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7/6/2002 jburneko: Passers & Abilities
Hello Again, Okay, so I just noticed something while preping for Monday's game. Passer Demons can not have Boost but more interestingly they can not confer their abilities onto others.…
In Adept Press
Participants: jburneko, Christopher Kubasik, Ron Edwards.

7/6/2002 Ring Kichard: Rounds are for Boxers, silly.
Integrated initiative Or A System Plug I was inspired to try this technique after hearing about a game - possibly superheroic - which interpreted its dice rolls two ways simultaneously:…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Ring Kichard, Le Joueur, damion, gizem, Evan Waters.

7/6/2002 bluekabuto: Hero Quest Release date?
Howdy - I am sure this has all been asked before, but can someone give me a release date on the new HeroQuest book thats due out? I'd love to…
In HeroQuest
Participants: bluekabuto, Blake Hutchins, Christopher Kubasik, Uncle Dark, Ron Edwards, epweissengruber, rdl, Mike Holmes, Norbert Franz, Thalaxis, Christoffer Lernö, Peter Nordstrand, simon_hibbs, Ian Cooper, Michael Bowman, sben, Mark Galeotti.

7/6/2002 James V. West: playtester roll call
If you've ever played The Pool or TQB and posted about the experience, or contacted me personally about it, please send an email to this address: players@randomordercreations.com Include your name…
In Random Order Creations
Participants: James V. West.

7/5/2002 contracycle: Magic & the Metagame
We've been discussing the metagame fairly extensively of light, and from time to time we have also touched on some of the hardy perennials of FRPG, what makes a good/mysterious/flexible/magical…
In RPG Theory
Participants: contracycle, Le Joueur, Jack Spencer Jr.

7/4/2002 Henry Fitch: The Big Box
Y'know how some games used to come in big boxes, with bunches of different books and maps and funs stuff like that? Getting Everway recently made me realize how much…
In Publishing
Participants: Henry Fitch, Ron Edwards, Bailey, Matt Gwinn, rafael, Jack Spencer Jr.

7/4/2002 Paganini: Vincent's Bidding Mechanic
Vincent was talking about Otherkind-ish mechanics in this thread. In that game the values of the dice were assigned at the instance of play rather than being predetermined by the…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Paganini, Jack Spencer Jr, Ring Kichard, Emily Care, Victor Gijsbers.

7/4/2002 Tim Denee: InSpectres and Donjon
OK. So. I didn't get to play Star War/Questing Beast in the end, but I did play a game and a half of InSpectres and a little Donjon. InSpectres went…
In Actual Play
Participants: Tim Denee, contracycle.

7/4/2002 Christoffer Lernö: Character classes & conflict balance
Originally (or actually not originally, I've had approximately a billon different ideas how to handle this before this last way) I was thinking of handling character creation by use of…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Christoffer Lernö, Ollog Herder, hive, Jack Spencer Jr, Victor Gijsbers.

7/4/2002 rabidchyld: A Chthonian Adventure
So I did a playtest of Chthonian. You can read about that here. They players have left an open end, which needs to be tied up, but I would like…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: rabidchyld, Ring Kichard, Zak Arntson.

7/3/2002 Durgil: The August Release
I was just wondering if (hoping that) the Rule Book will be availible for sale on the Net when it comes out in August.
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: Durgil, Lyrax.

7/3/2002 Nathan: Fat Website Updates
My first D20 effort is up: http://www.mysticages.com/snowycrag I have been working on it for a while, and I ran one of my first D&D 3E campaigns in the setting of…
In Mystic Ages Online
Participants: Nathan.

7/3/2002 Clinton R. Nixon: Help with demons in The Clicking Sands
My group and I got together last night to make characters for Sorcerer and Sword. We're jump-starting the game by using the Clicking Sands setting right out of the book,…
In Adept Press
Participants: Clinton R. Nixon, Jared A. Sorensen, Ron Edwards, Gordon C. Landis, Bailywolf, Mike Holmes, Clay, Valamir.

7/3/2002 lumpley: OtherKind-ish Mechanics in Action
So we played our Ars Magica game last night, and it was the big battle. We had a GM, which is unusual for us, but none of my characters were…
In Actual Play
Participants: lumpley, contracycle, Bankuei.

7/3/2002 Nathan: First Eldritch Ass Kicking Review
[url]http://www.gamingreport.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=Reviews&file=index&req=showcontent&id=233[/url] Wow... 4.5 out of 5 stars... cool. I'll be posting this on the EAK site too. Thanks, Nathan Hill
In Mystic Ages Online
Participants: Nathan, GraveyardGreg, Jason L Blair.

