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8/5/2009 sockmonkey: [Chronoplex] The Coin Mechanic Thing
This post is based on feedback I received in a previous post: ...Assuing that rolling "1c8" means flipping all four coins (you have given no other situation in which you…
In First Thoughts
Participants: sockmonkey, JoyWriter.

8/5/2009 reveal: [ENnies] Announcing the 2009 ENnies Dream Date Auctions
The 2009 ENnie Awards Dream Date Auctions have begun! Listed below you will find direct links to the auctions themselves. The publishers have really gone all out this year and…
In Conventions
Participants: reveal, Gregor Hutton.

8/5/2009 Geethree: "Recipe"-based Magic System - how to resolve/refine?
I am working on a magic system loosely inspired by the novel Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell. For those unfamiliar, essentially it is not combat-centric. It is more general folklore-y…
In First Thoughts
Participants: Geethree, Mike Sugarbaker, Creatures of Destiny, JoyWriter, Lance D. Allen, jasonm, Xeven.

8/5/2009 reason: thoughts on Lulu vs Lightning Source
Publishing The Later Tome of Amaxathroth the Cursed is as much a learning endeavor as anything else. Learn layout, learn the PDF culture, learn POD, learn printing culture. So here…
In Publishing
Participants: reason.

8/5/2009 TonyLB: Misery Bubblegum: My New Game
So, some folks know that I've been working over three years now on my next game.  It's called Misery Bubblegum.  It's about sad, strong, vulnerable, glorious people trying to find…
In Muse of Fire Games
Participants: TonyLB, Paul Czege, jrs, Paka, SaintandSinner.

8/5/2009 cra2: The Law: Territorial Authority vs Steward vs Dogs
I've done a search on Territorial Authority and still haven't quite come to a concrete picture in my head. Was hoping someone could help me... In terms of "law enforcement"…
In lumpley games
Participants: cra2, Lance D. Allen, lumpley, jburneko, Noclue, Danny_K, hix.

8/5/2009 Ron Edwards: [S/Lay w/Me] Wham Bam
Sometimes something comes along, mentally, which makes me willing to take risks. It's happened again this year. Late in 2008, Sean (username Calithena here and elsewhere) contacted me to write…
In Publishing
Participants: Ron Edwards, Gregor Hutton.

8/5/2009 Patrice: [Tales of the Dragon Lords]The Setting
I wasn't planning to post anymore in First Thoughts about Tales of the Dragon Lords but Evan's thread gave me a good motivation to do so when he stated in…
In First Thoughts
Participants: Patrice, Paul Czege, whiteknife, M. Burrell, noahtrammell, Noclue, C. Edwards, JoyWriter.

8/5/2009 Galadrin: Tolkien-esque Storytelling RPG
After taking a BIG break from my hobbies (board games, pen & paper games, wargames etc), my interest in game design seeped back into my life rather naturally.  I was…
In First Thoughts
Participants: Galadrin, jerry, Noclue, chance.thirteen, anders_larsen, Luke, Guy Srinivasan, brianbloodaxe, noahtrammell, 7VII7, RobNJ, contracycle, Alokov.

8/5/2009 Benajmin385: Planing an Wargame RPG kind of Game... Will this be allowed on the forge?
Hey my name is Benjamin aka Benjamin385. I have been trying to make an RPG-war game for quite an while now. I am asking if this will be allowed on…
In First Thoughts
Participants: Benajmin385, Vulpinoid, Simon C, mjbauer, greyorm, David C.

8/4/2009 AzaLiN: [d&d4e] Puzzles in RPGs
Is anyone else here as big a fan of adventure games as I am? (Monkey Island, Day of the Tentacle, Scratches, Nostradamus...) I really like puzzles in games; maybe problem…
In Actual Play
Participants: AzaLiN, Ron Edwards, Simon C, otspiii, Noon, ShallowThoughts, cra2, Evlyn, chronoplasm, FredGarber, DWeird.

8/4/2009 Silicon God: FIRST POST! - Yet another Homebrew Mecha RPG, but this one's tactical for once
Hello, I've been posting on a number of tabletop/RPG sites a while, trying to get feedback on my creation. So, what's it? Its a tactical RPG. (while I know that…
In First Thoughts
Participants: Silicon God, Noclue, contracycle, MacLeod, Ron Edwards, mjbauer, Simon C, Mike Sugarbaker.

