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4/1/2006 Sindyr: Are abilities *always* available for use?
Are there any circumstances where, for example, the player has a character with a level 5 power that he has not yet used that page but for some reason he…
In Muse of Fire Games
Participants: Sindyr, Vaxalon, TonyLB, Gaerik, Hans, Matthew Glover, Glendower, drnuncheon, Tuxboy.

3/31/2006 Sindyr: Freeform characters and Styles
From another thread, broken out into its own: Are there any rules about how many and which Styles must be powered when generating a character by hand?  Can I have…
In Muse of Fire Games
Participants: Sindyr, drnuncheon, TonyLB, Sydney Freedberg.

3/30/2006 Sindyr: Capes game scheduled!!
I have been able to beseech and cajole 2 other folks into giving it a shot, Saturday the 8th at noon at a local gaming store! Looking forward to it!…
In Muse of Fire Games
Participants: Sindyr, TonyLB, Tuxboy, Sydney Freedberg, Gaerik, Adam Biltcliffe, Glendower, drnuncheon, Matthew Glover, Animation, TheCzech, Hans.

3/26/2006 Sindyr: Linked Conflicts?
If you have two conflicts that are semantically linked, must one be resolved before the other? For example, Alice, Brad, and Chad are playing capes. Alice is playing Supergirl and…
In Muse of Fire Games
Participants: Sindyr, Tuxboy, Matthew Glover, TheCzech, Zamiel, drnuncheon, Hans, dunlaing, TonyLB.

3/25/2006 Sindyr: Please critique my first Capes character
Having found someone who is willing to play Capes, I know only have to find one or two more.  Since that should be doable, I am getting ready. Here is…
In Muse of Fire Games
Participants: Sindyr, Eero Tuovinen, Matthew Glover, Tuxboy, ubergeek2012, Glendower, TonyLB, Gaerik.

3/25/2006 Sindyr: 444 and 345 only options?
When creating Capes characters by hand, are the only legal options in terms of the three columns to have a 3-4-5 style distribution or a 4-4-4 style distribution? (powers/style/attitudes) What…
In Muse of Fire Games
Participants: Sindyr, Kintara, Matthew Glover, Hans, TonyLB, dunlaing, drnuncheon, Gaerik, Adam Biltcliffe.

3/24/2006 Sindyr: Backordered?
How can I get my hands on a physical copy of this game, as the website says it is backordered? Thanks.
In Dog Eared Designs
Participants: Sindyr, Matt Wilson.

3/22/2006 Sindyr: Short lived Goals?
Question: A goal gets resolved when someone has claimed a side and ends the page in control, right? That is, if one side is higher than another, and that side…
In Muse of Fire Games
Participants: Sindyr, dunlaing, drnuncheon, Tuxboy, TonyLB, Hans, Vaxalon.

3/21/2006 Sindyr: Boundaries and the meta-game - and Capes
This doesn't just apply to Capes, but it has come up in relation to Capes, so here are some thoughts of mine... When playing an rpg, each player has boundaries,…
In Muse of Fire Games
Participants: Sindyr, TonyLB, Valamir, Tuxboy, Sydney Freedberg, Gaerik, Garg, Matthew Glover, drnuncheon.

3/19/2006 Sindyr: Why can't we edit posts?
I make a ton of spelling mistakes, grammar snafu's, etc. Why can't we edit posts we have made?  I have seen other forums do this.  Is there some technical reason…
In Muse of Fire Games
Participants: Sindyr, Glendower, Valamir.

3/19/2006 Sindyr: A way to win when you want to?
If I recall correctly, when creating the Scene you can bring in one character for free, and extra characters for one story token each. Or, you can bring in character's…
In Muse of Fire Games
Participants: Sindyr, jburneko, TonyLB, Glendower.

3/19/2006 Sindyr: Many on one?
Looking at the comics, many of them are teams - the X-men, the Avengers, the Fantastic Four, etc.  And while they do go up against villain teams, its common for…
In Muse of Fire Games
Participants: Sindyr, jburneko, Hans, Ben Lehman, TheCzech, Sydney Freedberg, Tuxboy.

3/12/2006 Sindyr: Been reading my new pdf, have quesions...
Just purchased the Capes and am about 1/2 through my first reading of the system, thought I would pop in and ask a few questions and check in on a…
In Muse of Fire Games
Participants: Sindyr, Vaxalon, TonyLB, Zamiel, Tuxboy, Glendower, Hans, Valamir, drnuncheon, humis.

