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4/4/2012 Jonathan Walton: Alumni Reports
Our fifth alumni report was posted this morning and we have at last 5 more in various stages of being ready for release. Personally, I think it's been fun to…
In Last Chance Game Chef
Participants: Jonathan Walton, Rishi, Ben Lehman, Nathan P., jackvice.

4/4/2012 Jonathan Walton: Tap-in Thread
So back in the day we always had a "tap-in" thread for Game Chef, where prospective chefs declared their intention to participate.  Let's see how many folks are game this…
In Last Chance Game Chef
Participants: Jonathan Walton, Nathan P., AsthmaticHamster, Sp4m, David Artman, gtroc, dindenver, Rishi, Gandalf Jones, Gryffudd, CajunNate, devlin1, davidberg, jackvice, MrLax, anders_larsen, baxil, Fractal Advocate, dkadera, ThoughtCheck, Aniventerie, tor, PeterBB, whiteknife, ekb, UserClone, mrteapot, cjbowser, The Engnine, branches, Thomas Lawrence, JeffR, princess_r, mael.rimbault, desiderata, BlazmoIntoWowee, Lavinia, Jason Pitre, Mike Holmes, OrionCanning, Michael S. Miller, Bryant, Stan, jackson_tegu, Jason Petrasko, WPTunes, C. Edwards, Charles Boucher, Tokala, osaka, jjspackle, quad, anansi, Troy_Costisick, Dev, raga, GreatWolf, Snake_Eyes, jscag, Melinglor, dmkdesigns, JTColeman, Teataine, captain.boozer, Mathalus, whduryea.

4/4/2012 b.greco: Heroes of Abstrata
After three years of self development on this homebrew system I've been working on for years, I realized I'd like to make it into something more legit. However, I've hit…
In Game Development
Participants: b.greco, Ron Edwards.

4/2/2012 Jonathan Walton: Welcome to Game Chef 2012
Hey Folks, We're super psyched to bring you Game Chef one final time on the Forge. Our team this year, aside from me, includes Mike "Original Master Chef" Holmes and…
In Last Chance Game Chef
Participants: Jonathan Walton, MrLax, Sp4m, UserClone, devlin1, Gandalf Jones, jackvice, Gryffudd, Mike Holmes, jakevettori, gtroc, davidberg, Eero Tuovinen, mrteapot, Thomas Lawrence, Stan, PeterBB, Troy_Costisick.

4/2/2012 MatrixGamer: HG Well Floor Games like game - Once upon a time in Bosnia...
ONCER UPON A TIME IN BOSNIA I ran this game at the Seven Years War Association Convention in South Bend Indiana on March 31st 2012. The SYWA con is the…
In Actual Play
Participants: MatrixGamer.

4/2/2012 Razarion: Real time Browser strategy game in development
We are developping browser based real time strategy game. http://www.razarion.com Please give us some feedback How well does it work in your browser What do you think about the…
In Game Development
Participants: Razarion, Sp4m.

4/2/2012 davidberg: [Pitfighter] SBP: reward system options
Hello, I've been recounting some key features of the d20-based homebrew Pitfighter game I ran in college here in Actual Play, to serve as a springboard for discussing ways in…
In Actual Play
Participants: davidberg, mael.rimbault, JoyWriter, Anders Gabrielsson.

3/31/2012 gtroc: Criterion City V001
I have finished the first draft of Criterion City. I feel my writing is not as strong as it could be. Also I have only play tested a couple of…
In Game Development
Participants: gtroc, Sp4m.

3/30/2012 Justin Halliday: [Heroes Against Darkness] Huge revision, updated to v0.244!
I've updated the downloadable Heroes Against Darkness Alpha rules to v0.244. This is a huge revision of the rules, and incorporates many of the significant changes I've been discussing on…
In Game Development
Participants: Justin Halliday.

3/29/2012 Ranxerox: [DitV] What else have you got?
After hearing DitV mentioned in a favorable way several times a Dundracon, I decided to pick up a copy.  So I take a copy home and am reading it and…
In lumpley games
Participants: Ranxerox, opsneakie, Gordon C. Landis.

3/28/2012 lumpley: Mobile Frame Zero forum
Hello! Schoon has launched a forum for Mobile Frame Zero (née Mechaton): The Mobile Frame Hangar. Bring your MFØ talk and I'll see you there. -Vincent
In lumpley games
Participants: lumpley, David Artman.

3/23/2012 gtroc: Criterion City: First Go Round
Hi Every one. I have just started working on the mechanics for a new game and I would like to here what you thnk. its a bit vague as of…
In Game Development
Participants: gtroc.

3/23/2012 tymotzues: Satisfying the curious - examples of play
EXAMPLE PASSIVE ACTIVITY Rithanas is searching a library for a reference that he needs in order to continue his investigation into the Torgen’mae ‘WhiteBlood’. This reference is obscure and the…
In Actual Play
Participants: tymotzues, davidberg, epweissengruber.

