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2/20/2007 knicknevin: [Doodle Dungeon] Power 19
This is one of those loose ideas that rattled around in the back of my head for years; it was a name and very little else, but then it all…
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Participants: knicknevin, Calithena, Simon C, Valamir.

2/20/2007 pwate: Any ideas for a mechanic to fix to my magic system?
I am in the process of working on a magic system and am looking for some advice.  The system is essentially elemental, magic users can summon on of three different…
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Participants: pwate, Troy_Costisick, Sentience, Valamir, talysman, lumpley, johnwedd.

2/18/2007 somniturne: Kingdom of Nothing- a dark fantasy game about homelessness and escapism
Hey guys, At the last Dreamation I attended the game design panel and put out my concept for a game.  After receiving a lot of really insightful feedback, I've been…
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Participants: somniturne, c, Hermes3.

2/17/2007 aaron taylor: ARPG: like the D20 sytem with no profession/class
Hello forge. I'm a 3rd ed. DnD guy. This is my first post.  I'm designing a breakoff of the d20 system called the Adapatable RPG.  Major difference: No class. I…
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Participants: aaron taylor, AsuraDemon, Falc, Yakk.

2/17/2007 Adam Graham: Heroes of Leyreth Power 19
[b]1.) What is your game about?**[/b] The struggle of the righteous in a world consumed by the corruption of man. [b]2.) What do the characters do?**[/b] Stand up as heroes…
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Participants: Adam Graham, Troy_Costisick, preludetotheend, johnwedd, WhiteRat, Noon, Eero Tuovinen, OliverTheMerc.

2/16/2007 Calithena: Miniatures-Driven Roleplaying Rules
Hi all - I'm working on a system right now which is sort of an 'alternate direction' RPGs could have evolved back in the seventies. Instead of trying to make…
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Participants: Calithena, RyanMacklin, Leviathan, komradebob, johnwedd, Simon C, Darcy Burgess, Samael, mratomek, Thenomain, TroyLovesRPG, David Artman.

2/15/2007 chris_moore: [made the devil do it] conflict resolution
So I love the basic concept of Sorcerer, but I wanted a game that would have a different focus.  I also love the category conflict resolution system of Otherkind.  …
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Participants: chris_moore, johnwedd.

2/15/2007 RyanMacklin: Damned Anonymous, a personal cosmic horror RPG
Hello, I have a game I'm working on that is a horror game where the PCs are all corrupted/infected/tainted by some great Evil, and have formed a support group to…
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Participants: RyanMacklin, Ben Lehman, TonyLB, Danny_K, johnwedd.

2/15/2007 AsuraDemon: dealing with writing about theme, and storytelling
So I've got an idea that I want to run with for an RPG.  But I've never gotten very far in such an endevor before, and what I need some…
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Participants: AsuraDemon, Matt, WyldKarde, TroyLovesRPG.

2/14/2007 OKeefe: Out of the Gray (early concept)
Hi I'm new.  I hope this is the right kind of post in the right kind of area. I have a few ideas for a game that I think will…
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Participants: OKeefe, johnwedd.

2/14/2007 davidboze: New idea for Shadow of Yesterday
http://www.indie-rpgs.com/forum/index.php?topic=23291.msg230149#new
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Participants: davidboze, Andy Kitkowski.

2/14/2007 Adam Graham: Heroes of Leyreth - A Christian based RPG
In another post I was encouraged to begin a thread about the focus of my RPG that I have been working on for the last year or so.  It is…
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Participants: Adam Graham, Clinton R. Nixon, johnwedd, WhiteRat, Ron Edwards, preludetotheend, Eero Tuovinen, Simon C, baron samedi, sean2099.

2/13/2007 BigElvis: Rewarding narration in GMless competetive games.
For my game Flash i wanted to include a mechanic that could both reward narration and direct narration as well. My solution was word/picture cards. Each card would have a…
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Participants: BigElvis, joepub, Noon.

