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8/8/2003 Matt Snyder: Nine Worlds character sheet
Antti Karjalainen has created a wonderful Nine Worlds character sheet for you playtesters out there. Thanks Antti! His web site, including some very nice art work, is here: http://www.kotiposti.net/xakarjala/ Download…
In Chimera Creative
Participants: Matt Snyder, Andy Kitkowski.

8/8/2003 ghostwolf: [Ruined Lands] Take-2
Questions to consider while reading this: 1: Does the character generation method allow enough lee-way? Does it encourage specialization? 2: LUCK...good meta-stat? Well explained? 3: Is the combat resolution/dice tests…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: ghostwolf, Mike Holmes.

8/8/2003 Valamir: Gen Con 2003 Spreadsheet summary
Ok, I finally finished digging through the various receipts and cash sheets and cobbling together a master spreadsheet of GenCon 2003 Forge Sales. I will make it available to anyone…
In Publishing
Participants: Valamir, jrs, Ron Edwards, Armin D. Sykes.

8/8/2003 JamesDJIII: The Not-As-Angry Pinball
This is a response to the last post in: http://www.indie-rpgs.com/viewtopic.php?t=5962&highlight= Ron: I would have to say that the pain experience in "not" versus "bad" is a personal one, and that…
In Actual Play
Participants: JamesDJIII, Ron Edwards, Marco.

8/8/2003 Solomon: new Sorcerer review
For anyone who's keeping track, RPGnet has a new, happy review of Sorcerer this morning.
In Adept Press
Participants: Solomon, Ron Edwards, Mike Holmes, Brian Leybourne, Michael S. Miller, Valamir.

8/8/2003 octobernight: Illusions of the Mind: Basic Character Sheet
Hi all, I've been thinking about creating a PnP for a while, but haven't had the time to start one until summer semester when I took very boring classes. I…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: octobernight, Mike Holmes.

8/8/2003 Jack Spencer Jr: a perspective on roleplaying
This was originally going to be a reply to the RPGs and related media thread, but I'm going to talk about all kinds of things that would most likely derail…
In RPG Theory
Participants: Jack Spencer Jr, simon_hibbs, Mike Holmes, John Kim, Jonathan Walton, M. J. Young, Ron Edwards, Windthin, ejh, Emily Care.

8/8/2003 MonkeyWrench: Use of the language skill
Here's something that just popped in my head. Language Skill: How do other Seneschal's handle this? Although it's easier to just assume that anyone who pays for a language can…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: MonkeyWrench, Overdrive, toli, Sneaky Git, Mokkurkalfe, Mike Holmes, Valamir.

8/8/2003 Mark Johnson: Designing Games as Substitutionary for Play?
[quote="In [i][a href="http://www.indie-rpgs.com/viewtopic.php?t=7171"]Reading Games as Substitutionary for Play?[/a][/i] M.J. Young"] Some time back there was a discussion about the degree to which reading the rules of a game was part…
In GNS Model Discussion
Participants: Mark Johnson, Walt Freitag, Alan, Ron Edwards, Jack Aidley, pete_darby.

8/8/2003 AgentFresh: Monsters and Mustard Gas: the embryonic stages
[b]Working Title[/b]: Monsters and Mustard Gas (though it may not have either as such...it beats my brainstorming title: "The Trench Project") [b]The one-second pitch[/b]: High Fantasy meets World War I.…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: AgentFresh, octobernight, ethan_greer, JSDiamond, iago, Simon W, simon_hibbs, Ron Edwards, contracycle.

8/8/2003 iago: Going outside the village
So, I'm a sucker for taking games and seeing how far I can stretch them in terms of altering the setting, or subverting the paradigm (like, with Paladin, making the…
In Half Meme Press
Participants: iago, Mike Holmes, xiombarg, jburneko, Lxndr, John Harper, lumpley, joshua neff, Ron Edwards, Bryant, Bob McNamee, b_bankhead, Paul Czege.

8/8/2003 Devilrat: E.A.K. I want my copy!
How do I purchase a copy? I cant seem to find the link to purchase the PDF!
In Mystic Ages Online
Participants: Devilrat, Nathan, Jason L Blair.

8/8/2003 M. J. Young: In-game Courtroom Drama
Back somewhere in the incredibly long and multiply derailed Sharks With Lasers On Their Heads thread, I commented that I thought it possible to do courtroom drama if you…
In RPG Theory
Participants: M. J. Young, Smithy, pete_darby.