8/3/2009 paddirn: Performance based skill gain?
I'm curious what sorts of things other people have come across when trying to make skill gain more "realistic". The mechanic I'm attempting to incorporate is having players only able…
In First Thoughts
Participants: paddirn, Luke, Simon C, chance.thirteen, 7VII7, Geethree, sockmonkey, Creatures of Destiny, Vulpinoid, JoyWriter.

8/3/2009 Marshall Burns: Coffee & Cigarettes Live Action Roleplay
COFFEE & CIGARETTES LIVE ACTION ROLEPLAY inspired by the film by Jim Jarmusch This game is for two players and a director. Each player chooses a famous person to portray.…
In Beyond the Wire Productions
Participants: Marshall Burns.

8/3/2009 cra2: Organizing Conflict
Hi, Am reading over the rules again trying to get comfortable before I run my first game. Could some of you experienced Dogs GMs chime in and sort out how…
In lumpley games
Participants: cra2, lumpley, Noclue, jburneko, Eliarhiman6, Web_Weaver.

8/3/2009 Markku Tuovinen: [Solar System] Drive to Win - sample scenario for Solar System
Here's the deal: I happened to watch the movie 2 Fast 2 Furious a couple of weeks after my latest dose of Solar System with Eero and it clicked really…
In Arkenstone Publishing
Participants: Markku Tuovinen.

8/3/2009 Simon C: [The Heartbreaker War] Its Glory is all Moonshine
Based on the proceedings of the last thread on this game, I substantially changed the rules of the game, with excellent effects.  Playtesting the game some more, it's reliably producing…
In Playtesting
Participants: Simon C, lumpley.

8/2/2009 Nick Pagnucco: wrestling/grapping secrets
I'm trying to think of some secrets for grappling / wrestling, but I'm drawing a blank.  This is the only thing I've come up with so far, and I'm not…
In Arkenstone Publishing
Participants: Nick Pagnucco, Eero Tuovinen.

8/2/2009 Simon C: istockphoto and POD
I'm a little troubled by this line of text in istockphoto's license conditions: License restrictions Here is what you cannot do with either a Standard or Extended license: Prohibited…
In Publishing
Participants: Simon C, Nathan P., Lance D. Allen.

8/2/2009 SaintandSinner: Indie Games at DragonCon
I will be running the following games at DragonCon in Atlanta, September 4th - 7th, 2009.  More information for all these games may be found at http://gaming.dragoncon.org/ Secrets of the…
In Conventions
Participants: SaintandSinner.

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8/6/2009 Charlie Gilb: [the Waste] Resolution: succeeding by getting stabbed in the face
Hello, A few months ago, I posted a few threads both in this forums and on Story-Games about my post-apocalyptic RPG called 'the Waste'. Following that, I have done a…
In First Thoughts
Participants: Charlie Gilb, noahtrammell, RobNJ, Luke, Creatures of Destiny, JoyWriter.

8/6/2009 SaintandSinner: Games on Demand Table Custodians
We have requested tables for Games on Demand Fri 10am-2pm Fri 2pm-6pm Sat 10am-2pm Sat 2pm-6pm Sun 10am-2pm. We need table custodians to monitor this area and to take up…
In Conventions
Participants: SaintandSinner, joepub.

8/6/2009 MacLeod: [Vice & Virtue] My Attempt At Creating Roleplaying Mechanics
For the longest time I have been hating on roleplaying incentives and roleplay controlling mechanics. Recently, however, I've decided that I'd like to try my hand at designing such a…
In First Thoughts
Participants: MacLeod, Dan Maruschak, Guy Srinivasan, Geethree, Steenan, JoyWriter, SeeThirty, Vladius.

8/7/2009 jburneko: Breaking Binding Question
The text has information about what happens if a demon wants to break a binding.  What happens if a Sorcerer wants to break a binding? In specific I had a…
In Adept Press
Participants: jburneko, James_Nostack, Ron Edwards, lachek.

8/7/2009 JRSwift: Group made rpg?
So, I have a family member that is trying to get people online to contribute to this "player created" setting for like a d&d or pathfinder game.  I am trying…
In First Thoughts
Participants: JRSwift, Luke, PhoenixFireRPG, GregStolze.

8/7/2009 PhoenixFireRPG: Looking for ideas and help with a player created setting
Hi!  I am beginning work on a project right now which essentially is (hopefully) going to be a player created setting.  The game is pretty much 3.5 basic rules (few…
In Connections
Participants: PhoenixFireRPG, Clay.

