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2/25/2003 Clinton R. Nixon: [Shadow of Yesterday] Brother, can you help with magic?
I'm about 85% done with the actual rules of The Shadow of Yesterday, and am quite happy. However, I'm not very happy with my sub-system for magic, and wanted to…
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Participants: Clinton R. Nixon, Jared A. Sorensen, Bankuei, John Harper, anonymouse, talysman, Le Joueur, Spooky Fanboy.

2/24/2003 dunlaing: There (to the Donjon) and Back
I read the rules for There and Back at http://www.anvilwerks.com/docs/thereandback and thought "these sound cool and would be a very good solution for my Friday night group if I could…
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Participants: dunlaing, Clinton R. Nixon, Mike Holmes.

2/24/2003 dunlaing: Early Donjon Thoughts and Questions
I recently bought Donjon and think it's very cool. I'm just waiting to actually run it and have lots of fun with it. I did have a couple of questions…
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Participants: dunlaing, Zak Arntson, Wulf, Clinton R. Nixon, Mike Holmes, Bankuei.

2/22/2003 Clinton R. Nixon: The Shadow of Yesterday design log
For the last month, I've been working on a new game entitled The Shadow of Yesterday. I detailed a bit about the setting in this earlier post, but wanted to…
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Participants: Clinton R. Nixon, Spooky Fanboy, Matt Wilson, Blake Hutchins, Jared A. Sorensen, heldenhammer, szilard, DaGreatJL, ethan_greer, Valamir, Ben Lehman, John Harper, Drifter Bob, rafial.

2/20/2003 Jonathan Walton: Initial Thoughts on Paladin
Hey Clinton et all, Just bought Paladin a couple days ago, planning to use it to run an Engel game at an upcoming con. Anyway, I absolutely love the concepts…
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Participants: Jonathan Walton, Clinton R. Nixon, iago, Paul Czege, Ben Morgan.

2/19/2003 quozl: Bookshelf: Anvilweks->Forge
Is the Anvilwerks bookshelf going to be moving to the Forge bookshelf? If so, could I get the Donjon stuff moved? My account on Anvilwerks is quozl and on The…
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Participants: quozl, Clinton R. Nixon.

2/19/2003 John Harper: Donjon Buffy
As I mentioned in the Serious Donjon thread, I'm going to be running Buffy using the Donjon system. I made a character sheet for the game that you can grab…
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Participants: John Harper, Bailywolf, Russell, Wulf.

2/18/2003 ethan_greer: Donjon combat with six-siders
Has anyone tried using 6-siders for the initiative rolls in a flurry? If so, how'd it go? I'm planning on trying this myself at some point, but any wisdom y'all…
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Participants: ethan_greer, Valamir, Wulf, Clinton R. Nixon, Bailywolf, quozl, jdagna, Shawn Conard.

2/17/2003 Drew Stevens: Matron - The Matrix in the Donjon
Whee, brain explosions! So, one of the Persistant Problems of Neuromancer style cyberpunk is that of the Decker- the person who isn't directly in the action, but exists in a…
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Participants: Drew Stevens, Mike Holmes, Bob McNamee, Clinton R. Nixon, John Harper.

2/17/2003 AnthonyRoberson: Just Bought Donjon and...
...it looks pretty good! Would anyone be interested in doing a little playtesting by e-mail? All you have to do is create a character and be able to answer 5-10…
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Participants: AnthonyRoberson, Mike Holmes.

2/15/2003 Delta1: Serious Donjon :-)
Who here is running serious Donjon sessions? How are they going?
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Participants: Delta1, Clinton R. Nixon, quozl, Bailywolf, John Harper, Jason L Blair, lumpley, anonymouse.

2/15/2003 Delta1: Praise
Just a short message to say what a brilliant job Clinton has done with both Paladin And Donjon. I bought my first three pdf games this past week and I…
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Participants: Delta1.

2/9/2003 Nikosandros: Two questions about combat
Hello, I just downloaded Donjon and I must say that I'm very impressed... I've got a couple of questions about combat. 1) What happens exactly at the end of a…
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Participants: Nikosandros, Clinton R. Nixon.

