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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…
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Participants: Hans, TonyLB.

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,…
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Participants: 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…
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Participants: LemmingLord, Vaxalon.

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,…
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Participants: LemmingLord, Sindyr, Gaerik, Hans, Vaxalon, TheCzech, TonyLB.

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…
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Participants: LemmingLord, Sindyr, Sydney Freedberg.

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
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Participants: Sindyr, Hans.

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…
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Participants: Sindyr, TheCzech, LemmingLord, Ben Lehman, Vaxalon, Hans, Gaerik, Matthew Glover, nicolasfueyo, Sydney Freedberg, TonyLB, Threlicus, Bret Gillan, Tuxboy, joshua neff.

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…
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Participants: LemmingLord, TheCzech, Gaerik, Vaxalon, Matthew Glover, TonyLB, Sindyr.

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…
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Participants: TonyLB, Vaxalon, Gaerik, Matthew Glover, Bret Gillan, Andrew Morris, Ben Lehman.

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?
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Participants: LemmingLord, TonyLB, Gaerik, jburneko, Vaxalon, Hans, dunlaing, Sindyr, Matthew Glover, Tuxboy.

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,…
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Participants: TonyLB, Vaxalon, Gaerik, Hans, TheCzech, Thunder_God, dunlaing, Sydney Freedberg, Andrew Morris, Sindyr.

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…
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Participants: dunlaing, Vaxalon, Threlicus, Hans, Sindyr, TheCzech, TonyLB.

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,…
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Participants: TonyLB, Vaxalon, TheCzech.

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…
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Participants: LemmingLord, TonyLB, Hans, Bret Gillan, TheCzech, Sindyr.

6/25/2006 oliof: "Have a good friend nearby who's done it before" [sort of an AP]
Hello, I tried a game of Capes today with two friends, Martin and Verena. Unfortunately, the rules turned out to be big stumbling blocks for us. Nobody of us had…
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Participants: oliof, TonyLB, Glendower, Bret Gillan, Hans.

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"…
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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…
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Participants: Hans, TonyLB, Gaerik.

6/20/2006 Miskatonic: New Capes review on RPGnet
http://www.rpg.net/reviews/archive/12/12256.phtml
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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. …
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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)…
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Participants: TonyLB, xjermx, Gaerik, Glendower, TheCzech, Sindyr, greyorm, Tuxboy.

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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…
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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…
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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…
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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,…
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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…
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Participants: Hans, Bret Gillan, Sindyr, AaronLehmann, Lxndr, Adam Dray.

7/25/2006 bluegargantua: Mr. Nobody Resolves
Hi,   I've got a conflict.  I've claimed one side of it.  No one else has claimed the other side, but, for various reasons, they all chip in some debt,…
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Participants: bluegargantua, Bret Gillan, TonyLB, Hans.

7/25/2006 TonyLB: [Theory] What goes into a plot thread?
Now I hope that most of us understand that an actual plot is something that will be ripped to shred by the demonic bacchantes that are players in Capes.  If…
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Participants: TonyLB, Sydney Freedberg, Matthew Glover, Hans.

7/25/2006 LemmingLord: The Exciting Challenge of Retcon in Capes
[quote author=Valamir link=topic=20398.msg214245#msg214245 date=1153867689] [quote]This is incorrect.  At least in one way: If winning a conflict is to have meaning, it must create at least in the moment a truth. …
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Participants: LemmingLord, TonyLB, Bret Gillan, Gaerik, xeperi, Sindyr, Asperity.

7/26/2006 Hans: Gloatable conflicts and appearances
Jason posted this little gem in another thread, and it dripped so much with coolness, I thought it worthy of separate discussion...my additions are in italics. quote author=R. Jason Boss…
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Participants: Hans, Vaxalon, Gaerik, TonyLB.

7/26/2006 Sindyr: Awarding tokens: another possible flaw in Capes?
Please don't all start with the hating, but I may have discovered another possible flaw in Capes, which may also be fixed in post via the Social Contract. When you…
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Participants: Sindyr, joshua neff, Vaxalon, Doyce, Gaerik, Hans, Tuxboy, TonyLB, Valamir, Bret Gillan, xeperi, Sydney Freedberg, LemmingLord.

