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11/5/2009 wolfgray: Wiki, Email, or Wave Game?
Anyone doing a online universalis game in Wiki, Email, or google wave?
In Universalis
Participants: wolfgray, EvilCat, David Artman, exedore6, Robotech_Master.

11/5/2009 wolfgray: [WGP] WGP In Wiki, Email, or Wave?
Anyone doing a online with great power game in Wiki, Email, or google wave?
In Incarnadine Press
Participants: wolfgray, Filip Luszczyk.

11/5/2009 Maugh: The 17 Trials of Queen Mab
This is a one-session, stand-alone roleplaying game that was designed as a party game for this last halloween.  It can handle a LOT of characters, (we ran 8 players, and…
In First Thoughts
Participants: Maugh, Catelf, Rikiji, tleeuwenburg@gmail.com, Noon.

11/5/2009 Kevin.Weiser: [DitV] The Walking Eye first session thoughts and questions.
We had first session of Dogs in the Vineyard last night for the podcast. It went pretty well, considering we unfortunately had a 3 week break (due to plague) between…
In lumpley games
Participants: Kevin.Weiser, lumpley.

11/5/2009 Rikiji: [Da Vinci] Mapless Combat System
Hello, I've started working on an ambitious game design project with the working title of Da Vinci.  I have a resolution system that I'm reasonably happy with and the basics…
In First Thoughts
Participants: Rikiji, chance.thirteen, Troy_Costisick, chronoplasm.

11/5/2009 preludetotheend: The Power of Free
So I have been doing some research for the Serial Design Challenge over in the Endeavor section and figured it was prevalent to the publishing section. A resource I found…
In Publishing
Participants: preludetotheend, Dan Maruschak, Noon, greyorm, pells.

11/4/2009 Kevin.Weiser: How many Traits/Belongings per See/Raise?
Heyo, Quick question: How many Traits or Belongings can a player bring in per See or Raise? Just one, or as many as they can narrate? It seems a little…
In lumpley games
Participants: Kevin.Weiser, lumpley.

11/3/2009 jburneko: [Thornes] Issues with Ego.
Last night I play tested a game I wrote called Thornes.  I describe Thornes as a swashbuckling film noir about sex and violence dressed up in lace and steel.  Aesthetically…
In Playtesting
Participants: jburneko, Simon C, Marshall Burns, Noclue, JoyWriter.

11/3/2009 Mr. Mister: Under Some Weird Sun
[CENTER] The day the nations crumbled, from prion pandemic, from unrestrained deluge, from nuclear detonation and from social termination Was the day the revenants clawed, bone-fingered, through the frozen earth…
In First Thoughts
Participants: Mr. Mister, Catelf, Toneblind.

11/3/2009 Toneblind: Intrigue: A Card-Based Poltical System
Hello there! Just joined the forum, and I thought I'd put up an idea for a system which focuses on political maneuvering and utilising the entire Tarot deck, not just…
In First Thoughts
Participants: Toneblind, Mike Sugarbaker, chance.thirteen, TJ.

11/3/2009 chance.thirteen: Handling common motivations and character specific ones with the same system
I'm working on a mechanism that interlaces strong character motivators with temporary behavior modifiers brought on by social interaction. It is very similar in form to the Spiritual Attribute in…
In First Thoughts
Participants: chance.thirteen, chronoplasm, Teataine.

11/3/2009 Simon C: [The Heartbreaker War] Not what I expected
Over the weekend we played a full-length runthrough of the Heartbreaker War, my character creation/game setting game supplement. I got a lot of good feedback from the game, and a…
In Playtesting
Participants: Simon C, DWeird, JoyWriter.

11/2/2009 RARodger: Mystery messages
My little status thing in the top left corner says I have "2 messages, 2 are new" And yet, when I go to the message center, there are no messages…
In Site Discussion
Participants: RARodger, lumpley.

11/2/2009 RARodger: [DitV] Deconstructing Initiation
Long story short: I want to hack the rules for Dogs to play in a setting that looks like Ars Magica. One element of Ars Magica that I want to…
In lumpley games
Participants: RARodger, 5niper9, lumpley.

