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3/16/2006 jburneko: Goal Sniping.
Hello Again, While thinking about the whole narrative control thing, I remembered a condition of gameplay that *does* really irritate me.  I call the condition Goal Sniping.  Goal Sniping happens…
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Participants: jburneko, Zamiel, Sindyr, TonyLB, Adam Biltcliffe, Hans.

3/15/2006 jburneko: Wording of Conflicts and Character Control
Hello, I've been following the whole 'character control' argument and I'm a little confused.  My understanding about how conflicts break down has always been this: Goals are things a character…
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Participants: jburneko, Vaxalon, Sindyr, TonyLB, Zamiel, Tuxboy, Hans, drnuncheon.

3/14/2006 TonyLB: GenCon '06
Long way away, right?  Not so much. Michael and Kat Miller are already working to get indie games scheduled together at Indy GenCon.  I think that's a really good cause.…
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Participants: TonyLB, Zamiel, Gaerik, Hans.

3/14/2006 Zamiel: Story Arcs in Capes: An Experimental Design
I've been tinkering about with the idea of porting the Story Arc concept from With Great Power to Capes, which is complicated by the fact that the two systems have…
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Participants: Zamiel, TonyLB.

3/13/2006 TonyLB: Tony: Why'd you do it that way?
When folks are working their way through the rules they generally hit two distinct types of questions.  First:  How does it work?  Second:  Why does it work that way?  It's…
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Participants: TonyLB, Sindyr, Zamiel, Hans.

3/12/2006 Sindyr: Been reading my new pdf, have quesions...
Just purchased the Capes and am about 1/2 through my first reading of the system, thought I would pop in and ask a few questions and check in on a…
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Participants: Sindyr, Vaxalon, TonyLB, Zamiel, Tuxboy, Glendower, Hans, Valamir, drnuncheon, humis.

3/11/2006 lilyve: gold and powerlevel
[b]hello! dear friend, do u know a website which sell cheapest gold? I was told lots of website, and was confused by which one to choose. It took me about…
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Participants: lilyve, TonyLB.

3/7/2006 Sindyr: With Great Power? Why? Also, shippinng options.
Question: When I go to order Capes on the Muse of Fire website, why does the page also recommend that I order With Great Power?  The two systems have nothing…
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Participants: Sindyr, TonyLB, inthisstyle.

3/6/2006 Sindyr: What comics codes and house rules do you always use?
Do any of you have any standard house rules or comic codes that you use in the majority of the Capes games you play or run?  Ones that you would…
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Participants: Sindyr, TonyLB, drnuncheon, Tuxboy, Hans.

3/6/2006 Sindyr: Thoughts and reactions, plus could use some help and advice
Some thoughts re: Capes Let me introduce myself: I am a GM of 25+ years, I own several hundred rpg books filling many shelves, I have designed (but never published)…
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Participants: Sindyr, Vaxalon, jburneko, Gaerik, Andrew Morris, Zamiel, TonyLB, Valamir, Hans.

3/5/2006 TonyLB: A Setting straight from TV
I just realized what show would work really well, recreated in Capes. Lost.
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Participants: TonyLB, Zamiel.

3/3/2006 Zamiel: Setting Conversion: Exalted (and Character Depiction Versus Description)
Continuing my series of blog posts which go into deep discussion of some of the Capes design issues I've sussed out and how they're applicable to different genres and settings,…
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Participants: Zamiel.

3/2/2006 kirby1024: Playing the same character against themselves...
I'm prepping to start facilitating a game of Capes, with at least one superhero concept all ready to go. That concept is a Cloning superhero, ie she makes dupicates of…
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Participants: kirby1024, Zamiel, TonyLB.

3/1/2006 R de R: To think I knew him when...
Wow, I just came across Capes and the Forge after getting a word-of-mouth recommendation from someone at a MMORPG legal conference in Feb for something new that would "blow my…
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Participants: R de R, Zamiel, Andrew Morris, TonyLB.

