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7/15/2001 RobMuadib: Troupe "Universal" World Building Simulationist Shared Nar
I am in the process of writing up my RPG, tentatively titled The Million Worlds: Chronicles Of The Eternal Cycle, which I hope to "commercially" publish in some form, and…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: RobMuadib, Ron Edwards.

7/20/2001 Epoch: Author submitted library
And I still can't log in.
In Site Discussion
Participants: Epoch, gizem, James V. West.

7/14/2001 Uncle Dark: PBEM
I was thinking of running Sorcerer as a PBEM game. I'm happy to discuss premise and such, but right now what I'm most interested in is how to do it.…
In Adept Press
Participants: Uncle Dark, joshua neff, greyorm.

7/13/2001 Ryan: Alternate Star Wars
Well, the author might as well get it going. Yes, I wrote an alternate Star Wars setting, and I actually posted it. So, flame away. I will be reading this…
In Mystic Ages Online
Participants: Ryan.

7/12/2001 Nathan: Late Issue Tonight
Issue FOUR will go up tonight, because of issues with internet access and domain names.... Can't login into the mysticages.com ftp server from here - *sigh*. So how is everyone?…
In Mystic Ages Online
Participants: Nathan.

7/12/2001 jburneko: Another GNS Permutation
This is in all likelyhood just another permutation of GNS and doesn't add THAT much to the ideas already out there but I thought I would throw it on the…
In GNS Model Discussion
Participants: jburneko.

7/12/2001 Jack Spencer Jr: SOAP
Recently read the review of SOAP and I'm distrubed by how close it is in some respects to a concept I've been woring on. Bloody close. I'll have to read…
In Review Discussion
Participants: Jack Spencer Jr, Ron Edwards, Mytholder.

7/11/2001 Jason L Blair: Review at RPGNews
RPGNews has made Little Fears its "Game of the Week." Read the review here!
In Key 20 Publishing
Participants: Jason L Blair, archangel_2, GreatWolf.

7/11/2001 barteee: How much detail is needed?
I'm new so you'll have to forgive me if this has already been asked. One of the problems I always run into in game design is how much you have…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: barteee, Jamie Thomas Durbin, Dav, Ron Edwards, Mytholder.

7/11/2001 Dav: Reviews at Wicked Press
John: You said in one of your essays/columns that you were going to start reviewing things. Is this something that was carried over from another venue, or is it something…
In Wicked Press
Participants: Dav, John Wick.

7/11/2001 Logan: GNS Doc Update
I e-mailed my draft of the updated faq to Ron. That means, hopefully, we get the update posted soon. Didn't expect to make quite so many changes. I think the…
In GNS Model Discussion
Participants: Logan.

7/11/2001 poppocabba: another spirt concept rpg
Recently I have gotten a lot of horror rpgs that I will never be able to convince anyone to play them all, namely Nephilim, Lost Souls, Kult, Whispering Vault ,so…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: poppocabba.

7/11/2001 Nathan: 1,000 Hit Contest
Okay, folks... This isn't an exam or something. All you have to do is click on the 1,000 Hit Contest link on the MysticAges.Com frontpage, slap in your name and…
In Mystic Ages Online
Participants: Nathan.

7/11/2001 poppocabba: getting rid of a bad egg
how does one get rid of a player, who while being generally thought of as a nice guy, is way too enthusiastic, hyper, and abuses player knowledge. he is 35…
In Actual Play
Participants: poppocabba, Jack Spencer Jr, Ron Edwards, Damocles, Ben Morgan, james_west.

7/10/2001 Clinton R. Nixon: 7th Sea, character currency, and advancement systems
I'm currently playing in a 7th Sea game, and I've enjoyed it more than I thought I would, to be honest. The system is simple, and many things about it…
In Actual Play
Participants: Clinton R. Nixon, joshua neff, jburneko, Gordon C. Landis, John Wick, Jared A. Sorensen, Rod Anderson, Ron Edwards, greyorm, Laura Bishop.

7/10/2001 John Wick: Elfworld = EVIL
[quote] John, you've just put yourself out there for me. You said EVIL (as opposed to evil). I look over Obsidian, and Kult, and Unknown Armies, and In Nomine Satanis,…
In Wicked Press
Participants: John Wick, Dav, Gordon C. Landis, Jared A. Sorensen, greyorm, JSDiamond, Uncle Dark, kwill, wyrdlyng, Cameron, Astromarine, Ring Kichard, Paul Czege.

