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8/11/2003 Nathan: Actionroll.com Has Been Transfigured
Hey there, I've updated Actionroll.com with a new look. Just go to: http://www.actionroll.com/ You will need to reregister, but it now has a simpler setup with articles, discussion, and polls.…
In Mystic Ages Online
Participants: Nathan.

8/7/2003 Nathan: The E*A*K Information You Crave
Greets all, I've been posting comments and updates in the Mystic Ages Online forum, but I figure this is the better place for some of it. Feel free to respond…
In Key 20 Publishing
Participants: Nathan, Spooky Fanboy.

8/6/2003 Nathan: Interactive Fiction (Choose Your Own Adventure)
Greets all, I love the old text adventure games. They are so fun, but I also grew up on the old Choose Your Own Adventure Schlock. I remember the first…
In Mystic Ages Online
Participants: Nathan.

8/4/2003 Nathan: initiative for EAK
Hello folks, I am in the process of fine tuning the ol' EAK manuscript and will be adding the new material as I go. I am hoping to get it…
In Mystic Ages Online
Participants: Nathan.

6/13/2003 Nathan: New Game Design Journal: Eating Metal
Greets folks, I've started a little Game Design Journal of my own over at Actionroll.com. I am working on the Metal Cannibals RPG, so I invite you to check it…
In Mystic Ages Online
Participants: Nathan.

6/8/2003 Nathan: The Top 30 Search Words That Bring People to Actionroll.com
This is fun. These are the top 30 words that people punch into Google, Yahoo, and so on that bring them to Actionroll.com. 879: games 796: moose 688: ass 554:…
In Mystic Ages Online
Participants: Nathan.

6/6/2003 Nathan: New Webhosting: RPGShelf.com
Greets folks, For those that don't know, I've been hosting folks for free for a while. I like doing that, but I decided to take it a step further and…
In Publishing
Participants: Nathan, Sylus Thane, xechnao, Valamir, Adam, Walt Freitag.

6/6/2003 Nathan: New Site Design Coming -- Big News Too
Greets, I am about completed with an overall site upgrade for Mystic Ages. We've moved to a new server, and we are going to launch some great services for independent…
In Mystic Ages Online
Participants: Nathan, Mike Holmes.

5/12/2003 Nathan: Out of Town
Just for your info, I will be out of town until May 12, 2003. Thanks, Nathan Hill
In Mystic Ages Online
Participants: Nathan, Jason L Blair.

4/23/2003 Nathan: Foreign Element - Playtesting Is On
Howdy, Foreign Element is Mystic Ages' very own science fiction game. The old version was available from here: http://www.actionroll.com/fe, but I am not sure if that URL is working anymore.…
In Mystic Ages Online
Participants: Nathan, Andrew Martin, Mike Holmes, ethan_greer.

4/8/2003 Nathan: The Curse of the Stone Wizard - EAK
The first free adventure for Eldritch Ass Kicking is now available at Rpgnow.com. This four page adventure is a fast-paced plot which throws our heroes against the grumpy stone…
In Mystic Ages Online
Participants: Nathan.

4/4/2003 Nathan: Eldritch Ass Kicking Revised Is Here!
[b]Eldritch Ass Kicking[/b], the roleplaying game of wizard-blasting-wizard action, is back. EAK is the story of the battered realm of Anhelm and the insane wizards who make it their home.…
In Mystic Ages Online
Participants: Nathan, Spooky Fanboy.

4/1/2003 Nathan: New EAK Site: EAK Revised Is Imminent (Seriously)
Howdy, The new site is up, although I will still be adding and modifying things for the next couple of days. When EAK revised is ready (which it already sort…
In Mystic Ages Online
Participants: Nathan.

3/26/2003 Nathan: Metal Cannibal : the first cannibalistic robot rpg
Howdy there, I've done an early draft of my next rpg that I plan to push. It is very much a sister game to Eldritch Ass Kicking -- Metal Cannibal…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Nathan, iago, Thomas Tamblyn, Mike Holmes, Madcat, Rich Stokes, ThreeGee.

1/29/2003 Nathan: Possible Promotion Model (yea, yea sounds real fancy)
Howdy, Like many of you, I write a lot, and I have a ton of ideas for games. Many of these ideas get a bit of work before they are…
In Publishing
Participants: Nathan, Jared A. Sorensen, Paul Czege, philreed, clehrich.