3/7/2006 Sindyr: With Great Power? Why? Also, shippinng options.
Question: When I go to order Capes on the Muse of Fire website, why does the page also recommend that I order With Great Power?  The two systems have nothing…
In Muse of Fire Games
Participants: Sindyr, TonyLB, inthisstyle.

3/6/2006 Sindyr: What comics codes and house rules do you always use?
Do any of you have any standard house rules or comic codes that you use in the majority of the Capes games you play or run?  Ones that you would…
In Muse of Fire Games
Participants: Sindyr, TonyLB, drnuncheon, Tuxboy, Hans.

3/6/2006 Sindyr: Thoughts and reactions, plus could use some help and advice
Some thoughts re: Capes Let me introduce myself: I am a GM of 25+ years, I own several hundred rpg books filling many shelves, I have designed (but never published)…
In Muse of Fire Games
Participants: Sindyr, Vaxalon, jburneko, Gaerik, Andrew Morris, Zamiel, TonyLB, Valamir, Hans.

1/31/2004 Sindyr: Looking for rpg design irc channel...
Looking for rpg design irc channel to idle in and from time to time engage in rpg design discussion as the occassion warrants and permits... Is there a frequented irc…
In Connections
Participants: Sindyr, Trevis Martin.

1/31/2004 Sindyr: Looking for rpg design irc channel...
Looking for rpg design irc channel to idle in and from time to time engage in rpg design discussion as the occassion warrants and permits... Is there a frequented irc…
In Connections
Participants: Sindyr, Shreyas Sampat.

12/16/2003 Sindyr: oops
bad post
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Sindyr.

12/16/2003 Sindyr: Has this way of doing initiative been thought of before?
I present this as in idea for people to comment on, tweak, use in whole or in part, etc - with the understanding that I retain any and all rights…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Sindyr, Zathreyel, Andrew Martin, qxjit, Darcy Burgess.

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4/4/2006 Sindyr: Four-color rules?
Was thinking of ways to add house rules and mods to encourage four color play; especially that heroes generally triumph over villains, and thought of this: Villains have some kind…
In Muse of Fire Games
Participants: Sindyr, TonyLB, Glendower, Tuxboy, ubergeek2012, Matthew Glover, drnuncheon, TheCzech, humis, Kintara, Hans.

4/8/2006 Sindyr: Further game aids
Now that I am about to run my first Capes game, I am realizing that I could (or could have) use the following: An exhaustive list of everything you can…
In Muse of Fire Games
Participants: Sindyr, Glendower, Vaxalon, Miskatonic, Adam Biltcliffe.

4/13/2006 Sindyr: Authentic TV season possible? How?
I have just read through the PDF, and have just received my hardcopy.  I need to read it at least another 3 to 5 times. That being said, one of…
In Dog Eared Designs
Participants: Sindyr, jburneko, John Harper, joshua neff, Matt Wilson, spikexander.

4/14/2006 Sindyr: Capes session #2 this Sunday!
We have an upcoming (Sunday) Capes session #2 with 4 of the 5 people (I think) who were in the first one. This is how I may introduce the session.…
In Muse of Fire Games
Participants: Sindyr, Matthew Glover, drnuncheon, TonyLB, Sydney Freedberg.

4/16/2006 Sindyr: More questions coming from actual play...
1) In what order are conflicts resolved?  Say there are 4 conflicts on the table, and at the end of the page, 3 can be resolved.  How do you determine…
In Muse of Fire Games
Participants: Sindyr, TonyLB, Hans.

4/22/2006 Sindyr: Even more questions...
Which of the following goals are not legal according to the Capes rules? Goal: Fred opens the door   where Fred is an NPC (ie, can you make goals with…
In Muse of Fire Games
Participants: Sindyr, Ben Lehman, TonyLB, Hans, drnuncheon.

4/25/2006 Sindyr: Capes play and judgementalism in general
OK, I think I have found a clearer, more analytical way to express the problem here. There are several questions one could ask vis-à-vis Capes, such as: 1. What are…
In Muse of Fire Games
Participants: Sindyr, Tuxboy, greyorm, TonyLB, drnuncheon, Gaerik, joshua neff, dunlaing, TheCzech.