2/6/2003 Clinton R. Nixon: Donjon Pak B1: Men of Steel and Beasts of Terror!
I'd like to announce that the first Donjon supplement, the Donjon Bestiary, will be available within the next week or two, so save up those nickels. For $5, the Bestiary…
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Participants: Clinton R. Nixon, Bailywolf, quozl, John Harper, Ron Edwards, James V. West, Spooky Fanboy, sben, Wulf, anonymouse, Chris Kucsera.

2/6/2003 Clinton R. Nixon: New Donjon review
Everyone, There's a great review of Donjon up at RPG.net. For a non-actual play review, I thought it was great.
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Participants: Clinton R. Nixon, Wulf, Ron Edwards.

1/29/2003 jburneko: Gothic Knights - A Setting Of Faith, Passion and Madness
So, someone of you know about my love for Ravenloft-esq settings. I've done this setting write up for Sorcerer but one idea that has always intregued me is the concept…
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Participants: jburneko, b_bankhead, joshua neff, Clinton R. Nixon, Valamir.

1/23/2003 Michael S. Miller: A Paladin on the Hellmouth
Okay, I’ve got a million other gaming things to think about, but this one has gripped me today. I’ve been watching a lot of Buffy lately (Thank God for DVDs),…
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Participants: Michael S. Miller, lumpley, Ben Morgan, Clinton R. Nixon.

1/20/2003 GreatWolf: One die in Donjon--now what?
My wife and I started a run of Donjon on Saturday. We're playing on the "Tongue in Cheek" setting for the Seriousness dial, which is a lot of fun. However,…
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Participants: GreatWolf, Clinton R. Nixon.

1/15/2003 Tony Irwin: Paladin Questions
Hey folks, I ran a character/world creation session for two friends last week for Paladin. We improvised a couple of scenes to try out the mechanic (which went great, we…
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Participants: Tony Irwin, Clinton R. Nixon.

1/4/2003 GreatWolf: Middle Earth in Paladin/Middle Earth in Donjon
Hi, all. I was recently given copies of Paladin and Donjon for Christmas. (A clarification for Clinton's sake: someone bought me copies.) Well done on both, Clinton, and I'm looking…
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Participants: GreatWolf, Clinton R. Nixon, Valamir, Andrew Martin, Tony Irwin.

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2/27/2003 sben: Bulk d20 source?
If and when I ever run Donjon (probably only as a one-shot in the near future, as I'm starting a campaign* for a different game), I'm gonna want lots of…
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Participants: sben, dunlaing, Jared A. Sorensen, Bankuei, ethan_greer, Clinton R. Nixon, Valamir.

3/4/2003 anonymouse: Paladin: new edition/rewrite?
Clinton, I've seen you mention the fact that you're working on a rewrite/new edition of Paladin in a few threads. Is there an official status to this, or it's just…
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Participants: anonymouse, Clinton R. Nixon, Bob McNamee, Tony Irwin.

3/4/2003 iago: Abstracted Paladin Orders
I was pleased to come to this forum today and find that an idea that had been banging around in my head had already been discussed ("A Paladin on the…
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Participants: iago.

3/4/2003 iago: Paladin at Three Feet Tall
Outside of adapting some of my favorite genres (Amber, Buffy, and other letters further down the alphabet), I've really been enjoying the writing exercise that Paladin proposes in terms of…
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Participants: iago, Jason L Blair, Jonathan Walton.

3/4/2003 jdagna: Paladin for Moral Relativists
Iago's recent posts gave me an idea that might make Paladin better suited for moral relativists. What if you get rid of the concept of orders and give each Paladin…
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Participants: jdagna, iago, Ron Edwards, b_bankhead, Rob Donoghue.

3/5/2003 Andy Kitkowski: Donjon Last-Minute questions!
Last-Minute because our first one-shot session is tomorrow. I've got a great group of folks, so I'm not expecting any balance, conflict, keeping on track, etc issues. I'm going to…
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Participants: Andy Kitkowski, jdagna, Clinton R. Nixon, anonymouse, TAROT, dunlaing, RamblingMan.

