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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.

3/4/2010 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.

3/4/2010 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 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.

3/3/2010 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.

3/3/2010 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.

3/2/2010 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.

3/2/2010 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.

3/1/2010 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.

3/1/2010 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 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.

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.

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.

2/27/2010 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.

2/26/2010 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.

2/26/2010 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 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 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 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 etothepowerofx: card-based mechanic for cowboy genre
First off, feel free, if you find any of my ideas useful, to use them in your own projects. I like very general, easily adaptive systems in narrative game-play. I…
In First Thoughts
Participants: etothepowerofx, stefoid, Brigand, Falc, Vulpinoid, Simon C, Excalibur, Eero Tuovinen, PeterBB.

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3/6/2010 Paka: The Looking Glass, the Cyclone, the Wardrobe and the Second Star to the Right
What happens to those kids who have been to otherworlds when they grow up? One sorcerous theory: http://githyankidiaspora.wordpress.com/2010/03/06/the-looking-glass-the-cyclone-the-wardrobe-and-the-second-star-to-the-right/
In Adept Press
Participants: Paka, Ben Lehman, greyorm, The Dragon Master, Ron Edwards.

3/6/2010 reveal: [ENnies] On accepting PDF versions of printed products
In the past few weeks, we've received questions regarding submitting PDF versions of documents that are also available in either hardcover/softcover format or print-on-demand (POD). In that regard, I thought…
In Conventions
Participants: reveal.

3/6/2010 Eliarhiman6: Le Mille e una Notte (1001 Nights in Italian)
Today the first pictures of the printer's proofs for "Le mille e una notte", the Italian edition of 1001 Nights, were posted online. You can see them here The book's…
In Night Sky Games
Participants: Eliarhiman6.

3/7/2010 ThoughtBubble: Trying to figure out the anatomy of challenges I like
This is all inspired by the "Challenge the player" thread from last year. I've fallen into a pretty heavy "planned to showcase ability x" rut in my dungeon/encounter design. So…
In Actual Play
Participants: ThoughtBubble, Jeff B, Noon, Filip Luszczyk, Excalibur, JoyWriter, contracycle, Ron Edwards.

3/7/2010 Excalibur: [TCoT] First Playtest
TCoT: The Chronicles of Taluria is a high fantasy/steampunk RPG I've been developing since WotC held their setting contest that gave birth to Eberron. I asked about card-based and dice-based…
In Playtesting
Participants: Excalibur, davidberg.

3/7/2010 Sapiento: Freelance cartographer available for commissions
Hi! My name is Robert Altbauer and I'm specialized in making maps. Many of my clients are RPG players, but I also made maps for novels, personal purposes and websites.…
In Connections
Participants: Sapiento.

3/7/2010 James_Nostack: In-Fiction Sexual Exploitation: blarrrrgh
I guess this is a solicitation for similar AP; there's some analysis questions at the bottom.  But mostly I feel like venting a little. The other day I played Champions,…
In Actual Play
Participants: James_Nostack, CedricP, Noclue, Noon, Jeff B, FetusCommander, Lance D. Allen, JoyWriter, greyorm, contracycle, Ron Edwards, Paka, mark2v, Ar Kayon, Miskatonic, ShallowThoughts, davidberg.

3/7/2010 davout1805: Worldbuilding: Looking for samples
Hello, I'd like to use Universalis to create my campaign setting. I'm looking for any demos, samples, game logs, etc of game sessions of Universalis used for setting creation. Does…
In Universalis
Participants: davout1805, Valamir.

3/8/2010 FetusCommander: [melkrin] Playing with primordial clay
Hi there.  I’ve been lurking around these forums for a long time, and wound up making only one post, partly because until today I didn’t have anything really concise to…
In First Thoughts
Participants: FetusCommander, Mike Sugarbaker, Ar Kayon.

3/8/2010 stevend: Symbolic 3D Medieval RPG: Need Artists
Symbolic is a 3d medieval RPG under development by symbolic studios. The game is in first person perspective, and will include many quests and puzzles for the player to play…
In Connections
Participants: stevend.

3/8/2010 Soyokaze: Mutually Exclusive Character Traits (A,B, or neither)
Recently, I have been considering character creation and the way in which it relates to the natural description of individuals. I've become curious about mutually exclusive traits, as opposed to…
In First Thoughts
Participants: Soyokaze, Jeff B, Eliarhiman6, Ar Kayon, jasonm, Thomas Da, PeterBB.

3/8/2010 Sebastian: [Contest] Write 7 lines in 10 days
I'm looking for help, so I'm holding a contest. This has been posted over on Story Games too. I'm looking for sample scenarios (called Frames—read this?) for game called Hell…
In Endeavor
Participants: Sebastian, Ar Kayon, Excalibur, Ben Lehman, Ron Edwards, davidberg, Luminous.

3/8/2010 Roger: [Sorcerer] My Struggles with Need
[url=http://www.indie-rpgs.com/forum/index.php?topic=29343.0]John's recent AP post about his Casablanca game[/url] reminded me of my long uphill battle with trying to figure out what Demonic Need was getting at, and I thought I'd…
In Adept Press
Participants: Roger, Ron Edwards, angelfromanotherpin.

3/9/2010 Supplanter: [Polaris] Moon Ownership Question
I'd like to clarify my understanding, please, of the scope of the Mistaken-player's authority over Moon characters. The following grows out of a session four of us participated in last…
In These Are Our Games
Participants: Supplanter, Ben Lehman.

3/9/2010 Jeff B: (D&D2e) Bringing in the new guy
Below is an account of a game I played in and my observations about bringing new characters into an existing roleplaying campaign, a maneuver which fails more often than it…
In Actual Play
Participants: Jeff B, Ron Edwards, Noon, James_Nostack, Aelwyn.

3/9/2010 RandomCitizenx: Two possible randomization mechanics
I have been kicking around a few different game design ideas and have finally come upon a conflict resolution system I like. I am now faced with the problem of…
In First Thoughts
Participants: RandomCitizenx, Ar Kayon, FetusCommander, Vulpinoid, Excalibur, Jeff B, Noon, Brendan Day, Silverwave, Necromantis.

3/10/2010 The Dragon Master: [Sorcerer] Convention Workshops: Definitions
So I mentioned a while back that I plan to be running a Sorcerer Workshop at Phoenix Comicon in a couple months. I've since been reading the book (yet again),…
In Adept Press
Participants: The Dragon Master, Ron Edwards.

3/10/2010 greyorm: Dysfunction at the Magic Tourney [D&D 3.5]
Weirdly, this is going to tie into at least two other current threads happening right now... For our last session we took a break from 3:16 to play in our…
In Actual Play
Participants: greyorm, Noon, Ron Edwards, JoyWriter, Aelwyn.

3/10/2010 Emily Care: Hardcover recommendations
I'm looking for information on sources of hardcover printing for a game book, other than Lulu. Have you used a different printer? What was the quality like? Cost? Customer service?…
In Publishing
Participants: Emily Care, Simon C, Gregor Hutton, Malcolm.

3/10/2010 dindenver: [Zombie Cinema] Good times
We played again on Monday. I was a idealistic cop, we had a 10-year old Latchkey kid, a sex addict and an African-American nerd. We never really explained how the…
In Arkenstone Publishing
Participants: dindenver, Eero Tuovinen.

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