Previous Topics
In Indie Game Design

4/26/2004 Demada: A spur of the moment rpg...
I wrote this during school, for the most part, then typed it up. There are probably typoes, so if you can't stand them, don't read :). I wrote this to…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Demada, Ron Edwards.

4/26/2004 timfire: [Mountain Witch] Trust + Fate
I don't expect to win the IGC, so I thought I would go ahead and ask for general opinions on my entry "The Mountain Witch." I've tweak things a little,…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: timfire, Ron Edwards, Emily Care, Mike Holmes.

4/26/2004 Simon W: Legends of The Land RPG
Here is a game I am working on. http://www.geocities.com/legendsoftheland/index.html It uses Jeffrey Schecters "Legends of Middle Earth" as its basis. It is not all up yet, so you are viewing…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Simon W, ghostwolf, Ron Edwards.

4/26/2004 ghostwolf: [Eschaton] Damage Mechanics
Hi guys. Previous Post I've been bashing my head against the wall last couple weeks trying to come up with a usable damage mechanic for my Sci-fi RPG. Here's what…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: ghostwolf, Ravien, Jack Aidley.

4/25/2004 ReverendBayn: Tallcard: a role-playing game for Joss Whedon's "Firefl
Lately, I've found myself with a hankerin' to run a Firefly game. As a compulsive system monkey, not to mention a rabid rules-lite man, I feel compelled to design a…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: ReverendBayn, Ravien, Zathreyel, Umberhulk, Ron Edwards.

4/24/2004 Master Merlin: finding
[color=green]i've been looking around and i havent found anywhere do you know of anywhere to play RPGs at?[/color]
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Master Merlin, Survivor.

4/22/2004 Astrivian: One quick thing
John Kim, thanks for the Forge links. They are really helpful and certainly tingle my intrest.
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Astrivian, Eero Tuovinen.

4/22/2004 Crackerjacker: DDM Development Thread
This is the official thread of further development for my Iron Chef game, Dawn of the Day of the Monsters. more to come.
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Crackerjacker, Green, Eero Tuovinen, Mike Holmes.

4/21/2004 Ben Lehman: Polaris: Trait Bidding
Yet another "Iron Game Chef" follow-up thread. I'm almost reluctant to post this, because I don't want to point out flaws in my game before the judging, but I really…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Ben Lehman, Eero Tuovinen.

4/21/2004 Shreyas Sampat: Snow From Korea: Advanced Interface Mechanics
You can read the IGC entries this post refers to here: Snow From Korea Whispers In The Door These games are designed as companions to each other, and I have,…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Shreyas Sampat, Nathan P..

4/20/2004 Walt Freitag: Index to Son of Iron Game Chef: Fantasy
[b]Index to Son of Iron Game Chef: Fantasy[/b] Please let me know about any omissions, errors, broken links, etc. [color=darkblue]1. SUBSTANTIALLY COMPLETED GAMES[/color] [b]The Battle of Frozen Waste[/b] Eero Tuovinen…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Walt Freitag, Dav, Zak Arntson, Eero Tuovinen.

4/20/2004 JamesSterrett: Tightening the System: Terminator Line
You can read the IGC entry this posting refers to at the top of the page here. The system is *intended* to produce a game that plays very quickly: conflict…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: JamesSterrett, Shreyas Sampat, Ron Edwards, Walt Freitag, Paul Czege, Mike Holmes, btrc, Dav.

4/20/2004 Green: Refining Kathanaksaya mechanics
Now that I have the system of Kathanaksaya pretty much complete, and I've been playtesting it for a while, my eye now turns to fine-tuning and polishing the material. Something…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Green, Phillip.

4/19/2004 Garbanzo: Quantification of Metagame Power
The Forge Birthday forum was a great success for me - xiombarg, Mark Johnson, Shreyas and I ended up meeting in the back room of a seedy strip joint (ok,…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Garbanzo, Asrogoth, Shreyas Sampat, Mark Johnson.

