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9/18/2001 Paul Czege: Sorcerer review by Kenneth Hite
I'm not sure of the arrangement between Gamer's Realm and Pyramid, but I just ran across Kenneth Hite's review of Sorcerer here: http://www.gamersrealm.com/store1/outofthebox.php Paul
In Adept Press
Participants: Paul Czege, Ron Edwards.

9/17/2001 Zak Arntson: Inspectres w/ Clinton & Justin
Okay, just played Inspectres last night with Clinton (of the Forge) and Justin (2nd time playing an RPG ever, and he's good at it!) ... Setup: Character creation went smoothly,…
In Actual Play
Participants: Zak Arntson, Ron Edwards.

9/17/2001 Ron Edwards: Sorcerer Online
Hey, The title's a little whacked, because the whole SITE is on-line, but what it refers to is the sign-on feature at the Sorcerer website. Now, when Clay and I…
In Adept Press
Participants: Ron Edwards, Bailywolf, Blake Hutchins, Tor Erickson, Uncle Dark, Wart.

9/17/2001 pacific_steve: Glorantha - It's been a long time!
Well, well....once I got over my intial shock at seeing Glorantha back in tradeback format, I picked up a copy and from what little I saw of the sstem....I was…
In HeroQuest
Participants: pacific_steve, Ron Edwards, Ben Morgan, wizardattic.

9/17/2001 GB Steve: Game Balance
I'm writing an article for the next issue of Places To Go People to be on the delicate issue of game balance. I'm certainly not looking for people to write…
In RPG Theory
Participants: GB Steve, Mytholder, Ron Edwards, Wart, Mike Holmes, Epoch, Gordon C. Landis, Marco.

9/17/2001 Tor Erickson: SOAP! test-run
(note: I'm posting a few rules comments over in the Reviews Discussions forum, under the current SOAP! topic) Hello all, So I played SOAP tonight to get a feel for…
In Actual Play
Participants: Tor Erickson, Ferry Bazelmans, Ron Edwards.

9/16/2001 joshua neff: hidden world fantasy
My friends & I are starting to design a "Hidden World" fantasy game--you know, like Changeling, only more narrativist (& less restrictions on the imagination). Basically, I want it to…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: joshua neff, Ron Edwards, James V. West, Epoch, Mike Holmes, Uncle Dark, Mytholder.

9/15/2001 James V. West: Updated Pool
I revised The Pool and updated the site. Basically, I made a few changes such as removing the "Major Trait" jargon and removing a few other unnecessary items. I also…
In Random Order Creations
Participants: James V. West.

9/14/2001 Tor Erickson: Class in RPG Theory
Hello All, This semester I'm teaching a course on RPG theory, centering around GNS. I have five students signed up and we meet for the first time on Monday night,…
In RPG Theory
Participants: Tor Erickson, Ron Edwards, jburneko, Mike Holmes, Blake Hutchins, pacific_steve, contracycle, Paul Czege.

9/14/2001 Nathan: Issue Eight Is Here
Roughly a month later, Issue Eight arrives, dusting off a few cobwebs and coughing on some dust. With the rough week all of America has had, we take a moment…
In Mystic Ages Online
Participants: Nathan.

9/14/2001 Nathan: Violence in Gaming
Violence has always been with us, and this week, it is especially in the thoughts of everyone across the world. With the terrorist attacks in New York and Washington, still…
In Mystic Ages Online
Participants: Nathan, Mike Holmes, Ryan, Bankuei, Ron Edwards.

9/14/2001 Tor Erickson: More on SOAP!
I just read Ron's review of SOAP, then went and read the game itself. Now I think I need to run it very soon, but I have a few questions…
In Review Discussion
Participants: Tor Erickson, jburneko, Ron Edwards, james_west, Ferry Bazelmans, Ian Freeman.

9/14/2001 Bailywolf: Why no mind control?
I'm curious why sorcerer includes no mind control or mind reading type powers in the basic set of demon abilities... These would seem to offer some intresting new complications... and…
In Adept Press
Participants: Bailywolf, Ron Edwards, jburneko, Mike Holmes, Uncle Dark, Blake Hutchins, Jared A. Sorensen, Wart, Tar Markvar, contracycle.

