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11/30/2009 Ravien: [The Shadow Conclave] (tactical RPG): Can avoidance of combat be FUN?
Hey all! I haven't posted here in many years (back when you helped me design Scarlet Wake, which was a tremendous learning experience for me), thanks to dramatic career changes…
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Participants: Ravien, Rikiji, JoyWriter, Seamus.

11/25/2009 Warrior Monk: Things about the system that annoy GM's
I've been reading some old posts about game balance and searching the forum for something I readed some time ago, but I couldn't find it. Now I'm not so sure…
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Participants: Warrior Monk, Rikiji, greyorm, Mike Sugarbaker, Noon, davidberg, SeeThirty, Tormir, Seamus, chronoplasm, Jeff B.

11/25/2009 Trollkin: Looking for some feed back on world and system
I've been writing my own game for a while now, but besides some friends, and a little test played with my weekly DnD group I've keep this pretty under wraps.…
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Participants: Trollkin, Mike Sugarbaker, dindenver.

11/23/2009 drkrash: [Fight FGRPG] Help with Premise
So I asked a while ago about writing an Introduction for my new game, Fight! The Fighting Game RPG.  I received direction about establishing Premise to distinguish the game from…
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Participants: drkrash, whiteknife, Catelf, MacLeod, davidberg, dindenver.

11/23/2009 froboi: Need help making system mathematically sound
Hey all, I've been working on a d20 based system and I've reached a point where I feel that it is very close to being playable. The only thing is…
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Participants: froboi, Rikiji, Noon, Jeff B, chance.thirteen.

11/22/2009 northerain: [Dark Days]My core concept is dumb, please help.
Dark Days is the game I'm working on. I'll explain it the way I came up with it, so that it makes sense. Dark Days is a game about people…
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Participants: northerain, Noon, Falc, DWeird, Certified, Ken, Mike Sugarbaker, dindenver, chance.thirteen.

11/19/2009 MJGraham: (A Seed of an Idea) An Inter-generational Saga.
I'm writing another game in my spare time. It doesn't have a title yet. I'm using Ancestral Saga as a place holder until the right title comes along. The basic…
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Participants: MJGraham, chance.thirteen, Catelf, DWeird, Warrior Monk, davidberg, contracycle.

11/19/2009 shaninator: Scoring and Stacking - D6 Core Mechanic
Hey guys. I've been pondering over an original, yet simple mechanic for a classless fantasy system. And, I wanna see you guys' take on it, and be honest. It started…
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Participants: shaninator, chance.thirteen, CKNIGHT.

11/19/2009 YEAH: occult horror game one shot?
i had this idea for a game. i think it would work best as a one shot or just a few games. the idea is that  horror movie about an…
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Participants: YEAH, Rikiji, Catelf, uchimatamaster.

11/18/2009 shaninator: High-Low D6 System. Been done before?
Hey guys. I've searched the forums, so I apologize if this has been another topic. I have simple question...is there a published system that uses pools of dice (d6) to…
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Participants: shaninator, tleeuwenburg@gmail.com, lumpley, Rikiji, Vulpinoid, Quizoid.

11/18/2009 tleeuwenburg@gmail.com: Mythology: Answering the Power 19, 6-10
From http://mythology-rpg.blogspot.com/ 6.) What types of behaviors/styles of play does your game reward (and punish if necessary)? Mythology does not seek to dictate how people should play the game. I…
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Participants: tleeuwenburg@gmail.com.

11/18/2009 tleeuwenburg@gmail.com: Mathematics of Combat
Hi all, I'm trying to understand the mathematics of combat to a greater extent. So far, I've taken into consideration:   -- Recalculate damage as the percentage of the opponents…
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Participants: tleeuwenburg@gmail.com, dindenver.

11/17/2009 Le Joueur: GM has a 'character sheet' same as the players
Well, back from the dead...again...I guess. After many trips and travails, I think I've found the last chunk to put Scattershot into working order.  And a flavor to start with…
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Participants: Le Joueur, Rikiji, Catelf, JoyWriter.

