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5/2/2003 Sidhain: Hearts and Souls: Heroic fait accompli
In comic books there is a tendency for this structure. A)Hero gets connected to plot events set up by the villian (discovering it, falling into it and so on) B)Hero…
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Participants: Sidhain, Mike Holmes, s/LaSH, Andy Kitkowski, Valamir.

5/1/2003 taalyn: Aisling Damage and also Magic
Hey all, Two things I could really use your help on, because I keep coming up against a wall. - Damage I've talked about it before, and that helped a…
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Participants: taalyn, Mike Holmes, MathiasJack, Shreyas Sampat.

5/1/2003 Jeffrey Miller: Blackbirds: "Plunder Points"
Here's my first public draft of the reward system I'm tumbling around for Blackbirds. In essence its very much an attempt to reward players for the behavior that is Good…
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Participants: Jeffrey Miller, Torrent.

5/1/2003 Toren: Spaceship Zero - Reporter archetype perk suggestions?
So we're wracking our brains trying to come up with a nifty perk for a reporter archetype for Spaceship Zero. Any suggestions? The term 'plucky' comes to mind, but I…
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Participants: Toren, Fallen_Icarus, deadpanbob, Blake Hutchins, Jay Turner, Dave Panchyk, Mike Holmes, Gilbetron, Emmett.

4/30/2003 Jeffrey Miller: Blackbirds - Arrr!
A fellow Forger and I were chatting via IM a couple weeks ago, and using "pirate speak" to emphasis some humorous point in our discussion, when it suddenly hit me…
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Participants: Jeffrey Miller, Matt Wilson, Jay Turner, Mike Holmes, Valamir.

4/30/2003 Jay Turner: Vive la Resistance!: Introducing the Rabbit Resistance
Here's another game I've been working on, and this one's quite different from Better Days. It's nowhere near finished, but it's at least ready for discussion, I think. Here's the…
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Participants: Jay Turner, Fallen_Icarus, ethan_greer, Kester Pelagius, Mike Holmes.

4/30/2003 Malcolm: Evening all
Hi, not sure if anyone ever reads these "hello, I'm such and such" kind of posts, but what the hell. Been meaning to join The Forge for a while now,…
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Participants: Malcolm, Mike Holmes, Bankuei, Dave Panchyk, Matt, Ron Edwards, quozl, ethan_greer, Marco, greyorm, szilard, Jeph, Stuart DJ Purdie.

4/29/2003 Matt Wilson: PTA: No Myth structure?
I started thinking about the following rules for Primetime Adventures soon after the current playtest started. I think what I've got below might actually promote the no-myth play that's been…
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Participants: Matt Wilson, Mike Holmes, Jeffrey Miller, kregmosier.

4/29/2003 Michael Hopcroft: Designigng a comedy game
I just acquired a licence for an RPG based pon an American-produced comedic manga series. I have eighteen months to release a game -- I want to do it in…
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Participants: Michael Hopcroft, Mike Holmes, Jay Turner, Jared A. Sorensen, Valamir, szilard, greyorm.

4/29/2003 Fallen_Icarus: Sins of Our Forefathers - an intro
Hi, I'm a relatively new Forgite and this is an intro to my first game of any note, Sin's of Our Forefathers. A game set so far in the future,…
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Participants: Fallen_Icarus, clehrich, Mike Holmes.

4/28/2003 deadpanbob: Incarnate: CharGen Achieving Gamist Support?
All, I'm still slowly slogging through a complete re-write/draft of my game: Incarnate. It's slow going - but I'm committed to finishing sometime this century. As stated in the design…
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Participants: deadpanbob, M. J. Young, Ron Edwards.

4/28/2003 greyorm: Organization & Layout
This is a pretty general topic, and so is my question, but I am asking about it in relation to the design of Orx here. This was the same question…
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Participants: greyorm, Valamir, Wolfen, hix, M. J. Young, Jonathan Walton, Jack Spencer Jr, Matt Wilson, Fallen_Icarus.

4/27/2003 Sindyr: Best way to make 4d6 open-ended?
I have been working on my game for some time, and the hardest thing for me was to come up with a task resolution system that met many of my…
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Participants: Sindyr, Brian Leybourne, Shreyas Sampat, Andrew Martin, Zoetrope10, Mike Holmes, SwordofLux.

