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10/18/2005 Troy_Costisick: Troy's Standard Rant #3: The Power 19
Heya, As I was looking back through my earlier rants and the links to other threads provided, I realized two things about the three questions I examined.  First, they were…
In RPG Theory
Participants: Troy_Costisick, Tony Irwin, Graham Walmsley, timfire, Joshua BishopRoby, M. J. Young, 1of3, ChrisJaxn.

10/10/2005 Troy_Costisick: [Cuthroat] GF Status
Heya, I am in the midst of revising Cutthroat.  You can download the origonal here. In his comments in the origonal thread, Ron wrote this: Actually, I'm thinking even more…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Troy_Costisick, Ron Edwards.

10/3/2005 Troy_Costisick: Ronnies October
Heya, The next Ronnies contest will begin October 2 and the submission time will end October 12. Have I missed the post on this? Peace, -Troy
In Publishing
Participants: Troy_Costisick, Ron Edwards.

9/29/2005 Troy_Costisick: Coding Help
Heya, I'm sorta embarrassed to ask this questions because I used to know.  But could someone tell me how to change a long link like this: http://www.indie-rpgs.com/forum/index.php into a single…
In Site Discussion
Participants: Troy_Costisick, Jack Aidley.

9/28/2005 Troy_Costisick: Troy's Standard Rant #2: Follow Up
Heya, I suppose I should call these non-rants, but in the end it’s not really important.  This is a follow-up to the rant I wrote here: http://www.indie-rpgs.com/forum/index.php?topic=16809.0 Again, I make…
In RPG Theory
Participants: Troy_Costisick, Jeph, Joshua BishopRoby, Green, Valamir, WhiteRat, Blankshield, demiurgeastaroth, gsoylent, lumpley.

9/13/2005 Troy_Costisick: Troy's Standard Rant #1
Heya, Never done a rant before, and not sure this really counts as one.  Don’t really care either.  I just have a point I want to make and then a…
In RPG Theory
Participants: Troy_Costisick, TonyLB, Gaerik, Arturo G., Halzebier, Jasper, WhiteRat, Joshua BishopRoby, demiurgeastaroth, Ben Lehman, c, timfire, Noon, Graham Walmsley, M. J. Young, Tony Irwin.

8/15/2005 Troy_Costisick: What Role Does Setting Play In System?
Heya, I'm working on a problem in my latest design, and am hoping to get some good input from you guys.  Let's say you have a finite ammount of space-…
In RPG Theory
Participants: Troy_Costisick, Ron Edwards, GB Steve, Artanis.

6/26/2005 Troy_Costisick: What is the function of Kewl Powerz
Heya, In this thread Tony wrote this: My argument is that they address something that is hard to address in other ways. Which is why, in fact, games without them…
In RPG Theory
Participants: Troy_Costisick, KingstonC, Jeph, Remko, Andrew Morris, Noon, TonyLB, Doug Ruff, Sydney Freedberg, chadu, HMT, Vaxalon, timfire, John Kim, Simon Marks, Artanis, Brand_Robins, xenopulse, Eero Tuovinen, Itse, cruciel.

5/10/2005 Troy_Costisick: Using Task Reso to get Conflict Reso
Heya, This is loosely related to another thread over in the GNS forum: http://www.indie-rpgs.com/viewtopic.php?t=15369. I hope I'm not honking off anyone by asking this sort of question here about a…
In RPG Theory
Participants: Troy_Costisick, pete_darby, paulkdad, timfire, Ron Edwards, John Burdick, Doug Ruff, Yokiboy, Valamir, M. J. Young, Alephnul.

5/1/2005 Troy_Costisick: [Cian] Split - Banding Together
Heya, Killa seemed like he wanted the previous thread to end, so I started a new one here to address something he said. Michael S. Miller wrote: Why should…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Troy_Costisick, killacozzy.

4/30/2005 Troy_Costisick: Broken Link
Heya, I'm trying to get to Anvilwerks site, but the links on this site as well as a couple other sites are broken. Has the site moved? Peace, -Troy
In CRN Games
Participants: Troy_Costisick, greyorm, Clinton R. Nixon.

4/4/2005 Troy_Costisick: Character Effectiveness = CA/SIS Interface?
Heya, This is a split topic from: http://www.indie-rpgs.com/viewtopic.php?t=14908&start=0 James Holloway Wrote: Troy: Quote: You have a player who is wanting to engage in one of the Arenas of a CA…
In RPG Theory
Participants: Troy_Costisick, Noon.

