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4/23/2003 Valamir: Columbia Games dumps distributors
Columbia games, publishers of Harn, some d20 stuff and a lot of block wargames just announced that they are going 100% direct via web and phone mail order only. details…
In Publishing
Participants: Valamir, Michael Hopcroft.

4/23/2003 Mokkurkalfe: Electronic money-changer
Personally, I like to fiddle with coins n' stuff in RPG's. Otherwise, you can't give the players the feeling that they're adventuring to get the next meal on the table.…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: Mokkurkalfe, Brian Leybourne, Wolfen, Salamander, prophet118, Jake Norwood, Jason.

4/23/2003 Nathan: Foreign Element - Playtesting Is On
Howdy, Foreign Element is Mystic Ages' very own science fiction game. The old version was available from here: http://www.actionroll.com/fe, but I am not sure if that URL is working anymore.…
In Mystic Ages Online
Participants: Nathan, Andrew Martin, Mike Holmes, ethan_greer.

4/23/2003 xiombarg: Lusting After Jesus, Part I (Pretender Playtest)
So, last Wednesday I finally ran Pretender. I'll talk about the general experience, and then make some comments regarding the system in actual play, and some changes I might wanna…
In Actual Play
Participants: xiombarg, Brian Leybourne, lumpley, Enoch.

4/23/2003 John Harper: Trollbabe Desktop: Who ordered the cheesecake?
Take one naked woman, a big horn sheep, and a website for ren-fair accessories and what do you get? No, not that you sick monkey! You get the Trollbabe Desktop…
In Adept Press
Participants: John Harper, Clinton R. Nixon, Spooky Fanboy, Mike Holmes, greyorm, jrs, Nev the Deranged, Solomon.

4/23/2003 Marco: No Myth playing
Feng has been talking about playing without the "myth of reality"--I find the idea interesesting but I'm foggy on some issues. 0. Gener issues? What happens when genre is foggy?…
In RPG Theory
Participants: Marco, Mike Holmes, Le Joueur, clehrich, M. J. Young.

4/23/2003 Cynthia Celeste Miller: CAH Goings-On
There is a lot of great stuff going on in the wacky world of Cartoon Action Hour these days! We've all been working hard to keep the momentum of the…
In Cartoon Action Hour
Participants: Cynthia Celeste Miller.

4/23/2003 urbwar: At last, it is mine!
Got my copy of CAH today. I am very pleased to hold it in my hands. Now to sit down and read this beauty of a book....
In Cartoon Action Hour
Participants: urbwar, Cynthia Celeste Miller.

4/23/2003 Alan: Questions on Extended Conflicts
In an extended conflict, on a player's turn, how many things can he do? My interpretation of the rules is that a player _either_ rolls their exchange, or rolls an…
In HeroQuest
Participants: Alan, Mike Holmes, Peter Nordstrand, Ron Edwards.

4/23/2003 Jack Spencer Jr: Making the players more proactive
I think I should start that I dislike the word proactive. I side with the Itchy & Scratchy writer on the episode of the Simpson when they created the Poochy…
In RPG Theory
Participants: Jack Spencer Jr, Valamir, Mike Holmes, Le Joueur, Fabrice G., damion, John Kim, clehrich, cruciel.

4/23/2003 ADGBoss: Empire of the Dragon-Lotus or Whew! finally
Well between working on Seraphim and Steel & Shadows, I finished my aborted 24 hour game (with sleep it took like 40 hours to finish). It is called Empire of…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: ADGBoss, greyorm, Mike Holmes, Spooky Fanboy.

4/23/2003 C. Edwards: Cradlethorn (pre-playtest draft)
Hey all, Here is the pre-playtest draft of Cradlethorn and some cover art I cooked up in between bouts of frantic typing. There are a couple specific issues I’d like…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: C. Edwards, Mike Holmes, Christoffer Lernö.

4/23/2003 Michael Hopcroft: Learning Quark
I was recently sent a copy of Quark XPress 5.0 for Windows. This is obviously a premiere piece of software -- however, it also comes with a high learning curve.…
In Publishing
Participants: Michael Hopcroft, Matt, Michael S. Miller, samdowning, Matt Gwinn, Gold Rush Games.

4/23/2003 John Kim: Plotless but Background-based Games
This is a split from another thread in the "Actual Play" forum. The essential problem which the poster was posting was his feeling that: "if they fail, then nothing…
In RPG Theory
Participants: John Kim, Le Joueur, lumpley, Mike Holmes, clehrich, Ron Edwards, Walt Freitag, Bankuei, Emily Care, cruciel.

