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5/3/2012 Calithena: Public Domain/Free for Commercial Use Initials?
I am wondering if any of you know of or can link me to any. Thanks for any help you can provide. "Initials" in the sense I mean are the…
In Publishing
Participants: Calithena, David Artman, Eero Tuovinen, kensanata.

10/11/2010 Calithena: Distribution Lists?
I am curious whether any folks around here might have access to, or be able to point me to a place where I might get access to, lists of active…
In Publishing
Participants: Calithena, Jason Pitre, mratomek, Nathan P., MatrixGamer.

2/11/2009 Calithena: Announcing the Erol Otus Art Challenge!
[img]http://www.otherworld.me.uk/images/shared/omlogo.jpg[/img] and [IMG]http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d164/Calithena/greenlogo.png[/img] present the [IMG]http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d164/Calithena/eo3a.png[/img] [size=7][color=Maroon]Art Challenge![/color][/size] Judged by Erol Otus and shown in the pages of [i]Fight On![/i] All artists are invited to submit a picture on one…
In Endeavor
Participants: Calithena, Ron Edwards, greyorm, MacLeod, GozerTC.

5/12/2008 Calithena: How to promote a contest?
So, I've been working on this magazine called Fight On!, which is an old-school fantasy fanzine. All you indie designers who started out in the old days, if you have…
In Publishing
Participants: Calithena, Paul Czege.

5/11/2008 Calithena: Announcing a Summer Adventure Contest!
[img]http://www.otherworld.me.uk/images/shared/omlogo.jpg[/img] and [IMG]http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d164/Calithena/greenlogo.png[/img] are proud to announce our first joint adventure contest! Our panel of five judges includes the following RPG legends: [list][*]Frank Mentzer [*]S. John Ross [*]James M. Ward[/list]…
In Endeavor
Participants: Calithena.

8/29/2007 Calithena: POD in digest size?
Hi all - I have a gaming project with legs going on with some other people and we want to do it POD. Ideally we'd like it to be digest-sized…
In Publishing
Participants: Calithena, Ron Edwards, jasonm, Ben Lehman.

3/1/2007 Calithena: [Hero's Banner] The Madness of Tucaescu
Paul, Danielle, George and I have started playing this game, with Paul GMing. There will be lots to say, but first I want to get something out of the way.…
In Actual Play
Participants: Calithena, Tim C Koppang, Nev the Deranged, Paul Czege, geestar3.

2/16/2007 Calithena: Miniatures-Driven Roleplaying Rules
Hi all - I'm working on a system right now which is sort of an 'alternate direction' RPGs could have evolved back in the seventies. Instead of trying to make…
In First Thoughts
Participants: Calithena, RyanMacklin, Leviathan, komradebob, johnwedd, Simon C, Darcy Burgess, Samael, mratomek, Thenomain, TroyLovesRPG, David Artman.

11/24/2006 Calithena: [Father & Son Fantasy] Looking for some help
Hi folks - I've now run 2 sessions of a fantasy game for a father and son in the neighborhood I like. We generated characters using a moderately homebrewed (mostly…
In Actual Play
Participants: Calithena, Paul T, Noon, Ron Edwards, WDFlores, David Artman.

7/16/2006 Calithena: [AP & History] Initiative Rules
I was running my system for some old friends the last couple of weeks. I decided a while back that initiative rules were not worth the time they took, but…
In Actual Play
Participants: Calithena, Tommi Brander.

3/17/2006 Calithena: Heroquest Probabilities Question
Talking extended contests here - rough answers are OK. (I already know the answers for simple contests, they're easy to analyze, and weird - I think I'd come extended or…
In HeroQuest
Participants: Calithena, Tim Ellis, Mike Holmes, Hans, Vaxalon, epweissengruber.

3/1/2006 Calithena: [Azureflame] Conflict Resolution & Imaginary Content
So I gamed all weekend with my friend Del. There are a bunch of thoughts percolating but I want to focus on a particular scene: not the pivotal scene of…
In Playtesting
Participants: Calithena, Noon, heraclitusagain.

2/19/2006 Calithena: My Hangup/Grist for the Mill
I was just reading Paul's starting situation stuff and I see the problem he needs to solve. Every time I think about this game, I imagine the characters are all…
In Acts of Evil Playtest Board
Participants: Calithena, Paul Czege.

2/17/2006 Calithena: [S&S] Ask How
I just roughed out the following text for the game I'm writing. It's an attempt to formalize the play-procedures associated with certain variations on the 'realism' question. Feedback would be…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Calithena, Sempiternity.

1/22/2006 Calithena: [S&S] Managing Outsized Adversity
This relates to the game I'm designing at http://1.myfreebulletinboard.com/calithena-forum-12.html&sid=fb44d74ad26efba39c2651a46e4c5921 but has some more general application. I'm designing a game where some key elements - adventure location, magical spells and items,…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Calithena, dindenver, contracycle.

8/11/2005 Calithena: Are these two things incompatible?
1. "You're in a cavern of undulating stone, with an ancient brass demon-idol hulking above its farther reaches. Three bestial humanoids stand guard before it, waving flails..." (During the battle,…
In RPG Theory
Participants: Calithena, Alan, Ron Edwards.

1/26/2004 Calithena: Weapon Traits
Inspired by parts of Sorcerer & Sword, as well as discussions in the TRoS forum, I've been wondering about treating weaponry in fantasy RPGs strictly through the traits of the…
In RPG Theory
Participants: Calithena, Ron Edwards, montag, lumpley, Christopher Weeks, talysman, Lorenzo Rubbo-Ferraro, clehrich.

1/20/2004 Calithena: Making a Game out of Magic
This is the kind of thread I never know whether to put here or in RPG theory. I want to discuss some issues relating to RPG magic systems in a…
In RPG Theory
Participants: Calithena, Lxndr, gobi, Umberhulk, Shreyas Sampat, Valamir, GreatWolf, Jack Aidley, Christopher Weeks, apeiron, M. J. Young, Paul Czege, BPetroff93, RaconteurX.

1/15/2004 Calithena: Another Sorcerer Combat Question
Hiero is fighting Gurk and Gookin. Hiero has five dice, gook and gurkin 3 each. They roll off. Hiero gets 65442; Gurk gets 543; Gookin gets 331. Hiero goes first.…
In Adept Press
Participants: Calithena, jburneko, Ron Edwards, Mike Holmes, Lxndr, zmook, Blind Hero.

1/12/2004 Calithena: RPG/CCG hybrid scam; Monetary Awards in RPGs more generally
In another thread, Mike Holmes wrote: "The one thing that I always bring up regarding that we have this scorekeeping device…
In GNS Model Discussion
Participants: Calithena, MachMoth, Andrew Martin, contracycle, Ron Edwards, Mike Holmes, xiombarg, Drifter Bob, damyano.

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