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4/18/2002 Ron Edwards: Beef injection: Sean Demory's Le Mon Mouri
Hello, The Beef Injection series of threads is my bid to focus our attention and effort on some game presentations that got swamped in the recent wave of posts at…
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Participants: Ron Edwards, Paul Czege, sdemory, Mike Holmes, rafael, Buddha Nature, Paganini.

4/17/2002 Ron Edwards: Beef Injection: Tim Denee's Punk
Hello, The Beef Injection series of threads is my bid to focus our attention and effort on some game presentations that got swamped in the recent wave of posts at…
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Participants: Ron Edwards, Clinton R. Nixon, Henry Fitch, Valamir, Mike Holmes, Tim Denee, Laurel, J B Bell, Ben Morgan, Bankuei, contracycle, Jürgen Mayer, Jared A. Sorensen, gizem, unodiablo, Bailey.

4/16/2002 angelfromanotherpin: Realistic Treatment of High-Powered Magic
Hello, this is my first post to this forum. First up, as a newbod, I may unknowingly violate unwritten posting conventions. If there's a more appropriate place for this post,…
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Participants: angelfromanotherpin, Ron Edwards, Blake Hutchins, Valamir, Mike Holmes, contracycle, Laurel, Walt Freitag.

4/16/2002 Christoffer Lernö: Ygg setting - rebooting the thread
Ok, second attempt here. I'm starting a new thread instead of reviving the old one. I've recieved some heavy flak because of my use of the concept of "standard fantasy"…
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Participants: Christoffer Lernö, Clinton R. Nixon, Valamir, Ron Edwards, contracycle, Walt Freitag, Ace.

4/16/2002 Tim Denee: Punk, coming at ya.
[url=http://homepages.paradise.net.nz/timdenee/punk.rtf]Check this out man[/url] I changed stuff. Too much to list here, really, but I've tried to incorporate all your wonderful suggestions. So, does it work?
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Participants: Tim Denee, contracycle, Ben Morgan, amiel, Ferry Bazelmans, Ron Edwards, rafael, hardcoremoose.

4/16/2002 Christoffer Lernö: Ygg Combat Mechanics
Combat Hand-to-hand combat: Ok, I snip this from the old thread: 1. Combat is run according to initiative order. Initiative is 1D6+Movement 2. Attacking in close combat is resolved by…
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Participants: Christoffer Lernö, Le Joueur, Valamir, Ron Edwards.

4/16/2002 Roy: Structured Game Design (Warning: Long Post)
While responding to another post, I mentioned the way I start designing RPGs. Ron thought it would be interesting to develop the idea further, so I'm starting a new thread…
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Participants: Roy, Michael S. Miller, Laurel, RobMuadib, Andrew Martin, Black-Finn, lev_lafayette, Samael, Ron Edwards, Tomas HVM, jc_madden.

4/15/2002 RobMuadib: Comments wanted on Initiative System ideas.
Hi all I originally posted this on the rpg-create list at yahoo but didn't get any response, it was after the thread that had inspired it had wound down. It…
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Participants: RobMuadib, Henry Fitch, Mike Holmes, Ron Edwards, Zak Arntson.

4/15/2002 rafael: Dread needs playtesters
Malignant Games needs playtesters for its role-playing game of modern horror, Dread. For information, visit the company site at www.dread-rpg.com, or send mail to info@dread-rpg.com. We're interested in your…
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Participants: rafael, Ben Morgan.

4/15/2002 Bob McNamee: Bob's Tarot-based game for storytelling / role-playing
Hi everyone, I've been thinking that using a tarot-based card system to power role-playing would be a good way to tell stories that lend themselves to symbolism and archetypes. My…
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Participants: Bob McNamee, Ron Edwards.

4/15/2002 Tim Denee: Appalachia Now! fan art
Ta da! Behold my amateur drawing ability (but I'm improving!) So, what's the word on a cleaned/focused/stream-lined "Appalachia Now!"? In other news, I'm incorporating the changes suggested into Punk. It'll…
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Participants: Tim Denee, hardcoremoose, Ron Edwards.

4/13/2002 Henry Fitch: Game Idea concerning immortal characters
Being a narrative (or char-sim?) game idea that as yet lacks a system: Premise: How are human relationships different given isolation and infinite time? Another could be, Do people really…
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Participants: Henry Fitch, Jared A. Sorensen, J B Bell, Kenway, Wolfen, Ron Edwards.