4/26/2003 xgothgrrl: Setting concept for new game: The Ecotopia Station
Hello all, new member here. I've been playing around with a few stray ideas for a number of weeks now in the hopes of designing a new game for my…
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Participants: xgothgrrl, greyorm, Ron Edwards, Mike Holmes, redivider.

4/26/2003 Sindyr: HELP! I can't remember which RPG this is...
I am not sure if I have posted this in the right forum(s), but I am trying to remember where I came across an interesting game, and thought this would…
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Participants: Sindyr, Thomas Tamblyn.

4/26/2003 Marco: Mechs
I'm working on JAGS Mechs. This isn't a game mechanics issue (I mean it is--but it's all tactical balance stuff and I'm not delving into that here)--but more of a…
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Participants: Marco, Thomas Tamblyn, greyorm, Sidhain, Walt Freitag, Bankuei, Mike Holmes, Eric J., Stuart DJ Purdie, SwordofLux, b_bankhead, Emmett.

4/26/2003 Zathreyel: Criminal Element, expanded and evolving
okay, a quick post of an update. i have a friend of mine hosting the .pdf file of what i have doen so far for Criminal Element. it is lacking…
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Participants: Zathreyel, Ron Edwards.

4/26/2003 Wolfen: ReCoil: Mechanics, part 1
In which the basic traits of player characters are discussed, as well as various effects and possibilities with the basic mechanic. Comments, suggestions and questions desired. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mechanics: Agent traits:…
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Participants: Wolfen, C. Edwards, Thomas Tamblyn, Mike Holmes, Brian Leybourne.

4/24/2003 Zathreyel: Criminal Element: Genre Expectations
Okay, I’ve taken the time to read over some of the posts related to Genre Expectation and it was some damned interesting reading. It seems like a lot of thought…
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Participants: Zathreyel, Mike Holmes, deadpanbob, Ron Edwards.

4/24/2003 MathiasJack: FLaW: Fate Luck and Will
This is the continuation of my thread below called "Threads of Destiny". Spooky wanted me to show some examples of the three stats, and how they exactly worked within the…
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Participants: MathiasJack, Spooky Fanboy, taalyn.

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5/2/2003 Shreyas Sampat: Torchbearer: What Makes Us Mythic
Torchbearer's going through a new draft, and I find that I'm not happy with the focus of the rule-colour. Specifically, the rules allow characters to be mighty without rooting them…
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Participants: Shreyas Sampat, GreatWolf, Jonathan Walton.

5/2/2003 Jeffrey Miller: Blackbirds: Abilities under fire/Adverse conditions
Some people have asked me why I was leaning towards a scale of 2-6 to rate abilities in Blackbird, and here's the explanation, plus a chunk on abilities in Blackbird…
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Participants: Jeffrey Miller, Mike Holmes.

5/2/2003 Fallen_Icarus: Sins of Our Forefathers - Charater Advancment help
Hi, The main rules can be found in the assosiated thread. I know its long and I apologize for the lengthy setting description. However its not required reading for this…
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Participants: Fallen_Icarus, Jeffrey Miller, dragongrace, Emmett, Mike Holmes, ross_winn.

5/3/2003 MathiasJack: New mechanic system for draws in FLaW
I want to thank both Spooky and taalyn for the great feed back. They have been essential to the development of my game. Taalyn outlined the relationship map of the…
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Participants: MathiasJack, taalyn.

5/3/2003 Clinton R. Nixon: [TSoY] Abstracting damage
The mechanics for my new game, The Shadow of Yesterday, are almost complete. However, I've had a real urge lately to abstract the damage system. You can click on the…
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Participants: Clinton R. Nixon.

5/5/2003 Green: Kathanaksaya, new and improved
I finally have sat down and taught myself enough HTML to create my own web page. Now I don't have to copy and paste everything from a word processing document,…
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Participants: Green.

5/5/2003 Dave Panchyk: Forge Monster Garage: Jesse James, GMSkarka, & Fancy Dan
[quote="GMSkarka"]The reason that consumers think that D20 can do anything is because, simply, in the hands of any reasonably talented game designer, IT CAN. [/quote] Well-a, well-a, well-a. Anyone seen…
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Participants: Dave Panchyk, Clinton R. Nixon, Jonathan Walton, deadpanbob, Valamir, Ron Edwards, Mike Holmes, John Harper, Matt Wilson.

5/6/2003 Gold Rush Games: For those who are about to design...we salute you
For those looking for freely available material to draw inspiration from or perhaps even to use directly in your own product, we submit the Action! System. Version 1.1 of the…
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Participants: Gold Rush Games, Kester Pelagius, Mike Holmes, Delmer Esau.

