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10/19/2002 Paka: Well-Met in Mu's Bed (a Sorcerer & Sword Campaign)
We decided that the character had known each other and had travelled most of the way across the Red Waste together towards Mu's Bed. The last Sorcerer & Sword game…
In Actual Play
Participants: Paka, Ron Edwards, Blake Hutchins.

10/19/2002 kevin671: Character Creation
O.K., by request, I've moved my post here. Character Creation Character attributes are as follows: Mental Group Perception Intelligence Physical Group Strength Vitality Athletic Group Dexterity Reaction Spiritual Group Psyche…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: kevin671, Kester Pelagius, ethan_greer, M. J. Young, Christoffer Lernö, talysman, contracycle, Mike Holmes.

10/19/2002 Paganini: Vampires
Lots of vampire discussions on the Forge recently, but it seems to be an intensifying of a general theme. What's up with that? To be more explicit, I'm wondering why…
In RPG Theory
Participants: Paganini, C. Edwards, lumpley, Zak Arntson, greyorm, Mike Holmes, Seth L. Blumberg, UnSub, Ron Edwards, MK Snyder, Bob McNamee, Jeremy Cole, b_bankhead.

10/19/2002 Jason L Blair: Attn: Illustrators looking for promotion
Twelve illustrators are needed for a special online holiday project. This is a non-paying gig, folks, but the pieces will be teamed up with work done by Forge writers and…
In Connections
Participants: Jason L Blair.

10/18/2002 Blake Hutchins: Playtesting tonight
Hey all, Finally getting something up and running tonight. It's a bit rushed, and none of the players has ever experienced anything like MLWM before. Only one of them has…
In My Life With Master Playtest
Participants: Blake Hutchins, Paul Czege.

10/18/2002 Kester Pelagius: The GNS Theory: Draft Cyclopedia Entry
What follows below is intended as a cyclopedic reference entry on the subject of The GNS Theory. Alas there are no quick and easy definitions for this topic, though suggestions…
In GNS Model Discussion
Participants: Kester Pelagius, Marco, Ron Edwards.

10/18/2002 Jonathan Walton: Breakdown: "The Pale Continent"
Okay, now that exams are mostly over, it's time to look at the results of this fine, fine Iron Chef competition. My submission took on the dauting task of…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Jonathan Walton.

10/18/2002 Scott_Lynch: Looking to contact Michael Hopcroft
Howdy, Michael-- I hate to do this (and please feel free to delete this once it's served its purpose), but I've been trying to get ahold of you by several…
In Seraphim Guard
Participants: Scott_Lynch.

10/18/2002 Ace: The Riddle of Power
After OBAM and TFOB and SATF are wrapped up may I suggest the next book The Riddle of Power I will admit to having more than a few simulationist cravings…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: Ace, Ron Edwards, Jake Norwood, Nick Pagnucco.

10/18/2002 Matt Snyder: RONIN: Dust Devils in Feudal Japan (By Jason Blair!!!)
When it rains, it pours. As if the Dust Devils PDF release was not enough, get a load of THIS: Jason Blair has created RONIN -- A Feudal Alternative For…
In Chimera Creative
Participants: Matt Snyder, GB Steve, GreatWolf, hardcoremoose, Bankuei, Mike Holmes.

10/18/2002 King Pumpkin: Pumpkin Town
Hey, Pumpkin Town is cool. is what's on Memento Mori all we're ever gonna see?
In Memento-Mori Theatricks
Participants: King Pumpkin, Jared A. Sorensen.

10/18/2002 Sylus Thane: Do you ever wonder what's the point?
I mean really with all the games out there do you ever wonder what's the point of trying to publish something new? Now I'm not trying to be one of…
In RPG Theory
Participants: Sylus Thane, Mike Holmes, Le Joueur, greyorm, Paganini, Jonathan Walton, Kester Pelagius, wyrdlyng, Jeremy Cole, Andrew Martin, Ron Edwards.

10/18/2002 Christoffer Lernö: Director stance in standard sim
Skipping right to the point: I think it was Mike who pointed out in some thread that when you create your character it is in fact a sort of Director…
In RPG Theory
Participants: Christoffer Lernö, Henry Fitch, Mike Holmes, Ron Edwards, Marco, Valamir, Emily Care.

10/18/2002 greyorm: The Chef Examines the Dish: Stars Over Africa
[i]Stars Over Africa[/i] was my submission to the recent Iron Game Chef competition here at the Forge, and the game in its entirety can be found [url=http://www.indie-rpgs.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=37517#37517]here[/url]. The judge, Mike…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: greyorm.

