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10/6/2002 James V. West: Conspiracy Theory Games
Hey A friend of mine is working on an idea for a conspiracy theory rpg and I wanted to do some digging for him. This post is a simple request…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: James V. West, C. Edwards, Andrew Martin, morien, Jonathan Walton, DaR, Mike Holmes, Mike Hall, contracycle, simon_hibbs, rumble.

10/5/2002 Walt Freitag: Nonstandard Rant: Opposed rolls ARE more random, dammit!
In an Indie Game Design thread, JMendes wrote: wrote: I much prefer to make "opposed" tasks that little bit more random. Er... less random, you mean. Remember, once…
In RPG Theory
Participants: Walt Freitag, Christoffer Lernö, M. J. Young, JMendes, Jeremy Cole, Valamir, Mike Holmes.

10/5/2002 Sidhain: Superheros Needed!
Ever felt the urge to put on a cape and fly? Ever really just felt that spandex longjohns were appropriate in public? Got a hankerin for kicking evil's tail right…
In Connections
Participants: Sidhain.

10/5/2002 Bob Richter: Wizardry...
...so it's a D&D (3rd ed.) distinction, but somehow I don't think everyone who casts spells ought to have been born with magic in their blood. Are there going to…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: Bob Richter, Jake Norwood.

10/5/2002 richronin: The Insects of God (Just a Game)
This is a very interesting game I just found on Key20's site. Not a "traditional" RPG but a "group narrative" game in which the players take turns telling the story…
In Key 20 Publishing
Participants: richronin, Jason L Blair, Ninchen, Comte, paulmjessup.

10/5/2002 Christoffer Lernö: Ygg: A Discussion
As I'm working on Ygg writing stuff together, I am struck by how uneven it is in its current state. Not surprising considering the parts have had a lot of…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Christoffer Lernö, contracycle, talysman, ks13, Bob McNamee, Jeremy Cole.

10/5/2002 Christoffer Lernö: Ygg Demonic Corruption
Ok, for you who don't know anything about Ygg magic here's the short rundown of the situation: Ygg is fantasy. Human mages uses demonic magic which taints their soul essence.…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Christoffer Lernö, Kester Pelagius, simon_hibbs, Peregrine.

10/5/2002 Christoffer Lernö: Resource Library- how to contribute?
When I find outdated or missing links in the Resource Library, how do I do? Do I submit stuff even though I'm not the author? What about submitting new links?…
In Site Discussion
Participants: Christoffer Lernö, Clinton R. Nixon.

10/5/2002 Kester Pelagius: Request
Greetings All, Hope you are all doing well today. I am currently on the search for decent sites with either Horror or Halloween related clip art. Or even other related…
In Connections
Participants: Kester Pelagius, Jared A. Sorensen, Le Joueur, Adam.

10/5/2002 M. J. Young: Character Personal Assessment
[quote="In the Observable Probability thread Chris a.k.a. Bankuei"]Not quite going as far as a myth, but a standard is that players know everything that their character is capable of doing.…
In RPG Theory
Participants: M. J. Young, contracycle, damion, talysman, Andrew Martin, Le Joueur.

10/5/2002 greyorm: Sorcery & Bloodshed
For quite a while (QUITE a while) I've been toying with an idea for a Sorcerer game based on traditional fantasy and traditional fantasy gaming, that is: wizards, elves, dragons,…
In Adept Press
Participants: greyorm, Ron Edwards.

10/4/2002 Matt Wilson: system critiques
I read an older post where Ron quoted himself from his GNS essay, where he talks about Hero's problem with "soybean trading." It got me wondering what Ron thinks about…
In RPG Theory
Participants: Matt Wilson, Ron Edwards, Mike Holmes.

10/4/2002 Bailywolf: gods & demons & group binding
I've recently been thinking about Zelazny's Amber books. Amber's Pattern can be thought of- in pretty clear terms- as a sorcerer-style demon. It is intelligent, clearly has a Desire (to…
In Adept Press
Participants: Bailywolf, Valamir, greyorm, Ron Edwards, talysman.

10/4/2002 Paul Czege: stumbling toward an introduction
It's one thing to do a good job writing an RPG document like the Nicotine Girls rules, detailing character creation, conflict resolution mechanics, and ancillary instructions. I'm realizing it's…
In My Life With Master Playtest
Participants: Paul Czege, Blake Hutchins, lumpley, hardcoremoose, Seth L. Blumberg.

