Previous Topics 8/20/2009 Jonathan Walton: Help Me Find the Roots of Game Chef! Hey there,
In preparation for this year's Game Chef design challenge, I'm trying to find information about the contest that Jared Sorensen and Clinton Nixon ran in 2001 on the… In Endeavor Participants: Jonathan Walton.
8/19/2009 Ben Lehman: Putting Together a One-Sheet So I'm going to be running a Sorcerer game inspired by the Anime / Novel series <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spice_and_Wolf">Spice and Wolf.</a> If you haven't seen it, and you're a Sorcerer fan,… In Adept Press Participants: Ben Lehman, Ron Edwards.
8/19/2009 Courage75: [Solar System] Modelling WtF Werewolves - Shapeshifting & Regeneration Hi All,
This post relates to my monthly Werewolf: the Forsaken game, which I converted to Solar System a while back. I am having problems with handling shapeshifting and the… In Arkenstone Publishing Participants: Courage75, Eero Tuovinen, Klaus_Welten.
8/19/2009 7VII7: TAROT Contracts In my game the character's powers stem from a contract with a supenatural entity called a CARD (mainly because I have nothing else to call it right now), I'm currently… In First Thoughts Participants: 7VII7.
8/19/2009 Ron Edwards: Introduction to the First Thoughts forum: read here first You are working on a new game. You're excited about it. You want to share your idea with others, get feedback on it, and make it better. That's why you're… In First Thoughts Participants: Ron Edwards.
8/18/2009 Ron Edwards: Forge posting etiquette policy [b]I. About the forums[/b]
The purpose of The Forge forums is to promote the design, development, and publication of independent role-playing games. We do not care if the game's sold… In Site Discussion Participants: Ron Edwards.
7/16/2009 rafial: Re: Buying my games (split - no posting here please) [quote]Coming soon: Trollbabe[/quote]
[i]faints in silent glee[/i]
edited to un-sticky - RE In Adept Press Participants: rafial, pfischer, James_Nostack, Spooky Fanboy.
8/18/2009 7VII7: [TAROT] Arc Creation I want to make it easy to make a story arc / adventure / what have you, so I made it so basically the GM could fill out several of… In First Thoughts Participants: 7VII7, Adam Dray.
8/18/2009 Gib: Magic Effects I have been long contemplating the various definitions for various types of magic. I see overlap in quite a few and want to stop splitting hairs and reduce redundancy. Here's… In First Thoughts Participants: Gib, Simon C, ShallowThoughts, 7VII7.
8/18/2009 kaevad: [RPG Nation] New rule set being designed, would love feeback Hi all,
I'm so glad i have found this site!, its just what I have been looking for!
I'm the owner of a new traditional pencil and paper Role Playing… In First Thoughts Participants: kaevad, Mike Sugarbaker, Adam Dray, 7VII7.
8/18/2009 Lance D. Allen: [Mage Blade] Let's Play a Game... So, I'm doing a little exercise here that I would like you Forgeites to help me out with. This is not actually the start to a game. It's a streamlined… In Playtesting Participants: Lance D. Allen, 7VII7, DWeird, Ron Edwards, Bret Gillan, MacLeod, telperion, contracycle, Darcy Burgess.
8/18/2009 Ron Edwards: Trollbabe The book debuted at GenCon, and a copy or two was in fact bought.
Copies are now, or very soon will be, in the hands of my fulfiller. When I… In Adept Press Participants: Ron Edwards, Antoine F, pfischer, skatay, James_Nostack, droog, GreatWolf, jburneko, Arturo G., Paka, Aaron, Gregor Hutton, Finarvyn, kallisti_dk, rafial.
8/18/2009 Adam Dray: Get the most out of First Thoughts (I have consolidated the ideas in two threads at the request of Ron Edwards, the forum moderator.)
You are working on a new game. You're excited about it. You want… In First Thoughts Participants: Adam Dray, Ron Edwards.
