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4/2/2006 Yaksha: [srenken] To ditch or not to ditch? That is the question...
Hi all, http://www.geocities.com/rubboferraro/srenken_b01.pdf I wrote this little game a while ago now, then just dropped it and forgot about it. As it stands I don’t think it is anything great…
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Participants: Yaksha, dindenver, anders_larsen, Bryan Hansel.

4/1/2006 FlameLover: DM vs. Players
I thought i'd posted this before, but I searched for it and found nothing. So sorry if I posted this earlier ;) I've been hanging around these boards for a…
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Participants: FlameLover, sirogit, Noon, JMendes, Thunder_God.

4/1/2006 ElliottBelser MKII: [Conflict: Eridani] Power 19, First Version.
Here goes something. 1) What is your game about? War!  Specifically, the war between Sol (yay!) and Draconis (boo!) for the Eridani colonies. 2) What do the characters do? Try…
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Participants: ElliottBelser MKII, Troy_Costisick, TonyLB, Thunder_God.

4/1/2006 robotsunshine: [Chimera] Problems with conflict.
I've been looking at Clyde L. Rhoer's game Outside, http://www.indie-rpgs.com/forum/index.php?topic=19187.0 about kids using their imaginations as a form of power, and creating alternate worlds with them, and it made me…
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Participants: robotsunshine, Paul Strack, Thunder_God, c.

3/31/2006 Jinx: [Crucible] Tournament Fighting! Help with Advancement?
Hello, all.  Much as I know I should be finishing up Echoes (my current project), another one has sorta taken hold of me.  I'm calling it Crucible for now, which…
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Participants: Jinx, neko ewen, robotsunshine.

3/31/2006 TonyLB: Gina Tonic and the @%$^ed up Pancakes
So I've had a lot of exposure to children's books recently.  I love the motifs, the recurring structure.  I think you could make a cool game that played like a…
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Participants: TonyLB, Thunder_God, Sydney Freedberg, monsterboy, Miskatonic, Noon, Ben Lehman.

3/31/2006 ElliottBelser MKII: [Conflict: Eridani] Squad and Squadleader Creation.
SO.  Conflict: Edriani is a roleplaying wargame.  You play a mixture of the Bab 5 psi corps and the Starship Troopers mobile infantry in a space fantasy, trying to retake…
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Participants: ElliottBelser MKII, Sydney Freedberg, Danny_K.

3/31/2006 ElliottBelser MKII: [Conflict: Eridani] Colony Creation
Lo, All!  I'm trying to pare down a wicked keen world into something useful for an RPG.  Help me sort out what's cool and my own and what's just filching…
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Participants: ElliottBelser MKII, Thunder_God, Miskatonic.

3/31/2006 mobuttu: [ORN RPG] Skills Insights
Hi, first time poster. First of all, I'd like to apologize for my bad English, since it isn't my mother language. I'll try to do my best. I'm currently trying…
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Participants: mobuttu, Thunder_God, anders_larsen.

3/31/2006 1of3: Still unnamed fantasy game
Hi. I've been working on another game and by now I'm convinced, that this time I will finish it. (I know this must sound outright stupid...) Well, my idea was…
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Participants: 1of3, MatrixGamer, monsterboy.

3/30/2006 Madkitten: [Adventure] looking for feedback
Hello A friend and me where reading through some adventures that we had acquired some years ago (about 10 years or so), and came to the satisfying conclusion that they…
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Participants: Madkitten, MatrixGamer.

3/30/2006 monsterboy: Gideon Game for your perusal (and Hello)
Hi, all. Been lurking here for awhile, learning the glossary, and I've decided to jump right in. I've been thinking about this for a few days, and now have a…
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Participants: monsterboy, neko ewen, TonyLB, Bryan Hansel.

3/30/2006 Shreyas Sampat: [Snow From Korea] Endgame Dissatisfaction
[i]One year ago, his wife said to Ichigo no Kiriyama, "It is hot. Bring me snow from Korea to cool my brow." Ichigo went to Korea and brought back Snow,…
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Participants: Shreyas Sampat, dindenver, Danny_K, TonyLB, Thunder_God.

