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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.

4/11/2003 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.

12/9/2002 Wolfen: An idea for the forum
I just had a thought that might reduce the amount of redundant discussions, and threads shot down when someone points out that it's been discussed before. Jake, you could have…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: Wolfen, Brian Leybourne, Mike Holmes, Jake Norwood.

11/13/2002 Wolfen: You're dead. But you get to choose HOW.
I was playing with the Combat simulator today on lunch because I could not get online, and I was doing my damnedest to defeat a Gol Captain one on one,…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: Wolfen, Stephen, Brian Leybourne, Jake Norwood, Mokkurkalfe, Mike Holmes, Psychopompous, spunky.

10/26/2002 Wolfen: As McArthur the Phillipines...
...I have returned. Life has gotten in the way, and I've felt an absolute apathy toward anything to do with discussing gaming in quite some time. Hell, I've not even…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: Wolfen, Jake Norwood.

8/14/2002 Wolfen: Dreams of the Riddle
I had a dream last night, guys. It was my typical weird dream, with all sorts of stuff going on in it that made sense in context, but after the…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: Wolfen, Furious D, Jake Norwood.

8/9/2002 Wolfen: Gladiators!
Okay, so I'm a night late on posting this... But here it is. The idea was originally conceived by Darren of Imperial Outpost Games here in Phoenix. His idea was…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: Wolfen, Mokkurkalfe, Jake Norwood, Mike Holmes, Rattlehead, Nick Pagnucco, Jaif, contracycle, Ron Edwards, Unsane.

8/2/2002 Wolfen: TRoS get-together on OpenRPG
Hey all, Rattlehead and I have mentioned this a time or two, as has Bob Richter (I believe he coined the phrase OpenRPG folx), but here I go again. We…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: Wolfen, Mokkurkalfe, Sneaky Git, Bob Richter, Jaif, Rattlehead, Russell Hoyle.

7/29/2002 Wolfen: TRoS at Hexacon
Well, I'm back from my very first ever Con; Hexacon. I was a very loyal fanboy, and did my best to expose people to TRoS. First off, Retailer Report: Imperial…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: Wolfen, Jake Norwood.

7/12/2002 Wolfen: Simultaneous Offense
Hey all, a question just hit me... First off, it was inspired by a memory of a florentine SCA fighter I once observed in action. It was in an encounter-style…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: Wolfen, Jake Norwood.

6/28/2002 Wolfen: Over-damage!
Okay, I made an on-the-spot call tonight when one of my players attempted to strike-to-wound with a greatsword. The target had a handaxe raised over his head to strike, and…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: Wolfen, Bankuei, Jake Norwood, Rattlehead, Ben, contracycle, Trybec, Mike Holmes, Warboss Grock, Brian Leybourne, toli, Irmo, Valamir, Durgil.

6/28/2002 Wolfen: Riddle of Steel Actual Play: Week 3
I'll begin by saying that this was a much more enjoyable session than the last. We rounded out at 4 players this time, rather than 2 (Gailen's player was here,…
In Actual Play
Participants: Wolfen, Zak Arntson, Jaif, Valamir, Mokkurkalfe, Ron Edwards, Clay.

6/21/2002 Wolfen: Riddle of Steel Actual Play: Week 2.
Okay, I ran my second session of TRoS this week.. I can't say it went particularly well. The problems: First off, the player of Gailen couldn't make it, due to…
In Actual Play
Participants: Wolfen, Valamir, Ron Edwards, Jaif, Christopher Kubasik, hardcoremoose, Walt Freitag, Bob McNamee, contracycle, Mike Holmes, Jake Norwood.

6/20/2002 Wolfen: Mage Blade once more...
Okay folks, I'm back to working on my game, now that my hiatus is done. What I've got is a web-book in the works. It doesn't have it all, nor…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Wolfen, Andrew Martin, Christoffer Lernö, Walt Freitag, Mike Holmes, Blake Hutchins.

