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10/19/2006 jasonm: Five players?
Hey everybody, My weekly group wants to go nuts with Agon, but I'm concerned that five players is too many - I've played with three and that seemed perfect.  Any…
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Participants: jasonm, demiurgeastaroth, LeSingeSavant, John Harper.

10/6/2006 Shreyas Sampat: [not exactly actual play] Battles Are Crazy
Tonight I ran another island. It was way fun. As one of the challenges, the heroes had to "defend the corpse of the Golden Goar of Ion from the hounds…
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Participants: Shreyas Sampat, demiurgeastaroth.

10/2/2006 Willow: Island of Serifos
I'll post this over to the Island Thread once I've run it and have some more data to plop down (NPC traits, etc.)  A secondary reason for me posting it…
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Participants: Willow, John Harper.

10/1/2006 Skywalker: Agon: Successful First Run and question
I ran Agon for the first time in the week in preparation for a Con next weekend. It worked wonderfully. Quick question: I really enjoyed using the minion rules for…
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Participants: Skywalker, demiurgeastaroth.

10/1/2006 Willow: Some Rules Questions about NPCs
1)  The text mentions recurring NPCs, which I think is totally awesome.  Do they ever get to heal impairment or wounds? 2)  Can I spend extra strife for them to…
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Participants: Willow, John Harper, demiurgeastaroth.

9/30/2006 Willow: Magic in Agon?
From what I can recall from the Iliad and the Oddessy, oh, who am I kidding? Hercules and Xena, sorcerers are all over ancient Greece. Evil sorcerers are easy to…
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Participants: Willow, John Harper, Shreyas Sampat.

9/23/2006 John Harper: House Rule: Another way to read the dice
Here's something I'm toying with. The result of a roll is the highest die in the pool. Add one for each extra die showing 4-7. Add two for each extra…
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Participants: John Harper, Alan, demiurgeastaroth, iago, Skywalker, Camtha.

9/12/2006 Alan: A few rules questions
Hi John, Some quick questions on Agon second printing: 1) Under invoking hubris, it says losers suffer wounds. But under battle it says the winner gets advantage die. I suspect…
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Participants: Alan, rafial, John Harper.

9/8/2006 rafial: Buffing armor penetration
I've been considering experimenting with a house rule to say that each success spent on armor penetration gives -2 to the armor die roll, instead of -1.  My gut feeling…
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Participants: rafial, Valamir, demiurgeastaroth.

9/8/2006 rafial: One Shot Scoring
Here's my suggestion for scoring Agon sessions that are deliberate one shots: http://random.average-bear.com/Agon/OneShotScoring It's designed to put a little bit more tension onto the urge to blow through your Fate.
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Participants: rafial.

9/6/2006 demiurgeastaroth: Missing Thread
Where's the thread on terrain gone? I was about to respond to that.
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Participants: demiurgeastaroth, John Harper, Valamir, Bankuei, philaros.

9/5/2006 demiurgeastaroth: Terrain in combat
A funny bit of synchronicity. Over in this post, Ralph asked if anyone had any ideas for using Terrain in combat. At the start of our first battle in tonight's…
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Participants: demiurgeastaroth, iago, Bankuei, Banesfinger, NathanFrund, John Harper.

9/2/2006 Valamir: The quest for punchier combat
Ok.  Based on our latest actual play I've been thinking about a way to perk up Agon combat. Currently Agon combat is a fairly long, attrition based, D&D-esque whittling down…
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Participants: Valamir, demiurgeastaroth, John Harper.

9/2/2006 demiurgeastaroth: NPC Cost error?
[b]1. NPC Point Costs[/b] Is there a mistake in the costs of the three sample NPCs in the book? By my calculation, they should all be 1 point higher. I…
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Participants: demiurgeastaroth.

9/2/2006 iago: Agon on OgreCave
Round about the 53rd minute of the latest OgreCave Audio Report, Mike Sugarbaker (I think) calls Agon "Game of Show".
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Participants: iago, John Harper.

8/31/2006 demiurgeastaroth: Character Sheet Request
Hey, John... Would it be possible to get a new version of the character sheet with the armour box as a standard trait box (one of those with the four…
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Participants: demiurgeastaroth, Shreyas Sampat, John Harper.

8/29/2006 John Harper: [Agon] Under Consideration: Helping dice that really help
Here's a rule that I'm seriously considering for a Semi-Official Rules Change. Advantage, Helping, & Creative Ability Dice When you use an Advantage die, a Helping die, or a…
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Participants: John Harper, demiurgeastaroth, iago, Valamir, GreatWolf, Shreyas Sampat.

8/29/2006 demiurgeastaroth: Yes, Yes, YES!!!! (and: NPC Heroic Abilities)
We played again last night, and during an epic battle one of the players reached Fate 12 and a Name of d10. On the way home afterwards, I realised I…
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Participants: demiurgeastaroth, John Harper.

8/27/2006 John Harper: Agon: Actual Play Index
Post links to Actual Play here. I'll start with a few. The Bronze Chimera (Shreyas Sampat) http://njyar.thesmerf.com/blog/2006/08/food-agon/ First Among Equals Session Zero (Fred Hicks) http://forum.rpg.net/showthread.php?t=282403
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Participants: John Harper, demiurgeastaroth, Emily Care, hix, MikeSands, Mel_White.

8/26/2006 John Harper: Darren's Hydra with Minions for Heads
This is so cool. Darren has designed a Hydra that has a bunch of extra heads treated as minions in the game system. This is so brilliant, I just wanted…
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Participants: John Harper, iago, demiurgeastaroth.

