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3/15/2003 Dotan Dimet: The Forge dialectic - how do I boil this down?
Hi, The community wherin I operate (organized Israeli gamerdom) has a strong simulationist-illusionist attitude. They've read the books, they believe in The Impossible Thing Before Breakfast, Deep Roleplay and GM-as-Storyteller…
In RPG Theory
Participants: Dotan Dimet, Jack Spencer Jr, Ron Edwards, M. J. Young, Bankuei, Marco, Mike Holmes, Emily Care.

3/15/2003 philreed: The Whispering Vault
As many of you probably already know, Christopher Shy and I recently purchased this property. I've always been a fan of the game and I'm excited about the chance to…
In Publishing
Participants: philreed, Tim C Koppang, Mike Holmes, Ron Edwards.

3/15/2003 Jaeger: 8 stats vs. 10
In the time honored tradition of second guessing the game designer. (A favorite pastime of players who have never, and will never, design a rpg themselves). I had the following…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: Jaeger, Mokkurkalfe, Wolfen, arxhon, MrGeneHa, Michael Tree, Brian Leybourne.

3/15/2003 Christoffer Lernö: Yggdrasil thoughts
I was thinking of waking up Yggdrasil again. I still don't have my original notes, so I'll work from what I remember. Maybe it's a good thing. After all I'd…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Christoffer Lernö, greyorm, Bob McNamee, Shreyas Sampat, Lugaru, Le Joueur, talysman, Ron Edwards, Mike Holmes, Tar Markvar, Peregrine.

3/15/2003 deltadave: Spirit points?
TRoS Pg 66 refers to Spirit points and promises to explain them below then never does. Are spirit points the same as Insight?
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: deltadave, arxhon.

3/14/2003 Kester Pelagius: How much would you want to know?
Greetings All, Say someone was working on a minigame that was a melding of Ptolemaic and Medieval cosmology ala Spelljammer, but that this project was not directly based off of…
In RPG Theory
Participants: Kester Pelagius, Sylus Thane, Mike Holmes, Bankuei, M. J. Young, Le Joueur, Jack Spencer Jr.

3/14/2003 Dotan Dimet: Two Hour Demo Games? How? Explain!
I've seen posts here about demo games and cons with two-hour long slots, and since my only experience is with the standard 4-hours-dragging-on-to-6 convention rounds, I'd really like to hear…
In Actual Play
Participants: Dotan Dimet, Ron Edwards, Michael S. Miller, Jake Norwood, jdagna.

3/14/2003 xechnao: 2 PM email notifications but only 1 message.
Yes, that's right. Today I ' ve got in my email inbox 2 "PM has arrived" notifications from the forge. But only one PM was in my inbox folder over…
In Site Discussion
Participants: xechnao, Walt Freitag.

3/14/2003 Pyske: Campaign Assistance: Tears of the Prophet [LONG]
I am presently working on a new campaign for TRoS (albeit with a variant magic system), and would love any input and suggestions you folks have to offer. Premise: The…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: Pyske, Bankuei.

3/14/2003 WildElf: Sorcerer at Orccon - followup
Sorry, to dredge up an old topic, but how did the Con game on Friday go? I tried to get into the Saturday game, but it looks like it must…
In Actual Play
Participants: WildElf, Ron Edwards, jburneko, Noble, Valamir, Christopher Kubasik, Paul Czege, Mike Holmes.

3/14/2003 Matt Wilson: FYI: GenCon Hotel
In choosing to buy my GenCon pass via the Forge, I painted myself into sort of a corner, as GenCon hotels are only available via the registration site. However, I…
In Connections
Participants: Matt Wilson.

3/14/2003 jburneko: Questions About How To Read The Descriptions of Demon Powers
Okay, so in another thread Ron wrote this: "Consider Perception, Transport, and Psychic Force, and you can actually bring people, unwillingly, to yourself from afar, striking them unconscious." This is…
In Adept Press
Participants: jburneko, Valamir, Ron Edwards, Gordon C. Landis, Bankuei, Tor Erickson, Bailywolf, Jeffrey Straszheim.

3/14/2003 Paganini: Realizing Charnel Gods
[i]Ack! I had a whole bunch typed up, and my computer crashed. Time for the short short version.[/i] The myths are all reall. Evidence: the Carion Fields and the Fell…
In Adept Press
Participants: Paganini, Ron Edwards, Mike Holmes, Gordon C. Landis, b_bankhead, hardcoremoose.

3/14/2003 signoftheserpent: old characters
does anyone know characters such as sherlock holmes are still under copyright. if i wanted to include them in an opriginal rpg what would i have to do. interestingly, while…
In Publishing
Participants: signoftheserpent, Lugaru, Psycho42, Le Joueur, Eric Kimball, talysman.