2/28/2006 Zamiel: Interactive History: Conflicts That Change the Rules
I have some thoughts and exploration I've written about using Capes to model Interactive History from Aria on my LJ over at http://zamiel.livejournal.com/1001753.html ... It is, as ever, really good…
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Participants: Zamiel, TonyLB, ubergeek2012, drnuncheon.

2/27/2006 Hans: "Gritty, Dangerous" pseudo-Comics Code
Hello all: After my experience at Pandemonium, and looking at Tony's marvelous suggestion for a comics code for mysteries on a separate thread, I wanted to put the following comics…
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Participants: Hans, Miskatonic, Tuxboy, TonyLB, Sindyr, Gaerik.

2/25/2006 Zamiel: Cyberpunk Archetypes
I decided to go a bit mad and to do a bit more Capes genre-exploration on my LJ. Typically, this resulted in a long, rambling discussion of genre followed by…
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Participants: Zamiel.

2/23/2006 drnuncheon: Mysteries in Capes
So we settled on Capes as the system for our upcoming supernatural detectives game (blogged here).  It struck me on the way in to work this morning, though, that the…
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Participants: drnuncheon, Vaxalon, Zamiel, TonyLB, John Harper, dunlaing, Hans.

2/22/2006 Andrew Morris: Flash character generator rocks!
I just noticed that you can switch drives around on the Capes character generator. That was the only thing I thought was lacking, but I realize now that I just…
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Participants: Andrew Morris.

2/20/2006 LandonSuffered: Boy Wonders and Sidekicks
Hi!  I don't own Capes, but I have been reading posts and checking out Tony's web site and I really like what I see! I've owned many many superhero…
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Participants: LandonSuffered, Eero Tuovinen, Vaxalon, Gaerik, Miskatonic.

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3/17/2006 Hans: Capes fun; superpowers appear!
I have started a wiki here (http://wiki.rpg.net/index.php/Capes_in_Missassauga) to track the ongoing Capes sessions we are running here in Ontario.  In the very first session we had such diverse conflicts hit…
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Participants: Hans, Kintara, TonyLB, Sindyr.

3/19/2006 Sindyr: Many on one?
Looking at the comics, many of them are teams - the X-men, the Avengers, the Fantastic Four, etc.  And while they do go up against villain teams, its common for…
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Participants: Sindyr, jburneko, Hans, Ben Lehman, TheCzech, Sydney Freedberg, Tuxboy.

3/19/2006 Sindyr: A way to win when you want to?
If I recall correctly, when creating the Scene you can bring in one character for free, and extra characters for one story token each. Or, you can bring in character's…
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Participants: Sindyr, jburneko, TonyLB, Glendower.

3/19/2006 Sindyr: Why can't we edit posts?
I make a ton of spelling mistakes, grammar snafu's, etc. Why can't we edit posts we have made?  I have seen other forums do this.  Is there some technical reason…
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Participants: Sindyr, Glendower, Valamir.

3/21/2006 Sindyr: Boundaries and the meta-game - and Capes
This doesn't just apply to Capes, but it has come up in relation to Capes, so here are some thoughts of mine... When playing an rpg, each player has boundaries,…
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Participants: Sindyr, TonyLB, Valamir, Tuxboy, Sydney Freedberg, Gaerik, Garg, Matthew Glover, drnuncheon.

3/21/2006 Matthew Glover: Ongoing free-for-all Capes at my FLGS
I've been camping out at my local game shop and running Capes demos for anybody who'll stand still, as well as playing some short games with people.  The interest level…
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Participants: Matthew Glover, Hans, TonyLB, dunlaing, Zamiel, Garg.

3/21/2006 TonyLB: I-Con '06
[url=http://www.iconsf.org/]I-Con 25.  [/url]Stonybrook.  This weekend (Mar. 24 - 26). I'll be there.  I'll (apparently) be somewhere in the dealer's room, with piles and piles of indie goodness, not just Capes. …
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Participants: TonyLB, Matthew Glover, Nathan P., mtiru.

