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9/14/2009 Simon_Pettersson: [Standing Up] Unify, Divide
I'm not sure what kind of response I'm looking for in this thread, but the forum description said to write about your playtesting experiences, so I did! So I was…
In Playtesting
Participants: Simon_Pettersson.

9/14/2009 khyron1144: [Planet] Races
This is what I've got typed up so far.  I will be posting it sort of piecemeal.  Feel free to comment at any stage. Races Planet is inhabited by many…
In First Thoughts
Participants: khyron1144.

9/14/2009 Jaakko Koivula: [UtB] First trial: Adventures of Pena
Hiyeah. Got to test UtB and it was a blast. Unfortunately only got 2 people with me, but the game worked pretty nicely still. Not sure if we got all…
In Actual Play
Participants: Jaakko Koivula.

9/14/2009 dmkdesigns: Of Legends and Legacies
Here's a revised game description that's more than describing the system. What do you think? During the great Cataclysm the Denizens cried out for salvation and mercy to a place…
In First Thoughts
Participants: dmkdesigns, Simon C, Mike Sugarbaker.

9/13/2009 Sebastian: [Cops & Robbers] The Grand Caper Story
I was on Story Games and there was chatter about Cop & Robbers: http://www.story-games.com/forums/comments.php?DiscussionID=10406.  It sparked an idea, which I posted about, but I didn't get any feedback.  Maybe the…
In First Thoughts
Participants: Sebastian.

9/13/2009 Simon C: [The Heartbreaker War] Not quite as done as I thought
I guess there's always this vague hope in the back of my mind that I'll sit down to playtest a game, and everything will run great, everyone will say "Well…
In Playtesting
Participants: Simon C, Ron Edwards, hix.

9/13/2009 orklord: Seeking editor for Game Chef entry
I'm looking for an editor who can take my text and make the language soar and also help me find holes in my logic.  At current draft, my game is…
In Connections
Participants: orklord, Paul Czege, henebry.

9/13/2009 chronoplasm: Tactical Combat based on 'Marching Order'
There are elements of 4E I like and elements of OD&D I like. For a while, I've been trying to come up with a set of houserules that would merge…
In First Thoughts
Participants: chronoplasm, Noon.

9/12/2009 GameFind: RPG Game Find is now worldwide
I am proud to annouce that RPG Game Find is now worldwide. If you need playtesters for your games, go ahead and throw up your ad. If you are seeking…
In Connections
Participants: GameFind.

9/12/2009 Seamus: printing in Color and Black and White
We are putting out a fantasy setting and have some color maps we'd like to use in the first few pages. But most printers I have talked to told me…
In Publishing
Participants: Seamus, pigames, MatrixGamer.

9/12/2009 preludetotheend: Ransom/Pamphlet model
  So I have the rough draft of "Story System: A novel game" and while I connect the dots of it all I want to start gearing up for how…
In Publishing
Participants: preludetotheend, Eero Tuovinen, Ron Edwards, MatrixGamer, chance.thirteen, Noon.

9/12/2009 leodegrance: Agon - pdf
Hi, sorry for the OT, but I've buyed the pdf version of Agon from its website (http://www.agon-rpg.com/) on September 3rd. 9 days have passed and I've not yet received the…
In one.seven design
Participants: leodegrance, demiurgeastaroth, John Harper.

9/12/2009 soviet: [Other Worlds] The Infected
So, last year saw the main tranche of external playtesting for Other Worlds. It went out to a whole bunch of different people and I got detailed feedback from a…
In Playtesting
Participants: soviet.

9/12/2009 MacLeod: [The Farmer's Epic] Random Aspects
With very few responses in my other thread, I have decided to scratch a different itch. This topic here is based on a thread over at RPG.net I started. The…
In First Thoughts
Participants: MacLeod.

9/11/2009 hoefer: What to Think?
First, it was really nice to meet many of you in-person at GenCon!  Thanks for sitdown Ron -very helpful/insightful... To business... I took a break from "working" on game stuff…
In Publishing
Participants: hoefer, Noclue, Ron Edwards, MatrixGamer, Andy Kitkowski, Noon.

