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8/13/2002 Clinton R. Nixon: New forum structure
The forums are being reorganized (as we discussed in New days upon us) in order to accomodate more independent game forums. The first big change you'll see will be that…
In Site Discussion
Participants: Clinton R. Nixon, Valamir, Paul Czege, Russell Hoyle, Ron Edwards.

8/13/2002 Ron Edwards: The bad incident at GenCon
Hello everybody, I had the pleasure of meeting Jeff Dee at GenCon. This is the guy who published Villains & Vigilantes at 17, and went on to many other games.…
In Site Discussion
Participants: Ron Edwards, Mike Holmes, Matt Snyder, joshua neff, Paul Czege, Jake Norwood, Gordon C. Landis, hardcoremoose, Jürgen Mayer, Marco, Doc Midnight, S.Lonergan, Jack Spencer Jr.

8/13/2002 Bogie_71: Confusion with Battle system
Ran some test battles last night and most things ran pretty smoothly but I was left with a few questions. Does Shield Rating stack with Armor Rating in the Zones…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: Bogie_71, Jake Norwood, Valamir, Spikor, Mokkurkalfe, Wolfen, Spartan.

8/13/2002 Spikor: Oriental Weapons
Any ideas out there on what the stats would be for oriental weapons specifically, the katana and the wakizashi?
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: Spikor, Bob Richter, Mike Holmes, Riddlemaster, Jake Norwood, Valamir, Ron Edwards, GreatWolf, Lyrax, contracycle, Jaif, Wolfen, svenlein, Brian Leybourne, Bankuei, Crusader.

8/13/2002 Brad: Twist on the Skill+Attribute Dice Pool Mechanic
Many systems out there use a common Skill+Attribute system for determining the number of dice the player gets to allocate to his dice pool. The issue I have with this…
In RPG Theory
Participants: Brad, Ron Edwards, Mike Holmes, Matt Snyder, efindel, Andrew Martin, Le Joueur, Jeremy Cole.

8/13/2002 Bob Richter: On Priorities (and a friendlier priority table.)
Take the various priorities. Race, for example. An F is merely "Normal" -- nothing good or bad about it, you're just the common human. Indeed, E is the same thing,…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: Bob Richter, Valamir, Jake Norwood, Mike Holmes, Lyrax, Jaif, Brian Leybourne, Furious D.

8/13/2002 Demonspahn: Dead Meat in play
Hi everyone. Just wanted to let all you GenConners know that some of us on the other side played games this weekend as well. :) We had an unusual session…
In Destroy All Games
Participants: Demonspahn, Ron Edwards, unodiablo, Gordon C. Landis.

8/13/2002 Michael Hopcroft: Online Play
Since I'm going to be rearching online play for HeartQuest Online anyway, I thought I'd ask if anyone on the forum had any war stories regarding play by chat, e-mail…
In Actual Play
Participants: Michael Hopcroft, Paganini, greyorm.

8/13/2002 Jared A. Sorensen: octaNe on sale now!
Yup, it's ready. http://memento-mori.com/octane/index.html Thanks to everyone for their amazing salescraft at the Forge booth, especially Mssrs. Blair, Luikart and Mayer for going above and beyond (and probably scaring some…
In Memento-Mori Theatricks
Participants: Jared A. Sorensen, Bailywolf, Balbinus, Clinton R. Nixon.

8/13/2002 Clinton R. Nixon: Find your local con!
After all the GenCon greatness, it's time to attack the local cons. I've been attending Seattle conventions for two years, and have noticed a lot of people that don't attend…
In Actual Play
Participants: Clinton R. Nixon, Michael Hopcroft, Bailywolf, jburneko, K.R.Peterson, J B Bell, unodiablo, xiombarg, efindel, rafael, Michael S. Miller, Ron Edwards, Jared A. Sorensen, Gonster.

8/13/2002 Michael Hopcroft: 38 Copies Sold, 25 given out, 85 Consigned -- 940 to go?
Well, the grand debut of HeartQuest wass what most indie puiblishers would describe as moderately successful. I sold 38 copies of the game at my first convention and gave out…
In Publishing
Participants: Michael Hopcroft, Clinton R. Nixon, Jason L Blair, Eugene Zee, Jake Norwood, Ron Edwards.

8/13/2002 Jared A. Sorensen: Black Lipstick
It's still way in the formative stages but I'm working on a new free RPG called "Black Lipstick." It's a game about the goth scene and all it entails. Some…
In Memento-Mori Theatricks
Participants: Jared A. Sorensen, amiel, Ron Edwards, Henry Fitch, Adam, Matt.

