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4/16/2002 Henry Fitch: Karma Mechanics in Realistic Settings
I've been looking at the Nobilis 2ed promo stuff a bunch lately, and the system just seems... well, beautiful. I love it. It appears to strip away randomness without losing…
In RPG Theory
Participants: Henry Fitch, Valamir, Paul Czege, Fabrice G., Ron Edwards.

4/15/2002 RobMuadib: Comments wanted on Initiative System ideas.
Hi all I originally posted this on the rpg-create list at yahoo but didn't get any response, it was after the thread that had inspired it had wound down. It…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: RobMuadib, Henry Fitch, Mike Holmes, Ron Edwards, Zak Arntson.

4/15/2002 J B Bell: J B Bell's (nee TQuid) Sorcerer game--The Last Girl on Eart
A while back in this thread, Ron wrote: I suggest that prior to your next game, simply do all the Humanity checks and gain rolls from the last run…
In Actual Play
Participants: J B Bell, Ron Edwards, Matt Gwinn, Henry Fitch.

4/15/2002 Robotron666: Discouraged but still trying
Hey guys, New to this area although I was an oldschooler on Gaming Outpost and RPG.net. I'm looking at printing my own game, and folks are telling me not to…
In Publishing
Participants: Robotron666, Ron Edwards, Eugene Zee, rafael, Laurel, Roy.

4/15/2002 Ron Edwards: Prepping for The Riddle of Steel - questions!
Hello, This thread is mainly directed to Jake Norwood, but anyone else is welcome too. In order to avoid repetition, I recommend this absolutely excellent thread at RPG.net, which Jake…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: Ron Edwards, contracycle, jburneko, Bankuei, Jake Norwood.

4/15/2002 Ron Edwards: CODCON and me
Hello, A few months ago, someone emailed me a link to RPG.net in which a fellow had announced a "Game Design and Marketing" panel at a local Illinois con, and…
In Adept Press
Participants: Ron Edwards, Jared A. Sorensen, Jason L Blair, Mytholder.

4/15/2002 rafael: Dread needs playtesters
Malignant Games needs playtesters for its role-playing game of modern horror, Dread. For information, visit the company site at www.dread-rpg.com, or send mail to info@dread-rpg.com. We're interested in your…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: rafael, Ben Morgan.

4/15/2002 Bob McNamee: Bob's Tarot-based game for storytelling / role-playing
Hi everyone, I've been thinking that using a tarot-based card system to power role-playing would be a good way to tell stories that lend themselves to symbolism and archetypes. My…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Bob McNamee, Ron Edwards.

4/15/2002 hyphz: Loss of message text
If the login cookie expires between the 'post a message' form being sent to the user and the form being returned with the message typed in, the user is asked…
In Site Discussion
Participants: hyphz, Clinton R. Nixon.

4/15/2002 Tim Denee: Appalachia Now! fan art
Ta da! Behold my amateur drawing ability (but I'm improving!) So, what's the word on a cleaned/focused/stream-lined "Appalachia Now!"? In other news, I'm incorporating the changes suggested into Punk. It'll…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Tim Denee, hardcoremoose, Ron Edwards.

4/15/2002 MathiasJack: Underworld Site
I've just stumbled on the work done with Underworld, very impressed. I'm craving anything I get my hands on. I've heard rumors that UW1 is out-of-print, any site recommended to…
In Adamant Entertainment
Participants: MathiasJack, GMSkarka, OddBodkins.

4/15/2002 Galfraxas: It's Finished!
Howdy InSpectres Fans, Just thought I'd drop the In-Speckers news to the people. Jared and I just finished discussing some edits for it, and it is now completed. Jared is…
In Memento-Mori Theatricks
Participants: Galfraxas, Jared A. Sorensen, Zak Arntson, Valamir.

4/14/2002 Andy Kitkowski: Help me with my Sorcerer Idea or I'll Shoot This Dog!
Hey all. This is the first time I've really gotten involved with The Forge since early 2000 or so... or at least involved enough to post questions and the like.…
In Adept Press
Participants: Andy Kitkowski, Jared A. Sorensen, Valamir, Mike Holmes, Ron Edwards, Blake Hutchins, epweissengruber.

4/14/2002 Ben Morgan: Just read the iSystem Manifesto...
I'll have to quote you directly from your email regarding the character sheet, Jared: If you were here right now, I'd have to kiss you. The link to this is…
In Memento-Mori Theatricks
Participants: Ben Morgan, Jared A. Sorensen, reptile2k1, jburneko.

