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8/21/2002 Matt Gwinn: coincidence?
As some of you know, my mionion has the less than human quality of not being able to express himself unless quoting shakespeare. I went online this morning to find…
In My Life With Master Playtest
Participants: Matt Gwinn, Paul Czege, hardcoremoose.

8/21/2002 Janne Halmetoja: Questions about tRoS combat
I ran fight with Combat Simulator (both had arming sword, small shield, full helm and plate everywhere else, strenght 7, combat pool was 13 excluding minuses from armor and shield).…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: Janne Halmetoja, Mokkurkalfe, Valamir, Lyrax, Brian Leybourne, Shadeling, Jaif, Wolfen.

8/21/2002 Paul Czege: a curious endeavor: Master creation
Wherein is detailed the curious endeavor of five otherwise good tempered individuals: 1. The group, consisting of myself, in the role of gamemaster, Tom, Scott Knipe, Matt Gwinn, and my…
In My Life With Master Playtest
Participants: Paul Czege, Mike Holmes, hardcoremoose, Ron Edwards.

8/21/2002 Adam: GPS?
Although I know you're a big fan of letting people wing it, I'm wondering about your thoughts about GPS in octaNe, Jared I tend…
In Memento-Mori Theatricks
Participants: Adam, Balbinus, Valamir, Jared A. Sorensen, TSL.

8/21/2002 Clinton R. Nixon: Ron's inspiration
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In Adept Press
Participants: Clinton R. Nixon, Ron Edwards, Jürgen Mayer.

8/20/2002 Mike Holmes: What Does Master Czege Require?
So, Paul, what exactly are you looking for here? Further playtest reports? General discussion on the system? What do you think needs doing most? Mike
In My Life With Master Playtest
Participants: Mike Holmes, Paul Czege, hardcoremoose, Ron Edwards, Emily Care.

8/20/2002 Paul Czege: Welcome!
Welcome! What you're seeing here is the archived My Life with Master playtest forum. It was active from late August, 2002, to early August, 2003, and at its peak had…
In My Life With Master Playtest
Participants: Paul Czege.

8/20/2002 Clinton R. Nixon: Small art for Donjon
I'll continue the tradition of asking for free art around here: I have all the main art I need for Donjon, but am currently looking for small monster illustrations for…
In Connections
Participants: Clinton R. Nixon, Bob McNamee, Ben Morgan, Rod Anderson, quozl, lumpley, Paganini, Valamir, Mike Holmes.

8/20/2002 Zak Arntson: Paladin: Inquisitor (Indie Gaming Monday - 8/20)
We made characters for Paladin: Inquisitor last night. So, here's my impressions. Background for Inquisitor setting: http://www.indie-rpgs.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=3053 Step One: Background I explained the world of Paladin: Inquisitor (best summed up…
In Actual Play
Participants: Zak Arntson, Clinton R. Nixon, Ron Edwards, Bob McNamee, Mike Holmes, Henry Fitch.

8/20/2002 Gordon C. Landis: Dust Devils: The Indian Wars
It's insane, I shouldn't be thinking about variants/supplements until I at least own the damn game, but . . . this notion is riding me like a devil, so I…
In Chimera Creative
Participants: Gordon C. Landis, Matt Snyder.

8/20/2002 gentrification: Hard Travellin' - new game
[url=http://www.edromia.com/games/hobo]Hard Travellin'[/url] is a game wherein you play hobos in the early part of the 20th century. Drift into town, get tangled up in people's lives, drift out again before…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: gentrification, Mike Holmes, Valamir, Clinton R. Nixon, joshua neff, Tim C Koppang.

8/20/2002 ADGBoss: Getting the License
GReetings all, Along with doing your own thing I have always felt there are alot of dead games which could be revived with the Arcane ritual of a new system…
In Publishing
Participants: ADGBoss, Eugene Zee, Ron Edwards.

8/20/2002 Janne Halmetoja: Strenght minimums?
As GURPS player I'm interested in to know is there strenght minimums for weapons or can child use poleaxe with same effectiness than Conan (excluding damage)? In my opinion this…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: Janne Halmetoja, Lyrax, Wolfen, Brian Leybourne, Mokkurkalfe, Durgil, Mike Holmes, Sneaky Git, Jake Norwood, Thirsty Viking, Unsane.

