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12/5/2006 Hans: Using AH's Diplomacy as a meta-mechanic for a political RPG campaign
Hi: Over at the Toronto area Indie-RPG meetup, we have been tossing back and forth the idea of a political intrigue type campaign (using Heroquest or Universalis, probably), and thinking…
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Participants: Hans, nicolasfueyo, Darcy Burgess, Calithena, Countercheck, David Artman, Greymorn.

12/4/2006 Paul Czege: The Niche Engine (v. 0.1), for roleplaying that's about the setting
Hi all, Realizing that Frank Tarcikowski's 1st Transatlantic Setting Design Challenge was formulated as just the right kind of stretch exercise for me--intimidating, because setting creation is by far the…
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Participants: Paul Czege, Simon C, Eero Tuovinen, Graham Walmsley, Troy_Costisick, scorpio rising, David Artman, Calithena, Jared A. Sorensen, pells, Paul T.

12/3/2006 Jon Scott Miller: [Dungeon Noir] Character Motivation
Hello, all. I have recently been working on a game tentatively entitled "Dungeon Noir." Some of the ideas I have been kicking around in my head re. this game came…
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Participants: Jon Scott Miller, Darcy Burgess, Simon C.

12/2/2006 JacobSM: Man-hunt in the subconscious (game proposal)
Hi everybody, Here follows rather a long posting outlining a game concept (work title: Reflections) posing as a sort of surrealistic existentialism. I present you first with some background to…
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Participants: JacobSM, Caesar_X, Troy_Costisick, Graham Walmsley.

11/30/2006 Eric J. Boyd: [The Big House] Scenes as Currency
For a little over a year now, I've been working off and on with a game of roleplaying prison stories. The design is intended to capture the feel of everything…
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Participants: Eric J. Boyd, Artanis, c.

11/29/2006 Icel: Looking for references
Hey, I have a rpg system which I'm revising, mainly putting some major thought on the combat system, as the early version concentrated on extensive character building (the system is…
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Participants: Icel, timfire, joepub.

11/29/2006 Geir: Shambala Kingdom
Hello, I wanted to present a new game or role playing site that's called Shambala Kingdom and which hinges upon the following : "I'm not by any means a good…
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Participants: Geir, Ron Edwards.

11/29/2006 masqueradeball: The Stars, In Opera, Roadblocked
I'm currently working on a game based around a more narrativist take on mecha anime than anything on the market. I designed the setting around a "more reactive" card-based resolution…
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Participants: masqueradeball, Ron Edwards.

11/29/2006 Temple: [Downtown] My first attempt at writing a game.
This is more of a mental excersise than an actual attempt at designing a playable game. Ive never made a game before, by any degree, but this idea struck me…
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Participants: Temple, Geir, Troy_Costisick.

11/29/2006 Paul T: How to Teach People to Accept Death and Mind Control
...or, more descriptively: "Pool Dice as Training Wheels for Conflict Resolution". I've been thinking about playing Vincent Baker's "Art, Grace, & Guts" game, so I went and read through some…
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Participants: Paul T, dindenver, Noon, Steven Stewart, Paul Czege.

11/28/2006 Ward: Combined game advice
I'm fairly new to the forge but I've been reading alot about all these wonderful devices like Relationship Maps, Scene Framing, Bob and Weave, basically most of the things listed…
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Participants: Ward, timfire, Ron Edwards.

11/28/2006 cottc cid: Stats, cards, and the gauges who love them.
Hello all.  I am an amateur game designer, and a friend directed me to your site.  I think that it is great that there is a resource for people to…
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Participants: cottc cid, anders_larsen, Simon C, David C.

11/27/2006 justin1083: fighting game-inspired narrative system
Hi Everyone.  This is my first time posting here.  I'm trying to design a narrativist game based on fighting games/shows such as Street Fighter, King of Fighters, Naruto, and Tekken. …
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Participants: justin1083, Filip Luszczyk, Troy_Costisick.