3/30/2006 Eric J-D: Mythic RPG--Preliminary Thoughts
Hi everyone, After many failed attempts to talk myself out of it, I have decided to take the first tentative steps towards designing my own game.  Ron, if you read…
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Participants: Eric J-D, anders_larsen, Shreyas Sampat, Czar Fnord, contracycle.

3/29/2006 Brian_W: [Channeling] Aquiring, holding, using and losing power
Channeling is a game about a group of people who are among the small group of mortals who can gather and harness power. Not in the sense of political or…
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Participants: Brian_W, billvolk.

3/29/2006 sirogit: Wiki-based mythic gaming
Here's the idea: Influenced by Heroquest, The Shadow of Yesterday, Exalted and Nine Worlds. Mythic fantasy rpg, with a very strong focus on both creating legendary exploits and emulating the…
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Participants: sirogit, Graham Walmsley, TonyLB, Thunder_God.

3/28/2006 Bailywolf: [Threshold] Basic mechanical refinements (d10 roll under but high as possible)
  I have made some basic mechanical refinements to the game detailed in this earlier thread. Basic recap- Threshold (or rather On the Threshold is my modern magicians game dealing…
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Participants: Bailywolf, anders_larsen, Spooky Fanboy, Danny_K, dindenver.

3/28/2006 rgrassi: [Levity 2.0]: Universal RPG System 1d6
I've just released the italian version of this system designed with newbies and kids in mind. I've made an english version but it will need editing and reviewing from some…
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Participants: rgrassi, Eric Bennett, operator23, bazzalisk, Bryan Hansel, Tommi Brander.

3/28/2006 Dumirik: Abusive Relationship Mechanics
I've had this game idea kicking about in the back of my head for quite some time now (the core concept is actually salvaged from my very first design attempt…
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Participants: Dumirik, Nathan P., Arturo G., MatrixGamer.

3/28/2006 kaikatsu: Air Combat and Driving Mechanics
Hey all. Does anyone know where some good mechanics are for air/air or vehicle combat?  I have a fairly fleshed out system.  I can post details if people want, but…
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Participants: kaikatsu, Shreyas Sampat, FlameLover, nikola, Czar Fnord, MatrixGamer.

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4/3/2006 TonyLB: [Misery Bubblegum] How do you reward bad timing?
You know the story:  Boy meets girl.  Boy loves girl.  Girl loves boy. Monday:  Boy tries to tell girl he loves her ... but earlier that day girl heard a…
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Participants: TonyLB, c, Paul Strack, Ben Lehman, Joshua BishopRoby, Valamir, Thunder_God.

4/3/2006 Elishar: [The Beast Within] Ideas
Ok, I'll give a bit of overview for anyone not familiar with my game.  'The Beast Within' is a modern game based around the hidden battle between human and demons. …
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Participants: Elishar, Paul Strack, TonyLB, dindenver, anders_larsen, TroyLovesRPG, Thunder_God, billvolk.

4/3/2006 Thunder_God: [Cranium Rats] Token Economy, also, Gamist Encouragement of Narrativism.
I have been thinking over the various ways to incorporate Tokens in my game, with the basic reasoning is that I need to add another angle to the Gamist Resource…
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Participants: Thunder_God.

4/3/2006 Uriel: [Legion] first draft
These is my first for Legion, a convention game inspired by Memento and The Bourne Identity. Each player will get roughly an hour of gameplay and will use the previous…
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Participants: Uriel, Troy_Costisick, Thunder_God.

4/3/2006 Rich Stokes: Slacker: The Roleplaying Game of Avoiding Work
OK, first thoughts. This is a game that's fermenting right now.  It'll never be very complex, so here we go. The title of the game is Slacker. The players are…
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Participants: Rich Stokes, Bryan Hansel, Plotin.

4/3/2006 Madkitten: [Rules] Automatication
I have been thinking a little. Now, for me, the most important thing about rules (as both a GM and a Player) is that they are fast, in the mood…
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Participants: Madkitten, Jinx, MatrixGamer, anders_larsen, Joshua BishopRoby, Noon, Harrower, CaptainImpressive, TroyLovesRPG, btrc.

