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8/15/2010 Rui!: Brainstorm the mechanics of secrets - need help!
I'm posting this across several forums, in order to get more replies. This is a mini-game that mixes Cthulhu, time-travelling bandits and Secrets. The premise is simple: in the near…
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Participants: Rui!, masqueradeball, Moganhio.

8/14/2010 masqueradeball: Descriptive Text for Character Sheet
The game I'm designing uses 10 characteristics to define characters, all of which could be seen as moral virtues. They're rated from 1 to 6, 1 being the worst and…
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Participants: masqueradeball, Moganhio, Necromantis, slashandz.

8/14/2010 masqueradeball: Formalize Conflict Initiation
I need help coming up with a way in which conflicts (when the rules are used) formally begin and end. I'm just generally unhappy with leaving it purely up to…
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Participants: masqueradeball, dugfromthearth, Vulpinoid.

8/13/2010 Luke Martinez: Collaborative Design - Group and Bangs
Hello, my name is Luke and I am working on a role-playing game. While I am still pulling it all together, I had a question about the experiences others have…
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Participants: Luke Martinez, Artanis, dugfromthearth, Vulpinoid, Moganhio, masqueradeball.

8/12/2010 masqueradeball: You don't have too
I'm working on a game design I hope to play test this Sunday that incorporates an idea I've wanted to try for a long time. In this approach there are…
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Participants: masqueradeball, Anders Gabrielsson, Gryffudd, Paul Czege.

8/10/2010 Necromantis: My rule book layout. an interesting new concept...maybe
originally I posted this in the publishing Forum -- but I think that may have been the wrong place. I figured that I would try it here. Seeing that it…
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Participants: Necromantis, masqueradeball.

8/10/2010 Necromantis: monsters and NPCs - a grand GM tool idea... maybe
Of late I feel like Indiana Jones in raiders of the lost arc all should know this reference .. if not.. get to it man!! by this I mean that…
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Participants: Necromantis, masqueradeball, Garbados.

8/9/2010 Garbados: [All Dragons Must Die] In-Game Character Creation
Yo! I've been working on this game recently, All Dragons Must Die (ADMD), based on my first endeavor, A Dragon Appears (ADA). Like its predecessor, it is obsessed with stories…
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Participants: Garbados, Vulpinoid.

8/8/2010 johnthedm7000: Balancing Magical Shapechanging
First off, I wanted to thank everyone for their warm and helpful welcome to the forge community-you guys have been great. Secondly I wanted to request your assistance on something…
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Participants: johnthedm7000, Necromantis, ShallowThoughts, Noon, EBKPrim, masqueradeball.

8/6/2010 TuringAI: RPG based on Inception movie.
I have been wondering, have any of you seen the movie Inception? I am willing to create an entire roleplaying system based on it but I would like some help.…
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Participants: TuringAI, Skofflox.

8/5/2010 Pivo: Historical Role Playing Game Idea
My first post.  I figure I'll just jump right in.  For the past five months I've been reading, making notes, creating maps, writing, dabbling in artwork, and surfing the net…
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Participants: Pivo, Airafice, contracycle, Moganhio.

8/4/2010 Anders Gabrielsson: [Monster Hunter] My First Finished Rules Set, And I Did It In Less Than 24 Hours
Thanks to the 24-hour RPG Geek RPG Design Contest. I'm very happy with it... but that's before playtesting. We shall see if it holds up. This is a very long…
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Participants: Anders Gabrielsson, a flight of stairs, Ron Edwards.

8/3/2010 The Dude: Creation of combat
My friend and I are developing a game that revolves around the harmonic balance of mind, body, and spirit. This is represented by mental, physical, and social attributes respectively. Also,…
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Participants: The Dude, Ar Kayon, dugfromthearth, Airafice, Necromantis.

8/3/2010 EBKPrim: A Smattering of Broad Strokes - My First Attempt at Task Resolution
First, I'd like to preface this by saying that I've been a lurker on this site for a long time and am glad that I finally took the initiative to…
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Participants: EBKPrim, contracycle, Garbados, Alex Abate, masqueradeball.

