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4/30/2004 montag: Simulationism without Force?
Short version: Simulationism without Force: Is it possible? What does it look like? Long version I'm currently having a debate with a fellow player GM, about our extent of co-authorship…
In GNS Model Discussion
Participants: montag, Eero Tuovinen, Ron Edwards, GreatWolf, Andrew Norris, Ian Charvill, M. J. Young, John Kim.

4/30/2004 Eric J.: [D&D: 3E] A game in time plays 9.
You can't get rid of me Anyway- Update: My brother (Ryan) is now allowed to play D&D and I live in Nebraska again. Yay for me. Anyway- Well Ryan and…
In Actual Play
Participants: Eric J., ethan_greer, Andrew Norris.

4/30/2004 ethan_greer: Forge Hubris
So over in another thread, Chris Pramas wrote: And I think this comment typifies the self-congratulatory hubris I see at the Forge all the time. Some of you have found…
In Site Discussion
Participants: ethan_greer, Jack Spencer Jr, Ron Edwards, Matt Snyder, talysman, Dav, xiombarg, Bankuei, cruciel, M. J. Young, John Kim, pete_darby, Pramas, mearls, Emiricol, greyorm.

4/30/2004 Emiricol: Pointless battle? Knight vs Rapier.
Alright. Having just received my TRoS book (Yaay!), I ran through some combat simulations. What stumped me is this; how can a fully armored knight and an unarmored Rapier-wielder avoid…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: Emiricol, Bob McNamee, Tash, Dain, nsruf, bergh, Ben Lehman, GaGrin, Brian Leybourne, Jake Norwood, Irmo, Salamander, Turin, contracycle, Uber_Munchkin, Wolfen, tauman, BPetroff93, Deliverator, Rattlehead, Draigh.

4/29/2004 Valamir: Access Announcement
Well, it finally happened. They said it was coming and it finally caught up with me. The corporate net nanny just blocked indie-rpgs. They'd already blocked rpg.net a few months…
In Site Discussion
Participants: Valamir, cruciel, joshua neff, talysman, Jürgen Mayer.

4/29/2004 Tomas HVM: [Fabula] Test your heroes!
[b]A scene in todays roleplaying game:[/b] The human characters contrived to capture two orc-NPCs. The humans are convinced the orcs were after their great magical ring (actually it is a…
In Actual Play
Participants: Tomas HVM, Noon, Loki.

4/29/2004 lumpley: Lines, Veils, Breaking the Ice
(Anybody who happens to not know, "lines and veils" is a way to talk about players' comfort with in-game material. Ron introduced the terms in Sex and Sorcery.) Emily Care…
In Actual Play
Participants: lumpley, cruciel, DannyK, Emily Care, Andrew Norris, Ron Edwards, Doyce, talysman, C. Edwards, bluegargantua, Christopher Weeks, Matt Wilson, Noon, Nev the Deranged, quozl, John Harper.

4/29/2004 arxhon: [Great Orc Gods] Comment on lack of "Character" sh
All this kerfuffle about Great Ork Gods has caused me to download the current .zip (v2) and print it off. It looks great and the actual play sounds like hilarious…
In Actual Play
Participants: arxhon, Ron Edwards, ethan_greer, Walt Freitag, Jack Aidley, contracycle, Neylana, Ben Morgan, Valamir.

4/29/2004 Zak Arntson: I got Elfs! (but pennicillin helped)
Showed up the same day the power went out, so I read the whole damn thing by candlelight. It's great! I remember being utterly confused with the pdf copy, with…
In Adept Press
Participants: Zak Arntson, joshua neff, Ron Edwards, Demada, GB Steve, Jason Puckett, Bob Goat, AnttiK.

4/29/2004 Chaopsychotic: Just saying hi, and a question about my game.
Hello. I just recently found this website and thougt I would present my idea for a game. I am starting to work on a long term RPG for a computer…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Chaopsychotic, Ravien, JamesSterrett, Shreyas Sampat.

4/29/2004 ethan_greer: RPGNow: Why or why not?
Poking around RPGNow, I've noticed that some Forge folks sell pdf downloads from there, while others don't. This is a request for end-user info about the service from those who…
In Publishing
Participants: ethan_greer, Matt.

4/29/2004 semprebon: PDF prices [split from older thread]
[quote="greyorm"]People naturally tend to believe something with a higher price is "better" than something with a lower price. "Cheap price" translates to "poor quality" in our societal subconscious, and we…
In Publishing
Participants: semprebon, Ron Edwards, Ravien, Lxndr, Jack Aidley, Valamir, cognizantchance.

