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12/23/2003 Dilly Green Bean Games: The Basic System, thoughts and why
Recently our company put to use a set of rules that originally was just supposed to be a gag. But we are finding people are taking to it. It was…
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Participants: Dilly Green Bean Games, Mike Holmes, Andrew Martin, Dregg, Spooky Fanboy, jeffjones, steelcaress, Jasper, Jack Aidley.

12/22/2003 b4d0m3n: Ultimate Attributes List?
Alright, homeboys. This is what I've got it down to: Killin’ (an’ doin’) STRength DEXterity STAmina Thunkin’ (an’ clevers) PERception INTelligence WITs Talkin’ (an’ plottin’, an’ lookin’) CHARisma MANipulation APPearance…
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Participants: b4d0m3n, Valamir, Anthony I, Endoperez, Ben Lehman, failrate, gobi, Nawara, CthulhuPriest, Scourge108, M. J. Young, J B Bell, Autocrat, Shreyas Sampat, Deadboy, Sean, Dav, Ron Edwards, Zoetrope10, artofmagic, WyldKarde.

12/22/2003 Gwen: Forum Based Sapce Game
A lot my friends have moved away and so we don't get to roleplay like we used to- some have even moved to other parts of the world which makes…
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Participants: Gwen, anonymouse, Dev.

12/21/2003 AdAstraGames: RPGs without Kewl Powerz
I'm at a bit of a conundrum here. I have a setting in development (The Ten Worlds), as the backdrop for Attack Vector: Tactical. The setting is non-gritty hard science…
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Participants: AdAstraGames, xiombarg, Andrew Martin, M. J. Young, Zathreyel, ethan_greer, Bankuei, Doctor Xero.

12/21/2003 Nawara: The Perfect Skill List?
Hi, my name's Jeff and I'm new to this forum. Anyway, I need some help designing a versatile skill list for a modern-day, comedy/drama political RPG (think of a cross…
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Participants: Nawara, Jeph, Jack Spencer Jr, Christopher Weeks, Andrew Martin, M. J. Young.

12/19/2003 b4d0m3n: [Dice Mechanics] Could you help?
Hello. I haven't really posted here before, but I have recently learned of the juicy goodness of this site and now have a few questions. I posted this on RPGNet…
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Participants: b4d0m3n, anonymouse, Andrew Martin.

12/19/2003 b_bankhead: Ship and the Stars: Design Notes ,Premise and Characters
The Ship and the Stars: Notes for a new kind of SF game Part 1 : Defining the Premises Introduction This material grew almost against my own will from a…
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Participants: b_bankhead, Dev, Matt Wilson, John Harper.

12/18/2003 halohand: Pagoda Armor and other questions
Just some questions concerning Pagoda. My group and I plan on testing it out this weekend but started wondering about certain elements of the game. 1. On the Character Sheet…
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Participants: halohand, Jeph.

12/18/2003 MachMoth: Personal Embarressment and Self Deprecation at it's best.
Well, being as I'm getting close to actually releasing a beta worthy game, fate decided to slap me one. In a routine search of some old hard disks, I found…
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Participants: MachMoth, xiombarg.

12/18/2003 Calithena: [Shifter]
OK - preface - I have no intention to actually publish this game, it's a system to facilitate something I'm doing with a friend. You can find a discussion of…
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Participants: Calithena, Ben Lehman, RaconteurX, Valamir.

12/18/2003 joao.mariano: New Game Dice Convention : Could you review it please?
I'm working in a dice pool system with what I think is a fairly original dice convention: Random action resolution requires the usage of a variable number of 6-sided dice…
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Participants: joao.mariano, Jeph, Valamir, Sindyr, MachMoth, Darcy Burgess, Walt Freitag, Mike Holmes, Andrew Martin, Paganini.

12/17/2003 Ben Lehman: Tactics: Mechanics
For a discussion of responsibility management and group challenge, as well as an introduction to the game design goals, please see the previous thread for Tactics: http://www.indie-rpgs.com/viewtopic.php?t=8551&highlight= In this thread…
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Participants: Ben Lehman, Dev, LordSmerf.

