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9/14/2004 gamerowl: [In Two Worlds] Is dice pool appropriate?
First game design! In the game In Two Worlds, players play everyday, normal people who are, at random times, switched into a fantastic world where they are heroes (in different…
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Participants: gamerowl, Ravien, TonyLB, Joshua Tompkins.

9/14/2004 Joshua Tompkins: [The Cauldron] Conflict Resolution Mechanics Help
I'm having some problems with a game I'm working on, and I was hoping you guys might find some time to help me out. I've been reading the Forge for…
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Participants: Joshua Tompkins, Ravien, Nathan P., Ron Edwards, Valamir, inky, John Kirk.

9/13/2004 WyldKarde: Need a title.
Ahh life is good. Outatowners is undergoing it's final textual edit before getting all it's shiny pictures and cool layout. The system has been revemped to run on the Miscreant…
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Participants: WyldKarde, contracycle, smokewolf, ErrathofKosh, Walt Freitag, Joshua Tompkins, Paul Czege, hix.

9/12/2004 mindwanders: Player created relationship maps
OK folks, I'm working on an idea for a LARP system at the moment, and one of the core ideas behind it is that everyone that is important within the…
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Participants: mindwanders, TonyLB, hix.

9/12/2004 daMoose_Neo: [Dungeons/Dummies] Experimental Die Mechanics & Rambling
Gawd I love selling cell phones. Get paid for 8 hours of listening to idiots, reading 'Dune' books and chucking dice! 1) Experimental Dice Mechancs - Challenge Resolution This comes…
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Participants: daMoose_Neo.

9/11/2004 redwalker: Re: Twisted Sicken: An RPG of mind-bending depravity
[quote="ethan_greer"] [size=18px]Endgame:[/size] If someone cries or vomits, the game is over. Jesus Christ, what is the matter with you people? [/quote] This is a very boring game. I doubt that…
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Participants: redwalker, Ron Edwards.

9/12/2004 redwalker: Re: Inexhaustible Magic
[quote="Bluve Oak"]Greetings. I'm looking for an RPG that has inexhaustible magic. By this I mean a system where you can cast spells all day long without limitations or anything becoming…
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Participants: redwalker, Ron Edwards, 16CBH, Vaxalon, Marco, TonyLB, MajorKiz, Mike Holmes, epweissengruber.

9/11/2004 Tav_Behemoth: [Masters and Minions] Why Are Mummies Cool?
As Ron has said, the Masters and Minions books are more about archetype than procedure. So rather than help with designing a mechanic, I'm looking for help making sure that…
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Participants: Tav_Behemoth, Mark D. Eddy, greedo1379, Doug Ruff, contracycle, Christopher Weeks, TonyLB, Walt Freitag.

9/11/2004 Jason Petrasko: [Karbon] A New Mechanic
Ok, I have decided I would like to move away from the layered system and towards a player-choice centered system. A system where doubt is the real issue. Here is…
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Participants: Jason Petrasko.

9/10/2004 redwalker: RAC:the game of Retroactive Continuity
I am working on a game that is centered on Retroactive Continuity, as seen in many comic books and long-running time-travel stories. The working title is "RetroActiveContinuity," or RAC for…
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Participants: redwalker, Vaxalon, TonyLB.

9/10/2004 Gaiaguerrilla: An intense model for the "average person" NPC.
The goal of this post is to make an elaborate description of the average person, using many different Rpgs. A big problem in my game design is probably that I'm…
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Participants: Gaiaguerrilla.

9/9/2004 Roger: [Scarlet Wake] Review
(I started a new thread since this is fairly long, and I didn't want to hijack the review thread with reviews of this review, if you see what I mean.)…
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Participants: Roger.

9/8/2004 TonyLB: [Capes] Players and Villains
Welcome back, true believers, to design of Capes: Superhero Storytelling! When last we left our intrepid designers, they had created a system that looks like it will run faster, stay…
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Participants: TonyLB, Sydney Freedberg, Alan, Ron Edwards, John Harper, Doug Ruff, LordSmerf, Bill_White.

