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2/6/2003 James V. West: Call for Variations of The Pool
If you have created a set of variant rules for The Pool and wouldn't mind having them posted on my website (linked from the actual The Pool page), please email…
In Random Order Creations
Participants: James V. West.

2/6/2003 Jack Spencer Jr: Ah, this explains Sorcerer
[quote="In another thread Ron Edwards"]Let's say, for sake of discussion, that you and I agree that "demons" in the common superstition/religion sense of the word do not exist in real…
In Adept Press
Participants: Jack Spencer Jr, xiombarg, Ron Edwards, Tar Markvar, ejh, Le Joueur, Nev the Deranged.

2/6/2003 Clinton R. Nixon: New Donjon review
Everyone, There's a great review of Donjon up at RPG.net. For a non-actual play review, I thought it was great.
In CRN Games
Participants: Clinton R. Nixon, Wulf, Ron Edwards.

2/6/2003 ethan_greer: Toast: Kewl Powerz
So, as some may be aware, the magic system for my pet game Toast (the greatest role-playing game of all time) is "pending." I have some ideas, and I'm wanting…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: ethan_greer, Mike Holmes, ADGBoss.

2/6/2003 Mark Withers: Another Anti-Pool variant.
I'm really sorry, I can't help fiddling with things! Here's how I play the Pool nowadays! Your Character Write a story about the character that you’re going to play. The…
In Random Order Creations
Participants: Mark Withers, James V. West, Cassidy.

2/6/2003 The8thKing: A Few Basic Little Fears Questions
Hi All, I have a couple of questions regarding little fears... (great book btw, shame my access to independent rpg's is somewhat limited in sunny old England). Just humour me…
In Key 20 Publishing
Participants: The8thKing, Jason L Blair, Little_Rat, Comte.

2/6/2003 Michael Hopcroft: Kevin & Kell
Seraphim Guard is sponsoring the february 25th, 2003 strip of Bill Holbrook's popular online comic Kevin & Kell. Kevin & Kell is the story of a rabbit who married a…
In Seraphim Guard
Participants: Michael Hopcroft.

2/6/2003 talysman: Iron Game Chef?
with all this talk about Simulationist games, I've been wondering: is Mike Holmes about to run an Iron Chef Simulationist competition? it's been almost four months since the last one...…
In Site Discussion
Participants: talysman, Mike Holmes, Jack Spencer Jr, Ron Edwards, Maurice Forrester, Shreyas Sampat, Dave Panchyk.

2/6/2003 RHJunior: Size-to-strength ratios
Lord almighty. I've been hunting all over the web for information on size-to-strength ratios--- trying to find out how much, for instance, a 3-ft tall human should be able to…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: RHJunior, Psycho42, marknau, dalek_of_god, Mike Holmes, Ron Edwards, Andrew Martin, Gwen, b_bankhead.

2/6/2003 ascendance: Playing/Running octaNe?
After looking through octaNe, I think its the perfect IRC game. The back-and-forth action resolution system is perfect for the back-and-forth nature of IRC. The system of total and partial…
In Memento-Mori Theatricks
Participants: ascendance, Derek Devlin, gospog.

2/6/2003 Andy Kitkowski: We're Live!
I'm going through all my Indie RPG Awards-related threads and letting everyone know who subscribed to them that we're live! http://www.rpg-awards.com If you released a game last year, REGISTER IT!…
In Publishing
Participants: Andy Kitkowski, Valamir, Michael Hopcroft.

2/6/2003 Matt Snyder: Avatar-13
I've been working on a new game design (in addition to working on Nine Worlds! Phew!). After some discussion about character creaiton in the Indie Game Design forum, I decided…
In Chimera Creative
Participants: Matt Snyder, Clinton R. Nixon, Balbinus.

2/6/2003 Mordacc: Spiritual Attributes
One question i have about spiritual attributes is what happens when they are spent? Lets say that Bob has 2 Drive, 2 Passion, and 3 Destiny. Over the course of…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: Mordacc, Brian Leybourne, Jim DelRosso, Ville, Stephen, Ron Edwards, Ashren Va'Hale, Valamir.

2/6/2003 Mordacc: House Rules
Im new to these forums so sorry about clogging them up with all my posts but Im pretty much in love with TRoS since i picked it up so im…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: Mordacc, Brian Leybourne, Bob Richter, Michael Tree, Valamir.

2/6/2003 Mordacc: Alternate Advancement Rules
Ever since i switched from DnD to TRoS, all of the flaws of DnD have become more and more apparent to me. Now I cant put down TRoS. However, one…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: Mordacc, Brian Leybourne, Bob Richter, szilard, Valamir.

