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4/15/2005 Miskatonic: Capes Target Demographics
EDIT: Unnecessary rant about "infernal hobby" I have a suspicion that Capes has done away with a number of RPG elements that are offputting to non-gamers. I just need to…
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Participants: Miskatonic, Valamir.

4/15/2005 Miskatonic: Deprecated Click-and-Locks
I see the new version of Capes Lite is on the site now. As I recall, the old version had a few Click-and-Locks that aren't in the full set. Insectoid…
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Participants: Miskatonic, TonyLB.

4/15/2005 TonyLB: Why have conflicts at all?
In Takes some getting used to, Andrew raised the following solid general question: Okay, I've been following this Capes thing very closely because I'm interested in the game. I'm…
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Participants: TonyLB, Gaerik, Miskatonic, Vaxalon, C. Edwards, John Harper, Valamir, inthisstyle.

4/14/2005 Miskatonic: Click-n-Lock dies
This is mostly a blue sky thread. Anyone have any ideas for die-cutting Click-n-Locks on the cheap? This is an area I know nothing about, but a little research shows…
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Participants: Miskatonic, TonyLB, Paul Czege.

4/14/2005 hyphz: Does opposition have to mean "rolling on the goal"
Just a question that came up from the comments about narration and story tokens. Joe Hero creates the Goal "Save the cat trapped in the tree in Central Park". Not…
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Participants: hyphz, Miskatonic, TonyLB.

4/13/2005 jburneko: Goal Ownership
Hello All, I've been following the many Capes discussions and I find the whole thing interesting. One thing that has caught my attention recently is the notion of a 'preventative'…
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Participants: jburneko, Vaxalon, TonyLB.

4/13/2005 Vaxalon: Goal-In, Goal-Out house rule
Waitwaitwait... What makes Intergalactic "all powerful"? In fact, what makes him powerful? There are only two possible things that can give Intergalactic power compared to Kid Virtue. The first is,…
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Participants: Vaxalon, TonyLB, Miskatonic, C. Edwards, Valamir.

4/13/2005 Miskatonic: Negation of narration
Continued from Takes Some Getting Used To Summary: I think the rules permit one to free curb abuse of free narration, Vaxalon and others say the rules do not allow…
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Participants: Miskatonic, Vaxalon, TonyLB.

4/13/2005 Vaxalon: Exemplar creation rules
I'm a little hazy on something when it comes to exemplar creation. As I understand it, any exemplar after the first for any particular super requires that it be shared…
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Participants: Vaxalon, TonyLB.

4/13/2005 TonyLB: Why narrate at all?
In Takes some getting used to, Ralph wrote: Tony. What do you perceive the purpose of the narration to be? To express your personal creative input (i.e. "because you…
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Participants: TonyLB, Vaxalon, Nicolas Crost, Noon, Valamir, hyphz, inthisstyle, Gaerik, Miskatonic, Mike Holmes, John Harper.

4/9/2005 TonyLB: How To: Interpret Charitably
[i]... or 'How I learned to stop worrying and love the bomb.'[/i] Capes gives all players tremendous freedom to contribute to the Shared Imaginary Space. Players don't have to justify…
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Participants: TonyLB, John Harper.

4/8/2005 TonyLB: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Time is running out for a bargain!
All of the first printing Capes books are gone. It's proven wildly popular. Thanks to all those who have made it so! I've had plenty of people commenting in their…
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Participants: TonyLB, Jaik.

4/6/2005 Vaxalon: Using powers outside of conflict
If you're roleplaying in a non-conflict situation, and a use of power comes up, does that incur debt?
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Participants: Vaxalon, Jack Aidley, TonyLB.

4/6/2005 Jonas Karlsson: After second session - new questions
[b]1. Turn order of claiming phase[/b] During the claiming phase you go clockwise around the table from the starter, to allow players to add claims, persons and conflicts. When it’s…
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Participants: Jonas Karlsson, TonyLB.

