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2/26/2010 Tveir: [Sorcerer] Linda Meier
Thinking of running a game in (a terribly inaccurate version of) Berlin in the 90s, from the perspective of eleven-year-old kids. I'm still essentially running one-player one-shots, trying to figure…
In Adept Press
Participants: Tveir, Ron Edwards.

2/25/2010 asymmetrical: Syndrome
Hello everyone. I'm an avid roleplayer who have tried my hand at writing rpg's a couple of times before, however I have to this day not been successfull for various…
In First Thoughts
Participants: asymmetrical, Excalibur, Vulpinoid, Brendan Day.

2/25/2010 Eero Tuovinen: [SS] Adapting Exalted
I'm putting some preliminary thoughts on adapting Exalted for Solar System here for Dave's benefit. My perspective on Exalted is from rather early in the game's run - I've read…
In Arkenstone Publishing
Participants: Eero Tuovinen, dindenver, Domon, d.anderson, Klaus_Welten, vellu82.

2/25/2010 noahtrammell: Tell me about lulu
So, I'm developing a game and even though it is a loooong way in the future, I'm looking ahead to publishing.  Lulu looks easy and stress-free.  I'm not looking to…
In Publishing
Participants: noahtrammell, Eero Tuovinen, Ron Edwards, jasonm, Vulpinoid.

2/25/2010 markgamemaker: Stone, Steel, and Steam Open Beta - Playtesters Wanted
What if the Chinese had discovered America and not Columbus?  What if the Native Americans had developed more advanced technology and complex societies that were better able to resist foreign…
In Connections
Participants: markgamemaker.

2/25/2010 markgamemaker: Stone, Steel, and Steam Open Beta
*If I have made a mistake in posting this here, a. I apologize, b. see Contradictions in the Stickies to understand my mistake. Hi. New here.  I'd like to tell…
In First Thoughts
Participants: markgamemaker.

2/25/2010 markgamemaker: Contradictions in the Stickies
Like a good newbie, I'm reading the stickies to make sure what I intend to write about is in the right place.  And right off the bat I'm given the…
In Site Discussion
Participants: markgamemaker, Ron Edwards.

2/24/2010 Excalibur: Some Racial Ability Advice
Hello once again. I think I've gotten my combat mechanic ideas fleshed out now, thanks for reading that thread if you did. A few different questions this go around. How…
In First Thoughts
Participants: Excalibur, Vulpinoid, David C, JoyWriter, Locke, Jeff B.

2/24/2010 Marshall Burns: Rules & Precepts for Creating Fantasy
I wrote this because I'm writing a fantasy story. When I write, I have to set ground rules for myself, otherwise I second-guess myself, revise things that don't need revising,…
In Beyond the Wire Productions
Participants: Marshall Burns.

2/24/2010 LaughingJackWilton: Artist Wanted
I am working on an RPG for the Simian Circle contest and I need an artist for cover work and a couple of logos. The deadline for the art would…
In Connections
Participants: LaughingJackWilton.

2/24/2010 lumpley: Moreno, a Hero of the Forge
Moreno is vigilant about flagging spam so that Ron or I can come remove it from threads. If you haven't seen spam, it's because Moreno saw it first. Thanks, Moreno!…
In Site Discussion
Participants: lumpley, Eliarhiman6, Eero Tuovinen, Jasper Flick.

2/24/2010 ShallowThoughts: How can Narrativism moderate an entirely open-ended situation?
I'm splitting this post off of one in the Actual Play forum, entitled " Hot elves, morality, and the missing initiative roll". The comments made in it (especially those by…
In First Thoughts
Participants: ShallowThoughts, Ar Kayon, Eero Tuovinen, Noon, Excalibur, contracycle, Falc.

2/24/2010 Frank Tarcikowski: [TRoS] Destiny Spiritual Attribute
No, I don't have an actual play account (yet) where the Destiny spiritual attribute played a role. I will be running a game on Friday in which several characters have…
In Actual Play
Participants: Frank Tarcikowski, Noon, Paka, Ben Lehman, Ron Edwards.

2/24/2010 Brendan Day: [Blotter] shot once with a 35mm
[url=http://www.indie-rpgs.com/forum/index.php?topic=29379.0]Blotter[/url] is a game inspired by film noir and crime fiction. This was my first playtest.  I went in with a lot of assumptions about how the game should be…
In Playtesting
Participants: Brendan Day, Ron Edwards, Paul Czege.

