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9/19/2002 Matt Wilson: exertion/fatigue idea for Ghosts
I imagined Ghosts having many situations in which characters are in stressful situations and have to push themselves. Not just when fighting, but in any situation. So I thought that…
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Participants: Matt Wilson, deadpanbob, Mike Holmes, damion, Jeffrey Miller.

9/19/2002 deadpanbob: Incarnate: Premise (dipping my toe in the RPG design waters)
All, For the ridicule and entertainment of all, I shamefully present what I think of as the Premise of my in-progress RPG. Comments, questions, and critiques are requested - scorn,…
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Participants: deadpanbob, William Lemmon, Ben Morgan.

9/19/2002 Christoffer Lernö: Character Creation pool
This comes from my Skills and yet not thread. I thought it would be useful to look at it separately. How does it work, what do I mean by Character…
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Participants: Christoffer Lernö, Mike Holmes, Le Joueur.

9/18/2002 Christoffer Lernö: Invoking the Mythpower of Items
Did I get any attention with that subject? I was originally hoping for some feedback with the "By Hero Wars Inspired" thread, but maybe it wasn't quite clear. I was…
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Participants: Christoffer Lernö, damion, Paul Czege, Ron Edwards.

9/16/2002 Matt Wilson: Ghosts system ideas, first goal
I did a little thinking about what I wanted the system in Ghosts to accomplish - some of which I cut out and posted in the theory forum, for reference.…
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Participants: Matt Wilson, Mike Holmes, Marco, ADGBoss.

9/16/2002 Christoffer Lernö: By Hero Wars Inspired...
Or something like that. I didn't get a real look at Hero Wars until just recently, checking out their rule summary together with the first 3 chapters available on their…
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Participants: Christoffer Lernö.

9/15/2002 Christoffer Lernö: Mage Blade, what's up?
Lance, if you're alive out there. What's happening with Mage Blade for the moment?
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Participants: Christoffer Lernö.

9/15/2002 Andrew Martin: Parry-Through
> ...let's help people create combat systems that we want to play... This is quoted from http://swordforum.com/sfu/swordsmanship/parrying.html from a while back: ...a "parry-through" in which when your opponent tries…
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Participants: Andrew Martin, Le Joueur, Christoffer Lernö, Jake Norwood.

9/14/2002 kevin671: A Post-Apocalyptic RPG
Here's a little something I've been toying with for a while. I would like to get a little feedback from you all, and as many suggestions as possible. As this…
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Participants: kevin671, Andrew Martin, S.Lonergan, Ron Edwards, Maurice Forrester, Enoch, deadpanbob, Ferry Bazelmans, Zak Arntson, Blackguard, Mike Holmes, Kester Pelagius.

9/14/2002 Jack Spencer Jr: Interesting Spam today
I got an interesting piece of spam today. I'd considered adding this to the thread in Adept Press forum where we were talking about demon books, but this can be…
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Participants: Jack Spencer Jr.

9/14/2002 Colin the Riot: Resolution mechanic I'm fiddling with...
SO, this is something I'm thinking of, and it's a combination of some things I've come across that I like. Namely, Donjon (by Clinton), Clockworx (by Jared) and Shadows (by…
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Participants: Colin the Riot, Jasper, damion, Stuart DJ Purdie, Ron Edwards, contracycle.

9/13/2002 Matt Wilson: Ghosts of the Empire
[b]Premise: [/b]exploration-focused space opera in the far future, with heaps of ruins, lost tech, aliens, creepy stuff, and politics. [b]The story: [/b] The history of this setting is but scraps…
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Participants: Matt Wilson, Ron Edwards, Mike Holmes, greyorm, ADGBoss.

9/13/2002 Christoffer Lernö: Skills And Yet Not
Bear with me if the posting isn't 100% coherent. I'm trying to work out the exact mechanics as I go along. Let me first state my intent: I don't want…
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Participants: Christoffer Lernö, Andrew Martin, damion, M. J. Young, Walt Freitag.

9/12/2002 ADGBoss: Power Depth and Width
I have been working on some of the Powers for Seraphim and had written myself a pretty long list of powers, many of which were related to one another. So…
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Participants: ADGBoss, jdagna, Ron Edwards, wyrdlyng, Mike Holmes, Le Joueur.