3/14/2003 Jake Norwood: OBAM Press Release
[b]Of Beasts and Men,[/b] our first supplement, was officially announced today in a press release that can be found in a way-too-big download (5M MB, for resolution) [url=http://www.theriddleofsteel.net/riddlefiles/PR-OBAM.pdf]here[/url]. The release…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: Jake Norwood, Brian Leybourne, Mike Holmes, Wolfen, arxhon, Mainboard, Jürgen Mayer, Sneaky Git, Rattlehead, Furious D, Bladesinger, Draigh, r_callen221, deltadave, Darth Tang, Durgil, Claymore, kanseg, kenjib, Valamir, Shadeling, Morfedel, turgon, Chris Passeno, Salamander.

3/14/2003 iago: So you have something you want to sell...
Where do you go from there? I see that Clinton has recommended PayPal, and RPGNow has certainly gotten some press in past posts. Which method have you (or would you)…
In Publishing
Participants: iago, Clinton R. Nixon, Mike Holmes, Jeph, Valamir, Clay, rpghost.

3/14/2003 Jon the Bastard: New unified skill system
Let me just say that I love TRoS. That is right off the bat. But it's big weakness is that it was obviously made as a combat game first, and…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: Jon the Bastard, Ashren Va'Hale, Jake Norwood, Mokkurkalfe, Paka, MrGeneHa, Valamir, Mike Holmes, Jaeger, Spartan, szilard, Durgil, Brian Leybourne.

3/14/2003 anonymouse: [Donjon] Permanent possessions at character creation?
I'm sure I read somewhere in the book that you don't start with any; one friend says you start with one weapon -or- armor, plus a miscellanous, and another says…
In CRN Games
Participants: anonymouse, Ben Morgan, Chris Kucsera, Clinton R. Nixon.

3/13/2003 Mike Holmes: Mike's Standard Rant #1: Designers! Know your hobby!
Well, Chris Passeno, recently asked me where Mike's Standard Rant #1 was. I informed him that I had numbered them sorta randomly, and had not gotten around to number one.…
In RPG Theory
Participants: Mike Holmes, DaR, wyrdlyng, RobMuadib, Jonathan Walton, Rob Donoghue, Sylus Thane, lumpley, Valamir, clehrich, cruciel, Ron Edwards, Walt Freitag, M. J. Young, Kester Pelagius, efindel, Bankuei, Pramas, Stuart DJ Purdie, rdl, Andy Kitkowski, Bruce Baugh, szilard, J. Backman.

3/13/2003 Daredevil: Exploration of Player
First see http://www.indie-rpgs.com/viewtopic.php?p=56049#56049 for the main thread. This is basically split from it and is a discussion on how I feel what I was writing about there is relevant to…
In GNS Model Discussion
Participants: Daredevil, Ron Edwards, Le Joueur, Nathaniel, clehrich, Emily Care, John Kim, Jack Spencer Jr, Gordon C. Landis, M. J. Young.

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3/16/2003 Jack Spencer Jr: The Social Aspect
I hope to get discussion going on the purely social aspect of RPG and possibly the nature of human interaction in general. Hopefully there'll be a slew of daughter and…
In RPG Theory
Participants: Jack Spencer Jr, Mark Johnson, M. J. Young, Le Joueur.

3/16/2003 Jeph: Pagoda
I haven't written the section on magic yet, but here goes. It's called Pagoda because of it's three Degrees, and how they are stacked upon each other. Pagoda Pagoda is…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Jeph, Jonathan Walton, ThreeGee, MoonHunter, Ben Morgan, Zak Arntson, Shreyas Sampat, Spooky Fanboy, Christoffer Lernö, iago.

3/16/2003 Jonathan Walton: Binding in Non-Standard Locations
This may be a question I should send to specific printers, but I was wondering if any of you folks who are experienced in printing could help me out here.…
In Publishing
Participants: Jonathan Walton, Mark Johnson, Chris Passeno, Piratecat, Adam, JonAcheson.

3/16/2003 Comte: round robin fiction thingus
So I'm sitting in my dorm room trying to think of something more productive than world domination schemes (you think I'm joking) and so I decided to get some conversation…
In Key 20 Publishing
Participants: Comte, saint ash, magistrate.

3/16/2003 RN3G8 4E: What do you do when you must fight but you don't want to?
The noise of the pleasantly loud tavern flowed all around him, but tonight Jareth couldn't be distracted. If Jadzy was here he could be another step closer towards finding the…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: RN3G8 4E, Mokkurkalfe, Wolfen, Brian Leybourne, Jaeger, Ashren Va'Hale.

