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4/27/2005 Bob the Fighter: Dream Police - fantasy free for all
So I've been poring over Hellboy, Lucifer, Ultimate X-men/The Ultimates, Fables, and a bunch of other comics long enough to get some ideas. Someone said recently at the Forge that…
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Participants: Bob the Fighter, Mike Holmes, Andrew Morris, Simon W.

4/27/2005 Shreyas Sampat: Torchbearer Sucks, and Starting Over
So, some of you may know that I have long ago worked on a game called Torchbearer, whose intent was to be a game of sparkling, elegant, energetic mythology. It…
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Participants: Shreyas Sampat, Mike Holmes, 1of3, Jason E Leigh, Dev, Ben Lehman, Bob the Fighter.

4/27/2005 komradebob: A Cauldron of Magic Beans[Floor game]
Well, I've been reading and posting at the Forge for a long time now, and I guess it's time I posted a design for critique. Below is my (lengthy) design.…
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Participants: komradebob.

4/26/2005 FzGhouL: A Shot in the Past.
This idea is based on a dream I just woke up from that I thought was totally awesome. Players (1-4) and one Memory Keeper are needed. So, basically the jist…
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Participants: FzGhouL, komradebob, Mike Holmes.

4/23/2005 Victor Gijsbers: Vampires - a postmodern roleplaying game
[b][u]Vampires - a postmodern roleplaying game[/u] Or: What I did with Hungry Desperate and Alone[/b] Some time ago, I read Vincent's [url=http://www.septemberquestion.org/lumpley/hungry.html]Hungry Desperate and Alone[/url], and was intrigued. It was…
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Participants: Victor Gijsbers, Bob the Fighter, Eva Deinum, xenopulse, shaheddy, darrick, Ben Lehman, Tobias, daMoose_Neo, xiombarg, Jason Mical, The_Tim, pete_darby.

4/22/2005 1of3: Big? Wild? Prey!
Hi. I wanted to present a little game, I’m working on. (I have asked for some inspiration in this thread before.) The game is about professional monster hunters in some…
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Participants: 1of3, Valamir, xenopulse, Simon Kamber.

4/22/2005 WhiteRat: [Ends and Means] Debut
I never planned on designing a game system. Then two weeks ago (as I sat in a job training course, mind wandering) suddenly all the disconnected musings I'd had over…
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Participants: WhiteRat, Andrew Morris, Ben Lehman.

4/22/2005 MatrixGamer: LARP Matrix Game idea
I've toyed with writing a LARP for some time. I have a variety of combat ideas. I'd like to know if these are done in anyother games and what holes…
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Participants: MatrixGamer, Andrew Morris, Bill Masek, nikola, komradebob.

4/21/2005 darrick: Satanis: Diceless
hey guys, i'm looking for ways to improve Empire of Satanis and make it more Narrative with Director Stance. that's the RPG jargon that fits in with what i'm looking…
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Participants: darrick.

4/20/2005 Grand_Commander13: Viability of what I am attempting: Primarily social stat RPG
I was doing a bit of forum surfing, and to make a long story short, I got it in my head that I wanted to make an RPG that revolved…
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Participants: Grand_Commander13, Shreyas Sampat, John Burdick, Bill Masek, Alan, TonyLB, MikeSands, xenopulse, timfire.

4/19/2005 Andrew Morris: [Shadows & Light] Preventing follow-up conflicts?
For a LARP system I’m working on, I want to promote fast conflict resolution (discussed here). One of the points raised was how to handle follow-up conflicts. For example,…
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Participants: Andrew Morris, xenopulse, Bill Masek.

4/18/2005 Rodger Thorm: A new Spy Game
Spy Game We are working on a new Spy Game that has several conventions of RPG gaming reversed. The primary question at this point is how to set limits on…
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Participants: Rodger Thorm, Brendan, Bill Masek, MatrixGamer, Simon W, gains.

4/18/2005 TonyLB: [Dulcimer Hall] Fallout Scene Mechanics
So close... so very, very close. Sydney sent me a brilliant email a little while ago (yay Sydney!) in which he pointed out that you could (for some purposes) modify…
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Participants: TonyLB, Doug Ruff.

4/17/2005 b_bankhead: A Home for Horror: Locale and Situation in Eldritch Tales
HP Lovecraft set his fiction in an evironment increasing familiarity,body of lore, imagery and organization created a multlayered tapestrie that was a whole greater than the sum of the stories.…
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Participants: b_bankhead, Ron Edwards, Darcy Burgess, MatrixGamer.

