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9/28/2010 nemiroff: [Shared Dreams] How to create Portals for players
I've been working on an idea I had some time ago. The whole roleplaying takes place in the dreams of characters. Right now it's not important how do characters project…
In First Thoughts
Participants: nemiroff, Artanis.

9/28/2010 Anekanta: [Social Anxiety] [I have overcome] - Rules draft
Hey all, If anybody's interested, I've posted a draft set of rules for a social anxiety game over on my blog.  If you feel like checking it out and commenting…
In First Thoughts
Participants: Anekanta, Moganhio.

9/28/2010 Noon: Weird spam with forge related addresses?
This is odd - I'm getting hundreds of spam e-mails. But the 'To' field has a few names I'm familiar with. I wont say the full e-mail addies, but stuff…
In Site Discussion
Participants: Noon, Lance D. Allen, masqueradeball, Sander, lumpley, Artanis, David Artman, epweissengruber, C. Edwards, M. J. Young, Seamus.

9/27/2010 Frank Tarcikowski: [Reign] In-Character Acting and the Higher Level
I started to write a bit of a spin-off to the thread Roll-Playing Versus Roleplaying with an actual play report of my own, but then it seemed more fitting to…
In Actual Play
Participants: Frank Tarcikowski, Noon.

9/27/2010 Tyler.Tinsley: single use powers
so the game i'm working ( www.seedrpg.com ) has bunches of little powers and abilities. i have realized now that most of the abilities are "once per episode" or "single…
In First Thoughts
Participants: Tyler.Tinsley, Ar Kayon, VAgentZero, Noon, Vulpinoid, Jason Pitre, Frank Tarcikowski, contracycle, Ckelm.

9/27/2010 Baron: [White Box] Newbies and Grognards and how to start playing
Hi all.  First time poster but long-time lurker of the Forge.  I wanted to make sure I had some actual play before posting.  I won't divulge details of my history…
In Actual Play
Participants: Baron, James_Nostack, Abkajud.

9/26/2010 johnthedm7000: Critique My Task Resolution System/Check Mechanics
Shapers is a game in which players play individuals called the Willful, who are creatures possessed of exceptional natural abilities and the ability to reshape reality through the force of…
In First Thoughts
Participants: johnthedm7000, Ar Kayon, Locke.

9/25/2010 Paco Garcia: New online magazine open to entries and articles
Hello Everyone, I have started recently an online magazine called G*M*S Magazine (http://www.gmsmagazine.com/). I have started the magazine to promote gaming and I'd love it to be a level field…
In Publishing
Participants: Paco Garcia, Jason Pitre.

9/24/2010 ChristianAndersson: Game Music Ready for Use - Portfolio Update
Hi there, RPG developers! Here's comes an update of my music portfolio. The last months, I have made some new songs, suitable for Adventure, War, RPG and Fantasy games (and…
In Connections
Participants: ChristianAndersson.

9/24/2010 luminos: [Oracle] A game about knowing the future
This will be my first attempt at making a game.  The basic idea for the game is that the PCs all have received a prophecy about their personal futures, a…
In First Thoughts
Participants: luminos, philipstephen.

9/24/2010 Chroma: [DitV] Fallout from Ceremony used against other Dogs
Introduced another group of friends to Dogs recently and they're loving it!  (And I'm still loving it!) Something odd came up and I just wanted some other people's thoughts/input on…
In lumpley games
Participants: Chroma, lumpley.

9/23/2010 Jay Loomis: The Agony of Defeat
Ok, so maybe it isn't agony. I'm sure that I'm not the only one who was defeated by the contest itself rather than the competition. Were you working on a…
In Endeavor: Game Chef 2010
Participants: Jay Loomis, Jason Pitre, Jonathan Walton, Noon.

9/23/2010 lumpley: And Now What?
It's cool with me if you hang out here in this forum and talk about your game, for just as long as it's useful to you. If you playtest your…
In Endeavor: Game Chef 2010
Participants: lumpley, Jonathan Walton.

9/23/2010 Stregheria Games: Stregoneria RPG. Actual play, here at last!
After last night's playtest some rules have subsequently been tweaked or changed. Character generation was overall a success but some alterations had to be made: one skill was removed as…
In Playtesting
Participants: Stregheria Games, Chris_Chinn.

