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7/27/2009 Librabys: Aethera and the kill power 19
Hi, I am designing a game, and reading here since few weeks. I've red all the articles and some posts, and I would like to put my concept on the…
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Participants: Librabys, Noclue, Ron Edwards, markhaselb, Simon C, Ben Lehman.

7/25/2009 Lance D. Allen: [Mage Blade]: Spellcasting
It's laughable to call this a first thought. I've taken magic back to formula almost as many times as character generation. So we'll call this a Born-Again First Thought. As…
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Participants: Lance D. Allen, Simon C, brianbloodaxe, Bill_White, Johnstone.

7/24/2009 ShallowThoughts: Distinguishing between good-good/bad-good, and simply boring actions
I realize the topic title is mystifying, so I'll explain. I'm working on a character growth/reward system (mentioned in a recent post Chits and the Void) where the PCs are…
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Participants: ShallowThoughts, Luke, Patrice, dindenver, Lance D. Allen, anders_larsen.

7/24/2009 Mordy: RPGing on the Fly
I'm a long-term lurker (a couple years), but this is my first post. First I want to thank everyone on the forums for turning me onto some remarkable games, and…
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Participants: Mordy, Luke, brianbloodaxe, Simon C, Vulpinoid.

7/22/2009 chronoplasm: Roll to Break the Rules
OK, so I've been working (off and on) on a game that is similar to D&D except that the Dungeon Master is an opponent that is encouraged for killing off…
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Participants: chronoplasm, Luke, Simon C, Noon, Patrice, markhaselb, M. Burrell, sockmonkey, mjbauer, JoyWriter.

7/22/2009 brianbloodaxe: [Oxygen] Non-physical conflicts
After a couple of test sessions of my SF game Oxygen (read all about it here:http://www.indie-rpgs.com/forum/index.php?topic=28244.0) and after reading a load of threads in here I have had a couple…
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Participants: brianbloodaxe, chance.thirteen, Luke, Simon C, Gregor Hutton, HeTeleports, Lance D. Allen.

7/22/2009 sockmonkey: [Chronoplex] A Brief Overview
I meant to have this posted long before now, but real life keeps horning in. So before I lose my chance, here is a brief introduction to Chronoplex: ------------------------------ Chronoplex…
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Participants: sockmonkey, chronoplasm, Simon C, VoidDragon, brianbloodaxe.

7/22/2009 Moltora: Help with combat system
I am designing a game and i would just like to ask you to look for any holes or arguments in my system... Here is the link, just click the…
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Participants: Moltora, Simon C, Luke.

7/22/2009 noahtrammell: Two-Player FATE
  With reading all the discussions on twosies lately, I think the idea for a two-player game kinda slipped into my subconscious.  While reading, I've noticed that most of these…
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Participants: noahtrammell, jasonm, Ron Edwards, Patrice.

7/22/2009 Alokov: Game of Thrones RPG editions
Alright. First of all I really don't know if this fits in this forum but I have no idea where else to post it so forgive me if I screwed…
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Participants: Alokov, chaviro, Luke, Adam Dray.

7/22/2009 Alex Abate: An educative rpg idea.
First, I would like to say I am sorry for not being a very consistent poster here. I would like to post around here a lot more than I do,…
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Participants: Alex Abate, Jonathan Walton, Thor Olavsrud.

7/21/2009 andomonir: Two-player RPGs
Hi, I'm not sure if this is the right place to post this (first time poster), but I was wondering: Has anyone addressed the scenario of two player gaming? Would…
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Participants: andomonir, Ron Edwards, Jonathan Walton.

7/21/2009 GregStolze: Ugh, deprotagonize me! Make me like it!
Somewhere (probably on the internet) I read someone complaining about "the dice telling me what to do."  So I started thinking.  Why's that a bad thing?  Constraint breeds creativity, after…
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Participants: GregStolze, Adam Dray, Marshall Burns, MacLeod, Noon, GreatWolf, sockmonkey, JoyWriter, TonyLB.

7/21/2009 HeTeleports: Discovering your powers -- an exercise of IIEE (or IIEC, etc.)
You know what's always cool about superhero origin stories? The transformation of the protagonist. That's what Joseph Campbell's "Hero with a Thousand Faces" is really about. That's what the first…
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Participants: HeTeleports, Simon C, Luke.