2/6/2003 Brian Leybourne: Invalid Session?
Ever since the upgrade (well, it seems that they coincide, anyway), I seem to occasionally get an "invalid session" error when posting a message. It doesn't happen all the time,…
In Site Discussion
Participants: Brian Leybourne, Valamir, greyorm, xiombarg, Ron Edwards, Clinton R. Nixon, M. J. Young, Mike Holmes, Jack Spencer Jr.

2/5/2003 Bankuei: Pandora's Thoughts
I'm starting up a PBP game of Sorcerer, called Pandora's Thoughts, with a couple of my friends, I thought I'd share this after checking out the Not Here thread. Basic…
In Adept Press
Participants: Bankuei, Bob McNamee, Ron Edwards, Nev the Deranged.

2/5/2003 Mordacc: What do you think the Riddle is?
What do you think the Riddle of Steel is? I think it is that your mind and you are the most dangerous weapon and that Magic and weapons are only…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: Mordacc, Jim DelRosso, Stephen, Brian Leybourne, Bob Richter, Ron Edwards, Darth Tang, Fallen_Icarus, John Resotko, Jake Norwood.

2/5/2003 Jared A. Sorensen: Funny stuff, now over [split from GenCon 2003]
[quote="Ron Edwards"]You, Matt, are a freakin' great demo-er and closer. If we farm people to you, Kayfabe gets played and gets moved. Hence, we work toward your strengths and get…
In Publishing
Participants: Jared A. Sorensen, hardcoremoose, Jürgen Mayer, Jeffrey Miller, Ron Edwards.

2/5/2003 Tar Markvar: Where is "Not-Here"?
A question arises: What defines Not-Here as mentioned above? One situation occurred that I was wondering about. A demon is Contacted, Summoned, and Bound. Its Master dies, so it's still…
In Adept Press
Participants: Tar Markvar, Ron Edwards, Jared A. Sorensen, jburneko, Le Joueur, Bailywolf.

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2/6/2003 Valamir: Event Planning Forum
With all the discussions going on about Gen Con and later they'll be some about Demon Con and various different projects and what not...I had a thought that having a…
In Site Discussion
Participants: Valamir, xiombarg.

2/6/2003 Matt Snyder: Character Improvement, taken for granted?
I'd like to question something that I think is often taken for granted, or at least not spefically addressed often: Character improvement. Is character improvement (improving character effectiveness, as Ron…
In GNS Model Discussion
Participants: Matt Snyder, Mike Holmes, Ron Edwards, Blake Hutchins, contracycle, szilard, M. J. Young, Walt Freitag, clehrich, Jack Spencer Jr, Andrew Martin, xiombarg, Emily Care, cruciel, ADGBoss, John Kim, Valamir.

2/6/2003 Sylus Thane: Defining the different Verses
Over the last couple of days, especially after the various discussions on defining the differences between the different game engines, I think I have come up with a reasonable set…
In RPG Theory
Participants: Sylus Thane, Mike Holmes, Shreyas Sampat, Le Joueur, M. J. Young, Mark Johnson.

2/6/2003 Timothy Moerke: Character Creation for a One-Shot
I'm planning on running a one-off game of octaNe using the Blood & Steel supplement at an upcoming con. I'm not sure, though, about how to hande the character generation.…
In Memento-Mori Theatricks
Participants: Timothy Moerke, Jared A. Sorensen.

2/6/2003 jburneko: Setting-Premise Nar. vs. Setting Exploration Sim.
Hello Again, Very simple question. I really like this passage from Ron's latest essay: The simple one: Consider the behavioral parameters of a samurai player-character in Sorcerer and in…
In GNS Model Discussion
Participants: jburneko, Ron Edwards, clehrich, contracycle, Paul Czege, Jack Spencer Jr, Le Joueur, John Kim, Paganini.

2/6/2003 Clinton R. Nixon: Donjon Pak B1: Men of Steel and Beasts of Terror!
I'd like to announce that the first Donjon supplement, the Donjon Bestiary, will be available within the next week or two, so save up those nickels. For $5, the Bestiary…
In CRN Games
Participants: Clinton R. Nixon, Bailywolf, quozl, John Harper, Ron Edwards, James V. West, Spooky Fanboy, sben, Wulf, anonymouse, Chris Kucsera.

2/7/2003 Drew Stevens: Shipping alerts?
Okay, Universalis sounds more cool than English contains words to readily express. Like, whole barrels of fun. So, I ordered it (yay me! yay second printings!) Question, thus- are there…
In Universalis
Participants: Drew Stevens, Valamir, Paganini, James V. West.

