darkpages and Lacuna from Wicked Dead Studios.

Elfworld and that new magic game John's working on from Wicked Dead.

Bailywolf's On the Threshold and Stealing Heaven.

Tenra Bansho Zero from Andy K's company.

Reality Cops (updated) from James Brown

More as I dwell on them.

Spione, when Ron gets finished with it.

Robots and Rapiers, when Ralph gets finished with it.

Yup, I'd like Ron to finish any of his projects this year, print Trollbabe, Spione (whatever this super secret project this turns out to be), It Was A Mutual Decision.  I even remember him throwing around some ideas for something called Doctor Chaos.

I also second Robots and Rapiers.

Jesse

Oh Shit, I wonder if I can get Tenra Bansho together for the Forge Gathering...

2 days... fuck... hmmm... probably not, but I'll see.

And where are the updates? Huh? Huh? :P

Ah, I do have one update: Tenra Bansho Zero is, to my knowledge, the only roleplaying game whose release was delayed because of the death of one of the writers involved with it. :-(

It's back on track and all, but much slower than before. Looking at early 2007 release. But honestly? I'm looking to get it out the door and into people's hands (it is a very cool game, it's like "RIFTS: On Broadway") so that I can turn my focus to my own projects, including my own games and underground fan translations of 1-2 other Japanese games.

Conny, who was mean to me in third grade
The very bad person who stole my new bike

oh, waitaminute, it's wish list? I thought it said death list. Sorry about that. I'll get back to my whiskey.

Andy wrote:
Ah, I do have one update: Tenra Bansho Zero is, to my knowledge, the only roleplaying game whose release was delayed because of the death of one of the writers involved with it. :-(

my list is too long:

I still want a printed copy of Great Ork Gods in my hot little hands.That's such a great game, the world needs it.

I'm looking forward to seeing the true glory of Spione.

I drool a little bit when I think about getting a copy of Open Boat. In a friendly way.

I really want to see the Face of Angels finished up--I still dig it, Clinton!

Luke and crew's super-seekrit project when the cloak-shield comes off.

The Jeeves & Wooster game! 3:16! Revised Sweet Dreams!

And you others working on your games that I've playtested already know who you are:  get thee to a keyboard and finish it! Shock, Galactic, Bliss Stage, Making a Tree...

Luke and co have a super secret project hey what?

No I'm all curious!

Jesus. I wrote that death list nonsense without seeing Andy's post right above mine. So it was not a reference to his post at all.

I am sorry, Andy.

All the best,

/Peter

My wish list?

I wish I would get my Ronny games done and ready to print :)

Peace,

-Troy

I'm hoping that a few of the Game Chef entries get developed. So they won't be released this year, but I'll enjoy spending this year watching their progress.

Pinnacle Empty Quiver, Holmes and Watson, The Committee for the Exploration of Mysteries, etc. (And, if you entered Game Chef, your game too. That was one of my favourites).

Graham

I would kill for Stranger Things. Really. Kill.

Well, maybe not kill. But I'm all a'quiver with anticipation for that game.

Pretty short:

Shock:
Lacuna I.2
Ancient & Venerable Art of Tippling
Robots & Rapiers
Misery Bubblegum
Carry
Sorcerer supplement 4
Dogs 2e
TSoY 2e
Spulturatorah!

I will not mention a certain creative project by Professor Edwards, as he has insisted that it is NOT an RPG or Forge thing.

Space Rat
Violence Future
Trollbabe (yeah, me too)
Troy's games
Robots & Rapiers
The Great Ork Gods
Acts of Evil

... and probably a ton more that I'm just not remembering at the moment

Peter wrote:
Jesus. I wrote that death list nonsense without seeing Andy's post right above mine. So it was not a reference to his post at all.

I am sorry, Andy.

Delta Green dual-stat.
Weapons of the Gods Companion.
Magitech book for Exalted.
Stranger Things.
Cthulhutech(if only...)
My list is huge, and it has many games by the bigger companies :)

darkpages
that Knights Templar game that John is working on whose name escapes me at the moment
It Was a Mutual Decision
9 Worlds
eNCHANT arM
Exarchate

I forget a lot of what's coming out, but I'm looking forward to at least glancing through almost everything.

But mostly, I'm looking forward to games that play out like mixes between board games and RPGs.  These hybrids, when making use of more than parlor narration, are What's Hot in 2006. They said so on EXTRA! tonight.

-Andy

Dictionary of Mu.

-Lisa

Lisa wrote:
Dictionary of Mu.

-Lisa

Judd,

It is Conspiracy of Rainbows: Apoclypso.  I'm looking to get sued by Mel Gibson.

