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9/25/2003 xiombarg: Unsung: SWAT -- introspection (session 3)
You might want to freshen up with the previous thread. This session was a lot slower and more introspective, but it got real interesting toward the end. http://ivanhoeunbound.com/unsung3_nar.txt http://ivanhoeunbound.com/unsung3_ooc.txt As…
In Actual Play
Participants: xiombarg, Dana_mun, suffusionofyellow, Mike Holmes.

9/25/2003 Dumirik: The Anomaly
Hello, I'm back (yet again) with another version of my game. The background setting has changed slightly, and I think it is starting to reach its final stages for playtesting.…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Dumirik, Mike Holmes, garapata, ZeOtter.

9/25/2003 M. J. Young: Clarifying Simulationism
I'm trying to catch up with all the posts over on the Front-loaded relationship-driven Nar/Sim overlap thread, and I'm getting boggled with all the "this is what sim means…
In GNS Model Discussion
Participants: M. J. Young, AnyaTheBlue, jdagna, John Kim, pete_darby, Lxndr, Ron Edwards, Valamir, Ian Charvill, Walt Freitag, Marco, Jonathan Walton, Wormwood, ethan_greer, Ben Lehman, Gordon C. Landis.

9/24/2003 Ben Lehman: Struggle in RPGs
This is entirely based on this thread: http://www.indie-rpgs.com/viewtopic.php?t=8092 So I was thinking about the "Vanilla Simulationists" mentioned in this thread with regard to my own experiences with highly immersionist play…
In GNS Model Discussion
Participants: Ben Lehman, Matt Wilson, Ron Edwards, pete_darby, AnyaTheBlue, contracycle, Ian Charvill, Landon Darkwood.

9/24/2003 pete_darby: No Myth PC's
A random paragraph from the article I'm working on for Matt, but I couldn't resist popping it in front of you guys: be warned, ths contains an idea that I'd…
In RPG Theory
Participants: pete_darby, Lxndr, Bob McNamee, Mike Holmes, Andrew Norris, Buddha Nature, deadpanbob, Walt Freitag.

9/24/2003 Lxndr: "Missing" About the Forge items?
For those who don't know, or haven't checked it in a while, there is this really nifty "about the forge" link up at the top of the page. It discusses…
In Site Discussion
Participants: Lxndr, Clinton R. Nixon.

9/24/2003 ethan_greer: Delays, delays...
Damn. So the manuscript is all but through editing, when I decide my sample scenario just doesn't cut it. It's just not thuggy or thievey enough. Back to the keyboard...…
In SimplePhrase Press
Participants: ethan_greer, Clinton R. Nixon, Mike Holmes.

9/24/2003 Paul Czege: lab: EPICS, prepping the first session
So, if you've been following the other "lab: EPICS" thread, you know my plan for the first scenes of the game, in service to setting-premise Narrativism, was to…
In Half Meme Press
Participants: Paul Czege.

9/24/2003 Ian Charvill: Invention as a Creative Agenda
The reason that I role play is because I get to make things up. Futhermore the stuff I make up has to be in some way compelling to the other…
In GNS Model Discussion
Participants: Ian Charvill, Wormwood, Lxndr, Ben Lehman, jburneko, Gordon C. Landis, Walt Freitag, Valamir, Ron Edwards, AnyaTheBlue.

9/24/2003 Sylus Thane: Help with work on Frontier
This is an open call for people looking for a project to work on. For those interested my game Frontier is in its fleshing out stages for things like settings,…
In Connections
Participants: Sylus Thane.

9/24/2003 kalyptein: Donjon test drive, w/ questions
Every year there comes a time an our anual gathering of friends when we start playing DnD. Most people have succumbed to sleep and the ravages of way too much…
In CRN Games
Participants: kalyptein, Clinton R. Nixon.

9/24/2003 LordSmerf: The Evolution of Gaming Preference
After an extended hiatus, i was drawn back to the Forge by this discussion on redundant characters. Other than the fact that i saw, at least to some degree, a…
In RPG Theory
Participants: LordSmerf, bcook1971, Ben Lehman, Jack Spencer Jr, John Kim, pete_darby, Ron Edwards, Mark Johnson, contracycle, samdowning, b_bankhead, Marco, M. J. Young.

