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6/7/2008 Big J Money: Before I can begin
I have a specific question concerning goals during game design.  How have some (of you) game designers found that a concious effort to designing a system toward specific GNS goals/rewards…
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Participants: Big J Money, Eero Tuovinen.

6/5/2008 Maggott: Maggott's Quest for Critiques, part 2: The Klernbraggians
I am posting these race descriptions in order to get an idea of how readers percieve the race according to my description.  The races are unusual enough that there's potential…
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Participants: Maggott, chronoplasm.

6/5/2008 chronoplasm: No Power 19 Yet... Some Ideas Though
So I want to make a "hack and slash" where, instead of playing as adventurers on dungeon crawls, players are townsfolk trying to defend and maintain their village. The setting…
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Participants: chronoplasm, Illetizgerg, Roadkill.

6/5/2008 Nybbles: New Idea: Tarot Cards Instead of Dice
the setting i have in mind is a high fantasy RPG set in a world that borrows heavily from myth and fairy tales with celtic, norse and classical roots where…
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Participants: Nybbles, Will, Peter Nordstrand, charles ferguson, Durand Durand, madunkieg, GregStolze, Double King, chance.thirteen, migo, greyorm, Jack Phillips, Vulpinoid, Big J Money, rasterix.

6/5/2008 Illetizgerg: Thoughts on Delayed Success Vs. Failure
Now, personally, I can't stand it when I hear that little kids can't play dodge ball because, good golly miss molly, the idea of last man standing could do nothing…
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Participants: Illetizgerg, Arturo G., Double King, TempvsMortis, chronoplasm, Will, madunkieg.

6/5/2008 electricpaladin: New Idea: Gods and Demons, Priests and Paladins - Faith and its Consequences
Last time I came here, it was with a game that wasn't really very first thoughtsy. It was basically done, and it's still coming along nicely. But this one (I'm…
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Participants: electricpaladin, Arturo G., flammifer, Michael Johnson, RadiantWind.

6/4/2008 Arturo G.: [My Group of Role-Players] Power-19 of a GameChef entry
Hi everyone! This is the Power-19 for my GameChef entry of this year. Although I'm working in the draft, I would like to know if people find the idea funny…
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Participants: Arturo G..

6/4/2008 Maggott: Maggott's Quest for Critiques, Part 1: The Overview
What follows is the initial part of the Overview section at the beginning of the book I'm writing.  By pagecount it's only one eighth of the total overview, but if…
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Participants: Maggott, TempvsMortis, Vulpinoid.

6/3/2008 northerain: [Dark Days]: The Characters
This is for my game ''Dark Days'' (ex-Van Dread) which is about occult investigation and horror. I won't get in on the details since I'm just putting this one idea…
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Participants: northerain, ChadDubya, Will, anansi, xenopulse.

6/3/2008 wags076: New Game Idea: Fitness
Hi, New to these forums but thought this would be a great way to start gathering some feedback about an idea i've had sitting around for a while. I thought…
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Participants: wags076, Vulpinoid, Will, TempvsMortis.

6/2/2008 Maggott: Request for Critiques
Introduction to me and my dark mission: I am Mark Argyle, supreme overlord of GhazPORK Industrial, an incredibly small and slightly deranged entertainment company (both of which are results of…
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Participants: Maggott, TempvsMortis.

6/2/2008 poireau: My game Resolution system
Well i've pated here my game's Power 16, and I'm still thinking about it. I'm currently working on the seting more than the system. Nontheless, after reading a couple of…
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Participants: poireau, Kynn.

6/2/2008 Vulpinoid: LARP Concept
I've got a group of friends who've been itching to get back into a live roleplaying game for a few years. Their reasons for wanting this are fairly simple. 1.…
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Participants: Vulpinoid, David Artman, Capulet, KickAssClown.

