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9/12/2003 scobie: GunKnight - Any Rumblings???
Hi I've just been watching Gundam Seed and I've gotten enthused for the whole giant robot genre again. I remember an intriguing little concept called 'GunKnight' which came up in…
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Participants: scobie, raga.

9/11/2003 The_Confessor: The Day of Rest: Role-Playing at the Birth of Reality
Hey all, I've got another idea for a game. Right now it's in very early stages, and I'm not sure what I can actually do with it, so I'm tossing…
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Participants: The_Confessor, Shreyas Sampat, garapata.

9/10/2003 Wormwood: Traditions of the Flesh: Open Design Notes
First, some ground rules: 1) this is soft sci-fi, with some vague merging into fantasy, but the key point is I don't care if it's scientifically feasible, or exactly why…
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Participants: Wormwood, Jasper, Little_Rat, taalyn.

9/10/2003 jammmer81: Significators: cartomancy-based character creation
This is a little side project I'm working on. Significator A character’s significator describes the type of person that he or she is. Kings and Queens typically represent men and…
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Participants: jammmer81, Jasper, Ben Lehman, taalyn.

9/10/2003 realms_creator: Time for freedom.
This is just a little of what we have writing so far for our game. Please post your comment on it. Thanks.. If this is the wrong place sorry.. I…
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Participants: realms_creator, Ben Lehman.

9/9/2003 Sylus Thane: Once Upon a Time in a Role-playing Game
Once Upon a Time in a Role-playing Game Anybody can be average, it's those of us with drive that excel beyond the ordinary. Nothing about this game is average and…
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Participants: Sylus Thane, Jasper.

9/8/2003 raga: looking for game references
Hi all, long time reader, first time poster. anyways I'm a big fan of the martial arts genre and I've been thinking about a game focusing on this. The mechanic…
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Participants: raga, Bankuei, Ron Edwards, Jack Spencer Jr, Mike Holmes, anonymouse, roleplyr4ever, Michael S. Miller, Andrew Martin.

9/6/2003 jammmer81: Eernal Struggle as a setting specific rpg
This may look familiar, but bare with me, I have some questions to ask at the end of this post. I intend to have a setting specific game to playtest…
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Participants: jammmer81, Andrew Martin, Mike Holmes, WDFlores.

9/6/2003 Heather Manley: Amazon Ninja Space-Pirate Catgirls: Skills lists
I was reviewing the list of skills for my game, and noticed that now that I have a mechanic named Loot, I really shouldn't have a skill named Loot as…
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Participants: Heather Manley, Ziggy, Dave Panchyk, John Harper, Marco, Lxndr, MachMoth, iago.

9/5/2003 Chris Capps: [Flash In The Pan] Lyric-Based Character Creation?
(Long time reader, first time poster, yada yada yada) I've begun brainstorming a game that I'm currently referring to as Flash In The Pan. It takes place in a modern,…
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Participants: Chris Capps, ethan_greer, scobie, Bryant, gobi, The_Confessor, Lxndr, Tim C Koppang.

9/5/2003 flobby77: New Science/Fantasy RPG...
Just got the first addition our new game "The Center Space" out!!!. Please check it out!!! We need more feed back!!! Briefly, it's a 2d10 game that doesn't use classes.…
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Participants: flobby77, Mike Holmes, Clinton R. Nixon, Jasper, Mark Johnson.

9/5/2003 \\|The Joker|//: X BOX'S FaBlE!!!!
[b][i][color=darkblue][/color][size=18px][/size] this game is goin to be soo suh weeet in game graphics are awsome u make ur future u craft ur own sword u can fight n e one…
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Participants: \\|The Joker|//, abzu, Alan, Eric J., Clinton R. Nixon.

9/4/2003 JSDiamond: Fight the Nazis as a reckless daring 1940's spy
"Rhinegart Station-South" is a noir, pulp action style rpg set in 1940 Europe. Just a bit of fun I'm working on. You can download it from my site's main page,…
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Participants: JSDiamond, Ron Edwards, Mike Holmes.

