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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 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.

4/24/2003 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 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.

4/25/2003 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 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.

4/24/2003 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.

4/24/2003 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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.

4/23/2003 Michael Hopcroft: Is the FLGS obsolete?
I was thinking of starting a game store when i graduated from business school, but now I'm starting to wonder whether the FLGS we grew up with has been rendered…
In Publishing
Participants: Michael Hopcroft, Scorpio, anonymouse, samdowning, JSDiamond, Andy Kitkowski, Tundra, Valamir, wyrdlyng, HinterWelt, Ron Edwards, Ryan Wynne, Emmett, b_bankhead.

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4/25/2003 arxhon: SA: Luck..."Fate Points"?
You may be familiar with the concept of Fate Points from WFRP. If not, they're pretty simlpe. A Fate point allows you to ignore a critical damage roll. Can Luck…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: arxhon, Mokkurkalfe, Valamir, Ashren Va'Hale, Bankuei.

4/25/2003 kaiza: Xenocrisis Play testers needed.
Hello! Kaiza here. I need play testers for epic science-fantasy rpg called Xenocrisis: Viral. This is a RPG I have been working on for the last 7 years. It's background…
In Connections
Participants: kaiza, Andy Kitkowski, Emote Control, busling.

4/25/2003 philreed: Self-Doubt
I'm constantly arguing with myself, trying to determine if what I'm doing currently is going to be the thing I release that sucks. I probably spend more time thinking about…
In Publishing
Participants: philreed, Ron Edwards, hardcoremoose, Mike Holmes, Valamir, Jonathan Walton, Paka, Gold Rush Games, Bruce Baugh, Sidhain, Michael Hopcroft.

4/25/2003 Jay Turner: Mechanics: How Bad Are Ties?
I'm working on a game that involves drawing cards to resolve who gets to narrate a scene, and I'm wrestling with the significance of ties (the same number drawn by…
In RPG Theory
Participants: Jay Turner, C. Edwards, Paul Czege, Mike Holmes, ADGBoss, Bob McNamee, greyorm, M. J. Young, Bankuei, deadpanbob, Jeph.

4/25/2003 greyorm: "No Myth" with D&D
Our group finally started playing the 3E game again -- various issues such as work and births and such having interrupted the usual flow of gaming for a few weeks.…
In Actual Play
Participants: greyorm, ADGBoss, Marco, Thierry Michel, Mike Holmes, Scripty, Cassidy, John Kim.

4/25/2003 Andy Kitkowski: [Sor, Dice] "Levelling" dice for dif power levels.
Sorry- I didn't se anything discussing this in the few searches I ran here, so if it's been discussed already, a point towards relevant links would be appreciated. So I've…
In Adept Press
Participants: Andy Kitkowski, Valamir, szilard, Ron Edwards, jburneko, greyorm, Bankuei, Jared A. Sorensen, Nev the Deranged.

4/25/2003 rpghost: [PR] ePublisher Guide Released!
The ePublisher Guide has finally been released! Thanks to everyone for their help! Hope to see/hear some feedback (good and/or bad) so we can update before the POD version goes…
In Publishing
Participants: rpghost, Jonathan Walton, busling, Michael Hopcroft, Sturn, iago, Valamir, Adam, xechnao, Ron Edwards.

4/26/2003 Darth Tang: News or updates on OBAM?
When is the pdf download avalible? Hardcopy? COME ON-it's almost May. Lets firm up a date here, chop-chop!
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: Darth Tang, Jake Norwood, Wolfen, Brian Leybourne, Eamon Voss, arxhon, toli.

4/26/2003 Wolfen: ReCoil: Mechanics, part 1
In which the basic traits of player characters are discussed, as well as various effects and possibilities with the basic mechanic. Comments, suggestions and questions desired. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mechanics: Agent traits:…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Wolfen, C. Edwards, Thomas Tamblyn, Mike Holmes, Brian Leybourne.

4/26/2003 Spooky Fanboy: The Fallen: a Trollbabe offshoot (long)
I like Trollbabe a lot. IMO, if done right, it is the best game for portraying Lone Wanderer/Man with No Name/Sword&Sorcery protagonists. This is the character; these are the journeys.…
In Adept Press
Participants: Spooky Fanboy, Bob McNamee, John Harper.

4/26/2003 Zathreyel: Criminal Element, expanded and evolving
okay, a quick post of an update. i have a friend of mine hosting the .pdf file of what i have doen so far for Criminal Element. it is lacking…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Zathreyel, Ron Edwards.

4/26/2003 Michael Hopcroft: Partners, Incorporation and Working Capital
I'm thinking of aquiring some additional working capital by changing the structure of Seraphim Guard. This is more a matter of not wanting to run it as a sole properietorship…
In Publishing
Participants: Michael Hopcroft, Valamir, Gold Rush Games, Dav, samdowning, Malcolm.

4/26/2003 soundwave: Motivations to design
I'm not exactly sure this is the right forum for this topic, but... I've been looking through a lot of new RPG systems lately, and a question ocurred to me:…
In RPG Theory
Participants: soundwave, anonymouse, hix, cruciel, lumpley, Le Joueur, Bankuei, M. J. Young.

4/26/2003 Russell: First Donjon game report
My regular group ran our first Donjon game tonight, and it was a blast. Here's my initial report: The Setting: Unknown milennia in the future, mankind is ruled by the…
In CRN Games
Participants: Russell, anonymouse, Clinton R. Nixon.

4/26/2003 Gold Rush Games: Review Criteria for RPGs
As part of our new Eureka! Publishing & Design Program I am going to be providing a review/critique of submissions. Each topic/element reviewed will be given a rating from 1…
In Publishing
Participants: Gold Rush Games, Sylus Thane, Jack Spencer Jr, Ron Edwards, Kester Pelagius, HinterWelt, busling, taalyn, Walt Freitag.

4/26/2003 MistHunter: The Modern Wild West
I have this setting idea, and I would like to know other's players opinions on it. The setting makes the RPG itself, highly Gamist, as your goal is to become…
In RPG Theory
Participants: MistHunter, anonymouse, Thomas Tamblyn, Walt Freitag, M. J. Young.

4/26/2003 Marco: Mechs
I'm working on JAGS Mechs. This isn't a game mechanics issue (I mean it is--but it's all tactical balance stuff and I'm not delving into that here)--but more of a…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Marco, Thomas Tamblyn, greyorm, Sidhain, Walt Freitag, Bankuei, Mike Holmes, Eric J., Stuart DJ Purdie, SwordofLux, b_bankhead, Emmett.

4/26/2003 Sindyr: HELP! I can't remember which RPG this is...
I am not sure if I have posted this in the right forum(s), but I am trying to remember where I came across an interesting game, and thought this would…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Sindyr, Thomas Tamblyn.

4/26/2003 Sindyr: HELP! I can't remember which RPG this is...
I am not sure if I have posted this in the right forum(s), but I am trying to remember where I came across an interesting game, and thought this would…
In RPG Theory
Participants: Sindyr, Wolfen, Chris.

4/26/2003 Eric J-D: What system(s) might best facilitate these desires?
Although I have been an enthusiastic reader of many of the fora here and a longstanding admirer of Ron Edwards' contributions to game theory and design, this is my first…
In Actual Play
Participants: Eric J-D, Ron Edwards, Christopher Kubasik, Green, Bruce Baugh, Thomas Tamblyn, John Kim, Valamir, clehrich, Mike Holmes.

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