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12/28/2004 John Kim: New TheoryTopics Wiki
Hi, So I thought I would mention that there is a "Theory Topics" section at Doyce's RandomWiki site which is gathering momentum. It is at: http://random.average-bear.com/TheoryTopics/HomePage It's got a pretty…
In RPG Theory
Participants: John Kim, Marco, clehrich, inky.

12/28/2004 Doehring: Game genre or world
I reciently saw a post about creating a world and someone said that most will create there own world if they like the game. I am woundering when you are…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Doehring, Troy_Costisick.

12/28/2004 Elazair: Cerberus: The Game of Three-Headed Underworld Guardians
Hi all. This is my first post here at the Forge. This is also my first RPG. I know the system is a little wonky at the moment. Any feedback…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Elazair, dalek_of_god, b_bankhead, Eero Tuovinen, daMoose_Neo, Sydney Freedberg.

12/28/2004 Yokiboy: Great Overseas Service!
Hello, What great service I encountered from Dog-eared Designs. I ordered Primetime Adventures in the middle of December, and living in Sweden didn't count on seeing the game until sometime…
In Dog Eared Designs
Participants: Yokiboy, ricmadeira, MarcoBrucale, Joe Dizzy, matthijs, Ian O'Rourke, Matt Wilson.

12/28/2004 Yokiboy: Consipiracy of Shadows PDF?
Hello Bob, Can I get the Consipiracy of Shadows game as a PDF? I have begun to prefer this format over print, but have yet to see your game offered…
In Bob Goat Press
Participants: Yokiboy, Bob Goat, Matt-M-McElroy.

12/28/2004 xenopulse: Action Point System
Hi there, I was wondering if anyone has created a good action point based system yet. I've tried searching through the posts in this forum, but haven't come across anything…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: xenopulse, anonymouse, jerry, Marco, IagainstI, Autocrat, smokewolf.

12/27/2004 Space Cowboy: What are the best skill-based RPGs and why?
Hey all, I'm in the process of further refining Wild Sphere's game mechanic and wanted to take a look at how WS' mechanic compares to other skill-based systems. So, does…
In RPG Theory
Participants: Space Cowboy, Bankuei, M. J. Young, Tomas HVM.

12/27/2004 Space Cowboy: What are the best point-build CharGen systems for RPGs?
Hey all, I'm in the process of further refining Wild Sphere's character generation system and wanted to take a look at how WS' system compares to other point-build CharGen systems.…
In RPG Theory
Participants: Space Cowboy.

12/27/2004 M. J. Young: Sim approach to speculative, short story-based sci-fi?
[quote="In the [a href="http://www.indie-rpgs.com/viewtopic.php?t=13725"][i]Breaking the Heart of the Universe[/i][/a] thread, Snowden"]I'd be curious to hear more about your Multiverser experience, which sounds like you were taking a sim approach to…
In RPG Theory
Participants: M. J. Young, Snowden, Jeph, Caldis, contracycle, Ron Edwards, Marco, b_bankhead.

12/27/2004 Nick Pagnucco: Images of Jupiter Dancing in My Head
I'm writing in the hope of getting something out of my head. You see, as soon as I read through Nine Worlds, an image started shaping in my head. The…
In Chimera Creative
Participants: Nick Pagnucco, Matt Snyder.

12/27/2004 Michael S. Miller: Designer's Notes for the Interim Edition
As you can see, I've shot one of the Preview Edition's sneakiest Sacred Cows: IMPORTANCE. The concept no longer exists in the game. It was a left-over from the very…
In Incarnadine Press
Participants: Michael S. Miller, hardcoremoose, pfischer, Andy Kitkowski.

12/27/2004 Michael S. Miller: Incarnadine Press News
The With Great Power... Interim Edition is now available for download. Get it here: With Great Power... Interim Edition. I'd like to thank everyone whose honest feedback has helped make…
In Incarnadine Press
Participants: Michael S. Miller.

12/27/2004 ricmadeira: Practical DemonBanishing (and Containing)
Okay, so this must be the stupidest question ever because I've been searching the forum for half an hour and couldn't turn up anything remotely connected to it. How do…
In Adept Press
Participants: ricmadeira, Trevis Martin, Ron Edwards.

12/27/2004 Jürgen Mayer: Fastlane Review at rpg.net (link inside)
[url]http://www.rpg.net/reviews/archive/10/10930.phtml[/url]
In Twisted Confessions
Participants: Jürgen Mayer, Dev, Lxndr, Yokiboy, Spooky Fanboy.

