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4/18/2004 drimitz: Getting started.
Greetings all, I am new here and I have a very simple question, though I expect the answers to be complex. What is the best way to get started in…
In RPG Theory
Participants: drimitz, Domhnall, Ben Lehman, Jack Spencer Jr, Ron Edwards, ethan_greer.

4/18/2004 Lord_Paladin: The newest guy on the block
Hello all, I'm the new guy (at least for now). You can all call me Jeremiah, currently I'm a college student in California. Anyways, I'm representing a little known on-line…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Lord_Paladin, Shreyas Sampat, Eero Tuovinen.

4/18/2004 Nathan P.: [Timesteam] Take a look!
Hey all I finally finished the first decent draft of Timestream, a game of time travel and manipulation. I already have a list of modifications I want to make, but…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Nathan P., Survivor, Sydney Freedberg, gobi, Spooky Fanboy, Ravien, Nathan.

4/18/2004 Survivor: How to get started...
Hey guys, remember me? I took your (group) advice, and have a prototype for a d20 Modern-based sci-fi RPG. It's pretty detailed - with vehicles, races, equipment, planets, artifacts, and…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Survivor, BPetroff93, Astrivian, Mike Holmes.

4/18/2004 Eric J-D: Sorcerer: combat a la Queen of the Black Coast
Hi folks, I have not yet run a game of Sorcerer although I am getting very close to doing so. However, I still feel a bit unsure about how to…
In Adept Press
Participants: Eric J-D, Alan, Sean, BPetroff93.

4/18/2004 Emiricol: Highlander TRoS
Going through every scrap of information I can get my hands on regarding TRoS until my book arrives (however long shipping is from when it gets mailed off, Monday according…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: Emiricol, bergh, Caz, Bob McNamee, Lxndr, Brian Leybourne, Edge.

4/17/2004 Valamir: Record number of users
I find it interesting that the record number of simultaneous users reported at the bottom of the Main Page used to adjust every couple of months to a new level,…
In Site Discussion
Participants: Valamir, Eero Tuovinen, Asrogoth, Emily Care.

4/17/2004 sirogit: Kinship/Sex as ideal relationships for Story purposes.
At first when I read Ron's insistance for story-important relationships to based on Kinship/Sex to be rather limiting. But just now I realize a great reason for the distinction. Alligince,…
In Adept Press
Participants: sirogit, Eero Tuovinen, Ron Edwards.

4/17/2004 Doyce: Rolling successes over that cover from... where?
Hey all, I'm afraid this is a rules question more than one of my more-common 'how do you do it in your game' questions. The question arose during a (new!)…
In Adept Press
Participants: Doyce, Lxndr, Bankuei, Alan, Ron Edwards.

4/17/2004 eyebeams: Indie or not?
Heya folks, I'm interested in posting about a game I'm designing, but I'm not sure it would be considered "Indie" by this board. Why? 1) I'm not publishing it. 2)…
In Site Discussion
Participants: eyebeams, Matt, greyorm, Jack Spencer Jr, Ron Edwards.

4/17/2004 The Fiendish Dr. Samsara: A Categorization of Magic Systems (long)
This is a first stab at trying to map out the possible metaphysics of magic in gaming. This list is in no way normative and if anyone comes up with…
In RPG Theory
Participants: The Fiendish Dr. Samsara, Ravien, M. J. Young, greyorm, Ben Lehman, simon_hibbs, FredGarber, clehrich, BPetroff93, redwalker.

4/16/2004 anonymouse: for the con-goers: Penny Arcade's PAX
http://www.penny-arcade.com/pax/ They're going to have tabletop gaming in a "free play" area, it looks like (Tycho's a regular D&D'er), might be of interest for some of the indie folk to…
In Conventions
Participants: anonymouse.

4/16/2004 xiombarg: intro to roleplaying (for Unsung)
Could y'all do me a favor? http://xiombrag.tripod.com/unstart.pdf The above is some introductory "what is roleplaying" kinda text for the RPG I'm currently working on the manuscript for. I want to…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: xiombarg, Zak Arntson, Jack Spencer Jr, quozl, Dev, Ben Lehman, Steve Samson.

4/16/2004 John Kim: Conan Test Run
OK, so I decided to run some games at KublaCon, and ended up deciding on a HERO System Star Trek game and a Conan RPG game. (I feel…
In Actual Play
Participants: John Kim, StalkingBlue, Ron Edwards, Caldis, Eszed, Henri, Bifi, hawklord2112, S'mon, Brand_Robins, Bankuei.

