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7/12/2004 Mike Holmes: Sim UniWiki (Split from "Spam Killed...")
[quote="Christopher Weeks"]I'm interested in playing because I'd like to see what Universalis does with a different set of parameters. But honestly, without story, it's hard for me to envision the…
In Universalis
Participants: Mike Holmes, Ben Lehman, Bob McNamee, Christopher Weeks, kwill, Dev.

7/12/2004 ethan_greer: D&D and the Strategy Guide concept
So, after a couple of months hiatus, my biweekly D&D group got together on Saturday. We're going through the Adventure Path modules and are currently tackling Lord of the Iron…
In Actual Play
Participants: ethan_greer, Ben Lehman, NN, ErrathofKosh, b_bankhead, Bankuei, Bill C. Cook, Ron Edwards, Grover, Mike Holmes, Sean, DannyK, Halzebier, Noon, Vaxalon, hanschristianandersen, epweissengruber, inky.

7/12/2004 Ron Edwards: Questions in prepping my BW game
Hello, I'm prepping for our upcoming Burning Wheel game, which is planned to be a pretty extensive set of sessions. I'm doing this mainly by dumping as much into the…
In Burning Wheel
Participants: Ron Edwards, abzu, Eero Tuovinen, Paka, rafial, taepoong.

7/12/2004 JamesDJIII: Sorcerer by Gaslight: Once More With Premise
With a great deal of excitement, I managed to wrangle 2 players (Tim and Carl) for a character and pre-game discussion for Sorcerer this Sunday. I invited the players out…
In Adept Press
Participants: JamesDJIII, Ron Edwards, Doyce.

7/12/2004 Jaif: Sci-fi heroes
I've been thinking about adapting heroquest to "hard" sci-fi. One issue is that heroquest is designed to support advancement of characters from average humans straight up to god-head by the…
In HeroQuest
Participants: Jaif, newsalor, Wulf, Mike Holmes, soru, GB Steve, Shreyas Sampat, grbosch, lightcastle, KingOfFarPoint.

7/12/2004 Tobias: [Your Gods are Dead] First session - Murder at the Inn
Ran the first-ever session of YGAD with my fresh new playgroup yesterday. Quick overview of the dramatis personae: Ciska playing Dalena - 15yr old girl grown up on a 1870…
In Actual Play
Participants: Tobias, Jasper.

7/12/2004 StrongBadMun: [Miasma] Introducing the setting
At the moment I have Veiled Exile in playtest so I've shifted focus for the moment to the game I was working on from the beginning. I'm going to describe…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: StrongBadMun, Jasper, Sydney Freedberg, Lathan, Juicetyger.

7/12/2004 Calrin_Alshaw: The Labyrinth: System Criticism <LONG>
Ok, I'm completely new to these forums, I was pointed in this direction after I had a game-idea floating in my head, but D&D just seemed too rules-heavy to support…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Calrin_Alshaw, Victor Gijsbers, Tobias, Mike Holmes, Wilper.

7/12/2004 Andy Kitkowski: 24 Hour RPG site live
Man, I hate to turn the Publishing Forum into PR central, but here goes: The cut of it is that the www.24hourrpg.com site is now live. Since Phil Reed started…
In Publishing
Participants: Andy Kitkowski, ethan_greer, timfire, Ben Lehman, Eero Tuovinen, Ron Edwards, philreed, Emily Care, Mike Holmes, Brett M. Bernstein, Simon W.

7/12/2004 Dumirik: [Scarlet Wake] A couple of sessions... [long]
This is the same post that I made at the Scarlet Wake playtest forum, and it focusses mostly on the issues that we had and how to fix them, but…
In Actual Play
Participants: Dumirik.

7/12/2004 Ron Edwards: [GenCon 2004] The folks who'll be there
Hi everyone, Here's the list! If you thought you were on it and you're not, contact me ASAP. If you still want to be on it, you're pretty much shit…
In Conventions
Participants: Ron Edwards, Andy Kitkowski, Matt Wilson, abzu, alchemist, Matt Snyder, Bob Goat, Paul Czege, Michael S. Miller, lumpley, Tav_Behemoth, Jürgen Mayer, Matt Gwinn, smokewolf, jrs, Mike Holmes, Nev the Deranged.

7/12/2004 Clay: Paypal Warning - non-notification of sales
I know that a lot of you out there are selling products via paypal. I was made aware of a Paypal problem today by a client, and discovered that I…
In Publishing
Participants: Clay, Valamir, Brett M. Bernstein, Erick Wujcik, JSDiamond.

