Previous Topics In Muse of Fire Games 6/21/2006 TonyLB: Breaking Reality from Perception Okay, so ... starting to build some of the bridges from Capes to Misery Bubblegum.
Let me offer you a scenario. Two conflicts are running simultaneously: "Goal: Defeat Major Victory"… In Muse of Fire Games Participants: TonyLB, Vaxalon, Tuxboy, Hans, Glendower, TheCzech.
6/20/2006 Hans: Pseudo-spontaneous Capes Fest at GenCon: an Update Hello all:
I know GenCon is still a ways away, but the pre-registration is going to be over soon, so I thought this would be a good time for an… In Muse of Fire Games Participants: Hans, TonyLB, Gaerik.
6/20/2006 Miskatonic: New Capes review on RPGnet http://www.rpg.net/reviews/archive/12/12256.phtml In Muse of Fire Games Participants: Miskatonic.
6/19/2006 TonyLB: Forum Guidelines [size=14pt]Substance and Rhetoric[/size]
The [i]Muse of Fire[/i] forum exists in order to help people discuss the act of roleplaying generally and [i]Capes[/i] (and any other games I make later) specifically. … In Muse of Fire Games Participants: TonyLB.
6/19/2006 TonyLB: Guidelines Discussion: Substance and Rhetoric God knows that people love to discuss their own discussion. Rather than let opinions on the new guidelines leak into other, substantive, threads (or clutter up the guidelines post itself)… In Muse of Fire Games Participants: TonyLB, xjermx, Gaerik, Glendower, TheCzech, Sindyr, greyorm, Tuxboy.
6/11/2006 tetsujin28: Resolving: I don't get it I've read through the rules twice, now, and Resolving still doesn't make any sense, to me. When, and how, does it occur?
It seems that you can only Resolve a… In Muse of Fire Games Participants: tetsujin28, Glendower, nicolasfueyo, drnuncheon, Hans, Gaerik, Tuxboy, TheCzech, TonyLB.
6/9/2006 nicolasfueyo: Son of Inviolate characters [color=Red]Moderator-y Goodness: Since the old thread was more than a month old, I've split this off into its own thread for discussion.[/color]
It is strange the way [url=http://www.indie-rpgs.com/forum/index.php?topic=19597.0]this thread[/url] drifted… In Muse of Fire Games Participants: nicolasfueyo, TonyLB, Gaerik, Tuxboy, LemmingLord, TheCzech, Glendower, Jinx, Hans, greyorm, Miskatonic, Vaxalon.
6/2/2006 TonyLB: What Mike Mulligan taught me about courage Things have been quiet, so I'm going to indulge myself. It's my forum, after all.
As a child, my absolute, bar-none favorite story was Mike Mulligan and his Steam Shovel,… In Muse of Fire Games Participants: TonyLB, TheCzech, James_Nostack.
5/23/2006 Hans: [Actual Play] Capes in Missassauga, a forensic analysis Hi all:
Well, we have jointly decided to put our Capes game on hold here in Ontario, after 5 sessions. That does not mean we will not play Capes in… In Muse of Fire Games Participants: Hans, jaw6, Bret Gillan, drnuncheon, TonyLB, Sydney Freedberg, nicolasfueyo.
5/22/2006 drnuncheon: [Actual Play] Trenchcoats in LA, Session 2 We got a late start this time as John and I went biking Saturday afternoon (and Mel slept!). Only three scenes, but the second one was huge.
Scene 1 (John)… In Muse of Fire Games Participants: drnuncheon.
5/18/2006 Joshua BishopRoby: Retooling Drives & Exemplars I'm gearing up for my Fantasy-flavored Capes game this summer, and we're looking at Drives and Exemplars. I want to fiddle with them.
Now, Drives serve two purposes: (a) they… In Muse of Fire Games Participants: Joshua BishopRoby, TheCzech, Uhlrik, drnuncheon.
5/18/2006 Hans: Action-Reaction a single unit Hi all:
Tony: over in story games, you said the following:
Action: Use Ability to roll up a die
Spend Debt to Split said die
Reaction: Use Ability to roll… In Muse of Fire Games Participants: Hans.
5/18/2006 Yokiboy: Thoughts at First Look Hello,
I bought the book/PDF combo recently, and while I have yet to see the book, the PDF greatly impressed me (not technically, but the writing).
Tony, your writing is… In Muse of Fire Games Participants: Yokiboy.
5/17/2006 Joshua BishopRoby: We Broke Capes So last night my group got together and played a little Capes, and it... really didn't work. I'm not entirely sure why.
The Players & Characters: I myself played Moose-Boy,… In Muse of Fire Games Participants: Joshua BishopRoby, Vaxalon, drnuncheon, Miskatonic, jburneko, TheCzech, TonyLB, Tuxboy, Kai_lord.
