Subsequent Topics 2/4/2002 wyrdlyng: Release Date?
Just wanted to know if Seth had managed to nail down a time window regarding the release of Alyria. I'm not trying to rush him. I just wanted to know…
In Dark Omen Games
Participants: wyrdlyng, GreatWolf.
2/14/2002 wyrdlyng: Investigation and Interaction as Role-playing
This crosses over with a post I made at GO inquiring about how to a game which focused primarily on investigation and npc interactions.
The short and sweet is how…
In RPG Theory
Participants: wyrdlyng, Ron Edwards, contracycle, Mike Holmes, Mithras, GB Steve.
3/23/2002 wyrdlyng: Sorcerer & Sword review sighting
It's not a gaming magazine per se but there's a very positive review of Sorcerer & Sword in the newest issue of Realms of Fantasy (the June 2002 issue).
Just…
In Adept Press
Participants: wyrdlyng, Ron Edwards.
3/28/2002 wyrdlyng: Seeking general idea feedback (Long)
Note: My thoughts whirl about me like a psychokinetic storm. Please let me know if I'm not making any sense. Everything is a work in progress.
I have the basic…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: wyrdlyng, Nathan, Matt Snyder, Laurel, Bill_White, Mike Holmes, Wolfen, Kenway.
4/7/2002 wyrdlyng: Art Styles
This is more of a curiosity question but how much does the art style in a game affect the way you play it?
For example, Rifts is considered a fairly…
In RPG Theory
Participants: wyrdlyng, J B Bell, Ron Edwards, Eugene Zee, Wolfen, joshua neff, Mike Holmes, Gordon C. Landis, contracycle, Fabrice G., Henry Fitch.
4/25/2002 wyrdlyng: Need help evaluating dice mechanics
Here's the link to my previous post about this project.
http://www.indie-rpgs.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1725&highlight=
Now on the post...
I've refocused on "Fulcrum" (working title) and am considering dice mechanics but quite honestly, I'm…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: wyrdlyng, Jack Spencer Jr, Jake Norwood, Mike Holmes, Andrew Martin.
4/27/2002 wyrdlyng: Confused between N & S
Okay, I'm working on Libra (formerly Fulcrum). I've defined the game's purpose to be to explore character and situation (mostly character).
Characters are people chosen to become guardians of reality.…
In GNS Model Discussion
Participants: wyrdlyng, Ron Edwards, Le Joueur, contracycle, lehrbuch, Mike Holmes, Jake Norwood, Paul Czege, Clinton R. Nixon.
5/10/2002 wyrdlyng: 2nd Edition Hero Wars and HeroQuest
So, can someone tell me if there will ever be a 2nd (or at least cleaned up) edition of Hero Wars? Heroquest seems to be a seperate game but is…
In HeroQuest
Participants: wyrdlyng, Ron Edwards, Ian O'Rourke.
5/16/2002 wyrdlyng: Sorcerer Sighting... sort of...
In the Parting Shots section of this month's Knights of the Dinner Table there's the humorous question of "How Many Gamers Does It Take To Change A Light Bulb?" broken…
In Adept Press
Participants: wyrdlyng, Ron Edwards, Jake Norwood.
5/16/2002 wyrdlyng: Little Fears mention in KoDT
Tying into this thread that I started, I just wanted to mention that Little Fears was also listed. And I agree with Ron's comments, I think this is a "big…
In Key 20 Publishing
Participants: wyrdlyng, Jason L Blair.
5/23/2002 wyrdlyng: Sorcerer's Soul review in Realms of Fantasy mag
Just FYI, they completed their review of the 3 main Sorceror books with a very positive review of Sorcerer's Soul and a summing up and praising of Sorcerer as a…
In Adept Press
Participants: wyrdlyng, Ron Edwards, rabidchyld.
5/28/2002 wyrdlyng: D20 and Levels and Sunday's Game of Evil
This touches upon the previous thread regarding D20 (Star Wars and D&D) characters being fairly ineffectual.
My wife is running a portion of our larger group through some small adventures…
In Actual Play
Participants: wyrdlyng, Balbinus, Ron Edwards, Valamir, WhistlinFiend, DeadGirl.
7/18/2002 wyrdlyng: Dominating Play (long)
Setup: I'm playing in a weekly/bi-weekly D&D game run by my wife. The current group is 6 players in size and is the result of combining 2 groups, 1 good…
In Actual Play
Participants: wyrdlyng, Mike Holmes, Ron Edwards, Clay, Jake Norwood, Paul Czege, Gordon C. Landis, hyphz, Andrew Martin, damion.
8/9/2002 wyrdlyng: Paladin: Character Gen help
I understand the concepts behind Character Generation. It's just that I tend to use adjectives to describe a character rather than convert those traits into nouns. It's just an intuitive…
In CRN Games
Participants: wyrdlyng, Clinton R. Nixon.
8/13/2002 wyrdlyng: InSpectres Saturday
One of our regular players wasn't going to be able to make it to our biweekly D&D game so I got them to try InSpectres.
We created a small start-up…
In Actual Play
Participants: wyrdlyng.
8/15/2002 wyrdlyng: Quark vs. Pagemaker
Is there anyone who has used the two and can tell me if there's anything in Quark to justify the many hundreds of dollars in price difference? I've used older…
In Publishing
Participants: wyrdlyng, mahoux, GreatWolf, Adam.
8/17/2002 wyrdlyng: Blood Types
[Disclaimer: I'm waiting on my copy of the book to come in the mail so I don't know if this is covered in the book or not.]
I was just…
In Seraphim Guard
Participants: wyrdlyng, Michael Hopcroft, Ron Edwards, ravi.
8/28/2002 wyrdlyng: Digital Publishers Group
FYI, off of d20 Weekly:
PDF Publishers Unite
Recently, a group of like-minded adventure gaming e-publishers have formed a consortium dedicated to the continued development of PDF role-playing games and…
In Publishing
Participants: wyrdlyng, Michael Hopcroft, pigames, Ron Edwards, Ferry Bazelmans, Cynthia Celeste Miller.
9/10/2002 wyrdlyng: Not bad source material
I've been reading (like actual novels for a change) and came upon an unlikely piece of source material for Sorcerer & Sword: The Exalted - Trilogy of the Second Age…
In Adept Press
Participants: wyrdlyng, Seth L. Blumberg.
10/11/2002 wyrdlyng: Frustrated cry for help
A while back I put up some notes on a game I was working on. Details can be found in this other post but here's the quick summary:
1. Characters…
In RPG Theory
Participants: wyrdlyng, Mike Holmes, Demonspahn.
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