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6/24/2004 jburneko: [MLWM] My Life With The Viscount Part II.
So, last night was the second session of the My Life With Master game. I took the advice most of you put forth and played the master with more cruelty…
In Actual Play
Participants: jburneko, TonyLB, Dumirik, CPXB, Nicolas Crost, Michael S. Miller, Christopher Weeks, Ron Edwards, Paul Czege, Valamir, Mojo, GB Steve.

6/23/2004 Aaron Powell: [Viewpoint] Request for Comments
A friend and I have been working on a set of game mechanics that we're calling Viewpoint. The system's mainly designed to address issues we've had with other sets of…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Aaron Powell, MarktheAnimator.

6/23/2004 ultraviolet: Cutting damage tables & the other mass weapons???
As a brand new TROS player, I wonder a bit about the Damage Tables. The Regions for swung weapons are only listed as for Cutting weapons, but what about all…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: ultraviolet, Jake Norwood.

6/23/2004 Bob Goat: Copyright Question
When I send in my work for copyright protection, which form do I send it in with? I noticed that Form TX is for published and unpublished nondramatic literary works…
In Publishing
Participants: Bob Goat, greyorm, ethan_greer, Lxndr, Peter Hollinghurst, Valamir, Ravien, Erick Wujcik, MarktheAnimator.

6/23/2004 Grog: d10s
D10s? I got a few. D6s! I got buckets of them. Can I use d6s instead of d10s?
In Universalis
Participants: Grog, rafial.

6/23/2004 Gaerik: [D&D] I need proactive protagonists...
I've got a nice little D&D game that has been running for 4 sessions now and I'm relatively pleased with how it is going. The majority of my players are…
In Actual Play
Participants: Gaerik, TonyLB, ADGBoss, JamesDJIII, Ron Edwards, greyorm, DannyK, Zak Arntson, Bankuei, MarktheAnimator, Noon, clehrich, Itse.

6/23/2004 Ashren Va'Hale: an essay on realism and fantasy in story telling roleplaying
I wrote this essay for a different RPG site and I thought I should post it here too. It was aimed more at writing fiction but it applies very well…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: Ashren Va'Hale, Irmo.

6/23/2004 Ashren Va'Hale: Sword myths, help me out
I went to an RPG site and they had a little FAQ about swords that was so horrid that I have decided to compile an essay about swords and teh…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: Ashren Va'Hale, Tobias, WyldKarde, Sir Mathodius Black, Caz, Valamir, timfire, toli, Jake Norwood, Salamander, Tash, Tom, Brand_Robins, tauman, Ben Lehman, Turin, CPXB, Paganini, Bankuei, Kaelin, Muggins, Eamon, Emiricol, Vagabond Elf, Mike Holmes, Dain, Richard_Strey, Irmo, Drifter Bob, coryblack_666, Andrew Mure.

6/23/2004 Ben Lehman: Expanding IIEE
Hi everyone. So I'm designing this little RPG Polaris which has it's IIEE ripped off somewhat from The World, the Flesh and the Devil by way of Otherkind and…
In RPG Theory
Participants: Ben Lehman, Ron Edwards, lumpley.

6/23/2004 CPXB: Universalis Redux
I played Universalis, again, last night with a slightly different group of people. In particular, John Marron was absent and his replacement was not as good as John, shall we…
In Universalis
Participants: CPXB, Valamir, hix, Christopher Weeks.

6/23/2004 Ben Lehman: Polaris: Fate and Choice
Hi Everyone-- So my RPG, Polaris is in final devolopment, before playtesting ensues. Since the last thread on it rocked so much (thanks to everyone who responded! Sorry I…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Ben Lehman, Eero Tuovinen, MarktheAnimator.

6/23/2004 KingOfFarPoint: Are some NPCs communal property in Sorcerer?
A little while back I read a post that seemed to suggest that the GM plays the PC's and NPC's demons as major NPCs but that non demonic NPCs are…
In Adept Press
Participants: KingOfFarPoint, Ron Edwards, Doyce.

6/23/2004 abzu: [Burning Wheel] End Game
The session I want to describe is a bit complicated, bear with me please as I am still a bit close to it. First, there were two metagame agendas playing…
In Actual Play
Participants: abzu, Tobias, taepoong, Thor Olavsrud.

6/23/2004 Grog: Known Setting
Ok this may be a painfully obvious fact... But, I was wondering if any of you have used a known setting and run with it? Like The Belgariad, or Lord…
In Universalis
Participants: Grog, CPXB, Valamir, hawklord2112, Mike Holmes, Tobias.

