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5/14/2005 Jeph: [Exemplar Revised] Plot protection and death
A year or two ago I wrote this, a dystopian kung-fu action game set in the far future. I'm doing a revision at the moment, with a stronger Sim bent…
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Participants: Jeph, Jasper, FzGhouL, Doug Ruff, Dev, Andy Kitkowski.

5/14/2005 lpsmith: 1000 Blank White Cards: The RPG
A while back I read http://www.indie-rpgs.com/viewtopic.php?t=14371 and some of the comments near the end made me think of the game 1000 Blank White Cards (aka 1KBWC). "Why not," I…
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Participants: lpsmith, Mike Holmes, Gaerik.

5/13/2005 Jasper: Charlatan Fencing Masters Dueling for Business
[quote][i]Young knight learn, to love God and revere women, so that your honor grows. Practice knighthood and learn the Art that dignifies you, bringing honor in wars. ...So should you…
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Participants: Jasper, Ron Edwards, daMoose_Neo, xenopulse, Sydney Freedberg, Latigo, Hereward The Wake, TonyLB, Bill Masek.

5/11/2005 paulkdad: [The Garden] Scribbles on a Napkin...
Paul Kimmel here. I titled this, "Scribbles on a Napkin" because I am still very much in the R&D phase of game design. However, I am committed to my metaphorical…
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Participants: paulkdad, Ben Lehman, Andrew Morris.

5/10/2005 Albert of Feh: [Kabuki LARP] lar
I am in the process of designing and writing a Narrativist one-shot Live-Action game set in medieval/early-modern Japan and drawing from the traditions of Medieval and Edo-era literature and Theatre…
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Participants: Albert of Feh, WhiteRat, Walt Freitag, Andrew Morris, BrennaLaRosa, Mike Holmes, TheTris.

5/9/2005 Adam Dray: [Verge] Need help with a new cyberpunk game
[url=http://adam.legendary.org/old/library/verge.pdf]Verge[/url] is my freshman entry into game design. I am a long-time Forge lurker, a terrible procrastinator, and a doomed perfectionist. That aside, the hyperlink above will connect you to…
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Participants: Adam Dray, Mike Holmes, matthijs, killacozzy.

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.

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 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.

5/7/2005 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.

5/6/2005 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.

5/5/2005 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.

5/5/2005 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 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.

5/4/2005 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.

5/4/2005 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.

5/3/2005 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.

5/2/2005 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.

5/2/2005 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 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.

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5/18/2005 Jasper: [Charlatan Fencers] Dueling system
This thread is specifically for discussing the combat system in my 'Charlatan Fencing Masters' game, which was introduced in this thread -- it deals with more overarching aspects of the…
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Participants: Jasper, Hereward The Wake, BrennaLaRosa.

5/18/2005 BlackSheep: [The Good Fight] Help...
Hi guys, occasional browser, first-time poster. For a while now I've had an idea for a supers game. But I'm having real trouble getting it (or anything else, for that…
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Participants: BlackSheep, matthijs, Sydney Freedberg, Mike Holmes, Ron Edwards, Valamir, Christopher Kubasik, Troy_Costisick, Everspinner.

5/21/2005 paulkdad: Fudge-like 2dX mechanic
I've been toying with a die roll mechanic that uses two dice of the same type and is based on the idea that most of the time a character's performance…
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Participants: paulkdad, TheTris, Justin Marx, NN, Valamir.

5/22/2005 apparition13: Above and Beyond
Hi there, I'm apparition13 and I haven't played in 15+ years. I've been collecting RPGs, but no actual play. Recently I started visiting here and RPG.net and I find myself…
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Participants: apparition13, BlackSheep, Ron Edwards.

5/22/2005 apparition13: Above and Beyond
Hi there, I'm apparition13 and I haven't played in 15+ years. I've been collecting RPGs, but no actual play. Recently I started visiting here and RPG.net and I find myself…
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Participants: apparition13, daMoose_Neo, Sydney Freedberg, WRPIgeek, timfire, Frank T.

