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11/2/2002 Shreyas Sampat: Creating Traits in Torchbearer
This is partly in response to Christoffer's query in the Wayfarer's Song - Soulburn thread, which itself was an outgrowth of his own thread on Ygg: Demonic Weird, and partly…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Shreyas Sampat, Jonathan Walton, Bob McNamee.

11/2/2002 Kester Pelagius: Overview: Epoch Fantasy
Epoch: Fantasy RPG (An "at a glance" Overview) A Role-Playing Game by ??(*) To begin with this is a overview of a 39 page PDF file using computer generated graphics,…
In Connections
Participants: Kester Pelagius.

11/2/2002 Christoffer Lernö: Reviews?
Are there actively reviews being done anymore or is that thing kind of put on hold for a while? I mean with the review forum put away as inactive and…
In Site Discussion
Participants: Christoffer Lernö, Clinton R. Nixon.

11/2/2002 Christoffer Lernö: Yggdrasil: Bob made a Goblin...
I stated earlier that I was gonna avoid all the problems with game balance by making all characters able to fight in Ygg if someone remembers that? Anyway short story:…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Christoffer Lernö, Demonspahn, Valamir, damion, Bob McNamee, Andrew Martin, Bankuei, Lugaru, Spooky Fanboy, Walt Freitag.

11/2/2002 C. Edwards: Applause
[b]Jake Norwood wrote[/b]: [quote]You have your own Uglub now. [/quote] Yes I do! Got my copy of TRoS yesterday and I am jazzed. I haven't been this exicited about an…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: C. Edwards, Jake Norwood.

11/2/2002 Paul Czege: I just ordered...
...this: http://www.nightshadebooks.com/kane.html Paul
In Adept Press
Participants: Paul Czege, Ron Edwards.

11/2/2002 greyorm: Tangentially...
Tangentially -- based on Chris' recent query about mythological names -- what sort of costs are involved in being sued by a company? (besides lawyers, saying you decide to represent…
In Publishing
Participants: greyorm, Clay, jrients, Gordon C. Landis.

11/2/2002 Valamir: The issue of stand alone replies
As long as were in the mode of pointing out changes to the way the Forge operates now, I'll point out the single trend that contributes the most to my…
In Moderators
Participants: Valamir, Ron Edwards, Paul Czege.

11/2/2002 Jonathan Walton: Storypunk: "Do you think you can tell?"
I was drafting a webpage/introduction for my game Storypunk (formerly the project called "Quixote & Coyote," discussed here and here) when I was suddenly inspired by multiple sources.…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Jonathan Walton, Paul Czege, Christoffer Lernö, Gwen, talysman, RobMuadib, Matt Snyder, Shreyas Sampat, Bob McNamee, Kenway, Mark Withers, szilard.

11/1/2002 Ashren Va'Hale: Sa's and trying to kill my character (long)
One of my biggest problems in gaming is that I come up with too many cool character Ideas.... I am currently playing a mad martigan style blade slinger that I…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: Ashren Va'Hale, Mayhem1979, Jake Norwood, Roger Eberhart, Lyrax.

11/1/2002 Jake Norwood: Gearing up for Actual Play: Siehe and the Fey
After playing lots of other stuff for a few months, we're getting ready to play TROS once again (it was all the cool stuff in OBAM that inspired me). The…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: Jake Norwood, Ashren Va'Hale, Silanthous, Valamir, Irmo, Spartan.

11/1/2002 Eric J.: What's this? Did Pyron have a GOOD session?
Star Wars: D6 Players:5 Jesse- Wanabee Mercenery; Party leader; Law abider Anthony- Former CorSec(Republic) leutenant; Pilot Cody- Medic; Fugative; Soldier; Fugative Charly- Actual Mercenary; Follower Doug- Slicer; Mercenary; Outcast This…
In Actual Play
Participants: Eric J., Ron Edwards, Bankuei.

11/1/2002 Clinton R. Nixon: Forum begone
For a while, I've had a train of thought that went like this: If we look like RPG.net (or other forum-based sites), then the chances of us turning into RPG.net…
In Moderators
Participants: Clinton R. Nixon, Paul Czege, Valamir, Jake Norwood, Matt Snyder, Mike Holmes, Le Joueur.

