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4/24/2002 Ron Edwards: Playing Alyria
Hi, First of all, wowsers. I love the mechanic; it's a truly non-numeric (albeit graded) Fortune mechanic. The game sits very squarely in the same category as Hero Wars, Orkworld,…
In Dark Omen Games
Participants: Ron Edwards, ScarletJester, GreatWolf, Mike Holmes, Blake Hutchins, Jürgen Mayer.

4/23/2002 Ron Edwards: Alyria dice are easy
Hey, I spent all of 25 minutes, maximum, making my Alyria dice this morning. I didn't use the font and I didn't use stickers. The original plan was to take…
In Dark Omen Games
Participants: Ron Edwards, Valamir, GreatWolf, Jürgen Mayer, Blake Hutchins.

4/22/2002 Ron Edwards: Letter to Seth (very harsh)
Seth, I've been going over the Quick-start Alyria rules in some detail, and here are some things you might want to consider. Please brace yourself; in many ways, this post…
In Dark Omen Games
Participants: Ron Edwards, GreatWolf.

4/22/2002 Ron Edwards: Need information for my Alyria session
Seth, I want to run an Alyria scenario with my campus group tomorrow. Here are three characters I just made, using the Quick-Start. To play, I want to know the…
In Dark Omen Games
Participants: Ron Edwards, GreatWolf, Valamir, Mike Holmes.

4/19/2002 Ron Edwards: rad shirt!
Hey, I ordered my own Forge T-shirt and it arrived yesterday. That's a nice damn shirt! It fits well, it's nice comfy material, it's a good color (got the grey…
In Site Discussion
Participants: Ron Edwards, Matt Gwinn, J B Bell, Jason L Blair, Valamir, joshua neff, xiombarg, Paul Czege.

4/18/2002 Ron Edwards: Beef injection: Bob McNamee's Tarot Story Game
Hi there, 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…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Ron Edwards, Bob McNamee.

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.

4/17/2002 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.

4/17/2002 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: 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.

4/16/2002 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.

4/15/2002 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.

4/10/2002 Ron Edwards: Transparency
Hi Andrew and everyone, This post is a followup to the Transparent Game System thread in Indie Game Design. I figured I shouldn't derail the thread, as my concern is…
In RPG Theory
Participants: Ron Edwards, Blake Hutchins, Mike Holmes, Valamir, J B Bell, Jared A. Sorensen, Walt Freitag, contracycle.

4/9/2002 Ron Edwards: Panels, again
Hi there, I was greatly pleased to see Clinton begin the thread on The game formerly known as Panels, as this is something I've wanted to see for a while…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Ron Edwards, Bankuei, Jared A. Sorensen, Clinton R. Nixon, Kenway, C. Edwards, Steve Dustin, Walt Freitag, Buddha Nature, Blake Hutchins, Andrew Martin.

3/31/2002 Ron Edwards: Dust Devils - first session
Hi there, We played Dust Devils yesterday! This represents the first serious foray into a new system for this group after eighteen months of Hero Wars. This group's players are…
In Actual Play
Participants: Ron Edwards, Mike Holmes, Matt Snyder, Valamir, jrs, Gordon C. Landis, unodiablo.

3/22/2002 Ron Edwards: GAMA debriefing
Hello, I spent most of this week at the GAMA Trade Show, an annual event held at Las Vegas. For those of you who don't know, the people who attend…
In Publishing
Participants: Ron Edwards, Jared A. Sorensen, Jason L Blair, Jerry D. Grayson, GMSkarka, Misguided Games, JasonSch.

