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5/4/2001 Clinton R. Nixon: Elfs sighting
If I didn't know better, I'd swear this was an Elfs comic strip: http://www.goats.com/archive/010429.html
In Adept Press
Participants: Clinton R. Nixon, Ron Edwards.

5/4/2001 ephealy: # Anyone in the Ann Arbor / Detroit area?
I'll be in Michigan (with work) for the next three weeks. Anyone in the Ann Arbor / Detroit area that would like to get together and game one weekend?
In Site Discussion
Participants: ephealy, hardcoremoose, Clay.

5/4/2001 hardcoremoose: SCAB! A (nearly) playable RPG/LARP right here...
SCAB! A Game of Fantasy Labor Disputes & Strikebusting. ********************************************* This originally started out as an amusing idea that I posted to RPGnet a few days ago. I thought quick…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: hardcoremoose, Jared A. Sorensen.

5/4/2001 poppocabba: submissions needed for cd-rom project
Title: sell your soul, win prizes / I am putting together a cd-rom project to give away at Denver's ben-con to my players and other interested parties. I am also…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: poppocabba.

5/4/2001 poppocabba: group playtest agreements, and usage agreements
It strikes me that if this group is set up to encourage game design, it would be practical if everyone got together to create usage/playtest agreements that anyone could download…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: poppocabba, Clinton R. Nixon, Ron Edwards, Dav.

5/4/2001 Jared A. Sorensen: Sorcerer Story?
I clicked CLay's www page link in the Memberlist and it took me here: http://sorcerer.story-game.com/ Vat is dis?
In Adept Press
Participants: Jared A. Sorensen, Ron Edwards, Clay, Valamir.

5/3/2001 Clinton R. Nixon: Guerilla publishing
Reading Cameron's need to print a hard copy product, I began pondering easy ways to get something in print. I know a lot of people are satisfied with PDF distribution,…
In Publishing
Participants: Clinton R. Nixon, Dav, Ron Edwards, He who is Q, Damocles, Jared A. Sorensen.

5/3/2001 Clinton R. Nixon: The new distribution
All this talking about what makes an independent game naturally gets me thinking about distribution. What methods are available to the independent game artist (yes, that's the new title I'm…
In Publishing
Participants: Clinton R. Nixon, Paul Czege, Jared A. Sorensen, Zak Arntson, Ron Edwards, joshua neff, poppocabba, Gordon C. Landis, Clay.

5/3/2001 ephealy: What meant by _indie_ gaming?
Ron and I had a page on the site last year talking about what _we_ meant by an indie game and indie gaming. Without posting that here, I'd like to…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: ephealy, Dav, Ron Edwards, Clinton R. Nixon, Jared A. Sorensen, JSDiamond, poppocabba.

5/2/2001 poppocabba: method roleplaying
here is an article I am starting work on and looking for some feedback as to how to incorporate these ideas into an rpg design Radio Method role playing Introduction…
In GNS Model Discussion
Participants: poppocabba, Ron Edwards.

5/2/2001 poppocabba: we need a gaming method forum
I would really value a forum on gaming method, that could be applied to playtesting as well as more non-mechanical aspects of game design.
In Site Discussion
Participants: poppocabba, Ron Edwards, Paul Czege, Clinton R. Nixon.

5/2/2001 Jared A. Sorensen: Expanding the Pantheon (Robin Laws' Pantheon, that is)
I'm curious if anyone has expanded upon the five Narrative Cage Match games in Robin Laws' excellent "Pantheon & Other Games" collection? Right now the game has: Aquatic SF/Horror Japanese…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Jared A. Sorensen, Mytholder, James V. West.

5/2/2001 George Pletz: Drift, Synergy, & The Great Unspoken
Hello all! In Paul's thread, A Variant Phylogeny, Ron made a comment about how early RPG may have played as narrativist but were written in simulation. This made me think…
In GNS Model Discussion
Participants: George Pletz, Mytholder, Ron Edwards.

5/2/2001 Jared A. Sorensen: NIGHTWATCH
Yahoo! InSpectres' first supplement (called NIGHTWATCH) is online. It's by Scott Knipe (aka Hardcoremoose here at the Forge) and it's pretty damn cool. InSpectres is a kind of .com Ghostbusters-ish…
In Memento-Mori Theatricks
Participants: Jared A. Sorensen, hardcoremoose, Ron Edwards, mahoux, GraveyardGreg.

