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3/9/2003 Jack Spencer Jr: too much information?
This is an extension of the Is meaningless detail really meaningless? thread and sort of where I'm going with my own thoughts on RPG theory. I'll try to explain.…
In RPG Theory
Participants: Jack Spencer Jr, clehrich, M. J. Young, contracycle.

3/9/2003 Paka: The Riddle in Marsui Again
Ran another game of the Riddle. The first game was 8 hours long and it felt just about right. A good blend of blood, politics, swashbuckling and heroism. The players…
In Actual Play
Participants: Paka, Ian Charvill, Tor Erickson, Jake Norwood.

3/8/2003 greyorm: Eureka Moment: Combat & Bonus Dice for Description
I had the chance to play The Questing Beast two Sundays ago with Mr. James West himself, and it was a blast. The reason I'm bringing it up here is…
In Adept Press
Participants: greyorm, Ron Edwards, James V. West.

3/8/2003 JamesDJIII: Tanscripts of Actual Play
I find that I learn a heck of lot from reading about other GMs style just from their descriptions of game play. I was wondering, does anyone have transcripts of…
In Actual Play
Participants: JamesDJIII, Jack Spencer Jr, Bob McNamee, Tor Erickson, kregmosier, Paganini, Ron Edwards, Mike Holmes, Matt Gwinn.

3/8/2003 richks: Urban Mythos: A question of style.
I'm still hammering away at this and I'm trying to get some of the background written up so that people can actually READ something related to this project. The thing…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: richks, Sylus Thane, Spooky Fanboy, MoonHunter, Mike Holmes.

3/8/2003 Paganini: More Elfs Questions
Couple of things that aren't clear to me from the game text: Armor Page 21 is a little unclear about armor. It says "a single success has no effect…
In Adept Press
Participants: Paganini, Ron Edwards, greyorm.

3/8/2003 Paganini: Elfs and Stance
I'm prepping for an Elfs game on Monday, and going over the rules something struck me. Ron talks about Elfs being an experiment in Director Stance. But... Don't the mechanics…
In Adept Press
Participants: Paganini, Ron Edwards.

3/8/2003 Andy Kitkowski: Using graphical methods to demonstrate how to play...
From the Marvel thread, at the end: Sorry, three layers of quotes to follow: Jonathan Walton wrote: The obvious thing, it seems to me, is to have almost 1/2 of…
In RPG Theory
Participants: Andy Kitkowski, quozl, ks13, Torrent, Jack Spencer Jr, Sidhain, Jonathan Walton, Bankuei, Simon Ringwood, szilard, Ron Edwards, Mike Holmes, Jared A. Sorensen, Michael S. Miller.

3/7/2003 Nev the Deranged: FiTM??
I'm unfamiliar with this phrase, and therefore likely ignorant of the underlying concept it represents. Please enlighten? <chuckles at Ron for mentioning Grendels in the other thread... heh heh... Legacy…
In Adept Press
Participants: Nev the Deranged, Ron Edwards, Paul Czege.

3/8/2003 Cynthia Celeste Miller: New CAH site!
Z-Man Games proudly announces the brand new official CAH website. It's still in its infancy, so please let us know what you'd like to see. As always, your opinions matter…
In Cartoon Action Hour
Participants: Cynthia Celeste Miller, Norbert, Eddy Fate, Territan.

3/8/2003 Sylus Thane: A Polling Question
For all of the Forge members out there a couple of questions. 1. How many of you have actually published a game? If so what was it or they? 2.…
In RPG Theory
Participants: Sylus Thane, greyorm, M. J. Young.

3/8/2003 jburneko: Question About Sex & Sorcerery Content Overview
Hey Ron, your ad copy for Adept Press products is getting better. I just saw the Sex & Sorcerery content overview and I got very excited. It sounds like a…
In Adept Press
Participants: jburneko, Ron Edwards, James V. West.

3/8/2003 Tor Erickson: Innocence for the innocent
Hi All, What kind of an effect have you all found that Innocence and fear have on long-term play (over several sessions)? Do they work at all like Humanity in…
In Key 20 Publishing
Participants: Tor Erickson.

3/7/2003 Tor Erickson: But is it REALLY conflict resolution?
Hi Y'all, Don't the rules for combat in Sorcerer favor task over conflict resolution? I mean, for everything else in the game you make just a couple of rolls to…
In Adept Press
Participants: Tor Erickson, Ron Edwards, greyorm.

