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12/14/2001 hardcoremoose: Sorcerer & Sword Comments
Enough of us have it now, so I thought I'd start up a new thread to discuss the salient points of the sourcebook. And what a sourcebook it is! Fun…
In Adept Press
Participants: hardcoremoose, joshua neff, greyorm, Blake Hutchins, erithromycin, Ron Edwards, Eric, Tor Erickson, Bailywolf, jburneko, Paul Czege, James V. West, Trav.

12/13/2001 JSDiamond: How they did it (D&D & Vampire)
...and how WE can too. Branching off from creating a successful rpg line, Zak and I conferred on a few reasons as to why things have gone the way they…
In Publishing
Participants: JSDiamond.

12/13/2001 jburneko: Little Fears Art
Hello, Well, I FINALLY own a copy of Little Fears thanks to an early Holiday gift from one of my players. I haven't read it thuroughly but what I've loved…
In Key 20 Publishing
Participants: jburneko, Ron Edwards, Jason L Blair, GreatWolf.

12/13/2001 Petter Sandelin: The trendy people
I guess this is the fourm for a topic with no forum..(couldn't there be one wich discusses X + other general issues?) It was a couple of years ago since…
In Site Discussion
Participants: Petter Sandelin, Joe Murphy (Broin), Ron Edwards, contracycle, joshua neff, Laurel, Clinton R. Nixon, Blake Hutchins.

12/13/2001 Uratoh: My first actual session, plus help me with 'overbearing' pla
Well I had my first session running Little Fears, and had the 'monster in the septic tank' bit ruined when they poured 4 things of bleech down the toilet and…
In Key 20 Publishing
Participants: Uratoh, Fabrice G., mahoux, Joe Murphy (Broin), GreatWolf, Mike Holmes, Grumbleputty.

12/12/2001 Ron Edwards: Sorcerer tattoo
Hi there, It had to happen. The cool thing is that the person is one of the very first Sorcerer players, Camille Throckmorton. She had the character with the scary,…
In Adept Press
Participants: Ron Edwards, Paul Czege, Time, Tor Erickson.

12/12/2001 jburneko: Gamism In Action or Why I Hate Arts and Crafts
Hello All, First off, I'd like to state that this post is an account of my personal experiences as filtered through my personal biases. Nothing I am about to say…
In Actual Play
Participants: jburneko, Epoch, Garbanzo, Eric.Brennan, Ben Morgan.

12/12/2001 John Wick: It doesn't just happen here...
A while back I said it was a crime for reviewers to review games they haven't actually played (only read). Well, check this out (from imdb.com): David Soul Wins Libel…
In Review Discussion
Participants: John Wick, Balbinus, Clinton R. Nixon, Epoch, Marco, Ron Edwards, Mike Holmes, James V. West, Gordon C. Landis, Mytholder.

12/12/2001 GreatWolf: Need an artist
I am looking for an artist to do a very small project for me for free or cheap. Basically, I would like to have six stylized moon phases for my…
In Connections
Participants: GreatWolf.

12/12/2001 GreatWolf: I'm not dead yet! (aka News update)
Hmm. I look at the last post date on the forum and I see 9/10/2001. That seems particularly ill-omened for some reason, so I'm going to post in my own…
In Dark Omen Games
Participants: GreatWolf, Ron Edwards, Mike Holmes, Time, Valamir, Jürgen Mayer.

12/12/2001 Clinton R. Nixon: Gamism in action
On another thread, Mark Blaxland wrote: This seems to me to infer that 'Gamist' games are all about winning. ... It's only natural, after all to want to 'win'.…
In GNS Model Discussion
Participants: Clinton R. Nixon, Ron Edwards.

12/12/2001 Jared A. Sorensen: No Media Kings
http://www.nomediakings.com This is Jim Munroe's site. He wrote a book a liked (Angry Young Spaceman) and a book I really loved (Flyboy Action Figure Comes with Gasmask). Anyway, it's all…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Jared A. Sorensen, joshua neff, hardcoremoose, Paul Czege.

12/12/2001 Balbinus: Typo of the month
Hi there, Just noticed a great typo (or is it?) in the game library descriptions section. Apparently, Space Ninja Cybercrisis is about: Manga action comedy demons aliens amazing groinal powers…
In Site Discussion
Participants: Balbinus, razgon.

