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4/7/2004 timfire: Gamism or System-driven Sim?
Hopefully I can express myself, this is something I've thought about for a while, but have a hard time putting into words. First background: My prefered CA Sim, but I…
In GNS Model Discussion
Participants: timfire, Ron Edwards, RDU Neil.

4/7/2004 Sean: Thanks, All!
I really enjoy coming by here and reading all your stuff. Keep up the good work. Special thanks to Ron and Clinton for doing all they do to keep the…
In Forge Birthday Forum
Participants: Sean.

4/7/2004 Marhault: Family
It's a little late, but I just thought of a good thread topic. Who all is married, has kids, that sort of thing? A few people are pretty open about…
In Forge Birthday Forum
Participants: Marhault, Christopher Weeks, joshua neff, Lxndr, Ron Edwards, quozl, GreatWolf, John Kim, Matt Wilson, Chris Passeno, Bob Goat, Matt Snyder, coxcomb.

4/7/2004 Gaerik: Railroading Fun
My question at it's simplest is "What constitutes Railroading?" Does any overarching plotline by the GM mean the players are being railroaded? If railroading is defined as the GM forcing…
In RPG Theory
Participants: Gaerik, Alan, timfire, Nick Pagnucco, DannyK, Tomas HVM, Domhnall, Ron Edwards, M. J. Young, jrs, contracycle, Henri, Seth L. Blumberg, Eero Tuovinen, clehrich, Noon, Valamir, Walt Freitag.

4/7/2004 Ron Edwards: ELFS IS NOW AVAILABLE
8.5" tall, 5.5" wide 96 pp, perfect bound punkish black cover rude illustrations $15.00 + $2.50 = $17.50, via Paypal Direct order from the Elfs website. Best, Ron
In Adept Press
Participants: Ron Edwards, rafial, Ben Morgan, Amok the hungry, ricmadeira.

4/7/2004 Jasper: ABSQVE ROMA - playtesters wanted
[size=26px]ABSQVE ROMA[/size] [b][size=14px]The Legions Have Left You The Emperors Forgotten You The Barbarians Surrounded You [i]Can You Keep Civilization Alive?[/i][/b][/size] ABSQVE ROMA is ready for a first bout of open…
In Connections
Participants: Jasper.

4/7/2004 Jere: What is a Scene
Is there a good guide to scenes. What they are, how to handle them, various tools? It seems the type of thing someone on or affiliated with the Forge would…
In RPG Theory
Participants: Jere, greyorm, John Kim, contracycle, Paganini, xiombarg.

4/7/2004 Doyce: Being the GM & letting go in Narr play
Over here, we have an interesting thread, which produced: I think the thing you're objecting to (or at least find unusual) is players injecting objects that have the potential to…
In Actual Play
Participants: Doyce, Valamir, Matt Wilson, Bankuei, joshua neff, coxcomb, DannyK, Brand_Robins, John Harper, hanschristianandersen, hix, Scripty, Sigurth, lightcastle, clehrich, greyorm, Green.

4/7/2004 GreatWolf: Alyria website/wiki ideas
In this thread, Mike Holmes mentioned the use of a wiki for an Alyria website. This got me to thinking about this idea, so I thought that I take a…
In Dark Omen Games
Participants: GreatWolf, Marhault.

4/7/2004 Ben Lehman: Grand Forge Cross-Country Road Trip!
Hi all-- Since I'm not a Company (yet) I don't know if this would belong in the Conventions forum, but it's definitely "on-topic" for this forum. So, I'm pondering the…
In Forge Birthday Forum
Participants: Ben Lehman, Wolfen, lumpley.

4/7/2004 bluegargantua: Your first mini-supplement
Hi, So last night we were disucssing old TV shows (as gamers often do) and I was reminded that Battlestar Galactica was really just "MORMONS IN SPAAAAACE!". And then of…
In lumpley games
Participants: bluegargantua, xiombarg, Albert the Absentminded, pfischer.

4/7/2004 Ben Lehman: Status of Alyria
Hey... So everything I've heard about this system makes it sound perfect for a game that I want to run in the Fall, but I don't know if the game…
In Dark Omen Games
Participants: Ben Lehman, GreatWolf, M. J. Young, Rich Stokes, Valamir, arxhon, Mike Holmes.

4/7/2004 Storn: Artist Introduction
My name is Storn A. Cook. I've come by these boards intrigued by the GNS discussion. Someone e-mailed me and suggest that I put my hat in the ring here…
In Connections
Participants: Storn.

4/7/2004 Christopher Weeks: Radical politics?
OK, so screw the political summaries, what are you radical about? Me: taxation is thievery, there is no implicit social contract it is merely a thuggery-based protection racket. The minimum…
In Forge Birthday Forum
Participants: Christopher Weeks, Ben Lehman, Dev, Valamir, quozl, lumpley, Clinton R. Nixon, Jack Aidley, coxcomb, Marhault, Shreyas Sampat, Alan, contracycle, joshua neff, greyorm, cruciel, Lxndr, Matt Wilson, GreatWolf, clehrich, BPetroff93.