6/23/2004 Peter Nordstrand: Describing Sorcerer
Hi, How would you describe Sorcerer to potential players? I'm talking about that first conversation about the game, pre-first session, pre character generation, pre any kind of seriuos prep. Let's…
In Adept Press
Participants: Peter Nordstrand, Paka, sirogit, Clinton R. Nixon, Bret Gillan, Ron Edwards.

6/23/2004 Sir Mathodius Black: Maps
Does anyone know any good sites with good maps that I could use for fantasy worlds? Ive tried Googling but i always come up with something along the lines of…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: Sir Mathodius Black, Prince of Thieves, Paka, Malechi, Emiricol.

6/23/2004 Noon: The gaming peers = friends thing
Recently wondering: Does the association of gaming together and thus being friends together (apart from geek falacies) also come from the game content? I mean, a lot of games sort…
In RPG Theory
Participants: Noon, SlurpeeMoney, Jack Spencer Jr, matthijs, M. J. Young, Ron Edwards, Alf_the_Often_Incorrect.

6/22/2004 StrongBadMun: Opinions on Game Name please
It has come to my attention that the name Schism is being used already so I'm working on a new name. The game is a near future setting where the…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: StrongBadMun, Mark Johnson, Andrew Morris, ethan_greer, contracycle, Tobias, Ron Edwards, TonyLB, MarktheAnimator.

6/22/2004 C. Edwards: PoC: The Final Conflict
Hey all, From the Provisional Glossary: Points of Contact The steps of rules-consultation, either in the text or internally, per unit of established imaginary content. This is not the same…
In GNS Model Discussion
Participants: C. Edwards, M. J. Young, matthijs, Silmenume, Ron Edwards.

6/22/2004 pilot602: [Seven Systems Legacy] - stuck on new mechanics
I'm trying to come up with a way to keep my "one-die" system but make it easier to manipulate the "effectiveness" of rolling for a hit/location but the most important…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: pilot602, Ravien, TonyLB, Tobias, Sydney Freedberg, Chris Lekas, WyldKarde, greedo1379.

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6/24/2004 Bret Gillan: [Sorcerer] The Unnecessary Mentor View
So, I have Sorcerer. I've gathered my players, and I've done some character creation. A problem that I keep encountering is that the players keep getting drawn to Solitary Adepts,…
In Adept Press
Participants: Bret Gillan, sirogit, Bailywolf, Christopher Weeks, Ron Edwards.

6/24/2004 Michael Hopcroft: How to create a screen-format PDF book
I have a technical question: I was psoting on the future of the PDF format on another board (I was not optimistic) and I got this comment. I'm quite happy…
In Publishing
Participants: Michael Hopcroft, quozl, Eero Tuovinen, Andrew Martin, jdagna, Peter Hollinghurst, philreed, Bob Goat, Alex Johnson, viktor_haag.

6/24/2004 CPXB: [Universalis] Wuxia Post-apocalyptic Frozen Tundra Action
I decided to drop my M&M game on Wednesdays and replace it with Universalis. My players were all for this and we played. We came up with these tenets: Tenets…
In Actual Play
Participants: CPXB, Christopher Weeks, Valamir.

6/24/2004 Michael Hopcroft: Layout artist for screen-format PDFs
I don't know for sure if I'm going to need this -- there may be people within my company who can do this. But just in case I thought I'd…
In Connections
Participants: Michael Hopcroft, bigsimon, Bob Goat, Eero Tuovinen.

6/24/2004 Albert of Feh: Cooperative world creation
I haven't GMed anything in a while, but am hoping to change that in the near future. I would like to try a more player-protagonized narrativist game than I have…
In RPG Theory
Participants: Albert of Feh, M. J. Young, hanschristianandersen, ethan_greer, Christopher Weeks, GreatWolf, Doctor Xero, Alf_the_Often_Incorrect, Mr. Sluagh.

6/24/2004 Noon: Glossary and narr essay showing up wierd for me
The forge glossary and the nar essay are showing up as a bunch of junk characters to me right now. I looked at some other articles and they come up…
In Site Discussion
Participants: Noon, Rob Carriere, xiombarg.

6/24/2004 Noon: The basic enjoyment of SIS
Usually a lot of discussion goes on about what you can do with an RPG, taking the Shared Imaginatiove Space involved for granted to do what your interested in. But…
In RPG Theory
Participants: Noon, timfire, Christopher Weeks, Ron Edwards, Doctor Xero, Silmenume, Alan, JackBauer, Ravien.

