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7/25/2006 coffeestain: [Mortal Coil] Conflict Example
Hey!  I've just read through the book briefly and I've got a couple of questions regarding conflicts. 1 - When are individual actions in a conflict round announced?  I suspect…
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Participants: coffeestain, inthisstyle, bluegargantua, Nathan P., boredoom.

7/25/2006 boredoom: Same aptitude twice in one round?
The rules say you can't use the same faculty twice in a round. What about aptitudes? I think this must come up a lot: In a wrestling match, a player…
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Participants: boredoom, inthisstyle.

7/24/2006 drnuncheon: PDF
Brennan, Over on RPG.net, you mentioned that you were going to reformat Mortal Coil and make it available as a PDF.  Do you have any plans on offering a PDF->Print…
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Participants: drnuncheon, inthisstyle.

7/23/2006 Garvey: Playtest vs Final Rules
I heard about Mortal Coil on the Have Games Will Travel podcast, which inspired me to look up the game on the net.  It looked interesting, but the lack of…
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Participants: Garvey, inthisstyle.

7/22/2006 Paka: The Mortal Coil Weekend
[url=http://forum.rpg.net/showthread.php?p=6058967#post6058967"]It has begun.[/url] This game absolutely rocks. If I had to travel from con to con, known as the GM-With-No-Name, I'd have to travel light.  I'd have PTA, Dogs in…
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Participants: Paka, inthisstyle.

7/22/2006 boredoom: Conflicts against inanimate objects
I just got the rules, and I love them. I think I'll have to GM this, which would be the first time I GM in 15 years or so. But…
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Participants: boredoom, inthisstyle, Nathan P..

7/19/2006 Rob Donoghue: Mortal Coil Player's Screen
So, MC was a big hit at Dexcon, but I didn't really dig the "Hide the chips with your arm" part of things.  It just seemed clumsy, so there was…
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Participants: Rob Donoghue, Paka, Nathan P., inthisstyle.

7/7/2006 inthisstyle: Podcasts
There are a couple of podcasts from Origins where I or my game is mentioned: Mike Sugarbaker of Ogrecave interviewed me at Origins about IPR: http://www.ogrecave.com/audio/index.php?id=41 Paul Tevis and Ken…
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Participants: inthisstyle, joewolz.

6/15/2006 Dman: Star Charts for Bulldogs!?
Has anyone out there put together a starchart (map) of the Bulldogs! galaxy, or at the very least a chart of the distances for the core worlds from GCP?
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Participants: Dman, inthisstyle.

6/15/2006 inthisstyle: [Mortal Coil] Available for Preorder!
It's at the printer now, and printed copies will be coming in by the end of June. Go to Indie Press Revolution to preorder now! I will personally sign each…
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Participants: inthisstyle, Paka, Thunder_God.

6/9/2006 inthisstyle: Moral Coil Preview
Mortal Coil is now at the printer, and will be out by the end of the month. I am going to set up preorders through IPR next week. In the…
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Participants: inthisstyle, Eero Tuovinen.

5/12/2006 inthisstyle: [Mortal Coil] The 10-Minute Demo
Up in the Conventions forum, there's some really <a href="http://www.indie-rpgs.com/forum/index.php?topic=19816.0">good advice about convention demos</a>, mostly aimed at GenCon specifically. Since I am debuting <a href="http://www.galileogames.com/mortal-coil/">Mortal Coil</a> at a convention, I…
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Participants: inthisstyle, Matt-M-McElroy, Mike Holmes, mtiru, Thunder_God.

4/23/2006 inthisstyle: Bulldogs! and Bulldogs! Races on Sale at IPR
IPR is holding a 20% off sale for May Day, and you can get Bulldogs! and Bulldogs! Races at 20% off on the site through May 6.
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Participants: inthisstyle.

4/19/2006 inthisstyle: [Bulldogs!] Cool Deck Plans Site
Check out this site: http://deckplans.00sf.com/ There are loads and loads of deckplans (for Star Wars, but hey, a deck plan is a deck plan). These look great for any sci-fi…
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Participants: inthisstyle.

4/4/2006 Matt-M-McElroy: [Mortal Coil] Characters
Hey, Would it be possible for you to post a sample character two? It would be interesting to see what they might look like and help guide me through character…
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Participants: Matt-M-McElroy, inthisstyle, Paka.

3/1/2006 inthisstyle: [Mortal Coil] What's in a Name?
One of the comments I got on the last Friday game was that the term for a character's base stats in Mortal Coil, capability, is difficult to use. It doesn't…
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Participants: inthisstyle, Matt-M-McElroy, Valamir.

2/21/2006 inthisstyle: [Fifth World] Pools Again
I am reading the second edition rules for TSoY for the first time (I know, it's been out for months), and I am very impressed and pleased. They match up…
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Participants: inthisstyle.

1/17/2006 inthisstyle: Playtesters
I sent out a note to some select people asking for a playtest of Mortal Coil, and then I e-mailed the PDF version of the game to them (of course…
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Participants: inthisstyle, Matt-M-McElroy, Nathan P..

12/20/2005 inthisstyle: [Mortal Coil] Playtest Actual Play
I've posted an AP for my second playtest session of the game here: http://www.indie-rpgs.com/forum/index.php?topic=18067.0
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Participants: inthisstyle.

12/14/2005 inthisstyle: The Legend of Yore: A Fantasy Heartbreaker Story
Our tale begins long ago, in 1986. Our hero, a young lad of 16, begins his long journey into game design innocently enough, on a family car trip. Bored, the…
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Participants: inthisstyle, Paka, Matt Wilson, matthijs, Eero Tuovinen, abzu, greyorm, nikola, Miskatonic.

