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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.

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.

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.

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.

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..

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.

8/10/2010 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.

3/24/2010 Ron Edwards: [Bliss Stage] Men and girls
I’d hoped to get a chance to play this, partly because I’m working on a pretty big project regarding science fiction role-playing, and partly because Ben was available at Forge…
In Actual Play
Participants: Ron Edwards, Frank Tarcikowski, CedricP, Simon C, hix, Filip Luszczyk, Nev the Deranged, Ben Lehman.

2/17/2010 Ron Edwards: How about some love for Sex?
Hello, Here's an old thread to check out: Sex and Sorcery -- this book rocks!. Pride aside, restricted only to looking at the responses to the text, higher praise for…
In Adept Press
Participants: Ron Edwards, Ben Lehman, Frank Tarcikowski, greyorm, jburneko, hix, The Dragon Master, Roger, James_Nostack, Calithena, ejh.

2/16/2010 Ron Edwards: Walking Eye interviews me
Kevin Weiser interviewed me at the excellent game store Chicagoland Games, The Dice Dojo here in Chicago. It's the usual marathon, hours-and-hours thing that my interviews tend to become. These…
In Adept Press
Participants: Ron Edwards, Paka, Troy_Costisick, greyorm, Joe Murphy (Broin), Gregor Hutton, The Dragon Master, Noon, Artanis, Calithena, epweissengruber, Melinglor.

1/22/2010 Ron Edwards: [GenCon 2010] Forge booth, first thread
Hello, Last year's booth showed me some things. 1. The popular interest in the Forge and whatever might be at the booth is undiminished. People showed up, bought stuff, participated,…
In Conventions
Participants: Ron Edwards, Eero Tuovinen, SaintandSinner, Ben Lehman, Troy_Costisick.

8/27/2009 Ron Edwards: [Spione] Pronounced "kah-guh-beh"
Hello, One evening at the Embassy Suites lobby, a couple of friends and I came to a table where a bunch of people were choosing from a pile o'games. We…
In Actual Play
Participants: Ron Edwards, Noon, Simon_Pettersson, JoyWriter.

6/25/2009 Ron Edwards: [Mars Colony] Just a little lying, this once
Hello, 1. I know they've always been around, but lately it seems to me as if a number of game designers have been turning their attention to, for lack of…
In Playtesting
Participants: Ron Edwards, Ben Lehman, Tim C Koppang, Willow, Dev.

6/15/2009 Ron Edwards: [Nicotine Girls] If you want it hard enough, and you try hard enough - and?
Hello, Julie, Maura, and I played Nicotine Girls. I asked Julie to be a GM for a number of reasons, one of which was that I wasn't inclined to be…
In Actual Play
Participants: Ron Edwards, jburneko, jrs, Paul Czege, Evlyn, greyorm, C. Edwards, Noon, d.anderson, Melinglor.

6/3/2009 Ron Edwards: [Thy Vernal Chieftains] Passion and politics
Hello, Tim Koppang and I decided to give Thy Vernal Chieftains a whirl last night. It turned out that, curiously, I did not possess some of the items required to…
In Playtesting
Participants: Ron Edwards, Tim C Koppang, Paul Czege.

2/10/2009 Ron Edwards: [3:16] Home is for the hating
Hello, For previous threads, see Way Too Easy Or Just Got the Rules Wrong? and Semi-Captain, Lt.-Captain, almost-Captain on deck, sir! A few weeks ago, we played a…
In Actual Play
Participants: Ron Edwards, agony, GreatWolf, Noon, Gregor Hutton.

1/7/2009 Ron Edwards: Color-first character, part 2: Getting this far
Amazing. Thank you so much for all this great work. Here she is again, but … http://www.bloodredcomics.com/Frostlick-inkedcolored.jpg … now we know her name! The Solar System: Eleta the Jungle Girl,…
In Endeavor
Participants: Ron Edwards, jasonm, jrs, Christopher Kubasik, Graham Walmsley, ejh, lumpley, Eero Tuovinen, Clinton R. Nixon, Vulpinoid, Kobayashi, davidberg, greyorm, Wolfen, KCassidy, Antoine F, ghashsnaga, tonyd, Darcy Burgess, Melinglor, Frank Tarcikowski, Jared A. Sorensen, Ben Lehman, sirogit, Paul Czege, Peter Nordstrand.