10/18/2002 lumpley: Random Vampire Game Mechanic Thoughts
...so that we don't keep cluttering up this thread with them. So the starving vampire would be more likely to not have narrative control...meaning the GM is free to narrate…
In RPG Theory
Participants: lumpley, talysman, Valamir, Ron Edwards, Jake Norwood, Paul Czege, Emily Care.

10/18/2002 Matt Wilson: mechanic idea (is this FitM?)
I had this idea that stemmed from thoughts over improving S&H time, then thought maybe I could make S&H time more interesting, where rolls to determine something are divided into…
In RPG Theory
Participants: Matt Wilson, Valamir, Ron Edwards.

10/18/2002 Mike Holmes: Hero Wars in an Alternate setting
There has been some clamor to hear about my impending Hero Wars game, so I thought I'd post the general outline. Josh and Julie, and possibly one or two others…
In Actual Play
Participants: Mike Holmes, AndyGuest, Matt Wilson, Ron Edwards, joshua neff, Julie, Christoffer Lernö, Blake Hutchins, ADGBoss.

10/18/2002 AndyGuest: Why do games have to have a 'Premise' ?
[Should this be in RPG Theory ? If so can one of the admins move it for me] Maybe it's just something that bugs me but how come every time…
In RPG Theory
Participants: AndyGuest, ethan_greer, Mike Holmes, Matt Wilson, Shreyas Sampat, Valamir, jburneko, talysman, Ron Edwards, greyorm, Seth L. Blumberg, GreatWolf, GB Steve, Jared A. Sorensen, Marco, Walt Freitag, Bankuei, Matt Snyder, Andrew Martin.

10/18/2002 Matt Snyder: Durn Foreigners!
You know, I'm absolutely amazed at how many overseas folks have purchased Dust Devils. I've had sales in the UK, Switzerland, New Zealand, Australia, and one or two others (with…
In Chimera Creative
Participants: Matt Snyder, Paul Czege, Clay, Mikko Kauppinen, Tim Denee, Mike Holmes, Jon H, Ron Edwards, UnSub, Valamir, edomaur.

10/18/2002 Clay: Web Design/Development Journal
It's something that I've been tossing around in my head for over a year now, and I finally started to put the components together. I have started an online journal…
In Connections
Participants: Clay, Matt.

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10/19/2002 Bailywolf: ...When you see the RING
This movies scared the living shit out of me. I saw it last night, and I still feel nervous and itchy. The scariest movie I have ever seen... and as…
In Adept Press
Participants: Bailywolf, Bankuei, Fabrice G., hardcoremoose, Andy Kitkowski, urbwar, Christopher Kubasik, ethan_greer, Jack Spencer Jr.

10/19/2002 Jared A. Sorensen: Halloween-inspired RPG
COS: the CosPlay Roleplaying Game http://memento-mori.com/games/COS.pdf I'm making this available from now til Halloween...then it goes away! EDIT: Fixed the darn URL!
In Memento-Mori Theatricks
Participants: Jared A. Sorensen, Ron Edwards.

10/20/2002 talysman: what I did for Iron Game Chef: the Court of 9 Chambers
I waited a few days before starting my post-mortem, so that I could think about the game a little more. obviously, when I created the concept of the game, I…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: talysman, Paul Czege.

10/20/2002 Demonspahn: Woohoo! Dreamwalker PDF available and a question
Hi everyone, After much help from Brett M. Bernstein at/of Politically Incorrect Games in getting the file size down, Dreamwalker is now available as a PDF! I came up…
In Publishing
Participants: Demonspahn, Ron Edwards, Gold Rush Games.

10/20/2002 Andy Kitkowski: Sorcerer: Kyuseisha (full game, comments/suggestions please)
[i]Sorry about all the confusion, folks. I accidentally caused a mess with my last series of posts on this game. I think I’ve got the hang of things now, so…
In Actual Play
Participants: Andy Kitkowski, Ron Edwards, Maurice Forrester, rafael, ADGBoss.

10/20/2002 Christoffer Lernö: A "indie games featured on the Forge forums" guide
I was surfing around on the indie game forums, and something struck me: a) There might be a lot of good stuff here. In fact it most certainly is and…
In Site Discussion
Participants: Christoffer Lernö, Ron Edwards, Clinton R. Nixon, Mike Holmes.

