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1/8/2004 dunlaing: Shapechanging in Donjon
I have a player that wants the Supporting Ability "Shapechange Self." He wants it to work in such a way that if he rolls it and gets successes, he can…
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Participants: dunlaing, Valamir, Mike Holmes, Catalyst, jdagna, Christopher Weeks.

12/22/2003 dunlaing: HeroQuest -> Donjon
I realize this may be crazy, but I'm considering converting a HeroQuest campaign into a Donjon campaign. I was thinking of doing something like this for the Spirit Magic Practitioners…
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Participants: dunlaing, Clinton R. Nixon, Mike Holmes, Catalyst.

12/14/2003 matthijs: How competitive?
Just ran my first Donjon game last night. Not terribly well prepared; it was a spur-of-the-moment thing, my wife was the only player, and we just played 2 scenes to…
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Participants: matthijs, Clinton R. Nixon, Rich Forest.

12/1/2003 ethan_greer: Donjon on Gaming Report
[url=http://www.gamingreport.com]Gaming Report[/url] has a glowing review of Donjon [url=http://www.gamingreport.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=Reviews&file=index&req=showcontent&id=795]here.[/url] Congrats, Clinton!
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Participants: ethan_greer.

11/17/2003 Bob McNamee: Creature available
I finally got around to posting at least a little of my old stuff back on the web, after Yahoo deleted my old account last year, for no apparent reason.…
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Participants: Bob McNamee.

11/7/2003 dyjoots: Magic in Donjon: Power Level
I've been looking over threads here and the game itself, particularly with concerns about magic. In several threads, it was mentioned that the magic system may be a bit overpowered,…
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Participants: dyjoots, jdagna, rafial, Bob McNamee.

10/25/2003 anonymouse: Knights of the Lich Queen: a variant Paladin setup.
This is my setting/set-up document. I'll start running a thread in Actual Play sometime on Saturday, once I have the first session. Consider it a rough draft. The whole idea…
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Participants: anonymouse, Valamir, Alan.

10/12/2003 joe_llama: Familiars in Donjon
I was getting nostalgic about the days "back then, when we used to roleplay with no boundaries" (today we don't play at all), so I decided to buy Donjon and…
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Participants: joe_llama, Clinton R. Nixon.

10/10/2003 MonkeyWrench: Helping Players define Abilities
I finally got Donjon downloaded and after 2 hours of printing I had it in my hot little hands. Me and two of my players ran through most of the…
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Participants: MonkeyWrench, Catalyst, jdagna.

10/6/2003 MonkeyWrench: I'm having a slight problem with ordering
I've just ordered Donjon and the Donjon Pak B1 from the website using PayPal. Everything was fine until I realized that the email address that I was using for my…
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Participants: MonkeyWrench, Trevis Martin.

10/5/2003 anonymouse: a lonely Donjon bookshelf: what should sit next to it?
Okay, so Clinton extended the offer in the main Donjon book and at least a couple of other places that anyone wanting to write a supplement for Donjon would be…
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Participants: anonymouse, Trevis Martin.

9/24/2003 kalyptein: Donjon test drive, w/ questions
Every year there comes a time an our anual gathering of friends when we start playing DnD. Most people have succumbed to sleep and the ravages of way too much…
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Participants: kalyptein, Clinton R. Nixon.

9/11/2003 anonymouse: Some Donjon thoughts on monsters.
1: Fully-statted monsters - such as presented in the sample adventure, or the Monster Pak - are useless unless you enforce the following: A: Players must be allowed to peruse…
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Participants: anonymouse, Clinton R. Nixon, Catalyst.

8/30/2003 Clinton R. Nixon: The Wiki and Me
Yesterday (Friday, Aug 28), I managed to wipe out over half the Anvilwerks.com website. I backup every website I run except my own, apparently. I've been contemplating a new website…
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Participants: Clinton R. Nixon, ethan_greer, John Harper, Hugin, rafial, Bob McNamee, ScottM.

8/23/2003 Dev: Quick Donjon question
Is there any kind of set guideline for how to give out experience in play? I didn't see any recommended one in the PDF.
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Participants: Dev, Clinton R. Nixon.

8/22/2003 rafial: Attribute pools at 0. Any effect?
So I'm fighting this intelligent lobster riding in a mechanical spider chair, see, and I'd like to knock out the chair (or at least render it incapable of moving) so…
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Participants: rafial, Clinton R. Nixon, Catalyst.

8/21/2003 Chris Gardiner: Final Fantasy Donjon
So after our first Donjon game at the weekend, several of us decided that it would be the perfect system to run a Final Fantasy-esque RPG with, for the following…
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Participants: Chris Gardiner, anonymouse, Clinton R. Nixon, Mike Holmes, MachMoth.

8/8/2003 Jason Puckett: Things Fall Apart: a Paladin setting in progress
Hi, all -- long-time-lurker-first-time-poster here. I've been tinkering in my head with a Paladin setting for a couple of days and I thought I'd submit them for comments and brainstorming.…
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Participants: Jason Puckett, Mike Holmes, ScottM, John Harper, Jhilahd, Bob McNamee.

8/8/2003 Matt Wilson: Donjon Goal Awards guidelines
Did I miss something on that in the game text? I'm wondering what a good goal award number is. In the sample adventure it looks like goals are worth far…
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Participants: Matt Wilson, Clinton R. Nixon, rafial.

7/16/2003 Matt Wilson: Donjon GAMMA
In a couple weeks I have the opportunity to run a 3-5 session game, and I'm thinking Donjon in a Gamma World-ish setting. Seems like a piece of cake on…
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Participants: Matt Wilson, Alan, Clinton R. Nixon, Mike Holmes, Bailywolf, rafial.

