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8/31/2005 Ben Lehman: Powerblocking?
Just an odd rules question. Say that a player is using the Robot powerset, and making heavy use of the "Massive Property Damage" Style.  Could I set out a "Goal:…
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Participants: Ben Lehman, Gaerik, Andrew Morris, TonyLB, Jack Aidley, jburneko, Technocrat13, Sydney Freedberg, Vaxalon, Grover, Mandacaru, TheCzech, Hans.

8/27/2005 Gamskee: Good Pregenerated Characters for First Game
I'm planning on introducing Capes to my campus gaming club this Tuesday, and I'd really like it to be a success. In that vein, I decided to go with the…
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Participants: Gamskee, TonyLB, Stickman.

8/26/2005 Sydney Freedberg: Ron Edwards explains why Capes freaks some people out
We've had lots of furballing discussions over the way Capes allows any player to create enormous changes in the shared imagined space at will -- e.g. "I roll up 'Goal:…
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Participants: Sydney Freedberg, jburneko, Andrew Morris, Tony Irwin, TonyLB, Miskatonic, LordSmerf, Ron Edwards, Gaerik, Vaxalon, Mike Holmes.

8/23/2005 VanceMadrox: Society of Heros
First off I must say this is the easiest system conversion I've ever done. Making characters is eeeeaaaasssssyy. I was worried initially about the powers nto being limiting enough but…
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Participants: VanceMadrox, TonyLB, TheCzech.

8/23/2005 VanceMadrox: Gencon
Hey Tony I just wanted to pop in and say I had a great time playing with you at GenCon. I've told some of my friends about it and they're…
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Participants: VanceMadrox, TonyLB, Gaerik.

8/17/2005 slavlin: Inspiration question
I am a bit confused about gaining inspirations. I finally managed to work out that you get them based off of the dice matches. However, the example gives 2 different…
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Participants: slavlin, Sydney Freedberg, TonyLB.

8/15/2005 1of3: Inspiration & Debt - When?
Hi. There is something about Inspiration and Debt, I didn't understand. Exactly when can a player spend them? thx
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Participants: 1of3, TonyLB.

8/15/2005 TonyLB: Psychological Limitations in Capes
So I'm a Champions player from way back.  Big surprise, right?  And I will admit that I sort of miss the horrible, distorted strait-jackets that were Psychological Limitations.  They always…
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Participants: TonyLB, Ron Edwards, Mark Woodhouse, Vaxalon.

8/11/2005 Miskatonic: Dead Characters
So in our recent game, I noticed something in Capes that's not immediately obvious. If your character is permitted by the Comics Code to be killed, and you don't have…
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Participants: Miskatonic, jburneko, Mark Woodhouse, TonyLB, Anders Gabrielsson.

8/10/2005 Denise: Hang out with Tony at the ENnies ceremony!
As part of the effort to defray the costs of running the awards, the annual Gen Con EN World RPG Awards are auctioning off seats at publishers' tables.  Tony was…
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Participants: Denise, TonyLB, Stickman, Gaerik.

8/6/2005 Justin Marx: Capes and PBEM?
Hi there everyone, Maybe a redundant question, but if it aint, then this is the place to ask it. After reading some examples of actual play (the one with Major…
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Participants: Justin Marx, TonyLB, Stickman.

8/3/2005 jburneko: More Capes Rules Questions
Hello, Here are some straight forward rules questions that arose from last nights game. 1) The Free Claim you get at the top of a page is per player, not…
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Participants: jburneko, TonyLB.

8/3/2005 TonyLB: [GenCon] Get your spandex-coveting backsides over here!
GenCon!  You're going, or else you wouldn't be reading this post.  Well let me tell you the place to be:  Booth 1332.  This is the legendary Forge Booth.  It's where…
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Participants: TonyLB, Gaerik.

8/2/2005 BeZurKur: [Errata] Suggestions For Clarifications
I’m new to the Forge and its ideas.  Capes is the first game I’m trying that puts the theories discussed here into practice.  As such, I think I was more…
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Participants: BeZurKur, TonyLB.

8/2/2005 BeZurKur: [Rules Q] Creating Conflicts -- Event or Goal
On page 22 it states that players may spend a Story Token during -- what I call -- the Claim Phase to add a Conflict.  Just to be sure: it…
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Participants: BeZurKur, TonyLB.

8/1/2005 TonyLB: Example of play: Unfinished preview
Work continues painfully but surely on the Flash example of play.  I've gotten it to the point where I'm no longer utterly ashamed to show the in-progress files.  So hopefully…
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Participants: TonyLB, Andrew Morris, Stickman, Doc Blue, Anders Gabrielsson, Andrew Norris, Halzebier, ScottM, James_Nostack.

7/29/2005 Madheretic: Inspiration Questions and Winning Against Nobody
Sorry if someone's already asked these: 1) I know you have to justify using an inspiration to raise a die in your narration, but what about using an ability to…
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Participants: Madheretic, jburneko, TonyLB, Vaxalon.

7/29/2005 clydesdale: A quick question on resources.
Hey all. New member. Cheers and all of that. I had a quick queston about resources in Capes. Who are they tied to, the characters or the players? My current…
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Participants: clydesdale, TonyLB.

7/27/2005 Gamskee: Story Token Distribution
Finally convinced a few people to try capes lite, and it went fairly well. Everybody made it a point to interact with the conflicts created, though a few were definitely…
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Participants: Gamskee, Stickman, TonyLB.

