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3/28/2010 wburdick: Other Games Like Blood Red Sands
Remember I posted about premade settings for Universalis a few years back?  I think you did a really good one with Blood Red Sands!  I'm sure you've thought a lot…
In Universalis
Participants: wburdick.

3/28/2010 Earthflame: [Eurid- A game of Mythic Futures] Overview
(First time poster, so apologies if this is not up to scratch. I tried to be brief, as referenced in the guide, but unfortunately my writing style tends toward verbosity…
In First Thoughts
Participants: Earthflame, stefoid, Locke.

3/28/2010 Nev the Deranged: [The Pickup Game] - Mazio the Feral Prince & Lucinda the Clever Dodo
My friend K swung down to take me out for pizza, so we hit the local Uno’s for some savory deep dish (the leftovers of which I am devouring as…
In Playtesting
Participants: Nev the Deranged.

3/27/2010 weaselheart: Roleplaying Stories
Recently I had a lot of questions about play balance in Sorcerer, which led me to do a lot of background reading. http://www.indie-rpgs.com/forum/index.php?topic=29500.0 I write short stories as a hobby.…
In Adept Press
Participants: weaselheart, greyorm, jburneko, Ron Edwards, Eero Tuovinen, Frank Tarcikowski.

3/27/2010 Kyle Cates: [The Object] Resolution Mechanic
Hey all, posted a few times a few years ago, just more out of curiosity than anything else. But now I'm designing a traditional RPG with GM narration and all…
In First Thoughts
Participants: Kyle Cates, Luminous, dindenver, VAgentZero, stefoid.

3/27/2010 Simon C: What is Step on Up for?
I ignored D&D4E when it first came out.  I know from experience that the kind of play it encourages isn't what I want from a roleplaying game.  I didn't need…
In Actual Play
Participants: Simon C, Noon, Jasper Flick, greyorm, ThoughtBubble, Caldis, davidberg, Motipha, Roger, Frank Tarcikowski.

3/26/2010 Lavinia: [StM] - Questions about rules
Hello :-) First of all, please forgive my bad English, it's not my mother tongue. Last Saturday I played Shooting the Moon, it was funny and satisfying, we had to…
In Black and Green Games
Participants: Lavinia, Emily Care.

3/26/2010 Vladius: The Forge is literally the most pretentious place ever
And I want to be the first person banned from it. It's boring, it's lame, and it perpetuates every single negative stereotype about anything and everything "INDIE" ever. Do you…
In Site Discussion
Participants: Vladius.

3/26/2010 Paul T: [Apocalypse World] Questions
Vincent, Just a few minor things here, before I run the game. When seducing someone (another PC, specifically): "If they refuse, it's acting under fire." I'm not sure what this…
In lumpley games
Participants: Paul T, lumpley.

3/26/2010 ShallowThoughts: Mucking with Social Contract - an *Inter-Player* Social System??
I hope I'm not getting too obnoxious on this Forum what with this and my earlier post (which I have since utterly abandoned). I just really, really want to get…
In First Thoughts
Participants: ShallowThoughts, Noon, davidberg.

3/25/2010 Rick Hershey: Fantasy Monster Art Patronage Project
Hey Everyone, My name is Rick Hershey, I own and operate Empty Room Studios. I've been coming here to the Forge for a good while, but mainly just lurking and…
In Connections
Participants: Rick Hershey, GeekFighter.

3/25/2010 Mobius: [Babel] Setting Overview
[i]So you're planning a trip to New Jericho are you? The City of Rain, the City of Man. Yah I've ready all the screeds too “there's no place closer to…
In First Thoughts
Participants: Mobius, Ar Kayon, Vulpinoid, Ron Edwards.

3/24/2010 Ron Edwards: [Bliss Stage] Men and girls
I’d hoped to get a chance to play this, partly because I’m working on a pretty big project regarding science fiction role-playing, and partly because Ben was available at Forge…
In Actual Play
Participants: Ron Edwards, Frank Tarcikowski, CedricP, Simon C, hix, Filip Luszczyk, Nev the Deranged, Ben Lehman.

