Previous Topics 12/11/2002 Steve Dustin: First Sorceror Game Finally getting around to it. After giving some friends a choice on different games, I'm running a one-shot Sorceror game on Friday (note: if this should go in the Adept… In Actual Play Participants: Steve Dustin, Ron Edwards, Mike Holmes, b_bankhead, jrients.
12/11/2002 Clinton R. Nixon: The purpose of forums Ron and I discussed the 'sub-moderator' position some more this morning, and we decided we needed a clear vision of what each forum is actually there for. I'm going to… In Moderators Participants: Clinton R. Nixon, Valamir.
12/11/2002 jburneko: Borderline Demon Types - Evil Pinnochio There are two kinds of monsters in horror litterature that I hold a deep facination for, Zombies and Killer Puppets. Just the other day I was thinking about what a… In Adept Press Participants: jburneko, Ron Edwards.
12/10/2002 Clinton R. Nixon: GenCon 2003 - I got my packet I got my packet for GenCon 2003 today. The floor space is fucking huge.
Anyway, I'm not sure what sort of booth the Forge/Adept Press/Key 20 wants, but I'm guessing… In GenCon Planning and Organization Participants: Clinton R. Nixon, Jason L Blair, Ron Edwards.
12/10/2002 Clinton R. Nixon: Riptide and odd questions I'm designing the 'curriculum' system for my new game, Riptide, right now. To answer these questions, all you need to know is that it's set in high school.
Ok.
Question… In Indie Game Design Participants: Clinton R. Nixon, Matt Wilson, Wormwood, Jared A. Sorensen, quozl, damion, Walt Freitag, cruciel, kamikaze, Ziriel, Shreyas Sampat, Jack Spencer Jr, Mark Johnson, contracycle.
12/10/2002 Derek Devlin: Pulling Crazy Stunts in CAH Hi.
I’m new to the forum and CAH but when I saw the game’s subject matter and names like Jared Sorensen and John Wick appearing in the forums, I knew… In Cartoon Action Hour Participants: Derek Devlin, Cynthia Celeste Miller, Eddy Fate.
12/10/2002 Shreyas Sampat: Refreshing Rain: The Relationship Sky [url=http://www.geocities.com/torchbearer_rpg/rain.html]Refreshing Rain[/url] uses a board as a representation of the relationships of various characters in-game.
Very simply, a single piece in the board represents one entity. That entity is antagonistic… In Indie Game Design Participants: Shreyas Sampat, Jonathan Walton, Kuma.
12/10/2002 Jared A. Sorensen: Double-barrel update shotgun: octaNe, Mad Max 4 From my journal:
octaNe Styles are not necessarily keyed to character ability. I mean, I already KNEW this (it's mentioned in the rules) but I never looked at it from… In Memento-Mori Theatricks Participants: Jared A. Sorensen.
12/10/2002 Delta1: Just recieved Sorceror Ron,
Excellent, professional and thought provoking game. Still digesting the ideas/concepts.
FYI - I was able to obtain my copy through Military Simulations in Melbourne, Australia. In Adept Press Participants: Delta1, Ron Edwards.
12/10/2002 Alan: Player Narration can be Exhausting! Hi all,
Over the past two Mondays at our Indie game night, I've played or GMed InSpectres, Universalis, and Extreme Vengeance. All have mechanics that demand creative player narration. I've… In Actual Play Participants: Alan, Fabrice G., Jared A. Sorensen, Matt Wilson, Mike Holmes, Ron Edwards, Tim C Koppang.
12/10/2002 Alan: Universalis - Red Hunger Hi all,
Last week, playing Univeralis, Clinton entered a game rule that said "Alan has to write this game up for Actual Play on the Forge." As far as I… In Actual Play Participants: Alan, Tony Irwin, Mike Holmes, Seth L. Blumberg, Ron Edwards, rafial, Rys, contracycle, Valamir.
12/10/2002 Alan: Community Building in Seattle I'm not sure exactly which forum to post this on - Actual Play seems as appropriate as any.
Here in Seattle we have a very active email group for local… In Actual Play Participants: Alan, Clinton R. Nixon, Ron Edwards, Jeffrey Miller, Rys.
12/10/2002 M. J. Young: Use of Gender Pronouns [quote="Emily Care"]"Do" use both pronouns in examples of play when refering to players, gms and all game participants. (This one makes a difference for me when I read a game,… In RPG Theory Participants: M. J. Young, Clinton R. Nixon, contracycle, Le Joueur, Mike Holmes, Jonathan Walton, lumpley, ethan_greer, Paganini, damion, Clay, bluegargantua, Ron Edwards, cruciel.
