Previous Topics

2/16/2003 Bankuei: Broken Lands-campaign idea
[b]Little Hope Less Time No Peace Unite or Die[/b] The premise is that Tzaul, finally united and still under the chokehold of Otamarluk, seeks to expand its power to the…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: Bankuei.

2/16/2003 Bankuei: Kudara writeup
And here's a Kudara writeup. I see Kudara as a Warring States China (Romance of the 3 Kingdoms/Heroes of the Water Margin) kinda place. Kudara Geography The Red River that…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: Bankuei.

2/16/2003 Bankuei: Tzaul writeup
Well, Jake, you thought it'd be interesting to see what people came up with... I see Tzaul sorta like what would happen to an eastern european group, like the Hungarians…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: Bankuei.

2/16/2003 ThreeGee: octaNe == Sim: Color ?
Hey all, In Ron's recent review of Jared's octaNe, he states that the game falls into the Sim camp, specifically as a Sim: Color-facilitating game. My personal reaction is, "WHAT!?!"…
In GNS Model Discussion
Participants: ThreeGee, Clinton R. Nixon, Ron Edwards, Bankuei, Maurice Forrester, Jared A. Sorensen, Mike Holmes, Tim Gray.

2/16/2003 Mordacc: Campaigns
My friend is going to run his first ROS campaign and he will be GMing me in a solo game. Hes having some trouble with adventure ideas and we were…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: Mordacc, Jake Norwood, Russell Hoyle, arxhon, Mike Holmes.

2/16/2003 James V. West: Apologies...
Hey I was just working on the (hopefully) final draft of The Questing Beast when I realized I had left out several playtesters from the credits of both TQB and…
In Random Order Creations
Participants: James V. West.

2/16/2003 RobMuadib: TMW:COTEC - IV, SA, and the Joy of SeX
"Sometimes you gotta stop and smell the roses." - Anonymous Hey all, I am still plugging away on the Game Concepts shared play chapter, and in enumerating the various elements…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: RobMuadib, Ron Edwards.

2/16/2003 Darth Tang: RoS: When Pets Attack
OK, animal attacks (and non-humaniod monsters, for that matter): what sort of manuvers are you working up for them? Leaping? Dart to hamstring? Or is it simply Jump & Bite?…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: Darth Tang, Brian Leybourne, b_bankhead, Jake Norwood.

2/16/2003 Paka: Riddle of the Dark Sun
Okay, some day I'd love to run Planescape with the Riddle but right now I am intrigued with Riddling the ole boxed set, Dark Sun. I'll have to tinker with…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: Paka, prophet118, arxhon, Drew Stevens, Clinton R. Nixon, Michael Tree.

2/16/2003 Vanguard: People's games
This being such a recent game, and having only played a few sessions so far, I'd love to hear how the system has worked for other people - what kinda…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: Vanguard, arxhon, Darth Tang.

2/15/2003 otherchaz: What do you need to play?
I'm curious about how different groups run Uni. Questions for Uni players about your Uni groups: How many players do you have? What do you use for coins (poker chips?…
In Universalis
Participants: otherchaz, Dave Versace, Bob McNamee, Mike Holmes, Grex.

2/15/2003 Mike Holmes: Mike's Standard Rant #2 - Species/Race/Culture/
As with all my Standard Rants, I put this down here as a sort of shorthand to which I can refer people so as not to have to repeat the…
In RPG Theory
Participants: Mike Holmes, clehrich, Ron Edwards, M. J. Young, ADGBoss, Bob McNamee, Jack Spencer Jr, Le Joueur, C. Edwards, simon_hibbs, JMendes, Drew Stevens, xechnao, Christoffer Lernö.

2/15/2003 Shreyas Sampat: Complex Systems > Play Focus?
I've been wondering this one for a while. Why do complex subsystems (like the WW combat system, say, or the vehicle creation rules in so many technological rpgs) focus play…
In RPG Theory
Participants: Shreyas Sampat, Jasper, Mike Holmes, Rob MacDougall, Ron Edwards, Marco, clehrich.