3/15/2002 Ron Edwards: Profiling strikes again - EVERYBODY play!
Hey everyone, Every few months at the Forge, we play this game. It goes like this: answer the following three questions. No essays, no annotations, no explanations - just the…
In Actual Play
Participants: Ron Edwards, Clinton R. Nixon, Bankuei, Valamir, Robert Leal, erithromycin, Ferry Bazelmans, jburneko, Tim Denee, Chris Passeno, Zak Arntson, Fabrice G., C. Edwards, hyphz, Rich Forest, Bailey, unodiablo, Christopher Kubasik, joe_llama, Blake Hutchins, Matt Snyder, Rod Anderson, Silent Tamatama, Michael S. Miller, hardcoremoose, Galfraxas, Seth L. Blumberg, Armin D. Sykes, Jürgen Mayer, Ace, joshua neff, Sidhain, Gordon C. Landis, sdemory, Walt Freitag, lumpley, Paul Czege, Ayrizale, xiombarg, GreatWolf, Laurel, Dave Versace, Eric.Brennan, Kenway, AndyGuest, Le Joueur, gentrification, Yasha, amiel, Dav, Mytholder, Balbinus, rafael, Trav, Andrew Martin, Matt Gwinn, Steve Dustin, Michael Bowman, Jake Norwood, wyrdlyng, Jared A. Sorensen, contracycle, Wolfen, J B Bell.

3/14/2002 Ron Edwards: Violence Future: disgusting! And only myself to blame
Hi there, We're playtesting the alpha-alpha version of Dav's new RPG, Violence Future (check out this thread for previous discussions). It's totally over-the-top techno-future cyberpunk with lots of demons. Dav…
In Actual Play
Participants: Ron Edwards, Blake Hutchins, Jürgen Mayer, Dav, hardcoremoose.

3/12/2002 Ron Edwards: Seven major misconceptions about GNS
Hello, Given the most recent mishegoss about the topic on RPG.net, and putting aside for the moment various personal attacks on me, I thought I'd outline the wide variety of…
In GNS Model Discussion
Participants: Ron Edwards, Jack Spencer Jr, joshua neff, Christopher Kubasik, Thor Olavsrud.

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4/24/2002 Ron Edwards: Setting help and inspiration
Hi Jake, So I'm thinking about playing and prepping for play, and it's clear to me that the Seat of the Xanarian Empire would be a snap (Benvenuto Cellini territory,…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: Ron Edwards, Jake Norwood, Bankuei, Jaif.

4/27/2002 Ron Edwards: Stores and sales - what helps and what doesn't
Hi there, A couple of unpleasant anecdotes have surfaced in this thread in the Sorcerer forum. I am seeing a very marked dichotomy across stores in terms of Sorcerer, one…
In Publishing
Participants: Ron Edwards, J B Bell, Matt Gwinn, Le Joueur, Clay, JSDiamond.

5/1/2002 Ron Edwards: Badges and badge costs
Well, they upped the price of a booth badge on us, from $45 to $60 (a very significant raise, the fuckers). So, my suggestion is that we keep the cost…
In GenCon Planning and Organization
Participants: Ron Edwards, Clinton R. Nixon, Jason L Blair.

5/1/2002 Ron Edwards: Further customized and diverse combat rules - Just Say No
Hi folks, The "Playing The Riddle of Steel (a little)" thread has split topics a few times, so I'll start a new thread from one of them. Speaking as both…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: Ron Edwards, Ace, Bankuei, Wolfen, Rattlehead, Nick Pagnucco.

5/6/2002 Ron Edwards: Dust Devils approaches the final reel
Hi there, Due to some scheduling conflicts, we haven't been able to continue the Dust Devils game until recently. It's demonstrated some interesting features, most of them very positive. I…
In Actual Play
Participants: Ron Edwards, Matt Snyder, Clay.

5/6/2002 Ron Edwards: DemonCon draws near
Hi folks, Well, the website for it is totally not ready yet (which is my fault), but here's the relevant info. DemonCon I June 1, 2002, 10:00 AM to 6:00…
In Actual Play
Participants: Ron Edwards, Valamir, xiombarg, Mytholder, Mike Holmes, Christopher Kubasik, Paul Czege.

5/8/2002 Ron Edwards: Playing Alyria II
Hi Seth, OK, the second run got started, although we didn't get far due to time constraints. Enthusiasm is very, very high, and I can call Alyria an unqualified success.…
In Dark Omen Games
Participants: Ron Edwards.

