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12/26/2001 Le Joueur: Transitioning to Gamism (to answer a questi
While I wanted to start the this series of threads with a thread that was descriptive of the game itself, I could not really let this question founder. So with…
In Scattershot
Participants: Le Joueur, Mike Holmes.

12/26/2001 Jack Spencer Jr: Displacement
[quote] dis plas' ment, [i]n.[/i] 6. in psychiatry, the transference of an emotion to a logically inappropriate object. [/quote] This is a little something that's been gnawing away at me…
In RPG Theory
Participants: Jack Spencer Jr, Marco, Ron Edwards, Skippy, joshua neff, Paul Czege, Mike Holmes.

12/26/2001 Ben Morgan: Happy Holidays!
I just got Sorcerer and S&S for my brother for Christmas. I was actually torn. Did I want to give him both books, or just the main book, and keep…
In Adept Press
Participants: Ben Morgan, hardcoremoose.

12/26/2001 Daredevil: Narrativism and Bobby G
I was reading the old thread about Ron's concept of the Bobby G scenario. That thread got me thinking about narrativism in general. I'll admit I have a shaky understanding…
In GNS Model Discussion
Participants: Daredevil, Le Joueur, Marco, hardcoremoose, Ryan Ary, Ron Edwards, Mike Holmes.

12/25/2001 Manu: Hint and Contain questions
Ron, this one is for you: -Could you explain what you mean by "diminishing returns "in the Hint description? Does it mean you have to keep throwing away "used" demons…
In Adept Press
Participants: Manu, greyorm, Ron Edwards.

12/24/2001 tormuck: Advancement
I'm having difficulty finding anything in the book talking about anything along the lines of XP, Character points, etc for when an 'adventure' is completed. Am I understanding that there…
In Key 20 Publishing
Participants: tormuck, Ron Edwards, Jason L Blair, peteramthor, GreatWolf, Mike Holmes.

12/24/2001 Paul Czege: have you read the literature of Sorcerer & Sword?
Hey everyone, I have to say that if there's one single element in Sorcerer & Sword that I anticipate will drive sales of the book to casual buyers, it's the…
In Adept Press
Participants: Paul Czege, joshua neff, hardcoremoose, lumpley, Ron Edwards, Blake Hutchins.

12/24/2001 hardcoremoose: The Questing Beast comments
Hey James, I still haven't read the whole thing - it's a sizeable document - but I have browsed i, read a little, and have some working knowledge of your…
In Random Order Creations
Participants: hardcoremoose, James V. West, Ron Edwards, Bankuei, Uncle Dark, Jeffrey Straszheim, Mike Holmes.

12/24/2001 Paul Czege: setting creation: avoiding pressures to historical accuracy
Hey everyone, So...I've been giving a little thought to a setting for The World, the Flesh, and the Devil, and I keep hitting into the same snag. I'm tempted…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Paul Czege, hardcoremoose, James V. West, Balbinus, A.Neill, Bankuei, Ron Edwards, Mithras, Mike Holmes, contracycle, Osric, John Wick, joe_llama.

12/24/2001 Paul Czege: more than mechanics alone
Hey everyone, Recently, Scott Knipe sent me to RPG.net to see a thread entitled "Top 5 Free Rpg's" on which GB Steve made some very nice comments about A…
In RPG Theory
Participants: Paul Czege, Jared A. Sorensen.

12/23/2001 James V. West: The Questing Beast
Hey all! First off, I hope everyone is having a fantastic holiday season. I posted the first draft of The Questing Beast. I'm posting about here just in case you…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: James V. West, Mithras, Thededine.

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.

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.

12/21/2001 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.

12/21/2001 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 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 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 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.

12/20/2001 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.

12/20/2001 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.

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12/26/2001 archangel_2: Advice Please (editted)
Well, I've been working on a set of game mechanics, off and on, for a few years now. I've shown bits and pieces of them to individual people, but never…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: archangel_2, Mike Holmes, Epoch, Laurel.

12/26/2001 lumpley: Chalk Outlines Waiting to Happen
[FONT COLOR="#990000"] [FONT SIZE="+3"]C[/FONT][FONT SIZE="+2"]halk [/FONT][FONT SIZE="+3"]O[/FONT][FONT SIZE="+2"]utlines[/FONT] [FONT SIZE="+1"] Waiting to Happen[/FONT][/FONT] A Caper Flick Roleplaying Game Is up in a crude-ish, pre-playtest, pre-serious editing kind of way at…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: lumpley, Mike Holmes, Paul Czege.

12/27/2001 Daredevil: El Dorado
This thread is a continuation of two threads I started previously: "Narrativism and Simulationism Under the Same Roof" and "Narrativism and Bobby G". Thinking about the responses, I've been able…
In GNS Model Discussion
Participants: Daredevil, Mike Holmes, Ron Edwards, unodiablo, Ryan Ary, joshua neff, Paul Czege, Jeffrey Straszheim, contracycle.

12/27/2001 Le Joueur: Part I: Core Concept
December 26th, 2001 - At the behest of my friends here on the Forge, I will present Scattershot at the point I have it. Even though this is a work-in-progress,…
In Scattershot
Participants: Le Joueur, Ron Edwards.

12/27/2001 James V. West: PDF available
Hey I just put TQB in a pdf file without any images. Its a small download and you can print it out easily. This is for those of you who…
In Random Order Creations
Participants: James V. West, Ben Morgan, lumpley.

