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5/30/2003 Palaskar: Need critique/playtesters
All right, I've finally refined my house system as far as I can readily go alone. What I need now is some players and a GM to playtest it, as…
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Participants: Palaskar, Mike Holmes.

5/30/2003 gobi: PUNK - GM role help...
For the past year or so, I've been working on a genre-universal game system. By that I mean, how Hong Kong Action Theatre is a genre-universal game system for Hong…
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Participants: gobi, Mike Holmes, Tony Irwin, Emmett, lumpley.

5/30/2003 Jeph: NINJA!
[b]The Premise:[/b] When you're more awesome than everything ever, you win. [b]Characters:[/b] Ninja have an Awesomeness, a couple Awesomernesses, Ninja Power Points (NPP), and, most of the time, Doing Cool…
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Participants: Jeph, Mike Holmes, Sylus Thane, Dave Panchyk, RobMuadib, Mighty DougHead, s/LaSH, Eric J., Phillip, gobi, Ron Edwards, Gwen, taalyn.

5/29/2003 Sylus Thane: P.U.L.P.
P.U.L.P.- Pure Unadulterated Lazy Playing Powered by the 6 Cylinder Dice Engine By Jason Palenske You live in the world of PULP fiction and movies. Ash lives down the street…
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Participants: Sylus Thane, Spooky Fanboy.

5/29/2003 Tony Irwin: Legacy of the Ages: GM dice
Folks I'm having a bit of a problem thinking about conflicts in Legacy of the Ages, and how many dice the GM should be bringing to the table. The problem…
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Participants: Tony Irwin, Mike Holmes, ADGBoss, Valamir, Palaskar.

5/28/2003 Hayslin: HAcK
I am currently in the process of making one of my pet ideas into a full-fledged game. the game is called HAcK. it revolves around a few individuals with the…
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Participants: Hayslin, Mike Holmes, Dave Panchyk, Spooky Fanboy, John Kirk, linux, Mark Johnson, Sage Kain.

5/28/2003 talysman: Daemons of Strife and Love post-mortem
as part of the process of rewriting my Iron Game Chef contribution for actual distribution, I've decided to go back through the game and analyze what was wrong, what was…
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Participants: talysman, Mike Holmes.

5/26/2003 gobi: Whimsy cards (bonus: obligatory introduction thread)
Howdy everyone, this forum was recommended by a few people as a good sounding board for odd bits of game design. I'm a graphic designer from new york, currently living…
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Participants: gobi, Jack Spencer Jr, taalyn, Rob Donoghue, RaconteurX, pete_darby.

5/23/2003 dragongrace: DragonGrace: Experience
http://home.earthlink.net/~jjeskiewicz/DG_Experience.html I've read through some old threads on the vlue of experience systems and rewards and nonesuch. I've hashed together a simple little experience system, and I'm looking for thoughts…
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Participants: dragongrace, Mike Holmes, Emmett, ADGBoss.

5/23/2003 Lugaru: Starbucks rpg supplies... I $*&# you not!
You guy's wont believe this but dude... ok... I was doing my training today regarding the code we use to mark beverages and how to call them out and ring…
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Participants: Lugaru, Andy Kitkowski, Jared A. Sorensen, Paul Czege.

5/21/2003 clehrich: Shadows in the Fog -- new draft
Hi, An almost complete and somewhat more attractive draft of Shadows in the Fog is now available: Shadows In the Fog PDF As you may recall, this is…
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Participants: clehrich, Mike Holmes, Spooky Fanboy, Rob MacDougall, scobie.

5/21/2003 C. Edwards: Tiki God
[url]http://www.indie-rpgs.com/viewtopic.php?p=67223#67223[/url] [quote="Jonathan Walton"]But I do have to say that I had SO many friends volunteer to playtest "Tiki God" last week... :) Too bad it was exam week or there…
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Participants: C. Edwards.

5/20/2003 Simon W: SuperCity
SuperCity is now up on my site as a PDF. I have changed nothing yet from my entry in the Iron Chef comp. I could do with some ideas for…
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Participants: Simon W, Mike Holmes, Emily Care, Chris Moore.

