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11/9/2004 Tobias: [GroupDesign] Schrodinger's war: Nailing Axes
Ladies and Gentlemen, This is a thread in the GroupDesign series, focusing on nailing the 'Axes' (the scales in the balance in Schrodinger's war.) A lot has been said on…
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Participants: Tobias, Andrew Morris, Sydney Freedberg, Nathan P., Michael Brazier, Doug Ruff, TonyLB, Dumirik, mholmes52, contracycle, daMoose_Neo.

11/9/2004 Tobias: [GroupDesign] Schrodinger's war: Feel of Play
Ladies in Gentlemen, this thread is about why the GroupDesign game Schrodinger's War is cool. What does it feel like to play? For instance, why are all you contributing? What…
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Participants: Tobias, daMoose_Neo, Sydney Freedberg, Nathan P., Andrew Morris, hix, contracycle, Doug Ruff, TonyLB, Dumirik, BlueDanube.

11/9/2004 GreedIsGod: As-Yet-Unnamed-Game [Fantasy]
I am working (mainly a collection of ideas, as I do all my thinking at work without access to a pen and pad) on a game setting (no thought given…
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Participants: GreedIsGod, Shreyas Sampat, Cmonkey, contracycle, Rob Carriere, lumpley, daMoose_Neo, Valamir, abzu, apparition13, gruk, Ron Edwards, raithe, Ben Lehman, Eero Tuovinen, Wheeler, greedo1379.

11/7/2004 Veritas Games: Combinatorics: Categorized Point-Based Costing Models
I've found that often point-based architectures for character creation sometimes break down because they don't take into account vast synergy between certain powers. Some of that can be taken into…
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Participants: Veritas Games, TonyLB, Precious Villain, Ron Edwards, GregS, ZeOtter, Nathan P..

11/7/2004 Simon W: It's a Dog's Life goes Anthropomorphic!
Okay, this isn't artwork for It's a Dog's Life 2nd Edition, but the artist (Alfredo Lopez Jr.) was inspired by my game to come up with this http://www.geocities.com/dogs_life2003/dogslife.jpg Now, this…
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Participants: Simon W, timfire, madelf, Nathan P., Atilary, Dumirik, GregS, Sydney Freedberg.

11/6/2004 daMoose_Neo: [Dungeons/Dummies] Dungeon Design 101
[url=http://www.indie-rpgs.com/viewtopic.php?t=13280][Dunegons/Dummies]Rough Draft 1: The Imps[/url] Fairly comfortable with the way the Imps and basic play as them are handled, tis time to turn attention to one of the other core…
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Participants: daMoose_Neo, Nathan P., Walt Freitag, Tobias.

11/5/2004 RobMuadib: T:COTEC - Accuracy, How to calculate a Value
Hello people Yes I am still working on my game. (Currently titled Teramyr: Chronicles of the Eternal Cycle) Currently I am tweaking details of combat and one that's got me…
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Participants: RobMuadib, Mike Holmes, Roger, eef, Passer by.

11/2/2004 daMoose_Neo: [Dunegons/Dummies]Rough Draft 1: The Imps
After playing around with some mechanics, I think I have the D/D basics down! Players roll 2d6 less than a Target Number, which starts for ALL challenges at 2. By…
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Participants: daMoose_Neo, KeithBVaughn, Tobias.

11/2/2004 Dangerboy: [The Myan Hotel] Monster encounter mechanic
Hello, Everyone. I'm trying to find a way to generate monsters for a horror game I'm designing. The layout of the game is that one player (the GM) controls the…
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Participants: Dangerboy, TonyLB, Vaxalon, daMoose_Neo, GregS, zephyr_cirrus, Mike Holmes, Thor.

11/2/2004 Chris Goodwin: Special: the RPG
This is something I've been working on recently. I feel like I'm opening up my aorta and letting it drain into this posting (sorry for the imagery, folks) but I'm…
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Participants: Chris Goodwin, Tomas HVM, TonyLB, Nathan P., Sydney Freedberg, Dangerboy, Spooky Fanboy, Rick James, daMoose_Neo.

10/31/2004 Tav_Behemoth: [Masters and Minions] Statement of Intent
This is from a draft of the intro of Horde Book 3. Comments appreciated. ---------- WHAT IS MASTERS AND MINIONS? It’s 2004, and the children of fantasy roleplaying are thirty…
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Participants: Tav_Behemoth, abzu.

