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8/1/2002 Michael Hopcroft: You know, it's really weird, but....
Even when a game is "finished" there are people who want to add to it. One of my supplement writers wants to add a lot of new rules material to…
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Participants: Michael Hopcroft, Mike Holmes, Matt Gwinn, Ron Edwards.

7/31/2002 Zak Arntson: (Chthonian) Dilemma - Skill Scores & Character Effective
Chthonian consists of 7 Skills, currently you divide 18 points between them. These skills are Role, Aware, Stamina, Persuade, Research, Shoot and Fight. You can find the current playtest rules…
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Participants: Zak Arntson, Mike Holmes, damion, Bailywolf, Jared A. Sorensen, Valamir.

7/30/2002 greyorm: MORX...
...or, "More Orcs." Ok, I've got the system all hacked out, and now I'd appreciate some hard-core feedback on the mechanics and clarity of the document. Anyone who wishes to…
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Participants: greyorm, Stuart DJ Purdie, Zak Arntson, Mike Holmes, Valamir.

7/28/2002 Rich Forest: Shotgun Musashi
Hi all, While editing octaNe, I finally decided that it was time to write up one of my game ideas and get it out there. So I sat down and…
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Participants: Rich Forest, Mike Holmes.

7/28/2002 Philippe Tromeur: Dice roll : an attempt at something new [imajica]
For one of my projects (Imajica in its very early stage : http://imajica.tk ), I'm devising a new way to roll six-sided dice. Here are the main ideas : -…
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Participants: Philippe Tromeur, Jesse Paulsen, Jake Norwood, ks13, Mike Holmes, Ron Edwards, M. J. Young, Tim Gray.

7/27/2002 Fnork de Sporg: My Lawer has Shark Teeth
[a href="http://www.geocities.com/fnorkdesporg/my-lawyer-has-shark-teeth.html"]Here[/a] is the rough draft of the basic outline of my very first ever indie game, My Lawyer has Shark Teeth, the competitive game of vicious legal combat. IT…
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Participants: Fnork de Sporg, Ron Edwards.

7/27/2002 Paul Czege: The Rest of Synthesis
Hey Mike, JB, Here's the remainder of my comments and reactions to Synthesis, all crammed into one big post. Text in red is from the game document. Bold text subheads…
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Participants: Paul Czege, Syphon, J B Bell, Mike Holmes.

7/26/2002 Paul Czege: Second-guessing Self in Synthesis
Mike, JB, So, I've been reading Synthesis. And I have to say, I literally can't envision how Self will play out during an actual scenario. PCs always have a…
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Participants: Paul Czege, Mike Holmes.

7/26/2002 Paul Czege: Social Contract and Synthesis
Hey Mike, JB, On the X-Games back in the Pool thread, Ron wrote: Related to that, regarding the Social Contract issue (and I recognize that "social contract" is…
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Participants: Paul Czege, Ron Edwards, Mike Holmes, Wolfen, Valamir, Le Joueur.

7/26/2002 Le Joueur: You May Be at a Disadvantage, But It's Gonna Cost You!
There's something I've been thinking about for some time. (Hiding it from game design actually.) Everyone knows Scattershot is a fairly familiar 'buy abilities with points during character creation' game,…
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Participants: Le Joueur, Seth L. Blumberg, Zak Arntson, Ron Edwards, Mike Holmes, xiombarg, Valamir, Andrew Martin, efindel, Philippe Tromeur, Paul Czege.

7/25/2002 Nathan: New Era: 1950s Gaming on the Edge?
Hello folks. I have no updates on Rodendom, the Cross, or anything lately. I've been working on getting actionroll.com up and going, as well paying attention to my real life…
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Participants: Nathan, Jason L Blair, Ron Edwards.

7/25/2002 Demonspahn: Dreamwalker demo
Hi everyone, I've been touting a free demo of Dreamwalker: Roleplaying in the Land of Dreams now for almost a week and am starting to second guess myself. I know…
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Participants: Demonspahn, Ron Edwards, Mike Holmes.

7/25/2002 Tim Denee: Flawless victory! (new RPG: Final Stand)
Finally (hah) finished, my martial arty kung-fuey tekkeny RPG. Go put on the Mortal Kombat theme song and give it a read. Final Stand It's taken me an inordinate amount…
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Participants: Tim Denee, Ron Edwards, Bailywolf, Rich Forest, Valamir, Kenway, Mike Holmes, ThreeGee.

