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5/16/2006 Oscar Evans: Space Pirates
I was asked to run a game a few days ago and had to come up with something on the spot. It was a one shot so i couldnt use…
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Participants: Oscar Evans, Precious Villain, Czar Fnord, sean2099, Kobayashi, Immunis.

5/12/2006 Adam Kleizer: [The Dynasty/La Famiglia] Concept and early changes
Hello everybody! I participated in this year's Game Chef with a game named The Dynasty. The game is a GMless competitive storytelling game with a bidding system. A brief summary…
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Participants: Adam Kleizer, Graham Walmsley, Oscar Evans, Everspinner.

5/11/2006 Paladin Knight: ¿Percentile dice?
I've been looking at the Returner Headquarters FFRPG page a lot, and in the rules section under "Combat", it says right at the top how they determine hits and misses.…
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Participants: Paladin Knight, jeremycoatney, KKinsane, Adam Dray, rafial, flammifer, Ron Edwards.

5/11/2006 charles: [Throne Of The Spider God] Pulp S&S
Hey all "Throne Of The Spider God is a game of bloody combat and daring exploits, perilous magic and the wrath of gods. It takes you to exotic worlds where…
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Participants: charles, Eric J-D, Ron Edwards, Smithy, Miskatonic, charles ferguson, John Harper, davidberg.

5/10/2006 Sir Privy Toastrack: Where can I post my game-in-progress?
Is there a shared website for folks to upload games-in-progress for feedback?
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Participants: Sir Privy Toastrack, flammifer, Thunder_God, Daemonworks.

5/10/2006 joepub: [Perfect] The Mechanics of Commiting Crimes.
just for reference, one of the previous threads: http://www.indie-rpgs.com/forum/index.php?topic=19545.0 and, one on game colour/etc: http://www.indie-rpgs.com/forum/index.php?topic=19498.0 Okay... So for those of you who haven't been following, and didn't click the above…
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Participants: joepub, Chad, Czar Fnord, dindenver.

5/10/2006 Ken: [Ten Cent Heroes] Power 19
Hey All, Here are the 19 questions for my golden age super hero game called Tales of Ten Cent Heroes (or Ten Cent Heroes). Feel free to ask any questions.…
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Participants: Ken, Graham Walmsley, Larry Wickman, Malcolm.

5/9/2006 Philbo: Mythic Greece?
I was thinking about developing a setting for Mythic Greece?  An somewhat accurate depiction of ancient Greece -- but with all the cool mythical stuff.  I'd like to use the…
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Participants: Philbo, John Kirk, Ironchicken, ghashsnaga, rafial, J Tolson.

5/8/2006 leslie: [Spookbaggers] Basic assumptions and testing mechanics.
Hello, my name is Leslie and I am a Simulationist. Oh, wait, this is not the Simulationists Anonymous meeting? Damn. ;-) OK, here's the deal. I'm trying to create a…
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Participants: leslie, Rob MacDougall, Thor, Ron Edwards, Filip Luszczyk.

5/8/2006 jeremycoatney: Super Heroes Game, divine touch or not?
Hello,     I am currently creating a game for super hero setting adventures and campaigns and I was wondering: should I include characters who have their powers granted by…
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Participants: jeremycoatney, TonyLB, Czar Fnord, dindenver, Ken, flammifer.

5/8/2006 gains: [Frights!] Horror Movie Game
Still in the early stages, here is a teaser for Frights! I wrote this up in about a day. Frights! is a game meant to recreate the horror of Monster…
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Participants: gains, 1of3.

5/6/2006 flammifer: Card-based character creation
Does anybody have any experience with using randomly dealt cards for character creation ? I am partly inspired by some recent posts on Vincent Baker's blog around the Cheap and…
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Participants: flammifer, cpeterso, Damon C Bradshaw, Czar Fnord, gains, playbywiki.

5/5/2006 Paladin Knight: Questions about accuracy and evasion.
Hi, everyone. I've been working on making an RPG with rules that have elements of various RPG video games I've played before such as Final Fantasy games and Diablo, just…
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Participants: Paladin Knight, TroyLovesRPG, greyorm, c, Blankshield.

