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4/12/2004 bergh: Why are Footman's pick and the spike on a Warhammer=ATN6?
Why are Footman's pick and the spike on a Warhammer so low an ATN (6), i think this seems wrong, and they are also killers, +2dam and +1 vs armours…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: bergh, Mokkurkalfe, ZenDog, Andrew Mure, BPetroff93, Irmo, Mike Holmes, Caz, Edge, [MKF]Kapten, Jaeger.

4/11/2004 Arashi: Dead Meat
Anybody seen Sean Wipfli lately? C!
In Connections
Participants: Arashi.

4/11/2004 Tav_Behemoth: Specific questions about a print edition
Dear Forgers: I've seen posters here advise that one can best tap the collective local expertise by asking very specific questions. Having seen the amazing quality of that expertise, I…
In Publishing
Participants: Tav_Behemoth, Ron Edwards, abzu, Bob McNamee, madelf, Michael S. Miller, Christopher Weeks, Chris Passeno, Matt Gwinn, Clay.

4/11/2004 bergh: on horse and using shield
Anyway, i was thinking that it may have been hard to use a shield when fighting on horse, im thinking on using it activily. if someone strikes you against your…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: bergh, Caz, Tash, Farseer415, Andrew Mure, Valamir, Wolfen.

4/11/2004 Mystique: Freelance Artists Wanted
Hi all, I am looking for some freelance artists to do some work for an upcoming rpg sourcebook. The sourcebook is set in modern times, not fantasy or sci-fi. I…
In Connections
Participants: Mystique, greyorm.

4/11/2004 sirogit: Scenario for my Demon Cops game: Better to Burn Out
This is a scenario I'd like to include in my Demon Cops game, though It still has a few rough edges. ---- Calista Stocker was one of the most successfull…
In Adept Press
Participants: sirogit, Ron Edwards.

4/11/2004 Seth L. Blumberg: Retrofitting of Narrativist reward systems
[quote="On another thread, M. J. Young"]I'm a stickler on this point. A coherent reward system has two prongs: [list][*]What conduct is rewarded. [*]How the reward is used. [/list:u]If you give…
In GNS Model Discussion
Participants: Seth L. Blumberg, Bankuei, Shreyas Sampat, Ron Edwards, xiombarg.

4/11/2004 Trevis Martin: TROS: Crashing and Burning in Middle-Earth (long)
By consensus my play group ended our fledgling first time TROS game last night and I thought I'd post a small post mortem here. Let me state up front that…
In Actual Play
Participants: Trevis Martin, ZenDog, Mike Holmes, Ron Edwards.

4/11/2004 Ben Lehman: On Dragons and Evil
"Fairy Tales do not tell children that dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children that dragons can be killed." --GK Chesterton This is a topic…
In Dark Omen Games
Participants: Ben Lehman, GreatWolf, Trevis Martin.

4/11/2004 Doyce: [Sorcerer] Second Session: The Things on the Doorstep
Hello all, here's the actual play from our second session of Sorcerer. The Premise as defined by the group is, roughly, "What would you give up for Knowledge? Who or…
In Actual Play
Participants: Doyce, Seth L. Blumberg, Ron Edwards, Mike Holmes, Paka, Lisa Padol.

4/11/2004 Ben Lehman: Sorcerer Comic
Apologies to those that may have already seen this: http://www.angryflower.com/master.gif
In Adept Press
Participants: Ben Lehman, sirogit, tetsujin28.

4/11/2004 lightcastle: Consequences of failure
So a sudden thought occured to me, which is probably old hat to you HQ/HW veterans. One of the great advantages of HQ is the whole way you can augment…
In HeroQuest
Participants: lightcastle, Mike Holmes, buserian.

4/11/2004 bergh: Elves in BW. please tell me more.
Hi I have hear that BW should include a very good kinda "fate" system for the elven race, please tell me more.
In Burning Wheel
Participants: bergh, taepoong.

4/11/2004 bergh: "may get stuck" weapons how?
"may get stuck" weapons how? Some weapons have the "may get stuck" in there profile? How does this work? And next i wanna ask, my players have found out that…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: bergh, MonkeyWrench, Kaelin, Salamander, Mokkurkalfe, ZenDog, Turin, Brian Leybourne, Edge.