7/3/2002 Ace: Two sites to see TROS weapons in use
Here are a couple of sites with downloadable movies of Rapier, Dagger, Shortsword, Unarmed and Longsword stuff http://www.thehaca.com/Videos/Videos.htm and http://www.the-exiles.org/vid_020609/vid_index.htm both are very cool
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: Ace.

7/2/2002 Petter Sandelin: Character generation going on and on and..
I've just finished rewriting characters with my players for the second part of our Sorcerer chron. Actually I lied, we haven't finished them yet. This has brought up something I've…
In Actual Play
Participants: Petter Sandelin, Christopher Kubasik, Jack Spencer Jr, rabidchyld, Ron Edwards, Scratchware, Eric J., jburneko, Jared A. Sorensen, Bankuei, Paul Czege.

7/2/2002 SarimRune: My magic system
Hi there. Well, I posted this on RPG.net but didn't get a lot of feedback. I'm hoping for a little more here. Maybe I should say, long time lurker, first…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: SarimRune, Bailywolf, Mike Holmes, Wolfen, MetaDude.

7/2/2002 hardcoremoose: The Charnel Gods are coming!
Seriously, check this out: Charnel Gods The artwork is coming in, and I'm diligently working on the text. The problem is this: I want this to set a new…
In Adept Press
Participants: hardcoremoose, Bailywolf, Ron Edwards, Valamir, Christopher Kubasik, Gordon C. Landis, Bankuei, Ben Morgan, bpzinn, greyorm, Matt Snyder, urbwar.

7/2/2002 jburneko: Die Mechanics & NPCs
Hello, Okay, so here I am preping for my upcoming game (WAY EXCITED) and I suddenly had a thought. How do all the bonuses and what not affect NPCs? There…
In Adept Press
Participants: jburneko, Ron Edwards, Paul Czege, Christopher Kubasik, Emily Care.

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7/7/2002 Jasper: Interruptions and Order (IIEE)
I suppose I should announce that this is my first topic, though I've been lurking for a bit. Bravo to everyone here, it really is a great place. On with…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Jasper, Ring Kichard, Christoffer Lernö, damion, Mike Holmes.

7/7/2002 Bailey: Lead or Gold
Played Lead or Gold a couple of day ago. It went smooth but I'm wondering a few things. Is there anything in the rules that supports this being in space?…
In Actual Play
Participants: Bailey, Jared A. Sorensen.

7/8/2002 bluekabuto: Cookie Fu Goes to Press, Gen Con, and Cafe Press
Konnichiwa - Blue Kabuto would like to announce that Cookie Fu has gone to production! The dice have gone off to the manufacturing plant and we're prepping the other contents…
In Publishing
Participants: bluekabuto.

7/8/2002 lumpley: Shadows
My 5-year-old Sebastian and I have been playing Shadows. (Uh, let's see: Shadows.) We're playing it without tokens, just very simply with the two dice. We've played two sessions. He…
In Actual Play
Participants: lumpley, Zak Arntson, Emily Care.

7/8/2002 Ron Edwards: Origins debriefing
Hi everyone, Here's my Origins Report! I'll start by clarifying that Origins is one of the two big player-targeted gaming conventions, sponsored by GAMA (the Game Manufacturer's Association), which also…
In Publishing
Participants: Ron Edwards, Mike Holmes, Jake Norwood, Misguided Games, Michael Hopcroft.

7/8/2002 Ron Edwards: Tons o'games at Origins
Hey there, And did we play. Oh my. These are what I got to play in. SORCERER I ran the Lincoln High Reunion demo scenario, with John Clements, Jared Sorensen,…
In Actual Play
Participants: Ron Edwards, Jared A. Sorensen, Mokkurkalfe, Mike Holmes, Blake Hutchins, Jason L Blair, Chris Passeno, Clinton R. Nixon, Paul Czege, Jake Norwood, Valamir, Michael Hopcroft.

7/8/2002 Mike Holmes: Mike's Standard Rant #5: The Myth of Opposed Rolls
[size=18px]Mike's Standard Rant #5: The Myth of Opposed Rolls[/size] When RPGs started resolution rolls were all of the "Roll vs. Target" type. Soon thereafter, however, somebody invented the idea of…
In RPG Theory
Participants: Mike Holmes, Clinton R. Nixon, Le Joueur, Bankuei, Gordon C. Landis, Ring Kichard, Paganini, Reimer Behrends, Paul Czege, Wart, damion, Jake Norwood, Walt Freitag, contracycle.