5/2/2001 Ron Edwards: News!
Sorcerer went to print today. Best, Ron
In Adept Press
Participants: Ron Edwards, Paul Czege, Dav, Ian O'Rourke, james_west, jburneko, Uncle Dark, Valamir, Jared A. Sorensen, joshua neff.

5/2/2001 Jimmy the Barrel: Start to finish: Theory of Game design
I am a wanna be game designer, and I have enormous amounts of notes on various ideas for games. These include: system notes, setting and style. But, they never seem…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Jimmy the Barrel, Dav, JSDiamond, GreatWolf, Ron Edwards.

5/2/2001 poppocabba: looking for artists
has anyone worked with some one who is affordable,and dependable for creating art work for both the web,and print I am in dire need of both.
In Connections
Participants: poppocabba, ephealy, Ron Edwards, Dav, JSDiamond, Clay.

5/2/2001 poppocabba: schismatic free rpg entering draft 3 feedback needed
I am getting draft 3 of all the playtest materials ready for release for my convention playtest coming up in june, and I would like some feedback on what we…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: poppocabba, Ron Edwards, Dav, GreatWolf, ephealy, Jared A. Sorensen, james_west, Paul Czege.

5/2/2001 poppocabba: design help needed:Rocktown game of the prehistoric underwor
I am working on rocktown a fictional prehistoric world meets film noir via the dream like technology states of the flintstones. I am at the very beginning stages and am…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: poppocabba.

5/2/2001 GreatWolf: The power of good and Unicorns (?)
As part of my continuing mental composting for Alyria, I recently reread Lord of the Rings. Something that struck me this read-through (among other things) is the Ents. Certainly they…
In Dark Omen Games
Participants: GreatWolf, Ron Edwards, Paul Czege, archangel_2, Zak Arntson, Jared A. Sorensen, Mike Holmes, RobMuadib.

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5/4/2001 Clinton R. Nixon: Do what thou wilt
Ron mentioned he'd like a forum like this, and I think it's a good idea. Do whatever thy ass wanteth, but here's some great examples of what you might discuss:…
In Actual Play
Participants: Clinton R. Nixon, Jason L Blair.

5/4/2001 Ron Edwards: Orkworld in action
Oh boy! Well, I ran our first run of Orkworld last night. Another run or so, and I can do a review. The plan is four or five sessions for…
In Actual Play
Participants: Ron Edwards, GreatWolf, Dav.

5/4/2001 Paul Czege: Theatrix in action
This is going to be partly a paste of something I wrote on G.O. about the first session of the awesome superhero game, using Theatrix rules, that one of the…
In Actual Play
Participants: Paul Czege, Jared A. Sorensen, Ron Edwards, greyorm, james_west, GreatWolf, Clay, Pyske, Supplanter.

5/5/2001 james_west: Included pictures ?
Some forums like this have a way that This is a test to see if inline images will work in this forum system.
In Site Discussion
Participants: james_west, Ron Edwards.

5/5/2001 Jared A. Sorensen: Happy-Lucky Chinese Restaurant Game
This is an idea I came up with a few weeks ago. It's a bit like Hogshead's "Baron Munchausen" game, except you play it in a Chinese restaurant and the…
In Memento-Mori Theatricks
Participants: Jared A. Sorensen, Ron Edwards.

5/5/2001 poppocabba: defining player types
here is the start of another article I was thinking that the traditional descriptions of rpg players are not unified enough, and given the contrasts in my current ground I…
In GNS Model Discussion
Participants: poppocabba, Ron Edwards.

5/6/2001 Jared A. Sorensen: I ran Elfs last night Ice & Fire spoilers
It was...interesting. :smile: The players were really into it (although a bit hesitant to use authorial or director stance). Once they got over their slight fear of "making stuff up,"…
In Adept Press
Participants: Jared A. Sorensen, Ron Edwards.

5/6/2001 JSDiamond: The Ultimate Binding
I was just thinking about this last night. The idea came to me from an idea I have for a drawing inspired by Sorcerer. Binding a demon is dangerous, -this…
In Adept Press
Participants: JSDiamond, Ron Edwards, Clay.

5/7/2001 Jared A. Sorensen: sdrawkcab gniyalp
I was thinking (always a dangerous prospect). Watching Sopranos tonight I was thinking of how things turn out in the show...how these twists and turns are do-able in an RPG,…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Jared A. Sorensen, hardcoremoose, Ron Edwards, Zak Arntson, Paul Czege, Dav.

