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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 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.

9/21/2009 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.

9/20/2009 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.

9/19/2009 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.

9/18/2009 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.

9/16/2009 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.

9/16/2009 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.

9/14/2009 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.

9/14/2009 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 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 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.

9/13/2009 Sebastian: [Cops & Robbers] The Grand Caper Story
I was on Story Games and there was chatter about Cop & Robbers: http://www.story-games.com/forums/comments.php?DiscussionID=10406.  It sparked an idea, which I posted about, but I didn't get any feedback.  Maybe the…
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Participants: Sebastian.

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.

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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.

10/2/2009 Vulpinoid: [Brigaki Djili] Archetypes
If you're interested in getting some better perspective about my current project, I'm trying make sure I log my progress through game design in my blog Observations of the Fox.…
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Participants: Vulpinoid, JoyWriter, Anders Gabrielsson, chance.thirteen.

10/3/2009 dmkdesigns: [Of Legends and Legacies... OlaL] Narrating NPCs?
I've been thinking about stakes and conflicts for OLaL and I like the idea of the Players narrating the success and failures of their characters, Legends. However, the NPCs still…
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Participants: dmkdesigns, flossy.

10/3/2009 lwhitehead: Interstate 76 like RPG
Hi I want to create an alt history RPG inspired by the Win PC game Interstate 76 and Vigilante 8 series as well. Now it's 1976 and the Oil Crisis…
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Participants: lwhitehead.

10/3/2009 Axe4Eye: Organization of Rules (Index) Need Help!
I have come to a place where my design is being limited by my lack of organization and I cannot move much further without it.  Doing this may even inspire…
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Participants: Axe4Eye, Sebastian.

10/3/2009 dmkdesigns: [OLaL] Table Talk and Solo Player Scenes
I've been considering two issues in a number of games and wanted to find a solution that handles them both in Of Legends and Legacies. 1. Getting Players who are…
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Participants: dmkdesigns, JoyWriter, Paul Czege.

10/5/2009 jp_miller: Help me with a dice mechanic
Hi all, Just wondering if you could help me with a simple concept. I’m using a kind of Reverse Pool (as first proposed by Milk Holmes regarding James V. Wests…
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Participants: jp_miller, Anders Gabrielsson, Jasper Flick, Darcy Burgess, microphil, charles ferguson, thadrine.

10/6/2009 chance.thirteen: Recommended writing tools?
I have no idea where to put this, but I know that game designers often use these sorts of things so  hopefully it's the right forum site at least. :D…
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Participants: chance.thirteen, whiteknife, Jasper Flick, Darcy Burgess, duncanguy, lumpley, DagdaMor, sirealestate, MikeF, zmobie, Mike Sugarbaker.

10/7/2009 HeTeleports: [Secret Identities] - Players against system, GM, themselves or each other
To the Forge's brainstorming crew (ie: any regular reader of the "First Thoughts" section) Normally, when I start a design, I know exactly what kind of game-play I want to…
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Participants: HeTeleports, Noon, zone24, Mike Sugarbaker, Vulpinoid.

10/10/2009 etheruk: Fragments: A horror game
I'm in the process of designing a game for Halloween and would appreciate any advice that people can give. What I find scary are horror films which frame the story…
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Participants: etheruk, flossy.

10/10/2009 redwing: Stunt d6...New Heartbreaker
Hello All! I have not visited these boards in quite some time. I have picked up the work on my rpg system (including a rules set and setting). Yes, this…
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Participants: redwing.

10/13/2009 7VII7: TAROT: IT LIVEEEEES!!!!!
Yo, it's been awhile (over a month counts as awhile correct?) And now I'm back with a vengence! MUWAHAHAHAHAHAHA! Weeeeeeeeell, anyways the flashdrive with all my work on it went…
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Participants: 7VII7, Catelf, Mr. Mister, chance.thirteen, Toneblind.

10/13/2009 7VII7: TAROT: Attributes take 2
Previously in Tarot: http://www.indie-rpgs.com/forum/index.php?topic=28832.0 Ok, Attributes, like in most games they represent your basic abilities but in TAROT they're a bit more specific, I suppose, then in other games, first…
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Participants: 7VII7, Anders Gabrielsson, Catelf.

10/14/2009 Seamus: Horror RPG
About to design a Horror RPG for our Network setting (there is a little on it at my website: Bedrockgames.net). All I know is I want to do modern horror…
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Participants: Seamus, Anders Gabrielsson, Catelf, nikola.

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