2/23/2010 dindenver: [Solar System] New Secrets Question
Eero,   I was reading your advice on making new secrets and you advised not to change the pool cost based on pre-requisites of the Secret.   So, my question…
In Arkenstone Publishing
Participants: dindenver, Eero Tuovinen.

2/23/2010 jburneko: Sex & Sorcery and Houses of the Blooded LARP
Okay, so this is my attempt to collect my thoughts on the material in Sex & Sorcery, and Houses of the Blooded LARP.  Let me start off by explaining the…
In Adept Press
Participants: jburneko, greyorm, Roger, The Dragon Master.

2/23/2010 jb.teller4: IDEA: Adapting WoN armies crunch to powerful sorcerers, politics, business, etc.
I recently read the Prince of Nothing series by R. Scott Bakker and reread several of the Black Company novels by Glen Cook and they got me thinking about how…
In Arkenstone Publishing
Participants: jb.teller4, Eero Tuovinen.

2/23/2010 jb.teller4: IDEA: Opposed vs. Parallel in SImple Conflicts?
I understand that simple conflicts are always opposed rolls (using the extended conflict terminology) so the winner gets their goal and the loser suffers consequences.  Something I was idly thinking…
In Arkenstone Publishing
Participants: jb.teller4, Eero Tuovinen, simonjberger.

2/23/2010 davidberg: [Posterity] perform feats of legend and see how they'll be remembered
Two ideas for this. VERSION 1 Start with a legend.  Read it as a group.  Make the telling of the tale fun.  Can be something a player made up, something…
In First Thoughts
Participants: davidberg, horomancer, Vulpinoid.

2/23/2010 Vulpinoid: Games for Goblins
I've been inspired by a couple of things lately. 1. TA storygames thread about <a href="http://story-games.com/forums/comments.php?DiscussionID=11519&page=1#Item_40">games you'd like other people to design</a>. 2. The gaming anthology <a href="http://www.lulu.com/content/paperback-book/norwegian-style/5140294">"Norwegian Style"</a> 3.…
In Endeavor
Participants: Vulpinoid, Telarus, KSC.

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2/26/2010 Aus_Specs: Opinions of Designers on Copying Mechanics from other RPGs
Greetings, I am a law student at the University of Chicago, working on a paper to study Intellectual Property ("IP") norms within the RPG industry. Specifically, I'm curious why there…
In Publishing
Participants: Aus_Specs, Luke, Eero Tuovinen, Ron Edwards, HeTeleports.

2/26/2010 Locke: [Age Past] Fantasy RPG! Build any character you want!
So this is the game.  It's pretty much done.  I'm still getting art so this is the quick printable version. https://docs.google.com/fileview?id=0B-7APna9ZhHEZmRhNmFmODktOTgxNy00NDllLTk0MjgtMjI4YzJlN2MyNmEw&hl=en What's inside: - Easy step by step character build…
In Connections
Participants: Locke, markgamemaker.

2/26/2010 Spooky Fanboy: [Super Action Now!] Game inspiration
http://axecop.com/index.php Seems to be where you're heading with the game.
In Beyond the Wire Productions
Participants: Spooky Fanboy, Marshall Burns.

2/26/2010 reveal: [ENnies] 2010 ENnies Booth Volunteer Recruitment!
We are looking for good people to volunteer their time at the ENnies booth at GenCon this year. We are starting the recruitment early to give people plenty of time…
In Conventions
Participants: reveal.

2/26/2010 greyorm: [ORX] Creative Commons Release Question
You may have heard that I have been working on a stripped-down version of ORX, which I am very shortly planning on releasing into the commons. However, I haven't decided…
In Publishing
Participants: greyorm, pells, Eero Tuovinen, preludetotheend, JoyWriter.

2/27/2010 JTColeman: [Solar System] Overflow dice secrets
Hi Eero, I was reading TWoN and had a little hesitation concerning secrets that use overflow dice, in particular with Weapon Mastery. Let's say that I have two "+" as…
In Arkenstone Publishing
Participants: JTColeman, Eero Tuovinen.

2/28/2010 David C: Death to the Expert: Probability and the Romance of the Primary Die
I was running some sessions with "high level" characters.  These characters were legends in their own right.  But I had this nagging sensation that something was wrong. Then it hit…
In Playtesting
Participants: David C, Noon, Eero Tuovinen, NN, JoyWriter, Locke.