11/1/2002 Sylus Thane: How to go about Making Dragons Different
Anyone have any ideas on how to make Dragons different from the normal gold grubbing monsters they normally are in most sword and sorcery games? I would like Dragons to…
In RPG Theory
Participants: Sylus Thane, Christoffer Lernö, GreatWolf, Jake Norwood, Valamir, Paka, ethan_greer, ks13, thoth, talysman, szilard, Andrew Martin.

11/1/2002 sacrosanct: Epoch Fantasy RPG playtesters requested
I have recently completed my second RPG: Epoch Fantasy RPG, and am in the stages of playtesting. My goal with this rpg was to create a simple game that is…
In Connections
Participants: sacrosanct, Paul Czege, Le Joueur, Mike Holmes, Valamir, greyorm, Christoffer Lernö.

11/1/2002 Sylus Thane: Really needing an artist!
I can do the artwork for my game myself, being an artist already, but I'm really bogged down with writing and real life right now. I wouldn't be able to…
In Connections
Participants: Sylus Thane.

11/1/2002 Matt Wilson: the PCs have stats, and everything else is a diff. level
If anyone's done something like this already (I'm coming to expect it), can you point me to a game to check out? Anyway, on to this idea... In this game…
In RPG Theory
Participants: Matt Wilson, Christoffer Lernö, Mike Holmes.

11/1/2002 Mike Holmes: Forge Convention?
Paul and I have been batting around an idea for, well, way too long about putting together a small convention. When I mention it to people, they often say, hey,…
In Moderators
Participants: Mike Holmes, Valamir, Jason L Blair, Matt Snyder, Ron Edwards, Le Joueur, Clinton R. Nixon, unodiablo, Jared A. Sorensen.

11/1/2002 Christoffer Lernö: Using potentially "trademarked" words of myth?!
I wasn't really sure where to put this, but it does pertain to the design of games or more specifically setting. Let's say I want to use the name Gandalf…
In Publishing
Participants: Christoffer Lernö, Ron Edwards, Reimer Behrends, J B Bell, Mike Holmes, Valamir, Gordon C. Landis, greyorm.

11/1/2002 Christoffer Lernö: What Is Yggdrasil - Just the premise, no questions
[b]Setting - Mythic Fantasy[/b] That means magic is alive with qualities unknown. (The presentation on my site unfortunately does a poor job describing). It's not High Myth of say [i]Torchbearer[/i],…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Christoffer Lernö, Bankuei, Mike Holmes, Valamir, Bob McNamee.

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11/3/2002 Jonathan Walton: Ergo: Could/Should be a Forge Article?
If I had to pick a single document that revolutionized my thinking as a game designer, it would not be Ron's GNS Essay (which I only encountered recently), but this…
In Site Discussion
Participants: Jonathan Walton, Andrew Martin, Emily Care, Ron Edwards, RobMuadib, Shreyas Sampat, Mike Holmes.

11/3/2002 Michael Hopcroft: I'm moving
I'm moving into a new apartment complex to be closer to my day job. Sadly I am not officially allowed to run a business out of my new apartment. So…
In Publishing
Participants: Michael Hopcroft, Clay, Bob McNamee.

11/3/2002 Michael Hopcroft: Seraphim Guard Moving to new ISP
I am moving to a new apartment complex, and will need a new e-mail address. I will pass it along when I get it, but in the meantime the current…
In Seraphim Guard
Participants: Michael Hopcroft, Andrew Martin.

11/3/2002 Evan Waters: Storytelling and RPG "War Stories"
An interesting subject cropped up on RPG.net recently, and I wonder what the game-theory people here might do with it. Here's the thread: http://forum.rpg.net/showthread.php?s=&threadid=19972. To sum it up here, basically…
In RPG Theory
Participants: Evan Waters, Mike Holmes, Ron Edwards.

11/3/2002 Clay: Call of Cthulhu: The Hastur Mythos
I rounded up the boys (which includes roughly 50% women) for a Halloween Call of Cthulhu session, and decided to run Night Floors, from the Hastur Mythos as set forth…
In Actual Play
Participants: Clay, rabidchyld.

11/3/2002 Andrew Martin: WW Exalted + Token
I've been running a WW Exalted game for our group for the last couple of Sundays. I've noticed some problems with our last few sessions and made a point over…
In Actual Play
Participants: Andrew Martin, greyorm, Ron Edwards.

