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1/23/2003 Cassidy: Questions regarding trait bonus's
[quote="The Pool"]Five: THE CONTINUING STORY If you have 9 dice or more left in your Pool at the end of a session, you start the next session with the same…
In Random Order Creations
Participants: Cassidy, Ron Edwards, James V. West, Bankuei, Blake Hutchins.

1/23/2003 Paka: Riddle of Steel at RPG.net
Just some links to some RPG.net discussions going on right now: The word is out and the word is good. ROS, How's it playing? http://forum.rpg.net/showthread.php?s=&threadid=30499&perpage=20&pagenumber=1 George RR Martin: A Song…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: Paka, Shadeling, Jake Norwood, Rattlehead, Ashren Va'Hale.

1/23/2003 SteveD: Cindy?
Cindy, I just answered your email and I got an error message, something about your quota being full? Anyway, the answer is: yes, you bet! Cheers, Steve
In Cartoon Action Hour
Participants: SteveD, Eddy Fate, Cynthia Celeste Miller.

1/23/2003 Stephen: Sorcerer without "demons"?
I'll be honest: one reason I've always avoided Sorcerer is that I have a ridiculous, irrational, personal-faith-based objection to the idea of roleplaying summoning demons. Understand: I don't know if…
In Adept Press
Participants: Stephen, Trevis Martin, Roy, Mike Holmes, Tony Irwin, Ron Edwards, Balbinus, Bankuei, M. J. Young, Jack Spencer Jr.

1/22/2003 RobMuadib: TMW:COTEC - Shared Play concepts - Scripts
Hi all The rumours of my death were, as usual, quite exagerrated. I am still alive, and still working on my game, TMW:COTEC. When last we left your hero, he…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: RobMuadib, J. Backman, Le Joueur.

1/22/2003 Cassidy: Random Thoughts on the Pool
After playing the Pool I threw a question to James about GM dice. Question about GM dice. I handed out 1-3 GM dice as per the rules and I…
In Random Order Creations
Participants: Cassidy, James V. West, Bob McNamee.

1/22/2003 Clinton R. Nixon: Can an advancement system change an entire game?
All this Heartbreaker talk has got me thinking about game design in a furious way. In sketching out my own, I've gotten inspired about a game that I don't know…
In RPG Theory
Participants: Clinton R. Nixon, Valamir, Matt Wilson, M. J. Young, Tony Irwin.

1/22/2003 ace pilot: How do you design your Character Record Sheets?
Hey all, I wanted to know how people put together Character Record Sheets for their games? Do you do it by hand? Word Processor? (e.g., Word) Photoshop? Other? Cheers.
In Publishing
Participants: ace pilot, Shreyas Sampat, Enoch, M. J. Young, Jack Spencer Jr, richks, cruciel, Ben Morgan, Jared A. Sorensen, unodiablo, Jürgen Mayer.

1/22/2003 Sylus Thane: You Gotta have Faith
I've been reading the threads on religion in rpg's as of late, especially as I am nearing the point in which I will be needing to write how it applies…
In RPG Theory
Participants: Sylus Thane, Kester Pelagius, Le Joueur, Ron Edwards, M. J. Young, Johannes, clehrich.

1/22/2003 lumpley: We Killed Us Some Puppies
So okay, so it's me, Meg, Trav, Jay, Kev, and Jenn. I'm the GM, everybody else kills puppies for Satan. Meg is George Brady No Relation, who writes for Guns…
In Actual Play
Participants: lumpley, jrients, Ron Edwards, Marco, clehrich, contracycle, szilard.

1/22/2003 Limbo: Armor
I've been playing around with the combat simulator a bit and my impression is that armor may not be such a good thing. The problem seems to be that fully…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: Limbo, Shadeling, toli, Brian Leybourne, Bob Richter, Shreyas Sampat, Valamir, 655321, Jake Norwood, Vanguard, Aaron, Mokkurkalfe, Ace, TAROT.

1/22/2003 M. J. Young: Building Religions
Kester Pelagius started an interesting thread, Is religion really that much of a mystery?, which inspired this one rather by accident. Jack Spencer Jr., an avowed atheist, posted what…
In RPG Theory
Participants: M. J. Young, contracycle, Paganini, Jack Spencer Jr, greyorm, John Kim, Valamir, Mike Holmes, Christopher Kubasik, clehrich, simon_hibbs.

1/22/2003 UnSub: Dust Devils: First Run
Having managed to slot my game in between the five currently running in our group about a week ago, I finally managed to run a game of Dust Devils. Unfortunately…
In Actual Play
Participants: UnSub, Matt Snyder, rafial, Ron Edwards.

