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6/6/2003 Jason: One Donjon Question
I just got the game, and I had one question. On the weapons table, it lists fists, small weapons, etc. But then it says that sharp weapons are +1. I'm…
In CRN Games
Participants: Jason, Clinton R. Nixon.

6/6/2003 Jeffrey Miller: Blackbirds: Combat mechnics take two
After playtest and some back and forth with a professional poker player for insight into how card games are structured, I've revamped the combat resolution mechanics (originally outlined in this…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Jeffrey Miller, Torrent, John Harper, Matt Wilson.

6/5/2003 arxhon: TRoS Chargen
[quote="Wolfen"]Also, someone (don't remember who, off the top of my head) has a write-up which does a really good job of simplifying character creation, or so most say; I've not…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: arxhon.

6/5/2003 Single: I need Artists, and Game Designers, Web Designers!
Hey i been looking for good artists and game designers who will work for free and help develop a quality game. I have the lay out and everything i know…
In Connections
Participants: Single, Sylus Thane.

6/5/2003 Morfedel: Altnernate Vagary Schemes
While the basic magic system of TRoS is pretty awesome, its not QUITE how I see magic. For me, I'm one of two minds: on the one hand, I see…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: Morfedel, kenjib, arxhon, prophet118, spunky, demiurgeastaroth.

6/5/2003 Bankuei: Beliefs, Traits, Instincts
Hi folks, This is really the thing in BW I'm really diggin on. Pretty much though, the advice seems to be like "Here's a semi-formal Social Contract of your character,…
In Burning Wheel
Participants: Bankuei, Valamir, abzu, zhu_kwan, nebulous menace, taepoong.

6/5/2003 Andy Kitkowski: Live Gathering in RTP/Greensboro NC: June 14th
It's gonna be a small (10-15 people) gathering of some RPGNet folks, random RPG fans and the like. We're going to be running some "normal" games like Buffy and Dying…
In Connections
Participants: Andy Kitkowski.

6/5/2003 Lxndr: [Sorcerer] Another "How Would You..." Thread
Following please find a list of potential demonic concepts, and their powers in narrative terms; my request is that you help me convert concept into game mechanic. This first…
In Adept Press
Participants: Lxndr, Ron Edwards, jburneko, Bankuei, Mike Holmes.

6/5/2003 Mike Holmes: Shadow World using Hero Wars
I stopped posting about this a while back, and indeed there was a long hiatus from this game. For those who might want to look back at it: http://www.indie-rpgs.com/viewtopic.php?t=4194 But…
In Actual Play
Participants: Mike Holmes.

6/5/2003 abzu: Alternate Melee Mechanics for BW
I have been working on an alternate, quick resolution system for the melee mechanics. They use basic skill resolution and helping dice to reduce an entire combat to one (or…
In Burning Wheel
Participants: abzu, Valamir, taepoong, drozdal, inthisstyle, nebulous menace, rafial, epweissengruber.

6/5/2003 jrients: TrueSorcery.com, a one-sheet
Fellow Forge member szilard and I have been working together to produce the following one-sheet. This is my first serious effort at a Sorcerer game. Feedback would be most appreciated.…
In Adept Press
Participants: jrients, Ron Edwards, szilard, Mike Holmes.

6/5/2003 dragongrace: Pool Variation: Court of the Dragon Emperor
http://home.earthlink.net/~jjeskiewicz/CoDE.html I've put together a little game called Court of the Dragon Emperor that relies on the Pool as the core to the system. To see all of what I've…
In Random Order Creations
Participants: dragongrace, Mike Holmes, James V. West.

6/5/2003 jburneko: Demon Cops: Best Sorcerer "How To" Yet
I'd been holding off on purchasing Demon Cops because it was Anime based and quite frankly, I'm not an Anime fan. However, when I ordered Sex and Sorcery I threw…
In Adept Press
Participants: jburneko, Ron Edwards.

6/5/2003 rotten: Aspect: Dice as modifer to Ability Score
Hello Forgers, So, I've been bouncing around the Forge for the past couple of weeks and have received a first-class education on RPG design. Now, I'm faced with several interesting…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: rotten, Walt Freitag, Mike Holmes.

6/5/2003 BenjaminRogers: A Question or Two...
1) Since BBRACK Productions is an "indie" production company, do we qualify for our own little place here? 2) If we don't, is there a place where we can make…
In Site Discussion
Participants: BenjaminRogers, Ron Edwards, Bankuei, The Minty Fool.

