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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..

9/7/2010 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.

8/18/2010 Ron Edwards: As yet unnamed Shadow of Yesterday hack
I found myself musing again over fantasy games and fantasy settings. I wanted to make one, for no particular reason except for fun, and it struck me that the weird,…
In Playtesting
Participants: Ron Edwards, Eero Tuovinen, Paolo D., Simon C, contracycle, Chris_Chinn.

8/17/2010 Ron Edwards: TFT: Wizard and Sorcerer origins
This thread has a sister topic in the Actual Play forum: One little pamphlet = 100,000 words. If we were to look only at fictional content…
In Adept Press
Participants: Ron Edwards, Finarvyn.

8/17/2010 Ron Edwards: [The Fantasy Trip: Wizard] One little booklet = 100,000 words
In late 1978, I bought a little item at the hobby store next to the gas station a short and dangerous bike ride away from my house. I think I…
In Actual Play
Participants: Ron Edwards, Alfryd, Motipha, Miskatonic, stingray20166.

8/16/2010 Ron Edwards: Sorcerer
I like music, and I like creative mutualism, and I like the whole independent DIY thing. So ... for the sake of indulging and combining all three, and based on…
In Adept Press
Participants: Ron Edwards, epweissengruber, Marshall Burns.

8/10/2010 Ron Edwards: [In a Wicked Age ...] Out-of-sequence episode play
Hello, I've posted a previous thread about our ongoing game in Particular strengths accumulating through the stories. In this one, I'm staying consistent with the…
In Actual Play
Participants: Ron Edwards, Bret Gillan, Valamir.

7/30/2010 Ron Edwards: [With Great Power ...] Brief but strong play in Sweden
During our recent three-weeks-plus visit to Sweden, my family and I enjoyed a six-day stay at a summer house by a gorgeous lake near Mellerud, in Dalsland. Peter Nordstrand came…
In Actual Play
Participants: Ron Edwards, Paul Czege, Jaakko Koivula, James_Nostack, Michael S. Miller, Nathan P., Peter Nordstrand, Bret Gillan.

7/28/2010 Ron Edwards: Adept Press thoughts and projects for Sorcerer
It occurred to me that 2011 is a significant anniversary for me. I published the first available version of Sorcerer in fall 2006, and I published the book version in…
In Adept Press
Participants: Ron Edwards, Paka, jburneko, greyorm, Paiku, Paolo D., Troy_Costisick, Nocker, Darcy Burgess, Finarvyn, Aaron, hansel, Eero Tuovinen, pfischer, Marshall Burns, Bret Gillan, epweissengruber, Motipha, Courage75, James_Nostack, The Magus, The Dragon Master.

7/3/2010 Ron Edwards: [Venus 2141] The future has goo all over it
Venus 2141 was published last year and was represented by its co-author and artist, Nathan Leeson, at the Forge Booth. I've been trying to get around to playing it ever…
In Actual Play
Participants: Ron Edwards, Claudia Cangini, Eliarhiman6, Rafu.

6/30/2010 Ron Edwards: Welcome to the Adept Press forum
[i]originally posted August 27, 2004; slightly corrected and updated[/i] Hello, and welcome to the Adept Press forum! Rules - all the basic Forge rules in the Site Discussion sticky apply…
In Adept Press
Participants: Ron Edwards.

6/11/2010 Ron Edwards: Welcome to the Site Discussion forum and to the Forge - netiquette is here
Welcome to the Forge! This sticky is more-or-less a mission statement, written as a netiquette guide for the site. Goals "Role-playing game" is a legacy term without a good definition.…
In Site Discussion
Participants: Ron Edwards.

6/11/2010 Ron Edwards: Welcome to the Endeavor forum - please read here first
This forum is for organizing activities: contests, projects, whatever. My only advice for successful threads here is to take leadership of what you propose. Best, Ron
In Endeavor
Participants: Ron Edwards.

6/11/2010 Ron Edwards: Welcome to the Actual Play forum - please read here first
This is the primary discussion forum at the Forge. There are a few operative principles governing posting here, and within their bounds, you are wildly and nakedly free to post…
In Actual Play
Participants: Ron Edwards.

