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12/23/2009 Blue Wizard: (Abeo) Idea
While talking with a friend of mine I brought up an idea I've wanted to see a world built around.  I wanted to bounce the idea off of some people…
In First Thoughts
Participants: Blue Wizard, Catelf, Vulpinoid, davidberg.

12/23/2009 Galadrin: [16-bit] Take Two!
Hello Forgers!  It's been a while.  I'm taking a break from writing some semester papers and thinking about my old concept 16-bit again.  I'm toying with the idea of converting…
In Playtesting
Participants: Galadrin, chronoplasm, Filip Luszczyk, JoyWriter.

12/22/2009 John Blaz: Mechanics for scale: ie mouse, man, dragon
Hey all, working on a sword & sorcery type game right now, and I had a thought. Do my mechanics work with the different scales of creatures? Right now, the…
In First Thoughts
Participants: John Blaz, chance.thirteen, lumpley, Noon, Catelf, David Artman.

12/22/2009 Dan Maruschak: [Final Hour of a Storied Age] Supporting characters' subplots in Epic Fantasy
My game is Final Hour of a Storied Age: A Roleplaying Game of Epic Fantasy. A PDF of the current rules can be downloaded from here. For context, you can…
In Playtesting
Participants: Dan Maruschak, pells, dindenver, Catelf.

12/22/2009 Paolo D.: [Agon] Tricks and Alternate Advantages
As suggested by John in my other topic (http://www.indie-rpgs.com/forum/index.php?topic=28721.0), these days I'm using the Tricks and the Alternate Advantages (from the Agon wiki) like semiofficial rules. I've got some questions…
In one.seven design
Participants: Paolo D..

12/22/2009 Trevis Martin: Maybe a good roulette wheel for your Fastlane Games
For those of you with an iphone or ipod touch there are a couple of apps that will work for you.  One is free and is just Roulette Free, from…
In Twisted Confessions
Participants: Trevis Martin.

12/21/2009 Sebastian: [Hell for Leather] German playtest with non-gamers
I got an email from my chief playtester in Germany. Sounds like a fun playtest. To keep things open, I'm posting it here (Daniel is not a member of the…
In Playtesting
Participants: Sebastian.

12/21/2009 MatrixGamer: Color Printing question - for Ryan at GOB
You said that you have printers that don't need varnish after printing. Can you tell me more about them? What sizes do they print? What is the quality? How much…
In Publishing
Participants: MatrixGamer, guildofblades, fernando.

12/21/2009 Seamus: Microsoft Word: Problem with tracking changes
I just encountered a very strange problem with tracking changes on microsoft word, maybe someone here knows what the source is. My editor sent me back an edited manuscript (no…
In Publishing
Participants: Seamus, Eero Tuovinen, David Artman.

12/20/2009 AzgrymnThePale: RPG Competition on VTT Recruiting Echo Crew
If anyone is interested in joining I am recruiting Echo Crew to play through the upcoming release Pray for Dawn module for Chaos 6010 A.D. Make characters using the program…
In Endeavor
Participants: AzgrymnThePale.

12/20/2009 punkbohemian: trying to figure out where to put perception
I have skills grouped by attributes, which are: Brawn, Dexterity, Acuity, and Spirit. Due to the metaphysics of the setting, I absolutely have to keep it to these four attributes.…
In First Thoughts
Participants: punkbohemian, Ken, Jasper Flick, Catelf, lumpley, Vulpinoid, Falc, chance.thirteen, Mike Sugarbaker.

12/19/2009 Vulpinoid: Impulse Settings
Here's an idea I'm toying with. It started basically as a kind of Power 19 that really delves into a setting and why it is suitable for a game environment.…
In First Thoughts
Participants: Vulpinoid, tleeuwenburg@gmail.com, Paka, davidberg, Warrior Monk.

12/19/2009 Seamus: movie and tv references
I know this subject has been addressed before. But I am working on the final edits of our next book and wanted to get some peoples' thoughts on the subject…
In Publishing
Participants: Seamus, Ken, Jasper Flick, Ron Edwards, Eero Tuovinen, Troy_Costisick.

