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9/13/2009 chronoplasm: Tactical Combat based on 'Marching Order'
There are elements of 4E I like and elements of OD&D I like. For a while, I've been trying to come up with a set of houserules that would merge…
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Participants: chronoplasm, Noon.

9/12/2009 MacLeod: [The Farmer's Epic] Random Aspects
With very few responses in my other thread, I have decided to scratch a different itch. This topic here is based on a thread over at RPG.net I started. The…
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Participants: MacLeod.

9/11/2009 gtroc: [Alien History] Hope Mechanics
Hello, I am currently working on a game(the working title is Alien History) and I have run into a bit of a plateau in the mechanics. the game is set…
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Participants: gtroc, Noclue, JoyWriter, Paul Czege.

9/11/2009 khyron1144: [Planet] Attributes
Here's the start of the attributes system for Planet.  This is what I've got finished so far, so the abrupt cut-off is sort of intentional: Attributes Attributes define your character’s…
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Participants: khyron1144, Warrior Monk, MacLeod.

9/11/2009 YEAH: HAUNTED! season of the heart
essentially season of the heart is a game about spirit hunting. the players are a group of voulunteers trying to save the world one evil book,demon,etc at a time. i…
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Participants: YEAH.

9/10/2009 Audious: Exodusters: Post-Apocalyptic Sci-Fi Western
First off, my first post. Thanks for having me. :) So, I hit a sort of weird spot of creativity the other day. I had an idea for a setting…
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Participants: Audious, khyron1144.

9/10/2009 khyron1144: [Planet] Introductory stuff
The working title for my possible heartbreaker is Planet.  Here's some of the beginning stuff from it, so people can see where I'm coming from stylisitically: Planet An Introductory Totally…
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Participants: khyron1144.

9/10/2009 khyron1144: I believe I may be designing a fantasy heartbreaker
I am most of thirty.  I have been at least tangentially involved with RPGs since about third grade.  I started with D&D.  First a D&D game that was packaged to…
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Participants: khyron1144, Creatures of Destiny, Ron Edwards, JoyWriter.

9/10/2009 Sebastian: [Lands & Stones] Gambling In-Character -> The 10 minute solution
Hello, I've written up the first draft of a prototype for a pretty basic, cross platform, In-Character gambling solution.  It's called Lands & Stones. Game Idea Marbles + Cards +…
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Participants: Sebastian, Vulpinoid, JoyWriter, chronoplasm.

9/8/2009 fealoro: Play by Forum system
Hi all I'm (quite desperatly) looking for a good RPG system for play by forum. Has anyone idea if there's some games expressly designed for Play by Forum, or some…
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Participants: fealoro, 7VII7, DWeird.

9/8/2009 Tark: [Beyond Gods] A game where not everyones a diety and Texas Hold'ems a resolution
So while contemplating game chef I got hit with a lightning bolt and started to think about higher beings. Not necessarily gods (though they can be) but entities of extreme…
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Participants: Tark, Ken, Vulpinoid, greyorm, Vladius, Spooky Fanboy.

9/6/2009 Kanosint: An alternate-universe warfare RPG
[i]Please excuse me if I say anything stupid, I'm rather new here, but others have recommended I run this through here, to see what other designers think of this.[/i] First…
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Participants: Kanosint, Vladius, BrunoDeLaBomba, Mike Sugarbaker.

9/5/2009 opsneakie: Diceless (card-based?) thoughts in the very early stages
I've decided I've been lurking too much recently and not actually posting anything, so I wanted to get an idea I've been toying with out there. I've been thinking about…
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Participants: opsneakie, Skull, henebry.

9/4/2009 MacLeod: [Intergalactic League of Brawlers] Combat Mechanic Revision
Two threads exist prior to this one concerning ILoB; one thread with lots of fiddly bits and an example of a battle and another thread concerning power sources. The first…
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Participants: MacLeod, drkrash, JoyWriter.