4/29/2004 cthulahoops: [Great Ork Gods] Eating people.
Hi, So, I gathered four suitably orkish types after scifi yesterday and went off to try this out. Firstly, God breakdown. MM: Slashing and Slaying, Flailing Limbs. J: Obscurer of…
In Actual Play
Participants: cthulahoops, Jack Aidley, Neylana, Ron Edwards.

4/29/2004 ecliptic: Legality of using free fonts?
I was wonder what is the legality in using freeware fonts in a product that you sell?
In Publishing
Participants: ecliptic, Jack Aidley, jdagna, Shreyas Sampat.

4/29/2004 Noon: A technique for Rifts rules/balance drift
Recently I've found myself thinking of enjoying Rifts again (probably something on AIM). Naturally this brings up the issue of house rules (at least it does for me) that are…
In RPG Theory
Participants: Noon, Mike Holmes, ScottM, timfire, Andrew Martin.

4/29/2004 The Fiendish Dr. Samsara: Agrippa's magic
This thread is a spin-off from http://www.indie-rpgs.com/viewtopic.php?t=10832&sid=c2012109810037019721824e309b2b7f There was a lot of discussion there about magical theory in the early modern period, specifically H.C. Agrippa’s work, and the disticntions of…
In RPG Theory
Participants: The Fiendish Dr. Samsara, clehrich, Jere, John Kim, simon_hibbs, redwalker, neelk, M. J. Young, talysman, contracycle, Piers Brown, Alan McVey, Matt, BPetroff93.

4/28/2004 Paka: Explaining Kickers - I used Star Wars. And you?
When explaining new story-oriented game mechanics I find that movies are an easy way to relate them to a gamer, really allow how they work to sink in. When describing…
In Adept Press
Participants: Paka, Paganini, DannyK, Ron Edwards.

4/28/2004 lumpley: A Theoretical Combat System
Straight out of Fear & confusion, and bearing in mind that somewhere out in the world there's someone who wants me to write a game called Two Clicks... Imagine a…
In RPG Theory
Participants: lumpley, cruciel, Noon, Mike Holmes, simon_hibbs, ethan_greer, Sydney Freedberg, Andrew Norris, John Harper, Christopher Weeks.

4/28/2004 Starshadow: Armor penalties and stacking
Have a few more questions for today, concerning armor. 1. With a chainmail coif and a pot helm, you get a CP modifier of -1, same as with either of…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: Starshadow, Tash, Jake Norwood.

4/28/2004 Valamir: Welcome Christopher Hammock
Congratulations. You are member #3000! <insert balloons and confetti falling from the ceiling here> There is no prize, I'm afraid, but it seemed like too big a milestone to let…
In Site Discussion
Participants: Valamir, Paganini, Christopher Kubasik, C. Edwards, Jeph, ethan_greer, clehrich, Bankuei.

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4/30/2004 timfire: The importance of creation in Sim
I have some muddled ideas that I've been thinking over, and I thought I would bring up for discussion. I've been thinking about the "it" of Sim. In the infamous…
In GNS Model Discussion
Participants: timfire, Ian Charvill, Walt Freitag, M. J. Young, Silmenume, Caldis, Ron Edwards, talysman, Noon.

4/30/2004 bergh: Samurai!
Hello people i wanna do some work for the a samurai setting, using riddle of steel, and then i just want to know if some other people did know a…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: bergh, Tash, Irmo, Malechi, Wolfen, Jake Norwood, Muggins, Richard_Strey, Bastoche, clehrich, timfire.

4/30/2004 Ashren Va'Hale: combat monsters
I was wondering if people wouldnt mind posting their most wicked combat monster PC's. Include the CP, str, To, what weapon and armor they use, reflex, knockout and knockdown, relevant…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: Ashren Va'Hale, Salamander, Tash, Krammer, Mayhem1979.

4/30/2004 Gaerik: [Alternity] A rambling bit of review... (longish)
Ron expressed a desire on another thread to see a review of the Alternity game done by someone who has or is currently playing the system. My gaming group is…
In Actual Play
Participants: Gaerik, Zak Arntson, rafial, John Burdick, Matt Wilson, ghostwolf, johnzo, Autocrat.

4/30/2004 Crackerjacker: Iron Chef Results Today or Later?
So...arent the results of the Iron Chef supposed to be posted sometime today? I'm not rushing them, or trying to give anyone a hard time when they just haven't put…
In Site Discussion
Participants: Crackerjacker, Mike Holmes, Emily Care, Jack Aidley.

4/30/2004 redwalker: Nostalgia: breaking Traveller with hard sci-fi simulationism
All the Traveller grognards reading this will probably remember the black globe generator -- a force field of black energy which could absorb anything that the Traveller universe could throw…
In GNS Model Discussion
Participants: redwalker.