10/30/2004 TonyLB: [Capes] Thread Index
Capes, a superhero game with heart, is an ongoing, almost completed, project in "Game Design Theater in the Round". From nigh on its earliest beginnings the game has developed right…
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Participants: TonyLB.

10/30/2004 Suvordaeus: LoserQuest: Slowly destroying all tolerance for others.
Hello, everyone. I'm pretty new here, but I have lurked on the boards for a little while. Anyways, I have created a system (see signature) and I'm working on a…
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Participants: Suvordaeus, Robin Hood, contracycle, Blankshield, Miskatonic.

10/29/2004 Blankshield: [Death's Door] Social contract guidance
See a summary of the game in this thread. In this thread, I want to talk about social contract setup for Death's Door. In the quote box is the extant…
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Participants: Blankshield.

10/27/2004 TonyLB: [Capes] Tropes or no Tropes
In the Polishing thread, Frankly, since chain-reactions of "no, I trope that" was such a big part of the fun in playtest -- and such a powerful form…
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Participants: TonyLB, Sydney Freedberg, LordSmerf, Doug Ruff, Eamon, efindel.

10/26/2004 Tobias: [GroupDesign] Thread Index and progress
This thread cataloges the different posts in the GroupDesign effort - a design effort by several people from the forge, on the forge. Purpose of this thread is ease of…
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Participants: Tobias, Andrew Morris, Sydney Freedberg.

10/24/2004 Psuedopod: Dark, low-power space opera
Hello, everyone. I'm kind of new here, and I guess I'd like some advice on the game I'm developing. It's an idea I've been working on for some time... The…
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Participants: Psuedopod, darthblevis, Matt Wilson, Vaxalon, Roger, Dev, greedo1379, Walt Freitag.

10/24/2004 daMoose_Neo: [Dungeons/Dummies] Mechanic brainstorm
Let me run this through: 1) Read this thread last night: The Try/Fail Sequence as a Mechanic 2) Went to bed right afterword, part of it sticking in my brain.…
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Participants: daMoose_Neo, jerry.

10/24/2004 gobi: [Freak High] Second Draft
Let me start off by apologizing for my lengthy absence from the community. I've been gone for several months because of various RL reasons. Now that things are settled, I…
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Participants: gobi, Nathan P., Psuedopod, darthblevis, Dev, Shreyas Sampat.

10/23/2004 Palaskar: Need help explaining the Social Contract in my RPG
Ok, I'm revising my indie RPG, and I get to the session with the Social Contract. I get feedback asking for more examples and details on how to settle problems…
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Participants: Palaskar, TonyLB.

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11/9/2004 Nathan P.: [Relativity Engine] Some Concepts
So I'm hacking out a rough copy of a mechanics core that I call the Relativity Engine. There are two things I'd like to discuss on this thread: *Does the…
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Participants: Nathan P., daMoose_Neo.

11/9/2004 daMoose_Neo: [Dungeons/Dummies] Monsters & Adventurers
Dungeons/Dummies Threads: Dungeon Design 101 Rough Draft 1: The Imps Cruising along with the design of D/D and actually preparing for some playtesting tonight, I'm running headlong into Adventurers…
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Participants: daMoose_Neo, Tobias.

11/11/2004 daMoose_Neo: [Dungeons/Dummies] Draft 3 - The Assembled!
Current threads: So much fun its illegal! - Actual play notes Monsters and Adventurers Dungeon Design 101 Rough Draft 1 - The Imps This thread is…
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Participants: daMoose_Neo.

11/11/2004 clehrich: [Shadows In The Fog] New Draft
Some of you may recall my game Shadows in the Fog, an occult history horror and weirdness thing set in Jack the Ripper's London. Well, after much agony and some…
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Participants: clehrich, redivider, Mike Holmes, Cemendur, Piers Brown, Jere, Ron Edwards, Bailywolf, Lee Short.

11/15/2004 Blankshield: [Death's Door] Sidebars and how-to-play guides
Description of the game here. Worth noting that since this post I've shifted from "probably free pdf" to probably print, as I've gotten some very good opportunities for printing at…
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Participants: Blankshield, Jason E Leigh, Mike Holmes.