9/23/2010 Noon: Talk and Walk...and Procedure
I dunno if this is worth describing. But I'm running a play by post and were at this point where the character could either sneak around, trying to pick up…
In Actual Play
Participants: Noon, Roger.

9/22/2010 oculusverit: Campaign Modules: Automatic Railroading?
So this is based on an experience with a couple of years of age, but it's pretty relevant to me now. White Wolf just published a campaign module that I…
In Actual Play
Participants: oculusverit, masqueradeball, Noon, arithine, Caldis, Moganhio.

9/22/2010 oculusverit: freelance writer with White Wolf experience
Hey everyone, freelance writer here. Just recently did some stuff for White Wolf, a campaign module (or as they like to call it, Storyteller Adventure System). Link is here: http://rpg.drivethrustuff.com/product_info.php?products_id=84152…
In Connections
Participants: oculusverit, Stregheria Games.

9/22/2010 buzzalbert: Did anyone try playing this? (a steampunk game)
I was looking around for a steampunk-themed game and I found something called Wolsung: Steampulp Fantasy. They've got free rules in PDF on their site and post new updates quite…
In First Thoughts
Participants: buzzalbert, Vulpinoid, Gryffudd.

9/22/2010 Anekanta: [Social Anxiety] - Know of any games that deal with social anxiety?
Hey all, I'm wondering if anyone knows of any existing (and hopefully easy to obtain) games that deal with social anxiety (or any sort of anxiety).  I'm going to be…
In First Thoughts
Participants: Anekanta, Noon, Moganhio, Graham Walmsley.

9/21/2010 Stregheria Games: Stregoneria RPG Latest News and Big Changes!
Big changes have been afoot since my last post about the game: the Stregoneria rulebook will now have the 'Blood on the Battlefield' supplement integrated into it and will also…
In Publishing
Participants: Stregheria Games, Chris_Chinn.

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9/28/2010 lumpley: A Sorcerer PSA
To whom it may concern, If you ever have the chance to play Sorcerer with Julia Bond Ellingboe, I recommend it. She's very cheerful. She says, "my demon's need is…
In Adept Press
Participants: lumpley, Ron Edwards, Lance D. Allen, hardcoremoose, Paul Czege, Paka, James_Nostack, Roger, Chris_Chinn, Simon C.

9/28/2010 Ckelm: A Game of Ten Thousand
[center]So I have this written: [url=https://docs.google.com/document/edit?id=1LKmQQZbGQcezgM_004_ZbIiZDat8M2-8DpYmEb5jEC8&hl=en]https://docs.google.com/document/edit?id=1LKmQQZbGQcezgM_004_ZbIiZDat8M2-8DpYmEb5jEC8&hl=en[/url] I have been working on this for a bit. I don't expect it to be lucrative, just fun. I know it needs some polish…
In First Thoughts
Participants: Ckelm, Adam Dray, Ar Kayon.

9/28/2010 Nath: [Black Dog] Play Report from Helsinki Uni
report from Helsinki Uni roleplay society: "Four players. One had played it once, two others had jeepform experience and one had never player jeeps. We used monologs and fast forwarding,…
In Actual Play
Participants: Nath.

9/28/2010 CharReed: Fantasy Illustrator - Available for Hire!
Hi, I am an illustrator with entertainment industry experience working at both RedStorm Entertainment and Funcom A/S.  My clients include Neoplastic Press, Wandering Men Studios, Epidemic Books, Black Matrix Publishing,…
In Connections
Participants: CharReed.

9/28/2010 Filip Luszczyk: Rising Hero and uborn children
I'm playing Rising Hero and the other player's pilot has just learned his girlfriend is pregnant. How does my special ability interact with this situation? My guess is that my…
In These Are Our Games
Participants: Filip Luszczyk.

9/29/2010 Gregor Hutton: [WFRP 1st Edn] CSI Altdorf
So I sat down with 6 players to create characters for a WFRP campaign at GEAS (the University of Edinburgh role-playing society) in Edinburgh on Sunday. We basically rolled up…
In Actual Play
Participants: Gregor Hutton, Ron Edwards, mreuther, Abkajud, stingray20166.

