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2/5/2002 Bailywolf: More groovy sorcerer anime
Over the weekend I did one of those, "oh jeeze, I knew this already!" things... I binged, rewatching most of the anime run of 3X3 Eyes- a top-flight anime series…
In Adept Press
Participants: Bailywolf.

2/5/2002 hardcoremoose: Scene Framing and octaNe
There have been a couple requests for practical scene framing guidelines. I know some of this stuff has been hashed over before, but it seems like a good time to…
In Actual Play
Participants: hardcoremoose, James V. West, Jared A. Sorensen, Tim C Koppang, Thor Olavsrud, Ron Edwards, Paul Czege, contracycle.

2/5/2002 Bailywolf: Ran into a problem...
Ran into a problem trying to convince my regular group to give U a try. They like a fairly bread and butter, mule-kick the orcs, goal-oriented game. They have a…
In Universalis
Participants: Bailywolf, Valamir, Mike Holmes.

2/5/2002 Thededine: The Hell is a 'Kicker'?
Did I miss a newsfile or something? Everyone started talking about Kickers and I have no idea what they are. Help!
In RPG Theory
Participants: Thededine, Jared A. Sorensen, Ron Edwards, Joe Murphy (Broin), Mithras.

2/4/2002 Paul Czege: DNS errors?
Hey Clinton, I've had to try the URL repeatedly this afternoon, because I've been getting a DNS error nine times out of ten. Is something up? Paul
In Site Discussion
Participants: Paul Czege.

2/4/2002 Bailywolf: Homebrew Charms
Anyone come up with their own Charms for their UW game? I put together a few based on breath. Catch Your Breath A mystical gesture- made while making a snatching…
In Adamant Entertainment
Participants: Bailywolf, GMSkarka, Matt, Torrent, David Howard, Peter Hollinghurst, Noel, Lxndr.

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.

2/4/2002 Paul Czege: The World, the Flesh, and the Devil Font...
...is now available for download. Intended to aid in the creation of dice for the game, it provides five fabulous icons (World, Flesh, Devil, and plus and minus symbols in…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Paul Czege, Joe Murphy (Broin), hardcoremoose, lumpley, Ben Morgan, James V. West.

2/3/2002 GMSkarka: UnderWorld re-launch
In 2002, the UnderWorld RPG, first published by Synister Creative Systems in 2000, will be re-launched by my creator-owned venture, Adamant Entertainment. The 2nd Edition (which we've been calling UW2…
In Adamant Entertainment
Participants: GMSkarka, joshua neff, Bailywolf, Adam, Jason L Blair, Matt, wyrdlyng, Noel, ReverendCuster187, Minx.

2/2/2002 Zak Arntson: Divine Right - Harlekin-Maus Monthly
Okay, I've put up February's game: Divine Right. It was originally about exorcists, but then the basic Premise, "What would you sacrifice to save another," kept sticking in my…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Zak Arntson, Ron Edwards, Fabrice G..

2/2/2002 Jared A. Sorensen: Sorcerer, Schism reviewed in this month's SciFi magazine!
Just got my gratis copies from the editor! In the "Games" section, there's a review of Schism. Aside from getting a really nice review ("...a love letter to David Cronenberg..."…
In Adept Press
Participants: Jared A. Sorensen, Ron Edwards, joshua neff.

2/1/2002 Tundra: Sorcerer's Soul Shipped
Say THAT three times fast ;-) SS shipped to distribution today, Feb 1. Direct orders placed with Adept will be mailed tomorrow and Monday. <ahem> It's really cool ;-) ttfn…
In Adept Press
Participants: Tundra, Paul Czege, random, Eric.

2/1/2002 jburneko: Is 'Railroading' A Useful Term
Hello All, So, I was having a discussion with one of my players about various play styles and we seem to be constantly bumping heads about the meaning of the…
In RPG Theory
Participants: jburneko, J B Bell, Ron Edwards, Le Joueur, furashgf, Marco, xiombarg, amiel, TrizzlWizzl.

2/1/2002 Thor Olavsrud: The Ninth Gate and The Club Dumas
I've just been re-reading Sorceror after picking up the excellent Sorceror & Sword supplement. Anyway, I was checking out the bibliography and noticed the mention of The Ninth Gate. I…
In Adept Press
Participants: Thor Olavsrud, Ron Edwards.