6/14/2002 Wolfen: Running with the Riddle... Finally!
Well, I finally got to run TRoS tonight, after a couple weeks waiting and planning. So here's a summary of how things went.. Chargen: It took in excess of 2…
In Actual Play
Participants: Wolfen, Valamir, Jürgen Mayer, Ron Edwards, Seth L. Blumberg.

6/8/2002 Wolfen: Glamour & Ritual Sorcery
Two topics, both involving Sorcery, and both things I noticed after my read-through of the Revised Sorcery Chapter. Maybe it was just that it was laid out better, so I…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: Wolfen, Jaif.

6/6/2002 Wolfen: Riddle of Steel is crap!
Don't let the subject line fool you.. I still love this game as much as it is possible to, without having actually played it. Unfortunately, not everyone shares my enthusiasm.…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: Wolfen, Bob Richter, Christopher Kubasik, Jake Norwood, Blake Hutchins, Clinton R. Nixon, Ron Edwards, Valamir, Bankuei, Rattlehead, Brian Leybourne.

5/3/2002 Wolfen: Dueling
I just finished a duel between my character Tiberius, and Rattlehead's character Julianos. I lost due to a bad gamble.. The combatants and battle is posted below. After that are…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: Wolfen, Rattlehead, Jaif, Jake Norwood, Lyrax, Ron Edwards, Nick Pagnucco, Shadow.

4/28/2002 Wolfen: Question about site lag
I had, for pretty much the entirety of the 27th, a problem accessing the Forge website. From early morning (after gaming but before bed) on until late night, I kept…
In Site Discussion
Participants: Wolfen, Walt Freitag, Russell Hoyle, Clinton R. Nixon.

4/12/2002 Wolfen: Another Mage Blade thread: Title
Well, Mike pointed out to me in PMs that there are about 52000 instances of "Mage Blade" on the web, most dealing with roleplaying in some way or another. While…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Wolfen, Ron Edwards, Jared A. Sorensen, J B Bell, Clinton R. Nixon, Mike Holmes, Balbinus, Valamir, Nathan, Walt Freitag, Christoffer Lernö, Brian Hose, Bailey.

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6/4/2003 Wolfen: Artist's site
Hi, I was looking through artist's galleries in the Resource Library, and I remembered that Raven Daegmorgan had a style that might have worked for my purposes. However, the site…
In Site Discussion
Participants: Wolfen.

6/6/2003 Wolfen: Destiny and other SAs in play
New topic derived from the discussion of SAs here It also depends on what you mean by "king". It could turn out he's destined to become king of a group…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: Wolfen, demiurgeastaroth, Spartan, Morfedel, Jake Norwood.

7/9/2003 Wolfen: ReCoil: Player Influence
Hey all, I'm actually coming up on a finished product (sans a few things that I'm going to leave to be hashed out after playtesting) with ReCoil, and I'm overall…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Wolfen, Thomas Tamblyn.

7/28/2003 Wolfen: Jake is one cool guy
So, I've been gone for the past two weeks to Camp Williams, UT for training in my Military Occupational Specialty (MOS). It turns out that Williams is situated just south…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: Wolfen, Lxndr.

8/2/2003 Wolfen: ReCoil: Comments and Playtesters Wanted!
Well, I've made the deadline I've set for myself; 1 week from getting back from Camp Williams, to be ready with ReCoil's playtest draft. It's still rough, certainly needs quite…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Wolfen, Lxndr.

8/3/2003 Wolfen: ReCoil: Actual Playtest on Indie-Netgaming
So I actually got to run this here game I designed. Kind of unusual that I'm putting it out here for you all before I'd played it myself, but I've…
In Actual Play
Participants: Wolfen, Lxndr.

11/1/2003 Wolfen: Can you parry WITH a grapple?
This topic is inspired by the one previously posted by chade0. I've been studying Aikido (sorta.. Once a week can barely be called studying) for a couple months now, and…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: Wolfen, Draigh, Mike Holmes, Salamander, cruciel, Mulciber.