3/7/2003 Shadeling: Yet another RPGnet TROS thread
In case any of you wanted to jump on the discussion. http://forum.rpg.net/showthread.php?s=&threadid=37906
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: Shadeling, Noon, arxhon, Jake Norwood, Mokkurkalfe, Brian Leybourne, Sneaky Git, Darth Tang, Vanguard, Wolfen, Ron Edwards, Stephen, Bankuei, Matt Wilson, Valamir, spunky.

3/7/2003 Matt Snyder: Nine Worlds art
OK, folks, some artwork is coming in, and I can't help but share. It really gets me excited about this game again. Check it out, these pics are amazing: Nine…
In Chimera Creative
Participants: Matt Snyder, Spooky Fanboy.

3/7/2003 GreatWolf: Expulsion
My apologies if this has already been addressed, but I am confused by the expulsion maneuver. If I'm reading it correctly, on a successful defense, the individual performing the expulsion…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: GreatWolf, Jake Norwood, Enoch, toli.

3/7/2003 talysman: Gamism (split from Elucidating / microcosm)
I'd also correct the statement about Gamism. I don't think it's concerned with matters of character power, necessarily, or with winning (although a "sense of winning" might be different matter...)…
In GNS Model Discussion
Participants: talysman, Ron Edwards.

3/7/2003 Johannes: Fortune and narrative suspence
Hi, I'm working on the purpose of fortune mechanics in RPGs. I'm basically trying to address the question "Whý people use fortune in their play?" One of the sub-questions I…
In RPG Theory
Participants: Johannes, bowlingm, Ron Edwards, M. J. Young, Jack Spencer Jr, clehrich, Le Joueur, Jonathan Walton, Mike Holmes, iago, Gordon C. Landis.

3/7/2003 Rob Donoghue: How many stories in a setting?
Assuming you've got a persistant group of players, how many campaigns are you looking to run in any given setting (defined, for this purpose, as a fixed set of pre-written…
In RPG Theory
Participants: Rob Donoghue, Johannes.

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3/9/2003 Andy Kitkowski: Is it just me, or does TRoS just scream "Dune"?
I can't be the only one here... :) Seriously, though, as I was making up a character to understand the rules better, I just started having thoughts about Sardaukar, Fremen,…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: Andy Kitkowski, Bomilkar, RN3G8 4E, Neil, Brian Leybourne.

3/9/2003 ZaonDude: ZAON news and links
Hey y'all ! I'm back ;-) I'm still at work on ZAON, and have implemented a number of changes to help spice up the universe since we began talking last…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: ZaonDude, Mike Holmes, Walt Freitag, Jonathan Walton, dalek_of_god.

3/9/2003 Jonathan Walton: Storypunk: The Whole Shebang?
Okay, I think I'm finally moving towards pulling all this together into one cohesive form. If you want to look at the steps leading up to this (where Storypunk's been…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Jonathan Walton, Mike Holmes, Shreyas Sampat, Mark Johnson.

3/9/2003 AV: Pictures???
Do pictures add anything to the game for people??? does it help them get a visual... or should it be left up to the imagination? Why do you think the…
In Actual Play
Participants: AV, Jack Spencer Jr, Piratecat, Matt Gwinn, Ron Edwards.

3/10/2003 philreed: Scanning/OCR Services
Does anyone know of any services to have old books scanned? I need to get The Whispering Vault, Dangerous Prey, and The Book of Hunts in an electronic format. Bastion…
In Publishing
Participants: philreed.

3/10/2003 Ashren Va'Hale: really twisted mean idea
ok, so you do it like his, invite the players over for char generation. Have them create characters and let them know that they should create characters they would want…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: Ashren Va'Hale, Darth Tang, Shreyas Sampat, Mike Holmes, Ron Edwards, Noon, Sneaky Git, GreatWolf, Brian Leybourne.

3/10/2003 Shieldage: Universalis & Sleeping Beauty: Traits in Literature
I browsed for this 1919 version of Sleeping Beauty. Most tellings have great examples of the giving of 'traits' as well as a 'challenge' (or is it still a 'complication'?).…
In Universalis
Participants: Shieldage, Mike Holmes, Valamir.