8/13/2002 Jaif: Flails and parry
I was looking through the weapon stats, and noticing that flails ignore 2 shield block successes. Sounds good, but what if I parry? It seems to me that parrying a…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: Jaif, Lyrax, Jake Norwood, Wolfen, Mike Holmes, Durgil, Thorbrin.

8/12/2002 Mark Imbriaco: Sorcerer in PDF?
I picked up a hard-bound copy of Sorcerer at Gencon and gave it a read through on the plane ride home. To say I'm impressed with the elegance of the…
In Adept Press
Participants: Mark Imbriaco, Ron Edwards, Adam.

8/12/2002 Ron Edwards: Receiving the Diana Jones award
Hello, I've been trying to wear my "brave but humble" face, publicly, but here in my own forum, I think I'll let it slip. This has been a full and…
In Adept Press
Participants: Ron Edwards, Gordon C. Landis, Demonspahn.

8/12/2002 Ron Edwards: New days upon us
Hi everybody, This is the first of my many post-GenCon posts. I doubt I'll be able to get even the first wave of them on-line by the end of the…
In Site Discussion
Participants: Ron Edwards, Clinton R. Nixon, Matt Snyder, Nathan, pigames, Mytholder, Demonspahn, Balbinus, Paul Czege, Christopher Kubasik, damion.

8/12/2002 Durgil: Toughness
[quote][b]Spartan wrote ([url]http://www.shadowharn.net/viewtopic.php?t=741[/url]):[/b] My main beef with the system is the TOUGHNESS stat. It functions the same as armour reduction, and I find that to be a bit unrealistic. If…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: Durgil, Brian Leybourne, Mokkurkalfe, Jake Norwood, Spartan, Lyrax, Bob Richter, Jaif, Bogie_71, Wolfen, Mike Holmes, MTG, Valamir, Enoch, Ace, svenlein, Jasper, Thirsty Viking, Northcott, Sneaky Git, Apprentice of Steel, Holt, Shadeling, Nick Pagnucco.

8/12/2002 Jake Norwood: WWGS...what does it mean...
For those of you that aren't familiar, you HAVE to check out this site: http://www.father-ramos.com it has slow loading times, but is worth a visit. Particularly check out the sermons…
In Publishing
Participants: Jake Norwood, Clinton R. Nixon, hardcoremoose, mahoux, Ron Edwards, WhistlinFiend, Matt Gwinn, Mytholder, Seth L. Blumberg, Clay, Blake Hutchins, John Wick, Heraldic Game Design, contracycle, Paganini, Christopher Kubasik, Walt Freitag, Mike Holmes, Michael Hopcroft.

8/12/2002 Paul Czege: Matt freakin' Gwinn
After four days at GenCon, this I gotta say. If you are ever in the position of planning for the sale of your game at a convention, Matt Gwinn is…
In Errant Knight Games
Participants: Paul Czege, Matt Gwinn, Mike Holmes, Jake Norwood.

8/12/2002 Ben Morgan: Sorcerer in NYC
Sorry, I didn't mention it earlier, but the last time I was at Compleat Strategist in Midtown Manhattan, they had several (five or six at least) copies each of the…
In Adept Press
Participants: Ben Morgan.

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8/13/2002 Clinton R. Nixon: Forum utility
We're going to keep this forum - I've renamed it to GenCon Planning and Organization. I think keeping these posts will be a good resource next year when we have…
In GenCon Planning and Organization
Participants: Clinton R. Nixon, Ron Edwards, Jason L Blair.

8/13/2002 Mokkurkalfe: Spiritual Attributes by the hundreds!
Alright, what kind of cool SA's can you come up with? Give me your best shot, and include some adventure hooks and possibilites. Like so: Drive: Enforce Law and Order…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: Mokkurkalfe, Spikor, Mike Holmes, Warboss Grock, Ron Edwards, Stephen, prophet118, Ashren Va'Hale, Vanguard, Lyrax.

8/13/2002 wyrdlyng: InSpectres Saturday
One of our regular players wasn't going to be able to make it to our biweekly D&D game so I got them to try InSpectres. We created a small start-up…
In Actual Play
Participants: wyrdlyng.

8/13/2002 Valamir: Memberslist Suggestion
I was searching through the members list today trying to find the name of someone I wanted to PM (and couldn't quite remember it accurately enough to use Search) when…
In Site Discussion
Participants: Valamir.

8/13/2002 Brian Leybourne: Rule variants
Let me preface this by saying that I don't think the tRoS rule system is in any way lacking etc. I'm just one of those roleplayers who likes to try…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: Brian Leybourne, Mike Holmes, Wolfen, Ace, Mokkurkalfe, Lyrax.