12/17/2003 Kilor Di: Vampires in PnP
How many PnP games that people are working on feature vampires? Mine kind of does, in a half-***ed way.
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Participants: Kilor Di, greyorm, Mike Holmes, C. Edwards, Belac, anonymouse, Rich Stokes.

12/17/2003 Kilor Di: Handbooks
Never mind...too distasteful even for me.
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Participants: Kilor Di.

12/17/2003 Dev: Heavy on the Metarules: Good thing?
The way my project has been involving (the Great American Space-Western, at this point), much of the rules I'm considing are "metarules" compared to what most would consider the fundamental…
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Participants: Dev, Andrew Martin, Mike Holmes.

12/17/2003 morningstar13: A new independant game!
I have been playing this one for a few weeks and it is promising - sorry this is an ad+review but it is what I could find on the subject:…
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Participants: morningstar13, Loki, ross_winn, ethan_greer, Zathreyel, Paul Czege.

12/16/2003 Sindyr: oops
bad post
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Participants: Sindyr.

12/16/2003 Sindyr: Has this way of doing initiative been thought of before?
I present this as in idea for people to comment on, tweak, use in whole or in part, etc - with the understanding that I retain any and all rights…
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Participants: Sindyr, Zathreyel, Andrew Martin, qxjit, Darcy Burgess.

12/14/2003 Amomentarylapseofsanity: Ritual magic system - need some advice
Hi everyone, this is my first post and I tend to ramble, so you'll have to bear with me. I'm working on a fantasy game, where magic is an important…
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Participants: Amomentarylapseofsanity, greyorm, anonymouse, M. J. Young, Andrew Martin, Mike Holmes.

12/14/2003 anonymouse: MARKED: You vs. the Universe
(Playtest will be in next few days, come hell or high water, so look for something in Actual Play! This is the first thing I've managed to finish that I…
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Participants: anonymouse, bifevo, Demada, qxjit.

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12/25/2003 b_bankhead: Ship and the Stars pt2 Worlds and Adventures
The Ship and the Stars part 2. Worlds and adventures In a space-western what is the reason for a world? The reason for a world is to be a place…
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Participants: b_bankhead, Matt Wilson, Zathreyel, Doctor Xero.

12/25/2003 b4d0m3n: Percentile Mechanic - Proposal and Questions
I was wondering if you could help me with a percentile system. I need something snappy... simple which will not get in the way of anything. It's kind of like…
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Participants: b4d0m3n, Andrew Martin, Valamir.

12/26/2003 Jediblack: Vice City RPG
Do you know GTA Vice CIty? I've had so much fun playing with it that I'd like make a rpg. Basic Ideas 1. No attribute at all. We don't need…
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Participants: Jediblack, Phillip, Mike Holmes, failrate.

12/27/2003 apeiron: Opposed/Split Traits Suggestions
@ Will you help me come up with some more of these opposed traits? @ The idea is to have two traits (attributes/qualities etc) that are in opposition. You have…
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Participants: apeiron, Shreyas Sampat, Troy_Costisick, Andrew Martin.

12/27/2003 LizardLips: Encouraging group actions in combat?
I need to brainstorm a little... I'm trying to build sci-fi RPG that can handle individual character actions as well as large mass battles (possibly using miniaures. I like miniatures).…
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Participants: LizardLips, Jasper, The Benj, M. J. Young, Andrew Martin.

12/28/2003 Heraldic Game Design: Luna 0.3 Released
It's been a long time since I've posted here, but it has taken a while for me to have something to post about. Luna 0.3 is now available for download…
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Participants: Heraldic Game Design, Ron Edwards, Andrew Martin, Spooky Fanboy.