9/11/2009 hoefer: Know of Any Midwestern Conventions?
Hello all!  Now that the dust has settled from GenCon, I'm trying to put together my marketing calender for this coming year.  One of my goals is to try and…
In Conventions
Participants: hoefer, jefgodesky, Ron Edwards.

9/11/2009 droog: PbP: I need some help with structure
Okay, I'd never run a PbP game before. I had a sudden whim a few months ago and decided to run my Dark Ages hack of HQ at a small…
In Actual Play
Participants: droog, Noon, JoyWriter.

9/11/2009 gtroc: [Alien History] Hope Mechanics
Hello, I am currently working on a game(the working title is Alien History) and I have run into a bit of a plateau in the mechanics. the game is set…
In First Thoughts
Participants: gtroc, Noclue, JoyWriter, Paul Czege.

9/11/2009 khyron1144: [Planet] Attributes
Here's the start of the attributes system for Planet.  This is what I've got finished so far, so the abrupt cut-off is sort of intentional: Attributes Attributes define your character’s…
In First Thoughts
Participants: khyron1144, Warrior Monk, MacLeod.

9/11/2009 YEAH: HAUNTED! season of the heart
essentially season of the heart is a game about spirit hunting. the players are a group of voulunteers trying to save the world one evil book,demon,etc at a time. i…
In First Thoughts
Participants: YEAH.

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9/14/2009 dindenver: [Steampunk Crescendo] How do you play?
All,   Here is the basic mechanics for setting the scene. The reason I have it set up like this is that I want players to be able to call…
In First Thoughts
Participants: dindenver, Adam Dray.

9/14/2009 Emily Care: Downloads and corrections
The World and Character sheets are available for online for Sign in Stranger, as well as errata for the first print run.  http://www.blackgreengames.com/sis/SigninStranger_Sheets.pdf http://www.blackgreengames.com/sis/SiSAugust2009-errata.pdf Page 23 of the PDF version…
In Black and Green Games
Participants: Emily Care.

9/14/2009 TallMax: Need feedback/ideas for this Native American spiritual RPG idea I have
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT: This does not refer or come from a single tribe's beliefs or practices, but it is rather an amalgamation of popular ideas and different sources from many different tribes. …
In First Thoughts
Participants: TallMax, JoyWriter, chance.thirteen.

9/15/2009 Paolo D.: [Agon] Some rules questions
Hi, I'm Paolo, it's the first time I post here before some lurking ;-) Me and some other italian players of Agon (yes, we exist! O__O ;-) put together some…
In one.seven design
Participants: Paolo D., John Harper.

9/15/2009 davidberg: [Super Action Now!] turn-based confusion (monkey god, future midget, wuxia star)
10 days ago I sat down with Dan and Merlin to play SAN!  It was the first time any of us had played. Character creation We started with character creation. …
In Playtesting
Participants: davidberg, Marshall Burns, JoyWriter, whiteknife.

9/16/2009 HeTeleports: Lover's Dilemma - an idea about spies, trust, and getting away with it
I'm on the trail of another new game idea. I've refined things (relatively), and there are some procedural things that I'm sure I'm missing. Again, we're on first draft. I've…
In First Thoughts
Participants: HeTeleports, Adam Dray.

9/16/2009 henebry: Dominion and Dependency: a game mechanic for an ugly society
I’ve been working lately on a system for modeling a social mechanism familiar from pirate stories, prison stories and real-world junior high school experience: a tough guy (or gal) establishes…
In First Thoughts
Participants: henebry, Adam Dray, contracycle, Sebastian.

9/16/2009 AXUM: Seems olde D & D just got "Sorcered"
Hi: Hmmm... Interesting new sword & sorcery supplement for 1974's Dungeons & Dragons. http://www.rpg.net/reviews/archive/14/14486.phtml Some of the ideas are superb, IMHO - ripe for the taking! Sorry if…
In Adept Press
Participants: AXUM, Ron Edwards, Finarvyn.