12/16/2004 Troy_Costisick: Forge Assisted Games
Heya, Is there a compiled list of games that made it into print that were aided in their development here on The Forge? I'm just interested to see the titles…
In Site Discussion
Participants: Troy_Costisick, TonyLB, Andrew Morris, Blankshield, timfire, Jared A. Sorensen.

11/24/2004 Troy_Costisick: GenCon booth construction (split)
Heya, Some thoughts on construction that might make it easier to transport. From where I sit, the framwork must have two properties: transportable and disassembleable (that a word?). Think about…
In Conventions
Participants: Troy_Costisick, Ron Edwards.

11/23/2004 Troy_Costisick: Understanding GNS
Heya, Please forgive me if any of this has been stated before as I am still very much a student in learning when it comes to GNS theory and the…
In GNS Model Discussion
Participants: Troy_Costisick, Mike Holmes, Ben Lehman, Ron Edwards, timfire, M. J. Young.

8/16/2004 Troy_Costisick: Call of Cthullu and GNS
Heya, This post is mainly to see how much of GNS I am understanding, so please feel free to correct me on any of this. I really want to gage…
In GNS Model Discussion
Participants: Troy_Costisick, Ron Edwards, b_bankhead, Marco.

8/14/2004 Troy_Costisick: Balance of Character
Heya, I was reading the thread by Sean (A note on balance) and it sparked a discussion (argument) between myself and a friend of mine (Scott) who was over for…
In RPG Theory
Participants: Troy_Costisick, Ron Edwards, NN, Walt Freitag.

1/17/2004 Troy_Costisick: GenCon Forge Booth at Indy 2004
Heya guys, Mainly this is for Ron. Are you going to be running a booth similar to the one you did last year at Indy? If so, where do I…
In Conventions
Participants: Troy_Costisick, Ron Edwards, GaryTP.

12/30/2003 Troy_Costisick: [EmberWorld] Hammering out an exhaustive History
Heya, The time has come for us at Twilight Press to begin work on our next book for our campaign setting. Our plan is to do an in-depth book on…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Troy_Costisick.

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11/17/2005 Troy_Costisick: [Cutthroat] Revised Edition!
Heya, First off let me thank James from Blankshield Press for lending me a hand by hosting my pdf document.  Give his site a once over if you get a…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Troy_Costisick, TonyLB.

11/21/2005 Troy_Costisick: Drawing in Experiences
Heya, I'm trying to get right in my head what I've enjoyed most about the Settings I've played in.  I want to understand why I've found certain ones compelling, and…
In Actual Play
Participants: Troy_Costisick.

12/2/2005 Troy_Costisick: Learn from my mistakes
Heya, I’ve been going over several design threads lately both here and on RPGnet.  There are some common questions I see newer designers raise that in the end, really don’t…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Troy_Costisick, Joshua BishopRoby, inthisstyle, Paul Czege, dindenver, FlameLover, TonyLB, Dumirik.

12/7/2005 Troy_Costisick: [D&D] GM's Fun
Heya, To bribe my friends to help me playtest my Ronny games, I'm agreeing to take part in one of their D&D campaigns.  I was discussing the kinds of characters…
In Actual Play
Participants: Troy_Costisick, jasonm, Joshua BishopRoby, Calithena, joshua neff, Mike Holmes, Warren, ffilz, Lamorak33, contracycle, Rob Carriere, CSBone, Danny_K, Adam Dray, Wade Lahoda.

12/29/2005 Troy_Costisick: [GenCon 2006] Forge Booth
Heya, Really hope I'm not overstepping my bounds here, but I would like to point out that the Exhibitor Package has been posted on the GenCon website.  Nev's already strated…
In Conventions
Participants: Troy_Costisick, abzu.

1/5/2006 Troy_Costisick: [Cutthroat] First Playtest
Heya, Finally, I got to playtest Cutthroat.  It was hard work getting my dyed-in-the-wool Fantasy RPer buddies to play this with me, but with enough convincing I got it done. …
In Actual Play
Participants: Troy_Costisick, Ron Edwards.

1/16/2006 Troy_Costisick: [Hierarchy] Getting the castes right
Heya, Hierarchy's revision is complete and I'll be uploading for download very soon.  Here's where you can download the origonal: http://www.1km1kt.net/rpg/Hierarchy.php One question I have for folks though is this:…
In Endeavor
Participants: Troy_Costisick, dindenver, Justin Marx, Ramidel, Sydney Freedberg, BigElvis.

