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3/30/2005 Gethyn: Confusions - Demon Abilities and 'Drawn Contests'
Hi OK, so here are a couple of shallow Sorcerer questions based on no actual play experience, but they're bugging me. I'm sure they're trivial and obvious but my brain's…
In Adept Press
Participants: Gethyn, gorckat, Ron Edwards, Michael S. Miller, Trevis Martin, angelfromanotherpin.

3/30/2005 Michael S. Miller: Newest With Great Power... Logo is up
AFter far too long in development, With Great Power... finally has a title with great pizzazz. Check it out. Any comments are welcome. Many thanks to Luke Crane, Keith Senkowski,…
In Incarnadine Press
Participants: Michael S. Miller, Jared A. Sorensen, Matt Snyder, gorckat.

3/30/2005 Jonas Karlsson: Clarify Example of Play
The example of play is extremely useful when trying to understand the rules, and I can’t picture Capes without it. I have some stuff, though, I need to get clarified.…
In Muse of Fire Games
Participants: Jonas Karlsson, TonyLB.

3/30/2005 Mandacaru: Syncretism in HQ
Elsewhere (http://www.indie-rpgs.com/viewtopic.php?t=14714&start=15), Mike H. said, in reference to syncretism: I think that what the rules are intended to support - and I've put some substantial effort into trying to figure…
In HeroQuest
Participants: Mandacaru, lightcastle, soru, Bankuei, Mike Holmes, droog, bigpumpkin, contracycle, Hobbitboy, James Holloway, Donald, GB Steve, joshua neff, cappadocius, StalkingBlue, Christopher Kubasik, pete_darby, jorganos.

3/30/2005 Vaxalon: "Free" conflicts
What is free about a free conflict? Does it not require a turn (or a story token) to put into play? I don't see that anywhere in the rules.
In Muse of Fire Games
Participants: Vaxalon, Andrew Morris, Jack Aidley, Jonas Karlsson, TonyLB.

3/30/2005 lightcastle: Trolling for bangs
Weel, after many delays and complications, my HQ game has gotten off to a stuttering start. Having stumbled across the Forge some time ago, I decided to try and incorporate…
In HeroQuest
Participants: lightcastle, Bankuei, Mike Holmes, Bryan_T.

3/30/2005 Jerry D. Grayson: GODSEND Agenda (Character progression system)
Hello all, I lurk here a lot but never post but lately I’ve been beating my head against the wall. Some of you may be familiar with my game GODSEND…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Jerry D. Grayson, Andy Kitkowski, Sydney Freedberg, gorckat.

3/30/2005 MikeSands: Rewarding in-character socialising
Background: I'm writing a game of naval adventure stories, inspired by Hornblower, Aubrey & Maturin, Honor Harrington etc. After the first playtest session, the biggest hole in the game so…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: MikeSands, TonyLB, Bailywolf, Doehring, Valamir, Shreyas Sampat.

3/29/2005 Kilor Di: [Terrae Novae] Latin Lessons
I'm currently converting my notes on Terrae Novae into a manuscript so I can try to get it published. I would like to know if anyone knows of a website…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Kilor Di, Andrew Morris, Selene Tan, 1of3.

3/29/2005 jamesdbr: Spotlight time in D20.
I'm considering running a one-shot dungeon crawl for a regular gaming group of mine, to give the GM a break from running all the time and also to get some…
In RPG Theory
Participants: jamesdbr, Valamir, Noon, Bankuei, Rob Carriere.

3/29/2005 Vaxalon: Clarify something for me...
An event hits the table, played by the guy to my right. "A giant robot runs amok in Central City." It comes out, as usual, with two dice on it...…
In Muse of Fire Games
Participants: Vaxalon, TonyLB, Paul Hebble, Jonas Karlsson, Doug Ruff.

3/29/2005 Jonas Karlsson: Veto ability use
Hello, My first post on The Forge and all. So, I just bought Capes and plan to play the first session on Friday. One question is if there's a way…
In Muse of Fire Games
Participants: Jonas Karlsson, TonyLB, Vaxalon, LordSmerf.

3/29/2005 Matt Gwinn: Creating a Survey
hey everyone. I just hooked up with a bunch of gamers in Ann Arbor through dnd.meetup.com. Well, we have quite a few people in the group with a wide variety…
In Actual Play
Participants: Matt Gwinn, Vaxalon, Mike Holmes, Simon Kamber, Danny_K.