9/4/2003 gobi: Gears & Spears (A little side project)
[b]Gears & Spears[/b] [i]Mythic Tribal Robot Role-Playing in the Year 200,000,000 A.D.[/i] It all started with this stream-of-consciousness bit I wrote after coming home from work. [quote] The meat, in…
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Participants: gobi, Mike Holmes, anonymouse, Lxndr, Ben Lehman, Jasper, mrteapot, Sylus Thane, WDFlores, Dumirik, raga, Ron Edwards, dragon_of_colour, Jeph, taalyn.

9/3/2003 xiombarg: Card Captor Cabal
Hey, all. While my fiancee is away in Texas for her bridal shower, she asked me to write a little RPG based on her favorite anime, CardCaptors, aka Card Captor…
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Participants: xiombarg, Shreyas Sampat, roleplyr4ever, Lxndr.

9/3/2003 Tim Alexander: [Devout] Help with varying an ability
Hey Folks, Ok, so my own first try at a game design is represented by Devout. The seed for it came from a conversation with a relative of my wife's…
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Participants: Tim Alexander, AgentFresh, bigsimon, Lxndr.

9/1/2003 Jasper: Graal: Arthurian Romance Questing
Hello everyone, I've been away from the Forge for a while, but now have some more free time, and a game I'd like to talk about. A few of you…
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Participants: Jasper, anonymouse, simon_hibbs, lumpley.

9/1/2003 Green: kathanaksaya for IRC and PbEM
Just recently, James West published a lite version of my game, Kathanaksaya, in the most recent issue of Random Order Comics & Games. After a little bit of sitting on…
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Participants: Green, Paul Czege, Tony Irwin, Shreyas Sampat.

8/29/2003 Jeph: Courageous Exploits of the Fearless Dinosaur Hunters!
[size=18px]COURAGEOUS EXPLOITS OF THE FEARLESS DINOSAUR HUNTERS[/size] You are stranded in a place with dinosaurs! They will eat you! Run away! [b]CHARACTERS[/b] Your character has 3 stats: Clever, Athletic, and…
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Participants: Jeph, Mike Holmes, Tony Irwin.

8/29/2003 Aelios: KARMA system: Feedback on Combat Mechanic please
I've been working on this for a long time now, but I can't shake the feeling that I'm missing something. I don't have a specific GNS target I'm aiming for,…
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Participants: Aelios, Mike Holmes, Ron Edwards.

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9/13/2003 deidzoeb: Footcreme - found text conflict resolution mechanic
[b][url=http://evilbobdayjob.tripod.com/ftcrm/index.html]footcreme[/url][/b] No, it's not a make-over game, although it could be. FTCRM = Found Text Conflict Resolution Mechanic = ([b]footcreme[/b]) The strategies and variations page is still under construction, but…
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Participants: deidzoeb.

9/15/2003 Dumirik: The Last Bastion's back!
Hey boyz (and girls, its a generic term), I just wanted to announce with as little fanfare as possible (tarrraaaaah!! ;)) that my RPG currently entitled The Last Bastion is…
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Participants: Dumirik, Mike Holmes.

9/16/2003 jphannil: Just (another) game idea
Hello and greetings from someone just signed in the forge. I've been playing rpg's since the beginning of the 90's, not as much now as I used to. I've always…
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Participants: jphannil, taalyn, Mike Holmes, Dev, Walt Freitag, aghori, failrate, Andrew Martin.

9/16/2003 David Chunn: [SagaCraft] Hero Background
Hey, folks! I need some help deciding between two different creation methods for hero background. Since this is my first post about the game, let me sum things up for…
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Participants: David Chunn, Mike Holmes, ethan_greer, Andrew Martin.

9/18/2003 Brian T: New to the Forge
Hello all, I'm new here, just looking for now while I try to absorb everything. I have been working on my own game for some time and figured that had…
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Participants: Brian T, Phillip, Mike Holmes.

9/18/2003 Marco: JAGS Have-Not Book 1 [Focus on Approach Chapter]
We are nearing completion of our post-apocalypse world book Have-Not (for the free JAGS system). Our first book (setting) is close to done--and we have a draft of it up--however,…
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Participants: Marco, deadpanbob.

9/18/2003 Phillip: Idea for a new game (no working title yet)
This will be the first time I have posted an actual idea for a game here on the Forge. Here is a basic outline of what I have in mind:…
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Participants: Phillip, Mike Holmes, ZeOtter, pete_darby, Bill Logan.

