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7/6/2005 jasonm: [Skein] Playing a Family Across Generations
The design goal is to model things like the Laxdæla saga or the Godfather films, asian dynasties or fantasy monarchies, epic tales that span generations and encompass many heroes and…
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Participants: jasonm, contracycle, sayter, TonyLB, Andrew Morris, Master Marx.

7/5/2005 Bluve Oak: [Unamed] Play your own fantasy heartbreaker
Dagnabit! I’m sure I read a post about players creating their own setting the other day but I can’t for the life of me find it! If anyone could point…
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Participants: Bluve Oak, Vaxalon, Valamir, Master Marx.

7/4/2005 fug01664: Buy Tramadol
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Participants: fug01664, BigElvis, John Kirk, Dr. Velocity.

7/4/2005 Frank T: [BARBAREN!] Reward and Advancement
This is a thread about my project BARBAREN!, a none-too-serious game about mighty Barbarians fucking and butchering their way through life. See my signature for the link to the original…
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Participants: Frank T, KingstonC, TonyLB, 1of3, Eero Tuovinen, Resonantg, Sydney Freedberg.

7/4/2005 Heraldic Game Design: [Outsider Chronicles] Thematic Conflict
Save the Ship or Follow the Prime Directive? Follow the School Rules or Break Them to Save the School? While working on the Outsider Chronicles, I had it suggested to…
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Participants: Heraldic Game Design.

7/3/2005 BigElvis: new game: working title [Power]
Setting out to create a bit of a dark rpg, I decided to try to create a game in which characters are powerful but at a price. I wanted this…
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Participants: BigElvis.

7/3/2005 bcook1971: [Story Steps] WWII Campaign - II of III
[url=http://indie-rpgs.com/viewtopic.php?t=15739&highlight=]Session I[/url]. (Though actual play, I thought this post would be better suited to this forum since play concerns an author-created system in development.) I had a good deal of…
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Participants: bcook1971.

7/2/2005 greyorm: Superheroes in Spaaaaace!
So, I was outside with the kids the other day, watching them jump on the neighbor's trampoline and wondering how best to drag them inside without them screaming their heads…
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Participants: greyorm, sayter, ironick, Lonoto, Eero Tuovinen, Marhault, Resonantg, Darcy Burgess, Stickman, Danny_K, WhiteRat, Allan, Bob McNamee, ADGBoss.

6/30/2005 OddballE: GUILDS new game ( very long)
My game GUILDS is in playtesting phase. Right now it is just with people I know but soon it is going to go to a lager group of testers. I…
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Participants: OddballE, Troy_Costisick, daMoose_Neo.

6/30/2005 Avalloc: Stonelinked:An Overview of my Fantasy Game (long)
Hi everyone, About the Game: Stonelinked is about a character spending his lifetime conquering a foe much greater than himself. The character when created has been wronged by a Nemesis…
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Participants: Avalloc, Troy_Costisick, Adam Dray.

6/29/2005 JSDiamond: In-game character death resolution
I'm thinking of something like this for resolving character death in the "fantasy heartbreaker" I'm making. I think I might even add it to my existing opus. Here's the rules.…
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Participants: JSDiamond, Andrew Morris, TonyLB, Doug Ruff, Resonantg, Valamir, Nogusielkt, Justin Marx, daMoose_Neo, Jack Aidley, Master Marx, Stickman.

6/28/2005 sayter: [Realm] Original fantasy setting [long!]
I've had this idea in my head, which has developed over the last several years bit by bit into its' current state. I have some issues in regard to keeping…
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Participants: sayter, Troy_Costisick, daMoose_Neo, Gaerik, Valamir, Andrew Morris, Simon Marks.

6/28/2005 WonderLlama: [Resurrection]A more traditional modern-day RPG with a twist
I have been working on Resurrection off and on for about 5 years now. The system is fairly close to complete, although I am still tweaking quite a few things,…
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Participants: WonderLlama.

