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12/9/2007 earwig: Couple of questions on a rules-lite system
Hi all! Quick question that I hope isn't too broad.  I am working on my first rpg, and I am developing the system.  What I'm looking for is a very…
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Participants: earwig, opsneakie, Narf the Mouse.

12/8/2007 WyldKarde: Step-Die Mechanics
Hey Forge, Working on a generic RPG system and I've quickly learned that my ambition is asking a lot of me.  To quickly recap from an old post, my previous…
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Participants: WyldKarde, JCunkle, Darcy Burgess, Capulet, J Tolson, Xerxes.

12/7/2007 masqueradeball: CONTENDER
I want to make a game based on all the movies out there that turn boxing into a metaphor... Rocky, Cinderella Man, Raging Bull, etc... I'm not very interested in…
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Participants: masqueradeball, joepub.

12/5/2007 northerain: Planet Terror
So I watched Planet Terror a few weeks ago and bought the dvd today(Birthday present to myself). I then decide to make an rpg based not on the movie, but…
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Participants: northerain, earwig.

12/5/2007 opsneakie: [Name in Progress] Power 19!
1.) What is your game about? This game is a fantasy adventure game, set in a world hanging the the balance of opposing forces: Fire and Water, Earth and Air,…
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Participants: opsneakie, Troy_Costisick.

12/4/2007 SaintandSinner: Design Goals For Alternative Take on Amber RPG
I'm looking to rift off of the basic ADRPG which I've had years and years of fun playing and running. Althought the game is good there are times when it…
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Participants: SaintandSinner.

12/4/2007 SilasMalkav: Reputation instead of Experience
I'm working on a fantasy city based rpg featuring several competing factions. While developing the game, I came up with the idea of having players gain reputation instead of experience…
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Participants: SilasMalkav, xenopulse, Xerxes, David Artman, dindenver, Capulet, Devin P. Owens.

12/4/2007 shays: Basic Mechanic building from the ground up
I've been bouncing from idea to idea trying to nail down a mechanic that will work well for a super-heroic RPGs.  My challenge is to...Well develope a scale for challenges. …
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Participants: shays, Ken, Capulet, Noon, Darcy Burgess, hermes, jag.

12/3/2007 MTLloyd: A couple of questions on my first thoughts...
Okay, so the idea wandered into my head unbidden and now refuses to go away, so I figure I may as well roll with it. First of all, some questions:…
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Participants: MTLloyd, Ron Edwards, J Tolson.

12/2/2007 earwig: Starting on a Wiki?
Hey all.  I'm putting together my first RPG, and I wanted to design the whole thing as a Wiki first.  The pages would be locked at first, until I hash…
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Participants: earwig, Capulet, Meadslosh, David Artman, dindenver, davidberg, northerain.

12/2/2007 Meadslosh: "Knowledges" as primary statistics?
Hello, everyone, and welcome to my first post on the Forge. I'm glad to be here. I have been ruminating upon the desire to write an RPG for quite some…
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Participants: Meadslosh, WyldKarde, Hans.

12/1/2007 Marshall Burns: scattershot pitches
Ok, I've been trying to hold back from doing this all day, but I think I might explode if I don't. The following are abstracts of game concepts that I…
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Participants: Marshall Burns, earwig, StrongBadMun, Ken, Castlin.

12/1/2007 Narf the Mouse: One of my projects has born fruit - Realms
One of the ways I refine my RPGs is to write character sheets. So, one day, I had this idea hanging around my head - So I started writing a…
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Participants: Narf the Mouse, Raymond Caleatry, anders_larsen.

11/30/2007 Marshall Burns: American Wizards, detailed character, loose resolution
I'm currently working on a game called American Wizards and would like to get thoughts on certain aspects of its design.  BUT I want to presage this with a touch…
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Participants: Marshall Burns, Troy_Costisick, Miskatonic, c.

