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3/11/2004 b_bankhead: Hot Lead and Hypocrisy: a rant on guns in Call of Cthulhu
Note: This article is an extension of the threads, Drifting to R'lyeh and Cthulhu's clues. It will be best understood by reading those posts One of the most nagging anomalies…
In RPG Theory
Participants: b_bankhead, Valamir, Noon, Andrew Norris, Ian Charvill, Itse, GreatWolf, John Kim, madelf, Gordon C. Landis, Ron Edwards, Trevis Martin, Ole, komradebob, Halzebier, simon_hibbs, Mike Holmes, pete_darby, GB Steve, ChefKyle, Russell Impagliazzo, James Holloway, JDJarvis, DannyK, M. J. Young, Storn, Castellanus, contracycle, CPXB.

3/11/2004 Jasper: [PRINCIPIUM NOVA] Resources and Scalability
In Principium Nova (recently renamed to the singular), I have a resolution system that is designed to scale in terms of task size and specificity, so that it can handle…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Jasper, Eero Tuovinen.

3/10/2004 Bob Goat: SKU Number?
Please forgive my ignorance, but what exactly is a SKU number and where does it come from? Is this a part of the ISBN? I am assuming that these are…
In Publishing
Participants: Bob Goat, jrs, jdagna.

3/10/2004 Harlequin: Possible solution to Brian's SimB/S issue
This comes from a slightly stale thread, so I'll reopen rather than continuing... Brian raised a point about the simultaneous block/strike, and indeed IMO about all use of attacks in…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: Harlequin, Mike Holmes, Wolfen, Edge, Jake Norwood, Brian Leybourne, Ben Lehman, Richard_Strey, Valamir, Overdrive, Tash, [MKF]Kapten, Gideon13, kenjib, nsruf, Ingenious.

3/10/2004 seraphimy2k: a bit of a newbie
hi everyone forgive me if im posting in the wrong forum, but this is my first post :) My question is as follows : i live in the uk, and…
In Publishing
Participants: seraphimy2k, Matt Wilson, Jack Aidley, Ron Edwards, coolblade.

3/10/2004 thelopez: Elves Comparative Study
It would be interesting to do an average height, weight and age comparison for Elves from a variety of FRPGs or similar styled RPGs as Brian asked for in his…
In RPG Theory
Participants: thelopez, Ron Edwards, Mike Holmes, Scourge108, Ben Morgan, Tavish, Harrek, Valamir, HMT.

3/10/2004 [MKF]Kapten: People who knows military tactics, plz look here!
I need someone who knows more about military tactics than me, preferebly ancient tactics. When I created my campaign setting I wanted it to be different from the classic medieval…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: [MKF]Kapten, Valamir, Bob Goat, MrGeneHa, Mike Holmes, Drifter Bob, Tash, Bankuei, Half-Baked, Dan Sellars, Turin.

3/10/2004 brainwipe: [Icar] Star Enfocer Setting
Last night was the first session of the Star Enforcer Setting. It was going to be the usual fair of character creation and a quick Case. However, many of my…
In Actual Play
Participants: brainwipe.

3/10/2004 Tash: Abusing SAs?
I was discussing character ideas with one of the guys in my group and he mentioned the idea of having "Drive: Hates to Loose" as an SA. Now on the…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: Tash, kenjib, Bankuei, Valamir, Alan, Lxndr, Wolfen, Ingenious, Ian.Plumb, timfire.

3/10/2004 thomcat: Serrated edges
Just read about a jagged-edge weapon that would cause extra damage. A disadvantage mentioned was that this weapon catches in the wound, causing difficulty freeing it for the next swing.…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: thomcat, Malechi, Ingenious, Wolfen, Richard_Strey.

3/10/2004 taalyn: Systematic challenge, or "How the party met an untimely
One of the things that really impressed me with Dunjon was the method for gauging how many or what level to make NPCs so that they would be a consistent…
In RPG Theory
Participants: taalyn, M. J. Young.

3/10/2004 Asrogoth: Streamlining Design
Since I opened the can of worms regarding "Streamlining the Creative Process" (see this thread http://www.indie-rpgs.com/viewtopic.php?t=9943) and have accepted the challenge of making my "vision" come to life, I am…
In RPG Theory
Participants: Asrogoth, thelopez, lumpley, Mike Holmes, andy, Ole, timfire.

3/10/2004 bcook1971: [Issues & Impact] DFW Area Playtesters Wanted
I've just completed principal design of I&I and would like to find 2-3 people to help playtest it. I would like to meet once a week for 1 month, 3-4…
In Connections
Participants: bcook1971.