10/4/2002 lumpley: Vincent's Standard Rant: Power, Credibility and Assent
I call the power in a roleplaying game Credibility. As in, whose statements about what happens are Credible? If I say that I shoot you, and you say the gun…
In RPG Theory
Participants: lumpley, Walt Freitag, Le Joueur, Valamir, Mike Holmes, Emily Care, Zak Arntson, Andrew Martin, Paganini, M. J. Young, Bob McNamee, Jonathan Walton, Mark D. Eddy, contracycle.

10/4/2002 Ron Edwards: Indie Design policy announcement
Hello, A lot of new people have arrived at the Forge recently, and a lot of them have been active in this forum. However, the mission of the forum has…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Ron Edwards.

10/4/2002 JMendes: A new look at GNS and a new axis of analysis
Hello, all, :) A (long) time ago, I came across a wee bit of text that divided role-play gamers into three groups (sound familiar?). These groups were: the adventurers; the…
In GNS Model Discussion
Participants: JMendes, greyorm, Wart, Ron Edwards, jdagna, Mike Holmes, Le Joueur.

10/4/2002 svenlein: failed grapple leads to wrestling?
in the newest edition page 62 the last line of Grapple says: "A tie or failure leads to Wrestling, as per the Wrestling Proficiency" Should this just say tie, or…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: svenlein, Jake Norwood, Buzzy Bee.

10/4/2002 Tim Denee: Sex and Sorcery movie?
[url]http://homepages.paradise.net.nz/timdenee/sorcerer.jpg[/url]
In Adept Press
Participants: Tim Denee, Ron Edwards, jrs, Bailywolf, Jared A. Sorensen.

10/4/2002 C. Edwards: Totem... Zodiac?
[b]Jake Norwood wrote[/b]: [quote]I love the way that the skills pertain to certain gods, and I'd rather have a rule where you have a rating in a god's sphere, and…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: C. Edwards, Mike Holmes, Ron Edwards, Jonathan Walton, talysman.

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10/6/2002 James V. West: Pool Party--everyone's invited!
Hey What I want to do here is just sort of survery everyone interested in The Pool and find out what your idea of the game is. What rules tweaks…
In Random Order Creations
Participants: James V. West, Bob McNamee, Paul Czege, Paganini, Michael Bowman, Zoetrope10, Valamir, Blake Hutchins, Ron Edwards, Mike Holmes.

10/6/2002 Ashren Va'Hale: they say a man can change reality if he wans it bad enough.
Just a fun Idea from one of my campaigns: once a ton of really nasty evil demons from the depths of ... well somewhere really nasty, came at a players…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: Ashren Va'Hale, Thirsty Viking, Jake Norwood, Nick Pagnucco, Mayhem1979, Lyrax.

10/6/2002 Bankuei: Enigma Trait Add-on idea
This rule allows players to simulate the hidden fact about a character. You can buy traits for characters that you create, or other character's that the creator agrees to, that…
In Universalis
Participants: Bankuei, Bob McNamee, Valamir, Mike Holmes.

10/6/2002 Colin the Riot: Tim Powers' Declare
Anyone ever read that? It's kind of a spy novel dealing with these powerful elemental beings. The novel kind of hints that they're what have historically been known as Djinn…
In Adept Press
Participants: Colin the Riot, Bailywolf, Ron Edwards, Uncle Dark.

10/6/2002 Christoffer Lernö: Player Choice vs Anti-Optimization
I think that maybe the actual question in my thread Ygg Demonic Corruption kinda got lost. So I post it again in a more general form. It might be of…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Christoffer Lernö, damion, M. J. Young, KAR 120 C, Mike Holmes, simon_hibbs, Marco, ks13, Mark D. Eddy, Bob McNamee.

10/6/2002 Jake Norwood: www.theriddleofsteel.net now up
www.theriddleofsteel.net, the new and hopefully short-term solution to the Russian Porn folks that store our site is now up and running. Many of the links are broken, which we will…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: Jake Norwood, Nick Pagnucco, Roger Eberhart, Brian Leybourne.

10/6/2002 Nick Pagnucco: Unfortunate flame-bait martial arts question
Disclaimer #1: This question has less to do with RPGs than martial arts, but this is (sadly?) the best place I have to ask this. Disclaimer #2: long anecdote for…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: Nick Pagnucco, Jake Norwood, Thirsty Viking, Valamir, Bankuei, Mike Holmes, Psychopompous, Thalaxis, Lyrax, Sneaky Git.

