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1/31/2003 Balbinus: Base spiritual attributes
Hi, I started creating a couple of sample characters with the game last night, and got to the spiritual attributes. They seem strongly geared towards heroic characters. My first attempt…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: Balbinus, Jim DelRosso, Shadeling, Ron Edwards, Stephen, Mokkurkalfe.

1/31/2003 Michael S. Miller: Do Indies have Competetive Advantage?
In the Indie Effects on Existing Industry thread, Walt said: One more shady practice can be added to Cruciel's list: Sell your product for below cost to drive competitors out…
In Publishing
Participants: Michael S. Miller, Tim C Koppang, Ron Edwards, JSDiamond, Le Joueur, Bob McNamee, Walt Freitag, clehrich, contracycle, Valamir.

1/31/2003 Ron Edwards: Playing Bass (Narrativism essay preview)
Hi there, So you'll see the Simulationism essay on Monday, and I'm crankin' on the Gamism one. These are mondo-big, so we're talking weeks to wait. I'm also scribbling on…
In GNS Model Discussion
Participants: Ron Edwards, M. J. Young, Johannes, Psycho42, Alan, Jeffrey Miller, Clinton R. Nixon, GreatWolf, Michael S. Miller, clehrich, Le Joueur, arxhon.

1/30/2003 Andy Kitkowski: What Indie RPGs came out in 2002?
Hey all, I again apologize for another Indie RPG Awards thread. Every time I sit here for like 5 minutes poring over the forum descriptions, and none of them seem…
In Publishing
Participants: Andy Kitkowski, Jason L Blair, Valamir, Jared A. Sorensen, M. J. Young, Nathan, Michael S. Miller, clehrich, Ron Edwards, GreatWolf, Shreyas Sampat, Jürgen Mayer, lumpley, Paul Czege, Jonathan Walton, quozl, Tim Gray, Gonster.

1/30/2003 Cassidy: Bad Stuff
What is bad stuff? All the stuff that players seem loathe to mention about their characters. The flaws and quirks that really don't help characters achieve success in the conventional…
In Random Order Creations
Participants: Cassidy, Bankuei, James V. West.

1/30/2003 Heavenlyrock: Animals
I have a quick question(s)… If a horse succeeds at evading an attack, while the rider tries to attack, do we nullify the attack because the horse would probably force…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: Heavenlyrock, Shadeling, Brian Leybourne.

1/30/2003 Colin the Riot: Squishing Donjon and the Pool together
I'm a big fan of both the Pool and Donjon, and I'm looking at possibly combining the two in the following way. What I want to do is play the…
In RPG Theory
Participants: Colin the Riot, Matt Wilson, James V. West, J B Bell, Bob McNamee, Paganini.

1/30/2003 Ron Edwards: Dungeons & Dragons role-playing history - help wanted
Hello everybody, I'm working on a great big essay on Gamism, and it's going to include some detailed analysis of Dungeons & Dragons role-playing. I use this title to include…
In RPG Theory
Participants: Ron Edwards, sben, jrs, Paul Czege, Maurice Forrester, Gordon C. Landis, Valamir, contracycle, Christopher Kubasik, Walt Freitag, Blake Hutchins, Rob MacDougall, Jack Spencer Jr, Pramas, M. J. Young, woodelf, Chuck Frizzell, b_bankhead.

1/30/2003 M. J. Young: The Limits of Sci-fi
Jareth Dakk brought up sci-fi games in Why not more Sci-fi?, and there were some good answers. But a passing comment there sparked a thought in my mind. But…
In RPG Theory
Participants: M. J. Young, clehrich, John Kim, Uncle Dark, Cadriel, Ron Edwards, Marco, Walt Freitag, Sylus Thane, Le Joueur, Harlequin, Jared A. Sorensen, Valamir, Rod Phillips, ADGBoss, Paul Czege, greyorm, Bankuei, Alan.

1/30/2003 clehrich: Sympathetic Magic
This is really an historical question, so I'm not sure which forum it belongs in, but this one seems relatively open. I've been teaching Sir James Frazer's The Golden Bough…
In RPG Theory
Participants: clehrich, John Kim, wraeththu, Christopher Kubasik, Jere, Ron Edwards, simon_hibbs, Mike Holmes.

1/30/2003 Charon: Too much players!!!
I recently bought Little fears and I've told all my friends about it. Most of my friends want to try it. However, this gives me a problem. They are a…
In Key 20 Publishing
Participants: Charon, Jason L Blair, Comte.

1/30/2003 RN3G8 4E: Want opinions on names (Realms of Eastden)
Hey everyone- this is my second post. I know Jake Norwood, the guy who made Riddle of Steel and I made a New Year's resolution to write a rough draft…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: RN3G8 4E, Eric J., Ben Morgan, Ron Edwards, Valamir, szilard, Jasper, ADGBoss, clehrich.

