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8/2/2004 Vaxalon: A Mathematician Speaks: Rolling dice
Okay, this is me trying to be helpful and offering what I know. I tried to see if it was covered before, elsewhere, and I don't see it, but I…
In RPG Theory
Participants: Vaxalon, Ron Edwards, newsalor, LordSmerf, GB Steve, Noon, Valamir, Kesher, mindwanders, Mike Holmes, M. J. Young, NN, John Kim, Jay, jphannil, Itse, Christopher Weeks, simon_hibbs, ErrathofKosh, Walt Freitag, Jack Aidley.

8/2/2004 Karasu: Alternate Dice Gimick?
I picked up Universalis a several months back and I've been dying to play it ever since. Now that I might have the chance to try it out with my…
In Universalis
Participants: Karasu, CPXB, Christopher Weeks, Valamir, Bob McNamee, Arvid.

8/1/2004 Paka: The Riddle of Blood
The Starless Crown worn on the brow of a powerful lich rallied the undead hordes to war with the living. The power of the crown forced even our own Grand…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: Paka, Deliverator, Tywin Lannister, Negilent, Valamir.

8/1/2004 Suvordaeus: COR: a generic vanilla simulationist system.
First off, I'm new, so I am not sure that I'm using the terms in the heading correctly. COR stands for Combat Oriented Roleplay. This is because the rules only…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Suvordaeus, LordSmerf.

8/1/2004 xiombarg: LARP System: WRATH
So, here's the first draft of a LARP system I'm writing: http://xiombrag.tripod.com/WRATH.pdf I'm looking for comments from LARPers and non-LARPers alike. In particular, I'm interesting in: 1) Any obvious condradictions…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: xiombarg, PlotDevice, mindwanders, simon_hibbs, sirogit.

8/1/2004 Vaxalon: Hanging out
From the Traveller thread in Actual Play: "Lots of people don't like the pressure of having to come up with their own material. They just want to hang out or…
In RPG Theory
Participants: Vaxalon, xiombarg, Ron Edwards, Valamir, jdagna, LordSmerf, Noon, Lorenzo Rubbo-Ferraro, Mike Holmes, M. J. Young, bcook1971, rdl, DannyK, Doctor Xero.

8/1/2004 bcook1971: [Traveller] I'm Just Here for the Celery
My group played its first session of our Traveller campaign. A few points are worth sharing. Jason (our GM) walked the first three players to arrive through the rules, with…
In Actual Play
Participants: bcook1971, rafial.

8/1/2004 IdentityCrisis: lack of CRPG topics
New here. I'm very impressed with the forums, there seems to be an incredible amount of thought and work on RPG theory consolidated here. However, I note that it mostly…
In Site Discussion
Participants: IdentityCrisis, Vaxalon, Jasper, Ron Edwards, Eero Tuovinen, LordSmerf, Andrew Morris, Andrew Martin, ADGBoss, timfire, Mike Holmes, M. J. Young.

8/1/2004 Alan: Black Altar of Tramath
Hello, I'm preparing a con demo of the game Conan d20. The demo is intended for 4 players and a GM over a 4 hour period. I play tested it…
In Actual Play
Participants: Alan, Noon, rafial, screenmonkey, John Harper.

8/1/2004 Doyce: A look at the Bloody Crown of Conan
While at the San Diego Comic-Con last week, I had a chance to chat with the folks at the Del Rey booth. One of the publishers let me take a…
In Adept Press
Participants: Doyce, Andy Kitkowski.

8/1/2004 Ben Lehman: Polaris enters Playtest
Polaris, my RPG of fairy-tale tragedy, has entered playtest stage. Anyone interested in playtesting should PM me with their e-mail, and I will send them a PDF file which is…
In Connections
Participants: Ben Lehman.

7/31/2004 HinterWelt: Reviews III (split)
Reviews can be bad. I have heard the "No such thing as a bad review, its all exposure" schools but I am in favor of informative reviews. By this I…
In Publishing
Participants: HinterWelt, Ron Edwards, daMoose_Neo, Bob McNamee.

7/31/2004 newsalor: A possible armor rules variant
I was thinking about the armor rules and I am thinking about tweaking them a bit. Now, it seems to me that the armor rules have been built to counter…
In Burning Wheel
Participants: newsalor, Durgil, abzu, taepoong, rafial, Negilent, Thor Olavsrud.