9/4/2009 Vladius: Dice-based Combat (Grapps)
I did a playtest of my own game. It was pretty fun, but I noticed that the combat took a while. It was approximately as long as 3.5e D&D for…
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Participants: Vladius, Artanis, Noon, JoyWriter.

9/3/2009 Wordman: Research: rewarding idealism
I'm playing with notions of reward incentives for following specific philosophies, without really caring about what the philosophies are. I'm researching systems that already do this, and could use some…
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Participants: Wordman, JoyWriter, Noon, contracycle, Simon_Pettersson, Vulpinoid, dmkdesigns.

9/3/2009 John Blaz: Close Quarters Combat mechanic
Hey everyone. I had this idea for a CQB mechanic before bed last night: Basically, each character's Hand-to-Hand skill is a die type, (d4, d6, d8, d10, d12), with d12…
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Participants: John Blaz, Darcy Burgess, David Artman, Creatures of Destiny, greyorm.

9/3/2009 Sebastian: Are GM-less games one shots?
I'm digesting as many Indie games as I can right now, but it will never be enough.  I have to make a design decision for one or both of the…
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Participants: Sebastian, jasonm, Michael S. Miller, David Artman, Eliarhiman6, Ben Lehman, JoyWriter, Noon, henebry.

9/3/2009 Tyler.Tinsley: About
I don't like it It's a tool but a blunt one. It's dissecting a frog with a hammer. sure you make it past the skin but what's inside is rendered…
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Participants: Tyler.Tinsley, anders_larsen, Ron Edwards, ShallowThoughts.

9/2/2009 Marshall Burns: [MADCorp] damage rules must contribute to driving gameplay
Ok, I've finally put together a set of damage rules that I feel good about. I'd like to post them here for some vetting. First off, lemme present the basic…
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Participants: Marshall Burns, whiteknife, Noon, JoyWriter, MacLeod.

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9/14/2009 dmkdesigns: Of Legends and Legacies
Here's a revised game description that's more than describing the system. What do you think? During the great Cataclysm the Denizens cried out for salvation and mercy to a place…
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Participants: dmkdesigns, Simon C, Mike Sugarbaker.

9/14/2009 khyron1144: [Planet] Races
This is what I've got typed up so far.  I will be posting it sort of piecemeal.  Feel free to comment at any stage. Races Planet is inhabited by many…
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Participants: khyron1144.

9/14/2009 dindenver: [Steampunk Crescendo] How do you play?
All,   Here is the basic mechanics for setting the scene. The reason I have it set up like this is that I want players to be able to call…
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Participants: dindenver, Adam Dray.

9/14/2009 TallMax: Need feedback/ideas for this Native American spiritual RPG idea I have
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT: This does not refer or come from a single tribe's beliefs or practices, but it is rather an amalgamation of popular ideas and different sources from many different tribes. …
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Participants: TallMax, JoyWriter, chance.thirteen.

9/16/2009 HeTeleports: Lover's Dilemma - an idea about spies, trust, and getting away with it
I'm on the trail of another new game idea. I've refined things (relatively), and there are some procedural things that I'm sure I'm missing. Again, we're on first draft. I've…
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Participants: HeTeleports, Adam Dray.

9/16/2009 henebry: Dominion and Dependency: a game mechanic for an ugly society
I’ve been working lately on a system for modeling a social mechanism familiar from pirate stories, prison stories and real-world junior high school experience: a tough guy (or gal) establishes…
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Participants: henebry, Adam Dray, contracycle, Sebastian.

9/18/2009 MacLeod: [Crepusculum] User Created & Free Form Powers
I've had some real duds here on the Forge lately, so this is me hoping for a strong collection of replies this time. I've pretty much arrived in a rut…
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Participants: MacLeod, HeTeleports, Sebastian, Ken.

9/19/2009 dmkdesigns: What Is Roleplaying? text open license
I would like to know if there is an open license or free text that explains about roleplaying games, GMs, Players, etc. so that people don't have to reinvent the…
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Participants: dmkdesigns, Eero Tuovinen, Sanglorian.