2/1/2002 amiel: Narrativist Wargames Part the Second
Okay, after taking some of your thoughts into consideration: Everyone makes decisions regarding base setting together, or the GM just makes it up. Faction/State generation: Write a 50-100 word description…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: amiel, Ron Edwards, Mithras.

2/1/2002 Valamir: Lets get some discussion going
Its been about a week since V4 went out, who has some further thoughts, comments, criticisms to share? Baliley and Balbinus got things started, lets keep it going. Anyone thinking…
In Universalis
Participants: Valamir, Ron Edwards, Mike Holmes.

2/1/2002 Le Joueur: Scattershot (only the mechanics) is Here!
After many private requests for a 'mechanics-only' version of Scattershot, without all the presumptuous design-speak, I have finally cobbled one together. (I bet you were wondering where I had disappeared…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Le Joueur.

2/1/2002 Fabrice G.: Edwardian premises ?
Well i'm a newbie regarding premises. I read a lot about it here on The Forge, but still, it's not that clear to me. This morning i had some ideas…
In RPG Theory
Participants: Fabrice G., Ron Edwards, Mike Holmes, Marco.

2/1/2002 wyrdlyng: Suggestions For Drawing Players Out
Synopsis: I play in a Sunday D&D game run by my wife and featuring my cousin, his girlfriend and another friend. The GF is new to roleplaying but shows great…
In Actual Play
Participants: wyrdlyng, Ron Edwards, Le Joueur, Paul Czege, jburneko.

1/31/2002 Fabrice G.: Scenario in a Narrativist game ?
Well hi every one, it's one of my first post so i want to tanks all of you for being very inspirational and every thing ...(well you'll only get this…
In GNS Model Discussion
Participants: Fabrice G., Zak Arntson, Uncle Dark, contracycle, Ron Edwards, furashgf.

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2/5/2002 Le Joueur: The Old UE Chart (that's Universal Equivalency Chart, son)
Here is the oft referred to UE Chart (the right third), in its current incarnation: Rating Bonus Subject Multi Info 1 +0 0 0 2 words 2 +0 0…
In Scattershot
Participants: Le Joueur, Paul Czege.

2/6/2002 Epoch: More of the Same
My fanatical groupies (yeah, right), will notice that this is a concept that I've approached over and over again, looking for a good way to do it. This time, I'm…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Epoch, Tim Denee.

2/6/2002 Joe Murphy (Broin): Modern Things
Just to give y'all some background... a rush of ideas came to me this evening for a Sorceror supplement. Without giving too much away, a song by Bjork inspired…
In Adept Press
Participants: Joe Murphy (Broin), Jared A. Sorensen, Bailywolf, lumpley, Ron Edwards, greyorm, Bankuei, Manu.

2/6/2002 Bailywolf: Combined Sorcerer and S&S games... and the Dreamlands
I just found out the CoC folks are producing a new (and quite heafty) Dreamlands book... which is suposed to have excised most of the Lumbly tot and gotten back…
In Adept Press
Participants: Bailywolf, Ron Edwards, Clinton R. Nixon, Doc Midnight, Mike Holmes.

2/6/2002 Bailywolf: Historical Sorcerer
Another new post. Anyone mess with running Sorcerer in a historical setting? I've toyed with a sort of Pulp Sorcerer (inspired in no small part by Hellboy) in which an…
In Adept Press
Participants: Bailywolf, Ben Morgan, Ron Edwards, Joe Murphy (Broin), Blake Hutchins, Uncle Dark, Fabrice G., contracycle.

2/6/2002 Tim Denee: Smurf smurf smurf
Godstruth, I just smurfed Smurf: the Smurfing. 'Smurf' has smurfed all meaning for me. Not that it had any meaning in the first smurf. I wish I could smurf what…
In Random Order Creations
Participants: Tim Denee, James V. West.

2/6/2002 jburneko: Three Rounds of The Pitch
Hello, Okay, so tonight my regular Tuesday night gaming group shows up and we're in the middle of the last part of the Freeport Trillogy for D&D3E. Turns out that…
In Memento-Mori Theatricks
Participants: jburneko.