2/13/2007 BigElvis: Flash - GM-less competetive. Dark and intensive war rpg.
My questions for this game is: do you understand how the narration and the mechanics work, and do you think they actually do work? Meaning what problems do you see…
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Participants: BigElvis, TonyLB, jasonm, johnwedd.

2/13/2007 WyldKarde: Storytelling System
I'm trying to create a game system that focuses on telling a story moreso than killing ogres and taking their loot.  Unfortunately, I don't have a lot of experience with…
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Participants: WyldKarde, joepub, TonyLB, johnwedd, xenopulse.

2/13/2007 Yakk: Random Crunch (dice)
Some random number generator for tabletop gaming ideas. I haven't seen many of these as the core mechanic of a game.  If you've seen them used, or even better seen…
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Participants: Yakk, johnwedd, contracycle.

2/11/2007 Thomas Lawrence: A Game of Theatrical Tragedy... I Hope
Crossposted from Story Games, hope that's kosher. So, I've been watching altogether too much of a Les Miserables DVD (the musical), and I got to thinking about stage tragedies as…
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Participants: Thomas Lawrence, BigElvis.

2/11/2007 Thor: Hellmouth Hospital
Hi All! I was driving to gaming Friday and thinking about the ides that every scene should change the character. I don't know if I believe it or not, so…
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Participants: Thor, Troy_Costisick, contracycle, Yakk, sean2099, Jarx.

2/11/2007 signoftheserpent: Idea for A Game About Alchemists Who Died But Didn't Really Die
Something like that. NOTE: This idea came to me while reading Promethean; I have a general fondness for the WW style and it's associated idiosyncrasies. The writeup is as purple…
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Participants: signoftheserpent, c, joepub.

2/11/2007 jackson_tegu: solution for the "War Shoal" problem...?
hello there, everyone. i think i have a possible solution for what has, in academic circles, been referred to as the "War Shoal" problem. though this is a forum for…
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Participants: jackson_tegu, Eero Tuovinen, Noon, contracycle, johnwedd.

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2/22/2007 WyldKarde: Reinventing The Wheel: making a universal system
I'm trying to develop a universal system for a number of traditional "loot-and-level" RPG's I'm working on.  I'm trying to determine how to make a mechanic that's friendly to swords,…
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Participants: WyldKarde, Yakk, Valamir, Calithena, Noon.

2/22/2007 Larcen: Adventure Kids - With a new resolution system
Hi All, I was happy to see that this forum is all about game design. Awesome. Having just finished putting together a little RPG for use with my kids, I…
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Participants: Larcen, komradebob, scrandy, Remir, Noon, Sentience.

2/22/2007 signoftheserpent: city design
I need some advice with how to layout and design a modernish, comicbookesque/city of tomorrow sort of noir city setting (somewhere between the setting for Nevermen, Astro City, Mega City…
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Participants: signoftheserpent, andrew_kenrick, Caesar_X, TroyLovesRPG, Sentience, Thenomain.

2/22/2007 Harmast: Christians in Nero's Rome
I've had an idea brewing for a while about game that somewhat reverses Sorcerer or KPFS in that the characters represent highly moral people (in game objectively a la DitV)…
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Participants: Harmast, Valamir, Bill_White, contracycle.

2/25/2007 munkiman: Intro and highly ambitious project development
Hi everyone! My name is Jason and i have been writting and playing rpgs for some 20 years. I am currently developing an mmorpg to rival some of the big…
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Participants: munkiman, johnwedd.

2/25/2007 Samael: Exploding Dice
Hi All, I've seen the topic of exploding dice or open-ended rolling come up a few times and wanted to add my two cents.  My last experience with the concept…
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Participants: Samael, joepub, Noon, Thenomain, Leviathan, TroyLovesRPG, Conteur.

