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1/7/2011 epweissengruber: [Freemarket] X-Altar Puts on a Big Show
I am opening up a thread for a 1-shot extension of a short Freemarket run I conducted back in August. On the agenda: - drawing attention to the memory upgrade…
In Actual Play
Participants: epweissengruber, Jared A. Sorensen.

1/7/2011 Ron Edwards: [Diary of a Skull Soldier] Ronnies feedback
The premise of Callan Sweet’s Diary of a Skull Soldier and its use of terms are brilliant. This is the Gene Wolfe RPG, including politics right there and right on…
In Endeavor: Ronnies 2011
Participants: Ron Edwards, Noon.

1/7/2011 Ron Edwards: [Sword of the Skull] Ronnies feedback
Willow Palecek’s Sword of the Skull Imagine a big music keyboard with some kind of responsive mechanism built into it, so that in some cases, what you key in produces…
In Endeavor: Ronnies 2011
Participants: Ron Edwards, Willow.

1/7/2011 btrc: Mars 2100 (from crowdsourced RPG request)
Here's an early draft of the game I was using the personality questionnaire for: http://www.btrc.net/pub/Mars_2100_22a.pdf (this opens in Acrobat just fine, but Preview (Mac OS) does not like it for…
In Game Development
Participants: btrc, contracycle.

1/6/2011 Ron Edwards: [Cold Soldier] Ronnies feedback
Bret Gillan’s Cold Soldier. Just …wow. Many years ago, an internationally-renowned martial artist was asked, in an interview, what technique he might possibly not have mastered yet. He paused for…
In Endeavor: Ronnies 2011
Participants: Ron Edwards, Bret Gillan, jburneko, whduryea, Goblin.

1/6/2011 Ron Edwards: [Keen Edge of History] Ronnies feedback
Clifford Horowitz’s Keen Edge of History: ah, the “play the weapons” game! An excellent, fun premise; much-promised from RPG designers but rarely seen, and it fits the terms immediately. I…
In Endeavor: Ronnies 2011
Participants: Ron Edwards.

1/6/2011 billyzero: MLWM Download Question
I bought the digital version of the game from the http://www.halfmeme.com/master.html website using paypal.  I received a paypal receipt.  I then created an account with the Forge Bookshelf  website but…
In Half Meme Press
Participants: billyzero, Paul Czege.

1/6/2011 Bret Gillan: [S/lay W/Me] Singly or In a Group
For the Monster and how it kills you, does Singly or In a Group refer to it being a group of monsters, or to the monster killing groups of people…
In Adept Press
Participants: Bret Gillan, Ron Edwards.

1/6/2011 twztdwndpipe: War Gaming Miniature Creation Questions
Has anyone built a war game? if so, could they explain the creation of their miniatures. Did you buy? Did you Build? If you Built what sizes? How does your…
In Game Development
Participants: twztdwndpipe.

1/4/2011 Emily Care: Games are posted
Will the games be posted, or linked to at the 24 hours RPG site? I'm very curious to see them all.
In Endeavor: Ronnies 2011
Participants: Emily Care, Ron Edwards, misterecho, whduryea.

1/5/2011 Ron Edwards: Ronnies 2011, Round One results
Hi everyone, I'd chosen to use this set of four terms for the first round in part because they seemed straightforward. However, fortunately, they turned out to be also extremely…
In Endeavor: Ronnies 2011
Participants: Ron Edwards, Troy_Costisick, whduryea, FetusCommander, DocSavage, davidberg, Bret Gillan, davide.losito.

1/5/2011 Cliff H: [Keen Edge of History] First Time Play
Keen Edge of History is the game I created for this round of The Ronnies, and wouldn't you know that two days after I submit it a combination of work…
In Game Development
Participants: Cliff H, Troy_Costisick, Ron Edwards, RichD, Altaem, Ghostlight Games.

1/5/2011 magra: to hard for D&D players??
im new to this forum but i want to start with a question thats been hitting my brains out for over 2 years.... ive been a regular D&D GM for…
In Actual Play
Participants: magra, Cliff H, Chris_Chinn, Noon, Caldis.

