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4/21/2004 TheLHF: Using simple contests for combat?
I ran my third HQ game yesterday. I'm introducing both my players to Glorantha and one of them to role-playing in general. I tried my hand at running a combat…
In HeroQuest
Participants: TheLHF, Nils Weinander, joshua neff, simon_hibbs, Peter Nordstrand, Nick Brooke, Valamir, rylen dreskin, Mike Holmes, Bankuei, buserian.

4/21/2004 Ron Edwards: [Elfs] It's about the aspis queen
Hello, I never did follow up on our completion of the Elfs game based on the A1 AD&D module "Slave Pits of the Under-City." Since that game had a big…
In Actual Play
Participants: Ron Edwards.

4/21/2004 grimnr: playtesters, artist and writers needed
Hello, My name is Lee a.k.a. Grimn and I am creator of the game F.A.M.A.T.O.M. and I need playtesters artist and story writers to fill in the blank spots in…
In Connections
Participants: grimnr, Ben Lehman.

4/21/2004 daMoose_Neo: EXCELLENT site for FREE photography! *not spam*
I was doing some googling for some stock art for my card game (wanted free photo's of cities and skylines to use as Location cards) and came across an EXCELLENT…
In Publishing
Participants: daMoose_Neo.

4/21/2004 darkvast666: Tacoma/Lakewood/Seattle Washington Area Players
I am a GM who has been running a Stargate campaign slightly going off the original cannon for a few months now. I am now going to be running my…
In Connections
Participants: darkvast666.

4/21/2004 Shreyas Sampat: Snow From Korea: Advanced Interface Mechanics
You can read the IGC entries this post refers to here: Snow From Korea Whispers In The Door These games are designed as companions to each other, and I have,…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Shreyas Sampat, Nathan P..

4/21/2004 dyjoots: Paladin Revision?
In a thread recently ressurected by Tetsujin in the Actual Play Forum (on accident, I assume), Clinton mentioned working on a revision to the rules. Hoewever, these threads are several…
In CRN Games
Participants: dyjoots, Clinton R. Nixon, tetsujin28, Ian O'Rourke, Ron Edwards, ethan_greer, b_bankhead.

4/20/2004 Cemendur: The GNS of Fishing
[quote="Gaerik"]It's like trying to discuss "sports" without defining what a sport is. Some people consider fishing and churling (I think that is how you spell that) to be sports but…
In GNS Model Discussion
Participants: Cemendur, Gaerik, Blankshield, M. J. Young, Doyce, Ron Edwards.

4/20/2004 Walt Freitag: Index to Son of Iron Game Chef: Fantasy
[b]Index to Son of Iron Game Chef: Fantasy[/b] Please let me know about any omissions, errors, broken links, etc. [color=darkblue]1. SUBSTANTIALLY COMPLETED GAMES[/color] [b]The Battle of Frozen Waste[/b] Eero Tuovinen…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Walt Freitag, Dav, Zak Arntson, Eero Tuovinen.

4/20/2004 bergh: Shield Bash!
Shield Bashing....... this arent in the rules ? anyway how do you think a shield bash should be? as pure damaging weapon, i think its not as usefull-.. is there…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: bergh, Jake Norwood, Turin.

4/20/2004 Mike Holmes: Iron Game Chef - AAR
I'd like to conduct an after action review of the contest. I'll personally chime in with more notes later, but I wanted to start out with Eero's thoughts so that…
In RPG Theory
Participants: Mike Holmes, C. Edwards, Dav, Eero Tuovinen, Ron Edwards, quozl, Walt Freitag, talysman, timfire, Lxndr.

4/20/2004 BPetroff93: Tinkering with TROS
Tinkering for “Realism” I’ve noticed a lot of posts over the concept of tinkering with TROS rules in order to correct perceived faults. I’m not after anyone in particular, just…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: BPetroff93, Stephen, Emiricol, Vanguard, Tash, Muggins, nsruf, Turin, Jake Norwood, bcook1971, Ingenious, Wolfen.

4/20/2004 Doyce: [Sorcerer] Clicking Sands Actual Play
Okay, after putting this off far too long, I have to get it down or I'm going to forget what happened (it's been all of 5 days now), so forgive…
In Actual Play
Participants: Doyce, Ron Edwards, DannyK, Valamir.