12/30/2008 Ron Edwards: Color-first character creation project
As moderator, I officially waive the no-images policy for purposes of this post. I’d like to do a little discussion project here. It won’t be any fun unless a bunch…
In Endeavor
Participants: Ron Edwards, Eero Tuovinen, jasonm, Vulpinoid, Rod Anderson, Peter Nordstrand, tonyd, Paul Czege, Graham Walmsley, Kobayashi, wunderllama, Melinglor, lilomar, Rafu, KCassidy, ghashsnaga, sirogit, greyorm, davidberg, Jared A. Sorensen, Wolfen, Christopher Kubasik, lumpley, Willow, Frank Tarcikowski, Darcy Burgess, jrs, ejh, Ben Lehman, cthulahoops, Meguey, Clinton R. Nixon, Antoine F, bluegargantua.

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1/11/2011 Ron Edwards: [Danse Macabre] Ronnies feedback
William Duryea's Danse Macabre is a jeepform. William, I dunno if you know what that is, but ... um, you don't have to, because you wrote one. If you're interested…
In Endeavor: Ronnies 2011
Participants: Ron Edwards, whduryea, Bret Gillan.

1/13/2011 Ron Edwards: [The War of the Sheaves] Ronnies feedback
Zac Dettwyler's The War of the Sheaves is like a big salad or stew. It's impossible to evaluate as a whole without eating it as a whole, but I don't…
In Endeavor: Ronnies 2011
Participants: Ron Edwards, Abkajud.

1/17/2011 Ron Edwards: [Ronnies 2011] Round One kicks in now - what we do next
Hi, I've mentioned that the Ronnies are a little different from most contests, and here's another reason: it doesn't end with the judging. The whole point is to develop what…
In Endeavor: Ronnies 2011
Participants: Ron Edwards, Abkajud, Troy_Costisick, Noon, epweissengruber.

1/20/2011 Ron Edwards: [The Rustbelt] Kid gloves are the sux
About a month ago at the Dice Dojo, Peter, Megan, Phil, and Sam joined me for playing some games. I'd been wanting to get The Rustbelt going since my shiny…
In Actual Play
Participants: Ron Edwards, stefoid, pkalata, Marshall Burns.

1/25/2011 Ron Edwards: [Cold Soldier] "Upon horror's head, horrors accumulate."
Tim Koppang and I met for a night of beer and gaming. Cold Soldier was on the table. I had my slightly re-formatted Ronnies draft, the diagram I wrote to…
In Game Development
Participants: Ron Edwards, Tim C Koppang, Bret Gillan.

2/10/2011 Ron Edwards: [They Became Flesh] Ronnies feedback
[b][url=http://www.1km1kt.net/rpg/they-became-flesh]They Became Flesh[/url][/b] by Elizabeth Sampat is a Runner-Up, and as is so often the case with that designation, exceeds one or more of the actual Ronnies winners (in all…
In Endeavor: Ronnies 2011
Participants: Ron Edwards, Elizabeth, jburneko, whduryea.

2/11/2011 Ron Edwards: [The Secret Lives of Serial Killers] Ronnies feedback
[b][url=http://www.1km1kt.net/rpg/the-secret-lives-of-serial-killers]The Secret Lives of Serial Killers[/url][/b] by Willow Palecek wins a Ronny. My notes actually put it this way: "All right, you win the Ronny, you depraved [expletive]." And they…
In Endeavor: Ronnies 2011
Participants: Ron Edwards, jburneko, stefoid, Willow, Ghostlight Games, whduryea, Noon, baxil, davidberg, Ian Charvill, Paolo D., Nathan P., Elizabeth, Miskatonic, Eero Tuovinen, Eliarhiman6, Kensan_Oni, Thunder_God, tzirtzi.

2/14/2011 Ron Edwards: [Cold Soldier] "... every scheme of his heart's devising ..."
Hello, Peter and I played Cold Soldier at the Dice Dojo! For those of you following the Dice Dojo game threads, you might recall that I've written about the strong…
In Game Development
Participants: Ron Edwards, pkalata, Bret Gillan, Tim C Koppang.

2/20/2011 Ron Edwards: [The Volume of Secrets] Ronnies feedback
[b][url=http://www.1km1kt.net/rpg/the-volume-of-secrets]The Volume of Secrets[/url][/b] by J. P. Mullen threw me into a tizzy of evaluation much like the characters themselves, flitting through a fog of unknowns and uncertainties. I'm not…
In Endeavor: Ronnies 2011
Participants: Ron Edwards, Kensan_Oni.

2/21/2011 Ron Edwards: February round: reflection after the first rush
Realization Dawning, Moral Dawn, The Secret Lives of Serial Killers, MurderWing, Haunted, Murder: A Game About Crows, The Cycle of Seasons, They Became Flesh, Deathbird Black, Air Patrol, The Volume…
In Endeavor: Ronnies 2011
Participants: Ron Edwards, Marshall Burns, jburneko, stefoid.

