Previous Topics
In Muse of Fire Games

4/14/2006 Sindyr: Capes session #2 this Sunday!
We have an upcoming (Sunday) Capes session #2 with 4 of the 5 people (I think) who were in the first one. This is how I may introduce the session.…
In Muse of Fire Games
Participants: Sindyr, Matthew Glover, drnuncheon, TonyLB, Sydney Freedberg.

4/13/2006 joshua neff: Capes Lite questions
Actually, I already PM'd Tony a question about Capes Lite, which he answered. But now I have another one, and it seems silly to keep PMing him when the answers…
In Muse of Fire Games
Participants: joshua neff, Zamiel, dunlaing, TonyLB.

4/11/2006 xenopulse: Capes Questions on LJ
Someone posted a few questions on Capes on the LJ Roleplayers Community.  I figure you someone from around here who knows the rules well could hop in and help out.…
In Muse of Fire Games
Participants: xenopulse, Zamiel.

4/9/2006 Animation: Are Powers actually Effective?
All, Newbie question / need to grok. Please be kind. :) A friend (Matthew Glover) ran a Capes demo for me today and it was fun. However, after the fact,…
In Muse of Fire Games
Participants: Animation, Zamiel, Matthew Glover, Hans.

4/8/2006 Sindyr: Further game aids
Now that I am about to run my first Capes game, I am realizing that I could (or could have) use the following: An exhaustive list of everything you can…
In Muse of Fire Games
Participants: Sindyr, Glendower, Vaxalon, Miskatonic, Adam Biltcliffe.

4/5/2006 Tuxboy: Morality or When is a Superhero not a Superhero?
Split from Abilities thread... Hey! A cool plot idea - Mr Evil successfully is able to dominate the planet, but Captain Good unleashes Armageddon, killing everyone on the planet and…
In Muse of Fire Games
Participants: Tuxboy, TonyLB, Ben Lehman, Hans, Sindyr, Matthew Glover, dunlaing, drnuncheon.

4/4/2006 Ben Lehman: New Powerset
I was thinking about Gangbuster, and the awesome "unleash artifacts of power" on the magician set, and suddenly I was writing a new powerset.  The goal is to be the…
In Muse of Fire Games
Participants: Ben Lehman, Vaxalon, TonyLB, Sindyr, Hans.

4/4/2006 Sindyr: Four-color rules?
Was thinking of ways to add house rules and mods to encourage four color play; especially that heroes generally triumph over villains, and thought of this: Villains have some kind…
In Muse of Fire Games
Participants: Sindyr, TonyLB, Glendower, Tuxboy, ubergeek2012, Matthew Glover, drnuncheon, TheCzech, humis, Kintara, Hans.

4/2/2006 Sindyr: Quick Variant Idea: Inspiration combining
Would this be a bad(tm) idea, to have some way to combine smaller inspirations to make bigger ones? Perhaps using the following method - combining two inspirations yields one higher…
In Muse of Fire Games
Participants: Sindyr, TonyLB, dunlaing, Matthew Glover, Zamiel, TheCzech.

4/1/2006 Sindyr: Are abilities *always* available for use?
Are there any circumstances where, for example, the player has a character with a level 5 power that he has not yet used that page but for some reason he…
In Muse of Fire Games
Participants: Sindyr, Vaxalon, TonyLB, Gaerik, Hans, Matthew Glover, Glendower, drnuncheon, Tuxboy.

3/31/2006 Sindyr: Freeform characters and Styles
From another thread, broken out into its own: Are there any rules about how many and which Styles must be powered when generating a character by hand?  Can I have…
In Muse of Fire Games
Participants: Sindyr, drnuncheon, TonyLB, Sydney Freedberg.

3/30/2006 Hans: Semantics on goals...important?
From the "Critique my exemplar" thread: Goal: Prevent Jerry from doing superhero stuff.  However, this is a weak goal because while it's in play…
In Muse of Fire Games
Participants: Hans, Matthew Glover, Vaxalon, Sindyr, Adam Biltcliffe, drnuncheon, TonyLB, Gaerik.

3/30/2006 Matthew Glover: One Exemplar with multiple Exemplar relationships
At first my question was "Can you have a single Exemplar character with multiple Exemplar relationships to another single character?" Illustrative example: I create Max Millions and convince my buddy…
In Muse of Fire Games
Participants: Matthew Glover, TonyLB, Tuxboy.

