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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.

7/9/2003 Sir Mathodius Black: Elves
I was wondering why elves start with only 4 SA's to begin with. It doesnt make much sense to me, and i would even argue that because of their age…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: Sir Mathodius Black, Wolfen, spunky, Nick Pagnucco, Jake Norwood, Mike Holmes, Morfedel, Jasper the Mimbo, Irmo.

7/9/2003 Sir Mathodius Black: Problem with the Char Gen Installation
Hey, I dont know if this has been covered yet in another topic, but when I try to install the Character Generator, it asks me to put in Install Disk…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: Sir Mathodius Black, Brian Leybourne.

7/9/2003 Nicolas Crost: Mechanisms for Player Narration
Hi there. This is my first post so… be gentle. :) I have recently started playing Donjon with my group and we really liked the way it worked. Basically it…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Nicolas Crost, Hunter Logan, Roy, Mike Holmes, WDFlores.

7/9/2003 inthisstyle: Modern supernatural game - implementing powers
I am taking the plunge for a game design posting here for the first time. I will give a brief overview of the game, so everyone can understand what this…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: inthisstyle, Chris Goodwin, Mike Holmes, taalyn, Dr. Velocity, simon_hibbs, WDFlores.

7/9/2003 svenlein: Terrain rolls
What Terrain roll have you given players? What was the difficulty / activation cost / did they need more than one success? I am looking for guidelines on what difficulty…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: svenlein, Ashren Va'Hale, Ashton, Morfedel, Wolfen, Jake Norwood, HMT, Mike Holmes.

7/9/2003 Malechi: Artists needed for TROS Mini-Supplement
I am currently seeking budding amateur or professional artists to provide concept and final publication artwork for an up-and-coming sourcebook for the Riddle of Steel system. Entitled Katanapunk!, this alternate…
In Connections
Participants: Malechi.

7/8/2003 Ashren Va'Hale: a useful tool
I just bought hans talhoffers manual off of amazon used for dirt cheap and I was planning on using it to study great sword and rondel while away from the…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: Ashren Va'Hale.

7/8/2003 Ashren Va'Hale: stuck on the xanarium empire mini supp
Hey all, I posted a while back (a long time back.. I have been away for a while) that I was working on a mini supp for teh empire and…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: Ashren Va'Hale, Jake Norwood, Lebo77, Nick Pagnucco.

7/8/2003 Gordon C. Landis: Protagonism and openness
[quote="Mike Holmes"]Well, other than the simple idea of keeping the numbers low, another way to make splitting more palatable is to ensure that all the players are interested in all…
In RPG Theory
Participants: Gordon C. Landis, SFEley, Bankuei, M. J. Young, Mike Holmes, Piers Brown, Wolfen, jrs, Emily Care.

7/8/2003 Matt Snyder: InSpectres layout sneak peek
Jared let me out of the basement long enough to post these layout samples for the upcoming InSpectres print edition for GenCon. The artwork is killer, and I finally had…
In Memento-Mori Theatricks
Participants: Matt Snyder, Trevis Martin, Jared A. Sorensen, Chris Passeno.

7/8/2003 spunky: All Hail TROS
One great thing about TROS is how it has benefited my OTHER RPGs. Just running a few combats educates players who previously knew little about "real" combat, and had previously…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: spunky, Sir Mathodius Black, Mike Holmes, Spartan, Jasper the Mimbo.

7/8/2003 deltadave: Open gamimg and TRoS
Jake, Has Driftwood considered putting out TRoS as open gaming content? A system reference document would be pretty cool and allow the rest of us to develop RoS based content…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: deltadave, Lxndr, Jake Norwood.

7/8/2003 Ron Edwards: [Tunnels & Trolls] Half-elves are poncy nancy-boys
Hello, See previous threads Killed me a player-character (spit) and Second level characters. We've played a couple of sessions since my last posts…
In Actual Play
Participants: Ron Edwards, Jared A. Sorensen, Paul Czege, hanschristianandersen, GreatWolf, ADGBoss, Alan, jdagna, ethan_greer, Wolfen, Mike Holmes, Rod Anderson, Gordon C. Landis, Hunter Logan, jrs, contracycle, efindel, Jeff Klein, Bankuei, rafial, ejh, ZenDog, Danforth, Storn.

