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12/8/2002 James V. West: NOMA and GNS
This may be the first time I've posted in the GNS forum. I generally don't get involved in theory discussions, but this question kept bugging me all week (and if…
In GNS Model Discussion
Participants: James V. West, Jack Spencer Jr, Ron Edwards, talysman.

12/8/2002 prophet118: Question on Different Types of Magic
ok... so how would i go about using elemental magic, shielding magic....i think thats the only two i need to know about
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: prophet118, Jake Norwood, Enoch, Irmo, Brian Leybourne, Lucien Black, Stephen, Lyrax, Vanguard, spunky, Bob Richter, Ron Edwards.

12/8/2002 Roy: Well done!
I just purchased CAH from RPGNow today and I'm very pleased with it. I am thrilled to see you've provided a way to handle improvised magic (i.e. Spell Clusters). Thank…
In Cartoon Action Hour
Participants: Roy, Cynthia Celeste Miller, Eddy Fate.

12/7/2002 prophet118: website is down
uhhh well the title really says it all, when i go to www.theriddleofsteel.net, i get the dotregister page
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: prophet118, Jake Norwood, Brian Leybourne, Irmo.

12/7/2002 Ben Lehman: TN 11 -- does it cause a problem?
So, one of the quirks of the TROS system is that TN 11 and TN 10 are functionally the same (if you open-end on a 10, then you must at…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: Ben Lehman, prophet118, Mask-of-Winters, Bob Richter, MrGeneHa, toli, MikeSands, Lyrax, Warboss Grock, Durgil, Jake Norwood, Henry Fitch, Brian Leybourne.

12/7/2002 Alcar: Keeping Interest - Mine And The Players
I've read the sorcerer site and some of the indie one (some new stuff has come up since I was by last) and just discovered the forums). Since I like…
In Actual Play
Participants: Alcar, Bankuei, Ziriel, Ben Morgan, Enoch, Ron Edwards, Christopher Kubasik, Clay.

12/7/2002 Michael Hopcroft: Finally getting into the retail chain
I think I've foinally arrived: Wizard's Attic is actually carrying my game at http://www.wizards-attic.com/SeraphimGuard.HTML and tell me they've made some sales. Now the question is -- will Alliance…
In Publishing
Participants: Michael Hopcroft, Ron Edwards.

12/7/2002 Brotherfury: Problems with free download
hey there, I am really interested in reading this game and maybe buying but i wanna dl the free version to read it over in my time, but it seems…
In Errant Knight Games
Participants: Brotherfury, Matt Gwinn.

12/7/2002 damion: Here's Another One; Luckily, It's Short
If you don't want any more of these, just get rid of it. It occured to me that this just seemed like a really good match, also, it it might…
In Scattershot
Participants: damion, Le Joueur.

12/6/2002 toli: Char Gen, Priorities, Randomness
The discussion RE insight got me thinking about this subject. I was curious why you (Jake) decided to for a deterministic as opposed to random form of character generation. I've…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: toli, prophet118, Mike Holmes, Bankuei, Irmo, Jake Norwood, Ron Edwards, Bob Richter.

12/6/2002 xiombarg: d20 Social Issues
Okay, this is sort of spun off from this thread: http://www.indie-rpgs.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=4482 Anyhoo, in this thread I want to talk about the thing we're afraid to discuss regarding d20: D&D 3E's…
In RPG Theory
Participants: xiombarg, Mike Holmes.

12/6/2002 Eddy Fate: Mechanic: Craps
I've been bouncing around a modern day mobster RPG for a few weeks now. I was trying for some sort of resolution mechanic that is quick, relatively balanced, and evokes…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Eddy Fate, Walt Freitag.

12/6/2002 quozl: What can I do for my daughter? (split from Sexism)
I am male, 30 years old, and married. My wife games a little (she loves Hogshead's Baron Munchausen) and our only child is our wonderful girl who is almost 1…
In RPG Theory
Participants: quozl, Clay, MK Snyder, Uncle Dark, Ron Edwards, John Wick, Ozymandias.

12/6/2002 Emily Care: Relationships at the Forge
Hello all, In Clinton's Cultural Analysis thread, Mike asked Who are you? I'd like to know: Who do you hang out with? :) Specifically, who on the Forge do you…
In Site Discussion
Participants: Emily Care, Paganini, Le Joueur, Mike Holmes, GreatWolf, Matt Wilson, xiombarg, Clinton R. Nixon, Shreyas Sampat, wyrdlyng, Gordon C. Landis, Kester Pelagius, Jake Norwood, Ziriel, Seth L. Blumberg, lumpley, Paul Czege, greyorm, M. J. Young, Walt Freitag, John Wick, Jürgen Mayer, Merten.