12/27/2004 Vaxalon: VA - Manassas - Adventure author seeks DnD players
Okay, here we go. Attention! I'm looking for four players for a DnD game, to be held at my house in Manassas, VA. We'll be playing in the evening, either…
In Connections
Participants: Vaxalon.

12/27/2004 rpghost: One Retailer Loactor to rule them all...
Greetings, We are happy to inform you of a great new FREE service (really!) from RPGHost Networks. We have developed a free centralized STORE LOCATOR that you may place on…
In Publishing
Participants: rpghost.

12/27/2004 Squeeze: [TSOY] Some clarifications needed...
Hi, First I'd like to thank Clinton for his amazing work on Anvilwerks games : those games are enlightening ! (They are my first experience into indie games, and so…
In CRN Games
Participants: Squeeze, Clinton R. Nixon, timfire.

12/26/2004 RobNJ: [Sorcerer] dX = play style Y?
I just got my copy of Sorcerer as a holiday present from Judd (aka Paka). I'm enjoying the read so far. I have a semi-rulesish question. You can use any…
In Adept Press
Participants: RobNJ, Trevis Martin, Ron Edwards, ricmadeira, Fabrice G., Alan, Valamir, jrs.

12/26/2004 philreed: Update on life as a PDF publisher . . .
A little over six months ago I shared some of the reasons for taking the plunge into PDF publishing as my full-time job. I thought some of you might like…
In Publishing
Participants: philreed, Paul Czege, Vaxalon, xenopulse, Andy Kitkowski, Lxndr, Brendan, Solly Brown, Tav_Behemoth.

12/26/2004 JohnUghrin: Complications and Control
Okay, I'm trying to prevent my second game of Universalis from exploding and a question has come up that I don't know how to answer. I have looked through the…
In Universalis
Participants: JohnUghrin, Christopher Weeks, Valamir, Tony Irwin.

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12/28/2004 Michael S. Miller: [Dreamation 2005] Promoting the Explosion
Now that we've got the schedule finalized, we need to let people know about this little shindig. I've created a quick flyer about the Explosion. I know it's not pretty,…
In Conventions
Participants: Michael S. Miller, Jared A. Sorensen, Helvetian, inthisstyle, Dregg.

12/28/2004 neko ewen: [Thrash 2.0] Action Points
I'm finally seriously working on the new version of my fighting game martial arts RPG; one of the things I was never really happy with for the game was the…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: neko ewen, mark2v, Ultimate Chicken.

12/28/2004 James_Nostack: [TSoY] A Very Brief Engagement - Actual Play
Ran through my first session of The Shadow of Yesterday last night, with four players attending, including Clinton R. Nixon, the game's creator. I assume a log will be posted…
In Actual Play
Participants: James_Nostack, J B Bell, friartuck, rafial, Nyarly.

12/29/2004 Dev: Fastlane - minor rules explanations
Firstly, the handicap: how important is that really, in the balance of things? I'd feel more aesthetically pleased if I didn't have to bother with that. Secondly, would things still…
In Twisted Confessions
Participants: Dev, Lxndr.

12/29/2004 Snowden: Technology as color in science fiction
Split from Breaking The Heart Of The Universe, which has been expanding at a geometrically increasing rate. I'm sorry. I can't think of a single story in all of Star…
In RPG Theory
Participants: Snowden, xenopulse, Storn, daMoose_Neo, Noon, NN, Marco, Kedamono, M. J. Young, Rob Carriere, contracycle, Harlequin.

12/30/2004 Christopher Weeks: [DitV] Accomplishments
The book presents the only kind of improper accomplishments that a player can come up with as ones that invalidate the whole "dogness" (or survival) of the character. Is that…
In lumpley games
Participants: Christopher Weeks, Nick Pagnucco, Technocrat13, jasonm, Spooky Fanboy, lumpley, nikola.

12/30/2004 Andy Kitkowski: PTA Idea Mine
Just wanted to point out, there's kind of an Idea Mine going on at RPGNet: http://forum.rpg.net/showthread.php?t=164561 Feel free to skim or jump in.
In Dog Eared Designs
Participants: Andy Kitkowski.

12/31/2004 icelandknight: Some Points about our RPG sessions
We are a group that have always played together regularly... although recently that means just at Xmas. Mainly because most of the people have moved abroad to work. We used…
In Actual Play
Participants: icelandknight, friartuck, Emily Care.