8/20/2002 Shadeling: Pain, Does it Affect Skills?
I had to ask, Does the Pain from wounds, also affect Skills. So if I had a Pain of 5, would I subtract 5 dice from my skills (in effect…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: Shadeling, Bogie_71, Mokkurkalfe, Spartan, Wolfen.

8/20/2002 Andrew Martin: Paying for the Villain's flaws
I've just been musing over my Star Odyssey game, and it's Token mechanic, which is used to balance PC 'vantages and simulates karma in the game universe. Normally, players get…
In RPG Theory
Participants: Andrew Martin, Walt Freitag, Le Joueur, Ron Edwards.

8/20/2002 Bob McNamee: Paladin Supers in Actual Play
by the way....played a short Paladin Supers playtest... in Actual Play Bob McNamee
In CRN Games
Participants: Bob McNamee.

8/19/2002 Bob McNamee: Bob's Supers Playtest Con 1 - Pool/TQB
Bob’s Playtest Con I have been looking into running a Supers related game…but not using Champions (which we used in the past). I created the same characters for each of…
In Actual Play
Participants: Bob McNamee, James V. West, Mike Holmes.

8/19/2002 Bob McNamee: Bob's Supers Playtest Con 1 - SuperKind - OtherKind variant
Bob’s Playtest Con I have been looking into running a Supers related game…but not using Champions (which we used in the past). I created the same characters for each of…
In Actual Play
Participants: Bob McNamee.

8/19/2002 Bob McNamee: Bob's Supers Playtest Con 1 - Paladin
Bob’s Playtest Con I have been looking into running a Supers related game…but not using Champions (which we used in the past). I created the same characters for each of…
In Actual Play
Participants: Bob McNamee.

8/19/2002 Bob McNamee: Bob's Supers Playtest Con 1 - PowerGame
Bob’s Playtest Con I have been looking into running a Supers related game…but not using Champions (which we used in the past). I created the same characters for each of…
In Actual Play
Participants: Bob McNamee.

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8/21/2002 Roy: "Black Is The Knight" 2 (Soap Dark Shadows-style)
We played our second session of "Black Is The Knight" last night using Soap by Ferry Bazelmans (see the s, Fer?). Our first session can be found here. We didn't…
In Actual Play
Participants: Roy, Ron Edwards, Ferry Bazelmans.

8/21/2002 Jeffrey Straszheim: Paladin Q's
I just d/l'ed and printed Paladin yesterday, and have read through it twice now, and am very excited to play (when I can talk my wife into it). A couple…
In CRN Games
Participants: Jeffrey Straszheim, Clinton R. Nixon, Zak Arntson, Valamir, Bob McNamee, xiombarg, Michael Bowman.

8/21/2002 GreatWolf: Contemplated rules adjustments
As I have begun the process of considering Legends of Alyria and evaluating playtest feedback, I have been contemplating a few rules changes. So I thought that I would toss…
In Dark Omen Games
Participants: GreatWolf, Ron Edwards, Mike Holmes.

8/21/2002 Mike Holmes: Web Site
Ralph and I continue to try and improve our web site for Universalis, and already we have quite a bit of support up. Check out Ralph's essays that didn't make…
In Universalis
Participants: Mike Holmes, Roy, Valamir, Ayrizale, Matt, Fabrice G., Tony Irwin, Jason L Blair, Bob McNamee.

8/21/2002 Paul Czege: an infinity of eight: Master Type/Aspect combinations
So, you know that part of creating a Master is deciding on Type and Aspect, and that the Types are Feeder, Breeder, Collector, and Teacher, and the Aspects are Brain…
In My Life With Master Playtest
Participants: Paul Czege, hardcoremoose, Matt Gwinn, lumpley, Mike Holmes.

8/21/2002 Ron Edwards: Third print supplement - actually
Hello, Well, it looks as if the third print supplement for Sorcerer will be a reality in the early part of 2003. The previous thread about this was Third print…
In Adept Press
Participants: Ron Edwards, Zak Arntson, wyrdlyng, Jason L Blair, jburneko, Ferry Bazelmans, Fabrice G., Clay, Mike Holmes, Jeffrey Straszheim, lumpley, jrs, Uncle Dark, Ian Charvill, Jack Spencer Jr.