3/29/2005 Vaxalon: Click-and-Lock improvements
After playing Capes (and buying it) the other night, my wife and I have been thinking about improvements to the layout. It's pretty... but it's really really hard to make…
In Muse of Fire Games
Participants: Vaxalon, TonyLB, Taimu.

3/29/2005 Ben Lehman: [Polaris] Two Tales of Six Knights
I played the new Polaris twice. Thoughts: General Thoughts 1) Both times, it was a really good game. The game I played with Vincent and Meg was excellent, but very…
In Actual Play
Participants: Ben Lehman, lumpley.

3/29/2005 BrendanC: [DitV] Player power vs. Character power
The background to this was in this thread. I wanted to follow up with some comments, but I thought it was better to split this off into its own thread.…
In lumpley games
Participants: BrendanC, Lxndr, lumpley, Valamir.

3/29/2005 Mandacaru: My first real Bang! ;-)
Just set up a new game online to try out starting from zero and seeing where we go. Basic information is a character has to be an Uz of some…
In HeroQuest
Participants: Mandacaru, Mike Holmes, StalkingBlue.

3/29/2005 Matt Wilson: The Primetime Adventures PDF Wish List
Someday, far from now, the book will be revised, and it will have neat new things in it that everyone wishes were in it. But first it will be a…
In Dog Eared Designs
Participants: Matt Wilson, Chris Goodwin, Ben Lehman, lumpley, Danny_K, JMendes, Emily Care, KingstonC, Yokiboy, Andy Kitkowski, Jasper Polane, Jonas Karlsson, xenopulse, Shiffer, Matthew Glover, IMAGinES.

3/29/2005 matthijs: [electrified spikes through the soles of your feet] V. 0
[i]The world is hard and cruel. God hates you, and wants to destroy everything you love. When it's your turn to be God, you can get revenge on the world.…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: matthijs, Mike Holmes, xenopulse, xiombarg, Valamir, daMoose_Neo, Bill Masek.

3/29/2005 bcook1971: [DitV] One-shot Prep
Hello. I finished reading the last third of the rulebook over the last two days. Getting my head around the much vaunted town creation rules stretched my mind a bit.…
In lumpley games
Participants: bcook1971, Trevis Martin, FlamingMoose.

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3/30/2005 lumpley: [PTA] a very good episode, a very hard session
Previously on Epidemonology: here and here. This time: The Collector. It's Cyrus Dunn's spotlight episode. His issue is grief, particularly for the death of his wife Helen. Emily plays him.…
In Actual Play
Participants: lumpley, Danny_K, Emily Care, Ben Lehman, ScottM, Sydney Freedberg, Meguey, nikola, Matt Wilson, Frank T.

3/30/2005 lumpley: Dogs: A Big GM Advice
As GM, you get to help establish stakes. If your player says "what's at stake is this" you can say "no, I don't dig that, how about what's at stake…
In lumpley games
Participants: lumpley, TonyLB, bcook1971, Wolfen, Bankuei, Betsi-G.

3/30/2005 BrendanC: [DitV] Shadetree Branch - final touches
I've been working on my town for tonight's game, and I'm pretty happy, but feel that there's something still missing. If anyone from my game is reading, stop now. ------------------------------------…
In lumpley games
Participants: BrendanC.

3/30/2005 Vaxalon: Is this legal?
Say I've been playing for a while, and I've got a nice little stack of story tokens. I want to set up one of those big climactic battle scenes were…
In Muse of Fire Games
Participants: Vaxalon, TonyLB, Miskatonic, Jonas Karlsson.

3/30/2005 brianhon: [EXPLOSION RPG beta] initial ideas
Hi, I've been lurking on the forge for some time now and I've finally decided to post. The EXPLOSION RPG is my second idea for an rpg, and probably the…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: brianhon, Andrew Morris, JMendes.

3/31/2005 John Kim: Running a con game of MLWM or DitV or what?
So, I'm pondering games to run for KublaCon, a Bay Area convention. I think I can only go for Sunday and Monday, but I'd like to run two games. One…
In Actual Play
Participants: John Kim, GB Steve, Michael S. Miller, inthisstyle, Andrew Morris.

3/31/2005 Jonas Karlsson: Questions before tomorrow's game
Perhaps it’s easier for people to find questions and answers with a proper thread title, but I don’t want to create multiple threads for just one question and an answer.…
In Muse of Fire Games
Participants: Jonas Karlsson, Vaxalon, TonyLB.

