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10/5/2009 DWeird: [Change] Countering the drive towards generic traits?
Hi, I've recently begun work on Change, a simulation of fantasy cultures. A few early playtests have rolled in, and something troubling emerged: there is ample reason for players to…
In Playtesting
Participants: DWeird, Mulrah, Noclue, greyorm, otspiii, Teataine, chance.thirteen.

10/5/2009 Mulrah: [MULRAH] First Playtest
[b]First Thoughts Thread:[/b] [url=http://www.indie-rpgs.com/forum/index.php?topic=28761.0]http://www.indie-rpgs.com/forum/index.php?topic=28761.0[/url] [b]MULRAH Rules:[/b] [url=http://deaddogcafe.files.wordpress.com/2009/10/mulrah.pdf]http://deaddogcafe.files.wordpress.com/2009/10/mulrah.pdf[/url] MULRAH is basically a mash-up of rules that intrigued me from PDQ, Risus, FATE, Donjon, and other games. We did our first playtest…
In Playtesting
Participants: Mulrah, Simon C.

10/5/2009 jp_miller: Help me with a dice mechanic
Hi all, Just wondering if you could help me with a simple concept. I’m using a kind of Reverse Pool (as first proposed by Milk Holmes regarding James V. Wests…
In First Thoughts
Participants: jp_miller, Anders Gabrielsson, Jasper Flick, Darcy Burgess, microphil, charles ferguson, thadrine.

10/5/2009 Melinglor: In a Feral Age. . .playing fluently with trackers
A couple of weeks ago I ran a storyjamming* workshop for TrackersNW, an organization that teaches wilderness skills and encourages a primitive lifestyle (I've blogged about the general emotional tenor…
In Actual Play
Participants: Melinglor, jasonm, JoyWriter.

10/4/2009 Simon C: Using old art
What's the deal with using old public-domain art in games? I'm particularly interested in old Pre-Rahaelite art.  I understand that no-one now owns the copyright on these works, but that…
In Publishing
Participants: Simon C, greyorm, jrs.

10/4/2009 Klaus_Welten: [TWoN] Secret of Hypnos
So, Secret of Hypnos allows you to create soft places. That's fine. However, do you have to include everyone in the area and pay pool points for them? Even if…
In Arkenstone Publishing
Participants: Klaus_Welten, Eero Tuovinen.

10/3/2009 dmkdesigns: [OLaL] Table Talk and Solo Player Scenes
I've been considering two issues in a number of games and wanted to find a solution that handles them both in Of Legends and Legacies. 1. Getting Players who are…
In First Thoughts
Participants: dmkdesigns, JoyWriter, Paul Czege.

10/3/2009 Axe4Eye: Organization of Rules (Index) Need Help!
I have come to a place where my design is being limited by my lack of organization and I cannot move much further without it.  Doing this may even inspire…
In First Thoughts
Participants: Axe4Eye, Sebastian.

10/3/2009 lwhitehead: Interstate 76 like RPG
Hi I want to create an alt history RPG inspired by the Win PC game Interstate 76 and Vigilante 8 series as well. Now it's 1976 and the Oil Crisis…
In First Thoughts
Participants: lwhitehead.

10/3/2009 dmkdesigns: [Of Legends and Legacies... OlaL] Narrating NPCs?
I've been thinking about stakes and conflicts for OLaL and I like the idea of the Players narrating the success and failures of their characters, Legends. However, the NPCs still…
In First Thoughts
Participants: dmkdesigns, flossy.

10/2/2009 blodwin: Summerland indie game
Hi I’m thinking of running Summerland and cant get my head around, getting my mates to play a band of drifters stressed out with god knows what traumas they think…
In Actual Play
Participants: blodwin, Ron Edwards.

10/2/2009 Vulpinoid: [Brigaki Djili] Archetypes
If you're interested in getting some better perspective about my current project, I'm trying make sure I log my progress through game design in my blog Observations of the Fox.…
In First Thoughts
Participants: Vulpinoid, JoyWriter, Anders Gabrielsson, chance.thirteen.

10/2/2009 Gregor Hutton: [Sorcerer] London 1880
So last night Per, Steve, Cat and I met in the suitably themed Jekyll & Hyde pub in Edinburgh and created characters for Per's Sorcerer game. (It's been a busy…
In Actual Play
Participants: Gregor Hutton, James_Nostack.