4/11/2004 daMoose_Neo: [Backstage] Job Title/Description vs Actual Skills
[i][url=http://www.indie-rpgs.com/viewtopic.php?t=10213]Original "Backstage" post for reference...[/url][/i] (a diceless, almost statless game). Originally, I was trying going with a Skill system for this, allowing the player to choose a few skills with…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: daMoose_Neo.

4/11/2004 Emiricol: TRoS online
I'm saving up to buy TRoS. It will be the first non-D&D, non-D20 game I've bought in... oh... 13 or 14 years. I used to play a lot of non-D&D…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: Emiricol, ZenDog, Mike Holmes, Ingenious.

4/11/2004 Dav: Art and graphic design
Artist Jason Gunn (www.jasongunn.com and www.apophisconsortium.com) recently let me know that he wants to freelance for some new games and companies. Anyone wanting graphic design work, cover (painted, rendered, drawn,…
In Connections
Participants: Dav, Mystique, darkvast666.

4/10/2004 Turin: Danish Axe
Which weapon in the list best represents the 2 handed "danish axe" used by Saxons Danes & Norwegians? The Poleaxe seems a bit long for it and the Hand axe…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: Turin, Kaelin, ZenDog.

4/10/2004 Bob McNamee: Universalis Arena 2- Shards are Building- regular Play soon!
We are rapidly developing some cool Shards for the multiverse jumping City of Hope to visit! Shard list http://www.anvilwerks.com/index.php/TUA2/Shards Overarching Tenets http://www.anvilwerks.com/index.php/TUA2/FrameworkTenets Home page for Universalis Arena II http://www.anvilwerks.com/index.php/TUA2/HomePage We…
In Universalis
Participants: Bob McNamee.

4/10/2004 CPXB: Riddle of Steel Character Generator Question
I was inputting my new TROS character into the generator -- I'm a first time player and loving the game -- and when I was selecting equipment I saw an…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: CPXB, Brian Leybourne, Emiricol, Jake Norwood.

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4/12/2004 Ryan Bartlett: Creative Masochists?
I'm creating a space-punk game in which, through technological mishap, the sun has been turned into a lava-lamp with only a decade, maybe two, left, and most of the inner…
In Connections
Participants: Ryan Bartlett.

4/12/2004 Hannu Hurme: Ego & Soul
Here's a rundown of what I've written down so far. Mostly to clear my own head. This all began quite a while ago when I made my first posts here…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Hannu Hurme, Spooky Fanboy.

4/12/2004 hatheg-kla: Deciding scope for conflict-based resolution.
Hi there. For a while now I've been struggling to marry these two ideas: 1. Characters defined by a list number of skills (that have various levels of aptitude). 2.…
In RPG Theory
Participants: hatheg-kla, Shreyas Sampat, lumpley, Ron Edwards, coxcomb, Jasper, RDU Neil, Storn, Valamir, Mike Holmes.

4/12/2004 realms_creator: Card publishers
Where can I find a publishers of cards? We are trying something new with spells. Instead of having them in a book.We want to have them done on deck of…
In Publishing
Participants: realms_creator, daMoose_Neo, Marhault.

4/12/2004 timfire: GM's creating PC backgrounds...
I thought I would share a quick story about my brother's rpg'ing group. My brother, who only recently got interested in rpg's (specifically DnD), plays typical Illusionist Sim/Gam-stuff. His group…
In Actual Play
Participants: timfire, Lxndr, BPetroff93, Shreyas Sampat, Ron Edwards, Henri, jdagna, coxcomb, Paul Watson, Storn, StalkingBlue, Neylana, herrmess.

4/12/2004 abzu: New Reviews of Burning Wheel
In case your curious, or you need yet another reason to go out and buy the damn game: There's a new one on about.com http://roleplaygames.about.com/cs/productreviews/fr/burningfull.htm and there's one over at…
In Burning Wheel
Participants: abzu.

4/12/2004 komradebob: Approaches to assigning Traits
For game purposes regarding complications, are these two following things the same?: 1) Werewolf Pack and 2) Werewolf Pack Enraged, Eco-Terrorist, Lycanthropes I'm assuming there are no Master Components…
In Universalis
Participants: komradebob, Christopher Weeks, Valamir, kwill, Mike Holmes.

4/12/2004 Sigurth: TROS in an Arthurian Mythos setting
One of my players really loves TROS. We are currently using it for our Hârn game (see sig). He proposed that we use TROS for our very, very sporadic Pendragon…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: Sigurth, Valamir, ZenDog, Jasper, Edge, Eamon, Mike Holmes.

