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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 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.

9/24/2001 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.

9/24/2001 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 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 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 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 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 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 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.

9/22/2001 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.

9/21/2001 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.

9/20/2001 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.

9/20/2001 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 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.

9/19/2001 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.

9/19/2001 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 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.

9/18/2001 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.

9/18/2001 Paul Czege: question: when the GM narrates in The Pool
So far, I've run one session of my scenario for The Pool. Near the end of the session, Scott Knipe found his character Grazel Deathsower face-to-face with Sgt. Aminar "the…
In Random Order Creations
Participants: Paul Czege, Jeffrey Straszheim, jburneko, Ron Edwards, James V. West, hardcoremoose, Mike Holmes, Valamir, Tim C Koppang.

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9/26/2001 Zak Arntson: Indie Gaming - Red Box D&D
Okay, so our Sunday Indie Gaming went a little odd this weekend. I had to step out while the gang played Chez Geek ... One of our players had never…
In Actual Play
Participants: Zak Arntson, Ben Morgan, J B Bell, Bankuei, Jared A. Sorensen, Clinton R. Nixon.

9/26/2001 Galfraxas: Magical Crimes Division Is Now Available
Hey everybody, I've finally finished the first edit of Magical Crimes Division, the Magical Cops RPG. It's available on my webpage, or there's a direct download link below. I hope…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Galfraxas, Ron Edwards.

9/26/2001 Jeffrey Straszheim: Filling The Pool :)
This is related to the current topic "No Islands in The Pool". What bothers me most about the conclusions in that thread is the idea that, from a statistical perspective,…
In Random Order Creations
Participants: Jeffrey Straszheim, Mike Holmes, James V. West, Blake Hutchins.

9/26/2001 Ron Edwards: Emily's second article
Hey everybody, Emily Dresner has presented the second in her series of articles about the nuts & bolts of RPG publishing. Discuss! Best, Ron
In Publishing
Participants: Ron Edwards, Jack Spencer Jr, Emily Dresner.

9/26/2001 Galfraxas: When Players think the GM is trying to kill them...
Something odd happened at my last gaming session. I was running a one shot adventure of All Flesh Must Be Eaten, using the Adventure that comes with the screen, and…
In Actual Play
Participants: Galfraxas, Ben Morgan, Ron Edwards, Marco, Mike Holmes, Knight, Wart, unodiablo, Jared A. Sorensen, Ian O'Rourke, xiombarg.

9/26/2001 Mike Holmes: Web Page Content
I can do HTML, and so can Ralph. We're not challenged as far as that goes. What is challenging is coming up with something to put on a web page.…
In Publishing
Participants: Mike Holmes, Matt, Nathan, Paul Czege, Marco.

9/27/2001 lumpley: Narrative Sharing for Gamists
Over at http://www.geocities.com/lumpley/rant.html is a bit from a game of mine about narrative sharing for gamists. I'd love to hear what all y'all smart people think. However, and this is…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: lumpley, Ron Edwards, Paul Czege, James V. West, Mike Holmes, contracycle, random, Mytholder.

9/27/2001 Tor Erickson: Tragedy in the Pool
Hi all, What do you think about using the Pool as a vehicle to run a tragedy? I've been thinking about this over and came up with a couple of…
In Random Order Creations
Participants: Tor Erickson, Mike Holmes, Uncle Dark, Ben Morgan, Mithras, James V. West.

9/27/2001 Mike Holmes: Plot Flow and Metagame Resources
I mentioned to Ron that I agree with many that The Pool is an important design due to the fact that it lays bare the relationship between Metagame Resources and…
In Random Order Creations
Participants: Mike Holmes, hardcoremoose, James V. West.

9/28/2001 Galfraxas: Dead Eyes
I just finished a small RPG within the past hour. It's called Dead Eyes, and it's just plain simple, and it's about being a zombie. Less than a page in…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Galfraxas, Mike Holmes, unodiablo.

9/28/2001 Matt Gwinn: I need advice
As my wrestling game Kayfabe reaches completion I have found myself in a rather awkward spot. For those of you unfamiliar with Kayfabe, this is how the game works now.…
In Errant Knight Games
Participants: Matt Gwinn, Valamir, Jared A. Sorensen.

9/28/2001 unodiablo: Destroy All Games
Hi Forgers & CoRE members, Just a little note to let you know I've put up a (terrible) site with my two games on it; Dead Meat, and 2 Page…
In Destroy All Games
Participants: unodiablo.

9/28/2001 Matt Gwinn: The Cost of Art
I was just wondering what all you published game designers pay for your art. My game Kayfabe is reaching completion and I'm in the process of getting some art together…
In Publishing
Participants: Matt Gwinn, James V. West, Ron Edwards, Bankuei, greyorm, Le Joueur.

9/28/2001 Silvertig: The supplimentary books
Looking at the offical Key 20 website I saw that they plan to release a few books called "Blessed are the Children" and "Behind the Door: Closetland". The release dates…
In Key 20 Publishing
Participants: Silvertig, Jason L Blair.

9/29/2001 Jason L Blair: Key20.com Is Down
Just a quick note to say that key20.com is temporarily down. It's showing another domain hosted on the box right now. The site belongs to a friend of mine so…
In Key 20 Publishing
Participants: Jason L Blair.

9/29/2001 Jared A. Sorensen: Update -- Big News
Big News first. Well, it's big news for me. My girlfriend and I are leaving California in a few months to head back to the Motherland. New England, that is.…
In Memento-Mori Theatricks
Participants: Jared A. Sorensen, ravensron, Matt, Valamir, tldenmark.

9/29/2001 Marco: Sorry about the inappropriate post.
Removed Msg about newly released book. -Marco
In Publishing
Participants: Marco.

9/30/2001 Zak Arntson: Sitcom - Freebie RPG
[H3][A HREF="http://zaknet.tripod.com/hmouse/games/sitcom.html"]Sitcom - roleplaying in tv hell[/A][/H3] Okay, it's a silly game where you play a part in a Sitcom. I'd love to hear opinions and get custom-variations from y'all.…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Zak Arntson, James V. West, hardcoremoose, Matt, Jack Spencer Jr.

10/1/2001 Galfraxas: My New Project
From the cluttered desk of Tim: I'm working on a new RPG, "The Blackest Sea". It's about pirates in space. I'm talking about pirates like Blackbeard, not those silly space…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Galfraxas, Jared A. Sorensen.

10/1/2001 Jared A. Sorensen: InSpectres v2.0!
Yup, it's almost done. Just wanted to let people know what to expect. First of all, the game has more than doubled in size. The rules have been expanded AND…
In Memento-Mori Theatricks
Participants: Jared A. Sorensen, Mike Holmes, Mario, Galfraxas, hardcoremoose, mahoux, Balbinus, Jürgen Mayer.

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