1/30/2003 ThreeGee: Mass Acres LARP
Hey all, Some time ago, I brought up larps in general in this thread, but today I would like to revisit the idea by presenting an actual larp rulebook. This…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: ThreeGee, Walt Freitag.

1/30/2003 Jason L Blair: Dare Devils? Interested in your thoughts.
I have no ideas on this of my own, but I'm interested to hear how others would use/abuse the Dust Devils theme and mechanic for various the supers genres? Any…
In Chimera Creative
Participants: Jason L Blair, Ron Edwards, Matt Snyder, Blake Hutchins.

1/30/2003 Erekon: Help wanted in design of Medieval Fantasy RPG
I've played several different RPGs, experimenting. I've decided that I want the game to have features from the following games: Diablo Everquest Dungeons and Dragons I need help designing basically…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Erekon, clehrich, Eric J., Roy, Jeffrey Miller, Jake Norwood.

1/30/2003 Erekon: Help needed in Medieval Fantasy Role Playing Game Design
Im currently designing a Role Playing Game set in a Medieval Fantasy World. I need help on almost everything to get the game started, and you will recieve credit for…
In Connections
Participants: Erekon, Eric J., Ben Morgan.

1/30/2003 Clinton R. Nixon: The Forge, version 3
All, The 3rd version of The Forge will be going live Monday morning. I've spent the last few months analyzing different pieces of software to make our time here better…
In Site Discussion
Participants: Clinton R. Nixon, Paul Czege, lumpley, xiombarg, M. J. Young, cruciel, Bankuei, Jack Spencer Jr, Brian Leybourne, Matt Snyder, Eric J., Ron Edwards, Andrew Martin, J. Backman, Fabrice G., Blake Hutchins, Jake Norwood, Scratchware, Psycho42, Zak Arntson, Tony Irwin, jdagna, Valamir, Emily Care, Gordon C. Landis.

1/29/2003 Jared A. Sorensen: Wanted: octaNe reps
Man, I've been quiet lately. WELL ENOUGH OF THAT BUSINESS! Okay, so I've gotten in contact with a few stores across New England and they're all very interested in the…
In Memento-Mori Theatricks
Participants: Jared A. Sorensen, Valamir, Gonster, Matt.

1/29/2003 xiombarg: YAUU!
YAUU: Yet Another Unsung Update I've made some major changes this time. I've added to virtually every section, modified the Rule of Currency, the Rule of Gifts, and the combat…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: xiombarg, Walt Freitag, Ron Edwards, Mike Holmes.

1/29/2003 Cassidy: The Pool: 2nd Play Session Comments
[url=http://www.indie-rpgs.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=4889][b]The Pool: First Play Session Comments[/b][/url] Quick update on my 2nd play session running the Pool. First off, made some tweaks based on ideas I wanted to try... 1. Dispensed…
In Random Order Creations
Participants: Cassidy, Bob McNamee, James V. West, Blake Hutchins.

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1/31/2003 GreatWolf: Steve Darlington reviews Little Fears
[url]http://www.rpg.net/news+reviews/reviews/rev_7965.html[/url] And he liked my story! Seth Ben-Ezra Great Wolf
In Key 20 Publishing
Participants: GreatWolf, Jason L Blair.

1/31/2003 Matt Gwinn: GENCON 2003 Tidbit
I was just over at GenCon.com looking over the game submission information and discovered an interesting tidbit. As most of you know, GenCon reimburses you for your badge if you…
In Actual Play
Participants: Matt Gwinn.

1/31/2003 hyphz: Re: The Conflict is Yours
I'm not trying to disagree with advice here, just ask for some more clarification because it's relevant to some issues I've had as well. You want to gamemaster something…
In Actual Play
Participants: hyphz, Le Joueur, Valamir, Matt Wilson, jdagna, Christopher Kubasik, Ian Charvill, clehrich, cruciel, Ron Edwards, Bob McNamee, GreatWolf, Mike Holmes, Walt Freitag, contracycle.

1/31/2003 Matt Wilson: Thoughts for the Gamism essay
I don't know how far along the essay is, but I've been thinking about the categories in general and how they're so big as to be impractical for me in…
In GNS Model Discussion
Participants: Matt Wilson, jburneko, Paul Czege, JMendes, Cadriel, Mike Holmes.

1/31/2003 Jaif: What world do you run or play in? Weyrth, or your own?
I'm just curious how many here use TRoS in the given world, versus one of their own. I'm using my own - LotR, the world of men, 250 years after…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: Jaif, Jake Norwood, Brian Leybourne, Spartan, Shadeling, Paka, Salamander, Clinton R. Nixon, Darth Tang, Fallen_Icarus, Mike Holmes, arxhon, RN3G8 4E, Ashren Va'Hale.

1/31/2003 Heavenlyrock: fumble initiative roll
would it be too harsh to say that a botched intiative roll (the reflexive roll contest for two opponents both attacking) would mean the character doesn't get to go for…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: Heavenlyrock, Shadeling, Jake Norwood.