4/5/2005 Vaxalon: Where Capes is weak.
[quote="Vaxalon"] The two elements of the game must mutually interact with each other. If you're playing DnD miniatures, and as your Aasimar Paladin moves forward, you say, "Telgar the Pure…
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Participants: Vaxalon, Doug Ruff, TonyLB, Valamir, Jonas Karlsson, inthisstyle, Miskatonic, Noon, dyjoots, TheCzech, Andrew Norris.

4/5/2005 jenasolian: capes lite questions/tweaking
I learned Capes lite (never played capes "hevi") at Terpcon, and got the handout. I'd like to try a couple of scenes with my friends this week, but there are…
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Participants: jenasolian, TonyLB, Jonas Karlsson.

4/3/2005 Vaxalon: Balancing Capes
Another thought just struck me. Let's say that there's a player in the game group who really has it all together. He rakes in the story tokens, and earns an…
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Participants: Vaxalon, John Harper, TonyLB, Sydney Freedberg.

4/2/2005 Jonas Karlsson: Questions after yesterday’s game
We played our first session yesterday and have some questions. It mostly concerns allies and what the dice actually represent. Some of the things are perhaps hypothetical, but it would…
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Participants: Jonas Karlsson, TonyLB.

4/2/2005 Vaxalon: Some characters.
[img]http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y53/Vaxalon/Superheroes/Kozmik.jpg[/img][img]http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y53/Vaxalon/Superheroes/Concertina.jpg[/img] Art to start, stats in a bit. (damn, I am jonesin' SO hard)
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Participants: Vaxalon, TonyLB.

4/1/2005 Vaxalon: Exemplar connection to Drives?
What is the significance of an exemplar's connection to a drive? I see nothing mechanic-related about it, and frankly human interactions are complex enough that I can see some exemplars…
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Participants: Vaxalon, TonyLB, Jonas Karlsson.

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4/15/2005 jburneko: Squabling Over Color?
I've been following the Capes discussions fairly closely and the central complaint seems to be that there's no mechanics for controling narrative color. And quite frankly, it's one of my…
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Participants: jburneko, Gaerik, Valamir, TonyLB.

4/15/2005 TonyLB: "Thematic Causality": What, why and how?
In Why have Conflicts at all?... The choice itself is important, but without a pattern of what I'm going to call "thematic causality", it has no meaning. Capes is…
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Participants: TonyLB, xenopulse, John Harper, Vaxalon, Paganini, C. Edwards, Valamir, Miskatonic, Jinx.

4/16/2005 James_Nostack: [Capes] What Do I Take Pride In?
You've just been playing Capes with your friends, and the session has wrapped up. Let's say it was a blast, and you had a good time. What do you take…
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Participants: James_Nostack, Sydney Freedberg, TonyLB, Vaxalon.

4/16/2005 TonyLB: Reciprocity of interest
[quote="Vaxalon"]Why do I get the impression, then, that you don't like it, that I feel that Capes is a great start, but needs a little work to be perfect?[/quote] I…
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Participants: TonyLB, Vaxalon, John Harper.

4/21/2005 jburneko: SIS Control Problem: A Concrete Example
I've been thinking about all the arguing about whether or not there's any causal substance in the SIS in Capes. I've seen the arguments on both sides. Here's a concrete…
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Participants: jburneko, TonyLB, Valamir, C. Edwards, Jinx, xenopulse, Miskatonic, Anders Gabrielsson, Gamskee, drnuncheon, Zamiel, Kintara, Hans, Keiko, Gaerik, James_Nostack.

4/22/2005 Valamir: Motivations to Create Conflicts
As these various threads have progressed its occured to me that that the game may actually demotivate you from creating conflicts that you want to win. Consider our favorite villain…
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Participants: Valamir, TonyLB, jburneko, Grover, Chris Goodwin, Sydney Freedberg, Tymen, John Harper, hyphz, Doug Ruff.

