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3/24/2003 Simon W: Tales from the Wood - any takers?
Ok, so James V West liked my game Tales from the Wood (see his Anthropomorphic post), but do any of the rest of you think it is worth getting it…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Simon W, bluegargantua.

3/25/2003 Simon W: Babewatch
Yes I am very sad, but here is a rpg I made years ago, when I was young and foolish and had nothing better to do with my time. And…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Simon W, Othyem, Walt Freitag.

3/27/2003 Simon W: Gangs of the Big Apple
After seeing the movie 'of s similar name' myself and Mark George thought it would be a good idea to base a gm-less and dice-less rpg around. We came up…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Simon W.

3/31/2003 Simon W: DisasterQuakeFireFlood
Disaster movies are a poular draw at the cinema. Role-playing games often try to emulate the movies. However, I am not sure that I have seen any disaster based role-playing…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Simon W, Shreyas Sampat, talysman, Walt Freitag, Ron Edwards, Mike Holmes, Maurice Forrester.

4/21/2003 Simon W: How to publish this (LOGB)
Ok, so I've got Lashings of Ginger Beer looking like this, so far. http://www.geocities.com/simonwashbourne/lashingsofgingerbeer.pdf with a character sheet like this http://www.geocities.com/simonwashbourne/logb_char.pdf If I want to publish for sale, then I'd…
In Publishing
Participants: Simon W, Jared A. Sorensen, Matt, simon, Mike Holmes, talysman, Valamir, clehrich.

4/21/2003 Simon W: (24 hour game) 1940 -England Invaded
Ok, I know nobody actually said they like it, unlike Troubadours of Verticaile (I love this game!), Criminal Element and the others (oh yes, it hurts!), but nevertheless I also…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Simon W, Mike Holmes, Ron Edwards, Valamir, b_bankhead.

5/15/2003 Simon W: Lashings of Ginger Beer layout/design help
I admit it, I'm stuck. I've decided to go the whole route with Lashings of Ginger Beer, probably through RPG.Mall or similar. I have got an artist on board (Allan…
In Publishing
Participants: Simon W, rpghost, Jonathan Walton, Michael Hopcroft, max.lambertini.

5/20/2003 Simon W: SuperCity
SuperCity is now up on my site as a PDF. I have changed nothing yet from my entry in the Iron Chef comp. I could do with some ideas for…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Simon W, Mike Holmes, Emily Care, Chris Moore.

6/10/2003 Simon W: Purchasing a license for an rpg
I have approached a company to purchase the rights to produce an rpg based upon one of their authors works and they have come back with a positive response so…
In Publishing
Participants: Simon W, rpghost.

6/23/2003 Simon W: 24Hour Games/Iron Game Chef
Just wondering whether anyone who got games together for the above competitions have done anything more on their games. I know vs Monsters has been available on RPG.mall for free…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Simon W, Jared A. Sorensen, ethan_greer, Matt, lumpley, Jeph, Walt Freitag, Mike Holmes, Thomas Tamblyn, Zathreyel, talysman.

8/13/2003 Simon W: It's a dog's life
Ok guys, I'm looking for more inspiration here. My free rpg It's a dog's life is basically playable as it stands, but I want to at least double it's size…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Simon W, Alan, English.

8/28/2003 Simon W: Blakes 7 RPG
Not exactly a new RPG, but certainly new to anyone other than my immediate gaming group and a few people who used to attend Dragonmeet in the 1980's. Anyway, with…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Simon W, Mike Holmes, simon_hibbs, Dev.

10/24/2003 Simon W: Looking for Aaron Houx
I'm trying to contact Aaron Houx, designer of the excellent Knights of the Road RPG (Blindside Press). I've tried the email address on his website, but can't get a reply.…
In Connections
Participants: Simon W.

12/20/2003 Simon W: Saving the World in a Groovy Kind of Way
I finally got around to running a session of Matt Macell's The Agency last night. We were due to play one of our favourites (Amber Diceless), but one player couldn't…
In Actual Play
Participants: Simon W, Mike Holmes, Warrior Kal, Ron Edwards, Matt.

4/26/2004 Simon W: BBC ACKNOWLEDGES 30 YEARS OF D&D
I know this does not really belong here but we wouldn't all be designing games if it wasn't for D&D, so I thought this might be of passing interest to…
In RPG Theory
Participants: Simon W, Mike Holmes, pete_darby.

4/26/2004 Simon W: Legends of The Land RPG
Here is a game I am working on. http://www.geocities.com/legendsoftheland/index.html It uses Jeffrey Schecters "Legends of Middle Earth" as its basis. It is not all up yet, so you are viewing…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Simon W, ghostwolf, Ron Edwards.

5/16/2004 Simon W: OK, I've published, now how do I sell?
I've published It's a Dog's Life (which I was hoping to get into the NPA, but I was a bit late - hopefully the NPA2) and it's available at RPGNOW.…
In Publishing
Participants: Simon W, Ron Edwards, semprebon, chadu, Malcolm.

5/30/2004 Simon W: [It's a Dog's Life] Plague Town
One of our usual players couldn’t make it last night. So in a break from the D&D3E campaign I have been running, we decided to do a one-off ‘rules-lite’ game.…
In Actual Play
Participants: Simon W, ethan_greer.

7/16/2004 Simon W: Dreamscape 24 hour RPG
I wrote this up the other day, working on the basis that I wasn't going to have a free weekend over the next three weeks. I had to do it…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Simon W, Jediblack, Andy Kitkowski, slackerman.

7/22/2004 Simon W: have-a-go heroes
[b]The 24 hour role-playing game of Marvel City's not so super superheroes.[/b] You may spot the resemblence to a certain 'Mystery Men' movie, but that is pure intention. Anyhow, I…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Simon W, TonyLB.

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