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12/22/2001 Spawny: Game system design
Does anyone out there have any ideas/know of any articles on designing a game system? I have 3 RPG worlds/ideas fleshed out etc. But im having REAL trouble working out…
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Participants: Spawny, Ron Edwards, Jared A. Sorensen, Zak Arntson, hardcoremoose, James V. West, Spawn, Joe Murphy (Broin), Paul Czege, Mike Holmes, archangel_2, Skippy.

12/20/2001 Tim Denee: Suspect Behaviour (quite long, really; sorry about that)
An idea for a game inspired by the antics of a certain Belgian inspector. Now that I look at it, it's kinda long for an 'idea'. Whaddya think? This is…
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Participants: Tim Denee, Ferry Bazelmans, Mike Holmes, hardcoremoose, Paul Czege.

12/19/2001 hardcoremoose: Suicide King
Hey guys, I've been somewhat quiet on this forum lately, but that doesn't mean I haven't been soaking up what people are saying and working on a few ideas of…
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Participants: hardcoremoose, Mike Holmes, Paul Czege, Skippy, archangel_2, James V. West.

12/19/2001 Mike Holmes: 'Realistic' Orcs (was Heads Up)
Since nobody can seem to get off that thread, I'll just try and continue it here (a great deal of the hi-jacking was my fault). Anyhow, what this thread should…
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Participants: Mike Holmes, Uncle Dark, contracycle, John Wick, hardcoremoose.

12/19/2001 FruitSmack!: Umm..A little help here...
Hey y'all, Im working on a game idea and I cant, for the life of me come up with a name for the beings in it. Maybe someone has an…
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Participants: FruitSmack!, Ferry Bazelmans, Mike Holmes, Jack Spencer Jr, gentrification, Matt, Skippy, Tim Denee.

12/19/2001 FruitSmack!: Umm..A little help here...
Hey y'all, Im working on a game idea and I cant, for the life of me come up with a name for the beings in it. Maybe someone has an…
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Participants: FruitSmack!.

12/18/2001 jburneko: The Litterary Gamers Guide To...
Once again, I find myself with a topic that doesn't really fit a specific forum. This time I find myself torn between Indie Game Design and Publishing. What I want…
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Participants: jburneko, Joe Murphy (Broin), Le Joueur, Marco.

12/18/2001 Laurel: Devils Cay
I know I've been suspiciously quiet for the last 2-3 weeks. There's been a lot going on for me, that is now finalized so that I can start discussing it.…
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Participants: Laurel, Ron Edwards.

12/18/2001 Ferry Bazelmans: SOAP - restructuring and rebuilding
Hi there, After about three quarters of a year, I wanted to redo Soap and get some of its more problematic issues solved. It is up at for review: http://www.crayne.nl/test/soap-test.html…
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Participants: Ferry Bazelmans, Mike Holmes.

12/15/2001 erithromycin: Se7en: A 'Generic' rpg
This grew out of an idea I had about an hour ago. It's posted here rather than at a URL for convenience, probably more on my part than yours. This…
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Participants: erithromycin.

12/12/2001 Jared A. Sorensen: No Media Kings
http://www.nomediakings.com This is Jim Munroe's site. He wrote a book a liked (Angry Young Spaceman) and a book I really loved (Flyboy Action Figure Comes with Gasmask). Anyway, it's all…
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Participants: Jared A. Sorensen, joshua neff, hardcoremoose, Paul Czege.

12/11/2001 erithromycin: PUNk
There have been natterings about a real world game in a couple of forums now, so I dug out an old game I wrote that grew out of an older…
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Participants: erithromycin, contracycle, Mike Holmes.

12/10/2001 Zak Arntson: Robot GNS - Preliminary Design
Okay, I wrote an RPG about Robots. Well, I wrote 3 of them. I tried to carry them along the lines of GNS, just to see how it would work.…
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Participants: Zak Arntson.

12/8/2001 Bankuei: Persona system
This system has been floating in my head for a couple of months, so let me know what you think of it. The goal is a system that encourages plot…
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Participants: Bankuei, Julian Kelsey, contracycle.

12/7/2001 xiombarg: Faster, Better, Cheaper
I work as a contractor for NASA. Some of you may remember the infamous Faster, Better, Cheaper slogan NASA was pushing a while back. Well, the joke going around…
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Participants: xiombarg, Epoch, Nathan, Clinton R. Nixon, Paul Czege, contracycle.