4/7/2004 Paka: Deadwood
If you ain't watching the new HBO moving picture show, Deadwood before shuffling your deck and playing Dust Devils that I'll have to reckon that you's just a dude too…
In Chimera Creative
Participants: Paka, Matt Snyder, Tim Alexander, Valamir, Mike Holmes.

4/7/2004 ADGConscience: I still love you, man...
No, no moonshine this year, but I just wanted to express my appreciation for the Forge. Clinton and Ron have provided such a wonderful service, and I greatly admire Ron's…
In Forge Birthday Forum
Participants: ADGConscience, Dev.

4/7/2004 sirogit: [Demon Cops]Decorated the handout.
With a few pictures I grabbed from Elfwood and a few other places... you can see a intentionial resemblance more towards modern anime than the source material. So, I was…
In Adept Press
Participants: sirogit.

4/7/2004 lightcastle: Another AP question
I thought this might as well be another thread. How do you deal with a player wanting to take out someone's augments and modifiers? Things like disarming a sword to…
In HeroQuest
Participants: lightcastle, Peter Nordstrand, Wulf, Brand_Robins, Mike Holmes, rylen dreskin, issariesguy, Alai.

4/7/2004 clehrich: For Eero: My Life With Levi-Strauss
So after Eero, Jonathan, and Ralph said all that postiive stuff, I just want to let you know I'm actually starting to work on Levi-Strauss in Amazonia, though I'm not…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: clehrich, Andrew Martin, Jonathan Walton, Piers Brown, Eero Tuovinen.

4/7/2004 Amadeus: Cover Art Questions
From what I've seen on here while digging through archives for a day, its seems that prices for art vary quite a bit. I've seen quotes for full color covers…
In Publishing
Participants: Amadeus, Paul Czege, daMoose_Neo, Matt, Peter Hollinghurst, Storn, Ron Edwards, abzu, greyorm, quozl, Jack Aidley, Mourglin, Dav, inthisstyle, Valamir, Jonathan Walton, ejh.

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4/7/2004 MonkeyWrench: Adapting TRoS for a more futuristic setting (long)
I've been a fan of Warhammer 40k for years now and it has always bothered me that there wasn't an RPG out there that captured the dirty, gothic feel of…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: MonkeyWrench, Caz, Tash, Trevis Martin.

4/7/2004 lumpley: Responsible Game Design
So I'm designing this Dogs in the Vineyard game, right, and ... well, it's like my freewheeling monkey business days are over. Time was, I could write a Matchmaker or…
In Forge Birthday Forum
Participants: lumpley, Ron Edwards, Shreyas Sampat.

4/7/2004 Anonymous: Tell me what's wrong with gay marriage
I've yet to hear an argument why gay marriage should be illegal that I can't completely dismantle in one word - 'discrimination'. Yet, the majority of the populace here in…
In Forge Birthday Forum
Participants: Anonymous, cruciel, lumpley, joshua neff, Christopher Weeks, Paul Watson, ethan_greer, montag, Valamir, Andy Kitkowski, Matt Wilson, clehrich, Emily Care, GreatWolf, Alan, Marhault, Jack Spencer Jr, ADGBoss, Vaxalon, daMoose_Neo, xenopulse, Paul Hebble, Mike Holmes, Gaerik, James Holloway, Danny_K, GB Steve, Victor Gijsbers, pete_darby, C. Edwards, Andrew Morris, Miskatonic, John Wick, Harlequin, Sean, greyorm.

4/7/2004 Anonymous: Name me a game that . . .
How this works: someone describes the type of game he wants to play, then someone else gives him the name of a published game which matches those criteria. Me first:…
In Forge Birthday Forum
Participants: Anonymous, Rexfelis, Andy Kitkowski, Marhault, montag, GreatWolf, taalyn, Andrew Norris.

4/7/2004 Matt: So, how many Brits?
Following from the Kiwi thread, how many Brits are there hanging around? I've noticed a few, but I'm wondering if there are some lurking... And, to make it vaguely useful,…
In Forge Birthday Forum
Participants: Matt, Rich Stokes, Simon W, Domhnall, A.Neill, Jack Aidley, Kit, Doug Ruff, James Holloway, nellist, GB Steve, cthulahoops, contracycle, pete_darby, Gethyn, rrr, Jason13, Graham Walmsley, Chris Gardiner, ocasta, Alex Fradera, Warren, Adam Biltcliffe, pfischer, Iskander, mtiru, demiurgeastaroth.

4/7/2004 Jeph: Player Authorship
So, thus far I've run two sessions of Exemplar, a brief and poorly initiated discussion of which may be found here. But what this post is concerned with is player…
In Actual Play
Participants: Jeph, coxcomb, Andrew Norris, Doyce, Bankuei, DannyK, BPetroff93.

