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9/7/2010 reveal: [ENnies] Announcing a new series of interviews
Greetings from the ENnies! This is a quick announcement to let you know about the new weekly series on the site. I have been interviewing past nominees and winners of…
In Conventions
Participants: reveal, Ron Edwards.

9/7/2010 psychomatic: Hitchhikers Guide Universe
Yo im new. Hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy is my favorite science fiction series in the world. Its my favorite series in general in the world. Iv'e read every douglas…
In First Thoughts
Participants: psychomatic, Vulpinoid, Ar Kayon, DDurand.

9/7/2010 a flight of stairs: Artist Plz
As you may have guessed from the subject line, I need an artist, preferably one with interests inside and outside of RPGs, although I understand that the former is this…
In Connections
Participants: a flight of stairs.

9/7/2010 Ron Edwards: [The Pool] Ghosts & guns & bodies
Hi everyone, I'm working on a big essay about The Pool, a short game published on-line by James V. West in 2001. He had an active forum here at the…
In Actual Play
Participants: Ron Edwards, Artanis, Frank Tarcikowski, Roger, Motipha, Noon, greyorm.

9/6/2010 Eric Schwenke: Educating your group on CA to prevent premature hair-loss
Hello, I've been an on-again off-again lurker for about a decade now.  A few years ago I made a post or two in "First-Thoughts" about my quarter-baked ideas for a…
In Actual Play
Participants: Eric Schwenke, Eero Tuovinen, Ron Edwards, Clay, Baron, davidberg, Ar Kayon.

9/6/2010 Shimera9: Mezzo Game System - Playtester's Wanted
Mezzo is a rpg I've been working on.  The game can perhaps best be summed up by a few key features: Emergent Characters: Character details and traits are defined…
In Game Development
Participants: Shimera9, Lance D. Allen, Ron Edwards.

9/6/2010 TehCodr: Help with Game Idea: The Tale Of The Tears
I'm not sure if this should go here, but it's info on a game I'm creating. I'll move this post if it should be somewhere else. Please offer suggestions, I'd…
In First Thoughts
Participants: TehCodr.

9/6/2010 DDurand: My new combat system : Need advices
Hi, Sorry for my bad english I changed home recently, more or less of life, and with all the things a start, i started to rewrite my old homebrew game.…
In First Thoughts
Participants: DDurand, contracycle.

9/6/2010 dindenver: [MLwM] Question
So,   I played this for the first time today.   Is it normal to roll d6 for Love, Fear, Self-Loathing and Weeriness?   And, if so, is it normal…
In Half Meme Press
Participants: dindenver, Artanis, Adam Dray.

9/5/2010 Noon: Biasing the moment; also mechanical spines (rather than organic ones)
I started up a play by post recently and near the start, an NPC character approaches a gap in a wall where a monster was. Da da da, it pops…
In Actual Play
Participants: Noon, oculusverit, masqueradeball, Anders Gabrielsson, wild_card2007, Roger, contracycle.

9/5/2010 masqueradeball: My first go as a player in 4e
Actual Play Report: D&D 4e Latecomer Last night I joined in a 4e group that had been going on for some 5 to 7 sessions before I joined. The premise…
In Actual Play
Participants: masqueradeball, Noon, Adam Dray, Frank Tarcikowski, Roger, VAgentZero.

9/5/2010 John Stephens: [Sorcerer] Training run: London, June 1966
After my wife's brother saw us playing Tunnels & Trolls with my daughter and nephew, he started frequently expressing interest in joining the game. He's been playing Dragon Age on…
In Adept Press
Participants: John Stephens, Ron Edwards, Marshall Burns, The Dragon Master, jburneko, Paiku, Noclue, Karl.

9/5/2010 Justice Platt: Drifter's Escape purchasing problem
I ordered a copy of this game back in May, and have received neither the book nor any acknowledgement of my order or explanation of difficulties.  E-mails to taogames@gmail.com and…
In These Are Our Games
Participants: Justice Platt, remi.

9/5/2010 a flight of stairs: Untitled, awesome spy RPG
I was watching SALT, and at the scene where Angelina Joylene (or however you spell it) created a crude rocket launcher out of a desk leg and owned whatever generic…
In First Thoughts
Participants: a flight of stairs, Noon, chronoplasm, Magnus Pym.