1/26/2003 Nathan: Edena (once known as Bloody Fantasy)
Hello all, I have some new things finished up, and I wanted to share. I appreciate all the support the Forge has given me over the years. It brings a…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Nathan, talysman, ethan_greer, szilard.

12/15/2002 Nathan: a WILD topic : the WILD rpg
Hallo, An unexpected surprise! I was working on my home network today, and I plugged in an old hard drive into an old Powermac 7200 to setup as a internet…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Nathan, Shreyas Sampat.

11/25/2002 Nathan: Time For A Reboot
Hello everyone, For my own sake and for any of you interested out there, I am going to plop a down a list of current projects, with links and ramblings…
In Mystic Ages Online
Participants: Nathan, Spooky Fanboy.

11/4/2002 Nathan: Experiment #4,221: PENDULUM (a double game system game?)
Yup, I had a freak idea over the weekend, and here is the first punch out of it. It seems like we've had games without systems, games with very lite…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Nathan, Mike Holmes.

10/10/2002 Nathan: Been a while: FOREIGN ELEMENT
Howdy, howdy, I haven't posted to the Forge in a while, and I decided I must. I just finished a short, furious scifi rpg called Foreign Element. It uses the…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Nathan, ethan_greer.

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12/10/2003 Nathan: Barbarians And Alien Invaders From the Stars?!?
Greets folks, It has been a while since my last post, but I just finished a six page game that is light, fun, and cool. I like it -- I…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Nathan.

7/20/2004 Nathan: Barbarians Versus - Feedback Welcome
Greets all, My next rpg to be released in PDF is Barbarians Versus, a fun lil' game about barbarians fighting alien reptilian evil from outer space. In essence though, it…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Nathan, SrGrvsaLot, Frank T, Mike Holmes.

9/29/2004 Nathan: CreationCrash.Com News?
Well, PhilReed posted this over at RPG.Net in a post. I don't know what it means, but I suppose it does mean one less pdf online store. Over the…
In Publishing
Participants: Nathan, rpghost, madelf, Ron Edwards, philreed.

12/12/2004 Nathan: Looking for webhosting? (RPGShelf.net)
Hello all, I've got the RPGShelf.net site back up and running, including information about our two packages for $30 and $50 a year respectively. Check it out, and let me…
In Connections
Participants: Nathan.

12/20/2004 Nathan: Santa's Little Helpers [Christmas RPG]
Greets, So, I've tossed up a simple, fun Christmas RPG -- I knew I needed to write one some day. The title is Santa's Little Helpers, and it is based…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Nathan, Latigo, jc_madden, Kedamono, daMoose_Neo.

3/18/2005 Nathan: RPGNow + LuLu
Yup, I don't think the announcement is completely official yet, but I hear it is going up soon. RPGNow is switching their POD services to go through LuLu.com. This means…
In Publishing
Participants: Nathan, daMoose_Neo, madelf, Valamir, rpghost, Solly Brown, Lxndr, Bardsandsages, Ron Edwards, jdagna.

8/24/2005 Nathan: Evening News: the concept
Hello, It's been a good while since I've posted a game design. Since several of you at Gencon were interested in what I've been working on, here is the latest…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Nathan, Graham Walmsley, Sydney Freedberg, mangaocid, Dumirik, Sifolis, Miskatonic, jasonm, gsoylent.

1/29/2006 Nathan: The Land Beyond: first draft
Greets everyone, The Land Beyond is a roleplaying game about children and their fanciful dreams in the Dreamworld. Think Labyrinth, Neil Gaiman's A Game of You, Wizard of Oz, Mirrormask,…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Nathan, IagainstI.

2/13/2009 Nathan: Contact Info for Key20
Hey folks, I noticed that Key20's website is down with a "We are closed." message. Has anyone heard word on this? All my emails have been bounced back recently that…
In Publishing
Participants: Nathan, iago, Ron Edwards, visioNationstudios.

4/29/2010 Nathan: Teenager Sorcery + Multiplication Tables = Educational Roleplaying
A couple of months ago, I found out that my niece, in 6th grade, was having trouble with her multiplication tables. She is an imaginative gal who loves the Twilight…
In First Thoughts
Participants: Nathan, Noon, Mobius, VAgentZero, Falc, Kanosint, Roswenthe, Altaem.

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