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3/18/2003 Alan: New Gimmicks
Gimmick: No buying new traits during a Complication. The ban covers all components, whether they're in play or not. Once the dice are rolled and results tallied, the ban is…
In Universalis
Participants: Alan, Mike Holmes, Valamir, rafial, Bob McNamee, Shieldage.

3/18/2003 Heraldic Game Design: Reforging the Outsider Chronicles
I've spent a good number of years writing and finally publishing The Outsider Chronicles, and roleplaying game that makes use of SOL: The Omniversal Roleplaying System. After publishing the game,…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Heraldic Game Design, Valamir, Spooky Fanboy, Mike Holmes, RobMuadib, ross_winn, Lxndr.

3/18/2003 Christoffer Lernö: Yggdrasil moves one more time
Thinking about Ygg improvisation again... The basic in Yggdrasil is that the attack roll gives you the extent of improvisation. How much the opponent is at your mercy depends on…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Christoffer Lernö, Shreyas Sampat, Kester Pelagius, Mike Holmes, ADGBoss.

3/18/2003 ace pilot: Copyright and/or Trademark Infringement Horror Stories?
Hey all, Someone just sent me an email that has given me some food for thought about intellectual property protection, basically highlighting the problem of unscrupulous individuals who steal ideas…
In Publishing
Participants: ace pilot, Jack Spencer Jr, Kester Pelagius, Treves, Valamir, Mike Holmes, greyorm.

3/18/2003 Kenway: The Pool: Clockpunk adventure recap
This is just a Pool campaign recap. The Pool: Clockpunk adventure The players were traditional AD&D and Marvel Super Heroes-raised gamers, so they not surprisignly played The Pool mostly AD&D-like.…
In Random Order Creations
Participants: Kenway, James V. West.

3/18/2003 Kester Pelagius: What is. . . 'The Alchemy of Role-Playing'?
[color=darkblue]This post is revisiting an old article posted here a while back. As always I look forward to reading your remarks and special insights.[/color] [size=16px][b]The Alchemy of Role-Playing[/b][/size] [color=darkred]Copyright ©…
In RPG Theory
Participants: Kester Pelagius.

3/18/2003 Jeph: Pagoda: Starting to think about the sample setting
The game is currently being discussed in this thread. Now that the core rules are nearing completion, I'm starting to think about a setting . . . The Empire of…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Jeph, Shreyas Sampat.

3/18/2003 hardcoremoose: Problems at the Sorcerer website?
I just tried to go to the Sorcerer website and got a message that read like this: You are not authorized to view this page You might not have permission…
In Adept Press
Participants: hardcoremoose, Clinton R. Nixon, Ron Edwards.

3/17/2003 Shreyas Sampat: The 'Look' of Alyria
I've been wondering about Alyria's visual style for some time; it has a very clear mood, and even suggests a sort of aural atmosphere (muffled clanks and voices, all overlying…
In Dark Omen Games
Participants: Shreyas Sampat, M. J. Young, Valamir, GreatWolf.

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.

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 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 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 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 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 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 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.

3/16/2003 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.

3/16/2003 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 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.

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3/18/2003 Rich Stokes: Urban Mythos: Schticks, an idea (not sure it's a great one!)
Urban Mythos is an urban fantasy setting and I'm trying to capture the feel of action TV shows rather than realism. You can read a bit more here http://www.indie-rpgs.com/viewtopic.php?t=4876 or…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Rich Stokes, iago, Mike Holmes.

3/18/2003 Tywin Lannister: I'm new and baffled!
Hi everyone, I'm new to the boards - and the game, which I bought last week. I have been reading through the book, and found it all a bit..baffling. The…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: Tywin Lannister, Wolfen, Brian Leybourne, Sneaky Git, Valamir, arxhon, Noon, Durgil, Mike Holmes, Spartan, Alan, Shadeling, Ashren Va'Hale.

3/18/2003 Lugaru: Critical hits = less damage (I figured this is the forum)
Ok, I decided to try making that card based game where the amount of cards you drop of a single suit is what determines successes, damage and stuff like that.…
In RPG Theory
Participants: Lugaru, Kester Pelagius, Valamir, John Kim, contracycle, cruciel, Tar Markvar.

3/18/2003 heldenhammer: Just got and read Donjon...
... based on cruising the anvilwerks site and reading some reviews on rpg.net. It looks like a cool game. I'm a sucker for nifty game mechanics. My current task is…
In CRN Games
Participants: heldenhammer, Colin the Riot, dunlaing.

3/18/2003 Sylus Thane: How to PDF?
Can someone tell me what resources are involved and how I would go about making a PDF file? I'm currently working with Microsoft Word out of sheer lack of knowledge…
In Publishing
Participants: Sylus Thane, Adam, Mike Holmes, iago, Le Joueur, talysman, Michael Hopcroft, Clinton R. Nixon, bladamson.