4/23/2005 TonyLB: Rules-Recommendation: Responsive Conflicts
In Curse your sudden but inevitable betrayal... I'd be interested in hearing what you think of being able to start Conflicts as a reaction to narration. That's hardly rewriting…
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Participants: TonyLB, Sydney Freedberg.

4/23/2005 Vaxalon: The Capes Mindset
I'm coming to believe that you have to be in the right mindset to enjoy Capes. 1> You have to be up for competition and heavy-duty player-versus-player play. You also…
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Participants: Vaxalon, TonyLB, C. Edwards, Sydney Freedberg, Jaik, Stickman, Jinx, Grover, Jonas Karlsson, Miskatonic, inthisstyle.

4/27/2005 Miskatonic: Splitting Conflicts (Clarification)
In Fred's, James', and Alexander's recent IRC game, the following rules dispute came up: # <Fracture> Okay, I'm going to stake a point of debt on the 2,…
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Participants: Miskatonic, TonyLB, Vaxalon, Jonas Karlsson.

4/29/2005 matthijs: Capes review up at RPG.net
[url=http://www.rpg.net/reviews/archive/11/11245.phtml]Here[/url].
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Participants: matthijs, TonyLB, Miskatonic.

4/29/2005 jburneko: Two Thoughts On Capes
There are two thoughts I've had about Capes from the very first time I read it. I was going to reserve these two thoughts until after I had some Actual…
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Participants: jburneko, Valamir, TonyLB.

5/4/2005 Sydney Freedberg: Capes tactics - Ubering characters
All Capes characters are mechanically equal, right? One ability at 5 , some leeway about distributing Debt, and that's it, except…
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Participants: Sydney Freedberg, TonyLB, Stickman.

5/4/2005 Jasper: An interview with Tony
Hi, Tony hasn't posted this yet, so I guess I will. Tony was kind enough to do an interview with me, regarding game design, role-playing and our little hobby. It's…
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Participants: Jasper.

5/21/2005 TonyLB: Capes tactics - Precision restraint
Okay, you want some really whacked out, bizarre, intensely human scenes? Don't think about single conflicts, and how they work out. Think about how the Not-Yet restraints of one Conflict…
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Participants: TonyLB.

5/30/2005 TonyLB: Capes review at Gaming Report
Wayne Tonjes wrote a review of Capes. I'm still in a "jury is out" mode about the review itself... anyone who thinks that you buy extra actions by spending Debt…
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Participants: TonyLB, Miskatonic, Technocrat13.

6/7/2005 jburneko: An Experiment: Turning Capes into a More Traditional RPG
I was thinking about the entire debate about whether Capes is *really* an RPG or not. I, of course, think it IS an RPG. All the elements of a so-called…
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Participants: jburneko, TonyLB.

7/8/2005 TonyLB: Convention Trifold up for critique
As we enter my summer convention season, I want as many ways as possible to spread the word about Capes. My preferred mode of contact, of course, is to get…
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Participants: TonyLB, Technocrat13, urbanpagan, Valamir, Sydney Freedberg.

7/8/2005 TonyLB: DexCon!
In case you haven't heard, Capes is going to have a major, major presence at DexCon (July 13-17, East Brunswick, NJ). So far I'm getting absolutely nothing but good vibes…
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Participants: TonyLB, Paka, JimTheFly.

7/9/2005 Uzzah: A lightbulb moment...
I've been reading and pouring over all the topics about SIS in Capes, trying to see both sides of the discussion. It was hard in the begining because as a…
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Participants: Uzzah, TonyLB.

7/11/2005 Jaik: Is Capes a GM Training Game?
I was reading the lightbulb thread by Uzzah and was going to respond with something about how I thought Capes was totally narrativist, but it didn't seem pertinent enough to…
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Participants: Jaik, Andrew Morris, Uzzah, TonyLB, jburneko, Mike Holmes, Miskatonic, Technocrat13, Anders Gabrielsson.

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