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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.

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.

10/11/2006 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.

10/10/2006 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.

10/7/2006 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.

10/5/2006 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.

10/1/2006 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.

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.

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.

9/27/2006 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: Forum necrology: A question for the moderator
I know there is some rule about posting in older thread, but I was involved in several conversations a couple of months ago when I had a few different more…
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Participants: Sindyr, Vaxalon, TonyLB.

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.

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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.

1/6/2007 Melinglor: So I lost my Capeginity on New Years' Eve. . .
Hey, everyone! Been a while since I posted here, but I wanted to say: as I've been gushing about elsewhere, I played my first game of Capes (Lite) this week!…
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Participants: Melinglor.

1/7/2007 TonyLB: Who will work for a sneak-peek at upcoming product?
Within the next day or so I will (barring substantial derailing ... excuse me while I go off and make some quick backups ... okay, back!) have the first draft…
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Participants: TonyLB, Eero Tuovinen.

1/12/2007 Hans: Capes all day at Pandemonium, Baby!
At Pandemonium in Toronto in February: http://www.indie-rpgs.com/forum/index.php?topic=23051.0 I am organizing a full day's worth of Capes on Saturday.  That's three sessions, four hours each, up to 12 people a session.…
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Participants: Hans, TonyLB, Gaerik, epweissengruber, Bret Gillan.

1/16/2007 TheGroog: Capes Fantasy
hello New to the forum. Want to play Universalis but it seems to confusing right now. Hopefully will give it a go lateer. Meanwhile, Capes looks very interesting. Can Capes…
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Participants: TheGroog.

1/30/2007 Yokiboy: [Capes] Demo Script?
Hello, I wanted to run the Capes demo for a couple of friends, but was surprised there's no script to go along with the cards. I would also enjoy seeing…
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Participants: Yokiboy, TonyLB.

1/31/2007 Yokiboy: [Capes] Setting and Situation
Hello, I'm on my first read-through of Capes, and have a question. Does the game come with a setting or the tools to create one, I can't find this addressed…
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Participants: Yokiboy, TonyLB, James_Nostack.

2/20/2007 Ludanto: Who "owns" dice?
Sorry, I couldn't find this anywhere else. The rules for being Overdrawn say, "At the start of each Page, for each Overdrawn drive, the player rolls the highest die the…
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Participants: Ludanto.

2/23/2007 1of3: [Capes] Who owns Inspirations?
Hi. Another simple queston: As I understood the rules (and espcecially the errata) Inspiration is awarded to players. So if I aquired an Inspiration with Cpt. Proton, I can use…
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Participants: 1of3, Hans, TheCzech.

3/3/2007 Bret Gillan: [Capes] The Greater of Two Evils - Con Scenario
After playing in Tony's badass Earth Prime con scenario, I came away with a new perspective on running con scenarios. Previously I'd let players create their own characters and frame…
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Participants: Bret Gillan, TonyLB, Matthew Glover, hix.

3/8/2007 Hans: The Silly Limit: unique to Capes, unique to me?
[url=http://www.indie-rpgs.com/forum/index.php?topic=23052.msg231266#msg231266]In a separate thread[/url], I attempted to coin a new term, called the Silly Limit, as follows: [quote]The Silly Limit is the greatest amount of seriousness that can occur in…
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Participants: Hans, TonyLB, Bret Gillan, James_Nostack, Jonathan Hastings, JohnUghrin, Gaerik, epweissengruber, BlackSheep.

3/12/2007 rulvestad: A Song of Ice and Fire (and Capes)
I've just read the Capes Lite rules (and will almost certainly be buying the full rules soon) and had an idea that this could be adapted really well to George…
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Participants: rulvestad, Andrew Morris.

3/17/2007 Ludanto: Action-Reaction Unit?
Hey, maybe I'm just dense, but I totally don't get this. Apparently, Tony says that you can't stake/split between your Action and your Reaction, that they are a whole unit…
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Participants: Ludanto, 1of3, TonyLB.

3/26/2007 Ludanto: How to end a scene?
Ok, I know when a scene ends, but I'm not sure how a scene ends. Does it just cut off abruptly after the last conflict is narrated? Does the person…
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Participants: Ludanto, Gaerik, Bret Gillan, Melinglor.

5/24/2007 Garth: Exemplar Questions
Hey everyone, just picked up Capes and am dying to try it!  (The big problem will be finding more people to play...)  But I've got a few questions that don't…
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Participants: Garth, Gaerik.

5/24/2007 Garth: Freeform Question
Is there (or should there) be any particular rule about how many of a (super) character's Styles should be Powered?  The example of the Click-and-Locks would seem to suggest "at…
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Participants: Garth, Gaerik, TonyLB.

5/27/2007 Garth: Between Sessions
I'm a little curious how people handle things in a continuing campaign ("story arc"?) of Capes. I assume that all Debt, Story Tokens, and Inspirations carry over between sessions.  Since…
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Participants: Garth, JohnUghrin, Gaerik, TonyLB, Hans.

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