4/20/2004 tauman: Magic Items (Again)
As I was trying to fall to sleep last night, I got to thinking about magic items (swords in particular). One thing that seems to happen in many FRPGs is…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: tauman, Emiricol, kenjib, Uber_Munchkin, Muggins, Tash, Jake Norwood, Kcasar.

4/20/2004 JamesSterrett: Tightening the System: Terminator Line
You can read the IGC entry this posting refers to at the top of the page here. The system is *intended* to produce a game that plays very quickly: conflict…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: JamesSterrett, Shreyas Sampat, Ron Edwards, Walt Freitag, Paul Czege, Mike Holmes, btrc, Dav.

4/20/2004 SrGrvsaLot: Unworkable Concepts
Is there such a thing as a concept that absolutely cannot be made into a playable game? If so, has anyone run into such an animal? If these unworkable concepts…
In RPG Theory
Participants: SrGrvsaLot, quozl, Jack Aidley, Valamir, Ron Edwards, simon_hibbs, Shreyas Sampat, timfire, Gaerik, Gelasma, Mark Johnson, Cemendur, M. J. Young.

4/20/2004 a_verheaghe: D&D type keywords
I'm looking to trick my players into a game of Heroquest. They are really stuck in the D&D mentality. Setting must be Greyhawkish, races Greyhawkish etc. Can anyone help with…
In HeroQuest
Participants: a_verheaghe, Mike Holmes, buserian.

4/20/2004 cthulahoops: Pirate Sorcerer: Demons from the Law School side of town.
Hi, I've had an idea floating around in my head for a while now and I thought I'd post it here and see if anyone has anything useful to say.…
In Adept Press
Participants: cthulahoops, Christopher Weeks, Henri, Paka, angelfromanotherpin, DannyK, Bob McNamee, tetsujin28, Dev.

4/20/2004 M. J. Young: Alignment and Premise in D&D
I feel silly doing this, but over in Ben Lehman's Gamism and Narrativism thread a side issue emerged regarding whether D&D had within it the possibility of addressing premise…
In GNS Model Discussion
Participants: M. J. Young, Ben Lehman, NN, contracycle, BPetroff93, Noon, myripad.

4/20/2004 Sean: Afterglow
It looks like I may actually be running a Sorcerer mini-campaign in the near future, which is a source of great delight. I'll follow this up with some setting teaser…
In Adept Press
Participants: Sean, Ron Edwards, RaconteurX, Doyce, Mike Holmes, kwill, b_bankhead, ScottM, DannyK.

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4/21/2004 Uber_Munchkin: A Sorcery Question - Sorry if it's been covered before
Ok I've tried searching the board for this but I can't find anything on it. I'm going to be running my first TROS game within the next few weeks, my…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: Uber_Munchkin, Stephen.

4/21/2004 Zoetrope10: Plausible NPCs
A while back I was going to post a query seeking views as to how to improve the plausibility of NPC's and their behaviours. Rather than posting such a query…
In RPG Theory
Participants: Zoetrope10, BPetroff93, orbsmatt.

4/21/2004 Gaerik: A Plentiful Plethora of Panoramic Premise
Okay, so my title for this topic is a little ostentatious. Sorry. My questions for the Narrativist experts out there multitudinous but they all revolve around having multiple premises in…
In GNS Model Discussion
Participants: Gaerik, BPetroff93, Ron Edwards, Eero Tuovinen, GreatWolf, pete_darby, Matt Wilson, M. J. Young.

4/22/2004 Dev: Demon-peddling (or going to CorruptoMart)
In a lot of literature there is the one figure you go to in order to access Humanity-threatening power, i.e. basically the equivalent of the evil mastermind/tutor who helps you…
In Adept Press
Participants: Dev, Paka.

4/22/2004 The big blue ape: Combat question that has probably been covered before
The other day I was doing a campaign, and incedentaly we had to duel with some big man super magic dude. My traveling companion rushed into combat, using spiritual points…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: The big blue ape, Spartan, nsruf, Ashren Va'Hale.

4/22/2004 coryblack_666: extra attack power
I thought i read this somewhere in the book, but when i looked for it i couldnt find it. You know how when you do a test for a skill…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: coryblack_666, Spartan, Tash, Edge, bergh, Wolfen, Zhores.

4/22/2004 Crackerjacker: DDM Development Thread
This is the official thread of further development for my Iron Chef game, Dawn of the Day of the Monsters. more to come.
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Crackerjacker, Green, Eero Tuovinen, Mike Holmes.