4/16/2005 Scrubilicous: Name for "Fight Scenes" or "Dramatic Moments&
Hi, I'm working on a game. The game has slightly different rules for combat and certain kinds of magic. Conceptually, its a bit like the "Brining Down the Pain" system…
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Participants: Scrubilicous, Bill Masek, contracycle, Troy_Costisick.

4/15/2005 Gurnard: Thread Necromancy
I've been thinking about this game idea for a while, and after talking it over with a friend I have a suggestion. Instead of a single goal for each protagonist…
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Participants: Gurnard, Ron Edwards, Blankshield.

4/16/2005 daMoose_Neo: [Hunters: The Lost Colonies] Revival & Card playing
Multi-purpose thread! 1) Riviving my notes and design on my CCG/RPG Hybred 'Hunters', also found at these threads: http://www.indie-rpgs.com/viewtopic.php?t=13683 - Hunters base rules (Important read) http://www.indie-rpgs.com/viewtopic.php?t=13858 - "Distress Signal" Introductory…
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Participants: daMoose_Neo, ChrisJaxn, contracycle, Doug Ruff.

4/15/2005 Emily Care: [shooting the moon] of mechanisms and fairy tales
The second of my games I got to playtest this weekend, thanks to Ben Lehman's help, was Shooting the Moon which is very much in development. This is the very…
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Participants: Emily Care, Andrew Morris, MatrixGamer.

4/14/2005 Doug Ruff: [Brag, Boast and Screw] Playtest draft ready for critique
In the recent Forge Birthday calebrations, I made a couple of promises. One of these was to design and release at least two free PDF games before the next Forge…
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Participants: Doug Ruff, MatrixGamer, Tobias.

4/13/2005 b_bankhead: Design notes for a new Lovecraftian Rpg
[b]Notes Toward the Design of a New Lovecraftian RPG[/b] This Design precis is for Eldritch Tales, a new Lovecraftian story game that I am writing and is an outgrowth of…
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Participants: b_bankhead, Rob MacDougall, Paul Czege, Technocrat13, GB Steve, MikeSands, daMoose_Neo, Simon Kamber, Bill Masek.

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4/28/2005 TonyLB: [That's Not Roleplaying!] Draft mechanics
Okay, after a productive rambling-session with Selene this afternoon, workable mechanics are starting to come together. That's Not Roleplaying is a game of simulating (at break-neck speed) the evolution of…
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Participants: TonyLB, Noon, killacozzy, Vaxalon, Miskatonic.

4/28/2005 killacozzy: Stat sets [Cian]
I personally like the WW system (old & new), where traits are grouped into three categories of three each. This is also done with the Tri-Stat system in Body, Mind,…
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Participants: killacozzy, Troy_Costisick, Eero Tuovinen, Ben Lehman, Doug Ruff, Michael S. Miller, FzGhouL, contracycle, OliverTheMerc.

4/29/2005 Jason E Leigh: the-Game-Design-that-will-not-Die (working title)
Okay, so I've been working on this thing for nearly 4 years now, and while I'm not done in a formal sense, I've got notes spread across dozens of pages.…
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Participants: Jason E Leigh, Kesher, Brendan, Shreyas Sampat, Ron Edwards, Bill Masek.

5/1/2005 Troy_Costisick: [Cian] Split - Banding Together
Heya, Killa seemed like he wanted the previous thread to end, so I started a new one here to address something he said. Michael S. Miller wrote: Why should…
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Participants: Troy_Costisick, killacozzy.

5/1/2005 Jason Petrasko: a new game of Pulp, Stylized Villainy
Hi, I'm working up an RPG that will be based on: PC's play pulp, stylized villains in an empire that spans the stars. The basic idea so far is that…
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Participants: Jason Petrasko, BrennaLaRosa, Selene Tan.

5/2/2005 Jinx: Echoes: Beta Version
I've devised a little horror RPG called 'Echoes' which I've playtested a few times with some success in the last month or two. The game's changed and developed over those…
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Participants: Jinx, Ben Lehman.

5/2/2005 daMoose_Neo: Print on Demand CCG Rules review-
Since coming here little more than a year ago, its become a little bit of a quest of mine to develop some kind of print-on-demand card game, and by combining…
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Participants: daMoose_Neo, jjsheets.

5/2/2005 TonyLB: [Dulcimer Hall] Changing the Past
This references previous discussion on Dulcimer Hall, but not hugely. Dulcimer Hall will examine several things:How you define identity in a world with no certainty Who you allow to influence…
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Participants: TonyLB, Valamir, Doug Ruff, Miskatonic, Sydney Freedberg.

