Previous Topics In RPG Theory 5/1/2005 killacozzy: Destiny and the Universal Character Start by clicking here and catching up, as this is a continuation of a thread I started in the Design Forum asking about game traits, which evolved into a discussion… In RPG Theory Participants: killacozzy, TonyLB, Troy_Costisick, timfire, Valamir, pasoliati, Bob Goat, Sydney Freedberg, contracycle, Doug Ruff, shaheddy.
4/27/2005 Wysardry: Earth-like worlds in fantasy games I am in the early stages of planning a single player CRPG aimed at less casual CRPG and PnP RPG players, and have reached somewhat of an impasse with the… In RPG Theory Participants: Wysardry, contracycle, killacozzy, Troy_Costisick, Sydney Freedberg, Jake Boone, Mike Holmes.
4/27/2005 TonyLB: (Accepting/Rejecting) x (Text/Meaning) Recent discussions have led me to think a lot about what it means to tell people that they cannot reject anything that another player contributes to the narration of a… In RPG Theory Participants: TonyLB, Vaxalon, Shreyas Sampat, xenopulse, Brendan, Walt Freitag, Noon, Troy_Costisick, charles ferguson, Victor Gijsbers, John Harper.
4/26/2005 paulkdad: Stages of Development and Roleplaying Theory Background: The thread, “Meaning at the beginning, middle and end” got me thinking about the active construction of meaning in RPGs, which in turn got me thinking about something I… In RPG Theory Participants: paulkdad, J. Tuomas Harviainen.
4/26/2005 David Chunn: Layering Conflict Resoultion over Task Res. Does anyone have suggestions and methods for or experiences with layering conflict resolution over a task resolution system without changing the existing game mechanics? In other words, I don't want… In RPG Theory Participants: David Chunn, WhiteRat, Ben Lehman.
4/25/2005 David Bapst: Difficulty/Success Needed as it relates to GM Fiat Hello all,
Don't precisely know if this has been discussed before. If anyone could post links to past conversations, that would be greatly helpful.
I've been thinking recently on difficulties/success… In RPG Theory Participants: David Bapst, Matt Wilson, WhiteRat, Jinx, John Burdick, Noon, John Kim, daMoose_Neo, Valamir, Landon Darkwood.
4/21/2005 Andrew Morris: DFK (and SRV): Concrete examples and discussion (long-ish) [b][i]Introduction[/i][/b]
Back in [url=http://www.indie-rpgs.com/viewtopic.php?t=14773]this thread[/url], I brought up the concept of Skill as a possible candidate to flesh out the Drama, Fortune, and Karma triumvirate used to classify resolution mechanics… In RPG Theory Participants: Andrew Morris, xenopulse, Miskatonic, M. J. Young.
4/19/2005 1of3: Gamism not for Game masters? Hi.
This is my first post here, so I will introduce myself first. My name is Stefan, I'm from Germany and I'm studying math and Latin for becoming a teacher.… In RPG Theory Participants: 1of3, komradebob, Gaerik, Gordon C. Landis, JMendes, xenopulse, Alan, Simon Kamber, Ron Edwards, Noon, John Kim, FzGhouL, MrSandman666, Walt Freitag.
4/19/2005 TonyLB: Meaning at the beginning, middle and end In "Thematic Causality": What, why and how?, over in the Muse of Fire forums, we hit some very interesting general-purpose questions. Folks reckon, and I agree, that it might be… In RPG Theory Participants: TonyLB, Ron Edwards, Troy_Costisick, xenopulse, Miskatonic, Valamir, Ben Lehman, Noon, Simon Marks, JMendes, Sydney Freedberg, Silmenume.
4/18/2005 Gordon C. Landis: How DO Game Designers (or computers) influence play? Borrowing from Josh's post towards the end of this thread, I'd like to offer a distinction between "participating in" the SIS and "contributing to" the SIS.
"Participating in" the SIS… In RPG Theory Participants: Gordon C. Landis, efindel, Eva Deinum, Noon, Wysardry, contracycle.
