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9/29/2007 Valvorik: Experience with Credibility Arguments
How do people find the "go with the lowest crebility threshold" rule in play? As indicated in text, it seems to require colloborative players who "don't hold grudges" against each…
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Participants: Valvorik, Dustin of the Dead, inthisstyle.


9/28/2007 The Groog: Mythic
Anyone thought of using 'Mythic GM Emulator' with Mortal Coil? Here it is:  http://www.mythic.wordpr.com/page9/page9.html
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Participants: The Groog, nyhotep.


9/19/2007 The Groog: Actions v non characters
What does a character roll against to (for example) climb a wall, pick a lock, sneak passed a guard?
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Participants: The Groog, inthisstyle.


8/31/2007 chris_moore: [Mortal Coil] First Theme Document
After a cool GenCon demo with Brennan (I made Pluto cry!!) we want to play Mortal Coil.  Here's our first theme document.  What's missing?  Is anything over-developed? Tone:  What's the…
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Participants: chris_moore, inthisstyle.


8/18/2007 The Groog: NPC Support Characters
Not having actually run a game yet, I could be wrong here but... Aside from making up NPC's on the fly, to deal with an unprepared situaton, I get the…
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Participants: The Groog, inthisstyle.


8/1/2007 divineseeker: Rules Clarification: Magical Aptitudes
Just to get clear my understanding is Magic works like this: 1. Sacrifice a Magic token to create a new rule 2. Either a GM or a player sets a…
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Participants: divineseeker, inthisstyle, Dustin of the Dead, shadowpriest.


8/1/2007 divineseeker: Rules Clarification: Multiple conflicts and multiple actions
I am a little confused as to how multiple conflicts work. Here are some questions: 1. In a situation with multiple actors each one states intent of the action and…
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Participants: divineseeker, inthisstyle.


8/1/2007 divineseeker: Mortal Coil Rocks!
Just wanted to say to Brennan that I am glad that he stuck with game design despite what he went through. Mortal Coil rocks, is one of the best games…
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Participants: divineseeker, The Groog, inthisstyle, surecool73.


7/25/2007 The Groog: Brilliant Idea
I've benn looking for something like Mortal Coil for years. It looks brilliant. 2 questions though: How unobtrusive are the rules, do they fade into the background, or is…
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Participants: The Groog, inthisstyle, GB Steve, Yokiboy, Dustin of the Dead.


6/30/2007 Ice Cream Emperor: [Mortal Coil] Subbing out the conflict resolution
So it seems plausible that over the next month or so we'll be starting a longish-form game using Mortal Coil, and consequently I decided to give the rules another read-through.…
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Participants: Ice Cream Emperor, Filip Luszczyk, inthisstyle, Dustin of the Dead, Hisho.


6/5/2007 daedalvs: [Mortal Coil] Some Rules-related Questions
Hello everyone! Quite some time has passed since I posted a bunch of questions in the thread relating the AP we did here in Spain, named "Malleus Malleficarum", and received…
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Participants: daedalvs, RedPissLegion, GB Steve, inthisstyle.


5/28/2007 RedPissLegion: [Mortal Coil] Passions at zero
Hi, When a passion rating reaches zero does that passion still exist on the character sheet at that rating or does it completly disapear? For instance my Hate: Demons passion…
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Participants: RedPissLegion, inthisstyle, Dustin of the Dead.


4/25/2007 daedalvs: [Mortal Coil] [Actual Play] Malleus Malleficarum
Hello! <Waving hands> My name's Jokin, and I'm a newcomer in the Coil forum, even though I've been reading it since some time ago. I have finally decided to intervene…
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Participants: daedalvs, inthisstyle.


3/25/2007 Sindyr: Where can I buy Mortal Coil?
IPR appears to be sold out.
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Participants: Sindyr, inthisstyle.


3/18/2007 Doyce: [AP] From the Casebook of Donne & Donne, Detectives
Next weekend, my fiance's in town and I wanted to have a social kind of gaming thing go on because (a) it's a chance for both of us to hang…
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Participants: Doyce, Three-Star Dave, inthisstyle.