4/7/2004 GreatWolf: Anyone from the Peoria area?
Yeah, so others are doing it too. Sue me. ;-) I know about Ralph Mazza and Keith Sears. Anyone else out there near Peoria? Seth Ben-Ezra Great Wolf
In Forge Birthday Forum
Participants: GreatWolf.

4/7/2004 hix: Would the last one to leave ...
Okay, 's n'hour ta go <hic>. The highlight from this year? Alex Johnston explaining that the correct pronunication of "Forge" is "Four-shzay". Cheers, Steve.
In Forge Birthday Forum
Participants: hix.

4/7/2004 jeffd: armor penetrating capability of crossbows
I remember a while back (month or two) there was a thread here about the longbow's mythical ability to penetrate full harness armor - basically someone did research and that's…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: jeffd, Tash, Crusader, Salamander, Dain, Caz, bergh, Eamon.

4/8/2004 gobi: [Azure Dusk] Brainstorming
Okay, the forum is about to close, but I wanted to get some real quick ideas for Azure Dusk now that a few people have expressed interest in seeing it…
In Forge Birthday Forum
Participants: gobi, Emily Care, anonymouse.

4/8/2004 gobi: [Azure Dusk] Brainstorming
Over on the birthday forum, I mentioned a weird game concept I have had sitting stillborn for several months because it was just too weird for me to get my…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: gobi, Shreyas Sampat, Walt Freitag, Emily Care, Jeph, Marhault, Jonathan Walton, Lxndr, anonymouse.

4/8/2004 C. Edwards: Panties on your head.
Have you ever worn a pair of panties on your head for ANY reason? My answer... yes. Don't look at me that way. -Chris
In Forge Birthday Forum
Participants: C. Edwards, Shreyas Sampat, cruciel, Walt Freitag.

4/8/2004 Jasper: Questioning Deprotagonization and Railroading
In the Railroading Fun thread, One of the commonly accepted rules in roleplaying is that what a PC thinks, feels, and decides to do is completely up to the player.…
In RPG Theory
Participants: Jasper, Shreyas Sampat, CPXB, montag, Ron Edwards, clehrich, Mike Holmes, Paul Czege, Andrew Norris, Seth L. Blumberg, Walt Freitag, contracycle, Noon, FredGarber.

4/8/2004 HinterWelt: Retailer Survey Results From GTS2004
I posted this over on RPG.Net and I thought people might be interested over here also even if the tier system does not interest. We finally have compiled the retailer…
In Publishing
Participants: HinterWelt.

4/8/2004 Valamir: Last Word
The last (non moderator) member to post here before the forum closes wins bragging rights till next year. Who will win...I take an early lead.
In Forge Birthday Forum
Participants: Valamir, Shreyas Sampat, Paganini, taalyn, Clinton R. Nixon, Rob MacDougall, Andy Kitkowski, Gaerik, Andrew Morris, Vaxalon, Ron Edwards, daMoose_Neo, Eva Deinum, Marhault, Chris Goodwin, Miskatonic, Dave Panchyk, Domhnall, ADGConscience, GreatWolf, Brendan, xenopulse.

4/8/2004 Clinton R. Nixon: Goodbye, again!
Thanks to everyone for participating in the Forge Birthday Forum this year. I was incredibly pleased with the results - we managed to discuss modern media, games, politics, and religion…
In Forge Birthday Forum
Participants: Clinton R. Nixon, Vaxalon, Miskatonic.

4/8/2004 Doyce: [Sorcerer] A hint on Hint (and other Abilities)
Okay, I've checked out What Else Can Demons Do? and Questions About How To Read The Descriptions of Demon Powers and, while they are both educational and entertaining, they didn't…
In Adept Press
Participants: Doyce, Ron Edwards, Mike Holmes.

4/8/2004 John Kim: Immersive Story Essay
So I have posted my essay from the "Beyond Role and Play" book up on my website, along with book information. So first of all, here is the…
In RPG Theory
Participants: John Kim, contracycle, Alan, Eero Tuovinen, Mike Holmes, clehrich, RDU Neil, Jack Spencer Jr, Russell Impagliazzo, matthijs, Daredevil, Storn, Revontuli, Noon.

4/8/2004 Creslin: Using a rapier with sword and shield style?
Hey all, I'm new to TROS, and I only have a mild understanding of the rules. So anyway, I read in the book that you can use something like a…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: Creslin, Tash, MonkeyWrench, Caz, Wolfen, tauman, Valamir, Brian Leybourne, bergh.

4/8/2004 The Heretic: Questions about Magic.
What is the difference between using Imprisonment to trap a demon inside a person and using Conquer? Personally, I think that imprisoning Spirits, Demons or Spells should always be done…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: The Heretic, Wolfen.

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