8/7/2003 John Harper: New Indie RPG Desktop: MLwM
I finally got around to doing a desktop image for My Life with Master, and I think it turned out rather well if I do say so myself. You can…
In Half Meme Press
Participants: John Harper, Jason L Blair, Paul Czege, Clinton R. Nixon, iago.

8/7/2003 Nathan: The E*A*K Information You Crave
Greets all, I've been posting comments and updates in the Mystic Ages Online forum, but I figure this is the better place for some of it. Feel free to respond…
In Key 20 Publishing
Participants: Nathan, Spooky Fanboy.

8/7/2003 Paka: Mythic Gates - Campaign Concept and Alternate SA Uses
[b]The Mythic Gates [/b] [i]The Riddle of Steel [/i] Your mother is a Dragon. She gained her Draconic status from her years as a hero. The way she fought, hoarded,…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: Paka.

8/7/2003 FruitSmack!: Suspense in RPGs
Hey all, One thing I’ve been thinking about recently is suspense in role-playing. In most games I’ve ran/played in, suspense is a hard, if not impossible thing to accomplish. Usually,…
In RPG Theory
Participants: FruitSmack!, Troy_Costisick, jdagna, Valamir, Alan, contracycle, Ian Charvill, simon_hibbs, Jonathan Walton.

8/7/2003 Jeffrey Miller: Love, Fear, and Reason settings
As noted in the text, these three items, when dialed in 'correctly' cna adjust the probable length of the game. Having only experienced 2-3 demos of MLWM at GenCon, and…
In Half Meme Press
Participants: Jeffrey Miller, Mike Holmes, Ron Edwards, Alan.

8/7/2003 jburneko: My Life With Master Rules Question
Hello, Okay, so I bought My Life With Master and I LOVE it! But something struck me a bit odd. It seems that stats only ever go up. I don't…
In Half Meme Press
Participants: jburneko, Mike Holmes, Paul Czege, Jeffrey Straszheim.

8/7/2003 ghostwolf: [Ruined Lands] First draft, RFC
Hi folks, thanks for the attention. I'm looking for comments on this system/setting that has been bugging me for weeks. Concept- Players are members of a community that lived underground…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: ghostwolf, Mike Holmes, Andrew Martin.

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8/8/2003 Bryant: UA & Trollbabe
So we tried something a little different in our Unknown Armies game last night. One of the players is moving away (sniff), so we wanted to wrap up his PC's…
In Actual Play
Participants: Bryant, Jere.

8/8/2003 Matt Wilson: Donjon Goal Awards guidelines
Did I miss something on that in the game text? I'm wondering what a good goal award number is. In the sample adventure it looks like goals are worth far…
In CRN Games
Participants: Matt Wilson, Clinton R. Nixon, rafial.

8/8/2003 Jason Puckett: Things Fall Apart: a Paladin setting in progress
Hi, all -- long-time-lurker-first-time-poster here. I've been tinkering in my head with a Paladin setting for a couple of days and I thought I'd submit them for comments and brainstorming.…
In CRN Games
Participants: Jason Puckett, Mike Holmes, ScottM, John Harper, Jhilahd, Bob McNamee.

8/8/2003 DaGreatJL: OBAM Getting a second printing?
I sadly missed out on the first run due to a lack of a credit card; by the time I found someone to buy it for me, it was sold…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: DaGreatJL, Shadeling, Jake Norwood, toli, Wolfen.

8/8/2003 Porter: Ready to Run Charnel Gods?
Hello all: I've been a lurker here for a time, bought copies of the Sorcerer, Sorcerer & Sword, Sorcerer's Soul, Charnel Gods and Urge rules. I've played a couple of…
In Adept Press
Participants: Porter, Ron Edwards, Lxndr, Mike Holmes, hardcoremoose, AnyaTheBlue, Christopher Weeks.

8/8/2003 Palashee: Heroquest @ Battlemasters 2003, Leicester, Uk
Hi there, To celebrate the arrival of the new Heroquest Rules a whole bunch of Heroquest demos have been organised for the Battlemasters 2003 Convention being held in Leicester, Uk…
In HeroQuest
Participants: Palashee, Mark Galeotti.

