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1/14/2002 AndyGuest: Relationship Maps and other fun stuff
(I think this should be under Actual Play, if not I apologise) I'm trying to put some stuff together for a game I'm planning on running for our group. The…
In Actual Play
Participants: AndyGuest, Ron Edwards, Paul Czege.

1/14/2002 lumpley: Fortune-forward Vs. Fortune-backward
So I've been looking at my games, and others' games, and I've been thinking hard about the old Description-Based vs. Quantified thing, which seems to have lost currency, and about…
In RPG Theory
Participants: lumpley, Jared A. Sorensen, Paul Czege, Joe Murphy (Broin), Gordon C. Landis, contracycle, Le Joueur, greyorm.

1/14/2002 hyphz: A really silly idea. Could it work?
A very ridiculous idea which came to me as a result of a) being a fan of anime gaming and b) having an unexpected surprise exposure to episodes of Digi…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: hyphz, Jared A. Sorensen, Joe Murphy (Broin), hardcoremoose, Matt, James V. West.

1/13/2002 Nathan: Army of Judgement
My old revamped game of superheroes battling in an apocalyptic America is up for examination. I'm not sure what is going to happen to this game, but for now, check…
In Mystic Ages Online
Participants: Nathan.

1/13/2002 Nathan: Changes & Cool Stuff
Howdy, This is a quick update on the status of everything related to Mystic Ages Online. I just wanted to post something so people would realize that the site still…
In Mystic Ages Online
Participants: Nathan.

1/13/2002 Eric.Brennan: Secondary Characters
Hello all, after the wonderful advice I got for my Vampire game I've decided to come back for a second helping. I'm running a very fun Exalted game at the…
In Actual Play
Participants: Eric.Brennan, lumpley, Ron Edwards, Bankuei, Joe Murphy (Broin).

1/13/2002 Bankuei: Game within a game
I just had a very interesting experience today running my D&D3E game today. Two of the players had playoffs in mind, one had just exposed me to Final Fantasy X,…
In Actual Play
Participants: Bankuei, hardcoremoose, Ron Edwards, contracycle, Joe Murphy (Broin), Matt Snyder, Marco.

1/12/2002 James V. West: Pondering the Beast
Apologies in advance for the somewhat rambling nature of this post. This is called thining out loud. You can find The Questing Beast here: www.geocities.com/randomordercreations/tqb1intro.html Now that I've put some…
In Random Order Creations
Participants: James V. West, hardcoremoose, Ron Edwards, Manu, Mike Holmes.

1/12/2002 James V. West: Now I get it.
My copy of Sorcerer was in the mailbox today. I sat in the parking lot of the USPO and eagerly flipped through the book, drinking in paragraphs and statements like…
In Adept Press
Participants: James V. West, hardcoremoose, Ron Edwards, Joe Murphy (Broin), Bankuei, Blake Hutchins, Manu, Paul Czege, Bailey.

1/12/2002 Paganini: Accuracy vs. Precision
Fang, and everyone, I thought maybe I was unclear in my last post, so I wanted to clarify. Here's what I meant to say: Detail in a system does not…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Paganini, Ron Edwards, Joe Murphy (Broin), Logan, hardcoremoose, efindel, Marco, Mike Holmes.

1/12/2002 Joe Murphy (Broin): Big robots?
In the Sorceror rulebook, there's a list of different kinds of demons people have used in the past. One of the examples is robotic fighter jets. Can someone expand on…
In Adept Press
Participants: Joe Murphy (Broin), Bailey, Bailywolf, contracycle.

1/12/2002 Paganini: [Cornerstone] Announcement
I've got a Cornerstone draft ready to go, compelte with layout, fonts and everything. It's in postscript format, so those of you who are interested and can view postscript (or…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Paganini.

1/12/2002 Daredevil: Aeon Flux?
Heya, I'm a big fan of the Aeon Flux television series, authored by Peter Chung, and have recently thought about making some mechanics for game based on it. I'm wondering…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Daredevil, Joe Murphy (Broin), J B Bell, Le Joueur, FruitSmack!, Mike Holmes, contracycle.