9/11/2002 Stuart DJ Purdie: Plurarity of mechanics
Like everyone else here, I'm having these thoughts about designing my own game. Despite my best efforts, they refuse to go away... Some background - The placeholder name is Enlightend.…
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Participants: Stuart DJ Purdie, Ron Edwards, jdagna, Christoffer Lernö, M. J. Young, ADGBoss, Valamir, Mike Holmes.

9/10/2002 Enoch: Unworthy
Hiyo everybody! I’m in a sort of in a moist pool of oatmeal at the moment. This pool of oatmeal is my RPG idea Unworthy. While a pool of oatmeal…
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Participants: Enoch, rafael, Andrew Martin, Christoffer Lernö, Jake Norwood, Paul Czege, Valamir, Mike Holmes.

9/9/2002 S.Lonergan: Untitled -- A modern horror setting
Feedback please.. I had this idea as i was walking the dog.. im not sure if its worth developing further... but... let me know what you think... Its really just…
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Participants: S.Lonergan, Tim Gray, Cynthia Celeste Miller, Jasper, Walt Freitag, Christoffer Lernö, jdagna, Doc Midnight, Mike Holmes, deadpanbob.

9/8/2002 Christoffer Lernö: Ygg right now Part 2
[u]More Ygg elements[/u] Skill resolution Riskbreakers* Combat resolution Inspiration* [u]Skill resolution[/u] Skill resolution is simple. You check what your stat says. If the stat is equal to the [i]Challenge[/i] of…
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Participants: Christoffer Lernö, Palaskar.

9/8/2002 Christoffer Lernö: Ygg right now part 1
[u][b]Ygg - a quick system overview[/b][/u] (* indicate rules which is currently under much consideration whether they fit or not) [u]Components[/u] Stats Classes Class abilities Skills Un-skills Moves* Magical Spells…
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Participants: Christoffer Lernö, Andrew Martin, Walt Freitag, Valamir.

9/8/2002 Christoffer Lernö: Off-adventure time
You know when the characters (in the typical fantasy game) has been adventuring, maybe succeeded in beating the bad guy and all that and are ready to rest for a…
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Participants: Christoffer Lernö, Mike Holmes, Valamir, Balbinus, Le Joueur, Walt Freitag, ADGBoss, Jeremy Cole, contracycle, damion, Clinton R. Nixon, jdagna.

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9/20/2002 lumpley: Gunfest OtherKind
Emily and I have been on-again-off-again working on a Hong Kong Action Flick rpg for, what, Em, four years now? (Feng Shui doesn't do it for us.) This popped into…
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Participants: lumpley, contracycle, Bailywolf, Jeremy Cole, Bob McNamee.

9/21/2002 Christoffer Lernö: A Mini Fantasy Game (Not Ygg)
Here you go! something I wrote up just now as an exercise to get me going for Ygg. I guess there are a few holes to be patched but I…
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Participants: Christoffer Lernö, Jack Spencer Jr, Andrew Martin, Walt Freitag, Kester Pelagius.

9/23/2002 Christoffer Lernö: Pure Mechanics Question
Let's say I've established, through the mechanics, that A is doing B, but the effect of that hasn't yet been established. What options do I have to implement those rules?…
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Participants: Christoffer Lernö, Valamir, Mike Holmes, Walt Freitag.

9/23/2002 deadpanbob: Incarnate: Character Tidbit - Trait Scale
All, First - thanks to The Forge for hosting my new website (i.e. the most poorly designed, ill conceived website the Forge has ever hosted). I'm going to inflict my…
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Participants: deadpanbob.

9/24/2002 Davicimo: An action movie RPG
This is a little something I just threw together yesterday, that's been evlving rather quickly in my mind. This so far nameless game is meant to emulate the style of…
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Participants: Davicimo, Mike Holmes, Valamir.

9/24/2002 Christoffer Lernö: Problems narrating again
We already went through this in "Narrated combat results - a problem" but I now feel that ultimately it left me where I started. Ygg features limited player narration. Basically…
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Participants: Christoffer Lernö, Valamir, Wolfen, Mike Holmes, Ron Edwards.

9/24/2002 Matt Wilson: plot points idea
I really like how TROS uses spiritual traits to do two things at once: promote character development and simulate it by generating xp. It got me thinking of an idea…
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Participants: Matt Wilson, Jared A. Sorensen, ADGBoss, Mike Holmes, M. J. Young, Jeffrey Miller.

