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3/4/2005 TonyLB: Free Character Generator Software
Check it out: Flash Character Generator. Features:Print sheets of Click and Locks. Mix and match Powers, Skills and Personae on the same page. Immediate lookup of any module in the…
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Participants: TonyLB, Miskatonic, Ron Edwards, Christopher Weeks, John Harper.

3/3/2005 damiller: PDF and Book
Bought the book want to know if the free PDF that comes with it is as a CD with the book, or a link to be downloaded somewhere. thanks d…
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Participants: damiller.

3/3/2005 damiller: Capes PDF and Book
I ordered the book, and also was told I would get a free PDF, does that come on a CD with the book, or will I get some kind of…
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Participants: damiller, Andrew Morris, TonyLB.

3/1/2005 Miskatonic: Conflict resolution
We ran into a situation this week where the rules seemed a little unclear. Say we have an event on the table. Protagonist A has acted to increase the die,…
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Participants: Miskatonic, TonyLB, Christopher Weeks.

2/22/2005 Stickman: Three way action
Sniggering aside, any ideas how this might work? 'Goal - Capture Harrier' White 3, Red 2 Spear, a hero has claimed white. Harrier, unsurprisingly has claimed red. Player A (first…
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Participants: Stickman, TonyLB, Vaxalon.

2/18/2005 Grover: Click-n-Locker
I wrote up a Latex package to create Click-n-Locks. There are 3 new commands: \powers{Name}{Power1}{Power2}{Power3}{Power4}{Power5}{Style1}{Style3}{Style5} \personalities{Name}{Attitude1}{Attitude2}{Attitude3}{Attitude4}{Attitude5}{Style2}{Style4} \mundanes{Name}{Skill1}{Skill2}{Skill3}{Skill4}{Skill5}{Style1}{Style3}{Style5} You don't get the neat pictures, and the fonts are kinda lousy, but…
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Participants: Grover, TonyLB, Bret Gillan, MikeSands, Christopher Weeks, John Harper, Miskatonic, Stickman.

2/17/2005 coxcomb: Introducing new characters in play
The rules say that players can bring additional characters into play at the beginning of the scene by paying a story token for each. In the example of play, a…
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Participants: coxcomb, TonyLB.

2/17/2005 coxcomb: When is a character finished?
I played my first Capes game on Tuesday. I'll go into the session on a separate Actual Play thread, but I gots questions. Two have already been answered (when the…
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Participants: coxcomb, TonyLB, Vaxalon.

2/17/2005 Stickman: PBEM
Tony, have you had any experience running capes via email or an IRC style medium? How did it go? I realise for reactions it's going to be slow going if…
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Participants: Stickman, TonyLB, efindel.

2/16/2005 Grover: 1 pt Inspiration
Are they worth anything?
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Participants: Grover, TonyLB, Stickman, Jonas Karlsson, tigermuppetcut.

2/15/2005 MikeSands: When do scenes end?
After playing a session of Capes (in which we had a blast, by the way) there is one question that came up that I can't find an answer for in…
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Participants: MikeSands, TonyLB, Alan, Sydney Freedberg.

2/11/2005 Stickman: Non Character Characters
Hi Tony, I've been reading through the rules and preparing for our game. I thought I'd kick things off in style with a giant orbital laser causing chaos downtown. Taking…
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Participants: Stickman, TonyLB.

2/9/2005 coxcomb: Question about inspirations
First, let me say that I read through Capes yesterday and it rocked my world! The whole thing is chock full-o-goodness. My only question so far has to do with…
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Participants: coxcomb, TonyLB, Jonas Karlsson, Vaxalon.

2/8/2005 inthisstyle: Very Impressed
Tony, I just finished reading over Capes last week and I've been meaning to send you a note. Here it is: in my estimation Capes is the best-written RPG I…
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Participants: inthisstyle, efindel, TonyLB, pigames, Bret Gillan.

2/7/2005 Stickman: Wow :)
Thanks for the great game Tony, I'm busy pouring through the rules and getting ready to get started on the learning curve :) I spotted a couple of potential errors…
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Participants: Stickman, TonyLB.

2/4/2005 TonyLB: How to pitch the game?
In the Capes thread in the Actual Play forum, Doug wrote: Tony, I'm going to offer some unsolicited advice (again) - you need to find a way of…
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Participants: TonyLB, Andrew Morris.

1/31/2005 TonyLB: Capes is now on sale
Specifically, at the site you can PayPal me $10 for the PDF copy, if you want. You cannot (yet) go to Indie Press Revolution for the much better deal on…
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Participants: TonyLB, John Harper, Ben Lehman, inthisstyle, Andrew Morris, red dragon, efindel, Doug Ruff, Ron Edwards.

1/24/2005 TonyLB: How to bribe players
I'm very big on above-the-board bribes. So here's my thinking: A vibrant community, here on this forum, is a huge selling point for the game. I ought to make sure…
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Participants: TonyLB.

1/24/2005 TonyLB: More Downloads
I've updated the CapesLite demo-rules to include the type of "show the game" pictures of dice and cards that help out so much in the main rules. I'm hopeful that…
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Participants: TonyLB, Yokiboy, lumpley, inthisstyle, Andrew Morris.

1/20/2005 Mike Holmes: PDF Methods
In the original announcement, people are discussing the idea of adding a PDF to sales of the game. I thought I'd continue that here. Some people mentioned that they liked…
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Participants: Mike Holmes, Ben Lehman, TonyLB, LordSmerf.