11/16/2003 Wolfen: ReCoil: First table-top playtest
Ran my first table-top game of ReCoil today. Didn't get to finish the mission, but it was a good start. Dunno when we'll get a chance to play again, as…
In Actual Play
Participants: Wolfen, Ron Edwards.

12/7/2003 Wolfen: Advice and commentary
Advice: Do not, do NOT go red-red with a Walking Dead, then attack with a thrust. Thrusts do nothing to Walking Dead (with the possible exception of pinning them to…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: Wolfen, Salamander, Ingenious, ZazielsRephaim, Camillus, Krammer, Brian Leybourne, Mayhem1979, Jake Norwood, Caz, Draigh, Jasper, Valamir, Mike Holmes, MassMartyr.

1/4/2004 Wolfen: OMG, what a session!
It started out really slow. I mean.. we wasted half an hour trying to get past my GM's block. The first defining event was when Lx's character got his skull…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: Wolfen, Ashren Va'Hale, Caz, Lxndr, Ingenious, Alan.

1/14/2004 Wolfen: ReCoil Playtest Session 2
Ron's post reminded me that I never wrote this post to begin with. I have run a second session of ReCoil on Indie-Netgaming. My players were Chris Edwards, and Brian…
In Actual Play
Participants: Wolfen, Lxndr, Bob McNamee, C. Edwards, Brian Leybourne, Ron Edwards.

1/22/2004 Wolfen: Sorcerous Detection
So I find myself wondering: How do you detect magic? Can a sorcerer detect magic cast in their vicinity? If so, how close? And what is the in-game explanation for…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: Wolfen, Ingenious.

2/21/2004 Wolfen: Melee
This is slightly OT as it has nothing specifically to do with TRoS, but with WMA instead. I do not question the skill of our WMA practitioners, esp. considering that…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: Wolfen, Caz, Salamander, Jake Norwood.

3/20/2004 Wolfen: A character
Bored, I decided to make a character that I'd theorized around the time that I met Jake in Utah. Character is below. (btw.. found an easter egg entirely by accident..…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: Wolfen, bergh.

4/5/2004 Wolfen: I've got a few..
Unfinished game ideas.. Well, there's this little thing I was kicking around for a while, Mage Blade.. Then there's a more recent project, ReCoil.. Heh. Yeah, I take forever to…
In Forge Birthday Forum
Participants: Wolfen.

4/23/2004 Wolfen: Sorcerer and Sex in Realms of Fantasy
I was reading through my latest issue of Realms of Fantasy last night, and was surprised to find a review of Sorcerer and Sex in Realms of Fantasy. It was…
In Adept Press
Participants: Wolfen, Ron Edwards, Nev the Deranged.

1/9/2005 Wolfen: Dogs, Post-Apocalypse
Hey all, So my gaming group is about to start a DitV game, but rather than canon setting, we're playing in a Post Apocalyptic setting. This is mainly due mostly…
In lumpley games
Participants: Wolfen, nikola, pasoliati, Lxndr.

1/19/2005 Wolfen: Mage Blade: a hand from the grave?
Not precisely a hand from the grave. It's never been dead, just.. sleeping. comatose, perhaps. Regardless of it's previous status, Mage Blade is once again my primary game design project.…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Wolfen, Jack Aidley, Selene Tan, TonyLB.

2/1/2005 Wolfen: [DitV] The Township of Canton
Finally, after a motorcycle accident and a National Guard Drill weekend are done delaying, we got around to our Post-Apoc Dogs in the Vineyard game. PC recap: Brother Thaddeus "Dove"…
In Actual Play
Participants: Wolfen, Tim Alexander, TonyLB, lumpley, Ron Edwards, Piers Brown, Lxndr, Roger Eberhart, Simon Kamber, zach20.

2/12/2005 Wolfen: Conflict in RPGs
I'm not totally sure this is the right place for this.. It's a sort of theoretical question, but I'm not exactly wanting to start a discussion, so much as pick…
In RPG Theory
Participants: Wolfen, TonyLB, Ron Edwards, kenjib.

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