9/30/2010 Trollkin: Thoughts on a fate point like mechanic
I’ve been making a setting based fantasy game for about the last year now, and after reviewing some of the rules I realized that if the players are going to…
In First Thoughts
Participants: Trollkin, Chris_Chinn, Locke.

9/30/2010 Abkajud: [swords & wizardry] storifying 0e D&D - losing loot = losing xp
[x-posted at story-games.com] I had a thought. In Swords & Wizardry (the "0th edition" D&D clone), player characters get XP at the end of the adventure equal to how many…
In First Thoughts
Participants: Abkajud, Ckelm, Chris_Chinn, Noon.

9/30/2010 The Dragon Master: [Sorcerer] Sorcerers in Suburbia...
So this is going to be my first actual campaign with Sorcerer, which I'm very excited about. The group: The group is Indie Explosion and we're currently running an open…
In Actual Play
Participants: The Dragon Master, Ron Edwards.

10/1/2010 a flight of stairs: Draggy Combat
In a recent playtest of mine, the only criticism (other than crappy storylines, whcih I was already aware of) was that combat between two moderate sized groups dragged on too…
In Playtesting
Participants: a flight of stairs, Chris_Chinn, Noon, Simon C.

10/1/2010 arithine: Survival: modern survival horror
Hello, this is my first post here, found out about the site about a week ago and wanted to make sure I did not make any mistakes for posting so…
In First Thoughts
Participants: arithine, Trollkin, Noon.

10/1/2010 Noon: Idea : Say No or Roll
I had this idea while discussing in a design thread on RPG.net. Basically I looked at the common method that if someone thinks you have a chance of failure, you…
In First Thoughts
Participants: Noon, Vulpinoid, Abkajud, Locke, Ar Kayon, masqueradeball, stefoid, luminos, P1NBACK, Kalandri, mreuther.

10/1/2010 Gregor Hutton: [Remember Tomorrow] Chechen Holiday
A few weeks ago Shane McLean was in town and so Per, Malcolm, Shane and I got in a game of Remember Tomorrow. The 4 Factions were... Chechen Mafia (Group)…
In Actual Play
Participants: Gregor Hutton, Artanis.

10/2/2010 Ar Kayon: Grids. They suck.
This is where the line between realism and speed really split me in two.  As a designer, I've conquered this mountain many times before - devising mechanics that are both…
In First Thoughts
Participants: Ar Kayon, Noon, Eero Tuovinen, Ron Edwards, Locke, contracycle, arithine, Necromantis, dindenver, Mike Sugarbaker, Kalandri.

10/2/2010 Dantai: [My God's Bigger Than Your God] Game Chef 2010
[url=http://www.princeofdarknessgames.com/]My God's Bigger than Your God[/url] [b]First ever playtest.[/b] At the third Glasgow Indie Gamers meet-up I ran a game of MGBTYG at Keith's behest. Truly I am honoured, no-one…
In Playtesting
Participants: Dantai, Gregor Hutton.

10/2/2010 Vladius: Hi Ron Edwards, please ban me
I have too much brain damage from playing mainsteam games.
In Site Discussion
Participants: Vladius, lumpley, Ar Kayon, Ron Edwards, VAgentZero, BunniRabbi, Frank Tarcikowski.

10/3/2010 arithine: [Survival] Looking for Team Members
For those that don't know Survival aims to be a Survival Horror RPG. I am also interested in making it "open source" which means releasing all the documents and files…
In Connections
Participants: arithine.

10/3/2010 chronoplasm: Timing and Pacing
This thread got me thinking about pacing in games and mechanics for keeping track of the passage of time. http://www.odd74.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=general&action=display&thread=4783&page=1 I'm interested in simple, abstract game mechanics for keeping track…
In First Thoughts
Participants: chronoplasm, Locke, VAgentZero, Adam Dray, Moganhio.

10/3/2010 PiousFraud: Is Create-A-Space a Good Place to Publish?
So I’m a New Independent developer working on a new project with a few friends. I know a few friends who produced web comics who publish through Amazon’s create-a-space in…
In Publishing
Participants: PiousFraud, Ron Edwards, Nathan P., visioNationstudios.

10/3/2010 anders_larsen: Artist for hire
I am an amateur artist. I have been drawing all my life as a hobby, and I think I am becoming rather good at it, so I want to offer…
In Connections
Participants: anders_larsen.

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