5/20/2003 Jonathan Walton: Argonauts: Narrativist d20 Supers?
Hey All, So this thread is a combination of several things I've been thinking about recently: 1. My game concept Argonauts, which basically involves doing a supers game set in…
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Participants: Jonathan Walton, Sidhain, Valamir, Emily Care, Matt Snyder, Paul Czege, talysman, Mike Holmes, Piers Brown, John Harper.

5/20/2003 ethan_greer: [Thugs and Thieves] Playtest Version 1
Well, as the clouds of steam and cooking aromas disperse from the Iron Game Chef competition, in which I was a proud participant, I once more return to my current…
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Participants: ethan_greer, Emily Care, Simon W, Walt Freitag.

5/19/2003 Green: Kathanaksaya: a (not quite) finished game needs testing
Aside from the lack of interesting graphics or even much of a background, the game I have been working on, Kathanaksaya, is complete. Right now, I think there is little…
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Participants: Green, Phillip, Lxndr.

5/19/2003 Walt Freitag: Index to Iron Game Chef - Simulationist
[quote="an Iron Game Chef competitor"]Chairman, allow me to honor you with this small gift.[/quote] [quote="The Chairman"]Thank you. Of course, you understand that this will have no effect on the judging.[/quote]…
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Participants: Walt Freitag.

5/17/2003 Emote Control: The Supernormal
I very recently started work on a surreal espionage setting called Conspiracy Practice, but hit a artistic quandary when thinking about the more "exotic" elements. I wanted to preserve the…
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Participants: Emote Control, Jeffrey Miller, Mike Holmes.

5/16/2003 Jeph: Valley of Shadow: Gettin' Gritty in the City
Valley of Shadow is a game that is set in The City. What is They City? Dunno. But it's got skyscrapers, streetgangs and black tie balls. Maybe its New York,…
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Participants: Jeph, Brian Leybourne, Jeffrey Miller, ethan_greer.

5/16/2003 Emote Control: Pscience: Rough Draft
This is a very rough draft for a part of the "supernormal" in my nascent modern-weirdness setting "Conspiracy Practice". This weekend I'll put up another section on strangeness and an…
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Participants: Emote Control, Mike Holmes, Jeffrey Miller.

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6/1/2003 Shreyas Sampat: Mridangam: Vedic Superheroic Dance-Drama
Mridangam is a game based in Vedic mythology and the classical Indian dance-drama; its play is intended to mimic the traditional structure of a Bharata Natyam performance. As such, it's…
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Participants: Shreyas Sampat, Spooky Fanboy, Jonathan Walton, ADGBoss, Andy Kitkowski, Little_Rat, Palaskar.

6/2/2003 Ryan Wynne: Police RPG using the Action! System
I am looking at putting together a police rpg using the Action! system (which is now OGL and I think is a very good system). Any input/ideas?
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Participants: Ryan Wynne, Dave Panchyk, John Kim, Mike Holmes.

6/2/2003 Wolfen: ReCoil: Layout
Well, I'm finally beginning to get ReCoil into something resembling a finished format, but I'm having my doubts with layout. I think it looks alright, but perhaps a little... drab.…
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Participants: Wolfen, Jack Spencer Jr, Matt Snyder, Matt Wilson, Shreyas Sampat, gobi.

6/2/2003 TheGameBoy: Exile
a few months ago, at my first shot at Indie RPG creation, I made a RPG version of the Computer RPG: Exile. It is a simple game, and fairly straightforward.…
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Participants: TheGameBoy, greyorm, Emmett.

6/3/2003 Comte: minor blunder deleat me
Originaly this started as a question about what you wanted when someone posted thier ideas for a game up here. This is because I didn't notice the sticky. It would…
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Participants: Comte, Mark Johnson.

6/3/2003 Sylus Thane: Reviews of Frontier requested
Ok, as I am getting closer to my publishing deadline of September I am facing a few problems. 1. Should my base rule book include all of the rules or…
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Participants: Sylus Thane, Spooky Fanboy, Emmett, Mike Holmes, Kester Pelagius, Zala.

6/3/2003 Green: need help for possible future supplements
Now that my Kathanaksaya website is complete, and I have managed to playtest it a few times with some on-the-fly games, I believe I would like to continue developing this…
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Participants: Green, Lxndr.