12/6/2002 prophet118: Insight Question
ok... when you get enough to have extra priorities with characters... like say you had 3 extra A's, would you get: A,A,A,A,E,F or A,A,A,A,B,C,D,E,F i think its the first one,…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: prophet118, Mokkurkalfe, Irmo, Brian Leybourne, Jake Norwood.

12/6/2002 Shawn Conard: Few questions...
I have only recently downloaded and printed myself a copy of Donjon, but I hope to be running the game in the not-so-distant future. Anyway, in the process of trying…
In CRN Games
Participants: Shawn Conard, Wulf, RamblingMan, Mike Holmes.

12/6/2002 Bankuei: Unstated bits of TROS
TROS, like any good fighter, is sneaky. It looks pretty straightforward, then folks starting finding out a lot of the rules and ideas in it are just a feint, counter…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: Bankuei, prophet118, Jake Norwood, Mike Holmes, Wolfen, ShaneNINE, Brian Leybourne, LordIvan, Ben Lehman, Salamander, Jason Kottler, MattFW, Kaare Berg, Jasper the Mimbo, Valamir, Lxndr, Overdrive, Paka, Ron Edwards, Morfedel, Lebo77, Spartan, Ashren Va'Hale.

12/6/2002 ShaneNINE: Missile Pool
Do I have this straight? The more dice you have in your missile pool the longer it takes to get to your full potential? That doesn't seem right.
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: ShaneNINE, prophet118, Jake Norwood.

12/6/2002 ShaneNINE: House Rule Question
Will a house rule like the following screw up the game? If you have x amount of dice in your pool (this isn't for combat, btw, but other skills) you…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: ShaneNINE, prophet118, Mike Holmes, Jake Norwood, MrGeneHa.

12/6/2002 Irmo: Large-scale RPG club
Ok, I'll start with giving an overview of the organisation of the large scale club in Germany I'll give a basic overview of the organization, the details are, in part…
In RPG Theory
Participants: Irmo, Mike Holmes, Seth L. Blumberg, Alan, Valamir, quozl, Ozymandias, Ron Edwards, Clinton R. Nixon.

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12/8/2002 Shreyas Sampat: Refreshing Rain: Wuxia Pathos and Astrology
[i]The water barely shimmered as Li Mu Bai ran across its surface. Jen followed, marring the lake with expanding rings.[/i] Wuxia is not about the kung fu. It's about the…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Shreyas Sampat, Tim Denee, Jonathan Walton, Emily Care, Thor Olavsrud.

12/8/2002 Ace: Preparing for play, I don't know what (Long)
I wanted to call this post "A funny thing happened on the way to the game store" bt I ran out of room and anyway it happned at the store…
In Actual Play
Participants: Ace, Mike Holmes, LordFly, Ron Edwards.

12/9/2002 Lucien Black: thoughts for optional attribute designation...
I was thinking about the idea of character appearance and how attributes factor into that, and was wondering if anyone had any ideas for generating stats based on appearance, as…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: Lucien Black, prophet118, Wolfen.

12/9/2002 Mask-of-Winters: Armor of Air
Hiya gang-- Just wondering if this is going to be an errata issue or not. The Duration component of the Armor of Air spell is listed as 1, which I…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: Mask-of-Winters, spunky.

12/9/2002 Clinton R. Nixon: Moderator-o-vation
Ron and I are considering the idea of having an extra moderator for Indie Game Design, RPG Theory, and perhaps GNS Discussion. Who these people will be is not up…
In Moderators
Participants: Clinton R. Nixon, GreatWolf, Matt Gwinn, Mike Holmes, Le Joueur, Ron Edwards.

12/9/2002 Spooky Fanboy: Got all the downloads!
Okay. read the quickstat rules and the columns. Wow! Looks good! Just a couple of questions: 1) Nothing at char gen to prevent everyone from starting as a Blessed? How…
In Dark Omen Games
Participants: Spooky Fanboy, GreatWolf.

12/9/2002 Jason L Blair: New Games?
Clinton, Hey, man. As you probably know, I'm a big fan of what Anvilwerks has put out so far but I'm curious as to whether you have any other products…
In CRN Games
Participants: Jason L Blair, Clinton R. Nixon, Jared A. Sorensen, Spooky Fanboy.

12/9/2002 Jonathan Walton: Pre-Game Fortune = Fortuneless Gaming?
I think I just stumbled across something really cool. I was working on a set of diceless rules for Continuum, while still trying to reflect the original mechanics and allowing…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Jonathan Walton, xiombarg, Le Joueur, damion, Mike Holmes, talysman, Paul Czege, Wormwood.