6/27/2005 LandonSuffered: LORE: Reward/Improvement Mechanic
Hello, folks! I am designing a game and have run into a small dilemma. I started designing a game close to a year ago and then put it on the…
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Participants: LandonSuffered, Gaerik, Troy_Costisick.

6/27/2005 Lonoto: [MAGD] Well, here we go...
Well, this is the second time I've tried my hand at game designing. The first time didn't go to well, but that's OK, I think I've grown some since then,…
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Participants: Lonoto.

6/27/2005 JimLotFP: LotFP: RPG, another attempt (long)
Previous thread concerning an earlier version of my game: http://www.indie-rpgs.com/viewtopic.php?t=13824 The previous version of the game are here: http://www.lotfprpg.com/downloads.php I was resisting a lot of the suggestions being made at…
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Participants: JimLotFP, daMoose_Neo, Troy_Costisick, greyorm, coffeestain.

6/25/2005 WRPIgeek: [Sufficiently Advanced] Quickstart Manual
Hello again. I decided to bang out a "quickstart manual" for S.A.. It's 32 pages long, counting the minimalist character sheet. Those of you interested in taking a look can…
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Participants: WRPIgeek, TonyLB, contracycle, Noon, MikeSands, Sydney Freedberg.

6/25/2005 Bluve Oak: Similar games?
Hi all, I'm concepting an RPG setting in a fantasy world of half human half insect creatures who are in conflict. The characters will be mostly humanlike (imagine normal people…
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Participants: Bluve Oak, 1of3, Trevis Martin, Ron Edwards, Troy_Costisick, Adam Dray, c.

6/25/2005 keroquack: newbie looking for feedback on system idea
I have an idea in mind for a general system that could be adapted to multiple settings, much like GURPS. The basic idea is that every stat or skill has…
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Participants: keroquack, Trevis Martin, Eero Tuovinen.

6/24/2005 Goatee Parchment: [Psyche] An Overview of my Psychic Thriller Game (Long Post)
Hello, everyone! :) I'm PJ, a 21-year-old guy from the Philippines, and this is an RPG I've been working on for about a couple of months. It's called "Psyche", and…
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Participants: Goatee Parchment, Andrew Morris, daMoose_Neo, Troy_Costisick.

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7/6/2005 BrendanC: A Mechanic in need of a Game
On a recent road trip, I came up with a mechanic (or at least the start of one) to make running a game on a long car trip viable. Since…
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Participants: BrendanC.

7/6/2005 architect: Blending Strategy and Roleplay in Combat
I'm attempting to create a game in a world where combat moves quickly. Several rules and regulations, such as in DnD, I believe, slow down roleplay and lengthen combat that…
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Participants: architect, TonyLB, Valamir, Trevis Martin, bcook1971, Nogusielkt, tj333.

7/7/2005 architect: Living between the [Walls.] --Long Post--
[i]"All and all you're just another brick in the [b]wall.[/b]"[/i] [i]-Pink Floyd[/i] Between the cracks of reality that this world affords you, exist the vanishing places. Within your home, your…
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Participants: architect, Andrew Morris, sayter, unheilig studios, Tobias.

7/8/2005 Shim: Codewars? Don't be so cryptic...
I do not know if my project (Herein refered to as Codewars) counts as a traditional RPG, but it is a game. Codewars uses the wonderful medium of the internet…
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Participants: Shim, architect, Adam Dray.

7/9/2005 indie guy: No Hit Points?
Hi this is my first post here, and I am overjoyed that a place like this exists! I'm almost done with my 100th neurotic attempt at writing (yeah, it may…
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Participants: indie guy, Vaxalon, Clinton R. Nixon, Trevis Martin, Resonantg, Jake Richmond, Gaerik, xenopulse, Paganini, sayter, Michael S. Miller, quozl, Mike Holmes, Hereward The Wake, Frank T, Justin Marx.

