Previous Topics 4/30/2010 Paul T: [DitV] Rules question: A mob of possessed people led by a sorcerer
A very quick question, but one that I can't quite figure out, and I wonder if different people are doing this differently:
You have an angry mob in your game.…
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Participants: Paul T, lumpley.
4/17/2010 Paul T: [DitV] Questions! 2. About rules
In the same game I was talking about here (http://www.indie-rpgs.com/forum/index.php?topic=29684.0), a few funny rules niggles came up. I'd like your input on these various points, if you have any to…
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Participants: Paul T, Noclue, Filip Luszczyk, lumpley.
4/17/2010 Paul T: [DitV] Questions! 1. About tradition among the Faithful
I just wrapped up the first Town of my first non-one-shot Dogs game, and a few things came up in the game I have questions about.
The first few are…
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Participants: Paul T, Noclue, lumpley.
4/9/2010 Paul T: TSoY, Solar System, and supporting characters
Eero,
In an Actual Play thread about transitioning from "mission-based play", you wrote:
(Note that you can't do this in all games; TSoY allows this due to the game's traditional…
In Arkenstone Publishing
Participants: Paul T, Eero Tuovinen.
4/7/2010 Paul T: [DitV] A wife by any other name, + two rules questions
Having some fun with Dogs!
But a few questions came up during our first session:
1. How do the Faithful refer to two wives who are married to the same…
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Participants: Paul T, VAgentZero, Noclue, lumpley, David Artman, Eliarhiman6, Welkerfan.
4/2/2010 Paul T: [Dogs in the Vineyard] Chinese immigrants from Out West
I just started up a Dogs game with four other players, and I think it's going to be a blast. We all met for dinner, hung out a bit, then…
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Participants: Paul T, Paiku, rycanada.
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…
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Participants: Paul T, lumpley.
2/18/2010 Paul T: [Solar System] Knocked out of Extended Conflict and Intents
A question about complex conflicts (i.e. more than two sides) and intents:
How do we handle situations where there are several intents a character would oppose, and a character is…
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Participants: Paul T, Eero Tuovinen.
8/30/2009 Paul T: Dogs with Star Wars Sauce, Or: How Do You Make a Town into a City? Dogs & Genre
I ran a Star Wars-flavoured session of Dogs a few weeks ago, with great success. I didn't modify the rules in any way, except suggest that the accomplishment/initiation conflict deal…
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Participants: Paul T, James_Nostack.
7/26/2009 Paul T: Trollbabe-ish setup lacking drama
About two months ago, I ran a one-session game using a simple homebrew ruleset based on Vincent Baker's Otherkind dice idea, designed specifically for three players.
(Here's a link, if…
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Participants: Paul T, Ron Edwards, Noclue, jburneko, Arturo G., Andrew Norris, Eszed, Noon.
5/14/2009 Paul T: What's at Stake in Dogs -- who leads?
I have this intuition, and it's really just a guess, that the game plays better when the players are naming the "What's at Stake" in a conflict. Like, "Does the…
In lumpley games
Participants: Paul T, Filip Luszczyk, lumpley, Eliarhiman6, Noclue, Supplanter.
4/14/2009 Paul T: [Solar System Actual Play] Characters Grow by Trial and Error
We concluded a two-session game of Solar System on Sunday night, and I was surprised by a few things that took place.
The game was definitely a success, I think,…
In Arkenstone Publishing
Participants: Paul T, oliof, Eero Tuovinen.
3/28/2009 Paul T: [Solar System] Keys and Specificity
Just a quick question about Keys:
Some Keys ask you to specify a subject for the Key. For something like the Key of Love, that's pretty obvious. But others are…
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Participants: Paul T, oliof, Eero Tuovinen.
3/27/2009 Paul T: [Solar System] Witchiness and crunch
I'm running a Solar System game in a fantasy setting that's not the Shadow of Yesterday. It's much, much closer to Dark Ages/medieval Europe, but with a touch of that…
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Participants: Paul T, oliof.
3/26/2009 Paul T: [Solar System] Harmful Stakes... how often?
I ran Solar System for the first time last night, and I found myself really unsure about how often to include Harm in the stakes of failure.
I've read advice…
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Participants: Paul T, Eero Tuovinen, oliof, shadowcourt.
3/24/2009 Paul T: [Solar System] Conflicts against nothing?
There is a section in the extended conflict chapter of the booklet that describes going into extended conflict... "against nothing". It refers to p. 40, which describes rolling against the…
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Participants: Paul T, oliof, shadowcourt, Eero Tuovinen.
3/23/2009 Paul T: Gimme all the Keys in the book! (Play advice)
I'm going to run a TSoY one-shot on Wednesday night, and one of the players told he'd like to spend four of his five starting advances on Keys. That means…
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Participants: Paul T, oliof, Eliarhiman6, dindenver.
11/17/2008 Paul T: [IaWA] Rules question: forces of nature as NPCs?
I have feeling this might have been covered before, but I can't seem to find it:
Does/would it make sense to represent some powerful abstract force in the setting as…
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Participants: Paul T, Brand_Robins, lumpley.
11/4/2008 Paul T: [Land of Nodd] Mermaid Sashimi (is antagonism a mirror to protagonism?)
Over the last few weeks, I've been playing a game of my own design, Land of Nodd, with three friends. It's been an interesting experience on many levels, and I'd…
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Participants: Paul T, Peter Nordstrand, Ron Edwards, jenskot, Demiurge.
10/31/2008 Paul T: [IaWA] Negotiating consequences based on circumstances
This is a rule application question that arose for me during a game of IaWA.
My character had a Best Interest to convince an illegal surgeon to stop from carrying…
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Participants: Paul T, Brand_Robins, lumpley.
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