7/10/2001 Cyanide: I love Little Fears!!
Hello, I was at Origins and was able to catch a game of Little Fears on Sunday. I love it!! I tip my hat to you sir on a job…
In Key 20 Publishing
Participants: Cyanide, Jason L Blair.

7/10/2001 Jack Spencer Jr: immersive authorship...(not sure either)
OK, those who been following the forum may have seen me say something to the effect of how I prefer to play immersively. Well, not quite immersive but the point…
In RPG Theory
Participants: Jack Spencer Jr, John Wick, Jared A. Sorensen, Dav, Ron Edwards, joshua neff, GreatWolf, Clinton R. Nixon, jburneko, Gordon C. Landis, james_west, greyorm.

7/10/2001 Jack Spencer Jr: idea...
There a certain style of play that's been receiving less and less attention these days, solo play. There are plenty of doomsayers out there who believe computer games are killing…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Jack Spencer Jr, Dav, Nathan, archangel_2, Jared A. Sorensen, Ron Edwards, Jason L Blair, Mytholder, Mithras, Jamie Thomas Durbin, James V. West, Loryndalar, Matt, FilthySuperman, xiombarg, Cadriel, Mike Holmes.

7/10/2001 hardcoremoose: My First Soreceror Session
Well, my first Sorceror session is history, and I guess I have mixed feelings about it. I thought it started out interestingly enough. As the curtain came up on the…
In Actual Play
Participants: hardcoremoose, Dav, jburneko, Gordon C. Landis, Paul Czege, Clay, joshua neff, Ron Edwards.

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7/16/2001 kwill: website down?
is it just me or is the mm website inaccessible? I can connect to the frontpage using gloomcookie.com, but can go no further == The following error was encountered: Unable…
In Memento-Mori Theatricks
Participants: kwill, Jared A. Sorensen.

7/17/2001 RobMuadib: Shared Creationism - The Next Step for Simulationist?
Hey I was wondering what the "indie" guys here at the Forge think of "Shared Creationism" as the next evolutionary step for Simulationist game play. In most simulationist games there…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: RobMuadib, james_west, FilthySuperman, Emily Care.

7/17/2001 Dav: Kingdoms
Okay, so the whole evil thing banked left and screamed off into insanity, we can leave it there I am thinking. But looking at Kingdoms, you have a 16-page game…
In Wicked Press
Participants: Dav, John Wick.

7/17/2001 John Wick: Why Reviews Are Next to Useless
Check this out. Two reviews of MISTS OF AVALON (I won't tell you what I thought of it because it's really not that important, is it?) http://www.culturevulture.net/Television/MistsofAvalon.htm and http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2001/07/13/DD230637.DTL Go…
In Review Discussion
Participants: John Wick, Jared A. Sorensen, Valamir, Damocles, JSDiamond, Jack Spencer Jr, greyorm, Gordon C. Landis, Supplanter, Theory of X, Ian O'Rourke, Clinton R. Nixon, A.Neill, peteramthor, joshua neff, Michael T. Richter.

7/17/2001 Valamir: Narrativism: What's beyond the sillyness
I've been poking around and adding to my collection of games owned and played those purported to be narrativist, and noticed a reoccuring theme...narrativist games seem to have a tendency…
In GNS Model Discussion
Participants: Valamir, Ron Edwards, jburneko, John Wick, joshua neff, Mytholder, gentrification, Jared A. Sorensen, GreatWolf.

7/18/2001 Paul Czege: I think my girlfriend is a...simulationist
My girlfriend is playing in Scott's Sorcerer scenario, which had its second session on Monday. It's basically her first experience with roleplaying. She played Soap previously, but that's a GM-less…
In Actual Play
Participants: Paul Czege, Uncle Dark, Supplanter, GreatWolf, Ron Edwards, hardcoremoose.

7/18/2001 Jason L Blair: Now Available from Wizard's Attic
It appears Wizard's Attic got the books in ahead of schedule and Little Fears is now available for purchase via their site. To order your copy, click…
In Key 20 Publishing
Participants: Jason L Blair, Mike Holmes, MARS, Mytholder.

7/18/2001 Dav: the Gamble and the Stake
I wanted to bring this theory up to the collective to see what happens with it. on and I were talking briefly about the stakes in games. My position is…
In RPG Theory
Participants: Dav, Ron Edwards, John Wick, Jared A. Sorensen, hardcoremoose, James V. West, Le Joueur.