1/22/2003 talysman: [Court of 9 Chambers] Flashback Rolls/Conflict Resolution
hi, all. I have run into a potential problem with the Court of 9 Chambers game mechanics; when I described a new feature which I considered innovative and exciting to…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: talysman, clehrich, Tony Irwin, Michael S. Miller, ethan_greer, Shreyas Sampat, Dave Panchyk.

1/22/2003 Alan: Karma Reward Rules for Cliche Actions
*Introduction* The Karma Sheet is a way to reward Dead Meat players when their characters do stupid things appropriate to the horror movie they're playing. *Karma Sheet* Each player gets…
In Destroy All Games
Participants: Alan.

1/22/2003 Clinically Insane: Advertisement
It would be cool to see a Cartoon Action Hour Roleplaying game advertisement running on cartoon network. Though I guess such an ad would cost a very lot? So is…
In Cartoon Action Hour
Participants: Clinically Insane, Cynthia Celeste Miller, Derek Devlin, Eddy Fate.

1/22/2003 pacific_steve: RQ collection for sale
Hey everyone, Just as the title states...at this link: http://forum.rpg.net/showthread.php?s=&postid=532726#post532726 Very valuable for players of Hero Wars. Steve
In HeroQuest
Participants: pacific_steve.

1/21/2003 Clinton R. Nixon: Forum layout question
For the last few months, I've had the forum laid out so that each section of it (General Forge Forums, Independent Game Forums, and Inactive Forums) are viewed separately. I'd…
In Site Discussion
Participants: Clinton R. Nixon, Valamir, Shreyas Sampat, Jason L Blair, Jack Spencer Jr, J B Bell, M. J. Young, clehrich, joshua neff, Michael S. Miller, wyrdlyng, Tim C Koppang, ethan_greer, Ron Edwards.

1/21/2003 Charon: best game I've ever seen
I've just bought Little Fears and I must say that it is easily the best RPG I've seen in my life. Me and my friends were playing White Wolf games…
In Key 20 Publishing
Participants: Charon, Jason L Blair.

1/21/2003 Cassidy: The Pool: First Play Session Comments
Ran my first Pool session on Monday. Nothing too heavy. I plan it to run 4, maybe 5, sessions tops. Setting: Middle Earth. Location: Dunedain Kingdom of Rhudaur, Spring 1408…
In Random Order Creations
Participants: Cassidy, James V. West, Florian Edlbauer, Ron Edwards.

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1/23/2003 Michael S. Miller: A Paladin on the Hellmouth
Okay, I’ve got a million other gaming things to think about, but this one has gripped me today. I’ve been watching a lot of Buffy lately (Thank God for DVDs),…
In CRN Games
Participants: Michael S. Miller, lumpley, Ben Morgan, Clinton R. Nixon.

1/23/2003 Shadeling: How is Dreamspires coming?
How is it coming along?
In Chimera Creative
Participants: Shadeling, Spooky Fanboy, Matt Snyder.

1/23/2003 jburneko: Natural Demons & Humanity
This thought stems from the "Sorcerer without 'demons'" thread but I felt it was distinct enough to warent its own topic. Since reading Sorcerer and Sword, I've been reading a…
In Adept Press
Participants: jburneko, szilard, Ron Edwards, Bankuei.

1/23/2003 Johannes: DFK: rock, paper and scissors?
In the Egri & the "Lumpley Principle" -thread it was argued that guessing games are karma and not fortune because the values are fixed. I understand this so that the…
In GNS Model Discussion
Participants: Johannes, Jared A. Sorensen, Ron Edwards, Matt, Mike Holmes, Jack Spencer Jr, Shreyas Sampat, M. J. Young, Walt Freitag, talysman, Valamir.

1/23/2003 Shadeling: Wuxia TROS
Ok, so tell me if this is a lame idea or not. How about a wuxia style game using TROS rules. Movies like Swordman and Crouching Tiger...they have cool fighting…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: Shadeling, Jake Norwood, Henry Fitch, ShaneNINE, Ron Edwards, Heavenlyrock, svenlein, Ville, Brian Leybourne.

1/23/2003 Jake Norwood: Driftwood plays Sorcerer!
Last night over half of our group wasn't able to come. We hadn't gamed in several weeks on account of school and business, and were dying to get playing. "So…
In Actual Play
Participants: Jake Norwood, Ron Edwards, Valamir.