4/30/2004 indigo: New system to present - best way?
Hey, all: This is my first post here, I just want to say that I'm planning on posting the core rules to a system I'm working on. It's not so…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: indigo, Andrew Martin, Shreyas Sampat.

5/1/2004 Ben Lehman: Proof Reading and Editing
Hi. I thought I would put my card out for this, in case anyone is interested. I am a semi-professional copy-editor / proof reader. I have worked with authors of…
In Connections
Participants: Ben Lehman, smokewolf.

5/1/2004 Samael: Need a little help working out the math...
...for the resolution mechanic I'm using. Here's the basics. Skills (worst to best) defined as: Horrendous, d4 Terrible, d6 Poor, d8 Mediocre, d10 Fair, d12 Good, d16 Great, d20 Superb,…
In RPG Theory
Participants: Samael, Maarzan, Andrew Martin, M. J. Young, Hunter Logan, semprebon, Shadetree, Walt Freitag.

5/1/2004 Starshadow: Sickness
When you lose attribute points due to sickness, are these points lost permanently, or do you regain points in time without using SA points?
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: Starshadow, Tywin Lannister, [MKF]Kapten.

5/1/2004 TracerFox: Shattered Prism Redux
I'm back again, but this time I think I just might have accidentally stumbled on a clear idea of what it is I want to do, and what I am…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: TracerFox, Nathan P., Jack Spencer Jr, Valamir, Mike Holmes.

5/1/2004 Sean: Heavy Metal
Well, since we've had these interesting discussions of Elric and Witherwing lately, I suppose I'd like to follow up on another of Ron's references in Sorcerer and Sword, namely Heavy…
In Adept Press
Participants: Sean, Nev the Deranged.

5/1/2004 Jack Spencer Jr: Forget Immersion: Sympathy vs Empathy
I was going to put this in the Deep Immesion thread, but I decided it branches off enough to be it's own thread. Personally, I think immersion and the way…
In RPG Theory
Participants: Jack Spencer Jr, Christopher Kubasik, Ian Charvill, cruciel, Emily Care, John Kim, Valamir.

5/1/2004 Ravien: Flawed Marketing Strategy?
Ok, right off the bat I will state that I am no businessman, and have no knowledge of business practises. I don't know how to take advantage of "three-tiered marketing",…
In Publishing
Participants: Ravien, Jack Aidley, daMoose_Neo, Zak Arntson, Sean, smokewolf, abzu.

5/1/2004 tetsujin28: Sorcerer on the Inside -- of Prison
What is Lore?: Lore is knowing how to handle yourself and work the system. What is Humanity?: Being able to get out and still be a Man, not an Animal.…
In Adept Press
Participants: tetsujin28, Paka, Ron Edwards.

5/2/2004 Ravien: Conceptual Combat Mechanics
I know this topic probably won't be particularly interesting, what with Lumpley's proposition of psychological combat, but this mechanic came to me last night and I had to write it…
In RPG Theory
Participants: Ravien, Akamaru, TonyLB, Sydney Freedberg, Mulciber, M. J. Young, Hereward The Wake, Olibarro.

5/2/2004 Tywin Lannister: The Riddle of Steel PDF Mini-supplement.
I am currently writing a "TRoS" PDF mini-supplement. It was almost finished, but my harddrive finished first; so I am rewriting material. The mini-supplement in question is a detailed setting…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: Tywin Lannister, Tash, Muggins, ZenDog, Mike Holmes, Thagorod Alynsson, greyorm, Rattlehead.

5/2/2004 bcook1971: [Sorcerer] First Campaign (SPOILER)
Finished running the first session of my first Sorcerer campaign this night/morning. My group created characters last week at the end of our second TROS campaign, run by Zazielsrephraim. That…
In Actual Play
Participants: bcook1971, Ron Edwards, TonyLB, Bob McNamee, hardcoremoose, Trevis Martin.

5/2/2004 bcook1971: [Sorcerer] Fresh From Play: Comments, Questions
This being particular to the system, I thought I'd separate it from the thread I started in Actual Play. Comment: The game text does not overstate the peril of a…
In Adept Press
Participants: bcook1971, Nev the Deranged, Ron Edwards.

5/2/2004 Nev the Deranged: Questions I already sent Ron when the Forge didn't like me..
*** The Forge decided to be kind to me today, so I am able to ask these questions to the masses, so that Ron can attend to the myriad of…
In Adept Press
Participants: Nev the Deranged, Lxndr, Ron Edwards, Valamir, clehrich.

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