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1/8/2004 dunlaing: Shapechanging in Donjon
I have a player that wants the Supporting Ability "Shapechange Self." He wants it to work in such a way that if he rolls it and gets successes, he can…
In CRN Games
Participants: dunlaing, Valamir, Mike Holmes, Catalyst, jdagna, Christopher Weeks.

12/22/2003 dunlaing: HeroQuest -> Donjon
I realize this may be crazy, but I'm considering converting a HeroQuest campaign into a Donjon campaign. I was thinking of doing something like this for the Spirit Magic Practitioners…
In CRN Games
Participants: dunlaing, Clinton R. Nixon, Mike Holmes, Catalyst.

12/17/2003 dunlaing: Some Trollbabe Questions
I had been somewhat skeptical of Trollbabe for quite some time, owing to the Troll part and the Babe part of the title. My friend Jim (he goes by Supplanter…
In Adept Press
Participants: dunlaing, Ron Edwards, Supplanter, rafial.

11/20/2003 dunlaing: What should I do this week?
My players are playing a bunch of monster race characters. One of them has an order of priests* that he's feuding with. I decided that they had hired a sorcerer/demon…
In HeroQuest
Participants: dunlaing, pete_darby, simondale, Mike Holmes.

10/31/2003 dunlaing: Gamma World HQ
It sounds like Gamma World D20 is bad (seperate from the "D20" part even). What would Gamma World HQ look like? Would you define Homeland keywords? Would there need to…
In HeroQuest
Participants: dunlaing, Scripty, RaconteurX, Mike Holmes.

8/22/2003 dunlaing: My order just shipped
According to the Warehouse23 order status page, my copy shipped on August 22nd! Yay!
In HeroQuest
Participants: dunlaing.

8/22/2003 dunlaing: HeroQuest Character Creation
My group would like to start up a game of HeroQuest as soon as possible. Does anyone here know how character generation works in HeroQuest? I'm just talking about from…
In HeroQuest
Participants: dunlaing, Mark Galeotti, Peter Nordstrand.

8/19/2003 dunlaing: Usefulness (or uselessness) of Sample Heroes
As Peter requested, I made this a seperate thread. I took the title from his post, I don't mean to imply that I think they're useless. I found the sample…
In HeroQuest
Participants: dunlaing, Nick Brooke, Bankuei, Peter Nordstrand, Brand_Robins.

5/28/2003 dunlaing: It's available for pre-order now
http://www.warehouse23.com/item.cgi?ISS1001
In HeroQuest
Participants: dunlaing, Mike Holmes, Ron Edwards, Ian Cooper, simondale, Bankuei, Valamir, Magnus widqvist.

5/21/2003 dunlaing: Question on Shamans in HeroQuest
Does anyone know how they've changed Shamans in HeroQuest? For the detailed tradition in the Imperial Lunar Handbook, awakening one's fetch is the Secret of that tradition (and thus unavailable…
In HeroQuest
Participants: dunlaing, Nick Brooke, Mark Galeotti, Ian Cooper.

5/14/2003 dunlaing: Level of Opposition
If a party of starting level characters (17 to 5W in the appropriate abilities) are all going to have to perform a contest against one opposition, how high should the…
In HeroQuest
Participants: dunlaing, epweissengruber, Ron Edwards, Mike Holmes, MrWrong.

5/2/2003 dunlaing: HeroQuest weapons and armor
I heard a rumor that in HeroQuest, Edges will go the way of the dodo.* This led me to wondering how weapons and armor would be represented in HeroQuest, since…
In HeroQuest
Participants: dunlaing, Ian Cooper, Mike Holmes, Palashee, Peter Nordstrand.

4/2/2003 dunlaing: Problem with Shadow of Yesterday
ok, so it's a really small problem, but Nutria aren't " the largest of the rodents", Capybara are. Nutria are nearly as large as a beaver.
In CRN Games
Participants: dunlaing, Mike Holmes, ethan_greer, Clinton R. Nixon.

3/19/2003 dunlaing: armor chart
Is there a chart somewhere of what specific locations armor does and does not cover, or are you just supposed to rule by *gasp* common sense? By specific locations, I…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: dunlaing, Brian Leybourne, Salamander.

