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12/7/2010 Troy_Costisick: [Three Roses] Vision Statement
Heya, Back a few years ago I wrote a game for Game Chef.  It was called Hunter Rose.  I loved the game.  A few playtests showed me that it could…
In Game Development
Participants: Troy_Costisick, Artanis, Ron Edwards.

3/21/2008 Troy_Costisick: [Low Power Fantasy] Power 19
Heya, Posting this here for reference and historical purposes.  I hope to get another playtest of it in soon (weather permitting). 1.) What is your game about?** The game us…
In First Thoughts
Participants: Troy_Costisick.

2/12/2008 Troy_Costisick: [Sorcerer] Kind of a Weird, maybe Sad Story
Heya, I went to my FLGS (named Something 2 Do) a couple weeks ago for the Morningtide set release tournament for Magic: The Gathering.  It's on the second floor of…
In Adept Press
Participants: Troy_Costisick, jburneko, rafial, Ron Edwards, Finarvyn.

2/12/2008 Troy_Costisick: [Low Power Fantasy] Playtest 3, Session 1
Heya, I held the first session of the third playtest for a new game and system engine last Saturday.  Before I start describing the session, I’ll link the power 19…
In Playtesting
Participants: Troy_Costisick.

1/18/2008 Troy_Costisick: [Social Contract] How I killed My Partner
Heya, I don't post here in this forum much, but in preparing to run a very gamist campaign for one my newer designs, I began to reflect on what happened…
In Actual Play
Participants: Troy_Costisick, Artanis, Caldis, Noon.

5/8/2007 Troy_Costisick: [GenCon 2007] Forge Booth Menu
Heya, Last year I started to work on a booth menu, then Alexander took it over and did an awesome job.  Is anyone up for starting this project again for…
In Conventions
Participants: Troy_Costisick, Ron Edwards, c, iago, jrs, Eero Tuovinen, Gregor Hutton, Iskander, inthisstyle, Paul Czege, jasonm, Valamir, Blankshield.

5/6/2007 Troy_Costisick: [No Greater Love] Power 19
[b]1.) What is your game about?**[/b] No Greater Love is about getting the chance to die for something your say you would die for.  This is your chance to really…
In First Thoughts
Participants: Troy_Costisick, joepub, Malcolm, Arturo G., Wormwood, Everspinner.

4/23/2007 Troy_Costisick: [Forge Midwest 2007] Reflection
Heya guys, I'd like to ask you guys a few thing about the hotel and how it facilitating your experience at this year's Forge Midwest.  If you get a chance,…
In Conventions
Participants: Troy_Costisick, Matt Wilson, Valamir, Doyce, c, jrs, Tod Olson, GamerChick, Nev the Deranged, TJ.

3/15/2007 Troy_Costisick: [Outtage RPG Contest] Review of Comedy Blackout
Comedy Blackout Review By John Laviolette Game Summary: The game begins by explaining what “blackout” means in comedic circles.  That’s great because I would have had no idea.  The background…
In Endeavor
Participants: Troy_Costisick.

3/15/2007 Troy_Costisick: [Outtage RPG Contest] Review of Blackout on the Elevator
Review of “Blackout on the Elevator” By: Bryan Hansel Game Summary: Opens with the situation.  You’re trapped in an elevator.  This game doesn’t mess around.  It presents the players with…
In Endeavor
Participants: Troy_Costisick, Bryan Hansel.

3/5/2007 Troy_Costisick: [Dark Sands- 1st Run] Gearing up for DL-Quarterly Series #2
Heya, So I'm starting to playtest the games I'll be releasing for DL-Quarterly Series 2.  Most of these games won't be released until 2008, but it's never too early to…
In Playtesting
Participants: Troy_Costisick.

2/27/2007 Troy_Costisick: Outtage RPG Contest- Story Games is down!
Heya, Have you read this: http://community.livejournal.com/storygamesinfo/834.html It's a great idea.  So I'm going to start it.  Who knows when Story Games will be back up?  It could be tonight, it…
In Endeavor
Participants: Troy_Costisick, Caesar_X, Andy Kitkowski, Bryan Hansel, talysman.

2/22/2007 Troy_Costisick: Sorcerer Settings
Heya, I guess I'm kind of out of the loop on some things.  I always thought that Dictionary of Mu was the first setting for Sorcerer released by someone other…
In Adept Press
Participants: Troy_Costisick, Ron Edwards.

1/18/2007 Troy_Costisick: Gamist Game Design and Cutthroat - Questions.
Heya, I’m going to riff a little bit off this discussion about Narrativism, but focus on a CA that I’m more familiar with.  I’ve just released Cutthroat and I love…
In Actual Play
Participants: Troy_Costisick, xenopulse, Noon.

1/2/2007 Troy_Costisick: [Periodical RPG Model] DL-Quarterly initial reflections
Heya, Well the first issue of DL-Quarterly, Cutthroat, went out on December 30th and the PDFs were sent out the next day.  Despite numerous delays from my printer, I was…
In Publishing
Participants: Troy_Costisick, Eero Tuovinen, Ben Lehman, jeremycoatney, Sane, pells, Graham Walmsley, preludetotheend.

