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2/24/2005 Der_Renegat: Why are bonuses weaker than ratings ??
At the moment im writing on a cyberpunk background for HQ, so im thinking a lot about how to do stuff. Especially the whole weapon and armor category is something…
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Participants: Der_Renegat, Mandacaru, Brand_Robins, Ron Edwards, Bryan_T, Gelasma, Lorenzo Rubbo-Ferraro, Eero Tuovinen, Mike Holmes.

2/23/2005 StalkingBlue: Religion in Midnight (split)
Below is some discussion on religion in Midnight that I'm reposting from the Midnight prep thread. My player Lucy doesn't want to go into that other thread to avoid spoilers,…
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Participants: StalkingBlue, randomling, Mike Holmes, Bryan_T, Scripty, S'mon.

2/22/2005 Jere: More Experienced Characters
I'm currently working on a HeroQuest adaptation I'm calling tantaene animis caelestibus irae. This will be a game of Fantasy of History and Occult Fantasy that is best described…
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Participants: Jere, Bankuei, Brand_Robins, LordSmerf, Tom B, Christopher Weeks, Mike Holmes, CCW.

2/20/2005 Owl: Let me get this straight...
A while back, when it came out actually, I bought Heroquest. I think I preordered it actually. Anyways, I read it, shrugged and then kept running the campaigns I always…
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Participants: Owl, Eero Tuovinen, CCW, Gelasma, Jane, Bryan_T, Valamir.

2/17/2005 Lord_Steelhand: Spooked By Canon
Let me say upfront that I enjoy the idea of HeroQuest. The rules seem to be very empowering and I have no trouble with the weaker guy who has the…
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Participants: Lord_Steelhand, Bryan_T, joshua neff, Bret Gillan, Bankuei, Mandacaru, Ron Edwards, nellist, Ian Cooper, Mike Holmes.

2/17/2005 Jere: Narrative Character Creation
What responses do people find from their players about the Narrative Method? Do you find it gets used often? Any good strategies to make sure it gets adopted? Jere
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Participants: Jere, Different Games.

2/16/2005 Mike Holmes: Religion and Homeland
I thought I'd bring this up here. I was going to post it to the rules list, but I'm thinking it's really more speculative than the rules currently cover. Though…
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Participants: Mike Holmes, Bankuei, Brand_Robins, Ron Edwards, Bryan_T, Donald, James Holloway, joshua neff, contracycle, lightcastle.

2/16/2005 Der_Renegat: Staging Abilities
This is a split from the "Lightsabres and Monomolecular Whips" thread. I think its sometimes really hard how to model something the appropiate way. Like staging cutting. Similar other examples…
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Participants: Der_Renegat, soru, Jere, Bankuei.

2/15/2005 Der_Renegat: Lightsabres and Monomolecular Whips
Im thinking about how to use high-tech weapons like: lightsabres (as in StarWars), monomolecular whips (as in Appleseed the movie or Jonny Mnemonic the Gibson shortstory) or vibrating weapons, essentially…
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Participants: Der_Renegat, MikeSands, Minx, Brand_Robins, Mike Holmes, Jinx, soviet, nichughes.

2/14/2005 StalkingBlue: Gender themes in Well of Souls
Elsewhere Chris Chinn (who wrote Well of Souls) and I started to discuss the gender power issues in the scenario. Chris said: I think its interesting because I put up…
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Participants: StalkingBlue, Bankuei, Bryan_T, Peter Nordstrand, Mike Holmes, Donald.

2/12/2005 Adrienne: [Actual play] Dark Border
My goal for this session was to introduce a bunch of NPCs, have the PCs interact a bit with each other, and provide a hook at the end to get…
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Participants: Adrienne, StalkingBlue, Bryan_T, CPXB, Mike Holmes, CCW.

2/10/2005 Der_Renegat: Social+Cultural Keywords for the Cyberpunkera
This is my try for cyberpunkera keywords: Cyberpunkera keyword: citizen of drive general education know media influenced read and write (school education) use (inter) net use…
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Participants: Der_Renegat, Bryan_T.

2/10/2005 Der_Renegat: A Gloranthafree Wizard
I tried to make up a variant of the wizard that follows a more traditional rpg-magicuser without the religious aspects of glorantha. This wizard works mainly with spells or spell-like…
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Participants: Der_Renegat, Mike Holmes, soru.

