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9/12/2010 Gryffudd: Gryffudd's Game Thread
Well, looks like lots of interest this year. Lots of neat ideas I see. Figured I should put up one of my own while I have a moment before sleep.…
In Endeavor: Game Chef 2010
Participants: Gryffudd, Vulpinoid.

9/12/2010 dmckenna: In Between - Another GF2010 Thread
I spent a good portion of time today brainstorming ideas. I thought about working with Skin, maybe doing a game revolving around shape changers and politics. Then I started thinking…
In Endeavor: Game Chef 2010
Participants: dmckenna, enderbean.

9/12/2010 hardcoremoose: The Siege of Maddenhafen
So Mr. and Mrs. Czege were over for dinner and movies last night (pot roast good, Machine Girl not so much), and they reminded me that Game Chef still existed! …
In Endeavor: Game Chef 2010
Participants: hardcoremoose, masqueradeball, enderbean, Vulpinoid, baxil.

9/12/2010 Gorgoo: Gorgoo's Game Thread
Hi. I'm new here, but I figured I'd post since I'm going to be trying to write something for Game Chef this year for the first time. I'm thinking that…
In Endeavor: Game Chef 2010
Participants: Gorgoo, Vulpinoid.

9/12/2010 redivider: redivider's game thread: 'the city is a battlesuit for surviving the future'
I might make a game inspired by this >> http://io9.com/5362912/the-city-is-a-battlesuit-for-surviving-the-future which was the slogan of an urbanomancer char I played in a short unknown armies campaign. here taken literally: a…
In Endeavor: Game Chef 2010
Participants: redivider, Vulpinoid, Jason Pitre, jasonm.

9/11/2010 Sebastian: Sebastian's Game Thread
One idea is to use “skin” (as in a tanned hide) to chronicle a war, in which the main character is the war itself, shaped by the recorded actions of…
In Endeavor: Game Chef 2010
Participants: Sebastian, Jason Pitre, masqueradeball.

9/11/2010 droog: We're also playing Pokemon Sorcerer
Totally ripping off – I mean RIFFing off – Vincent's game, I punted the idea of a pokemon game to my 9-year-old daughter. Jemima, I'm guessing, is less well-versed in…
In Adept Press
Participants: droog, stingray20166.

9/11/2010 baxil: Baxil's Game Thread
Hi, everyone!  Another newbie to The Forge ... I'm a gamer and writer (aren't we all?), maintaining a shared urban-fantasy setting for myself and other authors.  Long story short, there's…
In Endeavor: Game Chef 2010
Participants: baxil, masqueradeball, Jonathan Walton, Jason Pitre, Darla Shockley, devlin1.

9/11/2010 two_fishes: A question about impairment in simple contests.
I have what seems like a simple question about impairment, but I can't find a clear answer to it. Here is a simple Athletics contest: The heroes are challenged to…
In one.seven design
Participants: two_fishes, Paolo D..

9/11/2010 Dan Maruschak: Dan's Game Thread
I don't have a strong idea yet, but last year I found the process of articulating my thoughts in words helped me develop them further, so I'm going to post…
In Endeavor: Game Chef 2010
Participants: Dan Maruschak, Darla Shockley, Jason Pitre, masqueradeball.

9/11/2010 ShaneM: Not One Step Backwards
Hi folks, I'm new here, and new to practical game design (though I have had an observers interest in game design for ages and have had an adventure published ages…
In Endeavor: Game Chef 2010
Participants: ShaneM, Jonathan Walton, jasonm, Saint Erebus, Jason Pitre, Gregor Hutton.

9/11/2010 jdfristrom: Jamie's game thread: road trip movie game
Cities and deserts and journeys make me think: *The Sure Thing*, *LIttle Miss Sunshine*, *Easy Rider*, *Thelma & Louise*, *Priscilla: Queen of the Desert*, *Fanboys*, maybe, sorta, *The Wizard of…
In Endeavor: Game Chef 2010
Participants: jdfristrom, Darla Shockley, Jonathan Walton, Jason Pitre.

9/11/2010 Darla Shockley: Darla & David's Game Thread
AKA D&D's Game Thread. Anyway. My partner and I are working on a distributed game, where each session is played by two players.  Every player has a Traveller character, and…
In Endeavor: Game Chef 2010
Participants: Darla Shockley, enderbean, Ben Lehman, Jason Pitre, dmckenna, hardcoremoose, PeterBB, dindenver.