7/21/2005 Grover: Fact mechanic for Capes
One thing that people have perceived as a weakness in Capes is that there is no mechanism to establish a fact in the game.  I don't see this as a…
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Participants: Grover, Miskatonic, TonyLB, Vaxalon, Shreyas Sampat, Doug Ruff, Gamskee.

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9/7/2005 slavlin: A couple of concepts to bounce
I had a couple of ideas that I wanted to spitball off of some of the experienced players here. One of my friends actually reads the forums WAY more than…
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Participants: slavlin, Stickman, TonyLB, Uzzah, Gaerik.

9/7/2005 jburneko: Simple Capes Rules Questions
Hello, Just simple rules questions: 1) Can you introduce "Free Conflicts" for free on your actual turn or only at the top of a page. 2) When you have your…
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Participants: jburneko, TonyLB.

9/8/2005 Eero Tuovinen: [Errata] Egyptian spelling
Tony: you ask for corrections to Capes on your website, so I'm posting one: 'pharaoh' isn't spelled "pharoah", which you do in your examples at least twice. Search and replace,…
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Participants: Eero Tuovinen.

9/19/2005 skyla: finding capes games (seattle)
I picked up the Capes at Gencon, and didn't have time to get the demo.  Now I'm thinking of trying it out in my gaming group, but I'd rather do…
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Participants: skyla.

9/23/2005 Uzzah: Another Piece of Errata?
Reading through the book again I noticed what might be an error, not sure if it's been spotted before. Page 36, in the example where Nocturne is staking debt to…
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Participants: Uzzah, TonyLB.

9/27/2005 BeZurKur: Horror Comics
The horror genre of comics is as old (although, currently not as popular) as the supers genre.  However, with some of the darker supernatural heroes, particularly those of the 90's,…
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Participants: BeZurKur, TonyLB, Sydney Freedberg, Anders Gabrielsson.

9/29/2005 Doc Blue: Capes Players in/near Columbus, OH?
Hi.  I purchased Capes at Origins and am really excited about playing it.  However, I got my play group hooked on Prime Time Adventures before Origins and they are resistant…
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Participants: Doc Blue.

9/30/2005 dunlaing: Multiple Characters
So, two friends and I decided to sit down and play Capes. None of us had ever played it before. I have the full version, but my friend Jim suggested…
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Participants: dunlaing, Andrew Morris, Sydney Freedberg, TonyLB.

10/4/2005 dunlaing: Any progress on selling Click-n-locks?
I noticed that there was an old thread from April about using a die to cut them out and sell them in which Tony remarked about how if he could…
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Participants: dunlaing, TonyLB, Andrew Morris.

10/5/2005 dunlaing: Minor Quibble
My friend Jim pointed out that the click and locks are on the page in the opposite order of how you'd say them, and thought that that was backwards. For…
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Participants: dunlaing, Anders Gabrielsson, Jack Aidley, Hans.

10/7/2005 Kai_lord: Secret Identies for Supers?
I've been pondering the question of how to handle supers with useful secret identities - Clark Kent's Journalist, Batman's CEO, Reed Richards, the scientist, and so on. One possiblity is…
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Participants: Kai_lord, TonyLB, Mark Woodhouse, Sydney Freedberg, TheCzech, James_Nostack.

10/7/2005 Kai_lord: Fact mechanic Revisited
Well, I'm raising this old thread from the dead, because I have a different take on how to allow facts which (I think) meshes better with the existing mechanics. At…
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Participants: Kai_lord, TonyLB, LordSmerf, Vaxalon, Gaerik.

10/12/2005 Kai_lord: IRC Bot for tracking Conflicts
Based on the request of Fred, I've started work on a IRC bot to track conflicts for Capes. So far, I've decided I need the following commands: Conflict -…
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Participants: Kai_lord, Vaxalon, TonyLB, kirby1024.

10/18/2005 Kintara: Claiming Answers to My Rules Questions
I'm a little confused on how claiming works in relation to alliance and opposition. Firstly, am I right in assuming that if you claim a conflict, but end the page…
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Participants: Kintara, TonyLB, dunlaing, Anders Gabrielsson.

10/20/2005 Bret Gillan: Questions Regarding Conflict Resolution
Hey Tony, I've played a few one-shots of Capes and love it. I really think it would shine in long-term play but just haven't been able to get a campaign…
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Participants: Bret Gillan, TonyLB, Gaerik.

10/21/2005 Kai_lord: New Review up at Pyramid
There's a new review up at Pyramid. It's a fairly good summation of the rules. For those that don't have a subscription: Capes is very obviously a personal labor of…
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Participants: Kai_lord.

10/24/2005 Anders Gabrielsson: Actual Play
I got my first chance to play today so I thought I'd jot down some notes while the session is still reasonably fresh in my mind. I opted to explain…
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Participants: Anders Gabrielsson, Sydney Freedberg, Vaxalon, TonyLB.

10/31/2005 Hans: Capes event in Hamilton, Ontario
Hello all: Just to let you know, my normal game group and I, looking for a breather from some pretty darn intense horror stuff recently, will be playing Capes for…
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Participants: Hans, TonyLB.

11/1/2005 Kai_lord: Staking rules question
Let's say Captain Hero has a justice drive of 3. There is a conflict: Capture Doctor Villain! on which Cap. has staked two justice debt, and he has rolled up…
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Participants: Kai_lord, TonyLB.

11/1/2005 Hans: Capes virgin question on narration limits
Hello: Ok, I'm playing my first game this weekend (come join me in Hamilton, Ontario!) and as I have been trying to describe the game to others to get them…
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Participants: Hans, Vaxalon, dunlaing, TonyLB, Sydney Freedberg, Weebles, John Harper.

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