1/11/2002 Clinton R. Nixon: Elitism and number of posts
[quote="Eloran"] I'm fine with the idea of donations. The questions about anonymity and potentials for elitism have got me thinking. How is acknowledging donators from non donators and different from…
In Site Discussion
Participants: Clinton R. Nixon, hardcoremoose, James V. West, Le Joueur, Mike Holmes, Ron Edwards, Blake Hutchins, Laurel, Trav, Mithras, Valamir, Balbinus, Jared A. Sorensen, Mytholder, erithromycin, Tim Denee.

1/11/2002 James V. West: What to do, how to do it.
Hey folks. I'll start this forum off by asking a few questions: 1) Can I/Should I ever delete anything from my forum? 2) If I want to post about something…
In Moderators
Participants: James V. West, Clinton R. Nixon, Mike Holmes, Le Joueur.

1/11/2002 Epoch: Dwayne's Voices
Hi, everyone. I'm sick with a cold, and generally unable to focus on anything, so I just figured that I'd sit down and try to write something off-the-wall. Dwayne's Voices…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Epoch, Le Joueur, Paganini, Ron Edwards, Paul Czege.

1/11/2002 Zak Arntson: S&S Praise & semi-Actual Play
First off, huge amounts of props (prizops, even) go to you, Ron. I got Sorcerer & Sword from my mother on Christmas (!!), and immediately began reading the thing. It's…
In Adept Press
Participants: Zak Arntson, Ron Edwards, Clay.

1/11/2002 Cynthia Celeste Miller: The Joys of Publicizing Your Game
Alrighty, it looks like Cartoon Action Hour is almost out of the final playtest phase.....and it's time for me to begin publicizing it. Now, since last time I posted about…
In Publishing
Participants: Cynthia Celeste Miller, Ron Edwards, Paul Czege.

1/11/2002 Ron Edwards: The Sorcerer's Soul is printing
Hey everyone, The second supplement has passed the bluelines stage and they are putting the book together even as we speak. Past experience has taught me that no real time-estimate…
In Adept Press
Participants: Ron Edwards, Clinton R. Nixon, Balbinus, Manu.

1/11/2002 Joe Murphy (Broin): Character Sheets - Rubbish?
Why are character sheets so ungodly awful? Last year, I had a plan to write a scenario for a games convention. One of the cuter gimmicks for this TransFormers-inspired…
In RPG Theory
Participants: Joe Murphy (Broin), hardcoremoose, contracycle, Mike Holmes, Le Joueur, Ron Edwards.

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1/14/2002 Jason L Blair: Blah blah blah blah blah
Make with premium uNleaded already. Or I'll have to mail you my foot so it can kick you in the ass.
In Memento-Mori Theatricks
Participants: Jason L Blair, Ron Edwards, Jared A. Sorensen.

1/13/2002 Jared A. Sorensen: Scattershot and naming games
Fang! Why is your game called Scattershot, anyway? - J, who always thinks of to-the-death, Rollerball-esque hockey when he hears that name...
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Jared A. Sorensen, Le Joueur, James V. West, Ron Edwards, Mithras, Jack Spencer Jr.

1/14/2002 Jared A. Sorensen: More superheroes stuff that I nearly forgot to post!
Right before beddy-byes last night I had an idea and I told myself "don't forget this!" Of course I forgot it for a few hours but it's back in my…
In Memento-Mori Theatricks
Participants: Jared A. Sorensen.

1/14/2002 Ron Edwards: The Dying Earth: real pleasure and real pain
Hello, Well, I've started this thread about four times now and given it up each time. P'haps this one will do. You see, I am a Jack Vance fanatic. Not…
In Actual Play
Participants: Ron Edwards, Laurel, Rod Anderson, Bankuei, Zak Arntson, Balbinus, Damocles, Uncle Dark, Blake Hutchins.

1/14/2002 Bailey: That's Not Pork
Just read the article at the WickedPress website and saw that he picked out my review of L5R as an example of "what's wrong with reviewers." At first I thought…
In Wicked Press
Participants: Bailey, John Wick, barna284.

1/14/2002 Nathan: Running Eldritch Ass Kicking Tonight
Yep, The game of wizards battling wizards is going to get its first official playtest tonight. In general, I am just going to run a nice villainous game of buttkicking,…
In Mystic Ages Online
Participants: Nathan, Paul Czege, Ron Edwards.

1/15/2002 James V. West: How much Premise does it take?
How much Premise do you need to create an egaging rpg? This is me asking because I’ve suddenly become very aware of Premise or lack of it in my ideas.…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: James V. West, Zak Arntson, hardcoremoose, Gordon C. Landis, contracycle, Paul Czege, Paganini, Ron Edwards, Mike Holmes, Marco.

