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3/11/2002 Jürgen Mayer: Optional Game Systems?
Just read through the UW thread at rpg.net where the topic about optional UW2 game systems like d20 or Fudge conversion rules is discussed. Maybe Gareth or Todd (hey Todd!)…
In Adamant Entertainment
Participants: Jürgen Mayer, GMSkarka, jordvortexan, Mike Holmes, TSL, Jared A. Sorensen, Jason L Blair, Tim Gray, Adam, AndyGuest.

3/11/2002 Balbinus: Sorceror and Space
Well, while I had thought that the various mini-supplements were of little interest to me, good as they are (I like making my own stuff up too much generally to…
In Adept Press
Participants: Balbinus, Ron Edwards, Mike Holmes, hardcoremoose, Bailywolf.

3/10/2002 mearls: Publishing on the Super Cheap
Hello, I'm thinking of publishing an off the wall gaming book for sale at GenCon. Here are my printing goals: Small print run (200 tops; I don't want to wreck…
In Publishing
Participants: mearls, Matt Snyder, Dav.

3/9/2002 mallninja0088: A new RPG
[color=blue][/color] I would like to design a Fantastical futuristic RPG. This would be my first time making one for myself and need some advice. Where is a good place to…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: mallninja0088, Cynthia Celeste Miller, Fabrice G., Jack Spencer Jr, Bailey, Ring Kichard, hardcoremoose, Paul Czege, Laurel.

3/9/2002 Christopher Kubasik: Hello! And Welcome to The Forge!
Here are some notes for people just arriving. I'm still new here myself, but I've already found some ways that The Forge is different than other web sites. 1) Slower…
In Site Discussion
Participants: Christopher Kubasik, Ron Edwards, Tim C Koppang.

3/9/2002 James V. West: TQB Styles of Play
Hello again The Questing Beast features the idea of Accords, which can be best described as settings discussed and agreed upon by a group before starting play. This establishes what,…
In Random Order Creations
Participants: James V. West.

3/9/2002 James V. West: TQB Levels of Play
Hey In The Questing Beast you are actually playing 3 different types of roles. I'm addressing this in the opening pages of the game and I'd like to present what…
In Random Order Creations
Participants: James V. West, Rich Forest, Mike Holmes, Christopher Kubasik, Valamir.

3/9/2002 Tim Denee: Wuthering Heights
I've been going through Wuthering Heights in preperation for a game next friday. Two thoughts: 1) The game should be organized into 'books'. You know, 'Book the First', 'Book the…
In Actual Play
Participants: Tim Denee, Philippe Tromeur.

3/9/2002 Ron Edwards: Bedlam review is up
Hi there, The subject line says it all! Best, Ron
In Review Discussion
Participants: Ron Edwards, Valamir, Dav, Mike Holmes, Matt.

3/9/2002 Gordon C. Landis: Role playing is not a goal?
Plucked from the "GNS Showdown" thread over in the GNS Model discussion forum, in an attempt to curb my normal "support thread drift" tendencies . . . Start from scratch.…
In RPG Theory
Participants: Gordon C. Landis, joe_llama, C. Edwards, contracycle.

3/9/2002 Tim Denee: Donjon Dice
Does it destroy the system to use d6s insteads of d20s in Donjon? I just don't have that many d20s...
In CRN Games
Participants: Tim Denee, Valamir, Clinton R. Nixon, DaR, J B Bell, Zak Arntson, Mike Holmes, Bankuei, Jared A. Sorensen.

3/8/2002 Valamir: Submitted for discussion:
[b]A GNS Primer[/b] 3/8/02 Based on the GNS Theory created by Ron Edwards, and on the collective work of members of The Forge. The purpose of this primer is to…
In GNS Model Discussion
Participants: Valamir, Ron Edwards, Christopher Kubasik.

3/8/2002 GMSkarka: Fixing UnderWorld's Problems
Tim Gray has posted a new review of UnderWorld up at RPGnet. http://www.rpg.net/news+reviews/reviews/rev_5923.html His criticism is pretty fair, in my opinion. I disagree with some of it, but I think…
In Adamant Entertainment
Participants: GMSkarka, TheMouse, CCamfield, Jürgen Mayer, Valamir, Daymon, Thalaxis, joshua neff, reptile2k1, Tim Gray, AndyGuest.

3/8/2002 DaR: Donjons in Liechtenstein
Okay, so we actually played in Seattle, and the town was called Liechtenstein... Last night (Thursday), I had the opportunity to play Donjon with Clinton, Chris (Bankuei), and James (Yasha).…
In CRN Games
Participants: DaR, Bankuei, Paul Czege, Ron Edwards, Yasha, Jürgen Mayer, Clinton R. Nixon.

