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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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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.

6/7/2003 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.

6/7/2003 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 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 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 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 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 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.

6/6/2003 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.

6/6/2003 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 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.

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6/8/2003 demiurgeastaroth: First Session Experience
Well, we played our intro session today. I took the caravan idea and changed it to: The King of Gelure has just declared himself emperor and attacked Ouestenreich. The players…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: demiurgeastaroth.

6/8/2003 demiurgeastaroth: First Session Experience
Well, we played our intro session today. I took the caravan idea and changed it to: The King of Gelure has just declared himself emperor and attacked Ouestenreich. The players…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: demiurgeastaroth, Morfedel, prophet118.

6/8/2003 demiurgeastaroth: Use Terrain
When facing more than one opponent and having to deal with slippery/troublesome terrain, do you treat these as separate tasks (allocate CP to both, separately), or do you make just…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: demiurgeastaroth, Jake Norwood, Wolfen, Valamir.

6/8/2003 demiurgeastaroth: What Happened with my "First Session Experience" p
For some reason, my post entitled "First session Experience" seems to exist as two separate by identically named threads? Have I broken something?
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: demiurgeastaroth.

6/8/2003 demiurgeastaroth: Perception
Let's say your travelling along the road minding your own business, and the bandits are about to launch an ambush. The GM is a generous sort and decides there's a…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: demiurgeastaroth, Salamander, Wolfen, chade0, Ashren Va'Hale.

6/8/2003 demiurgeastaroth: Merchant Skill Packet
Has anyone designed a Skill Packet list for Merchants?
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: demiurgeastaroth, Spartan, Salamander, Mayhem1979.

6/8/2003 Kester Pelagius: Auto E-mail (PM) Deletion?
Greetings, Is there anyway to set up the board so that the members can set their e-mail to be automatically deleted after a specific amount of time? For me I'd…
In Site Discussion
Participants: Kester Pelagius, Clinton R. Nixon.

6/9/2003 Jack Aidley: Qualitative Fortune
This (How good are you at mental arithmetic?) discussion has led me on to thinking about a new system for running my games with. I want to keep a fortune…
In RPG Theory
Participants: Jack Aidley, Cadriel, Ron Edwards, M. J. Young, Shreyas Sampat, Mike Holmes, Garbanzo, Matt.

6/9/2003 quozl: Black Blood
I really enjoyed the Gamism article. However, the Black Blood example game is missing.
In Site Discussion
Participants: quozl, Ron Edwards, Clinton R. Nixon.

6/9/2003 Jared A. Sorensen: InSpectres: What now?
InSpectres is going to be available at GenCon (and off my site as well) as a punk-press paperback and yes, it will have art and interior graphics (courtesy of Ben…
In Memento-Mori Theatricks
Participants: Jared A. Sorensen, Ron Edwards, Michael S. Miller, Mike Holmes, Jason L Blair, Jonathan Walton, Joe Murphy (Broin).

6/9/2003 Lxndr: [Sorcerer] Mark
I do believe this is different enough to deserve a separate thread. What is the point of Mark, the demonic ability? What (if anything) might tempt me to choose "Hey,…
In Adept Press
Participants: Lxndr, Ron Edwards, Bankuei, Mike Holmes, Valamir, Clinton R. Nixon, greyorm, Michael S. Miller, Piers Brown, Fabrice G..

6/9/2003 Tony Irwin: Halfling PCs
Hi Luke, I couldn't find any rules for halfling PCs which surprised me because your game looks like it would run a great Lord of the Rings campaign. With all…
In Burning Wheel
Participants: Tony Irwin, taepoong, Bankuei, Valamir, abzu, inthisstyle.

6/9/2003 ChrisH247: The Secret of Zir'An: Fantasy's Future
Hi, My name is Chris Hockabout, one of four members of the small fledgeling game development studio: Paragon Games (http://www.paragongames.us). Like the majority of you, RPGs and RPG design have…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: ChrisH247, anonymouse.

6/9/2003 Arashi: New stuff
I just got an account at artwanted.com. Until My site gets redone its the place to see newer stuff, so check it out :) http://www.artwanted.com/art/arashi Cheers! C!
In Connections
Participants: Arashi.

6/9/2003 MrWrong: So what style HeroQuest Game do you play?
The whole thread on writing a Narratist scenario, really got me thinking what sort of Heroquest game people play. Personally I presently only have time to run HQ at conventions.…
In HeroQuest
Participants: MrWrong, Bankuei, Ron Edwards, Mike Holmes, Palashee, simon_hibbs, Christopher Kubasik, Ian Cooper, MarkAdri, Nick Brooke, joshua neff, Magnus widqvist.

6/10/2003 Trevis Martin: Sex and Sorcery -- This Book Rocks!
Wow Ron. Really wow. I just received my copy in the mail today and I've read it all the way through. Its a page turner. My brain is numb. I…
In Adept Press
Participants: Trevis Martin, Ron Edwards, Jake Norwood, Valamir, Bankuei, Jeffrey Straszheim, Lxndr, Andy Kitkowski.

6/10/2003 Overdrive: The SA's are beginning to reveal themselves...
Last night we had our second session of TROS, and although it was at times pretty slow, I think we (at least I!) learnt a lot. As it is, the…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: Overdrive, Morfedel, demiurgeastaroth, Mike Holmes, Jake Norwood.

6/10/2003 quozl: Black Fire / Black Blood
Before reading the Gamism essay ( http://www.indie-rpgs.com/articles/21/ ) and the example game ( http://www.indie-rpgs.com/articles/22/ ), I found the presence of the GM to be problematic for purely gamist games. Now,…
In GNS Model Discussion
Participants: quozl, Ron Edwards, M. J. Young, Bankuei, Valamir, contracycle, epweissengruber.

6/10/2003 abzu: Shameless Self Promotion
I couldn't help but notice all the folks browsing our little corner of the Forge. In case you are wondering what this is all about, you can get your hands…
In Burning Wheel
Participants: abzu.

6/10/2003 demiurgeastaroth: 10 Assorted Rules Questions
After my first session, a few questions came up. Hopefully, people have answers to one or more of these questions. 1. Hard Armour Certain weapons get a damage bonus to…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: demiurgeastaroth, Jake Norwood, Eamon Voss.

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