1/23/2003 Jack Spencer Jr: special kind of Heartbreaker: Universal/Generic
Now, like all of his articles, the Fantasy Heartbreaker articles do boil down to basically "what Ron thinks" although he has taken pains to make it something that most people…
In RPG Theory
Participants: Jack Spencer Jr, Marco, Shreyas Sampat, Valamir, talysman, cruciel, Le Joueur, Ron Edwards, M. J. Young, Rod Phillips, John Kim, Mike Holmes, contracycle, Sylus Thane.

1/23/2003 Andy Kitkowski: What about publishing games as Magazines?
Something I was thinking about: Magazines. Sure, the paper is a little thinner, and overall it can sustain more damage by folding, tearing and the like, but magazines are often…
In Publishing
Participants: Andy Kitkowski, Jack Spencer Jr, Valamir, Bankuei, geekspeakweekly, Clinton R. Nixon, Jürgen Mayer, Michael S. Miller, James V. West.

1/23/2003 xiombarg: Unsung: Playtest At Last [long]
I finally got to playtest Unsung last night. I was using a scenario written for GURPS Cops from Pyramid Magazine, a scenario called Heat Wave. (You won't be able to…
In Actual Play
Participants: xiombarg, Valamir, Ron Edwards, Mike Holmes, ADGBoss.

1/23/2003 Matt Wilson: Sorcerer 1920s
I've proposed my first Sorcerer game and got at least one yes response. Imagine something like a 1920s Gotham City - maybe the city doesn't even have a name. There's…
In Adept Press
Participants: Matt Wilson, Ron Edwards.

1/24/2003 Arashi: new Look
Arashi Studios has a new look courtesy of me uber webmistress JJ. Check it out :D http://arashi_.tripod.com
In Connections
Participants: Arashi, Matt Gwinn, Clay, urbwar.

1/24/2003 Ardwen: First attempt at producing an RPG
I'm not sure if this is where a post like this should appear but, here goes. I have recently had the opportunity to have a RPG printed and perhaps distributed.…
In Publishing
Participants: Ardwen, Valamir, Jack Spencer Jr, Sidhain, rafael, Pramas.

1/24/2003 aplath: Played the pool with multiple players
Hello all, Well... I finally got to play The Pool with more than one player. It almost didn't happen though. It was a last minute gathering of some people from…
In Random Order Creations
Participants: aplath, James V. West.

1/24/2003 svenlein: Missile Accuracy
Thought on things that effect missile accuracy: These are just thought, some effects are below the granularity of TROS. Taking a shot: with your senses collect data about all the…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: svenlein.

1/24/2003 Clinically Insane: Of mice and ATM
Just curious will the ATM internet supplement be compiled into a book format at a later time. Maybe the first 5 issues (give or take) may later see print in…
In Cartoon Action Hour
Participants: Clinically Insane, Eddy Fate.

1/24/2003 jrients: GNS and wargaming
Anyone here ever try to apply GNS to the counter and hexmap crowd? I only ask because it occurred to me that differing GNS priorities would explain why I have…
In GNS Model Discussion
Participants: jrients, contracycle, Gordon C. Landis, Jack Spencer Jr, Ron Edwards, Thierry Michel, Mike Holmes, ThreeGee, A.Neill.

1/24/2003 Wizdoc: The world map I'm going to use...
While I'm waiting for my ordered copy of TROS to arrive, I've been starting to put together preliminary campaign notes - including player handouts (everybody loves 'em). But the map…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: Wizdoc, Brian Leybourne, prophet118, Shadeling.

1/24/2003 Jasper: The West Wind: N/S Fantasy about the Process of adventuring
Hello everyone, I realise fully that there is no dearth of fantasy games -- especially ones involving "adventuring" -- and I don't want to be writing a game that only…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Jasper, Rich Forest, Mike Holmes, Shreyas Sampat, Blake Hutchins, Walt Freitag, ThreeGee.

1/24/2003 Johannes: Newbie question on narrativism and plot
In the GNS-essay it says that narrativism is expressed by the creation, via role-playing, of a story with a recognizable theme. It also says that it is defined by the…
In GNS Model Discussion
Participants: Johannes, jburneko, Ron Edwards, Cadriel, Jack Spencer Jr, Le Joueur, Walt Freitag, M. J. Young, Mike Holmes, John Kim.

1/24/2003 ethan_greer: Toast 6.0
I have written the Greatest Role-Playing Game of All Time. Not really. But it's fun to say. In fact I have so much fun saying it that I put it…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: ethan_greer, Andrew Martin, Jasper, Rich Forest, Shreyas Sampat, Gwen, Ben Morgan, Mike Holmes.

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