2/7/2003 Stuart DJ Purdie: High school cheerleading squad (Sweet Valley High style)
Well, after an interesting discussion with a friend, during which the subject of RPG's came up, she mentioned that she was not aware of any RPG's that interested her, in…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Stuart DJ Purdie, Andrew Martin, contracycle, Paganini, ethan_greer, szilard, Mike Holmes, Jeph.

2/7/2003 Paka: Welcome to Marsui ([b]TROS[/b])
We made up characters and all agree that the character generation system makes a whole lot of sense and was fun. Beginning the process as an e-mail asking the players…
In Actual Play
Participants: Paka, Jim DelRosso, arxhon, Jake Norwood, Bankuei, hyphz, Ron Edwards.

2/7/2003 Michael Hopcroft: Droids & Ewoks
Does anyone remember a pair of cartoons aired together that Lucasfilms licensed from the original Star Wars trilogy? Evdiently they pulled the licence, because they haven't been seen in years.…
In Cartoon Action Hour
Participants: Michael Hopcroft, Eddy Fate, Slant, Madcat, Cynthia Celeste Miller.

2/7/2003 Andrew Martin: Sabriel, Lirael & Abhorsen by Garth Nix
With reference to Sabriel and Lirael by Garth Nix in this thread by Ron: http://www.indie-rpgs.com/viewtopic.php?t=2129 the sequel Abhorsen is arriving (in New Zealand) next month, and all three books are…
In Adept Press
Participants: Andrew Martin, Paganini, Ron Edwards.

2/7/2003 ADGBoss: Currency Question Character Goal vs Character Sheet Goal
Hello everyone, been away a little while and have managed to make it back after the holidays. Seraphim is doing fine, I am refurbishing the ADG websites (www.azuredragon.com) and re-focusing…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: ADGBoss, contracycle.

2/7/2003 Jack Spencer Jr: Mark all topics read
I have noticed that topic marked read do not stay read for some reason. I cruise the forum, read and marking topics read. Then when all are read, I'll go…
In Site Discussion
Participants: Jack Spencer Jr, Paul Czege, Matt Gwinn, xiombarg, Mike Holmes.

2/7/2003 Paka: SA Question
Okay, the character is about to get into combat with his arch-nemesis who stepped on his puppy and slapped his father around. He spends his Passion - Hatred of vile…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: Paka, Bankuei, Shadeling, Ashren Va'Hale, Jake Norwood, Brian Leybourne.

2/7/2003 Michael S. Miller: Narrativist Games with Actor Stance?
I ran Trollbabe for my wife, Kat, and a friend of ours, Michele, this week. They both kinda enjoyed it, but pointed out that the rules "enforce a separation between…
In RPG Theory
Participants: Michael S. Miller, Paganini, Ron Edwards, greyorm.

2/7/2003 Jack Spencer Jr: Be sombody.
Over in Narrativist Games with Actor Stance? the following was posted: I ran Trollbabe for my wife, Kat, and a friend of ours, Michele, this week. They both…
In RPG Theory
Participants: Jack Spencer Jr, clehrich, Le Joueur, Thierry Michel, greyorm, Michael S. Miller, ADGBoss, Mike Holmes.

2/7/2003 Mordacc: Maryland Players Anywhere?
Well I finished my first mini-campaign as Gm and I have to say it was quite an experience. THere were three players, and they all got very inot the…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: Mordacc, Michael Tree, Ashren Va'Hale, Shreyas Sampat, wpbarr, Valamir, Thalaxis.

2/7/2003 Andy Kitkowski: d20 D&D supplements: Are they "Indie supplements&am
Kind of a weird question. I've hit a snag and need some quick feedback. A game is Indie if it's self-produced by someone who owns all the rights to the…
In Site Discussion
Participants: Andy Kitkowski, Matt Snyder, clehrich, Matt Gwinn, Valamir, ThreeGee, Clinton R. Nixon, Dave Panchyk, M. J. Young, Mike Holmes, Ron Edwards, Jared A. Sorensen.

2/7/2003 Jeph: Gun to the Head
[i]"Val! Val, where the [/i]are[i]you!" Jake rushed around the corner--to find Valerie held tightly by the bald man, a .45 pressed agaist the back of her head. The man presses…
In RPG Theory
Participants: Jeph, John Kim.

2/7/2003 Michael Tree: TROS Star Wars
I've had an urge to run a mostly-Jedi star wars campaign for a while now, and I'm coming to believe that TROS may just be the best system for it,…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: Michael Tree, Shadeling, Brian Leybourne, Jake Norwood, RN3G8 4E, Mike Holmes, Valamir, Stephen, szilard, Matt Wilson, Bob Richter.

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