10/2/2009 Sebastian: [Primetime Adventures] "Last Stand" Great pitch... but then what happened?
I tried running PTA for three traditional role players.  Where did I go wrong? Pitch Like most first games of PTA, the guys went straight for sci-fi.  It started off…
In Actual Play
Participants: Sebastian, davidberg, JoyWriter, Noon, FredGarber.

10/2/2009 jp_miller: Weapons, what are they good for?
Hi all, I’m in the throes of inventing a YARPG (Yet Another Role Playing Game), it has a Journey to the West/Mahabharata flavour. As you can imagine there is a…
In First Thoughts
Participants: jp_miller, Noon, chronoplasm, JoyWriter, Anthony Sheets, trueplay, flossy, drkrash, dindenver, Paka, rebelred, Maugh, Anekanta, decline, Miskatonic, tleeuwenburg@gmail.com, Hereward The Wake.

10/2/2009 Simon C: [Dogs] What are the demons for?
As mentioned in the other thread (which I found super useful, thanks everyone), we've just wrapped up our fifth Dogs town, and are moving on to our sixth.  We've been…
In lumpley games
Participants: Simon C, lumpley, David Artman, jburneko, hix, greyorm, Paul T, argamemnon.

10/2/2009 Seamus: Macs and publishing
I have been thinking of investing in a Mac later next year, but wanted to hear first hand what problems Mac's might present with publishing. I have a PC, but…
In Publishing
Participants: Seamus, Trevis Martin, Eero Tuovinen, Nathan P., Nathan, Jasper Flick.

10/1/2009 Dyson Logos: Weapons for Cyberpunk / Shadowrun / Modern AGON
I'm happily tooling away at a CyberPunk AGON conversion when I got to weapons. I'm planning on doing like the DAGON conversion and making cards for the weapons (but doing…
In one.seven design
Participants: Dyson Logos, Paolo D., redwulfe, demiurgeastaroth.

9/30/2009 Anders Gabrielsson: Ideas for Mechanics: Do These Fit Together?
Hi, I'm fairly new to the forum. I've lurked a bit but I haven't posted (unless it was somewhere around here I asked a bit about Capes some years back).…
In First Thoughts
Participants: Anders Gabrielsson, Vulpinoid, Bleu Ash.

9/30/2009 SaintandSinner: Gaming in Chicago
So, what's good in the windy city? I'm going up there for a meeting this weekend and may have some time to burn. Are there any good stores, coffee shops,…
In Connections
Participants: SaintandSinner, Ron Edwards, CaptainImpressive.

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10/6/2009 Nathan P.: Two Games One Name
Hey there, I'm running a game design challenge thingy. It's called Two Games One Name, and the idea is that folks submit potential names for a game, and then pairs…
In Endeavor
Participants: Nathan P..

10/6/2009 SaintandSinner: Mini-Supplements
How do you learn more about them?  This links on sorcerer-rpg.com aren't working.  Also, are there others not on this site I should check out?  I have Dict of Mu…
In Adept Press
Participants: SaintandSinner, greyorm, Ron Edwards, thomasfjones, Finarvyn, scarcow, nande.

10/6/2009 Ben Lehman: [S/Lw/m] Anthological Questions and Observations
Hi! David and I have done a couple of rounds of S/lay at this point, with it looks like a few more to go. A rules question and a thematic…
In Adept Press
Participants: Ben Lehman, Ron Edwards.

10/6/2009 fjj: Spiel Essen 2009
Going to Spiel Essen 2009? Wanna meet up and say hi? Let me know and I will try to find a time & place.
In Conventions
Participants: fjj.

10/6/2009 chance.thirteen: Recommended writing tools?
I have no idea where to put this, but I know that game designers often use these sorts of things so  hopefully it's the right forum site at least. :D…
In First Thoughts
Participants: chance.thirteen, whiteknife, Jasper Flick, Darcy Burgess, duncanguy, lumpley, DagdaMor, sirealestate, MikeF, zmobie, Mike Sugarbaker.

