Previous Topics 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 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 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 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 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 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 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.
12/8/2002 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.
12/8/2002 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 Jack Spencer Jr: preparation: character vs setting From another thread:
Another possibility to consider is that some games are constructed such that the characters are very rich and intense pre-play. Sorcerer is a good example; a… In RPG Theory Participants: Jack Spencer Jr, Andrew Martin, Clay, M. J. Young, bluegargantua, Fabrice G., Ron Edwards.
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.
<< more previous topics | | Subsequent Topics 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.
12/10/2002 Delta1: Just recieved Sorceror Ron,
Excellent, professional and thought provoking game. Still digesting the ideas/concepts.
FYI - I was able to obtain my copy through Military Simulations in Melbourne, Australia. In Adept Press Participants: Delta1, Ron Edwards.
12/10/2002 Jared A. Sorensen: Double-barrel update shotgun: octaNe, Mad Max 4 From my journal:
octaNe Styles are not necessarily keyed to character ability. I mean, I already KNEW this (it's mentioned in the rules) but I never looked at it from… In Memento-Mori Theatricks Participants: Jared A. Sorensen.
12/10/2002 Shreyas Sampat: Refreshing Rain: The Relationship Sky [url=http://www.geocities.com/torchbearer_rpg/rain.html]Refreshing Rain[/url] uses a board as a representation of the relationships of various characters in-game.
Very simply, a single piece in the board represents one entity. That entity is antagonistic… In Indie Game Design Participants: Shreyas Sampat, Jonathan Walton, Kuma.
12/10/2002 Derek Devlin: Pulling Crazy Stunts in CAH Hi.
I’m new to the forum and CAH but when I saw the game’s subject matter and names like Jared Sorensen and John Wick appearing in the forums, I knew… In Cartoon Action Hour Participants: Derek Devlin, Cynthia Celeste Miller, Eddy Fate.
12/10/2002 Clinton R. Nixon: Riptide and odd questions I'm designing the 'curriculum' system for my new game, Riptide, right now. To answer these questions, all you need to know is that it's set in high school.
Ok.
Question… In Indie Game Design Participants: Clinton R. Nixon, Matt Wilson, Wormwood, Jared A. Sorensen, quozl, damion, Walt Freitag, cruciel, kamikaze, Ziriel, Shreyas Sampat, Jack Spencer Jr, Mark Johnson, contracycle.
12/10/2002 Clinton R. Nixon: GenCon 2003 - I got my packet I got my packet for GenCon 2003 today. The floor space is fucking huge.
Anyway, I'm not sure what sort of booth the Forge/Adept Press/Key 20 wants, but I'm guessing… In GenCon Planning and Organization Participants: Clinton R. Nixon, Jason L Blair, Ron Edwards.
12/11/2002 jburneko: Borderline Demon Types - Evil Pinnochio There are two kinds of monsters in horror litterature that I hold a deep facination for, Zombies and Killer Puppets. Just the other day I was thinking about what a… In Adept Press Participants: jburneko, Ron Edwards.
12/11/2002 Clinton R. Nixon: The purpose of forums Ron and I discussed the 'sub-moderator' position some more this morning, and we decided we needed a clear vision of what each forum is actually there for. I'm going to… In Moderators Participants: Clinton R. Nixon, Valamir.
12/11/2002 Steve Dustin: First Sorceror Game Finally getting around to it. After giving some friends a choice on different games, I'm running a one-shot Sorceror game on Friday (note: if this should go in the Adept… In Actual Play Participants: Steve Dustin, Ron Edwards, Mike Holmes, b_bankhead, jrients.
12/11/2002 Clinton R. Nixon: Elfs actual play - and notes to use in your own game A couple of weeks ago, I ran Elfs for my group. This isn't an actual play post, in that I'm not going to share what we learned - there's been… In Adept Press Participants: Clinton R. Nixon, Ron Edwards.
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