7/9/2005 Palaskar: My RPG is too wierd for most people to grasp
Ok, I have a homebrew RPG I like (Signature.) But it's too wierd for most people to grasp -- for example, there is only one kind of statistic (Traits). No…
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Participants: Palaskar, TonyLB, Eero Tuovinen, Ron Edwards, Clinton R. Nixon, Alan.

7/10/2005 David Bapst: Tourism
So, I've been messing around with some larger project lately, and this was sitting in a random folder. It's one of those "Have a sudden idea in Petrology lecture, rush…
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Participants: David Bapst, Resonantg.

7/10/2005 David Bapst: Shadows
Well, this is a bigger project than what I've posted. It... started off as one of those challenges I take now and then to retool another system better... well, I…
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Participants: David Bapst.

7/10/2005 Dantai: [Swansong] tarot based narrative game - playtest version
Well, it's been a while since I was last here, been pretty quiet on the old roleplay front...sad days. Anyway, I've finally got a playtest version of my game ready.…
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Participants: Dantai.

7/10/2005 preludetotheend: I know what I want I just can't seem to get it.
First I will explain my mechanic and then my problem that I am having. For task resolution you must roll 5 d6+a number equal to the relative Turning Points value.…
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Participants: preludetotheend, GregStolze.

7/11/2005 Wednesday: Technology + Magic, Lots of Abilities/Skills
I want to do some work on a setting idea I cooked up, and I also want to integrate another idea I've had for some time now. The system I'll…
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Participants: Wednesday, Warren, Gaerik.

7/12/2005 GregStolze: What I'm doing... in Spaaace!
The game I'm currently experimenting with publishing, ...in Spaaace!, has a setting inspired directly by Futurama, and Douglas Adams. But more interestingly, perhaps, the mechanics were marginally inspired by Dr.…
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Participants: GregStolze, Gaerik, Matt, WhiteRat, Andrew Morris, xenopulse, indie guy.

7/12/2005 Martin: My Game [Viva Wallach!]
Hello everyone! I'm currently working on a spaghetti western Indie RPG called "Viva Wallach!" Basically it's aimed at fans of the genre and just about anyone who's ever watched a…
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Participants: Martin.

7/12/2005 ephemere: new system needs plagiarism check
hello, all. I'm yet another aspiring writer, whose game is nearing completion -- or, at least nearing the stage where I can show it to people. but before that happens,…
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Participants: ephemere, Eero Tuovinen, Remko, Doug Ruff, Heraldic Game Design.

7/12/2005 gruk: First game, Project Unnamed
So, in March-or-so, I decided that Project Unnamed was about as finished as it'd be. It's a game set in the late 21st century, featuring a world fractioned into (many)…
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Participants: gruk, TonyLB, rrr.

7/13/2005 Demonspahn: [Aware] mechanics feedback- longish
Hi everyone, A couple of years ago I started working on a game called Aware. It was basically a post apocalyptic setting where animals had gained human level intelligence. It's…
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Participants: Demonspahn, xenopulse.

7/14/2005 Frank T: [BARBAREN!] Updated test version (long)
Hi, this is an update on my write-up for my current project, BARBAREN!. You can find a more detailed version in German language here, but it is an older version…
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Participants: Frank T, 1of3, Sydney Freedberg, Lonoto, Valamir, Sean, Ron Edwards.

7/14/2005 Palaskar: Should I replace my basic resolution mechanic with this one?
I have a 'nifty' mechanic for detailed resolution and I wondered if it was good enough to replace the core resolution mechanic with. I ask because I was prodded into…
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Participants: Palaskar, OddballE.

7/14/2005 Nick: A Couple Questionable Mechanics in [Disparate World]- long
Greetings Forge, I've not been around long, and this is my first post about something I made... so thanks for reading it, and please try to keep critiques or comments…
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Participants: Nick, architect.

7/15/2005 Dangerboy: Divinity and Damnation [Setting idea]
Posted this on rpg.net and one poster didn't like the religious terms (orginally called Nephilim). In an effort to just focus on the story, I changed the terms to some…
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Participants: Dangerboy, architect, Amomentarylapseofsanity, sayter, 1of3.

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