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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 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 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 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 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.

8/2/2004 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.

8/2/2004 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 JamesDJIII: I Killed the Game?
In reading over http://www.indie-rpgs.com/viewtopic.php?t=12207, I remembered some off-hand comments from last Thursday's game night. One of the people at the table mentioned while looked at a (currently) unused Exalted character…
In RPG Theory
Participants: JamesDJIII, Ron Edwards, Kesher, Bankuei, captain_bateson, Noon, xiombarg, Dr. Velocity.

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8/3/2004 Doyce: [Sorcerer] Bibliophage Eight: Final Negotiations
So, Friday the 30th was the last session of the Bibliophage Sorcerer campaign. There was gunplay. There were demons. Candelabras were swung in anger. Some people even used naughty words.…
In Actual Play
Participants: Doyce, Ron Edwards, JamesDJIII.

8/4/2004 Lida737: Fiber or Toys
[b][quote] Although I laughed when I read it, I realized the deeper truth of the statement. There comes a point in life and maturity when you make choices not based…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: Lida737, Claymore.

8/4/2004 Lida737: Friendship
[color=red][b]Friendship. The dictionary says: Friend (frend) noun. 1. A person whom one knows, likes and trusts. 2. A person with whom one is allied in a struggle or cause; comrade.…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: Lida737, Claymore.

8/4/2004 Vaxalon: Game logs?
Is it okay to post IRC game logs here?
In Actual Play
Participants: Vaxalon, Valamir, Paganini, b_bankhead.

8/4/2004 hix: Can you recommend: one-shot, Inspectres-esque game?
Hi (and I hope this is the right forum). Our group's had a gaming slot open up for next week. Does anybody know any games that are being (or have…
In RPG Theory
Participants: hix, Trevis Martin, Jack Aidley, timfire, Michael S. Miller, xiombarg, Zak Arntson.

8/4/2004 nerdnyc: [GenCon 2004] Nerds in Need
We, NerdNYC, are in a bit of a bind. We had lined up a shared booth space but just in the past couple days it fell through. The other groups…
In Conventions
Participants: nerdnyc, abzu, alchemist.

8/4/2004 Vaxalon: Terminology: "Randomness"
Spawned from: This thread on dice In the context of dice mechanics, I put forward the following definition of "randomness": A dice mechanic is considered more random if it is…
In RPG Theory
Participants: Vaxalon, Walt Freitag, ErrathofKosh, Jack Aidley, MarcoBrucale, simon_hibbs, Paganini, Doug Ruff, Bill_White, beingfrank.

8/4/2004 Tomas HVM: Any RPG potential in the wilderness?
In the thread about the "survival-game" we started discussing wilderness and survival in roleplaying games, in more general terms. I'd like to go on with that discussion in this thread.…
In RPG Theory
Participants: Tomas HVM, Vaxalon, ErrathofKosh, contracycle, Noon, Frank T, Thor.

8/4/2004 Sir Privy Toastrack: Please critique my historical medieval RPG!
I would really appreciate any intelligent feedback for my still uncompleted RPG set in 1141 England (it's called "Land Without a King"). The game is only 29 pages long right…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Sir Privy Toastrack, Simon W, Ron Edwards, Jack Aidley, Andrew Martin, statisticaltomfoolery, Thor, Garbanzo.

8/4/2004 Ron Edwards: "Shared story authorship" inquiry
Hi there, On an actual play thread, James (DJamesIII) wrote, Ron: this next question is for you, and it may be a new thread in a new forum. Is the…
In GNS Model Discussion
Participants: Ron Edwards, TonyLB, JamesDJIII.

8/4/2004 lumpley: A short rant about "SIS"
"SIS" is broken terminology. I hate it with hate! The SIS is precisely what the players agree happens in the game. A CRPG, a game book, Stratego, they don't have…
In RPG Theory
Participants: lumpley, Christopher Weeks, Sean, Mike Holmes, Ron Edwards, Valamir, timfire, John Kim, Noon, Paganini, ADGBoss, contracycle, Alan, simon_hibbs, ErrathofKosh, Jonathan Walton.

8/4/2004 myripad: Abstracted combat.
A friend of mine recently purchased the AD&D 3.5 PHB. He and the group he organized have asked me to run a game as I'm a fairly experienced referee. The…
In RPG Theory
Participants: myripad, Ron Edwards, timfire, Artanis, adaen, M. J. Young.

8/4/2004 Vaxalon: Trollbabe Post-apocalyptic game log (long)
This session had just one player. Interestingly enough, the dice only got rolled once, when X'hara was trying to convince the humans to allow her to carry the child. Session…
In Actual Play
Participants: Vaxalon, Marco, Andy Kitkowski, Ron Edwards, Bob McNamee.

8/4/2004 sirogit: Getting bonus dice but not wanting them?
What are the ramifications in Sorcerer if a player is purposefully setting their characters up to lose in a conflict? Specifficly, I was thinking about bonus dice. What if a…
In Adept Press
Participants: sirogit, Bankuei, Ron Edwards, Peter Nordstrand, joshua neff, greyorm, Mike Holmes.

8/4/2004 MikeSands: HeroQuest for convention games
Hi I'm coming up to running a HeroQuest game at a convention, and I've found my two playtest groups both a bit overwhelmed by the mechanics. I'm trying to keep…
In HeroQuest
Participants: MikeSands, simon_hibbs, Mike Holmes.

8/5/2004 johnmarron: [The Puddle] Middle Earth game and rules questions
I was going to make an actual play post about the Middle Earth Puddle game I'm running at the moment, but one of the players (Chris - CPXB here) made…
In Actual Play
Participants: johnmarron, Paul Czege, Ron Edwards, CPXB, Cassidy, Sean, MarcoBrucale, Mike Holmes.

8/5/2004 daMoose_Neo: [GenCon 2004] Booth Tour idea? (anyone w/ own booth?)
Had a thought, might be a little late or so to pull it off, but couldn't hurt to toss it out there. How many people will be having a booth…
In Conventions
Participants: daMoose_Neo, Ron Edwards, Bob Goat, smokewolf, AdAstraGames, Matt Snyder, Ben Lehman, Tav_Behemoth, Jason L Blair, Valamir, abzu, Paul Czege, jdagna, GaryTP, jrs, Michael S. Miller.

8/5/2004 DaGreatJL: Can't access webpage
For whatever reason, I can't seem to get into any part of the Burning Wheel homepage except for the very front page; I can't get into the news section, and…
In Burning Wheel
Participants: DaGreatJL, abzu.

8/5/2004 alchemist: Maps - For demoing RPGs & GENCON - taking requests!
All, My companies products are software for helping gamemasters setup for and run their games no matter what system they use. With that in mind Ill be creating a number…
In Conventions
Participants: alchemist, Bob Goat, smokewolf, btrc.

8/6/2004 CassandraR: Organic Tech setting
I am curious what people might think of a setting that was based on the normal modern world except all the technology was organic in nature and was grown rather…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: CassandraR, Andrew Morris, b_bankhead, dewey, Christopher Weeks, Jack Aidley.

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