7/9/2003 Bailywolf: Orbit by July's end
What else can one say? BOO-YAA!
In Orbit
Participants: Bailywolf, Ron Edwards, Catalyst, JSDiamond.

7/8/2003 Jake Norwood: What haven't we talked about?
What haven't we talked about from the game lately? There's a lot of stuff, but I wonder what we haven't covered recently. Ideas? Jake
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: Jake Norwood, Nick Pagnucco, Sir Mathodius Black, Eamon Voss, Bankuei, Jasper the Mimbo, Mike Holmes, Valamir, Caz, Kaare Berg, Blake Hutchins, Brian Leybourne.

7/8/2003 Ben Lehman: Sorcerer: Art and Artifice
[quote="Mike Holmes"]Could you post the basic details (maybe in a new thread)? When you say 60s art scene, I'm getting a vision of Warhol, Lou Reed, and Heroin. Am I…
In Adept Press
Participants: Ben Lehman, Mike Holmes, Ron Edwards, Christopher Weeks.

7/8/2003 xiombarg: social contract stuff -- another thread
Since people seem to be talking about this sort of thing, check this out: http://www.livejournal.com/users/xiombarg/306814.html Be sure to read the commentary as well. My current plan is to sit the…
In Actual Play
Participants: xiombarg, ADGBoss.

7/8/2003 chadu: Have my posts been deleted? How can I tell for sure?
Question: I thought I had posted a few messages recently, yet when I go look in the threads, no dice. I'm assuming that they've been moderated out; is there any…
In Site Discussion
Participants: chadu, Valamir, Ron Edwards.

7/8/2003 Lebo77: Half-swording and chain mail
OK, half-swording give you a +3 damage against hard armors, right?Chain-mail gives you 4 points of armor right? (Effectively reduceing the armor to a 1) Now leather (not hard) gives…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: Lebo77, Mike Holmes, Morfedel, Ashton, Jake Norwood, spunky, Caz, Ashren Va'Hale, Wolfen, Salamander, Draigh.

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7/9/2003 taalyn: Conflict in Crux
hey guys and gals and various werebeasts, I'm starting to think about Crux conflict, and have discovered a wall I'm bouncing on. I'm hoping some of you could help me…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: taalyn, Mike Holmes, Paul Czege, Shreyas Sampat, MathiasJack, Thomas Tamblyn, ross_winn, cruciel.

7/10/2003 Spooky Fanboy: Disposable Heroes: a setting for Schism
While I wait for the streamline and hopped-up version of Schism to hit the streets, I came up with a setting imminently playable for Schism, either version. Basically, it's a…
In Memento-Mori Theatricks
Participants: Spooky Fanboy, Jared A. Sorensen.

7/10/2003 Peter Nordstrand: Show Me Scene Framing!
Hi, I am looking for threads/discussions about Scene Framing. Can anybody point me in the right direction? Thank you in advance. Best, /Peter N
In RPG Theory
Participants: Peter Nordstrand, jrs.

7/10/2003 Nicolas Crost: Serious Donjon Reloaded
Hi all. We started playing Donjon a short while ago and after the prototypical dungeon crawl with rather low seriousness, we started with new characters and had a serious adventure!…
In CRN Games
Participants: Nicolas Crost, Mike Holmes, Matt Wilson, Lxndr, Sadric.

7/10/2003 WDFlores: Indie Web Portal, Anyone?
Hi all, Emmet first posed a suggestion for what might be called an Indie Games Web Portal on this thread. I've quoted the relevant posts below: Maybe a mall of…
In Publishing
Participants: WDFlores, ethan_greer, Clay, Emmett, Simon W, Paul Czege, rpghost, HinterWelt, quozl, Ron Edwards.

7/10/2003 redivider: Paper Worlds- long and short versions of concept
Hi, I'm posting short and long versions of a concept for a game framework. (Not a specific game and not a universal system; more of an approach and rules for…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: redivider, WDFlores, Mike Holmes, Hunter Logan, Jeph, talysman, Kester Pelagius.