12/19/2009 Catelf: [Hexagonata] Alternate Pulp/Horror/Action (Streed) Game. Comments?
Hi again. Seems i finally managed to put together the parts i like the most: * Thriller/Horror investigations * Action * People (oddly) Gifted to suit their Tasks (better than…
In Playtesting
Participants: Catelf.

12/19/2009 Eldrad: The Olde Realm: Akedemios
I have been working on my RPG/ Poems/ Collection of Short Stories/ Artwork with the help of a few friends for many years now. For the last 8-10 years I…
In First Thoughts
Participants: Eldrad, Vulpinoid, Catelf.

12/18/2009 Daz Florp Lebam: my dice pool system (feel its awesome power!)
Well hello, all! This is my first post, after hearing a lot about this site and these forums over the years, and a wee bit of lurking. I have a…
In First Thoughts
Participants: Daz Florp Lebam, Warrior Monk, JoyWriter, Quizoid, Excalibur.

12/18/2009 punkbohemian: help me name my third attribute
I'm doing a Tri-Stat-esque attribute division, and I'm having trouble naming my "Mind" attribute. As is, I have Materia for Body, Anima for Spirit, but nothing thematically the same (as…
In First Thoughts
Participants: punkbohemian, chance.thirteen, Eldrad, decline, chronoplasm.

12/18/2009 Ron Edwards: [The Drifter’s Escape] Drives, Dreams, and peyote
I found a rough draft of a post I thought I'd finished and posted - but never did! This dates from a couple of years ago, when we playtested a…
In Playtesting
Participants: Ron Edwards, Ben Lehman.

12/17/2009 ImberCorvus: Racial Expansion without Numbers
All right. I've been working on a series of articles on traditional races of Fantasy which provide an alternate view of the cliché's which surround them. As an example I…
In First Thoughts
Participants: ImberCorvus, Paul Czege, davidberg, Vulpinoid.

12/17/2009 CircularGeometry: Programmer/Support Artist Needed for RPG
Hello everyone! We just found this forum and figured we would see if we could find anyone to help us with our 2-D, indie RPG. We are a small group…
In Connections
Participants: CircularGeometry, Jasper Flick.

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12/24/2009 elenius: Where are the articles?
Several post refer to an "articles" link at the top of the site, but I don't see it. I did find this page: http://www.indie-rpgs.com/_articles/glossary.html which has an "articles" link, but…
In Site Discussion
Participants: elenius, Artanis, Eliarhiman6, lumpley.

12/25/2009 noahtrammell: Licenses and other pesky stuff
  So I'm considering using FATE for a game.  Could anyone give me a quick explanation of how the OGL works?  Are there any quirks I should be aware of …
In Publishing
Participants: noahtrammell, Dan Maruschak, Ron Edwards.

12/25/2009 hannibalisfun: How should attributes apply modifiers to skills
          So, I have been playing in my friend's home-brewed roleplaying system for about a year now.  Over all I have been really impressed with it. …
In First Thoughts
Participants: hannibalisfun, Vulpinoid, Noon.

12/26/2009 greyorm: ORX: Nasty, Brutish &...SALE!
I've posted this text a couple places and sent out some e-mails to folks who have had the book on their wishlist: ORX: Nasty, Brutish & Short, the RPG about…
In Wild Hunt Studios
Participants: greyorm.

12/26/2009 Filip Luszczyk: The GM should stop me!
I've found this situation intriguing. The game in question handles character effectiveness primarily via player <-> player permissions. I'm in the middle of running a campaign, and our last session…
In Actual Play
Participants: Filip Luszczyk, Eliarhiman6, Noon, contracycle, ShallowThoughts.

12/26/2009 Filip Luszczyk: [Misery Bubblegum] It hurts!
Last session, I've cut my finger with the box. It hurt. Thusly, it was the first time I experienced actual pain when playing a game. I mean, how silly is…
In Muse of Fire Games
Participants: Filip Luszczyk.