12/6/2001 Epoch: Power to the Goblins!
The concept I can't currently get out of my head is gritty class-based struggle in Arcadia/Under the Hill/Faerie. I'm seeing this as a human-less game, with the real world not…
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Participants: Epoch, Mike Holmes, hardcoremoose, joshua neff, Jared A. Sorensen, Blake Hutchins, Torrent, Mytholder, contracycle.

12/5/2001 razgon: Dragonmeet and other conventions
Hi again. I'm posting this here since no other catagory seems to allow "general" talk :smile: I was thinking about the whole "INDIE RPGS" community here, and what they did…
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Participants: razgon, Jared A. Sorensen, Bret, Mike Holmes, hardcoremoose, Mytholder, Ron Edwards.

12/5/2001 razgon: Greetings
Hi. I recently discovered this grand site, and just wanted to say hi and tell you a little about Regalia (our rpg) and Lidiumonline(our website). LIDIUM is an adventure media…
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Participants: razgon, Ron Edwards.

12/4/2001 Bret: RPG Idea
Concept: Sci-fi setting where humanity is being attacked by a constantly evolving alien race. The mainstay of the alien forces are enormous creatures dubbed "Behemoths" - large, bony monstrosities that…
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Participants: Bret, Joe Murphy (Broin), erithromycin, Jared A. Sorensen, Ron Edwards, Mike Holmes, mahoux, Ryan Ary.

12/3/2001 Nathan: Eldritch Ass Kicking (renamed)
Alright, I've typed this up and thrown it up for giggles.. It is not at all related to Dragonball Z, but it reminds me of that tone. Basically, the point…
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Participants: Nathan, mahoux, Bret.

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12/24/2001 Paul Czege: setting creation: avoiding pressures to historical accuracy
Hey everyone, So...I've been giving a little thought to a setting for The World, the Flesh, and the Devil, and I keep hitting into the same snag. I'm tempted…
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Participants: Paul Czege, hardcoremoose, James V. West, Balbinus, A.Neill, Bankuei, Ron Edwards, Mithras, Mike Holmes, contracycle, Osric, John Wick, joe_llama.

12/26/2001 archangel_2: Advice Please (editted)
Well, I've been working on a set of game mechanics, off and on, for a few years now. I've shown bits and pieces of them to individual people, but never…
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Participants: archangel_2, Mike Holmes, Epoch, Laurel.

12/26/2001 lumpley: Chalk Outlines Waiting to Happen
[FONT COLOR="#990000"] [FONT SIZE="+3"]C[/FONT][FONT SIZE="+2"]halk [/FONT][FONT SIZE="+3"]O[/FONT][FONT SIZE="+2"]utlines[/FONT] [FONT SIZE="+1"] Waiting to Happen[/FONT][/FONT] A Caper Flick Roleplaying Game Is up in a crude-ish, pre-playtest, pre-serious editing kind of way at…
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Participants: lumpley, Mike Holmes, Paul Czege.

12/27/2001 Mike Holmes: Cheating Death
Ron asks for: An application of game design that permits the player still to participate even though the character dies (and never mind kluges like resurrection, I mean Dead-death)…
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Participants: Mike Holmes, Ron Edwards, Clinton R. Nixon, Paul Czege, unodiablo, joshua neff, Jack Spencer Jr, Zak Arntson, James V. West, Laurel, Joe Murphy (Broin).

12/27/2001 Clinton R. Nixon: There and Back (a Meta-system) - idea from "Cheating Death"
Inspired by the ideas on the "Cheating Death" thread, I whipped this out. I'd actually incorporate this into a larger system that determined character resolution as well, but as is,…
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Participants: Clinton R. Nixon, Dave Versace.

12/27/2001 Zak Arntson: Preliminary Design - Gamist Cubes & Narrativist Fate
Two different game ideas: Cubes Competitive roleplaying corporate drones, a la Office Space (the movie). I wanted a game that uses cards, is competitive, and a commentary on my…
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Participants: Zak Arntson, Clinton R. Nixon.

12/28/2001 Cynthia Celeste Miller: Greetings
Believe it or not, I hadn't come to the Forge before last night. Maybe I just never thought to look beyond Rpg.net. So, I figured I'd introduce myself and start…
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Participants: Cynthia Celeste Miller, Joe Murphy (Broin), James V. West, Mike Holmes, joshua neff, unodiablo, Zak Arntson, Ryan Ary, Paganini, Matt Gwinn.