4/12/2004 Doyce: [Sorcerer] Cunning Demons with Cunning Plans?
From this thread: http://www.indie-rpgs.com/viewtopic.php?t=8230#top With a demon like this, they often become big villains. Veniamin in the recent necromancy game is a good example, and it's only Power 8,…
In Adept Press
Participants: Doyce, Ron Edwards, Fabrice G., Lxndr, DannyK, Mike Holmes.

4/12/2004 jeffd: Scene Framing?
I'm sure this has been covered - but unfortunately I'm a piss poor search engine user. :( Are there any good Forge threads on the concepts behind scene framing? I'm…
In RPG Theory
Participants: jeffd, C. Edwards, John Kim.

4/12/2004 komradebob: Minimalism,color, and Pre-existing Settings
Basically, I want to use Uni as my primary system. I want to use it with settings from other games (Primarily Jorune). Now, I've already seen some discussions of bringing…
In Universalis
Participants: komradebob, Mike Holmes, kwill.

4/12/2004 komradebob: Has anyone "opensourced" a premade adventure produ
Here is what I mean by open sourced: A group of players takes a product (adventure/module) for a game, but instead of playing it with an old school players +…
In Universalis
Participants: komradebob, Mike Holmes.

4/12/2004 komradebob: Experiences w/newgamers vs.oldgamers and Uni
HI I'm looking to introduce Uni to some folks, most of which have little RPG background. I'd also like to introduce the system to some old gamer hands, folks that…
In Universalis
Participants: komradebob, Mike Holmes, kwill, Tony Irwin, Valamir.

4/12/2004 Emiricol: Uni and kids?
Hi, just curious - how appropriate would Universalis be, possibly simplified, as a tool for storytelling with children? Say, 7 years, and then junior high/high school age. I haven't seen…
In Universalis
Participants: Emiricol, Christopher Weeks, Mike Holmes.

4/12/2004 Mike Holmes: Son of Iron Game Chef!
The Chairman enters the arena once again. The light's come up. He's carrying a fist full of d10s. He rolls them and considers the results as a strange grin comes…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Mike Holmes, Eero Tuovinen, ethan_greer, John Harper, Jonathan Walton, Mark Johnson, Jack Spencer Jr, Piers Brown, Zak Arntson, Dav, Bill_White, Jack Aidley, Alan, gobi, bluegargantua, Shreyas Sampat, hanschristianandersen, Ron Edwards, Marhault, Sydney Freedberg, talysman, Lxndr, Paul Czege, lumpley, Crackerjacker, Rich Forest, Dev, anonymouse, Spooky Fanboy, Darcy Burgess, Walt Freitag, Valamir, timfire, Asrogoth, Matt Snyder, C. Edwards, Ben Lehman, redivider, Emily Care, quozl, greyorm, dalek_of_god, xiombarg, JamesSterrett, Bob McNamee, Palaskar, Christopher Weeks, hardcoremoose, Designer X.

4/12/2004 bergh: New Prioritization table for creating character
i have made a new one. www.fflr.dk/tabletop/TROS/TRoSPri.pdf Rate it and give me a comment.
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: bergh, Ian.Plumb, Bob McNamee, Edge, Lxndr, Stephen, Krammer, Ingenious.

4/12/2004 Dev: Ross Perot / Slander
Supposing I wanted to publish a setting around the suggestion that Ross Perot's election in 1992 led to a nationalistic (near-fascistic) atmosphere throughout the 90s. How much danger am I…
In Publishing
Participants: Dev, Mike Holmes, Christopher Weeks, Clay.

4/12/2004 signoftheserpent: wargame design
I know this is an rpg design site, ostensibly, but do other types of design get a look in (such as the subject)? thanks
In Site Discussion
Participants: signoftheserpent, Ron Edwards, Mike Holmes, quozl.

4/12/2004 TonyLB: Cascading ambiguity
Okay, so I'm running a game where I've give folks the right to write for the NPCs, and to frame and describe scenes their character would know nothing about. Additionally,…
In Actual Play
Participants: TonyLB, clehrich, Bob McNamee, Paganini, StalkingBlue, Mike Holmes, Peter Hollinghurst.

4/12/2004 Peter Nordstrand: GothCon Report
I ran HeroQuest at GothCon (Gothenburg, Sweden). A drop in event. I had brought a number of different scenarios, but I ended up running mostly The Assassin (described very briefly…
In HeroQuest
Participants: Peter Nordstrand, Henrix.

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