2/28/2011 Ron Edwards: Third round - soon
Hi everyone, I find myself quite torn between two things: 1. Encouraging and providing a personal example of enthusiastic, critical play and feedback for many of the games generated so…
In Endeavor: Ronnies 2011
Participants: Ron Edwards, Ghostlight Games, pkalata, davidberg, stefoid, Gryffudd, tzirtzi, Roger, Elizabeth, Ross Cowman, Ben Lehman.

5/24/2011 Ron Edwards: Ethical moderation issue
So, the question is whether I'm going to request the Forge community not to link to Torrent or other similar sites/services. I'm not laying judgment down on any current threads.…
In Site Discussion
Participants: Ron Edwards, Chris_Chinn, lumpley, Noon, Eero Tuovinen, Miskatonic, Paolo D., contracycle, Ben Lehman, Matthew V, Rafu, Eliarhiman6, M. J. Young, epweissengruber.

6/8/2011 Ron Edwards: Three games about religion
Last fall, I conformed to a common stereotype about men in their mid-40s and apparently became obsessed with matters of religion. Its roots lie in my work on Shahida but…
In Game Development
Participants: Ron Edwards, Abkajud, Lavinia, epweissengruber, davidberg, Noon, JSDiamond, Anders Gabrielsson, Marshall Burns, contracycle, hansel, MatrixGamer, ejh, ADGBoss, graypawn, Alfryd, sirogit, clukemula, LandonSuffered.

8/1/2011 Ron Edwards: GenCon 2011: at the booth
Hey everyone, It's going to be a little lonely at GenCon for me - not too many indie companies, and Vincent won't be there to share with me either. So…
In Adept Press
Participants: Ron Edwards, JamesDJIII, Paul Czege, Artanis, ejh.

8/9/2011 Ron Edwards: [Ophian] A first actual session
For the background, see Three games about religion, the Adept Press page for a direct link for downloading the current document, and anxieties about death at the core of ophite.…
In Game Development
Participants: Ron Edwards, Noon, Gregor Hutton, ejh, Emily Care, baxil.

8/10/2011 Ron Edwards: [Apocrypha] Blind fate, blind justice, and blind love
I've been working on this post for about two years. I encountered Apocrypha at GenCon 2000, at Jonathan Tweet's suggestion. He was supportive about my advocacy of creator ownership and…
In Actual Play
Participants: Ron Edwards, Thunder_God, clukemula.

8/17/2011 Ron Edwards: [Sorcerer] At the GenCon booth
When I'm at GenCon, usually I spend a lot of time playing after-hours, typically in the lobby of the Embassy Suites. I either set something up with people during the…
In Actual Play
Participants: Ron Edwards, Paka, ejh, jburneko, James_Nostack, davidberg, woodelf, Markus.

11/3/2011 Ron Edwards: [Obsidian, Champs, Babylon Project] Incipient Narrativism and its discontents
This is a spinoff thread from decoupling Reward Systems from broad-scale Story Arcs, to address an issue I think lurks alongside the topic of that thread. To summarize, we're talking…
In Actual Play
Participants: Ron Edwards, Chris_Chinn, Abkajud, Noon, James_Nostack, Web_Weaver, davidberg, Tor Erickson, Roger, Frank Tarcikowski, epweissengruber.

3/20/2012 Ron Edwards: The Winter Phase and the end of the Forge forums
Ye Olde Winter is drawing to a close ... let's see, if I remember correctly, the original Hephaestus' Forge went live in the fall of 1999, and the forums of…
In Site Discussion
Participants: Ron Edwards, Darcy Burgess, lumpley, Eliarhiman6, Ghostlight Games, David Artman.

5/8/2012 Ron Edwards: Finishing up
Hi, We're in the final weeks! The closure is still on schedule for June 1. I was thinking of opening a "Bye!" forum, sort of like the old Birthdays forums,…
In Site Discussion
Participants: Ron Edwards, epweissengruber, Troy_Costisick, davidberg, Artanis, Emily Care, Frank Tarcikowski, Anders Gabrielsson, Paka, Paul Czege, greyorm, Miskatonic, charlesperez, Eliarhiman6, JoyWriter, Thomas Lawrence, David Artman, Rich Forest, mael.rimbault, John Mc, Ben Lehman, VAgentZero, Andy Kitkowski, Call Me Curly, Clinton R. Nixon, Neil the Wimp, Gordon C. Landis, Alex Fradera, Matt, Christopher Weeks, Mytholder, hix.

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