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8/26/2009 jefgodesky: GASPcon 10 - Trying to bring indie games to Pittsburgh, PA
<a href="http://gaspgamer.com/gasp_con/gaspcon.html">GASPcon 10</a> <a href="http://book.bestwestern.com/bestwestern/productInfo.do;jsessionid=FB99B7B17E7D0B0CA81FF23C989CF2F6?propertyCode=39028">Best Western Parkway Center Mall</a> 875 Greentree Rd Pittsburgh, PA Friday, November 13 - Sunday, November 15 This year, GASPcon's organizers have asked me to try…
In Conventions
Participants: jefgodesky.

8/26/2009 jefgodesky: [Fifth World] Gift economy using Debt
Hello! I've playtested a couple versions of this game, threw them out, redesigned them, playtested again, and threw them out a few times now. Most recently, Bill White pointed me…
In First Thoughts
Participants: jefgodesky, Simon C, jasonm, Bill_White, JoyWriter, Noon.

5/3/2009 jefgodesky: [Fifth World] Building an adversity economy from the map
[url=http://thefifthworldsg.blogspot.com/2009/04/fifth-world-in-forge-parlance-one-more.html]My most recent stab at the Power 19 for this project.[/url] To summarize the relevant bits as succinctly as possible, the game's fiction deals with tribes of feral humans living…
In First Thoughts
Participants: jefgodesky, Vulpinoid, pells, JoyWriter, Brimshack.

2/9/2009 jefgodesky: [Fifth World] First playtest of the v0.5.2 rules
I ran a round of playtests on the previous iteration of the rules last November, which led to some rules changes which required work on an extensive catalog of spirits…
In Playtesting
Participants: jefgodesky, Spooky Fanboy.

11/23/2008 jefgodesky: [Fifth World] Plot arc engines and oral storytelling
My goal for <em>The Fifth World</em> involves doing for ecopsychology and deep ecology what <em>Star Trek</em> did for humanism: using fiction to explore a hopeful vision of the future.  In…
In Playtesting
Participants: jefgodesky, Ron Edwards.

9/17/2008 jefgodesky: [Fifth World] Revised Power 19
[url=http://"http://www.indie-rpgs.com/forum/index.php?topic=26768.0"]Looking for playtesters[/url] now that it's gotten close enough to do such things, I realized that [i]The Fifth World[/i] had evolved a bit as I'd worked on it, and the…
In First Thoughts
Participants: jefgodesky.

9/16/2008 jefgodesky: [Fifth World] Local playtesters needed, Pittsburgh, PA area
[url=http://thefifthworldsg.blogspot.com/2007/11/introducing-fifth-world-in-forge.html]Introducing [i]The Fifth World[/i] in Forge parlance[/url] (admittedly, a little out of date, but still mostly true). [list] [li][b]Previous threads:[/b] [url=http://www.indie-rpgs.com/forum/index.php?topic=25076.0]Core mechanic[/url], [url=http://www.indie-rpgs.com/forum/index.php?topic=25190.0]Practical concerns about my character sheet[/url], [url=http://www.indie-rpgs.com/forum/index.php?topic=25836.0]How might…
In Connections
Participants: jefgodesky.

7/17/2008 jefgodesky: Requiring players to use oracles vs. leaving them as a backup option
Without digging into too much detail, my game could require some fairly intense bouts of creativity, like coming up with riddles.  I realize this is not something I can expect…
In First Thoughts
Participants: jefgodesky.

2/26/2008 jefgodesky: [Fifth World] How might you model tracking with beads and a mancala board?
[i]These previous threads should help introduce some of the concepts this game idea works with: [url=http://www.indie-rpgs.com/forum/index.php?topic=25218.0]Power 19 for the Fifth World[/url], [url=http://www.indie-rpgs.com/forum/index.php?topic=25076.0]previous discussion about a core mechanic[/url].  I also started…
In First Thoughts
Participants: jefgodesky, Guy Srinivasan, Creatures of Destiny, PlatonicPimp, madunkieg.

11/19/2007 jefgodesky: [Fifth World] Power 19
I haven't finished even the general idea of the rules for The Fifth World, but answering the Power 19 still helps put a focus on what those rules need to…
In First Thoughts
Participants: jefgodesky, J Tolson, ChadDubya.

11/14/2007 jefgodesky: [Fifth World] Practical concerns about my character sheet
Sgëno! I have an idea I'm really taken with at the moment about using a compass/medicine wheel/mandala as a character sheet (Design Diary entry with full details), where skills/traits/attributes are…
In First Thoughts
Participants: jefgodesky, monstah, Simon C, J Tolson, PlatonicPimp, Selene Tan, Vulpinoid.

10/19/2007 jefgodesky: [Fifth World] Core mechanic
Sgëno! I've been working on and off for a while now on an RPG called "The Fifth World."  The last version, 0.2, came out almost a year ago.  It basically…
In First Thoughts
Participants: jefgodesky, Vulpinoid, phatonin, PlatonicPimp, monstah, c.

3/22/2007 jefgodesky: [Fifth World] Artists needed!
[i]The Fifth World[/i] is a post-apocalyptic pseudo-utopian setting in a neo-tribal future four hundred years after civilization's collapse.  Right now we have an extraordinary crew of people working on this…
In Connections
Participants: jefgodesky.

6/8/2006 jefgodesky: Playtest methodology
I'm not entirely sure if this is the right place for this topic, so perhaps the mods will move it somewhere else, but I'm going to begin an initial playtest…
In Playtesting
Participants: jefgodesky, Justin D. Jacobson, joepub, Joshua BishopRoby, Julian, dindenver, abzu, Nathan P., Graham Walmsley, timfire, Jixxala, Ron Edwards.

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