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7/27/2002 Paul Czege: The Rest of Synthesis
Hey Mike, JB, Here's the remainder of my comments and reactions to Synthesis, all crammed into one big post. Text in red is from the game document. Bold text subheads…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Paul Czege, Syphon, J B Bell, Mike Holmes.

7/26/2002 greyorm: Indie Netgaming Monday: Otherkind
Well I ran a game of Otherkind last Monday night in our channel (#indierpgs ) on the magicstar IRC network, and we continued it on Tuesday night. I must say…
In Actual Play
Participants: greyorm, Valamir, Ron Edwards, Blake Hutchins, Andrew Martin, Bob McNamee.

7/26/2002 Paul Czege: Second-guessing Self in Synthesis
Mike, JB, So, I've been reading Synthesis. And I have to say, I literally can't envision how Self will play out during an actual scenario. PCs always have a…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Paul Czege, Mike Holmes.

7/26/2002 Jake Norwood: I want it on one page or a pdf
Okay, I'm sick of it. I want to read and get (as in "understand") Scattershot really badly, but I can't get it from a hundred random posts full of inter-line…
In Scattershot
Participants: Jake Norwood, Seth L. Blumberg, Le Joueur, damion.

7/26/2002 Paul Czege: Social Contract and Synthesis
Hey Mike, JB, On the X-Games back in the Pool thread, Ron wrote: Related to that, regarding the Social Contract issue (and I recognize that "social contract" is…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Paul Czege, Ron Edwards, Mike Holmes, Wolfen, Valamir, Le Joueur.

7/26/2002 Seth L. Blumberg: Google indexing the Forums?
Check out what I found while ego-surfing. Can we get a /robots.txt that excludes search engines from the Forums, please? I don't necessarily want a prospective employer to be looking…
In Site Discussion
Participants: Seth L. Blumberg, Clinton R. Nixon, Zak Arntson, Matt Snyder, Le Joueur, Victor Gijsbers, Paul Czege.

7/26/2002 Le Joueur: You May Be at a Disadvantage, But It's Gonna Cost You!
There's something I've been thinking about for some time. (Hiding it from game design actually.) Everyone knows Scattershot is a fairly familiar 'buy abilities with points during character creation' game,…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Le Joueur, Seth L. Blumberg, Zak Arntson, Ron Edwards, Mike Holmes, xiombarg, Valamir, Andrew Martin, efindel, Philippe Tromeur, Paul Czege.

7/26/2002 Uncle Dark: Adventures in Ralios
Heya, I'm planning a game set in Ralios, centered in along the Doskior River as it creates the border of Delia, Saug, and Vustria. I have a vague idea about…
In HeroQuest
Participants: Uncle Dark, Ian Cooper.

7/26/2002 Clinton R. Nixon: New game (Paladin!) and new forum
Hey, everyone - I've got a forum now. After looking at how many posts there were about Donjon, Ron and I decided to give me my own little forum here.…
In CRN Games
Participants: Clinton R. Nixon, Jake Norwood, Valamir, greyorm, Zak Arntson, Tim Denee, Ben Morgan.

7/26/2002 Michael Hopcroft: Swag
As long as I'm going to GenCon, a lot of people are going to ask me for free copies of my game for review or in return for their games.…
In Publishing
Participants: Michael Hopcroft, Dav, Jared A. Sorensen, Ron Edwards, Jason L Blair, Jürgen Mayer, Adam, Clay.

7/26/2002 Sjohn: Any experiences with FinePrint PDF software?
Has anyone had much play with FinePrint? http://www.fineprint.com/ It's an alternative to Distiller for making PDFs (in Windows), very inexpensive. There's a lot more control than using something like Ghostscript,…
In Publishing
Participants: Sjohn, hive.

7/26/2002 Demonspahn: Played Dreamwalker with a first time GM (LONG)
Hi everyone. Just wanted to post some thoughts from a recent Dreamwalker session. This is a LONG post that covers some notes about my group as well as a run…
In Actual Play
Participants: Demonspahn.

7/25/2002 hyphz: Taking a plunge... (long and a bit waffly, sorry)
I know that a while ago on this group I posted some messages that related to being dissatisfied with a present gaming group. (Don't worry, this isn't another one of…
In Actual Play
Participants: hyphz, Gordon C. Landis, Le Joueur, Wart, Ron Edwards, Paul Czege, Ben Morgan, Mytholder, Walt Freitag, Zak Arntson.