6/5/2003 Andy Kitkowski: JUNE: Forge/Indies Release Roadmap for the Summer?
Hey all, just some standard disclaimers and notices: 1) I'm not indicating that Forge games are better than others. It's easy to find a list of up-and-coming mainstream games, but…
In Publishing
Participants: Andy Kitkowski, Jared A. Sorensen, Nathan, Paul Czege, Jonathan Walton, Peter Nordstrand, Matt Snyder, Michael Hopcroft, brainwipe, samdowning, Cynthia Celeste Miller, rafael, Marco, S.Lonergan, Simon W, JSDiamond, chadu, Jake Norwood, iago.

6/5/2003 ethan_greer: New D&D article
Hey Ron, that's a thought-provoking and well-written analysis. Well done. Unfortunately, I can't really comment to the specifics since I wasn't into gaming until mid-90's when 2nd edition AD&D was…
In Site Discussion
Participants: ethan_greer, Cadriel, Ron Edwards, Maurice Forrester, jrients, AmarPK, Gordon C. Landis, Jeff Klein, M. J. Young, Jack Spencer Jr, rafial, efindel.

6/5/2003 Jack Aidley: They're running away and chickening out...
So there was this nun, a woodsman and a petty criminal. It sounds like the setup for a joke, but is in fact my current party. I think I'd better…
In Actual Play
Participants: Jack Aidley, Fabrice G., Scripty, arxhon, Lxndr, John Kim, Paul Czege, Ian Charvill, damion, Christopher Kubasik, Mike Holmes.

6/5/2003 demiurgeastaroth: Give me your SAs!
As a new GM, I don't feel I have a handle on SAs yet - what sort of scope or flavour they should have, that kind of thing. One thing…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: demiurgeastaroth, Overdrive, Mike Holmes, Ron Edwards, kenjib, arxhon, Agnar, Bob McNamee, Ashren Va'Hale, Morfedel, Ashton, Jake Norwood, Wolfen, Tywin Lannister, Spartan, Bomilkar.

6/5/2003 C. Edwards: System, Fidelity, and Points of Contact
I’ve never really been able to see System as being Explored so much as ‘breaching’ the imaginary space. But my ‘transparency’ threshold is pretty low. For me, every Point of…
In GNS Model Discussion
Participants: C. Edwards, ethan_greer, Mike Holmes, Ron Edwards, lumpley.

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6/6/2003 talysman: Talk Trash 2Nite: first draft
ok, I need to catch up on all the game design ideas that are waiting to be finished, so I've finally gotten the "Jerry Springer" rpg to the point where…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: talysman, Mike Holmes, Ron Edwards.

6/6/2003 WDFlores: The Iron City
Hello all. I'm neck deep in the game design trenches, being my first time designing an entire game from scratch. Writing my initial ideas here to structure them and maybe…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: WDFlores, ADGBoss, Mike Holmes.

6/6/2003 Bankuei: Xuphia continued...
Hi folks, We played the third session of Xuphia, minus one player. Rod Anderson, Mike Holmes and I played through an exciting session of S&S, which turned out to be…
In Adept Press
Participants: Bankuei, Ron Edwards, Mike Holmes, Rod Anderson, Lxndr, Bob McNamee.

6/6/2003 Thorsten: Sorcerer in Germany
How long will it take to get Sorcerer to Germany?
In Adept Press
Participants: Thorsten, Ron Edwards, Bomilkar.

6/6/2003 demiurgeastaroth: Defaults and SA expenditure
Say you have Sword and Shield proficiency at 7, and choose to increase Greatsword which defaults to S&S at -2. So for 5 SA points, you now have Greatsword 6.…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: demiurgeastaroth, Wolfen, toli, arxhon, kenjib.

6/6/2003 demiurgeastaroth: Does anyone know the fonts on rossheet_form.pdf?
Does anyone know what the fonts are on the "rossheet_form.pdf" file from the website, and if freeware - where I can get them?
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: demiurgeastaroth, Poenz.

6/6/2003 Jack Aidley: How good are you at mental arithmetic?
I am exceptionally good at mental arithmetic. Not as good as I used to be, mind, but still exceptionally good. I have never played a roleplaying system in which the…
In RPG Theory
Participants: Jack Aidley, WDFlores, Mike Holmes, Ron Edwards, Emily Care, damion, jdagna, John Kim, M. J. Young, talysman, Shreyas Sampat, John Kirk, Walt Freitag.

