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9/15/2005 Arturo G.: Question: Using More/Less-Than traits, and trying to avoid conflict
Hi folks! I got my copy of MLwM yesterday. I'm discovering incredible nice things thanks to The Forge. I have now some new exciting games and almost no time to…
In Half Meme Press
Participants: Arturo G., Victor Gijsbers, Ron Edwards, Michael S. Miller, Paul Czege.

10/5/2005 Arturo G.: Using d6 for complications
At the end of the new chapter-1 draft it is said that there will be an appendix explaining how to use d6s instead of d10s for complications. I have not…
In Universalis
Participants: Arturo G., Valamir, hix, Victor Gijsbers.

10/12/2005 Arturo G.: [Universalis] First experiment: An intro to a pirates story
Hi there! Finally, I managed to get some people to play. I followed (with some degree of success) the procedure described in the thread Topic: The Belt: Creating the show…
In Actual Play
Participants: Arturo G., Jack Aidley, Mike Holmes.

10/12/2005 Arturo G.: Actual play (finally)
Hi, folks! I don't know yet which is the normal procedure in these cases. I have posted a new thread in Actual Play with our first experiment http://www.indie-rpgs.com/forum/index.php?topic=17206.0. It also…
In Universalis
Participants: Arturo G., Mike Holmes.

10/21/2005 Arturo G.: Spanish translation of important terms and phrases
Ok. I put my word on it, and here it is. As it has been previously commented in other threads I have not done a literal translation. They should sound…
In These Are Our Games
Participants: Arturo G., Ben Lehman.

10/24/2005 Arturo G.: [Hierarchy] Splitting the SIS for a large group of players
Hi there! I want to express a couple of thought about Hierarchy. One of the October Ronnies entries. The game is designed for a large group of people (8-15 players).…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Arturo G., Troy_Costisick, Ben Lehman, Blankshield, Ron Edwards.

10/24/2005 Arturo G.: [MLwM] Humiliation: Another way to increase a minion's self-loathing.
In my first session of MLwM I was acting as The Master, an old-family lord in Galicia, the north-west region of Spain, a land of forgotted low-mountain-valleys, rain and myst.…
In Actual Play
Participants: Arturo G., TonyLB, Mike Holmes, Vaxalon.

12/21/2005 Arturo G.: [DitV] Fun, fun, fun... with no fighting!
Hi,there! We had our first session of DitV last week. I was the GM and only two players. We were mainly learning how the system works. I used the first…
In Actual Play
Participants: Arturo G., Adam Dray.

12/21/2005 Arturo G.: [DitV] PCs entering in an on-going coonflict?
I have posted in Actual Play about our last session: Fun, fun, fun... with no fighting!. A couple of mechanical questions arose: We had the following conflict. One Dog…
In lumpley games
Participants: Arturo G., Vaxalon, Parsolamew, Brand_Robins, Simon Kamber, demiurgeastaroth, daHob, coffeestain, Valamir, Paka, William Burke, lumpley.

1/5/2006 Arturo G.: [DitV] How to play NPCs who wants "to keep Dogs away"
I have noticed that most towns have some characters involved with sins or sorcery who want the same thing: "to keep the Dogs away" (or something equivalent). Examples from the…
In Actual Play
Participants: Arturo G., Joshua BishopRoby, cj.23, Blankshield, Warren, Paul Czege, lumpley, jrs, JC.

1/12/2006 Arturo G.: [DitV] Assigning traits to NPCs on the fly
This question was brought up when reading the thread Tearing down the DM's screen. I've noticed that when I pick one of the proto-NPCs, to transform it in an important…
In lumpley games
Participants: Arturo G., coffeestain, lumpley, Transit, daHob, Andrew Morris, Technocrat13, Doug Ruff, Wolfen, TheHappyAnarchist, epweissengruber, Eliarhiman6, Brand_Robins, Vaxalon, nikola, drnuncheon.

1/16/2006 Arturo G.: [DitV] Second try with Cornfield Branch
Ok! My second try with Cornfield Branch. Three players. All of them new to DitV (1 hour to create the characters, and 3 hours of play). This time the…
In lumpley games
Participants: Arturo G., Bret Gillan.

2/10/2006 Arturo G.: [The Pool] Learning to set the stakes
On the last three weeks we decided to play a story using The Pool system. I wanted to try The Pool since I read it from the first time, but…
In Actual Play
Participants: Arturo G., demiurgeastaroth, Halzebier, Calithena, Gaerik, Plotin.

3/5/2006 Arturo G.: [Polaris] Conflict flowchart for new players
Hi, folks! I have drawn a flowchart of the conflict key phrases, with colors, to help new people to understand how the conflict works. Perhaps someone may find it also…
In These Are Our Games
Participants: Arturo G., Selene Tan, Ben Lehman, Jeffrey Straszheim, Adam Biltcliffe, humis.

3/9/2006 Arturo G.: [Polaris] A player who did not manage to avoid an unexpected son for his knight
Last Tuesday we finally played Polaris. It is the second indie-game I bought, around 5 months ago, but there were always troubles to try it. We were not exactly four…
In Actual Play
Participants: Arturo G., Ben Lehman, Frank T, TonyLB.

3/15/2006 Arturo G.: [Polaris] Full reference flow-chart
Hi, again! One of the players in my group (Mot) has integrated the conflict flow-charts presented in the thread Conflict flowchart for new players into a full reference chart…
In These Are Our Games
Participants: Arturo G., Ben Lehman.

3/15/2006 Arturo G.: [PuCLN,Valladolid] A Forge's indie-games track in a Spanish national convention
PuCLN -- Convivencias Lúdicas Nacionales A big Spanish national games-convention is going to hold place in Valladolid (Spain) this year. Dates: 13 -- 16 of July. The convention will include…
In Conventions
Participants: Arturo G..

3/29/2006 Arturo G.: [Hierarchy] Comments and errata for version 2 rules
Hi, Troy! I have been reading the rules again, very carefully this time. Thus, some questions and details have arisen. 1) Obsolete details in examples: 1.1) Spending honor: Masahoro spends…
In Endeavor
Participants: Arturo G., Troy_Costisick.

4/20/2006 Arturo G.: [Hierarchy] Playtesting with 14 people
I'm afraid this is going to be a long post. Twenty days ago I did a Hierarchy playtesting. I'm sorry I had no time to rewrite my draft notes until…
In Playtesting
Participants: Arturo G., Troy_Costisick, lanarch.

7/5/2006 Arturo G.: [PuCLN] Advertising your games
Hi, folks! Next week it will be held PuCLN, a big national Spanish convention. As I announced in the thread  PuCLN, we have organized the first official track of Forge…
In Conventions
Participants: Arturo G..

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