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5/2/2010 DarrenGMiller: Looking for Constructive Feedback On New Survival Horror Role-Playing Game
Kind of like taking my clothes off in public, I'm working on designing a game on my blog.  I'm posting most of my work, section-by-section, on my blog as soon…
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Participants: DarrenGMiller, Artanis, Locke, jprussell, Gryffudd, Malcolm, SageThe13th, davidvs, Necromantis.

5/2/2010 Filip Luszczyk: How difficult is a task?
In many trad games the in-game difficulty of various tasks is represented mechanically via target numbers, modifiers or other means. Outside a few detailed subsystems (e.g. combat), this is often…
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Participants: Filip Luszczyk, Noon, Vulpinoid, jprussell, Eero Tuovinen, Paul T, dindenver, SageThe13th, Egonblaidd, JoyWriter, spotvice29.

5/1/2010 jprussell: [Celto-Germania] Mythic Bronze Age Loyalty Roleplaying
Howdy Folks,   I've recently cooked up the very very very rough draft of my first RPG. Totally unplaytested so far, unfortunately, as I'm rather a ways out of town…
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Participants: jprussell, Gryffudd, Steenan, SageThe13th.

5/1/2010 Gryffudd: [Story Point System] Having problems with character advancement
Hi there,everyone. First time poster, long time lurked. Well, about two months, anyway. Apologies in advance for any typos. Entering this from my iPhone while I try to stay awake…
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Participants: Gryffudd, Vulpinoid, jprussell.

4/29/2010 Nathan: Teenager Sorcery + Multiplication Tables = Educational Roleplaying
A couple of months ago, I found out that my niece, in 6th grade, was having trouble with her multiplication tables. She is an imaginative gal who loves the Twilight…
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Participants: Nathan, Noon, Mobius, VAgentZero, Falc, Kanosint, Roswenthe, Altaem.

4/27/2010 Dionysus: (early game idea) Want a mechanic - Making a soul...
Howdy all. I've been fiddling with an idea for a purposefully prep-less game. It borrows heavily from Ghost/Echo, Lady Blackbird, and Promethean. Current state of the game: This is in…
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Participants: Dionysus, Vulpinoid, jprussell.

4/24/2010 MacLeod: [Arcana] Magic System, Lightly Structured Form
I have been pondering lately how a game strictly based on mages/wizards/sorcerers or whatever would work. I know that a few RPGs of such variety already exist; Mage, Ars Magica…
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Participants: MacLeod, jprussell, Warrior Monk.

4/22/2010 Llogres: Combat Advantage / Luck / Karma
[b]The Idea:[/b] Use Advantage (in combat), Luck (while adventuring) and Karma (in social encounters) to let players have their will - at a cost. What a characters want in combat:…
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Participants: Llogres, Noon, StevenS, JoyWriter, Locke.

4/21/2010 n0mDePlume: Making combat epic
This is triggered by thinking about what Exalted could have been, if you didn't need a spreadsheet to manage a battle. How can each combat action be given as much…
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Participants: n0mDePlume, stefoid, Warrior Monk, Mobius, Noon, Guy Srinivasan, Shimera9.

4/20/2010 Necromantis: dodge/parry mechanic trouble.
I will try and be clear here for what I am wanting to do. I am very certain as to how I want this to work, but I am having…
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Participants: Necromantis, jprussell, Ar Kayon, andrew_wright, VAgentZero, Locke.

4/20/2010 SAW: Random-Element determining which abilities characters can use?
So, I was thinking of something, but I wasn't sure how well it would actually go over. How do you think players would react to there being a random element…
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Participants: SAW, jprussell, FetusCommander, Vulpinoid.

4/20/2010 Baenlynn: A fill-in-the-blanks life-path system
I am also new to the forge, having stumbled upon it after going looking for an RPG design forum, as asking around at all my usual geeky hangouts was not…
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Participants: Baenlynn.