2/8/2005 Bryan_T: List of 10 versus 100 words?
I'm curious as to the reasons that people prefer either the list or 100 words methods of character generation for HQ. I was a pretty firm adherent of the 100…
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Participants: Bryan_T, lev_lafayette, Adrienne, Brand_Robins, Mandacaru, KingOfFarPoint, Different Games, Mark Galeotti, Bankuei, nellist, Mike Holmes, Lamorak33, Gelasma.

2/2/2005 Adrienne: Mix of magic/non-magic characters?
I'm about to start a HQ game set in Paul Zimmer's Dark Border books. Through eager reading of randomling's thread and the suggested articles, I've worked up a couple of…
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Participants: Adrienne, CCW, Peter Nordstrand, CPXB, Bryan_T, Mike Holmes.

2/1/2005 StalkingBlue: [Actual Play] Midnight - A Dornish Cown 2
The first session of this scenario is discussed here: http://www.indie-rpgs.com/viewtopic.php?t=14027 and my prep for this session here: http://www.indie-rpgs.com/viewtopic.php?t=14098 . In summary, last night’s session rocked. Here's what happened: ---- (Credits…
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Participants: StalkingBlue, randomling, Mike Holmes, Bryan_T, Ian Cooper.

2/1/2005 Mike Holmes: MGF and YGMV
This thread follows from this one: http://www.indie-rpgs.com/viewtopic.php?p=150082 Peter points out that I may have read MGF incorrectly in creating my heresy #10. So I'd like to look at that more…
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Participants: Mike Holmes, Bankuei, Peter Nordstrand, Scripty, KingOfFarPoint, ffilz, Donald.

2/1/2005 soru: checklist
If adapting a world to HQ, I'd go with a checklist something like this: 1. genre The default genre for HQ is something like 'worldbuilding fantasy', which gives the default…
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Participants: soru, Mike Holmes.

1/31/2005 Bryan_T: "equipment" and ratings
I've gone a few pages back in the archives without finding a discussion of this, but I admit I did not dig back beyond last Spring, so please excuse me…
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Participants: Bryan_T, Mandacaru, Mark Galeotti, Eero Tuovinen, soru, Mike Holmes, KingOfFarPoint.

1/31/2005 S'mon: Race issues (split)
[quote="Ron Edwards"]Regarding race in RPGs, I think it's best to consider them forms of social cliques in combination with class - usually corresponding to high school stereotypes. "Clan" in later…
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Participants: S'mon, Ron Edwards, Mike Holmes, Bankuei, clehrich, soru.

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2/26/2005 doubtofbuddha: Eberron HeroQuest - Q'barran Lizard Men
I haven’t been here in awhile... Anyway the last time I tried to run HeroQuest it was an interesting experience, but it ultimately did not work between my mismanagement, and…
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Participants: doubtofbuddha, Mike Holmes, Peter Nordstrand.

2/28/2005 Adrienne: Dark Border: questions about Bangs
CPXB, or any other of my players reading this thread, shoo. I'm hoping to get a bit of advice about Bangs, to help me in the session coming up Wednesday.…
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Participants: Adrienne, Mike Holmes, StalkingBlue.

3/2/2005 advachiel: Star Wars Quest Bionics
Hi all, I'm a long time lurker and now it seems, a first time poster! I've been trying to move my gaming group away from D'n'D and onto Heroquest for…
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Participants: advachiel, Mike Holmes, soviet.

3/2/2005 S'mon: Heroquest d20
Just mulling it over, occurred to me there's really no reason I can see not to use a version of Heroquest's simple-conflict-resolution rules for most D&D/d20 conflicts - I mean,…
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Participants: S'mon, Different Games, Scripty, Mike Holmes, Adrienne.

3/2/2005 Peter Nordstrand: Practices, Traditions and other Animist Terminology
Mike and I began discussing the animist rules in this thread. I don't want to hijack Jesse's Eberron HeroQuest topic, so I started a new topic. Hi Mike, You need…
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Participants: Peter Nordstrand, Mike Holmes, James Holloway, Der_Renegat, Bryan_T.

3/4/2005 StalkingBlue: [Actual Play] Midnight - A Dornish Crown 4
Last sesssion (here) Katrin was having a bit of a bad morning losing a duel against the known misogynist, Roland’s new general Olec and then learning from Reifels that uniting…
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Participants: StalkingBlue, Adrienne, Mike Holmes, BirdMan.