11/3/2002 Christoffer Lernö: Improvised Yggdrasil
I ran a short Ygg session with RobMuadib and Bob McNamee. We didn't get all that far. Being out traveling they decided to restock in a village. Turns out there…
In Actual Play
Participants: Christoffer Lernö, Bob McNamee.

11/3/2002 Kester Pelagius: Devils and Demons: the RPG of Divine Lunatics (longish)
Greetings All, What follows is a short little game designed to test a mechanic principle which I have outlined in a post at RPGnet which can be found here and…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Kester Pelagius, Sylus Thane, Shreyas Sampat, Christoffer Lernö, Gwen, Mike Holmes.

11/3/2002 Cassidy: Actor and Author Stance
[b]Taken from chapter 3 of GNS Theory[/b] [quote]In Actor stance, a person determines a character’s decisions and actions using only knowledge and perceptions that the character would have. In Author…
In GNS Model Discussion
Participants: Cassidy, Alan, Valamir, Ron Edwards, Mike Holmes, joe_llama, Andrew Martin, Le Joueur, M. J. Young.

11/3/2002 catenwolde: Sword and Sorceror Stand Alone?
Gents, I'm just about to order Sword & Sorceror (having spent years trying to make every system under the sun work for Howard-esque fantasy) and wanted to make sure I…
In Adept Press
Participants: catenwolde, Paka, Ron Edwards.

11/3/2002 Jason: Just got the game, first impressions.
I just got the game a few days ago, and got my small group to roll up characters last night. (my group= one friend, son,and wife). I was confused myself…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: Jason, Brian Leybourne, Bob Richter.

11/3/2002 Jeffrey Miller: Publishing thread on rpg.net
I'm not sure if this got play when John Nephew originally posted it, but here's a link to an interesting break down of Atlas' numbers on the last Ars adventure…
In Publishing
Participants: Jeffrey Miller, Mike Holmes, aryus.

11/3/2002 Cassidy: Breaking up is hard to do
Just some observations from my experiences as a player and as a GM with my current RPG group I'd like to share. Recently, one of the guys ran a Vampire…
In RPG Theory
Participants: Cassidy, Emily Care, Ron Edwards, Sylus Thane, Demonspahn, MK Snyder.

11/3/2002 Shreyas Sampat: Learning TeX?
So, I've searched the fora for this, and though I've come across a lot of recommendations for TeX as a teyesetting medium, I can't find any resources on learning it,…
In Publishing
Participants: Shreyas Sampat, Clay, Christoffer Lernö, Clinton R. Nixon, talysman.

11/3/2002 Jake Norwood: Nations of Weyrth Mini-Supplements
The discussion in the money thread about Odeon and their "teeth" system got me thinking...I would love to see more information on the various nations of Weyrth--history, peoples, stats, etc.…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: Jake Norwood, Irmo, Brian Leybourne, Valamir, Stephen.

11/3/2002 Palaskar: How do you prevent "The GM/Players from Hell?"
After reading the post "The worst superhero team EVER" on rpg.net, I was reminded of a game of Stormbringer I played back in high school. Basically, we suffered from what…
In RPG Theory
Participants: Palaskar, Matt Wilson, Ron Edwards.

11/4/2002 RobMuadib: TMW:COTEC - Sample Of Play - Pt1 (Long)
Hi all As my posts thus far seem to have garnered little comment on the game, I thought I would post a sample of play, or rather a vision of…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: RobMuadib, Shreyas Sampat, Voidwalker, Valamir, Christoffer Lernö.

11/4/2002 Ron Edwards: [Forge policy] Review submissions accepted
Hi everyone, At last: a Forge Review Policy for Everyone. QUICK ENLIGHTENING INSIGHT One reason that people post reviews is so they can talk about the game with others. If…
In Site Discussion
Participants: Ron Edwards, Spooky Fanboy, ADGBoss.

11/4/2002 Paul Czege: what to do when you're feeling icky
Last Monday, after five sessions of play, Matt's horrific playwright character Gideon was rolling something like 16 dice of Self-Loathing. And I can't help but think it wasn't far from…
In My Life With Master Playtest
Participants: Paul Czege, quozl, xiombarg, Mike Holmes, Emily Care.

11/4/2002 Demonspahn: Online playtesters needed for Intelligent Animal RPG
Hi everyone, I am looking to a playtest a new game where the players play PC animals after they gained human intelligence and rose up against the humans. The game…
In Connections
Participants: Demonspahn.

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