12/12/2001 Mark Blaxland: Gamism: The pursuit of excellence
This post, and my presence on this forum is largely a result of Mads Jakobsen's 'Gamism is not competition' thread, and it's spill-over to RPG.net (where I heard about it).…
In GNS Model Discussion
Participants: Mark Blaxland, Ron Edwards, Gordon C. Landis, Marco, Mike Holmes, Clinton R. Nixon, contracycle, jburneko.

12/12/2001 Jared A. Sorensen: The Code II (replacing the "Superheroes" topic)
The Code II http://memento-mori.com/code/code2.html Please let me know what you guys think. I'm exceptionally happy with the Setting Dials section, even though there's no much to it. And yes, I'm…
In Memento-Mori Theatricks
Participants: Jared A. Sorensen, sdemory, Joe Murphy (Broin), erithromycin.

12/11/2001 hardcoremoose: Yeah baby, It's here!
[i]Sorcerer and Sword[/i] hit my mailbox today...anyone else got theirs' yet? It looks awesome! Kudos Ron...very cool. - Scott
In Adept Press
Participants: hardcoremoose, Paul Czege, Blake Hutchins, Ron Edwards, Clinton R. Nixon, greyorm, jburneko, joshua neff, Uncle Dark, Eric, Jürgen Mayer, Trav.

12/11/2001 Tor Erickson: Observers to role-playing
Hi All, For three of our Sorcerer sessions so far we've had an outside observer sitting in. Other than the occasional comment they do just that: observe. What I'm finding…
In Actual Play
Participants: Tor Erickson, Paul Czege, gentrification, hardcoremoose, Mike Holmes, Epoch, Evan Torner, contracycle, Gordon C. Landis, Osric, Ron Edwards.

12/11/2001 lumpley: Solstice Party at My House
This an Actually-Will-Play, so Actual Play it is. This year the Baker family's annual all-night solstice party is a gamefest! Sunset to Sunrise the night of the 21st we'll keep…
In Actual Play
Participants: lumpley, Marco, Epoch, Jared A. Sorensen, greyorm.

12/11/2001 Eric: More than one Cover?
Scores of 5 or higher get two descriptions. Does this also apply to to cover? With a 5 Will and a 5 cover, could a character have belief system and…
In Adept Press
Participants: Eric, Ron Edwards, Jared A. Sorensen, hardcoremoose.

12/11/2001 erithromycin: PUNk
There have been natterings about a real world game in a couple of forums now, so I dug out an old game I wrote that grew out of an older…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: erithromycin, contracycle, Mike Holmes.

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12/14/2001 Eric.Brennan: Preparation Advice Sought
Hi, long-time lurker, first time poster. I’m starting a Vampire Revised game, with a small group of people (3) I normally don’t play with. My game-mastering experience in the last…
In Actual Play
Participants: Eric.Brennan, Marco, Mike Holmes, erithromycin, Paul Czege, Ranko, Ron Edwards, Ben Morgan, Tor Erickson.

12/14/2001 Tor Erickson: Rethinking the Kicker
Hi all, Up in RPG Theory or Actual Play or somewhere I posted that the purpose of Kickers is to give the character some sort of an emotional investment in…
In Adept Press
Participants: Tor Erickson, Mike Holmes, Ron Edwards.

12/14/2001 Jared A. Sorensen: Superior: revised and rockin'
I added some graphical examples, clarified some rules and added rules for 3+ players and team play. Ole! http://www.memento-mori.com/games/superior.html
In Memento-Mori Theatricks
Participants: Jared A. Sorensen, Mike Holmes.

12/15/2001 James V. West: TQB draft one in the hands of dangerous minds
Hey all I uploaded The Questing Beast, draft one, to the geocities site and placed that link in the hands of some dangerous and powerful thinkers. I need to make…
In Random Order Creations
Participants: James V. West, hardcoremoose, Paul Czege.

12/15/2001 erithromycin: Se7en: A 'Generic' rpg
This grew out of an idea I had about an hour ago. It's posted here rather than at a URL for convenience, probably more on my part than yours. This…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: erithromycin.

12/16/2001 Ian O'Rourke: Website?
Does Random Order Creations have a website? And also, to save myself double posting somewhere else, is their a website for Wyrd? Need it for links from an immininent FLN…
In Random Order Creations
Participants: Ian O'Rourke, hardcoremoose, James V. West.

