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11/10/2005 tonyd: [Magicians of England] Help me refine my challenge mechanic
Hi All, I'm new to the Indie Game Design forum. Please don't go easy on me. Magicians of England is a gamemasterless storytelling RPG set in a Victorian England where…
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Participants: tonyd, Halzebier, Jasper, Technocrat13.

11/10/2005 KingstonC: [Witch] My first 24 hour game.
I have just written my first 24 hour game, entitled "Witch", about care givers (aunts, nannies, starship artificial intelligence) who try to murder the people under their care. Think of…
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Participants: KingstonC.

11/9/2005 Ben Lehman: [Drifter's Escape] Strategy and RPG Texts
Hi everyone. This is a theoretical design question, in that it applies to every design, but it happens to apply very concretely to a game that I'm working on, so…
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Participants: Ben Lehman, Ron Edwards, Frank T, Nogusielkt, contracycle, John Harper, Joshua BishopRoby, Graham Walmsley, Noon.

11/8/2005 TheRealMethuselah: Plains of Chaos v1.0 Beta 1 (A GameMaker 6.1 RPG)
[color=red][b]Plains of Chaos[/b][/color] v1.0 Beta 1 Download: [url=http://www.barrashomes.com/PlainsofChaos.zip]PlainsofChaos.zip (1.25MB)[/url] [img]http://www.barrashomes.com/PlainsofChaos0001.gif[/img] [b]Keyboard Shortcuts:[/b] [color=blue]F4[/color] : Toggle fullscreen/windowed mode [color=blue]Enter[/color]: Toggle background music on/off [color=blue]Arrows[/color]: Move [color=blue]S[/color]: Take a screenshot (Screenshots are…
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Participants: TheRealMethuselah, Trevis Martin.

11/8/2005 sayter: [Realm] System Breakdown and Help
Been a while since my last post. Lots of changes have gone through in the system, but the core remains the same. However, I have a exciting mechanic I want…
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Participants: sayter, Jasper, Noon, Bill Masek, dindenver.

11/7/2005 Ben Lehman: [Maps] Stats of die mechanic
ATTN Mike Holmes. I have a third game active right now (I know, it's ridiculous) and I'm trying to figure out how the die mechanics work.  There are two different…
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Participants: Ben Lehman, Eero Tuovinen.

11/6/2005 Ron Edwards: [The Drifter's Escape] Ronnies feedback
Hello, I'm liking this game. It is really strong, with brilliant GM distribution, including prep and Director Stance from players. The terms are very weak - I'm not seeing Fighting,…
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Participants: Ron Edwards, talysman, Ben Lehman, Dumirik.

11/6/2005 Ron Edwards: [Disaster!] Ronnies feedback
Hello, With some important changes, this game is completely ready for playtest and development toward publication. It's the strongest of the $25 Ronnies this time around. It shows a lot…
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Participants: Ron Edwards, Arturo G..

11/5/2005 Ron Edwards: [Fight Sphere] Ronnies feedback
This is a really difficult game to assess. I'm still not sure whether I've completely missed a brilliant gem, or perhaps am applying standards that shouldn't apply in some way.…
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Participants: Ron Edwards, jburneko.

11/5/2005 Ron Edwards: [Whitecollar Punks] Ronnies feedback
Hello, The last four October Ronnies are giving me fits for their writeups. I've been musing over this one, I wanted to use it to talk more about the whole…
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Participants: Ron Edwards, Eero Tuovinen.

11/4/2005 Ron Edwards: [Starblade Echoes] Ronnies feedback
Hello, I think this entry, of the many space-ranger ones, provides an opportunity to make a pretty harsh point - that composition and content have to integrated. I've said many…
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Participants: Ron Edwards, Bankuei.

11/4/2005 Malcolm: [Cold City] - Character Creation (revised) & Consequences
Following on from this thread: http://www.indie-rpgs.com/forum/index.php?topic=17325.0 I've re-jigged the character creation process somewhat, taking into accout comments, feddback and ideas from a number of people. I certainly feel that characters…
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Participants: Malcolm, Graham Walmsley, mutex, Roger, JSDiamond.

11/3/2005 Spooky Fanboy: [Junk Dreams] split II
Okay...so the Control Machines are fighting each other as well as the junkies? Or are individual junkies Control Machines themselves, and it's all against everyone else? I'm not sure, based…
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Participants: Spooky Fanboy, Ron Edwards.