7/10/2003 Christian Walker: RPG Zine Exchange
Christian here, I ran this post by Clinton before posting, just to make sure it was ok. Basically, I'm trying to give RPG print zines a kick in the pants.…
In Publishing
Participants: Christian Walker.

7/10/2003 Jake Norwood: Driftwood Mini-con
Some friends came up over a few days and we played a bunch of games. we didn't actually finish any of the stories we started (too bad), but we did…
In Actual Play
Participants: Jake Norwood, Ron Edwards, jburneko, Bankuei.

7/10/2003 Jake Norwood: Binding someone else's demon
Can you bind a bound demon? Jake
In Adept Press
Participants: Jake Norwood, Mike Holmes, Lxndr, jrs, Ron Edwards.

7/10/2003 Eddy Fate: Press Release
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Z-Man Games (Mahopac, New York) Spectrum Game Studios (Pittsburgh, Kansas) July 10, 2003 After These Messages #1 Available Now, and More News After a severe production delay,…
In Cartoon Action Hour
Participants: Eddy Fate.

7/10/2003 Ben Lehman: Additional Race Priorities -- Exemplars
Edit: ***I have merged this thread into Mike's "empty slots" thread*** Please do NOT reply here. When working out race priorities for my China setting, I stumbled upon an interesting…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: Ben Lehman.

7/10/2003 DarkKingdoms: Dark Kingdoms RPG
Hello everyone, I just wanted to let you know about an RPG that I have recently self-published entitled Dark Kingdoms. I have also created my own small publishing company that…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: DarkKingdoms, Dave Panchyk.

7/10/2003 Paul Czege: incubating a GenCon demo
Hey Mike, Paul, are you coming up with a demo pack for this? That is, pregens and master and all worked out before hand? This is what I want…
In My Life With Master Playtest
Participants: Paul Czege, Mike Holmes, Paul's Girl, Ron Edwards, Valamir.

7/10/2003 Mike Holmes: Empty Slots
In response to a question about what could fill the racial pref list holes...And I, for one, would LOVE to see those two gaping holes filled. They just bug…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: Mike Holmes, Ben Lehman, Ashren Va'Hale, Morfedel, Nick Pagnucco, Wolfen, Jake Norwood, Lxndr, Brian Leybourne.

7/10/2003 pete_darby: Approaching the mundanity levels of TV drama
this is followoing on from the Laser Shark thread... also references This RPG.net thread, which references a discussion on the Herow Wars mailing list, and a huge amount of fantastic…
In RPG Theory
Participants: pete_darby, Bruce Baugh, Ron Edwards, John Kim, gobi, Comte, M. J. Young, contracycle, James Holloway.

7/10/2003 Alan: Content Classes and GNS
Hi all, I believe there's a quote somewhere that says a model (or theory) is just a tool for understanding. The more tools you have, the better you can approximate…
In GNS Model Discussion
Participants: Alan, Paul Czege.

7/11/2003 Sir Mathodius Black: Kudara
Hey, Im not sure if there has been a previous post on Kudara, the country/territory south of Tzaul and east of Otamarluk with no description in the book, but have…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: Sir Mathodius Black, Bankuei, Jake Norwood, Mike Holmes.

7/11/2003 Little_Rat: Playtesters Available (maybe)
Hello. My friends have coerced me to try (again) to run a RPG this summer. While, yes, we can all sit down and crack books open and such, the problem…
In Connections
Participants: Little_Rat, Green, roleplyr4ever, xiombarg, flobby77, RaconteurX, Gazoo.

7/11/2003 Ashren Va'Hale: a sad moment in role playing
ok, so im in the campaign as I type this and the company hired a kick ass sell sword with a death wish and a cp of 22 so we…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: Ashren Va'Hale, Mike Holmes, Valamir.

7/11/2003 Ashren Va'Hale: playing with major blood lust flaw
I just found out how fun it is to play a character looking for a fight....I have a guy who is seeking revenge against all gelureans and the church of…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: Ashren Va'Hale, Morfedel, Sir Mathodius Black, Ron Edwards.

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