4/12/2002 Roy: Here's My System That I've Used For Years ...
Hi, everyone! I just found The Forge a few days ago and I must say I'm very impressed. You're all very insightful and it's been a joy reading your posts…
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Participants: Roy, Valamir, Mike Holmes, Ron Edwards, Walt Freitag, xiombarg.

4/12/2002 Matt Snyder: Fate and Death
Death, Fate and Character Endings Ron and I discussed very briefly in Dust Devils play the issue of character death and / or endings. My thoughts on this were also…
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Participants: Matt Snyder, Mike Holmes, Bankuei, Balbinus, Ron Edwards, Wolfen, Sidhain, J B Bell, contracycle, Walt Freitag.

4/12/2002 Tim Denee: Punk (yeah!)
Finished, at last: http://homepages.paradise.net.nz/timdenee/punk.rtf This is a pretty ugly rich text version. Tell me if the file is readable, please. (A .pdf version can be expected soonish). I get annoyed…
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Participants: Tim Denee, hardcoremoose, Jared A. Sorensen, Andrew Martin, Bankuei, lumpley, Henry Fitch.

4/12/2002 Wolfen: Another Mage Blade thread: Title
Well, Mike pointed out to me in PMs that there are about 52000 instances of "Mage Blade" on the web, most dealing with roleplaying in some way or another. While…
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Participants: Wolfen, Ron Edwards, Jared A. Sorensen, J B Bell, Clinton R. Nixon, Mike Holmes, Balbinus, Valamir, Nathan, Walt Freitag, Christoffer Lernö, Brian Hose, Bailey.

4/11/2002 hardcoremoose: Appalachia Now!
Hey everyone. Once in a while I metnion this game in conversation, but until now I hadn't gotten all of the rules together in one place. Thanks to Zak, I…
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Participants: hardcoremoose, Zak Arntson, Kenway, Tim Denee, Wolfen, Ron Edwards, Skippy, Mike Holmes, Reddest.

4/11/2002 Green: basic outline for "fairy tale" game (premise &
I. Once Upon a Time A. Introduction B. Premise 1. A world where magic is real and normal 2. Used to be balance between the forces of dark and light…
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Participants: Green, Mike Holmes, Laurel, Henry Fitch, Jared A. Sorensen, Ron Edwards.

4/11/2002 Zak Arntson: Shadows - Harlekin-Maus April Game
Took a birthday hiatus in March (though Sea Monkey RPG and In the Works on the website happened then, so I'm guiltless), and am back with an April game! Shadows,…
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Participants: Zak Arntson, hardcoremoose, Buddha Nature, Nathan, Andrew Martin, Clinton R. Nixon, Ron Edwards, Matt Steflik, Christoffer Lernö, Bob McNamee, Paganini.

4/11/2002 Kenway: Posting of Settings without rules systems?
With the new indie rpgs forum rules, is it okay to post rpg settings/worlds that you create and/or need help with that you don't intend on having a rules system…
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Participants: Kenway, Laurel, contracycle, Jared A. Sorensen, Ron Edwards, joe_llama.

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4/18/2002 Tyrant: Damage Ratings
Random or Set? This is the main point of contention in the rules system I am writing at the moment.. Should a Large Handgun do 4-5 points of damage or…
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Participants: Tyrant, Jared A. Sorensen, Zak Arntson, Valamir, Ron Edwards, Wolfen.

4/18/2002 Andy Kitkowski: Why do my best ideas come when I'm busiest?
This is a topic not on the mechanics/structure etc of a game, but the game design process itself. I just had a question out there, looking for other people with…
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Participants: Andy Kitkowski, greyorm, Andrew Martin, Tyrant.

4/19/2002 Christoffer Lernö: Ygg take 3
Ok, I tried to make up a little better game example to be able to do something like Roy suggested in his thread. Tell me if you think I'm heading…
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Participants: Christoffer Lernö, Fabrice G., Andrew Martin, Ron Edwards, contracycle, Valamir, Le Joueur, Wolfen, Walt Freitag.

4/19/2002 xiombarg: Faster, Better, Cheaper: Pick Two
Yes, I finally have a beta of this game out. Please check it out and let me know what you think. http://www.io.com/~xiombarg/fbc.html Note that I've stolen a mechanic from Donjon…
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Participants: xiombarg, Walt Freitag, Valamir, Clinton R. Nixon.

4/19/2002 J B Bell: Apocalypse Whenever
OK, here I finally go. I've stayed away form discussing this because this particular baby of mine has a lot of (unnecessary) emotional freight associated with it. But maybe it's…
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Participants: J B Bell, Henry Fitch.