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11/1/2006 iago: Agon: Sightings
RPG.net: http://forum.rpg.net/showthread.php?t=294209 "How do I make my game feel more mythic?" And on the latest Ogrecave audio podcast (Oct 13th, I think?) Mike Sugarbaker talks more about Agon -- both…
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Participants: iago, John Harper.

11/6/2006 Warren: Stranger Things?
Quick non-Agon question: What's going on with Stranger Things at the moment? I've been looking forward to it for the best part of a year (or more). Last I heard,…
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Participants: Warren, Bailywolf, John Harper, demiurgeastaroth, Valamir.

11/7/2006 scorpio rising: [Agon] A question about armour.
Hi John. Agon rocks.  You have the consistent pimping of Jonathan Walton at SGB to thank for my purchase, and so do I -- I think this is one of…
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Participants: scorpio rising, demiurgeastaroth, John Harper.

11/17/2006 demiurgeastaroth: House Rule: Helping Dice Revisited Yet Again
Remember the Helping Dice suggestion: If you roll a Helping Die, and it doesn't actually help, you get a +1 bonus? Here's an alternative: When you get a Helping Die,…
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Participants: demiurgeastaroth, John Harper.

11/27/2006 Camtha: Of losing and healing
Hi I was just wondering player vs. player in sertain fashion. When someone loses in this case takes the 6th box in hubris, does the woulds "collapse" as in TSOY?…
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Participants: Camtha, Ludanto.

11/28/2006 reidzilla: PDF purchasing question
Hi, I just bought the paperback version at LULU and I realized I would like the PDF also. Is there a Package deal or would I have to pay full…
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Participants: reidzilla, John Harper.

12/15/2006 DainXB: NPC builds for commentary
Greetings! Here are some ideas I've had for NPCs, but I'm not 100% sure that I'm doing this right.  Comments on both the concepts and the math are welcome.  Once…
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Participants: DainXB, John Harper.

12/15/2006 DainXB: New Heroic Trait
Thinking about female PC concepts, I came up with something besides the typical 'Amazon' or 'Warrior Princess', and it's actually historically accurate!  (Not that that's important.)  I built a Heroic…
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Participants: DainXB, John Harper.

12/16/2006 NathanFrund: Ability: Shield question
Last night I ran the first test demo of Agon and we loved it. A bit of confusion came up about 'Ability: Shield'.  When is that ability die used?  When…
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Participants: NathanFrund, Shreyas Sampat.

12/16/2006 Hugin: Multiple opponents
Hi all Stunning game John. And with 300 due out, this is getting me really excited. Anyway... I may have missed this somewhere but can't find it in the rules,…
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Participants: Hugin, Shreyas Sampat, John Harper.

12/16/2006 Shreyas Sampat: Ragnarok: a fan-supplement
So, someone on RPG.net mentioned how cool a Norse-styled adaptation to Agon would be, and I was like, yeah it would! So I'm going to use this thread for mainly…
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Participants: Shreyas Sampat, Hugin, John Harper, 1000buffalo, Nev the Deranged.

12/17/2006 NathanFrund: Ran my first multi-player game (demo) last night
And I gotta say that it went great.  It was a very simple run through with just a bit of scenario to get players into the setting.  I purchased some…
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Participants: NathanFrund, John Harper.

12/17/2006 Entsuropi: How does pdf ordering work?
Hi all. I bought the .pdf from the frontpage earlier, but I have not yet recieved it. Does Mr Harper email it out himself, or should I have gotten a…
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Participants: Entsuropi, iago, NathanFrund, John Harper.

1/14/2007 NathanFrund: I posted an actual play over at rpg.net
http://forum.rpg.net/showthread.php?t=306491 Check it out and let me know what you think.  Pointers?  More NPCs/Monsters that aren't posted to the site?
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Participants: NathanFrund, John Harper.

1/30/2007 NathanFrund: Wondering: Die Degrades Only Upon Failure?
As per the subject, I've been wondering if the system would work okay if say, a character's Cunning Die degrades only when failing at a task instead of simply by…
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Participants: NathanFrund, John Harper.

2/1/2007 Ludanto: AGON Questions
I might be playing this soon, but I had some questions (as usual). 1) Divine favor supposedly represents the favor of your patron deity, so do you only get extra…
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Participants: Ludanto, John Harper, Nev the Deranged, demiurgeastaroth, cdr, Skywalker.

2/12/2007 NathanFrund: Just wanted to give a BIG thanks for the NPC thread
This past Saturday, I ran a 10 hour Agon marathon (http://forum.rpg.net/showthread.php?t=311144).  The NPCs presented in the NPC thread really, really helped me a lot, so I want to give a…
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Participants: NathanFrund, John Harper.

2/14/2007 NathanFrund: Magic System Ruminations
After running Agon this past weekend, I thought that it would be great to run a D&D type game with it.  Already I think it's a better D&D than D&D…
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Participants: NathanFrund, John Harper, Doyce.

2/14/2007 John Harper: Healing Clarification (FAQ updated)
After reading a few AP reports recently, I realized that the Healing text is poorly worded. So, I updated the FAQ with a clarification. Here it is: Healing Q. The…
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Participants: John Harper.

2/27/2007 Banesfinger: Armor?
A question on how Armor works: Page 58 states: "...If you’re hit, you may roll your armor die. 4+ on armor = no damage taken..." Page 59 states: "...1 wound…
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Participants: Banesfinger, John Harper.

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