3/24/2010 leonidas300: Indiecon 2010 - 4th-7th November - 3rd year
Dear members and guests, Indiecon has now been announced and its website is up and running: www.indiecon.net When? 4th-7th November Where? Naish Holiday Park, Dorset, UK Why? Play tomorrow's games…
In Conventions
Participants: leonidas300.

3/24/2010 Brian Leybourne: A "D&D Alignment System" inspired campaign setting...
This is actually a *campaign* first thought rather than a game system. Looking for a sounding board I guess. Ah, D&D. How you shaped most of us in our early…
In First Thoughts
Participants: Brian Leybourne, Mobius, Vulpinoid, Finarvyn, Luminous, EdEdEd, Draco, Baenlynn, flammifer.

3/24/2010 Ron Edwards: [Legendary Lives] Three games to talk about
Hi there, I've written about Legendary Lives in both Fantasy Heartbreakers and More Fantasy Heartbreakers, and as time went on since those essays were placed, I finally got around to…
In Actual Play
Participants: Ron Edwards, davidberg, Miskatonic, Artanis, Lance D. Allen, Noon, Trevis Martin, Millsy, Paul T, Willow, JoyWriter.

3/24/2010 SAW: What happened to the Mechaton Community?
So, I just recently discovered Mechaton, however, when I started to read the various blogs, they all seem to have died out around the same time (between like March and…
In lumpley games
Participants: SAW, Mantisking, Simon C, Zeek, David Artman, Ar Kayon.

3/24/2010 Ar Kayon: Post-Modern Arms and Armor
As armor increased coverage and became stronger and more ergonomic, effective combat strategy shifted its focus from accuracy to sheer power and volume.  Thus, a soldier's arsenal of the post-modern…
In First Thoughts
Participants: Ar Kayon, Locke, Mobius, horomancer.

3/24/2010 Neil the Wimp: [DitV] Non-pathetic Stewards
I've run a few DitV towns, but I'm always having problems with what to do about the Steward.  If he's on the ball, he'll intervene with things going wrong in…
In lumpley games
Participants: Neil the Wimp, Artanis, Eliarhiman6, David Artman, lumpley, Noclue, Paul T, Rughat, Motipha, Eero Tuovinen.

3/24/2010 Anekanta: [Rifts] -- Who's responsible for fun?
Hey all...  Something ironic happened today, in that I was invited to join a Rifts group.  It was ironic because, while I got my first real start in role-playing with…
In Actual Play
Participants: Anekanta, Ron Edwards, Noon, Excalibur, Andrew Norris, Locke.

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3/29/2010 Luminous: Mixed-up Mechanics - A blending of games...
A long, long time ago in a game store far, far away... I played a game called Highland that used a system they called Swordmaster.  Briefly, I had the bright…
In First Thoughts
Participants: Luminous, FetusCommander.

3/29/2010 celtois: The Probability Arc lite system
Alright so I'm new around here, and I like most of you have an idea of a RPG system that I think is wonderful. Thus I am posting it here…
In First Thoughts
Participants: celtois, Luminous, Locke, Silverwave.

3/29/2010 FetusCommander: [Supers Chess] preliminary idea
So I’ve been kicking around the idea of a superhero themed game for a while, and was previously stumped on any sort of resolution that “felt” like the source material…
In First Thoughts
Participants: FetusCommander, Kyle Cates, Mobius.

3/29/2010 Shimera9: Emergent Characters
I've been floating some ideas around about emergent character and figures I'd see if the folks here have seen any games that do this. The original idea was posted up…
In First Thoughts
Participants: Shimera9, Lance D. Allen, contracycle, epweissengruber, Paul Czege, SAW, reaction, Mike Holmes, MacLeod.

3/29/2010 Charlie_X: Fiasco, my new best friend
Wow. I heard about this on the Pulp Gamer podcast and went from abstractly curious to fixated in the last few hours, getting the preview, then the pdf. I'm a…
In Bully Pulpit Games
Participants: Charlie_X, jasonm.

3/29/2010 jburneko: [S/lay w/ Me] The Cowboy and The Clockwork Hacker
So I had the opportunity to play S/lay w/ Me.  For a while I had been trying to convince Laura to the play the game with me but she found…
In Actual Play
Participants: jburneko, Savage Slacker, Ron Edwards, Eliarhiman6, Noon, Eero Tuovinen, Jasper Flick, bayonder, hix.