11/29/2007 StrongBadMun: Ember and Magic or "AUGH IT BURNS!!!"
Ok so in my game Ember the laws of magic are stripped away, making it difficult to predict and even more difficult to control.  I don't want the "mages" to…
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Participants: StrongBadMun, Simon C, Simons, Noon, crackrat, OnnoTasler, Capulet, chronoplasm.

11/29/2007 earwig: System with changing skills
Okay, I'm going to try to be as short with this as possible, since I have a habit of rambling. I am working on an RPG where the players play…
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Participants: earwig, opsneakie, Simon C, Marshall Burns.

11/29/2007 Noon: In the pursuit of shiny objects
I have an idea for keeping play in a certain type of flux, but it needs just a bit more push. Basically I'm imagining a grided map, with an objective…
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Participants: Noon, jag, contracycle, Simon C, dindenver.

11/27/2007 jmhpfan: Dogs in the Tower (a Stephen King hack)
    I am a big fan of Dogs in the Vineyard and of Stephen King's Dark Tower series.  I keep thinking that these two were made for each other. …
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Participants: jmhpfan, J Tolson, northerain.

11/27/2007 DracoDruid: I need help on Ability choice for my system
Hi everybody. I recently got her from a friend of mine and I really hope I will get the inspiration I need at the moment. Ok off we go: For…
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Participants: DracoDruid, Lobo, Darcy Burgess, opsneakie, Conteur, Marshall Burns, Narf the Mouse, Llogres.

11/27/2007 Grinning Moon: [Doomsday] Initial Idea & Character Creation
I don't know if anyone's ever played a computer game called 'Evil Genius'? Brilliant idea, excellent production values... really sloppy execution and boring gameplay. Which is such a shame, since…
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Participants: Grinning Moon, northerain.

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12/10/2007 TomTitTot: Dystopian Game - help me find my balance?
I posted about my project "The Hammer Falls: A Game of Dystopia" some time ago, but have hit a snag that is doing my head in. Any suggestions or comments…
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Participants: TomTitTot, ADGBoss, matthijs.

12/10/2007 Llogres: [Mael'Saresh] Power 19
First of all i want to say that i got no experience in RPG Design at all, but i want to develop a system (including setting) for private use in…
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Participants: Llogres, J Tolson, Troy_Costisick.

12/11/2007 Eldrad: PUNKS:RPG
Sorry I am slightly dyslexic please ignore the previous post. Back in the 90s I wrote with some help of some friends a game called PUNKS. It was a game…
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Participants: Eldrad, Eero Tuovinen, Noon, Ken, earwig, Ron Edwards.

12/11/2007 Options: Dungeons and Discourse
Hello! I registered at these forums a while ago with the intent of posting here and hopefully getting some feedback on an RPG that's been in the works for about…
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Participants: Options, Noon, sirelfinjedi, ninja88penguin, was_fired, Mike Sugarbaker, Age of Fable, chronoplasm, Rich F.

12/11/2007 Llogres: [From Zero To Hero] Power 19
[b]1.) What is your game about? [/b] "From Zero To Hero" (working title, maybe i will keep it) is about a dark fantasy world, called Mael'Saresh, where different factions fight…
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Participants: Llogres, Valamir, Troy_Costisick.

12/11/2007 Meguey: Further thoughts on Intertwined
To recap: It's a game for two players, with a overt goal being to arouse and be aroused, sensually. There's lots of touching hands, but players otherwise don't really touch,…
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Participants: Meguey, Eero Tuovinen, Elizabeth, David Artman.

12/11/2007 signoftheserpent: Shadowmen system II (split)
A new day and a fresh look at one of my old ideas (playing the matrix online has reinvigorated my interest). In the game characters will experience a rollercoaster ride…
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Participants: signoftheserpent, kouato_terra, Ron Edwards, Ken.

12/13/2007 JCunkle: Good Story + Good Game: Possible?
So I was lurking around Vincent Baker's "I would knife fight a man" a few days ago and read a discussion there about whether it was possible to write an…
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Participants: JCunkle, Filip Luszczyk, Noon, Greymorn, TonyLB.