3/6/2003 dunlaing: Broadening Abilities
I've seen a lot of posts about magic being over-powered, but I didn't find it to be so in my own game. I did find it to be quite versatile,…
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Participants: dunlaing, anonymouse, jdagna, Wulf, Mike Holmes.

3/11/2003 Zak Arntson: Donjon Pak B1 - Monster Stat Calculation
I've got a question on how you determined your monster stats. As an example, the Dragon Wizard. It's an 11th level creature, so it should get 15 + (5/level) points…
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Participants: Zak Arntson, Clinton R. Nixon, jdagna, Bob McNamee, John Harper, TAROT, Matt Wilson.

3/14/2003 anonymouse: [Donjon] Permanent possessions at character creation?
I'm sure I read somewhere in the book that you don't start with any; one friend says you start with one weapon -or- armor, plus a miscellanous, and another says…
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Participants: anonymouse, Ben Morgan, Chris Kucsera, Clinton R. Nixon.

3/18/2003 heldenhammer: Just got and read Donjon...
... based on cruising the anvilwerks site and reading some reviews on rpg.net. It looks like a cool game. I'm a sucker for nifty game mechanics. My current task is…
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Participants: heldenhammer, Colin the Riot, dunlaing.

3/19/2003 iago: Paladin Demographic
I'm working on a game that shares some ideas and themes with Paladin, and it's occurred to me that my "target market" is probably similar to Paladin's. So here's the…
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Participants: iago, Sidhain.

3/21/2003 Rob Donoghue: Paladin Setting
So, it looks like I'm not going to get a chance to run this before I move, so I might as well do somethign with it. As such: The Badlands…
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Participants: Rob Donoghue, Bob McNamee, Clinton R. Nixon, Valamir, jdagna, anonymouse.

3/23/2003 anonymouse: [Donjon] Abundant dice got you down?
Use a Palm! Or a souped-up calculator. Or something along those lines. I've been playing Donjon for a few weeks now; most of that has been online, over IRC (hopefully…
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Participants: anonymouse, jdagna.

3/24/2003 Wulf: Donjon problems
Having just submitted a mostly glowing review of Donjon, I have to now admit our weekly game has hit a severe problem. Worse, having recently stated on another thread that…
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Participants: Wulf, Clinton R. Nixon, Valamir.

3/25/2003 anonymouse: [Donjon] using Attributes for lack of Ability
Is this good with the rules-as-written? Obviously if it works for me, no problem, but I'm trying to stick to the rules for awhile before branching off and tweaking things…
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Participants: anonymouse, Clinton R. Nixon.

3/25/2003 Jason L Blair: The Boston Irregulars for Paladin are back again!
The popular mod from Key 20's 12 Games of Christmas is back online. To download it, go on over to www.key20.com.
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Participants: Jason L Blair.

3/25/2003 heldenhammer: Donjon Weapons & Armor question
OK, a weapon's Weight Score is equal to it's Mundane Damage Rating, as per page 19 (screen version). A Sharp Weapon (listed on table 3-2 on the following page) adds…
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Participants: heldenhammer, Clinton R. Nixon, Ron Edwards, Mike Holmes, Shawn Conard.

3/26/2003 Trevis Martin: Paladin - Only one weapon?
Hey Clinton I've just recently purchased and read Paladin and I have a question. There is a point early in the rules that you mention its important the the Paladin…
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Participants: Trevis Martin, Clinton R. Nixon, Mike Holmes, Ben Morgan, Bob McNamee, Michael S. Miller, Ron Edwards.

3/26/2003 Chris Kucsera: Dunjon Magic Item Question
In the treasure section, one of the example items is a wand that shoots flame. It is listed as burn with flame 5 (total worth 10). I'm not clear on…
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Participants: Chris Kucsera, Mike Holmes, Clinton R. Nixon.

3/27/2003 ethan_greer: Shadow of Yesterday: A question
So in this thread, After quite a bit of thought, I've decided to make The Shadow of Yesterday a free game, with a commercial hard-copy release. Can you go over…
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Participants: ethan_greer, Clinton R. Nixon.

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