12/9/2002 MrGeneHa: Spike, arrow, and rapier damage
Hey all, this is just my take on weapon damage. Disclaimer: I don't modern fence, historical sword fight, SCA, and haven't made any special study of wounds and penetration. Anyhoo,…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: MrGeneHa, prophet118, Brian Leybourne, Bob McNamee, Jake Norwood, Bob Richter, toli.

12/9/2002 johnmarron: Theatrix actual play advice?
I recently read Paul Czege's threads about the Theatrix Supers game he played in, which inspired me to pick up a copy of Theatrix again. I originally bought the game…
In Actual Play
Participants: johnmarron, Fabrice G., Alan.

12/9/2002 Jonathan Walton: CCGs and Deck-Based Characters
This thread is influenced both by Matt Snyder's "Nine Worlds" concept (yes, Matt, someone was paying attention) and the ideas currently be discussed on the thread on "Pre-Game Fortune." Consider…
In RPG Theory
Participants: Jonathan Walton, Mike Holmes, Cassidy, bluegargantua, Eric J., Le Joueur, Ron Edwards, Jared A. Sorensen, Walt Freitag, Reimer Behrends, contracycle, Seth L. Blumberg.

12/9/2002 Wolfen: An idea for the forum
I just had a thought that might reduce the amount of redundant discussions, and threads shot down when someone points out that it's been discussed before. Jake, you could have…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: Wolfen, Brian Leybourne, Mike Holmes, Jake Norwood.

12/9/2002 Matt Snyder: 12 Days of Christmas
As you may have read on the Key 20 board, Key 20 will be offering up the 12 Games of Christmas starting December 13 through Christmas eve. Each day, free…
In Chimera Creative
Participants: Matt Snyder, Jason L Blair.

12/9/2002 thoth: Playing the opposite gender?
Off-shoot from the Sexism and Gaming thread. Is playing a character of the opposite gender a really bad idea? I can see it being bad because participants might end up…
In RPG Theory
Participants: thoth, Jack Spencer Jr, cruciel, Clinton R. Nixon, Eric J., Irmo, Ron Edwards, Uncle Dark, M. J. Young, Emily Care, Tim C Koppang, bluegargantua, Ian Charvill, Ziriel, Alan, John Wick, Maurice Forrester, Seth L. Blumberg, Blake Hutchins, Gordon C. Landis.

12/9/2002 Spooky Fanboy: So when's this thing out again?
What time do you expect it to be finished and ready to print? Also, I heard about dragons, but what's up with the unicorn? Where does the unicorn fit in?
In Dark Omen Games
Participants: Spooky Fanboy, GreatWolf.

12/9/2002 jburneko: Obvious Choices
Okay, this discussion is broken off from Backstory Revisited Ron pointed out that my hash-out thread seemed to really be about three seperate things at once. So, I'll…
In Adept Press
Participants: jburneko, GreatWolf, Ron Edwards, Christopher Kubasik, Thor Olavsrud, greyorm, talysman, joshua neff, Mike Holmes, Bankuei, epweissengruber.

12/10/2002 M. J. Young: Use of Gender Pronouns
[quote="Emily Care"]"Do" use both pronouns in examples of play when refering to players, gms and all game participants. (This one makes a difference for me when I read a game,…
In RPG Theory
Participants: M. J. Young, Clinton R. Nixon, contracycle, Le Joueur, Mike Holmes, Jonathan Walton, lumpley, ethan_greer, Paganini, damion, Clay, bluegargantua, Ron Edwards, cruciel.

12/10/2002 Alan: Community Building in Seattle
I'm not sure exactly which forum to post this on - Actual Play seems as appropriate as any. Here in Seattle we have a very active email group for local…
In Actual Play
Participants: Alan, Clinton R. Nixon, Ron Edwards, Jeffrey Miller, Rys.

12/10/2002 Alan: Universalis - Red Hunger
Hi all, Last week, playing Univeralis, Clinton entered a game rule that said "Alan has to write this game up for Actual Play on the Forge." As far as I…
In Actual Play
Participants: Alan, Tony Irwin, Mike Holmes, Seth L. Blumberg, Ron Edwards, rafial, Rys, contracycle, Valamir.

12/10/2002 Alan: Player Narration can be Exhausting!
Hi all, Over the past two Mondays at our Indie game night, I've played or GMed InSpectres, Universalis, and Extreme Vengeance. All have mechanics that demand creative player narration. I've…
In Actual Play
Participants: Alan, Fabrice G., Jared A. Sorensen, Matt Wilson, Mike Holmes, Ron Edwards, Tim C Koppang.

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