4/16/2004 GreatWolf: My Life with The Computer
The April 16 entry of the Paranoia XP blog cites MLwM as a design influence. Apparently Paul's little game is creating quite a stir, even in the mainstream. Good on…
In Half Meme Press
Participants: GreatWolf, Bob McNamee.

4/16/2004 ghostwolf: [Eschaton] Character Creation and Task Resolution
Once again, many thanks for the help in refining this concept. Original post can be found here. Assigned Traits Brawn - Physical health and strength. Agility - Coordination and manual…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: ghostwolf, RaconteurX, SrGrvsaLot.

4/16/2004 GaGrin: Until TFoB gets here - My own ideas for Mass Battles
[b]PCs in combat:[/b] During the chaos of battle, the combatants are assumed to be trying to survive the melee while getting from A to B, searching for a comrade or…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: GaGrin, Jaeger, Caz, Ian.Plumb, Irmo, Vanguard, Uber_Munchkin, Sneaky Git.

4/16/2004 Emily Care: Describing Dogs
Hey there, There was some discussion here a while back about how to talk about Dogs. People can get all squicked out about the Mormon thang. With that in mind,…
In lumpley games
Participants: Emily Care, lumpley.

4/16/2004 greyorm: Pseudo-TROS SA's in D&D
I wasn't sure where to put this one, but I figured since this involves a real, actual game, in real, actual play, as well as the actual discussion of our…
In Actual Play
Participants: greyorm, xiombarg, Ante, Andy Kitkowski, Jake Norwood, Noon.

4/16/2004 b_bankhead: Of Ghost towns and Ghost babies : PALADIN actual play
My attempts a playing Paladin actually got off the ground on Tuesday on the indie-netgaming group, I was only able to intrigue Doyce Testerman to actually play (some of the…
In Actual Play
Participants: b_bankhead, Doyce, Tony Irwin.

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4/18/2004 Andrew Norris: Director Stance enters "The Comfort Zone"
I've been running this D20 Modern campaign called "Comfort Zone" for five sessions now, and it's Saturday afternoon, and the game's starting in a while. I'm sitting there thinking how…
In Actual Play
Participants: Andrew Norris, Emily Care, Ron Edwards.

4/18/2004 Mokkurkalfe: Spear = Lance ?
Hello. I was wondering if you could use your spear as a lance when mounted. My current solution is that you cannot charge with the horse's strength using a spear,…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: Mokkurkalfe, Muggins, Caz, Wolfen, Jake Norwood.

4/18/2004 Ravien: [Eclipse] - How to Play and Chargen...
Ok, I know this technically isn't a post directly related to questions about mechanics, but it is related to a question about my Eclipse rulebook, which I plan to release…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Ravien, simon_hibbs, Nathan P., Hannu Hurme.

4/18/2004 Lxndr: [Iron Games Past] Where are they now?
(I considered posting this in Connections, as it might be more appropriate there - but my gut told me IGD. Ron & Clinton, if this is the wrong forum, I…
In Site Discussion
Participants: Lxndr, Simon W, greyorm, ethan_greer, talysman, Emily Care, Jonathan Walton, Mike Holmes, Valamir.

4/19/2004 Henri: Elric books for Sorcerer and Sword background (Help!)
I have a question for the big Sword and Sorcery fans out there. I wanted to read Elric of Melnibone as background reading for Sorcerer and Sword, since I haven't…
In Adept Press
Participants: Henri, Eric J-D, Ron Edwards, xiombarg, DannyK, Doyce, Sean, The Fiendish Dr. Samsara, Nev the Deranged.

4/19/2004 trechriron: Pitfalls of Nar Design (point 4)
Point 4 (summary): Sole reliance on deepening and detailing any aspects of exploration are misguided... I am confused on specifically what this is referring to. Is this addressing weather generators,…
In GNS Model Discussion
Participants: trechriron, Jack Spencer Jr, Ron Edwards, John Burdick.

4/19/2004 sirogit: Humanity gain for summoning demons?
I'm abit conflicted over the answer to this question: 1. If someone summons a demon for the purposes of performing a task that equals Humanity Gain, could they get a…
In Adept Press
Participants: sirogit, Lxndr, Ron Edwards, Mike Holmes.