8/21/2002 Game Mistress: Little Fears
I am really not sure if I am in the right place. I went to the Key20 publishing site in the hopes of finally finding little fears character sheets, but…
In Key 20 Publishing
Participants: Game Mistress, Jason L Blair, Comte, Adam.

8/21/2002 kamikaze: Art for Malevolence
I'm getting close to complete on my Malevolence setting (still need to finish the gear and a few other parts, and playtest the sample adventure before I add it…
In Connections
Participants: kamikaze.

8/21/2002 jgbrowning: questions
I've been lurking here for a long time and im finally thinking of getting into the publishing business. i got 6,000 that i can spend and still have 2000 in…
In Publishing
Participants: jgbrowning, Paul Czege, Le Joueur, Ron Edwards, Misguided Games, Demonspahn.

8/21/2002 Philippe Tromeur: simply "Donjon" ?
Will Clinton R Nixon's RPG simply be named "Donjon" or "Donjon Crawl" ? In France, we already have a "Donjon" RPG based on a "Donjon" series of comics. Isn't there…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Philippe Tromeur, Gordon C. Landis.

8/22/2002 Michael Hopcroft: Supernormal powers in HeartQuest
I'm trying to put togetehr a liost of 30 or so concievable supernormal powers for HeartQuest. These are the sorts of things that are likely to appear in shoujo stories…
In Seraphim Guard
Participants: Michael Hopcroft, NinjaBoy.

8/22/2002 Michael Hopcroft: When "circumstances beyond control" control YOU
How do you guys handle it when you go to an event you planned to sell product at -- and find you'll have no product to sell? That's what happened…
In Publishing
Participants: Michael Hopcroft, greyorm, Paul Czege, Ron Edwards, Eugene Zee.

8/22/2002 xiombarg: Ivanhoe Unbound
Well, I set up a little web page for my games, and even created a imprint name. Yee-haw. http://www.ivanhoeunbound.com It's really just a redirect. The idea is to have a…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: xiombarg.

8/22/2002 FruitSmack!: Kayfabe is a fricken blast
Got Kayfabe at GenCon and tonight we just played it. Damn that games a blast to play. Lets see, we had Tag Team match between Wicked Evil (Nemsis and Reaver)…
In Errant Knight Games
Participants: FruitSmack!, Ron Edwards, Matt Gwinn, Trav.

8/22/2002 Jürgen Mayer: A comic called Donjon
On a trip to my local comic store right before leaving for GenCon, I noticed that there is a comic by the French cartoonist Lewis Trondheim called "Donjon." The French…
In CRN Games
Participants: Jürgen Mayer.

8/22/2002 Jürgen Mayer: Donjon - the comic book
On a trip to my local comic store right before leaving for GenCon, I noticed that there is a comic by the French cartoonist Lewis Trondheim called "Donjon." The French…
In CRN Games
Participants: Jürgen Mayer, Clinton R. Nixon, James V. West, Valamir.

8/22/2002 Ron Edwards: Misplaced game/comics at GenCon
This is barely, barely on-topic, but I can't figure out a way to do it more sensibly ... To folks who were at the booth at GenCon, Did anyone come…
In Site Discussion
Participants: Ron Edwards, unodiablo, joshua neff.

8/22/2002 Marco: JAGS Auto-Fire Rules Question
This is a simulationist rules-heavy design question for JAGS. I realize many/most people here aren't familiar with it (and our sever's down until the weekend). If you're familiar with GURPS…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Marco, J B Bell, Valamir, Christoffer Lernö, Andrew Martin, Mike Holmes, Clinton R. Nixon, Matt, Stuart DJ Purdie, Gordon C. Landis, Ace.

8/23/2002 Sidhain: The problems of players.
Not all players. However, my normally good players seem to have a problem with Hearts and Souls--my superhero rpg. In it they are given more control over the various events…
In Actual Play
Participants: Sidhain, Andrew Martin, Zak Arntson, Ron Edwards, Ian O'Rourke, C. Edwards, Roy.

8/23/2002 soundwave: And so the difference is...
Okay, like most of the newbies I'm sure you guys have to deal with quite regularly, I'm in something of a larval stage regarding my understanding of the concepts of…
In GNS Model Discussion
Participants: soundwave, Valamir, Paganini, Ron Edwards, M. J. Young.

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