11/18/2004 Matt Wilson: Galactic - space adventure fortified with narrativism!
I'm really inspired right now by Clinton's unparalleled enthusiasm with his new game, so I'm gathering up all these ideas I've left lying around and starting work on a new…
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Participants: Matt Wilson, JamesDJIII, Technocrat13, Valamir, Alan, Ben Lehman, Sydney Freedberg, TonyLB, Psuedopod, daMoose_Neo, greedo1379, johnzo.

11/19/2004 clehrich: Levi-Strauss in Amazonia -- MLwM Variant
Long ago, on the Birthday Forum last Spring, Eero Tuovinen made the terrible mistake of suggesting a transposition of My Life with Master as Levi-Strauss in Amazonia. I apologize, but…
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Participants: clehrich, matthijs, Eero Tuovinen, John Kirk.

11/21/2004 timfire: [Mountain Witch] Ai-Uchi (Mutual Kill)
In MW, as it stands right now, there's an option under Partial Success called "Win-Lose". With a Win-Lose, both parties gain a Regular Success. The idea behind this was basically…
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Participants: timfire, Ron Edwards, humis.

11/24/2004 Trevis Martin: Revisionist History: Mechanics Clarity Check
Hi folks, I've just put the alpha writeup of my game Revisionist History on my website. Check it out here This is a game in which all the players take…
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Participants: Trevis Martin, reprobate, Nathan P., Lathan, clehrich.

11/25/2004 biggpapa: DND MMORPG
me and my buddy are in the planning stages of putting together a mmorpg style dnd computer game it will be shareware and will come in dm's edition or players…
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Participants: biggpapa, daMoose_Neo, Tav_Behemoth.

11/25/2004 Tav_Behemoth: Navigating Scales of Time and Size (A Dinosaur Game)
Woke up from a nap with some half-baked ideas, which I hope to bake a bit with y'all! One of the cool ideas in Gene Wolfe's Book of the New…
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Participants: Tav_Behemoth, Nathan P..

11/26/2004 Finvara: Roaring: Flappers, Gangsters, and a Life of Adventure
I'm currently in the brainstorming process of what I hope to be my first published (albeit probably free/online) RPG. The setting is an amalgum of the 20s and 30s, incorporating…
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Participants: Finvara, madelf, komradebob, lumpley.

11/27/2004 NeuroZombie: New Dice Mechanic
Well, variation of a die mechanic, I should say. I am working on a system that works like this: Stats & Skills (and just about everything else that has a…
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Participants: NeuroZombie, Suvordaeus, Walt Freitag, Precious Villain, timfire, Troy_Costisick, ethan_greer.

11/27/2004 JSE: [Alter Ego] Character creation
Maybe you remeber Alter Ego, my in-development universal role-playing system. Alter Ego uses "realistic" and detailed rules rather than abstract strategic devices. If you would like some more information about…
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Participants: JSE.

11/27/2004 madelf: The Fortune Convention: A new beginning
Well, I've been doing brutal things to my game system. It only slightly resembles it's original form (and it's a hell of a lot shorter). And I'm hoping you guys…
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Participants: madelf.

11/27/2004 Kesher: [Literati] A story game for the bibliophile...
Howdy, all. I started writing this game because I needed to read a bunch of books this last summer to get ready for teaching them this fall (I teach high…
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Participants: Kesher.

11/28/2004 LizardLips: A dice mechanic for review
I've been tinkering with a new dice mechanic, but since I'm terrible at figuring probabilities, its hard for me to judge what kind of results I'll be generating. Characters have…
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Participants: LizardLips, NeuroZombie, TonyLB, timfire, The Benj, John Wick, brenman99, GaryTP.

11/30/2004 daMoose_Neo: [Dungeons/Dummies] Ranking a Dungeon-still needs work :P
In my previous threads dealing with Monsters & Adventurers and Dungeon Design, the one factor I kept stumbling over is how to rank a dungeon. I was digging around the…
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Participants: daMoose_Neo, Tobias.

12/1/2004 caio_maximino: Sanity system
Well, it's been a long time since I've been thinking, with a few friends, on designing a psychopatology RPG system. It's a difficult task, though. First of all, there's the…
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Participants: caio_maximino, TonyLB, SlurpeeMoney, sophist, sirogit, Dumirik, clehrich.

12/1/2004 jburneko: Silent Sound: A Game of Guilt and Judgement
Hello Everyone, I don't really fancy myself much of a game designer so I almost never post in this forum. I'm not posting much these days in general because life…
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Participants: jburneko, Jasper.

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