4/17/2005 simonf: Single-player mystery RPGs? Hi,
Apologies if it's a bad forum - please relocate this to the appropriate place if necessary.
I'm looking for single-person RPGs and adventures to run for my girlfriend. The… In RPG Theory Participants: simonf, MatrixGamer.
4/16/2005 John Kim: Role-playing Limits, or Do we need Molotov cocktails? OK, so this is picking up from Walt Frietag: the LP in Solo CRPGs?. What I am curious about is a formulation of credibility which is inclusive of live-action… In RPG Theory Participants: John Kim, immlass, Alephnul, James Holloway, TonyLB, Wolfen, M. J. Young, Valamir, Mike Holmes.
4/15/2005 Roger: Solo (C)RPGs: A Thought Experiment (inspired from Walt Frietag: the LP in Solo CRPGs?)
Let's say that you've logged into a big old MMORPG and you're running around the system with thousands of other players,… In RPG Theory Participants: Roger, xenopulse, Gordon C. Landis, Bill Masek, Noon, Eva Deinum, Paul Hebble, Domhnall, Sabazius, M. J. Young.
4/14/2005 lumpley: Walt Frietag: the LP in Solo CRPGs? This is a very narrow, very focused post. I want to hear from Walt before anybody else, if that's possible?
Here, Walt Frietag"]Yes, the Lumpley Principle does get in the… In RPG Theory Participants: lumpley, Walt Freitag, pete_darby, contracycle, Bankuei, Valamir, Gaerik, John Kim, Paul Czege, Gordon C. Landis, C. Edwards, Wolfen, Noon, kenjib, joshua neff, Ben Lehman, Wysardry, James Holloway, Domhnall, Ron Edwards.
4/13/2005 Paka: System Examples of Scene Framing I am thinking about scene framing and all I can think of for examples is MLwM where each scene contains one conflict roll. Is this even a tool of scene… In RPG Theory Participants: Paka, JMendes, Alan, Eva Deinum, Trevis Martin, GB Steve.
4/13/2005 contracycle: Raph Koster: A Theory Of Fun For Game Design This is mostly an FYI/Heads Up post. Raph Koster is the creative director behind StarWars Galaxies, and something of a Name in the world of MUD design. He has recently… In RPG Theory Participants: contracycle, C. Edwards.
4/12/2005 Mike Holmes: Costick on Story/Games Walt will want to check this one out. Herr Costickyan gave some sort of presentation recently on story in games, and getting beyond the implicit dichotomy. The Power Point presentation… In RPG Theory Participants: Mike Holmes, Selene Tan, John Kim, contracycle, pete_darby, C. Edwards, Christopher Kubasik, Gordon C. Landis, Walt Freitag, GregCostikyan, Marco, Ron Edwards, James Holloway.
4/12/2005 Da' Vane: Something of Interest... I was directed to this forum by a friend, and I thought that somebody might be interested in something I worked on a while back.
PCSIK
Few people have seen… In RPG Theory Participants: Da' Vane, Mike Holmes, Selene Tan, Alan.
4/12/2005 sirogit: Charmed and Harry-Potter online free-form roleplayers This always stumped me. Why is it when ever I put the words "roleplaying" into a search engine or livejournal, a very large number of the results are about freeform… In RPG Theory Participants: sirogit, Vaxalon, Valamir, Librisia, inthisstyle, daMoose_Neo, Danny_K, James Holloway, b_bankhead, Andrew Morris, Brendan, John Kim, Alephnul, SK, David Bapst, Mike Holmes, Andrew Norris, John Burdick, komradebob, Selene Tan, contracycle.
4/11/2005 TonyLB: What are the tools of pacing? Okay, first off, what this question is not. I am not asking what tools a GM can use in order to effect changes in pacing. I'm asking why one effects… In RPG Theory Participants: TonyLB, Shreyas Sampat, C. Edwards, xenopulse, Harlequin, Gaerik, Bankuei, matthijs, timfire, MatrixGamer, Bill Masek, John Kim, Marco, Alan.