2/15/2003 Jack Spencer Jr: Player/Character...to-may-to/to-mo-to
This may be little more than a side note but I've noticed that in many RPG texts and discussions that the terms Player and Character are often used interchangably as…
In RPG Theory
Participants: Jack Spencer Jr, Mike Holmes, Ron Edwards.

2/15/2003 Jasper: The West Wind: Structuring Play and "Feel"
Okay, so the new (and very largely complete -- as in no holes) version of my current game is up here: The West Wind v.0.3 Magic is written up:…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Jasper, Mike Holmes.

2/15/2003 Delta1: Serious Donjon :-)
Who here is running serious Donjon sessions? How are they going?
In CRN Games
Participants: Delta1, Clinton R. Nixon, quozl, Bailywolf, John Harper, Jason L Blair, lumpley, anonymouse.

2/15/2003 Delta1: Praise
Just a short message to say what a brilliant job Clinton has done with both Paladin And Donjon. I bought my first three pdf games this past week and I…
In CRN Games
Participants: Delta1.

2/15/2003 arxhon: The assorted moons
What are the various colors of the moons? Do they have Imperial names? Or can i just make up my own stuff....e.g. One of each color of the rainbow except…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: arxhon, Jake Norwood, Ashren Va'Hale.

2/15/2003 Drew Stevens: Amazonian Zombies on a Far Distant Desert Planet!
Alright, this game is really weird :) I like it bunches. We started with the tenets 1) The story would involve zombies. 2) Who are all amazonian. 3) And have…
In Universalis
Participants: Drew Stevens, Valamir, Bob McNamee, Mike Holmes, Tony Irwin, Ron Edwards.

2/15/2003 ghoest: indigames.com
Hello, I've just found this website today... I'm the administrator of www.indigames.com and I am building a community based on independent game development and although in the end, i hop…
In Site Discussion
Participants: ghoest, Ron Edwards, Walt Freitag, Mike Holmes.

<< more previous topics

Subsequent Topics

2/16/2003 Ashren Va'Hale: villains with SA's continued and dramatic deaths
I remember this debate a while back so I figured I should ressurrect it with a new insight. after my game last saturday I found how fun it was for…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: Ashren Va'Hale.

2/17/2003 Jaeger: Multiple opponents & rule Questions...
According to the rules when you want to face only 1 opponent out of 2 if you make your maneuver role out of your combat pool and succed your opponent…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: Jaeger, Jake Norwood, Darth Tang.

2/17/2003 Ashren Va'Hale: dueling
how did it work, what were the ettiquete rules, what warranted a duel and how were terms of the duel decided? My next campaign takes place in the Xanarium empire…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: Ashren Va'Hale, Jake Norwood.

2/17/2003 Scorpio: New Gallery at Morningstar Maps...
My Gallery at www.morningstarmaps has been updated, if anyone is in need of cartography design...
In Connections
Participants: Scorpio, Gordon C. Landis.

2/17/2003 C. Edwards: Matinee: Anti-Hero vs. Femme Fatale
It seems like I’ve been working on this forever (since well before Halloween), but I’ve finally got my card game in good enough shape that I can see actual play-testing…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: C. Edwards, clehrich, Mike Holmes.

2/17/2003 Andrew Martin: Accord playtest and game structure
I've managed to playtest my Accord rules with four players on Sunday evening. There was myself, my brother (a killer GM), and two friends, one who's a story oriented GM…
In Actual Play
Participants: Andrew Martin.

2/17/2003 Drew Stevens: Dagger Damage?
First, I'm sold. *copy ordered* Second, I'm confused. So, I've been reading the QuickStart rules, and I noticed that some fairly blunt, usally non-lethal weapons (Quarterstaff, Kick) seemed to be…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: Drew Stevens, Mokkurkalfe, Jim DelRosso, Ashren Va'Hale, Jake Norwood, Stephen.

2/17/2003 JMendes: In Search of a Fortune Mechanic
Hey, all, :) Lately, I have found myself questing for a mechanic that would comply with a series of design specs, and I thought I'd put those specs to consideration…
In RPG Theory
Participants: JMendes, Ron Edwards, Walt Freitag, Jack Spencer Jr, Mike Holmes, ThreeGee, cruciel, M. J. Young, Rob Donoghue.