3/10/2004 bcook1971: Picky, Assumption-Teasing Questions
[list=1][*]Do you fumble a strike (pp. 78-9) by failing the roll and having two or more 1's (a la pp. 7-8) or does [i]any[/i] failure to hit draw the 1/2…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: bcook1971, Valamir, Malechi, Ingenious, Wolfen, Ian.Plumb.

3/10/2004 montag: [Trollbabe] If my sister 's in trouble ...
I got the chance to play Trollbabe with my girlfriend tonight. In fact, I bought the game especially to play with her, since the game seemed ideal for one on…
In Actual Play
Participants: montag, Ron Edwards, greyorm, Alan, Bob McNamee.

3/10/2004 Gordon C. Landis: Seeing GNS everywhere
[quote="'JP', in comments to Greg Costikyan's March 4, 2004 blog entry"] Which isn't to say you can't quantify some of the general archetypes, as Mahk LeBlanc and others have done.…
In GNS Model Discussion
Participants: Gordon C. Landis, Mike Holmes, John Kim, pete_darby.

3/10/2004 Tash: Terrain roll for an evade?
Can a terrain roll (which I think is used to represent any footwork a character has to do while moving) be used to evade an attack, particularly during a charge…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: Tash, [MKF]Kapten, Wolfen, Malechi, nsruf.

3/9/2004 Shadeling: My TROS games
As some of you may remember, I was running TROS games for sometime. They went well, but I decided to shelve them despite the stories being unfinished. To be honest,…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: Shadeling, Edge, Malechi, Dain, Wolfen, Jake Norwood, Brian Leybourne, Spartan, Tash, MrGeneHa, Farseer415, Ian.Plumb, casinormal, nsruf, Alan, Valamir, Amy1419, bcook1971, Thanaeon, kanseg, kenjib, Muggins, Jaeger, Ben Lehman, silburnl, Starshadow, Ingenious, Emiricol.

3/9/2004 Bob Goat: Recommendations for First Timer
I convinced my normal group of gamers to start playing once a week on a weeknight outside of our two never ending (my kingdom for a conclusion) campaigns. This has…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: Bob Goat, Salamander, Edge, Malechi.

3/9/2004 thomcat: The Riddle of Bronze
(yes, I know there will be *something* in TFOB, but I want rules for today...) Are these assumptions completely off base? 1) Bronze armor -- "softer" than Steel, so roughly…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: thomcat, toli, Caz, Alan, Gideon13, Brian Leybourne, Durgil, Mike Holmes, ZenDog.

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3/11/2004 age_of_dissent: [FS:Twilight] Computer to Tabletop?
Hi folks! I'm new here, but I hope I can avoid any obvious mistakes. (Edit: And I make a spelling mistake in the subject. I can't believe I did that.…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: age_of_dissent, Eric J., anonymouse.

3/11/2004 Dev: Use of cards with Sorcerer rolling scheme...
Supposing I wanted to use my Tarot cards instead of pools of dice; the cards are easily ranked, so that is easy enough. However, Since the die size can effectively…
In Adept Press
Participants: Dev, sirogit, Trevis Martin, Ron Edwards, GreatWolf, Ben Lehman, Lxndr, xiombarg, Matt Snyder, tetsujin28, Andrew Morris, clehrich.

3/11/2004 Storn: Characters that Click! Or don't.
No. I'm not talking about HeroClix. And I'm fairly new to these boards, only been here a few days. But I'm struck by the wonderful deconstruction and re-construction of gaming…
In RPG Theory
Participants: Storn, Mike Holmes, John Kim, Valamir, RDU Neil, Alan, aplath, Nuadha.

3/11/2004 Stacey Lucht: IntraGalactic League of Sims
Dear Group Leaders: My name is Stacey Lucht and I am currently the President of the IntraGalactic League of Sims. What we are is an organization of simming groups that…
In Site Discussion
Participants: Stacey Lucht, Valamir, Lxndr, xiombarg, Mike Holmes, brainwipe, ethan_greer, Eero Tuovinen, Christopher Weeks, Walt Freitag, Hunter Logan, clehrich, greyorm, JamesSterrett, montag, M. J. Young, Ron Edwards, Mark Johnson, Clay, kwill, Jack Spencer Jr.

3/11/2004 Grex: IRC bots, Shakespeare, and relationship maps
I'm not quite sure if this has any practical application to RPGs, but it is an interesting read anyway: http://www.jibble.org/shakespeare/ Perhaps this PieSpy bot could be modified and put to…
In RPG Theory
Participants: Grex, contracycle, pete_darby.

3/11/2004 Lollo: Brainwash (for Snowball)
Hi you all, in the weekend, at Ambercon Italy, I'll test "Brainwash", a Snowball scenario. It's inspired by Chuck Palahniuk novels and tells the story of a rockband starting from…
In Random Order Creations
Participants: Lollo, Lxndr, zib.