7/26/2006 Sindyr: The forums suffer some SERIOUS performance issue - give hamsters more food?
Is there any plans to make the boards not as slow and laggy?  Any specific projects in place looking for donations? Cause loading a forum post can take 20-40 seconds,…
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Participants: Sindyr, TonyLB, xeperi, Vaxalon, Sydney Freedberg, Clinton R. Nixon.

7/26/2006 Sindyr: Unfortunate side effect: Abbreviations. AFFECTS ALL THREADS.
I am now currently trying to have conversations with what seems to be over a dozen people simultaneously, who are posting quite rapidly. Unfortunately, it is not possible to devote…
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Participants: Sindyr, Valamir, joshua neff, Bret Gillan, TonyLB, Gaerik, John Harper.

7/24/2006 Sindyr: Retcon: Threat or Menace?
[color=Red]Moderation:  What I thought was going to be a momentary tangent on [url=http://www.indie-rpgs.com/forum/index.php?topic=20398.0]Bodiless, Persona-less character[/url] turned into a great big wonderful discussion in its own right.  I was too slow…
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Participants: Sindyr, TonyLB, joshua neff, xeperi, Sydney Freedberg, Valamir, Tuxboy.

7/26/2006 Bret Gillan: The Capes Dojo
For reference for this thread, the capes Tournament formula for scoring is: ((Story Tokens Earned x 2) - Debt Remaining) x Inspirations Earned) So since Capes has officially gone competitive…
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Participants: Bret Gillan, TonyLB, Vaxalon, Hans, TheCzech, drnuncheon.

7/26/2006 drnuncheon: Capes in Game Stores?
Tony, Do you (or do you plan to) make Capes available to traditional retail outlets like game stores?  I've thought about demoing at our FLGS, but I think it'd be…
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Participants: drnuncheon, Vaxalon, TonyLB, Matthew Glover, Alex Fradera, Tuxboy.

7/27/2006 Hans: The Player Internationale!
[quote author=Sydney Freedberg link=topic=20597.msg214626#msg214626 date=1153960248] freeform "commie" roleplaying [/quote] Role-players of the world, unite!  You have nothing to lose but the chains the bourgeois GM's have placed on you!  Gamemastering…
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Participants: Hans, joshua neff, TonyLB, TheCzech, Bret Gillan, Gaerik, Valamir.

7/31/2006 TonyLB: Is popcorn necessary?
So, our very own Hans coined the term "popcorn throwing" to generally cover any out-of-game social feedback of the "Oh, what you did totally sucks, take it back," variety.  And…
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Participants: TonyLB, Mark Woodhouse, Bret Gillan, Hans, Valamir, Andrew Morris, Tuxboy, Vaxalon, Gaerik.

8/1/2006 Bret Gillan: [Gods] The Myth Cycle
The following is the rough Myth Cycle I've come up with. The Myth Cycle covers the Comics Code that will be followed in the various Ages, and the Ages that…
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Participants: Bret Gillan, Andrew Morris, TonyLB, Ben Lehman, xeperi, Hans, TheCzech, Threlicus, oreso, newsalor.

8/3/2006 TonyLB: Need conflicts for the 15-minute demo
I'm revamping the 15-minute demonstration in time for GenCon.  Lots of the changes are little craft-pieces that make it easier to transport and deploy:  for instance, swapping debt tokens out…
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Participants: TonyLB, Hans, TheCzech, Threlicus, drnuncheon, Gaerik, Tuxboy, Vaxalon, JMendes.

8/7/2006 TonyLB: New 15-minute demo could use review
Okay, after gruelling labor of hard, laborious work, I finished up the new version of the fifteen minute demo.  Here's the funky new features I intend to show off at…
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Participants: TonyLB, Kai_lord, Ben Lehman, dunlaing, John Harper, Matthew Glover, Markku Tuovinen.

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