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8/1/2005 Black Iris Dancer: [Logos] When you look at enough character sheets, they become... words...
It's been a while since my last post here. Suffice to say, I have not failed to be working on game-related stuff in the interim. My current project is Twilight,…
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Participants: Black Iris Dancer, brainwipe, Clinton R. Nixon, Matt Wilson, Joshua BishopRoby.

7/31/2005 Sifolis: Blood Bounty description
Game Name: Genre: Bloody sci-fi action comedy. Published: no Years in development or since published 10-13 depending on what you count as played. Pages: now 200, thought to be in…
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Participants: Sifolis.

7/31/2005 garapata: SWITCH - a game of changing genres
Okay, here's the game I have playtested and though of expanding here, to one day share as a free PDF online. SWITCH : Is a role-playing game meant to be…
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Participants: garapata, matthijs, Sifolis, Ice Cream Emperor.

7/31/2005 PlotDevice: Game Chef 2005: Winner announced!
Hi all! A few years ago the Game Chef challenge grew out of the Forge Boards. This year, it took a step into the larger world and the competition took…
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Participants: PlotDevice, Miskatonic, ADGBoss.

7/29/2005 Sifolis: "Blood Bounty: Ultra Violent & Rated R
Hello. Well I have ghosted this site for the past year, wating, watching, thinking...thinking on the subject of how to introduce myself and my game. So this thred marks the…
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Participants: Sifolis, Ron Edwards, FzGhouL, Trevis Martin, erithromycin, daMoose_Neo, Selene Tan, Walt Freitag.

7/27/2005 Trevis Martin: [Regency Park] Playing Card Resolution and Statistics -Help?
Hi Folks I've been working in bits and pieces on my game Regency Park.  It is a Game of love, marraige and social drama set during the English Regency period…
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Participants: Trevis Martin, Thededine, MikeSands, Warren, Black Iris Dancer, Walt Freitag.

7/26/2005 inthisstyle: [Fifth World - TSOY Variant] Taint Mechanic for "Outside" Acts
I am working on a variant of The Shadow of Yesterday called The Fifth World. In this game, characters are all members of a community loosely based on SouthWest Native…
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Participants: inthisstyle, timfire, Clinton R. Nixon.

7/26/2005 Justin Marx: [7W] Looking for similarly themed games for analysis
Hi, going from one of Mike's Standard Rants (Concept's are a Dime a Dozen) it struck me I really want to know possible answers to this question but I have…
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Participants: Justin Marx, Sydney Freedberg, PlotDevice, erithromycin, Gaerik.

7/25/2005 Levi Kornelsen: Building Ruritania: 1844 - Any Advice?
I'm currently in the midst of writing a game set in 1844, in the state of Ruritania (a fictional state first found in the novel Prisoner of Zenda).  A "stolen…
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Participants: Levi Kornelsen, Alan.

7/23/2005 kissy: Please help a newbie. How do you get points in a text based rpg?
Hi everyone Iam new here and I dont know much. I am intrigued with the concept of RPG's and I will like to create one for myself. I have a…
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Participants: kissy, greyorm, Albert of Feh, Grand_Commander13, Adam Dray.

7/22/2005 daMoose_Neo: [Imp Game] Traps & Mishaps! - Brain Dump & feedback
For those following the development of what was once "Dungeons for Dummies", The Imp Game, we're finally getting down to the meat of the original concept: maintaining a dungeon! In…
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Participants: daMoose_Neo, Jasper.

7/22/2005 Lycaon_wolf: MUGS: Damage System Idea
Hello all I appoligize for lingering for so long but I have alot on my plate right now.  This is my first post and I have a design idea to…
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Participants: Lycaon_wolf, indie guy, Nogusielkt, OddballE.

7/22/2005 Grand_Commander13: [Psi Punk (working title)] Getting the Narrativist feel
Greetings again all.  I come to you again asking for feedback on another game (one I'm liking the way it's working out so far).  I just finished up a quick…
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Participants: Grand_Commander13, Troy_Costisick, Selene Tan, Eero Tuovinen.