3/10/2005 soviet: (SWHQ) How would you run this as an extended contest?
OK, so yesterday I ran my first game of HeroQuest (set in the star wars universe). I'm not going to go into too much detail because I may post something…
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Participants: soviet, Brand_Robins, Mandacaru, Andrew Norris, Hobbitboy, StalkingBlue.

3/14/2005 StalkingBlue: HQ Midnight - New Bangs Thread
This is the sequel to this thread. We haven’t played out the Redgard map yet, but it looks like play may move around the region a bit over the next…
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Participants: StalkingBlue, Mike Holmes, Andrew Norris.

3/15/2005 Negilent: SW HeroQuest: Lure of the darkside.
We played the follow up from the Delusions of Grandeur a little while back, and though there were highs and lows of that game, the most notebal was how the…
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Participants: Negilent, Mike Holmes.

3/18/2005 droog: Dark Ages HQ
I've done a conversion of HQ for a quasi-historical game set in the 5th century AD, and I have some potential players that might shortly make it a reality. The…
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Participants: droog, Christopher Kubasik, James Holloway, Valamir, Bryan_T, Mike Holmes, StalkingBlue, Mandacaru.

3/18/2005 Mandacaru: Premise for WoS-style Char-Un game?
***Spoiler alert for people like Bryan or Keith who might play in this *** I want at some point to take a break from narrating (PbEM) my Heortling game and…
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Participants: Mandacaru, soru, Brand_Robins, Mike Holmes, Bankuei.

3/29/2005 Mandacaru: My first real Bang! ;-)
Just set up a new game online to try out starting from zero and seeing where we go. Basic information is a character has to be an Uz of some…
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Participants: Mandacaru, Mike Holmes, StalkingBlue.

3/30/2005 lightcastle: Trolling for bangs
Weel, after many delays and complications, my HQ game has gotten off to a stuttering start. Having stumbled across the Forge some time ago, I decided to try and incorporate…
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Participants: lightcastle, Bankuei, Mike Holmes, Bryan_T.

3/30/2005 Mandacaru: Syncretism in HQ
Elsewhere (http://www.indie-rpgs.com/viewtopic.php?t=14714&start=15), Mike H. said, in reference to syncretism: I think that what the rules are intended to support - and I've put some substantial effort into trying to figure…
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Participants: Mandacaru, lightcastle, soru, Bankuei, Mike Holmes, droog, bigpumpkin, contracycle, Hobbitboy, James Holloway, Donald, GB Steve, joshua neff, cappadocius, StalkingBlue, Christopher Kubasik, pete_darby, jorganos.

4/11/2005 Hobbitboy: A twist in the tail.
When it comes to entertainment I like nothing more than a good-old unexpected ending. How easy is it to do this sort of thing in ForgeQuest? ;) Actually I should…
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Participants: Hobbitboy, Bankuei, Mike Holmes, Different Games, Bryan_T, lightcastle.

4/12/2005 CCW: TSOY Keys in HQ
OK. I just got a copy of The Shadow of Yesterday and as I am with many other aspects of this excellent game, I'm enchanted by the Key system. For…
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Participants: CCW, Brand_Robins, Clinton R. Nixon, Mike Holmes, Mandacaru, Bryan_T, lightcastle.

4/20/2005 soru: Rules variant: Very Simple Contests
This is kind of inspired by the big thread on syncretism, but would only confuse things there. In standard HQ, as everyone knows, there are two types of contests, simple…
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Participants: soru, Bankuei, xenopulse, Mark Galeotti, Mike Holmes.

4/20/2005 Christopher Kubasik: Glorantha is Myth... right?
Hi all, The really long Glorantha thread has so much going on in it, I thought I'd step over here and check something out. In the HQ rules, and source…
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Participants: Christopher Kubasik, James Holloway, xenopulse, soru, greyorm, Valamir, Brand_Robins, droog, pete_darby, Mike Holmes, contracycle, joshua neff, Ron Edwards.

4/22/2005 Bryan_T: Thinking about doing a conversion for "Albedo"
I don't know if any of you ever gave a gander to the science fiction role playing game "Albedo." Perhaps I should call it a "Furry science fiction rpg" as…
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Participants: Bryan_T, soru, droog, Mike Holmes, Der_Renegat.

5/10/2005 MrWrong: Team MoLaD needs you!!!
The Masters of Luck and Death, (or Team MoLaD) is Issaries Inc's new official Demonstration team. We are a band of experienced narrators who volunteer our time and energy to…
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Participants: MrWrong.

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