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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…
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Participants: Zathreyel, Nathan P., Shreyas Sampat.

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…
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Participants: Bill_White, Valamir, Mike Holmes, Lxndr.

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…
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Participants: greyorm, Mike Holmes, Sydney Freedberg, simon_hibbs, hanschristianandersen.

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…
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Participants: Ron Edwards, timfire, Mike Holmes.

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…
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Participants: Frogknight, clehrich, hanschristianandersen, Sydney Freedberg.

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…
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Participants: historian, andy, Ron Edwards, NeuroZombie, Noon, Dumirik, Clinton R. Nixon.

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…
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Participants: Mike Holmes.

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…
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Participants: Borogove, Ron Edwards.

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…
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Participants: ghostwolf, Ravien, Walt Freitag.

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…
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Participants: Autocrat, BPetroff93, Andrew Martin, Mike Holmes, Walt Freitag, ethan_greer, Andrew Norris, Mark Johnson.

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…
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Participants: Master Merlin, Zathreyel, Sean, contracycle.

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…
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Participants: TracerFox, Nathan P., Jack Spencer Jr, Valamir, Mike Holmes.

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…
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Participants: indigo, Andrew Martin, Shreyas Sampat.

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…
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Participants: Chaopsychotic, Ravien, JamesSterrett, Shreyas Sampat.

4/27/2004 Jediblack: [Cippa System]: Action resolution
Hi all, I'm developing my own (universal) system. I'd like to use it diceless but also give a d6 option. Here's the core. Attribute: from 0 to 6 (average 3)…
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Participants: Jediblack, Andrew Martin, Walt Freitag, Dev, Argetlamh, Lollo.

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…
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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,…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Participants: ReverendBayn, Ravien, Zathreyel, Umberhulk, Ron Edwards.

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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Participants: Jason Petrasko, Shreyas Sampat, Spooky Fanboy.

5/10/2004 Jack Aidley: [Chanter] Spit & Polish
With upcoming plans to publish the current crop of Iron Game Chef games, I want to brush up Chanter a bit for it. Couldn't have it going out without the…
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Participants: Jack Aidley, Ben Lehman, Mike Holmes.

5/10/2004 Clarn: [FRPG Presentation] Athala
Hi all ! Here is the game I wrote : www.athala.org. I tried to make this game with a design which try to reach what professionnal could do. Except a…
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Participants: Clarn, Emily Care, Andrew Martin.

5/10/2004 Matt Gwinn: Mind, Body & Soul
After nearly 2 years of stagnation, I have finally updated my game Mind, Body & Soul The game is about relationships and how they effect our lives and how we…
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Participants: Matt Gwinn, Kryyst, Emily Care, Andrew Martin.

5/10/2004 Mithras: Progress on my Egyptian game ...
In this thread here: http://www.indie-rpgs.com/viewtopic.php?t=1296&highlight=kap I sketched out my ideas for an Egyptian game. It later switched to another thread (which I can't find) with Egyptian in the title I…
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Participants: Mithras, contracycle, Mike Holmes.

5/10/2004 fruitbatinshades: RedRavenRPG.com: I'm scared to ask!
Hi, We have been working on an RPG system for 2 years and we are finally getting ready to publish. I wish I had found this site sooner :( Can…
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Participants: fruitbatinshades, Matt Gwinn, Simon W, rafial, Jack Aidley, Mike Holmes, Emily Care, Taran, Zak Arntson, Ravien, Roy, Matt, Shreyas Sampat, dalek_of_god, jeffd, hanschristianandersen, Valamir, Dev.

5/12/2004 Nathan P.: [Timestream] Divorced Mechanics and Color
Heya. I'm working on a new draft of Timestream (you can check the current draft here, in the Downloads section, if you wish). I'm…
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Participants: Nathan P., Sydney Freedberg.

5/12/2004 Hunter Logan: Cash System (long)
This presentation is tied to this thread in the Theory forum. This is a draft of a system designed to allow intent-based resolution through Transactions instead of Contests…
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Participants: Hunter Logan, Andrew Martin, Emily Care, Valamir.

5/13/2004 Asrogoth: [God Lore] Simulationism? Further Evaluation/Assistance
Okay... One of the major comments I took from Mike's review of God Lore: The Chronicles of The Immortals (link here) was that he wondered what the Immortals actually…
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Participants: Asrogoth, Mike Holmes, Emily Care.

5/13/2004 Autocrat: Settings / Genres etc. ???
ALright, sort of a retarded post... but I want to see the responses.... As a large number of people seem to feel that settings are an important aspect of RPG…
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Participants: Autocrat, xiombarg, dalek_of_god, Bob Goat, taalyn, Matt, Dev, smokewolf, Olibarro, Ravien.

5/13/2004 dalek_of_god: [IGC] Fixing Habakkuk
Well, a freak May snowstorm has left me with little to do. I made it in to work today, but my students didn't. That leaves me with time to open…
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Participants: dalek_of_god, Mike Holmes.

5/13/2004 ethan_greer: Twisted Sicken: An RPG of mind-bending depravity
Sometimes I alarm people. This is your content warning. Here's this game I wrote. It's one of those thought experiment games, but I'd definitely play it. What I'm looking for…
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Participants: ethan_greer, JamesSterrett, Demada, Walt Freitag, isaackelley, clehrich, haze, Doctor Xero, John Harper, Dumirik, Alf_the_Often_Incorrect, Mike Holmes, Jody_Butt, Ron Edwards, Ben Lehman.

5/13/2004 fruitbatinshades: Simple combat system
For those that are interested, this is simplified combat system after tweaking as suggested by you lot :) Simple Combat System The simple combat system is resolved…
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Participants: fruitbatinshades, Mike Holmes, Knarf.

5/14/2004 kenjib: [Haalyr] Assigning difficulty for conflict based magic
Hello everyone, Haalyr, Adventures in the Age of Dreams, is a fantasy game that revolves around the central theme of a contest of will and the ability to impose your…
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Participants: kenjib, Mike Holmes, Walt Freitag.

5/14/2004 matthijs: [Will the Emperor Fall] RPG card game in need of mechanics
Will the Emperor Fall (rules below) has been playtested a little bit: by myself and friends (with moderate success), at Arcon (where most players enjoyed themselves), and by a Swedish…
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Participants: matthijs, Mike Holmes, ethan_greer, smokewolf.

5/15/2004 daMoose_Neo: [FT Divergence]Initial ideas, opinions desired, more to come
I've posted about the CG before, Final Twilight, and my intent to make it an RPG/TCG hybred, and for the most part I think I've done a fair job of…
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Participants: daMoose_Neo, Ron Edwards.

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