<< more previous topics | | Subsequent Topics In RPG Theory 5/2/2005 Adam Dray: Giving players control of risk In David Bapst's Difficulty/Success Needed as it relates to GM Fiat, people posted a variety of ways to remove GM Fiat from setting difficulty levels. In my Verge game (in… In RPG Theory Participants: Adam Dray, Mike Holmes, Lxndr, Jasper, Noon.
5/4/2005 am: Do RPGS allow for diverse participation/discourse? Hello, my name is Anna. I've been gaming for around 2 years. I am working on my masters degree, & I plan on analyzing role playing games from a performance/literary/rhetorical… In RPG Theory Participants: am, Bankuei, Ben Lehman, John Kim, greyorm, jrs, TonyLB, Michael S. Miller, Ron Edwards, Christopher Kubasik, Matt Wilson, Danny_K, xenopulse, WhiteRat, paulkdad, zephyr_cirrus, Miskatonic, Wysardry, J. Tuomas Harviainen, Mike Holmes, GameLoft, komradebob, contracycle, BrennaLaRosa.
5/6/2005 M. J. Young: Character, Sheet, and Play Revisited In The relationship between character, sheet, and play Fred (Vaxalon) wrote of character secrets not being part of the shared imagined space. I disagree.
I'm very sorry I missed this… In RPG Theory Participants: M. J. Young, Troy_Costisick, 1of3, MatrixGamer, Valamir, pete_darby, Mike Holmes, John Kim, C. Edwards, xenopulse, contracycle.
5/7/2005 Jason Petrasko: Classifying general classes of goals for conflict resolution Alright, so I've finally made the jump from task based resolution to conflict based resolution. Now I'm trying to classify the types of goals (the intent) of PCs seek out.… In RPG Theory Participants: Jason Petrasko, TonyLB, MatrixGamer, contracycle.
5/10/2005 Troy_Costisick: Using Task Reso to get Conflict Reso Heya,
This is loosely related to another thread over in the GNS forum: http://www.indie-rpgs.com/viewtopic.php?t=15369. I hope I'm not honking off anyone by asking this sort of question here about a… In RPG Theory Participants: Troy_Costisick, pete_darby, paulkdad, timfire, Ron Edwards, John Burdick, Doug Ruff, Yokiboy, Valamir, M. J. Young, Alephnul.
5/10/2005 Ben Lehman: [Vocab] Task versus Conflict Hi.
Boy, there are a lot of threads about Task Resolution vs. Conflict resolution. Gee whiz.
I think a lot of these are stumbling over the meanings of the terms,… In RPG Theory Participants: Ben Lehman, Adam Dray, timfire, Valamir, Gordon C. Landis, xenopulse, John Kim, Jinx, Noon, Ron Edwards, lumpley, Matt Snyder, Troy_Costisick, Andrew Morris, Walt Freitag, Caldis, Alephnul, Alan, Warren, WhiteRat, M. J. Young, GB Steve, greyorm.
5/10/2005 MatrixGamer: Role Playing as it is done in Historical Miniatures Games I live in that part of the gaming world that crosses over between miniatures gaming and RPGs. Role playing is it is done now grew out of miniatures but the… In RPG Theory Participants: MatrixGamer, komradebob, Vaxalon, Noon, contracycle, Ron Edwards, Mike Holmes, Hereward The Wake.
5/11/2005 Andrew Morris: Mechanical limitations to the scope of conflict resolution Reading the recent threads on conflict resolution (here and here) reminded me of a question I have about defining stakes in conflict resolution. What mechanical methods currently exist for limiting… In RPG Theory Participants: Andrew Morris, Ron Edwards, Jasper, MatrixGamer, Gaerik, Bankuei, Harlequin, TonyLB.
5/12/2005 List: Larps? I noticed that there is very little discussion of larps and larp theory... Is this because larps are not generally Forge domain? If not, could somebody point me to some… In RPG Theory Participants: List, Andrew Morris, komradebob.
5/12/2005 johnzo: Renouncing the agenda-driven NPC From this thread:
I've encountered this very situation with many instances of Sorcerer and HeroQuest, in which playing an agenda-driven NPC has resulted in very clear cues from… In RPG Theory Participants: johnzo, TonyLB, Domhnall, Noon, Troy_Costisick, Danny_K, MatrixGamer.
