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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.

4/25/2006 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.

4/25/2006 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.

4/22/2006 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.

4/16/2006 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.

4/14/2006 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.

4/13/2006 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.

4/8/2006 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.

4/4/2006 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.

4/2/2006 Sindyr: Quick Variant Idea: Inspiration combining
Would this be a bad(tm) idea, to have some way to combine smaller inspirations to make bigger ones? Perhaps using the following method - combining two inspirations yields one higher…
In Muse of Fire Games
Participants: Sindyr, TonyLB, dunlaing, Matthew Glover, Zamiel, TheCzech.

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.

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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.

7/26/2006 Sindyr: Unfortunate side effect: Abbreviations. AFFECTS ALL THREADS.
I am now currently trying to have conversations with what seems to be over a dozen people simultaneously, who are posting quite rapidly. Unfortunately, it is not possible to devote…
In Muse of Fire Games
Participants: Sindyr, Valamir, joshua neff, Bret Gillan, TonyLB, Gaerik, John Harper.

7/24/2006 Sindyr: Retcon: Threat or Menace?
[color=Red]Moderation:  What I thought was going to be a momentary tangent on [url=http://www.indie-rpgs.com/forum/index.php?topic=20398.0]Bodiless, Persona-less character[/url] turned into a great big wonderful discussion in its own right.  I was too slow…
In Muse of Fire Games
Participants: Sindyr, TonyLB, joshua neff, xeperi, Sydney Freedberg, Valamir, Tuxboy.

9/27/2006 Sindyr: Forum necrology: A question for the moderator
I know there is some rule about posting in older thread, but I was involved in several conversations a couple of months ago when I had a few different more…
In Muse of Fire Games
Participants: Sindyr, Vaxalon, TonyLB.

9/27/2006 Sindyr: Quick questions: Debt Staking Citation?
Came up in my regular weekly Capes game (I have a regular weekly Capes game! 4 hours most every Tuesday!  Had 3-4 sessions so far, developing nicely.) 1) Does the…
In Muse of Fire Games
Participants: Sindyr, Hans, TonyLB.

9/27/2006 Sindyr: Speeding up war of story tokens?
In the game we played last night, another player and I were going at a particular conflict very intensely - the final one of the scene and night.  He had…
In Muse of Fire Games
Participants: Sindyr, Hans, TonyLB, LemmingLord, Matthew Glover.

9/27/2006 Sindyr: Capes FAQ suggestion
Hans, I *think* you are the overseer of the Capes FAQ, right?  There is one suggestion I would make for a change to it that I think would be very…
In Muse of Fire Games
Participants: Sindyr, Hans.

9/27/2006 Sindyr: More gloating...
A very interesting question was raised that I myself raised many months ago: Gloating If Resolving would violate the group Code the Claimant instead Gloats. Starting with their highest die…
In Muse of Fire Games
Participants: Sindyr, TonyLB, Dave Cleaver, Hans, Matthew Glover, Melinglor, Eero Tuovinen, Ben Lehman.

9/27/2006 Sindyr: The forums suffer some SERIOUS performance issue - give hamsters more food?
Old Topic was: http://www.indie-rpgs.com/forum/index.php?topic=20591.0 Things seem to be OK now, FYI Sindyr, It's your ISP. The site is plenty fast. And yeah, your post…
In Muse of Fire Games
Participants: Sindyr.

9/27/2006 Sindyr: Exhaustive list of everything you can do with Story Tokens?
I went to the Capes FAQ page looking for this, and did not find it. Here's what I can come up with off the top of my head.  Can anyone…
In Muse of Fire Games
Participants: Sindyr, Hans, Matthew Glover, Filip Luszczyk, TonyLB, Melinglor, Tuxboy.

9/27/2006 Sindyr: splitting question
OK, this also happened last night: (more or less, I don't remember exact details) Someone claimed a side that would win, a side I was allied to. The single die…
In Muse of Fire Games
Participants: Sindyr, Hans, TonyLB, Matthew Glover, Filip Luszczyk.

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