Hoy, :)

El Fuego's Full Light Full Steam.

Cheers,
J.

I just hope I can actually finish what I'm working on.

Didn't somebody say there was a non-setting-specific version of Heroquest in the works? I'd like me a piece of that.

A really tasty crunchy storygame.
A bacon storygame, if you will.
With flying swordsmen and/or ninjas and/or pirates, of course. Monkeys and robots strictly optional.

Cold City
darkpages (the new concept)
Lacuna (April Fools edition)

I'd like to see a Daniel Clowes based RPG too. Is that possible? I don't know.

I'd like to see a reinvigorated Places to Go, People to Be too.

Andy wrote:
I forget a lot of what's coming out, but I'm looking forward to at least glancing through almost everything.

But mostly, I'm looking forward to games that play out like mixes between board games and RPGs.  These hybrids, when making use of more than parlor narration, are What's Hot in 2006. They said so on EXTRA! tonight.

-Andy

I'm really looking forward to:

Cold City
Luke's Seekrit Project.
That game about Journeying Robots Vincent mentioned on his blog a while ago
GenCon, Indy

I'm also really keen to get Covenant in print.

-Matt

Over any other thing I wish I will keep on playing... more and more!

BTW, I still have a couple of games bought in my first Forge's fevers which I have not yet test. There are so many things to try and time is so short!

Arturo

Legends of Alyria!  Oh. . . wait.  Okay, nevermind that one.

Galactic.  Shock.  Acts of Evil.

Especially Acts of Evil.

What is Acts of Evil?

I'll second, third, or whatever the Acts of Evil.

Looking forward to Robots & Rapiers, Galactic, and Red Sky AM.

I've finally given up hope of ever seeing Sorcerer & Space ... which means it might actually happen.

Luke Crane's Soopa Sekrit Project will be another excuse for me to give Luke money, so that's a good thing.

And, well, any finished project from Incarnadine Press would be a very, very good thing. ;)

Marhault wrote:
Legends of Alyria!  Oh. . . wait.  Okay, nevermind that one.

Stranger. Fucking. Things.

I hunger for it with great hunger.

Also:-

a) Luke's Super Secret Project
b) The Dictionary of Mu (that's two, Judd!)
c) A revised, print version of Trollbabe
d) The BW Magic Burner (if different from (a), above)

Now I too want Acts of Evil, what a nice breed of concept between kpfs and competent characters!

Legends of Alyria
um..
um..
and some nookie tonight with my wife.

Sounds good.

GreatWolf wrote: Well, um, I am currently working on getting a print version together.  The current hold-up is the index.  Anything worth writing is worth indexing, but indexing a book that clocks in a little over 150 pages is a long process.

Haven't announced this yet, but this seemed like a good time....

Chris wrote:
b) The Dictionary of Mu (that's two, Judd!)

Marhault wrote:
Seriously?  I think you already know you can put me down for a preorder!

And was "clocks in" a pun?

I wish for enough time and pliable player to play the damn torrent of games coming out.

What is Acts of Evil?

prelectia

I begat you this day of Harpocrates, my son, in a ritual of acid and viscus, and not of love, but neither without design. No doubt the pain that burns in you now, my godling, rings forth in curses upon my being. I would expect nothing less of a true child of my making. Would that I were there to receive them. And to personally impress my paternity and purpose upon you.

Alas, we stand now divided by a vast and brutish cosmos. And so this epistle must needs suffice.

But know this, my terrible child, you are without question the product of my will upon the sour nothing that you were. From my own gut I pulled the thorny seed that moves about now so unwelcome in your gastric soil.

And indeed its steel beard doth chafe upon your soul!

So receive this as your first lesson. The wretched creatures which comprise the great clamor of humanity are each haplessly constrained by the souls within them. Their conversations, their imaginations, the shape and function of the flesh upon their limbs, their squalid lives and miserable deaths, all are merely dumb physical utterances of the souls they carry inside. But you, my magickal son, are no longer so limited. Charging only the price of abiding pain, the thorny Manaster has loosed you from the soul's grip, and indeed truly liberated you from the unfortunate species into which you were born. Your flesh, your voice, your imagination, all have been returned to you, limited now only by the size and aspirations of your own Will.

I have opened you to the pursuit of godhood.
.
.
.
The fundamentals of Fear and Impendence

Enter, my son, the secret enterprise of bestial power with the fullest expectation of constant and profound fear. For you do not crawl the path of godhood alone. The Manaster which so fiercely spurns your natural digestive action has incarnated you as a node in the cosmic oeconomy of power and rapacious clarity. But there are many such nodes across time and space, and each of them a dangerous being. And know that any of them will destroy you, or me, if not checked by our own desperate impendence. They disturb my emotional landscape like the untamed predators they are.