9/14/2001 Galfraxas: MCD Update
Well, due to the recent tragedy and the fact that my local gaming group has convinced me to run some form of Deadlands for them, production of Magical Crimes Division…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Galfraxas.

9/13/2001 Tim C Koppang: Theme Music
I’ve just posted another new game to my web site. This one is called Theme Music. As of now it’s only a draft; I haven’t even play tested it yet,…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Tim C Koppang, Mike Holmes, Galfraxas, contracycle, John Wick, Marco.

9/13/2001 ephealy: LOL
I was reading LF at work today (yes, I was) and came across one of the funniest things... "Your child... um. He tends to... well... he makes water in his…
In Key 20 Publishing
Participants: ephealy.

9/13/2001 Darn Fun Games: Everyone Alright?
Is everyone alright? The website hasn't been updated in (mystic) ages and with all the chaos on the east coast, I just hope everyone is alive and well. Paul M.…
In Mystic Ages Online
Participants: Darn Fun Games, Nathan.

9/12/2001 Epoch: Emily's Article
Emily's "Crunchy Bits" title tag calls this site "Hephaestus' Forge." You're trying to excise that, right?
In Site Discussion
Participants: Epoch, ephealy, Emily Dresner, pacific_steve.

9/12/2001 Valamir: Defining Humanity
Many different ways of defining what Humanity represents have been proposed. How important is it to tie the definition of Humanity into the portrayal of demons. It occurs to me…
In Adept Press
Participants: Valamir, Ron Edwards, random, Mike Holmes.

9/12/2001 Jack Spencer Jr: The formula?
I had been thinking about Sorcerer and Game Design in general and think I've notice a "formula" of sorts. First, you come up with a concept. I'm using the word…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Jack Spencer Jr, contracycle, Ron Edwards.

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9/18/2001 kwill: FAQ: a few questions
as promised, at last, a bunch of questions... FAQs generally seem to serve two purposes -) outline the ideas behind a site/newsgroup/program/whatever -) genuinely answer frequently asked questions some of…
In Site Discussion
Participants: kwill, Mike Holmes, Ron Edwards.

9/19/2001 Matt Gwinn: Kayfabe in Play - Let the Bodies Hit the Floor!
Well, this reports is a little late, but I’m sure you all can understand with everything that has happened this past week. Anyway, Moose and I had a chance to…
In Errant Knight Games
Participants: Matt Gwinn, Knight, hardcoremoose.

9/19/2001 jburneko: The Accidental Narrativist
Hello, It's been a while since I've posted anything with substance and anything I have posted has been rather short and curt. The reason being that my gaming experiences of…
In Actual Play
Participants: jburneko, lumpley, Paul Czege, Epoch, Ben Morgan, Ron Edwards, Le Joueur, unodiablo, Mike Holmes, Knight, joshua neff.

9/19/2001 Uncle Dark: NPCs and GM
I've been following the updates and discussion of The Pool for some time. I have a couple of questions which are, for me , theoretical (at this point), but I…
In Random Order Creations
Participants: Uncle Dark, Paul Czege, Jeffrey Straszheim, James V. West, Tim C Koppang, HMT, Mike Holmes.

9/20/2001 JSDiamond: Chapter Layout to support G/N/S?
This was brought up in the Sorcerer forum but it lit a spark in my mind. Ron's point (I believe) was that the order of the chapters-by-subject could effect a…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: JSDiamond, Jason L Blair, Le Joueur, James V. West, Ron Edwards, Tim C Koppang, Mike Holmes, contracycle, Bankuei, Valamir.

9/20/2001 Wart: Interesting Threefold Model Essay
There's an interesting article on the rgfa Threefold Model at http://home.earthlink.net/~bgleichman/Theory/Threefold/rgfa.htm which raises some interesting points, some of which might be applicable to the Forge GNS model. In particular, it…
In GNS Model Discussion
Participants: Wart, Le Joueur, joshua neff, Gordon C. Landis, Knight, Ron Edwards, contracycle, Mike Holmes.

9/20/2001 Galfraxas: InSpectres Cthulhu Thingy...
I was reading my new copy of Delta Green: Countdown today, and saw something that reminded me of InSpectres, and NightWatch, but with a Cthulhu theme. The book has a…
In Memento-Mori Theatricks
Participants: Galfraxas, Jared A. Sorensen, hardcoremoose.