4/22/2004 Michael S. Miller: [Sorcerer]Urban Squalor--1st Session
This is the first of the Urban Squalor game, character creation of which was here. We played on 3/14/04. We had a RL problem just before the first session. Michele,…
In Actual Play
Participants: Michael S. Miller, Paka, Christopher Weeks, Ron Edwards.

4/22/2004 Starshadow: About the Morning Star
The mace has a shock rating of +(Dam Lvl+1), the morning star has a shock rating of +(Dam Lvl-1). Why is this? Isn't a morning star basically a mace with…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: Starshadow, Mokkurkalfe, Muggins, Tash, bergh, Jake Norwood.

4/22/2004 Jeph: Gamist Play: This one's MINE!
So here's a phenomenon that's happened a few times recently. In Peter C's D&D game, I play this awesome diviner/alienist. Peter K plays a simple Paladin, Argonath the Good. Curran…
In Actual Play
Participants: Jeph, Sean, FredGarber, ethan_greer, Noon, contracycle, abzu, Ron Edwards, Paul Czege, Andy Kitkowski.

4/22/2004 Tash: Yet another question about flails
OK, so we all know flails are some kind of blunt weight attached to a chain and a haft. You swing, the weight swings around, hits someone, hurts. They do…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: Tash, Mokkurkalfe, Caz, Salamander, Overdrive, Wolfen, Turin.

4/22/2004 Matt Wilson: [PTA] spacehunter, pilot episode and playtesting errata
Last week was the pilot episode of a PTA series that I'm pretty sure we're still calling "Spacehunter." This post is about the elements of the game in play, and…
In Actual Play
Participants: Matt Wilson, Alan, John Harper, DannyK, Ian O'Rourke, pete_darby.

4/22/2004 Ron Edwards: Witherwing
Hello, In the Afterglow thread, Sean referred to David Jarrett's curious book Witherwing - not what I'd call well-written or well-paced but full of haunting and evocative imagery nonetheless …
In Adept Press
Participants: Ron Edwards, Sean, jrs, DannyK.

4/22/2004 Paka: Kickers and Spiritual Attributes - Brothers? Cousins?
I've been re-reading Sorcerer, getting ready to play after I put together a group in the coming weeks. The last game I've been running lately has been TROS, and the…
In RPG Theory
Participants: Paka, Ron Edwards, Akamaru.

4/22/2004 Astrivian: One quick thing
John Kim, thanks for the Forge links. They are really helpful and certainly tingle my intrest.
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Astrivian, Eero Tuovinen.

4/22/2004 Jonathan Walton: Fine Art #7: Chris Lehrich's "Ritual Discourse"
Hey Folks, The newest article in my "Fine Art of Roleplaying" column is finally up, after a two week break. We decided to abandon the article I was going to…
In RPG Theory
Participants: Jonathan Walton, Cemendur, contracycle.

4/22/2004 Emiricol: How long to receive book?
I ordered the TRoS book on the 12th. I noted on the website the order ships on the Monday after the order is received, which would have been the 19th.…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: Emiricol, Valamir, Tash, Mike Holmes, Jake Norwood.

4/22/2004 Bankuei: Lazy Reward System & the missing CA
Hi folks, I recently picked up BESM D20, and looked into the reward system. You have the industry standard rewards for "overcoming a challenge" and "good roleplaying", both of which…
In GNS Model Discussion
Participants: Bankuei, Halzebier, M. J. Young, myripad, contracycle, Peter Nordstrand, rafial, Mike Holmes, DannyK, Lxndr, montag, John Kim, Jack Spencer Jr.

4/22/2004 Tigger: Gamefest Milwaukee and Gamefest Richmond
Dear Forge, My name is Daniel Brace; some of you may know me as a local convention organizer of Running GAGG and UNY-Con in the upstate New York area. I…
In Conventions
Participants: Tigger, Dav, Mike Holmes, jdagna, Dave Panchyk, smokewolf.

4/22/2004 Asrogoth: God Games -- Who, What, Where, When????
[i]I wasn't sure where to put this post, but I believe this is the correct place.[/i] For those of you who have read my submission to the Son of Iron…
In RPG Theory
Participants: Asrogoth, Paul Czege, anonymouse, greyorm, pete_darby, Simon W, Jere, Marhault, M. J. Young, contracycle.

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