9/24/2003 Rich Stokes: Urban Mythos: Back at the grindstone...
Hi all, Been away, been busy, been mostly dead as far as free time was concerned and a bit of a crisis as far as the idea of actually WRITING…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Rich Stokes, Jonathan Walton, Garbanzo, scobie, gobi.

9/24/2003 GreatWolf: What I've been doing....
In the My editing is done thread, I was asked: If you'll indulge a fan's curiosity, I'd be rather curious to know what it was that you were…
In Dark Omen Games
Participants: GreatWolf, Tim Alexander.

9/24/2003 xechnao: Polls
Is there a possibility to make polls on the forge?
In Site Discussion
Participants: xechnao, Ron Edwards, ethan_greer, xiombarg, Marco, Clinton R. Nixon, Mike Holmes.

9/24/2003 Dev: Play of MLwM is a single session
I'd really love to try MLwM, at least at first, as a single-session thing. (Let's just say that my friends have commitment issues. Damn pesky college kids and their loud…
In Half Meme Press
Participants: Dev, xiombarg, GB Steve, Mike Holmes.

9/24/2003 Ace: Today, at least, I love my FLGS
Well I have spent a fair amount of time complaining about my FLGS Today at least I have nothing to complain about. They were if you will forgive the Gilbert…
In Actual Play
Participants: Ace, ethan_greer.

9/24/2003 ejh: Plagiarism. Good plagiarism.
I remember reading in a Different Worlds article the phrase "the first rule of game design is plagiarism." That article went on to talk about ripping off the Resistance Table…
In Publishing
Participants: ejh, AnyaTheBlue, Ron Edwards, Mike Holmes, Dev, Ben Lehman, Lxndr.

9/23/2003 The big blue ape: Armor
My character currently has some armor made from dragon scales, what would be a good armor value for it?
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: The big blue ape, Swordmagnet, Brian Leybourne, Caz, StahlMeister, MonkeyWrench, Mike Holmes, Krammer.

9/23/2003 Christopher Kubasik: People We Like to Game with Are People Like Us
I haven't seen anyone do this before, so I apolgize if I'm breaking a Forge convention. The discussion of "women" and settings and the uselessness (in my view) of talking…
In RPG Theory
Participants: Christopher Kubasik, AnyaTheBlue, Eric J., John Kim, bcook1971.

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9/25/2003 M. J. Young: Setting as an element of System
This is a spinoff from Front-loaded relationship-driven Nar/Sim overlap, in a way--that's what led me to think this way, and it's relevant to the discussion there. I had been…
In RPG Theory
Participants: M. J. Young, pete_darby, Ron Edwards, damion, Windthin.

9/25/2003 Gordon C. Landis: Shadows in the Fog - Sim?
John and I got started on a discussion of some actual play over in a theory thread , so I thought I'd move the discussion over here. quote="Gordon C.…
In Actual Play
Participants: Gordon C. Landis, John Kim.

9/25/2003 gobi: Pull - A game of criminals and capers
The Urban Mythos thread has got me thinking about a quickie rpg concept I got a couple years ago, but never developed entirely. You can probably see prototypical hints of…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: gobi, Jason E. Roberts, Ron Edwards, Mike Holmes, Tim Alexander, Zathreyel.

9/25/2003 Ville: More movement questions
How have you guys handled combat movement? I have read the previous threads. What I was wondering is the following: It is one crucial tactic in self defense (armed and…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: Ville, Richard_Strey, Durgil, Salamander, Mike Holmes.

9/25/2003 Christopher Weeks: Humanity and Protagonism in difficult settings
[b]How can I establish protagonism for characters in a setting that by modern western sensibility admits mostly of evil?[/b] I have been playing with Sorcerer settings as an exercise. Most…
In Adept Press
Participants: Christopher Weeks, Mike Holmes, Ron Edwards, Tim Alexander.

9/25/2003 garapata: Changing the setting in-game
Okay, I don't know if you guys are familiar with the game EXALTED, published by WWGS. Now, for those unfamiliar, the game is more High epic fantasy than Dungeons and…
In Actual Play
Participants: garapata, Mike Holmes, iago.

9/25/2003 xechnao: Question about digital art
I need to know if there is a software that can convert a photo to 3d (for example a human face photo to the 3d image of that human face).…
In Connections
Participants: xechnao, Trevis Martin, Bob McNamee, xiombarg.