7/21/2005 Dangerboy: QBase: Help/Encouragement [System Mechanic]
Ok, it's been months, but I finally have most of it done. It was going to ne rules-lite, but it's moved well past that into rules-medium/heavy. What I'm looking for:…
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Participants: Dangerboy, Nogusielkt, Adam Dray, Simon Marks.

7/20/2005 jdrakeh: [SURGE] General Feedback Wanted
Following are the straight crunchy bits of my latest project, SURGE (Simple Universal Roleplaying Game Engine). These aren't meant to be anything more than a bare bones set of mechanics…
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Participants: jdrakeh, Sean, Jack Aidley, Ron Edwards.

7/19/2005 Resonantg: <OA/RPG> Damage system complexity
G'day people. Preliminary playtesting on the GAMM-D combat system for Orion's Arm RPG has hit a hiccup that I'm having a hard time smoothing out.  Basically, we are looking at…
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Participants: Resonantg, ADGBoss.

7/19/2005 Jack Aidley: The Chanter Resolution System
As part of a thread over on RPG.net I posted up a link to the resolution system from Chanter (Link here, and the dice mechanics here) and received the following…
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Participants: Jack Aidley, Matt, Technocrat13, Stickman, Justin Marx.

7/19/2005 incomitatum: Project ID: Breif Synopsis.
I realise that this may be breif, vauge, and watered down, but a few of you have asked, "What is your game about"? Well I have considered (even though I…
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Participants: incomitatum.

7/19/2005 Jake Richmond: CrossRoads Free Tryout Rules
Hi. I'm Jake Richmond, the Art Director from Arcadiam Games. We've got a Free Tryout Kit available at our website (crossroads-rpg.com) in the Resources section. It's a set of quick…
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Participants: Jake Richmond, Clinton R. Nixon, contracycle, Travis Brown, Trevis Martin.

7/18/2005 Frank T: [BARBAREN!] Ballancing the combat system
Warning: This is getting to the nasty maths, numbers and details. Check out my write-up of the game concept, especially the combat mechanics at 4.2. You'll need to cross-check because…
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Participants: Frank T, Valamir.

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8/2/2005 Lycaon_wolf: character creation: random or point allocation
I would like to know everyones opion on character creation.  When you sit down with a game and start designing your characters do you prefer to use random (D&D) or…
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Participants: Lycaon_wolf, Nathan P., Sifolis, Ben Lehman, Jack Aidley.

8/2/2005 Melciber: [Visions of Gaslight] Character Sheet Draft, for Critique and Suggestions.
Title says most of it actualy, here is a link to the image(keep in mind I have a High res version still inPhotoshop, and this is a draft, so its…
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Participants: Melciber, Nathan P., Jack Aidley, Balbinus, Joshua BishopRoby.

8/2/2005 Dilan W.: i need tons of help
hey, I am new at this and dont know how to start, i want to make a rpg for the internet. I already know what I want it to be…
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Participants: Dilan W., Jack Aidley, Justin Marx, Sifolis, Adam Dray.

8/2/2005 Gaerik: Including Social Issues in the Rulebook.
I've noticed that many "mainstream" RPGs tend to ignore the fact that role-playing is a social activity and that if the social context the game is built on is flawed…
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Participants: Gaerik, Adam Dray, Andrew Morris, Jack Aidley, Frank T, Miskatonic, btrc, Bankuei, xenopulse, AlexGrim, Alan, Jake Richmond, Marco, Joshua BishopRoby, James Holloway, timfire.

8/3/2005 rrr: [Final Day] overview of a new game with some design questions
Hello all. *deep breath* Well here it is, my game.  I started designing this a while ago, after the idea just popped into my head thinking about what would you…
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Participants: rrr, Justin Marx, Adam Dray.

8/3/2005 ADGBoss: Jackals & Hounds (Game Chef 2005 Entry): Impressions
Hello all, I wanted to share my 2005 Game Chef Entry here at the Forge now that the competition is officially over. You can find a link to the PDF…
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Participants: ADGBoss.

8/4/2005 FzGhouL: [Speed & Spirit] Dice Mechanic
Hey, I read a lot of the posts here, trying to get a sense of how to present my game and problems, so hopefully I learned something. Here goes. Alright,…
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Participants: FzGhouL, Walt Freitag.