2/26/2007 Adam Graham: Heroes of Leyreth - Fatih Attribute
Hi all, I never made it to actually play test the version of faith as I wrote in my previous post as I changed it up before doing so.  I…
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Participants: Adam Graham, sean2099.

2/26/2007 vertigo25: The Worlds in My Head
I've had this idea for awhile to make some source books for campaign settings and adventures with the intention of not using any particular rules system; generic world books, if…
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Participants: vertigo25, Mike Sugarbaker, pells, Conteur.

2/27/2007 signoftheserpent: My system idea
For the game idea I've been working on (see city design thread below for slightly more info), I have a basic task resolution mechanic using d10 that works thus: Players…
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Participants: signoftheserpent, xenopulse, Yakk.

2/28/2007 jim pinto: Ring of Power
While still working on George's Children, Jon Hodgson and I have plotted two more games for ourselves to design. Without giving too much away, the second game is called the…
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Participants: jim pinto, lumpley, Troy_Costisick.

2/28/2007 mothlos: Restricted Communication System
I am working on a system for my friends and I to use and am needing a way to smooth out interactions between players. The system as it stands is…
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Participants: mothlos, Glendower, Mike Sugarbaker, lee-anne.

2/28/2007 USRPG: Player Characters are the Villains
Perhaps an alternate title for this topic would be, "when is dark, too dark?" This is more of an inquiry, rather than actual debate. To anyone who has ever moderated…
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Participants: USRPG, mothlos, lumpley, RyanMacklin, Conteur, scrandy, Sentience, Eliarhiman6, David Artman, Majidah, fantang7, jackson_tegu, northerain.

3/2/2007 BabbageCliologic: Setting Idea: Alien Nano-bot Invasion
So I've been kicking around an idea for the past couple of weeks. Aliens send nano-bots to earth to prepare it for take-over. The alien nano-bots take the form of…
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Participants: BabbageCliologic, Simon C, johnwedd, TroyLovesRPG, Chainsaw Aardvark.

3/3/2007 Xibalba: Rotating GM
The playtest group of my game has been going well, and, as everyone is getting more familiar with the setting, several players are coming up with adventure ideas.  This has…
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Participants: Xibalba, Eliarhiman6, knicknevin, nikola, MatrixGamer, RobMcDiarmid.

3/3/2007 Filip Luszczyk: D&D, revisited (long)
Although I've put away D&D for quite some time, lately I've been finding myself in a mood for some good old powergaming feast. However, I've been exposed to Forge too…
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Participants: Filip Luszczyk, Thenomain, Simon C, jerry, Eero Tuovinen, Noon.

3/7/2007 anders_larsen: [Tempestas] Base mechanics
Tempestas is a fantasy rpg I have worked on with a friend for many years. The first incarnation of this game was very much in the category of traditional fantasy…
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Participants: anders_larsen, mothlos, Troy_Costisick.

3/7/2007 lambda: Interstellar diplomatic game
Hi, I'm new here (not even much lurking, but I've read a few of the theory articles), and I've been having an idea kicking around in my head for a…
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Participants: lambda, MatrixGamer.

3/9/2007 Mattias: Game mechanics for a swashbuckling Rpg (Lost Eden)
First of all im new here so…Hi to everyone! Secondly excuse my English, as I am not American Im trying to develop a game, which I call Lost Eden, the…
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Participants: Mattias, Simon C.

3/10/2007 Chainsaw Aardvark: Overwhelmed Zombie
Hello. I'm sorry if this is in the wrong place, but the forum seems to be giving me the run around. For several months now I have been working on…
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Participants: Chainsaw Aardvark, Ron Edwards, jasonm.

3/11/2007 ElliottBelser MKII: My girlfriend's back, and she wants to play Spirit of Hogwarts for her birthday
Crossposted to RPG.net and Story Games. So, my girlfriend's birthday is coming up this month. I offered, as one of my birthday presents to her, to teach her how to…
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Participants: ElliottBelser MKII, johnwedd, TroyLovesRPG, Ron Edwards.

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