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4/12/2003 Brian Leybourne: Community forum request
Hey Ron, I know this has been discussed (and shot down) before, but since it's reared its head again I'll mention it again (out of sight out of mind and…
In Site Discussion
Participants: Brian Leybourne, Thomas Tamblyn, Clinton R. Nixon, Valamir, Paganini, Fabrice G., szilard, M. J. Young, cruciel, Jonathan Walton, Le Joueur, ethan_greer, Ron Edwards, Jack Spencer Jr, Walt Freitag, Mike Holmes, Blake Hutchins.

4/12/2003 Christoffer Lernö: FitM and effect based combat problems (Yggdrasil)
This can be considered a follow-up to the article "Agonizing over margin-based effects". After a little playtesting think I nailed down what the real problem is. By introducing effects (before…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Christoffer Lernö.

4/12/2003 Michael Hopcroft: Sponsor HeartQuest Second Edition!
Seraphim Guard is now offering a sponsorship deal for anyone who wnats to help get HeartQuest Second Edition to fruition! For a $25 or greater donation, you get a mention…
In Seraphim Guard
Participants: Michael Hopcroft.

4/12/2003 Marco: "I can't make a character for this."
For anyone who got the idea I never have trouble in my gaming groups: Tonight I got a chance for a coupla guys to try to get together a new…
In Actual Play
Participants: Marco, clehrich, Valamir, simon_hibbs.

4/11/2003 Kester Pelagius: Crystal Spheres: Looking for Playtesters
Greetings All, I am slowly approaching completion on the first rough draft of Crystal Spheres and am looking for anyone who thinks they may be interested in 1) playtesting the…
In Connections
Participants: Kester Pelagius, Christoffer Lernö, Emote Control.

4/11/2003 Realmforger: My Ultimate RPG: Lost Realms
I'm creating a role-playing game called Lost Realms. The normal game takes place in a medival fantasy setting, but I might make several different settings. You can begin as one…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Realmforger, Thomas Tamblyn, Christoffer Lernö, Clinton R. Nixon, ethan_greer, Ben Morgan, Valamir.

4/11/2003 Blake Hutchins: FATAL Review on RPG.net
Not sure where to post this link, but it's a damn funny review, though the subject matter's mere existence probably soils us all as gamers, and says something about an…
In Site Discussion
Participants: Blake Hutchins, Valamir, Thomas Tamblyn, Ron Edwards, Evan Waters.

4/11/2003 Wolfen: Recoil: Concept
Recoil is a game idea that I started kicking around when I ran across a page of fiction I wrote while bored between classes. I've been having a hard time…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Wolfen, Mike Holmes, anonymouse, Torrent, Tar Markvar, Thomas Tamblyn, Christoffer Lernö, Spooky Fanboy, Ben Morgan, philreed, Ron Edwards, Valamir, szilard, C. Edwards, Walt Freitag, talysman.

4/11/2003 Valamir: Back?
An error, or is Adamant ramping up again? Does this mean Appolyton Noir is nearing critical mass?
In Adamant Entertainment
Participants: Valamir, quozl, GMSkarka, Mike Holmes, Nick Pagnucco, TSL, grafspee, Thomas Tamblyn, soundwave, Tim Gray.

4/11/2003 b_bankhead: RPG Structure and Issues of Recruitment
[size=18px][b]Introduction[/b][/size] The last decade has been problematic for the rpg hobby. While standards of production continue to increase growth has stagnated particularly when compared against new gaming forms such as…
In RPG Theory
Participants: b_bankhead, Clinton R. Nixon, Le Joueur, Valamir, Mike Holmes, quozl, Bankuei, clehrich, M. J. Young, Kester Pelagius, Christoffer Lernö, Bruce Baugh, John Kim, Brendan Litton.

4/11/2003 arxhon: Typo on the Character Reference Pack
In the section on Spiritual Attributes, the pack states to divide 5 points into 5 Attributes. It should say "7 points". My apologies for the error.
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: arxhon.

4/11/2003 Marco: LEARN ME SOME SORCEROR
Hey guys, I'm looking into some strongly Narrativist play--I don't want to *hear* about it--or be *told* about it--no, I want the whole echilada. I wanna *play* it. Since time…
In Actual Play
Participants: Marco, Mike Holmes, Ron Edwards, Paganini, Andy Kitkowski, Bob McNamee, greyorm, Trevis Martin, Wolfen, Drastic, C. Edwards, Valamir.

4/11/2003 simon_hibbs: Is story arc, and open ended (scenarioless) play viable?
My current campaign is based on a number of story arcs, and this has lead to a number of problems. Firstly when we switch from one story arc to another,…
In Actual Play
Participants: simon_hibbs, Ian Charvill, Paul Czege, Michael S. Miller, Ron Edwards, Christopher Kubasik, GB Steve, iago, Mike Holmes, clehrich.