9/24/2002 deadpanbob: Incarnate Update - Revised Incomplete Version (long)
For the one or two of you following this (thanks Mom), I've made a little progress today. You can see the current state of the game here in this "Full…
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Participants: deadpanbob, Jonathan Walton, Eddy Fate, Mike Holmes.

9/25/2002 Le Joueur: Brainstorming 'What is Gaming' Outside the Box
So I made a call to action, I better back that up, right? Okay. I also said that the first part ought to be laden with "that's so inside the…
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Participants: Le Joueur, C. Edwards, Christoffer Lernö, Mike Holmes, Walt Freitag, Paul Czege, deadpanbob, wyrdlyng, damion.

9/26/2002 deadpanbob: Incarnate: Revised Premise and a discussion of Paradigm
The Economics of Dissonance, Resonance, and Paradigm among Inheritors & the Incarnate A restatement of Premise, Part I The Incarnate are incredibly powerful beings – some of them quite old…
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Participants: deadpanbob, Jonathan Walton, Mike Holmes, wyrdlyng.

9/26/2002 simon_hibbs: Diceless resolution mechanic
I wrote up a diceless swords 'n sorcery game system a while back, but never actualy used it. Since Hero Wars came out, I haven't realy seen the need. Recently…
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Participants: simon_hibbs, Mike Holmes, Bailywolf, JMendes, Bob McNamee, GB Steve, Le Joueur, RPGuru59, RaconteurX.

9/26/2002 Jabberwocky: Well, not exactly an RPG, but...
... this seemed as good a place as any for constructive criticism of my current project; A.I. - Armoured Intelligence. This is basically a war-game, designed to simulate combat between…
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Participants: Jabberwocky, Andrew Martin, Walt Freitag.

9/27/2002 mahoux: My dilemma mechanics for Future Perfect
Okay, in a thread about Core Premnise Trait at http://www.indie-rpgs.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=3613, Mike Holmes made a great point about the use of dilemma in Narrative terms. So, from there I present my…
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Participants: mahoux, Mike Holmes, JSDiamond.

9/28/2002 Christoffer Lernö: Simplifying and unifying dice mechanics for Ygg
I'm currently in the process of writing down Ygg. I'm taking all the ideas I worked out and write them out and putting them together. It's maybe not surprising that…
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Participants: Christoffer Lernö.

9/28/2002 KAR 120 C: Traditional Call For Commentry
This is incomplete, and I seem to be having difficulty updating the damn thing atm, but I'm looking for commentry on a game I'm kicking around ideas for atm. It's…
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Participants: KAR 120 C, contracycle, Paul Czege.

9/28/2002 SiliconMessiah: Dystopia: America 2155
New from PIGames; Dystopia. For a free download visit www.pigames.net or digitalrpg.org This is dark future roleplaying at its deadliest.
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Participants: SiliconMessiah.

9/29/2002 Jeffrey Miller: Sending it off to playtesters
I'm curious as to what the general experience of people here has been regarding playtesters? I've been involved in my fair share, and as a playtester I've had both good…
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Participants: Jeffrey Miller, Bailey, Mike Holmes.

10/1/2002 kevin671: My Mechanics (LONG!!!) (and Editted with new stuff)
So, I've been looking at a lot of suggestions for my mechanics system, and mulling them over. The current incarnation of the system is presented here, for comment. DICE 1D12…
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Participants: kevin671, Christoffer Lernö, Demonspahn, Mike Holmes, Jeremy Cole, JMendes, Ron Edwards.

10/1/2002 Christoffer Lernö: Ygg Action Resolution again (Concessions and Stuff?)
I'm cutting and pasting from my Ygg document here. I kind of came up with an idea that seems to work. Advantages and Concessions seem to be a little more…
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Participants: Christoffer Lernö, Mike Holmes, Andrew Martin, Le Joueur, Jonathan Walton, Walt Freitag.

10/1/2002 GMSkarka: Apollyon Noir---Black Powder, Black Magic
As some of you may know from comments over on RPGnet and in my blog, I'm working with Jason Roberts (author of FVLMINATA) on an RPG based on my old…
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Participants: GMSkarka, Matt, Jeffrey Miller, Valamir, Jared A. Sorensen, Bailywolf, Matt Wilson, Ian Young, Mike Holmes, Walt Freitag, Balbinus.

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