3/22/2006 Sindyr: Short lived Goals?
Question: A goal gets resolved when someone has claimed a side and ends the page in control, right? That is, if one side is higher than another, and that side…
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Participants: Sindyr, dunlaing, drnuncheon, Tuxboy, TonyLB, Hans, Vaxalon.

3/23/2006 Garg: Staking and Splitting - Possible Errata?
I was reviewing the rules recently and noticed something that confused me.  It's not really a rules errata so much as an errata of the excellent example chapter.  Or, well,…
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Participants: Garg, jburneko.

3/23/2006 Hans: Two very quick questions on rolling and Alliance
Not questions about rules, per se, since I'm pretty sure the answer isn't in there.  More a question of how people play.  Both of these situations have come up in…
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Participants: Hans, Matthew Glover.

3/23/2006 dunlaing: Ganging Up
I'm playing in a play by post Capes game which is going pretty well and which I'm enjoying. One interesting thing is happening, though,...every scene ends up with just one…
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Participants: dunlaing, Vaxalon, Zamiel, Kintara, TheCzech.

3/24/2006 Hans: Goals with no players
More a question about how to create good stories with Capes than a question about the rules.  Can you place a goal for a character that has no player?  Example,…
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Participants: Hans, drnuncheon, Zamiel.

3/25/2006 Sindyr: 444 and 345 only options?
When creating Capes characters by hand, are the only legal options in terms of the three columns to have a 3-4-5 style distribution or a 4-4-4 style distribution? (powers/style/attitudes) What…
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Participants: Sindyr, Kintara, Matthew Glover, Hans, TonyLB, dunlaing, drnuncheon, Gaerik, Adam Biltcliffe.

3/25/2006 Sindyr: Please critique my first Capes character
Having found someone who is willing to play Capes, I know only have to find one or two more.  Since that should be doable, I am getting ready. Here is…
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Participants: Sindyr, Eero Tuovinen, Matthew Glover, Tuxboy, ubergeek2012, Glendower, TonyLB, Gaerik.

3/26/2006 Matthew Glover: Critique my Exemplar!
The part of the Capes manual that I'd most like to see elaborated about is Exemplars.  I know that there are no plans for Capes II: Superhero Boogaloo, though, so…
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Participants: Matthew Glover, Sindyr, Hans, Tuxboy, drnuncheon, TonyLB, Ville Vicious, Zamiel.

3/26/2006 Sindyr: Linked Conflicts?
If you have two conflicts that are semantically linked, must one be resolved before the other? For example, Alice, Brad, and Chad are playing capes. Alice is playing Supergirl and…
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Participants: Sindyr, Tuxboy, Matthew Glover, TheCzech, Zamiel, drnuncheon, Hans, dunlaing, TonyLB.

3/28/2006 Zamiel: Snakes on a Plane: the Superheroic Version
If it's good enough for Chad Underoffler (http://community.livejournal.com/tandj_asmp/22750.html), it's good enough for me (http://zamiel.livejournal.com/1016149.html).
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Participants: Zamiel, Vaxalon, Miskatonic.

3/28/2006 Doc Blue: Capes Crisis!
Like any other DC comics addict, I've been reading (investing my children's education fund into) Infinite Crisis and One Year Later. So last night, I was pondering how to run…
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Participants: Doc Blue, Vaxalon, Sindyr, Zamiel, Ben Lehman, Hans, TheCzech, TonyLB.

3/29/2006 TonyLB: Social Reinforcement in Capes
Over in the Linked Conflicts thread, You can certainly do things just to poke other players in the eye, but the last thing you want…
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Participants: TonyLB, Vaxalon, Sindyr, jburneko, Hans, Glendower, TheCzech, Tuxboy, dunlaing, Thunder_God, drnuncheon.

3/29/2006 Matthew Glover: Sci Fi Channel and Stan Lee: Who Wants To Be A Superhero?
Okay, so this isn't precisely about Capes. The SCI FI Channel, Nash Entertainment (Meet My Folks, For Love or Money, Who Wants to Marry My Dad?), and legendary comic-book…
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Participants: Matthew Glover, TonyLB, TheCzech, Sindyr, dunlaing, Czar Fnord.

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