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12/24/2007 Xenoheart: A game based on... ASTROLOGY?
Well, hi there, Forge community. Meet Leo: Israely, fourteen, RPG(And generally a)geek, and without any conception of proper english spelling/grammer. Seem's you have just met me. Well, for a big…
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Participants: Xenoheart, dindenver, LandonSuffered.

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.

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.

12/22/2007 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.

12/21/2007 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.

12/21/2007 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.

12/20/2007 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.

12/20/2007 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.

12/17/2007 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.

12/15/2007 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.

12/15/2007 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.

12/14/2007 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.

12/14/2007 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.

12/13/2007 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.

12/11/2007 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.

12/11/2007 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 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 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 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.

12/10/2007 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.

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12/27/2007 LandonSuffered: The Golden Compass!
All right…just saw the Golden Compass and I’m thinking when are they going to come out with an RPG for this?  What an awesome setting!  Aeronaut cowboys, armored ice bears,…
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Participants: LandonSuffered, Noon, Xerxes, David C, pfischer.

12/29/2007 Igtenio: D20 Lite Variant
First off, I apologize, since I know there're a million D20 derivatives out there, but I figured I'd post about one I've been thinking over. Without a doubt, others have…
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Participants: Igtenio, Noon, jag, Bastoche, sirelfinjedi, Dormammu, dindenver, Ron Edwards, Eldrad.

12/29/2007 agoodall: Alternate history/fantasy medieval setting - what do characters do?
Long-time lurker, first-time poster... I have an idea for an alternative history game set in the 13th century. Along with alternative history, there are fantasy elements. I have a good…
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Participants: agoodall, ODDin, Noclue.

12/31/2007 earwig: A Conspiracy of Clippings (with Apologies to William S. Burroughs)
   I was reading something about William S. Burroughs the other day, and it was talking about how he would sometime just cut up stips of paper containing words or…
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Participants: earwig, GregStolze.

1/2/2008 darthfodder: Mortal to God game
Okay, so I found out that there's already a game out there where the characters go from mortal to god from my last post on this same idea,but that's okay;…
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Participants: darthfodder.

1/2/2008 Marshall Burns: OBLITERATI: the Unspeakable Horror of the Literary Life
[b]Exposition[/b] All the players take on the roles of made-up famous novelists.  Let’s assume that all these novelists have been well-acquainted for about 10 years, and also that, when it…
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Participants: Marshall Burns, Murrquan, brainwipe, jasonm.

1/4/2008 David C: A bit fuzzy on the math (statistics)
Ok, for character creation in my game, I came up with a mechanic where you take 8 d6 and roll them. You then group like numbers and count each dice…
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Participants: David C, Vanoj, Eero Tuovinen, VoidDragon.

1/4/2008 Willow: [The Hunger] Zombies, Vampires, Ghouls- Help My Idea Work
So, with Awesome Adventures finishing up and being ready soon, I'm setting my sights on my next project: The Hunger. The Hunger is a story-game about vampires.  The player characters…
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Participants: Willow, c, lumpley, GregStolze, masqueradeball, apeiron, Bret Gillan, Grinning Moon.

1/5/2008 monsterfurby: Distrust and Betrayal
Greetings everyone! I created my setting, called "Epitaph" due to the lack of a better name, two years ago to run a couple of games using the GURPS 3 and…
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Participants: monsterfurby, Willow, contracycle, Vulpinoid, masqueradeball, danielsan, dindenver.

1/5/2008 Murrquan: OGL System?
Hello Indie RPG designers! I'm currently working on yet another d20 variant. Except that instead of basing it on d20, I'm trying to base it on Mongoose Publishing's OGL System:…
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Participants: Murrquan, Ron Edwards.

1/7/2008 MikeF: Drawn out conflict
First time poster (though occasional lurker - this is a truly excellent site that reignited my interest in dice), so apologies if I've got my terminology wrong or this is…
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Participants: MikeF, Bastoche, Murrquan.

1/8/2008 Murrquan: D20 Variant for Kids and Console RPG Gamers
It's yet another d20 variant! This one is going to be based on Mongoose Publishing's OGL System, however, allowing it to contain character creation and levelling rules out of the…
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Participants: Murrquan, Noon, David C, masqueradeball.

1/9/2008 walruz: Range-based system for duels
Note: I'm not interested in discussing the merits with rules light systems vs rules heavy systems, and I don't want to step on any toes by bringing up GNS theory.…
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Participants: walruz, contracycle, dindenver, Hereward The Wake.

1/9/2008 Morrius: Generic Game Engine - Impulse RPG
Hi there.  I've been working on my own generic system for a while now, and I've managed to build it up into something fairly substantial.  On a whim, I made…
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Participants: Morrius, Ron Hammack, dindenver, Noon, Necromagvs.

1/11/2008 chronoplasm: Hi! First RPG: Pathodyne.
Hi! I'm new here. I'm also fairly new to the experience of creating my own RPG (played quite a few, made my own settings but always with out of the…
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Participants: chronoplasm, Phil.

1/12/2008 sirelfinjedi: Wizards vs. Supers
I usually run a d20 game set in a super-fantasy world where the heroes - generally having super-powers - face an occasional wizard. For a few years now I've been…
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Participants: sirelfinjedi, chronoplasm, Dormammu.

1/14/2008 MKAdams: Conflicted About Multiplayer Conflicts
I'm in the process of designing a "story-telling game."  The game is set in a generic European low fantasy setting that recalls Alice in Wonderland, the Wizard of Oz, and…
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Participants: MKAdams, VoidDragon, sirelfinjedi.

1/14/2008 VoidDragon: Pawning NPCs to Crunch up Social Conflict
Greetings, all. Lately I've been working on a game where players: i. Choose what drives their character into conflict ii. Contribute to the conflict of other players by hitting these…
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Participants: VoidDragon, Noon, Vulpinoid.

1/14/2008 northerain: [Van Dread] Power 19(kind of) / Questions!
This is my Power 19 for my new game, Van Dread. I skipped some questions as I didn't really have an interesting answer for them, nor did I find them…
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Participants: northerain, chronoplasm, Vulpinoid, jag.

1/15/2008 StrongBadMun: [Ember] Character Creation and System
Ok so I'm finishing up the first draft of Ember and I think I've gotten things where I mainly want them, I'm just struggling over how I want character creation…
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Participants: StrongBadMun, Capulet, dindenver.

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