12/9/2002 jburneko: Obvious Choices Okay, this discussion is broken off from Backstory Revisited
Ron pointed out that my hash-out thread seemed to really be about three seperate things at once. So, I'll… In Adept Press Participants: jburneko, GreatWolf, Ron Edwards, Christopher Kubasik, Thor Olavsrud, greyorm, talysman, joshua neff, Mike Holmes, Bankuei, epweissengruber.
12/9/2002 Spooky Fanboy: So when's this thing out again? What time do you expect it to be finished and ready to print?
Also, I heard about dragons, but what's up with the unicorn? Where does the unicorn fit in? In Dark Omen Games Participants: Spooky Fanboy, GreatWolf.
12/9/2002 thoth: Playing the opposite gender? Off-shoot from the Sexism and Gaming thread.
Is playing a character of the opposite gender a really bad idea? I can see it being bad because participants might end up… In RPG Theory Participants: thoth, Jack Spencer Jr, cruciel, Clinton R. Nixon, Eric J., Irmo, Ron Edwards, Uncle Dark, M. J. Young, Emily Care, Tim C Koppang, bluegargantua, Ian Charvill, Ziriel, Alan, John Wick, Maurice Forrester, Seth L. Blumberg, Blake Hutchins, Gordon C. Landis.
12/9/2002 Matt Snyder: 12 Days of Christmas As you may have read on the Key 20 board, Key 20 will be offering up the 12 Games of Christmas starting December 13 through Christmas eve. Each day, free… In Chimera Creative Participants: Matt Snyder, Jason L Blair.
12/9/2002 Wolfen: An idea for the forum I just had a thought that might reduce the amount of redundant discussions, and threads shot down when someone points out that it's been discussed before.
Jake, you could have… In The Riddle of Steel Participants: Wolfen, Brian Leybourne, Mike Holmes, Jake Norwood.
12/9/2002 Jonathan Walton: CCGs and Deck-Based Characters This thread is influenced both by Matt Snyder's "Nine Worlds" concept (yes, Matt, someone was paying attention) and the ideas currently be discussed on the thread on "Pre-Game Fortune."
Consider… In RPG Theory Participants: Jonathan Walton, Mike Holmes, Cassidy, bluegargantua, Eric J., Le Joueur, Ron Edwards, Jared A. Sorensen, Walt Freitag, Reimer Behrends, contracycle, Seth L. Blumberg.
12/9/2002 johnmarron: Theatrix actual play advice? I recently read Paul Czege's threads about the Theatrix Supers game he played in, which inspired me to pick up a copy of Theatrix again. I originally bought the game… In Actual Play Participants: johnmarron, Fabrice G., Alan.
<< more previous topics | | Subsequent Topics 12/11/2002 Alan: Conflicts with multiple participants Hi,
I'm reading over DD for the second time, preparing to run a demo game. I'm not quite clear on a few things.
Here are the rules as I understand… In Chimera Creative Participants: Alan, Matt Snyder, Ron Edwards.
12/11/2002 Derek Devlin: A rumor for Transformers fans This rumor comes from EGM magazine, and is quoted from 411mania.com.
"Transformers! Robots in disguise!
EGM’s Quaterman has word that Takara is working on a Transformers game! I’m not talking… In Cartoon Action Hour Participants: Derek Devlin, Eddy Fate.
12/11/2002 Cynthia Celeste Miller: CAH Cover We have two possible covers for the hardcopy CAH book and they are both fantastic! So fantastic, in fact, that we're having troubles choosing which one we're going to use.… In Cartoon Action Hour Participants: Cynthia Celeste Miller, Jason L Blair.
12/11/2002 Jabberwocky: Clarification of combat with multiple opponants... As is, the rules just say 'split the CP between the opponents'. How exactly does this work... does it mean that if you are the aggressor you may take two… In The Riddle of Steel Participants: Jabberwocky, prophet118, Lyrax, Jake Norwood, Shadeling, Warboss Grock.
12/11/2002 prophet118: Challenging Players Notions lately i have found myself wondering exactly how and what i should do to challenge the players preconceived notions of what a game should be..
that basically means that i… In The Riddle of Steel Participants: prophet118, Bankuei, Mike Holmes, Ron Edwards, Mokkurkalfe, Jaeger, Jake Norwood, ShaneNINE, Bob Richter, Lucien Black, Irmo.
12/12/2002 Green: been a long time...here it is, the drama system Not too long ago, I posted here about an RPG setting that was centered around fairy tales. After much thought and tweaking, I decided to expand the game to more… In Indie Game Design Participants: Green.