3/29/2010 ejh: Horribly unprofessional artist seeks advice.
Hey folks.  If you don't know me, I've been hanging around here for a while.  I'm just a guy who has drawn a lot, and has occasionally through some good…
In Connections
Participants: ejh, greyorm.

3/29/2010 GDorn: [JDaTE] Grief framework
Background: I did a bunch of prepwork for a Kill Puppies For Satan game set in the John Dies at the End 'universe' for a con over the weekend but…
In First Thoughts
Participants: GDorn.

3/30/2010 wburdick: The mechanics of betrayal, selfishness, and heroic death
One of the things I find most intriguing is that the "GM" player is supposed to use story telling to actively improve his position as a player and nerf the…
In Universalis
Participants: wburdick, Valamir.

3/31/2010 Vaggelis N.: Horror, SciFi, Fantasy freelance artist
Hi all, My name is Vaggelis Ntousakis and I'm a professional Illustrator specialising in horror, weird, scifi and fantasy themes. I work very fast and with considerably low prices. Please…
In Connections
Participants: Vaggelis N..

3/31/2010 Blaise: Horror Game Concept
Ahoy-hoy, all! I'm Blaise (as you guys don't seem to like handles generally), and I've got a concept for a horror game that I would like to run by the…
In First Thoughts
Participants: Blaise, Locke.

3/31/2010 vellu82: [Solar System] Secrets and Checks
A little doubt: - I have a Secret: "Make an Ability check in X against an opponent Passive Ability Y". This Secret is my turn action in an extended conflict.…
In Arkenstone Publishing
Participants: vellu82, Eero Tuovinen.

3/31/2010 Sebastian: [Hammer Falls] Junkie Dystopia
[b]Hammer Falls[/b] is a pocket play game of dystopian storytelling. Together with the author (John aka Pooka), I had a chance to playtest the game at Conpulsion last weekend. [u][b]Begin[/b][/u]…
In Playtesting
Participants: Sebastian.

3/31/2010 Sebastian: [Hell 4 Leather] Satanic Bikers + Manga KAPOWWW!
[b]Hell 4 Leather[/b] is [URL=http://www.princeofdarknessgames.com/]Joe Prince's[/URL] Tarot game of satanic revenge. There were six players (including Joe Prince, Gregor Hutton, myself and Daniel Klein). It was nought-to-gaming in 60 seconds.…
In Playtesting
Participants: Sebastian, DanielZKlein.

3/31/2010 Paka: In which we head out into the Sorcerer's Solar System
Bret, Christine and I are all buddies who don't game together.  Realizing this was silly, we got together to game.  We agreed that we wanted a finite game, 3 session…
In Actual Play
Participants: Paka, Bret Gillan, Ron Edwards, Roger, davidberg.

3/31/2010 Silverwave: Re: The Social Domain - why's it so tough to design?
I'm digging up a old post, but after reading through this (a really interesting topic), I ended up telling myself : so... how to run social encounter again? I've been…
In First Thoughts
Participants: Silverwave, Locke, lumpley, dindenver, Noclue, horomancer, Jacob Potemkin, Vulpinoid, jprussell.

3/31/2010 elenius: [Solary System] Question on Defensive/opposed/parallel actions
I'm a bit confused by how opposed/parallel/defensive actions are supposed to work. Page 44 says: The DEFENSIVE ACTION is a special action available during the negotiation phase. It is…
In Arkenstone Publishing
Participants: elenius, Eero Tuovinen.

3/31/2010 redwing: General Mechanics
I have four stats in my game: Accuracy, Power, Evasion, and Defense. There is a possibility of having a few secondary stats, but I'm trying to avoid this at all…
In First Thoughts
Participants: redwing, dindenver, Mobius.

4/1/2010 JR_G: A cloud level design question
I have been working to design an rpg and walked right into the deep end. I haven't even gotten to the mechanics level. All I have is a list of…
In First Thoughts
Participants: JR_G, Ar Kayon, dindenver.

4/1/2010 Llogres: Resultion via situational advantages
I currently work on something thats more setting than actual system, and here is a thought that i need to share and have a few questions about: The idea is…
In First Thoughts
Participants: Llogres, Ar Kayon, FetusCommander.

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