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11/27/2002 Emily Care: pop the cork
1000 registered users on the forge.
In Site Discussion
Participants: Emily Care, xiombarg.

11/27/2002 Ian Cooper: Hero Wars Actual Play Wintertop Fair
For me, one of the great things about attending conventions is the chance to play with new people and learn from their techniques. At Convulsions this year I had the…
In Actual Play
Participants: Ian Cooper, Mike Holmes, epweissengruber, Ron Edwards.

11/27/2002 Le Joueur: So...What is Railroading? (Using Illusionism Terminology)
Simple (highly emotionally charged, hot button issue, loaded) question:Given Illusionism terminology, what is Railroading?For the sake of argument, we'll assume that the Railroading in question is about 'story conscious' gaming.…
In RPG Theory
Participants: Le Joueur, Emily Care, Mike Holmes, Marco, Ron Edwards, Andrew Martin, Christoffer Lernö, contracycle, Jack Spencer Jr.

11/27/2002 Emily Care: Rise Up: narrative allocation mechanics
Hello, I'm working on a game that takes place in a slave holding society on the brink of revolution. The mechanics will guide the players to create a framework of…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Emily Care, Mike Holmes, Ron Edwards, bluegargantua, Jonathan Walton.

11/27/2002 Mageant: Persistent RPG World
Hi Everyone, I would value your opinions on the following idea: I am complemplating creating a copy of the Mysticora game world (www.mysticora.com) database for a persistent pen & paper…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Mageant, Mike Holmes, RobMuadib, Emily Care, contracycle, damion, Balbinus.

11/27/2002 Matt Snyder: Who's playing Dust Devils?
You know, I get lots of feedback about Dust Devils being a good idea, or doing something different. That's very encouraging. I hear little to NO feedback on ACTUALY PLAY…
In Chimera Creative
Participants: Matt Snyder, Clay, edomaur, Adam, Jason L Blair, Mike Holmes.

11/27/2002 Michael S. Miller: Games that enforce story structure?
When working on a game, I like to see what's been done before in the same vein. Can anyone point me to games that support a certain structure for the…
In RPG Theory
Participants: Michael S. Miller, RobMuadib, James Holloway, Jared A. Sorensen.

11/27/2002 simon_hibbs: Doomed heroes and Inescapable fate
I watched Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon for about the 10th time again last night (first time in 6 months though!), and was talking about the ending, and how it could…
In RPG Theory
Participants: simon_hibbs, Michael S. Miller, Mike Holmes, jrients, wyrdlyng, hardcoremoose, Christopher Kubasik, C. Edwards, Demonspahn.

11/27/2002 bluegargantua: Sorcerer One-Shot
Hi, As mentioned a few threads back, I ran a one-shot demo game of Sorcerer for Pandemonium Books and Games in Cambridge MA as part of their Iron Gamer Series.…
In Actual Play
Participants: bluegargantua, Emily Care, Ron Edwards.

11/27/2002 RamblingMan: Shapeshifting - Any Thoughts?
One of the guys in my group wants to make a shapeshifter. Any thoughts on how to mimic this? Would it be better to make it mundane ability-based, or perhaps…
In CRN Games
Participants: RamblingMan, Clinton R. Nixon.

11/27/2002 Brian Leybourne: Die Mechanics
I've been mulling around some ideas in my head about die systems recently. (Not that I have an actual game in mind to use them for at the moment, and…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Brian Leybourne, Mike Holmes, szilard, Henry Fitch.

11/27/2002 GreatWolf: James Wallis on the state of the industry
First, read this interview with James Wallis. Now, this is not supposed to be a "bang the drum slowly" thread (but see footnotes 1 and 2). However, I wanted to…
In Publishing
Participants: GreatWolf, b_bankhead, Le Joueur, C. Edwards, gentrification, greyorm, John Wick, JSDiamond, Valamir, Walt Freitag, Reimer Behrends.

11/27/2002 Jack Spencer Jr: Going cheap
I was in the bath today when an idea occured to me. OK, no I wasn't but the idea came nevertheless. It has something to do with going for the…
In RPG Theory
Participants: Jack Spencer Jr, Mike Holmes.

