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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 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 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 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 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.

12/26/2001 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.

12/26/2001 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 Le Joueur: Pagination
This is kind of a rare thing, but a few regulars on the Forge have so many posts to their names, when you go to their profile and click on…
In Site Discussion
Participants: Le Joueur.

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.

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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.

12/28/2001 Joe Murphy (Broin): Three-way Plotting in AvP2 (long)
I *think* this is the best forum for this observation. This post will have some spoilers for the AvP2 game. A dear friend gave me a copy of 'Aliens vs…
In RPG Theory
Participants: Joe Murphy (Broin), Mike Holmes, Paul Czege, Bankuei, Epoch.

12/28/2001 Marco: Historical Inaccuracy
Whew ... I had something to say about Paul's historical-setting thread--but we were so close to the launch of our newest world book that it was better to wait. We've…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Marco, James V. West, Laurel, Mike Holmes, Joe Murphy (Broin), joshua neff.

12/28/2001 Ron Edwards: Goddess of rape?
As I've mentioned before, I've been running Hero Wars for the same group of three players, in good old "campaign" style, for well over a year. The players are Tod,…
In HeroQuest
Participants: Ron Edwards, James V. West, Blake Hutchins.

12/28/2001 Jason L Blair: 300 members by 2002?
Yeah, yeah, 10,000 messages was eeeeeeeeeeeasy. Think we can recruit 19 new members by midnight-oh-one 01.01.02 and make that number a sweet 3-hunny? I'm not just talking different accounts (though…
In Site Discussion
Participants: Jason L Blair, joshua neff, unodiablo, jburneko, Mike Holmes.

12/28/2001 Paul Czege: on making the same character over and over
Hey, On the A Connecticut Narrativist in King Arthur's Simulation thread in GNS Model Discussion, Skippy wrote: I have a current player who always plays a mage. ALWAYS....Kelly…
In RPG Theory
Participants: Paul Czege, Laurel, Clinton R. Nixon, Mike Holmes, Skippy, Ryan Ary, hardcoremoose, Ron Edwards, contracycle, Joe Murphy (Broin), Uncle Dark, Osric, Logan.

12/29/2001 Le Joueur: Part IV: Sorting the Nuts and Bolts
December 28th, 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.

12/29/2001 Bailywolf: Ofuda, Blue Seeds, and Sorcerer Anime
Perhaps this is Demon Cop stuff, but I was watching an episode of the anime 'Blue Seed', and couldn't help but think of sorcerer... the whole thing seems like a…
In Adept Press
Participants: Bailywolf, Bankuei, Ron Edwards.

12/29/2001 jburneko: Concatenating Relationship Maps
Hello, Has anyone here experimented with concatenating more than one relationship map together. That is, reading say, three novels, and linking the maps together via extra links to create one…
In Adept Press
Participants: jburneko, Ron Edwards, Joe Murphy (Broin).

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