11/13/2009 caul: [Dark Aegis] Basic Task Resolution
[b][color=maroon]Basic Task Resolution[/color][/b] The basic system is to roll a dice pool (usually made up of Attribute, Skill, and Modifier dice) against a Target Rank (or difficulty).  Rather than add…
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Participants: caul, Troy_Costisick, dindenver, Dan Maruschak.

11/10/2009 SonalikaVero: sonalika game
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Participants: SonalikaVero.

11/8/2009 tleeuwenburg@gmail.com: Apologies for bringing up the Power 19
I apologise for breaking the forum rules -- I am as it were, late to the party, having only just followed the history of the Power 19 into the forum…
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Participants: tleeuwenburg@gmail.com, greyorm.

11/8/2009 tleeuwenburg@gmail.com: Comments on Frozen Dawn
A thought aside: does anyone have any statistics on how experienced gamers usually are when they pick up a new product? I have been reading the Frozen Dawn thread and…
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Participants: tleeuwenburg@gmail.com, Alokov.

11/8/2009 tleeuwenburg@gmail.com: Power 19, not being a pest & how to interact on these forums
Do people still go through the Power 19 on here? I've just answered the first 5 on my blog http://mythology-rpg.blogspot.com/. You don't have to read it, I'm just saying. I…
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Participants: tleeuwenburg@gmail.com, Vulpinoid, Rikiji.

11/6/2009 tleeuwenburg@gmail.com: Mythology blog soft launch
http://mythology-rpg.blogspot.com/ Hi all, I have created a blog to help me design and built the Mythology roleplaying system. I'll be aiming to post somewhere between weekly and every 3 days.…
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Participants: tleeuwenburg@gmail.com, Catelf.

11/5/2009 Maugh: The 17 Trials of Queen Mab
This is a one-session, stand-alone roleplaying game that was designed as a party game for this last halloween.  It can handle a LOT of characters, (we ran 8 players, and…
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Participants: Maugh, Catelf, Rikiji, tleeuwenburg@gmail.com, Noon.

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12/2/2009 tleeuwenburg@gmail.com: Mythology: Combat rounds mechanic
I have an idea for my combat system. I posted it over at rpg.net and it seemed to stand up to early comments, so I thought I'd also post here…
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Participants: tleeuwenburg@gmail.com, Catelf, dindenver, davidberg, Anekanta, contracycle.

12/2/2009 SeeThirty: (Adult Content) Name and mechanics for RPG 'sexual' martial art?
I'm toying around with an adult-oriented rules modification for a game system, and the idea of a sexually-based martial art came to mind. I'm trying to figure out some ideas,…
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Participants: SeeThirty, whiteknife, chance.thirteen, Paul Czege, Catelf.

12/6/2009 kaevad: Would anyone mind giving feeback on my rpg website
Hi all, its been a few months since i last made a post here, i've been stuck with work, uni and more important vecoming more focused on good game design.…
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Participants: kaevad, chance.thirteen, Seamus, Eero Tuovinen.

12/7/2009 uchimatamaster: "realistic" HTH/Melee Combat system
Hey guys, I just found this forum and am wicked excited about it.  So on to the questions/comments... I have a combat system that I created based on percentiles from…
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Participants: uchimatamaster, greyorm, chance.thirteen, Seamus, uchiaway.

12/7/2009 John Blaz: help with an Armor/ Damage system
Hey all, I've recently started going over what I began months ago for a Post-apocalypse RPG system. The setting is ideally somewhere between Fallout and Mad Max. Anyway, my armor/…
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Participants: John Blaz, tleeuwenburg@gmail.com, Ken, Catelf, Quizoid.

12/8/2009 chronoplasm: Suggestions for "Mental Grid"
OK, so I'm designing a 'monster of the week' game where the players are tasked with hunting down a single monster and stopping it before it kills again. The default…
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Participants: chronoplasm, chance.thirteen, Catelf.

12/9/2009 Anekanta: Suggestions for a central mechanic? [Lords of Sky] (new game)
Hey again everybody!  I had an idea for the core mechanic of a secondary game design that I'm working on, and I thought I'd post it here and see if…
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Participants: Anekanta, Jasper Flick.