11/27/2006 Wiredboy: shakespearean Roleplaying
Hello! This is my first post, a friend pointed me here to vent my big idea that's been brewing for a few weeks. In the past, I've done alot of…
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Participants: Wiredboy, Simon C, jasonm, JacobSM, contracycle.

11/26/2006 GregStolze: Task Resolution Turned Inside-Out
This is, at this moment, only a VERY bizzare thought.  So I thought I'd see what y'all co-think. Most games give you a skill and assume that if you roll…
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Participants: GregStolze, Ben Lehman, TroyLovesRPG, Paul T, anders_larsen, masqueradeball, Simon C.

11/25/2006 clever_ravenclaw: Children of the Deities
I've written what's the beginning of what could be a very epic roleplay, the only decent idea I've ever had that's not based on a book, anime, movie, or video…
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Participants: clever_ravenclaw, Troy_Costisick, greyorm, Adam Dray, billvolk.

11/24/2006 Simon C: [Coven] Struggling for "Ah ha!" moment.
"Coven" is a sort of proto-game I've had rummaging around in my head for a little while, and I'm looking for some fresh ideas to hopefully spur me to an…
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Participants: Simon C, Noon, dindenver, Bailywolf.

11/23/2006 sirogit: Reward System Idea: Asking Questions
The basic idea is, on each character's sheet, there is a space called "Questions", at any time, any of the players may add a question that they're intereasted in to…
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Participants: sirogit, nystul, Simon C, dindenver, Noon, Wolfen, Ron Edwards.

11/23/2006 anders_larsen: [Distant Horizons] Setting Concept
What I want for Distant Horizons is not a complete setting, because the idea is that the players and GM will create the game world doing play. But for that…
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Participants: anders_larsen, Troy_Costisick, clever_ravenclaw, billvolk, Simon C.

11/23/2006 BWA: City by the Sea
I want to design a game, and I need some help. I don't want to design a game because "I have no words and I must design", or design a…
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Participants: BWA, Bill_White, masqueradeball, Steven Stewart.

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12/6/2006 Graham Walmsley: Gay Recruitment card mechanic
I'm working on a card mechanic for The Gay Recruitment Squad Wants YOU!. I'm finding it difficult to explain, though, so I'd really appreciate some feedback. At this point in…
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Participants: Graham Walmsley, jasonm, ocasta.

12/6/2006 GregStolze: No such thing as a suck-ass roll
This is a core mechanic in search of a purpose.  In the spirit of "having specific questions" -- for what would you use the following? This grew out of an…
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Participants: GregStolze, jasonm, Bailywolf, Adam Dray, King Turnip, Graham Walmsley, Spooky Fanboy, Altharis.

12/6/2006 CommonDialog: Someone Had to Have Had This Idea
I had an idea for a game, but I am like 90% sure that it's already been done and I wanted to know if anyone has seen the game discussed…
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Participants: CommonDialog, nystul, Filip Luszczyk, Graham Walmsley, David Artman, Paul T, daMoose_Neo, nicolasfueyo, JustinB, davidberg.

12/7/2006 Chef Smallfry: Different type of battle system
Okay... A couple of friends and myself are making a video game with a battle system similar to a lot of tabletop RPG's. The battle is pretty standard so far,…
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Participants: Chef Smallfry, rafial.

12/7/2006 scimon: Narrative Based game idea
More than anything else this is a post to try to understand the etiquette of these boards. Malcolm, of the a and the state,  recommended as a good place to…
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Participants: scimon, David Artman.

12/7/2006 CleverUserName: Struggling to fit Concept into Traditional mechanics
I'm trying to find a mechanic for this concept.  It's a pretty simple concept, and I suck at coming up with mechanics. Characters start at a competency level of the…
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Participants: CleverUserName, dindenver, masqueradeball.

12/7/2006 Hereward The Wake: Swashbuckler aditonal combat skills
Has anyone done any work on developing extra combat styles for Swashbuckler? Using the original game, it is set up for using just the sword. I want to add appropriate…
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Participants: Hereward The Wake, rafial.

