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4/15/2003 Christoffer Lernö: Yggdrasil: Making the setting - questions on strategy
Yggdrasil's setting is supposed to be rather lightweight. There's a backstory of course, and a map. The most important though, is the provided framework for creating characters, adventures, monsters and…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Christoffer Lernö, Mike Holmes, Valamir, Shreyas Sampat, Sidhain, Kester Pelagius, ADGBoss.

4/14/2003 Christoffer Lernö: Yggdrasil: Impossible to get cool narration?
Is it possible to have cool narration in a game within the framework of more or less traditional mechanics? I'm asking because I was suggested that this might indeed be…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Christoffer Lernö, Valamir, ThreeGee, C. Edwards, Jonathan Walton, Mike Holmes, Mark Johnson.

4/14/2003 Christoffer Lernö: Shift in Indie Game Design?
Mark wrote this in the "Request for a Indie Design sticky"-thread: There seems to be a gradual shift in the Indie Design forum: 1) The Intended Usage: to…
In Site Discussion
Participants: Christoffer Lernö, Clinton R. Nixon, SrGrvsaLot, Jack Spencer Jr, szilard, Valamir, Kester Pelagius, Paul Czege, C. Edwards, Sidhain, Jonathan Walton, Andy Kitkowski, cruciel, Le Joueur, ethan_greer, greyorm, M. J. Young, Jake Norwood, Mark Johnson, Rich Forest, Mike Holmes, Bankuei, Thomas Tamblyn, xiombarg, Brian Leybourne, clehrich, Blake Hutchins, RobMuadib.

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.

4/12/2003 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.

4/5/2003 Christoffer Lernö: What's your favorite character of all time?
Doesn't everyone have a favorite character among all they played? So the question: 1. What's your favorite character (that you played) of all time (so far) 2. In what game?…
In Forge Birthday Forum
Participants: Christoffer Lernö, Dave Panchyk, taalyn, Jared A. Sorensen, The_Confessor, Paul Czege, Clinton R. Nixon, Simon W, Shreyas Sampat, cruciel, Matt Wilson, Jason L Blair, Heather Manley, Christopher Kubasik, Anonymous, Ben Morgan.

4/5/2003 Christoffer Lernö: What's the name of your computer?
Have you named your harddrive(s)? Your computer? Does it still say "My Computer" on the desktop or does the poor thing actually have a name? Me first: Computer: "Yggdrasil" Harddrive:…
In Forge Birthday Forum
Participants: Christoffer Lernö, Shreyas Sampat, Ben Morgan, cruciel, szilard, Brian Leybourne, taalyn, ThreeGee, Mike Holmes, Adam, Trevis Martin, wyrdlyng, Andy Kitkowski, Stuart DJ Purdie, Chris Passeno, Jack Spencer Jr, Thomas Tamblyn, J B Bell, Enoch, Anonymous, arxhon, RobMuadib, GreatWolf, Ron Edwards, Jason L Blair, Heather Manley, Clinton R. Nixon, J. Backman.

4/4/2003 Christoffer Lernö: The Religion Wars begin here
Some people, (including me) mentioned their religious beliefs in the social profiling. So I thought I'd ask it straight out. I'll restate mine: I was raised a christian (protestant), turned…
In Forge Birthday Forum
Participants: Christoffer Lernö, xiombarg, greyorm, Jonathan Walton, Mike Holmes, Nick Pagnucco, GreatWolf, Valamir, ethan_greer, dragongrace, Andy Kitkowski, Jared A. Sorensen, Matt Gwinn, taalyn, Lazy Smurf, cruciel, Brian Leybourne, sdemory, Spooky Fanboy, C. Edwards, Enoch, lumpley, wyrdlyng, quozl, Jake Norwood, Jack Spencer Jr, J B Bell, Clinton R. Nixon, Simon W, Dotan Dimet, Ben Terry, Rich Stokes, Shreyas Sampat, John Kim, Itse, Paul Watson, Bob McNamee, Christopher Weeks, Asrogoth, Anonymous, herrmess, Rich Forest.