9/11/2010 R00kie: Declan's Gamne Thread - Memoir
Hi guys, I've been fiddling with the Ingredients most of the day - I've got 6 pages of hand written notes and I'm now fairly sure of the shape my…
In Endeavor: Game Chef 2010
Participants: R00kie, Jason Pitre, Frank Tarcikowski.

9/11/2010 Codexier: Battle's Game Thread
The Oasis Club Alternate reality 40’s club like Casablanca (Belize).  Explorers, adventurers, etc all come through this club.  Maybe this is something like part story-game, part time management game. People…
In Endeavor: Game Chef 2010
Participants: Codexier, masqueradeball, enderbean, Jason Pitre, Darla Shockley.

9/11/2010 Elizabeth: Elizabeth's game thread
So Shreyas and I have been talking FOR YEARS about how to make a sweeping, emotionally-resonant two-player game about the hero's journey that anchors in the players' real sense memories.…
In Endeavor: Game Chef 2010
Participants: Elizabeth, masqueradeball, jdfristrom, Ben Lehman, Jason Pitre, Lance D. Allen.

9/11/2010 il mietitore: il mietitore's Game Thread
Yay, even if i am in the old continent i'll try this one. I just hope i'll be able to write something understandable. Ingredients: City, Desert, Skin Premise: The game…
In Endeavor: Game Chef 2010
Participants: il mietitore, masqueradeball, baxil, Jason Pitre.

9/11/2010 Frank Tarcikowski: Frank‘s Game Thread: And then Columbus arrived at the Edge of the World
Damn. I‘ve got an exam coming up on 5 October, a tough one at that. And so I thought, next year. And then I thought, edge, edge. What if you…
In Endeavor: Game Chef 2010
Participants: Frank Tarcikowski, Jason Pitre, PeterBB, Kevin Allen Jr.

9/11/2010 hansel: Hans's game thread
City-Desert-Skin. I want to make a game about uninhabited, left-behind, broken parts of a city. Like Detroit. Also it's 1-player and involves city-management (like, the city is your character, not…
In Endeavor: Game Chef 2010
Participants: hansel, baxil, Jason Pitre.

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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9/12/2010 Shreyas Sampat: The Perfect Tool
https://docs.google.com/Doc?docid=0Af4g2fDbqFhYZGNrOTVqZDRfMjJmazV0eGpkNA&hl=en&authkey=CInOsbcK Inspirations: - DRYH - That crappy Aeon Flux movie - Burn Notice - Mission: Impossible
In Endeavor: Game Chef 2010
Participants: Shreyas Sampat, Jonathan Walton, Bryan Hansel, baxil, dindenver.

9/12/2010 B4GD: Society: The Advising
Hello, Thought I would throw this out there for the contest as I needed some different ways to think for a few days. For this contest, I chose: • City…
In Endeavor: Game Chef 2010
Participants: B4GD, davidberg.

9/12/2010 jasonm: Jason's Game Thread
My game's coming along. Here's the introduction: A rag-tag group of would-be heroes are thrown together on a harrowing journey of survival - and self-discovery! Danger Mountain! is a game…
In Endeavor: Game Chef 2010
Participants: jasonm, Bryan Hansel, Kevin Allen Jr.

9/12/2010 aleric: [Gurps 4E] Lorekeepers
Background: Gurps 4th Edition High Fantasy with Steampunk elements (loosely based on Wheel of Time, and elements from Game of Thrones and survival horror). Setting: We're a group of thirty…
In Actual Play
Participants: aleric, Clay, Caldis.

9/12/2010 Bryan Hansel: Bryan's Game Thread
At the crossroads, a pile of broken water-rich rock marked the road west; the north road bore a sign marked 'To New Askja.' Those who could read went north. You…
In Endeavor: Game Chef 2010
Participants: Bryan Hansel, jasonm, Frank Tarcikowski, Jonathan Walton, Kevin Allen Jr, baxil.

9/13/2010 Kevin Allen Jr: Kevin's Game Thread
So my first steps where whipping up an introduction and a mood board, we'll see where this goes: "560 horses rage across the scrub plain, belching fire, kicking rocks and…
In Endeavor: Game Chef 2010
Participants: Kevin Allen Jr, Frank Tarcikowski, jasonm.

9/13/2010 PeterBB: Peter's Game Thread
I reserve the right to throw out everything and start completely fresh, if this doesn't pan out. That said, here are my thoughts so far: This year's ingredients have gotten…
In Endeavor: Game Chef 2010
Participants: PeterBB, Vulpinoid.