2/6/2002 Marco: Topics should be seen
[Opionion sated as fact] Topics should be presented in bold face at the top of the post--It'll make 'em more relevant [/opionion stated as fact] -Marco
In Site Discussion
Participants: Marco.

2/6/2002 Clinton R. Nixon: Donjon Krawl
I know I haven't designed anything new since Urge - I've been lazy. So, I decided to start finishing my projects. The first finished: Donjon Krawl, a (hopefully) incredibly Gamist…
In CRN Games
Participants: Clinton R. Nixon, Ron Edwards, Valamir, Zak Arntson, Jared A. Sorensen, Bankuei, Marco, James V. West, DaR, Mike Holmes, lumpley, J B Bell.

2/6/2002 jburneko: The Pitch In Action
So, last night my weekly Tuesday gaming group met. We were about 2/3 of the way through the last part of the Freeport Trillogy and were expected to finish the…
In Actual Play
Participants: jburneko, Jared A. Sorensen.

2/6/2002 Valamir: I feel old
I was just playing around with the new sorting features on the memberlist. Counting only those people who stuck around long enough to accumulate 50 posts or more, I was…
In Site Discussion
Participants: Valamir.

2/7/2002 Cynthia Celeste Miller: Lightning Printing
Okay, I went to Lightning Printing's website to get a price quote http://www.lightningprinting.com/quotefrm.htm and I must say, I looked at the info they requested....and was confused. Being a neophyte to…
In Publishing
Participants: Cynthia Celeste Miller, Jack Spencer Jr, mahoux, Ron Edwards, Chris Passeno, GMSkarka, Jason L Blair, Clinton R. Nixon.

2/7/2002 Bailywolf: A touchy issue: September 11
Will you address how september 11 alters New York and it's Underworld?
In Adamant Entertainment
Participants: Bailywolf, GMSkarka, Ron Edwards, Ben Morgan, TSL.

2/7/2002 Ferry Bazelmans: Rephrase: I was approached for publication and need advice
Hey guys, I got an email yesterday from a wellknown company asking me if I was willing to work with them to get my game SOAP published. They are a…
In Publishing
Participants: Ferry Bazelmans, Ron Edwards, TheRef, GMSkarka, Bailey, Jack Spencer Jr, Dav.

2/7/2002 Le Joueur: Roll the Videotape; by Request, an Early Play Example
Okay, example of play; roll tape. This details a recent short-run game we played with Scattershot. It ran probably for about 10-12 sessions and involved only one player. (I chose…
In Scattershot
Participants: Le Joueur.

2/7/2002 Valamir: Invited Members
1) can moderators add new members to the private forum or only site administrators. I would assume moderators could, but when I clicked on the "you can moderate this list"…
In Moderators
Participants: Valamir, Clinton R. Nixon, Mike Holmes.

2/7/2002 Ron Edwards: Yet again, The Questing Beast
Hello, The campus group met again, and the two games being played were AD&D2 and Macross (using Palladium). But one cry went up in a pitiful chorus: "I didn't get…
In Actual Play
Participants: Ron Edwards, Manu, James V. West.

2/7/2002 Fabrice G.: Narrativism, player authoring and hooror story
Hi, i plan to do an horror rpg and i have this question: can you have an horror story with a lot of player authoring power ? In my experience,…
In RPG Theory
Participants: Fabrice G., Bankuei, J B Bell, Ron Edwards, jburneko, hardcoremoose, amiel, contracycle, lumpley, Paul Czege.

2/7/2002 Marco: Particles of Character Class
This is inspired by a discussion on the Scattershot Forum: Fang described his points in Scattershot as "particles of character class." I sort of disagreed with his definition--an indication to…
In RPG Theory
Participants: Marco, Le Joueur.

2/8/2002 greyorm: OT: Announcement
Today, a little after 3pm I became the proud father of another baby girl! Alexandria and mom are resting comfortably at the hospital and all is well with both!
In Site Discussion
Participants: greyorm, Jason L Blair, Jared A. Sorensen, joshua neff, Uncle Dark, Le Joueur, Ron Edwards.

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