5/10/2006 Uhlrik: A slight problem with the flash generator I've made a lot of use of the Flash Click-n-Lock generator ( http://www.museoffire.com/Games/Downloads/ClickAndLock.swf ) in my own character design process. It's a really, really useful resource. I usually do my… In Muse of Fire Games Participants: Uhlrik, Vaxalon, TonyLB, drnuncheon, matthijs, MooseHole.
5/7/2006 Joshua BishopRoby: Sheer Madness, or Doable -- Click-n-Lock Triangle So in trying to set up my Capes Fantasy game, it occured to me that unlike the Capes-default superhero of two character components (Persona and Powerset), generic fantasy characters usually… In Muse of Fire Games Participants: Joshua BishopRoby, Andrew Morris, demiurgeastaroth, dunlaing, Ben Lehman, TonyLB, Tuxboy, Hans, Uhlrik, drnuncheon, Sindyr.
5/7/2006 drnuncheon: [Actual Play] Trenchcoats in LA, Session 1 So we actually finally got started on our first long-term Capes game yesterday. Rather than superheroes per se, it's more a supernatural mystery/character drama, sort of Angel meets Jim Butcher's… In Muse of Fire Games Participants: drnuncheon, Hans, TheCzech, nicolasfueyo, Matthew Glover.
5/4/2006 Joshua BishopRoby: Alternate Click-n-Locks I may be convincing my brothers to play our traditional summertime roleplaying game in Capes instead of something boring. We're not too keyed up on superheroes, but the two of… In Muse of Fire Games Participants: Joshua BishopRoby, Zamiel, Hans, drnuncheon, cpeterso, TonyLB, Glendower, Gaerik, Kai_lord, dunlaing, JMendes.
5/4/2006 Bret Gillan: Gods - A Capes Hack For a long time I've wanted to create a game about world-building, and struggles between competing deities for control over events and creations. I've batted around quite a few ideas… In Muse of Fire Games Participants: Bret Gillan, Vaxalon, TonyLB, Gaerik, Hans, cpeterso, Zamiel, Paka, dunlaing, Kai_lord, TheCzech, Sindyr, nicolasfueyo.
5/3/2006 Matthew Glover: "Bound" Debt In a couple of other threads there's been some talk about schisms and debt and stuff and it triggered a question that I've had in the back of my mind… In Muse of Fire Games Participants: Matthew Glover, Hans, TonyLB, Kai_lord, Zamiel.
<< more previous topics | | Subsequent Topics In Muse of Fire Games 6/27/2006 LemmingLord: Free Narration, Bad Narration Recourse, "Character" Incapacitation, and Places Love the game.. Finally had a chance to playtest it for rules understanding on three occasions... Once with my wife; once with a friend; and once just on my own… In Muse of Fire Games Participants: LemmingLord, TonyLB, Hans, Bret Gillan, TheCzech, Sindyr.
6/28/2006 TonyLB: Tactic: Building Momentum So I was walking along and I realized a tactic I should be using ... like ... all the time. You'd think I'd have figured this all out by now,… In Muse of Fire Games Participants: TonyLB, Vaxalon, TheCzech.
6/29/2006 dunlaing: Tactic: Use for low level Inspirations I used to think Inspirations below 3 were utterly useless. Then I had way too much debt, a conflict I was likely to win that I wanted a lot of… In Muse of Fire Games Participants: dunlaing, Vaxalon, Threlicus, Hans, Sindyr, TheCzech, TonyLB.
6/29/2006 TonyLB: Feedback: New info card A year ago, for DexCon, I got myself together sufficietly to put together a tri-fold pamphlet of information for people about Capes. Printed a hundred on my home laser printer,… In Muse of Fire Games Participants: TonyLB, Vaxalon, Gaerik, Hans, TheCzech, Thunder_God, dunlaing, Sydney Freedberg, Andrew Morris, Sindyr.
7/5/2006 LemmingLord: Hero's Code of Conduct I'm playing my first real capes game on Friday and would love to hear what kinds of provisos others have put in their Here's codes... Can you help me out? In Muse of Fire Games Participants: LemmingLord, TonyLB, Gaerik, jburneko, Vaxalon, Hans, dunlaing, Sindyr, Matthew Glover, Tuxboy.
7/6/2006 TonyLB: DEXCON Okay, people ... DexCon approaches like an oncoming freight train of Indie RPG goodness. July 12th through the 16th, in East Brunswick, NJ, if you didn't know.
You remember last… In Muse of Fire Games Participants: TonyLB, Vaxalon, Gaerik, Matthew Glover, Bret Gillan, Andrew Morris, Ben Lehman.