10/7/2009 zenram: Copyeditor is requested
[b]Hello [/b] Some friends and I are putting together a small publisher of RPG products and [b]we need a copyeditor[/b], the idea is to find [b]someone reliable and professional[/b] to…
In Connections
Participants: zenram, David Artman, Gregor Hutton.

10/7/2009 HeTeleports: [Secret Identities] - Players against system, GM, themselves or each other
To the Forge's brainstorming crew (ie: any regular reader of the "First Thoughts" section) Normally, when I start a design, I know exactly what kind of game-play I want to…
In First Thoughts
Participants: HeTeleports, Noon, zone24, Mike Sugarbaker, Vulpinoid.

10/7/2009 robotsunshine: [Poison'd] Starting Bargains
I tell Bad Luck Billy Hammond at character creation that, "You swore to Captain Pallor that you'd sink the Dagger before you see her taken." Who decides the context of…
In lumpley games
Participants: robotsunshine, lumpley.

10/8/2009 5niper9: [Capes] Importance of abilities on the narrative level
Hey there, I'm wondering how important the names of the abilities are for the feeling of the game. I'm asking this because I'm writing on a small scenario for Capes…
In Muse of Fire Games
Participants: 5niper9, Jumanji83.

10/8/2009 Shoo: [DitV] I'm not sure if I'm getting the rules completely
Hi all :) I'm going to run my first DitV game tomorrow, but I still feel that don't understand some parts of the game. If anyone could explain them to…
In lumpley games
Participants: Shoo, lumpley, jlarke, Simon C, Noclue, Warren.

10/8/2009 RobNJ: JiffyCon Greenfield, November 14: pre-registration open!
Hey everyone, just writing to let you know that registrations for JiffyCon Fall 09 are now up. You can find the registration page at: http://jiffycon.com/registration.html This time, we have it…
In Conventions
Participants: RobNJ.

10/8/2009 Klaus_Welten: [IaWA] Five players... wait, wut?
So, in the very first page of IaWA is stated that you can play with "three or four of your friends"; however, you deal only four cards at the start…
In lumpley games
Participants: Klaus_Welten, lumpley.

10/9/2009 Jaakko Koivula: [The Mountain Witch] Weight in gold
Got a brand new group together. I have never played with them and think none of them have played forge-inspired games before. Decided to test The Mountain Witch and after…
In Actual Play
Participants: Jaakko Koivula, Eero Tuovinen, Ville Vuorinen, newsalor, Pekoraali, Baka_Kaba.

10/9/2009 Klaus_Welten: [IaWA] Entering in a scene
During our first session, there have been some situations in which a character could conceivably appear in a scene even if presence wasn't stated before; in a situation like those,…
In lumpley games
Participants: Klaus_Welten, lumpley.

10/10/2009 etheruk: Fragments: A horror game
I'm in the process of designing a game for Halloween and would appreciate any advice that people can give. What I find scary are horror films which frame the story…
In First Thoughts
Participants: etheruk, flossy.

10/10/2009 Nathan P.: [Annalise] Dracula Reloaded (and a new character sheet)
Hey there, There's a new Guided Play Scenario available for Annalise. It's called Dracula Reloaded, written by the lovely and talented Kat Jones and played to good effect at the…
In ndp design
Participants: Nathan P..

10/10/2009 Reithan: Sorcer Site Broken
All the links are producing 404 errors.
In Adept Press
Participants: Reithan, greyorm.

10/10/2009 redwing: Stunt d6...New Heartbreaker
Hello All! I have not visited these boards in quite some time. I have picked up the work on my rpg system (including a rules set and setting). Yes, this…
In First Thoughts
Participants: redwing.

10/11/2009 Reithan: [DitV] A couple - hopefully simple - questions
Ok, reading through dogs with a couple buddies and there's a 2-fold question we're stumped on. Part 1: If you're in a conflict against someone/something you're trying to save/help, how…
In lumpley games
Participants: Reithan, 5niper9, ffilz, Noclue, lumpley.

10/11/2009 Supplanter: [IAWA] We Owe List Question
First chapter, I played Antonella, a blood-sorceress in her early 20s trying to save her brother from life as a temple prostitute, and got on the Owe List a few…
In lumpley games
Participants: Supplanter, Brand_Robins, lumpley.

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