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9/26/2006 Doyce: [Capes] Show me how this game works
Hey all, I'm wondering if there's any online Capes play going on at the moment.  My impression of the game is: a) Cool b) Potentially very fun with my players…
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Participants: Doyce, Vaxalon, James_Nostack, Hans, arcane.

9/25/2006 Jonathan Hastings: Basic Story Token Clarification
I've read through the FAQ for an answer on this, but I still don't quite have a handle on it: 1. If I claim what ends up being the losing…
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Participants: Jonathan Hastings, Hans, TheCzech.

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.

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.

9/22/2006 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.

9/20/2006 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.

9/14/2006 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.

9/12/2006 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.

9/7/2006 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.

9/7/2006 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: 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.

9/1/2006 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.

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.

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.

8/27/2006 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.

8/25/2006 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.

8/25/2006 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.

8/24/2006 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.

8/24/2006 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.

8/23/2006 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.

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9/27/2006 Sindyr: Quick questions: Debt Staking Citation?
Came up in my regular weekly Capes game (I have a regular weekly Capes game! 4 hours most every Tuesday!  Had 3-4 sessions so far, developing nicely.) 1) Does the…
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Participants: Sindyr, Hans, TonyLB.

9/27/2006 Sindyr: Speeding up war of story tokens?
In the game we played last night, another player and I were going at a particular conflict very intensely - the final one of the scene and night.  He had…
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Participants: Sindyr, Hans, TonyLB, LemmingLord, Matthew Glover.

9/27/2006 Sindyr: Capes FAQ suggestion
Hans, I *think* you are the overseer of the Capes FAQ, right?  There is one suggestion I would make for a change to it that I think would be very…
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Participants: Sindyr, Hans.

9/27/2006 Sindyr: More gloating...
A very interesting question was raised that I myself raised many months ago: Gloating If Resolving would violate the group Code the Claimant instead Gloats. Starting with their highest die…
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Participants: Sindyr, TonyLB, Dave Cleaver, Hans, Matthew Glover, Melinglor, Eero Tuovinen, Ben Lehman.

9/27/2006 Sindyr: The forums suffer some SERIOUS performance issue - give hamsters more food?
Old Topic was: http://www.indie-rpgs.com/forum/index.php?topic=20591.0 Things seem to be OK now, FYI Sindyr, It's your ISP. The site is plenty fast. And yeah, your post…
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Participants: Sindyr.

9/27/2006 Sindyr: Exhaustive list of everything you can do with Story Tokens?
I went to the Capes FAQ page looking for this, and did not find it. Here's what I can come up with off the top of my head.  Can anyone…
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Participants: Sindyr, Hans, Matthew Glover, Filip Luszczyk, TonyLB, Melinglor, Tuxboy.

9/27/2006 Sindyr: splitting question
OK, this also happened last night: (more or less, I don't remember exact details) Someone claimed a side that would win, a side I was allied to. The single die…
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Participants: Sindyr, Hans, TonyLB, Matthew Glover, Filip Luszczyk.

9/28/2006 Filip Luszczyk: Character death, removal, transformation or cloning
I've been pondering how the game would work with Comic Code that would allow character death, in specific circumstances for specific characters, or without any limits. Actually, this could happen…
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Participants: Filip Luszczyk, TonyLB, dunlaing.

10/1/2006 BlackSheep: House rules for a one-shot
I'm planning to run a Capes game at a roleplaying society event in a couple of weeks.  However, it'll have to stick closely to a four-hour slot, and I can…
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Participants: BlackSheep, TheCzech.

10/5/2006 Sindyr: Heroes: new show on NBC, mondays, 9PM
Guys - i don't think that this is entirely off-topic.  This show is all about the same heart that Capes is about - without the costumes. And I need to…
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Participants: Sindyr, Matthew Glover, epweissengruber, Hans.

10/7/2006 Sindyr: Schisming and Alliance
I am not sure if this is actually covered in the rules or just maybe implied: When one schisms off a side that one was allied to, creating a new…
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Participants: Sindyr, TonyLB.

10/10/2006 Hans: Possible Capes Tournament at Pandemonium in Ontario in Feb?
The Toronto Area Indie-RPG group is looking at what kinds of things we will try to have on offer at the Pandemonium Con in February next year.  The con takes…
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Participants: Hans, TonyLB.

10/11/2006 Sindyr: Question on inspiration awards (and splitting, again)
This happened last night at my weekly Capes game: Started with 1 / 1 (a die reading 1 on both sides.) PlayerA rolled up one side to a six. 1…
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Participants: Sindyr, TonyLB, Matthew Glover, Hans.

10/13/2006 Sindyr: After much play - a disturbing trend is noticed
OK, gonna bring up something I have been noticing for some time.  At first, I was worried that it may be due to my inexperience with Capes - maybe because…
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Participants: Sindyr, oreso, Gaerik, Hans, James_Nostack, Andrew Morris, TonyLB.

10/31/2006 JohnUghrin: Use for fantasy?
Howdy all. Fascinating idea this Capes game. Kudos to the creators. I'm looking to spring this on an old gaming group. They're a pretty diverse bunch of guys, but can…
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Participants: JohnUghrin, Zamiel, Andrew Morris, Filip Luszczyk, Gaerik, Glendower.

11/6/2006 kalyptein: Dropping conflicts
Hi, I'm a total Capes newbie looking forward to running/playing for the first time soon.  I have a couple questions about conflicts: 1) Can the player who resolves a conflict…
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Participants: kalyptein, Hans, TheCzech.

11/9/2006 Curufea: First play thoughts
Another new player here - had my first game yesterday. There was some confusion with Pages which could be resolved with a better turn sequence description, I think.  Breaking up…
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Participants: Curufea, Hans, Gaerik, DaveA, Matthew Glover, TonyLB.

11/10/2006 DaveA: The Ultimate Geekdom
Hello, all. Last night I began teaching a friend the rules for Capes.  We didn't get far enough to provide any serious insights into the game.  What did make the…
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Participants: DaveA, Curufea, Matthew Glover, Kai_lord.

11/12/2006 Curufea: Doctor Who
Something I was pondering on the bus to work this morning is how to use Capes to play a Doctor Who genre game.  There would be a few house rules…
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Participants: Curufea, Hans, hix, TheCzech, James_Nostack, TonyLB.

11/15/2006 Curufea: Capes PBBB
Well, I'm going to see how Capes goes as a Play By Bulletin Board game.  I'm currently fiddling around with phpBB here - http://www.curufea.com/Capes/index.php Hopefully once I've got the programming…
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Participants: Curufea, TheCzech, dunlaing.

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