4/14/2002 Fabrice G.: Company games vs indie ones (premise based)
In a lot of discussion about non-indie games, a common thing pop up again and again : the lack of focus in the premise, or the lack of premise itself.…
In RPG Theory
Participants: Fabrice G., Wolfen, contracycle, Garbanzo, Jared A. Sorensen, Ron Edwards.

4/13/2002 bodhi: Wonderful games
There is a topic by Pale Fire in the game design forum regarding the setting for his game, Yggdrasil. The discussion centered briefly on the idea of capturing a sense…
In RPG Theory
Participants: bodhi, Ron Edwards, Paul Czege, contracycle.

4/13/2002 Jared A. Sorensen: Mmmm...parsley.
http://memento-mori.com/games/parsley.html It's like Zork or Adventure, except as a face-to-face role-playing game.
In Memento-Mori Theatricks
Participants: Jared A. Sorensen, Tim Denee, Jürgen Mayer, Seth L. Blumberg.

4/13/2002 Henry Fitch: Game Idea concerning immortal characters
Being a narrative (or char-sim?) game idea that as yet lacks a system: Premise: How are human relationships different given isolation and infinite time? Another could be, Do people really…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Henry Fitch, Jared A. Sorensen, J B Bell, Kenway, Wolfen, Ron Edwards.

4/13/2002 xiombarg: Exile (long)
[ Okay, kids, I'm considering doing a mini-supplement for Sorcerer. But before I start asking all sorts of questions and reading the FAQ, I wanted to see if it's an…
In Adept Press
Participants: xiombarg, J B Bell, Seth L. Blumberg, Clay, Ace, Ron Edwards, Bob McNamee, Knight.

4/13/2002 Mario: Documentary on Gaming
I didn't know where else to put this, so here it is. I am presently working on the idea of doing a documentary on gaming. I would like to do…
In Site Discussion
Participants: Mario, Nathan, J B Bell, Jared A. Sorensen, greyorm, Mike Holmes, Matt Gwinn.

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4/16/2002 Christoffer Lernö: Ygg Combat Mechanics
Combat Hand-to-hand combat: Ok, I snip this from the old thread: 1. Combat is run according to initiative order. Initiative is 1D6+Movement 2. Attacking in close combat is resolved by…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Christoffer Lernö, Le Joueur, Valamir, Ron Edwards.

4/16/2002 Tim Denee: Punk, coming at ya.
[url=http://homepages.paradise.net.nz/timdenee/punk.rtf]Check this out man[/url] I changed stuff. Too much to list here, really, but I've tried to incorporate all your wonderful suggestions. So, does it work?
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Tim Denee, contracycle, Ben Morgan, amiel, Ferry Bazelmans, Ron Edwards, rafael, hardcoremoose.

4/14/2002 Paul Czege: Horror: Simulationism and Narrativism
Hey bodhi, I've decided for myself that the best chance my game has of capturing a sense of wonder, is to reward the players for trying to instill a…
In RPG Theory
Participants: Paul Czege, Mike Holmes, contracycle, hardcoremoose, Wolfen, Matt Gwinn, Ron Edwards.

4/16/2002 quozl: Cards instead of dice?
Have you considered using moon cards instead of rolling moon dice? I think it may be a little more in keeping with the atmosphere of Alyria and also be easier…
In Dark Omen Games
Participants: quozl, GreatWolf, Mike Holmes, Jürgen Mayer, Ron Edwards.

4/16/2002 Christoffer Lernö: Ygg setting - rebooting the thread
Ok, second attempt here. I'm starting a new thread instead of reviving the old one. I've recieved some heavy flak because of my use of the concept of "standard fantasy"…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Christoffer Lernö, Clinton R. Nixon, Valamir, Ron Edwards, contracycle, Walt Freitag, Ace.

4/16/2002 Ron Edwards: GenCon 2002 - very important
Hello! Jason and I have now, albeit with much suffering, landed our three tables at GenCon (or close anyway). As I've described before, Forge folks are welcome to attend and…
In Publishing
Participants: Ron Edwards, Valamir, Misguided Games, Mario, Matt Snyder, Le Joueur, lumpley, Clinton R. Nixon, Matt Gwinn, Nathan, Ferry Bazelmans, joshua neff, Dav, Jason L Blair, Michael Hopcroft, Jared A. Sorensen, Clay, Seth L. Blumberg, woodelf, hive.