3/19/2003 Kester Pelagius: Ressurecting ye olde 'Crypt Fiend'
Greetings All, Back in Octorber I had a brainstorm, as many of us do, likely after reading something or the other here at The Forge. This resulted in a bit…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Kester Pelagius, Mike Holmes.

3/19/2003 iago: Delta - Introduction - Comments Needed!
I've been writing Delta over the past few weeks, which is the name I've given to a game I first mentioned here: http://www.indie-rpgs.com/viewtopic.php?t=5452 This is the text of my introduction…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: iago, Bob McNamee, Spooky Fanboy, Dr. Velocity.

3/19/2003 Dotan Dimet: Wise in the ways of the Force
[i]Sorry this is a new post, it should actualy be a response to [a href="http://www.indie-rpgs.com/viewtopic.php?t=5529"]Co-GMing[/a].[/i] My players call this The Jedi Mind Trick, for obvious reasons... From last night's session:…
In Actual Play
Participants: Dotan Dimet.

3/19/2003 Bob McNamee: indie netgaming folks played a pickup game of Inspectres
The folks on the indie netgaming group- http://groups.yahoo.com/group/indie-netgaming/- played a pickup game of Inspectres last night! Mike Holmes GMing, Nathan (Paganini), Bob McNamee, and Chris E(dwards?) playing. Fun stuff! High…
In Memento-Mori Theatricks
Participants: Bob McNamee, Jared A. Sorensen, Paganini, C. Edwards, Mike Holmes.

3/19/2003 Johannes: What is the most realistic RPG?
The purpose of this thread is NOT to immerse ourselves into endless arguments about personal preference. What I want from this thread is that people would reflect on what meaning…
In RPG Theory
Participants: Johannes, Mike Holmes, Paganini, Jack Spencer Jr, Lugaru, ThreeGee, Marco, quozl, Valamir, Emily Care, Ron Edwards, lumpley, Thingmaker, Walt Freitag, Le Joueur, M. J. Young, simon_hibbs, weeble, CplFerro.

3/19/2003 iago: Paladin Demographic
I'm working on a game that shares some ideas and themes with Paladin, and it's occurred to me that my "target market" is probably similar to Paladin's. So here's the…
In CRN Games
Participants: iago, Sidhain.

3/19/2003 xechnao: eproducts: What eproduct would you provide for your rpg?
It seems that the king is pdf document. But why? Because you can print it and tabletop rpg products are about papers. But don't you think that most gamers in…
In Publishing
Participants: xechnao, iago, Mike Holmes, ThreeGee, Jeph, Enoch, Clay, Clinton R. Nixon.

3/19/2003 Kenway: Flawed/Incoherent Games explained?
Mike's #1 rant (and Ron's articles) bring up lots of examples of flawed (and incoherent) games. I've only pieced together some of the flaws from various threads on The Forge,…
In RPG Theory
Participants: Kenway, Mike Holmes.

3/19/2003 Kester Pelagius: Where Did it All Begin?
Greetings All, Given current events I thought we could all use a distraction. So, without further adieu, part two. Kind Regards, Kester Pelagius # The Alchemy of Role-Playing Copyright ©…
In RPG Theory
Participants: Kester Pelagius.

3/19/2003 Eric Kimball: Book randomization
This is a question I have had for a while regarding methods of generating a binary success or failure. In most game dice are used for the random mechanics and…
In RPG Theory
Participants: Eric Kimball, Paganini, talysman, Enoch, Jonathan Walton, Yasha, M. J. Young, Jack Spencer Jr, Johannes, JMendes, Mike Holmes, Ron Edwards, cruciel, Stuart DJ Purdie.

3/19/2003 xiombarg: Pretender: Setting
Okay, I was thinking last night about a campaign I've wanted to run for a very long time. In essence, it's the same "turf" as the World of Darkness: Mythic…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: xiombarg, Spooky Fanboy, Mike Holmes.

3/19/2003 contracycle: Scaffolding
Well, this is tyhe design that I have recently been tinkering with and which Mike badgered me to see in December. Its not exactly finished... the intent is to have…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: contracycle, Christoffer Lernö, MoonHunter, Ron Edwards, Mike Holmes.

3/19/2003 xiombarg: Pretender: System (based on OtherKind)
Okay, I was thinking last night about a campaign I've wanted to run for a very long time. In essence, it's the same "turf" as the World of Darkness: Mythic…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: xiombarg, Palaskar, Spooky Fanboy, Shreyas Sampat, Valamir, lumpley, Mike Holmes.

3/19/2003 dunlaing: armor chart
Is there a chart somewhere of what specific locations armor does and does not cover, or are you just supposed to rule by *gasp* common sense? By specific locations, I…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: dunlaing, Brian Leybourne, Salamander.

3/19/2003 Ron Edwards: Fourth Trollbabe story's begun!
Back from GAMA! The site text still needs tweaking, but the fourth story's first strip is up! At the ever-lovin' Trollbabe site. The story is "A Day at the Circus,"…
In Adept Press
Participants: Ron Edwards.

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