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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.

2/27/2007 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.

2/26/2007 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.

2/26/2007 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.

2/25/2007 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.

2/25/2007 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.

2/22/2007 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.

2/22/2007 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 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 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.

2/21/2007 Teh_Az: [Engine] RPG/Wargame Engine
Hi my name is RV and I posted here earlier regarding my design for a similar engine that hopefully integrates tactics combat (Final Fantasy and Ogre Tactics game-play) with traditional…
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Participants: Teh_Az, johnwedd.

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.

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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.

3/12/2007 scrandy: Mystix RPG - The Big 3
Hi! I did some RPG developing, for some time now, because I was bored and disappointed with other Systems. Till now (3/2007) I have got a nearly playable Version (with…
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Participants: scrandy, Conteur, mauriciocabaleiro.

3/13/2007 TwilightCorps: Twilight Corps
While this isn't a new idea(I've been working on it for two years now) It's new to the Forge. It's a futuristic single origin supers game, meaning that everyone got…
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Participants: TwilightCorps, Mcrow.

3/13/2007 Hereward The Wake: Idea for a dice mechanic
I am working on a combat system, non missile weapons at the moment. The emphasis of which is the tactical choices made in regard to moves, attacks reactions  I want…
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Participants: Hereward The Wake, Mcrow, JCunkle, Conteur.

3/14/2007 Sentience: Using the D20 system
I'm having a hard time deciding whether or not to use the OGL and the D20 system for the RPG I'm creating. However, I believe I could come to a…
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Participants: Sentience, Mcrow, Ben Lehman, TroyLovesRPG.

3/14/2007 Conteur: New Roleplaying Game: Kissanil
I have finally decided to begin working on editing my game on wich I work since 15 years. The site is not finished(and it will never be...as all roleplaying games)…
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Participants: Conteur, scrandy, andrew_kenrick, Rafu, pells, xenopulse, davidberg.

3/15/2007 sdanic: 13 Virtues - Can resource pools be dramatic?
I love pulp and cinematic action games. I also love resource pools. However, when I see resource pools in practice, characters tend to become less and less heroic as their…
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Participants: sdanic, Reprobus, andrew_kenrick, Filip Luszczyk, Valamir, joepub.

3/16/2007 mauriciocabaleiro: DICE MECHANIC - would it work?
Hello you all.. I´ve been working on a dice mechanic and i would like to have a feedback from anyone interested in helping me improve it. The idea i to…
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Participants: mauriciocabaleiro, Valamir, Mcrow, Hereward The Wake, Noon, Simon C, Arlecchino.

3/19/2007 chris_moore: [psi run] situation
My friend and I are working on a game called Psi Run.  Players create characters that: 1)  have a psychic power 2)  have been captured by a shadowy organization 3) …
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Participants: chris_moore, Noon, Paul Czege.

3/19/2007 scrandy: What is your most important feature of a modern Fantasy-RPG?
Hi, people! I'am Andy Paland, called scrandy on the net. I'm working on a new Fantasy-RPG which I announced here: http://www.indie-rpgs.com/forum/index.php?topic=23484.0. Since I found out that it is more interesting…
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Participants: scrandy, rycanada.

3/20/2007 rycanada: What happened to Deep in the Game?
I went back to bankeui.blogspot.com and it was just pointing at advertising.  I know the blog was over - but is it just gone now, or is it mirrored somewhere…
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Participants: rycanada, Ben Lehman.

3/21/2007 mauriciocabaleiro: What is your ORIGINAL setting? Describe it...
I just started this topic with the following in mind: How creative and original the sageous forge members can be? After years discussing all about RPG what have they come…
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Participants: mauriciocabaleiro, Ron Edwards.

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