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3/31/2004 rafial: Rules suggestions for NDG Pirates
This thread is continuation of the game design issues brought up in a previous thread which is now closed. Since I am responding to a question regarding future directions of…
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Participants: rafial.

3/31/2004 Malechi: [Cabal] intro mechanics
Hi there, So there we were, digesting the last session of InSpectres with a nice glass of Pinot when we struck upon the idea for a new game. Its got…
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Participants: Malechi.

3/31/2004 Survivor: Help needed for unique RPG system
Hey, I'm new here, and I need some help (as if the title didn't give it away). I'm undertaking a very improbable, highly specialized task: Making an RPG based on…
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Participants: Survivor, xiombarg, erithromycin, Palaskar.

3/30/2004 Kilor Di: [Terrae Novae] Tables
www.geocities.com/greginkelaar/projects.html and then click on Terrae Novae. I'm having troubles with the table-work in the game (experience tables, gold/credit tables, etc.) Any suggestions on how to create such tables would…
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Participants: Kilor Di, Jasper, orbsmatt.

3/30/2004 taalyn: How to determine difficulties
I can't figure them out. They're beingtransparent. I have a huge excel file with all the odds and probabilities for my system, but have no idea how to decide what…
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Participants: taalyn, Steve Samson, Jeph, Jasper, orbsmatt, Mike Holmes, Shreyas Sampat.

3/30/2004 Jasper: PN: divided, rotating GM powers
Principium Novum is progressing nicely. What I've been working on recently is the potential for dividing the typical GM powers between the players. I still want to retain a central…
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Participants: Jasper, Mike Holmes.

3/29/2004 Ravien: Eclipse: Combat Resolution Mechanics
[b]Eclipse: Combat Resolution Mechanics [/b] Combat resolution in Eclipse is fast and intuitive (it is, damn you!). You won’t “miss” someone because of a poor roll, and you won’t score…
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Participants: Ravien, Bracken, Valamir, greyorm, charles ferguson, Alf_the_Often_Incorrect.

3/29/2004 Ravien: Eclipse: Social Interaction Mechanics
[b]Eclipse: Social Interaction Mechanics [/b] The social interaction mechanics in Eclipse are fairly complex in theory (in practise they are pretty straightforward), and may or may not be intuitive or…
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Participants: Ravien, Autocrat, Spooky Fanboy, Valamir, Mike Holmes, Shreyas Sampat, Andrew Martin, Alf_the_Often_Incorrect, Thor.

3/26/2004 Ben Lehman: Tactics: Antagonist Bidding
Previous Threads on this game: http://www.indie-rpgs.com/viewtopic.php?t=8551 http://www.indie-rpgs.com/viewtopic.php?t=9041 So, after some long agonizing over the virtues of varying levels of "GMless" play, I have decided the following things: 1) If it…
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Participants: Ben Lehman, Mike Holmes, Dev.

3/26/2004 LeeRaulin: Direct Me to the Best System
I'll start off on a tangent. Hello everyone. I just found this site and it looks really interesting. It seems there are others who share my absurd fascination with designing…
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Participants: LeeRaulin, montag, daMoose_Neo, Alan, Ron Edwards, Steven Bishop, TerroX.

3/25/2004 New Dimension Games: New games for you
Greetings to all! We at New Dimension Games are offering alternatives to d20 in the genres of medieval fantasy, historical piracy, and modern paranoia. Want to rediscover the genres you…
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Participants: New Dimension Games, rafial, Valamir, RaconteurX, greyorm, M. J. Young, Ron Edwards, Jack Spencer Jr, John Harper.

3/25/2004 taalyn: Ability Scope problems in Crux
I am having problems figuring something out, so I'm hoping you all can help. First, a basic run through of relevant details (mechanics only, as I've done setting numerous times):…
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Participants: taalyn, Shreyas Sampat, jphannil, Mike Holmes.

3/24/2004 Strams: [Navigator] Vehicle construction
Hey all, I need some advice on vehicle construction. The system I have now lets the person designing the vehicle to choose the metric tonnage of the vehicle first. This…
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Participants: Strams, Valamir, Runjikol, Dev, Shreyas Sampat.

