Philippe Tromeur: Dice roll : an attempt at something new [imajica]
For one of my projects (Imajica in its very early stage : http://imajica.tk ), I'm devising a new way to roll six-sided dice. Here are the main ideas : -…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Philippe Tromeur, Jesse Paulsen, Jake Norwood, ks13, Mike Holmes, Ron Edwards, M. J. Young, Tim Gray.

7/28/2002 Jake Norwood: Driftwood Mini-Con: [b]Three games![/b] (long)
Yesterday I managed to take a day off work and put together a gaming group for a really mini mini game convention. We played from 3pm until 2am, with a…
In Actual Play
Participants: Jake Norwood, Ron Edwards, Jason L Blair, Zak Arntson.

7/28/2002 Rich Forest: Shotgun Musashi
Hi all, While editing octaNe, I finally decided that it was time to write up one of my game ideas and get it out there. So I sat down and…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Rich Forest, Mike Holmes.

7/28/2002 ShaneNINE: Questions about armor
So I'm making my first character and I get to the equipment part and I'm rather surprised to see there's only leather, chain, and plate. What about boiled leather, scale,…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: ShaneNINE, Jake Norwood, Brian Leybourne.

7/28/2002 Brian Leybourne: Sigh.. another group bites the dust
Had an RPG group collapse last night. It's never nice when that happens. Bascially, I have 2 groups. One is comprised of brilliant roleplayers, we have been together for 6…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: Brian Leybourne, Wolfen, PosterX, Jürgen Mayer, Ron Edwards, Bob Richter, Valamir.

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