7/24/2002 Jake Norwood: Gods of War: Blowing Things All to Hell
I've got the basic resolution mechanics to Gods of War: Blowing Things All to Hell worked out and on my site at http://www.theriddleofsteel.com/otherstuff/GodsOfWar.htm take a look. Note that as I…
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Participants: Jake Norwood, Mike Holmes.

7/24/2002 Christoffer Lernö: Character classes, abilities, skills and other Ygg problems
Ok. I tried to make a new draft of Ygg yesterday and failed miserably as usual. What I mean by failure is that I found parts of the system which…
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Participants: Christoffer Lernö, Andrew Martin, Valamir, Bankuei, Le Joueur, Mike Holmes.

7/23/2002 toshiro: Need help thinking through my new game (long)
Before I begin, I'd like to thank everyone at the Forge for teaching me that ordinary people can create extraordinary games. Now, on to the main topic. I'm in the…
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Participants: toshiro, Bailywolf, Walt Freitag, Le Joueur, Ron Edwards, Jake Norwood, Valamir, Mike Holmes, Paul Czege, damion, Demonspahn, Jared A. Sorensen, jjkahrs.

7/22/2002 Matt Gwinn: Precog
Something that has always eluded me is being able to successfully implement precognition into a game. In order to use it properly you need to predict what the PCs are…
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Participants: Matt Gwinn, Paul Czege, Ron Edwards, Blake Hutchins, Clinton R. Nixon, damion, Valamir, Bailywolf, Kenway, Le Joueur, Jesse Paulsen, Balbinus, Stuart DJ Purdie.

7/21/2002 Jason L Blair: The Insects of God
I got into a deep funk tonight and really wanted to pull through it. Somehow, a game came out of it. I just wrote it then made a webpage for…
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Participants: Jason L Blair, Wolfen, Petter Sandelin, Ron Edwards, Demonspahn, Jared A. Sorensen.

7/19/2002 Christoffer Lernö: Fun Fighters part 2 (Ygg)
I wrote this stuff at home unaware of any comments to my first posting, so I apologize for any overlap. I'm gonna keep lagging on the postings for a while…
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Participants: Christoffer Lernö, contracycle, Ollog Herder.

7/18/2002 Christoffer Lernö: Fun Fighters - Ygg thinking out loud again
I was thinking a little on the fighter-like professions I have for Ygg. As I stated elsewhere, my intent is to make everything interesting, no filler material. The magic is…
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Participants: Christoffer Lernö, Valamir, damion, contracycle, Wolfen.

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8/1/2002 mahoux: Hoboes... (kind of long)
This is an idea from Mike Gentry at http://www.edromia.com . He kind of dropped it and I picked it up again after my viewing of O Brother, Where Art Thou?.…
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Participants: mahoux, Mike Holmes.

8/2/2002 Zak Arntson: (Chthonian) Campaign Play
[quote="Bailywolf"]Any thoughts on campaign structure? It seems brilliantly suited for one-shots....but what about something more long term? The TV model works pretty well (with source material abounding- Buffy, Angel, X-Files,…
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Participants: Zak Arntson, Valamir, Bailywolf, Ron Edwards, Blake Hutchins.

8/3/2002 Tim Denee: new draft of final stand
[url=http://homepages.paradise.net.nz/timdenee/FinalStand.pdf]Final Stand again[/url] Not a whole lot changed. Added in a "basic resolution section", put in the skill mechanics devised by Bailywolf. Cleaned up a typo or two (incidentally, if…
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Participants: Tim Denee, Bailywolf, Kenway.

8/4/2002 Daredevil: Heart of Darkness
[i]"I realized they were stronger than we because they could stand it. These men fought with their hearts, who have families, children, who were filled with love, but they have…
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Participants: Daredevil, Robert K Beckett, damion, xiombarg.

8/7/2002 Christoffer Lernö: Ygg TOC Sketch
I'm trying to design Ygg from a specification now, working myself top down from a TOC to detailed rules. Or that's the plan anyway. Here's a snapshop of my progress.…
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Participants: Christoffer Lernö, ThreeGee, Matt.

8/9/2002 simon: some rambling about skills & task resolution in an SF rp
Hello everyone! I’m trying to develop a SF RPG set in the not too distant future and in which the essence of what it means to be a human being…
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Participants: simon, Andrew Martin, ks13, ADGBoss, Mike Holmes, Balbinus, Ron Edwards.

8/10/2002 Bailywolf: Final Stand thread over on RPG.net
http://forum.rpg.net/showthread.php?s=&threadid=12318 Tim hits the big time ;)
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Participants: Bailywolf.