9/25/2003 xiombarg: hidden information and Narrativism
In various threads regarding Unsung, particularly during play, Mike points to the idea some of the players have had that information hiding is okay (while others shared all information, even…
In GNS Model Discussion
Participants: xiombarg, Ron Edwards, Matt Snyder, Mike Holmes.

9/25/2003 xiombarg: Unsung: Radical Reward Restructuring
So, okay, Alexander has suggested some radical reward restructuring for Unsung here and elsewhere. He suggest in addition to getting Gift Points (GPs) for giving Gifts, that a player recieve…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: xiombarg.

9/25/2003 Tim Alexander: Haven: City of Violence
Hey Folks, So I stopped by Ron's campus club meeting on Tuesday, and he'd prepped a game of Haven:City of Violence. The whole meeting was a pretty interesting experience, there…
In Actual Play
Participants: Tim Alexander, Ron Edwards.

9/25/2003 Scripty: ARRGGH! Overcoming players' phobias
So, I'm having a heck of a time introducing HeroQuest to people out here. First off, I play regularly in three groups. It's a drain, but I've just never cut…
In HeroQuest
Participants: Scripty, Gordon C. Landis, Ron Edwards, Grex, Mike Holmes, Valamir.

9/25/2003 pete_darby: AGSCON, UK, Canterbury 18/10/03
Just a quick pimping for the local one day convention, the web site for which will be found here I'll be running a HeroQuest game in the morning session: "Uzcape…
In Conventions
Participants: pete_darby.

9/25/2003 LordSmerf: "Radical" Ideas from Non-gamers
In the When can we stop making "games" thread it was mentioned that often, ideas that people who have spent time gaming find radical, seem rather logical to people who…
In RPG Theory
Participants: LordSmerf, Christopher Kubasik, Jonathan Walton, AnyaTheBlue, bcook1971, Andrew Martin, samdowning, Bankuei, Palaskar, LeftWingPenguin, Ron Edwards, M. J. Young.

9/26/2003 AnyaTheBlue: Illusionism: Nothing up my sleeve
Hi, all! In my quest to work out how GNS is put together, I'm finding myself trying to figure out where I fit. After reading the Sim article, I thought…
In GNS Model Discussion
Participants: AnyaTheBlue, Marco, M. J. Young.

9/26/2003 JimmyB: Poetry-based magic
Just discovered that there's more boards on here than the one or two that I usually visit, anyway. Idea for a game built around a magic system based off poetry.…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: JimmyB, iago, Jonathan Walton, gobi, Jeph, garapata.

9/26/2003 NeuroZombie: New Member, New Dice Pool combat mechanic
Hello all, I have been a lurker her on and off for nearly a year now, and I think I may have finally come up with a combat system worth…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: NeuroZombie, Mark Johnson.

9/26/2003 Jonathan Walton: Defining Roleplaying (According to GNS)
With Ron's recent statements in the Clarifying Simulationism thread, I actually think we're damn close to defining roleplaying, at least according to GNS and the general theory precepts that most…
In GNS Model Discussion
Participants: Jonathan Walton, Valamir, Ron Edwards, AnyaTheBlue, Gordon C. Landis, pete_darby, M. J. Young, lumpley.

9/26/2003 Jonathan Walton: What Magic Is
I was reading some Forge threads, looking at various magic systems that people were working on, when something struck me: Magic is really just a player-empowerment tool, resisting the GM's…
In RPG Theory
Participants: Jonathan Walton, Christopher Weeks, John Kim, Valamir, bcook1971, C. Edwards, damion, Windthin, M. J. Young, contracycle, Jack Aidley, Marco, Walt Freitag, mjk, Comte, simon_hibbs.

9/26/2003 Stephen: Great 80s characters in HOTNW
(I am now officially pronouncing the game's abbreviation in my head as "Hot-nwuh," by the way.) Jack Burton: Characteristics: - Fight 4 - Moves 6 - Luck 9 - Knack…
In Adamant Entertainment
Participants: Stephen, TSL.

9/27/2003 Trevis Martin: Sorcerer, 1st Game.
My group and I recently finished our first game of Sorcerer. I will admit that I'm to blame being the Forge head among us. This isn't the first Forge spawned…
In Actual Play
Participants: Trevis Martin, Ron Edwards, Jeffrey Straszheim, Valamir, J B Bell, Jeph, Christopher Weeks.

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