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10/31/2005 Hans: Capes event in Hamilton, Ontario
Hello all: Just to let you know, my normal game group and I, looking for a breather from some pretty darn intense horror stuff recently, will be playing Capes for…
In Muse of Fire Games
Participants: Hans, TonyLB.

11/1/2005 Hans: Capes virgin question on narration limits
Hello: Ok, I'm playing my first game this weekend (come join me in Hamilton, Ontario!) and as I have been trying to describe the game to others to get them…
In Muse of Fire Games
Participants: Hans, Vaxalon, dunlaing, TonyLB, Sydney Freedberg, Weebles, John Harper.

11/6/2005 Hans: Preventative Goals, and Resolving
Hi all: The "Not Yet" rule text says "no player may narrate how the Conflict turns out in the story until they have successfully Resolved the Conflict in the Rules." …
In Muse of Fire Games
Participants: Hans, TonyLB.

11/7/2005 Hans: [Actual Play] 60's themed fun
Hello: Well, no more posting about a game I have never played asking dumbass rules questions.  I have now played once, and hope to do it again very soon. I…
In Muse of Fire Games
Participants: Hans.

12/8/2005 Hans: Pandemonium in Toronto
Hello again: The Ontario Indie-RPG group (found at http://roleplayers.meetup.com/261/) is working on a plan to put forward a presence at the Pandemonium convention in Toronto in February (http://www.realmsquest.org/pandemonium/index.html).  The URL…
In Muse of Fire Games
Participants: Hans, epweissengruber, TonyLB.

12/21/2005 Hans: "Lost World" type games...
Hello everyone: I have been toying for some time with an idea for a "lost world" type game, borrowing heavily from Edgar Rice Burroughs John Carter series and other sources. …
In HeroQuest
Participants: Hans, epweissengruber, Valamir, Mike Holmes, Daredevil.

1/9/2006 Hans: "Issue" framing and tone randomness
Hello all: Fresh off my 2nd game of Capes.  Tony, the universal feeling here in Hamilton, Ontario is that if there were a Pulitzer for game design, you would get…
In Muse of Fire Games
Participants: Hans, Kai_lord, TonyLB, TheCzech.

1/17/2006 Hans: Questions on staking and splitting
Just off my third session of Capes.  My how I love this game. I read through this several times, and still feel shaky - Page 25 of the rules says:…
In Muse of Fire Games
Participants: Hans, Kintara, TonyLB.

2/2/2006 Hans: The actual Comics Code as the Comics Code
I happened across this web site that includes the original Comics Code that governed the content of comics.  It could be sort of fun to base a Capes Comics Code…
In Muse of Fire Games
Participants: Hans, TonyLB, Zamiel, Kintara, Bret Gillan.

2/27/2006 Hans: "Gritty, Dangerous" pseudo-Comics Code
Hello all: After my experience at Pandemonium, and looking at Tony's marvelous suggestion for a comics code for mysteries on a separate thread, I wanted to put the following comics…
In Muse of Fire Games
Participants: Hans, Miskatonic, Tuxboy, TonyLB, Sindyr, Gaerik.

3/16/2006 Hans: {Dust Devils] Ack!! More than I can chew!
Hi all: Well, I've gone and done it.  I've signed up to run Dust Devils at Gen Con.  I hope to high heaven I can get a chance to run…
In Chimera Creative
Participants: Hans, Eero Tuovinen.

3/17/2006 Hans: Capes fun; superpowers appear!
I have started a wiki here (http://wiki.rpg.net/index.php/Capes_in_Missassauga) to track the ongoing Capes sessions we are running here in Ontario.  In the very first session we had such diverse conflicts hit…
In Muse of Fire Games
Participants: Hans, Kintara, TonyLB, Sindyr.

3/23/2006 Hans: Two very quick questions on rolling and Alliance
Not questions about rules, per se, since I'm pretty sure the answer isn't in there.  More a question of how people play.  Both of these situations have come up in…
In Muse of Fire Games
Participants: Hans, Matthew Glover.

3/24/2006 Hans: Goals with no players
More a question about how to create good stories with Capes than a question about the rules.  Can you place a goal for a character that has no player?  Example,…
In Muse of Fire Games
Participants: Hans, drnuncheon, Zamiel.

3/30/2006 Hans: Semantics on goals...important?
From the "Critique my exemplar" thread: Goal: Prevent Jerry from doing superhero stuff.  However, this is a weak goal because while it's in play…
In Muse of Fire Games
Participants: Hans, Matthew Glover, Vaxalon, Sindyr, Adam Biltcliffe, drnuncheon, TonyLB, Gaerik.

4/17/2006 Hans: Non-debt generating characters...how often?
For those that have been playing a while, I have a few questions regarding non-debt generating characters (that is non-powered characters and non-person characters): * How often do they end…
In Muse of Fire Games
Participants: Hans, dunlaing, TonyLB, Sindyr, drnuncheon, Tuxboy, Sydney Freedberg, Ben Lehman, Zamiel.

4/26/2006 Hans: Capes F.A.Q.
I was sitting around a few days ago, saying to myself.."you know, Capes really needs an FAQ, why doesn't it have one."  And then it occurred to me, "The reason…
In Muse of Fire Games
Participants: Hans, TonyLB.

4/26/2006 Hans: Amount of Debt from a drive?
[quote author=Matthew Glover link=topic=19529.msg205846#msg205846 date=1146027804] I'm 99% sure that this is incorrect.  You can only stake debt from one drive, yes.  However you can stake as much from that drive…
In Muse of Fire Games
Participants: Hans, Matthew Glover, Kai_lord, TonyLB.

4/26/2006 Hans: Capes at GenCon, Friday night!
This is an open call to everyone who will be at GenCon who wants Capes action. Ok, I'm looking through the events at GenCon and I realize I am the…
In Muse of Fire Games
Participants: Hans, TonyLB, Gaerik, TheCzech, Tuxboy.

5/2/2006 Hans: Too much pressure! This pressure's got to stop! (Debt in ongoing Capes)
In the last session (the fourth) or our ongoing game, two of us (Liz and I) were playing our spotlight characters that had been in two of the three previous…
In Muse of Fire Games
Participants: Hans, drnuncheon, Gaerik, TheCzech, TonyLB, Sydney Freedberg.

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