12/29/2003 anonymouse: sketched game: Boys and Pirates
I'm actually thinking Universalis would do pretty great, but it's never been game-y enough for me. My first title was "Boys & Fairies" but I think anyone into high school…
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Participants: anonymouse, C. Edwards, Jeph, JimmyB, Doctor Xero.

12/29/2003 LordSmerf: [Powers That Be] Rethinking some old ideas
So after taking some time of from Powers That Be. I've decided to consider a couple of new ideas. One, based on the thread over in GNS Model Discussion: Good…
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Participants: LordSmerf, anonymouse, Ron Edwards, John Harper.

12/30/2003 Jasper: In the Court
Hi everyone, This is a game about social interactions; probably centered around court intrigues, but not limited to that alone. Get it here (in HTML). It's frequently been noted here…
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Participants: Jasper, Loki, Shreyas Sampat.

12/30/2003 Troy_Costisick: [EmberWorld] Hammering out an exhaustive History
Heya, The time has come for us at Twilight Press to begin work on our next book for our campaign setting. Our plan is to do an in-depth book on…
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Participants: Troy_Costisick.

12/30/2003 TheRedSoup: Asking for wounds and damage input
I've got a pulpy adventure rpg in the works. And with the development, I've hit a snag and would like some external input and thoughts. I'll try to be verbose…
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Participants: TheRedSoup, Zathreyel, Andrew Martin, sacrosanct, failrate.

12/31/2003 Shreyas Sampat: Four: A game idea
Four is an idea I've been mulling over for a while; I'd like to make a game out of it but there is a problem that I'm not sure how…
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Participants: Shreyas Sampat, Ben Lehman, Zathreyel, Spooky Fanboy, Dev, hix, Doctor Xero.

12/31/2003 Shadetree: Cinematic Dogfighting
Inspired by the topic about 'Interesting space dogfights' I started dreaming this up. Working Title "Faces of Aces" The system is designed to take alot of the recordkeeping off of…
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Participants: Shadetree.

12/31/2003 Nawara: Realistic Systems
I almost hate to write this post, knowing that I'll probably get tons of "But what IS realism? Could we ever REALLY know?" replies, but I figured it's worth a…
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Participants: Nawara, Shreyas Sampat, greyorm, Alan, Andrew Martin, John Kim, Doctor Xero, clehrich.

1/3/2004 Dev: the Consequences of Geography
It all began with my space opera: I didn't like the idea of making galactic maps from scratch, and disliked the book-keeping of determining distances and the like; I preferred…
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Participants: Dev, John Kim, Mark Johnson, Valamir, contracycle, xiombarg.

1/4/2004 sworn enemy: lotr rpg
hi every1. im new here and this is my first post. im currently working on a lotr rpg using inspiration from Ben Morgan's gaming sessions(we love you Ben... That fucking…
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Participants: sworn enemy, Andrew Martin, gobi, greyorm, Ben Morgan, Zathreyel, Valamir.

1/4/2004 Zathreyel: help with a conflict resolution mechanic
heya everyone. i've been working on this new game recently and i've got a conceptual question for the system. the game is sci-fi/fantasy that has a setting that emulates european…
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Participants: Zathreyel, Matt Snyder, Loki, failrate, octobernight, Deadboy, Ron Edwards.

1/6/2004 halohand: Horror Game
I'm working on a horror game and would like all of your input. The game will mainly be a narrative but with some rolling. The game is meant to a…
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Participants: halohand, failrate, Mike Holmes, Marhault, Lxndr.

1/6/2004 Mark Johnson: [MUGS] - Need Help With Augmentation Rules
[b]MUGS - Marginally Useful Game System[/b] Mugs is a marginally useful role playing game. One character takes the role of GM, all the rest of the players play one or…
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Participants: Mark Johnson, Dev, Harlequin.

1/6/2004 jphannil: Chaos & Order, after the playtesting
Hi all (again), especially Mike :) ! I've toyed with the system a bit after initial playtesting. The new version is online at the same address: http://www.cc.jyu.fi/~jphannil/Chao.html The additions are:…
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Participants: jphannil.

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