2/17/2003 Drew Stevens: Star Wars meandering
So, I'm honestly not sure if this should go here or on the Theory forum, so I'm erring on the side of indie game design. Anywho. I've been tinkering with…
In RPG Theory
Participants: Drew Stevens, Walt Freitag, Mike Holmes, Ron Edwards, szilard, ThreeGee, Clinton R. Nixon, Jack Spencer Jr, clehrich, Jeph, M. J. Young, John Kim, Jeremy Cole, JMendes, erithromycin, contracycle.

2/17/2003 Jeph: Are the links working?
Whenever I try to get to The Pool, or any other ROC sites, for that matter, it gives me a 'specified file server could not be found' blurb. This is…
In Random Order Creations
Participants: Jeph, Cassidy, James V. West.

2/17/2003 Walt Freitag: Walt's Annoying Word Usage Rants
After months of soul-searching(1), I've decided to post this at the risk of being seen as the Aunt Jo (an actual aunt of mine, who really does write letters to…
In Publishing
Participants: Walt Freitag, clehrich, Mike Holmes, Ron Edwards, cruciel, Le Joueur, Bob McNamee, quozl, Scorpio, Paganini, xiombarg, ethan_greer.

2/17/2003 AnthonyRoberson: Just Bought Donjon and...
...it looks pretty good! Would anyone be interested in doing a little playtesting by e-mail? All you have to do is create a character and be able to answer 5-10…
In CRN Games
Participants: AnthonyRoberson, Mike Holmes.

2/17/2003 Drew Stevens: Matron - The Matrix in the Donjon
Whee, brain explosions! So, one of the Persistant Problems of Neuromancer style cyberpunk is that of the Decker- the person who isn't directly in the action, but exists in a…
In CRN Games
Participants: Drew Stevens, Mike Holmes, Bob McNamee, Clinton R. Nixon, John Harper.

2/17/2003 arxhon: Names in settings
Over the years i've noticed that the hardest thing for players to come up with are names for their characters (for some reason). I've also noticed that the quickest way…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: arxhon, Mike Holmes, Sneaky Git, Shreyas Sampat, Valamir, Salamander.

2/17/2003 Bankuei: Premise on a Platter
Premise has been summed up, most simply as, “What do you do?”, or “What is this game about?” Looking at Ron’s review of octaNe, and his conparison to Inspectres, it…
In GNS Model Discussion
Participants: Bankuei, Ron Edwards, Jack Spencer Jr, bowlingm, Mike Holmes.

2/18/2003 Chris Passeno: Driftwood at Origins?
Just curious if Jake and Company will be at Origins this year?
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: Chris Passeno, Jake Norwood, spunky, Durgil, Shadeling, Brian Leybourne, JESTER.

2/18/2003 M. J. Young: Benefits of Undefined Premise
In the thread Premise on a Platter on the GNS Model Discussion forum, There?s a lot of issues here I?d be interested in discussing, which may…
In RPG Theory
Participants: M. J. Young, Ron Edwards, Bankuei, clehrich, Mike Holmes.

2/18/2003 arxhon: Offensive Grappling Q?
OK, I'm a little confused by the offensive grappling rules. The maneuver cost is 2 or 4 (except for wrestling, which is 1 or 3). Why the 2 different costs?…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: arxhon, Jake Norwood, Alan.

2/18/2003 Jestocost: Splitter - Implemeting Player Narrative Powers
Hi everyone, I have some problems with my own game and would like to get some help and advice. Here’s a short description on Splitter- the broken world: You rise…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Jestocost, Mike Holmes, Ron Edwards.

2/18/2003 hyphz: The amazing adventures of RoboPlayer
Introducing the new Inuwatabetai RoboPlayer 2000! Yes, this fine device can sit in as a player in YOUR RPG sessions. Its operation is perfectly simple: - Using GM's descriptions and…
In RPG Theory
Participants: hyphz, ethan_greer, Le Joueur, Marco, Thierry Michel, Walt Freitag, Ron Edwards, xiombarg, Mike Holmes, clehrich, JMendes, M. J. Young, C. Edwards, weeble, Jeph.

more subsequent topics >>