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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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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.

4/21/2004 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.

4/21/2004 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 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 Ben Lehman: Polaris: Trait Bidding
Yet another "Iron Game Chef" follow-up thread. I'm almost reluctant to post this, because I don't want to point out flaws in my game before the judging, but I really…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Ben Lehman, Eero Tuovinen.

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.

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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.

4/22/2004 Amadeus: "Reply Problems"
For a while I've been noticing this problem, but its getting a little old. Whenever I try to click reply, even on open non locked threads, it just brings me…
In Site Discussion
Participants: Amadeus, M. J. Young, montag, Trevis Martin.

4/22/2004 Arashi: Online gaming
Well, it seems as though I have a hard time finding playersAt least the players that want to play what I do...So I was thinking about maybe a nrrative type…
In Actual Play
Participants: Arashi, TonyLB, Christopher Weeks.

4/23/2004 sirogit: The end of my campaign and Armor/Blood Loss tokens
My Riddle of Steel campaign is coming to an end after next session. It was a satisfying if bumpy ride. The parts where the game faltered I learned alot about…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: sirogit, Kcasar, Tash, Emiricol.

4/23/2004 coxcomb: [Gallant] Hubbub at the Royal Hole (play)
This is a continuation of the character generation post for the latest test of my game, Gallant. So we’re all done with characters and ready to go. Part of the…
In Actual Play
Participants: coxcomb, Zak Arntson, jdagna, trechriron.

4/23/2004 RaconteurX: Campaign relaunch, hzzah!
With four new players out of five, two of whom are new to Pendragon, and entirely new characters, my campaign based in Leicester has been accorded a second life. Our…
In Actual Play
Participants: RaconteurX, Sean.

4/23/2004 lightcastle: Some simple contest combat questions
I almost put these at the end of another thread, but figured they might better be served as their own thread. Finally got a chance to play, running a couple…
In HeroQuest
Participants: lightcastle, Nils Weinander, Bankuei, Mike Holmes, buserian, kagemusha, simon_hibbs, soru, Donald, KingOfFarPoint.

4/23/2004 Wolfhead: How high can you go?
Just wanted to see high I could get a combat skill in HeroQuest - the experiment is below: Sartarite Warrior - Devoted to Humakt (built with the list method) Keywords:…
In HeroQuest
Participants: Wolfhead, BPetroff93, Bankuei, kagemusha, Andrew Norris, Mike Holmes, Deacon Blues, keithn, Paul Watson, buserian.

4/23/2004 cruciel: Removing the Incentive for Narrativism
This is a followup/companion thread to Removing the Incentive for Gamism This time I'd like to look a how one might fail to support to Nar. This one is much…
In GNS Model Discussion
Participants: cruciel, Caldis, sirogit, Bankuei, Jack Spencer Jr, clehrich, Noon, DannyK, Ben Lehman, contracycle, Alan.

4/23/2004 cruciel: Successful Resolution and Narrativism
It's time for yet another half-baked Jason idea. Considering your traditional randomizer aided resolution system from a Nar perspective, success or failure of resolution should not be the concern. As…
In GNS Model Discussion
Participants: cruciel, Jaik, BPetroff93, Mike Holmes, Ron Edwards, trechriron, Bankuei, Noon, Alan, Jack Spencer Jr, Matt Wilson.

4/23/2004 Wolfen: Sorcerer and Sex in Realms of Fantasy
I was reading through my latest issue of Realms of Fantasy last night, and was surprised to find a review of Sorcerer and Sex in Realms of Fantasy. It was…
In Adept Press
Participants: Wolfen, Ron Edwards, Nev the Deranged.

4/24/2004 Matt Snyder: Status update
Here's a quick update on where things stand for Chimera Creative in general and Nine Worlds in particular. I've been incredibly busy with real life stuff for about the last…
In Chimera Creative
Participants: Matt Snyder, ethan_greer, Neil.

4/24/2004 Paka: Heavenly Kung-Fu: Sorcerer variant
[b]Inspirations:[/b] Shaw Brothers films, Crouching Tiger/Hidden Dragon, Exalted (particularly Sidereals), Way of the Rat, Lone Wolf and Cub, Legend of the Five Rings The kung-fu of the red dust can…
In Adept Press
Participants: Paka, Dev, greyorm, urbwar.

4/24/2004 Lxndr: Snowball
Twisted Confessions was down for a while, making Snowball more-or-less unavailable online. It's back up now. I apologize for any problems anyone had attempting to access it in the meanwhile.
In Random Order Creations
Participants: Lxndr, nuanarpoq.

4/24/2004 Turin: Blocking with a shield
Berghs question about a shield bash made me think of something along a similar vein. PCa is hit by NPCb on an area covered by a shield. Counting sucesses and…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: Turin, bergh, Wolfen, Starshadow, bottleneck, aaronharmon, Poleaxe.

4/24/2004 Turin: Kite Shields
Once again, an early middle ages topic.. From what I understand, the larger round shields covered about as much area as a kite shield, referencing the larger round shields used…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: Turin, bergh.

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