12/27/2001 Bankuei: Suspense in mechanics
I was thinking about game design after playing one of my favorite party/not quite board games…Jenga. For those of you unfamiliar with it, you take a stack of wooden blocks…
In RPG Theory
Participants: Bankuei, Mike Holmes, unodiablo, Ron Edwards, Clinton R. Nixon, Laurel, contracycle, Mytholder, Epoch, Garbanzo, Osric, Le Joueur, Paul Czege, joshua neff, Ian O'Rourke, woodelf.

12/27/2001 Bankuei: Campaign focus: Group vs. events
I was thinking about some of the ideas about gaming group dynamics. Particularly after reading one of the threads about Zombie movies being about the interaction of the characters, not…
In Actual Play
Participants: Bankuei, jburneko, Mike Holmes, Ron Edwards, Tim C Koppang.

12/27/2001 James V. West: Picked it up cheap!
I'm on vacation. I had some bucks. I went to the local comics/game shop and browsed the used/discounted stuff as I'm a terribly poor cheapskate. Lo and behold, I stumbled…
In HeroQuest
Participants: James V. West, hardcoremoose, Ron Edwards, Ranko.

12/27/2001 Clinton R. Nixon: 100 new messages by Jan. 1
Ok, people - I know we can do this. If we post 100 (well, 99 now) messages by the new year, we'll have 10,000. I guess there's nothing particularly special…
In Site Discussion
Participants: Clinton R. Nixon, joshua neff, Mike Holmes, Paul Czege.

12/27/2001 Mike Holmes: Cheating Death
Ron asks for: An application of game design that permits the player still to participate even though the character dies (and never mind kluges like resurrection, I mean Dead-death)…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Mike Holmes, Ron Edwards, Clinton R. Nixon, Paul Czege, unodiablo, joshua neff, Jack Spencer Jr, Zak Arntson, James V. West, Laurel, Joe Murphy (Broin).

12/27/2001 Le Joueur: Part III: Being the Difference Between Players & Gamemasters
December 30th, 2001 - At the behest of my friends here on the Forge, I will present Scattershot at the point I have it. Even though this is a work-in-progress,…
In Scattershot
Participants: Le Joueur, Ron Edwards, joshua neff, mahoux, lumpley, Laurel, James V. West, Mike Holmes.

12/27/2001 Clinton R. Nixon: There and Back (a Meta-system) - idea from "Cheating Death"
Inspired by the ideas on the "Cheating Death" thread, I whipped this out. I'd actually incorporate this into a larger system that determined character resolution as well, but as is,…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Clinton R. Nixon, Dave Versace.

12/27/2001 Zak Arntson: Preliminary Design - Gamist Cubes & Narrativist Fate
Two different game ideas: Cubes Competitive roleplaying corporate drones, a la Office Space (the movie). I wanted a game that uses cards, is competitive, and a commentary on my…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Zak Arntson, Clinton R. Nixon.

12/27/2001 Skippy: A Connecticut Narrativist in King Arthur's Simulation
Okay, that's a really bad thread title. However, I would like some input, if you all please. I have spent most of the day reviewing GNS threads, trying to bring…
In GNS Model Discussion
Participants: Skippy, Ron Edwards, Mike Holmes, Joe Murphy (Broin), joshua neff, Paul Czege, hardcoremoose, Ryan Ary, contracycle.

12/28/2001 Jared A. Sorensen: PDF publishing
Inspired by a chat with Mearls over some spinach-feta puffs, I've been thinking of how to publish InSpectres. He raised some excellent points about how PDF wasn't really meeting its…
In Publishing
Participants: Jared A. Sorensen, Ron Edwards, joshua neff, Matt Snyder, James V. West, Ryan Ary, Mike Holmes, Laurel, Bailey, Paul Czege, Ben Morgan, mahoux, Clay, Adam.

12/28/2001 James V. West: The Fantasy Role-Playing Gamer's Bible
Ok, anyone familiar with this book? Its written by Sean Patrick Fannon, pubished in 1996 by Prima Publishing. THE FANTASY ROLE-PLAYING GAMER'S BIBLE. I bring this up because I bought…
In RPG Theory
Participants: James V. West, Ron Edwards, jburneko, Jack Spencer Jr, greyorm.

12/28/2001 Le Joueur: Part II: Whence go the Mechanics
January 2nd, 2002; Happy New Year! - At the behest of my friends here on the Forge, I will present Scattershot at the point I have it. Even though this…
In Scattershot
Participants: Le Joueur, joshua neff.

12/28/2001 Uncle Dark: Everway, Cult of Ron style (LONG)
I learned a lot about setting up and running games just by reading Ron's Sorcerer PDFs. Mind you, a lot of this learning consisted of finding a vocabulary for thinking…
In Actual Play
Participants: Uncle Dark, joshua neff, Ron Edwards, Laurel.

12/28/2001 lumpley: My Firstest Ever Relationship Map Bears Fruit
So there I was and I wrote one new name on the map and drew two little lines and thereby created a rich, intense chapter of backstory full of sex,…
In Actual Play
Participants: lumpley, Mike Holmes.

12/28/2001 Cynthia Celeste Miller: Greetings
Believe it or not, I hadn't come to the Forge before last night. Maybe I just never thought to look beyond Rpg.net. So, I figured I'd introduce myself and start…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Cynthia Celeste Miller, Joe Murphy (Broin), James V. West, Mike Holmes, joshua neff, unodiablo, Zak Arntson, Ryan Ary, Paganini, Matt Gwinn.

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