7/25/2002 Nathan: New Era: 1950s Gaming on the Edge?
Hello folks. I have no updates on Rodendom, the Cross, or anything lately. I've been working on getting actionroll.com up and going, as well paying attention to my real life…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Nathan, Jason L Blair, Ron Edwards.

7/25/2002 Blake Hutchins: X-Games back in the Pool
Hello, With the stress and long hours incumbent with founding a startup company, I've found little time for gaming. Some of you may recall the short-lived X-games group I ran…
In Actual Play
Participants: Blake Hutchins, Ron Edwards, Le Joueur, Valamir.

7/25/2002 Matt Steflik: Inspectres - Interview variant
This is just the nugget of an idea, but I'd like to share it and see what folks think. Instead of starting with a franchise, player characters start the game…
In Memento-Mori Theatricks
Participants: Matt Steflik, Bailywolf.

7/19/2002 Michael Hopcroft: I'm beginning to wonder which is worse.....
Origins nerves or GenCon nevres. Even though I'll be at a rival booth, I have hopes that we can help each other out however we can. I hope that there…
In Publishing
Participants: Michael Hopcroft, Jürgen Mayer, Ron Edwards, Jared A. Sorensen, Eugene Zee.

7/25/2002 Ron Edwards: Otherkind in action
Hi there, I'm in the process of writing up my GenCon demo pack, including character sheets, scenario notes, NPCs, a system summary for games I don't know as well, etc.…
In Actual Play
Participants: Ron Edwards, Blake Hutchins, Bob McNamee, Dav, lumpley.

7/25/2002 Demonspahn: Playing as Belief
I once came up with a idea for a game in which the characters played "imaginary friends", protecting children (their wards) as best they could. Now I'm thinking Drop Dead…
In Key 20 Publishing
Participants: Demonspahn, Comte.

7/25/2002 Demonspahn: Banner creation
Hi everyone. It seems that banners are a big marketing tool for RPG's, I have clicked on many banners at RPGnet, but I don't recall seeing too many banner-related threads.…
In Publishing
Participants: Demonspahn, Michael Hopcroft, Matt, Mike Holmes, Ron Edwards, hive.

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7/27/2002 Jason L Blair: Can I just say... Holy shit!
Peter Adkison, uberhomes behind GenCon, has joined The Forge. Now, how cool would it be to work with him on elevating the Indie Booth from a simple you+me+devotees to a…
In GenCon Planning and Organization
Participants: Jason L Blair, Ron Edwards, Clinton R. Nixon.

7/27/2002 Jake Norwood: Bladeslingers
Most of you have read (or should have read) Ron Edward's Review of TROS here at the forge (www.indie-rpgs.com/reviews/). In it he refers to the seemingly out-of-place role of the…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: Jake Norwood, Wolfen, Blake Hutchins, Bob Richter, Rattlehead, Sneaky Git, Brian Leybourne, Lyrax, Mokkurkalfe, Gordon C. Landis, Silanthous, Roy, Chade.

7/27/2002 Fnork de Sporg: My Lawer has Shark Teeth
[a href="http://www.geocities.com/fnorkdesporg/my-lawyer-has-shark-teeth.html"]Here[/a] is the rough draft of the basic outline of my very first ever indie game, My Lawyer has Shark Teeth, the competitive game of vicious legal combat. IT…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Fnork de Sporg, Ron Edwards.

7/28/2002 Jason L Blair: I got a rack.
You can check it out here: http://www.key20.com/images/mag-rack.jpg I got it from Rob Stone (Citizen Games). He's going to deliver it to me at GenCon. It has 20 8.5x11 slots.
In GenCon Planning and Organization
Participants: Jason L Blair, Ron Edwards.

7/28/2002 Riddlemaster: Sorcery questions
OK need yoru help here got many questions about sorcery and hope you guiys can help 1. Mage gets jumped in alley.. assuming no suprise he and the mugger square…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: Riddlemaster, Lyrax, Bob Richter, Wolfen, Sneaky Git, Jake Norwood, Brian Leybourne, Silanthous, [FHE]dave, Shadeling.

7/28/2002 Philippe Tromeur: Dice roll : an attempt at something new [imajica]
For one of my projects (Imajica in its very early stage : http://imajica.tk ), I'm devising a new way to roll six-sided dice. Here are the main ideas : -…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Philippe Tromeur, Jesse Paulsen, Jake Norwood, ks13, Mike Holmes, Ron Edwards, M. J. Young, Tim Gray.