3/23/2012 tymotzues: Satisfying the curious
Hello folks So I've recently published my first game Ascendancy - Rogue Marshal It's doing ok so far, enough sales and interest to keep me happy, however, there are those…
In Actual Play
Participants: tymotzues, Eero Tuovinen, Chris_Chinn, davidberg.

3/23/2012 davidberg: idea for a new Endeavor
Hi Ron & Vincent, Two months probably isn't enough time, but what the heck, I'd like to give it a shot. I think it'd be fun to do a group…
In Site Discussion
Participants: davidberg, Ron Edwards, mael.rimbault, Dan Maruschak.

3/23/2012 opsneakie: (High Fantasy) First Thoughts for a new system
Okay, I'll try to keep myself organized, but this is my first post to the Forge in some time (last time I was posting in First Thoughts, which looks like…
In Game Development
Participants: opsneakie, Ron Edwards, Alfryd, ShallowThoughts.

3/21/2012 Emily Care: State of the indie publisher
Hey there, Thinking about work that's to be done before the end of the Forge forums, I'd like to hear about the state of independent publishing and publishers as it…
In Publishing
Participants: Emily Care, tymotzues, Paul Czege, Nathan P., Joshua BishopRoby, Bret Gillan, RobNJ, soviet, Marshall Burns, guildofblades, Graham Walmsley, Andy Kitkowski, Elizabeth, Tim C Koppang, Frank Tarcikowski, Matt.

3/21/2012 storyteller: equating adjectives to numbers
so I see the occasional chart that describes what numbers mean and I have briefly seen while browsing the racks a system based on words, but I wanted to explore…
In Game Development
Participants: storyteller.

3/20/2012 Christoph: Free Spacer Excerpt 1 - Chargen Chapter
So I've been working on an Indie Sci-fi RPG for... way too long... now. I have a beta excerpt from the book it is only the 30 page Commissioning (Chargen)…
In Game Development
Participants: Christoph, My Precious, storyteller.

3/20/2012 Bret Gillan: [Lamentations of the Flame Princess] Dungeon Crawl Tension
I have never gotten to play classic dungeon crawls! I grew up in a household where D&D was forbidden, so I learned about roleplaying through other games like Marvel Superheroes,…
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Participants: Bret Gillan, Noon.

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4/6/2012 Thomas Lawrence: Idea Dump - "only be played once"
Let's share ridiculous ideas for how to implement the theme! I've grouped these by general reason as to why you can't, or (probably?) won't, play it again. The Game Is…
In Last Chance Game Chef
Participants: Thomas Lawrence, ThoughtCheck, mrteapot, BlazmoIntoWowee, OrionCanning, Sp4m, Eliarhiman6.

4/6/2012 Thomas Lawrence: Idea Dump: Ways to combine the known ingredients you aren't going to use.
A place for your discarded ideas with regard to the shared ingredient list (COYOTE, DOCTOR, LANTERN, MIMIC). Obviously if you aren't comfortable with someone else potentially grabbing the idea and…
In Last Chance Game Chef
Participants: Thomas Lawrence, JeffR, UserClone, jackson_tegu, mrteapot, Jason Pitre.

4/6/2012 dindenver: [World Police] My Randome ingredients
It took me a few tries to get ingredients that I cold figure out a solution for. I got some really great 2/3-ingredient comboes, but there was always some rogue…
In Last Chance Game Chef
Participants: dindenver, UserClone, jackson_tegu, joepub.

4/7/2012 OrionCanning: The Last Word - Game idea
Hello, everyone, Orion here with my second year entering in the competition. Last year I submitted Go Puck Yourself, which Is hosted here: http://files.meetup.com/2003651/Go%20Puck%20Yourself%200.4.pdf. So just before looking at the…
In Last Chance Game Chef
Participants: OrionCanning, Sp4m, jackson_tegu, Robert Bruce, Mathalus.

4/7/2012 mrteapot: The Astronaut and the Aliens - first rough thoughts
I think that my game is going to be a game about a human astronaut who has crashed on an alien planet.  There's a native culture, which most of the…
In Last Chance Game Chef
Participants: mrteapot, BlazmoIntoWowee, UserClone, jackson_tegu, Jonathan Walton, PeterBB, Sp4m.

4/7/2012 David Artman: [Banter] Check out my four threads!
This is... too damned weird: Early ideas Unresolved Complications Need help with a core mechanic Unsung Done (kinda -- revised, certainly) THREE great games, one…
In Last Chance Game Chef
Participants: David Artman, jackson_tegu, joepub.

4/7/2012 Snake_Eyes: [rant] Snake_Eyes Game Chef 2012
**Please excuse the poor presentation, I think I am going to bed, but wanted to get this out, it is based on Native American myths, and is about a contraband…
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Participants: Snake_Eyes, OrionCanning, jackson_tegu.