4/16/2002 Jared A. Sorensen: PDF Publishing and Printing Problems
Hey, all. I'm trying to InSpectres ready for a "Kinko's special" print-run but I'm having problems with the whole resolution/image size thing. I have created an alternate (300 dpi) cover…
In Publishing
Participants: Jared A. Sorensen, Matt Snyder.

4/16/2002 GreatWolf: News update
This seems like a good time for a news update. (cue exciting music) First, development on Alyria does proceed, albeit slowly. Right now I have an Alyria game that is…
In Dark Omen Games
Participants: GreatWolf, Valamir.

4/16/2002 angelfromanotherpin: Realistic Treatment of High-Powered Magic
Hello, this is my first post to this forum. First up, as a newbod, I may unknowingly violate unwritten posting conventions. If there's a more appropriate place for this post,…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: angelfromanotherpin, Ron Edwards, Blake Hutchins, Valamir, Mike Holmes, contracycle, Laurel, Walt Freitag.

4/16/2002 Jason L Blair: Staffing
Just a quick note to say that neither Greg Oliver (my Key 20 partner) nor Seth Ben-Ezra will be working the indie booth. However, Todd "Too Sexy" Luikart has agreed…
In GenCon Planning and Organization
Participants: Jason L Blair, Clinton R. Nixon, Ron Edwards.

4/17/2002 reptile2k1: The iSystem Games Thread
I did it! After five hours of work (not including the stuff I had to do in order to get a new word-processing program and a pdf-writer) I completed the…
In Memento-Mori Theatricks
Participants: reptile2k1, Bailey, Andrew Martin, Balbinus, Jared A. Sorensen.

4/17/2002 Bailywolf: Check this out
I've read a bit about this game, but after looking over this rpg.net review: http://www.rpg.net/news+reviews/reviews/rev_6192.html I'm convinced that it would make a great model for a running Sorcerer campaign. It…
In Adept Press
Participants: Bailywolf.

4/17/2002 Ron Edwards: Transparency again
Hello, Andrew Martin began this Transparent Game System thread in Indie Design, and I began the Transparency thread in an attempt to address some trouble I am having with that…
In RPG Theory
Participants: Ron Edwards, Mike Holmes, Wolfen, Gordon C. Landis, Blake Hutchins, Jack Spencer Jr, J B Bell, Andrew Martin, Le Joueur.

4/17/2002 Matt Snyder: Site won't remember my login
Clinton -- I've been having a problem getting the site to "remember" me -- keep having to log in from time to time. I don't think it's a browswer cookie…
In Site Discussion
Participants: Matt Snyder, Andrew Martin.

4/17/2002 Ron Edwards: Beef Injection: Tim Denee's Punk
Hello, The Beef Injection series of threads is my bid to focus our attention and effort on some game presentations that got swamped in the recent wave of posts at…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Ron Edwards, Clinton R. Nixon, Henry Fitch, Valamir, Mike Holmes, Tim Denee, Laurel, J B Bell, Ben Morgan, Bankuei, contracycle, Jürgen Mayer, Jared A. Sorensen, gizem, unodiablo, Bailey.

4/17/2002 Ron Edwards: More depravity and Violence Future
Hello, Having played our final session of Violence Future last week, I thought this was a good time to return to the topic explored previously in these threads: Violence Future:…
In Actual Play
Participants: Ron Edwards, Jürgen Mayer, Fabrice G., Dav.

4/18/2002 Ron Edwards: Beef injection: Sean Demory's Le Mon Mouri
Hello, The Beef Injection series of threads is my bid to focus our attention and effort on some game presentations that got swamped in the recent wave of posts at…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Ron Edwards, Paul Czege, sdemory, Mike Holmes, rafael, Buddha Nature, Paganini.

4/18/2002 Zircon Senshi: Power Of The Wake (RPG)
This rpg will be kinda like the anime Blue Submarine 6, and focus on a race rather than humans, but look exactly the same. Note: A Vykozen is human in…
In Actual Play
Participants: Zircon Senshi, Ferry Bazelmans.

4/18/2002 Zircon Senshi: RPG's?
So is there any place for people to rpg?
In Site Discussion
Participants: Zircon Senshi, Ferry Bazelmans, Ron Edwards.

4/18/2002 Comte: A reading List
Hey I got a buntch of people intererested in Little Fears recently. I have a play group finally! But I'm going home for three months arrrrgh!!! So I'm amassing a…
In Key 20 Publishing
Participants: Comte, Jürgen Mayer, Tim Denee, Ron Edwards, Jared A. Sorensen.

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