7/31/2004 Peter Nordstrand: [Sorcerer] Combat example -- is this right?
Hi, I am about to run my first session of Sorcerer ever, and am wondering if I am getting the combat rules correctly. So, here is three combat rounds as…
In Adept Press
Participants: Peter Nordstrand, Ron Edwards, Yokiboy, Trevis Martin, Valamir, sirogit, Christopher Weeks, bcook1971, djarb.

7/31/2004 linux: Combat Mechanics...
Before the question, a little background information on the mechanic: In this mechanic, each weapon has a damage based on the ability of the weapon to penetrate objects (penetration) and…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: linux, bcook1971, Vaxalon, Dauntless, Hereward The Wake, Andrew Morris, Ron Edwards, ErrathofKosh, GregS.

7/31/2004 Darcy Burgess: Lightsabre Damage Tables
Guess what...yet another person (me) is trying a Star Wars / RoS adaptation. I've got some good stuff going re: skill packets and the force. However, I'm running into some…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: Darcy Burgess, hkdharmon, Ashren Va'Hale, Vagabond Elf, John Harper, Deliverator, Mike_Oracle, Durgil.

7/31/2004 ssheftall: Professional Graphic Artist for Hire
If you need help laying out a game, ads, etc. Drop me a line: fictionsetter@yahoo.com I'me a paid professional graphic artist. Worked in the field for 14+ years. PDF samples…
In Connections
Participants: ssheftall.

7/31/2004 Vaxalon: An answer to Mike's Standard Rant #4, stat/skill systems
[quote="Mike Holmes"] What we're looking for is a system that produces characters that are: 1. limited in overall effectiveness by some method. 2. composed of choices that are motivated by…
In RPG Theory
Participants: Vaxalon, TonyLB, Mike Holmes.

7/31/2004 Jasper: Symmoira
A couple of days ago I was hit with this lightning bolt of an idea (or so it seemed anyway) for a new system, and I've done little but work…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Jasper, PlotDevice, Ravien, timfire, GregS.

7/30/2004 silentounce: Looking for California Gamers
Hey all. I've been playing TROS every chance I get since I first discovered it a little over a year ago. Unfortunately that hasn't been that often. I'm currently in…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: silentounce, hkdharmon, Atomsk, Ben Lehman, deltadave, spunky, Degamer, TheLHF.

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8/2/2004 Claymore: Please see our new forums: http://www.trosforums.com
Our new forums site: www.trosforums.com is now live! Please go over and take a look. We will still be using our Forge forum until the end of the month…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: Claymore, Sir Mathodius Black, Paka, Durgil, Mike Holmes, Brian Leybourne, Emiricol, Ian.Plumb, silentounce, Dain, Sneaky Git, ultraviolet, Valamir, Richard_Strey.

8/2/2004 Joshua Tompkins: [The Cauldron] Modifiers to a Dice Pool?
I'm working on the resolution system for the Cauldron, and I'm having some doubts about some of the ins and outs. Here's how it works: characters are made up of…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Joshua Tompkins.

8/2/2004 Ben Lehman: [Riddle of Steel, Chorus] Scythe's Edge, session 1
Aka: Sometimes you have to make *sacrifices* to get what you want. That was a pun. *sigh* My players can stop reading this now, if they feel like it. It…
In Actual Play
Participants: Ben Lehman, rafial, Malechi, Jasper the Mimbo, Ron Edwards.

8/2/2004 Jack Aidley: Gaming with Minatures
I've always had something of a love/hate relationship with D&D and it's bastard spawn. There's something about it's primitive class/level system that leads to interesting games and constantly involved characters,…
In Actual Play
Participants: Jack Aidley, Ron Edwards, Vaxalon, ADGBoss, Mike Holmes, xiombarg, ErrathofKosh, Doyce, John Kim, S'mon, StalkingBlue.

8/2/2004 Frank T: [The Pool] What went wrong? (long)
Last weekend we met with a bunch of people from my German fantasy forum. Some of us wanted to try out The Pool and had a little session. We didn’t…
In Actual Play
Participants: Frank T, Ron Edwards, aplath, Paganini, Bob McNamee, CPXB, S'mon.

8/2/2004 Sean: A note on Balance
I just posted this in response to something SteveD wrote on rpg.net and thought it might be of interest here too. ---------- At least two different things get called balance:…
In RPG Theory
Participants: Sean, Vaxalon, Ron Edwards, Marco, ADGBoss, Mike Holmes, NN, PlotDevice, bcook1971, Precious Villain, Doplegager, Doug Ruff, Troy_Costisick.