4/19/2004 Astrivian: The introduction of a new genere (hopefully)
I am new to this forum so forgive me if i seem to miss a great deal of past conversation and/or misuse terms. I have been working on a game,…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Astrivian, lumpley, BPetroff93, Dav, John Kim, chadu, Ben Lehman, greyorm, Nathan P., TerroX, clehrich, Palaskar.

4/18/2004 Ravien: [Eclipse] - How to Play and Chargen...
Ok, I know this technically isn't a post directly related to questions about mechanics, but it is related to a question about my Eclipse rulebook, which I plan to release…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Ravien, simon_hibbs, Nathan P., Hannu Hurme.

4/18/2004 Lord_Paladin: The newest guy on the block
Hello all, I'm the new guy (at least for now). You can all call me Jeremiah, currently I'm a college student in California. Anyways, I'm representing a little known on-line…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Lord_Paladin, Shreyas Sampat, Eero Tuovinen.

4/18/2004 Nathan P.: [Timesteam] Take a look!
Hey all I finally finished the first decent draft of Timestream, a game of time travel and manipulation. I already have a list of modifications I want to make, but…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Nathan P., Survivor, Sydney Freedberg, gobi, Spooky Fanboy, Ravien, Nathan.

4/18/2004 Survivor: How to get started...
Hey guys, remember me? I took your (group) advice, and have a prototype for a d20 Modern-based sci-fi RPG. It's pretty detailed - with vehicles, races, equipment, planets, artifacts, and…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Survivor, BPetroff93, Astrivian, Mike Holmes.

4/16/2004 xiombarg: intro to roleplaying (for Unsung)
Could y'all do me a favor? http://xiombrag.tripod.com/unstart.pdf The above is some introductory "what is roleplaying" kinda text for the RPG I'm currently working on the manuscript for. I want to…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: xiombarg, Zak Arntson, Jack Spencer Jr, quozl, Dev, Ben Lehman, Steve Samson.

<< more previous topics

Subsequent Topics
In Indie Game Design

4/29/2004 Chaopsychotic: Just saying hi, and a question about my game.
Hello. I just recently found this website and thougt I would present my idea for a game. I am starting to work on a long term RPG for a computer…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Chaopsychotic, Ravien, JamesSterrett, Shreyas Sampat.

4/30/2004 indigo: New system to present - best way?
Hey, all: This is my first post here, I just want to say that I'm planning on posting the core rules to a system I'm working on. It's not so…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: indigo, Andrew Martin, Shreyas Sampat.

5/1/2004 TracerFox: Shattered Prism Redux
I'm back again, but this time I think I just might have accidentally stumbled on a clear idea of what it is I want to do, and what I am…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: TracerFox, Nathan P., Jack Spencer Jr, Valamir, Mike Holmes.

5/2/2004 Master Merlin: Neu RPG
hello i've been working on a RPG and i've got a problem, i corrently have 4 abillitys(dexterity, strength, intelligents, charisma) but i just came up with alot more but there…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Master Merlin, Zathreyel, Sean, contracycle.

5/4/2004 Autocrat: [I.N.I.] Skill system, seeks alternative approach?
.....OK, heres the background...... I.N.I. is meant to be a flexible core set of rules and mechanics that permit the players to play in a variety of settings, either those…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Autocrat, BPetroff93, Andrew Martin, Mike Holmes, Walt Freitag, ethan_greer, Andrew Norris, Mark Johnson.

5/4/2004 ghostwolf: [Eschaton] Combat flow
Hi again. Still brainstorming stuff for my Sci-fi game here. My last post was about Damage Mechanics, so now I'd like to get some input on the system I've devised…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: ghostwolf, Ravien, Walt Freitag.

5/3/2004 Borogove: [Great Ork Gods] Rule idea (split)
[i]1. Ralph's idea for various difficulty altering the way Spite is allocated, strikes me as too complicated (who was it who last appealed anyway?) for an otherwise simple system. A…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Borogove, Ron Edwards.