5/2/2005 pasoliati: Destiny Denied
[i]This [url=http://www.indie-rpgs.com/viewtopic.php?t=15270]topic over at RPG Theory about Destiny in a game[/url] and [url=http://benlehman.blogspot.com/2005/04/great-white-games.html]Ben Lehman's blog post about actually trying to design a game[/url] got me both thinking, so please be…
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Participants: pasoliati.

5/3/2005 CrisisKristov: character advancement in A Crisis Paradigm
My friend Brandon and I have been putting lots of work into our game A Crisis Paradigm lately (we haven't posted on here since this thread however: http://www.indie-rpgs.com/viewtopic.php?t=13631 ). We…
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Participants: CrisisKristov, 1of3, Selene Tan.

5/4/2005 Dregg: [RPG Idea] Mexican Stand Off
I was speaking via list with Capes Designer Tony B about prize support for an up comming convention. The Idea was for an RPG, non related to our current work…
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Participants: Dregg, Miskatonic, Jason Mical, BrennaLaRosa, Troy_Costisick, Kit, Mike Holmes, tj333, Harlequin, Sydney Freedberg, timfire, Doug Ruff, xenopulse, WonderLlama, Grover, rbingham2000, Chris Goodwin, Thespian, Ben Morgan, FlamingMoose.

5/4/2005 Harlequin: [A Swiftly Tilting City] Prisoner's Dilemma mechanics
Since I've never posted here about A Swiftly Tilting City before, I'll start with a little background for context. Background: ASTC was my winning first-round submission to the in-person Iron…
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Participants: Harlequin, Jason E Leigh, Bill_White, Jasper, Mike Holmes, Dev.

5/5/2005 BrennaLaRosa: Giant Transforming Robo-Team, Go! (sentai)
I came up with this game after reading BESM d20 and finding it horribly mucked up (bring back me Tri-stat, ye bloody sassenachs!) I am a rabid Sentai Team Nut,…
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Participants: BrennaLaRosa, Ben Lehman, ADGBoss, ironick, WhiteRat, TonyLB, Tony Irwin.

5/5/2005 Kit: [Option] The core mechanics and basic idea.
Finally, and mostly thanks to Doug it must be said, I've managed to hack out a tentative base set of rules for Option. They still need a lot of elaboration…
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Participants: Kit, 1of3.

5/5/2005 pasoliati: Tabula Rasa (was Destiny Denied)
What if the only thing written to stone is your future? I stand in the ancient throne room of the high king in the great city Altar. Gathered with me…
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Participants: pasoliati.

5/6/2005 Bailywolf: [Terminal Velocity] Rules, Fic, and Riffs
I've been incubating a stupid violent little game over on rpg.net for a month or so, but beyond the initial riff I’m not getting any kind of decent feedback on…
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Participants: Bailywolf, BrennaLaRosa, FzGhouL, Jason E Leigh, Spooky Fanboy.

5/7/2005 matthijs: [We all had names] The story of one family in the Holocaust
This is based on ideas from an earlier game, electrified spikes through the soles of your feet. I keep writing these games when I'm badly hung over; brings out the…
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Participants: matthijs, Adam Dray, Sydney Freedberg, Ben Lehman, Eero Tuovinen, Miskatonic, Sean, Bill Masek, Emily Care, Walt Freitag, Valamir, daMoose_Neo.

5/8/2005 BrennaLaRosa: Giant Transforming Robo-Team, GO! Lite (Playtest Rules)
Giant Tranforming Robo-Team, GO! Lite: All the Sugar and None of the Finesse A Sentai Team Roleplaying Game Beta By Brenna “La Rosa” Beattie The mayor’s daughter has been kidnapped…
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Participants: BrennaLaRosa.

5/8/2005 Orin: [The Five Transformations]a conflict resolution mechanic
Recently I have been seduced by all the tasty FiTM stuff the Forge and started experimenting, using Blades & Blossoms, my Asian fantasy setting in the spirit of Croushing Tiger,…
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Participants: Orin, matthijs, Technocrat13, Mike Holmes, Selene Tan, BrennaLaRosa.

5/8/2005 Kit: [Rage] If you can't beat `em...
... what am I talking about?! Of COURSE you can beat `em. That's what that great big club you're carrying is for! As those of you who have seen Option…
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Participants: Kit, Eero Tuovinen.

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