6/6/2003 ejh: Artistically Inclined Playtesters?
I have this crazy-ass idea.... What if we did a game of Topos where people were allowed and encouraged to post comic panels or strips instead of paragraphs? (reference for…
In Connections
Participants: ejh.

6/6/2003 Nathan: New Site Design Coming -- Big News Too
Greets, I am about completed with an overall site upgrade for Mystic Ages. We've moved to a new server, and we are going to launch some great services for independent…
In Mystic Ages Online
Participants: Nathan, Mike Holmes.

6/6/2003 Matt Wilson: Played Urge
I played a game of Urge last night, which is a Sorcerer mini-supplement by Clinton R. Nixon. There were two player characters in the story, and John "Feng" Harper was…
In Actual Play
Participants: Matt Wilson, Ron Edwards, Clinton R. Nixon, John Harper, Hafaza.

6/6/2003 Ron Edwards: Awesome art!
Oh my God! Has anyone seen these?? Elfs, at the Anticide website! And Sorcerer and Sword stuff, and Tribe 8 stuff from a game using The Pool … The artist…
In Adept Press
Participants: Ron Edwards, Rod Anderson, John Harper, AnttiK.

6/6/2003 Nathan: New Webhosting: RPGShelf.com
Greets folks, For those that don't know, I've been hosting folks for free for a while. I like doing that, but I decided to take it a step further and…
In Publishing
Participants: Nathan, Sylus Thane, xechnao, Valamir, Adam, Walt Freitag.

6/6/2003 Phillip: Power Level chart for supers RPG help needed
I am working on some ideas for 2 supers RPGs, one using single polyhedra dice and one using custom-made cards (basically SAGA lite). I would like to know if anyone…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Phillip, AnyaTheBlue, Tony Irwin, Andrew Martin, Valamir, Mike Holmes, Jared A. Sorensen.

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.

6/7/2003 AnyaTheBlue: Untitled Nar-Sim Superheroes: A beginning
Hi! I'm a newbie here. This may not be the best place to start, but I might as well jump in with both feet. If a system like this already…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: AnyaTheBlue, John Harper, Lxndr, Simon W, Tony Irwin, Shreyas Sampat, Cassidy, Bob McNamee, Phillip.

6/7/2003 demiurgeastaroth: Half-sword questions
Under the half-sword manoeuvre, it says: damage is Thrust +3 v armour, ATN 5 and DTN 6. The Estoc is listed as having a length of half-sword: does the damage…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: demiurgeastaroth, Wolfen, Jake Norwood, Salamander, Alan.

6/7/2003 Matt Gwinn: We are all elitist pigs!
Last week I nearly walked out of my D&D game. I was getting overly frustrated with players keeping secrets about their characters from other players (not characters). What started it…
In Actual Play
Participants: Matt Gwinn, Clinton R. Nixon, jdagna, Enoch, Jack Spencer Jr, Bankuei, Christopher Kubasik, John Kim, Ian Charvill, Cassidy, Ron Edwards, ADGBoss, Jeph.

6/7/2003 Lxndr: Sorcerer Main Book Questions
This time a short one. I've searched (both here in the forum and in the "you don't have to sign up for them" parts of the Sorcerer website) and didn't…
In Adept Press
Participants: Lxndr, Trevis Martin, Ron Edwards.

6/7/2003 Michael Hopcroft: Switching Operating Systems and How it Affects a Business
After a disastrous system crash, I no longer trust Microsoft products. As a result, I am now running Red Hat Linux 9. I can;t access any of my old Windows…
In Publishing
Participants: Michael Hopcroft, Nathan, Trevis Martin, talysman, Catalyst, Clay, ejh.

6/7/2003 jdagna: The Grand Illusion
This is split from http://indie-rpgs.com/viewtopic.php?t=6779" (How good are you at mental arithmetic?) Most of the time I fudge stuff anyway, or ignore the dice to get the result that…
In RPG Theory
Participants: jdagna, Wormwood, talysman, Jack Aidley, Jeffrey Miller, WDFlores, C. Edwards, M. J. Young, Mike Holmes, Ian Charvill, simon_hibbs, Jack Spencer Jr.

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