8/2/2010 Gryffudd: SAGE system playtest version
I've put the playtest version of my game up on my http://sharedauthorityge.wordpress.com/ site, along with the first character sheet. If anyone's interested, it should be easy to download from the…
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Participants: Gryffudd, dugfromthearth.

8/1/2010 johnthedm7000: My outline for a fantasy RPG, please P.E.A.C.H
I'm currently in the process of developing rules for a pen and paper fantasy RPG that I haven't come up with a name for yet (please, anyone feel free to…
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Participants: johnthedm7000, dugfromthearth, Paul Czege, Spooky Fanboy.

7/31/2010 chronoplasm: Logic Puzzle Resolution System
Hey guys. I wanted to draw your attention to this site I found: http://www.mensus.net/brain/logic.shtml?houses=3&a0=on&a1=on&a2=on&q0=on&q1=on&q2=on&q3=on&q4=on&q5=on&q6=on&q7=on&q8=on&q9=on I was thinking that this might make a good mechanic for an investigative game. Here's an…
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Participants: chronoplasm, dugfromthearth.

7/28/2010 greyorm: [eXpendable] Movement & Range
(This is a post about eXpendable design: a dark sci-fi action game about criminals drafted into the galactic army as fodder. It is a Sorcerer-style game mechanically, with dice pools…
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Participants: greyorm, Ar Kayon, Noon.

7/28/2010 Pelias: New Fantasy
Hello, I´m Pelias. I´m a spanish amateur developer of games. Excuse me if my English is not very good I help myself with a translator online for the phrases that…
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Participants: Pelias, Ar Kayon.

7/28/2010 Ar Kayon: My Dark Fantasy: All of the Crunchy Bits
Since my original thread seems to have veered towards philosophical discussion, this thread will be dedicated to discourse on concrete design mechanics.  The discussion will have two goals: 1) To…
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Participants: Ar Kayon, Necromantis, johnthedm7000, horomancer, Kalandri, mreuther.

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8/18/2010 slashandz: What's the point of all these stats?
Something that bothers me about RPGs today is the increasing number of stats. Strength, Dexterity, Luck, Will, Charisma, Wisdom, Intelligence, Speech, Sneak, Initiative, Constitution... the list goes on. Why are…
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Participants: slashandz, MacLeod, Trevis Martin, greyorm, Ar Kayon, TheRoleplayer, VAgentZero, Marshall Burns, Moganhio, Locke, dindenver, dugfromthearth.

8/19/2010 Sebastian: [Way of the Agent] Help with tragedies
So, your character has been fucked by The Man. Maybe that's the mafia, maybe that's the government, maybe that's the hive-minded slaver aliens. "What did they take from you?" That's…
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Participants: Sebastian, slingshot, Noon, chronoplasm, Ar Kayon.

8/21/2010 masqueradeball: Indie Indie RPG
I want to make a one shot RPG/Party Game cross about Indy kids getting drunk at a party and getting into lots of drama (as in the bad stuff that…
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Participants: masqueradeball, dugfromthearth, sojikai, JasonSWalters.

8/21/2010 oswald: [Fiat Money] Reflections towards a new contemporary fantastic game
Ok first of all i would like to say I havent been using forums for many years, and i am quite new to this particular one : Ill try my…
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Participants: oswald, masqueradeball, Ar Kayon, Moganhio, johnthedm7000, Vulpinoid, stefoid, Spooky Fanboy, John Stephens, thezenbear.

8/22/2010 johnthedm7000: Discussion of Point Buy Char Gen Philosophies
I wanted to jump-start a discussion of various point-buy character generation methods and get some feedback from the community as to which ones are most useful for fulfilling different design…
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Participants: johnthedm7000, dugfromthearth, masqueradeball, dindenver, Rafu, Maugh.

8/24/2010 BullyBoy: The Program (a Matrix-like RPG)
I need a little help...  Where to next?  What areas should I be thinking about in order to develop this into a sound RPG that covers all things that a…
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Participants: BullyBoy, a flight of stairs.

8/24/2010 jasprelao: First Impression - Eternal Grace
[b][url=http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_rUu3Rkhcslg/S-oOA4lhHtI/AAAAAAAAAFs/7J-rSp0RIwA/S600/header-small.png]Banner[/url][/b] Greetings, friends... This is my first RMXP project that I develop with my friends. I want to make it original, from the visual art, music and of course the…
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Participants: jasprelao.

