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In Game Development 9/6/2010 Shimera9: Mezzo Game System - Playtester's Wanted
Mezzo is a rpg I've been working on. The game can perhaps best be summed up by a few key features:
Emergent Characters: Character details and traits are defined…
In Game Development
Participants: Shimera9, Lance D. Allen, Ron Edwards.
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In Game Development 10/16/2010 FetusCommander: [Supers Chess] story elements in a mechaically focused game
[url=http://www.indie-rpgs.com/forge/index.php?topic=29574.0]Supers Chess[/url] has seen about 6 playtesting sessions now, and I have some concerns about how it's shaping up.
The chess mechanics, central to the conflict resolution of the game,…
In Game Development
Participants: FetusCommander, Noon, SamuelRiv, Holywar.
10/28/2010 epweissengruber: [In this Sign, Conquer] Toronto Area Gamers Playtest
The setting: 2nd floor of a restaurant with 5 sets of RPG ers getting down. D&D, WoD High Fantasy, Deliria, .44, and ItSic.
I am not presenting the game to…
In Game Development
Participants: epweissengruber.
10/30/2010 mreuther: [Untitled Paranormal Romance] Playtest I
So, as mentioned elsewhere, I worked up a system to test with my group (part of anyway) this weekend. Just got back in from what proved to be an edifying…
In Game Development
Participants: mreuther, Michiel Rutte, Troy_Costisick.
11/13/2010 Pen: Skill advancement doesn't feel right
I came up with a roleplaying setting that I felt needed its own game system. It's called The Raptured and it starts out on our current real world Earth and…
In Game Development
Participants: Pen, mreuther, Ar Kayon, Finarvyn, johnthedm7000, Ron Edwards.
11/15/2010 Ron Edwards: [Doctor Chaos] World peace, my way
Back in 2005, I noodled around with a game design that I really liked, but set it aside for a number of reasons, partly because playtesting had shown a couple…
In Game Development
Participants: Ron Edwards, SamuelRiv, Chris_Chinn, Troy_Costisick, pkalata, Miskatonic.
11/17/2010 Artanis: [Unspeakable] Abashed or anti Czege principle?
Hello all
I've been toiling away at a game based on my group's chaotic play of Call of Cthulhu of years past. After two years of development in French, I…
In Game Development
Participants: Artanis, Ron Edwards, Eero Tuovinen.
11/17/2010 Dan Maruschak: [Final Hour of a Storied Age] Heart of the Fire
For the past few weeks I've been playtesting Final Hour of a Storied Age, my GM-less no-prep game of Epic Fantasy with Leo Lalande and Nolan Callender. This AP report…
In Game Development
Participants: Dan Maruschak.
11/19/2010 Abkajud: [Dwarf Fortress] whoops! it's Right to Dream play!
Anybody ever design a game, execute it correctly, and then think "Well, crap. I wouldn't play this game"? That happened to me last night.
I did my first playtest for…
In Game Development
Participants: Abkajud, mreuther, Alfryd, Noon.
11/30/2010 New Fire: Stat Advancement at Character Creation vs During Gameplay
I've been working on a game for quite awhile now called New Fire. It's an Aztec-themed fantasy RPG using a d10 system and done in a very heroic and dramatic…
In Game Development
Participants: New Fire, Doug Law, Holywar, Certified, Finarvyn, johnthedm7000, Ron Edwards, DJ Ghost.
12/7/2010 Ron Edwards: Welcome to the Game Development forum - please read here first
This forum is devoted to notions about your own RPG design. By posting here, you should be at least 10% personally serious about developing an actual RPG. Your posts should…
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Participants: Ron Edwards.
12/7/2010 Ron Edwards: IMPORTANT FOR START-UP
Hi everyone,
I would like to import current threads from First Thoughts into this new forum. However! Threads here now have to include a link to some useable game document…
In Game Development
Participants: Ron Edwards, epweissengruber, dmkdesigns.
12/7/2010 Troy_Costisick: [Three Roses] Vision Statement
Heya,
Back a few years ago I wrote a game for Game Chef. It was called Hunter Rose. I loved the game. A few playtests showed me that it could…
In Game Development
Participants: Troy_Costisick, Artanis, Ron Edwards.
12/9/2010 Abkajud: [a greek adventure game] mercurial heroes (or should that be hermetic?)
[x-posted at Story Games]
Idea:
three kinds of traits - d4's for arete (skill), d6's for names (relationships/allies), and d8's for aegis (divine favor). you can have multiple dice in…
In Game Development
Participants: Abkajud, Ron Edwards, masqueradeball.
12/10/2010 johnthedm7000: The revised task resolution system for the RPG I'm working on
Task Resolution:
All important tasks (ie. those that have a chance of failure, and which have significant consequences for failure) are resolved using the following method.
2d10+Ability+/- Circumstances
Against a…
In Game Development
Participants: johnthedm7000, Abkajud, Ron Edwards.
12/12/2010 talisman: Using Tarot Cards in-game
Hi everyone, I'm new. Long-time reader, first time poster.
Anyways, me and my brother have been playtesting a new game I've been developing, and when we playtest I pull tarot…
In Game Development
Participants: talisman, Ron Edwards, Finarvyn, Noon, Web_Weaver, Chris_Chinn, Bill_White, Dantai.
12/13/2010 New Fire: Stats for an Army Unit, Stats for a Town
Greetings, everyone! I am working on a game known as New Fire. It is a fantasy RPG set in a world based on Aztec/Mayan/Mesoamerican culture and mythology. Players take on…
In Game Development
Participants: New Fire, Dr. Velocity, Ron Edwards, Simons.
12/13/2010 Ron Edwards: [GRAY MAGICK] My fantasy heartbreaker design work, approximately 1994
Hello,
I recently found an old folder full of my RPG design work from the early-to-middle 1990s. The first game I made up and played was in 1987 or so,…
In Game Development
Participants: Ron Edwards, Paul Czege, contracycle.
12/14/2010 dindenver: [Legends of Lanasia] Conflict Flow
Here is what I have so far:
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Conflict Flow
1) Agree that there is a conflict
2) Players declare their Stakes (what are they fighting for?)
3) Judge declares…
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Participants: dindenver, Ron Edwards, Noon.
12/14/2010 paddirn: Skills that don't necessarily go up with level?
I'm curious what about people's thoughts are on a skill system where skills advance based on frequency of use, with the most-used skills increasing in proficiency and least-used skills actually…
In Game Development
Participants: paddirn, Ron Edwards.
12/15/2010 Eszed: "All games are, is systems" - interesting article about game design
I'm not developing a game, I just want to direct attention to an article that may be of interest. It's about Brenda Braithwaite, a long-time video game designer who has…
In Game Development
Participants: Eszed, Ron Edwards.
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