5/5/2006 Bailywolf: [Orphan game mechanic] What price victory?
Stop me if this has been done, but I got to thinking about an alternate take on resolution (possibly diceless resolution).  In playing with mechanics for Maestro Mago, Strange Alias,…
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Participants: Bailywolf, knicknevin.

5/5/2006 Bailywolf: [Strange Alias] Being human is hard
Oddly enough, this game idea came from my efforts to learn Photoshop.  I was compositing and image… here, : this one Basic image concept- ‘when cheap holographic projectors and flash…
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Participants: Bailywolf, c, Castlin, knicknevin, TonyLB, cognis, Mike Holmes, ironick.

5/4/2006 jmac: should I refer to the book?
I'm not sure, maybe I should have asked this in publishing forum. My question is about game text. There is a game, I'm trying to finish, It's being playtested now,…
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Participants: jmac, Thunder_God, c, Andy Kitkowski.

5/4/2006 Bailywolf: [Maestro Mago] Basic Concepts & Themes
I was thinking… I love Doctor Strange- he’s my favorite Marvel character by miles.  I like the whole mojo of the character- the brownstone, the funky companions, the mystic origins,…
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Participants: Bailywolf, chris_moore.

5/3/2006 Grail-Shadowblade: Raid Earth
Hi this is one of the systems I'm working on at the moment and it's got me stumped, I've got some idea's and combat done but I can't find a…
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Participants: Grail-Shadowblade, MarkDunder, sean2099, Czar Fnord, joepub, Smithy, KKinsane.

5/2/2006 Czar Fnord: [GLASS] System Test Document v1.0 (beta)
Thanks to very useful feedback from participants on my previous GLASS threads (see my sig), I am now able to release... GLASS System Test Document v1.0(beta) GLASS-System-v1-0-beta.pdf GLASS-Costs-v1-0-beta.pdf Major Changes…
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Participants: Czar Fnord.

5/2/2006 jknevitt: [The Valley] Concept Notes
So, I've had an idea kicking around in my head for a rules-lite, genre-vague game set in and called, simply, The Valley. What is The Valley? It's exactly that --…
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Participants: jknevitt, Thunder_God, Chad, davidberg, jasonm, sean2099, c, flammifer, Czar Fnord, joepub.

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5/17/2006 sayter: [Realm] Tree based or List based powers?
Greetings. It has been quite some time since I posted here, as things have been mighty busy. But, Realm is on a roll again so here I is! Currently I…
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Participants: sayter, jeremycoatney, Ken, dindenver, sean2099, Daemonworks.

5/17/2006 Frank T: [Aller Tage Abend] Brief History and Power 19
Today I’m going to post about my new project. This post is meant as a source to point people to in discussions to come. I am not looking for specific…
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Participants: Frank T.

5/18/2006 ssfsx17: Wrangling with wording
The system I am designing is based on ten-sided dice pools. The success of a die roll is determined by a difficulty number which defaults to five. Rolling higher is…
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Participants: ssfsx17, Oscar Evans.

5/18/2006 rikiwarren: Conflict Resolution System
Hi, One problem I've noticed in many games is that GMs try to create conflict within the game largely through the game mechanics. For example, character A has to scale…
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Participants: rikiwarren, TonyLB, ssfsx17, Oscar Evans, Madheretic.

5/19/2006 sean2099: Differences in writing 'adventures' for LARPs vs. Tabletop.
Hi all, I have never written a "formal" adventure for a LARP style game before.  I have played in them before and they seemed more spontaneous (little preparation beforehand.) So,…
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Participants: sean2099, c, Czar Fnord, Adam Dray, mneme, Graham Walmsley, Daemonworks, Sara Adyms, Mike Holmes, Lisa Padol, museleading, Ron Edwards.

5/19/2006 Lewis Flanagan: Modular System Design – Stop Me If You’ve Heard This One Before
    This is my first post in the Forge, so hello everyone. I have been making my own RPG systems for several years. I found John Kim’s list of…
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Participants: Lewis Flanagan, Graham Walmsley, Oscar Evans, ssfsx17, Noon, Tommi Brander, Thunder_God.

5/20/2006 Kobayashi: 10 000 Mythic RPG
First of all, I'm new here, so hi to all ! I'm currently working on a rpg named 10 000 inspired by Xenophon's Anabasis: the story of ten thousands Greek…
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Participants: Kobayashi, Lewis Flanagan, Noon, Oscar Evans, Daemonworks.