7/18/2001 Ron Edwards: The damn book
Well, the book is not going to be available until GenCon. You have no idea how agonizing this is. When it's over, I'll write a little "Why books don't come…
In Adept Press
Participants: Ron Edwards, Jason L Blair, Uncle Dark, wyrdlyng, Jared A. Sorensen.

7/18/2001 jburneko: PC/NPC Emotional Bonding
Hello, Ron and I have been going back and forth about characters emotional motivations. In his last email he suggested I open up part of the discussion to the rest…
In Actual Play
Participants: jburneko, James Holloway, joshua neff, Paul Czege, Blake Hutchins, mikeryan, greyorm, Le Joueur, gentrification, John Wick, Cameron, Mike Holmes, GreatWolf, Emily Care, Knight, Uncle Dark, Mytholder, contracycle.

7/18/2001 Jared A. Sorensen: Ad-supported RPG's, Media Models & Magazines
I had a crazy idea for octaNe...because I really wanna see it published (and so do quite a few people out there, sheesh!). A thick, glossy magazine format. Full-color...hell, with…
In Publishing
Participants: Jared A. Sorensen, JSDiamond, Misguided Games, Paul Czege, Blake Hutchins, Clinton R. Nixon.

7/20/2001 Stefan Drawert: Examples Of Extended Contest, Anyboby?
Hello to everybody, recently discovered this forum about Hero Wars, which I'm gonna start gaming next week! Still I feel somehow uneasy about extended contest when it comes to relate…
In HeroQuest
Participants: Stefan Drawert, mikeryan, Uncle Dark.

7/20/2001 hardcoremoose: Reward Systems, or Making Your Players Behave
I've discussed this topic elsewhere and it came back to me full force while reading through the "silliness" thread in the GNS forum. Basically I propose that the most important…
In RPG Theory
Participants: hardcoremoose, James V. West, Ron Edwards, Jack Spencer Jr, wyrdlyng, Jared A. Sorensen, kwill, John Wick, Damocles, james_west, Doc Midnight, Tim C Koppang.

7/20/2001 rpghost: RPG Industry - Insider private forums!
RPG Host Networks is proud to announce it's newest community service: http://www.RPGIndustry.com This new site was created as a private industry only forum to help improve communication between your peers.…
In Publishing
Participants: rpghost.

7/20/2001 kwill: deja vu all over again?
browsing the WP site I noticed that the Deja Vu game concept wasn't all uploaded -- you're obviously working on a variety of other projects at the mo, but can…
In Wicked Press
Participants: kwill, John Wick.

7/21/2001 GreatWolf: Little Fear in action
Last night I actually got to do some gaming! Woo-hoo! And it wasn't playtesting anything of my own. Instead, I ran Little Fears for part of my group (the rest…
In Actual Play
Participants: GreatWolf, joshua neff, Knight, Laura Bishop, Ron Edwards, trelliz, Balbinus, Epoch, Mike Holmes, Jason L Blair, Tyrant.

7/21/2001 Paul Czege: consolidating eight
Hey Jared, You gotta consolidate the versions of Eight on your site. The link from your main page takes you to the old version: http://www.memento-mori.com/eight/ And from within that there's…
In Memento-Mori Theatricks
Participants: Paul Czege, joshua neff.

7/22/2001 Tim C Koppang: Player Induced Rewards
After reading a couple of posts, I was thinking about a mechanic that would allow players to divvy out rewards themselves instead of giving the GM all of the control.…
In RPG Theory
Participants: Tim C Koppang, James V. West, Le Joueur.

7/22/2001 Clay: Well armed, large breasted women put people off games?
I'm interested in taking up this thread about how women are depicted in gaming. In particular, I want to assert that it may at times be appropriate to show some…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Clay, Damocles, greyorm, James V. West, Jack Spencer Jr, Uncle Dark, contracycle, Fletch, GreatWolf, joshua neff, Ron Edwards, Dav, hardcoremoose, Blake Hutchins, Logan, Supplanter, Cameron, james_west, Levekius, gizem, John Wick.

7/23/2001 Jack Spencer Jr: This fifth business.
OK, after reading Kubasik's Interactive Toolkit, I've noted something. He refers to a narrativist (as it were) GM as Fifth Business after an old theatre term, etc etc... Here's my…
In RPG Theory
Participants: Jack Spencer Jr, Mytholder, joshua neff, Le Joueur, Ron Edwards, Damocles.

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