4/23/2003 Buddha Nature: Necessary Risk
Is risk a necessary part of the roleplaying experience? This is a question I have been grappling with for a bit now. What I mean by this is whether or…
In RPG Theory
Participants: Buddha Nature, AV, Simon W, Le Joueur, Mike Holmes, ADGBoss, damion, Ron Edwards, Wolfen, C. Edwards, M. J. Young, Bruce Baugh.

4/23/2003 greyorm: RPG-Index: Sorcerer included
There's a new site trying to index all the games ever published since D&D first came out. On a lark, I checked to see if Sorcerer was included in this…
In Adept Press
Participants: greyorm, Ron Edwards, Valamir, Mike Holmes, Andy Kitkowski, Thalendar.

4/22/2003 Clinton R. Nixon: Sorcerer and the Fate of the One-Session Game
Last night, I ran my new one-session Sorcerer adventure, The Keys of Uriel. I was very surprised at the outcome, although I shouldn't have been: like every other attempt I've…
In Actual Play
Participants: Clinton R. Nixon, urbwar, ADGBoss, rafial, Nev the Deranged.

4/22/2003 Little_Rat: Are You A Geek? (my first attempt at rpg design)
Inspired by the 24 hour games, I dug into my old research files from a sociology project and came up with Geeks: The RPG . It'll be a bit of…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Little_Rat, Mike Holmes, ADGBoss.

4/22/2003 Jay Turner: Better Days: A Game of Nostalgia and Memory (long)
Hello all, I've lurked here for a while now, and reading these fora has been a huge help for my own designs. I have a few games I'm carving out…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Jay Turner, Simon W, Ron Edwards, Jonathan Walton, clehrich.

4/22/2003 Eamon Voss: Convention game concerns
As I wind up for my summer convention circuit, I started to write adventures for my current favorite RPG, TROS. And I started to feel some concern. You see, when…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: Eamon Voss, Mike Holmes, spunky.

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4/24/2003 MathiasJack: FLaW: Fate Luck and Will
This is the continuation of my thread below called "Threads of Destiny". Spooky wanted me to show some examples of the three stats, and how they exactly worked within the…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: MathiasJack, Spooky Fanboy, taalyn.

4/24/2003 b_bankhead: Evolve or Die: forces Driving the Evolution of RPGs
Recently a major game store in my area moved three doors down in the same strip mall to new digs. Where the first location was notable by it's large and…
In RPG Theory
Participants: b_bankhead, clehrich, Mike Holmes, M. J. Young.

4/24/2003 Matt Wilson: community and links
Hey all: That recent thread in this forum got me thinking, and I pitched an idea to Ron, and he seems pretty thumbs up about it. My perspective of the…
In Site Discussion
Participants: Matt Wilson, Clinton R. Nixon.

4/24/2003 r_callen221: TROS and Birthright- Some conversion questions (long)
Hey guys~ Well, I've started a campaign with the Birthright setting from TSR and, so far, everything's running well. However, I've had some inquiries made from some of my players…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: r_callen221, Jake Norwood, Brian Leybourne, hanschristianandersen, Wolfen, Spartan, Bob Richter.

4/24/2003 svenlein: mass combat
Occasionally people bring up wanting to do mass combat. I?m not sure if this is true for most people, but if you are like I was you probably have only…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: svenlein, Durgil, arxhon, toli, Wolfen, Ben Lehman, Brian Leybourne, Chris, Salamander, Eamon Voss, Darth Tang, Jason Kottler, r_callen221, Jake Norwood.

4/24/2003 Norbert: Damage house rule... What do [i]you[/i] think?
Hello, today I came up with the following short house rule for CAH. I think it enhances the games that I would like to run, and I am seriously planning…
In Cartoon Action Hour
Participants: Norbert.

4/24/2003 Alan: Using Affinities and Feats
One of the pre-gen characters in Hound's Tower has a bunch of Affinities, but no Feats. The notes say he uses them with improvisational modifiers. Does this mean he gets…
In HeroQuest
Participants: Alan, Ron Edwards, Mike Holmes, Peter Nordstrand, Palashee.