3/12/2003 dunlaing: Dardanet vs. Otamarluk: huh?
I was reading the Weyrth chapter and settled on Dardanet. It sounded like an interesting place for a campaign, what with the religious tensions and the threat of Otamarluk. I…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: dunlaing, Jake Norwood, Clinton R. Nixon, contracycle, Mike Holmes, MrGeneHa, Valamir, Wolfen.

3/6/2003 dunlaing: Broadening Abilities
I've seen a lot of posts about magic being over-powered, but I didn't find it to be so in my own game. I did find it to be quite versatile,…
In CRN Games
Participants: dunlaing, anonymouse, jdagna, Wulf, Mike Holmes.

2/27/2003 dunlaing: First Donjon Game
I ran a game of Donjon last night for my Wednesday night group, which is taking a break from Amber. Amber was the Town for this adventure, although it was…
In CRN Games
Participants: dunlaing, Clinton R. Nixon.

2/25/2003 dunlaing: Questions about Hero Wars/Quest
When my group played Hero Wars (soon after it came out) we had a lot of fun with it and a few issues. Mostly fun. I'm wondering if anyone else…
In HeroQuest
Participants: dunlaing, Ron Edwards, Peter Nordstrand.

2/24/2003 dunlaing: There (to the Donjon) and Back
I read the rules for There and Back at http://www.anvilwerks.com/docs/thereandback and thought "these sound cool and would be a very good solution for my Friday night group if I could…
In CRN Games
Participants: dunlaing, Clinton R. Nixon, Mike Holmes.

2/24/2003 dunlaing: Early Donjon Thoughts and Questions
I recently bought Donjon and think it's very cool. I'm just waiting to actually run it and have lots of fun with it. I did have a couple of questions…
In CRN Games
Participants: dunlaing, Zak Arntson, Wulf, Clinton R. Nixon, Mike Holmes, Bankuei.

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9/13/2004 dunlaing: A Cool Idea From Hero Wars
Hero Wars (and the revision HeroQuest) has a cool idea for players that don't know what character they want to play yet. You define one keyword and start playing. The…
In Incarnadine Press
Participants: dunlaing, Christopher Weeks, Michael S. Miller.

9/16/2004 dunlaing: Trollbabe role/goal II (split)
Sorry to resurrect this but,... I'm thinking about starting a Trollbabe campaign in early November and I thought that I had seen a post where Ron had agreed that it…
In Adept Press
Participants: dunlaing, Ron Edwards, Bankuei.

10/6/2004 dunlaing: Pacing
[quote="Michael S. Miller"]IIRC, Spider's battle against the Smiler could be seen as one long, slow Story Arc--or perhaps several. Perhaps you could place a limit like "only one card may…
In Incarnadine Press
Participants: dunlaing, Mike Holmes, Michael S. Miller.

11/30/2004 dunlaing: [Trollbabe] A Question of Scale, or The Last Boy
I am planning to start up a Trollbabe campaign and was thinking about using the following set of Stakes and Circumstances for the first adventure. Once I started thinking about…
In Adept Press
Participants: dunlaing, Ron Edwards.

12/2/2004 dunlaing: I ran [Trollbabe] last night for the first time!
We had a good time, although the majority of the session was spent introducing Trollbabe to two of the three players and character creation. I'll post the recap of the…
In Adept Press
Participants: dunlaing, Ron Edwards.

1/13/2005 dunlaing: Why I am going to buy Burning Wheel
In this thread, Thor Olavsrud wrote: It sounds like instincts are macros. And action-oriented play targets. Absolutely, that's one level. I think of that as the Mechanical level. In…
In Burning Wheel
Participants: dunlaing, abzu, Thor Olavsrud, mrjam, Roger Eberhart, Paganini, joshua neff.

2/2/2005 dunlaing: [Trollbabe]
I might be running Trollbabe tonight for three players (well, four if you count me). We finished up an adventure last session (the Trollbabes scared off the Troll shaman who…
In Adept Press
Participants: dunlaing, Ron Edwards, Alan, joshua neff, Bret Gillan.