7/11/2004 jdagna: Affiliate Programs?
I've been thinking recently about starting up an affiliate program for Pax Draconis. My current thoughts are running along these lines right now: when people sign up, I provide them…
In Publishing
Participants: jdagna, Ron Edwards.

7/11/2004 hkdharmon: SAs and overlap
If someone has more than one SA that applies to a situation ("Conscience: Protect women" and "Passion: Love for Susan" in a fight to save Susan) does he add both…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: hkdharmon, Bankuei.

7/11/2004 Victor Gijsbers: [Shades] A prelimiary discussion
Wondering about the extent to which character creation could be changed from a pre-game to an in-game activity, if you'll forgive me the terminology, I developed the outline of a…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Victor Gijsbers, Mike Holmes, Tobias.

7/11/2004 Bill C. Cook: [Sorcerer] First Campaign IV of IV
[url=http://indie-rpgs.com/viewtopic.php?t=11031&highlight=]Session I[/url]. [url=http://indie-rpgs.com/viewtopic.php?t=11330&highlight=]Session II[/url]. [url=http://www.indie-rpgs.com/viewtopic.php?t=11533&highlight=sorcerer+campaign]Session III[/url]. I should explain: I updated the e-mail in my bcook1971 profile and am unable to log in. I sent a number of requests to…
In Actual Play
Participants: Bill C. Cook, Ron Edwards, Ingenious.

7/11/2004 Itse: Character creation while playing
I have an idea for a con game, which I would like (hope, wish...) to refine into something I can GM at Ropecon (23.-25. 7. in Espoo, Finland). The idea…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Itse, Ben Lehman, Eero Tuovinen, Victor Gijsbers, TonyLB, timfire, greyorm.

7/11/2004 TonyLB: [Capes] Balancing Powers, Attitudes and Tropes
I've put a second draft of Capes online. It's a superhero game with the premise "Power is fun, but do you deserve it?" It runs on a system of dice…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: TonyLB, ErrathofKosh, Tobias, Sydney Freedberg.

7/10/2004 stardog: Movement
How does tactical movement in TRoS compare with d20? I'm interested in purchasing the system, but in every other 'independent' game I've looked at, combat movement is inadequate or non-existent.…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: stardog, Tash, hkdharmon, Jake Norwood.

7/10/2004 Bob McNamee: Trollbabe patrols in the City of Heros
Just started playing in the City of Heros, a MMORPG...multiplayer superhero "roleplaying' computergame. My first character is "Trollbabe", a magical tanker type (tough defensive), she has an axe (not shown…
In Adept Press
Participants: Bob McNamee, Christopher Weeks, Ron Edwards, Bret Gillan.

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7/12/2004 Bankuei: Trollbabe and Mythos
Hi folks, My roommate and I have been alternating between GMing and playing one on one Trollbabe for a while now. Both of us have been reading Nameless Cults, a…
In Actual Play
Participants: Bankuei.

7/12/2004 Bailywolf: [Trollbabe] First run advice
I'm planning on running Trollbabe for my lovely and indulgent wife this week. I just downloaded the game, so haven't fully read it yet, so I don't have any specific…
In Adept Press
Participants: Bailywolf, Ron Edwards.

7/12/2004 sirogit: Moral differences around the table?
In a group for sorcerer that I'm assembling, something has crept into my mind as a concern: Since the game is about stories with moral judgement(Not preachy stories, but good…
In Adept Press
Participants: sirogit, Christopher Weeks, Mike Holmes, Ron Edwards, greyorm.

7/12/2004 kevin_presley: New medieval roleplaying game to hit market and need opinion
RGS is looking for a few good eyes!!!! REALISTIC GAME SYSTEMS is looking for anyone and everyone to review some game information at our site. We are about to public…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: kevin_presley, b_bankhead, Bankuei, greyorm, GregS, Kesher, Valamir, James_King, greedo1379, Zoetrope10, Jasper, Andy Kitkowski, Mike Holmes, sirogit, Dev, LordSmerf, Deadboy, Eamon.

7/12/2004 Old_Scratch: First Time Play Musings on Sorcerer (Charnel Gods)
Well, I’ve just begun my game and I had a bit of feedback after the first session that I thought I’d try and keep separate from my Actual Play description…
In Adept Press
Participants: Old_Scratch, Ron Edwards, Mike Holmes, Bankuei.

7/12/2004 Degamer: Master Screen
Anyone know where I might pick up on of thoose Master Screens mentioned on the main TROS site? The web site is down, and I would love to get ahold…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: Degamer, Tash, Jake Norwood, MikeJW, Richard_Strey, Jason L Blair, Dain, Claymore, Salamander, Tywin Lannister.