8/12/2002 ThreeGee: Slayer of Dragon RPG
Since I have created an account here to nitpick others' games, I imagine it is only fair to come under fire myself. My main offering to the world of roleplaying…
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Participants: ThreeGee, greyorm, wyrdlyng, Christoffer Lernö, Kenway, Mike Holmes, CrazyIvan.

8/14/2002 Ferry Bazelmans: Soap: an extensive rewrite - help needed
[i]Note: I wasn't sure wether or not this post would now fall under the connection forum. If it needs to be moved, it needs to be moved...[/i] Soap has been…
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Participants: Ferry Bazelmans, Ron Edwards, chaosvoyager.

8/14/2002 Valamir: Dungeoneer
Well, I made it to the Citizen Games booth, just long enough to snap up a copy of Sidewinder. But I didn't see (perhaps because I was there for about…
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Participants: Valamir, GreatWolf, Gordon C. Landis, tdenmark.

8/15/2002 mearls: Phantasm: Competitive Horror Roleplaying
Unlike other RPGs, a game of Phantasm ends with a definitive winner. Either one character remains alive and the GM is out of dice, or all the GM has won…
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Participants: mearls, xiombarg, nobrain, Ron Edwards, hardcoremoose, joe_llama, Doc Midnight, Jeremy Cole.

8/18/2002 xiombarg: Daikaiju (long)
Okay, I have an idea for a game called "Daikaiju", a game about Godzilla-style monster-to-monster fighting. I'm brainstorming here, so suggestions/additional ideas/critiques are welcome. See, I was looking at Monster…
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Participants: xiombarg, damion, ADGBoss, Ben Morgan, Mike Holmes.

8/20/2002 gentrification: Hard Travellin' - new game
[url=http://www.edromia.com/games/hobo]Hard Travellin'[/url] is a game wherein you play hobos in the early part of the 20th century. Drift into town, get tangled up in people's lives, drift out again before…
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Participants: gentrification, Mike Holmes, Valamir, Clinton R. Nixon, joshua neff, Tim C Koppang.

8/21/2002 ADGBoss: Miscellaneous Rules
I am starting the process of getting the rules for Seraphim together, I was thinking about some of the small and miscellaneous rules that are necassary. things like Falling, Drowning,…
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Participants: ADGBoss, Balbinus, Mike Holmes, Zak Arntson, Marco.

8/21/2002 Philippe Tromeur: simply "Donjon" ?
Will Clinton R Nixon's RPG simply be named "Donjon" or "Donjon Crawl" ? In France, we already have a "Donjon" RPG based on a "Donjon" series of comics. Isn't there…
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Participants: Philippe Tromeur, Gordon C. Landis.

8/22/2002 xiombarg: Ivanhoe Unbound
Well, I set up a little web page for my games, and even created a imprint name. Yee-haw. http://www.ivanhoeunbound.com It's really just a redirect. The idea is to have a…
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Participants: xiombarg.

8/22/2002 Marco: JAGS Auto-Fire Rules Question
This is a simulationist rules-heavy design question for JAGS. I realize many/most people here aren't familiar with it (and our sever's down until the weekend). If you're familiar with GURPS…
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Participants: Marco, J B Bell, Valamir, Christoffer Lernö, Andrew Martin, Mike Holmes, Clinton R. Nixon, Matt, Stuart DJ Purdie, Gordon C. Landis, Ace.

8/23/2002 Clinton R. Nixon: Character creation: making non-balanced characters
[i]Donjon[/i]'s almost done, and I'm soon going to start work on my next game, provisionally titled [i]Riptide[/i]. This game will focus on Exploration of Setting and Character, and will be…
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Participants: Clinton R. Nixon, ks13, DaR, Matt Gwinn, Andrew Martin, Valamir, Paganini, Jared A. Sorensen, Le Joueur.

8/23/2002 Bailywolf: Lark of the Week: POWERS
Ok, I was sitting in the Phily airport night before last, waiting (and waiting and waiting) for my flight, and I came up with a bare-bones scheme for a game…
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Participants: Bailywolf, Mike Holmes, damion, Tim Gray, Walt Freitag.

8/24/2002 Christoffer Lernö: Yggdrasil & Martial Arts (too long!)
Ok, I've drawn up the sketches of the skill system, the combat system is pretty good as is the damage system. The magic won't be all that much problem. I…
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Participants: Christoffer Lernö, Marco, ThreeGee, damion, Palaskar.

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