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3/11/2005 Jack Aidley: Why Capes Lite isn't helpful
Hi Tony, Over on RPG.Net I commented that the Capes Lite download wasn't very intelligable, and you asked why - I've started this thread to try and explain. Hopefully others…
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Participants: Jack Aidley, TonyLB, Christopher Weeks, jburneko, Matt Kimball, John Harper, Stickman, dyjoots, Valamir.

3/12/2005 dyjoots: Claiming question
Am I right in my understanding that in the first Page of a Scene, the only way to claim a side in a conflict is to either spend a Story…
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Participants: dyjoots, TonyLB.

3/16/2005 inthisstyle: Ubercon Session
I ran Capes at Ubercon last weekend, and I am still not entirely comfortable with the way I am explaining the game and facilitating play (not as a GM, but…
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Participants: inthisstyle, TonyLB.

3/21/2005 Vaxalon: Character creation strategy.
Correct me if I'm wrong, because I've only played once. But one really doesn't need more than two defensive abilities. One checkoff, and one power. The value ought to be…
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Participants: Vaxalon, TonyLB.

3/21/2005 jburneko: Resource Ownership and Turn Order Expenditure
Hello Again, Do I have these right? 1) Players own Story Tokens 2) Characters own Inspiration. Examples: In scene A I play character X and earn 3 story tokens and…
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Participants: jburneko, TonyLB, Miskatonic.

3/25/2005 TonyLB: Review up at RPG.net
Jeremy Reaban crafted a nice little review of Capes for RPG.net. I like it. It says nice things about the system. He's said over at the IPR forums that he's…
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Participants: TonyLB, Miskatonic.

3/27/2005 Lord Abaddon of Wormwood: PDF?
Hello all, I would like to buy the pdf of the game, but not the print verison. Why? I live in Australia and the postage on a game that I…
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Participants: Lord Abaddon of Wormwood, TonyLB.

3/28/2005 Vaxalon: The Nixon Principle, applied to Capes
My wife is obsessed with Jedi. She plays one in every game she sits down at, sooner or later. So I made up a Click-and-lock for Jedi. Powers: Lightsaber Telekinesis…
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Participants: Vaxalon, Andrew Morris, TonyLB, gorckat, David Laurence.

3/29/2005 TonyLB: Capes Lite Redraft
Following on the very useful advice given me in Why Capes Lite isn't helpful I have tried to assemble a document that's more like a teaching introduction, and less like…
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Participants: TonyLB, Paul Hebble, Stickman, Jack Aidley, Andrew Morris.

3/29/2005 Vaxalon: Click-and-Lock improvements
After playing Capes (and buying it) the other night, my wife and I have been thinking about improvements to the layout. It's pretty... but it's really really hard to make…
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Participants: Vaxalon, TonyLB, Taimu.

3/29/2005 Jonas Karlsson: Veto ability use
Hello, My first post on The Forge and all. So, I just bought Capes and plan to play the first session on Friday. One question is if there's a way…
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Participants: Jonas Karlsson, TonyLB, Vaxalon, LordSmerf.

3/29/2005 Vaxalon: Clarify something for me...
An event hits the table, played by the guy to my right. "A giant robot runs amok in Central City." It comes out, as usual, with two dice on it...…
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Participants: Vaxalon, TonyLB, Paul Hebble, Jonas Karlsson, Doug Ruff.

3/30/2005 Vaxalon: "Free" conflicts
What is free about a free conflict? Does it not require a turn (or a story token) to put into play? I don't see that anywhere in the rules.
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Participants: Vaxalon, Andrew Morris, Jack Aidley, Jonas Karlsson, TonyLB.

3/30/2005 Jonas Karlsson: Clarify Example of Play
The example of play is extremely useful when trying to understand the rules, and I can’t picture Capes without it. I have some stuff, though, I need to get clarified.…
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Participants: Jonas Karlsson, TonyLB.

3/30/2005 Vaxalon: New click-and-locks
Would this be an appropriate place to post new click-and-locks? I've got a few that don't fit in the ones in the book very well.
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Participants: Vaxalon, TonyLB, Jonas Karlsson, Taimu.

3/30/2005 Vaxalon: Is this legal?
Say I've been playing for a while, and I've got a nice little stack of story tokens. I want to set up one of those big climactic battle scenes were…
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Participants: Vaxalon, TonyLB, Miskatonic, Jonas Karlsson.

3/31/2005 Jonas Karlsson: Questions before tomorrow's game
Perhaps it’s easier for people to find questions and answers with a proper thread title, but I don’t want to create multiple threads for just one question and an answer.…
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Participants: Jonas Karlsson, Vaxalon, TonyLB.

3/31/2005 Vaxalon: Vulnerabilities
How would vulnerabilities be handled in Capes? They're an extremely common trope in superhero comics. If Capes doesn't already handle it mechanically, I have an idea for how it could…
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Participants: Vaxalon, TonyLB, Sydney Freedberg.

3/31/2005 Vaxalon: New, SPECIAL click and lock: Jenny Everywhere
This is a left-side clickandlock Jenny Everywhere, "The Shifter" http://www.queergranny.com/jennyeverywhere/ http://www.queergranny.com/jennyeverywhere/faqs.shtml Powers: Transcend Continuity Draw on another Jenny's wisdom Draw on another Jenny's experience Draw on another Jenny's willpower Draw…
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Participants: Vaxalon.

4/1/2005 Vaxalon: "Talking dingus"
What is the ultimate symbol of power for a Super? His cape, of course! I plan on taking some red velour and making a small (3' long or so, suitable…
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Participants: Vaxalon, Miskatonic.

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