6/11/2010 Ron Edwards: Welcome to the Conventions forum - please read here first
This forum is straightforward. If you're playing, promoting, selling, organizing, or otherwise doing anything at a convention that concerns independent role-playing games, then post about it here. That includes organizing…
In Conventions
Participants: Ron Edwards.

6/11/2010 Ron Edwards: Welcome to the Publishing forum - please read here first
This forum is for a wide variety of discussions about publishing role-playing games. The topics can be how-to, or what-you-have-done, or how-does-it-work, or what-about-this, or just about anything. The only…
In Publishing
Participants: Ron Edwards.

6/11/2010 Ron Edwards: Welcome to the Playtesting forum - please read here first
This is a pretty specialized forum at the Forge, but it's arguably the most important in practical terms. Topics should go here if they concern a role-playing game which is…
In Playtesting
Participants: Ron Edwards.

6/11/2010 Ron Edwards: Welcome to the Connections forum - please read here first
This is the simplest forum at the Forge. Post here if you want to provide services to people designing independent role-playing games, such as art, layout, editing, or anything similar.…
In Connections
Participants: Ron Edwards.

4/22/2010 Ron Edwards: [In A Wicked Age ...] Particular strengths accumulating through the stories
In hopes of generating more fun and useful discussion about In A Wicked Age, I decided to focus on a single detail of the system, and how it has been…
In Actual Play
Participants: Ron Edwards, David Artman, lumpley, Rughat, yellowparis.

4/22/2010 Ron Edwards: [The Exchange / Justifiers] The right game with the right setting
Geez, I hardly know where to start with this thread. I suppose it matters that I'm currently really interested in the range of science fiction in role-playing, and I'm writing…
In Actual Play
Participants: Ron Edwards, Levi Kornelsen, pseudoidiot, hix.

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9/20/2010 Ron Edwards: [Kagematsu] Ghosts, innocence, spring in the mountains
Hello, Dice Dojo game of the week! The participants included Megan, Peter (same guy from the Contenders game), Michael, and me. Also, Sam (from the Contenders game) sat in to…
In Actual Play
Participants: Ron Edwards.

10/8/2010 Ron Edwards: [Zero ] Dingo for dinner
A couple of weeks ago, I brought Zero, one of my favorite RPGs, to the Dice Dojo. Peter and Megan joined me, and we ran an opening session, up to…
In Actual Play
Participants: Ron Edwards, ShallowThoughts, davidberg, Noon, Artanis, hardcoremoose.

10/29/2010 Ron Edwards: [The Exchange / Justifiers] Great the second time around too
At the Dice Dojo, I GM'd two sessions of the same combination I described in The right game with the right setting, of the Justifiers setting…
In Actual Play
Participants: Ron Edwards, SamuelRiv, Motipha, Vox.

10/29/2010 Ron Edwards: [FreeMarket] Trouble with something
Uh-oh. This is one of those times I have to come clean about why a game didn't go so well. Or in this case, why I'm not entirely sure what…
In Actual Play
Participants: Ron Edwards, Filip Luszczyk, epweissengruber, davidberg, jenskot, meganjank, Courage75, Vox, Luke.

10/29/2010 Ron Edwards: [Bliss Stage] Kids having kids
The latest Dice Dojo game will probably go into further sessions as well, as we made a very solid start. Playing are me, Sam, Shweta (her first-ever RPG session!), Jake,…
In Actual Play
Participants: Ron Edwards, Ben Lehman, pkalata, J. Tuomas Harviainen, Chris_Chinn, SamuelRiv.

11/1/2010 Ron Edwards: The Winter of the Forge looms near
Hi everybody, I aim to move the Forge into its winter stage by the end of the year. For those of you who don't know this, I announced quite a…
In Site Discussion
Participants: Ron Edwards, Jonathan Walton, joepub, Frank Tarcikowski, matthijs, VAgentZero, Teataine, Eliarhiman6, Rafu, Chris_Chinn, Artanis, Troy_Costisick, lumpley, Jono, mreuther, Tomas HVM, Ar Kayon, nikola, baxil, Emily Care, Paiku, M. J. Young, Alfryd, Noon, contracycle.

11/15/2010 Ron Edwards: [Doctor Chaos] World peace, my way
Back in 2005, I noodled around with a game design that I really liked, but set it aside for a number of reasons, partly because playtesting had shown a couple…
In Game Development
Participants: Ron Edwards, SamuelRiv, Chris_Chinn, Troy_Costisick, pkalata, Miskatonic.