4/19/2002 Brian Hose: defining the game and goals
Hi everybody (all chorus: Hi doctor Nick) I don't want to steal Wolfen's thunder but I've maybe hit a snag which has something to do with some things in this…
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Participants: Brian Hose, Ron Edwards, Matt, Mike Holmes.

4/22/2002 Daredevil: Gothic
Heya, Gothic is my very tentative name for a fairly narrativist game of -- well -- gothic horror. The name itself is a loaded one and I think wrongly suspect…
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Participants: Daredevil, Ron Edwards, Valamir, Fabrice G., Mike Holmes, Blake Hutchins.

4/22/2002 Bailey: Weapon Damage in Men of Teak
I'm stumped for how to handle the damage of a weapon in my Men of Teak game due to a contradiction that exists in my aims. 1. The game is…
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Participants: Bailey, Paganini, Ron Edwards.

4/22/2002 Paganini: Cornerstone Beta
Hi all... it's been a while, but I've finally had some more time to work on my game. I've got a "finished" version of Cornerstone ready for folks to look…
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Participants: Paganini.

4/23/2002 Paganini: Break Time - How to Cheat Death without really trying
GRR. Just hit the wrong button on my keyboard and caused the Forge to eat my post. Oh well... text reconstruction commences. So, I was beating my brains out last…
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Participants: Paganini, Henry Fitch, Wolfen.

4/23/2002 mallninja0088: An RPG in development.
Right now I am working on creating an RPG. I want it to be flexible enough to play about any genre of games(not fantasy though.), but have a specific setting.…
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Participants: mallninja0088, Valamir.

4/23/2002 Balbinus: Campaign - a gamist take on politics
Hi, What follows is the bare bones of an idea for creating a game about politics, a game in which characters are courtiers, advisors, special envoys, people who flock around…
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Participants: Balbinus, Wolfen, Ring Kichard, A.Neill, contracycle.

4/24/2002 Paul Czege: how I made dice for The World, the Flesh, and the Devil
Hey, Some of you are aware that I'm prepping to run The World, the Flesh, and the Devil in a few weeks. Well, I made some dice and they…
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Participants: Paul Czege, Wolfen.

4/24/2002 Matt Snyder: Wake up!
A few Forgers already know that I’ve been working on a game called Dreamspire. After putting it off for a number of reasons -- real life issues, day job, freelance…
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Participants: Matt Snyder, Jason L Blair, hardcoremoose, Matt, Ron Edwards, Blake Hutchins, Jürgen Mayer, Wolfen, Mike Holmes.

4/24/2002 Petter Sandelin: massmurder -a stg with real people
[b]Massmurderer[/b] “a storytelling game with [i]real[/i] people” You'll need a place to play at, where you can look out over people passing by. A bunch of sick friends also helps.…
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Participants: Petter Sandelin, Henry Fitch.

4/24/2002 RobMuadib: TMW:COTEC - Rewards and The Thrust of the System
Hi all My claim is that such a system will do best if the key value of play (and there will be one) is its core, rather than…
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Participants: RobMuadib, Andrew Martin, Ron Edwards, Paul Czege, Mike Holmes, Le Joueur.

4/25/2002 Matt Snyder: Black Pawn, White Pawn
After some excellent discussion in the Wake up! thread, I've really been working to focus and fine-tune Dreamspire, its "aboutness," what The Wake up! thread had many good points, and…
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Participants: Matt Snyder, hardcoremoose, Mike Holmes, Matt, Blake Hutchins, Walt Freitag, Zak Arntson, Wolfen, Jon H, Ron Edwards, wyrdlyng, Valamir, Nick Pagnucco.

4/25/2002 wyrdlyng: Need help evaluating dice mechanics
Here's the link to my previous post about this project. http://www.indie-rpgs.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1725&highlight= Now on the post... I've refocused on "Fulcrum" (working title) and am considering dice mechanics but quite honestly, I'm…
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Participants: wyrdlyng, Jack Spencer Jr, Jake Norwood, Mike Holmes, Andrew Martin.

4/26/2002 Kenway: The Salem Broomstickriders
Here's just a little something I'm working on. It's 1692. The PCs are all witches. They have a "secret identity" for the day, but at night they can choose to…
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Participants: Kenway, Ron Edwards.

4/26/2002 Ferry Bazelmans: The Path of Doom - fledgeling S&S game needs input
I was reading through an article about heroes in Sword & Sorcery style fantasy and I got the game design jitters. What I have at the moment is…
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Participants: Ferry Bazelmans, Jared A. Sorensen, Ron Edwards, Zak Arntson, Blake Hutchins, Walt Freitag.

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