4/25/2006 Sindyr: Splitting question
Will reply to the brouhaha one the other stuff later... (only so much time for explaining things, after all, I am not getting paid to do this...) but for now,…
In Muse of Fire Games
Participants: Sindyr, TonyLB, Zamiel.

4/30/2006 Sindyr: Question: Brining in a character
First of all, I was going to open the PTA pdf, and copy the relevant section of text, and paste it here. The PTA pdf is aparently locked, and won't…
In Dog Eared Designs
Participants: Sindyr, Matt Wilson.

4/30/2006 Sindyr: Nitpick error?
In the appendice on page 101 it says that Alan/Alice has four cards. On page 102 it says that Josh spends a point of fan mail to bring her to…
In Dog Eared Designs
Participants: Sindyr, Matt Wilson, Alan.

4/30/2006 Sindyr: Only one conflict per scene?
I know that sometimes Scenes can occur with no conflicts - do they ever occur with 2 or more conflicts? What is the signal that a scene is over and…
In Dog Eared Designs
Participants: Sindyr, Matt Wilson, Glendower.

5/3/2006 Sindyr: Matt Wilson: where are you?
I have some more PTA questions for Matt, asked a few of them here as well as sent him some of them using the private messaging system - is Matt…
In Dog Eared Designs
Participants: Sindyr, Ben Lehman.

5/7/2006 Sindyr: Question: Use of fan mail to use used-up traits?
It's in the beginning, under Basic Rules Concepts: Traits, it says: "After the player must spend…
In Dog Eared Designs
Participants: Sindyr, drnuncheon, Gabe McKean.

5/7/2006 Sindyr: Uneven Screen Presences
Thought I would break this into it's own topic. Has anyone ever played PTA with different players having different and uneven distributions of Screen Presence?  That is, with each character…
In Dog Eared Designs
Participants: Sindyr.

7/13/2006 Sindyr: A bodiless, persona less character?
Just a though that occured to me. Does anything in Capes forbid me from creating a "character" which is nothing more that a list of attributes? For example, what if…
In Muse of Fire Games
Participants: Sindyr, TheCzech, LemmingLord, Ben Lehman, Vaxalon, Hans, Gaerik, Matthew Glover, nicolasfueyo, Sydney Freedberg, TonyLB, Threlicus, Bret Gillan, Tuxboy, joshua neff.

7/13/2006 Sindyr: Capes game at JiffyCon, July 29th?
Does anyone know about this, or who is running it, or how it will be run? http://fairgame-rpgs.com/jiffycon.html
In Muse of Fire Games
Participants: Sindyr, Hans.

7/20/2006 Sindyr: Coercive/Push versus Enticing/Pull Capes Play
I have been thinking about this a bit, what with the drifting going on in a sister thread, and as always, I do better when I think out loud.  But…
In Muse of Fire Games
Participants: Sindyr, TonyLB, Bret Gillan, Threlicus, drnuncheon, ubergeek2012, Andrew Morris, Tuxboy, xeperi, Gaerik, Sydney Freedberg.

7/20/2006 Sindyr: Conflicts are about what you *can't* do, not what you *can*.
In many ways Conflicts are not about what you CAN accomplish, but about what you CAN'T. Consider:  You can narrate almost anything without constraint in the processes of a Capes…
In Muse of Fire Games
Participants: Sindyr, Vaxalon, Bret Gillan, Gaerik, TonyLB, Hans, Tuxboy, Glendower, LemmingLord.

7/26/2006 Sindyr: Awarding tokens: another possible flaw in Capes?
Please don't all start with the hating, but I may have discovered another possible flaw in Capes, which may also be fixed in post via the Social Contract. When you…
In Muse of Fire Games
Participants: Sindyr, joshua neff, Vaxalon, Doyce, Gaerik, Hans, Tuxboy, TonyLB, Valamir, Bret Gillan, xeperi, Sydney Freedberg, LemmingLord.

7/26/2006 Sindyr: The forums suffer some SERIOUS performance issue - give hamsters more food?
Is there any plans to make the boards not as slow and laggy?  Any specific projects in place looking for donations? Cause loading a forum post can take 20-40 seconds,…
In Muse of Fire Games
Participants: Sindyr, TonyLB, xeperi, Vaxalon, Sydney Freedberg, Clinton R. Nixon.

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