9/5/2010 ravingmalcontent: [Tales of Hepian] Names for Machines
I am making a Steam Punk Themed table top RPG and I have been having one heck of a time trying to come up with better names for machines.  Especially…
In First Thoughts
Participants: ravingmalcontent, Ar Kayon, Noon.

9/4/2010 masqueradeball: Cute Design challenge from Story Games
I'm probably a) taking this too seriously and b) running out of time, but I would really like this game to work. I had a cat die recently and this…
In First Thoughts
Participants: masqueradeball.

9/4/2010 resistor: [Northwest Passage] Very first thoughts
So, I've been having a brain-storm of a a concept for a game, but I don't feel like I have enough background to actually implement.  I'm particularly looking for pointers…
In First Thoughts
Participants: resistor, masqueradeball, Skofflox, Noon, Ar Kayon.

9/3/2010 Galwinganoon: Map of Near for a campaign
I'm getting ready to run my first TSoY campaign next week and decided to make a map in preparation for that.  I'm sharing it here in the event that anyone…
In Arkenstone Publishing
Participants: Galwinganoon, Eero Tuovinen.

9/3/2010 Gunnox: My mechanics for DrakeStrike, what do you think?
Hi I work on my FREE tabletop fantasy RPG called DrakeStrike which is set in the world of Farverden where there are 7 continents (Drakmar - Land of Dragons ,…
In First Thoughts
Participants: Gunnox, Noon, Ar Kayon, Vulpinoid, Anders Gabrielsson, masqueradeball, TehCodr.

9/3/2010 johnthedm7000: Story-Based Mechanics for Shapers
So for a while I've been working on a fantasy game in which players take on the roles of great heroes (in the ancient Greek sense of those with incredible…
In First Thoughts
Participants: johnthedm7000, Spooky Fanboy.

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9/7/2010 The Dragon Master: [Sorcerer] Character Sheets...
I'm getting ready to start working on a Sorcerer campaign, and wanted to pick up some pdf Demon sheets so that I could have an electronic copy to transmit to…
In Adept Press
Participants: The Dragon Master, Finarvyn, Paiku, Ron Edwards, Eliarhiman6, Ben Morgan.

9/7/2010 KevinH: [Ghostbusters] Salty Seamen at the Strip Club
Lacking a copy of Inspectres, I decided to run the classic GB RPG. One thing I stole was the Confessional. I told the players they were involved in a fly-on-the-wall…
In Actual Play
Participants: KevinH, stingray20166, Jared A. Sorensen.

9/8/2010 chronoplasm: Dwarf: Wounds and Character Advancement
So I'm designing a game all about dwarves and I had a few ideas for mechanics. I'd like to run these by you and ask some questions. A dwarf's life…
In First Thoughts
Participants: chronoplasm, Vulpinoid, masqueradeball, Eric Schwenke, flossy, Abkajud.

9/8/2010 Bret Gillan: [S/lay w/Me] Say it yourself
So I know that coming up with your own Who is by the book. Can you also 'say it yourself' to the Where, or Ron do you encourage people to…
In Adept Press
Participants: Bret Gillan, Ron Edwards, Finarvyn.

9/8/2010 Eric Schwenke: [QADST (Shitty working title)] Ideas for Persona definition and Conflict/Damage
Hello, I'm trying to develop a Purist for System type game to fit many different sorts of settings, with the intent of the rules being designed to be highly customizable. …
In First Thoughts
Participants: Eric Schwenke, Anekanta, Ar Kayon.

8/15/2010 Tveir: We're playing Pokemon Sorcerer II (split)
Speaking of pokemon, this was a pretty interesting read and made sense of the tv series no less
In Adept Press
Participants: Tveir, droog, Ron Edwards, lumpley.

9/9/2010 Ron Edwards: [Annalise] In which there is neither Annalise nor a vampire
Hello, So, once a week, Nathan Paoletta and Tim Koppang come over to my place, we have dinner and partake of wine & other bar-based badness, we gossip something awful…
In Actual Play
Participants: Ron Edwards, Adam Dray, Gregor Hutton, Tim C Koppang, Nathan P..