4/11/2003 Florian Edlbauer: [The Pool] Second try
In case anyone is interested, here's my second playtest report for The Pool. Me and my small group moved much closer to a compromise between our playing style and The…
In Random Order Creations
Participants: Florian Edlbauer, Cassidy, Kenway, Ron Edwards, James V. West.

4/11/2003 Matt: Mainstream Roleplaying (almost)
Wasn't sure where to post this, but I'm sure it'll get moved if Theory isn't the place. While looking for a brithday present I found Whatever You Want (Amazon UK…
In RPG Theory
Participants: Matt, quozl.

4/11/2003 Jonathan Walton: Vespertine: Little Fears II??
Hey folks, It was cool to read Slant's last thread on older kids in Little Fears, because that's exactly what I wrote about as part of the 24 Hour Game…
In Key 20 Publishing
Participants: Jonathan Walton, Jason L Blair, Spooky Fanboy, Little_Rat.

4/11/2003 M. J. Young: Young Playtest Group First Storymap
A few preliminary comments--I started this yesterday, and my computer froze while I was trying to find my notes, so I just gave up and went to bed. I'm trying…
In Dark Omen Games
Participants: M. J. Young, GreatWolf, hix.

4/11/2003 Slant: Possible new play style for Little Fears.
Tell me what you all think about this: What happens when a kid who has been played in Little Fears hits 13 or 14? Their innocence is probably gone (or…
In Key 20 Publishing
Participants: Slant, Synicism, Jonathan Walton.

4/10/2003 Slant: An evil thought....
What would happen if something dark and sinister got ahold of some tiny part of a child, like say some strands of hair or even a bit of a shirt…
In Key 20 Publishing
Participants: Slant, Comte.

4/10/2003 jburneko: Social Conflict Resolution
I've been wanting to discuss this for a while but haven't been able to construct a working example that demonstrated my question yet. Then, about a week ago, I was…
In RPG Theory
Participants: jburneko, Matt Wilson, M. J. Young, quozl, Harlequin, Mike Holmes, Ron Edwards, Ben Morgan.

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4/12/2003 Jack Spencer Jr: I listened to my friend's game last night Part II
I go to be a fly on the wall again this week. Unfortunately, nothing quite as insightful had come up. I had actually written a lengthy post but closed my…
In Actual Play
Participants: Jack Spencer Jr, cruciel, Gordon C. Landis.

4/12/2003 quozl: Univeralis in stores?
Guys, there are a couple of store owners that want to stock Universalis. Look here: http://forum.rpg.net/showthread.php?s=&threadid=44182&perpage=20&pagenumber=4
In Universalis
Participants: quozl.

4/12/2003 clehrich: RPGs and Soap Operas [LONG]
In the RPG Structure and Recruitment Problems thread, there have been some mentions of soap operas and RPGs. So I’m finally going to post a draft version of…
In RPG Theory
Participants: clehrich, Bruce Baugh, Palaskar, Ron Edwards, szilard, John Kim, M. J. Young, Matt Wilson, Ryan Chaddock.

4/12/2003 Kester Pelagius: Does anyone know. . .
..if there is software out there to help design and create boards for board games? All this recent talk (I blame quozl ;) about Monopoly and board games has me…
In Connections
Participants: Kester Pelagius, Matt Gwinn, J. Backman, talysman.

4/12/2003 Slant: CAH series idea
Okay, having mulled it over for a few days I finally know what sort of series I want to put together. I am going to combine two 80's genres: fantasy…
In Cartoon Action Hour
Participants: Slant, Wulf, Goose, Evan Waters, Eddy Fate, Shadeling.

4/12/2003 Dotan Dimet: Daniel Pond's Wushu
Has anyone taken a look at Daniel Pond's Wushu system? The idea is really similar to "giving extra dice for good description", which also appears in Sorcerer. The big difference…
In Actual Play
Participants: Dotan Dimet, Mark Johnson, johnmarron, Jeph, Bruce Baugh.

4/13/2003 Buddha Nature: PBEM Brainstorm
Okay for the last day or two I have been trying to think up a good way of running a PBEM game - it would be system-lite/less and would make…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Buddha Nature, Jonathan Walton, Bob McNamee.

4/13/2003 Ashren Va'Hale: who is the inquisition?
In your versions of weyrth, how do you imagine the inquisition? Who are they? What do they want? what do people think of them?
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: Ashren Va'Hale, Farseer415, Brian Leybourne, arxhon, Nick Pagnucco, Jake Norwood, Thor Olavsrud.

