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12/27/2001 James V. West: Picked it up cheap!
I'm on vacation. I had some bucks. I went to the local comics/game shop and browsed the used/discounted stuff as I'm a terribly poor cheapskate. Lo and behold, I stumbled…
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Participants: James V. West, hardcoremoose, Ron Edwards, Ranko.

12/20/2001 Blake Hutchins: Alternate settings
OK, I have a group interested in Tribe 8. (This is a different group than the X-Games crowd, for what it's worth.) I'm intrigued by some aspects of the Silhouette…
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Participants: Blake Hutchins, Ron Edwards.

12/7/2001 Blake Hutchins: Hero Wars in S-F setting
Hey all, I've been bitten by the idea that Hero Wars might work very, very well as a substitute rules set for White Wolf's Trinity setting, in which the players…
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Participants: Blake Hutchins, Bankuei, Ron Edwards, Ian Freeman, Ayrizale, GB Steve, contracycle, Mike Holmes.

10/21/2001 Blake Hutchins: Hero Wars 2nd Edition changes
Just curious: the Issaries website refers to Animist rules being totally rewritten and Sorcery rules being partly rewritten. Does anyone know the gist of what these changes will be? Thanks,…
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Participants: Blake Hutchins.

10/5/2001 joshua neff: mildly disappointed
I just popped over to the Issaries website. Their revised production schedule has pushed the Lunar sourcebook back to next spring. Bloody hell! The one book I was looking forward…
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Participants: joshua neff, pacific_steve, Mike Holmes, Ron Edwards.

10/3/2001 pacific_steve: Started reading Hero Wars and.......
Ok, I've finally started to read Hero Wars. It's badly organised, that much is obvious. They need to do a serious rework of this. If I was a complete newbie,…
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Participants: pacific_steve, Mike Holmes, Valamir, Blake Hutchins, epweissengruber.

9/17/2001 pacific_steve: Glorantha - It's been a long time!
Well, well....once I got over my intial shock at seeing Glorantha back in tradeback format, I picked up a copy and from what little I saw of the sstem....I was…
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Participants: pacific_steve, Ron Edwards, Ben Morgan, wizardattic.

9/7/2001 GB Steve: Dune
Just a quickie really to note that we are playing Dune at the moment using the Hero Wars rules. It works OK, except of course where we have to fudge…
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Participants: GB Steve, Ron Edwards, Blake Hutchins.

8/20/2001 Coleslaw: I just picked up Glorantha
Not that I think too many people will care, but I just picked up the Glorantha boxed set today. I must say, I am very, very pleased with the system…
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Participants: Coleslaw, Jason L Blair, joshua neff, Blake Hutchins, Ron Edwards, Jeffrey Straszheim.

7/20/2001 Stefan Drawert: Examples Of Extended Contest, Anyboby?
Hello to everybody, recently discovered this forum about Hero Wars, which I'm gonna start gaming next week! Still I feel somehow uneasy about extended contest when it comes to relate…
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Participants: Stefan Drawert, mikeryan, Uncle Dark.

7/6/2001 Ron Edwards: Hero Scape / Plane Wars
Hi there, I went and did it. We're starting a Planescape game, using the Hero Wars system, or, if you like, we're playing Hero Wars using the Planescape setting. It's…
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Participants: Ron Edwards, Blake Hutchins, joshua neff, Peter.

7/5/2001 John Wick: Basic Rules Download
I understand the basic rules are somewhere on the website, ready for me to download. Anybody got a link? Thanks in advance, John
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Participants: John Wick, james_west, Blake Hutchins, mikeryan, Christopher Kubasik.

6/27/2001 Uncle Dark: Where to begin?
I like Hero Wars (I have to disagree with Josh and state that I think the rulebook is buggy as hell... No set of rules should require a 4 page…
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Participants: Uncle Dark, Blake Hutchins, Ron Edwards, james_west, joshua neff, Alai, Valamir, Jonas, Stefan Drawert, epweissengruber.

6/3/2001 Ron Edwards: God damn it, I love Glorantha
Yes, Glorantha is highly derivative. Yes, nearly all the mythic details can be traced to their historical and literary antecedents. Fine. It's a rockin' setting. In yesterday's game, the characters…
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Participants: Ron Edwards, epweissengruber, Clinton R. Nixon, Zak Arntson, Blake Hutchins, John Wick, Stefan Drawert.

6/2/2001 joshua neff: my take on hero wars
okay, i finally got around to plunking down the cash for the boxed set & started reading thru the books... & certain things struck me right off the bat--like greg…
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Participants: joshua neff, james_west, Ron Edwards, Levekius, Pyske.

5/19/2001 james_west: core rules freely downloadable
If anyone's interested in this game but doesn't have a copy, chapters 1-3 of Hero Wars are on issaries' web site, as well as everything important in chapter 4 as…
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Participants: james_west, Ron Edwards.

5/18/2001 Blake Hutchins: Getting started
Alright. Thanks to Clinton for putting up this forum. Since I asked for it, I'll get the ball rolling. One of the things that intrigues me about the design of…
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Participants: Blake Hutchins, Ron Edwards, james_west, Clinton R. Nixon, Alai, contracycle.

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12/30/2001 Ian O'Rourke: Aaarrgggh, but great
Am I the only one who read Hero Wars and felt that, just beyond their perception that it was something great, but just could not pull it all together due…
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Participants: Ian O'Rourke, Uncle Dark, Bankuei.

1/29/2002 contracycle: known outcomes
So a thought on the implementation of the HW mechanic. There's something I've been toying with but presents some social contract concerns which I'd like to poll opinions aboyu. On…
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Participants: contracycle, Ron Edwards, Bankuei.