6/1/2008 EricAlexander: New game idea: Sports franchise gaming?
I had a vague idea a few days ago that there should be an rpg where the pc's are players on a sports team, whether it be a real life…
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Participants: EricAlexander, visioNationstudios, Arturo G., Will.

5/30/2008 Mike Welker: Rock 'n' roll: Anything like this out there?
The video game craze, guitar hero stuff, makes me ask this... Anyone know of a rock and roll, or generally pop music sort of thing, rpg of any type? I…
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Participants: Mike Welker, Marshall Burns, rafial, Thor, EricAlexander.

5/29/2008 davidberg: magical investigation = coloring setting???
I've been playtesting a game that I want to be (a) highly immersive in "sense of place" in the setting, and (b) concerned with discovery of the supernatural.  It hasn't…
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Participants: davidberg, jag, Marshall Burns.

5/29/2008 GregStolze: It Came to Me In a Dream
No, literally. I woke up this morning having dreamed of a game that was based on ULYSSES. No, I haven't read James Joyce's longest and most-suppressed work, but I guess…
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Participants: GregStolze, Mike Welker, TempvsMortis, Everspinner, Brendan Day, Momos, Lord_Steelhand, Hermes3, earwig, Ron Edwards.

5/28/2008 3drpg: Web site live, preparing for beta, any thoughts?
Greetings all.  I've browsed these forums on and off for years now and I'm getting ready to release the site for my RPG.  I'm interested in some input on the…
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Participants: 3drpg, Eero Tuovinen, greyorm, jag.

5/28/2008 Kynn: Heartbreaker! Dreammaker! Lovetaker! Don't you mess around with me!
Anyone else ever finding themselves caught by the urge to just make the most fantasyheartbreakerish fantasy heartbreaker you could make? I keep being tempted. I have no idea why. But…
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Participants: Kynn, Eero Tuovinen, FrankBrunner, Adam Dray, David Artman, Frank Tarcikowski, Grand_Commander13, Kobayashi, Ron Edwards.

5/27/2008 ChadDubya: Trollkiller: Viking Detective
Trollkiller: Viking Detective (tentative title) Here's the basic guts of an indie-game I've been working on. It's still in its infancy, so any feedback or ideas are appreciated. SYNOPSIS: You…
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Participants: ChadDubya, whiteknife, dindenver.

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6/12/2008 dindenver: [DNAwesome] Mechanics so far
Hi!   So, this is the starting framework for the mechanics so far: In order to resolve a conflict, we need to know 3 things: 1) What Traits your character…
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Participants: dindenver, ChadDubya, Will, Arturo G., Filip Luszczyk.

6/13/2008 chronoplasm: Go Fish inspired resolution system
So I'm working on a game where players play as townsfolk in a world full of monsters. Players can play as miners, farmers, merchants, fishermen and many other roles and…
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Participants: chronoplasm, Paul Czege, Will.

6/14/2008 Grail-Shadowblade: Storm of Beginnings - Character Creation Queries and Thoughts
Bet you didn't expect to see me again folks! Anyway Raid Earth is taking a backburner for now while I focus on a dice based system that my recent D&D…
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Participants: Grail-Shadowblade.

6/14/2008 Bullbar: A very, very narrow concept: The Bridge/The Drop
I'm not entirely sure if this is the right way to go about it, but I hope so. I've come up with a concept for a game set entirely between…
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Participants: Bullbar, Arturo G., Vulpinoid, Everspinner, madunkieg, Will, jag, RadiantWind.

6/14/2008 Roadkill: 7 phrases
Ok this is not designed to be a serious game or even a game at all, just a light hearted idea/piece of fun perhaps. It could be played within an…
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Participants: Roadkill, Vulpinoid, Willow, Will.

6/16/2008 Jumanji83: Corporate sell-out
So I've been thinking, and there is a game I'd like to design (it would be my first if I ever get around to it). The players' characters are all…
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Participants: Jumanji83, Will, Ron Edwards.