8/2/2004 ADGBoss: CRPGs, SIS, and SOlo Play: Is it Role Playing?
The subject of CRPG’s was brought up in this thread in Site Discussion and it brought to my mind a few ideas and questions which I thought might be…
In RPG Theory
Participants: ADGBoss, Vaxalon, newsalor, Eero Tuovinen, Blankshield, lumpley, M. J. Young, Noon, ErrathofKosh, Christopher Weeks, contracycle, JamesSterrett, simon_hibbs, Andrew Morris, Ron Edwards.

8/2/2004 Bailywolf: Bonus on 1-die defense (split)
I have a question for everyone... can you use creative description or currency to boost your 1 die Hail Mary defense action? For example, say a clever player describes his…
In Adept Press
Participants: Bailywolf, Ron Edwards, sirogit.

8/2/2004 Ashren Va'Hale: My mini supp draft is finally done
I have finished my mini supp draft for gelure. Saddly it is handwritten at the moment so it needs to be ported to softcopy but once that is done it…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: Ashren Va'Hale, Claymore.

8/2/2004 sirogit: Customized Sorcerer Character Sheets
Usual warnings blah blah using possibly copywrited images, for personal use only, blah blah blah, mostly taken from the rasputina website, blah blah, geocities goes down alot. http://www.geocities.com/judasvisc/Smallcharactersheet.JPG http://www.geocities.com/judasvisc/diagrambw.JPG
In Adept Press
Participants: sirogit, Ron Edwards, ScottM.

8/2/2004 newsalor: What is a roleplaying game?
I know that this is an old question, but it should be the first question to be asked. What is a roleplaying game? What is roleplaying? I know several definitions,…
In RPG Theory
Participants: newsalor, Sean, lumpley, Tim C Koppang, Jack Aidley, Ron Edwards, Jonathan Walton, M. J. Young, Noon, simon_hibbs, Blankshield, timfire, Christopher Weeks, Silmenume.

8/2/2004 Demada: Walkers (Working Title)
Here's a little RPG I thought up. The idea actually came to me when thinking about Amber and an anime called Scrapped Princess at the same time, but Scrapped Princes…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Demada, anonymouse, Jason Petrasko.

8/2/2004 Orec: I'd like to order this game but I'm confused...
It says on the main site that direct ordering is temporarily unavailable and when you click on the book it just scrolls back up the page. If you click the…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: Orec, Brian Leybourne, Claymore.

8/2/2004 Noon: Non game system reward for your use
This is actually from issue 229 of roleplaying tips. One of the many contributors to it gave this (some of it snipped out by myself). The author of this is…
In RPG Theory
Participants: Noon, Mike Holmes, ethan_greer, Silmenume, mindwanders.

8/3/2004 abzu: Burning Wheel Lite Lark
So, I'm bored at work. What do I do when I'm bored at work and have read every forum post and news article? Design a game. Goal: To distill my…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: abzu, Ron Edwards, jdrakeh, rafial, Sydney Freedberg, Thor Olavsrud, eruditus.

8/3/2004 Vaxalon: [Skein] Jumping in with both feet: In over my head
Okay, folks... the first draft of Skein is available for your perusal. Go to http://vaxalon.20m.com/files/ to download it.
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Vaxalon, Jack Aidley, Emily Care, ErrathofKosh.

8/3/2004 Gavinthorne: Grifter (working title)
I'm a long time gamer recently introduced to this site through SJGames. I've begun development of a game system based on my GURPS Underworld/Star Wars campaign. Lots of mob involvment,…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Gavinthorne, Demada, Zathreyel, Vaxalon, Dev.

8/3/2004 lumpley: I Have an Issue, for one
I'm still seeing only the first strip of "We All Have Issues." Is that as it should be? -Vincent
In Adept Press
Participants: lumpley, Ron Edwards, Clinton R. Nixon, Jonathan Walton, Valamir, joshua neff, 6inTruder.

8/3/2004 Bob Goat: [Conspiracy of Shadows] Experiment Seems a Success
Hi, I decided a few months ago to try a new approach to running a game and so far it has been successful. In the past my regular groups games…
In Actual Play
Participants: Bob Goat, Ron Edwards, Mike Holmes, John Harper.

8/3/2004 Vaxalon: Trollbabes and Unbeatable obstacles
Let's say you're running a game of Trollbabe, and the player wants his character to do something that's game-breakingly powerful. For example, throw a rock at a castle and knock…
In Adept Press
Participants: Vaxalon, Ron Edwards.

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