12/11/2009 Tark: Beyond Gods]Intro Fiction Shenanigans Redux
So before I sit down to get to writing Beyond Gods proper, I decided to write a bit of introductory fiction to get the brain cells rolling and give players…
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Participants: Tark, Spooky Fanboy.

12/12/2009 RevJackson: A New Sub-genre?
With the new movie Pride and Prejudice and Zombies and perhaps a later book Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter, I was wondering if any designers had given thought to game scenarios…
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Participants: RevJackson, Justin Nichol - BFG, chronoplasm.

12/13/2009 tleeuwenburg@gmail.com: Effectiveness of ganging up
One of the major unresolved aspects for my game is how effective ganging up in combat should be. Brutally effective? Enough to make the difference between barely winning and winning…
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Participants: tleeuwenburg@gmail.com, Seamus, Jeff B, chance.thirteen, Eero Tuovinen, chronoplasm, decline, Creatures of Destiny, Jasper Flick, KeithBVaughn.

12/13/2009 Megoru: To the bottom of simplicity, layers approach.
[size=8pt](I'm italian so please try to understand that I write in a language that is different from my own)[/size] Hi everyone, I've been reading this forum collecting cool ideas for…
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Participants: Megoru, Jasper Flick, Noon, Catelf.

12/13/2009 Justin Nichol - BFG: Whodunnit Story Game
Hi everyone, It's been a while since I last posted. I'm still working a lot on my Creative Commons game system, and it's actually shaping up pretty well for release.…
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Participants: Justin Nichol - BFG, Catelf.

12/14/2009 tombowings: Player Skill vs. Character skill
In the last few months I have been analyzing trends in games I really enjoy vs. games I don't enjoy as much. The conclusion I have come to is that…
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Participants: tombowings, Megoru, chance.thirteen, Seamus, dindenver, xenopulse, davidberg, Noon, Vulpinoid.

12/14/2009 Thor: [Starry Messengers] Fencing with Cards
We had the first playtest of Starry Messengers my clockpunk space game this weekend. Start scary caveats/We were making up as we went. The rules as such are probably not…
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Participants: Thor, Jeff B, tleeuwenburg@gmail.com, greyorm, Ken.

12/15/2009 chronoplasm: Working on a Social Mechanic
There's more to hunting monsters than hacking and slashing. Sometimes you have to question witnesses, interrogate suspects that might secretly be monsters in disguise, comfort widows and other friends of…
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Participants: chronoplasm, chance.thirteen, dindenver.

12/15/2009 Thor: [Starry Messenger] Choose your own Difficulty
I was excited that the fencing worked in our first playtest, but not nearly as excited about the fact that the players were picking their own difficulty levels. At the…
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Participants: Thor, chronoplasm, Paul Czege, Noon, Vulpinoid, dindenver.

12/17/2009 ImberCorvus: Racial Expansion without Numbers
All right. I've been working on a series of articles on traditional races of Fantasy which provide an alternate view of the cliché's which surround them. As an example I…
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Participants: ImberCorvus, Paul Czege, davidberg, Vulpinoid.

12/18/2009 punkbohemian: help me name my third attribute
I'm doing a Tri-Stat-esque attribute division, and I'm having trouble naming my "Mind" attribute. As is, I have Materia for Body, Anima for Spirit, but nothing thematically the same (as…
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Participants: punkbohemian, chance.thirteen, Eldrad, decline, chronoplasm.

12/18/2009 Daz Florp Lebam: my dice pool system (feel its awesome power!)
Well hello, all! This is my first post, after hearing a lot about this site and these forums over the years, and a wee bit of lurking. I have a…
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Participants: Daz Florp Lebam, Warrior Monk, JoyWriter, Quizoid, Excalibur.

12/19/2009 Eldrad: The Olde Realm: Akedemios
I have been working on my RPG/ Poems/ Collection of Short Stories/ Artwork with the help of a few friends for many years now. For the last 8-10 years I…
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Participants: Eldrad, Vulpinoid, Catelf.

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