4/4/2003 Christoffer Lernö: What Forge game(s) do you want to see completed NOW?
So, what games are you anxiously waiting completion. What would you wish got completed "NOW!"?
In Forge Birthday Forum
Participants: Christoffer Lernö, Paul Czege, xiombarg, Valamir, Ron Edwards, Paganini, Mike Holmes, ethan_greer, jburneko, Rich Forest, J. Backman, Sylus Thane, GreatWolf, ScottM, Andy Kitkowski, Clinton R. Nixon, Spooky Fanboy, sdemory, talysman, Ben Morgan, Simon W, Michael Hopcroft, Jason L Blair.

4/2/2003 Christoffer Lernö: Agonizing over margin-based effects
I keep coming back to writing good rules for "limits" to narration based on fighting margin. One method would simply be to have a list over moves allowed for every…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Christoffer Lernö, Ron Edwards, Mike Holmes, Walt Freitag, Thomas Tamblyn, Sidhain, Valamir.

3/30/2003 Christoffer Lernö: Randomized Character Creation: a good thing for beginners?
It was a long time since I GM:ed a total beginner, and a solo adventure at that. I was running a really old Swedish RPG which had a lot of…
In RPG Theory
Participants: Christoffer Lernö, Mark Johnson, Jack Spencer Jr, Lugaru, ThreeGee, Mike Holmes, Walt Freitag, Ron Edwards.

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.

3/15/2003 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.

3/10/2003 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.

11/26/2002 Christoffer Lernö: IntCon vs GM Oomph?!
I'll cut to the chase: I recently heard the opinion that IntCon meant zero GM Oomph. I was further told that in addition to the types I already thought of…
In RPG Theory
Participants: Christoffer Lernö, Le Joueur, Seth L. Blumberg, Walt Freitag, Mike Holmes.

11/25/2002 Christoffer Lernö: Putting Ads for other games in your game?
I'm sure this was brought up elsewhere but I couldn't find it so I don't know if this was already discussed to death but... Remember back in the old days…
In Publishing
Participants: Christoffer Lernö, Clinton R. Nixon, Ron Edwards, Sidhain, rafael, Bankuei.

11/23/2002 Christoffer Lernö: PayPal - the Frustration
Since so many of you use PayPal, and since my main reason to get my PayPal account working again is to buy indie-rpgs I post my troubles here despite it…
In Site Discussion
Participants: Christoffer Lernö, Clinton R. Nixon, Valamir.

11/22/2002 Christoffer Lernö: Translate rating to a full fledged NPC on the fly?!
Sorry for the many threads but this problem is really, really driving me crazy. Any hints how to get started would be greatly appreciated. The situation is this: imagine you…
In RPG Theory
Participants: Christoffer Lernö, Ron Edwards, GreatWolf, Marco, Walt Freitag, Mike Holmes, JMendes, Jack Spencer Jr, C. Edwards.

11/22/2002 Christoffer Lernö: What does the box cost?
I'm a sucker for the old format - You know 2+ saddle stiched books in a box with a few fliers and maybe dice thrown in for good measure. (Hello…
In Publishing
Participants: Christoffer Lernö, Jared A. Sorensen, Ron Edwards, Valamir, Ted E. Childers, Steve Dustin, John Wick, Henry Fitch, Michael S. Miller, geekspeakweekly, szilard.

11/22/2002 Christoffer Lernö: Help me with IntCon facilitating mechanics
I'm looking for help investigating how to write mechanics to facilitate certain types of IntCon play within Sim systems. I'm familiar with two different basic approaches of IntCon: Drama->Mechanics->Effect…
In RPG Theory
Participants: Christoffer Lernö, Andrew Martin, Le Joueur, M. J. Young, Kenway.

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