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2/24/2008 GeeX Underground: Greetings to All
Hello everyone, I thought I'd introduce myself. My name is Raymond Repass and I am currently working on starting my own entertainment company. My own interests lie in RPGs, card…
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Participants: GeeX Underground, StrongBadMun.

2/24/2008 Knucklebones: How to keep magic magical?
I've been trying to find a way to properly incorporate magic into my game system, but to do it in such a way that its effects are more flexible and…
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Participants: Knucklebones, Eero Tuovinen, greyorm, Manveru, Axe4Eye, davidberg, Adrian F., contracycle, Marshall Burns, dindenver.

2/21/2008 williamhessian: card game ideas and concepts
Back a bunch of years I created a game using buildable cards, in which a robot (think Gundam) is used to be build up/ upgraded by laying cards on top…
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Participants: williamhessian, chronoplasm, Catalyst N, Nev the Deranged.

2/21/2008 chronoplasm: Pathodyne Power 19 in Progress
First the 19: 1) What is your game about? Myers-Briggs typology and inner struggle. 2) What do the characters do? The characters strive to deal with their inner problems and…
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Participants: chronoplasm, Grinning Moon, Axe4Eye, danielsan.

2/20/2008 Axe4Eye: Destroy your EGO. Size matters not, or does it?
[b]I need help with a Body/Size/Strength/etc. stat[/b].  I have experimented with a lot of Ideas over the years.  I need it to be universal, like Mayfair's MEGS system (covers an…
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Participants: Axe4Eye, Ron Edwards, Creatures of Destiny, chronoplasm, MKAdams.

2/19/2008 Gabe McKean: Scenario generator for sci-fi action game
I've started thinking about designing a science-fiction action game, possibly using d20 (specifically D&D 4th edition, which is coming out in a few months) as the basis to start working…
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Participants: Gabe McKean, Everspinner, brainwipe, Age of Fable, greyorm.

2/19/2008 fig: Combat Schools
This is the premise on which I’m currently operating. This is predominantly for a low-fantasy medieval setting, but it will carry over (at least in principle) to a modern setting…
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Participants: fig, jasonm, JustinB, opsneakie, Ben Lehman, walruz, Creatures of Destiny, Llogres, Latigo.

2/19/2008 Geoff Hall: [Anarchy] Charatcer creation questions
Okay, so a bit of background.  A long time ago now (really, we're talking well over a year) I started to work vaguely on a game called Anarchy.  I even…
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Participants: Geoff Hall, Grinning Moon.

2/19/2008 fig: scaling attributes and skills
I have two tiers of attributes and one of skills that I’m trying to get to play nice together. I’ll explain what I have so far, and then why it…
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Participants: fig, Catalyst N.

2/19/2008 masqueradeball: A Language for "The Package"
I've really been thinking about SIM play a lot lately and one thing that struck me is that creating a group language for how define a package might be a…
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Participants: masqueradeball, Ron Edwards, Rich F, davidberg, Marshall Burns.

2/17/2008 theMonk: Game Diaries
Since starting my rpg over a year ago, I've been keeping a game diary to capture some of the creative process along the way.  I was wondering, however, if anyone…
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Participants: theMonk, fig, jasonm, brainwipe.

2/17/2008 Age of Fable: The All-Seeing Eye - the classic game you've never heard of.
Hi, Just for fun, I've put the rules for a retro-clone game on my website. European gamers in particular may find it familiar. It's at www.apolitical.info/webgame/eye
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Participants: Age of Fable, Vulpinoid, Rafu.

2/16/2008 fig: perception
To me, perception-based skills always walked the line between being mentally and physically based. On one hand, being blind or deaf is a physical condition. On the other, a dim-witted…
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Participants: fig, chronoplasm, OnnoTasler, Axe4Eye, VoidDragon, Alfryd, Peter Nordstrand.

