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6/1/2001 Gordon C. Landis: An understanding of GNS
OK, I want to run through what I've learned/decided as a result of some of the semi-recent discussion here and on GO, especially as regards Story and GNS, and add…
In GNS Model Discussion
Participants: Gordon C. Landis, Supplanter, greyorm, Ron Edwards, Clinton R. Nixon, Logan.

5/31/2001 FSAuthor: Promoting Indie RPGs
Greetings & Well Met, Just wanted to drop a line thanking HF for putting a link up for my site in the library. I also wanted to ask those interested…
In Publishing
Participants: FSAuthor, Ron Edwards, Dav, Nathan, Clay.

5/31/2001 Zak Arntson: D&D
Okay, guess what I just played ... But, it went okay. There's a bunch of newer players (including the DM) who seem to be pretty happy with learning the game,…
In Actual Play
Participants: Zak Arntson, Ron Edwards, hardcoremoose, Clay, Mike Holmes, greyorm, Paul Czege, Jared A. Sorensen.

5/31/2001 Clinton R. Nixon: New reviews
There are several new reviews on the Forge, including one of Soap, one of the games written by our own esteemed Crayne. Go check it out and post comments.
In Review Discussion
Participants: Clinton R. Nixon, unodiablo, james_west, Ron Edwards, Jared A. Sorensen, Dav, Ian O'Rourke, Paul Czege, greyorm, JSDiamond, Valamir.

5/31/2001 james_west: Following advice
My posting rate has dropped dramatically in the past week or so; the reason for this is that I did decide to stop talking about it and start doing it.…
In Actual Play
Participants: james_west, Ron Edwards, Supplanter.

5/31/2001 Dav: Concerning stances
Okay, after much debate and great discussion... well, some other guy beat everyone to the punch for setting out to the unwashed masses. http://ptgptb.humbug.org.au/0017/roles.html A good article, and worth reading.…
In GNS Model Discussion
Participants: Dav.

5/31/2001 Ferry Bazelmans: New game: storyboard
New to the board, perhaps not to the names ]:). I posted a new RPG on The BlackLight Bar. You''ll find it under Games-Free Games. It's largely concerned with…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Ferry Bazelmans, Ron Edwards, hardcoremoose.

5/31/2001 Ron Edwards: State of the art
Hello everyone. These last few days on the Forge have been a big frustration for me. 1) Flaming, frankly. What's up with that (as my students would say)? That is…
In GNS Model Discussion
Participants: Ron Edwards.

5/31/2001 james_west: FAQ
This forum clearly needs a FAQ. I suggest it contains: (1) A set of definitions (or paradigms, or whatever) of G/N/S (2) An explanation of what it is supposed to…
In GNS Model Discussion
Participants: james_west, Logan, Ron Edwards, greyorm, Blake Hutchins, Valamir, Mike Holmes.

5/30/2001 Zak Arntson: Players playing Demons
(Dragging an idea over from the ever-fraying Zombie Squirrel thread) I don't have the Sorcerer book (hopefully this weekend), but does it discuss each player playing their character and another…
In Adept Press
Participants: Zak Arntson, greyorm, Dav, Ron Edwards, Clinton R. Nixon, Clay.

5/28/2001 Damocles: silly little game: "Trust me."
"Trust Me" (First Draft) __Introduction__ "Trust Me" is a minimalist universal roleplaying game emphasizing mutual trust between players and game master. After a fashion. __What You Need__ For each player:…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Damocles, james_west.

5/27/2001 Damocles: Time
I have been thinking about the role of time in rpgs. Not so much story time vs. real world time, but practical issues like how long a session lasts, how…
In RPG Theory
Participants: Damocles, Ron Edwards, james_west, greyorm.

5/27/2001 Zak Arntson: Freebie RPG: Courts & Corsets
After watching Amadeus (and being a fan of those effeminate costume dramas in general), I thought about writing an RPG that recreates the intrigue-filled life of those characters. I thought…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Zak Arntson, Damocles, Paul Czege.

5/26/2001 Valamir: Gamism and Mechanics
Supplanter raised some very interesting issues on by simulationist thread, but since they were at best tangental to the thrust of that discussion I figured they could best be addressed…
In GNS Model Discussion
Participants: Valamir, Supplanter, GreatWolf.