3/8/2002 Sidhain: Character
I'm not sure if this relates to GNS besides in the most peripheral way. I was discussing with someone role-playing and they said something that I found odd. It was…
In RPG Theory
Participants: Sidhain, C. Edwards, Ron Edwards.

3/8/2002 Paul Czege: a strange error
Hey Clinton, An attempt to reply to a private message from Dav generated the following error for me: Couldn't find template file: ./language/lang_german/email/privmsg_notify.tpl DEBUG MODE Line : 99 File :…
In Site Discussion
Participants: Paul Czege, hardcoremoose, Clinton R. Nixon.

3/7/2002 jburneko: Character Simulationism & Narrativism
This is an extention of my ever changing quest to clearly define the lines between certain brands of 'story oriented' simulationism and Narrativism. I think I've finally nailed the difference…
In GNS Model Discussion
Participants: jburneko, Mike Holmes, Valamir, Gordon C. Landis.

3/7/2002 joe_llama: GNS Showdown
(This post also appears on RPG Net for a different purpose) First, I'm supposed to use this time slot to write game design comments for Universalis and instead I'm wasting…
In GNS Model Discussion
Participants: joe_llama, J B Bell, Le Joueur, Seth L. Blumberg, C. Edwards, contracycle, Bankuei, Mike Holmes, Fabrice G., Emily Care, Valamir, Ron Edwards, Blake Hutchins.

3/7/2002 hyphz: Cunning OR lucky, but...
Perusing the Elfs rules a bit, I noticed a slight concern: there appears to be no reason to ever give an Elf both Dumb Luck and Low Cunning at character…
In Adept Press
Participants: hyphz, Ron Edwards, Jack Spencer Jr, Henry Fitch, Jared A. Sorensen.

3/7/2002 rafael: quoting lyrics
this may have been covered already, but i couldn't find any discussion of the subject anywhere on this site. i've seen numerous game books quote popular song lyrics (a perfect…
In Publishing
Participants: rafael, Jared A. Sorensen, Ron Edwards, Blake Hutchins, Paul Czege, Clinton R. Nixon, GMSkarka, Seth L. Blumberg, contracycle, Skippy, Matt Snyder, Bailey, Dav, Adam, woodelf, J B Bell.

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3/11/2002 JSDiamond: Beta anyone?
[b]Orbit[/b] [size=10px]Game overview: Space-opera in the spirit of Heavy Metal meets Cowboy Bebop. Ron Edwards described a typical party of Orbit characters as "looking like an underground comics parade on…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: JSDiamond, Ron Edwards, Galfraxas, Dav, Bailywolf, Ferry Bazelmans.

3/12/2002 Kenway: My pitiful attempts at World, Flesh and the Devil
First of all, I apologize profusely in advance to the creator of WFD and anyone who has played it for my mangling of the game: I tried out WFD today.…
In Actual Play
Participants: Kenway, Ron Edwards, Ben Morgan, Emily Care, Paul Czege.

3/12/2002 Walt Freitag: Looking deeper into Intuitive Continuity
Disclaimer: Presumptuous of me, I realize, to attempt a new thead with my very first post. Furthermore, I am new to this terminology and, while I believe I've absorbed the…
In RPG Theory
Participants: Walt Freitag, Christopher Kubasik, Noble, contracycle, GB Steve, Valamir, Le Joueur, Jack Spencer Jr, Jared A. Sorensen, Mike Holmes, Ron Edwards, Steve Dustin, Seth L. Blumberg, Paul Czege, C. Edwards, Michael Bowman, Blake Hutchins.

3/12/2002 contracycle: model proposition
Well, having spent some time trawling through RPGnet, and participated in various back and forths here and there, I thought I'd take the opportunity to lay out a diffiuclty I…
In GNS Model Discussion
Participants: contracycle, Valamir, Mike Holmes, Le Joueur, Ron Edwards, Laurel, Gordon C. Landis, Marco, Mytholder, Walt Freitag.

3/12/2002 Ferry Bazelmans: Suggestion
This may be something that has already been mentioned, but why is there no link from my Private Message Inbox to the Forum Index? At least, I didn't find it.…
In Site Discussion
Participants: Ferry Bazelmans, Clinton R. Nixon.

3/12/2002 Ron Edwards: Seven major misconceptions about GNS
Hello, Given the most recent mishegoss about the topic on RPG.net, and putting aside for the moment various personal attacks on me, I thought I'd outline the wide variety of…
In GNS Model Discussion
Participants: Ron Edwards, Jack Spencer Jr, joshua neff, Christopher Kubasik, Thor Olavsrud.

3/12/2002 Jack Spencer Jr: Handle change
As part of my recent desire to just use my real name as my handle, I have to ask is there a way to change the handle on my current…
In Site Discussion
Participants: Jack Spencer Jr, Christopher Ashe.