7/13/2006 LemmingLord: Carrying Over Resources Over the Course of Game Sessions One more quick question for Tony; are story tokens, debt and inspirations carried over from one session to the next? I hear you talking about having 15-20 story tokens at… In Muse of Fire Games Participants: LemmingLord, TheCzech, Gaerik, Vaxalon, Matthew Glover, TonyLB, Sindyr.
7/13/2006 Sindyr: A bodiless, persona less character? Just a though that occured to me.
Does anything in Capes forbid me from creating a "character" which is nothing more that a list of attributes?
For example, what if… In Muse of Fire Games Participants: Sindyr, TheCzech, LemmingLord, Ben Lehman, Vaxalon, Hans, Gaerik, Matthew Glover, nicolasfueyo, Sydney Freedberg, TonyLB, Threlicus, Bret Gillan, Tuxboy, joshua neff.
7/13/2006 Sindyr: Capes game at JiffyCon, July 29th? Does anyone know about this, or who is running it, or how it will be run?
http://fairgame-rpgs.com/jiffycon.html In Muse of Fire Games Participants: Sindyr, Hans.
7/14/2006 LemmingLord: "The Incredible Hulk" "ER" and Making My Character Suffer Poor David Banner.
Poor Dr. Green.
These characters from two popular television shows get more than their fair share of getting messed with. (Spiderman is another example, though perhaps to… In Muse of Fire Games Participants: LemmingLord, Sindyr, Sydney Freedberg.
7/15/2006 LemmingLord: Alliances Ok, so I played my first game with more than two players today... It went about as well as I could have imagined - with everyone a bit mentally sore,… In Muse of Fire Games Participants: LemmingLord, Sindyr, Gaerik, Hans, Vaxalon, TheCzech, TonyLB.
7/13/2006 LemmingLord: SIS Control Problem: The Followup [color=red]Moderation: This topic was originally a response to [url=http://www.indie-rpgs.com/forum/index.php?topic=15199.msg195981#msg195981]this thread[/url], which it dragged untimely from its peaceful rest. I've split it off because, y'know, necromancy is a violation of the… In Muse of Fire Games Participants: LemmingLord, Vaxalon.
7/18/2006 TonyLB: DexCon Games I played in four games of Capes at DexCon, three I organized myself and one Andrew put together. I'm going to be posting a lot of Actual Play about them,… In Muse of Fire Games Participants: TonyLB.
7/20/2006 Hans: Psychadelic Capes at GenCon After reading over Tony's DexCon posts, and pondering the upcoming GenCon sessions, I have a question for those who are thinking of playing Capes at GenCon (either in my scheduled… In Muse of Fire Games Participants: Hans, TonyLB.
7/20/2006 Sindyr: Coercive/Push versus Enticing/Pull Capes Play I have been thinking about this a bit, what with the drifting going on in a sister thread, and as always, I do better when I think out loud. But… In Muse of Fire Games Participants: Sindyr, TonyLB, Bret Gillan, Threlicus, drnuncheon, ubergeek2012, Andrew Morris, Tuxboy, xeperi, Gaerik, Sydney Freedberg.
7/20/2006 Sindyr: Conflicts are about what you *can't* do, not what you *can*. In many ways Conflicts are not about what you CAN accomplish, but about what you CAN'T.
Consider: You can narrate almost anything without constraint in the processes of a Capes… In Muse of Fire Games Participants: Sindyr, Vaxalon, Bret Gillan, Gaerik, TonyLB, Hans, Tuxboy, Glendower, LemmingLord.
7/20/2006 Threlicus: Threatening vs. Enticing and its meaning for Capes Sindyr's post in this thread got me to thinking. I'm a math geek (well, physics, but close enough) so I'm going to lay out something that's quasi-mathematical here.
First, for… In Muse of Fire Games Participants: Threlicus, Sindyr, Vaxalon, TonyLB, Hans, Tuxboy.
7/24/2006 Hans: Does Capes need a GM? Does Capse need a GM? Sindyr said elsewhere...
-All games, in fact all social activities have a Social Contract.
-What makes D&D not broken ultimately is… In Muse of Fire Games Participants: Hans, Sindyr, Gaerik, Tuxboy, TonyLB, joshua neff, LemmingLord, Bret Gillan, xeperi.
7/24/2006 Bret Gillan: Gods: The New Ideas Because there really needs to be a thread in this forum where we don't argue with Sindyr. ;)
So I came away from Dreamation with some cool ideas for Gods,… In Muse of Fire Games Participants: Bret Gillan, Hans, TonyLB, Tuxboy.
7/24/2006 Hans: Capes online play, a possible environment? Hey all:
For your reference, the following two websites seem like a pretty darn good way to organize an online Capes game:
http://www.imaginationcubed.com/LaunchPage
and perhaps even better
http://www.vyew.com/content/
since it… In Muse of Fire Games Participants: Hans, Bret Gillan, Sindyr, AaronLehmann, Lxndr, Adam Dray.
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