8/8/2003 Jeffrey Miller: My Life With Master - First session
MLWM play summary Last night I had the opportunity to run my first session of My Life With Master as a GM, and it was a blast. Some snippets of…
In Actual Play
Participants: Jeffrey Miller, iago, Paul Czege, Mike Holmes.

8/8/2003 Silent Entropy: Elegance and Wonder: Shadows of Eternity
Shadows of Eternity is a game about myths. It's about creating myths, playing through myths, and even destroying them. Narrative Layers During each game a narrative is constructed. Each narrative…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Silent Entropy, Dev.

8/8/2003 TheSawh: Hogwarts RPG: O.W.L.s for Britain
Ladies and Gents; After much labor, my Harry Potter role-playing game 'O.W.L.s for Britain' is at last launching! I have built the game system from scratch, and it is very…
In Actual Play
Participants: TheSawh.

8/9/2003 Sir Thomas: 'Crunchy' scene-resolution
Hi, I'm a long-time lurker at The Forge, and have seen many great ideas that have got me thinking about my game. For a long time now I've GMed a…
In RPG Theory
Participants: Sir Thomas, cruciel, HMT, Mark Johnson, Windthin, ethan_greer, Ron Edwards, Comte, Clinton R. Nixon, Jack Aidley, Lxndr, Mike Holmes.

8/9/2003 Alan: Hardboiled - RPG Proposal
A short rules summary can be found at http://www.seanet.com/~alanb/Hardboiledv01.html I'm hoping to create a detective RPG with a narrative Premise like "What is justice?" Every PC…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Alan, iago, Paul Czege, Matt Wilson, lumpley, Valamir, Ron Edwards, WDFlores, Julian Kelsey.

8/9/2003 Jonathan Walton: New Logo (suggestions welcome)
This is the kind of thing I would put in my own forum if I had one. But I don't. Yet. http://www.godmachine.org/1002.jpg This came to me a couple days ago.…
In Publishing
Participants: Jonathan Walton, Matt Snyder, C. Edwards, Shreyas Sampat, ethan_greer, Lxndr, Jack Spencer Jr, iago, Paul Czege.

8/9/2003 prophet118: Odd... Riddle Of Steel
hey guys, check this out http://rocketbar.net/RIDDLESITE/index.html i promise it isnt what you are expecting
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: prophet118, Salamander, Jake Norwood, Lxndr.

8/9/2003 Alan: Blackfire v0.2 - for further development?
Hi guys, I did some development on Ron's Blackfire, the example of gamist design from his essay on Gamism. What I've done has languished for a month or two, so…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Alan, Ron Edwards.

8/9/2003 Dan Sellars: creating a new characeter
At the moment I am trying to create a new character to join our campaign, as one of the other guy's is taking over as Seneschal for the next phase…
In The Riddle of Steel
Participants: Dan Sellars, MonkeyWrench, Kaare Berg.

8/9/2003 AgentFresh: Anthology meets Magazine
The talk over in Space Cowboy's Collective Bargaining about anthology type publishing made me remember an idea I had the other day. This passage in Ron Edwards' "The Nuked Apple…
In Publishing
Participants: AgentFresh, iago, ethan_greer.

8/9/2003 Overdrive: Dialogue during narration
Hey all, Suppose you're playing some game that allows players to narrate conflicts, outcomes of actions and whatnot. There is an NPC in the scene, a player gets to narrate.…
In Actual Play
Participants: Overdrive, Jack Spencer Jr, Simon W, Wolfen, Ron Edwards, ks13, Marco, Jeph, Clay, rafial, Mike Holmes.

8/10/2003 jdrakeh: Quick & Painless Roleplay (Final Draft)
After processing feedback, playtesting, and finally getting off my duff to type the thing up proper, I've cobbled together a set of generic roleplaying rules in minimalist fashion. You can…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: jdrakeh, Jack Spencer Jr, ethan_greer, Mike Holmes.

8/10/2003 Dune: help out the newbi
i've been really intreasted in making my own RPGs. and i've actually got a ton of ideas, but i'm not quite sure how to actually start the process of creating…
In RPG Theory
Participants: Dune, M. J. Young, Alan, Ron Edwards.

8/10/2003 Michael Hopcroft: Writers who can Work on Spec
I've got a problem. I have a lot of ideas for books for my company to publish -- more that I have access to writers to write them and more…
In Connections
Participants: Michael Hopcroft, Adam, Andrew Martin, Emily_Dresner.

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