5/7/2001 Jason L Blair: PDF Question
Unlike other apps I'm familiar with, Acrobat doesn't seem to care much about resolution. In fact, the only mention of it I see is for output (printer) resolution. So my…
In Publishing
Participants: Jason L Blair, Ron Edwards, Dav, Paul Czege, Matt Gwinn, Clay.

5/8/2001 Dav: Minimalism vs. Half-booty
A brief open question: Sorcerer, as well as other games, have proven that a core concept as well as good, efficient mechanics can present a saleable item. No setting. Or…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Dav, james_west, Ron Edwards.

5/8/2001 hardcoremoose: NIGHTWATCH/InSpectres playtest
Something amazing happened tonight. I got my grizzled gaming buddies together, as per usual on Monday nights. They were expecting the next installment in their D&D campaign. No doubt they…
In Actual Play
Participants: hardcoremoose, Ron Edwards, Jared A. Sorensen.

5/8/2001 james_west: An exercise in vanity ? (Mildly communist ...)
Having read over this forum, one thing I'm not clear on is the -REASON- for charging for your .pdf As Ron Edwards is quick to point out, the amount of…
In Publishing
Participants: james_west, Dav, Ron Edwards, Jason L Blair, Clinton R. Nixon, Mytholder, He who is Q, Jared A. Sorensen, Paul Czege.

5/8/2001 Ian O'Rourke: The New Refuge
I return to The Forge after thinking it had died, and suddenly I find this whole forum thing going on. Very good. I like it. It's an alternative to GO…
In Adept Press
Participants: Ian O'Rourke, Ron Edwards.

5/8/2001 Ian O'Rourke: Unable to Query DB
I seem to be getting an 'Unable to Query DB' error message a lot? I assume this is an ongoing thing and it's not just me :smile: I get three…
In Site Discussion
Participants: Ian O'Rourke, Clinton R. Nixon, Ron Edwards.

5/8/2001 Ian O'Rourke: I really like Sorcerer but...
...I never know what to actually do with it? I know this is a bit of a 'basic' question for these boards, and it's a bit of an embarrassing one…
In Adept Press
Participants: Ian O'Rourke, Jared A. Sorensen, Ron Edwards, JSDiamond, james_west, greyorm, joshua neff, Jason L Blair, Clay, Paul Czege.

5/8/2001 Ian O'Rourke: Fengshui: Simulationist?
Okay, I understand why it could be viewed as simulationist (and may be it is), as it puts all its mechanics into simulating an action movie world. What concerns me…
In GNS Model Discussion
Participants: Ian O'Rourke, Ron Edwards, Mytholder, George Pletz, Clinton R. Nixon, Jared A. Sorensen, Mike Holmes, Valamir, Gordon C. Landis.

5/9/2001 Jared A. Sorensen: Centerfolds
Something that I'd really like to see (on this site or on individuals' sites) is a kind of "gamer profile" that would shed light on a person's style, turn-ons and…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Jared A. Sorensen, Paul Czege, Ron Edwards, Clinton R. Nixon, Blake Hutchins, George Pletz, Zak Arntson, Mytholder, hardcoremoose, joshua neff, Jason L Blair, GreatWolf, Clay, poppocabba, DonQuixote, gizem, unodiablo, james_west, Supplanter, Ferry Bazelmans, John Wick, ephealy, Gordon C. Landis, Matt Gwinn, gentrification, Nathan, Dav, Ian Freeman, archangel_2, Jamie Thomas Durbin.

5/9/2001 poppocabba: use of blindfolds/sound in rpgs
I am interested if anyone has ever used blind folds in their games, and also of hearing about any experiences with gaming foley artistry. I am really out to create…
In Actual Play
Participants: poppocabba, DonQuixote, Jared A. Sorensen, joshua neff, Ben Morgan, Mytholder.

5/9/2001 Clinton R. Nixon: System doesn't matter, as narrated by E. Gary Gygax
(from a recent interview at http://www.cdmag.com/Home/home.html?article=/articles/032/127/010507-f2.html) Interviewer: There are quite a few "freeware" role-playing games on the Internet these days... EGG: Right. And they're worth every penny you pay…
In GNS Model Discussion
Participants: Clinton R. Nixon, Dav, Ron Edwards, Mytholder, Jason L Blair, greyorm.

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