12/31/2004 Old_Scratch: [Sorcerer] The Sin Eaters
I came up with this setting while taking my dog for a walk, and even though I haven't had a chance yet, I'd like to throw some ideas out. It…
In Adept Press
Participants: Old_Scratch, Lxndr, Ron Edwards.

12/31/2004 Silmenume: The Impossible Thing Before Breakfast
[quote="From the Provisional Glossary"]Impossible Thing Before Breakfast, the[list]"The GM is the author of the story and the players direct the actions of the protagonists." Widely repeated across many role-playing texts.…
In GNS Model Discussion
Participants: Silmenume, Caldis, Jaik, Brendan, John Kim, Ron Edwards, Marco, M. J. Young, Christopher Kubasik, Noon, greyorm, TonyLB, Valamir.

12/31/2004 Black Iris Dancer: On creativity and artificial boundaries
Hi, everyone. This being my first post, I figured some introduction was in order. I think that about sufficies. I found this site while looking for, of all things, legal…
In GNS Model Discussion
Participants: Black Iris Dancer, Brendan, Trevis Martin, Ron Edwards, M. J. Young, xenopulse, clehrich, Marco, apparition13.

12/31/2004 Black Iris Dancer: A game whose name you thought you'd probably never see here
This is vaguely related to some thoughts I had over here about the whole G/N/S triumvirate. You may or may not want to read that first. It is long…
In RPG Theory
Participants: Black Iris Dancer, Dev, Noon, Sydney Freedberg, contracycle.

12/31/2004 Michael S. Miller: Donjon reviewed at RPG.net
[url=http://www.rpg.net/reviews/archive/10/10943.phtml]The review is available here[/url] All in all, the reviewer understands the game and mostly what it's about (although he glosses over the "screw your friends" factor). He's rather harsh…
In CRN Games
Participants: Michael S. Miller, Roger.

12/31/2004 Tim Alexander: [Sorcerer] More Ordinary Tragedies
Hey Folks, Last night we finished up the fourth session of the Ordinary Tragedies game. You can see the prep session here and the first play session here. I never…
In Actual Play
Participants: Tim Alexander, Ron Edwards.

12/31/2004 abzu: NYE
Happy New Year all. My all your play be enjoyable and game design be clever. -L
In Site Discussion
Participants: abzu.

12/31/2004 Spooky Fanboy: Mage: the Ascension to Heroquest conversion notes?
Pretty much what it says. I am looking for a way to "unleash" Mage and from what everyone here has said, Heroquest just seems to make everything it touches better.…
In HeroQuest
Participants: Spooky Fanboy, Bankuei, neelk, Brand_Robins, Eero Tuovinen, Jere, Mike Holmes, nichughes.

1/1/2005 JimLotFP: Is this a good or foolish idea in presenting a new game?
LotFP: RPG playtesting is going slowly. None of the people who have contacted me about playtesting seem to have actually tried playing the game as of yet, and I feel…
In Publishing
Participants: JimLotFP, Michael S. Miller, daMoose_Neo, Bankuei, GregS, Vaxalon, jdagna, KeithBVaughn, abzu, GaryTP.

1/1/2005 Trevis Martin: & Sword Fiction, The Writing of Robert E Howard
Del Rey has been releasing trade paperbacks of Wandering Star's collection of the Robert E Howard's conan fiction. (A good thing as the Wandering Star hardcover limited editions are very,…
In Adept Press
Participants: Trevis Martin, bcook1971, joshua neff, Paganini, James_Nostack, Alan, Ron Edwards.

1/1/2005 Noon: Finding gamism design hard
Awhile ago I said I'd just go and design a gamist game. I've found it's actually pretty damn hard and I probably look all talk and no walk now. Anyway,…
In RPG Theory
Participants: Noon, daMoose_Neo, Mike Holmes, Bankuei, Ron Edwards, Brendan, Wolfen, nathan404, Harlequin.

1/1/2005 Michael S. Miller: The Components of Setting
What components make up Setting? In the Gamism essay, Ron notes that many people think "Oh, Gamism, I know what that is!" and never give it a second glance. I…
In RPG Theory
Participants: Michael S. Miller, GaryTP, daMoose_Neo, Troy_Costisick, xenopulse, neelk, M. J. Young, Bankuei, contracycle, Valamir, John Kim, Nick Pagnucco, Marco, Lee Short, ffilz.

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