9/9/2010 vellu82: A little question about Bonus/Malus Dice
I have a little question about bonus and malus dice. Let's talk about an example: I make a check with 1 malus die. (+) ( ) ( ) (-) so…
In Arkenstone Publishing
Participants: vellu82, Eero Tuovinen, Paolo D..

9/9/2010 Vortigern: S&S One sheet
Alright.  Yeah.  So.  Books+Me = Actually trying to sit down and do a game. I'm currently the player recruiting phase for my play by post: http://online-roleplaying.com/forums/showthread.php?t=11559 While that is going…
In Adept Press
Participants: Vortigern, John Stephens, Ron Edwards, Paiku.

9/9/2010 AdriannaDD: [Chrysalis] Roll Penalties
<a href="http://www.indie-rpgs.com/forge/index.php?topic=30254.0"> Initial Thoughts</a> Things happen in games that may affect the players ability to take an action or it's effectiveness and my question is how to apply this to…
In First Thoughts
Participants: AdriannaDD, Adam Dray, Locke.

9/9/2010 Blind Venetian: [Spellbreakers] Beginning Thoughts & Ideas
This idea just hit me yesterday and I've been mulling it over since. I've never attempted to make an Indie RPG or even tried writing up anything conceptual before. I…
In First Thoughts
Participants: Blind Venetian, Adam Dray, Mike Sugarbaker.

9/10/2010 lumpley: Welcome!
See the official site for the rules: gamechef.wordpress.com. Welcome! -Vincent
In Endeavor: Game Chef 2010
Participants: lumpley, Kevin Allen Jr, jasonm, R00kie, Jonathan Walton, Vulpinoid, devlin1, Revontuli, Mike Holmes, solarom, baxil, hardcoremoose, mreuther.

9/10/2010 Aio: Tournament!
First, i would like to say that i hope im posting this in the right place. if not, my apologies. I'm holding a tournament on maptools next Saturday 9/18/2010 at…
In Endeavor
Participants: Aio.

9/11/2010 Captain Thark: Thark's Game project thread.
Hello there everyone. As you can see, I'm kinda new on this particular forum, and I hope that I don't immediately seem to far out of step with the general…
In Endeavor: Game Chef 2010
Participants: Captain Thark, masqueradeball, Ben Lehman, Jason Pitre.

9/11/2010 Jason Pitre: Jason Pitre's Thread: A Sojourn in Alexandria
I am currently in the process of trying to write up something for GameChef 2010.  I will be using the ingredients of  City, Desert and Edge.  The basic concept:  This…
In Endeavor: Game Chef 2010
Participants: Jason Pitre, masqueradeball.

9/11/2010 Ben Lehman: Ben's Game Thread
What if we had a game which was focused on socialization, but gamist in the way that Moldvay D&D was gamist (half martialling your system resources, half creativity. Classes: Dancer…
In Endeavor: Game Chef 2010
Participants: Ben Lehman, masqueradeball, Saint Erebus, Jason Pitre, davidberg.

9/11/2010 Jay Loomis: One Way Ticket
You've got a one way ticket to the city. Will you find what you're looking for there, or will the journey be what changes your life?
In Endeavor: Game Chef 2010
Participants: Jay Loomis, masqueradeball, Jonathan Walton, Jason Pitre.

9/11/2010 Vulpinoid: Vulpinoid's Game Thread
Awesome list. I'm really tempted to do something along the lines of Dark Sun, but a lot of people have already suggested this as a possible inspiration. Mechanically, since hacks…
In Endeavor: Game Chef 2010
Participants: Vulpinoid, masqueradeball, Saint Erebus, Jason Pitre, Gryffudd, davidberg, dindenver, baxil.

9/11/2010 masqueradeball: Nolan's Game Thread
[b]Journey [/b] You are trying to get from here to there. There's a pool of dice in the middle of the table called “How Far Have we Come.” The goal…
In Endeavor: Game Chef 2010
Participants: masqueradeball, Saint Erebus, Jason Pitre, Vulpinoid, Bullbar, davidberg, dindenver, Tomas HVM, JeffR.

9/11/2010 Saint Erebus: Brendan C.'s Game Thread
I am entirely inexperienced in the realm of game design, but what the hell, I have hubris enough to believe I have a shot at making some horrible, mottled monstrosity…
In Endeavor: Game Chef 2010
Participants: Saint Erebus, masqueradeball, Jason Pitre.

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