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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.

12/18/2001 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 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 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.

12/17/2001 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.

12/17/2001 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 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 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 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 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.

12/16/2001 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.

12/16/2001 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 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: 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.

12/15/2001 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.

12/15/2001 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.

12/14/2001 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.

12/14/2001 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 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 Gordon C. Landis: The Importance of Being External
So I found myself arguing for the legitimacy of "internal" Gamist measurement of performance in the "Gamism: The pursuit of excellence" thread. I added a few words about how there…
In GNS Model Discussion
Participants: Gordon C. Landis, Ron Edwards.

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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!, Ferry Bazelmans, Mike Holmes, Jack Spencer Jr, gentrification, Matt, Skippy, Tim Denee.

12/19/2001 Mike Holmes: I saw it...
This might not be the appropriate site to comment on a movie. But having seen it I must say that I am truely inspired and feel the need to just…
In Site Discussion
Participants: Mike Holmes, Ian O'Rourke, hardcoremoose, James V. West, Matt Snyder, Ron Edwards, Blake Hutchins, jburneko, Jared A. Sorensen.

12/19/2001 Balbinus: Elfworld
Hi there, Any news on what's happening with Elfworld? The Orkworld Elves were very nicely done, IMO, and I would be very interested to see a game based around them.…
In Wicked Press
Participants: Balbinus, John Wick, Time, James V. West, Jürgen Mayer.

12/19/2001 Eric: Soap?
My apologies if I'm missing the blindingly obvious, but I ran across this from Ron in the Art Deco posts: ]] Funny, my very next point was to suggest some…
In Adept Press
Participants: Eric, Ron Edwards.

12/19/2001 Mike Holmes: 'Realistic' Orcs (was Heads Up)
Since nobody can seem to get off that thread, I'll just try and continue it here (a great deal of the hi-jacking was my fault). Anyhow, what this thread should…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Mike Holmes, Uncle Dark, contracycle, John Wick, hardcoremoose.

12/19/2001 hardcoremoose: Suicide King
Hey guys, I've been somewhat quiet on this forum lately, but that doesn't mean I haven't been soaking up what people are saying and working on a few ideas of…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: hardcoremoose, Mike Holmes, Paul Czege, Skippy, archangel_2, James V. West.

12/20/2001 Joe Murphy (Broin): Fortune in the Middle vs Stunt Rewards
Assuming one is using the Fortune in the Middle approach, is there any way to then offer PCs rewards for well-described actions? In Exalted and Feng Shui, well-described actions get…
In RPG Theory
Participants: Joe Murphy (Broin), Tor Erickson, hardcoremoose, Ron Edwards, Le Joueur, Laurel, Zak Arntson, Blake Hutchins, Gordon C. Landis, Paul Czege, Clinton R. Nixon, Garbanzo.

12/20/2001 contracycle: Demonology 101
Hiya, I just wanted somewhere to ask some questiones sepcifically about demons and their function in Sorceror. I have two concerns: The structure of the game embeds one, possibly more,…
In Adept Press
Participants: contracycle, Eric, Ron Edwards, Clinton R. Nixon.

12/20/2001 Tim Denee: Suspect Behaviour (quite long, really; sorry about that)
An idea for a game inspired by the antics of a certain Belgian inspector. Now that I look at it, it's kinda long for an 'idea'. Whaddya think? This is…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Tim Denee, Ferry Bazelmans, Mike Holmes, hardcoremoose, Paul Czege.

12/20/2001 Eric: Relationship Maps and Bangs
Hello -- From searching around the forum here, apparently the "rules" for Relationship maps and Bangs are in Soul and in Sword respectively. Since I'm currently waiting for Sword and…
In Adept Press
Participants: Eric, Ron Edwards, Paul Czege, jburneko, Tor Erickson, Blake Hutchins.

12/20/2001 Jared A. Sorensen: Okay, kid...lemme hear your pitch.
http://memento-mori.com/games/pitch.html It's new!
In Memento-Mori Theatricks
Participants: Jared A. Sorensen, mahoux, sdemory, Ferry Bazelmans.

12/20/2001 Blake Hutchins: X-Games temporarily stalled
Hey all, I've had a few kind inquiries regarding the next X-Games update. Thanks for the interest and encouragement. I'd love to be posting, but unfortunately, my group's schedule and…
In Actual Play
Participants: Blake Hutchins, Ron Edwards, Mike Holmes.

12/20/2001 Blake Hutchins: Alternate settings
OK, I have a group interested in Tribe 8. (This is a different group than the X-Games crowd, for what it's worth.) I'm intrigued by some aspects of the Silhouette…
In HeroQuest
Participants: Blake Hutchins, Ron Edwards.

12/21/2001 Blake Hutchins: Tesseraction Games
I mentioned in another thread that our start-up company, Tesseraction Games, looks to be up and running officially next month. In brief, it's a computer game company. I can't tell…
In Publishing
Participants: Blake Hutchins.

12/21/2001 Paul Czege: when the game played isn't the game in print
On the "Gamism In Action or Why I Hate Arts and Crafts" thread in Actual Play, EpochMike wrote: You can also borrow the "And, two years later" technique. It…
In RPG Theory
Participants: Paul Czege, hardcoremoose, contracycle, gentrification, joshua neff, Mike Holmes, unodiablo, Marco, Skippy.

12/21/2001 Eric: Overconfident or Hedonist: valid prices?
Hedonist might work as -1 to doing things that would be uncomfortable, but I'm stumped on Overconfident. -- Eric, who liked the LotRs about a 100 times more than he…
In Adept Press
Participants: Eric, Ron Edwards, Jared A. Sorensen, erithromycin, Ben Morgan.

12/21/2001 Itay: Little Fears Mini-Campaign and Lecture
I'm active in a group called "The Israeli Society for Role Playing Advancement", and have promised to lecture about Little Fears this January. I feel that it would be best…
In Key 20 Publishing
Participants: Itay, Mike Holmes, Jason L Blair, Ron Edwards.

12/21/2001 Joe Murphy (Broin): cats in the cradle
(awful subject line, sozz) I haven't bought Little Fears, because I can't see my group liking it at all, alas. I'll probably pick it up in a month or three,…
In Key 20 Publishing
Participants: Joe Murphy (Broin), Mike Holmes, Uratoh, Jason L Blair.

12/22/2001 Spawny: Game system design
Does anyone out there have any ideas/know of any articles on designing a game system? I have 3 RPG worlds/ideas fleshed out etc. But im having REAL trouble working out…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Spawny, Ron Edwards, Jared A. Sorensen, Zak Arntson, hardcoremoose, James V. West, Spawn, Joe Murphy (Broin), Paul Czege, Mike Holmes, archangel_2, Skippy.

12/22/2001 Jared A. Sorensen: The Lord of the Rings
Not a whole lotta time as I'm supposedly "on vacation" and should be "away from the computer" for five days... I was pondering The Film on the way down to…
In Memento-Mori Theatricks
Participants: Jared A. Sorensen, James V. West, Ian O'Rourke, Mytholder, ravensron, Paul Czege, Bankuei, John Wick, Bailywolf, mearls, Zak Arntson, contracycle, redcap, Valamir, Matt, reptile2k1, Matt Steflik.

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