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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.

11/5/2009 jessecoombs: (IAWA) Different Versions?
I just ordered and received a new copy of In a Wicked Age to replace the one I lost. I noticed that this one doesn't have some rules about ending…
In lumpley games
Participants: jessecoombs, Supplanter, lumpley.

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.

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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.

11/16/2009 Charlatan: Species role playing game needs testers please...
I have been role playing for about twelve years and have designed my own role playing game which is a mixture of dnd and vampire rules. It is simpler though…
In Connections
Participants: Charlatan.

11/16/2009 Charlatan: Need playtesters for species role playing game...
I have been role playing for twelve years and have devised my own system and game. It is about clans of humans that have animal attributes and works on a…
In Connections
Participants: Charlatan, Vulpinoid, chance.thirteen.

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