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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 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 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.

1/10/2011 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.

1/10/2011 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 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 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.

1/9/2011 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.

1/9/2011 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: [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: [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.

1/8/2011 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.

1/8/2011 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 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 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 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.

1/7/2011 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.

1/7/2011 epweissengruber: [DFRPG] Occult Toronto
Opening up a thread about the Dresden Files game I am running and am setting in Toronto. Heavy on the supernatural, but with low-powered PCs.  Promises to be a challenge…
In Actual Play
Participants: epweissengruber, pkalata, Paiku, Ron Edwards, Frank Tarcikowski, jburneko, Roger, Porterhaus.

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.

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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.

1/12/2011 Ron Edwards: [Knights of Twilight] Ronnies feedback
I've been a little stalled on Ronnies feedback in the past few days. I do have notes for every game; the issue is strictly about turning them into readable prose,…
In Endeavor: Ronnies 2011
Participants: Ron Edwards, davide.losito.

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.

1/13/2011 Ron Edwards: [The Sword and the Skull] Ronnies feedback
In Troy Costisick's The Sword and the Skull, Arthur meets Umlaut! However, I was bummed to find that the initial chrome-and-polished-bone imagery faded out pretty quickly from the text as…
In Endeavor: Ronnies 2011
Participants: Ron Edwards, Troy_Costisick.

1/14/2011 Noon: [unnamed, small RPG]
I wrote a small rpg: here It's main feature is that I have seperated the exploration component and winning component, instead of trying to blend them together somehow with having…
In Game Development
Participants: Noon, dindenver.

1/14/2011 RBjakeSpecial: [InSpectres] Rifts gaming group tries InSpectres. Success!
I game mastered InSpectres for the first time.  I run a bi-weekly Rifts game in Tokyo and play in a D&D 4E campaign.  I'd like our group to get to…
In Actual Play
Participants: RBjakeSpecial, Jared A. Sorensen.

1/14/2011 The Dragon Master: [Poison'd]Number of Players
I'm expecting to be running a one-shot (or something) of Poison'd for my group soon, and want to be prepared. I'm getting some character sheets printed up, and don't know…
In lumpley games
Participants: The Dragon Master, lumpley.

1/14/2011 sockmonkey: [Chronoplex] Open Beta Play Test
Dead Tree Games is pleased to announce the start of an open beta play test of their role playing game, Chronoplex. This is a chance for gamers to get an…
In Game Development
Participants: sockmonkey.

1/15/2011 FounderSim: [Design Help] Multiplayer Battle Game
[b]Multiplayer Organized Crime Battle Game[/b] [b]Brief description:[/b] Game is strickly Tick-Based. Game is mostly multiplayer with team battles as well as 1v1 battles Game has lobby system where players find…
In Game Development
Participants: FounderSim, Ron Edwards.

1/16/2011 Chris_Chinn: Bliss Stage: Crimson Pandora
Hi everyone, I ran a Bliss Stage one-shot convention scenario I put together today at the Endgame Minicon. ( http://bankuei.wordpress.com/2011/01/15/bliss-stage-crimson-pandora/ ). We had 6 players, 2 whom I play with…
In Actual Play
Participants: Chris_Chinn, Ben Lehman, Jono, Alexis, Ron Edwards.

1/16/2011 Ron Edwards: [The Eye in the Pyramid] Ronnies feedback
David Berg's The Eye in the Pyramid: pure reveling in conspiracy theory nuttiness. It's not even talking about stuff that coooooould be true in a kind of naughty sense, nor…
In Endeavor: Ronnies 2011
Participants: Ron Edwards, davidberg, Dantai, happysmellyfish.

1/16/2011 Ron Edwards: [Swords of the Skull-Takers] Ronnies feedback
Joe Prince's Swords of the Skull Takers is a solitaire RPG of unrelenting survival horror, with the outstanding virtue that your character may not in fact survive. It's a card-counting…
In Endeavor: Ronnies 2011
Participants: Ron Edwards, Dantai.

1/17/2011 stefoid: [zero-prep] Need more Challenge scenarios
Hi, Im playtesting a game that I did call Ingenero, but then decided to change to Zero-prep.  Ingenero doesn't tell you anything about the game. I could post a link,…
In Game Development
Participants: stefoid, Simons, Ron Edwards.

1/17/2011 Ron Edwards: [Facing the End] Ronnies feedback
Lee Hammons' Facing the End is the final game of this round of Ronnies to receive feedback. The end-of-the-line status had nothing to do with the title - it turned…
In Endeavor: Ronnies 2011
Participants: Ron Edwards, DocSavage.

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.

1/17/2011 Ron Edwards: Structural change coming soon - be prepared
Hi everyone, In the interest of not blindsiding you, I am giving fair warning that in a few days, the "show unread posts since last visit" function will be deactivated.…
In Site Discussion
Participants: Ron Edwards, M. J. Young, lumpley, davidberg, Tim C Koppang.

1/17/2011 Ron Edwards: [Skull Full of Bong Hits] I am the archmage of black! death! storm!
See also Ronnies feedback, especially for the rules summary, and for a link to the Ronnies entry. Noam is right: this game is astonishingly poignant.…
In Game Development
Participants: Ron Edwards, Maura Byrne, Nick Aubergine.

1/17/2011 Ron Edwards: [Demilich] Feckless fools! Your skulls are now my fang cozies.
The Dice Dojo continues its excellence as a place for playtesting Ronnies. This time included a bystander with a guitar (pretty good too) and beer, contributing a slightly different tone…
In Game Development
Participants: Ron Edwards, pkalata, DorkThoughts.

1/17/2011 Paiku: [Sorcerer] Dictionary of Elric
Hi folks, I am writing a mini-supplement for Sorcerer that enacts the novels of The Elric Saga by Michael Moorcock.  If you have read Sorcerer & Sword then you know…
In Adept Press
Participants: Paiku, 5niper9, Chris_Chinn, Finarvyn, Paka, Ron Edwards.

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