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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.

6/1/2005 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.

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.

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.

5/29/2005 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.

5/28/2005 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.

5/24/2005 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.

5/24/2005 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 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.

5/23/2005 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.

5/23/2005 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 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.

5/22/2005 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.

5/22/2005 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 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.

5/21/2005 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.

5/18/2005 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.

5/18/2005 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.

5/16/2005 TonyLB: [Misery Bubblegum] How do you win at high school?
Previous discussion of Misery Bubblegum (nee Dulcimer Hall) can be found here. I've got this lovely, elegant little positioning mechanism, which will let people shift their resources around in all…
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Participants: TonyLB, Kesher, Sydney Freedberg, Valamir, Bill_White, Doug Ruff, Andrew Morris, Allan, Noon, Shim.

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.

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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.

6/3/2005 WRPIgeek: Sufficiently Advanced
Hi everyone. Much like everyone else, I'm working on a new game. The working title is "Sufficiently Advanced," which plays off Clarke's Third Law ("Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable…
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Participants: WRPIgeek, Gaerik, Harlequin, Walt Freitag, Sydney Freedberg, Allan.

6/3/2005 Andrew Morris: [Group Therapy] Specific question on types of dice used
For my game, Group Therapy, players always roll four dice for everything. Each die represents a portion of their personality. The results of these rolls determine both success or failure…
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Participants: Andrew Morris, Gaerik, Jasper.

6/3/2005 Addix: [Bedlham] New game - Introduction
Hi everybody! Well, this is my first post in The Forge, at last; it's now been a while I've been wandering here. Finally, here I am, coming with a project…
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Participants: Addix, xenopulse, TonyLB.

6/5/2005 KingstonC: [Orbit system] A rules light RPG, focused for troupe play
The Orbit system: A rules lite, exploration focused RPG where everyone can GM. The orbit system is my first attempt at developing a RPG rule set. It is designed for…
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Participants: KingstonC, TonyLB, Jasper.

6/5/2005 preludetotheend: Posting the rules all over, sorry for the long post.
Ok I changed things around quite a bit so I will re-post each part. Character Creation: Species: The first thing you do when creating a character you must know what…
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Participants: preludetotheend.

6/6/2005 daMoose_Neo: [d20] Restrictions on Experiance?
Ahkay, I feel like I'm bartering with Bealzibub, but I have a cool *concept* that is not a game in and of itself, but makes a bitchin supplement to d20,…
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Participants: daMoose_Neo, Sean, Quinnfry, Ron Edwards.

6/6/2005 Gaerik: My First Game.... with no name.
Okay, I'm going to post my current Game Text in segments. As the Subject says, this is my first attempt at game design so be gentle with the virgin, please.…
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Participants: Gaerik, TonyLB, ChrisJaxn.

6/6/2005 preludetotheend: I have the updated version of the rules posted here
Character Creation: Species: The first thing you do when creating a character you must know what species he will be part of. At this point if your game master has…
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Participants: preludetotheend, Jasper.

6/7/2005 Bill_White: [Ganakagok] The Sun Also Rises
[url=http://www.personal.psu.edu/staff/w/j/wjw11/Ganakagok.pdf]Ganakagok[/url] is a game where characters play Inuit-like tribesmen who live on an island-sized iceberg and revere the Stars in a fantasy world where the Sun is rising after a…
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Participants: Bill_White, Andrew Morris.

6/9/2005 PlotDevice: Falling into a different layer of reality
Hi all. Lurker mostly, occasional speaker of half off-topic things, posting about something I am working on and hoping for some advice on. I won't go into specifics on the…
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Participants: PlotDevice, Troy_Costisick, Allan.

6/9/2005 Mirrenx: Have you all seen this?
Independent game - Cursed Empire,,,, new web site www.cursedempire.co.uk It has it all............... x
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Participants: Mirrenx.

6/10/2005 Resonantg: [Orion's Arm] Dice Mechanic questions
G'day all, first time poster, recent reader. I think this is the right place to post questions on a game system I'm working on so if it's not, please forgive…
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Participants: Resonantg, Gaerik, Selene Tan, Valamir, Troy_Costisick, c.

6/12/2005 kushinagi: The Broadening of the Horizons
Hullo hullo, Maybe I'm bored, maybe I'm glutton to punish myself, but for whatever reason, I've taken interest in Indie Game Design. I toyed with the idea before, but never…
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Participants: kushinagi, TonyLB, Technocrat13.

6/13/2005 Warren: Diceman: Initial Idea
After seeing this thread over in RPG Theory, and recently having read "The Dice Man" by Luke Rhinehart, this idea came, unbidden, into my head. I don't know what it…
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Participants: Warren, Resonantg, Technocrat13, BigElvis.

6/13/2005 Valamir: [Polaris] Key Phrases
I've had this thought following a number of Polaris play posts. I haven't been able to study the game since the old outdated version, but the key phrases seem to…
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Participants: Valamir, Bob Goat, Emily Care, Blankshield, Harlequin, Ben Lehman, Noon, hardcoremoose, Mike Holmes.

6/13/2005 Andrew Morris: [Schrodinger's War] GroupDesign update
Here's a document I created to help get interested posters up to speed on the GroupDesign project. I hope this makes it easier for people who haven't been involved to…
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Participants: Andrew Morris, Sydney Freedberg, ErrathofKosh, Troy_Costisick.

6/14/2005 Gaerik: [Andrew's Unnamed Game] Dice Mechanic
In my playtest, one of the slightly off things I noticed was that keeping up with how many and what type of dice to roll from the beginning of a…
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Participants: Gaerik, Jasper, Walt Freitag, Everspinner.

6/14/2005 Kriegsaffe No. 9: [tHe bLood tRip] Is this idea new?
First off, pleased to join the community. Second: A recent 24 Hour RPG I did (I've done two successful and one failed), tHe bLood tRip (as I've dubbed it--long story,…
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Participants: Kriegsaffe No. 9, Troy_Costisick, GB Steve.

6/14/2005 MarkMeredith: Base Attributes
Okay, I'm looking at designing a D100 game (Roll low) but I need some names for Base Attributes. I don't want to pull a STR DEX CON INT WIS CHA…
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Participants: MarkMeredith, TonyLB, Technocrat13, indie guy, Jake Richmond, Resonantg.

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