12/9/2006 c: [Silence Keeps Me A Victim] How to properly use metaphor.
Hello everyone, I'm working on my game after some research. Previous threads are located here and here. I'm using a metaphor, or some other literary term, in my game. The…
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Participants: c, Valamir, dindenver, Ben Lehman, TroyLovesRPG, Simon C, contracycle, Tim M Ralphs.

12/10/2006 Malcolm: [Everlasting Empire] Power 19
For quite some time now, I've had an idea for a game called Everlasting Empire. A game of quintessentially British heroes and heroines in a future where the Empire still…
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Participants: Malcolm, Troy_Costisick, anders_larsen, davidberg, jasonm.

12/11/2006 sean2099: [heroes and villains] character sheets and mechanics
[url]http://www.indie-rpgs.com/forum/index.php?topic=22159.0[/url] is the thread I am coming from at this point. On the character sheet itself, I am going with the method suggested by Ken.  In a sense, it is…
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Participants: sean2099, Troy_Costisick, dindenver.

12/12/2006 CleverUserName: Core mechanic: need critique
I need some help on the limitations/pitfalls of this core mechanic.  Also, please point out "this is exactly like X".  Any tweaks or improvements, obvious flaws, etc. would be helpful.…
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Participants: CleverUserName, Roger, Bailywolf, anders_larsen, Simon C, TroyLovesRPG, contracycle.

12/13/2006 Greymorn: Drifting toward Narrativism
This is my first post, so I'll start with hello all and a big, big thank you to the creators, moderators and posters of this forum. In particular many thanks…
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Participants: Greymorn, anders_larsen, Eero Tuovinen, Adam Dray.

12/14/2006 GreatWolf: [Dirty Secrets] Liar's Dice as Core Mechanic
I've been putting some work into a noir/detective game that I'm calling Dirty Secrets.  My specific sources of inspiration are the Philip Marlowe novels by Raymond Chandler (particularly The Long…
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Participants: GreatWolf, Valamir, nystul.

12/15/2006 Icel: Battle Pool
Since one is not supposed to resurrect threads that are past page one,  is it okay for me to repost my ideas? I'll just quete my previous posted on the…
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Participants: Icel, Noon, Hereward The Wake, tyrinian.

12/17/2006 Bailywolf: [Of Men and Monsters] A mechanical extrapolation upon Zak Arston's 'Deplorable'
This design riff is inspired by Zak Arston's lost gem Deplorable... in fact, 'inspired' isn't really a strong enough word.  This is more an extrapolation on what Zak was going…
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Participants: Bailywolf.

12/18/2006 Eric Schwenke: [Synergis] Power 19
Hey, I'm new.  I've had this idea for a "Purity-of-System" rules-set for many years that is born from my own frustrations with how many games treat character creation and advancement,…
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Participants: Eric Schwenke, Adam Dray, Valamir.

12/18/2006 Bailywolf: A Crazy Dream, Ron Edwards, and a Different take on character advancement
So, I dreamed last night that Ron Edwards was writing a new game, and I was pumped about the promo and sample material he was putting out for it.  It…
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Participants: Bailywolf, Eero Tuovinen, GregStolze, jasonm, Filip Luszczyk, GB Steve, Andy Kitkowski, Asa.

12/19/2006 AdAstraGames: [Worlds of Honor] Power 19
[b]Worlds of Honor[/b] is the working title for an RPG based off of the Honor Harrington universe.! The Power 19 [b]1. What is your game about?[/b] The game is about…
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Participants: AdAstraGames.

12/19/2006 Bailywolf: [As inspred by The Shab-Al-Hiri Roach & the novel Starfish] Under Pressure
It's dark down here.  Dark and cold, except where the continents are eating each other, and there it's fucking boiling.  Black smokers vomit into the ocean, and around it swarm…
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Participants: Bailywolf, Valamir, jasonm, Jillianaire, Greymorn.

12/20/2006 contracycle: Card games: hand sizes
I'm as wondering if there was anyone out there with encough familiarity with the CCG and similar line of things to help me with the following. I want to know…
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Participants: contracycle, IntentionallyWrong.

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