3/23/2004 Strams: 'Navigator' Generic SCI-FI RPG
First off, I just recently found this board and I am delighted to find that there are this many people into this aspect of RPG. I guess almost all folks…
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Participants: Strams, Matt Wilson, Garbanzo, Steve Samson, Shreyas Sampat, Dev, Valamir, Mike Holmes, Juicetyger.

3/23/2004 Rich Stokes: [Danger Dudes] Light hearted narrative based action movies
To mark the first anniversary of me shooting my mouth off about this project, here is the first release of Danger Dudes, my beer and chips narrative betting game. This…
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Participants: Rich Stokes.

3/20/2004 Promethius: SF RPG (split and closed)
This game sounds like fun. I like the changes you made to the system. Looks like I've got some competition.
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Participants: Promethius, Ron Edwards.

3/21/2004 Promethius: Start to finish game design (split and closed)
I always design a world in which I create the character I wish I could be. Then, I just keep adding things in from there. Most of what I was…
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Participants: Promethius, Jack Spencer Jr, Jeph, Ron Edwards.

3/21/2004 madelf: (Angor) Magic & Technology in conlict
I'm about to start playtesting my Tales of Angor game (pseudo-victorian fantasy) and yet I've still got a concept in it that I'm not really entirely happy with mechanically (and…
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Participants: madelf, hanschristianandersen, BPetroff93, Garbanzo, The Benj, contracycle, Umberhulk, timfire.

3/20/2004 Mr. Sluagh: Setting Idea to Build Upon
[brainfart]The stars are right. The Old Gods rise. A reckoning is at hand. No, not the those Old Gods. That would be too cliché. I'm talking about the actual, mythological,…
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Participants: Mr. Sluagh, Walt Freitag, orbsmatt, Umberhulk, Ravien, Rich Stokes.

3/19/2004 hanschristianandersen: [Musketeers!] Who gets to do the scene framing?
This is my first earnest attempt at RPG design, and it's pretty close to the point where I start rounding up folks for playtesting. However, I'm stumped on a core…
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Participants: hanschristianandersen, RaconteurX, Rexfelis, quozl, Jonathan Walton, clehrich, Bluesboy.

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3/31/2004 xiombarg: Unsung Overhall
So, okay, Alexander sent me an email with several suggestions about changing Unsung as a post mortem to the campaign we just ended. Other people are welcome to chime in.…
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Participants: xiombarg, Lxndr.

4/2/2004 Valamir: [Robots & Rapiers] Contacts, Favors, and Influence
I'm busily at work getting R&R ready for the next round of testing and thought I'd throw out a concept I'm pretty excited about. Contacts. Contacts are all of the…
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Participants: Valamir, montag, Jack Aidley, Michael S. Miller, Ron Edwards.

4/2/2004 Mourglin: Using a survey.
Hello all, This is my first visit to the Forge and my very first post. I am pleased with the volume of discussions going on here and was referred by…
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Participants: Mourglin, Argetlamh, M. J. Young, Bluve Oak, Ron Edwards.

4/2/2004 Jere: [Shadows in the Fog] Age of Paranoia
I'll be adapting clehrich's excellent Shadows in the Fog to an espionage game, heavily borrowing from John Le Carré's Cold War espionage novels, that I'm calling Age of…
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Participants: Jere.

4/3/2004 Spooky Fanboy: Entry-Level Dieties: a roleplaying game in progress
Okay, I started this game being fed up with games like Lost Gods, Black and White, the Last Exodus, Nobilis, etc. for various reasons. My goal, in creating this game,…
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Participants: Spooky Fanboy, gobi, taalyn, RaconteurX, Matt, Marhault.

4/4/2004 Morrius: Damage mechanic
Whenever I'm trying to develop a system in my head, the one part that always stymies me is the damage mechanic. I'm currently working on a systems that uses an…
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Participants: Morrius, Jasper, Knarf, Matt.

4/5/2004 Mourglin: Skyfall
My goals for this thread are two fold. First I wish to answer two inter-related questions I have been wrestling with for weeks. In order to present these questions to…
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Participants: Mourglin, Kryyst, Shreyas Sampat, Castellanus, Alex Johnson, ghostwolf.