5/26/2001 Valamir: Simulation and Subjectivity
Ok. This is a very Sorcerer specific message and so in that sense might more appropriately belong on the Sorcerer forum. But my intent here is not so much to…
In GNS Model Discussion
Participants: Valamir, Supplanter, greyorm, Clinton R. Nixon, Gordon C. Landis, Mike Holmes, Jared A. Sorensen, GreatWolf, Paul Czege, james_west, Logan, Mytholder, joshua neff, Zak Arntson.

5/25/2001 GreatWolf: Sphinx Group
I note that there are at least a couple folks here represented by the Sphinx Group. Spill the beans. Are they good? What do they do? Are they worth it?…
In Connections
Participants: GreatWolf, Ron Edwards, Dav.

5/25/2001 Jason L Blair: Game #2: Zodiac 12
Okay, this one is even more neophytic in design than the previous site. More will be added soon but I decided, "Hey... why not post it?" Again, horribly edited but…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Jason L Blair, Clinton R. Nixon, hardcoremoose, james_west, gentrification, contracycle.

5/25/2001 Daredevil: Thoughts
Heya, What follows is just some thoughts I feel like voicing. They're not anything I feel too strongly about, but merely things that have occurred to me while pondering the…
In GNS Model Discussion
Participants: Daredevil, Ron Edwards, Zak Arntson.

5/25/2001 Dav: Cybercon response to indy rpg question
I'm very tired, but I wanted to post this, as I think it is a good sign that rpghost.com and Cybercon want to try to make things work: from email…
In Conventions
Participants: Dav, poppocabba, effie, Ron Edwards, rpghost.

5/24/2001 Zak Arntson: Simulate vs. Explore
Here is my take on Simulation vs. Exploration. Simulation holds the weight that "Sim" does as a prefix to video games. SimAnt, for example, handles anthills _NOT_ realistically, but with…
In GNS Model Discussion
Participants: Zak Arntson, Jared A. Sorensen, Valamir, Ron Edwards, Mike Holmes, greyorm.

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6/1/2001 Gordon C. Landis: Don't violate expectations
OK, so I've been diving into the theory etc. discussions kinda heavy, and I feel the need to get a little more down to earth. Here's an incident from a…
In Actual Play
Participants: Gordon C. Landis, james_west, Mytholder, Ron Edwards.

6/1/2001 Ferry Bazelmans: Influence of Soap on my actual playing in other games
As requested by Paul (Czege): ]Have you noticed that playing Soap changes ]the techniques a player uses in the more ]traditional games you've been playing ]recently? Well, truth be told,…
In Actual Play
Participants: Ferry Bazelmans, Ron Edwards.

6/1/2001 Clinton R. Nixon: PDF Legitimacy
Much talk has been made about indie RPGs being easier to create and distribute on the web, especially in the .PDF format. Anyway, Monte Cook, author of the 3rd Edition…
In Publishing
Participants: Clinton R. Nixon, joshua neff, greyorm.

6/1/2001 Ron Edwards: Review discussion, anyone?
The first thread on this forum is about the forum, and about reviewing in general. Fascinating, yes. Sufficient, no. Any comments about any of the reviews? Any observations by anyone…
In Review Discussion
Participants: Ron Edwards, GreatWolf, archangel_2.

6/1/2001 greyorm: Sorcerer & Sword meat grinder
Heya, Don't have much time, but in a recent discussion of D&D on the Forge, I mentioned that my players had boatloads of fun playing expendable bit parts for a…
In Adept Press
Participants: greyorm.

6/2/2001 Matt Gwinn: The Ballot System
I just had a new idea for a game mechanic and I was wondering what you all thought of it. I was thinking that a player could announce what he…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Matt Gwinn, james_west, Ron Edwards.

6/2/2001 GreatWolf: Orkworld review
Okay, Ron, I'll take up the challenge. :smile: (Note: all points stated vigorously for the sake of invigorating debate.) I think that you overstated the case for Orkworld being a…
In Review Discussion
Participants: GreatWolf, Ron Edwards, John Wick, Gordon C. Landis, Dav.

6/2/2001 poppocabba: a hybrid system for one shots
i am kinda jazzed about my new idea. The character sheet is simply a half page "to do" list slightly altered with a section on the bottom called "how" ,…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: poppocabba, Ron Edwards.