12/16/2001 Valamir: Sorcerer & Sword
Got it read it loved it. The only downside is that my new apartment uses those really small business envelope sized boxes and the mail carrier seems to view this…
In Adept Press
Participants: Valamir, Ron Edwards.

12/16/2001 Ian O'Rourke: Top 5 RPGs by Ron Edwards
Ron's entry into the Top 5 RPG's series has been submitted to Fandomlife.net. A different approach is taken again. The article can be found at http://www.fandomlife.net. On a side note,…
In Actual Play
Participants: Ian O'Rourke, hardcoremoose.

12/16/2001 Jack Spencer Jr: What is an RPG supposed to be?
This is a question, and various answers that I've run into when talking RPG w/ people. Invariably I run into a wall of "an RPG is supposed to be (blank)."…
In RPG Theory
Participants: Jack Spencer Jr, Armin D. Sykes, Marco, Mike Holmes, Ron Edwards, Mario, Laurel.

12/17/2001 Tor Erickson: Southern Fried Sorcerer, the Final Act
(this continues two earlier posts in Actual Play: Southern Fried Sorcerer, parts 1 and 2. There's also some system posts down in the Sorcerer forum). Southern Fried Sorcerer took 5…
In Actual Play
Participants: Tor Erickson, Ron Edwards, Mike Holmes.

12/17/2001 Jason L Blair: Revised Release Schedule
For those interested, a revised release schedule is available at http://www.key20.com/littlefears/releaseschedule.html This will replace the one currently on the site when I finish the revamp.
In Key 20 Publishing
Participants: Jason L Blair.

12/17/2001 Jason L Blair: State of the Union
Busy busy busy. Here's the skinny on the current situation of Little Fears: Little Fears is doing very well. Sales still continue to amaze me. We haven't seen a significant…
In Key 20 Publishing
Participants: Jason L Blair, Dav, Ravnos83, Stivven.

12/17/2001 Ian O'Rourke: Where is the innovation in System?
Okay, Ron’s article on FLN got me thinking about narrativist games in particular. I find some of them great, and others I just find myself wondering how they can be…
In GNS Model Discussion
Participants: Ian O'Rourke, joshua neff, Ron Edwards, Mike Holmes, jburneko, Jared A. Sorensen, Gordon C. Landis, Paul Czege, James V. West.

12/17/2001 greyorm: It Never Fails
So, I've been a movie-watching buff lately. I've sucked down more special-effects-ridden media than I have in years. Other than coming to the realization that all of John Carpenter's movies…
In RPG Theory
Participants: greyorm, Ron Edwards, Paul Czege, Mike Holmes, contracycle, gentrification, Bankuei, hardcoremoose.

12/17/2001 Matt Snyder: Rewarding story/plot threads
Here's a notion I thought I'd share with you all. A while ago, I posted a message about conducting a survey for my game group to better assess the reasons…
In Actual Play
Participants: Matt Snyder, Mike Holmes, Osric, Uncle Dark.

12/18/2001 Dav: Channel conflict with distribution-retailers-manfacturers
Taking the hint from Ron's last post regarding a new thread, here it is. Without further ado, I would like to throw out a few open questions to the collective…
In Publishing
Participants: Dav, contracycle, Jack Spencer Jr, Ron Edwards, GMSkarka, Jared A. Sorensen, joshua neff, Ian O'Rourke, Ryan Ary.

12/18/2001 Ferry Bazelmans: SOAP - restructuring and rebuilding
Hi there, After about three quarters of a year, I wanted to redo Soap and get some of its more problematic issues solved. It is up at for review: http://www.crayne.nl/test/soap-test.html…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Ferry Bazelmans, Mike Holmes.

12/18/2001 Laurel: Devils Cay
I know I've been suspiciously quiet for the last 2-3 weeks. There's been a lot going on for me, that is now finalized so that I can start discussing it.…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Laurel, Ron Edwards.

12/18/2001 jburneko: The Litterary Gamers Guide To...
Once again, I find myself with a topic that doesn't really fit a specific forum. This time I find myself torn between Indie Game Design and Publishing. What I want…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: jburneko, Joe Murphy (Broin), Le Joueur, Marco.

12/19/2001 FruitSmack!: Umm..A little help here...
Hey y'all, Im working on a game idea and I cant, for the life of me come up with a name for the beings in it. Maybe someone has an…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: FruitSmack!.

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