12/28/2001 Marco: Historical Inaccuracy
Whew ... I had something to say about Paul's historical-setting thread--but we were so close to the launch of our newest world book that it was better to wait. We've…
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Participants: Marco, James V. West, Laurel, Mike Holmes, Joe Murphy (Broin), joshua neff.

12/29/2001 Paganini: [Cornerstone] Introduction
Greetings! I'm a new user on the forge (check out my profile if you're interested), but I'd bet that I know a lot of you from other RPG-related lists around…
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Participants: Paganini, hardcoremoose, Mike Holmes, Cynthia Celeste Miller, contracycle, joshua neff.

12/30/2001 Epoch: Random Thought
(No, for the record, I haven't abandoned the fae wargame thing -- just thinking about it). Anyhow, I was pondering descriptor-based systems after Paganini's recent topic, and I had an…
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Participants: Epoch, Joe Murphy (Broin), Paganini, Jared A. Sorensen, Bankuei, Cynthia Celeste Miller.

12/30/2001 Paganini: [Cornerstone] Content
Supposing you picked up the latest $5-$10 self-published indie-RPG. You take it home and read it, and, regardless of what kind of setting information it contains, as far as rules…
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Participants: Paganini, James V. West, Cynthia Celeste Miller.

12/30/2001 Paganini: [Cornerstone] Poll: Organizational Writing
What, in your opinion is the best way to approach layout and writing in an RPG? This is not a general question... I want specific information form individuals about what…
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Participants: Paganini, Le Joueur, Mike Holmes, Cynthia Celeste Miller, Mithras.

12/30/2001 Paganini: [Cornerstone] [Genreal Design] Chapter Layout
Fang: Thanks for directing me to a useful and interesting thread. One thing not mentioned with respect to layout is: What if you only have one chapter for everything? That…
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Participants: Paganini, Mike Holmes, Le Joueur, Laurel, Ron Edwards.

12/31/2001 Cynthia Celeste Miller: Capturing the Spirit
This topic is inspired by the "Playtesting" thread over on the Publishing forum. I'm all about capturing the mood and spirit of the game setting / genre using any means…
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Participants: Cynthia Celeste Miller, Blake Hutchins, John Wick, JSDiamond, Jack Spencer Jr, James V. West, hardcoremoose, Laurel, Mike Holmes, Spawn.

12/31/2001 joe_llama: Greetings and Requests
Greetings everyone! Before I begin, I would like to say that this forum is the best I've seen in a long time. I still ask myself how is it possible…
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Participants: joe_llama, mahoux, Ron Edwards, Laurel.

12/31/2001 Zak Arntson: Harlekin-Maus monthly: Fungeon
I'm officially releasing my GM-less Dungeon Crawling game. Fungeon The holidays kicked me upside the head, so I wasn't able to make it super-amazing by the end of the…
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Participants: Zak Arntson, James V. West.

1/1/2002 Paganini: RPG Layout
For Cindi, a bit, but also I want to present an idea I had for the layout for Cornerstone. :smile: Cindi, and anyone who's interested, I have an RPG Layout…
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Participants: Paganini, Cynthia Celeste Miller, Ron Edwards, James V. West, Laurel, Matt Snyder, Jack Spencer Jr, J B Bell, Bailey.

1/1/2002 James V. West: The Iron Devils Quandary
I’m writing a game based on the Sword and Sorcery sub-genre of fantasy. Its called Iron Devils and its primarily based on the style and atmosphere of stories written by…
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Participants: James V. West, Uncle Dark, hardcoremoose, Paganini, Cynthia Celeste Miller, Matt Snyder, Laurel, Bankuei, Blake Hutchins, Paul Czege, greyorm, Jared A. Sorensen.

1/2/2002 Ian Freeman: High Fantasy System
Hey everybody, long time no see. I've just slammed out a rather interesting little high fantasy system that is designed specifically to feel like high fantasy. The whole system is…
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Participants: Ian Freeman, Skippy, Garbanzo, Thededine.

1/4/2002 Paganini: Eh?
How does one delete a message (such as this one, which is now in the process of being heavily edited :wink: that has been, for example, posted multiple times? font…
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Participants: Paganini.

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