6/16/2008 ChrisMcDee: Inheritance - High-Powered Heroes of Classical Antiquity
I can't help but feel Connections was the wrong place to put this, so for your general feedback consideration here is Inheritance! Inheritance is a System…
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Participants: ChrisMcDee, preludetotheend.

6/18/2008 ChrisMcDee: Teen-Islanders High School Politics and Coconut Radios
I was toying with the idea of creating a game that could be playable solo, taking inspiration from the randomly generated content of Roguelikes. I ended up with the idea…
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Participants: ChrisMcDee, whiteknife.

6/19/2008 evancolson: Power 19 concept
I'm a real first-timer here and after reading a few other people's posts, I have decided to sketch out a "Power 19" for a game I'm thinking of creating. Criticism…
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Participants: evancolson, matthijs, dindenver.

6/19/2008 Will: [Surreality Engine] call for comments on system.
Ok, I have been writing and rewriting this for long enough and I know exactly how it should work and it plays quite well with me running it, it's time…
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Participants: Will, tombowings.

6/20/2008 tombowings: Social Interruption/Conflict RPG (Not even to a power 19)
Hello everyone, I'm pretty new to RPG design, so bare with me here. I don't have much to show off and I've hit a bit of a roadblock. Here's the…
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Participants: tombowings, Paul Czege, dindenver.

6/21/2008 StrongBadMun: When Darkness Falls, players don't roll?
So I'm working on my Horror RPG When Darkness Falls, heavily influenced by ghost hunters, hauntings, and games like Clive Barker's Jericho. My main idea for creating tension is that…
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Participants: StrongBadMun, Will, Ron Edwards, FLEB.

6/22/2008 tombowings: [Power 19] The Republic of Cambrai
Alright, I'm finally done sketching out my power. I have the ideas for the game pretty set, but am having some problems getting the mechanics together. Any help, criticism, and/or…
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Participants: tombowings.

6/23/2008 dindenver: [DNAwesome] Grit
Hi!   OK, the regular resolution mechanics are kind of straight forward. So, I wanted to "kick it up a notch!"   So,I came up with Grit. This is a…
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Participants: dindenver, Will.

6/23/2008 RadiantWind: A space-themed RPG
Hello, I'm new here, and I'm wondering if a futuristic RPG sounds like a good idea. Most of the RPGs here are set in the past, and I want to…
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Participants: RadiantWind, StrongBadMun, Lazy Wombat, First Oni, migo.

6/23/2008 RadiantWind: Space Adventures Advanced Edition Mechanics
These are the mechanics of my game, Space Adventures: Advanced Edition. Keep in mind that this is the advanced version of my game, so it may be difficult to understand…
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Participants: RadiantWind.

6/23/2008 whiteknife: Tamers: Gotta {pick one: capture, grab, acquire, snatch, get, obtain} em' all!
I've always been interested in the idea of an RPG that dealt with the genre of monster catching. A group of normal guys who happen to have a bunch of…
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Participants: whiteknife, Ron Edwards, StrongBadMun, First Oni, Will, Krippler, chronoplasm, Elberon, neko ewen.

6/24/2008 Big J Money: Social Evening/LARP fueled by Indie?
Brainstorm for a game I think might have both merit and an audience. Played in one evening LARP inspired Setting is on location, can be as simple…
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Participants: Big J Money, Eliarhiman6.

6/25/2008 dindenver: [DNAwesome] Power 19
Hi!   Luke Crane, John Wick, and Jared Sorensen came up with the Big Three questions of Game Design. Then, Troy Cristisick came up with the Power 19, a way…
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Participants: dindenver.

6/27/2008 quixoteles: Darwin's Charity
I read a game informer lately, in it was an article about co-op games. It mentions that innovation in competition and solo play in video games far out strips Co-operation.…
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Participants: quixoteles, matthijs, Vulpinoid, baron samedi, GregStolze, Evlyn.

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