8/13/2002 Jason L Blair: TROS in InQuest
From InQuest 89, page 27: THE RIDDLE OF STEEL RPG WHAT IT IS: A new RPG set on the world of Weyreth, with origins in Celtic and Norse mythology. Driftwood.…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: Jason L Blair, Nick Pagnucco.

8/14/2002 GreatWolf: Update (8/13/2002)
Well, with GenCon having come and gone and the Forge receiving a facelift, it seemed like a good time to post an update. So here goes. I started writing Legends…
In Dark Omen Games
Participants: GreatWolf, Clinton R. Nixon, Ron Edwards.

8/14/2002 Michael Hopcroft: Looking for editors who need practice
I'm looking for skilled but not neccesarily experienced copyeditors who need credits and experience before they can move on to bigger and better things, to help Seraphim Guard make its…
In Connections
Participants: Michael Hopcroft, quozl, Ron Edwards, simon, efindel, Rich Forest, xiombarg, Adam, Trevor Curtis, rafael.

8/14/2002 Comte: locations
Alright I finnaly got a chance to fill in this IOU, that was kinda emabarasseing but no pride for the wicked. Anyway I finnaly figgured out what to do. It's…
In Key 20 Publishing
Participants: Comte.

8/14/2002 Clinton R. Nixon: New game based on The Pool
In case you guys haven't seen it, Mike Gentry's been actually writing his hobo game, Hard Travellin'. A long time ago, it had a different name, and used Fudge, and…
In Random Order Creations
Participants: Clinton R. Nixon, Ron Edwards, Blake Hutchins, James V. West.

8/14/2002 Clinton R. Nixon: Forge Game Bag
No one buys this stuff (really), but I just wanted to let everyone know that I updated the Forge Cafepress.com store with new stuff, including a jersey, and two bags…
In Site Discussion
Participants: Clinton R. Nixon, Jason L Blair, wyrdlyng, kamikaze.

8/14/2002 Clinton R. Nixon: octaNe dice question
Jared, When facing Hazards, do you reduce the number of dice rolled by the Hazard Rating, or do you roll your normal dice, and remove a number of dice (highest…
In Memento-Mori Theatricks
Participants: Clinton R. Nixon, Jared A. Sorensen.

8/14/2002 Jake Norwood: Driftwood Indie Game Night: octaNe
Well, we just played octaNe. It rocked. Ben More played "the Great Muchacho," or something like that, a smartcar with a mashed potato dispenser in the cab and machine guns…
In Actual Play
Participants: Jake Norwood.

8/14/2002 Ferry Bazelmans: Soap: an extensive rewrite - help needed
[i]Note: I wasn't sure wether or not this post would now fall under the connection forum. If it needs to be moved, it needs to be moved...[/i] Soap has been…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Ferry Bazelmans, Ron Edwards, chaosvoyager.

8/14/2002 Christoffer Lernö: Talking about Skills again
I'm (as usual) running into trouble because I can't accept the common way of solving a certain mechanic. Actually, this is the mother of all mechanics. I'm talking about skill…
In RPG Theory
Participants: Christoffer Lernö, Le Joueur, Ron Edwards, ks13, Ian Charvill, M. J. Young, Andrew Martin.

8/14/2002 Bailywolf: Printing Question
Please forgive me this morning...I'm feeling like the last pumpkin in the patch (the one with the smooshed side and the strange odor). What is the best way to print…
In Memento-Mori Theatricks
Participants: Bailywolf, Matt Snyder, Chris Passeno.

8/14/2002 Corvus: The Forge in Ken Hite's Out of the Box
The 8/9/2002 column of Ken Hite's Out of the Box talks about various Forge related things. Check it out.
In Site Discussion
Participants: Corvus, Valamir.

8/14/2002 Matt Snyder: Out of the box, into the fire
Holy Frijoles, compadres! Ken Hite has called out Dust Devils in his Out of the Box GenCon wrap-up, including a final note that he'll review the game soon. Which means,…
In Chimera Creative
Participants: Matt Snyder, Valamir, Mike Holmes, Jake Norwood, Gordon C. Landis, Clay, GreatWolf, Jason L Blair.

8/14/2002 Ron Edwards: Publishing Dust Devils
Hi Matt, Um, I advise caution. I agree that the "next commercial step" is called for, for Dust Devils. But slamming it into the stores? Remember, retailers give Not One…
In Chimera Creative
Participants: Ron Edwards, Matt Snyder, Mike Holmes, Jared A. Sorensen, jburneko.

8/14/2002 Wolfen: Dreams of the Riddle
I had a dream last night, guys. It was my typical weird dream, with all sorts of stuff going on in it that made sense in context, but after the…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: Wolfen, Furious D, Jake Norwood.

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