5/12/2002 Ron Edwards: 101 part 2: where and who
Hello, I figure it's time to start a new thread; the first one was kind of big and it sets the Task at Hand pretty well. Let's get specific now.…
In HeroQuest
Participants: Ron Edwards, Ian O'Rourke, AndyGuest, Ayrizale, Blake Hutchins, Mike Holmes, contracycle, Reality Aberrant, Christopher Kubasik.

5/13/2002 Ron Edwards: Sabriel and Lirael, by Garth Nix
Hi there, Has anyone read the "young adult fantasy" books by Garth Nix? I'm in the middle of Sabriel right now and have already picked up Lirael (the sequel) for…
In Adept Press
Participants: Ron Edwards, lumpley.

5/15/2002 Ron Edwards: All RPG book publishers take note
Hello, This message is for those of us who publish, or are about to publish, an RPG intended to be available in retail stores. I strongly recommend that company websites…
In Publishing
Participants: Ron Edwards.

5/16/2002 Ron Edwards: got my shirts!
Hey everyone, A while ago, Raven posted here about the Sorcerer t-shirts he put up at Cafe Press. I just received my two that I ordered, and they look great.…
In Adept Press
Participants: Ron Edwards.

5/20/2002 Ron Edwards: More prep help requested
Hello, After some delays, my ROS play begins this week. Here are some more questions that have arisen as I've prepared for it. ONE Anyone with knowledge of Hungarian or…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: Ron Edwards, Jake Norwood, Christopher Kubasik, Rattlehead, Clinton R. Nixon, Jasper.

5/22/2002 Ron Edwards: GenCon update needed
Hey, I've been getting a lot of emails about when people should send their $60 or their $160. This raises two issues. 1) What's a good deadline? I'm thinking July…
In GenCon Planning and Organization
Participants: Ron Edwards, Jason L Blair, Clinton R. Nixon.

5/24/2002 Ron Edwards: Actual Play page at the Sorcerer site
Hi everyone, One thing that I'm enjoying a lot right now are all the great reports from Sorcerer GMs that are cropping up. So I did a little thread-combing, and…
In Adept Press
Participants: Ron Edwards, Christopher Kubasik, Valamir, xiombarg, Clay, joshua neff.

5/24/2002 Ron Edwards: Forge discussion links archive idea
Hello, I know that thread title sounds like glossolalia. It refers to the suggestion made many times, here most recently, that we have some page at the Forge where someone…
In Site Discussion
Participants: Ron Edwards, Clinton R. Nixon.

5/25/2002 Ron Edwards: GenCon 2002 - update & policy
Hello, Jason and I have spent some time hammering out these points and procedures. I know some of them are different from what we said before, but we hit a…
In Publishing
Participants: Ron Edwards, Jared A. Sorensen, Paul Czege, joshua neff, Jason L Blair, Zak Arntson, Seth L. Blumberg, woodelf, Nathan.

5/27/2002 Ron Edwards: The Club Dumas (reprise)
Hello, A while ago, Thor began a thread called The Ninth Gate and The Club Dumas, which I couldn't contribute to very much as I hadn't read the novel. However,…
In Adept Press
Participants: Ron Edwards, Christopher Kubasik, Gordon C. Landis, Fabrice G., Clinton R. Nixon, jrs.

6/3/2002 Ron Edwards: locking things
Hi there, Over in the RPG Theory forum, Eric (Pyron) asked a good question: "... Ron, why bother moving everything from the first tread to a new one, if you…
In Site Discussion
Participants: Ron Edwards, xiombarg, Jared A. Sorensen.

6/3/2002 Ron Edwards: Demon Con I!
Hello, Hey, we did Demon Con! It turned out successfully. I'll run down some of the stuff about it. THE GOOD PARTS The room was set up just how we…
In Actual Play
Participants: Ron Edwards, Valamir, xiombarg, joshua neff, Mike Holmes, Tim C Koppang, furashgf, Buddha Nature, Jürgen Mayer, GreatWolf, Mike W.

6/4/2002 Ron Edwards: Missing relationship maps available
Hello, I have posted the missing relationship maps from The Sorcerer's Soul and Demon Cops at the website, at the Errata page. Also, check out the News item for the…
In Adept Press
Participants: Ron Edwards.

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