5/22/2006 coldblackwind: Twelve Kings RPG Premise and Summary
Hello, Here I am another newbie to this board but no stranger to RPGs or writing. First off I would like to say that all the information I have found…
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Participants: coldblackwind, Ben Lehman, joepub, TonyLB, greyorm, dindenver, Oscar Evans.

5/23/2006 Brian_W: [Channeling] Skill organization
I'm trying to figure out the skill system for my game Channeling (a brain dump format of almost all my ideas can be found at http://shadowedmagi.proboards55.com/index.cgi?board=channeldev). The game is going…
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Participants: Brian_W, Lewis Flanagan, Oscar Evans.

5/24/2006 James Buchanan: My "Fantasy Heartbreaker" ;)
Hey there, I wanted to get some feedback on a collection of mechanics that I have been developing. A lot of it draws inspiration from The Riddle of Steel and…
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Participants: James Buchanan, Ron Edwards, Hermes3, charles ferguson.

5/25/2006 donovan75: Zombie game, help with concepts "normal people in ubearable situations"
First off thanks for checking this out.I posted this in another forum and would like your ideas and advice. Alright heres my problem. I want to make a rpg and…
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Participants: donovan75, Castlin, Unarmed, Oscar Evans, daHob, Grail-Shadowblade, majcher, sean2099.

5/26/2006 Willow: [Shattered Vistas] Bidding Mechanics?
The core mechanic of the Shattered Vistas is essentially a die pool with resource bidding:  you start with an initial pool of d6s, add extra dice by spending points from…
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Participants: Willow, c, Lewis Flanagan, J Tolson.

5/27/2006 DeviantBoi: Can anyone suggest some combat formulas based on this data?
I love playing RPGs and dreaming up stories and scenarios ... but when it comes to creating a system, I just suck. :( After looking at most systems, I decided…
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Participants: DeviantBoi, dindenver, Noon, rikiwarren, steelcaress, Rothe, CrookedBroomstick, Sydney Freedberg, Mike Holmes, Hereward The Wake, greyorm, Jixxala, btrc, nikola.

5/28/2006 CrookedBroomstick: I need questions to answer
Hey all,     I've been working on this game mechanic which I plan to be the foundation for a setting I've also got in the works.  I know how…
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Participants: CrookedBroomstick, TonyLB, dindenver, Rothe, Mike Holmes, joepub, Miedvied.

5/29/2006 Adam Kleizer: [La famiglia] Creating mechanics in place of blind spots
Hello everybody! Please look at the previous topic for a link to the game and some changes introduced to the latest version. About playtests First of all, let me apologize…
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Participants: Adam Kleizer.

5/30/2006 Green: Preventing munchkin behavior
I've just finished the most recent incarnation of Dramatikos.  In short, it is an interactive storytelling game.  The players each use action and narration to portray one or more roles.…
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Participants: Green, Ron Edwards, dindenver, Filip Luszczyk, Gaerik, GreatWolf, Jasper, Mike Holmes, baron samedi, LemmingLord, Valamir.

5/31/2006 rgrassi: [Collapse]: Gathering ideas for a new 'strange' RPG, need collaboration
Diceless, Master-Less. If any of you wants to help me, you're welcome. Write me in private, thanks. Rob
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Participants: rgrassi, jesterina, joepub, Mike Holmes.

5/31/2006 JimLotFP: LotFP: RPG... the next attempt.
So last time I was around these parts, some of my ideas got thumped fairly hard, I resisted, but I never got much further... So here's the next attempt. The…
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Participants: JimLotFP.

6/2/2006 Caesar_X: [Noir] Flashback mechanics
I've just started work on a game to capture the flavor of Film Noir like The Maltese Falcon and LA Confidential.  One of the early mechanics I wanted to include…
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Participants: Caesar_X, Adam Dray, jasonm, Czar Fnord, Dumirik.

6/2/2006 makeshiftwings: Narrativist system suggestions?
Hello all; I apologize in advance if this is the wrong forum to post this question in. I'm trying to do some research on more Narrativist-style RP systems, and trying…
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Participants: makeshiftwings, Adam Dray, dindenver, Ron Edwards, MatrixGamer, Gasten.

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