1/31/2003 Ben Lehman: High-Powered RoS, Oriental Styles, etc. (play report)
Hey-- In early december, we converted my friend's D&D3E campaign to Riddle of Steel, which is the system that it always wanted to run under anyway. First off, we had…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: Ben Lehman, toli, Brian Leybourne, Valamir, Jake Norwood, Calder.

1/31/2003 Matt Snyder: Chimera site maintenance
The Chimera Creative website may be down periodically for server maintenance this weekend. Fortunately, my provider informs me it should take no longer than an hour, likely on Friday evening.…
In Chimera Creative
Participants: Matt Snyder.

2/1/2003 greyorm: More Player-Driven 3E
Well, the holidays are over, and we've started to get back into the swing of playing again. For those who haven't read the previous threads about this campaign, in summary,…
In Actual Play
Participants: greyorm, Bankuei, Ron Edwards, arxhon, Zak Arntson.

2/1/2003 Shreyas Sampat: Koh-i-Noor: Scifi with Uniqueness
[i]When optical computing was still new and biotech in its infancy, a scientist calling himself Suleiman made the first true AI, in the heart of a great diamond. He named…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Shreyas Sampat, clehrich, szilard.

2/1/2003 Alai: Hero Wars and Pendragon
The synergies and differences between HW and Pendragon are something I've given a bit of thought to in the past, partly as HW was ahead of time rumoured to be…
In HeroQuest
Participants: Alai, Ron Edwards.

2/1/2003 Cadriel: What is different in sci-fi gaming? [The Limits of Sci-Fi]
The question has just occurred to me, based on the (getting to be quite lengthy) The Limits of Sci-Fi thread. What is it that really separates science fiction gaming from…
In RPG Theory
Participants: Cadriel, clehrich, b_bankhead, Le Joueur, Ron Edwards, Andrew Martin, Christopher Kubasik, Blake Hutchins, Alan, talysman, M. J. Young, Gordon C. Landis.

2/1/2003 Shreyas Sampat: Useless Detail?
This obviously doesn't belong in its parent thread. Anyway, John Kim and I started to discuss the value of the "useless detail", as I've called it. To define, the details…
In RPG Theory
Participants: Shreyas Sampat, Rob MacDougall, cruciel, John Kim, Andrew Martin, Jack Spencer Jr, Le Joueur, Christopher Kubasik, Cassidy, Cadriel, clehrich, greyorm, Walt Freitag, M. J. Young, contracycle, Marco.

2/2/2003 Ron Edwards: GenCon 2003: thread #1
Hello, OK! I am now reserving the Adept Press booth for GenCon. At least two other companies have agreed to share this booth on an equal basis, paying for the…
In Publishing
Participants: Ron Edwards, Matt Gwinn, Jared A. Sorensen, Matt Snyder, Michael Hopcroft, Michael S. Miller, Nathan, Matt Wilson, Mike Holmes, Jeffrey Miller, Clinton R. Nixon, Jürgen Mayer, Dan Geyer, Andy Kitkowski, abzu, KeithBVaughn, nerdnyc.

2/2/2003 Ubercon: GMs/Volunteers wanted for Ubercon games convention
Apologies in advance if it was inappropriate to post this in this particular forum. Ubercon is looking for volunteers to help out at its inaugaral event at the Sheraton Parsippany…
In Connections
Participants: Ubercon.

2/2/2003 Jasper: The West Wind playtest
Hello, I don't know how many people have checked out my game The West Wind, but I ran a brief session of it last night with a few friends. For…
In Actual Play
Participants: Jasper, Andrew Martin, Tony Irwin.

2/2/2003 clehrich: Good Taste in Gaming (from Useless Detail)
Christopher, This is a whole 'nother thread, but I'm getting really confused about this. Yes, I think it is probably another thread. Just to recap: It seems to me I…
In RPG Theory
Participants: clehrich, Jake Norwood, Jack Spencer Jr, Christopher Kubasik, Ron Edwards, contracycle.

2/2/2003 Harlequin: Groundbreakers [From Limits of Sci-Fi]
A couple of things got broken out of the Sci-Fi debate which seem to actually be genre-independent; there is a feeling that SF may benefit more from an exploration of…
In RPG Theory
Participants: Harlequin, Le Joueur, Rod Phillips, M. J. Young, ADGBoss.

2/2/2003 Brian Leybourne: Jake: Proficiencies question
This is really a question for Jake, but I thought I would put it here so everyone can see the answer and thus benefit from it. When I'm assigning proficiencies…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: Brian Leybourne, Ashren Va'Hale, Jake Norwood, 655321, Shadeling, Jaif, toli.

2/2/2003 Limbo: Riddle Roller Die rolling program
I downloaded the Riddle Roller die rolling program available in the download section at the official site. There's a couple of problems with it however: (1) It doesn't calculate probability…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: Limbo, Brian Leybourne, Jake Norwood.

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