10/6/2002 Jonathan Walton: Big Sky Mind
I've been trying to come up with a new way to approach "Splat-ness" in a game about "great big inexplicable cosmic weirdness" (hereafter, "GBICW"). I think Splats are an okay…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Jonathan Walton, Mike Holmes, C. Edwards, ethan_greer.

10/6/2002 Nick Pagnucco: Role of Setting
Hi, I don't post in this part of the Forge much, but I had a question, and I think that this is the most appropriate forum to ask it. If…
In RPG Theory
Participants: Nick Pagnucco, Mike Holmes, Jonathan Walton, Paka, contracycle, simon_hibbs, Ron Edwards, Christoffer Lernö, M. J. Young.

10/7/2002 ThunderCheetah: Introduction
Hello all! I was a former Player in Ron's group at DePaul, would still be if I hadn't transferred ... Anyway, I've played a couple games mentioned in this Forum…
In Site Discussion
Participants: ThunderCheetah, Ron Edwards.

10/7/2002 svenlein: Expulsion
In expulsion it says to refer to beat for an example, should expulsion act more like beat? Ex. I am in a rapier duel with someone else with a rapier.…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: svenlein, Jake Norwood.

10/7/2002 svenlein: Dodge Ideas
Jake’s partial evade rule People were suggesting to avoid the pike's high DTN by dodging at a DTN of 7 instead. This is fine, but I would not penalize the…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: svenlein, Thirsty Viking, Brian Leybourne, Jake Norwood.

10/7/2002 svenlein: Grabbing weapons
[quote="Jake"]Therefore if the dagger guy got close in it would make more sense for the pikeman to pull a sword and have a more reasonable range advantage over the dagger…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: svenlein, Brian Leybourne, Lyrax, Jake Norwood, Thirsty Viking, Bob Richter, Thalaxis, Valamir, MrGeneHa.

10/7/2002 Matt Wilson: I played me some Donjon with the Man himself
Tried me out some Donjon yesterday, with the creator hisself. Donjon is cool. You can do pretty much anything. And it seems like a dream come true for the otherwise…
In Actual Play
Participants: Matt Wilson, Bankuei, Jeffrey Miller, Zak Arntson, jdagna, Mike Holmes, Clinton R. Nixon.

10/7/2002 Cynthia Celeste Miller: Cartoon Action Hour Goes Hardcopy
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Eastchester, New York October 7, 2002 Z-MAN GAMES TO PUBLISH FIRST RPG Z-Man Games, Inc. announces today that it will publish its first roleplaying game, called Cartoon…
In Cartoon Action Hour
Participants: Cynthia Celeste Miller, James_Stubbs, Jared A. Sorensen, wyrdlyng, Jason L Blair, Eddy Fate, Adam.

10/7/2002 JMendes: A weird mechanic idea
Hi, all, :) I have no idea if you guys do this sort of thing or not, and if so, whether this is the right forum for it, but it…
In RPG Theory
Participants: JMendes, Bankuei, Christoffer Lernö, Walt Freitag, Paul Czege, M. J. Young.

10/7/2002 Mokkurkalfe: All dice on offence!
What should a gol grunt NPC do against a PC with more dice(CP 14) and a very good bastard sword(TN's 5) that uses all of his dice on one attack?…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: Mokkurkalfe, svenlein, Valamir, Lyrax, Mike Holmes, Vanguard, Thirsty Viking, Holt, Jake Norwood, Jaeger, Brian Leybourne, Michael Tree, Jim DelRosso, Gordon C. Landis.

10/7/2002 masterbleu: A New GM
First i would like to thank Jason L Blair for making a Vary cool game little frears. i have been GM ing it for a few months and haveing a…
In Key 20 Publishing
Participants: masterbleu, Mike Holmes.

10/7/2002 Arashi: My stuff
I reckon it's about time I posted my link up here too. http://arashi_.tripod.com If anyone of y'all should need art type stuff feel free to contact me. Ron and Clinton…
In Connections
Participants: Arashi, Ron Edwards, Ben Morgan.

10/8/2002 Brian Leybourne: Interception?
Just something that has been festering in the back of my mind for a while now. The use of armour (you yanks would say armor) in TROS is very passive.…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: Brian Leybourne, Lyrax, Spartan, Thirsty Viking, Jake Norwood, Mokkurkalfe, Bob Richter, Valamir, Vanguard, Irmo, svenlein.

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