3/10/2003 yellow_skeleton: How do I recruit new RPG players?
Hello. I am new to Forge. I am impressed with site and enjoy reading the dialogue. I have a question that I am hoping that you can help me answer:…
In Actual Play
Participants: yellow_skeleton, Piratecat, Ron Edwards, greyorm, Jeph, Mike Holmes, Ben Morgan, WildElf, Mechanic, RpgAlexWyld.

3/10/2003 Christoffer Lernö: Stealing ideas: mechanical Fighing simulation anyone?
Hello everyone, I'm back! I'm gonna go a little off-topic. I hope you can forgive that. I have been reluctant to jump back until I knew I had time to…
In RPG Theory
Participants: Christoffer Lernö, ThreeGee, talysman, Dr. Velocity.

3/10/2003 lumpley: Trollbabe Comic, probs?
Yes, it's only 9:30 Monday morning, and yes, I could wait and check back later in the day to see if it's all fine, and yes, I expect Ron you…
In Adept Press
Participants: lumpley, Ron Edwards, Clinton R. Nixon, Andrew Martin, Paul Czege, Gordon C. Landis, talysman, ejh, Valamir.

3/10/2003 Wulf: Getting the Sorcery urge
I've finally decided what sort of Sorcerer game I want to play, and I want to use this opportunity to think the idea out loud and get some responses and…
In Adept Press
Participants: Wulf, Mike Holmes, jburneko, szilard, Bankuei, Ron Edwards, joshua neff, greyorm, clehrich, dunlaing, Valamir.

3/10/2003 Ryuuko: TROS Issues!
Ok I have found one bad thing about TROS! Whenever I go to play any other roleplaying games now I start comparing it to TROS and ALL of them fall…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: Ryuuko, Paka, Salamander, Mike Holmes, Tancred, Vanguard, Shadeling, Wolfen, Sneaky Git, Jake Norwood, Durgil, Noon, arxhon, Jon the Bastard.

3/10/2003 Le Joueur: Setting, Information, and Suspense Don't Matter* [long]
We had an epiphany last night. My wife and I were gearing up for yet another one-on-one game and there was some confusion over a discussion of such from the…
In RPG Theory
Participants: Le Joueur, Bankuei, Mike Holmes, Sylus Thane, ThreeGee.

3/10/2003 ace pilot: Size of the RPG Market?
Hey All, Does anyone have any idea about the size of the RPG market? Guessing conservatively, I would say based on my own experience that RPG players constitute about 0.1%…
In Publishing
Participants: ace pilot, Mike Holmes, Ron Edwards, Pramas, b_bankhead.

3/10/2003 Jason L Blair: Looking for info on the following games
Can someone hook me up with some info on "My Life With Master" and "Ghost Light?" A link or something would be great. I see on the review page that…
In Connections
Participants: Jason L Blair, Paul Czege, GraveyardGreg.

3/10/2003 Clay: Some lessons for Internet Publishing
I just put a new article up at Lazarus Notes that I think is directly relevant to people publishing on the Internet. The article, "How Not to Publish a Product,"…
In Connections
Participants: Clay, Marco.

3/10/2003 clehrich: Bug or Feature?
One odd thing seems to be happening since the Forge web revision. At least for me, when I close the browser and go do something else for a bit, every…
In Site Discussion
Participants: clehrich, ThreeGee, Le Joueur, M. J. Young, JMendes, Clinton R. Nixon.

3/10/2003 timczar: The Pool/Puddle with different genres
I haven't read through all the posts concerning the Pool and it's variants, but I'm curious what genres it's been used in successfully, and if it's really tanked when using…
In Random Order Creations
Participants: timczar, Bob McNamee, Cassidy, James V. West.

3/10/2003 Paka: Overbrewing the Homebrew World
I am most certainly a GM who is a frustrated writer and enjoys creating worlds in order to creatively stretch my toes in the sand. However, I find that the…
In RPG Theory
Participants: Paka, Jack Spencer Jr, Blake Hutchins, Mike Holmes, M. J. Young, Ron Edwards, Paganini.

3/11/2003 Zak Arntson: Donjon Pak B1 - Monster Stat Calculation
I've got a question on how you determined your monster stats. As an example, the Dragon Wizard. It's an 11th level creature, so it should get 15 + (5/level) points…
In CRN Games
Participants: Zak Arntson, Clinton R. Nixon, jdagna, Bob McNamee, John Harper, TAROT, Matt Wilson.

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