11/26/2002 zaal: Alternative Combat Rounds
Hi all, I posted this on RPG.net and was told to check out this forum. So here I am :) . Bear with me as I learn some of the…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: zaal, Andrew Martin, Gwen, Brian Leybourne, Wormwood, b_bankhead, simon_hibbs, Mike Holmes, Le Joueur, cruciel, Blake Hutchins, thoth, szilard, M. J. Young, Valamir, damion, Walt Freitag.

11/26/2002 Brian Leybourne: Hi
Hi all, just wanted to say gidday. I managed to find a copy of Sorcerer in a Sydney Game store over the weekend, and it was so good I didn't…
In Adept Press
Participants: Brian Leybourne, Ron Edwards, Tim Denee.

11/26/2002 Valamir: Mike's Big Adventure, dice mechanics, and escaping (Donjon)
Some playtest...here was Mike's Big Adventure. 1) investigate mysterious tower. 2) Go to tower 3) get attacked by demon thing 4) everybody dies ;-) I think my Leprechan actually survived…
In CRN Games
Participants: Valamir, Mike Holmes, Wulf, Clinton R. Nixon, RamblingMan, jdagna.

11/26/2002 Rattlehead: The Riddle Of Time Management?
Hi all, I'm afraid I have some bad news. As some of you know, I was working on a character generator for TRoS. I was going to call it the…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: Rattlehead, Brian Leybourne, Mike Holmes, Bob Richter.

11/26/2002 Demonspahn: "Dread"ing cut-scenes
Hi everyone. Recently Mike Holmes brought up the interesting use of cut scenes here to help with a game mechanic problem I've been having. Maybe because I have been…
In RPG Theory
Participants: Demonspahn, Andrew Martin, contracycle.

11/26/2002 rikiwarren: GM originated encounters
Ok, here's the next question. How do you handle encounters that originate from the GMs side of the table? For example, say my band of adventurers are camping for the…
In CRN Games
Participants: rikiwarren, jdagna.

11/26/2002 prophet118: Vagaries...
they tend to be a bit...vague on some things... i hope im not rehashing old info, but i searcged and didnt find a definate answer... so maybe im just over…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: prophet118, Brian Leybourne.

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11/27/2002 Steve Dustin: CREATURE FEATURE: Powers of play in a shared-GM game
Creature Feature is a shared-GM monster movie RPG I talked about in this thread: http://www.indie-rpgs.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=4138 Some conversations got me thinking about "defining" the metagame capabilities of players in terms of…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Steve Dustin, RobMuadib, Mike Holmes.

11/27/2002 Uncle Dark: Quick summoning question
Is it possible to summon a bound demon? In one game I ran, the players decided to summon a bound demon (who had outlived his master) and re-bind him. I…
In Adept Press
Participants: Uncle Dark, greyorm, Ron Edwards, Mike Holmes, jburneko, Valamir.

11/28/2002 Michael Hopcroft: Review needed
I need reviews of HeartQuest and Musical Mistresses right away up in RPGNet and other forums. Since I trust my fellow publishers both to be honest and to be fair,…
In Seraphim Guard
Participants: Michael Hopcroft.

11/28/2002 Michael Hopcroft: I need reviews NOW.
I need to get my new and current e-books into the hands of reviewers who will post fair reviews to RPGNet and other forums that puvblish game reviews. What is…
In Publishing
Participants: Michael Hopcroft, geekspeakweekly, Andy Kitkowski.

11/29/2002 Drew South: Query - Rulebook
Hello all :-) I've only recently managed to get a copy of the rulebook down here in NZ, and was wondering (having seen an earlier post) whether there was any…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: Drew South, Spartan, MrGeneHa, Jake Norwood.

11/29/2002 Walt Freitag: What does role playing gaming accomplish?
"What does role playing gaming accomplish?" No, I'm not looking for an answer. I'm pointing out an aspect of role playing gaming that influences the public perception of the activity.…
In RPG Theory
Participants: Walt Freitag, simon_hibbs, cruciel, thoth, jrients, Mike Holmes, Ziriel, Jack Spencer Jr, Le Joueur, Paul Czege, JMendes, Price Check, RobMuadib, M. J. Young, damion, MK Snyder, joe_llama, contracycle, quozl, Emily Care.

11/29/2002 Mike Holmes: Player Power Abuse
[quote="Christopher Kubasik"] If anyone has any actual "All my fears of trusting my Players/GM with too much power played out exactly as I expected" stories, I'd love to get them…
In Actual Play
Participants: Mike Holmes, Ron Edwards, damion, MK Snyder, Christopher Kubasik, Bankuei, Blake Hutchins.

