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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 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] - 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.

9/21/2004 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.

9/21/2004 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 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.

9/20/2004 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.

9/20/2004 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 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.

9/19/2004 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.

9/18/2004 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.

9/18/2004 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.

9/17/2004 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.

9/16/2004 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.

9/16/2004 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.

9/15/2004 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.

9/15/2004 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 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 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.

9/14/2004 TonyLB: [Capes] Debt or Resource?
[quote="LordSmerf"][quote="Doug Ruff"][... snip]Re: Drives and staking thereof, At the moment, the players have to place Debt against their Drives to use a power, and can then stake this Debt. Why…
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Participants: TonyLB, LordSmerf, Doug Ruff, Sydney Freedberg.

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9/23/2004 daMoose_Neo: [Genetisys] "File off Serial Numbers" or originali
While working on the most impish of games (Dungeons for Dummies), I was tossing around some ideas and dice at work when a fellow roleplayer suggested doing 1d6 per level…
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Participants: daMoose_Neo.

9/25/2004 oversoul01: [Dice Chucker]- Revamp and Layout
Wow it has been a long time since I posted. This is just an update on my progress. Since I last posted I have been hard at work on revamping…
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Participants: oversoul01.

9/27/2004 Kilor Di: [Terrae Novae] Opinions
www.geocities.com/greginkelaar/projects.html and then click on Terrae Novae. Sorry I haven't posted in a while, but between finishing college and getting a job, I haven't had too much time to work…
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Participants: Kilor Di, TonyLB.

9/27/2004 Nazzi: [Finger] Health concept
Hi, I just added a new tweak to fingers. It's a new concept named Health. A really revulutionary stuff. It works just like any othe concpet, just every charcter has…
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Participants: Nazzi.

9/28/2004 Dauntless: Story Concept: Gritty military sci-fi
Hello, I was wondering if people could give me some feedback, suggestions, and ideas on a game world I've been brewing in the undigested parts of my brain for some…
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Participants: Dauntless, Precious Villain, Nazzi, Tobias.

9/28/2004 LordSmerf: [Trust and Betrayal] Where's the conflict?
So i have been thinking quite a bit about Trust and Betrayal and i think i have most of what i want fleshed out. I will have to test it…
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Participants: LordSmerf, TonyLB.

9/28/2004 Dauntless: Game conflict of interests: Crunchiness vs. Introspection
In going with the story concept in my other thread, I want to emphasize two complementary aspects. The first aspect is the militaristic, crunchy and detailed nature of the game…
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Participants: Dauntless, Green, TonyLB.

9/29/2004 Gaiaguerrilla: [Gnost]Two directions for design.
Most recent related post here. I'm hoping game design will progress better if I find the most popular road. I think my core idea is unique, but can fit in…
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Participants: Gaiaguerrilla, Andrew Martin.

9/29/2004 Inner Circle Inc: [Strife]Walking the line
In American society today, and most of the world, there are certain things that aren't supposed to be messed with, religion being one of those. The situation we're in, is…
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Participants: Inner Circle Inc, Andrew Martin.

9/29/2004 TonyLB: [Capes] Speeding character design
Capes is a superhero game with very broad abilities. Your Powers or Tropes can be pretty much anything that can happen. "God answers my prayers" is just as legitimate as…
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Participants: TonyLB, LordSmerf, Sydney Freedberg, Doug Ruff, WhiteRat, efindel, John Harper, Vaxalon.

10/1/2004 Tanz Debil: (Tragedy) A tragic core mechanic
Hi all. First post and all that. I would be grateful if you would help me with a few questions that I have. I've been thinking about themes I have…
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Participants: Tanz Debil, clehrich, Andrew Martin, Dumirik.

10/3/2004 LordSmerf: [Trust and Betrayal] A couple of points regarding Draft 1
So i managed to get a first draft of Trust and Betrayal hammered out. You can find the draft here if you are interested (and i hope you are). There…
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Participants: LordSmerf, John Kirk, TonyLB.

10/3/2004 Sean: [Scarlet Wake] Introducing Peons Rule
This game looks extremely promising. I have some heavy RL stuff going on right now but it's at least moved up to near the top of my 'want to try…
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Participants: Sean, Ravien.

10/4/2004 Green: [Kathanaksaya] Puntitive mechanics: yay or nay?
For a while now, I've been toying with how to utilize the idea of Fading in Kathanaksaya, but I've been unable to determine something that could really work. Part of…
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Participants: Green, Vaettyr, TonyLB, Jack Aidley, GregS, Shreyas Sampat.

10/4/2004 Zaidaco: [Galactic] Aien types
Hey all, For the last year or so, I've had an idea bouncing around my brain for a Sci-Fi role playing game. Now, it's my intention to allow the player…
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Participants: Zaidaco, TonyLB, Nathan P., GregS, ErrathofKosh, Sydney Freedberg, ADGBoss, Vaxalon, Andrew Martin.

10/5/2004 TonyLB: [Capes] Non-conflict mechanics
[url=http://www.museoffire.com/Games/Capes%20Sept%2017.pdf]Capes[/url] presents everything that can be done game-mechanically as a series of conflicts between two or more sides. This forces people to scene-frame right to the juicy conflicts, but that's…
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Participants: TonyLB, LordSmerf, Doug Ruff, Sydney Freedberg.

10/5/2004 Shreyas Sampat: Game in Search of Dice Mechanic, Likes Pina Coladas
So, all the buzz about Dogs in the Vineyard, and seeing Hero in theatre, has inspired me to write again. I was particularly enamoured of the way that DitV conflicts…
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Participants: Shreyas Sampat, TonyLB, Doug Ruff, inky, Dev, Jonathan Walton, Ben Lehman.

10/6/2004 TonyLB: [Capes] Not Complications -- Events!
Last night, discussing a problematic Complication ("Victoria West's Friendship") Eric said something like this: "Look, by declaring this Complication we've established that West will make a show of her appreciation.…
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Participants: TonyLB, TheCzech, Doug Ruff, Sydney Freedberg, LordSmerf, efindel.

10/7/2004 Blankshield: Death's Door: Summary and mechanics question
I've been working on a game design for a little while now, and it's reached the point where it's not just 'practice' but is something I intend to publish, probably…
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Participants: Blankshield, TonyLB, Nathan P..

10/8/2004 TonyLB: [Capes] Pacing without Victory Points
I have yet to play a game where keeping track of Victory Points has made anyone a happier gamer. Sad, but true. As Sydney points out here, the Tension Threshold…
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Participants: TonyLB, LordSmerf, efindel.

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