12/14/2007 Miskatonic: **unsolicited!!** - a game of spam and human desperation
[tt]YOU LOVER NOT SATISFIED IN BED? NEW ALL NATURAL CURE FOR MALE PROBLEMS! BETTER THAN VIAGRA![/tt] Where to begin? You know spam, that thing every single person who uses the…
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Participants: Miskatonic, earwig, TomTitTot, Elizabeth, matthijs.

12/14/2007 Marshall Burns: [Witch Trails] poker conflict resolution
First, I have to admit that I got this idea from Dogs in the Vineyard.  Once I had the idea, I started building a game around it, and that game…
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Participants: Marshall Burns, preludetotheend, jag, Guy Srinivasan.

12/15/2007 Friar Zero: Zombie Apocalypse Ruleset
Hello everybody!  I'm new here and I have been working on a set of custom mechanics for a Zombie Apocalypse setting.  I was hoping that I could get some feedback…
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Participants: Friar Zero, northerain, Peter Nordstrand, blodwin.

12/15/2007 Nev the Deranged: [the pickup game] - descriptor tables
I recently posted over in AP about "the pickup game", http://www.indie-rpgs.com/forum/index.php?topic=25253.0, and I am doing further thinking about it. So, I have been fiddling around with a chart to facilitate…
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Participants: Nev the Deranged.

12/17/2007 SethCarmikle: Passages: a new "Christian" RPG
Alright guys. My parents are the types that don't like table-top rpgs becouse of all the "satanic" influences in them, so i've come up with a solution. I am working…
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Participants: SethCarmikle, Meguey, Miskatonic, Eero Tuovinen, Filip Luszczyk, Vanoj, Noon, earwig, preludetotheend, StrongBadMun, matthijs, Creatures of Destiny, sirelfinjedi, dindenver, Ken.

12/20/2007 preludetotheend: Gears and Cogs (GaC)
  So I am working on a jury rigged version of the splendid Alternity meshed with the wonder that was Old World of Darkness (back when it was not crap).…
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Participants: preludetotheend, matthijs.

12/20/2007 Marshall Burns: Super Action Now! (and the Way of the Disco Samurai)
So I was thinking about a comment Sam "wreckage" made about an old, old game I had designed in this thread.  He said:  Dwogres? Robots? Flesh eating owls? Grotesque character…
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Participants: Marshall Burns, Noon.

12/21/2007 Elizabeth: Audeamus: a cinematic, non-fantasy romp in ancient Rome
So my friend Charlotte and I are designing a game about ancient Rome, entitled Audeamus. It's going to be more cinematic than slavishly historically accurate-- think Ben Hur and Gladiator.…
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Participants: Elizabeth, Paul T, Phil, Stryck, Narf the Mouse.

12/21/2007 darthfodder: Game about going from a mortal to a God
Okay so my idea is a game about going from a mortal to a god and once godhood is achieved, keeping a faith and influencing the world in the way…
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Participants: darthfodder, jag, preludetotheend, Spooky Fanboy, Xerxes, Ron Edwards.

12/22/2007 IoValde: Vagrant Stories
[center][size=20pt]VAGRANT STORIES[/size] [size=15pt]The Pie in the Gutter And other Amazing Tales[/size][/center] This is a game about bums. Not your run-of-the-mill, hard-up, dime-a-dozen schmucks, but the senile sods who’ve lived on…
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Participants: IoValde, masqueradeball.

12/23/2007 arthurtuxedo: Can talking people's heads off be as fun as slicing them off?
On a brief and semi-recent MUDding kick, I tried out the new Iron Forge MUD, Lusternia. It's pretty similar to their previous games, but one addition struck me. There was…
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Participants: arthurtuxedo, masqueradeball, Noclue, Noon, dindenver, GregStolze, jag, contracycle.

12/23/2007 sirelfinjedi: Newby Needs Help
Hey, I'm new to the Forge and I feel a little lost. I've recently (over the past 6 months) gotten very excited about game design. I've been fired up by…
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Participants: sirelfinjedi, Ron Edwards, brainwipe, FLEB.

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