5/6/2003 Delmer Esau: D10 System: Bare Bones of a future OGL system
This is how the system works..roughly... ********* Stats:………..Range………Components of Soul: 4- 20 Mind and Body : 2-10 (Mind + Body = Soul) Traits: Dexterity: 1-5 Strength: 1-5 (Str + Dex…
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Participants: Delmer Esau, MoonHunter, deadpanbob, M. J. Young.

5/6/2003 Delmer Esau: Machina: Steampunk Roleplaying
This is what we are going with. Input requested... Machina No one knows who first laid the Machina beneath the great city-state of New Orthom. It grew though, we can…
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Participants: Delmer Esau, deadpanbob, J. Backman, Malcolm.

5/6/2003 RobMuadib: TMW:COTEC - Reality Expectations, & Descriptive Concepts
Hey All So, I am working on the design Architecture elements of the game, as well as the "mythos" elements present in the universe. I have talked about this idea…
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Participants: RobMuadib, Mike Holmes, Ron Edwards, Garbanzo.

5/6/2003 Kester Pelagius: Space Vixens: Serial Cinematic (Narrative) role-playing
Greetings All, So, I've been working on bits and pieces of Crystal Spheres, started a Psionics Expansion, begun a Quick Start Rules (none of which are done or posted to…
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Participants: Kester Pelagius, clehrich, Alan, Zamiel, Tony Irwin, Mike Holmes, John Harper.

5/6/2003 Tonic: Setting Design
Does anybody know of any resources to help people develop custom settings? Like, a list of facets to consider about the economy, social norms, etc? I'm look for something science…
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Participants: Tonic, Mike Holmes, KeithBVaughn, RobMuadib, Zamiel.

5/7/2003 ejh: Ed Designs A Game: Topos
Well, y'all may remember that I've posted in the past about creating a "Universalis Lite" or something like that. I finally done gone and did it, and got some poor…
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Participants: ejh, Wolfen, Tony Irwin, Mike Holmes, Paul Czege, Bill_White, efindel, dunlaing, Lxndr, Bob McNamee, Thierry Michel.

5/8/2003 Delmer Esau: Machina: Concept
Okay I've been enjoying some of the articles here at the Forge, as I have never completed an RPG before (I have 3 strategy/tactical games under my belt, one published).…
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Participants: Delmer Esau, lumpley, Mike Holmes, deadpanbob, Emmett, Gilbetron.

5/8/2003 dragongrace: DragonGrace: Version 3
[url]http://www.geocities.com/dragongrace2003/v3/default.html[/url] Well I've deconstructed examined and rebuilt DragonGrace. And while I did go down the road of combinign several existing games, I found that it didn't fit my idea of…
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Participants: dragongrace, Mike Holmes.

5/8/2003 Mike Holmes: Iron Game Chef - Simulationist!
The Chairman enters the arena once again. The light's come up. He's carrying a copy of Pendragon. What could it mean? Iron Game Chef Contest! I can wait no…
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Participants: Mike Holmes, Jonathan Walton, Emily Care, cruciel, bluegargantua, talysman, C. Edwards, dragongrace, Jared A. Sorensen, Shreyas Sampat, Matt, ethan_greer, greyorm, ADGBoss, deadpanbob, Valamir, Ron Edwards, Bankuei, Simon W, Kester Pelagius, Wormwood, Palaskar, Gwen, Le Joueur, Walt Freitag.

5/9/2003 salkaner: 24-hour RPG follow-up
Hi to all. Quite interesting idea, but not extreme, I feel. Anyway,, I feel confident that it can generate several interesting rpgs
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Participants: salkaner, Ron Edwards.

5/9/2003 lumpley: The Nighttime Animals Save the World
[url=http://www.septemberquestion.org/lumpley/tnaplay.html]The Nighttime Animals Save the World[/url] I've only playtested with 2 players (one being the GM), so I don't know if the mechanics will get weird with more. With 4…
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Participants: lumpley, Paul Czege, Shreyas Sampat, Matt Wilson, Delmer Esau.

5/10/2003 taalyn: Crux, the game formerly known as Aisling
Announcing: Crux, that game with glass bobblies, has reached a point where playtesting is possible. I'm also hoping that having more of it visible will get me to finish certain…
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Participants: taalyn, MathiasJack.

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