6/15/2005 dunlaing: Ordering from Key 20 Direct
To others who have ordered from Key20 Direct: does the Order Information update to indicate when it has shipped and what the tracking number is (if any)? I ordered on…
In Burning Wheel
Participants: dunlaing, Valamir, xenopulse, Thor Olavsrud, JasonV, jasonm.

9/30/2005 dunlaing: Multiple Characters
So, two friends and I decided to sit down and play Capes. None of us had ever played it before. I have the full version, but my friend Jim suggested…
In Muse of Fire Games
Participants: dunlaing, Andrew Morris, Sydney Freedberg, TonyLB.

10/4/2005 dunlaing: Any progress on selling Click-n-locks?
I noticed that there was an old thread from April about using a die to cut them out and sell them in which Tony remarked about how if he could…
In Muse of Fire Games
Participants: dunlaing, TonyLB, Andrew Morris.

10/5/2005 dunlaing: Minor Quibble
My friend Jim pointed out that the click and locks are on the page in the opposite order of how you'd say them, and thought that that was backwards. For…
In Muse of Fire Games
Participants: dunlaing, Anders Gabrielsson, Jack Aidley, Hans.

10/16/2005 dunlaing: [Jedi] Words from the creator
"The idea of Jedi were (sic) that the Jedi are like Marshalls who come in and they're there to sort of settle disputes in the end." --George Lucas, in The…
In lumpley games
Participants: dunlaing, Vaxalon.

10/27/2005 dunlaing: [PTA] Hi, we're the Replacements!
So we finished up our Over the Edge campaign last night (I got the final line of the campaign..."Maybe I'll take them with me to Ottawa!"). We had decided earlier…
In Dog Eared Designs
Participants: dunlaing, Bret Gillan, Jonas Karlsson, Supplanter, BlackSheep, Clint, SabreCat.

11/7/2005 dunlaing: Is Capes Good For...
Is Capes good for two-player play? Is Capes good as a pick-up game or one-shot? If so, why? If not, why not and are there any specific rules changes that…
In Muse of Fire Games
Participants: dunlaing, TonyLB, Bret Gillan, MooseHole.

11/21/2005 dunlaing: Confused about tSoY
Let's say, for the sake of argument, that I wanted to get The Shadow of Yesterday. Let us also say that I actually sort of prefer pdfs to hard copies.…
In CRN Games
Participants: dunlaing, Clinton R. Nixon, Roger.

12/8/2005 dunlaing: Burning Wheel Rules Drift
One of my players wants to drift the Burning Wheel rules significantly: He is refusing to pay resource points for shoes and clothing. "I got shoes, I got clothes, and…
In Burning Wheel
Participants: dunlaing, mtiru, demiurgeastaroth, rafial, abzu, Thor Olavsrud, Paka, MetalBard, coriakin, drozdal, Eric Minton, Wolfen.

12/20/2005 dunlaing: Who is a Loser?
Let's say (for instance) that Player S creates a conflict like "Drive possessor of the chest mad,...Lovecraft-style!" and then never actually rolls it up (although it's pretty clear that Player…
In Muse of Fire Games
Participants: dunlaing, TonyLB.

1/11/2006 dunlaing: Pegboy
One of my players wants to take a lifepath that requires the trait "pegboy," He was concerned though, because he doesn't want to have a peg leg, and he thought…
In Burning Wheel
Participants: dunlaing, Thor Olavsrud, Gaerik, Supplanter, Clinton R. Nixon, Iskander, abzu.

1/17/2006 dunlaing: Things you want to avoid
What do you do if there are things you (and by "you" I mean your gaming group as a whole) want to avoid in Capes? The answer is definitely not…
In Muse of Fire Games
Participants: dunlaing, Vaxalon, Gaerik.

1/20/2006 dunlaing: Someone wants to be sold
http://forum.rpg.net/showthread.php?p=5176209#post5176209 I only played the interim edition, so I tried to help out, but someone else really should go to this "sell me on" thread and pimp With Great Power...
In Incarnadine Press
Participants: dunlaing.

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