9/20/2009 MacLeod: [Crepusculum] CharGen & Mechanics
Alright, this topic is to be used for the discussion of my unnamed ruleslite super hero RPG. Discussion about its semi-free form Powers creation system can be found here. I…
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Participants: MacLeod, Sebastian, HeTeleports, Ken, Zebediah.

9/21/2009 Aapov: New Game Idea: Kill Team
The name Kill Team is the name I will use for now because that is how it is associated in my head. The idea is an RPG that is entirely…
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Participants: Aapov, David C, Sebastian, jasonm, Warrior Monk, otspiii, Creatures of Destiny.

9/22/2009 Andur: What are the most archetypic elements of generic Fantasy?
Hi. I want to create an D&D-inspired game system. "D&D-inspired" means: Class-based, level-based. otherwise, it's my own and has very little to do with D&D. It is meant to cover…
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Participants: Andur, chronoplasm, Mulrah, Guy Srinivasan, 7VII7, Zebediah.

9/22/2009 chronoplasm: Diceless Combat Using Logic Grid Puzzles?
In most games, you fight monsters by rolling dice and attempting to make monsters lose all their hit points. Here's a different idea: Each monster has a certain number of…
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Participants: chronoplasm, Kanosint, David Artman, Mulrah, Noon, JoyWriter, Double King.

9/22/2009 flossy: New Game [MeMe] - Basic idea - Take 2
I have had some more thoughts on the basic game idea described on the thread below: http://www.indie-rpgs.com/forum/index.php?topic=28572.msg268640#msg268640 The idea now is that the character players are characters from fairy tales/urban…
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Participants: flossy, Mulrah.

9/24/2009 Mulrah: Seeking Feedback on (Kind of) New Game: MULRAH
In selecting and tweaking a number of very interesting role-playing game systems (Savage Worlds, the Pool, FATE), I realized that I was basically creating my own system, and I'd love…
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Participants: Mulrah, Simon C, chronoplasm.

9/24/2009 Sebastian: [Way of the Agent] A rule - Should I Keep it?
I woke up in the middle of the night and couldn't get back to sleep. Question: If another character is playing a conflict and they are in the limelight, would…
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Participants: Sebastian, Aapov, Mulrah, JoyWriter, whiteknife.

9/26/2009 Bleu Ash: Motivate role-playing in a cooperative roleplaying game
What are some mechanical ways to motivate and facilitate role-playing in a GM-less cooperative role playing game? The only one that I can come up with is having each player…
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Participants: Bleu Ash, jefgodesky, hix, Noon, jasonm.

9/27/2009 Vulpinoid: [Brigaki Djili] A Core Mechanism for Communal Storytelling
Brigaki Djili is a romani/gypsy term meaning "Sorrow Songs". I'm using it as a name for a new project in which players take on the role of Gypsy seers who…
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Participants: Vulpinoid, JoyWriter, Simon C, Anders Gabrielsson.

9/30/2009 whiteknife: Scissors- Technqiues for Producing a Psychological Thriller RPG
OK, so I've been playing with a game idea lately- I call it Scissors. The pitch is that the characters have each found a pair of "scissors of fate", like…
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Participants: whiteknife, Vulpinoid, Simon C, Warrior Monk, dmkdesigns, otspiii.

9/30/2009 Anders Gabrielsson: Ideas for Mechanics: Do These Fit Together?
Hi, I'm fairly new to the forum. I've lurked a bit but I haven't posted (unless it was somewhere around here I asked a bit about Capes some years back).…
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Participants: Anders Gabrielsson, Vulpinoid, Bleu Ash.

10/2/2009 jp_miller: Weapons, what are they good for?
Hi all, I’m in the throes of inventing a YARPG (Yet Another Role Playing Game), it has a Journey to the West/Mahabharata flavour. As you can imagine there is a…
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Participants: jp_miller, Noon, chronoplasm, JoyWriter, Anthony Sheets, trueplay, flossy, drkrash, dindenver, Paka, rebelred, Maugh, Anekanta, decline, Miskatonic, tleeuwenburg@gmail.com, Hereward The Wake.

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