1/15/2002 Zak Arntson: D/F/K and the Unknown Factor
I've been thinking about mechanics for some time now. I'm trying to come up with a good vocabulary for working out systems in games. This applies only to rpgs with…
In RPG Theory
Participants: Zak Arntson, Bankuei, Garbanzo, Epoch.

1/15/2002 contracycle: Matrix Gaming
Well, I thought that it wasabout time I pushed out another gaming idea I've been tangenmtially working with for a bit. This is the concept of Matrix Games as pioneered…
In RPG Theory
Participants: contracycle, Ron Edwards, Paul Czege, J B Bell.

1/15/2002 Paganini: Sharing Power
Since I don't know how to split threads (being much more skilled at splitting hairs!) here at the forge, I'm just posting the reply from the Triad thread in…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Paganini, Ron Edwards, Jared A. Sorensen, Laurel, Paul Czege, Le Joueur, Logan.

1/15/2002 Paganini: To the System Rulers
You know, I really like the new layout of the forums, but it didn't address the one beef I've had with the UI ever since I've been here. (All of…
In Site Discussion
Participants: Paganini, Mike Holmes, Clinton R. Nixon, Logan, greyorm, Ron Edwards.

1/15/2002 Paganini: Narrativism
This came up in another thread (the one about player vs. GM power), but I thought it deserved it's own topic. Also, it's more appropriate for here, than for the…
In GNS Model Discussion
Participants: Paganini, Marco, jburneko, Clinton R. Nixon, joshua neff, Epoch, Ron Edwards, Le Joueur, Gordon C. Landis, hardcoremoose.

1/15/2002 Eric: Possessor Demons Possessing Sorcerer
So I'm prepping my character for making characters Thursday. They don't know the system yet, but I asked them to start thinking about what they'd want their demons to be…
In Adept Press
Participants: Eric, Clinton R. Nixon, Ron Edwards.

1/15/2002 joe_llama: The Questing Beast - personal opinion
Hi James! Sorry for postponing my feedback, I was caught up in a few other issues (real life, for example). First of all, I have to say that I absolutely…
In Random Order Creations
Participants: joe_llama, James V. West, Ron Edwards.

1/16/2002 Jared A. Sorensen: Danger Patrol
http://www.dangerpatrol.com/dangerpatrol/files/dp_player_brief_150.pdf The website (http://www.dangerpatrol.com) looks cool. Sparse right now, but nice art-deco design. Character creation looks interesting (the pick two words part) and I like the Danger Meter. That chart…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Jared A. Sorensen, Joe Murphy (Broin).

1/16/2002 Jared A. Sorensen: Page Layout
Okay, Adobe Acrobat is mine. But what program (if any) should I get for layout? I'm thinking of just doing it in HTML first ('cause I know it and I…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Jared A. Sorensen, Logan, Adam, Chris Passeno, mahoux, Matt Snyder, Nathan, Marco, Gordon C. Landis, Tim Gray, efindel.

1/16/2002 Zak Arntson: Harlekin-Maus monthly: Cubes
Roleplaying at the office. Cubes Game design notes: This game came in a flash. I was really sick of work, so I wrote a quickie on Cubes (you can…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Zak Arntson, contracycle.

1/16/2002 Bankuei: Purpose of rules
Inspired by the Shared Power thread, I started thinking, in every roleplaying game I've seen(except Rune), the rules were all intended with the idea that the GM is supposed to…
In RPG Theory
Participants: Bankuei, hardcoremoose, Ron Edwards, Paganini, Gordon C. Landis, Bailey, joshua neff, John Wick, contracycle, erithromycin, lumpley, James V. West, Paul Czege, Skippy.

1/16/2002 Joe Murphy (Broin): Those automated mails?
Do you think it would be possible to change the automated mails I get when I'm 'watching topics'? If they could say: You are receiving this email because you…
In Site Discussion
Participants: Joe Murphy (Broin).

1/16/2002 Paganini: Identity Crisis
Ron mentioned elsewhere that The Window has a GNS identity crisis. As The Window was my first introduction to story centric gaming, it's still one of my "fan" systems, even…
In GNS Model Discussion
Participants: Paganini, Joe Murphy (Broin), Ron Edwards, Marco, contracycle, AndyGuest, Logan.

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