1/4/2011 Eliarhiman6: Trollbabe GM prep: public, private or neither?
Hi! I am posting this in a different thread because I think it merit a separate discussion. I was asked recently if the map the GM create in preparation of…
In Adept Press
Participants: Eliarhiman6, Ron Edwards.

1/4/2011 Troy_Costisick: Round One - (almost) over that fast
Wow, that was fast.  Ron, were you expecting the entries to come in so quickly?
In Endeavor: Ronnies 2011
Participants: Troy_Costisick, Ron Edwards, M. J. Young.

1/3/2011 scramble: [The Lords in the Shadow] A Vampire-Hack for Otherkind
I recently read Pretender by Kirt Dankmyer (published in the No Press RPG Anthology). For all of you who are not familiar with this game, Pretender is an urban fantasy…
In Game Development
Participants: scramble, dindenver, enderbean, Paladin, lumpley, Vulpinoid.

1/2/2011 dindenver: [Legends of Lanasia] Talents
Action Type Replacement Instead of rolling using one of the listed Aspects, you will roll using the Talent. These Talents should be specialized versions of existing skills (fencing for instance).…
In Game Development
Participants: dindenver.

1/2/2011 sproket: Goldchest 0.4
Hi all, Goldchest 0.4 is available for download. There are few significant improvements in this release. * The game is now provided with a Java based installer so you don't…
In Game Development
Participants: sproket, Ron Edwards.

1/1/2011 Ron Edwards: Ronnies 2011, Round One begins!
To submit: send an email to ron@adept-press.com, with your PDF attached; also, submit the same PDF to the 24-hour Game site. Use two (and only two) of the following terms…
In Endeavor: Ronnies 2011
Participants: Ron Edwards, baxil.

1/1/2011 Cliff H: Odd Narrative Habits
I've got a group of players that all got into the hobby in the 80s, meaning that they all cut their teeth originally on some flavor of D&D, and much…
In Actual Play
Participants: Cliff H, Ron Edwards, enderbean, Dan Maruschak, Noon, NN, aleric, Trevis Martin, contracycle, Tim C Koppang, stefoid.

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1/7/2011 Trevis Martin: [Sorcerer and Sword] Trading Victories Question
Okay.  So I get that you can choose to knock down your own victories all the way to a tie.  I assume that means you can choose to save only…
In Adept Press
Participants: Trevis Martin, Ron Edwards.

1/8/2011 Ron Edwards: [untitled jeepform] Ronnies feedback
Ben Lehman's untitled jeepform might serve as a case study for what I mean by "baking" in the context of these threads. All the parts are fine in terms of…
In Endeavor: Ronnies 2011
Participants: Ron Edwards, Ben Lehman.

1/8/2011 Bret Gillan: [Cold Soldier] Core Mechanic
[url=http://www.1km1kt.net/rpg/cold-soldier]Game[/url] [url=http://www.indie-rpgs.com/forge/index.php?topic=30842.0]Design Discussion[/url] So after the first playtest, I found that the core mechanic is totally broken. Luckily it's not broken beyond repair. I have some ideas for fixes. I…
In Game Development
Participants: Bret Gillan, Noon, masqueradeball, whduryea, FetusCommander, Paolo D., Paul DuPont.

1/8/2011 Ar Kayon: [Nevercast] - Mechanics Reference
This thread serves as a reference for the Nevercast main thread.  Here, I'll be going over the actual in-game rules.  In particular, I would like members to make a critical…
In Game Development
Participants: Ar Kayon, Ghostlight Games, johnthedm7000, horomancer.

1/8/2011 Vanoj: Unicorn Conquest
Link to the game rules: http://silentstylus.com/unicorn-conquest/ What I'm trying to do here is create a (1) fun (2) easy (3) gamist (4) parodic (5) RPG (6) that uses darts. The…
In Game Development
Participants: Vanoj, Noon, masqueradeball.

1/8/2011 Simons: [Escape From Illeria] Backstory internal consistency
Hey all, I haven’t been on this sight it a while, it seems to have changed a bit... I’m working on a fantasy wargame (though one where I’m trying to…
In Game Development
Participants: Simons, Paladin, btrc.