4/4/2006 mobuttu: [ORN RPG] My Big 3 answers
After reading several posts about The Big 3 RPG design questions (thanks Troy_Costisick for his clarifications from here: http://www.indie-rpgs.com/forum/index.php?topic=16996.0) I’ve tried to come up with mine. Here they go. Please…
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Participants: mobuttu, anders_larsen, Troy_Costisick, Ron Edwards.

4/4/2006 Gaeokerena: Daemornia Studios
Hello everyone, We would just like to introduce ourselves; Daemornia Studios, as independent role-playing game publishers. We are the publishers of the Daemornia RPG line, with our core book available…
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Participants: Gaeokerena, Thunder_God.

4/4/2006 preludetotheend: Almost an Endeavor (Reflections)
The below is the link to the original idea I had its not much important to this thread as I will give an overview of what my current idea is…
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Participants: preludetotheend, MatrixGamer.

4/5/2006 Biggles: [Netland] Power 19
Hi everyone! Since I wanted to have something to talk about at the Midwest convention, here's an idea I've been kicking around for a while. Any comments or criticisms are…
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Participants: Biggles, Thunder_God, Dev.

4/6/2006 tj333: [suts] Anime/Maga Based RPG
Strongest Under the Sun is the name for my game.       The idea behind the game is to emulate anime/manga stories like Yu Yu Hakusho, Bleach, Shaman King,…
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Participants: tj333, oreso.

4/6/2006 oreso: Klingons!
[url=http://www.geocities.com/maxkill666/klingons.html]Klingons![/url] Have a looky at the link and tell me what you think. Its meant to be a one shot party game to give you an excuse to act like…
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Participants: oreso, Czar Fnord.

4/7/2006 SPDuke: [Summerplay] Initial post, slightly long.
SUMMERPLAY Hi, Forge! I haven’t been here in a while, but I recently had a brainstorm for a game and wanted to share it with you to see what you…
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Participants: SPDuke, Thunder_God, Shreyas Sampat.

4/7/2006 stefoid: [Bronze] 'skills' and task/conflict resolution
This is a fictional bronze-age game.  I posted the 1st draft rules a while ago.  It was a task-based skill system.  Since being directed to other types of rules, Ive…
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Participants: stefoid, contracycle, Thunder_God, lumpley, dindenver, two_fishes.

4/7/2006 Thunder_God: [Slime Octopi and Coral] Redesigning Mechanics and Defining Humanity and Mr. H.
This game is what I call a CSI Game, or Competitive Story Interaction game. It's been brought up between Eric Bennett and myself. Eric is big on the Mythos and…
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Participants: Thunder_God.

4/7/2006 J Tolson: [Twilight] Three character goals
Greetings good forum-goers, In the game that I have been working on over the last 2 years (Twilight of the Gods, or just Twilight for short) I have developed three…
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Participants: J Tolson, anders_larsen, SPDuke, Thunder_God.

4/8/2006 Willow: [Reserve] Distribution of Narration Rights
Hi all.  This is my first post about the Reserve System that I've been working on, so let me tell you a little bit about it.  It's a resource-spending (i.e.…
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Participants: Willow, Paul Strack, Bryan Hansel.

4/9/2006 Lizbet: I'm a Literature student. I'm alowed.
Hey there. I'm something of a newbie here, so...yeah. New. Hai. I was musing the other day about games and I had the notion of creating one based on the…
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Participants: Lizbet, TonyLB, Joshua BishopRoby, nikola, MatrixGamer.

4/9/2006 Chad: Henbane: role‐playinge the detestable wickednesse of wytchcrafte
Hi folks, I have recently put together the Henbane PDF http://www.ookytentacles.com/Henbane.htmland would like to get your take on it. Henbane is a witty take on shakespearian witchcraft. It’s has grandiose…
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Participants: Chad, TonyLB, Graham Walmsley, Mark D. Eddy, Eric J-D, chris_moore, ivan23.

4/10/2006 Everspinner: Games as a metaphor for something else
(This is a duplicate to the thread I accidentally started in Story Games. My apologies to anyone who is interested in the topic and needs to jump between the two…
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Participants: Everspinner, pells, greyorm, MatrixGamer, Paul Czege, Ron Edwards, TroyLovesRPG, Michael S. Miller, Thunder_God.

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