2/13/2002 J B Bell: 2nd Ed. Hero Wars?
Any word on how on-schedule (or not) HW 2nd ed. is? I'm absolutely stoked to give it a shot, but negative comments on the first edition's rules organization have kept…
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Participants: J B Bell, Ron Edwards, Christopher Kubasik, Valamir.

2/16/2002 ashcrill: Anybody in Oklahoma?
I'm an avid Gloranthaphile, looking for any Hero Wars players in the Oklahoma City area. If you have a roleplaying group in the area and wouldn't mind having another player,…
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Participants: ashcrill.

2/18/2002 Ron Edwards: Ending the story
Hello, As I mentioned a while ago, our long-standing Hero Wars game is coming to at least a temporary end. My reasons for calling it finished are mainly based on…
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Participants: Ron Edwards, J B Bell, jrs.

3/12/2002 Ayrizale: Relationships as Augmenters
Hello, After reading about Hero Wars here on The Forge, I proceeded to purchase a copy and I have read most of it as time has allowed. One of the…
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Participants: Ayrizale, Ron Edwards.

3/15/2002 Michael Bowman: Extended Contests
I ran Hero Wars for a group last year. I was using HW to wean them from D&D 3/e. It worked, primarily due to the excellence of the setting. However,…
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Participants: Michael Bowman, Ron Edwards, Stefan Drawert, Ian O'Rourke.

3/17/2002 J B Bell: Premise in Hero Wars?
I'd like to know about Premise in Hero Wars. Just from having read a good deal of the web material out there, the Narrator's Guide and main book, it seems…
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Participants: J B Bell, Sidhain, Christopher Kubasik, joshua neff, Ron Edwards, contracycle, Mike Holmes, Jonas, Alai.

3/24/2002 J B Bell: Hero Wars is now Hero Quest
Well, their FAQ is skimpy yet, but if you take a look at Issaries site, note that they're saying that the new game is a different game, and Hero Wars…
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Participants: J B Bell, jburneko, Gordon C. Landis, Le Joueur.

3/31/2002 Ian O'Rourke: Mystics
Can someone describe the rules for Mystic Magic into plain English for me? I'm either missing something or the Mystics don't do much? Also, how are people using Magic generally?…
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Participants: Ian O'Rourke, Ron Edwards, Mike Holmes, Valamir, Seth L. Blumberg, J B Bell, contracycle, Blake Hutchins, Clinton R. Nixon.

4/8/2002 Blake Hutchins: More setting conversion thoughts
So here I am with a couple of players again at last, and we've agreed to run a long-term game in White Wolf's Exalted setting, featuring their elementally-aspected "Dragon-Blooded" Exalted.…
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Participants: Blake Hutchins, Seth L. Blumberg, Ayrizale.

4/23/2002 Ian O'Rourke: The Hero Scale....?
Okay, so Hero Wars allows you to create characters at various power 'levels' (for want of a better word), but in order to get a better grip on it what…
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Participants: Ian O'Rourke, Mike Holmes, Jonas, Ian Cooper.

4/29/2002 Ian Cooper: British vs. West Coast play of Runequest
Hi Ron, I am curious to uncover more behind your assertion in a couple of posts that British Runequest play became 'a wargame' and differed from West Coast play which…
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Participants: Ian Cooper, Ron Edwards, Ace, simon_hibbs.

5/10/2002 Ian O'Rourke: Hero Wars 101
Okay, a while back Ron did a whole series of Sorcerer set-up threads, and they worked really well as a 'look under the hood' of one approach to setting up…
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Participants: Ian O'Rourke, Ron Edwards, Ayrizale, AndyGuest, Blake Hutchins, epweissengruber.

5/10/2002 AndyGuest: Runequest meets Hero Wars
Okay, I've got this concept in my head for a 'campaign' using the old Runequest rules to do a very sim type exploration of a celtic tribe in pre-roman Britain.…
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Participants: AndyGuest, simon_hibbs.

5/10/2002 wyrdlyng: 2nd Edition Hero Wars and HeroQuest
So, can someone tell me if there will ever be a 2nd (or at least cleaned up) edition of Hero Wars? Heroquest seems to be a seperate game but is…
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Participants: wyrdlyng, Ron Edwards, Ian O'Rourke.

5/12/2002 Ron Edwards: 101 part 2: where and who
Hello, I figure it's time to start a new thread; the first one was kind of big and it sets the Task at Hand pretty well. Let's get specific now.…
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Participants: Ron Edwards, Ian O'Rourke, AndyGuest, Ayrizale, Blake Hutchins, Mike Holmes, contracycle, Reality Aberrant, Christopher Kubasik.

5/15/2002 Blake Hutchins: Doo-dads in Hero Wars
A comment by Ron in the Hero Wars 101 thread got me thinking about how one handles increased scores in "stuff" owned by a character. Does an increased score with,…
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Participants: Blake Hutchins, Mike Holmes, Ron Edwards, simon_hibbs.

5/16/2002 Uncle Dark: Gloranthan Metaphysical Ruminations
So, I picked up the Glorantha book a few days back, and it has cleared up a lot of my questions about the setting. It has also confirmed my impression…
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Participants: Uncle Dark, contracycle, Ian Cooper, Ron Edwards, simon_hibbs, Seth L. Blumberg, Valamir, Gordon C. Landis, Jonas.

5/17/2002 Ian O'Rourke: Hero Wars and Pendragon
Someone else may have already made the comparison but Hero Wars seems like a perfect match with Pendragon. It would allow for the characters to express relationships, emotions and squires…
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Participants: Ian O'Rourke, contracycle, Andrew Martin, Ron Edwards, Jonas, Norbert Franz, Ian Cooper.

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