9/21/2001 Galfraxas: The 43rd Dimension on The Left, and A Fifth Trait thing...
Hello Everybody... I got my webpage up now, and I've posted the text file for "The Fifth Trait", my simple generic RPG, on said site, as well as a few…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Galfraxas.

9/22/2001 tldenmark: What if Elfworld looked like this...
http://www.workshopcrew.com/denmark/Illustration/concept/Orkworld/elfprincess1.jpg Been experimenting with a "look" for the art in Elfworld. I'm curious what YOU think of this.
In Wicked Press
Participants: tldenmark, Jason L Blair, Ron Edwards, unheilig, Jürgen Mayer, Kyle Voltti.

9/24/2001 Warpspawn: How do you get your own forum?
Hi, My website is warpspawn games: http://www.angelfire.com/games2/warpspawn/ Check it out. I think its worthy of a forum. I would like to move my "Be-Seen" message board traffic to this format.…
In Site Discussion
Participants: Warpspawn, greyorm, Clinton R. Nixon, Zak Arntson, Ron Edwards, hardcoremoose, Blake Hutchins, Paul Czege, James V. West.

9/24/2001 hardcoremoose: The Hero Emergent...another rpg
Well, after much deliberation, I've decided to make this one available to the Forgerites. My apologies in advance to any one I might have stolen ideas from; I know for…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: hardcoremoose, Mike Holmes, contracycle, Valamir, James V. West, Tor Erickson.

9/24/2001 Jason L Blair: New Little Fears Website Is Up!
The New Little Fears Website Is Now Up at: http://www.key20.com/littlefears The new design makes it a lot easier to add updates and changes as well as having a quicker loading…
In Key 20 Publishing
Participants: Jason L Blair, Tyrant, Jared A. Sorensen.

9/24/2001 jdrakeh: Clarity
Recently I have been trapped in a state of deep depression, but did I let that daunt me for long? No! Putting my complete apathy to work for me, I…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: jdrakeh, Jason L Blair.

9/24/2001 Mike Holmes: Flipping The Pool
Spurred on by something Ron said about it when it came out, I've been giving The Pool a little thought of late and something has occurred to me. Isn't the…
In Random Order Creations
Participants: Mike Holmes, Jeffrey Straszheim, Epoch, Valamir, hardcoremoose, Paul Czege.

9/24/2001 Tor Erickson: Game Prep
Hello, I've been re-reading the scenarios in Soul and have a question. Given that character creation (including kicker, technicality, etc.) is an essential process not included in the scenarios (for…
In Adept Press
Participants: Tor Erickson, Ron Edwards.

9/24/2001 Valamir: Protagonist: player vs character
There's been quite a few threads recently on the idea of the PC as protagonist. However, some of the discussions seemed to focus less on the idea of the "C"…
In RPG Theory
Participants: Valamir, Ron Edwards, contracycle, Mike Holmes, Paul Czege, Epoch, jburneko.

9/24/2001 Mike Holmes: Name of the Game
Since we're (well I am at least) itching to talk about the game that Ralph and I am finishing up I thought that I'd bring up a relatively innocuous subject…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Mike Holmes, Ron Edwards, Jared A. Sorensen, Valamir, hardcoremoose, Paul Czege, Jack Spencer Jr, Mytholder, Jeffrey Straszheim, Jason L Blair, Epoch, James V. West.

9/25/2001 Jack Spencer Jr: since The Wheel...
After what seems like decades of talk I've finally typed down my game The Wheel. It's a little rought but if you email me at eeville@dreamscape.com I'll happily send you…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Jack Spencer Jr, hardcoremoose, Ron Edwards, Mike Holmes.

9/25/2001 jburneko: Sorcerer Combat
Hello There, This might end up to be one of my thinking out loud posts. So, I ran a session of my monthly Deadlands (yes, this will get around to…
In Adept Press
Participants: jburneko, Mike Holmes, Ron Edwards.

9/25/2001 Paul Czege: no islands in the pool
Hey everyone, I ran the second session of my scenario for The Pool last night, and I have to say that if you'd been there, the one thing you'd have…
In Random Order Creations
Participants: Paul Czege, Epoch, Mike Holmes, James V. West, Matt Gwinn, Blake Hutchins.

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