But therein lies the most hidden secret of the oeconomy. The terror, in prevailing upon you, enlarges you. The oeconomy is a fitful, capricious, living thing, comprised of the interests of the nodes that constitute it. And the terror commands your full and serious attention to your position and status among them. For if ever you lose the terror, you are overrun.

So drink deep from fear, my son, and bring your cunning and ruthlessness and ambition to bear on the ingathering of power and clarity. However show not your fear and move powerfully in your dealings with the nodes. Take knowledge from the teachers, stealing it when it is withheld. Seek out the places that exert awful power over the stream of life. Unlock their secrets and bend them to your service. Pursue objects of power, and seize them when you can. Make examples of your rivals. Have no mercy. This is your assertion of imminent godhood. This is the expression your impendence.

In a normal human, the visceral capacities of the flesh, voice, imagination, and memory are an expression of the soul within. The severing of this soul connection ushers a player character into the occult tradition. It frees the flesh, voice, imagination, and memory from all constraint (offering the character the opportunity to be a God).

In the occult pursuit of godhood, normal humans are basically fuel. Their unsevered connection to the soul renders them an endless font of Power which the occultists exploit in pursuit of personal godhood.

As a game object, it's a bait and switch. It baits the player with the promise of character intensity. "You are an occult badass. The world is your stepstool." And then it switches up, forcing the player to "personize" non-occultist NPCs, to reveal their humanity.

So the player characters are actually the antagonists. They're irredeemably evil. And thematically static. They are proscribed from having protagonizing endings. They can't be forgiven by one of their victims. These occultist characters have Lovecraftian endings. They're lost in extradimensional vortices, crushed by restless alien behemoths, turned to a pillar of salt by poorly controlled magic.

Crunch My Life with Master together with Aleister Crowley, Anton LaVey, Victor Gijsbers' Vampires: A Postmodern Roleplaying Game and Darrick Dishaw's Empire of Satanis and you get Acts of Evil.

Paul

Some new friends so I can playtest Contract Work.

Some near strangers who can playtest Contract Work.

Time to edit based on that feedback.

The finished .PDF;  Contract Work hollowpoint edition.

Demoing Contract Work at a con.

The printed book; Contract Work.

In that order.

I must say, that writing was obtuse.
That fiction took me mental effort to take down and take in.

Who, me?

No, Paul Czege.

I must say, that writing was obtuse.
That fiction took me mental effort to take down and take in.

Thanks. I'm quite proud of it. The Crowley-channels-LaVey effect was incredibly difficult to achieve. You've seen The Book of Wisdom and Folly? Thankfully I only need a dozen or so pieces of color text, and not hundreds of pages.

Paul

I thought it was intentional.

I still want to say the following, as constructively as possible. It is not delving into the meaning that's hard, it's making out what the sentences mean to begin with.

Shit, I can read Nietze and Crowley with ease. Sure, I need to meditate over the meaning, but I can read the sentences just fine.

With this, it's sort of hard to even make the sentences dance around into an intelligible format, getting the meaning is easy, but not the words.

Sort of mirrored Crowley.

Was nervous for a second there. I thought you might be talking about the short fiction on the blog for my game.

I'm not that obtuse.

1) BARBAREN! (Once I get off that fucking 60 hour week...)
2) At least one of the entries in GroFaFo-Challenge (our German Ronnies/Games Chef) developed.
3) 3:16
4) The Drifter's Escape

- Frank

Accursed Paul and his good game design!

+ Acts of Evil    (can M. Paul Buja be your fictitious occult guru? that would rock.)
+ Barbaren!      (which I hadn't heard anything about in a long time, and was wondering)

Where's Carry at? I lost that one too...

What's 3:16?

3:16 was an October Ronnies entry.

The submitted version is here.

Edit (!) to correct punctuation.

I hope I'll be able to drum up the discipline to complete and play the revised version of Krasnoarmeets.

You better, James. You just collected the award money, I happen to know.

Besides, I want to play desperate and all-too-human Soviet soldiers. A lot.

Best, Ron

Tenra Bansho Zero
BESM 3e

I also wish my friends who took a trip to Japan had been able to find Yellow Submarine (I gave them a map and everything) and pick some Japanese RPGs up for me. But mostly I just want to find time to play more of the games I've accumulated.

Oh, one more!  I want more development on Keith's "House" idea.

Forgot one.

I want to see Dinner Party from last year's Game Chef to be given the full treatment, including additional characters.  I haven't played it yet (and shame on me), but I really love the concept.

Larry wrote:
Where's Carry at? I lost that one too...