4/19/2004 TonyLB: Pitching rules for narrativism
So I'm running an Amber game with heavy mechanics of narrativism added in. And people like the idea of having a lot of input into the story their characters are…
In Actual Play
Participants: TonyLB, greyorm, Bankuei, Alan, Ron Edwards.

4/19/2004 M. J. Young: Is a "closed" sticker a possible future feature?
I've often poured over posts on a thread for what feels a long time, and then come to the end to find that Ron or Clinton has closed it. Sometimes…
In Site Discussion
Participants: M. J. Young, greyorm, Jack Aidley, Ron Edwards, Christopher Weeks, xiombarg, Shreyas Sampat, quozl, Jack Spencer Jr, Emily Care, Rob Carriere, orbsmatt.

4/19/2004 Sean: [Great Ork Gods] The Fruit of Woe
I played an interesting scenario with a neat group of people today. I hope the GM may post on the game in fuller detail here, but I wanted to get…
In Actual Play
Participants: Sean, Valamir, Ron Edwards, Jack Aidley, jrs, Paul Czege, Mike Holmes.

4/19/2004 Nev the Deranged: Couple of questions...
I've been going through the Sorcerer books, page by page, trying to put the information in an order I can more easily reference while running or playing a game... sort…
In Adept Press
Participants: Nev the Deranged, 6inTruder, Ron Edwards.

4/19/2004 Kcasar: Arming Glove?
first off, lemme just say hello to everyone, i'm new to the Forge, but should be bouncing through from time to time. okay, maybe i'm just missing something. I've looked…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: Kcasar, bcook1971, Brian Leybourne, bergh, Salamander, Wolfen, Caz, Jake Norwood, Edge.

4/19/2004 Ben Lehman: System Typing
I have an idea. Now, as I begin to lay this idea out, I think people are going to instantly relate it to another set of three categories which have…
In RPG Theory
Participants: Ben Lehman, Eero Tuovinen, BPetroff93, lumpley, John Kim, cruciel, FredGarber, M. J. Young, Emily Care.

4/19/2004 Ben Lehman: Gamism and Narrativism
I have been thinking, recently, apropos to lumpley's Arranging the Pieces of the Game as to what really defines Narrativism and Gamism, at a base. I think that there…
In GNS Model Discussion
Participants: Ben Lehman, Eero Tuovinen, Rob Carriere, greyorm, Doyce, Ron Edwards, beingfrank, M. J. Young, pete_darby, Valamir, contracycle, Walt Freitag, Emily Care, Ian Charvill, cruciel, DannyK.

4/19/2004 Kcasar: extra blood loss...?
okay second silly question for the night: the extra blood loss granted from weapons like the morningstar... does that require the wound to have blood loss? like level 1 wounds…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: Kcasar, Jake Norwood, bottleneck, toli, nsruf.

4/19/2004 Muggins: Finally!
A box finally arrived in Oslo with my TRoS stuff. Of course, after ordering it from two places, it finally arrived from Warehouse 23 the day after I left South…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: Muggins.

4/19/2004 lumpley: again with the killing puppies!
I ran kill puppies for satan at OurCon this weekend, for 5 undergrad students and 1 grad student, 4 women 2 men, with two romantic couples present, I believe -…
In Actual Play
Participants: lumpley, Christopher Weeks, Gaerik, Ron Edwards, hawklord2112.

4/19/2004 Gaerik: [The Pool] Jumping into the Pool (longish)
My group played the Pool for the first time Sunday afternoon with some mixed (mostly good) results as far as I'm concerned. I'll go over the players, the characters, the…
In Actual Play
Participants: Gaerik, Emily Care, Andrew Norris, Ron Edwards, C. Edwards, Bob McNamee.

4/19/2004 GreatWolf: Bad news
Hi, everyone. I have some bad news that I need to tell all of you. No, Legends of Alyria isn't cancelled, but it does affect certain aspects of the publication…
In Dark Omen Games
Participants: GreatWolf, BPetroff93, Valamir, quozl, Shreyas Sampat, Spooky Fanboy, xiombarg, Eero Tuovinen, Ben Lehman, M. J. Young, greyorm, Lxndr, Mike Holmes, Marhault, Paul Czege, Blake Hutchins, Sean, Jürgen Mayer.

4/19/2004 smokewolf: Freelancers needed
Looking for freelancer writers I am currently looking for freelancers who are interested in writing for The Swing. At this time, I do not need any artists, please feel free…
In Connections
Participants: smokewolf, Dav.

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