8/18/2009 pipebomb: Secondhand Destinies, a simple playing card game [b]Secondhand Destinies (working title)
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This game was conceived on the walk home from work and hammered out sat on the floor with a deck of playing cards, scrawling in… In First Thoughts Participants: pipebomb, Adam Dray.
8/18/2009 7VII7: [TAROT] resolution I've been thinking on how to handle task / conflict resolutions and have come up with the following;
1) Characters encounter an obstacle (Bob is walking along a mountain path… In First Thoughts Participants: 7VII7, Vladius, dindenver.
8/18/2009 Morgan Coldsoul: What's in a name? Hi there! Morgan with Cat-Powered Raygun Studios, here; new user, first post. Thought I'd get some general input on an idea or two here. The questions are:
1) How important… In First Thoughts Participants: Morgan Coldsoul, 7VII7, mjbauer, JoyWriter, Ken, khyron1144.
8/18/2009 Tyler.Tinsley: typical story structure for an rpg session I'm a little stuck and brain dead, posting here helps sometimes so here we go.
so what kind of story structure do you like in an rpg? and what structure… In First Thoughts Participants: Tyler.Tinsley, Simon C, 7VII7, Noon, Vulpinoid, Klaus Graziade.
8/18/2009 wrshamilton: [Misspent Youth] Culture Jamming the Foundation This is like my fifth post, and was maybe my second story game, so please feel free to let me know how I could be more helpful with Actual Plays… In Playtesting Participants: wrshamilton, RobNJ.
8/17/2009 7VII7: [TAROT] GM vs GMless I had planned on making TAROT GMless as to common opinion GMing is a thankless, boring task and in my opinion alot of potential RPers are put off by the… In First Thoughts Participants: 7VII7, Vladius, Mike Sugarbaker, Adam Dray, dindenver.
8/17/2009 noahtrammell: [IAWA] Anthology Engine While reading around about In a Wicked Age, I came across mentions of a "Shamed" condition. I was surprised that the Anthology Engine wasn't exclusive to IAWA. Are there… In lumpley games Participants: noahtrammell, lumpley.
<< more previous topics | | Subsequent Topics 8/20/2009 Ben Lehman: Trying to Figure out Misery Bubblegum Hey, Tony. I have a few questions about the rules of Misery Bubblegum.
Role and Personality. Random or not?
What are "GM cards?" are they just GM-held play cards.
The… In Muse of Fire Games Participants: Ben Lehman, TonyLB, Paul Czege.
8/20/2009 Seamus: Advertising We're putting out our first book in December, a modern RPG with it's own system. Not sure the best place to put ads for this sort of thing. Also not… In Publishing Participants: Seamus, Luke.
8/20/2009 Michael S. Miller: Making the epic of history come alive I've got a game idea in my head. It's been there in one form or another for over a decade. I think it might be ready to be born.
I… In First Thoughts Participants: Michael S. Miller, Luke, jasonm, JoyWriter, contracycle, Bill_White, Vladius, RobNJ, Patrice, Eusebius, Ron Edwards, Joshua BishopRoby, Double King, epweissengruber.
8/20/2009 dindenver: [SteamPunk Crescendo] I think I have my mechanics down, what do you think? All,
Here is the basic outline of my mechanics (sorry it is so long):
There are six possible outcomes that can happen when a player declares their character's… In First Thoughts Participants: dindenver, Mike Sugarbaker, 7VII7.
8/21/2009 Nathan P.: The Dance and the Dawn The Dance and the Dawn is a lovely fairy tale romance game, written by Dev Purkayastha. He in fact originally wrote it for Game Chef 2004, hosted right here on… In ndp design Participants: Nathan P..
8/21/2009 noahtrammell: Versus International OK, here's a hairbrained idea I came up with a few days ago. This is one of those games I will probably, no, almost definitely never make, but that's… In First Thoughts Participants: noahtrammell.
8/21/2009 7VII7: [TAROT] Remanent My game is inspired greatly by Shounen Manga and in it the heros often have something in their life that sometimes dramatically effects what they do that could make them… In First Thoughts Participants: 7VII7, dindenver.