3/30/2006 Sindyr: Capes game scheduled!!
I have been able to beseech and cajole 2 other folks into giving it a shot, Saturday the 8th at noon at a local gaming store! Looking forward to it!…
In Muse of Fire Games
Participants: Sindyr, TonyLB, Tuxboy, Sydney Freedberg, Gaerik, Adam Biltcliffe, Glendower, drnuncheon, Matthew Glover, Animation, TheCzech, Hans.

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…
In Muse of Fire Games
Participants: Matthew Glover, TonyLB, TheCzech, Sindyr, dunlaing, Czar Fnord.

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…
In Muse of Fire Games
Participants: TonyLB, Vaxalon, Sindyr, jburneko, Hans, Glendower, TheCzech, Tuxboy, dunlaing, Thunder_God, drnuncheon.

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…
In Muse of Fire Games
Participants: Doc Blue, Vaxalon, Sindyr, Zamiel, Ben Lehman, Hans, TheCzech, 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).
In Muse of Fire Games
Participants: Zamiel, Vaxalon, Miskatonic.

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…
In Muse of Fire Games
Participants: Sindyr, Tuxboy, Matthew Glover, TheCzech, Zamiel, drnuncheon, Hans, dunlaing, TonyLB.

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…
In Muse of Fire Games
Participants: Matthew Glover, Sindyr, Hans, Tuxboy, drnuncheon, TonyLB, Ville Vicious, Zamiel.

<< more previous topics

Subsequent Topics
In Muse of Fire Games

4/17/2006 Hans: Non-debt generating characters...how often?
For those that have been playing a while, I have a few questions regarding non-debt generating characters (that is non-powered characters and non-person characters): * How often do they end…
In Muse of Fire Games
Participants: Hans, dunlaing, TonyLB, Sindyr, drnuncheon, Tuxboy, Sydney Freedberg, Ben Lehman, Zamiel.

4/17/2006 Matthew Glover: Everybody Gloats
I'm going to paraphrase rather than quote a whole bunch.  If I get a detail or point wrong, please feel free to correct me.  In this thread a peculiar situation…
In Muse of Fire Games
Participants: Matthew Glover, drnuncheon, TonyLB, Hans, TheCzech, Sindyr, Vaxalon, Tuxboy, Ben Lehman, Eero Tuovinen.

4/17/2006 Matthew Glover: Authorship Rule
[quote author=Sindyr link=topic=19494.msg204825#msg204825 date=1145222973] The authorship rule we use if any player narrates something about another player's spotlight character that's not external, the owning player can veto that part of…
In Muse of Fire Games
Participants: Matthew Glover, Vaxalon, Zamiel, Sindyr, TonyLB, Sydney Freedberg, Ben Lehman, Tuxboy, ubergeek2012.

4/18/2006 jburneko: Why I Like One Point Inspirations.
Just reading around this forum I get the general impression that people think low valued inspiration is utterly useless.  However, I think low valued inspiration are totally awesome and I'd…
In Muse of Fire Games
Participants: jburneko, Hans, TonyLB, dunlaing, Matthew Glover.

4/22/2006 Sindyr: Even more questions...
Which of the following goals are not legal according to the Capes rules? Goal: Fred opens the door   where Fred is an NPC (ie, can you make goals with…
In Muse of Fire Games
Participants: Sindyr, Ben Lehman, TonyLB, Hans, drnuncheon.

4/23/2006 TonyLB: Inviolate characters: The Security Blanket
There's been a fair amount of talk here, recently, about how important it is to some people that their character is inviolate ... that nobody else can get inside of…
In Muse of Fire Games
Participants: TonyLB, Sindyr, jburneko, Valamir, Glendower, greyorm, humis, Gaerik, Bret Gillan, Sydney Freedberg, dunlaing, Vaxalon, drnuncheon, TheCzech, Tuxboy.

4/24/2006 JMendes: Mechanics Questions and Tactics Question
Hey, all, :) Finally got to play Capes for the first time, and I must say, I enjoyed it immensely, but I came away from the table with a bunch…
In Muse of Fire Games
Participants: JMendes, drnuncheon, Hans, TonyLB, Sindyr, Zamiel, Matthew Glover.

