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7/14/2008 chronoplasm: [Townsfolk] Random Worldbuilding +Monster Creation
Alright, so when you enter an uncharted area on the map, you need to determine the terrain and the monster population of that area. You do this first by drawing…
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Participants: chronoplasm, dindenver.

7/14/2008 talath1221: [Malls & Morons] Ideas
So, some years ago, I made this d20 game called Malls & Morons, and it was about teenagers who spent their free time in the mall causing shenanigans. People liked…
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Participants: talath1221, jasonm, GregStolze, Marshall Burns.

7/13/2008 dindenver: [DNAwesome] Break my chargen system, please!
Hi!   I was trying to come up with a way to make a Supers game without the laundry list of powers. I think I have it, but I need…
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Participants: dindenver, Vulpinoid, Paul Czege, Ken, jag.

7/12/2008 DWeird: Pride - just what am I doing, here?
First time poster, long time reader... Given these boards first name policy: name's Daumantas, Dauma for short. Lithuanian, in case you wonder. The order of the post will be as…
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Participants: DWeird, jag.

7/11/2008 Lethe: Wannabe game designer seeks help from good people of the Forge
Hi. I'm actually a little nervous to make a post here, is that stupid or what? There's not even an audience that I can imagine in their underwear, so that's…
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Participants: Lethe, Eero Tuovinen, Selene Tan.

7/10/2008 jag: Making Public Goods more conflicted
I've been toying with a resolution pattern inspired by the Public Goods Game. Reading Ron's playtest of The People's Hero has precipitated this latest version, and although I don't see…
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Participants: jag, Ron Edwards, GregStolze.

7/7/2008 Luchaire: Ex Fabula: Intro and Power 19
Howdy. I'm sort of new here - that is, I've read nearly every post of the last few weeks and skimmed many going back a couple years. I've been lurking…
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Participants: Luchaire, First Oni, chronoplasm, Will.

7/5/2008 Petter: RPG in New York, 1877
My first post here! I´m writing a supplement for the Swedish RPG Western. It´s set in New York, around 1877. I will probably focus mainly on money, power and crime.…
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Participants: Petter, chronoplasm, Teramis, jasonm, matthijs.

7/4/2008 teckno72: My first, free, new rpg online
You can check out my new, free rpg at: www.1km.1kt.net/rpg/picking-sides-the-role-playing-game It is based on my novel (not free): www.mynubook.com Thanks for critique.  I know it has many rough spots, as…
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Participants: teckno72, preludetotheend.

7/2/2008 chronoplasm: Townsfolk Classes
OK, so in this game you play as a simple villager struggling to survive a world warped by thaumaturgic fallout after an alchemical war and populated by chimeric monsters. This…
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Participants: chronoplasm, Eero Tuovinen, madunkieg.

7/2/2008 StrongBadMun: What should I do next?
Ok so Ember's going to reading and playtesting and while it may come back to me in need of a massive overhaul I'm pretty confident that what I've put together…
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Participants: StrongBadMun, chronoplasm, Will, whiteknife, Ron Edwards.

7/1/2008 preludetotheend: Base roll mechanics (Gears and Cogs: GaC)
Hello all,   Currently I am trying to cobble together Gears and Cogs a generic universal system for use with my works, as well as some friends and I am…
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Participants: preludetotheend, chronoplasm, Ron Edwards, Precious Villain, Will, SpoDaddy.

6/30/2008 chronoplasm: Townsfolk Power 19
1.) What is your game about?** 2.) What do the characters do?** 3.) What do the players (including the GM if there is one) do?** In Townsfolk, players don't play…
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Participants: chronoplasm, whiteknife, dindenver, StrongBadMun.

6/29/2008 dindenver: [DNAwesome] Setting so far...
Hi!   I really am looking to brainstorm this out a bit (I have some criteria, but other than that, its all flexible). Here is where I am starting from:…
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Participants: dindenver, whiteknife, chronoplasm, Will, Ken.

6/28/2008 Klaus Graziade: [Power 19] Godai (be warned...long post!)
Okay, so I've been working like crazy to get my game together.  After a good year of brainstorming, dead ends, and lost ideas, I've been struck by inspiration the past…
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Participants: Klaus Graziade, whiteknife.

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.

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.

6/24/2008 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.

6/23/2008 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.

6/23/2008 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.

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7/17/2008 BubbaBrown: Needing that other perspective
I've been monkeying around with this system as the platform for a few other projects I've got.  I decided recently to start ramping up development on it after a long…
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Participants: BubbaBrown.

7/17/2008 jefgodesky: Requiring players to use oracles vs. leaving them as a backup option
Without digging into too much detail, my game could require some fairly intense bouts of creativity, like coming up with riddles.  I realize this is not something I can expect…
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Participants: jefgodesky.

7/17/2008 was_fired: TOCC
Hi, I recently made a website for my game TOCC so I thought I should get the word out.  I talked about TOCC here a while ago.  TOCC is basically…
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Participants: was_fired.

7/18/2008 dindenver: [DNAwesome] What would you do?
Hi!   OK, here is the scenario, see if you can break my resolution mechanics please.   You are playing Guillermo Perez, his stats are as follows: Super Stretching (Super,…
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Participants: dindenver.