7/20/2009 MacLeod: Several Minor Ideas, Thoughts Please? [somewhat lengthy]
I have some minor ideas, questions and the like... I had to wait for a while as none of these questions seemed major enough to warrant a new thread by…
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Participants: MacLeod, markhaselb, Luke, JoyWriter, Mike Sugarbaker.

7/20/2009 HeTeleports: Design from the other end of the games industry
While the Forge is a role-playing design community, any amount of theory is worth investigating how it applies to our design. This is an hour-long lecture on design -- but…
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Participants: HeTeleports, greyorm, Noon, ShallowThoughts, RabbitHoleGames, Ralek, Wordman, David C, AzaLiN.

7/20/2009 sockmonkey: Editorial Timeline Samples?
I'm not sure if this is where this belongs. It seems to me there is a step missing between First Thoughts and Playtesting. Perhaps a Development forum could be considered?…
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Participants: sockmonkey, Luke, Lance D. Allen.

7/20/2009 flossy: New Game - Pearly Gates
I have an idea for a game called 'Pearly Gates'. The premise is that you have just died and you are justifying whether you go up to heaven or down…
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Participants: flossy, Alokov, jasonm.

7/20/2009 Garbados: [Ex Deus] System: Simple, Fast, Intuitive, Universal, Compelling
I began work on Ex Deus roughly five months ago, seeking to reconcile GURPS' unprecedented universality and detail with White Wolf's compelling simplicity. No single system I knew of accommodated…
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Participants: Garbados, Alokov, Bill_White, Ron Edwards, Thunder_God, Luke, Lance D. Allen, Alex Abate, SAW, Mike Sugarbaker, Fatespinner, Noclue, Tyler.Tinsley, Simon C.

7/20/2009 Alokov: New RPG idea Frozen Dawn RPG
Hey. I'm writing my own RPG now. I am only a teenager so please bear with my  teenage silliness. It's a post-apocalyptic game set at the end of the next…
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Participants: Alokov, Luke, David C, brianbloodaxe, greyorm, Thunder_God, Noclue, Simon C, Noon, contracycle, AcaBerry, dindenver, cocohow, lumpley, Jeff B.

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7/28/2009 Ayyavazi: Cyclical World Explosion and Premise
Ok, I'm trying to design a setting so that it encourages premise, that is, encourages narrativist roleplaying and doesn't fall into the "excuse to publish fiction" Ron hates so much.…
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Participants: Ayyavazi, jasonm.

7/28/2009 Ayyavazi: What goes into a Genre?
Hello all, I realized that coming up with genres and example movies/books does not help people to craft stories using my game, since Genre is too broad a term. What…
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Participants: Ayyavazi, dindenver, JoyWriter.

7/28/2009 Wordman: Designing to constraints (airport games)
I can't tell if this post is really intended to design a real game, or just tripping over beehives. I think it is the former, but given my recent ranting…
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Participants: Wordman, HeTeleports, Librabys, Doplegager, JoyWriter, Vladius, Guy Srinivasan.

7/28/2009 7VII7: TAROT (working title) stuff
Color: Classic fantasy elements with a new take on it, things like magic being a daily part of life, elves being more like aliens, dwarves incased cybernetic suits, etc, for…
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Participants: 7VII7, markhaselb, Simon C, Adam Dray.

7/29/2009 cra2: Vice vs Virtue
Need help with this mechanic idea... I took an old TSR Boot Hill module and replaced the resolution system with something fast - a trimmed down version of the Fuzion…
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Participants: cra2, Luke, Lance D. Allen, Mike Sugarbaker, Simon C.

7/29/2009 Tyler.Tinsley: principled play Vs. lawful play and the "players contract"
I'm trying a little experiment with my latest project and it's helped me clear up some issues I have been having. On a lark I thought it would be a…
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Participants: Tyler.Tinsley, HeTeleports, Luke, JoyWriter, Noon.

7/29/2009 agony: Forced goals/conditions on players
  edit  whisperquote# 1 I'm working on a mechanic where damage received is translated to "Scars". Scars may only be healed by buying them off. Each Scar will have its…
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Participants: agony, Simon C, Mike Sugarbaker, 7VII7, JoyWriter, Thor Olavsrud, Noon, Vladius.

7/29/2009 Lance D. Allen: [Mage Blade]: Spell Building
Okay! Once I have managed to get past this, I will really have no excuse to not finish and begin playtesting the hell out of my game. The magic system…
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Participants: Lance D. Allen, brianbloodaxe, David C, 7VII7, Simon C, Geethree, Guy Srinivasan, Johnstone.