8/21/2009 mjbauer: Players Creating Their Own Opposition Is it possible for players to create opposition for each other in an atmosphere that is cooperative?
I've been playing with the idea of rewarding players for creating interesting opposition… In First Thoughts Participants: mjbauer, Eliarhiman6, Noon, Vulpinoid, jasonm, HeTeleports, RobNJ, Bill_White, dmkdesigns.
8/21/2009 BrunoDeLaBomba: playing your favorite song hello there everybody.
i was listening to william shatners spoken word version of rocket man about 10 minutes ago and i got an idea for a game were you pick… In First Thoughts Participants: BrunoDeLaBomba, JoyWriter, Lance D. Allen, 7VII7, Mike Sugarbaker, Vulpinoid.
8/21/2009 Mackie: Need - how tough? DIscussing Sorcerer a few days ago over some pints, a topic came up that I had wondered about. How "tough" should a demons needs be?
On the one hand, you… In Adept Press Participants: Mackie, 5niper9, Ron Edwards.
8/21/2009 Nathan P.: Re-Branding Hi everyone,
I've rebranded my publishing endeavors, one result of which is that the Hamsterprophet Productions forum hosted here on the Forge is now the ndp design forum. Announcements of… In Site Discussion Participants: Nathan P..
8/21/2009 Jonathan Walton: [Game Chef 2009] Mark Your Calendars for Aug 31 Game Chef 2009 will start on Monday, Aug 31. This should allow folks to finish and submit whatever they're doing for Jake's contest.
The weekend before, Aug 29-30, I will… In Endeavor Participants: Jonathan Walton, Eero Tuovinen, Ben Lehman, Frank Tarcikowski, Tark, Paul Czege, David Artman.
8/21/2009 Morgan Coldsoul: [Dragon Scroll] An introduction to the new game Based on our already ongoing discussion, and the suggestion of JoyWriter, I thought I would go ahead and post an intro to our project before I jumped too far ahead… In First Thoughts Participants: Morgan Coldsoul, Ron Edwards, JoyWriter, Caldis, Noon, charles ferguson, yoyohh.
8/22/2009 dauvis: Seeking information for firearm system For about the last year and half, I've been working on my own game system off and on. The system is a universal system and I am trying to support… In First Thoughts Participants: dauvis, Bill_White, Capulet.
8/22/2009 Narmical: [DitV] Interview with Vincent Baker about Dogs In The Vineyard I have just relesed part 1 of a two part interview with Vincent Baker you may be interested in. In the interview we talk with Vincent about the design of… In lumpley games Participants: Narmical, mike_the_pirate.
8/22/2009 Ayyavazi: [D&D 4e] God it feels good to DM again! Hey all,
Many of you have probably heard I don't have a group and haven't really played in a year or so (any game that is). Thankfully, that changed yesterday.… In Actual Play Participants: Ayyavazi, Rustin.
8/22/2009 hix: Boot Camp at GenCon How did the boot camp go, Christopher? What did you learn? In Adept Press Participants: hix.
8/22/2009 pippo_jedi: Autorities in pta and producer Hello everybody.
I finally managed to try pta and i'm having some problems... I've tried a couple of times dogs, polaris and don't rest your head so i'm pratically a… In Dog Eared Designs Participants: pippo_jedi, Eliarhiman6, Noclue, jburneko, Matt Wilson.
8/22/2009 Eusebius: The Metagame Game I have been come quite intrigued recently by ideas of game design and figuring out what kind of game works for a particular set of players. (Maybe this is because… In First Thoughts Participants: Eusebius, Vulpinoid.
8/23/2009 Ben Lehman: The Drifter's Escape: Bound Galleys I'm not quite sure whether this should be here or in connections. Ron, your call.
At long long last, the Drifter's Escape is ready to head to the printers. At… In Publishing Participants: Ben Lehman, Alex Fradera, Ron Edwards, Eliarhiman6.
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