4/24/2003 Ron Edwards: The Pool: Dragons and Jasmine
Hi everyone, I'm interested in any and all comments or questions about the following account of play. I think it has some relevance for several current threads. About eight weeks…
In Actual Play
Participants: Ron Edwards, Blake Hutchins, Christopher Kubasik, Valamir, rafial, James V. West, Mike Holmes.

4/24/2003 Zathreyel: Criminal Element: Genre Expectations
Okay, I’ve taken the time to read over some of the posts related to Genre Expectation and it was some damned interesting reading. It seems like a lot of thought…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Zathreyel, Mike Holmes, deadpanbob, Ron Edwards.

4/24/2003 Bailywolf: Multi-axis Die mechanics
OK, I was playing with d6's yesterday, and I decided to see how many different kinds of information I could pull out of a pool of plain white sixers in…
In RPG Theory
Participants: Bailywolf, szilard, Jay Turner, Matt Wilson, talysman, dragongrace, M. J. Young, Mike Holmes.

4/24/2003 iago: Stats Heads: What's the math?
I'm trying to write up some quickie perl functions to run some probabilities on several dice methods, and I want to be able to avoid the ugly and memory-consumptive brute…
In RPG Theory
Participants: iago, bowlingm, Mike Holmes, Walt Freitag, J B Bell, M. J. Young.

4/24/2003 Nev the Deranged: Sorcerer's Soul
Well, I have (at least temporarily) completed my Sorcerer ouvre, with the recent purchase of Sorcerer's Soul. It's pretty intense. Really really has me jazzed to play. The example plots…
In Adept Press
Participants: Nev the Deranged, Ron Edwards.

4/24/2003 Slant: New format idea for playing CAH
Hi all- My group has come up with quite a few ideas for series and a good four or five of them really rock (Did I just say "really rock?"…
In Cartoon Action Hour
Participants: Slant, Cynthia Celeste Miller, Norbert.

4/25/2003 Tancred: Reverse Spiritual Attributes
I'm not sure if this has already been suggested by anyone, but could you introduce the reverse of spiritual attributes in Riddle of Steel games? For example, a fear or…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: Tancred, Shreyas Sampat, Jake Norwood, Gary_Bingham, Brian Leybourne, Valamir, Eamon Voss, Mike Holmes, Ben Lehman.

4/25/2003 Kester Pelagius: Anyone familiar with OpenOffice?
Greetings, I've (just recently) got it installed. It seems to work fine, far as I can tell. Though it's a hassle to have to save my files into a different…
In Connections
Participants: Kester Pelagius, J. Backman.

4/25/2003 Dr. Velocity: Forum RPG Question, Maybe Advice
I'm running a simple playtest session forum-based RPG for a 'clan' of online gamers, all of whom enjoy writing, etc. I have about 4 or so - they each have…
In Actual Play
Participants: Dr. Velocity, James Holloway, Garbanzo, clehrich, szilard, Mike Holmes, Jack Spencer Jr, Walt Freitag, cruciel, Ron Edwards, Bruce Baugh, Nev the Deranged.

4/24/2003 Gold Rush Games: Gold Rush Games: Third party publishing
For those following the development of our Third Party Publishing and Distribution program through Gold Rush Games, I've posted a breakdown of the costs associated with POD production and sales.…
In Publishing
Participants: Gold Rush Games, anonymouse, Jonathan Walton, Walt Freitag, Ron Edwards.

4/25/2003 Matt Snyder: RoS "historical"
My group is going to start up a "historical" campaign for Riddle of Steel, and were' looking for any advice on how to run it. Have there been previous threads…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: Matt Snyder, Gary_Bingham, Salamander, toli, Valamir, Mike Holmes, Spartan, Neil, Jason Kottler.

4/25/2003 szilard: Player Narration and GM Secrets
This is spun off from a post Ron made in the (remarkably interesting) Actual Play thread A demoralising day which highlights a current dilemma I've been having: How do you…
In RPG Theory
Participants: szilard, Kester Pelagius, Jack Spencer Jr, Jay Turner, Valamir, lumpley, Ron Edwards, Mike Holmes, Christopher Kubasik, Walt Freitag, Le Joueur, Buddha Nature, cruciel, Piers Brown, clehrich.

4/25/2003 jburneko: About A Player
All this talk about "No Myth" has made me start to think more about this one particular player I have. Over all, I LIKE playing with guy for two reasons:…
In Actual Play
Participants: jburneko, greyorm, Valamir, Enoch, Mike Holmes, John Kim, Blake Hutchins.

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