2/15/2008 mooeythecow: Steam: A game of beautiful logic.
I'm new here but heres an idea I'm working on My original post at RPG.net I've always been a logical ordered person, and I know that doesn't help for making…
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Participants: mooeythecow, Velcanthus.

2/15/2008 Thor: [Loqui] the system-y stuff
At the end of last year, I promised my gaming group that we would only play one setting this year. We had played a different Game/Setting/Character every session and they…
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Participants: Thor.

2/13/2008 Grinning Moon: Less = More?
Question: If you pick-up a roleplaying game with a lot of backstory (and it's own world), presenting a few different sapient species, do you generally expect to have rules for…
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Participants: Grinning Moon, casquilho, Paul Czege, theMonk, dindenver, Bastoche, Eero Tuovinen, Marshall Burns, Vulpinoid, contracycle.

2/13/2008 fig: A game that optimizes for...?
What are the rewards in gaming, specifically provided by the game itself? The reason why I decided to design a new setting/system is because my group (we’ve been playing for…
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Participants: fig, casquilho, theMonk, masqueradeball, Creatures of Destiny, Eero Tuovinen, dindenver, Grinning Moon, Ron Edwards, JoyWriter, lachek.

2/13/2008 fig: adding breadth to rules-lite
I’ve always been a fan of Fate (I’ve been posting on their boards, too), and I’ve always wanted to make it a bit “crunchier”. I'm designing this for play with…
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Participants: fig.

2/13/2008 Galadrin: Mass Battle System
Hey all, this is totally unrelated to my previous post (about 16 Bit).  I am running a Hackmaster game and was looking for a good mass battle system.  I found…
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Participants: Galadrin, komradebob.

2/13/2008 masqueradeball: Gods and Such
A while back David Berg posted a thread about generating challenges for an RPG that were organic and not based on the player whim. I think the goal of that…
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Participants: masqueradeball, Rich F, theMonk, Velcanthus, Grinning Moon.

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2/24/2008 Creatures of Destiny: Qualities - a nifty little resolution thing?
Okay so after doing the Power 19 and looking at feedback for Creatures of Destiny I realised that I wanted characters to start out fairly vague so that they develop…
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Participants: Creatures of Destiny, Axe4Eye, wild_card2007.

2/25/2008 robotsunshine: Timeline - a year-long game dealing with aliens.
Timeline is an idea I came up with while waiting for the bus.  The fluff is that your character was abducted by aliens and injected with a powerful virus.  This…
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Participants: robotsunshine, VoidDragon, greyorm.

2/25/2008 fig: Toronto is not scary enough
For my contemporary occult/horror setting, I want to use Toronto as a location. I figure that NY and LA have become pretty cliché, but other American cities pale in comparison.…
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Participants: fig, lachek, northerain, MKAdams, epweissengruber.

2/26/2008 jefgodesky: [Fifth World] How might you model tracking with beads and a mancala board?
[i]These previous threads should help introduce some of the concepts this game idea works with: [url=http://www.indie-rpgs.com/forum/index.php?topic=25218.0]Power 19 for the Fifth World[/url], [url=http://www.indie-rpgs.com/forum/index.php?topic=25076.0]previous discussion about a core mechanic[/url].  I also started…
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Participants: jefgodesky, Guy Srinivasan, Creatures of Destiny, PlatonicPimp, madunkieg.

2/26/2008 etheruk: High Stakes: A superhero game using cards
Hello I'm in the early stages of designing a new superhero roleplaying system. One that can accurately represents the conflicts in the comic books. The heart of the system is…
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Participants: etheruk, Creatures of Destiny, danielsan, vgunn.

2/26/2008 Erundale: Homebrew dragaera
I'm not sure if this is the appropiate forum, but did not find anyone better. Sorry, also, for my lamentable english grammar The issue: I'm working in a home-brew project,…
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Participants: Erundale.