1/31/2007 Bret Gillan: [Mortal Coil] Contested Magical Facts
So I got a quick question from Actual Play. An American sorcerer-spy (NPC) is trapped in a magical prison created for him by a Knight Templar (Bob). A Russian sorcerer-spy…
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Participants: Bret Gillan, inthisstyle.


1/19/2007 drnuncheon: [AP] Changelings & Cold Iron
In this case the P in AP maybe stands for Prep, depending on how you view the setting creation part of things.  This was over in my LJ but I…
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Participants: drnuncheon, inthisstyle.


12/5/2006 inthisstyle: Mortal Coil Theme Document
I mentioned my new Mortal Coil game based on the Harry Potter novels on the latest Voice of the Revolution podcast, and someone asked if I would post the theme…
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Participants: inthisstyle, Danny_K.


11/30/2006 Garvey: [Mortal Coil] Why Not Declare Actions?
I understand how the game is supposed to be played, but I'm wondering why the game was designed in this way. Why are actions kept hidden when bidding, and only…
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Participants: Garvey, inthisstyle, simonjberger.


11/14/2006 DaveyJJ: Mortal Coil not available as a PDF?
Brennan, Is MC not available as a PDF purchase/download? I'm back into RPGs after 20 years away and just purchased Primetime Adventures and want to buy MC, but not if…
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Participants: DaveyJJ, inthisstyle, Everspinner.


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1/26/2008 fnord3125: [Mortal Coil] First Session Questions
So, as with every roleplaying game I've ever played, I discovered that with Mortal Coil, what sounded simple and made sense as I was reading the book by myself suddenly…
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Participants: fnord3125, inthisstyle.


2/5/2008 sirogit: [Mortal Coil]Newbie Questions
Hi! I'm starting a game of Mortal Coil this week, and I had a few questions. 1. When someone proposes a fact like "Vampires Exist", what is the price? Is…
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Participants: sirogit, inthisstyle.


4/13/2008 sirogit: Seperate "Seasons"
So my plans for my Mortal Coil are: Run the game into a "Season finale" (Current situation is resolved, new situation develops) and present the choice to the group to…
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Participants: sirogit, inthisstyle.


6/30/2008 inthisstyle: How We Came to Live Here Ashcan
Listen. This is a tale of our People. Once, First Man and First Woman lived in the First World. The First World was dry and small and black as the…
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Participants: inthisstyle, elenius.


7/5/2008 Ravenspath: [Mortal Coil] New campaign
Hello, First off let me say thank you for creating Mortal Coil. I have been gaming for close to 30 years and MC has me completely besotted. I recently received…
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Participants: Ravenspath, inthisstyle.


1/11/2009 Brother: Zombies, Magic & Mere Mortals
Concerning the important part magic has to play in MC, I was wondering how you would go about playing in a setting where the characters are 'ordinary' folk, trying to…
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Participants: Brother, inthisstyle.


4/16/2009 DaveyJJ: Can MC be "grokked" into a typical fantasy setting?
I've only been able to preview the intro MC PDF but it seems to this very old gamer* that the mechanics etc of MC could be easily grokked to use…
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Participants: DaveyJJ, inthisstyle, Paka.


4/23/2009 Spooky Fanboy: [Mortal Coil] Revised?
Has MC Revised come to fruition yet? Or is it still on the back burner?
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Participants: Spooky Fanboy, inthisstyle, Ice Cream Emperor.


5/10/2009 zapps: Mortal Coil Revised
Hello. First post at these forums, though I have read them quite a lot. First I want to thank you Brennan for a great game! Then comes my question: Whats…
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Participants: zapps, inthisstyle.


5/29/2009 Paka: Revised Questions
I am reading over the revised edition and I like many of the changes, particularly the change of Magic Tokens for one-shots...very nice. We are thinking about a modern magic…
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Participants: Paka, inthisstyle.


9/24/2009 inthisstyle: How We Came to Live Here Soon to Be Published
It’s been a long time coming, but How We Came to Live Here is finally nearing completion. This is all part of my plan to step up Galileo Games’ production…
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Participants: inthisstyle, matthijs.


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