8/5/2009 Catelf: Seeking playtesters
Hi. I do hope it works this time... I'm a total newbie at this "chatting", so i don't quite know how it works, but i think i'll learn fast.. However,…
In Connections
Participants: Catelf, Ron Edwards, Anthony Sheets, FireInLight.

8/7/2009 Simon C: [Dogs] A couple of questions
I ran a pretty intense game of Dogs last night, and it was super fun, but a couple of things came up that I didn't quite know how to deal…
In lumpley games
Participants: Simon C, cra2, Noclue, Lance D. Allen.

8/7/2009 SaintandSinner: Games on Demand Banner
If anyone wanted to get the word out about Games on Demand we would really appreciated it if you'd put this in your blogs, signatures at forums, etc. The banner…
In Conventions
Participants: SaintandSinner.

8/7/2009 cra2: [Contenders] Scene Types, playing aid
http://www.cra2.com/games/rpg/contenders/Scene Type Grid.doc I made this single-page reference doc for Contenders and showed it to Joe Prince who suggested I post it here in Actual Play to see…
In Actual Play
Participants: cra2, Ron Edwards.

8/7/2009 gyulakov: Number of Players?
Hi everyone, I just got Dogs in the Vineyard and am eager to run a game or two. One question that I have, though, revolves around how many players the…
In lumpley games
Participants: gyulakov, cra2.

8/7/2009 lachek: Modifying Binding strength, revisited
Over here Ron is saying that Binding strength can improve in the demon's favour (i.e. either weaken towards 0 if the Sorcerer has the upper hand, or strengthen away from…
In Adept Press
Participants: lachek, Ron Edwards.

8/8/2009 RobNJ: [Gen Con] Designers: Do you want GOD to run your game?
[url=http://johnpaul613.livejournal.com/]Scott Acker[/url], [url=http://tckroleplaying.com/Games.html]Tim Koppang[/url], and [url=http://playcollective.org/]The Play Collective[/url] are getting together to run [url=http://www.museoffire.com/Games/GoD/]Games on Demand[/url]* at [url=http://gencon.com/]Gen Con[/url] this year. We'd probably** love to run your game. If you…
In Conventions
Participants: RobNJ, Darcy Burgess, Ben Lehman, SaintandSinner, Gregor Hutton.

8/8/2009 Librabys: my game system feels reject
I just cannot figure where to put it! It is maybe a full page or a little more of text describing the basics of my system, to open a discussion…
In Site Discussion
Participants: Librabys, Ron Edwards, Noclue, Ben Lehman.

8/8/2009 drkrash: For fans of Street Fighter, King of Fighters, etc. [playtesting]
If you are interested in playtesting the combat system of a new tabletop role-playing game that is meant to capture the feel of Street Fighter, King of Fighters, Guilty Gear,…
In Connections
Participants: drkrash, otspiii.

8/8/2009 jasonm: [Card Printing/Packaging] Hey Tony
Hey Tony! I want to pick your brain about Misery Bubblegum.  I understand you are producing this game as a single deck of cards with 1-2 pages of rules and…
In Publishing
Participants: jasonm, TonyLB, Tyler.Tinsley, guildofblades, Double King, matthijs, David Artman, Andy Kitkowski, Ron Edwards, Paul Czege.

8/8/2009 Librabys: {AethEra} : The System.
Hi to all the folks interested in the development of AethEra!   I don't think It is still worthwhile to read the playtest post on AethEra, Because The game changed…
In Playtesting
Participants: Librabys, Dan Maruschak, Noclue, Vladius, Simon C.

8/8/2009 Klaus_Welten: [Solar System] How does the Secret of Equipment work?
So, in the PDF I read: The character possesses a rated piece of equipment, represented by a freely preserved Effect. (If the character creates the equipment himself, he has to…
In Arkenstone Publishing
Participants: Klaus_Welten, Courage75, Eero Tuovinen.

8/8/2009 Capulet: Forge Booth Gen Con Indy 2009: Product Giveaways
I plan on doing occasional book give-aways for the original core book Factions at War when I am at the booth this year. My goal is to leave all of…
In Conventions
Participants: Capulet.

8/8/2009 Elizabeth: How do I make relationships important in my Burn Notice-inspired spy game?
So I've been hard at work on a new game inspired by one of my favorite TV shows, Burn Notice. The premise of my game is that you're all a…
In First Thoughts
Participants: Elizabeth, Alokov, Noclue, Noon, chance.thirteen, Luke, SeeThirty, jasonm, dindenver.

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