1/9/2011 Ron Edwards: [Death's Head] Ronnies feedback
Rudy Johnson's Death’s Head is all kinds of ballsy. I started reading it, was excited to find it to be a particular kind of scary, then found it switched to…
In Endeavor: Ronnies 2011
Participants: Ron Edwards, Abkajud, Troy_Costisick, FetusCommander, contracycle, Bret Gillan, pkalata.

1/9/2011 Ron Edwards: [Skull Full of Bong Hits] Ronnies feedback
Nick Aubergine's Skull Full of Bong Hits: The Necromancer’s Curse is so great that I can only say, laughing almost too hard to talk, "Read it!" and point. It's yet…
In Endeavor: Ronnies 2011
Participants: Ron Edwards, Nick Aubergine, Paul Czege.

1/9/2011 Ron Edwards: [Veterans] Ronnies feedback
Rush Wright's Veterans strives toward a long, long-standing ideal in RPG design. I suppose one might call it the Milton Friedman model of story construction: if we're all competing as…
In Endeavor: Ronnies 2011
Participants: Ron Edwards, TrollSlayer.

1/9/2011 Ron Edwards: [Demilich] Ronnies feedback
Noam Rosen's Demilich is, with Diary of a Skull Soldier, one of the two current Ronnies entries I would most personally like to see developed into a published product. I…
In Endeavor: Ronnies 2011
Participants: Ron Edwards, DorkThoughts.

1/10/2011 jreyst: www.d20openrpg.com looking for developers/testers
[b]What is this about?[/b] [url=http://www.d20openrpg.com]http://www.d20openrpg.com[/url] [b]Introduction/Background[/b] D20 Open RPG is a 100% free, community built and maintained desktop roleplaying game inspired and expanding on the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game created by…
In Publishing
Participants: jreyst, Ron Edwards.

1/10/2011 Bret Gillan: [Dr. Chaos] and a parade of stupid superheroes
I gathered a group of five friends to play Dr. Chaos on Sunday. I was super excited and, in retrospect, should have put a little more thought or discussion into…
In Game Development
Participants: Bret Gillan, Ron Edwards.

1/10/2011 mratomek: [Unknown] Have you seen this mechanic before
I have been working on a game for what seems to be forever--re-written it a half dozen times over the last decade--eech! However, the reason I have had to re-write…
In Game Development
Participants: mratomek, Chris_Chinn, Ron Edwards.

1/10/2011 Aetius: Trollbabe: the meaning of "active"
Ciao to all ;-) Playing and talking about TB a doubt has emerged, about the precise meaning of the term "active" in the definition of the goal. A goal must…
In Adept Press
Participants: Aetius, Ron Edwards, Mauro.

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.

1/11/2011 pkalata: [Fiasco] Two dead, a sunken ocean liner and no happy endings. Sounds right.
Yesterday was scheduled to be a regular D&D campaign day for one of my gaming groups. Unfortunately, last-minute things cropped up for several people and we were left with only…
In Actual Play
Participants: pkalata, Ron Edwards, SamwiseCrider.

1/11/2011 Gregor Hutton: [Swords of the Skull-Takers] John Connor gets Terminated
Hey, I got a chance to play Joe Prince's Swords of the Skull Takers (v. 0.2) which is in the Ronnies and the Solitaire games challenges. I liked the feeling…
In Game Development
Participants: Gregor Hutton, Ron Edwards, Dantai.

1/11/2011 Frank Tarcikowski: [Space Adventures] Making the larger reward cycle work
I was going to contribute to the Solitaire Challenge but then I decided to spend the time on my current “serious” project instead. You can take a look at what…
In Game Development
Participants: Frank Tarcikowski.

1/12/2011 Necromantis: [Society of Medieval Foam Combat.] Not an RPG but close
First off the link Ok. So where to start. I was visiting my brother in Atlanta Ga. He had just started LARPing and repeatedly challenged me to come fight him…
In Game Development
Participants: Necromantis, David Artman, Noon, stefoid, SteveCooper, Hereward The Wake.

1/12/2011 Ron Edwards: [Rats in the Walls] Hatred and hope
At the Dice Dojo, Sam, Phil, and Cail joined me for a criminally long-in-wait playtest of Rats in the Walls (link includes PDF download), a Ronnies winner from September 2005…
In Game Development
Participants: Ron Edwards, pkalata.

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