3/11/2004 Doyce: Software for R-Maps
By feeding PieSpy (an IRC bot used to visualize social networks) with the entire texts of Shakespeare plays, it became possible to produce drawings of the social networks present in…
In Actual Play
Participants: Doyce, GreatWolf, Paul Czege, age_of_dissent, Trevis Martin, Malechi, Christopher Weeks, Ville Takanen, Norbert G. Mataus, alexandre santos, Ron Edwards.

3/11/2004 RDU Neil: Blatant GNS questions...
I just posited these questions to one of my group. I don't think I got it quite right, but here is what I asked, as an example of starting a…
In GNS Model Discussion
Participants: RDU Neil, Ron Edwards, joshua neff, jburneko, Valamir, John Kim, Trevis Martin, Gordon C. Landis, Ben Lehman, Ian Charvill, M. J. Young.

3/11/2004 VoiceOfGd: [Softlands] Question about Core Mechanic
Ok, this is my first post here and I have forum stagefright so I'm going to go directly down Ron's list in "How to present a mechanic..." explicitly. Sorry for…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: VoiceOfGd, Shreyas Sampat, Mike Holmes, Jonathan Walton.

3/11/2004 bergh: Spear and shield...what fighting style will he use?
Spear and shield...what fighting style will he use? Im asking this for an Greek hoplite style warrior= large round shield, long spear. what fighting style?
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: bergh, Edge, Tash, Jake Norwood, Kaelin, MrGeneHa, nsruf, Thanaeon, bottleneck, Nick Pagnucco, ZenDog.

3/11/2004 madelf: A racist race? What's your take?
I hope this belongs here. I don't swim much in this end of the pool. I usually stick to "Publishing" and occassionally stick my toe into "RPG Theory". But I…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: madelf, Wolfen, daMoose_Neo, simon_hibbs, Doctor Xero, pete_darby, Valamir, komradebob, Matt, Lara, contracycle.

3/12/2004 Drifter Bob: What is this game?
I am being driven slowly mad because I can't remember the name of this game that I played a few months ago. I'm hoping y'all can identify it for me.…
In Actual Play
Participants: Drifter Bob, ethan_greer, Alan.

3/12/2004 jburneko: [The Pool/Eden Falls] Book 1, Final Chapter
So, on Tuesday, the curent Eden Falls scenario came to a conclusion. As usual I offered up the option to either keep playing with these characters in this setting with…
In Actual Play
Participants: jburneko, Andrew Norris.

3/12/2004 Noon: Wanna look at some gamist design bits of mine? (long)
I've got a few questions on a gamist system that I'm putting together (One I mentioned I was going to do in another post). I'll start with its goals, to…
In RPG Theory
Participants: Noon, Mike Holmes, Harrek, Ron Edwards.

3/12/2004 daMoose_Neo: [Backstage] Looking for a little opinion...(comedy RP)
Hmmkay, most of my posts have been to the publishing side concerning my CG going out, but with it at the printers I have a little time before I have…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: daMoose_Neo, age_of_dissent, Mike Holmes, Doctor Xero, orbsmatt.

3/12/2004 anonymouse: [design sketch] apocalypse now
This is a design sketch. I don't have any mechanics in mind right now, just have a stumbling block at the moment. so, I was watching this special on International…
In RPG Theory
Participants: anonymouse, erithromycin.

3/12/2004 age_of_dissent: [FS: Twilight] Would this initiative mechanic work?
I'm hashing out the details of my combat system, and I've got a system which works a bit differently to any I've seen before. I would appreciate your opinions on…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: age_of_dissent, Mike Holmes.

3/12/2004 Scourge108: Blue-booking
While I've tried just about every other roleplaying-related activity, I've never actually participated in a game that involved blue-booking. I'd like to know more about what this is like. How…
In RPG Theory
Participants: Scourge108, Ben Lehman, contracycle, Ron Edwards, ScottM, Valamir, Dev, HMT, John Kim, madelf, Alan, M. J. Young, xiombarg, Blankshield.

3/12/2004 Kitsune: The dreaded first game...
I'm looking down the barrel of the first session of the first game I've run in years. I've never had a hugely successful GMing session before, primarily because I tend…
In Actual Play
Participants: Kitsune, brainwipe, Christopher Weeks, Alan, Itse, Dev, silburnl.

3/12/2004 RDU Neil: Actual GNS discussion in my group
Spinning off from the Blatant GNS questions thread... Last night I had my group over for the first episode of a new story arc in my current campaign. (Both Storn…
In GNS Model Discussion
Participants: RDU Neil, Ron Edwards, Storn, Emily Care, Valamir, John Kim, Nuadha.

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