7/30/2009 Adam Dray: Get the most out of posting your new game idea to First Thoughts
I have been a Forge member for a long time, with varying degrees of activity. I'm not the forum moderator (Ron Edwards is -- this post is advice, not rules).…
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Participants: Adam Dray, MacLeod, markhaselb, Lance D. Allen, Librabys, Simon C, Ben Lehman, 7VII7, Luke, greyorm, Vulpinoid, Paka, SeeThirty.

7/31/2009 DWeird: Napkins, crayons, utter annihilation
Hi! I'm taking a break from my other stuff that's slowly brewing (no! really! there's progress!), and decided to go for something silly and childish instead... You're a crew on…
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Participants: DWeird, Mike Sugarbaker, Geethree.

8/3/2009 paddirn: Performance based skill gain?
I'm curious what sorts of things other people have come across when trying to make skill gain more "realistic". The mechanic I'm attempting to incorporate is having players only able…
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Participants: paddirn, Luke, Simon C, chance.thirteen, 7VII7, Geethree, sockmonkey, Creatures of Destiny, Vulpinoid, JoyWriter.

8/4/2009 Silicon God: FIRST POST! - Yet another Homebrew Mecha RPG, but this one's tactical for once
Hello, I've been posting on a number of tabletop/RPG sites a while, trying to get feedback on my creation. So, what's it? Its a tactical RPG. (while I know that…
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Participants: Silicon God, Noclue, contracycle, MacLeod, Ron Edwards, mjbauer, Simon C, Mike Sugarbaker.

8/5/2009 Benajmin385: Planing an Wargame RPG kind of Game... Will this be allowed on the forge?
Hey my name is Benjamin aka Benjamin385. I have been trying to make an RPG-war game for quite an while now. I am asking if this will be allowed on…
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Participants: Benajmin385, Vulpinoid, Simon C, mjbauer, greyorm, David C.

8/5/2009 Galadrin: Tolkien-esque Storytelling RPG
After taking a BIG break from my hobbies (board games, pen & paper games, wargames etc), my interest in game design seeped back into my life rather naturally.  I was…
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Participants: Galadrin, jerry, Noclue, chance.thirteen, anders_larsen, Luke, Guy Srinivasan, brianbloodaxe, noahtrammell, 7VII7, RobNJ, contracycle, Alokov.

8/5/2009 Patrice: [Tales of the Dragon Lords]The Setting
I wasn't planning to post anymore in First Thoughts about Tales of the Dragon Lords but Evan's thread gave me a good motivation to do so when he stated in…
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Participants: Patrice, Paul Czege, whiteknife, M. Burrell, noahtrammell, Noclue, C. Edwards, JoyWriter.

8/5/2009 Geethree: "Recipe"-based Magic System - how to resolve/refine?
I am working on a magic system loosely inspired by the novel Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell. For those unfamiliar, essentially it is not combat-centric. It is more general folklore-y…
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Participants: Geethree, Mike Sugarbaker, Creatures of Destiny, JoyWriter, Lance D. Allen, jasonm, Xeven.

8/5/2009 sockmonkey: [Chronoplex] The Coin Mechanic Thing
This post is based on feedback I received in a previous post: ...Assuing that rolling "1c8" means flipping all four coins (you have given no other situation in which you…
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Participants: sockmonkey, JoyWriter.

8/6/2009 7VII7: [11:11] Introduction
I've released the game I've previously been working on was partially not what I wanted and mostly over my head so for now it's on the back burner as I…
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Participants: 7VII7, RobNJ, MacLeod, Luke.

8/6/2009 Charlie Gilb: [the Waste] Resolution: succeeding by getting stabbed in the face
Hello, A few months ago, I posted a few threads both in this forums and on Story-Games about my post-apocalyptic RPG called 'the Waste'. Following that, I have done a…
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Participants: Charlie Gilb, noahtrammell, RobNJ, Luke, Creatures of Destiny, JoyWriter.

8/6/2009 MacLeod: [Vice & Virtue] My Attempt At Creating Roleplaying Mechanics
For the longest time I have been hating on roleplaying incentives and roleplay controlling mechanics. Recently, however, I've decided that I'd like to try my hand at designing such a…
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Participants: MacLeod, Dan Maruschak, Guy Srinivasan, Geethree, Steenan, JoyWriter, SeeThirty, Vladius.

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