3/31/2005 sirogit: My DitV game
Just finished the first session of a new DitV game and I have to say it went great. The set up's a little unusual. Because both me and my brother…
In lumpley games
Participants: sirogit, ScottM.

3/31/2005 Vaxalon: Vulnerabilities
How would vulnerabilities be handled in Capes? They're an extremely common trope in superhero comics. If Capes doesn't already handle it mechanically, I have an idea for how it could…
In Muse of Fire Games
Participants: Vaxalon, TonyLB, Sydney Freedberg.

3/31/2005 Andrew Morris: Business licenses, trade names, and similar legal hassles
I'm just now looking at buying a domain name, building a web site, and eventually selling my games online. While doing this, I started thinking about the legal issues of…
In Publishing
Participants: Andrew Morris, xenopulse, timfire, Valamir, jdagna.

3/31/2005 Sydney Freedberg: [GroupDesign: Schrodinger's War] Doug's Draft Rules
Doug Ruff has put a pleasantly hefty set of draft rules online. There are some interesting convergences with Tobias's draft -- notably strongly structured collaborative setting design -- and some…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Sydney Freedberg, TonyLB, Doug Ruff, Tobias, Andrew Morris.

3/31/2005 Vaxalon: New, SPECIAL click and lock: Jenny Everywhere
This is a left-side clickandlock Jenny Everywhere, "The Shifter" http://www.queergranny.com/jennyeverywhere/ http://www.queergranny.com/jennyeverywhere/faqs.shtml Powers: Transcend Continuity Draw on another Jenny's wisdom Draw on another Jenny's experience Draw on another Jenny's willpower Draw…
In Muse of Fire Games
Participants: Vaxalon.

3/31/2005 iago: Fate OGL is Now
As of today, Fate: Fantastic Adventures in Tabletop Entertainment, is available under the Open Gaming License. You can download the SRD here: http://www.faterpg.com/dl/Fate-SRD-2005-03-31.rtf
In Evilhat Productions
Participants: iago, ScottM, Zubon-do.

3/31/2005 Ul: [DitV] A small town for first time players
Hi, here is a small town I have created for my first time as GM in Dogs, I recieved the package Wednesday and after a very sleepless night where I…
In lumpley games
Participants: Ul, TonyLB, joshua neff, Simon Kamber, Warren, daftnewt, Caesar_X.

3/31/2005 demiurgeastaroth: Opposed resolution and directorial control
I like the way Trollbabe and the Pool can grant the player the ability to describe the result of a conflict. Are there any systems that combine such an approach…
In RPG Theory
Participants: demiurgeastaroth, TonyLB, Paul Czege, jburneko, Andrew Morris, ironick, JMendes, Ron Edwards.

3/31/2005 Bill_White: [Ganakagok]When Morning Comes
So I've been working on Ganakagok, where people play tribal hunters on a fantastical iceberg-island as a thousand year long night comes to its end. I'm pretty satisfied with how…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Bill_White, Andrew Morris, TonyLB, Mike Holmes.

3/31/2005 Simon Kamber: [DitV]Proto-NPCs?
Just got my hands on the dogs book today (yay!), and reading through it, I've come across something I don't quite understand. As far as I understand it, the rules…
In lumpley games
Participants: Simon Kamber, Doug Ruff, sirogit, TonyLB, nikola, kaeru.

4/1/2005 avidreader: [The Last Word]: An Experiment in Letter-Tile RPG Mechanics
The idea for the mechanics of The Last Word have been percolating at the back of my mind since November 2003. I was working on a collection of word games,…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: avidreader, Paul Czege, FzGhouL.

4/1/2005 M. J. Young: Introduction to Theory article posted
In response to inquiries from Places to Go, People to Be, I have submitted a three-part miniseries attempting to summarize the basics of role playing game theory as discussed here…
In RPG Theory
Participants: M. J. Young, Mike Holmes, Ben Lehman, Doug Ruff, timfire, Kit, Dobamine, GB Steve.

4/1/2005 ironick: Simulationism and Conflict Resolution
Caveat #1: I had trouble deciding which forum to post this in, because it is for a game I want to design, but I have too much on my plate…
In RPG Theory
Participants: ironick, Bob the Fighter, Ron Edwards, contracycle, Andrew Norris, TonyLB, timfire, Lee Short, Valamir, M. J. Young, charles ferguson.

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