6/2/2001 joshua neff: my take on hero wars
okay, i finally got around to plunking down the cash for the boxed set & started reading thru the books... & certain things struck me right off the bat--like greg…
In HeroQuest
Participants: joshua neff, james_west, Ron Edwards, Levekius, Pyske.

6/3/2001 blå: Free RPG lists?
This is probably a dumb q. but I'm having problems finding "free roleplaying games lists", you know a place with links to various sites such as MMT. And well thats…
In Memento-Mori Theatricks
Participants: blå, Jared A. Sorensen.

6/3/2001 james_west: strong player directorial power
To me, games with strong, continuous player directorial power seem to as different from traditional RPGs as RPGs are from boardgames. I'm thinking Baron Munchhausen, Crayne's Storyboard or SOAP, Clinton's…
In RPG Theory
Participants: james_west, Ron Edwards, joshua neff.

6/3/2001 Ron Edwards: God damn it, I love Glorantha
Yes, Glorantha is highly derivative. Yes, nearly all the mythic details can be traced to their historical and literary antecedents. Fine. It's a rockin' setting. In yesterday's game, the characters…
In HeroQuest
Participants: Ron Edwards, epweissengruber, Clinton R. Nixon, Zak Arntson, Blake Hutchins, John Wick, Stefan Drawert.

6/4/2001 Paul Czege: Soap in action
I have to say that our two sessions of Soap on Saturday, separated by pizza in between, made it painfully obvious to us how very stunted our Narrativist skills are.…
In Actual Play
Participants: Paul Czege, Logan, Ron Edwards, Ferry Bazelmans, Valamir, George Pletz.

6/4/2001 jburneko: A Sorcerer Idea
I read the main Sorcerer book last night. I also read certain key sections of The Sorcerer's Soul. I then proceeded to send a rather rambly email to Ron on…
In Adept Press
Participants: jburneko, Clinton R. Nixon, Valamir, Dav, Ron Edwards, greyorm, Clay, Mike Holmes, Paul Czege.

6/5/2001 hardcoremoose: Human Wreckage
Hey Guys, I just finished writing up a little game based on the idea of the ever escalating body count (as seen in cheesy horror movies). It needs a lot…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: hardcoremoose, Ferry Bazelmans, Ron Edwards, Zak Arntson, unodiablo.

6/5/2001 unodiablo: Dead Meat - Help for v2.666!
I'm working on v2.666 of Dead Meat, a Zombie Horror RPG/Game which you can look at v1.666 of here: http://www.memento-mori.com/deadmeat.doc I'm planning on turning this into a small $1 or…
In Destroy All Games
Participants: unodiablo, Dav, hardcoremoose, Jared A. Sorensen, Ron Edwards, Matt Gwinn.

6/5/2001 jburneko: Narativism: I still don't get it.
This is very frustrating for me. I'm not talking about theory here. I'm not asking what Narativism *IS* or anything like that. I'm talking about practical application. I'm talking about…
In GNS Model Discussion
Participants: jburneko, Dav, Ian O'Rourke, Ron Edwards, Christopher Kubasik, J B Bell, Mike Holmes.

6/5/2001 Matt Gwinn: My new Cat RPG
I just came up with a new rpg where you play cats. It's a little like GURPS Bunnies & Burrows, but the system is completely different. I'm not quite sure…
In Errant Knight Games
Participants: Matt Gwinn, Blake Hutchins, Ron Edwards, John Wick, Clay, Gordon C. Landis, Brassy, Jamie Thomas Durbin, Jack Spencer Jr.

6/5/2001 Ron Edwards: All about mini-supplements
Hello, This stuff was originally announced at GO, so it ought to be here too. A mini-supplement is any combination of the following for Sorcerer: a setting, scenarios, rules tweaks,…
In Adept Press
Participants: Ron Edwards, Dav, Clinton R. Nixon, Clay, Mike Holmes, Jared A. Sorensen, Paul Czege, greyorm, james_west, hardcoremoose.

6/6/2001 james_west: Fiduciary responsibility?
[I]:: Warning: This essay is going to seem elitist and egotistical, but it is genuinely something I wonder about. I'm honestly not trying to troll. ::[/I] When you look into…
In RPG Theory
Participants: james_west, Valamir, Mike Holmes, Ron Edwards, Ian O'Rourke, John Wick, JSDiamond, gentrification, greyorm, Nathan, Gordon C. Landis, Ian Freeman, James V. West.

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