11/26/2006 Troy_Costisick: [My Idea] An update my Periodical RPG model
Heya, I’m working on a new model for releasing RPG’s.  It all came about thanks to the Ronny contest last year.  So, thought I’d give you guys an update on…
In Publishing
Participants: Troy_Costisick, Ben Lehman.

10/26/2006 Troy_Costisick: Having Trouble with Pagemaker 7
Heya guys, I'm having some real trouble with my Pagemaker software.  I've got my games layed out in the regular pmd format and they look great.  I print them on…
In Publishing
Participants: Troy_Costisick, MatrixGamer, David Artman.

9/5/2006 Troy_Costisick: [My Idea] New Business Model- Inspired by Ken Hite
Heya, What a trip my path towards game publishing has been lately.  Recently I read This Post by Ron.  There’s a road of no return that people walk when they…
In Publishing
Participants: Troy_Costisick, Eero Tuovinen, cpeterso, pells, komradebob, MatrixGamer, sean2099.

7/22/2006 Troy_Costisick: GenCon 2006 Booth Menu Draft and Redraft
Heya, I thought I'd post this here so that there's no confusion with the other thread in conventions.  Okay, here we go.  I've posted the first draft of the Menu…
In Publishing
Participants: Troy_Costisick, Iskander, c, Nathan P., Clinton R. Nixon, Ben Lehman, Valamir, Blankshield, abzu, timfire, Matt Wilson, jasonm, Paka, Justin D. Jacobson, Kevin Allen Jr, Thunder_God, joepub, Paul Czege, Matt, Malcolm, LordSmerf, Jonathan Walton, John Harper, Denise, Keith Senkowski, nikola, btrc, Matt Snyder, Thor Olavsrud, iago, Emily Care, lumpley.

5/5/2006 Troy_Costisick: Looking for a web Builder
Heya, I need someone to build a website for my games.  I want nothing fancy, just functional.  It will be a maximum of two pages- a front page and a…
In Connections
Participants: Troy_Costisick.

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2/9/2011 Troy_Costisick: The Standard Rants
Heya, There was a tradition in the RPG Theory forum for members to vent their thoughts on game design and game play in what was known as a "Standard Rant."…
In Welcome to the Archives
Participants: Troy_Costisick, Eliarhiman6, Neil the Wimp.

3/8/2011 Troy_Costisick: [Dreadsands] Applying Lessons Learned from the Ronnies
Heya, Along the way to creating my Three Roses Project I submitted an entry to the Ronnies.  Some of the mechanics in that game were the incarnation of ideas I’d…
In Game Development
Participants: Troy_Costisick.

3/9/2011 Troy_Costisick: Updated Sorcerer
Heya Ron, I know you're neck deep in Ronny games right now, but I was wondering, are you still thinking about doing an updated Sorcerer like the one you menationed…
In Adept Press
Participants: Troy_Costisick, Ron Edwards, Melinglor, Finarvyn, The Dragon Master, Russell Hoyle, John Stephens.

4/9/2012 Troy_Costisick: [The Coyote Lode] My 2012 Game Chef Entry
Heya, Finally got some inspiration last night, and I'm ready to go.  I'll be using Coyote, Doctor, Lantern, and Mimic as my ingredients.  My plan is to do a one-shot…
In Last Chance Game Chef
Participants: Troy_Costisick, Sp4m, PeterBB, Mathalus.

4/13/2012 Troy_Costisick: [The Coyote Lode] How do I handle race in an Old West Dungeon Crawl Game?
Heya, I want to continue developing my Game Chef Game "The Coyote Lode."  Here's the link to the GC thread: http://www.indie-rpgs.com/forge/index.php?topic=32933.0  Here's the link to the file: https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B9KW0-YiNVWqMnVrcnpxZzRVc00/edit I had…
In Game Development
Participants: Troy_Costisick, Justin Halliday, Noon, Evergreen, dindenver, Ron Edwards.

4/17/2012 Troy_Costisick: [The Coyote Lode] I Need Monsters!
Heya, Im continuing to work on my Game Chef game.  I started with ten monsters, but I need more.  I especially need "boss" monsters, you know, things bigger and badder…
In Game Development
Participants: Troy_Costisick, zwrench, walruz, dindenver, Lex Mandrake.

4/19/2012 Troy_Costisick: [Constructs of Azazeal] Game Chef Review
Constructs of Azazael Review By: Troy M. Costisick When I looked at the four games I was going to have to review for Game Chef, I couldn’t have been happier. …
In Last Chance Game Chef
Participants: Troy_Costisick, Kyles Games.

4/24/2012 Troy_Costisick: [The Coyote Lode] Factions and trying to avoid Deadlands Emulation
Heya, For reference, here is the PDF Document for Game Chef. Here are the First Thread on Race and the Second Thread on Monsters for Coyote Lode. Today, I'm going…
In Game Development
Participants: Troy_Costisick, dindenver.

5/28/2012 Troy_Costisick: [The Coyote Lode] I need Western Phrases
Heya, Before the end of the Forge, I would like to get some last minute brainstorming in.  I'm using Western phrases as inspiration for feats and abilities in The Coyote…
In Game Development
Participants: Troy_Costisick.

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