4/13/2003 Bob McNamee: The indie-netgaming folks are playing Trollbabe
Two fairly short sessions of Trollbabe so far last Mon and Tues, over IRC chat. I've got a combined synched up log of the Narration channel and OOC channel in…
In Adept Press
Participants: Bob McNamee, Ron Edwards, C. Edwards, Jared A. Sorensen, rafial, Bankuei.

4/13/2003 Matt Gwinn: GENCON Registered Games
I was checking out the registered games over at theGENCON site and noticed that there are very few indie games registered. Unless I missed some, it looks like the following…
In Publishing
Participants: Matt Gwinn, samdowning, rafael, Michael S. Miller.

4/13/2003 taalyn: All-opposed, but...
I've described elsewhere here at the Forge how all of Aisling's 'rolls' are opposed. So-called 'unopposed' draws draw on the Doorness or Carness to determine difficulty. But, what about situations…
In RPG Theory
Participants: taalyn, Kester Pelagius, SrGrvsaLot, Garbanzo, M. J. Young, Ron Edwards, Mike Holmes.

4/13/2003 taalyn: Chargen issues for Aisling
I'm trying to get a basic set of rules together so I can get playtesting results while I work on the fun part (setting). I'm hoping you guys can suggest…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: taalyn, Wolfen.

4/13/2003 TooManyGoddamnOrcs: My First Heartbreaker Begins Now.
Technically, it's my second after the TFOS/50s Horror hybrid I created in middle school with a percentile color chart straight out of Marvel superheroes, but that's beside the point. Here…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: TooManyGoddamnOrcs, ethan_greer, Thomas Tamblyn, Valamir, Wolfen, lumpley, Paul Czege.

4/13/2003 Christoffer Lernö: Request for a Indie Design sticky
There are a few unspoken (well occasionally written down) rules on how to make a good posting on the Forge in general and Indie Game Design in particular. We went…
In Site Discussion
Participants: Christoffer Lernö, ethan_greer, Thomas Tamblyn, Mark Johnson, Clinton R. Nixon, cruciel, Ron Edwards, Jack Spencer Jr.

4/13/2003 PAD the MAD: Conflicting spells & Multiple Familiars
Hi all, Been running RoS for several sessions now and have some good players and a nice mix of characters who are developing nicely. A couple of things cropped up…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: PAD the MAD, Jake Norwood, Ashren Va'Hale.

4/13/2003 PAD the MAD: toughness too useful
Hi all, I've been discussing combat with one of my players and we realised that even unarmoured, a character with Toughness of 8 is unbelievably resilient to damage. It just…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: PAD the MAD, Tywin Lannister, arxhon, Ashren Va'Hale, feanor, Bob Richter, Ron Edwards, Spartan, Shadeling, toli, Mike Holmes, spunky, Mayhem1979, Mokkurkalfe, Wolfen, Jake Norwood, Brian Leybourne, ruusu, Irmo, Nick Pagnucco, Sneaky Git, Vanguard, Tancred, Jason Kottler, Draigh, Salamander, Warboss Grock, Valamir, murazor.

4/13/2003 kanseg: The Whip in Combat?
I've recently started some basic training in flexible weapons and had a question on how the whip might fit into TROS. I know some of the Filipino systems developed the…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: kanseg, Darth Tang, Mike Holmes, Eamon Voss, Wolfen, Sneaky Git, Valamir, Salamander.

4/13/2003 SrGrvsaLot: Brainstorming - Medieval Fantasy
I'm a few days away from completing the rough draft for my latest project (a hybrid board game-rpg where the players take the roles of Gods), and am looking for…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: SrGrvsaLot, Realmforger, ADGBoss, Jack Spencer Jr, samdowning, Mike Holmes, szilard, Chris, b_bankhead, s/LaSH.

4/13/2003 Fnork de Sporg: FulminataD20, pdf?
While I am overjoyed at then new edition of Fulminata, and can only hope that it will bring ther game line, and ancient roman based gaming as genre, that much…
In Adamant Entertainment
Participants: Fnork de Sporg, GMSkarka, Fastred, scorpio rising, Mean Eyed Cat, quinchris, fabio milito pagliara.

4/13/2003 quozl: Monopoly: The Most Popular Roleplaying Game?
I hope this helps show others what I mean when i say that Monopoly is an RPG. Please let me know what you think. Monopoly: The Most Popular Roleplaying Game?…
In RPG Theory
Participants: quozl, Eric J., M. J. Young, Valamir, CplFerro, Marco, Le Joueur, Ron Edwards, simon_hibbs, Jack Spencer Jr, Mike Holmes, John Kim, Walt Freitag.

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