8/24/2010 vasten: Free Fanatasy / Alien Script
I just finished a long term project. I have taken chinese pen strokes and integrated them with the roman alphabet based on a binary representation system to produce a new…
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Participants: vasten, Vulpinoid, Paul Czege, Ar Kayon.

8/24/2010 Moganhio: A question about generic systems and copyright
I'm devoloping a new generic/universal system (more universal than generic, indeed). And as usually in universal systems, you need a setting too! I was thinking of providing a setting as…
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Participants: Moganhio, Vulpinoid, Jason Pitre, Eero Tuovinen, Adam Dray.

8/24/2010 Jason Pitre: Difficult Powers to handle mechanically?
So, I am in the process of building the portion of my game system that deals with "Powers", including pretty much all things blatantly violating the laws of reality.  Magic,…
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Participants: Jason Pitre, Moganhio, chronoplasm.

8/25/2010 slingshot: The Young Adult Literature Role-playing game (begging for a better name)
Hi, I am in the final steps of designing and releasing my first rpg Newsies & Bootblacks (http://minimrpg.com). The game is set in New Paris, a fictional American Eastern Coast…
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Participants: slingshot, dugfromthearth.

8/25/2010 dwashba: A single player rpg
        I am working on a single player rpg. I dont know if it will work but I am willing to try. It could be played with…
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Participants: dwashba, slingshot, Noon, greyorm, Paiku, dugfromthearth, Adam Dray, Anders Gabrielsson.

8/26/2010 Benajmin385: When Making a RPG what should i cover first?
I am looking at making a Class based RPG System. But i do not know where to start... - The Core Dice Mechanics - The Classes themselves - The Setting…
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Participants: Benajmin385, Chris_Chinn, dwashba, Maugh, Ar Kayon, Necromantis, Noon, Vulpinoid, Adam Dray, dugfromthearth.

8/28/2010 chronoplasm: Dwarves
As I was doodling in my sketchbook last night, I had an idea for a game about fantasy dwarves. You have four ability scores: Beard, Stomach, Muscle, and Brain. Beard…
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Participants: chronoplasm, dugfromthearth, greyorm, masqueradeball, Skofflox, hansel, Anders Gabrielsson, flossy, TehCodr, juminosy.

8/28/2010 BullyBoy: [Delta] Rules to modify the mood/theme of other games
[size=20pt][u][b]Delta[/b][/u][/size] I am not sure whether this is a unique premise for a RPG or not.  Actually, I am hoping it isn’t unique, so that I can save myself some…
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Participants: BullyBoy.

8/28/2010 masqueradeball: Pandering for Feedback
This is an alpha draft of a game I'm designing called Shadows (I know that the name is likely already taken, but it works for now, at least). I think…
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Participants: masqueradeball.

8/29/2010 hostilespace: Hostile Space - A game of sci-fi horror
Hostile Space will be a game of science fiction horror emulating everything from Aliens, to Predator to Pitch Black. Set in the future humanity has reached the stars but has…
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Participants: hostilespace, dwashba, masqueradeball, Noon, RuneBR, John Stephens, greyorm, Vulpinoid, stefoid, Bloomfield.

8/30/2010 masqueradeball: How many Attribute Types?
So, for my game, Shadows, which is a fantasy game that draws its inspiration from, among other things Ninja Scroll, Star Wars, Willow, Watership Down, His Dark Materials, Aesop's Fables,…
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Participants: masqueradeball, Adam Dray, Locke, Finarvyn.

8/30/2010 Moganhio: Tasks, conflicts and plot
I was in a debate in RPG.net and it came to types of games and mechanics. I think the subject is interesting and I'm bringing it here. My point is:…
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Participants: Moganhio, Ar Kayon, masqueradeball, Ron Edwards, Rui!.

8/31/2010 masqueradeball: Eucatastrophe
"But the 'consolation' of fairy-tales has another aspect than the imaginative satisfaction of ancient desires. Far more important is the Consolation of the Happy Ending. Almost I would venture to…
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Participants: masqueradeball, Ar Kayon, Anders Gabrielsson.

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