11/29/2002 lumpley: Pervy Sim, Points of Contact, Accessibility: an example game
Hey. I used to play in this game with Sarah Kahn and them, and holy cow were they pervs. The philosophy: 1. No game mechanics can be as good a…
In GNS Model Discussion
Participants: lumpley, Ron Edwards, Mike Holmes.

11/30/2002 Sidhain: Playtesters Needed!
Trying Again: I need playtesters for Hearts and Souls, a game of dramatic superheroism. Contact Me if interested!
In Connections
Participants: Sidhain, Aethelwulffe.

11/30/2002 MK Snyder: Misanthropy and game design
I have to say, I am struck at the many statements made in this forum by designers that indicate that they just don't like people. That people, in general, are…
In Publishing
Participants: MK Snyder, James V. West, Clinton R. Nixon, talysman, Ron Edwards, Sidhain, Clay, Mike Holmes, JSDiamond, Maurice Forrester, Irmo, contracycle.

11/30/2002 cruciel: Christian Gamers and Self Esteem
All this question of gamer pride when revealing your hobby to non-gamers has brought up a lot of "it's all the fundies falt" comments, and I'm curious about something. So,…
In RPG Theory
Participants: cruciel, Clinton R. Nixon, M. J. Young, Victor Gijsbers, thoth, Ted E. Childers, Bankuei, Uncle Dark, Sidhain, Ron Edwards, Christopher Kubasik, Jonathan Walton, Clay, Kester Pelagius, contracycle, Paganini, Evan Waters, Irmo.

11/30/2002 James V. West: Black Wing: idea in the rough (long)
[i][b]Black Wing[/i][/b] is the rpg companion to my series of comic stories set in the land of Hof. These stories begin with issue #1 of [url=http://www.randomordercreations.com/rocg.html]Random Order Comics and Games[/url]…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: James V. West, Ron Edwards.

11/30/2002 Valamir: Thanksgiving 2002 Actual Play – The Pregnant Pope.
Over the Thanksgiving holiday I had the opportunity to play a game of Universalis with Ron Edwards of Adept Press, Jake Norwood of Driftwood Publishing and Jake’s wife Earta. Unfortunately…
In Universalis
Participants: Valamir, Mike Holmes, Jake Norwood.

12/1/2002 Wulf: That first step
Maybe this should be in the 'Actual Play' forum, but I thought I'd post here since there isn't really a lot of 'play' in it. It's just my observations and…
In CRN Games
Participants: Wulf, jdagna, Clinton R. Nixon, Mike Holmes.

12/1/2002 zaal: Fortune in the Middle
I started a thread over on the game design forum (Alternative Combat Round), not realizing this forum was probably more appropriate for what I wanted to talk about :P .…
In RPG Theory
Participants: zaal, cruciel, Mike Holmes.

12/1/2002 zaal: Getting the Players Involved
I've made a pretty good dent into Scattershot, which seems to go out of it's way to tell the reader that player contributions during the game are at least as…
In RPG Theory
Participants: zaal, Clinton R. Nixon, Mike Holmes, Ron Edwards, Victor Gijsbers, Ted E. Childers, talysman.

12/1/2002 Ben Lehman: The Magic of Sacrifice
Hey all-- New to the fora and the game. Bought it a couple of weeks ago, am generally impressed, and am in the process of changing bits and pieces so…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: Ben Lehman, Wolfen.

12/1/2002 Rattlehead: Off Topic Announcement
Hi all! I know this is way off topic, but I wanted to announce the birth of my daughter, Allena Jolann. She was born on Friday, November 29 at 1:46…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: Rattlehead, Mike Holmes, spunky, Brian Leybourne, Ace, Vanguard.

12/1/2002 C. Edwards: Motion rights?
This may seem like a silly question, all I can ask is that you indulge me. In the CCG Magic: The Gathering, one of the main aspects of game play…
In Publishing
Participants: C. Edwards, Ron Edwards.

12/1/2002 Ben Lehman: Resources and Resolutions
Hey-- New here, so if this has been brought up before, please let me know and I will apologize profusely. Imbedded in Ron's GNS article is the old "Drama /…
In RPG Theory
Participants: Ben Lehman, Ron Edwards, Victor Gijsbers, Walt Freitag.

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