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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.

9/18/2009 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..

9/18/2009 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 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.

9/17/2009 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.

9/17/2009 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 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 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.

9/16/2009 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.

9/16/2009 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 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 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 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 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.

9/15/2009 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.

9/15/2009 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.

9/14/2009 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.

9/14/2009 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 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 reveal: [ENnies] Announcing the ENnie Awards Fan Survey
Hello and welcome from the ENnie Awards! As you know, our main goal at the ENnie Awards is to allow the fans direct access to the publishers and their products.…
In Conventions
Participants: reveal.

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9/19/2009 dmkdesigns: What Is Roleplaying? text open license
I would like to know if there is an open license or free text that explains about roleplaying games, GMs, Players, etc. so that people don't have to reinvent the…
In First Thoughts
Participants: dmkdesigns, Eero Tuovinen, Sanglorian.

9/20/2009 Willow: Slay With Me: 1st Game
So, Tim and I sat down tonight to play a game of Slay With Me. Let me preface this by saying I don't think I'm the target audience for this…
In Actual Play
Participants: Willow, TJ, Ron Edwards, Paul Czege, Eero Tuovinen.

9/20/2009 MacLeod: [Crepusculum] CharGen & Mechanics
Alright, this topic is to be used for the discussion of my unnamed ruleslite super hero RPG. Discussion about its semi-free form Powers creation system can be found here. I…
In First Thoughts
Participants: MacLeod, Sebastian, HeTeleports, Ken, Zebediah.

9/20/2009 Eero Tuovinen: [People's Hero] A first stab at saving USSR from itself
I haven't been playing much of anything lately, but luckily the gaming train runs on schedule around here nowadays, whisking me with it even without much initiative on my part.…
In Playtesting
Participants: Eero Tuovinen, Noon, Ron Edwards.

9/20/2009 Age of Fable: Pirate Squad
Can anyone tell me if it's available on the internet, and if so where?
In Bully Pulpit Games
Participants: Age of Fable, jasonm.

9/21/2009 Aapov: New Game Idea: Kill Team
The name Kill Team is the name I will use for now because that is how it is associated in my head. The idea is an RPG that is entirely…
In First Thoughts
Participants: Aapov, David C, Sebastian, jasonm, Warrior Monk, otspiii, Creatures of Destiny.

9/21/2009 Gregor Hutton: [3:16] Ape Beasts on Planet Durer
So, the Edinburgh University gaming club has started up again for another year and they were needing GMs for Day One of term. So, I volunteered and took along 3:16.…
In Actual Play
Participants: Gregor Hutton, Ron Edwards, Noon, blodwin.

9/22/2009 Andur: What are the most archetypic elements of generic Fantasy?
Hi. I want to create an D&D-inspired game system. "D&D-inspired" means: Class-based, level-based. otherwise, it's my own and has very little to do with D&D. It is meant to cover…
In First Thoughts
Participants: Andur, chronoplasm, Mulrah, Guy Srinivasan, 7VII7, Zebediah.

9/22/2009 Jaakko Koivula: [UtB] Under the Bed with Adolescents, pt. 2
[i]Old thread about RPing with adolescents and some thoughts about the first session at [url=http://www.indie-rpgs.com/forum/index.php?topic=28602.0]http://www.indie-rpgs.com/forum/index.php?topic=28602.0[/url]. Wanted to start a new more game-reportey thread for this.[/i] Second session of UtB with…
In Actual Play
Participants: Jaakko Koivula, nikola, JoyWriter.

9/22/2009 chronoplasm: Diceless Combat Using Logic Grid Puzzles?
In most games, you fight monsters by rolling dice and attempting to make monsters lose all their hit points. Here's a different idea: Each monster has a certain number of…
In First Thoughts
Participants: chronoplasm, Kanosint, David Artman, Mulrah, Noon, JoyWriter, Double King.

9/22/2009 flossy: New Game [MeMe] - Basic idea - Take 2
I have had some more thoughts on the basic game idea described on the thread below: http://www.indie-rpgs.com/forum/index.php?topic=28572.msg268640#msg268640 The idea now is that the character players are characters from fairy tales/urban…
In First Thoughts
Participants: flossy, Mulrah.

9/22/2009 thirdkingdom: Looking for artists . . .
I am looking for some talented artists that would be willing to provide some black and white illustrations for the Third Kingdom Player's Handbook, an FRPG I am currently revising…
In Connections
Participants: thirdkingdom.

9/22/2009 vonkorff: [Polaris] questions & new storygamer report
I tried Polaris for the first time recently.  No one in my group, including me, had ever played this type of story game.  I wasn't sure we could handle it,…
In Actual Play
Participants: vonkorff, Ben Lehman, Noclue, Frank Tarcikowski, Ron Edwards, Pabu.

9/23/2009 jreyst: Seeking collaborators
Hey guys, Boy am I glad I found this site. I was specifically searching for a place where I could find other rpg designers! I have begun work on a…
In Connections
Participants: jreyst.

9/23/2009 Graham Walmsley: [Misspent Youth] F**king motherf**ker's on our f**cking tail
We played Misspent Youth last week. Character and world creation was a blast. We were fighting against...oh...I don't know...a corporation of some sort. The advice about choosing things that genuinely…
In Playtesting
Participants: Graham Walmsley, RobNJ, Paka.

9/23/2009 Adam Biltcliffe: Two questions about Misery Bubblegum
So I opened up my Misery Bubblegum package today, and it was kind of scary. There are a lot of different cards, and three different rules pamphlets, and I worried…
In Muse of Fire Games
Participants: Adam Biltcliffe, Paul Czege.

9/24/2009 MythicDesign: Seeking talented writers to contract as fantasy RPG-based blog writer(s)
We are seeking talented writers to contract as fantasy RPG-based blog writer(s). Position will require 2 articles per week. This contracted position offers posted author credit and competitive pay with…
In Connections
Participants: MythicDesign, greyorm.

9/24/2009 Mulrah: Seeking Feedback on (Kind of) New Game: MULRAH
In selecting and tweaking a number of very interesting role-playing game systems (Savage Worlds, the Pool, FATE), I realized that I was basically creating my own system, and I'd love…
In First Thoughts
Participants: Mulrah, Simon C, chronoplasm.

9/24/2009 Sebastian: [Way of the Agent] A rule - Should I Keep it?
I woke up in the middle of the night and couldn't get back to sleep. Question: If another character is playing a conflict and they are in the limelight, would…
In First Thoughts
Participants: Sebastian, Aapov, Mulrah, JoyWriter, whiteknife.

9/24/2009 inthisstyle: How We Came to Live Here Soon to Be Published
It’s been a long time coming, but How We Came to Live Here is finally nearing completion. This is all part of my plan to step up Galileo Games’ production…
In Galileo Games
Participants: inthisstyle, matthijs.

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