4/5/2004 Shreyas Sampat: For Ben: The heaven game.
This is a Forge Birthday (and Special Events) game; if it isn't finished by the time the Birthday Forum closes for the year, I will hold off on it until…
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Participants: Shreyas Sampat, Jonathan Walton, DannyK, quozl, Ben Lehman, Ravien, Eero Tuovinen, Valamir, FredGarber.

4/6/2004 Crackerjacker: Freeform, Diceless, "System" experiment-test 1.&qu
As has been said before, the preferred "system" for my preference of play is pretty much freeform. It's certainly not the gaming mainstream, but it can work, and is a…
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Participants: Crackerjacker, Mike Holmes, Ron Edwards.

4/6/2004 Morrius: Worldbuilding and ecology
I think one of the most important parts of designing a setting is to have a stable ecology. All the different parts of an environment contribute to the development of…
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Participants: Morrius, Henri, coxcomb, M. J. Young, WDFlores, FredGarber, contracycle, Ravien.

4/6/2004 talysman: my "house rules" die mechanic
as I've mentioned, I'm developing a set of core or "house" rules that I will adapt to specific games in which the setting is the primary focus, sort of the…
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Participants: talysman, Emily Care, Mike Holmes, Ravien, clehrich, anonymouse.

4/6/2004 Bret Gillan: My Game: Pundits & Pollsters
Hey folks. Cranked out a mini-game of sorts on my website - Pundits & Pollsters. Nothing special. It basically came about after some pondering on my part about whether a…
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Participants: Bret Gillan, Jasper, quozl.

4/7/2004 Domhnall: Systems with Worlds?
I have (what I assume to be) ~92% of my system ideas hashed out, and ~70% of the footwork complete. But, I am wondering if systems are more well received…
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Participants: Domhnall, Jasper, Andrew Martin.

4/7/2004 taalyn: [Crux] conflict/task resolution method
Having been inspired by Lumpley ramblings here, I've got half of a conflict/task resolution method figured out. I have the system, but could use help with the method. The idea:…
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Participants: taalyn, coxcomb, cruciel.

4/7/2004 clehrich: For Eero: My Life With Levi-Strauss
So after Eero, Jonathan, and Ralph said all that postiive stuff, I just want to let you know I'm actually starting to work on Levi-Strauss in Amazonia, though I'm not…
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Participants: clehrich, Andrew Martin, Jonathan Walton, Piers Brown, Eero Tuovinen.

4/8/2004 gobi: [Azure Dusk] Brainstorming
Over on the birthday forum, I mentioned a weird game concept I have had sitting stillborn for several months because it was just too weird for me to get my…
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Participants: gobi, Shreyas Sampat, Walt Freitag, Emily Care, Jeph, Marhault, Jonathan Walton, Lxndr, anonymouse.

4/8/2004 pointyman2000: Steampunk Mafia game up for analysis and improvements
Hello! I'm fairly new to the forge and I'd just like to offer a free RPG I came up with for everyone's review, comments and suggestions. It's currently a work…
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Participants: pointyman2000, coxcomb.

4/8/2004 Bill_White: [Rune Saga] Example of Play
I'm working on a game of "epic narrative fantasy roleplaying" that I'm calling Rune Saga. I'm in the process of revising the rules in the aftermath of a playtest-by-email session.…
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Participants: Bill_White.

4/8/2004 Jonathan Walton: For Ben: The Shang Dynasty Game
[quote="Ben Lehman"]I want an Asian fantasy / history game that isn't reheated D&D and SamuraiNinjaKewl. And, of course, Mr. Walton writes it.[/quote] I would have done it anyway, but since…
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Participants: Jonathan Walton, clehrich, Rich Forest, talysman, Ben Lehman, daMoose_Neo, contracycle, Shreyas Sampat.

4/9/2004 ghostwolf: [Eschaton]: example of play and synopsis
Hi all. I'm in the initial throws of designing a game for publication via web-site or pdf. Following is an example of play and a synopsis of the system: Example…
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Participants: ghostwolf, FredGarber, Andrew Martin, Jeph, Ravien, Mike Holmes, quozl, RaconteurX.

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