11/2/2009 Ron Edwards: [Dead of Night] Better without the fangs
Life has kept me from posting regularly since GenCon, but I've been role-playing when I can. My biggest priority is to get educated in some games which have been around…
In Actual Play
Participants: Ron Edwards, Tim C Koppang, Jaakko Koivula, Noon, JoyWriter, andrew_kenrick.

11/2/2009 tleeuwenburg@gmail.com: Should I call my new RPG "Mythology"?
Hi all, I am working on a new fantasy roleplaying game, and I'm working on getting some early material together. I'm a bit worried about the risk of choosing a…
In First Thoughts
Participants: tleeuwenburg@gmail.com, Vulpinoid, charlescannon12, chance.thirteen, Catelf, Ninja Dave.

11/1/2009 jefgodesky: [Fifth World] I need playtesters!
Last night, after three years of work, I finished the rough draft of my game, the Fifth World. It's gone through some major revisions, and the current form doesn't bear…
In Connections
Participants: jefgodesky.

10/31/2009 noahtrammell: Playing RPG's with Students
  I'm writing an essay in school on why RPG's should be incorporated into education.  I have some statistical stuff, but I think that I also need a few anecdotes…
In Actual Play
Participants: noahtrammell, Jasper Flick, Jaakko Koivula.

10/30/2009 preludetotheend: Serial Design challenge
So over at story game we had a discussion on the webcomic business model and how it might be applicable to the role playing industry. I decided it might be…
In Endeavor
Participants: preludetotheend.

10/30/2009 chronoplasm: New Porfolio by Kevin Vito
kevinvito.daportfolio.com Hello, My name is Kevin Vito and I am currently a student at Northern Illinois University. I tend to favor sketchy and expressive linework with large areas of flat…
In Connections
Participants: chronoplasm.

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11/5/2009 Klaus_Welten: Some PTA questions
Hi there! I'm going to start a season very soon and have some questions for you. ^_^ First of all: can two Protagonists share a Connection (say, they are both…
In Dog Eared Designs
Participants: Klaus_Welten, Welkerfan.

11/6/2009 tleeuwenburg@gmail.com: Mythology blog soft launch
http://mythology-rpg.blogspot.com/ Hi all, I have created a blog to help me design and built the Mythology roleplaying system. I'll be aiming to post somewhere between weekly and every 3 days.…
In First Thoughts
Participants: tleeuwenburg@gmail.com, Catelf.

11/6/2009 Catelf: [Ferals] A full "Fixform" Streed Rpg
Reader, just so you know: At least the 4 or 5 first "Replies" to this Topic is different Rules sections of the Game, to make it far easier to understand,…
In Playtesting
Participants: Catelf, Vulpinoid, Rikiji, Simon C, dindenver.

11/6/2009 Catelf: [Ferals] seeks Playtesters
Hello. Can you imagine a Compact "Fixform" (Not Freeform) Rpg, seemingly based on White Wolf's creations (World of Darkness, Aberrant, among many), but with notably simpler, but still complex enough…
In Connections
Participants: Catelf.

11/8/2009 tleeuwenburg@gmail.com: Power 19, not being a pest & how to interact on these forums
Do people still go through the Power 19 on here? I've just answered the first 5 on my blog http://mythology-rpg.blogspot.com/. You don't have to read it, I'm just saying. I…
In First Thoughts
Participants: tleeuwenburg@gmail.com, Vulpinoid, Rikiji.

11/8/2009 tleeuwenburg@gmail.com: Comments on Frozen Dawn
A thought aside: does anyone have any statistics on how experienced gamers usually are when they pick up a new product? I have been reading the Frozen Dawn thread and…
In First Thoughts
Participants: tleeuwenburg@gmail.com, Alokov.

11/8/2009 tleeuwenburg@gmail.com: Apologies for bringing up the Power 19
I apologise for breaking the forum rules -- I am as it were, late to the party, having only just followed the history of the Power 19 into the forum…
In First Thoughts
Participants: tleeuwenburg@gmail.com, greyorm.