9/3/2005 M Jason Parent: [Junk Dreams] split II
The following is mostly stream of consciousness as I've been mulling over systems and mechanics for the past two days. This is mostly archival. I've stalled temporarily in the development…
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Participants: M Jason Parent.

11/3/2005 M Jason Parent: [Junk Dreams] split
When the CIA began testing drugs on soldiers and other Americans, the goal was to discover a means to control and contain them - to turn the drugs into part…
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Participants: M Jason Parent, Ron Edwards, Spooky Fanboy, Noon.

11/3/2005 timfire: [In a Land Called] Personalities, Skill sets, & Tragedies
Past threads: Console RPGs done timfire's way Now with Flow Chart! My new game is inspired by console-style CRPGs, in particular the…
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Participants: timfire, Eero Tuovinen, Arturo G., Mike Sugarbaker, Justin A Hamilton.

11/3/2005 foucalt: [Two Men Enter, One Man Leaves] First-ever RPG design
Ok, here's my first-ever RPG, done as a 24-hour RPG yesterday. I had a lot of fun putting it together, and help from a couple of buddies last night playtesting…
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Participants: foucalt, Graham Walmsley, Joshua BishopRoby.

11/3/2005 Ron Edwards: [Material World] Ronnies feedback
Hello, This entry begins with a fantastic basic context, but halfway through it spins into Shadowrun ops for standard RPG goombahs, rather than corporate, conspiratorial villainy among a self-defined, arrogant…
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Participants: Ron Edwards, Joe Zeutenhorst, Sydney Freedberg.

11/2/2005 Ron Edwards: [In the Beginning] Ronnies feedback
Hello, This one's a bit like Cosmos. For some reason, this round of Ronnies tended to produce games in pairs - two boxing games, two LARP-ish games, two Dante games,…
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Participants: Ron Edwards, Tim Alexander.

11/2/2005 Ron Edwards: [Dirty Fucking Freaks] Ronnies feedback
Hello, My primary question for this entry, which would permit me simply to consider it eligible or not, is whether there is a role-playing experience within the LARP. For those…
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Participants: Ron Edwards, J. Tuomas Harviainen, Graham Walmsley.

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11/11/2005 Halzebier: [On the Ecology of the Mud Dragon] First Impressions
Hello Ben, I've just read your first draft of "On the Ecology of the Mud Dragon". Seeing as there are no threads yet, I'll open one. Title & Introduction: I…
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Participants: Halzebier, talysman, Ben Lehman.

11/11/2005 PrzeSzkoda: [King Rat] Setting decision and further design ideas
My September Ronnies entry, King Rat (check out the link in my signature), was pending several game making-or-braking decisions. I have already stated in the Ronnies feedback thread that the…
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Participants: PrzeSzkoda, Malcolm.

11/12/2005 JSDiamond: The Other --playtest version 1.0 ready
The Other is ready for a first playtest.  It's inspired by movies like V, The Thing, and Invasion of the Body Snatchers --to name but a few.  Anything with a…
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Participants: JSDiamond.

11/14/2005 Koomaluola: RavIon Ultima Online RPG Shard (introductions to play)
We are running little UO shard and need more players. RavIon is heavily customized shard, and we have daily puzzles, quests and events. Our goal is to make RavIon enjoyable…
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Participants: Koomaluola.

11/14/2005 jasonm: [Shab-al-Hiri Roach] Endgame and other issues
Hey all, Three games in two days later, I'm very tired but have a ton of Roach data to assimilate.  Many of the players were enthusiastic Forge geek types who…
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Participants: jasonm, Technocrat13, Clinton R. Nixon, Ron Edwards, Adam Dray, Eero Tuovinen, Andy Kitkowski, Jonathan Hastings.

11/14/2005 GreatWolf: [Dynasties] Looking for source material for multi-generational RPG design
Hi, everyone!  Recently I was waxing eloquent about the aborted Pendragon campaign that I was in with my wife and Ralph Mazza (Ralph doing GM duties).  One of the aspects…
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Participants: GreatWolf, talysman, Shreyas Sampat, Blake Hutchins, TonyPace.

11/16/2005 CrookedBroomstick: [Shattered Earth] Trying to spot obvious issues and suggestions
I'm new to the forum and I'd like to place my idea up on the chopping block.  Been needing some kind of feedback on the general premise of the mechanic. …
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Participants: CrookedBroomstick, TonyPace, Matt Wilson.