12/12/2002 Paul Czege: the importance of Sim-like gameplay to the Narrativist So, after roughly eighteen months of fairly intensive Narrativist play, I find myself recently thinking an awful lot about Sim. And quite surprisingly, I find myself increasingly convinced that the… In RPG Theory Participants: Paul Czege, contracycle, Andrew Martin, Mike Holmes, JMendes, lumpley, Le Joueur, Valamir, Gordon C. Landis, Bankuei, Emily Care.
12/12/2002 Valamir: Universalis Enters Second Printing [b]Universalis Enters Second Printing!! [/b]
Ramshead Publishing is pleased to announce that the first print run of Universalis: the game of unlimited stories has sold out.
Universalis's popularity has exceeded… In Universalis Participants: Valamir, Paganini.
12/12/2002 Valamir: Universalis Enters Second Printing [b]Universalis Enters Second Printing!! [/b]
Ramshead Publishing is pleased to announce that the first print run of Universalis: the game of unlimited stories has sold out.
Universalis's popularity has exceeded… In Publishing Participants: Valamir, Seth L. Blumberg, J B Bell.
12/12/2002 Brian Leybourne: Combat Sim update In a burst of enthusiasm born from boredom at work I started doing some extra development on the combat sim.
So far, I have fixed Dual Rapiers not being able… In The Riddle of Steel Participants: Brian Leybourne, prophet118, Bob Richter, svenlein, Mokkurkalfe, Aaron, toli, Lucien Black, Valamir, Wolfen, Jake Norwood.
12/12/2002 xiombarg: f*ckin' Dust Devils Tonight was our vulgarly-named "F*ck-Around Night" where we try out new games. Tonight we tried Dust Devils. We used the sample scenario -- and since I had six players instead… In Actual Play Participants: xiombarg, Matt Snyder.
12/12/2002 xiombarg: We played, and we have questions... Well, we finally got to play Dust Devils. We had a great time. But some issues came up.
1. What happens if you run out of cards? As I mentioned… In Chimera Creative Participants: xiombarg, Matt Snyder.
12/12/2002 Skadedyr: Do part-OGC games count as indie? I'm currently designing a game based on the d20 SRD, wich will be 100% Open Game Content. However, all the parts I don't write myself will be copyright WotC.
Does… In Indie Game Design Participants: Skadedyr, Andrew Martin, Clinton R. Nixon, Valamir.
12/12/2002 Tony Irwin: Universalis: Fellowship of the Coins With Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, only a few days away I’ve been thinking desperately about how to play in a game like that. I was trying to… In Universalis Participants: Tony Irwin, Valamir, Mike Holmes.
12/12/2002 jburneko: Le Mon Mouri - Anyone Played This? I came across this on my computer yesterday. I totally forgot that I had purchased this little download. Unfortunately, I find it very hard to read. I think it's the… In Actual Play Participants: jburneko, Ron Edwards, joshua neff, sdemory.
12/12/2002 Clinton R. Nixon: Anvilwerks, Christmas, and the Forge Hey everyone,
It's the holiday season, and hopefully, if you celebrate Christmas, Kwanzaa, Chanukah, or anything else that comes this time of year, you've got that holiday spirit.
The Forge,… In Site Discussion Participants: Clinton R. Nixon, Valamir, Seth L. Blumberg, sben, Mike Holmes, xiombarg.
12/12/2002 WildElf: Little Fears mechanic questions/problems I ran a short series of Little Fears. First off, the idea for kids and horror is genius. I think it works really well, and players seem to be able… In Actual Play Participants: WildElf, Jason L Blair, Ron Edwards, Fabrice G..
12/13/2002 Bankuei: Main Void Main Hey all,
Here's a fun little game I came up with over the course of the last two weeks or so. It's what I call a Stealth Narrativist game, filled… In Indie Game Design Participants: Bankuei, Shreyas Sampat, Emily Care.
12/13/2002 Jared A. Sorensen: Tombs of Terror! The second Playset for Against the Reich! is done (the first, Invasion Hollow Earth, was included in the main supplement). Tombs of Terror! describes adventures in lush jungles and barren… In Memento-Mori Theatricks Participants: Jared A. Sorensen.
12/13/2002 Clinton R. Nixon: Trollbabe - The Shadow Troll Most of my group and I played Trollbabe Thursday night. I learned two things right off the bat:
1) Trollbabe is easy to run.
2) Trollbabe is hard as hell… In Actual Play Participants: Clinton R. Nixon, Matt Wilson, Ron Edwards, joshua neff, Bankuei.
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