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8/22/2006 drnuncheon: [AP] Capes at the Game Store
It was a recipe for failure.  Everything was stacked against it. I had stopped down at Game Masters (my FLGS) because the wife was at her "lady geeks" church group,…
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Participants: drnuncheon, Vaxalon, Hans.

8/22/2006 Nev the Deranged: Tony's alter-ego, in the flesh!
http://www.whowantstobeasuperhero.tv/cast/#majorvictory
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Participants: Nev the Deranged, TonyLB, Wolfen, AaronLehmann.

8/21/2006 LemmingLord: Long Winded Narration
How much can someone narrate the actions of characters whom they are not playing in a particular scene? Free narration - assuming player A is playing Archer and player B…
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Participants: LemmingLord, Vaxalon, Hans, TheCzech, Andrew Morris, TonyLB.

8/19/2006 AaronLehmann: Splitting sides
How do splitting sides work?  What if a player controls characters on two sides?  Can he give story tokens to himself? Example: Alice is playing OneUpMan for free, and has…
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Participants: AaronLehmann, xeperi, Hans.

8/19/2006 AaronLehmann: Capes and GMing
So I'm thinking about taking a setting I wrote and ran in D&D, and porting it to Capes.  My concern is that there is cool story I want to tell,…
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Participants: AaronLehmann, TonyLB, Sydney Freedberg, baron samedi, LemmingLord.

8/19/2006 AaronLehmann: Being Overdrawn
What does it mean to be overdrawn?  What are the game effects? Also, I had a question about implementation:  Superman's alterego is Clark Kent.  He rarely makes use of his…
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Participants: AaronLehmann, TonyLB.

8/19/2006 AaronLehmann: Play by post/play by chat
So I picked up Capes at GenCon, along with Sorcerer, and started lurking these boards to try and get an idea how the old hands play it. You guys carry…
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Participants: AaronLehmann, Wolfen, Kintara, Dave Cleaver, Gaerik.

8/15/2006 Hans: Psychadelic Capes at GenCon
The most gratifying moment in my GM'ing career?  Two women showing up for my very first time ever running a session at GenCon in COSTUME as flower children.  Oh my…
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Participants: Hans, Bret Gillan, Vaxalon, LemmingLord, TonyLB, Gaerik.

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.

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.

8/1/2006 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.

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.

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.

7/26/2006 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.

7/26/2006 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.

7/24/2006 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 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.

7/26/2006 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: 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 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.

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8/23/2006 drnuncheon: [Musing] Drives in different Genres
It seems to me that the Drives are what really ties Capes to the superheroic genre, at least on the mechanical level.  (The trappings are just that - trappings.  Excuses…
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Participants: drnuncheon, TheCzech, TonyLB, Vaxalon, LemmingLord, Bret Gillan, Andrew Morris, Filip Luszczyk.

8/23/2006 Melinglor: Shameless praise and some first-timer questions
Hi! I've been poring over the available (free) Capes material as well as this forum for the last few months, and I must say, Tony, this game is brilliant. Delicious,…
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Participants: Melinglor, Kai_lord, drnuncheon, AaronLehmann, TonyLB.

8/23/2006 LemmingLord: GURPS to CAPES Conversion
Oh my is this going to be fun.  This is my hypothesis: GURPS characters can easily be converted into CAPES and will point out that capes is all about narrativist…
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Participants: LemmingLord, Vaxalon, TonyLB, Gaerik, xeperi, Hans.

8/24/2006 arcane: Woo Hoo. First session of of IRC capes a success.
First let me say Tony you rock, the click and lock system deserves a major industry award. Back story.  Found the Forge, found capes, tried to drum up a game…
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Participants: arcane, Hans, Filip Luszczyk.

8/24/2006 arcane: Online turn order and Chaos gaming
When I was planing the online capes games, one of the problems that popped into my head was turn order.  When playing IRL of course you have a table and…
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Participants: arcane, Hans, Melinglor.