7/12/2004 newsalor: Zin Letters and Kalikos needs you help!
This is a plea of help to the tribe. The Zin Letters is an English-language magazine published by Kalikos - The Finnish Gloranthan Association. Our production deadline for the next…
In HeroQuest
Participants: newsalor, Mike Holmes, Juicetyger.

7/13/2004 Bracken: Is the Annual set in Stone yet? (New Suggestions/wish list)
Hello Abzu, Sorry I didn't comment earlier, but I had a couple of suggestions about the upcoming BW annual that's supposed to be coming out. 1) New Lifepaths One of…
In Burning Wheel
Participants: Bracken, Claymore.

7/13/2004 kevin_presley: Game Mechanics are being posted
We have uploaded some items of our game system. We will upload more and more as time progresses. Please continue checking back up with our site and look at the…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: kevin_presley, Bankuei.

7/13/2004 hkdharmon: Yet another alternate magic system, Longish
The big thing with this one is that I did not change anything but the vagaries, really. Alternate TROS vagaries All other rules are handled like the normal TROS magic…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: hkdharmon.

7/13/2004 Tobias: How to have 'Merits' and 'Flaws' without being stale?
Ok, So we all know about Merit/Flaw systems. And we've seen tons of them. Some that are so generic, boring, and overlong that we fall asleep - some with real…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Tobias, Victor Gijsbers, Andrew Morris, TonyLB, ethan_greer, Ron Edwards, b_bankhead, failrate, madelf, Emily Care, Vaxalon, Jasper.

7/13/2004 TonyLB: Explicit and Emergent Rules
As I design, I increasingly encounter the choice between making rules that explicitly say "The game will be played in such and so a manner" and building a mathematical system…
In RPG Theory
Participants: TonyLB, Andrew Morris, timfire, Shreyas Sampat, Valamir, Noon.

7/13/2004 Doyce: [Sorcerer & Sword] Fistful of Humanity
Hey folks, quick thinker-question. I'm planning on revisiting the abortive Clicking Sands one-shot I ran a few months ago, and in the interim I've had time to consider the relationship…
In Adept Press
Participants: Doyce, Ron Edwards.

7/13/2004 Sydney Freedberg: Emotions Mechanics II: Emotion as Power
Over in the thread Emotion Mechanics and Losing Control of Your Character, the question, "is it okay for a system to tell you how your character feels and what…
In RPG Theory
Participants: Sydney Freedberg, Eero Tuovinen, ErrathofKosh, TonyLB, John Kim, Mike Holmes, M. J. Young, Marhault, captain_bateson, Ravien, contracycle.

7/13/2004 Muggins: What's in a name?
Dear Jake (and don't take this too seriously), I was working last night on the handout for my latest and greatest campaign (the one that's been percolating through my brain,…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: Muggins, Valamir, Caz, Dain, Tash, MikeJW, Stephen, Jake Norwood.

7/13/2004 Andrew Morris: What indie games are running at DexCon?
Hey all, since it starts tomorrow, I'm hoping I can get some feedback on which indie games will be running events at DexCon this year. Even though I'm only a…
In Conventions
Participants: Andrew Morris, abzu, nerdnyc, Dregg, JamesSterrett.

7/13/2004 Tom: Alternate Sorcery Mod published
A while ago, Stephen J. Barringer posted his alternate sorcery system to this forum. I've taken it, turned it into a .pdf and added some more modifications, then I went…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: Tom, baumi, Muggins, Stephen, Claymore.

7/13/2004 Valamir: Gen Con extras
I was thinking of purchasing a digital cash register. There's a pretty sweet Casio for $200 at office depot that we could actually program in all of the product prices…
In Conventions
Participants: Valamir, alchemist, btrc, jrs, Ron Edwards, abzu, Bob Goat, Paul Czege, Matt Snyder, smokewolf, Lxndr, Tav_Behemoth, Matt Wilson, Jürgen Mayer, lumpley.

7/14/2004 Shreyas Sampat: Applied Design: Star Wars Shadows
This idea's been bubbling in my head for awhile, so I thought I'd toss it up in here as an example of what you can do with a cool game…
In RPG Theory
Participants: Shreyas Sampat, Marhault, Victor Gijsbers, Jesse Paulsen.

7/14/2004 efindel: Arg...
Anyone know if there's still anywhere selling copies of Burning Wheel? My car got flooded, and my books were in it. They're still usable... but they have that wrinkly quality…
In Burning Wheel
Participants: efindel, Claymore.

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