4/25/2006 Sindyr: Capes play and judgementalism in general
OK, I think I have found a clearer, more analytical way to express the problem here. There are several questions one could ask vis-à-vis Capes, such as: 1. What are…
In Muse of Fire Games
Participants: Sindyr, Tuxboy, greyorm, TonyLB, drnuncheon, Gaerik, joshua neff, dunlaing, TheCzech.

4/25/2006 Valamir: New Supplement: Capes: The Internet Forum RPG
Seriously, check out This Thread and This Thread. Imagine the first posts of each as first Tony then Sindyr throwing down a Goal Conflict of "Prove my Point about X".…
In Muse of Fire Games
Participants: Valamir, TonyLB, Zamiel.

4/25/2006 Sindyr: Splitting question
Will reply to the brouhaha one the other stuff later... (only so much time for explaining things, after all, I am not getting paid to do this...) but for now,…
In Muse of Fire Games
Participants: Sindyr, TonyLB, Zamiel.

4/26/2006 Hans: Capes F.A.Q.
I was sitting around a few days ago, saying to myself.."you know, Capes really needs an FAQ, why doesn't it have one."  And then it occurred to me, "The reason…
In Muse of Fire Games
Participants: Hans, TonyLB.

4/26/2006 JMendes: Free narration: whose character is it anyway?
Hi, :) So, here's us playing Capes for the second time, and another couple of questions popped up, the main one being, if I choose to play a character, is…
In Muse of Fire Games
Participants: JMendes, Zamiel, ricmadeira, Hans, drnuncheon, TheCzech, Sydney Freedberg, TonyLB.

4/26/2006 Matthew Glover: Staking Is Limited By Drive Strength
[quote author=Sindyr link=topic=19529.msg205704#msg205704 date=1145979063] Well, the most he is likely to stake is 3 debt, because each player can only stake debt from one drive, and only as much debt…
In Muse of Fire Games
Participants: Matthew Glover, Zamiel.

4/26/2006 JMendes: Adversity: What's in a scene?
Hey, all, :) So, here's my second question about our second session of Capes. I could have put this in with the other one, but I feel these are both…
In Muse of Fire Games
Participants: JMendes, Zamiel, ricmadeira, Hans, TonyLB, Sydney Freedberg.

4/26/2006 Hans: Amount of Debt from a drive?
[quote author=Matthew Glover link=topic=19529.msg205846#msg205846 date=1146027804] I'm 99% sure that this is incorrect.  You can only stake debt from one drive, yes.  However you can stake as much from that drive…
In Muse of Fire Games
Participants: Hans, Matthew Glover, Kai_lord, TonyLB.

4/26/2006 Hans: Capes at GenCon, Friday night!
This is an open call to everyone who will be at GenCon who wants Capes action. Ok, I'm looking through the events at GenCon and I realize I am the…
In Muse of Fire Games
Participants: Hans, TonyLB, Gaerik, TheCzech, Tuxboy.

4/28/2006 Zamiel: Car Assault Wars Auto Double-Zeta
I'm a sick, sick man. I'm well aware of it. I have this minor obsession with making various add-on systems which are patched together, Frankenstein-like, until I have something terrifying.…
In Muse of Fire Games
Participants: Zamiel, Stickman, Miskatonic, drnuncheon, TheCzech.

5/2/2006 Karlkrlarsson: First session
Had an excellent first session with Capes on sunday. A real brain teaser. Anyhow, three things came up, and I just want to make sure i get them right 1.…
In Muse of Fire Games
Participants: Karlkrlarsson, Zamiel, Hans, drnuncheon, TonyLB, Matthew Glover, JMendes, Kai_lord.

5/2/2006 Hans: Too much pressure! This pressure's got to stop! (Debt in ongoing Capes)
In the last session (the fourth) or our ongoing game, two of us (Liz and I) were playing our spotlight characters that had been in two of the three previous…
In Muse of Fire Games
Participants: Hans, drnuncheon, Gaerik, TheCzech, TonyLB, Sydney Freedberg.

5/2/2006 Zamiel: Splitting From Multi-Die Pools
I'm a bit of an anal-retentive geek. I'm well aware of this fact. As such, I've been reviewing the FAQ posting and the messages it links to, as well as…
In Muse of Fire Games
Participants: Zamiel, Hans.

more subsequent topics >>