3/12/2002 Ayrizale: Relationships as Augmenters
Hello, After reading about Hero Wars here on The Forge, I proceeded to purchase a copy and I have read most of it as time has allowed. One of the…
In HeroQuest
Participants: Ayrizale, Ron Edwards.

3/12/2002 GB Steve: (Split from "Seven Misconceptions") Cult of GNS
[quote="joshua neff"] [i]Citing a point Ron made by starting a sentence with "Ron said..." is not slavish & cultish devotion, but merely citation. Also, agreeing with something someone (for example,…
In GNS Model Discussion
Participants: GB Steve, Clinton R. Nixon, Steve Dustin, Gordon C. Landis, Mike Holmes, Valamir, Ron Edwards, Jack Spencer Jr, Bankuei, Blake Hutchins, Matt Snyder, Christopher Kubasik, Laurel.

3/12/2002 Gordon C. Landis: Side Issues
EDIT: Uh, it'd be fine with me if this got merged in with the response Clinton made when he split-off Steve's post . . . I wanted to respond to…
In GNS Model Discussion
Participants: Gordon C. Landis, Ron Edwards.

3/12/2002 jburneko: Whither The Quest?
Hello, This post pertains primarly to the material presented in Socerer & Sword. In Chapter 7 under the dicussion of bangs it says that fights that are merely obstacles and…
In Adept Press
Participants: jburneko, Jared A. Sorensen, Christopher Kubasik, GreatWolf, Mike Holmes, Blake Hutchins, Ron Edwards, Valamir, Clinton R. Nixon, Clay, contracycle.

3/13/2002 amiel: Dramatism as Vanilla Narrativism
I may be wrong... I decided to take a game that I'm running toward a more Narrative angle while using most of the book rules. So I added some of…
In RPG Theory
Participants: amiel, Ron Edwards.

3/13/2002 Butch: character creation system
First thing first: hello everybody! It's my first post and I want to apologize to every body if my english is not so good. Ok, here we go with the…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Butch, Ron Edwards, Eric J., Mike Holmes, Bailywolf, Andrew Martin, Ferry Bazelmans, Bankuei, Matt Gwinn.

3/13/2002 Butch: Rpg art
Ok, here's the deal: I can write but I can't draw. I don't have any friends that can draw too (one can.. but please don't tell him... he's just not…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Butch, Matt Snyder, Bankuei.

3/13/2002 Christopher Kubasik: Sorcerer One Sheet: Christopher Gives It A Try
All right. I've read all the rules. I've got potential players. Time to jump in. Ron asked me what I might put on a Sorcerer One sheet. I took a…
In Adept Press
Participants: Christopher Kubasik, Blake Hutchins, Clay, Ron Edwards, Mike Holmes, Paul Czege, joshua neff, Noble, Robert Leal, David Howard, hardcoremoose, Walt Freitag.

3/13/2002 Eric J.: D100 flaws
I'm creating a D100 system. Is it too complicated for the average person? It would almost always be if you roll a D100 is it lower than- X+Y=DC or X=DC+Y.…
In RPG Theory
Participants: Eric J., Jared A. Sorensen, Clinton R. Nixon, Tim Denee, J B Bell.

3/13/2002 Gordon C. Landis: Top valid concerns about GNS
I thought this might be another angle to take at reducing the furor/missunderstandings around GNS - explicitly acknowledging where issues exist and where rational individuals may disagree. I've only got…
In GNS Model Discussion
Participants: Gordon C. Landis, Ron Edwards, Mike Holmes, Mytholder, Le Joueur, Laurel, Clinton R. Nixon, J B Bell.

3/13/2002 Clinton R. Nixon: Forum upgrade (with new warning)
I just upgraded the forums again - many problems should be fixed now. Unfortunately, I have to go through and update the Forge look to the forum, so if you…
In Site Discussion
Participants: Clinton R. Nixon, Christopher Kubasik, Ron Edwards, Blake Hutchins, Mike Holmes, Jürgen Mayer, Paul Czege, Jared A. Sorensen.

3/13/2002 Nathan: House Rules for EAK!
Howdy folks, Just letting you know that as of today, Eldritch Ass Kicking is officially available, with great art and 26 pages of PDF coolness. Mighty, crackling wizardry battle has…
In Mystic Ages Online
Participants: Nathan, Bailywolf, buddha, Spooky Fanboy.

3/13/2002 TSL: Guild Politics
[i]I represent the entire Guild on this matter![/i] - The creepy wire-head guy from Lynch's version {even though he had his name taken off it} of Dune. One of the…
In Adamant Entertainment
Participants: TSL, Jared A. Sorensen, Tim Gray, Adam, Matt, Nick Pagnucco, AndyGuest.

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