Story Games Forum Represent!
tony dowler
United States
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Over at the Story Games forum ( http://www.story-games.com/forums), we love our indie games. This Geek list is for sharing our favorite indie RPGs with the world. When you add an item, tell us one cool thing that happened when you played this game.
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tony dowler
United States
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The Story Games Name Project was a community effort of the Story Games community, with all proceeds going to charity. It's a huge repository containing character names of all sorts.
One cool thing: Deciding that all goblins in my world have Sumerian names.
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tony dowler
United States
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Sexy Deadly was created on the forums for Jared's Indie Game Design Company context.
One cool thing:
Joe: I want you to do art for this game. We need pictures of sexy women in combat positions.
Me: Is it a problem that I can't draw women?
Joe: You'll figure something out.
Another cool thing: Getting together with several people I had never met and designing a game over Christmas vacation!
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Seth Ben-Ezra
United States
Peoria
Illinois
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So, yeah, I'm biased and all with this one, since I made it. However, since I've become a sucker for the detective genre, I'd love this game, even if I didn't make it.
One cool thing: Gun in hand, the detective bursts through the door of his lying client's mobile home to find his pregnant daughter pointing a gun at him. Instant stand-off....
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Seth Ben-Ezra
United States
Peoria
Illinois
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Swords and sorcery, the way Robert Howard would have wanted it.
One cool moment: when the evil sorcerer punches someone in the face for love
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Seth Ben-Ezra
United States
Peoria
Illinois
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A tragic game of chivalrous knights fighting a doomed battle at the far north.
One cool moment: when my knight died defending the remnants of the great city Polaris against the invading demon army...and he was blamed for the invasion, branded a traitor, and forgotten by all.
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Seth Ben-Ezra
United States
Peoria
Illinois
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A heart-wrenching game of youth in wartime, set during the Warsaw Uprising of 1944.
One cool moment: the dice were about to be rolled. At stake: would the young man standing before the German firing squad die bravely or a coward? And then, the desperate rush to find reroll resources when the roll failed....
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Gerald Cameron
Canada
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Nova Scotia
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I just tried this for the first time at DexCon, and it's really really amazing. The unofficial Ghostbusters RPG, where the distribution of narrative authourity is handled with a deft touch. It also uses the traditional GM-players structure, but prep is almost zero, and GMing is a breeze as you let the players do the heavy lifting.
I am so eager to play this with my gang at home.
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Gerald Cameron
Canada
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Nova Scotia
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I just finished this one, and I may not get to play it until my next convention, but it is supercool. The love child of Polaris and a group therapy session. About the only fly in the ointment is that it may require players to bring some idea of what they want from the game (in terms of the style of narrative) to the table, but that's a minor flaw at worst.
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Jason Morningstar
United States
Durham
North Carolina
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One cool thing: In one game a full professor had a vicious Doberman named Klaus as his constant companion. At some point Klaus (who, as "everyone else" got a fat d10 in non-academic conflicts) got Roached himself, and untold horrors followed. Later an enterprising Henry Armitage type threw Klaus into a vat of boiling bronze and cast a statue of him from it, Roach and all.
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Dave Bernazzani (@rpggeek)
United States
Plainville
Massachusetts
I wish to provide legendary service to the RPG community to help grow our hobby and enrich the lives of gamers everywhere.
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I'm a new member to Story Games and I think my own game - STRIKE FORCE qualifies as an indie as I published it myself
The game started as an extention to a commercial game called Star Frontiers by TSR. In the end, it became much different - and much more. I grew up playing this with different groups of players over 20 year period (about the time when the internet really took off and I discovered a ton of more polished games that suited my tastes!!).
One cool thing: We had so many thousands of hours playing this it's hard to choose. But I'd say that my favorite moment was when a player was crawling around in a muddy cave-like room and was being innundated with these little rodant-like creatures (they walked on two legs but were still icky and pesky and disease ridden). He was being overwhelmed due to some poor planning and decision making - so I wasn't feeling too badly as a GM that his character was pretty much doomed! He got clever on me - realizing that these hundreds of little creatures didn't have a whole lot of life in them, he pulled out a hand grenade, pulled the pin and rolled to one side. He took MASSIVE damage - lost one arm but in the end, every one of the little rodent creatures was obliterated and he survived. About the only way this guy was going to live was this extreme measure. Talk about making the best of a bad situation.
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Lowell Francis
United States
South Bend
Indiana
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I've run Grimm, but having read through this, I like it better. I think one of the best things about this book is the GM and Player postmortem on the campaign-- looking back and what he'd intended and how it played out. He then gets the player's to comment on scenes and the plot arc. A really wonderful look behind the scenes.
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Dave Wilson
United States
Pleasanton
California
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At this point I feel like a total fanboy for this, but it is the game that brought me back into roleplaying after a 20 year hiatus, and it's the only game I've played since returning. I like the freedom that the genre-independence provides (and I'm enjoying not playing in a fantasy setting). I like the flexibility that the TV series concept provides, in terms of scene cutting and in terms of using the audience's perception to your own benefit. Yeah, there are others I want to play soon (see both Dirty Secrets and Inspectres, above), but so far this one is working really well for me.
One cool thing: an on-again, off-again romance between a protagonist and an NPC that got a second NPC kicked in the head, the romantic NPC shot, and the protagonist spiraling out of control as the one responsible (in her mind, anyway) for both the kicking and the shooting.
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Mike Holyoak
United States
Idaho Falls
Idaho
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Probably my favorite dice mechanic ever.
One cool thing:
A woman, under scrutiny from the Dogs admits that she has had an affair, and it is decided that for her penance she needs to braid her hair into one long braid, cut it off, and present the braid to her husband.
Not a huge action scene, I know, but the emotional tension in the scene was palpable.
I've never played a game where "mundane" things like conversation can be so intense.
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Mike Holyoak
United States
Idaho Falls
Idaho
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The game that showed me that diceless, elfless games can be AWESOME!!
One Cool Thing: A fighter is on a meteoric rise to stardom when his pregnant girlfriend finds out that he has taken on "Shady" work to earn extra money and dumps him, destroying his main source of hope and sending him on a downward spiral of violence and defeat.
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tony dowler
United States
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Played a bit of this last night. I forgot how much fun it can be to play a reprehensible, debauched mob of brigands.
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Chris Flood
United States
Oakland
California
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I created this list based on the game mechanics described in the Story Games Primer. Most of the games have been added to this list already, but Mouse Guard and the Shadow of Yesterday haven't...yet.
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Chris Flood
United States
Oakland
California
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Finally, one more list, this one of free GM-less games. Few people realize there are free versions of the Shab-al-Hiri Roach and Shooting the Moon floating around. Bacchanal is another highly regarded game that hasn't showed up on this list yet, but again I'd love hear about others' experiences.
After several sessions of trying to get my girlfriend interested in RPGs with more traditional games, we played Sea Dracula, and she loved it!
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Sheffield
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Broomfield
Colorado
Start looking. I play boardgames but I'm actively looking for people to play these with. I don't have a group yet but I'm hoping by the next month or so I'll have a group of 4 or 5 of us that are interested in narrative games.
Medford
Massachusetts
[edit] I mean, seriously, who of us isn't on the geek at least once every two days (or two hours...).