4/7/2012 Jason Pitre: The Lantern's Legacy
This first post is mostly just by brainstorming; I would love to invite all of you to chime in. The more feedback and discussion, the better the game. I recieved…
In Last Chance Game Chef
Participants: Jason Pitre, princess_r, BlazmoIntoWowee, UserClone, jackson_tegu, jjspackle, joepub, dindenver.

4/7/2012 UserClone: [Ephemera] First thoughts, and intentionally failing.
So my game is going to be lovingly hand-written into a small number of notebooks, and distributed via post by myself to whomever is randomly selected to "playtest" it. I…
In Last Chance Game Chef
Participants: UserClone, jackson_tegu, Tokala, C. Edwards, BlazmoIntoWowee, Troy_Costisick, PeterBB.

4/7/2012 BlazmoIntoWowee: A Small Piece of the Sun
My ramblings coalesced into coherent shape, I hope. A SMALL PIECE OF THE SUN A roleplaying game about the theft of fire. It is a dark, cold, hungry…
In Last Chance Game Chef
Participants: BlazmoIntoWowee, UserClone, jackson_tegu, tor, desiderata, Troy_Costisick.

4/7/2012 jackson_tegu: The [Jackson Tegu's 2012 Gamechef Submission] Thread.
Hey there myself, and others. I am very excited about this gamechef experience. I love everything about it thusfar. I will put more stuff here later, i just want to…
In Last Chance Game Chef
Participants: jackson_tegu, PeterBB, Robert Bruce, UserClone, princess_r, OrionCanning, Snake_Eyes, C. Edwards, Mathalus.

4/7/2012 Thomas Lawrence: [Among the Coyotes] A game about imitation
So I have one game I'm working on with a co-chef based on the random threads, but I also can't seem to get my brain to leave the Mimic ingredient…
In Last Chance Game Chef
Participants: Thomas Lawrence, UserClone, jackson_tegu, Jason Pitre.

4/7/2012 gtroc: [Whispers In The Dark] Jakes ingredients and ideas
My Ingredients are Coyote: I am leaning toward Wil E Coyote mixed with the Crow and Blackfoot legends of old man coyote mixed with a little of the actual animal…
In Last Chance Game Chef
Participants: gtroc, jackson_tegu, Jason Pitre.

4/7/2012 JeffR: Another Day, Another Crisis
[b]Initial Thoughts[/b] So, after deciding to abandon my first idea as "something I wouldn't find particularly fun"  (A psychological game of madness and loss that would probably have been called…
In Last Chance Game Chef
Participants: JeffR, UserClone, jackson_tegu.

4/7/2012 Jason Petrasko: Snowy Mountain Syndrome
Ingredients: Doctor, Lantern, Coyote, Mimic Theme: Last Chance So right, like I totally took the title from a short story in the Haruhi franchise. I doubt Tanigawa will sue though.…
In Last Chance Game Chef
Participants: Jason Petrasko, jackson_tegu, BlazmoIntoWowee, UserClone, joepub, Dev.

4/7/2012 devlin1: The Whatever-It-Is-Mike-Comes-Up-With Thread
I don't know what I'm doing with the ingredients yet, but this is where I'm gonna work a few things out. Here are my threads, for reference: http://indie-rpgs.com/archive/index.php?topic=7229.msg75764#msg75764 http://indie-rpgs.com/archive/index.php?topic=28006.0…
In Last Chance Game Chef
Participants: devlin1, jackson_tegu, C. Edwards, Jason Pitre.

4/7/2012 C. Edwards: [The Simurg] It is said...
The Simurg is a creature ancient beyond our understanding and immortal, the source of all that is, was, and will be. It slumbers deep within its lair, and dreams. Those…
In Last Chance Game Chef
Participants: C. Edwards, jackson_tegu, UserClone.

4/7/2012 Robert Bruce: Liminál
Genre: Border Horror Border-crossers known as 'coyotaje' bring hundreds of migrants into the United States every day.  It's a risky business, but a business nonetheless, and necessarily dull in its…
In Last Chance Game Chef
Participants: Robert Bruce, jackson_tegu, OrionCanning, desiderata, BlazmoIntoWowee, Mathalus, dmkdesigns.

4/8/2012 ThoughtCheck: Epistolary
Front page of the Whitechester Lantern, September the 21st, 1912. TRAGEDY AT SEA! Dateline: Inlet Beach --Beachgoers were shocked this morning as a Ruritanian merchant vessel, arriving seemingly out of…
In Last Chance Game Chef
Participants: ThoughtCheck, jackson_tegu, mrteapot, joepub, PeterBB.

4/8/2012 tor: The Lies of Passage
After giving it some thought and sleeping on it, I've decided to write a game about a pack of Young coyotes and their rite of passage – a ritual in…
In Last Chance Game Chef
Participants: tor, jackson_tegu, UserClone, BlazmoIntoWowee, Jason Pitre.

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