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8/27/2002 Paul Czege: character vs. character: dealer-room demos at GenCon
Hey everyone, I've been thinking a lot about the demos I played at GenCon over the past couple of days, the ones with pre-generated characters, Jake's Riddle of Steel demo,…
In RPG Theory
Participants: Paul Czege, Clinton R. Nixon, Mike Holmes, xiombarg, Ron Edwards, Rich Ranallo.

8/27/2002 Matt Gwinn: Promotor's Handbook Ideas
Well, I've finally gotten started on the promotor's handbook and I have a few ideas I'd like to run past everyone to kind of gauge interest. I'm working on adding…
In Errant Knight Games
Participants: Matt Gwinn, cerebralassassin, mahoux, hardcoremoose.

8/27/2002 Matt Gwinn: Welcome
Welcome to the Errant Knight Games forum. Feel free to discuss different aspects of all of my games including Kayfabe, Cats and Mind Body and Soul. They can all be…
In Errant Knight Games
Participants: Matt Gwinn, x0x_Armani_x0x.

8/27/2002 Overkill: Holding Victory Dice
I'm having problems understanding how the rules on holding back victory dice for later use as explained in the Sorcerer & Sword supplement work. How can you cancel or give…
In Adept Press
Participants: Overkill, Clay, Ron Edwards.

8/27/2002 Jürgen Mayer: the index thingy
What's the recommended approach to generating an index for an RPG book? What to do (i.e. what should be in the index) and also how to do it? (We're using…
In Publishing
Participants: Jürgen Mayer, Ron Edwards, Clinton R. Nixon, Demonspahn, Clay, Eugene Zee.

8/27/2002 Jürgen Mayer: the stock number thingy
The abbreviations of the company name at the beginning of stock numbers or product numbers, e.g. Key20's Little Fears: KYP1000, Issaries Inc.'s Hero Wars: ISS1101, or Driftwood Publishing's Riddle of…
In Publishing
Participants: Jürgen Mayer, Jared A. Sorensen, Ron Edwards, Jason L Blair, mahoux.

8/27/2002 C. Edwards: Username
Hey Clinton, Could you change my username to C. Edwards? I would appreciate it. BTW, were there ever any Forge hoodys at CafePress or am I just imagining that? Chris
In Site Discussion
Participants: C. Edwards, Demonspahn, Clinton R. Nixon, mahoux.

8/27/2002 Jaillir: TROS in Germany??
Hi! I´ve been trying hard to find TROS here in Germany. The German distributor listed at the official site (Ulysses) doesn´t answer to emails, nor does any of the local…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: Jaillir, Jürgen Mayer.

8/27/2002 Ben: Book 5, what's that?
Hi all, Sorry I haven't actually been around like Jake promissed. I've been busy with the move and all. For those of you who have no clue as to who…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: Ben, Jasper, Wolfen, Brian Leybourne, Sneaky Git.

8/27/2002 Spartan: Clarification about mass weapons
OK, I know these are kind of dumb questions, but I thought I'd ask just to make sure... Mass weapons and shock: It says in the weapon description that mass…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: Spartan, Shadeling, Jasper, Wolfen, Lyrax, Brian Leybourne, Jake Norwood.

8/27/2002 Shadeling: Conscience Spiritual Attribute
Ok, here is my question- Is Conscience always defined as do the right thing, or can it be modified based on characters?
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: Shadeling, Unsane, Wolfen, Mike Holmes, contracycle, Mokkurkalfe, Nick Pagnucco, Jaif.

8/27/2002 Cynthia Celeste Miller: Allowing Others to Publish Supplements for Your Game
I was considering allowing other people/companies release supplements for CAH, since I feel the game has a strong enough fan following to make it a credible approach. So far, I've…
In Publishing
Participants: Cynthia Celeste Miller, Ron Edwards, Jared A. Sorensen, Michael Hopcroft, pigames.

8/27/2002 Blake Hutchins: X-Games and the Dying Earth
Okay, I'm in crunch mode here at work, so can't put as much time as I'd like into this, but we just played a pick-up game of Dying Earth this…
In Actual Play
Participants: Blake Hutchins, GB Steve, Jared A. Sorensen, Ron Edwards.