5/22/2005 preludetotheend: My game [Aegri Somnia]
Ok I will begin posting on my system, this post will explain some points about it, the next will be how to make a character, following that will be how…
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Participants: preludetotheend, Ron Edwards, c, yesala.

5/23/2005 preludetotheend: My game [Aegri Somnia] only d6's used
This should have been a reply I hit new topic by mistake sorry.
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Participants: preludetotheend.

5/23/2005 preludetotheend: items and vehicles
Stats: Each character has 6 main stats each starts at 8 and you may lower one in order to raise another at a one for one rate. The stats are…
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Participants: preludetotheend.

5/23/2005 bigcape: Character Creation versus Character Evolution
I am looking for some feedback on my choices in creating the A+ Fantasy game system: http://www.1km1kt.net/rpg/A_Plus_Fantasy.php I have decided to focus my questions a little bit in the hopes…
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Participants: bigcape, TonyLB, Andrew Morris.

5/24/2005 smc: Gm-less, cooperative, gamist pirate-era RPG
The following is an in-progress description of a cooperative, GM-less game I've been working on the last few days. This is very early stage, and I hope to add to…
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Participants: smc.

5/24/2005 TonyLB: [Misery Bubblegum] Issues and personalizing situation
Previous Misery Bubblegum discussion here. Source of the ideas I'm about to discuss here. People started discussing, in the actual play thread, how you would support a system where people…
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Participants: TonyLB, Doug Ruff, Sydney Freedberg.

5/24/2005 Technocrat13: [FH8] A nearly functional Fantasy Heartbreaker
This is my eighth attempt at creating a fantasy heartbreaker. It's taken me that many attempts to figure out that I needed to determine the point of the game long…
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Participants: Technocrat13, xenopulse, Mike Holmes, MarkMeredith, ErrathofKosh.

5/28/2005 tzunder: Gwenthia
I'd like to ask people to look at and comment on the shared world rpg setting Gwenthia. This is being developed under a CC licence and you might look at…
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Participants: tzunder, Eero Tuovinen.

5/29/2005 KingstonC: [Orbit system] multiple GM simulationism (long)
This is the first draft of my RPG ruleset, the orbit system. Rotating GM Simulationist RPG (orbit system) Designer’s notes: The purpose of sim play is to explore. Historically, sim…
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Participants: KingstonC.

5/29/2005 reprobate: [Quirky Cops vs. Things From Beyond] Rules mock-up
A note on my design considerations before we start. The kinds of games I'm interested in are ones that tell a great genre story. Right now, the genre I'm interested…
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Participants: reprobate, Danny_K.

5/31/2005 Ben Lehman: [FafGame] This is a Good Game. This is the Best Game
I seem to have just acquired my first license, to develop a game based on FafBlog. The goal is to develop a role-playing style party game that would appeal…
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Participants: Ben Lehman, ethan_greer, Eero Tuovinen.

6/1/2005 epweissengruber: Concept Map Creation Tools
These free tools might help designers plan rules, present rules to players, construct informative graphics for their publications, and allow the creation of Relationship Maps. http://cmap.ihmc.us/
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Participants: epweissengruber.

6/2/2005 Ben Lehman: [Polaris] How to Demo
This is a discussion regarding my game Polaris, which is in late-stage editing and playtest right now. If you want to contribute, and need a copy of the rules to…
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Participants: Ben Lehman, Eero Tuovinen, Miskatonic, Kesher, Gaerik, Harlequin.

6/3/2005 TonyLB: [Misery Bubblegum] I love you the way you are, now change!
In the most recent Misery Bubblegum development thread, Callan posted: The next step is not to discover yourself, so much as to try and break yourself to fit in. Because…
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Participants: TonyLB, Doug Ruff, Allan, Sydney Freedberg, Miskatonic, hix, Noon.

6/3/2005 Allan: High School social structure
This is a tangent from the Misery Bubblegum thread How do you win at High School?. The discussion continued into private messages, but with Tony's permission I reprint them here…
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Participants: Allan, TonyLB, BrennaLaRosa.

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