5/12/2005 afray: Japanese-style computer-rpg mechanics? [ot?] First off, I realise this may be out of your area of expertise, but thought I'd ask anyway. :-)
I'm a video games developer who's trying to develop a new… In RPG Theory Participants: afray, Bankuei, Mike Holmes, Miskatonic, contracycle, Selene Tan, Noon.
5/12/2005 M. J. Young: Perpetuating Sing-Sex Play Groups [quote="In [a href="http://www.indie-rpgs.com/viewtopic.php?t=15305"]Do RPGS allow for diverse participation/discourse?[/a] Julie"]One of these days I'd like to see someone address the issue of why gamers perpetuate the existance of single sex play… In RPG Theory Participants: M. J. Young, Mike Holmes, xenopulse, Noon, jrs, James Holloway, Bret Gillan, Gordon C. Landis, Paka, komradebob, BrennaLaRosa, Emily Care, GameLoft, Andrew Morris, Ron Edwards, contracycle, Walt Freitag.
5/13/2005 Selene Tan: Meta-information/systems and Narrativism in CRPGs This is something I've been thinking about, but haven't managed to collect my thoughts enough to write an organized essay on. So yay, semi-coherent post.
One of the things I've… In RPG Theory Participants: Selene Tan, pete_darby, Valamir, Noon.
5/13/2005 Thierry Michel: Random numbers (split) Apologies for resurrecting an old thread, but I found recently exactly the type of thing I was thinking of here:
Chance and wargames
So if you had any interest… In RPG Theory Participants: Thierry Michel, Ron Edwards, Mike Holmes, Bowen Simmons.
5/16/2005 zephyr_cirrus: Time - Battle Mechanic Well, here's a time mechanic I came up with for use in the RPG that I'm currently working on. Just tell me what you think of it and what could… In RPG Theory Participants: zephyr_cirrus, Jasper, Lee Short, Albert of Feh.
5/16/2005 foucalt: Gaming at the Senior Citizens Center? Recently there was some attention paid to the fact that staying "mentally active" helps ward off Alzheimer's disease. I remember wondering whether roleplaying games might be a good way… In RPG Theory Participants: foucalt, Adam Dray, Mike Holmes, Andrew Morris, TonyLB, komradebob.
5/17/2005 Darcy Burgess: Suggestions on running my first truly Narr game Or, "switching gears for fun and profit" :)
Here's a little background to the situation:
- up until recently, I've been running a game set in the Star Wars universe… In RPG Theory Participants: Darcy Burgess, Gaerik, Bankuei, jburneko.
5/18/2005 Noon: Nar turns out to be a good gamist penalty to evade? I was recently talking with my friends girlfriend, about her role playing past. I was curious as to what she enjoyed back then and why she hadn't continued now. I… In RPG Theory Participants: Noon, TonyLB, Alan.
5/18/2005 MatrixGamer: What is Main Stream gaming? Another look. One of the most intriguing ideas in the "Infamous Five" threads was the look at how D+D fantasy and superhero genres are not mainstream - instead things like horror, sex,… In RPG Theory Participants: MatrixGamer, Jasper, Mike Holmes, Paul Czege, John Kim, quozl, Trevis Martin, Noon, Caldis, Brendan, M. J. Young, Remko, komradebob, gsoylent, cerbie, Valamir.
5/19/2005 John Kim: Non-violent Roleplaying OK, so I recently came across some controversy on Vincent's blog, in his post on Paintball and little boy bullshit. This was followed up by Heroes Live, Cowards… In RPG Theory Participants: John Kim, TonyLB, lumpley, Justin A Hamilton, Noon, timfire, Trevis Martin, J. Tuomas Harviainen, Mikko Lehtinen, Marco, greyorm, Brendan, komradebob, Andrew Morris, J B Bell, MatrixGamer, Nathan P., Technocrat13, NN, Russell Impagliazzo, GB Steve, James Holloway, Mike Holmes, chadu, contracycle, Picador.
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