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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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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.

11/2/2002 Cynthia Celeste Miller: Cartoon Action Hour Demo Available!
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Pittsburg, Ks. November 2nd, 2002 CARTOON ACTION HOUR DEMO AVAILABLE Spectrum Game Studios and Z-Man Games announce the release of the free Cartoon Action Hour demo! The…
In Cartoon Action Hour
Participants: Cynthia Celeste Miller.

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.

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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.

11/1/2002 b_bankhead: Re: Profiling strikes again - EVERYBODY play!
[quote][b]What are the last three role-playing games that you actually, really played? [/b][/quote] ConspiracyX,Call of Cthulhu,Star Wars D6 [quote]What three role-playing games, out of ALL the ones you've EVER played,…
In Actual Play
Participants: b_bankhead, Clay, Mark Withers, Ron Edwards.

11/4/2002 MK Snyder: GNS and its origins from the Threefold Model
As a newbie, I found this discussion of The Threefold Theory very useful, especially with regard tot he symmetry problem. Am I correct in assuming that the GNS model derives…
In GNS Model Discussion
Participants: MK Snyder, M. J. Young, Valamir, Ron Edwards.

11/4/2002 Nathan: Experiment #4,221: PENDULUM (a double game system game?)
Yup, I had a freak idea over the weekend, and here is the first punch out of it. It seems like we've had games without systems, games with very lite…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Nathan, Mike Holmes.

11/4/2002 thoth: XP/Reward based on Actual Challenge vs Intended Challenge?
I recently did up a mod for d20 and awarding XP. It is based on the concept of giving XP for the Actual Challenge of a critter and not the…
In RPG Theory
Participants: thoth, Mike Holmes, Robert K Beckett, Bankuei, talysman, greyorm, M. J. Young.

11/4/2002 Emily Care: Enlightenment (Group Game Design)--Character and Setting Gen
Enlightenment is a game that has been collaboratively designed on this Forum at the initiative of Mike Holmes. This thread begins the next phase of its development. The general outline…
In RPG Theory
Participants: Emily Care, talysman, contracycle, Wormwood, Bob McNamee, Kester Pelagius, Mike Holmes.

11/4/2002 catenwolde: Donjon Paladins?
Has anyone tried to graft Paladin characters onto the Donjon game engine? I'm new to this, but it seems like it would take Donjon skill sets to drive the scenario…
In CRN Games
Participants: catenwolde.

11/4/2002 Pramas: Dragon Fist is Mine!
Thought this might interest folks here. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE GREEN RONIN PURCHASES DRAGON FIST Origins Awarded Nominated Game to Come Back in 2003 November 4, 2002-SEATTLE, WA: Green Ronin Publishing…
In Publishing
Participants: Pramas, greyorm, quozl, Ron Edwards, Jonathan Walton, Paganini, Mike Holmes.

11/4/2002 Brian Leybourne: [Disney]It's a small world after all...[/Disney]
So, this guy at my work, who I barely know (have seen once or twice but never talked to before) comes up to me yesterday and we have this conversation:…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: Brian Leybourne, Rattlehead.

11/4/2002 Jared A. Sorensen: New RPG project I'm proud to be a part of...
Here's a teaser. More images are available on the Studio Ronin site. http://www.studioronin.com/catalogue2/prints/Print103.htm Quite the list of Forge luminaries. ;) We're very much in the prelim. design phase but it's…
In Memento-Mori Theatricks
Participants: Jared A. Sorensen, Paul Czege, Valamir, Rich Forest, Jason L Blair, Bankuei, Blake Hutchins, joshua neff, Mike Holmes, Jürgen Mayer, Seth L. Blumberg, Spooky Fanboy, reptile2k1, kamikaze.

11/4/2002 Patrick Boutin: some questions about "Fantasy"
Hello everybody! After a crazy year, I'm back (trying) making roleplaying games once more. The post "Dawn of the Magi" and the article "Fantasy Heartbreakers" by Ron make me wonder…
In RPG Theory
Participants: Patrick Boutin, Alan, Valamir, Jared A. Sorensen, Eric J., Bankuei, Sylus Thane, talysman, greyorm, thoth, Jeremy Cole, simon_hibbs, Seth L. Blumberg, Jack Spencer Jr, Mike Holmes, M. J. Young, contracycle.

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