8/4/2005 FzGhouL: [Speed & Spirit] Defense
Hello, Speed and Spirit is a tactical RPG. Ok, so in my RPG, defense and offense are relatively equal. Offense has an advantage, but that is to stop things from…
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Participants: FzGhouL, Selene Tan.

8/4/2005 Crackerjaque: (One Hour RPG) "Shooters!" Exploitive Drugpunk Action!
This is an RPG I made in an hour. Please critique, comment, and feel free to print out and playtest with your gaming buddies over some beer and pretzels. The…
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Participants: Crackerjaque.

8/5/2005 preludetotheend: No name but I finaly got a good mechanic!
Ok first off stats: Each stat starts at 3 by lowering one you may raise another. Stats never change they represent the leaps and bounds your character must make through…
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Participants: preludetotheend, Jasper, Andrew Morris.

8/5/2005 TonyLB: [Misery Bubblegum] New mechanic
This builds (somewhat) on the previous Misery Bubblegum post.  Been a while, hasn't it?  Well, I've been thinking. What the system needs to achieve: Character traits are not simply "good"…
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Participants: TonyLB, Sydney Freedberg, Mark Woodhouse, Simon Marks, 1of3, Everspinner.

8/5/2005 inoir: [In Memory] An RPG Add On
Here is a recent RPG rules add on I've been tinkering with.  I don't really know if it fits into this forum, but I thought I would try it anyway. …
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Participants: inoir, TonyLB, matthijs, Gaerik, Technocrat13, Ron Edwards, Ben Lehman, Adam Dray, Andy Kitkowski, garapata.

8/5/2005 Warren: [Big Brother] Introduction & winning the audience's favour
Hello all. I'm toying with an idea to create a very mainstream RPG based on the "Big Brother" TV show. I'm not sure how much of a legal mess I…
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Participants: Warren, Vaxalon, Justin Marx, Sifolis, lumpley, Jonas Karlsson, matthijs.

8/6/2005 b00jum: [PlotPoint] - Game Design/Introduction
before I give a write up of a kid-friendly rpg that I designed, I thought I'd give some general design goals and ask if anyone knows of a system that…
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Participants: b00jum, Nogusielkt, Adam Dray, Gaerik, Ben Lehman, Joshua BishopRoby, GaryTP.

8/7/2005 Melciber: [VoG] What should go in a character creation chapter?
So I was working on the character creation chapter for the current draft of VoG... and it occured to me that I'm nearly done, and save for a few lists…
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Participants: Melciber, Alan, FzGhouL.

8/9/2005 Adam Dray: [Verge] How much genre background?
For Verge, I'm writing an opening chapter that explains some of the history of cyberpunk, post-cyberpunk, and transhumanism; talks about the memes and tropes; and explains things players can do…
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Participants: Adam Dray, Andy Kitkowski, Ron Edwards, timfire, Sifolis, Ben Lehman.

8/9/2005 OddballE: A update to the game formally called GUILDS
This is an update to my game called GUILDS.  The first thing is the game will no longer be called GUILDS.  It might be called “FATES REALM” or “REALM OF…
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Participants: OddballE, Matt Snyder, matthijs, Technocrat13, Adam Dray, Ron Edwards.

8/9/2005 Nathan P.: [Carry] Burdens
Carry was my Iron Game Chef 2005 entry. You can see the .pdf here and the first playtest thread here. I'm responding to some comments from that thread on this…
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Participants: Nathan P., xenopulse.

8/10/2005 Resonantg: <OA/RPG> Memetics in Orion's Arm
Larry Lade suggested that I start another thread on the topic of Memetics here so specific discussions, pertinent to the gaming world could be discussed.  Since Orion's Arm is a…
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Participants: Resonantg, xenopulse, James Holloway, Miskatonic, contracycle.

8/11/2005 SlurpeeMoney: [Gifted] 24 Hour Submission for Critique
Alright. So I've been kicking this idea around for a lot longer than 24 hours, but I got sick of it sitting in my head and gave myself a definite…
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Participants: SlurpeeMoney, Adam Dray, Nathan P..

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