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7/26/2006 Garvey: [Mortal Coil] Invoking Magical Aptitudes For NPCs
Does the GM have to spend a magic token to invoke the magical aptitude of an NPC?  Or to have an NPC invoke the magical abilties of a supernatural item?…
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Participants: Garvey, inthisstyle.

7/27/2006 boredoom: Inappropriate actions
The thread about double-targeting of actions brings up another question: what do I do as GM if a player declares an action that is inappropriate to the stated goal? Say…
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Participants: boredoom, inthisstyle.

7/31/2006 coffeestain: Question about Magical Aptitudes
What is the intention of having Magical Aptitudes and Items require only one Magic Token per session to activate, while Magical Effects require one token per use?  Is it to…
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Participants: coffeestain, inthisstyle, Nathan P., RedPissLegion.

8/3/2006 thwaak: Reading a Dead Person's Mind
My son (8 yrs old) just called me at work to ask if a super power would be a good idea, "you know, in general". I asked him what it…
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Participants: thwaak, inthisstyle.

8/10/2006 Chirikh: RP Log Thread.
I'd posted these on the old forum, and the online game has some new folks who need the old backstory again. So it's past time to be doing them up…
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Participants: Chirikh.

8/16/2006 boredoom: Resolving Passions
I can't see that Mortal Coil has a mechanism for dealing with Passions that have run their course. For instance, what happens if a character with "Hate: Kill all vampires…
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Participants: boredoom, inthisstyle, Nathan P..

8/18/2006 boredoom: Desperate Reactions
When committing two Action tokens to gain the benefit of an Aptitude for defense as a Desperate Reaction, do those tokens have to come from the pool, or can they…
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Participants: boredoom, inthisstyle.

8/21/2006 boredoom: AP -Mörtål Cöil - Revenge of the Vikings
Mortal Coil really speaks to me, so I chose it as the first game to GM after a 15 year hiatus. I wanted to try it out in a fantasy…
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Participants: boredoom, inthisstyle.

8/22/2006 Clinton R. Nixon: [Mortal Coil] Frozen Alaska and serious rules questions
Brennan and all, My group played Mortal Coil last night in an awesome setting (the Klondike gold rush + necromancy), and I want to say that the setting-building part of…
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Participants: Clinton R. Nixon, inthisstyle, boredoom, Doyce, coffeestain, jasonm, Nathan P., Andy Kitkowski.

8/23/2006 Garvey: [Mortal Coil] Helping Directly
My group recently played Mortal Coil, (and I may post an actual play at some point) but in the process we had a few rules questions. As I understand the…
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Participants: Garvey, inthisstyle.

8/24/2006 Doyce: [Mortal Coil] Wiki space for ... stuff
Hey all, Per my usual habits when working to grok a new system, I've been prowling the forum and checking out all the questions and answers that have come before…
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Participants: Doyce, inthisstyle.

9/6/2006 Doyce: [Mortal Coil] Tokens: Red and White and Blue and...
So I'm preparing for some Mortal Coil goodness.  I dropped on by the store and picked up a pack of poker chips (50 red, 100 white, and 50 blue... something…
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Participants: Doyce, GB Steve, inthisstyle, Valamir, Iskander, coffeestain.

9/11/2006 GB Steve: Different responses to Mortal Coil
After publishing my Mortal Coil AP here, on rpg.net and Casus NO (a French rpg forum) I got very different responses. There wasn't a massive amount of discussion on any…
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Participants: GB Steve, Eliarhiman6, inthisstyle, coffeestain, arete66, Steven Stewart.

9/11/2006 inthisstyle: Mortal Coil Actual Play
Here's a collection of threads to read about actual play of Mortal Coil: Old Gods Get Mean http://www.indie-rpgs.com/forum/index.php?topic=18067.0 Old Gods Returns http://www.indie-rpgs.com/forum/index.php?topic=18482.0 Arthurian enthusiasm http://www.indie-rpgs.com/forum/index.php?topic=18778.0 Dark Vegas http://www.indie-rpgs.com/forum/index.php?topic=20516.0…
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Participants: inthisstyle.

9/17/2006 arete66: "Night Watch" as a Mortal Coil setting...
I just recently watched the excellent Russian Horror/Fantasy film "Night Watch" and was amazed at how it seemed to scream "Mortal Coil" to me. What are your impressions of "Night…
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Participants: arete66, inthisstyle, Eero Tuovinen, Sovem.

9/28/2006 TJ: [Mortal Coil] Theme Documents
Hello, I am getting set to run some MC in the near future.  I am wondering what others' Theme Documents actually look like.  I am also making a form for…
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Participants: TJ, GB Steve.

10/1/2006 dyjoots: [Mortal Coil] Magical fact price question
Is it appropriate to use "metagame" prices for certain magical facts?  More specifically, if all of the players had no problem with it, would this be an appropriate a magical…
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Participants: dyjoots, inthisstyle.

10/4/2006 Ice Cream Emperor: [Mortal Coil] Conflicts, Actions, Rules Confusion
I recently bought Mortal Coil, and while I am definitely interested in running or playing the game, I am extremely confused by the Conflict rules -- to the point that…
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Participants: Ice Cream Emperor, inthisstyle, Eero Tuovinen, coffeestain, Doyce, dyjoots, N.riweeni.

10/6/2006 dyjoots: [Mortal Coil] Passion questions
I'm just about set on the rules, but I'm running the game tonight for my wife so I wanted to try and get a few final clarifications on the way…
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Participants: dyjoots, RedPissLegion, inthisstyle.

10/12/2006 GB Steve: Mortal Smackdown
So in last night's game, the continuation of Twisted Fifties, the PCs arrive mob-handed at the asylum to confront Dr Scolari, the twisted woman hater who seems to be at…
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Participants: GB Steve, dyjoots, inthisstyle.

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