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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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 Malechi: Movement during Combat
Hey there, I just got my book yesterday and I have a quick question regarding movement during combat. I realise this was mentioned here --] http://www.indie-rpgs.com/viewtopic.php?t=3415&start=0&postdays=0&postorder=asc&highlight=movement but it didn't answer…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: Malechi, Ashren Va'Hale, Jake Norwood, Salamander, Wolfen.

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.

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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.

6/7/2003 Christian Walker: Zine circulation figures
I publish a print zine by the name of Scrollworks. It's a 20-24 page digest affair, black and white, saddle stitched. The zine serves the d20 system and has been…
In Publishing
Participants: Christian Walker, Nathan, James V. West, samdowning, Mike Holmes, Kester Pelagius, abzu, C. Edwards.

6/8/2003 Heather Manley: Exclusively online RPG publishing
I posted another version of this on the RPGnet forums, but in more concise form here about publishing: If I want to publish my RPG as a website rather than…
In Publishing
Participants: Heather Manley, xechnao, Nathan, brainwipe, ethan_greer, gobi, samdowning, Lxndr, Mike Holmes, Matt, Clinton R. Nixon, busling, Clay, wraeththu.

6/8/2003 Nathan: The Top 30 Search Words That Bring People to Actionroll.com
This is fun. These are the top 30 words that people punch into Google, Yahoo, and so on that bring them to Actionroll.com. 879: games 796: moose 688: ass 554:…
In Mystic Ages Online
Participants: Nathan.

6/8/2003 Delta1: Getting ready- Writing the bangs!
I am on the verge of starting a Sorcerer game. I have a good idea of what scene framing is and am excited about trying out narrativist play. I have…
In Actual Play
Participants: Delta1, Ron Edwards, Bankuei, Rob MacDougall.

6/8/2003 James V. West: The quest begins here...
[url=http://www.randomordercreations.com/tqb.html][i]The Questing Beast[/i][/url] is now available! Instead of Print-on-demand, I opted to desktop publish the game. It is a 32-page book, comb bound with a silver metallic motif on a…
In Random Order Creations
Participants: James V. West, Lxndr, C. Edwards, lumpley.

6/8/2003 Kester Pelagius: Shadows in the Fog [Review]
Greetings All, A review of Shadows in the Fog has been posted to the files area of my Yahoo group (link in sig) in both HTML and PDF format. Discussion…
In Connections
Participants: Kester Pelagius.

6/8/2003 taalyn: GNS detractors and Social Contract
There was a huge debate this last week on the yahoo group RPGcreate. One particular person was quite vociferous about his opposition to GNS theory (and included standard rants about…
In GNS Model Discussion
Participants: taalyn, C. Edwards, Alan, Sidhain, jburneko, John Kim, jdagna, ejh, Valamir, Caldis, Bankuei, Marco.

6/8/2003 Hayslin: commitance
yes i am commited, i am just tired of seeing my work treated like trash. so i will write up a quick play booklet with a sample scenario.
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Hayslin, Bankuei.

6/8/2003 signoftheserpent: review request: wushu
i am interested in finding reviews on Wushu or similar articles. this is posted here because i dont know where else it should be. thank you.
In Actual Play
Participants: signoftheserpent, Brand_Robins, John Harper.

6/8/2003 Lxndr: quick question
At other message boards I'm on, there is a setting that allows me to choose, while I am logged in, how many messages will be displayed on an individual page.…
In Site Discussion
Participants: Lxndr, Clinton R. Nixon.

6/8/2003 szilard: auto login
For some reason, I haven't been automatically logged in to the Forge over the past couple days. I haven't been having this problem with other sites. Is this a server-side…
In Site Discussion
Participants: szilard, Shreyas Sampat.

6/8/2003 Matt Gwinn: Wide Angle Gaming
In this post HERE I brought up the question of elitism in gaming. The example I used degenerated the thread into a discussion on keeping secrets from other players. I…
In Actual Play
Participants: Matt Gwinn, Alan, Lxndr, Brand_Robins, Mike Holmes, John Kim, Jack Spencer Jr, ADGBoss, Paul Czege, Gordon C. Landis, contracycle, lumpley.

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