6/4/2003 linux: Combat System Help
I need help in fine-tuning a Combat system i'm developing. I am at an impass: Combat System 1: roll of 2d10 (d100%) to determine attack (hit chance v evasion/defense) compare…
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Participants: linux, Emmett, M. J. Young, Andrew Martin, Jack Aidley, ADGBoss.

6/4/2003 szilard: Destined: Mechanic/Difficulty issue
I've been struggling with some underlying issues in my development of Destined lately. Here is a brief mechanics recap/update: Each character has two main attributes: Determination and Destiny These are…
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Participants: szilard, Walt Freitag, Matt Snyder, Jeph, Hunter Logan.

6/4/2003 Silent Entropy: Apotheosis: Meta-mythical Role-playing (Nar/Sim Hybrid)
Apotheosis is a mythic game that floats somewhere between the narrative and simulation models. Apotheosis is a poetic journey through a meta-mythic realm of infinite epic possibilities. This is my…
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Participants: Silent Entropy, Dave Panchyk, Matt Snyder, Jonathan Walton, Shreyas Sampat, RobMuadib, Mike Holmes, xiombarg, Dr. Velocity.

6/5/2003 rotten: Aspect: Dice as modifer to Ability Score
Hello Forgers, So, I've been bouncing around the Forge for the past couple of weeks and have received a first-class education on RPG design. Now, I'm faced with several interesting…
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Participants: rotten, Walt Freitag, Mike Holmes.

6/6/2003 Jeffrey Miller: Blackbirds: Combat mechnics take two
After playtest and some back and forth with a professional poker player for insight into how card games are structured, I've revamped the combat resolution mechanics (originally outlined in this…
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Participants: Jeffrey Miller, Torrent, John Harper, Matt Wilson.

6/6/2003 talysman: Talk Trash 2Nite: first draft
ok, I need to catch up on all the game design ideas that are waiting to be finished, so I've finally gotten the "Jerry Springer" rpg to the point where…
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Participants: talysman, Mike Holmes, Ron Edwards.

6/6/2003 WDFlores: The Iron City
Hello all. I'm neck deep in the game design trenches, being my first time designing an entire game from scratch. Writing my initial ideas here to structure them and maybe…
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Participants: WDFlores, ADGBoss, Mike Holmes.

6/6/2003 Phillip: Power Level chart for supers RPG help needed
I am working on some ideas for 2 supers RPGs, one using single polyhedra dice and one using custom-made cards (basically SAGA lite). I would like to know if anyone…
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Participants: Phillip, AnyaTheBlue, Tony Irwin, Andrew Martin, Valamir, Mike Holmes, Jared A. Sorensen.

6/7/2003 AnyaTheBlue: Untitled Nar-Sim Superheroes: A beginning
Hi! I'm a newbie here. This may not be the best place to start, but I might as well jump in with both feet. If a system like this already…
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Participants: AnyaTheBlue, John Harper, Lxndr, Simon W, Tony Irwin, Shreyas Sampat, Cassidy, Bob McNamee, Phillip.

6/8/2003 Hayslin: commitance
yes i am commited, i am just tired of seeing my work treated like trash. so i will write up a quick play booklet with a sample scenario.
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Participants: Hayslin, Bankuei.

6/9/2003 ChrisH247: The Secret of Zir'An: Fantasy's Future
Hi, My name is Chris Hockabout, one of four members of the small fledgeling game development studio: Paragon Games (http://www.paragongames.us). Like the majority of you, RPGs and RPG design have…
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Participants: ChrisH247, anonymouse.

6/10/2003 Alan: Black Fire - developing for play test
Hi all, (Black Fire is Ron's game design example for his Gamism essay. Black Fire is found at http://www.indie-rpgs.com/articles/22/ ) I really like what I see in Black Fire, and…
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Participants: Alan, Ron Edwards, Valamir, GreatWolf, Piers Brown.

6/11/2003 Paul Czege: staring into the black fire
[FONT COLOR="RED"]I'm calling the setting Czegara....The body of the slain god actually lies across the landscape. That is, it's not physically present, but metaphysically, outlined in real space in the…
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Participants: Paul Czege, Bankuei, Blake Hutchins, Ron Edwards, Mike Holmes, Valamir, Walt Freitag, Jared A. Sorensen, Alan.

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