9/16/2009 weaselheart: Sorcerer & Space?
I was reading through The Sorcerer's Soul, and came across a mini-supplement I'd not seen before, called "Sorcerer & Space". Now this is very relevant to my interests because I'm…
In Adept Press
Participants: weaselheart, 5niper9, greyorm.

9/16/2009 Klaus_Welten: "Ordinary" weapons in non-combat battles?
I'm creating an island for the next session and one quest's primary objective is "Restraining the Brass Tiger" (Apollon wants the cat incapacitated but alive). Now, I can imagine the…
In one.seven design
Participants: Klaus_Welten.

9/16/2009 Simon C: Service Temporarily Unavailable
The site's been barely usable for me for the last couple of weeks, with extremely slow load times and frequent innaccessibility.  I get this error a lot: Service Temporarily Unavailable…
In Site Discussion
Participants: Simon C, HeTeleports, greyorm, Paka, lumpley, Jasper Flick.

9/17/2009 Dominic Claveau: [Capes] Need help to prepare a con game
Hi, I've played Capes only a few times even though it's definitely in my top 3 of best RPGs ever. Now, I want people in my area to discover that…
In Muse of Fire Games
Participants: Dominic Claveau.

9/17/2009 Paka: Sorcerer 2289: Technological Demons in the Science Fiction Solar System
[url=http://www.indie-rpgs.com/forum/index.php?topic=26820.0]I posted this thread a while back. [/url] But nothing has come of it for a long while and I just [url=http://www.indie-rpgs.com/forum/index.php?topic=28726.0;topicseen]saw this thread [/url]and listened to [url=http://glyphpress.com/talk/category/olmag/]Rob and Joshua…
In Adept Press
Participants: Paka, weaselheart.

9/17/2009 jburneko: Trollbabe: Question and Comment
So last night I finished reading the new version of Trollbabe.  I can't help but wonder what the me of 10 years ago would have thought of it.  I did…
In Adept Press
Participants: jburneko, Gregor Hutton, Ron Edwards, John Stephens.

9/17/2009 Parthenia: JiffyCon is looking for a few good GM's
url=http://www.jiffycon.com]JiffyCon returns to Greenfield, and we're looking for folks to run games! This season it will be November 14th at Greenfield All Souls Church at 399 Main Street, right downtown.…
In Conventions
Participants: Parthenia.

9/18/2009 MacLeod: [Crepusculum] User Created & Free Form Powers
I've had some real duds here on the Forge lately, so this is me hoping for a strong collection of replies this time. I've pretty much arrived in a rut…
In First Thoughts
Participants: MacLeod, HeTeleports, Sebastian, Ken.

9/18/2009 hix: [Left Coast] Inaugural playtest. Talking dog. Assumptions challenged.
Back in 2005, I wrote a game called Left Coast, where you play science-fiction authors in 1970s California who are all struggling to write novels and hide your growing insanities…
In Playtesting
Participants: hix, Malcolm, Simon C, JoyWriter.

9/18/2009 Artanis: Preparing an indie booth for Nancy, France
Hi there On November 7th and 8th, a couple of friends and I are going to the game festival Les Joutes du Téméraire, in Nancy (that's a city, please), France.…
In Conventions
Participants: Artanis, Eero Tuovinen, Nathan P..

9/19/2009 Paka: Wanting to Game with My Dad
My dad introduced me to science fiction, fantasy and comic books.  Growing up, I cannot remember a time when he didn't have a science fiction novel on his night table…
In Actual Play
Participants: Paka, nikola, Noon.

9/19/2009 Nathan P.: [Annalise] Help me help you (and the Italians)
Hey there, So the fine folks over at Narrattiva are translating Annalise into Italian. Which is an honor, and I can't wait to see what they do with it. I've…
In ndp design
Participants: Nathan P., Tazio Bettin.

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