10/20/2002 Jonathan Walton: Design Challenge from Hell
So, I am currently tackling the design challange from hell, like the title says, and I need the help of the Forge's most brilliant minds. Heck, even not-so-brilliant minds would…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Jonathan Walton, Jack Spencer Jr, Kester Pelagius, M. J. Young, contracycle, Gwen, Andrew Martin, Sylus Thane.

10/20/2002 hyphz: Adventures for TROS
Hi, Does anyone know if any web site has sample adventures for TROS? Or does it not work that way? If not, what's the best way of constructing an adventure…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: hyphz, Brian Leybourne, Jake Norwood, Irmo, Mike Holmes, Ron Edwards, Bob Richter, Holt, Valamir.

10/20/2002 Kester Pelagius: Does anyone know...
..which PDF related programs out there will directly convert Microsoft Works Word Processor files? In my search I've found a few sites that claim to be able to handle WPS…
In Connections
Participants: Kester Pelagius, Jake Norwood, Bailywolf, greyorm, talysman, Andrew Martin, Christoffer Lernö, urbwar, razgon, cruciel.

10/21/2002 unodiablo: Firefly - Western in Space!
Has anyone been watching the new Fox show Firefly? It's the one done by the 'creator of Buffy The Vampire Slayer'. I don't watch Buffy, but Firefly has been very…
In Chimera Creative
Participants: unodiablo, Matt Snyder, joshua neff, Jared A. Sorensen.

10/21/2002 Paul Heinz: Dodging, Armour and Encumbrance?
In the rules on Armour (p86) it states that in addition to Armour Value. armour negatively affects the wearers defensive TN when dodging and/or lessens the wearer's Combat Pool. Now…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: Paul Heinz, Jake Norwood, Brian Leybourne, Spartan.

10/21/2002 quozl: New game: Frankenstein's Monsters (long)
In the year 1799, Dr. Victor Frankenstein discovered the secret to reanimating dead tissue. He used this knowledge and, to his dismay, created a monster. The monster killed Frankenstein's wife…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: quozl, Paul Czege, Ron Edwards.

10/21/2002 Paul Heinz: Variant Attributes for tRoS
I note people have been discussing different ways of increasing or reducing the number of attributes in tRoS, so I thought I'd pitch in with my set. First, as per…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: Paul Heinz.

10/21/2002 Lucien Black: newbie with some questions.....
Greetings, and on with the inquisition: 1) What is the upper limit a PC can gain for proficiency in a weapon? I assume there is one? 2) How low can…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: Lucien Black, Shadeling, Jake Norwood, Brian Leybourne, Apprentice of Steel.

10/21/2002 Gwen: My Game Idea (Very Long)
Hi, I'm new to these board, so I hope I'm going about this the right way. *nervous smile* I'm a religion/religious mythology major and when I told my roleplaying group…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Gwen, contracycle, talysman, Andrew Martin, Christoffer Lernö, RobMuadib, ADGBoss, Ron Edwards, Shreyas Sampat, Kester Pelagius.

10/21/2002 Christoffer Lernö: The Evil online
I just finished a game of The Evil with Chris Edwards and Nathan (Paganini) Banks. They were playing Charles Doverymyer and Mandy Cox respectively. They further on made up a…
In Actual Play
Participants: Christoffer Lernö, Paganini, C. Edwards.

10/21/2002 morien: What's up with "Against the Reich" ?
Hi, Jared. I curious to see your forthcoming pulp supplement for Octane. How is this progressing ? Do you have any idea about the release date ? I am particulary…
In Memento-Mori Theatricks
Participants: morien, Jared A. Sorensen.

10/21/2002 ADGBoss: Seraphim Changes
Seraphim: Candlebright (indeed my whole philosophy here at ADG) has undergone some changes. I have done away with many of the extraneous abilities and stats and wounds etc in the…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: ADGBoss, Ron Edwards.

10/21/2002 Valamir: Support Issues
Just wanted to announce that my home PC has officially died in a most heinous and unrecoverable way. Spent a week with several different tech friends of mine and it…
In Universalis
Participants: Valamir.

10/21/2002 Stephen: Questions on SAs
In the Sorcery Variation thread below Ron Edwards gave me some tips on the possible uses of SAs that were quite fascinating. I'd like to follow up with some questions…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: Stephen, Mokkurkalfe, Mike Holmes, Ron Edwards, Bankuei, Brian Leybourne, Jake Norwood.

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