5/4/2004 Mike Holmes: Iron Game Chef Reviews and Results
First, I wanted to comment on some trends I saw in the judging. First, a lot of these games are very close to the line between RPG and something else…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Mike Holmes.

5/4/2004 historian: Chronopia Adventures: A Dungeon Crawl Hack 'n' Slash RPGoid
Hi all This my first post in this forum and it is about one of my most promising game designs. This is a game I've been working loosely for the…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: historian, andy, Ron Edwards, NeuroZombie, Noon, Dumirik, Clinton R. Nixon.

5/5/2004 Frogknight: Game setting
What I have here is lots of random background info that I like typing up, and I was hoping people would help me out by commenting on it, to clarify…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Frogknight, clehrich, hanschristianandersen, Sydney Freedberg.

5/5/2004 Ron Edwards: [The Mountain Witch] Initial comments based on reading
Hello, This game floats my boat, so here are some comments I've worked up from reading. More will come, I'm sure, after I get a chance to play. The comments…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Ron Edwards, timfire, Mike Holmes.

5/6/2004 greyorm: IGC Results Discussion: At the Dawn
First off, I hate the name. I mean "At the Dawn"? How shallow and cheesy is that and completely uninventive is that? Seriously, "The Two Trees" would have been a…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: greyorm, Mike Holmes, Sydney Freedberg, simon_hibbs, hanschristianandersen.

5/6/2004 Bill_White: [Ganakagok] "Metaplot" Issues
I was very pleased to get an honorable mention for Ganakagok, my Iron Game Chef game. A pdf of the entry is here: http://www.personal.psu.edu/staff/w/j/wjw11/Ganakagok.pdf One of the development issues that…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Bill_White, Valamir, Mike Holmes, Lxndr.

5/7/2004 Zathreyel: [Bruise] Skill and Combat question
okay, i'm making this rpg with a sort of epic style of gameplay, as was argued to death in the rpg theory section here. the game has a framework for…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Zathreyel, Nathan P., Shreyas Sampat.

5/7/2004 Zathreyel: [Bruise] character personality rules
okay, one more little bit of help to ask of you guys for my game, and then i'm done for the day, i swear! in my game bruise, a sci-fi/fantasy-ish…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Zathreyel, Loki, Shreyas Sampat.

5/7/2004 Ryan Wynne: Comedy Games- Are Lite rules the way to go?
I am creating a comedy game called Hillbilles deluxe and I am thinking that rules lite is the way to go. It would involve D6 + Stat + skill vs…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Ryan Wynne, quozl, hanschristianandersen, ethan_greer, Valamir, timfire, Lxndr, Shreyas Sampat, Mike Holmes, semprebon, Jack Spencer Jr, Simon W, Ben Lehman, pete_darby, btrc, Latigo, Olibarro, Noon.

5/7/2004 Eero Tuovinen: [IGC book project] The triad prepares
(Incidentally, my first thread on this forum; I had promised myself to come here with a game to be proud of... but, well, these babies actually need it.) The Iron…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Eero Tuovinen, Mike Holmes.

5/8/2004 Ravien: [Eclipse] Gender and Social Class
Before I continue, I want to keep this topic strictly within the bounds of mechanical discussion. "X won't work, or won't correlate with your goal", that sort of thing. Discussion…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Ravien, Andrew Martin, Walt Freitag, Valamir, btrc, contracycle, John Kim, Mike Holmes, Maarzan, Lxndr, cruciel, Andrew Norris, NN.

5/8/2004 frictorious: die mechanic
I've been lurking here for a while, and I've learned alot from the threads and essays. So here's my first post: I have a couple of die mechanics I want…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: frictorious, Eero Tuovinen, Artanis, timfire.

5/8/2004 Jason Petrasko: [NEW RPG] A Thousand Suns
I was just recently thinking about how I would have done exalted, and came up with a nifty game idea. I really would like input on what I have churned…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Jason Petrasko, Shreyas Sampat, Spooky Fanboy.

more subsequent topics >>