7/19/2008 StrongBadMun: Gods Gone Wild! Power 19
So here's what I've decided for my next game.  Gods Gone Wild! has been the playtesting medium for Ember's system while the RPG itself was still being crafted, and everyone…
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Participants: StrongBadMun.

7/19/2008 GregStolze: [DIRTY WORLD] Dirty Secrets? Anybody? Anybody?
(Crossposted around and about) Okay. So I have this Film Noir game "A Dirty World" coming out, and every character has to have a dirty secret. The default secret is…
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Participants: GregStolze, chance.thirteen, Double King.

7/23/2008 Willow: [Warriors from the Mystic Mountain] Deeply Struggling With My Game
[url=http://willowrants.wordpress.com/2007/07/31/am-i-writing-the-wrong-game]Almost a year ago,[/url] I had the same doubts I am now experiencing.  In the past year, my system has crawled along.  I've worked on it, but it doesn't feel…
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Participants: Willow, jag, greyorm, StrongBadMun, dindenver, jasonm, visioNationstudios, SpoDaddy, Eero Tuovinen, chance.thirteen, Greg 1, Ron Edwards.

7/23/2008 Martians: points based character creation
Hi all, im just looking to compile a list of the best points based character creation systems people have used... post here with any that you have found to be…
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Participants: Martians, dindenver, Selene Tan, migo.

7/23/2008 SpoDaddy: A setting that revolves around murderers seeking redemption on an alien world
I've been bouncing this idea around in my head for a long time. A prison ship crashes on an uncharted alien world.  This alien world is largely populated by a…
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Participants: SpoDaddy, preludetotheend, greyorm, GregStolze.

7/25/2008 ynnen: Design Philosophy: Success & Failure
Working with a variety of different RPG engines over the last few weeks has lead to some interesting and insightful conversations with co-workers and gaming buddies. One that really struck…
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Participants: ynnen, greyorm, Marshall Burns, wild_card2007, Adam Dray, TempvsMortis, migo.

7/26/2008 Foltor: Need Help with a Title
I've been doodling around with a system and setting on and off for a few years, and it's coming along pretty well.  I've got a draft of the manual, done…
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Participants: Foltor, Double King, SpoDaddy, GregStolze.

7/27/2008 Brennen Reece: The Libertines: Affliction, Addiction, Madness and Ennui
Will and I are working on a game about degenerate 18th century noblemen who fight evil out of boredom. It's really about fighting or embracing one's personal demons, and the…
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Participants: Brennen Reece, Double King, SpoDaddy, Marshall Burns, Abkajud, Armoury99.

7/28/2008 SpoDaddy: New tricks for die step systems?
I've always loved die step systems aesthetically, and I'd like to use one in the game I'm developing, but I want to pull off something new with it (probably something…
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Participants: SpoDaddy, GregStolze, Brennen Reece, Guy Srinivasan, jag, Vulpinoid, Willow, VoidDragon.

7/28/2008 Martians: [Terra Fantastica] Power 19
Hi all, i finally did it...i sat down today and filled out a power 19 for my game Terra Fantastica, here it is i tried not to give away to…
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Participants: Martians, dindenver, jasonm.

7/28/2008 wild_card2007: Determining difficulty of actions
A quick intro: I'm going for a hybrid game system in which the actual resolution and reward mechanics are fairly crunchy/gamist but a lot of "what happens" can be narrative,…
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Participants: wild_card2007, Arturo G., Vulpinoid.

8/1/2008 tombowings: What to do on a Space Ship?
I'm brainstorming ideas for an RPG based on the social aspects of tight budgeted space travel and adventure. Ok, maybe I can't quite put it into words. Think firefly, though,…
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Participants: tombowings, Vulpinoid, Eero Tuovinen, Arturo G., Lazy Wombat, David Artman, Will, opsneakie, NN, chance.thirteen, Vile, Susan Calvin.

8/1/2008 Edgar: basic system questions (or, d6+marker pen=?)
Hello, I've been working on homemade game systems for quite a while now, but the newest brainchild is giving me a bit of a headache. So, avoiding any lengthy introduction,…
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Participants: Edgar, matthijs, Falc.

8/1/2008 Greg 1: [Meta] Am I doing something wrong in the way I post my ideas?
Hi folks, I posted three rather detailed settings to The Forge and got no comments at all. http://www.indie-rpgs.com/forum/index.php?topic=26227.0 http://www.indie-rpgs.com/forum/index.php?topic=26228.0 http://www.indie-rpgs.com/forum/index.php?topic=26229.0 This makes me wonder if I'm going about things the…
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Participants: Greg 1, dindenver, JustinB, Mike Sugarbaker, Eero Tuovinen.

8/4/2008 BWA: Clockwork City: Need help with combat system
I am working on a game for personal use (which means I am free to steal from other games I like with impunity), and I'm a little stuck on the…
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Participants: BWA, Marshall Burns, Willow, dindenver, Capulet, Vulpinoid, Eldrad, NN, Riot, David C, imago, JoyWriter.

8/6/2008 FLEB: [Glass and Steel] Concealing core spoilers?
[b]The background:[/b] There's this game I'd been in the initial stages of developing a few months ago, [i]Glass and Steel[/i]. I'd run into some snags as far as character and…
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Participants: FLEB, Willow, dindenver, jag, Vulpinoid.

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