8/26/2002 Paul Czege: In Utero con play recap
Hey Ron, I'm interested in any responses from people who got a chance to play the In Utero scenario at GenCon. I have a question. How many times have…
In Adept Press
Participants: Paul Czege, Ron Edwards, Michael S. Miller.

8/26/2002 Jasper: Backed into a corner... request for help
Hi, everyone. I ran my group's first full adventure with TRoS last night (they chose it, of their own accord, over Orkworld and Ars Magicka, which pleased me no end).…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: Jasper, Mike Holmes, Brian Leybourne, Valamir, Lyrax, Sneaky Git, Wolfen, Thirsty Viking.

8/26/2002 Seth L. Blumberg: Getting up to speed with InSpectres
Finally getting around to posting about the InSpectres game I ran a few weeks ago. I've been too busy until now. Everybody enjoyed it, and agreed that they'd gladly play…
In Memento-Mori Theatricks
Participants: Seth L. Blumberg, Jared A. Sorensen, Mike Holmes.

8/26/2002 Seth L. Blumberg: octaNe character advancement
Okay, so you can spend Plot Points for new Skills. Is there any way to add Style Points? (I ask because the section on Styles in character creation says that…
In Memento-Mori Theatricks
Participants: Seth L. Blumberg, Jared A. Sorensen.

8/26/2002 Flash: Ambidexterity
Got a quick question about Ambidexterity. I don't understand what the last sentence of the Ambidexterity Gift is trying to say. "Other uses for this Gift are outlined in the…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: Flash, Jake Norwood, Thirsty Viking, Wolfen.

8/26/2002 Clinton R. Nixon: The grand new Forge plan
Hey, everyone. It's Clinton, your beleagured administrator, having a cup of coffee. Gather 'round. So, here's my semi-annual State of the Forge, as it were: Last week (19-24 August 2002),…
In Site Discussion
Participants: Clinton R. Nixon, Paul Czege, Jabberwocky.

8/26/2002 unodiablo: Playtesters for Dead Meat v2 sought!
Hi Forgites, I'm nearly done with a new Dead Meat v2. I scrapped all the previous version 2, and wrote most of the latest version this past weekend... What I've…
In Destroy All Games
Participants: unodiablo, Arashi, Demonspahn, Mike Holmes.

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8/27/2002 Valamir: Articles of General Support
In going over the types of articles I see "Support for Indie-RPGs" What about articles of general use, not just applicable to a specific game. I had an idea for…
In RPGevolution Contributors
Participants: Valamir, Clinton R. Nixon.

8/27/2002 Valamir: Out of the Box Redux.
Well Ken didn't get to review Dust Devils this time around. But he promises next week for "his other favorite game from GenCon" http://www.gamersrealm.com/store1/outofthebox.php
In Chimera Creative
Participants: Valamir, Matt Snyder.

8/27/2002 Mike Holmes: Status
Hey Nathan, Considering that you've rolled out a new site, I was just wondering what the status of Mysticages was. Has it's scope changed? If so, how? How do the…
In Mystic Ages Online
Participants: Mike Holmes, Nathan, Paul Czege, Valamir, Spooky Fanboy.

8/27/2002 Valamir: Out of the Box
Ken Hite had some great things to say about RoS in this weeks column http://www.gamersrealm.com/store1/outofthebox.php
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: Valamir, Mike Holmes.

8/27/2002 jeff8448: PlayThings -- 'machiavellian Toy Story'
Hey everyone. I've been lurking around here for a couple days, since Jared Sorensen told me about this site. Anyway, in my RPG, you get to play a toy. (The…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: jeff8448, Demonspahn, soundwave, mahoux, Le Joueur, Christoffer Lernö, Paka.

8/28/2002 Michael Hopcroft: Is this ghost too much?
I was just testing out the ghost-generation system for the upcoming Ghost Tamer Miyaki sourcebook and came up with something that frightens even me. I was wondering what some of…
In Seraphim Guard
Participants: Michael Hopcroft, Ron Edwards, Valamir.

8/28/2002 xiombarg: rules question
Okay, I've been reading the game with the intent of running it, and my first question is: When adding the d6 or d8, do only 1s and 2s still count?…
In My Life With Master Playtest
Participants: xiombarg, hardcoremoose, Mike Holmes, Paul Czege.