9/7/2004 daMoose_Neo: [Dungeons for Dummies] Notes: Character Creation & Scene
[b]Dungeons for Dummies[/b] [url=http://www.neoproductions.net/files/DfD_Imp.PDF]Imp Character Creation[/url] [url=http://www.neoproductions.net/files/DfD_Scenerios.PDF]Scenerio Ideas[/url] Premise: Instead of playing a stalwart band of intrepid heroes, players take on the role of a Horde of Imps- mildly evil…
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Participants: daMoose_Neo, Bob Goat, Tobias, Inner Circle Inc.

9/6/2004 TooManyGoddamnOrcs: Another Attempt to Pull an Indy Game out of my Ass with ease
I find kill puppies for satan to be an excellent game because of what I interpret (quite uncharitably) as its central idea: this style of play displeases me and so…
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Participants: TooManyGoddamnOrcs, TonyLB, inky.

9/3/2004 linux: Dice Pool Scalability
I am designing a system and have come across a 'bug'. My system includes 12 Attributes with corresponding skills in each attribute. My problem is two-fold. With my die pool…
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Participants: linux, Andrew Martin, Tobias, btrc, Doug Ruff.

9/2/2004 Ravien: Scarlet Wake: Official Play-Test Release
Hey, Some of you might remember that a few months ago I released a version of my game, Scarlet Wake, for play-test. I received a bunch of responses and suggestions,…
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Participants: Ravien, Andrew Morris, Ron Edwards, John Harper, Andrew Martin, Paul Czege, Sydney Freedberg, Dumirik, Jonathan Walton.

9/2/2004 Tobias: [YGAD] - finally, the 'finalized' core
And I say that with some sarcasm - but at least, I now no longer have the feeling there's a gaping big hole in the system. After the first testing,…
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Participants: Tobias, Ron Edwards, statisticaltomfoolery.

9/2/2004 bcook1971: [Tell Your Tale] Playtest Update
Just had an interesting playtest with a couple of friends. It felt good to stretch the system's legs. A couple of points are worth sharing: Writing the player characters…
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Participants: bcook1971.

9/1/2004 inthisstyle: [Mortal Coil] Passions
OK, here is one part of the system I am currently working on. Basically, this game is a diceless system where actions are taken by allocating Action tokens toward a…
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Participants: inthisstyle, TonyLB.

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9/15/2004 gamerowl: [In Two Worlds] revised premise
In the previous thread, I stated that the game was about the players balancing both a normal, ordinary and a fantastic, heroic life. But after some wonderful…
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Participants: gamerowl, TonyLB, kumo, Nathan P., Tony Irwin, Ron Edwards.

9/15/2004 Joshua Tompkins: [The Cauldron] Addressing the Premise
Okay, this is split (sort of) from the other Cauldron thread, still available here. After some discussion and deepthink about what exactly I wanted the Cauldron to be about, I…
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Participants: Joshua Tompkins, Mark D. Eddy.

9/15/2004 TonyLB: [Capes] Unresolved Complications
The current text of Capes is here. The system represents situations as a set of Complications. Heroes and villains can place Stakes on these Complications, to represent their moral investment…
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Participants: TonyLB, LordSmerf, Doug Ruff, Sydney Freedberg.

9/15/2004 inthisstyle: [Mortal Coil] Passions, Second Salvo
OK, I have been thinking about this some more, and I decided to repost to the forum here and see if anyone can help me with this part of my…
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Participants: inthisstyle, TonyLB, Satyrblade.

9/16/2004 FruitSmack!: [Cold] Ghosts, Scams and The Biggest Douche Bag in the World
Hey all! So I was up last night writing on my (potential) mini-supplement and I had the TV on in the background. It was tuned into John Edward's Crossing Over…
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Participants: FruitSmack!, TonyLB, Walt Freitag.

9/16/2004 TonyLB: [Capes] Setting the Scene, Complications
[quote="Sydney Freedberg"]... suggest that someone can kick another character off their "side" if either party thinks their goals are incongruent -- which implies a goal-setting phase -- which implies something…
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Participants: TonyLB, Sydney Freedberg, Doug Ruff, John Harper.

9/17/2004 WyldKarde: Infinity Divide: Rebellion 2.0
Well, I've got a working title, and since I now know what to call it, I can go ahead and start developing it. Those who know me know I won't…
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Participants: WyldKarde.