8/25/2006 TonyLB: A worthwhile exercise
Check out this AP thread and then maybe this one and this one.  You know what they had in common?  They all started from a common ground of strong preparation,…
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Participants: TonyLB, oreso, Gaerik, Technocrat13, Hans.

8/25/2006 TonyLB: Be good!
Okay, I'm probably not going to have net access until about Labor day. That means that if something goes wildfire out of control it better be the cool kind of…
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Participants: TonyLB.

8/27/2006 LemmingLord: Gloating Feature
[i]Gloating If Resolving would violate the group Code the Claimant instead Gloats. Starting with their highest die on the Conflict they may turn dice to 1. For each die turned…
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Participants: LemmingLord, Vaxalon, AaronLehmann, Hans, drnuncheon.

8/29/2006 Hans: Matching dice on Inspirations
Ok, this is embarrasing, I should know this... I am convinced that somewhere I have read that when you match dice as the resolver, you can CHOOSE to match against…
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Participants: Hans, jburneko, Gaerik, TheCzech.

8/29/2006 Matthew Glover: Let's see your gear.
On Saturday I finally found china pencils.  Last night I finally bought myself a decent set of poker chips (read that as: it was on super sale) in a handy…
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Participants: Matthew Glover, joshua neff, drnuncheon, Sindyr.

9/1/2006 aedaren: My First Game of Capes -- played online
Hey everybody!  I organized a game with my regular online group.  It turned out awesome!  I'm too tired to write very coherently, so sorry in advance. THE ENVIRONMENT I scrambled…
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Participants: aedaren, Hans, TheCzech.

9/7/2006 AaronLehmann: Redoubled debt
Does it have to go back to the same drive it started from?  Does it all havde to go to the same drive? If the Cap'n loses a conflict in…
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Participants: AaronLehmann, Hans, TonyLB, TheCzech.

9/7/2006 Hans: How to get rid of debt
From another thread... In my experience the place you get pounded, once you have six debt, is when you get desperate and try to unload it…
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Participants: Hans, Bret Gillan, TheCzech, oreso, TonyLB, Andrew Morris, Sindyr, Vaxalon.

9/7/2006 AaronLehmann: Who's ally am I?
Lets say there are three sides of a conflict, and I roll down one of them.  To which of the other sides am I now allied? Aaron Lehmann
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Participants: AaronLehmann, Vaxalon, Hans.

9/12/2006 Kai_lord: Capes Flowchart
Since I'm going to be running a few Capes Games at Southern Exposure, I made a simple flowchart to help me teach the game to new people. Any comments or…
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Participants: Kai_lord, Hans, TonyLB, Vasco Brown, oreso, Yokiboy, Keiko.

9/14/2006 TonyLB: My Next Game System
In case there are folks here who are fans of me, to the extent that they think my next game will probably be cool too, I've just posted the first…
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Participants: TonyLB, Bret Gillan.

9/20/2006 LemmingLord: Intro Capes Players - Physical Location and Whatever
Where does everyone here live?  I am hoping to find experienced capes players in the Boise area since the two gaming groups with whom I am currently meeting are not…
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Participants: LemmingLord, TonyLB.

9/22/2006 Kai_lord: CapesVTT and Capes Character Casting Call
The Capes Virtual Tabletop is starting to take shape. It's far enough along that I'd like other people to start hammering on it, to see if you can break it.…
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Participants: Kai_lord.

9/22/2006 James_Nostack: Distribution of Drive Strengths?
I was wondering if anyone had thoughts on the topic.  Unless I'm mistaken, a Drive with a Strength of 1 is almost totally useless.  (What good is a Drive @…
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Participants: James_Nostack, Vaxalon, Filip Luszczyk, Kai_lord, TonyLB.

9/23/2006 Filip Luszczyk: Overdrawn houserule evaluation and rules question
In this thread Eric Sedlacek pointed at the negligible mechanical consequences of being overdrawn: The dirty little secret of Capes is that the effect of being overdrawn is mostly psychological. …
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Participants: Filip Luszczyk, Kai_lord, TonyLB.

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