7/9/2002 Jared A. Sorensen: octaNe, GenCon and the future of MMT
Wow, sounds dark and dire, eh? octaNe is really close to being done. I just sent out the (possible) final draft for editing. It's 55 pages of balls-out rockin'. :)…
In Memento-Mori Theatricks
Participants: Jared A. Sorensen, TSL.

7/9/2002 jjkahrs: Dark-Gritty feel and Rules Light?
I'm running into a bit of a creative clash while developing my current RPG idea. The setting is a dark and gritty superhero setting much like Dark Knight Returns or…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: jjkahrs, Ring Kichard, Ron Edwards, Victor Gijsbers, Bankuei, Jake Norwood, damion, Paul Czege, Mike Holmes.

7/9/2002 Jürgen Mayer: Tons o' games at NURD
My roleplaying convention NURD went extremely well last week. We had about 150 gamers from all over the country (we even had guests from Hamburg - that's on the other…
In Actual Play
Participants: Jürgen Mayer, Ron Edwards.

7/9/2002 Ron Edwards: The Forge at GenCon - CRUCIAL POST
So far, based on my financial records, here are the people who are going to be at the booth, in addition to me and Jason. Gordon Landis Scott Knipe Paul…
In Publishing
Participants: Ron Edwards, Matt Gwinn, Jürgen Mayer, Matt Snyder, Demonspahn, Jason L Blair, Jerry D. Grayson, TSL, Misguided Games, Gordon C. Landis, GreatWolf, woodelf.

7/9/2002 Ron Edwards: Universalis play at Origins
Hi there, So I finally lost my Universalis cherry, thanks to Mike's "No means Yes" approach to running a demo. Here are some of my thoughts and questions, and bear…
In Universalis
Participants: Ron Edwards, Valamir, Mike Holmes.

7/9/2002 Steve Dustin: Why simulationism?
I've been off and on these boards for a while, generally watching from a distance. I've been thinking about my current RPG experiences, and in that context think I might…
In GNS Model Discussion
Participants: Steve Dustin, Ron Edwards, Clinton R. Nixon, Mike Holmes, Walt Freitag, Le Joueur, contracycle, Paganini, Matt Snyder, amiel.

7/9/2002 jburneko: Sorcerer - Gothic Fantasy - Session #1
Hello All, Well, last night was the first session of my Sorcerer game. It went GREAT! First of all, I'd like to say that, as advertised, this game IS Intense.…
In Actual Play
Participants: jburneko, Ron Edwards, Christopher Kubasik, Petter Sandelin.

7/9/2002 Clinton R. Nixon: Sorcerer and Sword - Under the Blood Sun
I'm starting a new game of Sorcerer and Sword tonight, called "Under the Blood Sun." It's loosely based on the Clicking Sands setting from S&S, with a few bizarre changes.…
In Actual Play
Participants: Clinton R. Nixon, Bankuei, Paul Czege, Ron Edwards, Matt Snyder, Clay, Mike Holmes, Yasha, Zak Arntson, Uncle Dark, DaR.

7/10/2002 Jeffrey Straszheim: Sorcerer in play, some things worked, some didn't
It has been literally years since I've had a good roleplaying experience. In the past year I've made two attempts: an Everway group that played for about three sessions before…
In Actual Play
Participants: Jeffrey Straszheim, Ron Edwards, Jared A. Sorensen, Blake Hutchins, J B Bell.

7/10/2002 pigames: Question for what players want - please help.
Our new game in development is not combat intensive. We are debating whether to use a fitness trait to encompass strength and dexterity, or just use strength and dexterity like…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: pigames, S.Lonergan, Matt, Victor Gijsbers, Paul Czege, Valamir, Bailywolf, Ron Edwards, Skippy.

7/10/2002 Jared A. Sorensen: octaNe: sneak peek at the driver's seat
[i]I'm a rocker / I'm a roller / I'm an out of controller[/i] Ben has done it again, ladies and germs... http://www.memento-mori.com/octane/octanesheet-lowres.gif
In Memento-Mori Theatricks
Participants: Jared A. Sorensen, Bailywolf, Matt, Paul Czege, Clinton R. Nixon, Jürgen Mayer, Bankuei.

7/10/2002 Jake Norwood: I'm Back!
Hi ya'll. Origins was a sheer blast. I rand one of the coolest TROS games ever with a bunch of Forge-ites, as well as playing a few other games (such…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: Jake Norwood, Ace, Brian Leybourne.

7/11/2002 Jake Norwood: TROS Webpage: What next?
I've got a hankerin' to add to the webpage, so I'm looking for ideas and directions, as well as stuff you all want to submit. I'll put just about anything…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: Jake Norwood, Clinton R. Nixon, Valamir, Ace, Brian Leybourne, Rattlehead, Mike Holmes.

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