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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 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 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.

6/24/2004 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.

6/24/2004 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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: 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 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 StrongBadMun: how do I find out if a company name is original
Epoch Games is already used by a company according to Lycos, and the domain name is already taken according to register.com. I've checked Lycos and Register.com and in both cases…
In Publishing
Participants: StrongBadMun, MarktheAnimator, jdagna, Matt, Bob Goat, GregS, xiombarg, Lxndr, Erick Wujcik.

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6/25/2004 Ravien: [Scarlet Wake] Playtest Release
Hey all, Although it's not 100% complete just yet (more like 85%), I thought I may as well post this up now, seeing as how it will be completely finished…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Ravien, Sydney Freedberg, Andrew Morris, WyldKarde, Sledgeman, Andrew Martin, Trevis Martin, Jasper, b_bankhead, Drew Stevens, MarktheAnimator, Mark D. Eddy, Tobias.

6/25/2004 ethan_greer: Everyone's a Gamer: A Rant
So, here's the basic premise: Everyone enjoys role-playing. Everyone. There are no exceptions. Every child pretends. Every culture has traditions of storytelling. Everyone enjoys role-playing, period. If that's true (and…
In RPG Theory
Participants: ethan_greer, quozl, Lxndr, lumpley, Jonathan Walton, TonyLB, Ben Lehman, sergeant_x, ADGBoss, JackBauer, Erick Wujcik, rafial, SlurpeeMoney, Noon, Mark Johnson, Cephalopod, Ravien, Jack Spencer Jr, komradebob, Rob Carriere, Matt, Dev, Tobias.

6/25/2004 Matt: Looking for contributors
As some of you may know, I run a site called Realms. It's a mix of articles, reviews, interviews, links and free games. It's me, plus the occasional contribution from…
In Connections
Participants: Matt, ethan_greer, Juicetyger, Kester Pelagius.

6/25/2004 Stephen: A New Sorcery System (Long, Multiple)
[b]REVISED SORCERY[/b] This is a revised version of the sorcery system originally written by Rick McCann, designed to do the following things: 1) Create a more traditional system of terminology…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: Stephen, Poleaxe, Deliverator, baumi, Muggins.

6/25/2004 sirogit: the Seas of Let's Fiddle.(Very weird.)
I'm working on something that's a chimera of a parody of Furry characters and a game with the premise of What Would You do For Love? It's nearly complete. right…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: sirogit, deidzoeb.

6/25/2004 JamesDJIII: Forking the Build and Social Context
From thread http://indie-rpgs.com/viewtopic.php?t=11705... Last night I agreed to return to and continue to GM for our Thursday night group. I made several statements earlier to the group about my desire…
In RPG Theory
Participants: JamesDJIII, ADGBoss.

6/25/2004 pilot602: [Seven Systems Legacy] new(?) idea for damage modeling
OK I've been thinking about Battletech, comments from Mike H. and Sydney and Raiven and I think I have a totally new (new, at least, to my game) approach to…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: pilot602, Sydney Freedberg, Ravien, Andrew Martin.

6/25/2004 Jonathan Walton: 1001 Designs: New Site, Screen Test
Hey Folks, So, I've got a new site design for 1001 Designs (and a new effort of mine called "Hundred Flowers") and I'd like some assistance. It used to be…
In Publishing
Participants: Jonathan Walton, ethan_greer, Matt, jrs, Jürgen Mayer, Jasper, John Harper, MarktheAnimator.

6/25/2004 jdrakeh: Oddly...
I just posted a thread relating to this in a different light over at RPGnet. See, I haven't witnessed any more negativity at The Forge over the last few years…
In Site Discussion
Participants: jdrakeh, xiombarg, Ron Edwards, Bankuei, Mark Johnson, Walt Freitag, M. J. Young, Mike Holmes, Clay, Valamir, C. Edwards, Jack Spencer Jr, ADGBoss, Balbinus, Marco, greyorm, MR. Analytical.

6/26/2004 komradebob: Filing Edges: Secret Knowledge
First, apologies for borrowing domeone else's title for this post ( but I thought it was such a great heading, I couldn't resist). I've been thinking about this subject ever…
In RPG Theory
Participants: komradebob, TonyLB, M. J. Young, beingfrank, ethan_greer.

6/26/2004 CPXB: [Universalis] The Third Time This Week
I played a lot of Univeralis this week, hehe. I think I blunted the worst of the cravings and the once a week game I have going will be sufficient…
In Actual Play
Participants: CPXB, Bob McNamee.

6/26/2004 Jürgen Mayer: My Life With Diana
According to http://www.ogrecave.com, Matt Forbeck announced the short list for the Diana Jones Award at Origins: HeroQuest My Life With Master Savage Worlds "the Scandinavian gaming scene" True Dungeon Congrats,…
In Half Meme Press
Participants: Jürgen Mayer, GB Steve, Bob McNamee, montag, Paul Czege.

6/26/2004 Drew Stevens: [Touché] Almost a Playtest Release :)
http://www.prism.gatech.edu/~gte049v/Touche/Touche.html Touché is game I've been working on for a while now- I mentioned it a few weeks ago, in Roleplaying Theory. Well, it's done. Mostly. With my hand written…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Drew Stevens, Jasper, Mark D. Eddy.

6/26/2004 Deliverator: throwing red vs. white dice
Hello all. Long-time reader here, but I only just joined indie-rpgs. I have the core TROS book and have many wonderful things I plan to do with this system. I've…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: Deliverator, Durgil, Rattlehead, Ben Lehman.

6/26/2004 Bob McNamee: My Life with "Princess" Diana
Bob McNamee wrote From the title of the thread I was expecting a My Life with Master idea with Princess Diana as the Master.... :) Markus replied Me too!…
In Half Meme Press
Participants: Bob McNamee, Jürgen Mayer, ethan_greer.

6/26/2004 montag: [Dark Age:Fae] Hack and Slash
We played White Wolf's Dark Age: Fae the other day and had great fun. Character-generation took a whole evening, since we had trouble getting a good grasp of the setting,…
In Actual Play
Participants: montag.

6/26/2004 JackBauer: Imagined Space Modules
[quote]Noon wrote: 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 RPG Theory
Participants: JackBauer, Jack Spencer Jr, Noon, M. J. Young, Andrew Norris, simon_hibbs, contracycle, ethan_greer, Christopher Weeks.

6/27/2004 Survivor: OGL Information
Hey, some of you may remember me from a while back, attempting to create a sci-fi themed RPG using the d20 Modern system. I am still working on said RPG,…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Survivor, Eero Tuovinen, daMoose_Neo.

6/27/2004 MarktheAnimator: Pay Pal info - Selling PDF's online
Hello, Ok, so I've made an electronic copy of my game and I want to sell a pdf online. I went to Pay Pal, got an account, and dropped the…
In Publishing
Participants: MarktheAnimator, Ron Edwards, Clay, smokewolf, Malak.

6/27/2004 hkdharmon: Dropping Weapons
When you take damage tot he arm, it sometimes says "May drop weapon". What do you roll for that? I guessed last night that you would roll KO or KD,…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: hkdharmon, Prince of Thieves.

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