11/23/2010 Ron Edwards: [The Walking Eye] An interview
Hi there, Kevin Weiser wanted to interview me about the Forge Winter dustups on other sites, and although I really don't have much interest in What The Great Big Internet…
In Adept Press
Participants: Ron Edwards, Chris_Chinn, Melinglor.

11/26/2010 Ron Edwards: Dragon penis / Shambling mound
Hiya, Back in 2002, someone started an RPG.net thread called "Do dragons have penises?" Much like Superman responding to a cry for help, I swooped to contribute. The thread also…
In Adept Press
Participants: Ron Edwards, Ben Lehman, Eliarhiman6, Noon, Adam Dray, Marshall Burns, Chris_Chinn, John Stephens.

12/2/2010 Ron Edwards: [The Pool] Update: essay available
Hi, Here's a follow-up to Ghosts, guns, and bodies. I finally completed the essay I mentioned in that thread, which is intended to restore recognition and interest in…
In Actual Play
Participants: Ron Edwards, Frank Tarcikowski, Adam Dray, Chris_Chinn, Roger, enderbean, Paolo D., scramble.

12/7/2010 Ron Edwards: Welcome to the Game Development forum - please read here first
This forum is devoted to notions about your own RPG design. By posting here, you should be at least 10% personally serious about developing an actual RPG. Your posts should…
In Game Development
Participants: Ron Edwards.

12/7/2010 Ron Edwards: Welcome to the Independent Publishing forum - please read here first
This forum is for a wide variety of discussions about publishing role-playing games. The topics can be how-to, or what-you-have-done, or how-does-it-work, or what-about-this, or just about anything. The only…
In Publishing
Participants: Ron Edwards.

12/7/2010 Ron Edwards: Welcome to the Actual Play forum - please read here first
This is the primary discussion forum at the Forge. There are a few operative principles governing posting here, and within their bounds, you are wildly and nakedly free to post…
In Actual Play
Participants: Ron Edwards.

12/7/2010 Ron Edwards: Welcome to the Site Discussion forum and to the Forge
Welcome to the Forge! This sticky is more-or-less a mission statement, written as a netiquette guide for the site. Goals "Role-playing game" is a legacy term without a good definition.…
In Site Discussion
Participants: Ron Edwards.

12/7/2010 Ron Edwards: IMPORTANT FOR START-UP
Hi everyone, I would like to import current threads from First Thoughts into this new forum. However! Threads here now have to include a link to some useable game document…
In Game Development
Participants: Ron Edwards, epweissengruber, dmkdesigns.

12/13/2010 Ron Edwards: [GRAY MAGICK] My fantasy heartbreaker design work, approximately 1994
Hello, I recently found an old folder full of my RPG design work from the early-to-middle 1990s. The first game I made up and played was in 1987 or so,…
In Game Development
Participants: Ron Edwards, Paul Czege, contracycle.

12/16/2010 Ron Edwards: New Ronnies
Hey everyone, Just over five years ago, I ran a game design event called the Ronnies. They had some features in common with the Iron Game Chef but were very…
In Endeavor: Ronnies 2011
Participants: Ron Edwards.

12/16/2010 Ron Edwards: Questions, concerns, befuddlements
Hello! This thread’s for any and all questions about how the Ronnies will proceed. Best, Ron
In Endeavor: Ronnies 2011
Participants: Ron Edwards, Troy_Costisick, Ben Lehman, Vulpinoid, Noon, Bret Gillan, davidberg, M. J. Young, Ante, pkalata, baxil.

12/22/2010 Ron Edwards: [Pumpkin Bomb] Help me, Joe
I planned to play some Pumpkin Bomb at the last gaming-group meetup, but found myself confounded by some points in the rules. Here are my questions! Minor clarifications Is the…
In Game Development
Participants: Ron Edwards, Dantai.

12/24/2010 Ron Edwards: Concurrent contest - totally compatible
Hi, It turns out that Emily Care Boss' Solitaire RPG Challenge will be running concurrently with this round of the Ronnies. She and I agree that there's no earthly reason…
In Endeavor: Ronnies 2011
Participants: Ron Edwards, Emily Care, Frank Tarcikowski.

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