6/24/2004 hkdharmon: Psychology of Combat, a little off topic
This is a pseudo-reply to a very old article, who's author suggested that no games take into account he psychology of combat. Not true I say, there is : The…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: hkdharmon, Sir Mathodius Black, Salamander, Tom, Richard_Strey, toli, Ian.Plumb, Stephen, Muggins, Vagabond Elf, Emiricol, Drifter Bob, Gideon13, Tash, Andrew Mure, Stump, bottleneck, Jaif, Valthalion, Turin, Irmo.

6/24/2004 hkdharmon: GenCon
So, The chances that I will actually get to go to GenCon are about as good as a snowball's in Iraq. Will TFOB be available also at that time over…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: hkdharmon, toli, deltadave, Jake Norwood, Sir Mathodius Black, watermine999, MonkeyWrench, Valamir, Bloodstryke, Durgil, Vagabond Elf, shoplifter.

6/24/2004 StrongBadMun: Head Trip Games [Formerly Epoch Games] System (Long)
This system has taken me quite a while to work on, mostly because I'd find something that just didn't work and changing it meant changing the whole system. I remember…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: StrongBadMun, Sydney Freedberg, TonyLB, Alf_the_Often_Incorrect.

6/24/2004 bottleneck: 'Piercing swings' - ?
In the game yesterday, a knight was struck hard on the head with a warhammer spike. So: it's a bashing weapon that inflicts piercing damage. Which table to use? The…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: bottleneck, toli, Jake Norwood, ultraviolet.

6/24/2004 Henri: [Demon Cops] Session 1
For characters, see this thread. In order to create the anime mood, I began the "show" with an intro in which I described the forging of the sword Murumasa and…
In Actual Play
Participants: Henri.

6/24/2004 Zak Arntson: New Glossary Entry: Character Sheet
I just ran into trouble with the definition of a character sheet over at the Doing Away with XP thread. Perhaps this term should be added to the glossary? In…
In RPG Theory
Participants: Zak Arntson, Doctor Xero, Alf_the_Often_Incorrect, John Kim.

6/24/2004 Sir Mathodius Black: New Skill
Does anyone know of a skill within the rulebook that would be used for appraising things, more specifically weapons and armors? The craft skill seemed viable, but i was thinking…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: Sir Mathodius Black, Jake Norwood.

6/24/2004 Alf_the_Often_Incorrect: An alternative to XP
I have had a cool concept sitting in my brain for a while, which probobaly already has been used, but I'll post it anyway. This is an alternative to XP…
In RPG Theory
Participants: Alf_the_Often_Incorrect, greyorm, M. J. Young, Moah, LoreTG, simon_hibbs, Mike Holmes, Ben Morgan, ErrathofKosh.

6/24/2004 Adrynian: Spell: Fountain of Youth
I realize that on page 106, under Growth:Maturing it says, "As time may not be reversed, making things younger is impossible," but I think I've still figured out a reasonable…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: Adrynian, Jem, Fleinhoy, SheWolf, Bob McNamee, Rick, Tash, kenjib.

6/25/2004 Albert of Feh: LeGuin-style naming magic
I recently re-read Ursula K. leGuin's Earthsea books, and realized that there's a lot I really like about the world's approach to magery. Rather than just people who can throw…
In Burning Wheel
Participants: Albert of Feh, Thor Olavsrud, Negilent, taepoong.

6/25/2004 sirogit: Hooray[Sex&Sorcery]
Yay! I just got this in the mail. I'm at a loss for words. That Death/Madness/Sex thing just blows my mind, I'll have to give it some serious thought on…
In Adept Press
Participants: sirogit, Ron Edwards, Ben Lehman, DannyK, Henri, Christopher Weeks.

6/25/2004 Grog: Meaty Examples
I was wondering/hoping if someone had a link to an example of Universalis play? The ones on the web site are good but dont give any 'game mechanincs'. Things like…
In Universalis
Participants: Grog, Christopher Weeks.

6/25/2004 Andrew Martin: Knights of the New Republic (Zac's Shadows)
[quote="Zac"][quote="Andrew"]For example, two weekends ago, I ran Zac's Shadows game for two other players, where the PCs were Jedi Masters or Apprentices. As the GM I said that play should…
In Actual Play
Participants: Andrew Martin, Zak Arntson, Mithras.

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