12/26/2009 reason: taletellers and dreamers, or a game that doesn't exist
Once upon a time there was a writer who wrote a story game that doesn't exist. Those were strange times, and it was an act for a strange time. But…
In First Thoughts
Participants: reason, contracycle, Vulpinoid, Kanosint.

12/26/2009 Kanosint: Play-Doh and Musicals, oh my!
Lately I can't help but ponder two things and how one could make an interesting RPG with them... Play-Doh and Musicals. Not together, of course, that'd be waaay too silly,…
In First Thoughts
Participants: Kanosint, Callisto, chronoplasm, FetusCommander.

12/27/2009 Callisto: Working on a System about Cats [Felis]
Hi there, this is my very first post on this forum, so I try to keep it short. My mothertongue is german so I apologize for bad english. I'm working…
In First Thoughts
Participants: Callisto, Noon, Catelf, chronoplasm, JLFergus.

12/28/2009 Klaus_Welten: [Sorcerer] How do you play it?
I got my greedy hands on Sorcerer and the first two supplements. I red them. The game looks fantastic, but I found I have problems understaing how exactly you do…
In Adept Press
Participants: Klaus_Welten, Ron Edwards, 5niper9.

12/28/2009 migo: Coin flipping mechanic
This thought just came to me. It originally stemmed out of a thought of playing Reversi with coins - one player is heads, the other is tails, and at the…
In First Thoughts
Participants: migo, GregStolze.

12/29/2009 John Guance: apologize, but it is very Important
It doesn't accomplish faculty accustomed the time line, but it looks cool anyhow!
In First Thoughts
Participants: John Guance, Catelf, lumpley.

12/29/2009 David C: [Remos] Betrayal of Design Goals?
I've nearly completed my game. But I'm finding that I've betrayed some of my own design goals. The game I've made is somewhere between tactical decision making and story now.…
In Playtesting
Participants: David C, Catelf, contracycle, Paul Czege, dindenver, JoyWriter, Darcy Burgess, Noon.

12/29/2009 punkbohemian: action points, by any other name
What I'm using in my system is a sort of an action point system to cover attacking and defense, based on an Agility-type stat which is going to determine how…
In First Thoughts
Participants: punkbohemian, Catelf, Stacktrace, David C, JoyWriter, Solarsaurus.

12/30/2009 Abkajud: Joan of Arc and the Templars/Gender and Culture, too
I'm fascinated by the Three Orders of medieval European society - the laborer, warrior, and priestly castes, or laborares, bellatores, and oratores, respectively. I've been meaning to check out Chronica…
In First Thoughts
Participants: Abkajud, Catelf.

12/30/2009 Melinglor: [MLwM] First play, with some awkwardness
So I played a one-off game of My Life With Master the other night. It wasn't as fulfilling as a full game (as one might expect), but it did give…
In Half Meme Press
Participants: Melinglor, jburneko, Eliarhiman6, Adam Dray.

12/30/2009 mratomek: Superhero Wargame Playtest
Super Force Seven is a fast paced superhero wargame that is full of BOOM-BAM-CRASH action. You can create your own heroes and villains--just about anything you can think of can…
In Connections
Participants: mratomek.

12/30/2009 Nathan P.: [Annalise] The Wake of Zenas Quantum
Hi folks, The Wake of Zenas Quantum is now available! Written by professional good guy Jared Axelrod and featuring a new original illustration by Jennifer Rodgers, this is a superhero-themed…
In ndp design
Participants: Nathan P..

12/31/2009 Abkajud: [yet another LONG Polaris thread] a therapist tries Story Now
Hey, gang! Connor, a friend of mine is visiting from San Francisco; he's in school out there, studying drama therapy. He's played WoW and other video games in the past,…
In Actual Play
Participants: Abkajud, 5niper9.

1/1/2010 Darcy Burgess: [Mars Colony] - Venting, Sex and Failure
On November 2, I got together with Glenn W to try out Mars Colony. I'd taken the nickel tour with Tim Koppang at GenCon'09, and I knew that this game…
In Playtesting
Participants: Darcy Burgess, Ron Edwards, GlennW, JoyWriter, Tim C Koppang.

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