9/18/2003 Garbanzo: Ashen first draft. Comments on my race mechanics?
Forge: I've got a quick web site up which should get you a first draft of Ashen. For purposes of this thread, I'm looking for some feedback on the…
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Participants: Garbanzo, contracycle, taalyn, Mulciber, Shreyas Sampat.

9/19/2003 Peregrine: Mythosystem
Hi, I've thrown together a little generic fantasy system during some Wayfarer Song burn-out downtime. It is nothing too special, but I thought I'd post a link to it and…
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Participants: Peregrine, David Chunn.

9/19/2003 Valamir: [Robots & Rapiers] Announcing Ramshead's new RPG
Ramshead Publishing invites you to review and playtest our next RPG, Robots and Rapiers. You can find the 130+ page pdf alpha version on the Universalis website. I expect…
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Participants: Valamir, Marco, John Harper, gobi, Thierry Michel, Mike Holmes, Lxndr, Sylus Thane.

9/21/2003 taalyn: Crux - cover image?
Hey everybody! (Hi Dr. Nick!) Crux is progressing along nicely, but I do have one thing that I just can't get through, and Im not having any luck with my…
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Participants: taalyn.

9/22/2003 The_Confessor: Seafaring, Swashbuckling, & Style
Greetings everyone, I just finished writing my second RPG Seafaring, Swashbuckling & Style: A Cinematic Role-Playing Game in the Age of Piracy. It was written loose and fast, and in…
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Participants: The_Confessor, Jeph, Mike Holmes, mrteapot, Valamir, xiombarg, gobi, Lxndr, RaconteurX, contracycle, Simon W, sirogit.

9/22/2003 garapata: MyGame {no working title yet} : An RPG Musical
Inspired by movies such as Chicago, Moulin Rouge and theater productions like RENT, Les Miserables, Chess, West Side Story and Miss Saigon, I have decided to try and create a…
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Participants: garapata, mrteapot, Michael S. Miller, taalyn.

9/22/2003 Garbanzo: [Ashen] Card Mechanics - any authorities in the house?
Forge: I just posted a first draft of Ashen with downloads available from this site, and maybe by direct link. A previous thread discusses the basic thrust of things and,…
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Participants: Garbanzo.

9/22/2003 Bill Logan: New universal game mechanic idea.
Okay. This is my first major post. Here goes. Stats: Players have no attributes, skills, advantages, disadvantages, or anything cumbersome like that (he said what?). Instead they are just a…
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Participants: Bill Logan, deadpanbob, Mike Holmes, Andrew Martin.

9/22/2003 xiombarg: Unsung: Lapse and Gift Mechanic (peanut gallery wanted)
Okay, in reference to this thread I'm curious what other people think about the Lapse and Gift mechanics in Unsung. It's probably best to look at the latest playtest rules…
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Participants: xiombarg, Ben Lehman, Mike Holmes.

9/23/2003 AnyaTheBlue: More Nar/Sim Superheroes
This is another post on the general topic of this thread over here from last June, where I was mumbling about an unnamed Nar/Sim superhero game. I still don't…
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Participants: AnyaTheBlue, Ron Edwards, Jonathan Walton.

9/23/2003 Jeph: PBBRPG: The Role-Playing Game of Lego Adventure
So, last night I was fiddling around with my legoes, mostly trying to make appropriate minis for a couple of DnD characters in a game in which I play. Result:…
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Participants: Jeph, Mike Holmes, roleplyr4ever, Matt, lumpley, Grex.

9/23/2003 garapata: RPG Musical: Inspiration Points
Okay, I have decided to try and give a more concrete set of area where Inspiration Points are guaged. As mentioned in my other thread, Inspiration Points are gained when…
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Participants: garapata, JimmyB, taalyn, Tomas HVM.

9/24/2003 Rich Stokes: Urban Mythos: Back at the grindstone...
Hi all, Been away, been busy, been mostly dead as far as free time was concerned and a bit of a crisis as far as the idea of actually WRITING…
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Participants: Rich Stokes, Jonathan Walton, Garbanzo, scobie, gobi.

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