2/27/2008 Grinning Moon: [Lines in the Sand] Power 19, and some 'down the road' questions
1.) What is your game about? It's about 'drawing lines' against certain issues based on personal values, and the consequences thereof. 2.) What do the characters do? Characters are people…
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Participants: Grinning Moon.

2/27/2008 fig: Frankensetting
I’m developing my occult/horror setting which is based in Toronto. I’m being intentionally vague with my hooks, not just because subtlety works better with a place like Toronto, but it’s…
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Participants: fig, Creatures of Destiny, northerain.

2/28/2008 Vulpinoid: [8th Sea] Some thoughts about scene framing
I was reading through Peter Nordstrand's Scene Framing the Renaissance, and I hit apon an idea for kernels of this concept could be applied to…
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Participants: Vulpinoid, wild_card2007.

3/1/2008 fanflicks: [Power of 19] Trip : RPG about Addiction
Okay it's been awhile since my last visit but when i posted my initial idea i got a lot of good responses. So here we go. 1) What is your…
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Participants: fanflicks, Axe4Eye, JoyWriter, Creatures of Destiny, davidberg.

3/4/2008 The Black Dog: Power 19 for my "EPIC" role-playing game
1. What is your game about? Working on defining it 2. What do the characters do? Combating "evil", travel the world discovering new lands, etc. 3. What do the players…
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Participants: The Black Dog, Eero Tuovinen, Axe4Eye, justin1083, JoyWriter, Troy_Costisick.

3/4/2008 Galadrin: [Power of 19] 16-bit
1. What is your game about? Telling a classic, 16-bit style JRPG tale, complete with an epic, developing plot that draws the player deeper as he or she helps to…
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Participants: Galadrin, justin1083, Catalyst N.

3/6/2008 David Artman: [ASCII @HACK] One-Shot Gear
I am developing a roguelike RPG simulator which balances somewhat-freeform character creation and situation generation against a die rank and success-counting system, with the aim of playing out any genre…
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Participants: David Artman, Darcy Burgess, JoyWriter, Falc, dindenver.

3/6/2008 NickL: Candycreeps -- aesthetics and mechanics
Hi, everybody, I'm Nick, and I'm working up a game, tentatively entitled Candycreeps, that I'll publish through Green Fairy Games, the folks who do Fae Noir.  I've just now managed…
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Participants: NickL, Darcy Burgess, Adrian F., joepub.

3/7/2008 etheruk: [Power of 19] High Stakes
HIGH STAKES 1.)What is your game about?** High stakes is a game about superheroes and the sacrifices they are willing to make to save the world. 2.) What do the…
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Participants: etheruk, GeeX Underground, anders_larsen, danielsan, Creatures of Destiny.

3/8/2008 Le Joueur: An Open Request for Help
Hi! You probably don't know me, but I used to moderate <a href="http://www.indie-rpgs.com/forum/index.php?board=22.0">this forum</a> here on the Forge.  I haven't poked my head in here for almost five years.  I…
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Participants: Le Joueur.

3/8/2008 Krytos: Sarvæia - New RPG Overview
This is a fantasy RPG that I've been working on for some time now. So long, in fact, that I'm not sure that "First Thoughts" is really appropriate, but I've…
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Participants: Krytos, Vulpinoid, Paul Czege.

3/8/2008 GeeX Underground: The Treasure of Haunted Mansion and Deathmatch
I've been working on these board games for a couple weeks and am getting ready to create a prototype for each one in order to play test locally. However, I…
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Participants: GeeX Underground.

3/8/2008 GeeX Underground: The Treasure of Haunted Mansion and Deathmatch
I've been working on these board games for a couple weeks and am getting ready to create a prototype for each one in order to play test locally. However, I…
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Participants: GeeX Underground, JustinB.

3/9/2008 Krippler: Taking names
My inspiration for this game comes from both The Mountain Witch (which I gm'd last friday using my own bastardized rules derived from reviews), the hype around D&D4 (never actually…
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Participants: Krippler, dindenver, joepub, opsneakie.

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