9/13/2010 Ron Edwards: [Contenders] Grit, pain, and gangsters in 1930s Chicago
The Dice Dojo is fast becoming my regular Tuesday night out. This time I brought a whole bag of games: The Shab al-Hiri Roach, Bliss Stage, Contenders, Nine Worlds, Sign…
In Actual Play
Participants: Ron Edwards, Dantai.

9/13/2010 vattnig_socka: Search for Haven
Hi. I'm new to the forge. Failed to deliver in a "dogma contest" earlier this summer (at a Swedish rpg forum), hoping to reclaim my honour with this competition. I'll…
In Endeavor: Game Chef 2010
Participants: vattnig_socka, Jonathan Walton.

9/13/2010 dindenver: [Edge of Mystery] Dave's Game thread
All,   My game is inspired by Harry Potter and other such magical fantasies. You can see my working Draft here: https://docs.google.com/document/pub?id=1EsslLQ4dSs8CwzH6bkV9XJg0W5nFDlqM8cUm5Wv4naY I am finishing up the first draft tonight…
In Endeavor: Game Chef 2010
Participants: dindenver, masqueradeball, Darla Shockley, Vulpinoid, Shreyas Sampat.

9/13/2010 lumpley: Putting Games to Faces
Games to names, really. In this thread, please say your name, say the title or working title of your game, say a quick sentence or two about your game, and…
In Endeavor: Game Chef 2010
Participants: lumpley, B4GD, il mietitore, Bryan Hansel, hardcoremoose, Ben Lehman, merlin, Frank Tarcikowski, Jay Loomis, Gryffudd, ekb, PeterBB, Vulpinoid, ShaneM, wildduck, Jason Pitre, devlin1, aryus, baxil, davide.losito, jasonm, JeffR, masqueradeball, Sebastian, Revontuli.

9/13/2010 Roger: Character and Persona
As we all know, the recognized Components of Character are Effectiveness, Resources, and Positioning.  Some recent thinking about traits and aspects in games such as Primetime Adventures and Spirit of…
In Actual Play
Participants: Roger, masqueradeball.

9/13/2010 The Dragon Master: Bound Possessor Demons...
A few things have led me to consider the notion of a Possessor Demon that is possessing the Sorcerer that Bound it. In Sorcerers Soul it talks about the possibility…
In Adept Press
Participants: The Dragon Master, jburneko.

9/13/2010 merlin: Vegas baby, Yeah!
I've just started on my game idea. It's called "Vegas baby, Yeah!" and it's a game about excess and it's consequences set in Sin City, Nevada. Here's the premise: Vegas,…
In Endeavor: Game Chef 2010
Participants: merlin, wildduck.

9/13/2010 davidberg: fiction-based rule use (one fun option)
Here's an approach that I enjoy: 1) Everyone discusses and agrees on the state of the fiction, covering relevant details.  Who's where, etc.  Authority here comes from, (a) first, what…
In Actual Play
Participants: davidberg, Chris_Chinn, masqueradeball, Roger, Frank Tarcikowski, Noon, Marshall Burns.

9/13/2010 John Stephens: [Sorcerer] How to play a sorcerer
So, we had another session on Friday continuing our adaptation of the Training Run scenario. Afterward, we had a long conversation about the adversity and intensity of the session. Steve…
In Adept Press
Participants: John Stephens, Ron Edwards, jburneko, Paiku.

9/13/2010 JeffR: A Trick of the Light
The Central Idea: A small game about a small group of people who meet in an abandoned city in the middle of a desert. Mostly told in flashbacks about how…
In Endeavor: Game Chef 2010
Participants: JeffR, Gorgoo.

9/14/2010 DavidEBest: [The End of All Things] David's Game Thread
Hey everyone, My name is Dave, and this is my first attempt at a Game Chef game. Bear with me, please. I've been tossing around game concepts since the contest…
In Endeavor: Game Chef 2010
Participants: DavidEBest.

9/14/2010 ekb: EKB's Game Thread
another fun word in there - soujourn: to reside briefly in a place Crunch: a 10-place scale between "Desert of the real" and "City-as-simulacrum" with some sort of token/mark-off system…
In Endeavor: Game Chef 2010
Participants: ekb.

9/14/2010 luminos: [Dresden Files RPG] Learning GMing skills
Hi everyone, I'm Jay, and I'm new to the forge. I'm playing a Dresden Files game (over a chat program, if its relevant) in which I am the GM.  I…
In Actual Play
Participants: luminos, Chris_Chinn, Noon, oculusverit, Clay, contracycle.

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