9/18/2004 TonyLB: [Capes] Scene Goals
Okay, as promised, I have written up my best guess at an Example of Play for the Scene Goal rules that Doug recommended here. I'll be interested to hear whether…
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Participants: TonyLB, Doug Ruff, Sydney Freedberg, LordSmerf.

9/18/2004 btrc: EABA lite?
I've been working on an introductory version of the EABA system as a free download for people, as well as trying to make a version of the mechanics that can…
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Participants: btrc, Ron Edwards, psychophipps, salkaner, Lee Torres.

9/19/2004 ReverendCuster187: Could you help me find...
I vaguely remember a discussion about a game set in prison, where the characters where defined by metaphors of what flowed through their veins - drugs, disease, steel, those sort…
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Participants: ReverendCuster187, Shreyas Sampat, Walt Freitag.

9/20/2004 Tobias: [GroupDesign] - Clusters 2 and 3
Gentlemen (and ladies, if reading), Let's get into the earlier defined Clusters 2 and 3: 2. Maintaining a Balance, Making Hard Choices, FastHard/SlowSteady. As far as I can tell,…
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Participants: Tobias, contracycle, LordSmerf, Andrew Morris, Doug Ruff, TonyLB, Sydney Freedberg, Thor, GregS, Jediblack.

9/20/2004 TonyLB: [Capes] Strategy Search
Okay, I'm trying something a bit new. Here is a new Strategy Page for Capes. This is a very small file. Just go ahead and download it. Here are the…
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Participants: TonyLB, Doug Ruff, LordSmerf.

9/20/2004 Nazzi: [Fingers] Gamesystem review
Hi there. I just worte a RPG witch should achieve several goals. Fisrt of all is shared GMing, based ona series of random events creted by the players at the…
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Participants: Nazzi, timfire, Wilper.

9/21/2004 Bob Goat: [The City] Rough Cut Game Idea
Hey, So I was sitting in traffic and thinking about Sin City and realized I wanted to make a game that captures that, Chow Yun-Fat movies & Film Noir and…
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Participants: Bob Goat, TonyLB, GregS, Nathan P., Ron Edwards.

9/21/2004 DigitalMage: [LowDie] Looking for feedback / casual playtesters
I have written an RPG system (no setting) called LowDie and have released it as a Rich Text File (RTF) under the Open Game Licence (OGL). As I am not…
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Participants: DigitalMage, Andrew Martin, Walt Freitag, statisticaltomfoolery, RobMuadib.

9/21/2004 timfire: [Mountain Witch] The Witch + Anti-Trust?
[[i]**You can find the playtest version of MW [url=http://www.timfire.com/MountainWitch.html]here.[/url]**[/i]] Lately I've been doing a little thinking about how I might be able to give the Witch in MW a little…
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Participants: timfire, LordSmerf, Paul Czege, ErrathofKosh.

9/23/2004 Tobias: [GroupDesign] - Nailing Mechanics
Everyone, This Thread is a sister thread to 'GroupDesign - Core vs. Options', 'GroupDesign - Time Travel Party!'. As the threads on the clusters draw to a close, it's time…
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Participants: Tobias, Jediblack, Doug Ruff, Andrew Morris, Sydney Freedberg.

9/23/2004 Tobias: [GroupDesign] - Core vs. Optional (and Option1)
Everyone, In the past we've decided to go with a Core-and-Customisation method for our Game (which really needs a working title, btw. Suggestions?). In this thread, I would like us…
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Participants: Tobias, Andrew Morris, Doug Ruff, LordSmerf, Sydney Freedberg.

9/23/2004 Tobias: [GroupDesign] - Time Travel Party!
Everyone, In this thread, we'll handle 2 different subjects: 1. What to do with Time Travel? 2. Do we have a 'party' - or at least, how can this game…
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Participants: Tobias, Andrew Morris, Doug Ruff, Sydney Freedberg, LordSmerf, TonyLB, Jediblack.

9/23/2004 TonyLB: [Capes] Story Tokens: Limits needed?
Well, Capes is still in progress, but I can definitely see daylight at the end of the tunnel. I'm getting a face-to-face campaign set up, writing up a quick-entry scenario…
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Participants: TonyLB, GregS, Sydney Freedberg, LordSmerf.

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