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3/21/2004 tetsujin28: Paladin Animus questions
Obviously, avoiding the accumulation of Dark Animus is a major theme of the game. Yet the stuff seems pretty easy to get rid of. Whilst the mechanic on pg. 14…
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Participants: tetsujin28, Clinton R. Nixon, Michael S. Miller.

3/21/2004 jshaffstall: [Donjon] Question
First, let me say that I love what I've read of Donjon. The abstraction of wealth and provisions is inspired, and the level of player involvement looks to be quite…
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Participants: jshaffstall, tetsujin28, Bob McNamee.

3/22/2004 aplath: Problematic spell words in Donjon
Hello all, I've just finished reading my copy of Donjon and so far it is exactly what I expected, which is pretty good. I can't wait to try it and…
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Participants: aplath, Bob McNamee, Paganini, jdagna.

4/3/2004 RPGuru59: Donjon on the net
I have been trying to start a game on the net via Playbyweb.com but no results yet. I was wondering, is there a site on the net that is playing…
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Participants: RPGuru59, Paganini, Christopher Weeks.

4/3/2004 b_bankhead: I call upon the PALADIN mastery of Anilwerks!
I will be running Paladin every tues in the indie netgaming irc channel (7pm EDT #indierpgs linuxguy.magicstar.net). I have never run the game and I have already looked at the…
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Participants: b_bankhead.

4/13/2004 Doyce: [Paladin] Where do you drift (or do you)?
Hi all. I'm involved in Brian Bankhead's nascent Paladin game on IRC (see his recent post in this forum, and I highly recommend stopping in and joining play if you're…
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Participants: Doyce, Trevis Martin, tetsujin28.

4/21/2004 dyjoots: Paladin Revision?
In a thread recently ressurected by Tetsujin in the Actual Play Forum (on accident, I assume), Clinton mentioned working on a revision to the rules. Hoewever, these threads are several…
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Participants: dyjoots, Clinton R. Nixon, tetsujin28, Ian O'Rourke, Ron Edwards, ethan_greer, b_bankhead.

4/25/2004 demiurgeastaroth: [Donjon] Attack 'Facts'
My first Donjon question. I'm comfortable with the way the Law of Successes works outside of combat, but I'm looking for guidance in combat uses. On the forum, Clinton has…
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Participants: demiurgeastaroth, Jason, jdagna, Christopher Weeks.

4/25/2004 demiurgeastaroth: [Donjon] Healing potions and other items
How would a healing potion, or other item that produces a spell-like effect, work mechanically? the cost is 1 worth per one-time magic bonus. My ideas: a) potion heals 1…
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Participants: demiurgeastaroth, Jason, jdagna, Christopher Weeks.

4/25/2004 demiurgeastaroth: [Donjon] Killing PCs
How exactly do you kill - or at least disable - PCs? As far as I can tell, when PCs drop to Flesh Wounds, they are still active. When they…
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Participants: demiurgeastaroth, jdagna.

4/25/2004 demiurgeastaroth: [Donjon] Hospitality
I know this trait is used for quality of, um, hospitality possible at a given town, but how exactly is it used in play? Is it just like Wealth -…
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Participants: demiurgeastaroth, jdagna.

4/25/2004 demiurgeastaroth: [Donjon] Encounter Facts
Since you get treasure from looting bodies, how would you handle the following: A player uses Find Trouble and gets 2 facts - 1 fact: an enemy healer, 1 fact:…
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Participants: demiurgeastaroth, Jason, Lxndr, jdagna.

5/3/2004 timfire: Weapon/Armor Worth? Did I miss something?
Just bought Donjon (nice game Clinton!) and I have a question: What's the rule of thumb for the worth of weapons/armor? (Or, did I just miss something when I read…
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Participants: timfire, Jason.

5/15/2004 Jacob Ossar: [Donjon] Questions about Abilities, Initiative, and Loot
I haven't done any role-playing other than the occasional LARP for quite a while, but I disovered D&D back in the late 70s when I was a kid and played…
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Participants: Jacob Ossar, JamesSterrett, Clinton R. Nixon.

5/25/2004 Isliffell: [Donjon] Ranged Spells
When spending Spell Dice for a spell, what die costs should reasonably be associated with hitting a target one action and two actions away? Or is magic, already nicely powerful,…
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Participants: Isliffell, Catalyst.

5/26/2004 tetsujin28: [Donjon] Question re: Smashing
NB: this was originally posted by access.denied at rpg.net. None of us could figure it out, so I'm posting it here. Originally posted by access.denied I'm reading the thoroughly…
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Participants: tetsujin28, Zak Arntson, aplath, Clinton R. Nixon, Manxome, John Harper, Bob McNamee.

5/26/2004 Morfedel: [Donjon] Beer & Pretzels vs Serious Campaign Gaming
Ok, I'm considering getting Donjon. It looks to me at first glance to be just a beer-n-pretzels game, but i've heard rumors that long term, serious games are possible too.…
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Participants: Morfedel, Zak Arntson, aplath, Valamir.

5/27/2004 Manxome: [Donjon] Overlapping Abilities
Correct me if I'm wrong about any of the details of the rulebook, I'm working from memory... I believe that the rules on Resolution (Chapter 4) state that no more…
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Participants: Manxome.

5/31/2004 Dev: Initiative Questions/Idea
(1) Can actions be held? If I wanted this, what kinds of limits should I impose? (2) I had an initiative idea that's cool, but needs some fixing. Whereas the…
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Participants: Dev, Clinton R. Nixon.

6/1/2004 8bitjunkie: [Donjon] Light/Darkness question
I am getting around pretty well in Donjon except for some issues related to darkness in dungeons. I can make up most stuff on the fly when it comes to…
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Participants: 8bitjunkie, Clinton R. Nixon, Bob McNamee.

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