8/28/2002 contracycle: Polearms
Well, I went to visit Warwick castle last weekend, and quite entertaining it was too. There was a brief bit of jousting and so forth, and more interestingly, a short…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: contracycle, ShaneNINE, Jasper, Mike Holmes, GhostShip Blue, Lyrax, Wolfen, Durgil, Mokkurkalfe, Valamir.

8/28/2002 Christoffer Lernö: Trying to avoid currency issues
Something I don't want get into with Ygg is currency issues, so where it's possible I've tried to avoid them. For example you roll stats, don't place points. Another thing…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Christoffer Lernö, Jasper, Matt, Valamir, Walt Freitag, Le Joueur, Marco, Mike Holmes, damion, M. J. Young.

8/28/2002 wyrdlyng: Digital Publishers Group
FYI, off of d20 Weekly: PDF Publishers Unite Recently, a group of like-minded adventure gaming e-publishers have formed a consortium dedicated to the continued development of PDF role-playing games and…
In Publishing
Participants: wyrdlyng, Michael Hopcroft, pigames, Ron Edwards, Ferry Bazelmans, Cynthia Celeste Miller.

8/28/2002 contracycle: the scottish play
Somehow I came across this thought while pondering Rons breakdown of classes - there is a link here somewhere with how character presage, bring about, their own actions as it…
In RPG Theory
Participants: contracycle, Mike Holmes, Le Joueur, Demonspahn, M. J. Young, xiombarg, simon_hibbs, GB Steve.

8/28/2002 Mike Holmes: Publishing
In discussing publishing of Master, I'd like to make a clarification. Universalis went direct to print. Only sort of true. While games like Universalis and Dust Devils did…
In My Life With Master Playtest
Participants: Mike Holmes, Silent Tamatama.

8/28/2002 Mike Holmes: My Master
I feel that the Premise of this game is timeless. If that's so, then I should be able to create a Master in any setting. Here' my experiment to see…
In My Life With Master Playtest
Participants: Mike Holmes, xiombarg, joshua neff, Paul Czege.

8/28/2002 mahoux: Hitting any cons with CAH?
Cynthia, Eddy et. al- Are you guys going to do any regional con work for CAH (pimping it out at a booth, selling limited copies, etc? I ask this for…
In Cartoon Action Hour
Participants: mahoux, Cynthia Celeste Miller, Eddy Fate.

8/28/2002 Michael James Bogue: The Reviews
Hello everyone! This is a fabulous site, but I have only one, very minor, complaint. The columns on the "Reviews" section are waaay too narrow. I think prose columns should…
In Site Discussion
Participants: Michael James Bogue.

8/28/2002 Mike Holmes: Character Effectiveness (or Lack Thereof)
I started my character in our playtest with 2 Self Loathing, and 1 Weariness in a game where Reason was one lower than Fear. What did this mean? That I…
In My Life With Master Playtest
Participants: Mike Holmes, Paul Czege.

8/28/2002 Ed: Opponents as terrain
I was reading the rules about treating multiple opponents as terrain, and it wasn't quite gelling for me. Can somebody give a good example run-through? I guess my main question…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: Ed, Lyrax, Valamir, Wolfen.

8/28/2002 J B Bell: Monday night Indie gaming: The Pool: Banana Republic
I was going to wait for the GM, or indeed the end of the game (coming soon!) to post aobut Monday's indie gaming on IRC, but this quote from this…
In Actual Play
Participants: J B Bell, Mike Holmes, Bob McNamee, Knight.

8/29/2002 Paul Czege: proposal: two new categories for the Resource Library
Hey, I propose we get two new categories in the Resource Library: 1) Indie RPG Fan Support, which would collect links to things like Ralph's Orkworld stuff, and the recently…
In Site Discussion
Participants: Paul Czege, Clinton R. Nixon.

8/29/2002 Jürgen Mayer: Universalis Review at rpg.net
Look what I found: http://www.rpg.net/news+reviews/reviews/rev_7015.html
In Universalis
Participants: Jürgen Mayer, Andrew Martin, Ayrizale, Mike Holmes.

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