11/10/2009 Anekanta: Getting into Story Now
Dear Forge :) I'm wondering: Can anyone recommend some good games to start trying out story now / narrativist play?  I've read many different systems, but my actual play experience…
In Actual Play
Participants: Anekanta, Jasper Flick, Artanis, Eero Tuovinen, jefgodesky, noahtrammell, Paka, Rafu.

11/10/2009 SonalikaVero: sonalika game
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In First Thoughts
Participants: SonalikaVero.

11/10/2009 folderol: Thanks and some questions :)
First of all, a big thanks to Ralph & Mike for this fabulous game! Being an former D&D player (many many years ago), the freedom experienced while playing Universalis is…
In Universalis
Participants: folderol, EvilCat, JoyWriter, Valamir, David Artman.

11/11/2009 Nathan P.: Veterans Day Promo = 15% of sales for NVVAM
The Info: In recognition of Veterans day, a percentage of all sales made from 11/11/09 to the end of the weekend (11/15/09) will be donated to the National Vietnam Veterans…
In ndp design
Participants: Nathan P..

11/11/2009 Klaus_Welten: [MLWM] One-shot rules?
Hi there! I'm going to GM a demo of MLWM and I've got a question: which values for Fear, Love and so on would be appropriate for a one-shot game?…
In Half Meme Press
Participants: Klaus_Welten, Artanis, Adam Dray.

11/12/2009 greyorm: [3:16] Killin' Bugs
After a couple weeks of folks being sick, etc. we finally got together to give 3:16 a go. Flat out: it was a blast. I was, in fact, told we…
In Actual Play
Participants: greyorm, Jaakko Koivula, Marshall Burns, Gregor Hutton.

11/12/2009 il mietitore: [MLWM] Hammering Doubt
Hi to everyone, i'm Alex "il mietitore" from Italy ("il mietitore" means "the reaper", in italian. Yeah, it's trash and silly, but I invented it when i was noob, and…
In Half Meme Press
Participants: il mietitore, Eliarhiman6, Noclue, Paul Czege.

11/13/2009 caul: [Dark Aegis] Basic Task Resolution
[b][color=maroon]Basic Task Resolution[/color][/b] The basic system is to roll a dice pool (usually made up of Attribute, Skill, and Modifier dice) against a Target Rank (or difficulty).  Rather than add…
In First Thoughts
Participants: caul, Troy_Costisick, dindenver, Dan Maruschak.

11/14/2009 Philotomy: [The Pool] First Time -- Family Fairy Tale
I ran my first session of The Pool, this evening.  This was also my first session of any game with a large degree of player narrative control over the story…
In Actual Play
Participants: Philotomy, Finarvyn.

11/14/2009 Dionysus: 3+ characters in a conflict?
Howdy y'all Just had an awesome little pickup game. Been trying to play this forever but only now got some people wanting to play. I'll give the run-down to explain.…
In lumpley games
Participants: Dionysus, Paul T, Paul Czege.

11/16/2009 Sam Anderson: [Blowback playtest] JiffyCon 11/14/09
[b]Play report by Sam and Kate[/b] [b]Run by the game's author, Elizabeth Shoemaker[/b] [b]Baseline:[/b] We had great time, and we both would have wanted to continue the campaign if it…
In Playtesting
Participants: Sam Anderson, Elizabeth.

11/16/2009 Supplanter: [IAWA] Another We Owe List Q
I can hardly believe I'm asking this one, but the group expressed some interest in the official ruling on the following matter, and I am the designated person who posts…
In lumpley games
Participants: Supplanter, David Artman, lumpley, jessecoombs, Brand_Robins.

11/16/2009 Sebastian: [Hell for Leather] Tasteless violence needs proofing
[Also posted on Praxis] I've just finished the alpha release of Hell for Leather for Nathan Paoletta's Two Games One Name competition. My playtest group have become contaminated by the…
In Connections
Participants: Sebastian.

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