It's been about a year from when this forum was launched. Thank you, Remi & Ryan! The original goal was to support folks who wanted to design games that we would run & play at Dreamation 2010. We successfully did that with Prehistoric Ties and the Pinkwater game getting good playtest at Dreamation, a bunch of freeform getting play, and a new larp/jeep hybrid Tam Lin being produced.

I was wondering what direction we would go with the forum once we got to Dreamation. It's been pretty quiet here, and we had some rocky moments last year. We'd completed the initial project this forum was formed for. Now what?

Two things: at Dreamation, I heard good feedback from folks who had posted about their games here. They'd gotten better feedback than at other places, and liked the community. Also, I've got a scheme I'm working on, to help support free form games being run by me and other folks. Maybe the forum could remain, but change purpose?

That would mean instead of it being focused specifically in design, this would be a place people could talk about games they want to run, and coordinate players, space etc. And it would be a space where players could talk about their experiences in the games. This could also be a place where we could easily communicate with friends from across the sea, to get their help and also let them know what intriguing or infuriating things we're doing with their games, tools, etc.

If anyone finds this of interest I could use help in several ways: organizing games, creating another website that will be used to publicize games being held, writing descriptions of games we can post to create a repertoire that people can browse through and find to present themselves, and maybe even technical help with re-tooling the forum. My goal is to work on the sites this spring and summer, to be fully launched by the fall.

Thanks, Dave. That would be much appreciated. Let's huddle. :)

Jon for what it's worth I don't consider Prehistoric Ties to be Jeep. American or otherwise. Then again categorization doesn't tend to interest me.

Well, I was glad to get a chance to even find this forum.

I'm afraid the only ideas I've really got to discuss are cribbed from psych papers. I rather like them, but I have no idea if they'll work with jeepform or anything similar. I hope so.

One of the merits of this forums is the absolutely fabulous term, Structured Freedom, which in so many ways is better than the somewhat strange Jeepform. It has become a oft used term for me in describing Jeepform to both Americans, Scandinavians and the other Europeans. Also as this forum is far less crowded than the other 'indie rpg' forums, the slower speed of threads and comments makes it possible to in some degree follow what is going on. I'm completely lost at the pace of storygames and the forge.

Structured freeform will for the foreseeable future remain a niche within gaming, and as such those attracted to it, will find a focused forum for the discussion here. I really don't see a high volume of post here, and that is a good thing.

In the future I would like to see more creative collaboration, both of the funny kind and the more serious. I have several ideas, Emily. Could this forum also be of interest to the american larpers?

Oh, and can we ditch the categories?

Do the categories even help? Unless the volume really picks up, they seem irrelevant.

I agree with Jason. Kill the categories. What about tags (as a replacement for categories)?

Also, can I suggest we remove the stickies? To me, stickies adds to the staleness of forums. The regulars don't read them anymore, the newcomers just wan't cool content, not read manuals.

If there is a need for practical info's, rules etc. that could be but in a tab or in the sidebar.

/frederik

Posted By: FrederikBergAlso as this forum is far less crowded than the other 'indie rpg' forums, the slower speed of threads and comments makes it possible to in some degree follow what is going on. I'm completely lost at the pace of storygames and the forge.

That's why I'm here, and not elsewhere.