3/16/2003 Mark Johnson: Indie-Rpgs Chat Room
Indie-rpg chat function possibilities: to talk without moderation, or concern of moderation to discuss one's personal life, and how it intersects with one's game creation to talk socially, building bonds…
In Site Discussion
Participants: Mark Johnson, Jack Spencer Jr, M. J. Young, iago.

3/16/2003 Jake Norwood: Away for the week...
Okay, I'm off to GTS for the week. Play nice. Brian, you're in charge. While at GTS I'm going to be really promoting OBAM and finding the best printer I…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: Jake Norwood, Brian Leybourne.

3/16/2003 Parandro: The Pool working in Detective Stories?
Hi there, until now I haven't yet played a game of The Pool, although I like the idea of giving narrative power to players very much. The problem is: as…
In Random Order Creations
Participants: Parandro, Bob McNamee, James V. West, Ron Edwards, Blake Hutchins.

3/16/2003 JamesDJIII: Sorcerer by Gaslight!
Just finished our first Sorcerer game. The results were very fun. A lot of the plot developments stem directly from McAlister's Kicker. We hand't touched much else in the time…
In Actual Play
Participants: JamesDJIII, Ron Edwards, Dr O, Trevis Martin, Mike Holmes.

3/16/2003 ThreeGee: webhosting
Hey all, We have talked about this stuff before, but times change, so here we go again. I am looking for a *cheap* hosting solution for my games. By which…
In Connections
Participants: ThreeGee, ethan_greer, Jonathan Walton, Opsimath, greyorm, Clay, Clinton R. Nixon.

3/16/2003 Drew Stevens: Team Author stance? (inspired/stolen from Universalis)
So, I just had a kind of weird idea for a metagame thingy. Basically, as opposed to each player having sole control over one character, give each cahracter a couple…
In RPG Theory
Participants: Drew Stevens, Ron Edwards, Mike Holmes.

3/16/2003 Steve Dustin: octaNe: From Shangri-LA to Lost Vegas in 3.4 seconds
So we played octaNe last night. I have two words to say. Kick. Ass. Ok, I few more words than that. Prep My prep was burning this disk. All the…
In Actual Play
Participants: Steve Dustin, Jared A. Sorensen, Ben Morgan.

3/17/2003 Tor Erickson: Motifs as questions
Hi all, I had this revelation a couple of days ago when I was putting together the characters for a TQB one-session. I wanted one of the characters to be…
In Random Order Creations
Participants: Tor Erickson, Bankuei, Bob McNamee, Mike Holmes, Paganini, James V. West.

3/17/2003 J B Bell: "Baby Ghosts": Real-life Sorcerer fun in Singapore
I don't read it for this kind of thing, but recently I read a thread on www.buddhistboards.com that can only be described as fucked. Up. Also, really really cool inspiration…
In Adept Press
Participants: J B Bell, Bankuei, Nev the Deranged.

3/17/2003 talysman: Court of 9 Chambers: system overview
as I've mentioned recently, I'm working on the playtest document of the most recent version of The Court of 9 Chambers. I'm almost ready to post the PDF, but I…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: talysman, Spooky Fanboy, Mike Holmes.

3/17/2003 Shreyas Sampat: Refreshing Rain: Tugging At My Heartstrings
Jeph's recent thread on his new game Pagoda prompted me to get back to work on my own wuxia game, Refreshing Rain. (There are also a couple of threads about…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Shreyas Sampat, Mike Holmes, ADGBoss.

3/17/2003 Irmo: Quickstart game
Just yesterday, I ran a quickstart game on a German RPG con. Given that it was the first actual play shot at TROS for all involved I think it was…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: Irmo, Stephen.

3/17/2003 signoftheserpent: pulp sf ideas - citizens, don your criticism helmets please
i am trying to write a background for a pulp/classic/cheesy SF action/adventure/space opera style game. i am trying to find a focus for the antagonistic elements within the setting in…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: signoftheserpent, Rich Stokes, ADGBoss, Ron Edwards, John Harper, Thomas Tamblyn.

3/17/2003 iago: Sample Chapters
Does anyone have particular guidelines for which chapter of a product to put up as a "sample chapter"? Do you find that such a practice is necessary? Does it seem…
In Publishing
Participants: iago, wyrdlyng, DaR.

3/17/2003 ethan_greer: Sorcerer/Donjon dice mechanic
I wasn't sure where to put this, so here it is in RPG Theory... So, Sorcerer and Donjon use variations of the same dice mechanic - each participant rolls a…
In RPG Theory
Participants: ethan_greer, Mike Holmes, iago, szilard, M. J. Young, cruciel.

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