2/28/2010 segedy: [Apocalypse World] The Sacred Mentality and its Thousand Eyes
For the last few weeks our group has been running an Apocalypse World playtest, and I thought it was time to put up some actual play. Our group is 5…
In Playtesting
Participants: segedy, Dionysus.

3/1/2010 Sebastian: [Hell for Leather] Sh*tting on the ancestors - ADULTS ONLY
(Warning: Contains offensive ideas and offensive language... like the word cunt) Last week I witnessed the most anarchic HfL playtest to date, a journey of debauchery and violence in old…
In Playtesting
Participants: Sebastian, Ron Edwards, Noon, Ar Kayon.

3/1/2010 reveal: [ENnies] Get To Know Your 2010 ENnies Judges!
In order for people to feel a little more connected to the ENnies, we've decided to conducts interviews with each judge. Now, each judge already answered a list of questions…
In Conventions
Participants: reveal.

3/1/2010 Snuggles_The_Elf: A couple of questions
Hopefully somebody's still monitoring the forums here - just started planning my game, and a couple of questions came up during character creation. First - the Looks stat. It seems…
In Green Fairy Games
Participants: Snuggles_The_Elf.

3/2/2010 vellu82: [SS] Solar KOTOR
Finally I've reached a waypoint in my conversion of Knights of the Old Republic. Gradually I'll post the focal points. All the material is in Italian (my language). Maybe there…
In Arkenstone Publishing
Participants: vellu82, Eero Tuovinen.

3/2/2010 dindenver: [WoN] Inselbeg/Melnibone
Here is what I have so far: Inselberg factions Elric faction - Fort-based Faction Yrkoon faction - Fort-based Faction Admiralty faction - Fort-based Faction Vanguard faction - Islet Faction Rebel…
In Arkenstone Publishing
Participants: dindenver, Eero Tuovinen.

3/3/2010 Filip Luszczyk: I hate compromises
I hate compromises. I immediately started to hate compromises the first and the last time I played Burning Empires. We've spent 40 minutes or so playing out DoW. Then, we…
In Actual Play
Participants: Filip Luszczyk, Frank Tarcikowski, jburneko, Luke, Noon, Paka, greyorm, JoyWriter, Ben Lehman, Brendan Day, contracycle, ThoughtBubble, CedricP, Eliarhiman6, Noclue, Jeff B, ShallowThoughts, Ron Edwards.

3/3/2010 jburneko: The Drifter's Escape Purchasing Problem
Hello, I left a comment on the TAO Games blog about this but maybe that didn't get through.  I've been trying to buy The Drifter's Escape for a couple of…
In These Are Our Games
Participants: jburneko, Ben Lehman.

3/4/2010 PaulieRomanov: Modern Military RPG
I had an idea for a modern military RPG similar to Call of Duty: Modern Warfare, I have an idea of how things would work setting-wise, but have no idea…
In First Thoughts
Participants: PaulieRomanov, Excalibur, Ar Kayon, Noon, Locke, mjbauer.

3/4/2010 CedricP: [Sorcerer] Solaris
I am working on a Sorcerer setting and I want to use to use some elements from Solaris (the Stanisław Lem novel or the Tarkovsky movie). About the "passer demons"…
In Adept Press
Participants: CedricP, Ron Edwards.

3/4/2010 Ron Edwards: The Adept and Sorcerer website has returned!
Hi, It's here at Adept Press. Mind you, a lot of things are still textually in development, mainly because if I tried to nail it down in full before going…
In Adept Press
Participants: Ron Edwards, Markus, Gregor Hutton, Eliarhiman6, greyorm, Paka, jburneko, Eero Tuovinen, James_Nostack, Artanis.

3/5/2010 pulpapocalipsis: [Blue Harvest] Playtesters needed
Hello everyone! We are two spanish game designers looking for some playtesters for our project. Below you have some info about what the game/system goes about. Anyone interested can drop…
In Connections
Participants: pulpapocalipsis.

3/5/2010 Citadel: Need Help Catagorizing My Game!
I have a game I've created and I'm having a hard time putting it into a catagory. I'm a little sheepish about this because I don't come from an RPG…
In First Thoughts
Participants: Citadel, Excalibur, David Artman, Noon, Mike Sugarbaker.

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