7/28/2002 Jake Norwood: Driftwood Mini-Con: [b]Three games![/b] (long)
Yesterday I managed to take a day off work and put together a gaming group for a really mini mini game convention. We played from 3pm until 2am, with a…
In Actual Play
Participants: Jake Norwood, Ron Edwards, Jason L Blair, Zak Arntson.

7/28/2002 Rich Forest: Shotgun Musashi
Hi all, While editing octaNe, I finally decided that it was time to write up one of my game ideas and get it out there. So I sat down and…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Rich Forest, Mike Holmes.

7/28/2002 ShaneNINE: Questions about armor
So I'm making my first character and I get to the equipment part and I'm rather surprised to see there's only leather, chain, and plate. What about boiled leather, scale,…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: ShaneNINE, Jake Norwood, Brian Leybourne.

7/28/2002 Brian Leybourne: Sigh.. another group bites the dust
Had an RPG group collapse last night. It's never nice when that happens. Bascially, I have 2 groups. One is comprised of brilliant roleplayers, we have been together for 6…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: Brian Leybourne, Wolfen, PosterX, Jürgen Mayer, Ron Edwards, Bob Richter, Valamir.

7/29/2002 Wolfen: TRoS at Hexacon
Well, I'm back from my very first ever Con; Hexacon. I was a very loyal fanboy, and did my best to expose people to TRoS. First off, Retailer Report: Imperial…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: Wolfen, Jake Norwood.

7/29/2002 Jake Norwood: Paladin, Angels, Demons
I was actually reading Paladin all the way through today and I got an idea. See, I love the idea of the struggle between heaven and hell being carried out…
In CRN Games
Participants: Jake Norwood, Jason L Blair, Jürgen Mayer, Mike Holmes, Jared A. Sorensen, Clinton R. Nixon, Ron Edwards, greyorm.

7/29/2002 Brian Leybourne: Desperately seeking Sus.. err.. Nevermet
Anyone know an email address or other way to contact Nevermet (he used to be a pretty regular contributor here but stopped posting recently). I need to get in touch…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: Brian Leybourne, Jake Norwood.

7/29/2002 Paul Czege: strangeness
Hey Clinton, I just posted to the "You May Be at a Disadvantage, But It's Gonna Cost You!" thread in Indie Game Design. It gave me a cryptic error that…
In Site Discussion
Participants: Paul Czege, Clinton R. Nixon.

7/29/2002 Bailywolf: I've met a real demon
Recently some of the thematics in Sorcerer came into alignment with a situation in my life...not a new situation, but one I only just began to see in this light...…
In Adept Press
Participants: Bailywolf, Ron Edwards.

7/29/2002 Fabrice G.: Problem accessing the forum
Hi, When trying to reach directly the forum index page from my favorite (?) I end up with a pretty: General Error Could not obtain user/online information Powered by phpBB…
In Site Discussion
Participants: Fabrice G., Clinton R. Nixon, Victor Gijsbers.

7/29/2002 Matt Snyder: Dust Devils: Last Stand!
Howdy, folks. After getting away from the computer for a weekend, I sat down for a feverish last leg on the Dust Devils rewrite. The text is nearly complete and…
In Chimera Creative
Participants: Matt Snyder, Bailywolf, Jake Norwood, Ron Edwards, Demonspahn.

7/29/2002 ShaneNINE: Proficiencies and armor
Some questions: 1. Are you only supposed to put points in more than one melee proficiency? I understand that if you put points in one proficiency you can then put…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: ShaneNINE, Jake Norwood, Clinton R. Nixon.

7/29/2002 Jake Norwood: Paladin settings as articles
I was thinking that since many Paladin settings are going to be small ones (2-3 pages, although I think my Heaven and Hell one might be longer) that RPGevolution would…
In RPGevolution Contributors
Participants: Jake Norwood, Clinton R. Nixon, Mike Holmes, Valamir.

7/29/2002 Jake Norwood: Cover art for Of Beasts and Men now up!
Jeremy McHugh's excellent cover art work for Of Beasts and Men in its near-final form is now availble for your oggling at http://www.theriddleofsteel.com/news/ Click on the image for a bigger…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: Jake Norwood, Brian Leybourne, Jürgen Mayer, Valamir, Ron Edwards, Lyrax, Wolfen, Samus75.

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