Previous Topics 5/7/2009 Nev the Deranged: "Fuse dice", wacky DRYH inspired mechanic, free to good home
So I was thinking about the funky ways DRYH uses dice, and wondering if I could come up with something similar. I came up with something, how useful it might…
In First Thoughts
Participants: Nev the Deranged, Wordman.
4/8/2009 Nev the Deranged: Escapist's Terra Libris Project
Not sure if anyone's posted about this already, but The Escapist web magazine has put together a pretty cool project to try and get RPGs into America's libraries. I happen…
In Endeavor
Participants: Nev the Deranged, RabbitHoleGames.
12/15/2008 Nev the Deranged: Dice result charts or calculators?
I'm working on a chart of the percentage chance of meeting or beating target numbers on various kinds of dice. I know this sort of thing has been done countless…
In Endeavor
Participants: Nev the Deranged, causticbuddhist, greyorm, Erudite.
4/17/2008 Nev the Deranged: [The Mountain Witch] - Forge Midwest '08 - More Cross Dressing
The TMW game on Sunday was out of control. We had eye-gouging (I don't feel a TMW game is complete without eye-gouging, since the game where Alexander lost his), and,…
In Actual Play
Participants: Nev the Deranged, coffeestain, Willow, Tim C Koppang.
1/12/2008 Nev the Deranged: Seminar on the impact of Forgeish theory stuff on online social gaming
I'll save the story of how I ran across this, but I found it interesting. It's a seminar, held on M*U*S*H (an online massively multiplayer text based social environment), about…
In Actual Play
Participants: Nev the Deranged.
12/15/2007 Nev the Deranged: [the pickup game] - descriptor tables
I recently posted over in AP about "the pickup game", http://www.indie-rpgs.com/forum/index.php?topic=25253.0, and I am doing further thinking about it.
So, I have been fiddling around with a chart to facilitate…
In First Thoughts
Participants: Nev the Deranged.
12/11/2007 Nev the Deranged: GameGeeks review of DRYH on YouTube
Sorry if this has been posted before, but I just ran across it
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SU03BdBcCps
Looks like there's one for PTA too...
D.
In Evilhat Productions
Participants: Nev the Deranged.
11/24/2007 Nev the Deranged: [Pace/Otherkind Hybrid] Swashbuckling Librarian & Demonic Cheerleader!
Hanging out tonight, a friend and I were bored, so I decided to fiddle around with the simple dice mechanic Vincent posted about (http://www.lumpley.com/archive/148.html). To start with a little momentum…
In Actual Play
Participants: Nev the Deranged, Ron Edwards, GregStolze, Paul T, Valamir.
11/17/2007 Nev the Deranged: Escape Pod: Union Dues.
So, Escape Pod is one of my favorite short-fiction webcasts. There's a series of stories on there about a "Superhero Union", set in a very morally grey universe, which is…
In Muse of Fire Games
Participants: Nev the Deranged.
11/17/2007 Nev the Deranged: Escape Pod: Union Dues
So, Escape Pod is one of my favorite short-fiction webcasts. There's a series of stories on there about a "Superhero Union", set in a very morally grey universe, which is…
In Incarnadine Press
Participants: Nev the Deranged.
11/4/2007 Nev the Deranged: EnWorld Game Day at Games Plus in Mt. Prospect
Nov 10th, EnWorld is hosting another Game Day at Games Plus in Mt. Prospect, Illinois. It's always a good time, and there are lots of games going down, including some…
In Conventions
Participants: Nev the Deranged.
8/27/2007 Nev the Deranged: [Mechaton] - First Sortie Questions
So, I tricked my friend Karin into playing Mechaton with me, by just dumping a bucket of Legos out in front of her and not telling her it was going…
In lumpley games
Participants: Nev the Deranged, lumpley, Uriel, Mantisking.
8/25/2007 Nev the Deranged: [Bliss Stage] - "Real World" question
I read through Ignition Stage, and it looks like it'll take some actually trying it to get a more comprehensive handle on how things work beyond the stuff covered by…
In These Are Our Games
Participants: Nev the Deranged, Eero Tuovinen, Skywalker, Mark Woodhouse, Ben Lehman.
8/20/2007 Nev the Deranged: Bliss Stage Fantasy?
So, Bliss Stage was the first game I demoed at GenCon, and also my first purchase of the con. As a result, I was thinking about it whenever I wasn't…
In These Are Our Games
Participants: Nev the Deranged, Skywalker, Ben Lehman.
8/11/2007 Nev the Deranged: [Roach-ish] Pseudopod's _The Disciple_
Roach enthusiasts might enjoy this episode of horror webcast Pseudopod: http://pseudopod.org/2007/07/27/68/
In Bully Pulpit Games
Participants: Nev the Deranged, jasonm.
8/9/2007 Nev the Deranged: [Shock: 1.1] - First game
Okay, I am gonna do this in chunks, because I don't have time to type it all out in one go.
I managed to get some people, namely Juli, Karin,…
In Actual Play
Participants: Nev the Deranged, tylure.
7/27/2007 Nev the Deranged: Shock: 1.1 Q&A
I emailed Joshua my questions, since I wasn't sure if it was kosher to post about 1.1 yet, but he said it was cool, so I am cut and pasting…
In glyphpress
Participants: Nev the Deranged, nikola, matthijs, Melinglor, xenopulse, ldd23, biotaps35, Artanis.
6/26/2007 Nev the Deranged: [GenCon '07] - Non-Exhibitors Wednesday Meetup Plans (?)
For those of us (if, in fact, there are any besides my crew) who are coming into town on Wednesday, but are not Exhibitors, and therefore are prohibited from helping…
In Conventions
Participants: Nev the Deranged, Matt Gwinn, Matt-M-McElroy, Ron Edwards, Troy_Costisick, Thunder_God.
5/22/2007 Nev the Deranged: Rise of the Argonauts
There's not a lot of info available (for free anyway) on the web about this upcoming game, but the articles I've read sound pretty badass. And, not incidentally, pretty Agonesque.…
In one.seven design
Participants: Nev the Deranged, John Harper.
4/12/2007 Nev the Deranged: Strife and NPCs
So, how do you deal with spending Strife on NPCs before you know how they will be disposed toward the heroes? Should Strife only be spent on definite enemies? Would…
In one.seven design
Participants: Nev the Deranged, John Harper, Skywalker.
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