11/16/2005 joepub: Point of Collapse game
Okay, contained is the small core game outline (5-6 pages long)... I've also included a quick outline of the history of the world, just to give you an idea of…
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Participants: joepub, Troy_Costisick, TonyLB, Mike Holmes.

11/16/2005 talysman: [The Saint's Golem vs. The Devil's Dragon] comments on November Ronnies entry
since Ron suggested this time that everyone, not just people "sitting out" this round of the Ronnies, should help start thoughtful analysis of the Ronnies submissions, I figured I'd start…
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Participants: talysman, Tobias, Sydney Freedberg.

11/16/2005 Halzebier: [Kpachoapmee / Krasnoarmeets] Enemy at the Ronnies Gates
Hi there! I've been holding off on posting regarding the November Ronnies because " First Impressions" (http://www.indie-rpgs.com/forum/index.php?topic=17576.0) didn't garner many responses and I feared I…
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Participants: Halzebier, Jared A. Sorensen, Gregor Hutton, James Holloway, komradebob, Dumirik, TonyPace, contracycle, Sydney Freedberg, mutex.

11/17/2005 heironymous: [Stake] rough partial first draft
Here: http://www.malcontentgames.com/stake.pdf Thanks for looking!
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Participants: heironymous, Jasper, Ron Edwards, TonyLB, AmbroseCollector.

11/17/2005 hix: [apocalypse girl] Unofficial Ronnies feedback
[url=http://www.1km1kt.net/rpg/Apocalypse_Girl.php][b]apocalypse girl[/b][/url] had an instantaneously appealing hook to me: [quote]God chose you to save the world. Congrats. Here's the thing: Nobody gave you any superpowers. You get no Slayer strength,…
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Participants: hix, Ben Lehman, Sydney Freedberg, Ron Edwards, Tobias, TonyLB, Unco Lober, Ramidel, Roger, Frank T.

11/17/2005 Frank T: [Delete] Another Ronnies Feedback Thread
[url=http://www.1km1kt.net/rpg/Delete.pdf]Delete[/url], by Brandon Parigo, really got me with that teaser and introduction. God has deleted you because you’re such a damn loser, and now there’s mud oozing out of your…
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Participants: Frank T, TonyPace, inoir.

11/17/2005 Troy_Costisick: [Cutthroat] Revised Edition!
Heya, First off let me thank James from Blankshield Press for lending me a hand by hosting my pdf document.  Give his site a once over if you get a…
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Participants: Troy_Costisick, TonyLB.

11/17/2005 TonyPace: [Holomodor] Not Just Another Ronnies Thread
[url=http://www.1km1kt.net/rpg/Holodomor.php]Holomodor[/url] is a long way from just another RPG. I don't know if I could play it, I don't know if anybody [i]should[/i] play it, but it's quite a frightening…
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Participants: TonyPace, James Holloway, CSBone, Sambucus, PrzeSzkoda.

11/17/2005 timfire: [In a Land Called] New Skool Sim
Currently there's a new round of Sim debate over in the GNS forum. As usual, there are calls for people to design new games that incorporate current ideas about Sim.…
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Participants: timfire, Mike Holmes, komradebob, Caldis, Tony Irwin, Aman the Rejected.

11/17/2005 cpeterso: [Firestarter] November Ronnies entry
Firestarter sprung to life as a last-minute entry for the November 2005 Ronnies competition. This is my first attempt to design a role-playing game and it is admittedly incomplete. I…
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Participants: cpeterso.

11/19/2005 Rusty: [Space Rat] Rewards for Femme Babes
Let me start by throwing out a general "thanks" to everyone that has given me feedback on Space Rat so far.  "Thanks".  Now, down to the pointy end of things…
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Participants: Rusty, Rob MacDougall, Graham Walmsley, Ron Edwards.

11/19/2005 darrick: second edition of Satanis
hey everybody, now i've seen this trial run, this dress rehearsal, and it has shown me much... yes, releasing Empire of Satanis (dark fantasy/horror) taught me a lot of things. …
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Participants: darrick, Jasper, komradebob, Jared A. Sorensen, Sean.

11/19/2005 tygertyger: [Alien Angels] Game Mechanics Adjustments
I have started the reworking of AA and already I've hit a snag.  Here's the deal; Ron suggested that the dice pool for task resolution was a bad idea (which…
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Participants: tygertyger, Ron Edwards, Arturo G., Christopher Weeks.

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