1/20/2006 Troy_Costisick: [Standoff!] Complication Suffocation
Heya, I'm trying to come up with about a dozen or so more complications for Stand Off!, but I'm totally stumped!  So here's what I need.  Think of all the…
In Endeavor
Participants: Troy_Costisick, dindenver.

1/27/2006 Troy_Costisick: [Hierarchy] New Endgame
Heya, The 24 version of Hierarchy is here are the 1km1kt site.  Have a gander if you're not that familiar with my game. The first re-write of Hierarchy is finished. …
In Endeavor
Participants: Troy_Costisick, Arturo G..

2/6/2006 Troy_Costisick: [Hierarchy]1st Playtest- PvP
Heya, My friend John and I got to test out some of the mechanics in Hierarchy the other night.  It was a good opportunity.  We drew up some sample characters…
In First Thoughts
Participants: Troy_Costisick, Arturo G..

2/17/2006 Troy_Costisick: [Cutthroat]2nd and 3rd Playtest
Heya, I got in a couple playtests over the last three weeks or so.  Wow, did I learn some important stuff.  I'll go over the in-game stuff briefly here then…
In Playtesting
Participants: Troy_Costisick, Ron Edwards, Vaxalon.

2/22/2006 Troy_Costisick: Website Help (part 1)
Heya, I need to upload a pdf file to a website I own.  I have a FTP client software.  I just can't make the two talk to each other.  What…
In Connections
Participants: Troy_Costisick, Joshua BishopRoby, Wolfen, Eero Tuovinen.

2/24/2006 Troy_Costisick: [Cutthroat] v. 3.0
Heya, You can check out my latest playtest report here: Playtest 2 & 3.  In that post I raised several issues: First, this game is a heckuva a lot of…
In Endeavor
Participants: Troy_Costisick, Ramidel, Ron Edwards.

2/27/2006 Troy_Costisick: Maps of London
Heya, Does anyone know where I could find a map of London in the mid 1800's online?  Especially one that's copyright free? :) Peace, -Troy
In Connections
Participants: Troy_Costisick, Iskander, contracycle, Joshua BishopRoby, jasonm, Thor, micah.

3/7/2006 Troy_Costisick: [Ronny Games] Calling all Playtesters!
Heya, I have finally finished drafting and pre-playtesting my three Ronnies games: Cutthroat, Hierarchy, and Standoff!  I'm ready to begin open playtesting of all three.  If you are interesting in…
In Connections
Participants: Troy_Costisick, Arturo G., Hell_Puppy, freak73, Everspinner.

3/13/2006 Troy_Costisick: [Holmes and Watson] Game Chef- 1st Playtest
Heya, So I entered this Iron Game Chef competition.  At first I read over the ingredients and the time constraints and I thought, “Nah, there’s no way I’d be able…
In Playtesting
Participants: Troy_Costisick, MatrixGamer.

3/23/2006 Troy_Costisick: [Holmes and Watson] Game Chef Entry- Playtest #2
Heya, Took me a while to get the time to write this up.  Life is really busy at the moment.  Anyway, I got a chance to give my Game Chef…
In Playtesting
Participants: Troy_Costisick.

4/4/2006 Troy_Costisick: This one snuck up on me
Heya, Is it birthday time again already?!?!?  Wow, these years are starting to go by fast.  Well, happy birthday Forge!  There's been a lot of changes in the last 5…
In Forge Birthday Forum
Participants: Troy_Costisick, Brand_Robins, Emily Care, Paka, jasonm, JMendes, Kesher, Graham Walmsley, nikola, John Harper, Anders, Thunder_God, Alex Fradera, Andy Kitkowski, Ron Edwards, Valamir.

4/5/2006 Troy_Costisick: Predictions for 2006
Heya, I love to read predictions.  I don't care if they turn out true or not, to prognosticate is fun, and this is the only forum anywhere where I'd bring…
In Forge Birthday Forum
Participants: Troy_Costisick, Kester Pelagius, Joshua BishopRoby, lumpley, gains, Keith Senkowski, Bryan Hansel.

4/10/2006 Troy_Costisick: Cutthroat v4.0
Heya, I have the latest, and likely the last public, draft of Cutthroat ready for feedback.  You can dowload it here: Cutthroat Here are the latest changes I've made (PS,…
In Endeavor
Participants: Troy_Costisick, Ramidel.

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