4/20/2010 electricshepherd: [PIE] A ruleset using pie charts as character sheet
First of all, I'm new at the Forge. I've been informed about the Forge through a reddit user's comment. I looked around a bit and this seems to be the…
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Participants: electricshepherd, Baenlynn, andrew_wright.

4/20/2010 StevenS: [Free Your Head] Illumination --when character change is drastic
I am currently working on a game whose genre could perhaps be best described as Psychedelic Conspiracy -- the models are works like Mike Moorcock's Jerry Cornelius novels, the Illuminatus!…
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Participants: StevenS.

4/19/2010 Gurnard: Thoughts On A Fencing Mechanic Part 2
I posted here <a href="http://www.indie-rpgs.com/forum/index.php?topic=27476.0">quite a while ago</a>  about a combat mechanic I was working on. I phrased it at the time as a fencing simulation, just because I'd been…
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Participants: Gurnard, jprussell, Noon, ObsidianSoul, JoyWriter.

4/19/2010 Llogres: Multiple character-resources
I had a thought on experience points and rewards in games. The classic approach to have the GM hand out experience points and money (sometimes in form of items) doesnt…
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Participants: Llogres, VAgentZero, jprussell, Baenlynn.

4/16/2010 7VII7: A play by post role playing system, first thoughts.
I'm looking to design a general system that would work with nearly any play by post role playing game, one that would be able to work in any basic forum…
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Participants: 7VII7, Warrior Monk, andrew_wright, jprussell.

4/15/2010 chronoplasm: Game Design Inspired By Visual Aesthetics?
So I'm an art student looking into getting a career in commercial illustration. You can see some of my stuff at my deviant art page. I want to do art…
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Participants: chronoplasm, Vulpinoid, mjbauer, Mobius, jprussell.

4/15/2010 Warrior Monk: d6 -simple but crunchy- heartbreaker
I'm making a heartbreaker (yeah, again) half to satisfy my group of players and half to make my life easier as a GM. I've been trying a lot of different…
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Participants: Warrior Monk, chronoplasm, VAgentZero, Draco, Locke.

4/15/2010 Luminous: Creatures that take up more than one space and AoE attacks...
Should creatures that take up more than one square / space on the battlefield take additional damage from AoE attacks?
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Participants: Luminous, Ar Kayon, Noon, Warrior Monk, Locke, Shimera9, Ron Edwards.

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5/7/2010 Talanic: World of Rathillien Tabletop - Introduction
Greetings.  This is my first post to the Forge - in fact, I only found out about this community today, but would have shown up a long while ago if…
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Participants: Talanic, SageThe13th, greyorm, Eero Tuovinen, jprussell.

5/7/2010 jprussell: [The Book of Threes] Welsh/Old English Inspired RPG of Loyalty, Wealth, and Glor
Howdy,   I've started a new thread now that my game has a proper working title, but prior discussion can be found at Celto Germania - Mythic Bronze Age Roleplaying,…
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Participants: jprussell, SageThe13th.

5/8/2010 Baenlynn: Thoughts on a combat system:
For my RPG I'm trying to generally, compress the mathematics as much as possible to enable more RP, but still maintain a certain level of depth to whatever mechanics the…
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Participants: Baenlynn, jprussell, PeterBB, Locke.

5/10/2010 Egonblaidd: Attributes for a scalable/telescopic system
A while back some of you may remember me posting about the concept of a scalable or telescopic system, that is, one which can easily be made simpler or more…
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Participants: Egonblaidd, Locke.

5/12/2010 horomancer: Building a Sympathetic Magic System
I'm working on a moddified D&D Pathfinder game and I want to strip out the old way of doing magic and add a Sympathetic system. I read a build for…
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Participants: horomancer, Shimera9, jprussell, dindenver, Creatures of Destiny, Juggernaut1981.

5/14/2010 horomancer: Low power d20 system thoughts
Working on a low power, low fantasy campaign and a system to match it. Using a mishmash of various x20 system rules to achieve the right feel and decided to…
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Participants: horomancer, Locke, Noon, Khimus, Necromantis, charles ferguson.

5/14/2010 smegroll: A game idea I've had for a while and an introduction!
Hey everybody, I'm new to the forum obviously and I wanted to get some input on designing a game around an idea I've had for months now. It's pretty clear…
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Participants: smegroll, Locke, Paul Czege, jprussell, Noon, Necromantis.

5/20/2010 Ar Kayon: Adding wargame mechanics to my fantasy system
Considering the nature of play in my developing dark fantasy system, I was thinking of designing a large scale combat architecture.  However, I've never designed wargame mechanics before and I'm…
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Participants: Ar Kayon, jprussell, horomancer, Vulpinoid, contracycle.

5/20/2010 silentjudas: Social Media-based Role Playing Games
Hey, all. Been a lurker for a while and this will be my first post. For a while I've been running ideas through my head of how to bring something…
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Participants: silentjudas, Vulpinoid, jprussell.

5/22/2010 Anekanta: [Lords of Sky] Skills revisited...
Hey all, This is sort of a continuation of an earlier Lords of Sky question stated here: http://www.indie-rpgs.com/forum/index.php?topic=29506.15 In the last thread, I was concerned about the layering / depth…
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Participants: Anekanta.

5/23/2010 Kerikath: [Eden Earth] Introduction
This is a rough, purposely incomplete introduction to my game's setting. The purpose of this thread is for anyone who's interested to ask questions about the setting, which I'll answer,…
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Participants: Kerikath, Noon, greyorm, Brimshack, PeterBB.

5/23/2010 Brimshack: Diplomacy as an Ability - Brainstorming options
I have been trying to work my mind around the prospect of adding a special Diplomacy option to Worlds of Hurt  WOH is in principle a conventional high fantasy role-playing…
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Participants: Brimshack, Noon.

5/23/2010 Mobius: [Babel] Updated Combat Skil: Brawl
Based on feedback from my first play test I am redoing all of the combat skills and I'm looking for feedback on the first one I've finished; Brawl.  I'm putting…
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Participants: Mobius.

5/24/2010 LateNite: Back after a long hiatus
I have returned after a long hiatus of about 3 years.  I have lost all of the work on my old system in the making (known as Entropy if anyone…
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Participants: LateNite.

5/24/2010 MikeF: Limiting GM fiat with a token system
I’ve been thinking a lot recently about GM fiat, and ways of limiting GM fiat without affecting their ability to introduce interesting challenges for players. These were the simple rules…
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Participants: MikeF, Vulpinoid, PeterBB, Noon, greyorm, StevenS, Eero Tuovinen.

5/25/2010 Icel: Feedback for LEGEND
Hello, I recently published a simple role-playing battle system called LEGEND. I'd appropriate any feedback. download: http://www.eliteroleplayer.com/downloads/game-worlds/legend-beta.pdf
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Participants: Icel, Mike Sugarbaker, Alex Abate.

5/25/2010 Necromantis: a new (to me) look at skills. would like input
I am working on the skills system within my Fantasy roleplay game titled "a time of steel and staves" In the game I have created 11 characteristics that define a…
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Participants: Necromantis, Vulpinoid, Noon, philipstephen, Ron Edwards, Locke, Mike Sugarbaker, horomancer.

5/28/2010 smarttman: More or less skills?
I have been tempted to write my own RPG, more specifically a pulp one as I love the genre, but I don't know how many skills I should have. Skills…
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Participants: smarttman, Trevis Martin, Ar Kayon, Noon.

6/12/2010 Khimus: Shapeshifter
Well, this is a personal project fairly advanced that I´m developing. The concept emerged from this sentence: "every choice you make changes you in retribution." A shapeshifter is a special…
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Participants: Khimus, Mike Sugarbaker, Ron Edwards.

6/12/2010 Ninetongues: [IntoDreams] premiere - free game
Hello Into Dreams is a free game about dreaming, that Ihad in mind since my first coming to the Forge. Illustrated by very skilled artist Basia Marek, this game allows…
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Participants: Ninetongues, greyorm, PeterBB.

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